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To higgle in trading. [Obs.] Holland.

A kind of linen cloth with raised figures, used for towelings.

A bunch or part projecting like the hip. Huckle bone. (a) The hip bone; the innominate bone. (b) A small bone of the ankle; astragalus. [R.] Udall.

Round-shoulded.

ly related to the blueberries (Vaccinium), and formerly confused with them. The commonest huckelberry comes from G. resinosa.

A retailer of small articles, of provisions, and the like; a peddler; a hawker. Swift.

The business of a huckster; small dealing; peddling. Ignoble huckster age of piddling tithes. Milton.

A huckster. Gladstone. Those hucksterers or money-jobbers. Swift.

A female huckster.

To chuckle; to laugh. [R.] Marston.

A species of goatsucker (Antrostomus Carolinensis), of the southern United States; -- so called from its note.

To call, as a hen her chickens; to cluck. [Obs.] Dryden.

A person with a large head; a numskull; a dunce. [Low] Knowles.

Having a large head; thickheaded; dull; stupid. Smart.

The husk covering an ear of Indian corn. [Colloq. U.S.]

Same as Pachak.

To deprive of the shucks or husks; as, to shuck walnuts, Indian corn, oysters, etc.

One who shucks oysters or clams

The sand martin, or bank swallow. [Prov. Eng.]

A common large North American marmot (Arctomys monax). It is usually reddish brown, more or less grizzled with gray. It makes extensive burrows, and is often injurious to growing crops. Called also ground hog.