HUMMING
HUM'MING, participle present tense Making a low buzzing or murmuring sound.HUM'MING, noun The sound of bees; a low murmuring sound.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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HUMMING-BIRD
HUM'MING-BIRD, noun A very small bird of the genus Trochilus; so called from the sound of its wings in flight. The rostrum is subulate, filiform, and longer than the head; the t...
HUMOR
HU'MOR, noun [Latin from humeo, to be moist.]1. Moisture; but the word is chiefly used to express the moisture or fluids of animal bodies, as the humors of the eye. But more gen...
HUMORAL
HU'MORAL, adjective Pertaining to or proceeding from the humors; as a humoral fever.Humoral pathology, that pathology, or doctrine of the nature of diseases, which attributes al...
HUMORED
HU'MORED, participle passive Indulged; favored.
HUMORING
HU'MORING, participle present tense Indulging a particular wish or propensity; favoring; contributing to aid by falling into a design or course.
HUMORIST
HU'MORIST, noun One who conducts himself by his own inclination, or bent of mind; one who gratifies his own humor.The humorist is one that is greatly pleased or greatly displeas...
HUMOROUS
HU'MOROUS, adjective Containing humor; full of wild or fanciful images; adapted to excite laughter; jocular; as a humorous essay; a humorous story.1. Having the power to speak o...
HUMOROUSLY
HU'MOROUSLY, adverb With a wild or grotesque combination of ideas; in a manner to excite laughter or mirth; pleasantly; jocosely. Addison describes humorously the manual exercis...
HUMOROUSNESS
HU'MOROUSNESS, noun The state or quality of being humorous; oddness of conceit; jocularity.1. Fickleness; capriciousness.2. Peevishness; petulance.
HUMORSOME
HU'MORSOME, adjective Peevish; petulant; influenced by the humor of the moment.The commons do not abet humorsome factious arms.1. Odd; humorous; adapted to excite laughter.
HUMORSOMELY
HU'MORSOMELY, adverb Peevishly; petulantly.1. Oddly; humorously.
HUMP
HUMP, noun [Latin umbo.] The protuberance formed by a crooked back; as a camel with one hump or two humps.
HUMPBACK
HUMP'BACK, noun A crooked back; high shoulders.
HUMPBACKED
HUMP'BACKED, adjective Having a crooked back.
HUNCH
HUNCH, noun [See the Verb.] A hump; a protuberance; as the hunch of a camel.1. A lump; a thick piece; as a hunch of bread; a word in common vulgar use in New England.2. A push o...
HUNCHBACKED
HUNCH'BACKED, adjective Having a crooked back.
HUNDRED
HUND'RED, adjective [Latin centum.] Denoting the product of ten multiplied by ten, or the number of ten times ten; as a hundred men.HUND'RED, noun A collection, body or sum, con...
HUNDRED-COURT
HUND'RED-COURT, noun In England, a court held for all the inhabitants of a hundred.
HUNDREDER
HUND'REDER, noun In England, a man who may be of a jury in any controversy respecting land within the hundred to which he belongs.1. One having the juriscition of a hundred.
HUNDREDTH
HUND'REDTH, adjective The ordinal of a hundred.
HUNG
HUNG, preterit tense and participle passive of hang.
HUNGARY-WATER
HUNGARY-WATER, noun A distilled water prepared from the tops of flowers of rosemary; so called froma queen of Hungary, for whose use it as first made.
HUNGER
HUN'GER, noun1. An uneasy sensation occasioned by the want of food; a craving of food by the stomach; craving appetite. hunger is not merely want of food, for persons when sick,...
HUNGER-BIT
HUN'GER-BITHUN'GER-BITTEN, adjective Pained, pinched or weakened by hunger.
HUNGER-BITTEN
HUN'GER-BITTEN, a. Pained, pinched or weakened by hunger.
HUNGER-STARVED
HUN'GER-ST'ARVED, adjective Starved with hunger; pinched by want of food.