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149 words match “HUG”

HUG v. 6 definitions

To press closely within the arms; to clasp to the bosom; to embrace. "And huggen me in his arms." Shak.

se; excessive; -- used esp. of material bulk, but often of qualities, extent, etc.; as, a huge ox; a huge space; a huge difference. "The huge confusion." Chapman. "A huge filly." Jer. Taylor. -- Huge"ly, adv. -- Huge"ness, n. Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea. Shak.

HUGGER n. 2 definitions

One who hugs or embraces.

HUGGER-MUGGER n. 3 definitions

Privacy; secrecy. Commonly in the phrase in hugger-mugger, with haste and secrecy. [Archaic] Many things have been done in hugger-mugger. Fuller.

A French Protestant of the period of the religious wars in France in the 16th century.

The religion of the Huguenots in France.

Vast. [Obs.] Dryden.

SHUG v. 2 definitions

Hence, to crawl; to sneak. [Obs.] There I 'll shug in and get a noble countenance. Ford.

One of an association of robbers and murderers in India who practiced murder by stealthy approaches, and from religious motives. They have been nearly exterminated by the British government.

The practice of secret or stealthy murder by Thugs. "One of the suppressors of Thuggee." J. D. Hooker.

THUGGERY; THUGGISM n.

ABOARD adv. 2 definitions

oul of. -- To haul the tacks aboard, to set the courses. -- To keep the land aboard, to hug the shore. -- To lay (a ship) aboard, to place one's own ship close alongside of (a ship) for fighting.

The entire horn, or any branch of the horn, of a cervine animal, as of a stag. Huge stags with sixteen antlers. Macaulay.

fend him from the rain, snow, or dust; a boot. "The weather being too hot for the apron." Hughes.

e quality of associating; tending or leading to association; as, the associative faculty. Hugh Miller.

hich were eighteen or twenty feet long, found in a fossil state in the Old Red Sandstone. Hugh Miller.

by glue, or the like. The shoulder blade is . . . attached only to the muscles. Paley. A huge stone to which the cable was attached. Macaulay.

Huge; great in size. [Colloq.] Forby.

n U. S.] A dark slender thread of a bayou moves loiteringly northeastward into a swamp of huge cypresses. G. W. Cable.