Huch Huch Hu"chen noun [ G.] (Zoology) A large salmon ( Salmo, or Salvelinus, hucho ) inhabiting the Danube; -- called also huso , and bull trout .
Huck Huck intransitive verb [ See
Hawk to offer for sale,
Huckster .]
To higgle in trading. [ Obsolete]
Holland.
Huckaback Huck"aˇback noun [ Perh. orig., peddler's wares; confer LG.
hukkebak pickback. Confer
Huckster .]
A kind of linen cloth with raised figures, used for towelings.
Huckle Huc"kle noun [ Perh. dim. of Prov. English
huck a hook, and so named from its round shape. See
Hook .]
1. The hip; the haunch. 2. 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.
Huckle-backed Huc"kle-backed` adjective Round- shoulded.
Huckleberry Huc"kleˇber`ry noun [ Confer
Whortleberry .]
(Botany) (a) The edible black or dark blue fruit of several species of the American genus Gaylussacia , shrubs nearly related to the blueberries ( Vaccinium ), and formerly confused with them. The commonest huckelberry comes from G. resinosa . (b) The shrub that bears the berries. Called also whortleberry. Squaw huckleberry .
See Deeberry .
Huckster Huck"ster noun [ Middle English
hukstere ,
hukster , OD.
heukster , Dutch
heuker ; akin to Dutch
huiken to stoop, bend, OD.
huycken ,
huken , German
hocken , to squat, Icelandic
h...ka ; -- the peddler being named from his stooping under the load on his back. Confer
Hawk to offer for sale.]
1. A retailer of small articles, of provisions, and the like; a peddler; a hawker. Swift. 2. A mean, trickish fellow. Bp. Hall.
Huckster Huck"ster intransitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Huckstered ;
present participle & verbal noun Huckstering .]
To deal in small articles, or in petty bargains. Swift.
Hucksterage Huck"sterˇage noun The business of a huckster; small dealing; peddling. Ignoble huckster age of piddling tithes.
Milton.
Hucksterer Huck"sterˇer noun A huckster. Gladstone. Those huckster ers or money- jobbers.
Swift.
Huckstress Huck"stress noun A female huckster.
Hud Hud noun [ Confer
Hood a covering.]
A huck or hull, as of a nut. [ Prov. Eng.]
Wright.
Huddle Hud"dle intransitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Huddled ;
present participle & verbal noun Huddling .] [ Confer Middle English
hoderen ,
hodren , to cover, keep, warm; perhaps akin to Middle English
huden ,
hiden , to hide, English
hide , and orig. meaning, to get together for protection in a safe place. Confer
Hide to conceal.]
To press together promiscuously, from confusion, apprehension, or the like; to crowd together confusedly; to press or hurry in disorder; to crowd. The cattle huddle d on the lea.
Tennyson. Huddling together on the public square . . . like a herd of panic-struck deer.
Prescott.
Huddle Hud"dle transitive verb 1. To crowd (things) together to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system. Our adversary, huddling several suppositions together, . . . makes a medley and confusion.
Locke. 2. To do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly; -- usually with a following preposition or adverb; as, to huddle on ; to huddle up ; to huddle together . "
Huddle up a peace."
J. H. Newman. Let him forescat his work with timely care,
Which else is huddled when the skies are fair.
Dryden. Now, in all haste, they huddle on
Their hoods, their cloaks, and get them gone.
Swift.
Huddle Hud"dle noun A crowd; a number of persons or things crowded together in a confused manner; tumult; confusion. "A
huddle of ideas."
Addison.
Huddler Hud"dler noun One who huddles things together.
Hudge Hudge noun (Mining) An iron bucket for hoisting coal or ore. Raymond.
Hudibrastic Hu`diˇbras"tic adjective Similar to, or in the style of, the poem " Hudibras ," by Samuel Butler; in the style of doggerel verse. Macaulay.
Hudsonian Hudˇso"niˇan adjective Of or pertaining to Hudson's Bay or to the Hudson River; as, the Hudsonian curlew.
Hue Hue noun [ Middle English
hew ,
heow , color, shape, form, Anglo-Saxon
hiw ,
heow ; akin to Swedish
hy skin, complexion, Goth.
hiwi form, appearance.]
1. Color or shade of color; tint; dye. "Flowers of all
hue ."
Milton. Hues of the rich unfolding morn.
Keble. 2. (Painting) A predominant shade in a composition of primary colors; a primary color modified by combination with others.
Hue Hue noun [ Middle English
hue ,
huer , to hoot, shout, probably from Old French
hu an exclamation.]
A shouting or vociferation. Hue and cry (Law) ,
a loud outcry with which felons were anciently pursued, and which all who heard it were obliged to take up, joining in the pursuit till the malefactor was taken; in later usage, a written proclamation issued on the escape of a felon from prison, requiring all persons to aid in retaking him. Burrill.
Hued Hued adjective Having color; -- usually in composition; as, bright- hued ; many- hued . Chaucer.
Hueless Hue"less adjective [ Anglo-Saxon
hiwleás . See
Hue color.]
Destitute of color. Hudibras.
Huer Hu"er noun One who cries out or gives an alarm; specifically, a balker; a conder. See Balker .
Huff Huff transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Huffed ;
present participle & verbal noun Huffing .] [ Confer Middle English
hoove to puff up, blow; probably of imitative origin.]
1. To swell; to enlarge; to puff up; as, huffed up with air. Grew. 2. To treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke with insolence; to hector; to bully. You must not presume to huff us.
Echard. 3. (Draughts) To remove from the board (the piece which could have captured an opposing piece). See Huff , intransitive verb , 3.
Huff Huff intransitive verb 1. To enlarge; to swell up; as, bread huffs . 2. To bluster or swell with anger, pride, or arrogance; to storm; to take offense. THis senseless arrogant conceit of theirs made them huff at the doctrine of repentance.
South. 3. (Draughts) To remove from the board a man which could have captured a piece but has not done so; -- so called because it was the habit to blow upon the piece.
Huff Huff noun 1. A swell of sudden anger or arrogance; a fit of disappointment and petulance or anger; a rage. "Left the place in a
huff ."
W. Irving. 2. A boaster; one swelled with a false opinion of his own value or importance. Lewd, shallow-brained huffs make atheism and contempt of religion the sole badge . . . of wit.
South. To take huff ,
to take offence. Cowper.
Huffcap Huff"cap` noun A blusterer; a bully. [ Obsolete] --
adjective Blustering; swaggering. [ Obsolete]
Bp. Hall.
Huffer Huff"er noun A bully; a blusterer. Hudibras.
Huffiness Huff"iˇness noun The state of being huffish; petulance; bad temper. Ld. Lytton.
Huffingly Huff"ingˇly adverb Blusteringly; arrogantly. [ R.]
And huffingly doth this bonny Scot ride.
Old Ballad.
Huffish Huff"ish adjective Disposed to be blustering or arrogant; petulant. --
Huff"ish*ly ,
adverb --
Huff"ish*ness ,
noun
Huffy Huff"y adjective 1. Puffed up; as, huffy bread. 2. Characterized by arrogance or petulance; easily offended.
Hug Hug intransitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Hugged ;
present participle & verbal noun Hugging .] [ Prob. of Scand. origin; confer Danish
sidde paa huk to squat, Swedish
huka sig to squat, Icelandic
h...ka . Confer
Huckster .]
1. To cower; to crouch; to curl up. [ Obsolete]
Palsgrave. 2. To crowd together; to cuddle. [ Obsolete]
Shak.
Hug Hug transitive verb 1. To press closely within the arms; to clasp to the bosom; to embrace. "And
huggen me in his arms."
Shak. 2. To hold fast; to cling to; to cherish. We hug deformities if they bear our names.
Glanvill. 3. (Nautical) To keep close to; as, to hug the land; to hug the wind. To hug one's self ,
to congratulate one's self; to chuckle.
Hug Hug noun A close embrace or clasping with the arms, as in affection or in wrestling. Fuller.
Huge Huge adjective [
Compar. Huger ;
superl. Hugest .] [ Middle English
huge ,
hoge , Old French
ahuge ,
ahoge .]
Very large; enormous; immense; 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 ,
adverb --
Huge"ness ,
noun Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea.
Shak. Syn. -- Enormous; gigantic; colossal; immense; prodigious; vast.
Hugger Hug"ger noun One who hugs or embraces.
Hugger Hug"ger transitive verb & i. To conceal; to lurk ambush. [ Obsolete]
Bp. Hall.
Hugger-mugger Hug"ger-mug`ger noun [ Scot.
huggrie-muggrie ; Prov. English
hugger to lie in ambush,
mug mist,
muggard sullen.]
Privacy; secrecy. Commonly in the phrase in hugger-mugger , with haste and secrecy. [ Archaic]
Many things have been done in hugger- mugger .
Fuller.
Hugger-mugger Hug"ger-mug`ger adjective 1. Secret; clandestine; sly. 2. Confused; disorderly; slovenly; mean; as, hugger-mugger doings.
Huggle Hug"gle transitive verb [ Freq. of
hug .]
To hug. [ Obsolete]
Huguenot Hu"gueˇnot noun [ French, properly a dim. of
Hugues . The name is probably derived from the Christian name (
Huguenot ) of some person conspicuous as a reformer.]
(Eccl. Hist.) A French Protestant of the period of the religious wars in France in the 16th century.
Huguenotism Hu"gueˇnotˇism noun [ Confer French
huguenotisme .]
The religion of the Huguenots in France.
Hugy Hu"gy adjective Vast. [ Obsolete]
Dryden.
Huia bird Hu"ia bird` [ Native name; -- so called from its cry.] (Zoology) A New Zealand starling ( Heteralocha acutirostris ), remarkable for the great difference in the form and length of the bill in the two sexes, that of the male being sharp and straight, that of the female much longer and strongly curved.
Huisher Hui"sher noun [ Obsolete]
See Usher . B. Jonson.
Huisher Hui"sher transitive verb To usher. [ Obsolete]
Jer. Taylor.
Huke Huke noun [ Old French
huque , Late Latin
huca ; confer Dutch
huik .]
An outer garment worn in Europe in the Middle Ages. [ Written also
heuk and
hyke .] [ Obsolete]
Bacon.
Hulan Hu"lan noun See Uhlan .
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