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Haughty. [Obs.] "Nations proud and haut." Milton.

A wind instrument, sounded through a reed, and similar in shape to the clarinet, but with a thinner tone. Now more commonly called oboe. See Illust. of Oboe.

A player on the hautboy.

Haughty; proud. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Haughty manner or spirit; haughtiness; pride; arrogance.

High relish or flavor; high seasoning.

A raised part of the floor of a large room; a platform for a raised table or throne. See Dais.

The system of home study established in connection with the summer schools assembled at Chautauqua, N. Y., by the Methodist Episcopal bishop, J. H. Vincent.

A star of the first magnitude, in the constellation Piscis Australis, or Southern Fish.

A pass through a mountain. [India] J. D. Hooker.

See Haut pas.

A hautboy or oboe. [Obs.]

hat like the clarinet in form, but more slender, and sounded by means of a double reed; a hautboy. Oboe d'amore Etym: [It., lit., oboe of love], and Oboe di caccia Etym: [It., lit., oboe of the chase], are names of obsolete modifications of the oboe, often found in the scores of Bach and Handel.

strument of music, formerly in use, supposed to have resembled either the clarinet or the hautboy in form. [Written also shalm, shaum.] Otway. Even from the shrillest shaum unto the cornamute. Drayton.

onstelation of the southern hemisphere (Piscis Australis) containing the bright star Fomalhaut. -- Southern States (U.S. Hist. & Geog.), the States of the American Union lying south of Pennsylvania and the Ohio River, with Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. Before the Civil War, Missouri also, being a slave State, was cl…

Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians; not used in the singular. [Obs.] Halliwell.