Chapter 757

Hus"band (?) , n. [OE. hosebonde , husbonde , a husband, the master of the house or family, AS. h<?/sbonda master of the house; h<?/s house + bunda , bonda , householder, husband; prob. fr. Icel. h<?/sb\'d3ndi house master, husband; h<?/s house + b<?/andi dwelling, inhabiting, p.pr. of b<?/a to dwell; akin to AS. b<?/an , Goth. bauan . See House Be , and cf. Bond a slave, Boor .] 1. The male head of a household; one who orders the economy of a family. [Obs.]

2. A cultivator; a tiller; a husbandman. [Obs.]

Shak.

The painful husband , plowing up his ground. Hakewill.

He is the neatest husband for curious ordering his domestic and field accommodations. Evelyn.

3. One who manages or directs with prudence and economy; a frugal person; an economist. [R.]

God knows how little time is left me, and may I be a good husband , to improve the short remnant left me. Fuller.

4. A married man; a man who has a wife; -- the correlative to wife .

The husband and wife are one person in law. Blackstone.

5. The male of a pair of animals. [R.]

Dryden.

A ship's husband (Naut.) , an agent representing the owners of a ship, who manages its expenses and receipts.

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Hus"band , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Husbanded ; p. pr. & vb. n. Husbanding .] 1. To direct and manage with frugality; to use or employ to good purpose and the best advantage; to spend, apply, or use, with economy.

For my means, I'll husband them so well, They shall go far. Shak.

2. To cultivate, as land; to till. [R.]

Land so trim and rarely husbanded . Evelyn.

3. To furnish with a husband. [R.]

Shak.

Husbandable <Xpage=714>

Hus"band*a*ble (?) , a. Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy.

Sherwood.

Husbandage <Xpage=714>

Hus"band*age (?) , n. (Naut.) The commission or compensation allowed to a ship's husband.

Husbandless <Xpage=714>

Hus"band*less , a. Destitute of a husband.

Shak.

Husbandly <Xpage=714>

Hus"band*ly , a. Frugal; thrifty. [R.]

Tusser.

Husbandman <Xpage=714>

Hus"band*man (?) , n. ; pl. Husbandmen (<?/) . 1. The master of a family. [Obs.]

Chaucer.

2. A farmer; a cultivator or tiller of the ground.

Husbandry <Xpage=714>

Hus"band*ry (?) , n. 1. Care of domestic affairs; economy; domestic management; thrift.

There's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out. Shak.

2. The business of a husbandman, comprehending the various branches of agriculture; farming.

Husbandry supplieth all things necessary for food. Spenser.

Hush <Xpage=714>

Hush (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Hushed (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Hushing .] [OE. huschen , hussen , prob. of imitative origin; cf. LG. hussen to lull to sleep, G. husch quick, make haste, be silent.] 1. To still; to silence; to calm; to make quiet; to repress the noise or clamor of.

My tongue shall hush again this storm of war. Shak.

2. 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.

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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.

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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.

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Hush , a. Silent; quiet. " Hush as death."

Shak.

Husher <Xpage=714>

Hush"er (?) , n. An usher. [Obs.]

Spenser.

Hushing <Xpage=714>

Hush"ing , 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 .

Husk <Xpage=714>

Husk (?) , n. [Prob. for hulsk , and from the same root as hull a husk. See Hull a husk.] 1. 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.

2. The supporting frame of a run of millstones.

Husks of the prodigal son (Bot.) , the pods of the carob tree. See Carob .

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Husk , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Husked (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Husking .] To strip off the external covering or envelope of; as, to husk Indian corn .

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Husked (?) , a. 1. Covered with a husk.

2. Stripped of husks; deprived of husks.

Huskily <Xpage=714>

Hus"ki*ly (?) , adv. [From Husky .] In a husky manner; dryly.

Huskiness <Xpage=714>

Hus"ki*ness , n. 1. The state of being husky.

2. Roughness of sound; harshness; hoarseness; as, huskiness of voice .

G. Eliot.

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Husking <Xpage=715>

Husk"ing (?) , n. 1. The act or process of stripping off husks, as from Indian corn.

2. A meeting of neighbors or friends to assist in husking maize; -- called also husking bee . [U.S.] "A red ear in the husking ."

Longfellow.

Husky <Xpage=715>

Husk"y (?) , a. [From Husk , n. ] Abounding with husks; consisting of husks.

Dryden.

Husky <Xpage=715>

Hus"ky (?) , a. [Prob. for husty ; cf. OE. host cough, AS. hw\'d3sta ; akin to D. hoest , G. husten , OHG. huosto , Icel. h\'d3sti . See Wheeze .] Rough in tone; harsh; hoarse; raucous; as, a husky voice .

Huso <Xpage=715>

Hu"so (?) , n. [NL., fr. G. hausen , and E. isin <?/glass.] (Zo\'94l.) (a) A large European sturgeon ( 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 . <-- = the beluga, source of the best caviar --> (b) The huchen, a large salmon.

Hussar <Xpage=715>

Hus*sar" (?) , n. [Hung. husz\'a0r , from husz twenty, because under King Matthais I., in the fifteenth century, every twenty houses were to furnish one horse soldier; cf. G. husar , F. houssard , hussard , from the same source.] (Mil.) Originally, one of the national cavalry of Hungary and Croatia; now, one of the light cavalry of European armies.

Hussite <Xpage=715>

Huss"ite (?) , n. (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of John Huss , the Bohemian reformer, who was adjudged a heretic and burnt alive in 1415.

Hussy <Xpage=715>

Hus"sy (?) , n. [Contr. fr. huswife .] 1. A housewife or housekeeper. [Obs.]

2. A worthless woman or girl; a forward wench; a jade; -- used as a term of contempt or reproach.

Grew.

3. A pert girl; a frolicsome or sportive young woman; -- used jocosely.

Goldsmith.

Hussy <Xpage=715>

Hus"sy , n. [From Icel. h<?/si a case, prob. fr. h<?/s house. See House , and cf. Housewife a bag, Huswife a bag.] A case or bag. See Housewife , 2.

Hustings <Xpage=715>

Hus"tings (?) , n. pl. [OE. husting an assembly, coucil, AS. h<?/sting ; of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. h<?/s<?/ing ; h<?/s home + <?/ing thing, assembly, meeting; akin to Dan. & Sw. ting , E. thing . See House , and Thing .] 1. 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.

2. Any one of the temporary courts held for the election of members of the British Parliament.

3. 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.

Hustle <Xpage=715>

Hus"tle (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Hustled (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Hustling (?) .] [D. hustelen to shake, fr. husten to shake. Cf. Hotchpotch .] To shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly; as, to hustle a person out of a room .

Macaulay.

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Hus"tle , 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.

Huswife <Xpage=715>

Hus"wife (?) , n. [OE. huswif ; hus house + wif wife. Cf. Hussy a housewife, Housewife .] [Written also housewife .] 1. 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.

2. A worthless woman; a hussy. [Obs.]

Shak.

3. [See Hussy a bag.] A case for sewing materials. See Housewife .

Cowper.

Huswife <Xpage=715>

Hus"wife , v. t. To manage with frugality; -- said of a woman.

Dryden.

Huswifely <Xpage=715>

Hus"wife*ly , a. Like a huswife; capable; economical; prudent. -- adv. In a huswifely manner.

Huswifery <Xpage=715>

Hus"wife*ry (?) , n. The business of a housewife; female domestic economy and skill.

Tusser.

Hut <Xpage=715>

Hut (?) , n. [OE. hotte ; akin to D. hut , G. h\'81tte , OHG. hutta , Dan. hytte , Sw. hydda ; and F. hutte , of G. origin; all akin to E. hide to conceal. See Hude to conceal.] A small house, hivel, or cabin; a mean lodge or dwelling; a slightly built or temporary structure.

Death comes on with equal footsteps To the hall and hut . Bp. Coxe.

Hutch <Xpage=715>

Hutch (?) , v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Hutted (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Hutting .] To place in huts; to live in huts; as, to hut troops in winter quarters .

The troops hutted among the heights of Morristown. W. Irving.

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Hutch (?) , n. [OE. hucche , huche , hoche , F. huche , LL. hutica .] 1. 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 .

2. A measure of two Winchester bushels.

3. (Mining) The case of a flour bolt.

4. (Mining) (a) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit. (b) A jig for washing ore.

Bolting hutch , Booby hutch , etc. See under Bolting , etc.

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Hutch , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Hutched (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Hutching .] 1. To hoard or lay up, in a chest. [R.] "She hutched the . . . ore."

Milton.

2. (Mining) To wash (ore) in a box or jig.

Hutchunsonian <Xpage=715>

Hutch`un*so"ni*an (?) , 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 <Xpage=715>

Hut*to"ni*an (?) , a. Relating to what is now called the Plutonic theory of the earth, first advanced by Dr. James Hutton .

Lyell.

Huxter <Xpage=715>

Hux"ter (?) , n. & v. i. See Huckster .

Huyghenian <Xpage=715>

Huy*ghe"ni*an (?) , a. Pertaining to, or invented by, Christian Huyghens , a Dutch astronomer of the seventeenth century; as, the Huyghenian telescope .

Huyghenian eyepiece See under Eyepiece .

Huzz <Xpage=715>

Huzz (?) , v. i. [An onomatop\'d2a. &root;43. Cf. Buzz .] To buzz; to murmur. [Obs.]

Huzzing and burring in the preacher's ear. Latimer.

Huzza <Xpage=715>

Huz*za" (?) , interj. [Cf. G. hussa , husa , interj., hurrah, huzza. &root;43. Cf. Hurrah .] A word used as a shout of joy, exultation, approbation, or encouragement.

Huzza <Xpage=715>

Huz"za , n. A shout of huzza ; a cheer; a hurrah.

They made a great huzza or shout. Evelyn.

Huzza <Xpage=715>

Huz*za" , v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Huzzaed (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Huzzaing .] To shout huzza; to cheer.

Huzza <Xpage=715>

Huz*za" , v. t. To receive or attend with huzzas.

He was huzzaed into the court. Addison.

Hy <Xpage=715>

Hy (?) , a. High. [Obs.]

Chaucer.

Hyacine <Xpage=715>

Hy"a*cine (?) , n. A hyacinth. [Obs.]

Spenser.

Hyacinth <Xpage=715>

Hy"a*cinth (?) , n. [L. hyacinthus a kind of flower, prob. the iris, gladiolus, or larkspur, also a kind of gem, perh. the sapphire; as, a proper name, Hyacinthus , a beautiful Laconian youth, beloved by Apollo, fr. Gr. <?/, <?/: cf. F. hyacinthe . Cf. Jacinth . The hyacinth was fabled to have sprung from the blood of Hyacinthus , who was accidentally slain by Apollo.] 1. (Bot.) (a) A bulbous plant of the genus Hyacinthus , bearing beautiful spikes of fragrant flowers. H. orientalis is a common variety. (b) A plant of the genus Camassia ( C. Farseri ), called also Eastern camass ; wild hyacinth. (c) 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 .

2. (Min.) A red variety of zircon, sometimes used as a gem. See Zircon .

Hyacinth bean (Bot.) , a climbing leguminous plant ( Dolichos Lablab ), related to the true bean. It has dark purple flowers and fruit.

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Hy`a*cin"thi*an (?) , a. Hyacinthine. [R.]

Hyacinthine <Xpage=715>

Hy`a*cin"thine (?) , a. [L. hyacinthinus , Gr. <?/.] Belonging to the hyacinth; resemblingthe hyacinth; in color like the hyacinth.

Milton.

His curling locks like hyacinthine flowers. Cowper.

The hyacinthine boy, for whom Morn well might break and April bloom. Emerson.

Hyades, Hyads <Xpage=715>

Hy"a*des (?) , Hy"ads (?) , n.pl. [L. Hyades , Gr. <?/.] (Astron.) 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.

Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyaned Vext the dim sea. Tennyson.

Hy\'91na <Xpage=715>

Hy*\'91"na (?) , n. (Zo\'94l.) Same as Hyena .

Hyalea <Xpage=715>

Hy*a"le*a (?) , n. [NL., fr. Gr. <?/ glassy, fr. <?/ glass.] (Zo\'94l.) A pteroid of the genus Cavolina . See Pteropoda , and Illustration in Appendix.

Hyalescence <Xpage=715>

Hy`a*les"cence (?) , n. [See Hyaline .] The process of becoming, or the state of being, transparent like glass.

Hyaline <Xpage=715>

Hy"a*line (?) , a. [L. hyalinus , Gr. <?/, fr. <?/ glass: cf. F. hyalin .] Glassy; resembling glass; consisting of glass; transparent, like crystal. " Hyaline spaces."

Carpenter.

Hyaline <Xpage=715>

Hy"a*line , n. 1. A poetic term for the sea or the atmosphere. "The clear hyaline , the glassy sea."

Milton.

Our blood runs amazed 'neath the calm hyaline . Mrs. Browning.

2. (Biol.) The pellucid substance, present in cells in process of development, from which, according to some embryologists, the cell nucleous originates.

3. (Physiol. Chem.) The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible of alcoholic fermentation.

Gamgee.

Hyalite <Xpage=715>

Hy"a*lite (?) , n. [Gr. <?/ glass: cf. F. hyalite .] (Min.) A pellucid variety of opal in globules looking like colorless gum or resin; -- called also M\'81ller's glass .

Hyalograph <Xpage=715>

Hy*al"o*graph (?) , n. [Gr. <?/ glass + graph .] An instrument for tracing designs on glass.

Hyalography <Xpage=715>

Hy`a*log"ra*phy (?) , n. Art of writing or engraving on glass.

Hyaloid <Xpage=715>

Hy"a*loid (?) , a. [Gr. <?/ glassy, transparent; <?/ glass + <?/ appearance: cf. F. hyalo\'8bde .] (Anat.) Resembling glass; vitriform; transparent; hyaline; as, the hyaloid membrane, a very delicate membrane inclosing the vitreous humor of the eye .

Hyalonema <Xpage=715>

Hy`a*lo*ne"ma (?) , n. [NL., fr. Gr. <?/ glass + <?/ a thread.] (Zo\'94l.) 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 <Xpage=715>

Hy*al"o*phane (?) , n. [Gr. <?/ glass + <?/ to appear.] (Min.) A species of the feldspar group containing barium. See Feldspar .

Hyalospongia <Xpage=715>

Hy`a*lo*spon"gi*a (?) , n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. <?/ glass + <?/ a sponge.] (Zo\'94l.) An order of vitreous sponges, having glassy six-rayed, siliceous spicules; -- called also Hexactinellin\'91 .

Hyalotype <Xpage=715>