HILDING — HOARY NWAD HILDING.1

HILDING, n. A mean, sorry, paltry man or woman. NWAD HILDING.1

HILL, n. [L. collis.] NWAD HILL.1

1. A natural elevation of land, or a mass of earth rising above the common level of the surrounding land; an eminence. A hill is less than a mountain, but of no definite magnitude, and is sometimes applied to a mountain. Jerusalem is seated on two hills. Rome stood on seven hills. NWAD HILL.2

2. A cluster of plants, and the earth raised about them; as a hill of maiz or potatoes. NWAD HILL.3

HILL, v.t. To raise earth about plants; to raise a little mass of earth. Farmers in New England hill their maiz in July. NWAD HILL.4

Hilling is generally the third hoeing. NWAD HILL.5

1. To cover. [L. celo.] NWAD HILL.6

HILLED, pp. or a. Having hills. NWAD HILLED.1

HILLING, n. A covering. NWAD HILLING.1

1. The act of raising the earth around plants. NWAD HILLING.2

HILLOCK, n. A small hill. NWAD HILLOCK.1

HILLSIDE, n. The side or declivity of a hill. NWAD HILLSIDE.1

HILLY, a. Abounding with hills; as a hilly country. NWAD HILLY.1

HILT, n. The handle of any thing; but chiefly applied to the handle of a sword. NWAD HILT.1

HILTED, a. Having a hilt. NWAD HILTED.1

HILUM, n. The eye of a bean or other seed; the mark or scar of the umbilical chord, by which the seed adheres to the pericarp. NWAD HILUM.1

HIM, pron. The objective case of he, L. eum, anciently em or im. NWAD HIM.1

Him that is weak in the faith receive. Romans 14:1. NWAD HIM.2

Him and his were formerly used for nouns of the neuter gender, but the practice is obsolete. NWAD HIM.3

HIMSELF, pron. In the nominative or objective case. [him and self.] NWAD HIMSELF.1

1. He; but himself is more emphatical, or more expressive of distinct personality than he. NWAD HIMSELF.2

With shame remembers, while himself was one NWAD HIMSELF.3

Of the same herd, himself the same had done. NWAD HIMSELF.4

2. When himself is added to he, or to a noun, it expresses discrimination of person with particular emphasis. NWAD HIMSELF.5

But he himself returned from the quarries. Judges 3:19. NWAD HIMSELF.6

But God himself is with us for our captain. 2 Chronicles 13:12. NWAD HIMSELF.7

3. When used as the reciprocal pronoun, it is not usually emphatical. NWAD HIMSELF.8

David hid himself in the field. 1 Samuel 20:24. NWAD HIMSELF.9

4. It was formerly used as a substitute for neuter nouns; as high as heaven himself. [This use is now improper.] NWAD HIMSELF.10

5. It is sometimes separated from he; as, he could not go himself, for he himself could not go. NWAD HIMSELF.11

6. Himself is used to express the proper character, or natural temper and disposition of a person, after or in opposition to wandering of mind, irregularity, or devious conduct from derangement, passion or extraneous influence. We say, a man has come to himself, after delirious or extravagant behavior. Let the man alone; let him act himself. NWAD HIMSELF.12

By himself, alone; unaccompanied; sequestered. NWAD HIMSELF.13

He sits or studies by himself. NWAD HIMSELF.14

Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself. 1 Kings 18:6. NWAD HIMSELF.15

HIN, n. [Heb.] A Hebrew measure of capacity containing the sixth part of an ephah, or about five quarts English measure. NWAD HIN.1

HIND, n. The female of the red deer or stag. NWAD HIND.1

HIND, n. A domestic; a servant. NWAD HIND.2

1. A peasant; a rustic; or a husbandman’s servant. NWAD HIND.3

HIND, a. Backward; pertaining to the part which follows; in opposition to the fore part; as the hind legs of a quadruped; the hind toes; the hind shoes of a horse; the hind part of an animal. NWAD HIND.4

HINDBERRY, n. A species of Rubus. NWAD HINDBERRY.1

HINDER, a. comp. of hind. That is in a position contrary to that of the head or fore part; designating the part which follows; as the hinder part of a wagon; the hinder part of a ship, or the stern. Acts 27:41. NWAD HINDER.1

HINDER, v.t. [L. cunctor.] NWAD HINDER.2

1. To stop; to interrupt; to obstruct; to impede or prevent from moving forward by any means. It is applicable to any subject, physical, moral or intellectual. NWAD HINDER.3

Them that were entering in, ye hindered. Luke 11:52. NWAD HINDER.4

2. To retard; to check in progression or motion; to obstruct for a time, or to render slow in motion. Cold weather hinders the growth of plants, or hinders them from coming to maturity in due season. Let no obstacle hinder daily improvement. NWAD HINDER.5

3. To prevent. NWAD HINDER.6

What hinders younger brothers, being fathers of families, from having the same right? NWAD HINDER.7

HINDER, v.i. To interpose obstacles or impediments. NWAD HINDER.8

This objection hinders not but that the heroic action of some commander--may be written. NWAD HINDER.9

HINDERANCE, n. The act of impeding or restraining motion. NWAD HINDERANCE.1

1. Impediment; that which stops progression or advance; obstruction. NWAD HINDERANCE.2

He must remove all these hinderances out of the way. NWAD HINDERANCE.3

HINDERED, pp. Stopped; impeded; obstructed; retarded. NWAD HINDERED.1

HINDERER, n. One who stops or retards; that which hinders. NWAD HINDERER.1

HINDERING, ppr. Stopping; impeding; obstructing; retarding. NWAD HINDERING.1

HINDERMOST, a. That which is behind all others; the last. [but we now use hindmost.] NWAD HINDERMOST.1

HINDMOST, a. The last; that is in the rear of all others. NWAD HINDMOST.1

He met thee in the way, and smote the hindmost of thee. Deuteronomy 25:18. NWAD HINDMOST.2

HINDOO, n. An aboriginal of Hindoostan, or Hindostan. NWAD HINDOO.1

HINGE, n. hinj. [This word appears to be connected with hang, and with angle, the verb.] NWAD HINGE.1

1. The hook or joint on which a door or gate turns. NWAD HINGE.2

The gate self-opened wide NWAD HINGE.3

On golden hinges turning. NWAD HINGE.4

2. That on which any thing depends or turns; a governing principle, rule or point. This argument was the hinge on which the question turned. NWAD HINGE.5

3. A cardinal point; as east, west, north or south. [Little used.] NWAD HINGE.6

To be off the hinges, is to be in a state of disorder or irregularity. NWAD HINGE.7

HINGE, v.t. To furnish with hinges. NWAD HINGE.8

1. To bend. [Little used.] NWAD HINGE.9

HINGE, v.i. To stand, depend or turn, as on a hinge. The question hinges on this single point. NWAD HINGE.10

HINGING, ppr. Depending; turning. NWAD HINGING.1

HINT, v.t. To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to allude to; to suggest by a slight intimation. NWAD HINT.1

Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike. NWAD HINT.2

HINT, v.i. To hint at, is to allude to; to mention slightly. NWAD HINT.3

HINT, n. A distant allusion; slight mention; intimation; insinuation; a word or two intended to give notice, or remind one of something without a full declaration or explanation. NWAD HINT.4

1. Suggestion. NWAD HINT.5

HIP, n. The projecting part of an animal formed by the osilium or haunch bone; the haunch, or the flesh that covers the bone and the adjacent parts; the joint of the thigh. NWAD HIP.1

To have on the hip, to have the advantage over one; a low phrase borrowed probably from wrestlers. NWAD HIP.2

Hip and thigh, complete overthrow or defeat. Judges 15:8. NWAD HIP.3

HIP, v.t. To sprain or dislocate the hip. NWAD HIP.4

HIP, HOP, n. The fruit of the dog-rose, or wild brier. NWAD HIP.5

HIP, HIPPED, HIPPISH. [See Hyp.] NWAD HIP.6

HIPPELAPH, n. An animal of the deer kind, in Norway, about the size of the elk, and partaking of the nature of the horse and the stag. NWAD HIPPELAPH.1

HIPHALT, a. [hip and halt.] Lame; limping. NWAD HIPHALT.1

HIPPOCAMP, n. [Gr. a horse, and to bend.] A name given to the sea-horse. NWAD HIPPOCAMP.1

HIPPOCENTAUR, n. [Gr. a horse, to spur, and a bull.] NWAD HIPPOCENTAUR.1

In ancient fable, a supposed monster, half man and half horse. The hippocentaur differed from the centaur in this, that the latter rode on an ox, and the former on a horse, as the name imports. NWAD HIPPOCENTAUR.2

HIPPOCRAS, n. A medicinal drink, composed of wine with an infusion of spices and other ingredients; used as a cordial. That directed by the late London Dispensary, is to be made of cloves, ginger, cinnamon and nutmegs, beat and infused in canary with sugar; to the infusion, milk, a lemon, and some slips of rosemary are to be added, and the whole strained through flannel. NWAD HIPPOCRAS.1

Hippocrates’sleeve, a kind of bag, made by uniting the opposite angles of a square piece of flannel, used for straining syrups and decoctions. NWAD HIPPOCRAS.2

Hippocratic face, [L. facies hippocratica,] pale, sunken, and contracted features, considered as a fatal symptom in diseases. NWAD HIPPOCRAS.3

HIPPOCRATISM, n. The philosophy of Hippocrates, as it regards medicine. NWAD HIPPOCRATISM.1

HIPPODAME, n. A sea-horse. NWAD HIPPODAME.1

HIPPODROME, n. [Gr. a horse, and a course, to run.] Anciently, a circus, or place in which horse races and chariot races were performed, and horses exercised. NWAD HIPPODROME.1

HIPPOGRIFF, n. [Gr. a horse, and a griffon.] A fabulous animal or monster, half horse and half griffon; a winged horse, imagined by Ariosto. NWAD HIPPOGRIFF.1

HIPPOLITH, n. [Gr. a horse, and a stone.] A stone found in the stomach or intestines of a horse. NWAD HIPPOLITH.1

HIPPOMANE, n. [Gr. a horse, and madness.] NWAD HIPPOMANE.1

1. A sort of poisonous substance, used anciently as a philter or love-charm. NWAD HIPPOMANE.2

2. In botany, the manchineel-tree, which abounds with a milky juice which is acrid, caustic and poisonous. NWAD HIPPOMANE.3

HIPPOPHAGOUS, a. Feeding on horses, as the Tartars. NWAD HIPPOPHAGOUS.1

HIPPOPHAGY, n. [Gr. a horse, and to eat.] The act or practice of feeding on horses. NWAD HIPPOPHAGY.1

HIPPOPOTAMY, HIPPOPOTAMUS, n. [Gr. a horse, and a river.] The river-horse, an animal that inhabits the Nile and other rivers in Africa. This animal resembles a hog rather than a horse, and was named perhaps from his neighing voice. He has been found of the length of 17 feet. He delights in the water, but feeds on herbage on land. NWAD HIPPOPOTAMY.1

HIPROOF, n. [hip and roof.] A roof that has an angle. NWAD HIPROOF.1

HIPSHOT, a. [hip and shot.] Having the hip dislocated. NWAD HIPSHOT.1

HIPWORT, n. A plant. NWAD HIPWORT.1

HIRE, v.t. NWAD HIRE.1

1. To procure from another person and for temporary use, at a certain price, or for a stipulated or reasonable equivalent; as, to hire a farm for a year; to hire a horse for a day; to hire money at legal interest. NWAD HIRE.2

2. To engage in service for a stipulated reward; to contract with for a compensation; as, to hire a servant for a year; to hire laborers by the day or month. NWAD HIRE.3

3. To bribe; to engage in immoral or illegal service for a reward. NWAD HIRE.4

To hire out one’s self, to let; to engage one’s service to another for a reward. NWAD HIRE.5

They have hired out themselves for bread. 1 Samuel 2:5. NWAD HIRE.6

To hire, or to hire out, to let; to lease; to grant the temporary use of a thing for a compensation. He has hired out his house or his farm. NWAD HIRE.7

HIRE, n. NWAD HIRE.8

1. The price, reward or compensation paid or contracted to be given for the temporary use of any thing. NWAD HIRE.9

2. Wages; the reward or recompense paid for personal service. NWAD HIRE.10

The laborer is worthy of his hire. Luke 10:7. NWAD HIRE.11

HIRED, pp. Procured or taken for use, at a stipulated or reasonable price; as a hired farm. NWAD HIRED.1

1. Employed in service for a compensation; as a hired man; a hired servant. NWAD HIRED.2

HIRELING, n. One who is hired, or who serves for wages. NWAD HIRELING.1

1. A mercenary; a prostitute. NWAD HIRELING.2

HIRELING, a. Serving for wages; venal; mercenary; employed for money or other compensation. NWAD HIRELING.3

A tedious crew NWAD HIRELING.4

Of hireling mourners. NWAD HIRELING.5

HIRER, n. One that hires; one that procures the use of any thing for a compensation; one who employs persons for wages, or contracts with persons for service. NWAD HIRER.1

HIRING, ppr. Procuring the use of for a compensation. NWAD HIRING.1

HIRSUTE, a. [L. hirsutus.] NWAD HIRSUTE.1

1. Hairy; rough with hair; shaggy; set with bristles. NWAD HIRSUTE.2

2. In botany, it is nearly synonymous with hispid, but it denotes having more hairs or bristles, and less stiff. NWAD HIRSUTE.3

HIRSUTENESS, n. Hairiness. NWAD HIRSUTENESS.1

HIS, pron. possessive of he, and pronounced hiz. NWAD HIS.1

1. Of him. Thus in Alfred’s Orosius, “Sume for his ege ne dorstan.” Some for fear of his durst not; literally, for his awe, for awe of him. Lib. 3.8. In this instance, his does not express what belongs to the antecedent of his, [Philip,] but the fear which others entertained of him. NWAD HIS.2

2. The present use of his is as a pronominal adjective, in any case indifferently, corresponding to the L. suus. Thus, tell John his papers are ready. I will deliver his papers to his messenger. He may take his son’s books. When the noun is omitted, his stands as its substitute, either in the nominative or objective case. Tell John this book is his. He may take mine and I will take his. NWAD HIS.3

3. His was formerly used for its, but improperly, and the use has ceased. NWAD HIS.4

4. It was formerly used as the sign of the possessive. The man his ground, for the man’s ground. This use has also ceased. NWAD HIS.5

5. His is still used as a substitute for a noun, preceded by of; as all ye saints of his; he ministers of his. NWAD HIS.6

Hisself is no longer used. NWAD HIS.7

HISINGERITE, n. A mineral found in the cavities of calcarious spar, in Sudermanland. NWAD HISINGERITE.1

HISPID, a. [L. hispidus.] Rough. NWAD HISPID.1

1. In botany, having strong hairs or bristles; beset with stiff bristles. NWAD HISPID.2

HISS, v.i. NWAD HISS.1

1. To make a sound by driving the breath between the tongue and the upper teeth; to give a strong aspiration, resembling the noise made by a serpent and some other animals, or that of water thrown on hot iron. Hissing is an expression of contempt. NWAD HISS.2

The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee. Ezekiel 27:36. NWAD HISS.3

2. To express contempt or disapprobation by hissing. NWAD HISS.4

3. To whiz, as an arrow or other thing in rapid flight. NWAD HISS.5

HISS, v.t. To condemn by hissing; to explode. The spectators hissed him off the stage. NWAD HISS.6

1. To procure hisses or disgrace. NWAD HISS.7

--That of an hour’s age doth hiss the speaker. NWAD HISS.8

HISS, n. The sound made by propelling the breath between the tongue and upper teeth; the noise of a serpent, a goose, etc. NWAD HISS.9

He hiss for hiss returned. NWAD HISS.10

1. An expression of contempt or disapprobation, used in places of public exhibition. NWAD HISS.11

HISSING, ppr. Making the noise of serpents. NWAD HISSING.1

HISSING, n. A hissing sound; an expression of scorn or contempt. NWAD HISSING.2

1. The occasion of contempt; the object of scorn and derision. NWAD HISSING.3

I will make this city desolate, and a hissing. Jeremiah 19:8. NWAD HISSING.4

HISSINGLY, adv. With a whistling sound. NWAD HISSINGLY.1

HIST, exclam. A word commanding silence; equivalent to hush, be silent. NWAD HIST.1

HISTORIAL, a. Historical. NWAD HISTORIAL.1

HISTORIAN, n. [L. historicus.] A writer or compiler of history; one who collects and relates facts and events in writing, particularly respecting nations. NWAD HISTORIAN.1

Hume is called an elegant historian. NWAD HISTORIAN.2

HISTORIC, HISTORICAL, a. [L. historicus.] Containing history, or the relation of facts; as a historical poem; the historic page; historic brass. NWAD HISTORIC.1

1. Pertaining to history; as historic care or fidelity. NWAD HISTORIC.2

2. Contained in history; deduced from history; as historical evidence. NWAD HISTORIC.3

3. Representing history; as a historical chart; historical painting. NWAD HISTORIC.4

HISTORICALLY, adv. In the manner of history; by way of narration. NWAD HISTORICALLY.1

The Gospels declare historically something which our Lord Jesus Christ did, spoke or suffered. NWAD HISTORICALLY.2

HISTORIED, a. Recorded in history. [Not much in use.] NWAD HISTORIED.1

HISTORIER, n. A historian. NWAD HISTORIER.1

HISTORIFY, v.t. To relate; to record in history. [Not used.] NWAD HISTORIFY.1

HISTORIOGRAPHER, n. [Gr. history, and to write.] A historian; a writer of history; particularly, a professed historian; an officer employed to write the history of a prince or state; as the historiographer of his Britannic majesty. NWAD HISTORIOGRAPHER.1

HISTORIOGRAPHY, n. The art or employment of a historian. NWAD HISTORIOGRAPHY.1

HISTORIOLOGY, n. A discourse on history, or the knowledge of history. [Not in use.] NWAD HISTORIOLOGY.1

HISTORY, n. [L. historia; Gr. knowing, learned, and to inquire, to explore, to learn by inspection or inquiry.] NWAD HISTORY.1

1. An account of facts, particularly of facts respecting nations or states; a narration of events in the order in which they happened, with their causes and effects. History differs from annals. Annals relate simply the facts and events of each year, in strict chronological order, without any observations of the annalist. History regards less strictly the arrangement of events under each year, and admits the observations of the writer. This distinction however is not always regarded with strictness. NWAD HISTORY.2

History is of different kinds, or treats of different subjects; as a history of government or political history; history of the christian church, or ecclesiastical history; history of war and conquests, or military history; history of law; history of commerce; history of the crusades, etc. In these and similar examples, history is written narrative or relation. What is the history of nations, but a narrative of the follies, crimes and miseries of man? NWAD HISTORY.3

1. Narration; verbal relation of facts or events; story. We listen with pleasure to the soldier or the seaman, giving a history of his adventures. NWAD HISTORY.4

What histories of toil could I declare? NWAD HISTORY.5

2. Knowledge of facts and events. NWAD HISTORY.6

History--is necessary to divines. NWAD HISTORY.7

3. Description; an account of things that exist; as natural history, which comprehends a description of the works of nature, particularly of animals, plants and minerals; a history of animals, or zoology; a history of plants. NWAD HISTORY.8

4. An account of the origin, life and actions of an individual person. We say, we have a concise history of the prisoner in the testimony offered to the court. NWAD HISTORY.9

A formal written account of an individual’s life, is called biography. NWAD HISTORY.10

HISTORY-PIECE, n. A representative of any remarkable event in painting, which exhibits the actors, their actions, and the attending events to the eye, by figures drawn to the life. This species of painting is called historical painting. NWAD HISTORY-PIECE.1

HISTRION, n. A player. [Not in use.] NWAD HISTRION.1

HISTRIONIC, HISTRIONICAL, a. [L. histrionicus, from histrio, a buffoon, an actor, or stage player.] NWAD HISTRIONIC.1

Pertaining to a buffoon or comedian, or to a pantomime, who represents events or characters by gestures and dancing; belonging to stage-playing; befitting a theater; theatrical. NWAD HISTRIONIC.2

HISTRIONICALLY, adv. In the manner of a buffoon or pantomime; theatrically. NWAD HISTRIONICALLY.1

HISTRIONISM, n. The acts or practice of buffoons or pantomimes; stage-playing. NWAD HISTRIONISM.1

HIT, v.t. pret. and pp. hit. NWAD HIT.1

1. To strike or touch, either with or without force. We hit a thing with the finger, or with the head; a cannon ball hits a mast, or a wall. NWAD HIT.2

2. To strike or touch, either with or without force. We hit a thing with the finger, or with the head; a cannon ball hits a mast, or a wall. NWAD HIT.3

The archers hit him. 1 Samuel 31:3. NWAD HIT.4

3. To reach; to attain to. NWAD HIT.5

Birds learning tunes, and their endeavors to hit the notes right-- NWAD HIT.6

4. To suit; to be conformable. NWAD HIT.7

--Melancholy, NWAD HIT.8

Whose saintly visage is too bright NWAD HIT.9

To hit the sense of human sight. NWAD HIT.10

5. To strike; to touch properly; to offer the right bait. NWAD HIT.11

There you hit him--that argument never fails with him. NWAD HIT.12

To hit off, to strike out; to determine luckily. NWAD HIT.13

1. To represent or describe exactly. NWAD HIT.14

To hit out, to perform by good luck. [Little used.] NWAD HIT.15

HIT, v.i. To strike; to meet or come in contact; to clash; followed by against or on. NWAD HIT.16

If bodies be mere extension, how can they move and hit one against another. NWAD HIT.17

Corpuscles meeting with or hitting on those bodies, become conjoined with them. NWAD HIT.18

1. To meet or fall on by good luck; to succeed by accident; not to miss. NWAD HIT.19

And oft it hits NWAD HIT.20

Where hope is coldest, and despair most fits. NWAD HIT.21

2. To strike or reach the intended point; to succeed. NWAD HIT.22

And millions miss for one that hits. NWAD HIT.23

To hit on or upon, to light on; to come to or fall on by chance; to meet or find, as by accident. NWAD HIT.24

None of them hit upon the art. NWAD HIT.25

HIT, n. A striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke or blow that touches any thing. NWAD HIT.26

So he the famed Cilician fencer prais’d, NWAD HIT.27

And at each hit with wonder seems amaz’d. NWAD HIT.28

1. A chance; a casual event; as a lucky hit. NWAD HIT.29

2. A lucky chance; a fortunate event. NWAD HIT.30

3. A term in back-gammon. Three hits are equal to a gammon. NWAD HIT.31

HIT, v.i. NWAD HIT.32

1. To move by jerks, or with stops; as, in colloquial language, to hitch along. NWAD HIT.33

Whoe’er offends, at some unlucky time NWAD HIT.34

Slides in a verse, or hitches in a rhyme. NWAD HIT.35

2. To become entangled; to be caught or hooked. NWAD HIT.36

3. To hit the legs together in going, as horses. [Not used in the U. States.] NWAD HIT.37

4. To hop; to spring on one leg. [Local.] NWAD HIT.38

5. To move or walk. NWAD HIT.39

HITCH, v.t. To hook; to catch by a hook; as, to hitch a bridle. NWAD HITCH.1

1. To fasten by hitching; as, to hitch a horse by a bridle, or to hitch him to a post. NWAD HITCH.2

HITCH, n. A catch; any thing that holds, as a hook; an impediment. NWAD HITCH.3

1. The act of catching, as on a hook, etc. NWAD HITCH.4

2. In seamen’s language, a knot or noose in a rope for fastening it to a ring or other object; as a clove hitch; a timber hitch, etc. NWAD HITCH.5

3. A stop or sudden halt in walking or moving. NWAD HITCH.6

HITCHED, pp. Caught; hooked; fastened. NWAD HITCHED.1

HITCHEL, v.t. To hatchel. [Not used. See Hatchel.] NWAD HITCHEL.1

HITHE, n. A port or small haven; as in Queenhithe, and Lambhithe, now Lambeth. NWAD HITHE.1

HITHER, adv. NWAD HITHER.1

1. To this place; used with verbs signifying motion; as, to come hither; to proceed hither; to bring hither. NWAD HITHER.2

2. Hither and thither, to this place and that. NWAD HITHER.3

3. To this point; to this argument or topic; to this end. [Little used and not to be encouraged.] NWAD HITHER.4

Hither we refer whatever belongs to the highest perfection of man. NWAD HITHER.5

HITHER, a. Nearest; towards the person speaking; as on the hither side of a hill; the hither end of the building. NWAD HITHER.6

HITHERMOST, a. Nearest on this side. NWAD HITHERMOST.1

HITHERTO, adv. To this time; yet. NWAD HITHERTO.1

The Lord hath blessed me hitherto. Joshua 17:14. NWAD HITHERTO.2

1. In any time, or every time till now; in time preceding the present. NWAD HITHERTO.3

2. To this place; to a prescribed limit. NWAD HITHERTO.4

Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further. Job 38:11. NWAD HITHERTO.5

HITHERWARD, HITHERWARDS, adv. This way; towards this place. NWAD HITHERWARD.1

A puissant and mighty power-- NWAD HITHERWARD.2

Is marching hitherward in proud array. NWAD HITHERWARD.3

HIVE, n. NWAD HIVE.1

1. A box, chest or kind of basket for the reception and habitation of a swarm of honey-bees. It is made of boards, straw or other materials. NWAD HIVE.2

2. A swarm of bees; or the bees inhabiting a hive. NWAD HIVE.3

3. A company or society together, or closely connected. [Unusual.] NWAD HIVE.4

HIVE, v.t. To collect into a hive; to cause, to enter a hive; as, to hive bees. NWAD HIVE.5

1. To contain; to receive, as a habitation, or place of deposit. NWAD HIVE.6

Where all delicious sweets are hived. NWAD HIVE.7

HIVE, v.i. To take shelter or lodging together; to reside in a collective body. NWAD HIVE.8

HIVED, pp. Lodged in a hive or shelter. NWAD HIVED.1

HIVER, n. One that collects bees into a hive. NWAD HIVER.1

HIVES, n. A disease, the croup, or cynanche trachealis; rattles. NWAD HIVES.1

HO, exclam. A word used by teamsters, to stop their teams. It has been used as a noun, for stop, moderation, bounds. NWAD HO.1

There is no ho with them. The word is pronounced also who, or hwo. NWAD HO.2

HO, HOA, exclam. [L. eho.] A call to excite attention, or to give notice of approach. NWAD HO.3

What noise there, ho? NWAD HO.4

Hoa, who’s within? NWAD HO.5

HOAR, a. NWAD HOAR.1

1. White; as hoar frost; hoar cliffs. NWAD HOAR.2

2. Gray; white with age; hoary; as a matron grave and hoar. NWAD HOAR.3

HOAR, n. Hoariness; antiquity. NWAD HOAR.4

HOAR, v.i. To become moldy or musty. [Little used.] NWAD HOAR.5

HOAR-FROST, n. The white particles of ice formed by the congelation of dew or watery vapors. NWAD HOAR-FROST.1

HOARD, n. A store, stock or large quantity of any thing accumulated or laid up; a hidden stock; a treasure; as a hoard of provisions for winter; a hoard of money. NWAD HOARD.1

HOARD, v.t. To collect and lay up a large quantity of any thing; to amass and deposit in secret; to store secretly; as, to hoard grain or provisions; to hoard silver and gold. NWAD HOARD.2

It is sometimes followed by up, but without use; as, to hoard up provisions. NWAD HOARD.3

HOARD, v.i. To collect and form a hoard; to lay up store. NWAD HOARD.4

Nor cared to hoard for those whom he did breed. NWAD HOARD.5

HOARDED, pp. Collected and laid up in store. NWAD HOARDED.1

HOARDER, n. One who lays up in store; one who accumulates and keeps in secret. NWAD HOARDER.1

HOARDING, ppr. Laying up in store. NWAD HOARDING.1

1. Instinctively collecting and laying up provisions for winter; as, the squirrel is a hoarding animal. NWAD HOARDING.2

HOARED, a. Moldy; musty. [Not in use.] NWAD HOARED.1

HOARHOUND. [See Horehound.] NWAD HOARHOUND.1

HOARINESS, n. [from hoary.] The state of being white, whitish or gray; as the hoariness of the hair or head of old men. NWAD HOARINESS.1

HOARSE, a. hors. NWAD HOARSE.1

1. Having a harsh, rough, grating voice, as when affected with a cold. NWAD HOARSE.2

2. Rough; grating; discordant; as the voice, or as any sound. We say, the hoarse raven; the hoarse resounding shore. NWAD HOARSE.3

HOARSELY, adv. With a rough, harsh, grating voice or sound. NWAD HOARSELY.1

HOARSENESS, n. Harshness or roughness of voice or sound; preternatural asperity of voice. NWAD HOARSENESS.1

HOARY, n. [See Hoar.] White or whitish; as the hoary willows. NWAD HOARY.1

1. White or gray with age; as hoary hairs; a hoary head. NWAD HOARY.2

Reverence the hoary head. NWAD HOARY.3

2. Moldy; mossy, or covered with a white pubescence. NWAD HOARY.4