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A huck or hull, as of a nut. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

e like; to crowd together confusedly; to press or hurry in disorder; to crowd. The cattle huddled on the lea. Tennyson. Huddling together on the public square . . . like a herd of panic- struck deer. Prescott.

One who huddles things together.

An iron bucket for hoisting coal or ore. Raymond.

Similar to, or in the style of, the poem "Hudibras," by Samuel Butler; in the style of doggerel verse. Macaulay.

Of or pertaining to Hudson's Bay or to the Hudson River; as, the Hudsonian curlew.

To champ; to bite. [Obs.] A. Stafford.

To tremble or shake with fear, horrer, or aversion; to shiver with cold; to quake. "With shuddering horror pale." Milton. The shuddering tennant of the frigid zone. Goldsmith.

In a shuddering manner.

The husks and other refuse of rice mills, used to adulterate oil cake, or linseed cake.

ow producing such sound; as, the thrud of a cannon ball striking the earth. At every new thud of the blast, a sob arose. Jeffrey. At intervals there came some tremendous thud on the side of the steamer. C. Mackay.

To shrink back with shuddering from; to regard with horror or detestation; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. Rom. xii. 9.

To shudder with terror; to tremble with fear. [Obs.] Chaucer.

In a heap; huddled together. Hood.

tory formerly including practically all of Canada east of the 115th meridian and south of Hudson's Bay and the part of the United States east of the Mississippi and north of Tennessee and Virginia, with the exception of the territory occupied by the northern Iroquoian tribes. There are nearly 100,000 Indians of the Alg…

Of another sort. [Obs.] "Another-gates adventure." Hudibras.

Of or pertaining to astrology; professing or practicing astrology. "Astrologi learning." Hudibras. "Astrological prognostication." Cudworth. -- As`tro*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

lter; in the position, or with the action, of one making a thrust. "To run atilt at men." Hudibras.

Attraction. [Obs.] Hudibras.

To avert; to ward off. [Obs.] Hudibras.