(a.) Heedful.

(a.) Moderately heavy.

(n.) A nonplane curve whose tangents are all equally inclined to a given plane. The common helix is the curve formed by the thread of the ordinary screw. It is distinguished from the spiral, all the convolutions of which are in the plane.

(n.) A caulicule or little volute under the abacus of the Corinthian capital.

(n.) The incurved margin or rim of the external ear. See Illust. of Ear.

(n.) A genus of land snails, including a large number of species.

(interj. & n.) See Halloo.

(a.) Hellish.

() Same as Haema-.

(a.) Relating to the blood or blood vessels; pertaining to, situated in the region of, or on the side with, the heart and great blood vessels; -- opposed to neural.

(v. t.) To hoist.

(n.) Scorn; derision; abusive talk.

(interj.) Hollo.

(v. i.) See Hollo, v. i.

(interj. & n.) Ho there; stop; attend; hence, a loud cry or a call to attract attention; a halloo.

(interj.) To call out or exclaim; to halloo. This form is now mostly replaced by hello.

() A combining form fr. Gr. "o`los whole.

() A combining form from Gr. "omo`s, one and the same, common, joint.

(n.) The usual condition or state of a person or thing, either natural or acquired, regarded as something had, possessed, and firmly retained; as, a religious habit; his habit is morose; elms have a spreading habit; esp., physical temperament or constitution; as, a full habit of body.

(n.) The general appearance and manner of life of a living organism.

(n.) Fixed or established custom; ordinary course of conduct; practice; usage; hence, prominently, the involuntary tendency or aptitude to perform certain actions which is acquired by their frequent repetition; as, habit is second nature; also, peculiar ways of acting; characteristic forms of behavior.

(n.) Outward appearance; attire; dress; hence, a garment; esp., a closely fitting garment or dress worn by ladies; as, a riding habit.

(n.) To inhabit.

(n.) To dress; to clothe; to array.

(n.) To accustom; to habituate. [Obs.] Chapman.

(a.) See Habile.

(n.) A Mohammedan pilgrim to Mecca; -- used among Orientals as a respectful salutation or a title of honor.

(n.) A Greek or Armenian who has visited the holy sepulcher at Jerusalem.

(n.) A sunk fence; a fence, wall, or ditch, not visible till one is close upon it.

(a.) Bearing or covered with hair; made of or resembling hair; rough with hair; rough with hair; rough with hair; hirsute.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hone

(n.) The hooded crow; also, in Scotland, the hooded gull.

(a.) Full of hooks; pertaining to hooks.

(n.) A disease in cattle consisting in inflammation of the stomach by gas, ordinarily caused by eating too much green food; tympany; bloating.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hope

(n.) One who hopes.

(n.) A collector of customs, as at Canton; an overseer of commerce.

(n.) A tribunal or commission having charge of the revenue derived from trade and navigation.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an hour, or to hours.

(n.) A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude.

(superl.) Having horns or hornlike projections.

(superl.) Composed or made of horn, or of a substance resembling horn; of the nature of horn.

(superl.) Hard; callous.

(n.) A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus; especially, the domestic horse (E. caballus), which was domesticated in Egypt and Asia at a very early period. It has six broad molars, on each side of each jaw, with six incisors, and two canine teeth, both above and below. The mares usually have the canine teeth rudimentary or wanting. The horse differs from the true asses, in having a long, flowing mane, and the tail bushy to the base. Unlike the asses it has callosities, or chestnuts, on all its legs. The horse excels in strength, speed, docility, courage, and nobleness of character, and is used for drawing, carrying, bearing a rider, and like purposes.

(n.) The male of the genus horse, in distinction from the female or male; usually, a castrated male.

(n.) Mounted soldiery; cavalry; -- used without the plural termination; as, a regiment of horse; -- distinguished from foot.

(n.) A frame with legs, used to support something; as, a clotheshorse, a sawhorse, etc.

(n.) A frame of timber, shaped like a horse, on which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.

(n.) Anything, actual or figurative, on which one rides as on a horse; a hobby.

(n.) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse -- said of a vein -- is to divide into branches for a distance.

(n.) See Footrope, a.

(a.) A breastband for a leadsman.

(a.) An iron bar for a sheet traveler to slide upon.

(a.) A jackstay.

(v. t.) To provide with a horse, or with horses; to mount on, or as on, a horse.

(v. t.) To sit astride of; to bestride.

(v. t.) To cover, as a mare; -- said of the male.

(v. t.) To take or carry on the back; as, the keeper, horsing a deer.

(v. t.) To place on the back of another, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.

(v. i.) To get on horseback.

(a.) Pertaining to, or suggestive of, a horse, or of horse racing; as, horsy manners; garments of fantastically horsy fashions.

(pl. ) of Hose

(n. pl.) See Hose.

(pres. & imp.) of Hote

(n.) A house for entertaining strangers or travelers; an inn or public house, of the better class.

(n.) In France, the mansion or town residence of a person of rank or wealth.

(a.) In a hot or fiery manner; ardently; vehemently; violently; hastily; as, a hotly pursued.

(a.) In a lustful manner; lustfully.

(n.) A piece of woodland; a small wood. [Obs.] See Holt.

(n.) A nymph of paradise; -- so called by the Mohammedans.

(n.) Any animal of the genus Hyrax, of which about four species are known. They constitute the order Hyracoidea. The best known species are the daman (H. Syriacus) of Palestine, and the klipdas (H. capensis) of South Africa. Other species are H. arboreus and H. Sylvestris, the former from Southern, and the latter from Western, Africa. See Daman.

(n.) Millet.

(n.) A wood. See Hurst.

(n.) A fragrant kind of green tea.

() A prefix signifying half.

(n.) A substance, in the form of reddish brown, microscopic, prismatic crystals, formed from dried blood by the action of strong acetic acid and common salt; -- called also Teichmann's crystals. Chemically, it is a hydrochloride of hematin.

() Same as Haema-, Haemo-.

(a.) Like hemp.

(adv.) From this place; away.

(adv.) From this time; in the future; as, a week hence.

(adv.) From this reason; as an inference or deduction.

(adv.) From this source or origin.

(v. t.) To send away.

(a.) See Hende.

(adv.) Hence.

(n.) A thorny tree or shrub of the genus Lawsonia (L. alba). The fragrant white blossoms are used by the Buddhists in religious ceremonies. The powdered leaves furnish a red coloring matter used in the East to stain the hails and fingers, the manes of horses, etc.

(n.) The leaves of the henna plant, or a preparation or dyestuff made from them.

(n.) Liver of sulphur; a substance of a liver-brown color, sometimes used in medicine. It is formed by fusing sulphur with carbonates of the alkalies (esp. potassium), and consists essentially of alkaline sulphides. Called also hepar sulphuris (/).

(n.) Any substance resembling hepar proper, in appearance; specifically, in homeopathy, calcium sulphide, called also hepar sulphuris calcareum (/).

(n.) A crag; a cliff; a glen with overhanging sides.

(n.) A shaft in a coal pit; a hollow in a quarry.

(n.) The head.

(imp.) of Hew

(p. p.) of Hew

(n.) One who hews.

(n.) An atom whose valence is six, and which can be theoretically combined with, substituted for, or replaced by, six monad atoms or radicals; as, sulphur is a hexad in sulphuric acid. Also used as an adjective.

(n.) A compound radical, C6H13, regarded as the essential residue of hexane, and a related series of compounds.

(a.) High.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hide

(n.) One who hides or conceals.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hie

(n.) Winter.

(n.) A variant of Height.

(imp.) of Hight

(p. p.) of Hight

(v. t. & i.) To be called or named.

(v. t. & i.) To command; to direct; to impel.

(v. t. & i.) To commit; to intrust.

(v. t. & i.) To promise.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hale

(pl. ) of Halo

(v. t.) To embrace about the neck; to salute; to greet.

(v. t.) To adjure; to beseech; to entreat.

(v. t.) To haul; to hoist.

(n.) A half.

(v. t.) To divide into two equal parts; as, to halve an apple; to be or form half of.

(v. t.) To join, as two pieces of timber, by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.

(n.) A saint.

(n.) A rich goblet, esp. one used on state occasions.

() See Hanse.

() A sudden fall or break, as the fall of the fife rail down to the gangway.

() A contraction of have not, or has not, used in illiterate speech. In the United States the commoner spelling is hain't.

(adv.) By hap, chance, luck, or accident; perhaps; it may be.

(n. pl.) The refuse or coarse part of fiax; tow.

(n.) The apartments or portion of the house allotted to females in Mohammedan families.

(n.) The family of wives and concubines belonging to one man, in Mohammedan countries; a seraglio.

(n. pl.) The brains.

(n.) A hinge.

(a.) Rough; disagreeable; grating

(a.) disagreeable to the touch.

(a.) disagreeable to the taste.

(a.) disagreeable to the ear.

(a.) Unpleasant and repulsive to the sensibilities; austere; crabbed; morose; abusive; abusive; severe; rough.

(a.) Having violent contrasts of color, or of light and shade; lacking in harmony.

(n.) Celerity of motion; speed; swiftness; dispatch; expedition; -- applied only to voluntary beings, as men and other animals.

(n.) The state of being urged or pressed by business; hurry; urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.

(n.) To hasten; to hurry.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hate

(a.) Hateful; detestable.

(n.) One who hates.

() pres. & imp. sing. & pl. of Hote, to be called. See Hote.

(n.) A low-lying meadow by the side of a river.

(n.) The denuded stems or stalks of such crops as buckwheat and the cereal grains, beans, etc.; straw.

(n.) A part of a harness; a hame.

(n.) See Hals.

(a.) Lofty; haughty.

(v. t.) To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon.

(v. t.) To inhabit or frequent as a specter; to visit as a ghost or apparition.

(v. t.) To practice; to devote one's self to.

(v. t.) To accustom; to habituate.

(v. i.) To persist in staying or visiting.

(n.) A place to which one frequently resorts; as, drinking saloons are the haunts of tipplers; a den is the haunt of wild beasts.

(n.) The habit of resorting to a place.

(n.) Practice; skill.

(n.) A possessor; a holder.

(n.) The oat; oats.

(v. i.) To maunder; to talk foolishly; to chatter.

(n.) Wide and general destruction; devastation; waste.

(v. t.) To devastate; to destroy; to lay waste.

(n.) A cry in war as the signal for indiscriminate slaughter.

(imp. & p. p.) of Haw

(n.) A hawse hole.

(n.) The situation of the cables when a vessel is moored with two anchors, one on the starboard, the other on the port bow.

(n.) The distance ahead to which the cables usually extend; as, the ship has a clear or open hawse, or a foul hawse; to anchor in our hawse, or athwart hawse.

(n.) That part of a vessel's bow in which are the hawse holes for the cables.

(imp. & p. p.) of Haze

(v. t.) To make dry; to dry.

(n.) The eye of a bean or other seed; the mark or scar at the point of attachment of an ovule or seed to its base or support; -- called also hile.

(n.) The part of a gland, or similar organ, where the blood vessels and nerves enter; the hilus; as, the hilum of the kidney.

(n.) Same as Hilum, 2.

(n.) The hook with its eye, or the joint, on which a door, gate, lid, etc., turns or swings; a flexible piece, as a strip of leather, which serves as a joint to turn on.

(n.) That on which anything turns or depends; a governing principle; a cardinal point or rule; as, this argument was the hinge on which the question turned.

(n.) One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.

(v. t.) To attach by, or furnish with, hinges.

(v. t.) To bend.

(v. i.) To stand, depend, hang, or turn, as on a hinge; to depend chiefly for a result or decision or for force and validity; -- usually with on or upon; as, the argument hinges on this point.

(v. i.) To neigh; to whinny.

(n.) A hybrid between a stallion and an ass.

(n.) A term of endearment; darling; -- corrupted from honey.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hire

(n.) One who hires.

(v. t.) To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.

(v. t.) To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; -- said of something obstructed or impeded.

(v. t.) To hit the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere.

(v. t.) To hook; to catch or fasten as by a hook or a knot; to make fast, unite, or yoke; as, to hitch a horse, or a halter.

(v. t.) To move with hitches; as, he hitched his chair nearer.

(n.) A catch; anything that holds, as a hook; an impediment; an obstacle; an entanglement.

(n.) The act of catching, as on a hook, etc.

(n.) A stop or sudden halt; a stoppage; an impediment; a temporary obstruction; an obstacle; as, a hitch in one's progress or utterance; a hitch in the performance.

(n.) A sudden movement or pull; a pull up; as, the sailor gave his trousers a hitch.

(n.) A knot or noose in a rope which can be readily undone; -- intended for a temporary fastening; as, a half hitch; a clove hitch; a timber hitch, etc.

(n.) A small dislocation of a bed or vein.

(n.) A port or small haven; -- used in composition; as, Lambhithe, now Lambeth.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hive

(n.) One who collects bees into a hive.

(n.) The croup.

(n.) An eruptive disease (Varicella globularis), allied to the chicken pox.

(n.) See Hoarding, 2.

(n.) A store, stock, or quantity of anything accumulated or laid up; a hidden supply; a treasure; as, a hoard of provisions; a hoard of money.

(v. t.) To collect and lay up; to amass and deposit in secret; to store secretly, or for the sake of keeping and accumulating; as, to hoard grain.

(v. i.) To lay up a store or hoard, as of money.

(a.) White or whitish.

(a.) White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs.

(a.) remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity.

(a.) Moldy; mossy; musty.

(a.) Of a pale silvery gray.

(a.) Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent.

(n.) A small, strong-winged European falcon (Falco subbuteo), formerly trained for hawking.

(n.) Alt. of Hobbyhorse

(n.) The crested curassow; -- called also royal pheasant. See Curassow.

(v. t.) To deceive or cheat.

(v. t.) To adulterate; to drug; as, liquor is said to be hocused for the purpose of stupefying the drinker.

(v. t.) To stupefy with drugged liquor.

(n.) One who cheats or deceives.

(n.) Drugged liquor.

(n.) See Dun crow, under Dun, a.

(n.) A saddlecloth; a housing.

(n.) A head covering of various kinds; a hood; a coif; a cap.

(n.) An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.

(n.) A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.

(n.) A large conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped.

(v. t.) To put in a hovel; to shelter.

(n.) A cover; a shelter; a protection.

(v. i.) To hang fluttering in the air, or on the wing; to remain in flight or floating about or over a place or object; to be suspended in the air above something.

(v. i.) To hang about; to move to and fro near a place, threateningly, watchfully, or irresolutely.

(n.) A midwife.

(n.) A tool used by coopers for smoothing and chamfering rheir work, especially the inside of casks.

(v. t.) To smooth; to plane; as, to howel a cask.

(adv.) Howsoever.

(a.) Full of hubs or protuberances; as, a road that has been frozen while muddy is hubby.

(a.) Puffed up; as, huffy bread.

(a.) Characterized by arrogance or petulance; easily offended.

(n.) A hunch.

(a.) Bulky; unwiedly.

(interj.) See Hollo.

(a.) Belonging to man or mankind; having the qualities or attributes of a man; of or pertaining to man or to the race of man; as, a human voice; human shape; human nature; human sacrifices.

(n.) A human being.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, vegetable mold; as, humic acid. See Humin.

(a.) Containing sensible moisture; damp; moist; as, a humidair or atmosphere; somewhat wet or watery; as, humid earth; consisting of water or vapor.

(n.) A bitter, brownish yellow, amorphous substance, extracted from vegetable mold, and also produced by the action of acids on certain sugars and carbohydrates; -- called also humic acid, ulmin, gein, ulmic or geic acid, etc.

(n.) Moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.; as, the humors of the eye, etc.

(n.) A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often causes an eruption on the skin.

(n.) State of mind, whether habitual or temporary (as formerly supposed to depend on the character or combination of the fluids of the body); disposition; temper; mood; as, good humor; ill humor.

(n.) Changing and uncertain states of mind; caprices; freaks; vagaries; whims.

(n.) That quality of the imagination which gives to ideas an incongruous or fantastic turn, and tends to excite laughter or mirth by ludicrous images or representations; a playful fancy; facetiousness.

(v. t.) To comply with the humor of; to adjust matters so as suit the peculiarities, caprices, or exigencies of; to adapt one's self to; to indulge by skillful adaptation; as, to humor the mind.

(v. t.) To help on by indulgence or compliant treatment; to soothe; to gratify; to please.

(a.) Full of humps or bunches; covered with protuberances; humped.

(n.) That portion of the soil formed by the decomposition of animal or vegetable matter. It is a valuable constituent of soils.

(n.) A hump; a protuberance.

(n.) A lump; a thick piece; as, a hunch of bread.

(n.) A push or thrust, as with the elbow.

(v. t.) To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust suddenly.

(v. t.) To thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back.

(n.) A covetous, sordid man; a miser; a niggard.

(n.) The coarse part of flax or hemp; hards.

(n.) Noise; confusion; uproar.

(v. t.) To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.

(v. t.) To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.

(v. t.) To cause to be done quickly.

(v. i.) To move or act with haste; to proceed with celerity or precipitation; as, let us hurry.

(n.) The act of hurrying in motion or business; pressure; urgency; bustle; confusion.

(n.) A housewife or housekeeper.

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

(n.) A pert girl; a frolicsome or sportive young woman; -- used jocosely.

(n.) A case or bag. See Housewife, 2.

(v. t. & i.) To place in huts; to live in huts; as, to hut troops in winter quarters.

(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.

(n.) A measure of two Winchester bushels.

(n.) The case of a flour bolt.

(n.) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.

(n.) A jig for washing ore.

(v. t.) To hoard or lay up, in a chest.

(v. t.) To wash (ore) in a box or jig.

(interj.) A word used as a shout of joy, exultation, approbation, or encouragement.

(n.) A shout of huzza; a cheer; a hurrah.

(v. i.) To shout huzza; to cheer.

(v. t.) To receive or attend with huzzas.

() See under Hydro-.

() A combining form from Gr. /, /, water (see Hydra).

() A combining form of hydrogen, indicating hydrogen as an ingredient, as hydrochloric; or a reduction product obtained by hydrogen, as hydroquinone.

(n.) Any carnivorous mammal of the family Hyaenidae, of which three living species are known. They are large and strong, but cowardly. They feed chiefly on carrion, and are nocturnal in their habits.

(a.) Of or pertaining to matter; material; corporeal; as, hylic influences.

(a.) Having the form of an arch, or of the Greek letter upsilon [/].

(a.) Of or pertaining to the bony or cartilaginous arch which supports the tongue. Sometimes applied to the tongue itself.

(n.) The hyoid bone.

(n.) A heddle.

(a.) Lying in heaps.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hear

() imp. & p. p. of Hear.

(n.) A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood.

(n.) The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, and the like; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; -- usually in a good sense, when no epithet is expressed; the better or lovelier part of our nature; the spring of all our actions and purposes; the seat of moral life and character; the moral affections and character itself; the individual disposition and character; as, a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish heart.

(n.) The nearest the middle or center; the part most hidden and within; the inmost or most essential part of any body or system; the source of life and motion in any organization; the chief or vital portion; the center of activity, or of energetic or efficient action; as, the heart of a country, of a tree, etc.

(n.) Courage; courageous purpose; spirit.

(n.) Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.

(n.) That which resembles a heart in shape; especially, a roundish or oval figure or object having an obtuse point at one end, and at the other a corresponding indentation, -- used as a symbol or representative of the heart.

(n.) One of a series of playing cards, distinguished by the figure or figures of a heart; as, hearts are trumps.

(n.) Vital part; secret meaning; real intention.

(n.) A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address.

(v. t.) To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage; to inspirit.

(v. i.) To form a compact center or heart; as, a hearting cabbage.

(v. t.) To cause to move upward or onward by a lifting effort; to lift; to raise; to hoist; -- often with up; as, the wave heaved the boat on land.

(v. t.) To throw; to cast; -- obsolete, provincial, or colloquial, except in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the lead; to heave the log.

(v. t.) To force from, or into, any position; to cause to move; also, to throw off; -- mostly used in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the ship ahead.

(v. t.) To raise or force from the breast; to utter with effort; as, to heave a sigh.

(v. t.) To cause to swell or rise, as the breast or bosom.

(v. i.) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.

(v. i.) To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the lungs in heavy breathing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the billows, as the earth when broken up by frost, etc.; to swell; to dilate; to expand; to distend; hence, to labor; to struggle.

(v. i.) To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.

(v. i.) To make an effort to vomit; to retch; to vomit.

(n.) An effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy.

(n.) An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, and the like.

(n.) A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.

(a.) Having the heaves.

(superl.) Heaved or lifted with labor; not light; weighty; ponderous; as, a heavy stone; hence, sometimes, large in extent, quantity, or effects; as, a heavy fall of rain or snow; a heavy failure; heavy business transactions, etc.; often implying strength; as, a heavy barrier; also, difficult to move; as, a heavy draught.

(superl.) Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive; hard to endure or accomplish; hence, grievous, afflictive; as, heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc.

(superl.) Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with care, grief, pain, disappointment.

(superl.) Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid; as, a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, and the like; a heavy writer or book.

(superl.) Strong; violent; forcible; as, a heavy sea, storm, cannonade, and the like.

(superl.) Loud; deep; -- said of sound; as, heavy thunder.

(superl.) Dark with clouds, or ready to rain; gloomy; -- said of the sky.

(superl.) Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey; -- said of earth; as, a heavy road, soil, and the like.

(superl.) Not raised or made light; as, heavy bread.

(superl.) Not agreeable to, or suitable for, the stomach; not easily digested; -- said of food.

(superl.) Having much body or strength; -- said of wines, or other liquors.

(superl.) With child; pregnant.

(adv.) Heavily; -- sometimes used in composition; as, heavy-laden.

(v. t.) To make heavy.

(n.) Ebony.

(n.) A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden.

(v. t.) To inclose or separate with a hedge; to fence with a thickly set line or thicket of shrubs or small trees; as, to hedge a field or garden.

(v. t.) To obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to hinder from progress or success; -- sometimes with up and out.

(v. t.) To surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem (in).

(v. t.) To surround so as to prevent escape.

(v. i.) To shelter one's self from danger, risk, duty, responsibility, etc., as if by hiding in or behind a hedge; to skulk; to slink; to shirk obligations.

(v. i.) To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on.

(v. i.) To use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so as to avoid committing one's self to anything definite.

(v. t.) To raise; to lift; to elevate; esp., to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle, as a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight.

(n.) That by which anything is hoisted; the apparatus for lifting goods.

(n.) The act of hoisting; a lift.

(n.) The perpendicular height of a flag, as opposed to the fly, or horizontal length when flying from a staff.

(n.) The height of a fore-and-aft sail next the mast or stay.

(p. p.) Hoisted.

(pl. ) of Hoof