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usually with force; especially, to reach or touch (an object aimed at). I think you have hit the mark. Shak.

tangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling. Atoms . . . which at length hitched together. South.

See Hatchel.

A port or small haven; -- used in composition; as, Lambhithe, now Lambeth. Pennant.

verbs signifying motion, and implying motion toward the speaker; correlate of hence and thither; as, to come or bring hither.

Nearest on this side. Sir M. Hale.

To this place; to a prescribed limit. Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further. Job xxxviii. 11.

Toward this place; hither. Marching hitherward in proud array. Shak.

One who hits or strikes; as, a hard hitter.

es are not agreed as to their race. While several attempts have been made to decipher the Hittite characters, little progress has yet been made.

Rays (chiefly cathode rays) developed by the electric discharge in Hittorf tubes.

as to exhibit the insulating effects of a vacuum. It was used by the German physicist W. Hittorf (b. 1824).

Divination by means of barley meal. Knowles.

Anything resembling an amphitheater in form; as, a level surrounded by rising slopes or hills, or a rising gallery in a theater.

Amphitheatrical; resembling an amphitheater.

Of, pertaining to, exhibited in, or resembling, an amphitheater.

In the form or manner of an amphitheater.

A kind of annelid larva having both a dorsal and a ventral circle of special cilia.

Having the ovule inverted, but with the attachment near the middle of one side; half anatropous.

A mineral of the feldspar family, commonly occurring in small glassy crystals, also a constituent of some igneous rocks. It is a lime feldspar. See Feldspar.