Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter H - Page 56
Hush (v. t.) To appease; to allay; to calm; to soothe.
With thou, then, Hush my cares? -- Otway.
And hush'd my deepest grief of all. -- Tennyson.
To hush up, To procure silence concerning; to suppress; to keep secret. "This matter is hushed up." -- Pope.
Hush (v. i.) To become or to keep still or quiet; to become silent; -- esp. used in the imperative, as an exclamation; be still; be silent or quiet; make no noise.
Hush, idle words, and thoughts of ill. -- Keble.
But all these strangers' presence every one did hush. -- Spenser.
Hush (n.) Stillness; silence; quiet. [R.] "It is the hush of night." -- Byron.
Hush money, Money paid to secure silence, or to prevent the disclosure of facts. -- Swift.
Hush (a.) Silent; quiet. "Hush as death." -- Shak.
Hush (n.) (Poetic) Tranquil silence; "the still of the night" [syn: hush, stillness, still].
Hush (v.) Become quiet or still; fall silent; "hush my baby!"
Hush (v.) Cause to be quiet or not talk; "Please silence the children in the church!" [syn: hush, quieten, silence, still,
shut up, hush up] [ant: louden].
Hush (v.) Become quiet or quieter; "The audience fell silent when the speaker entered" [syn: quieten, hush, quiet, quiesce, quiet down, pipe down] [ant: louden].
Hush (v.) Wash by removing particles; "Wash ores".
Hush (v.) Run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals.
Husher (n.) An usher. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Hushing (n.) (Mining) The process of washing ore, or of uncovering mineral veins, by a heavy discharge of water from a reservoir; flushing; -- also called booming and hydraulic mining.
Hushing (n.) A fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval); "the performers could not be heard over the hissing of the audience" [syn: hiss, hissing, hushing, fizzle, sibilation].
Husk (n.) The external covering or envelope of certain fruits or seeds; glume; hull; rind; in the United States, especially applied to the covering of the ears of maize.
Husk (n.) The supporting frame of a run of millstones.
Husks of the prodigal son (Bot.), The pods of the carob tree. See Carob.
Husked (imp. & p. p.) of Husk
Husking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Husk
Husk (v. t.) To strip off the external covering or envelope of; as, to husk Indian corn.
Husk (n.) Material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds [syn: chaff, husk, shuck, stalk, straw, stubble].
Husk (n.) Outer membranous covering of some fruits or seeds.
Husk (v.) Remove the husks from; "husk corn" [syn: husk, shell].
Husk, () In Num. 6:4 (Heb. zag) it means the "skin" of a grape. In 2 Kings 4:42 (Heb. tsiqlon) it means a "sack" for grain, as rendered in the Revised Version. In Luke 15:16, in the parable of the Prodigal Son, it designates the beans of the carob tree, or Ceratonia siliqua. From the supposition, mistaken, however, that it was on the husks of this tree that John the Baptist fed, it is called "St. John's bread" and "locust tree." This tree is in "February covered with innumerable purple-red pendent blossoms, which ripen in April and May into large crops of pods from 6 to 10 inches long, flat, brown, narrow, and bent like a horn (whence the Greek name keratia, meaning 'little horns'), with a sweetish taste when still unripe. Enormous quantities of these are gathered for sale in various towns and for exportation." "They were eaten as food, though only by the poorest of the poor, in the time of our Lord." The bean is called a "gerah," which is used as the name of the smallest Hebrew weight, twenty of these making a shekel.
Husked (a.) Covered with a husk.
Husked (a.) Stripped of husks; deprived of husks.
Huskily (adv.) In a husky manner; dryly.
Huskily (adv.) In a hoarse or husky voice; "`Excuse me,' he said hoarsely" [syn: hoarsely, huskily].
Huskiness (n.) The state of being husky.
Huskiness (n.) Roughness of sound; harshness; hoarseness; as, huskiness of voice. -- G. Eliot.
Huskiness (n.) The property of being big and strong [syn: huskiness, ruggedness, toughness].
Huskiness (n.) A throaty harshness [syn: gruffness, hoarseness, huskiness].
Husking (n.) The act or process of stripping off husks, as from Indian corn.
Husking (n.) A meeting of neighbors or friends to assist in husking maize; -- called also husking bee. [U.S.] "A red ear in the husking." -- Longfellow.
Husking (n.) The removal of covering [syn: denudation, stripping, uncovering, baring, husking].
Husky (a.) Abounding with husks; consisting of husks. -- Dryden.
Husky (a.) Rough in tone; harsh; hoarse; raucous; as, a husky voice.
Husky (a.) Powerful; strong; burly. [Colloq., U. S.]
A good, husky man to pitch in the barnyard. -- Hamlin Garland.
Husky (n.; pl. -kies.) An Eskimo. [archaic]
Husky (n.; pl. -kies.) The Eskimo language. [archaic]
Husky (n.; pl. -kies.) An Eskimo dog, especially a breed of strong heavy-coated dogs used to pull dogsleds in the Northern regions of North America.
Husky (a.) Muscular and heavily built; "a beefy wrestler"; "had a tall burly frame"; "clothing sizes for husky boys"; "a strapping boy of eighteen"; "`buirdly' is a Scottish term" [syn: beefy, burly, husky, strapping, buirdly].
Husky (a.) Deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion; "gruff voices"; "the dog's gruff barking"; "hoarse cries"; "makes all the instruments sound powerful but husky" -- Virgil Thomson [syn: gruff, hoarse, husky].
Husky (n.) Breed of heavy-coated Arctic sled dog [syn: Eskimo dog, husky].
Huso (n.) (Zool.) A large European sturgeon ({Huso huso or Acipenser huso), inhabiting the region of the Black and Caspian Seas. It sometimes attains a length of more than twelve feet, and a weight of two thousand pounds. Called also hausen and beluga. It is the source of the finest and most esteemed caviar.
Huso (n.) (Zool.) The huchen, a large salmon.
Huso (n.) The huchen, a large salmon.
Compare: Huch
Huch, Huchen (n.) [G.] (Zool.) A large salmon ({Salmo hucho or Salvelinus hucho) inhabiting the Danube; -- called also huso, and bull trout.
Hussar (n.) (Mil.) Originally, one of the national cavalry of Hungary and Croatia; now, one of the light cavalry of European armies.
Hussar (n.) A member of a European light cavalry unit; renowned for elegant dress.
Hussite (n.) (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of John Huss, the Bohemian reformer, who was adjudged a heretic and burnt alive in 1415.
Hussite (n.) An adherent of the religious reforms of John Huss.
Hussy (n.) A housewife or housekeeper. [Obs.]
Hussy (n.) A worthless woman or girl; a forward wench; a jade; -- used as a term of contempt or reproach. -- Grew.
Hussy (n.) A pert girl; a frolicsome or sportive young woman; -- used jocosely. -- Goldsmith.
Hussy (n.) A case or bag. See Housewife, 2.
Hussy (n.) A woman adulterer [syn: adulteress, fornicatress, hussy, jade, loose woman, slut, strumpet, trollop].
Hustings (n. pl.) A court formerly held in several cities of England; specif., a court held in London, before the lord mayor, recorder, and sheriffs, to determine certain classes of suits for the recovery of lands within the city. In the progress of law reform this court has become unimportant. -- Mozley & W.
Hustings (n. pl.) Any one of the temporary courts held for the election of members of the British Parliament.
Hustings (n. pl.) The platform on which candidates for Parliament formerly stood in addressing the electors. [Eng.]
When the rotten hustings shake In another month to his brazen lies. -- Tennyson.
Hustings (n.) The activities involved in political campaigning (especially speech making).
Hustings, () Engl. law. The name of a court held before the lord mayor and aldermen of London; it is the principal and supreme court of the city., See 2 Inst. 327; St. Armand, Hist. Essay on the Legisl. Power of England, 75.
Hustled (imp. & p. p.) of Hustle.
Hustling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hustle.
Hustle (v. t.) To shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly; as, to hustle a person out of a room. -- Macaulay.
Hustle (v. i.) To push or crows; to force one's way; to move hustily and with confusion; a hurry.
Leaving the king, who had hustled along the floor with his dress worfully arrayed. -- Sir W. Scott.
Hustle (n.) A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property [syn: bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, gyp, hustle, sting, flimflam].
Hustle (n.) A rapid active commotion [syn: bustle, hustle, flurry, ado, fuss, stir].
Hustle (v.) Cause to move furtively and hurriedly; "The secret service agents hustled the speaker out of the amphitheater".
Hustle (v.) Move or cause to move energetically or busily; "The cheerleaders bustled about excitingly before their performance" [syn: bustle, bustle about, hustle].
Hustle (v.) Sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity [syn: hustle, pluck, roll].
Hustle (v.) Get by trying hard; "she hustled a free lunch from the waiter".
Hustle (v.) Pressure or urge someone into an action.
Huswife (n.) A female housekeeper; a woman who manages domestic affairs; a thirfty woman. "The bounteous huswife Nature." -- Shak.
The huswife is she that do labor doth fall. -- Tusser.
Huswife (n.) A worthless woman; a hussy. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Huswife (n.) [See Hussy a bag.] A case for sewing materials. See Housewife. -- Cowper.
Huswife (v. t.) To manage with frugality; -- said of a woman. -- Dryden.
Huswifely (a.) Like a huswife; capable; economical; prudent.
Huswifely (adv.) In a huswifely manner.
Huswifery (n.) The business of a housewife; female domestic economy and skill. -- Tusser.
Hut (n.) A small house, hivel, or cabin; a mean lodge or dwelling; a slightly built or temporary structure.
Hutted (imp. & p. p.) of Hutch
Hutting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hutch
Hutch (v. t. & i.) To place in huts; to live in huts; as, to hut troops in winter quarters.
Hutch (n.) A chest, box, coffer, bin, coop, or the like, in which things may be stored, or animals kept; as, a grain hutch; a rabbit hutch.
Hutch (n.) A measure of two Winchester bushels.
Hutch (n.) The case of a flour bolt.
Hutch (n.) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.
Hutch (n.) A jig for washing ore.
Hutched (imp. & p. p.) of Hutch.
Hutching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hutch.
Hutch (v. t.) To hoard or lay up, in a chest.
Hutch (v. t.) To wash (ore) in a box or jig.
Hutchunsonian (n.) A follower of John Hutchinson of Yorkshire, England, who believed that the Hebrew Scriptures contained a complete system of natural science and of theology.
Huttonian (a.) Relating to what is now called the Plutonic theory of the earth, first advanced by Dr. James Hutton.
Huxter (n. & v. i.) See Huckster.
Huyghenian (a.) Pertaining to, or invented by, Christian Huyghens, a Dutch astronomer of the seventeenth century; as, the Huyghenian telescope.
Huzz (v. i.) To buzz; to murmur.
Huzza (interj.) A word used as a shout of joy, exultation, approbation, or encouragement.
Huzza (n.) A shout of huzza; a cheer; a hurrah.
Huzzaed (imp. & p. p.) of Huzza
Huzzaing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Huzza
Huzza (v. i.) To shout huzza; to cheer.
Huzza (v. t.) To receive or attend with huzzas.
Hwasong-12 (n.) 火星12彈道飛彈 The Hwasong-12 (Korean: 화성 12, meaning Mars 12; KN-17 under the U.S. naming convention), [7] in intelligence communities outside North Korea, is a mobile intermediate-range ballistic missile developed by North Korea. The Hwasong-12 was first revealed to the international community in a military parade on 14 April 2017 celebrating the Day of the Sun which is the birthday anniversary of North Korea's founding President, Kim Il-Sung.
Hy (a.) High.
Hyacine (n.) A hyacinth.
Hyacinth (n.) A bulbous plant of the genus Hyacinthus, bearing beautiful spikes of fragrant flowers. H. orientalis is a common variety.
Hyacinth (n.) A plant of the genus Camassia (C. Farseri), called also Eastern camass; wild hyacinth.
Hyacinth (n.) The name also given to Scilla Peruviana, a Mediterranean plant, one variety of which produces white, and another blue, flowers; -- called also, from a mistake as to its origin, Hyacinth of Peru.
Hyacinth (n.) A red variety of zircon, sometimes used as a gem. See Zircon.
Hyacinthian (a.) Hyacinthine.
Hyacinthine (a.) Belonging to the hyacinth; resemblingthe hyacinth; in color like the hyacinth.
Hyades (n. pl.) Alt. of Hyads.
Hyads (n. pl.) A cluster of five stars in the face of the constellation Taurus, supposed by the ancients to indicate the coming of rainy weather when they rose with the sun.
Hyaena (n.) Same as Hyena.
Hyalea (n.) A pteroid of the genus Cavolina. See Pteropoda, and Illustration in Appendix.
Hyalescence (n.) The process of becoming, or the state of being, transparent like glass.
Hyaline (a.) Glassy; resembling glass; consisting of glass; transparent, like crystal.
Hyaline (n.) A poetic term for the sea or the atmosphere.
Hyaline (n.) The pellucid substance, present in cells in process of development, from which, according to some embryologists, the cell nucleous originates.
Hyaline (n.) The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible of alcoholic fermentation.
Hyalite (n.) A pellucid variety of opal in globules looking like colorless gum or resin; -- called also Muller's glass.
Hyalograph (n.) An instrument for tracing designs on glass.
Hyalography (n.) Art of writing or engraving on glass.
Hyaloid (a.) Resembling glass; vitriform; transparent; hyaline; as, the hyaloid membrane, a very delicate membrane inclosing the vitreous humor of the eye.
Hyalonema (n.) A genus of hexactinelline sponges, having a long stem composed of very long, slender, transparent, siliceous fibres twisted together like the strands of a color. The stem of the Japanese species (H. Sieboldii), called glass-rope, has long been in use as an ornament. See Glass-rope.
Hyalophane (n.) A species of the feldspar group containing barium. See Feldspar.
Hyalospongia (n. pl.) An order of vitreous sponges, having glassy six-rayed, siliceous spicules; -- called also Hexactinellinae.
Hyalotype (n.) A photographic picture copied from the negative on glass; a photographic transparency.
Hybernacle () Alt. of Hybernation.
Hybernate () Alt. of Hybernation.
Hybernation () See Hibernacle, Hibernate, Hibernation.
Hyblaean (a.) Pertaining to Hybla, an ancient town of Sicily, famous for its bees.
Hybodont (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an extinct genus of sharks (Hybodus), especially in the form of the teeth, which consist of a principal median cone with smaller lateral ones.
Hybodus (n.) An extinct genus of sharks having conical, compressed teeth.
Hybrid (n.) The offspring of the union of two distinct species; an animal or plant produced from the mixture of two species. See Mongrel.
Hybrid (a.) Produced from the mixture of two species; as, plants of hybrid nature.
Hybridism (n.) The state or quality of being hybrid.