Webster's Dictionary 1828

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HICKWAY

HICK'WAY, n. A small species of woodpecker.

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HID

HIDHI'DAGE, noun [from hide, a quantity of land.] An extraordinary tax formerly paid to the kings of England for every hide of land.

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HIDAGE

HI'DAGE, n. [from hide, a quantity of land.] An extraordinary tax formerly paid to the kings of England for every hide of land.

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HIDALGO

HIDAL'GO, noun In Spain, a man of noble birth.

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HIDDEN

HID'DEN, participle passive of hide. Concealed; placed in secrecy.1. Secret; unseen.2. Mysterious.

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HIDDENLY

HID'DENLY, adverb In a hidden or secret manner.

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HIDE

HIDE, verb transitivepreterit tense hid; participle passive hid, hidden.1. To conceal; to withhold or withdraw from sight; to place in any state or position in which the view is...

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HIDEBOUND

HI'DEBOUND, adjective A horse is hidebound when his skin sticks so closely to his ribs and back, as not to be easily loosened or raised.Trees are said to be hidebound when the b...

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HIDEOUS

HID'EOUS, adjective1. Frightful to the sight; dreadful; shocking to the eye; applied to deformity; as a hideous monster; a hideous spectacle; hideous looks.2. Shocking to the ea...

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HIDEOUSLY

HID'EOUSLY, adverb In a manner to frighten; dreadfully; shockingly.

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HIDEOUSNESS

HID'EOUSNESS, noun Frightfulness to the eye; dreadfulness; horribleness.

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HIDER

HI'DER, noun [from hide.] One who hides or conceals.

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HIDING

HI'DING, participle present tense Concealing; covering or withdrawing from view; keeping close or secret.HI'DING, noun Concealment. Habakkuk 3:4.1. Withdrawment; a withholding; ...

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HIDING-PLACE

HI'DING-PLACE, noun A place of concealment.

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HIE

HIE, verb intransitive1. To hasten; to move or run with haste; to go in haste; a word chiefly used in poetry.The youth, returning to his mistress, hies.2. With the reciprocal pr...

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HIERARCH

HI'ERARCH, noun [Gr. sacred, and a ruler or prince.]The chief of a sacred order; particularly, the chief of an order of angels.

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HIERARCHAL

HIERARCH'AL, adjective Belonging to a hierarch.

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HIERARCHICAL

HIERARCH'ICAL, adjective Belonging to a sacred order, or to ecclesiastical government.

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HIERARCHY

HI'ERARCHY, noun An order or rank of angels or celestial beings; or a subordination of holy beings. Some of the Rabbins reckon four, and others ten hierarchies, or orders of ang...

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HIEROGLYPH

HI'EROGLYPHHIEROGLYPH'IC, noun [Gr. sacred, and to carve.]1. In antiquity, a sacred character; a mystical character or symbol, used in writings and inscriptions, particularly by...

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HIEROGLYPHIC

HIEROGLYPH'IC, n. [Gr. sacred, and to carve.]1. In antiquity, a sacred character; a mystical character or symbol, used in writings and inscriptions, particularly by the Egyptian...

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HIEROGLYPHICAL

HIEROGLYPH'ICAL, adjective Emblematic; expressive of some meaning by characters, pictures or figures, as hieroglyphic writing; a hieroglyphic obelisk.

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HIEROGLYPHICALLY

HIEROGLYPH'ICALLY, adverb Emblematically; by characters or pictures expressive of facts or moral qualities. The Mexicans wrote history hieroglyphically

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HIEROGRAM

HI'EROGRAM, noun [Gr. sacred, and letter.]A species of sacred writing.

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HIEROGRAMMATIC

HIEROGRAMMAT'IC, adjective [Gr. sacred, and letter.] Denoting a kind of writing in sacred or sacerdotal characters, used only by the priests in Egypt.

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HIEROGRAMMATIST

HIEROGRAM'MATIST, noun A writer of hieroglyphics.

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HIEROGRAPHICAL

HIEROGRAPH'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to sacred writing.