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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.

The shrub that bears the berries. Called also whortleberry. Squaw huckleberry. See Deeberry.

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.

Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc.

berry of several species of Vaccinium, and ericaceous genus, differing from the American huckleberries in containing numerous minute seeds instead of ten nutlets. The commonest species are V. Pennsylvanicum and V. vacillans. V. corymbosum is the tall blueberry.

To expose in a cart by way of punishment. She chuckled when a bawd was carted. Prior.

coined by Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson), and usually explained as a combination of chuckle and snort. [Humorous]

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

To make a confused noise; to bustle. It [the goose] cluttered here, it chuckled there. Tennyson.

The bone used in playing the game; -- called also huckle bone. [Obs.] Nares. A little transverse bone Which boys and bruckeled children call (Playing for points and pins) cockal. Herrick.

rry with a white bloom, and its shrub (Gaylussacia frondosa) closely allied to the common huckleberry. The bush is also called blue tangle, and is found from New England to Kentucky, and southward.

group (Vaccinium stamineum); also, its bitter, greenish white berry; -- called also squaw huckleberry.

ence, suggestion, or allusion; to allude vaguely to something. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle. Tennyson. To hint at, to allude to lightly, indirectly, or cautiously.

region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle.

as, to hug the land; to hug the wind. To hug one's self, to congratulate one's self; to chuckle.

he great bone which makes a lateral half of the pelvis in mammals; hip bone; haunch bone; huckle bone. It is composed of three bones, ilium, ischium, and pubis, consolidated into one in the adult, though separate in the fetus, as also in many adult reptiles and amphibians. -- Innominate contracts (Law), in the Roman l…

osterior of the three principal bones composing either half of the pelvis; seat bone; the huckle bone.