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A small village; a little cluster of houses in the country. The country wasted, and the hamlets burned. Dryden.

Confined to a hamlet. Feltham.

See Camlet. [Obs.]

a thousand years, I shall not find myself so apt to die. Shak. I find thee apt . . . Now, Hamlet, hear. Shak.

rtain attributes or relations; as, virtue considered as virtue; this actor will appear as Hamlet. The beggar is greater as a man, than is the man merely as a king. Dewey.

advised, in 1643 and 1646, by the Dutch authorities, to gather into "villages, towns, and hamlets, as the English were in the habit of doing." Bancroft.

To part or divide by force; to split or rive; to cut. O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain. Shak.

A hamlet. "A mean fishing dorp." Howell.

e horses with a neighbor; to exchange houses or hats. Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet. Shak.

They go out, or retire from the scene; as, exeunt all except Hamlet. See 1st Exit.

nteresting; as, a falling off in the wheat crop; the magazine or the review falls off. "O Hamlet, what a falling off was there!" Shak. (g) (Naut.) To deviate or trend to the leeward of the point to which the head of the ship was before directed; to fall to leeward. -- To fall on. (a) To meet with; to light upon; as, w…

of art; to show by illustrative representation; as, an actor interprets the character of Hamlet; a musician interprets a sonata; an artist interprets a landscape.

nce; kindred. And my near kith for sore me shend. W. Browne. The sage of his kith and the hamlet. Longfellow. Kith and kin, kindred more or less remote.

man; an elder. Also used figuratively. The patriarch hoary, the sage of his kith and the hamlet. Longfellow. The monarch oak, the partiarch of trees. Dryde.

ry or action of any kind; to act the part or character of; to personate; as, to represent Hamlet.

A dramatic performance; as, a theatrical representation; a representation of Hamlet.

pist. Title rôle, the part, or character, which gives the title to a play, as the part of Hamlet in the play of that name.

er. He was but rude in the profession of arms. Sir H. Wotton. the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. Gray.

A group of houses in the country; a small village; a hamlet; a dorp; -- now chiefly occurring in names of places and persons; as, Althorp, Mablethorpe. "Within a little thorp I staid." Fairfax. Then thorpe and byre arose in fire. Tennyson.

tion; as, upland inhabitants; upland pasturage. Sometimes, with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite. Milton.