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An exclamation denoting surprise, or contempt, doubt, etc.

y; to take dinner. Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep. Shak. To dine with Duke Humphrey, to go without dinner; -- a phrase common in Elizabethan literature, said to be from the practice of the poor gentry, who beguiled the dinner hour by a promenade near the tomb of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, in Old Saint…

without the title of king. Duke's coronet. See Illust. of Coronet. -- To dine with Duke Humphrey, to go without dinner. See under Dine.

ire gauze, preventing the kindling of dangerous explosive gases; -- called also, from Sir Humphry Davy the inventor, Davy lamp. -- To smell of the lamp, to bear marks of great study and labor, as a literary composition.

a note of youth, of imagination, of impulsive eagerness, there was through it all ! Mrs. Humphry Ward.

ose, energy, of effect; to trifle; to pother. Pottering about the Mile End cottages. Mrs. Humphry Ward.

upset a carriage; to upset an argument. "Determined somehow to upset the situation." Mrs. Humphry Ward.

nce of a lens, used as measure of the divergence or convergence of a pencil of rays. [R.] Humphrey Lloyd.

f free speech. To bring forth more violent deeds. Milton. Some violent hands were laid on Humphrey's life. Shak.

Extensive and indiscriminate; as, wholesale slaughter. "A time for wholesale trust." Mrs. Humphry Ward.