HUCKLEBACKED
HUCK'LEBACKED, adjective Having round shoulders.
Dictionary
Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
Search
Find a word or entry
Current letter
H
2.160 entries
HUCKLEBONE
HUCK'LEBONE, noun The hip bone.
HUCKSTER
HUCK'STER, noun1. A retailer of small articles, of provisions, nuts, etc.2. A mean trickish fellow.HUCK'STER, verb intransitive To deal in small articles, or in petty bargains.
HUCKSTERESS
HUCK'STERESS, noun A female peddlar.
HUD
HUD, noun The shell or hull of a hut.
HUDDLE
HUD'DLE, verb intransitive1. To crowd; to press together promiscuously, without order or regularity. We say of a throng of people, they huddle together.2. To move in a promiscuo...
HUDDLED
HUD'DLED, participle passive Crowded together without order.
HUDDLING
HUD'DLING, participle present tense Crowding or throwing together in disorder; putting on carelessly.
HUE
HUE, noun Color; dye.Flow'rs of all hueHUE, in the phrase hue and cry, signifies a shouting or vociferation. In law, a hue and cry is the pursuit of a felon or offender, with lo...
HUER
HU'ER, noun One whose business is to cry out or give an alarm. [Not in use.]
HUFF
HUFF, noun1. A swell of sudden anger or arrogance.A Spaniard was wonderfully upon the huff about his extraction.2. A boaster; one swelled with a false opinion of his own value o...
HUFFED
HUFF'ED, participle passive Swelled; puffed up.
HUFFER
HUFF'ER, noun A bully; a swaggerer; a blusterer.
HUFFINESS
HUFF'INESS, noun Petulance; the state of being puffed up.
HUFFING
HUFF'ING, participle present tense Swelling; puffing up; blustering.
HUFFISH
HUFF'ISH, adjective Arrogant; insolent; hectoring.
HUFFISHLY
HUFF'ISHLY, adverb With arrogance or blustering.
HUFFISHNESS
HUFF'ISHNESS, noun Arrogance; petulance; noisy bluster.
HUFFY
HUFF'Y, adjective Swelled or swelling; petulant.
HUG
HUG, verb transitive1. To press close in an embrace.--And hugged me in his arms.2. To embrace closely; to hold fast; to treat with fondness.We hug deformities, if they bear our ...
HUGE
HUGE, adjective1. Very large or great; enormous; applied to bulk or size; as a huge mountain; a huge ox.2. It is improperly applied to space and distance, in the sense of great,...
HUGELY
HU'GELY, adverb Very greatly; enormously; immensely.Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea?
HUGENESS
HU'GENESS, noun Enormous bulk or largeness; as the hugeness of a mountain or of an elephant.
HUGGER-MUGGER
HUG'GER-MUGGER, noun [Hugger contains the elements of hug and hedge, and mugger, those of smoke.]In hugger-mugger denotes in privacy or secrecy, and the word adverbially used, d...
HUGUENOT
HU'GUENOT, noun A name formerly given to a protestant in France.
HUGUENOTISM
HU'GUENOTISM, noun The religion of the Huguenots in France.
HUGY
HU'GY, adjective [from huge.] Vast in size. [Not used.]