Webster's Dictionary 1913

3592

Hurt (2)

Hurt (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Hurt (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Hurting.] [OE. hurten, hirten, horten, herten; prob. fr. OF. hurter, heurter, to knock, thrust, strike, F. heurter; cf. W. ...

3593

Hurter

Hurt″er, n. 1. A bodily injury causing pain; a wound, bruise, or the like.The pains of sickness and hurts... all men feel. Locke.2. An injury causing pain of mind or conscience;...

3594

Hurter (2)

Hurt″er (?), n. One who hurts or does harm.I shall not be a hurter, if no helper. Beau. & Fl.

3595

Hurter (3)

Hurt″er, n. [F. heurtoir, lit., a striker. See Hurt, v. t.] A butting piece; a strengthening piece, esp.: (Mil.) A piece of wood at the lower end of a platform, designed to prev...

3596

Hurtful

Hurt″ful (?), a. Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury; as, hurtful words or conduct.Syn. — Pernicious; harmful; baneful; prejudicial; ...

3597

Hurtle

Hur″tle (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Hurtled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Hurtling (?).] [OE. hurtlen, freq. of hurten. See Hurt, v. t., and cf. Hurl.] 1. To meet with violence or shock; to c...

3598

Hurtle (2)

Hur″tle (?), v. t. 1. To move with violence or impetuosity; to whirl; to brandish.His harmful club he gan to hurtle high. Spenser.2. To push; to jostle; to hurl.And he hurtleth ...

3599

Hurtleberry

Hur″tle‐ber′ry (?), n. [Cf. Huckleberry, Whortleberry.] See Whortleberry.

3600

Hurtless

Hurt″less (?), a. Doing no injury; harmless; also, unhurt; without injury or harm.Gentle dame so hurtless and so true. Spenser.— Hurt″less‐ly, adv. — Hurt″less‐ness, n.

3601

Husband

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. ...

3602

Husband (2)

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, ap...

3603

Husbandable

Hus″band‐a‐ble (?), a. Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy. Sherwood.

3604

Husbandage

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

3605

Husbandless

Hus″band‐less, a. Destitute of a husband. Shak.

3606

Husbandly

Hus″band‐ly, a. Frugal; thrifty. Tusser.

3607

Husbandman

Hus″band‐man (?), n.; pl.Husbandmen (�). 1. The master of a family. Chaucer.2. A farmer; a cultivator or tiller of the ground.

3608

Husbandry

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...

3609

Hush

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, b...

3610

Hush (2)

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...

3611

Hush (3)

Hush, n. Stillness; silence; quiet. “It is the hush of night.” Byron.Hush money, money paid to secure silence, or to prevent the disclosure of facts. Swift.

3612

Hush (4)

Hush, a. Silent; quiet. “Hush as death.” Shak.

3613

Husher

Hush″er (?), n. An usher. Spenser.

3614

Hushing

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.

3615

Husk

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 th...

3616

Husk (2)

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.

3617

Husked

Husked (?), a. 1. Covered with a husk.2. Stripped of husks; deprived of husks.

3618

Huskily

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