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To make a rolling or burring sound. [Obs.] R is the dog's letter, and hurreth in the sound. B. Jonson.

A cheer; a shout of joy, etc. Hurrah's nest, state of utmost confusion. [Colloq. U.S.] A perfect hurrah's nest in our kitchen. Mrs. Stowe.

A word used as a shout of joy, triumph, applause, encouragement, or welcome. Hurrah! hurrah! for Ivry and Henry of Navarre. Macaulay.

cially prevalent in the East and West Indies. Also used figuratively. Like the smoke in a hurricane whirl'd. Tennyson. Each guilty thought to me is A dreadful hurricane. Massinger. Hurricane bird (Zoöl.), the frigate bird. -- Hurricane deck. (Naut.) See under Deck.

A waterspout; a hurricane. [Obs.] Drayton. "You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout." Shak.

Urged on; hastened; going or working at speed; as, a hurried writer; a hurried life.

One who hurries or urges.

A staith or framework from which coal is discharged from cars into vessels.

To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on. Impetuous lust hurries him on. South. They hurried him abroad a bark. Shak.

Confusedly; in a bustle. [Obs.] Gray.

In a hurrying manner.

To make a churr, as a cockchafer.

A powerfully narcotic and intoxicating gum resin which exudes from the flower heads, seeds, etc., of Indian hemp.

An insect that turns about nimbly; the mole cricket; -- called also fan cricket. Johnson.

Indian millet. See Durra.

stival of the Shiah sect of the Mohammedans held during the first ten days of the month Mohurrum.

a ship; a sink. [Obs.] Small drops of water that enter through a little crevice into the thurrok and into the bottom of a ship. Chaucer.

To whisk along quickly; to hurry. [R.] Whurrying the chariot with them to the shore. Vicars.

Sung or played in a restless, hurried, and spasmodic manner.

To eject or throw up from the stomach with violence; to eruct. I belched a hurricane of wind. Swift.