-r. a. to sing in a low voice; to cause to hum; to impose on ;-(vulgar in the last two senses;) -s. the noise of bees or insects; a low confused noise, as of bustling crowds at a distance; any low dull noise; a pause with an inarticulate sound; an expression of applause;

You hear a hum in the right place.-Spectator. -interject. a sound with a pause, implying doubt and deliberation.

HUMAN, hu'man, a. (humanus, Lat.)

Belonging to man or mankind; pertaining or relating to the race of man; having the qualities of a man. HUMANATE, hu'man-ate, a. Endued with huimanity.-Obsolete.

HUMANE, hu-mane', a. Kind; benevolent; civil; having the feelings and dispositions proper to man; having tenderness and compassion; disposed to treat inferior animals with kindness. HUMANELY, hu-mane'le, ad. In a humane manner; with kind feelings, tenderness, or compassion. HUMANENESS, hu-mane'nes, 8. Tenderness. HUMANIST, hu'man-ist, s. A professor of grammar

and rhetoric; a philologist; one versed in the knowledge of human nature. HUMANITARIAN, hu-man-e- ta're-an, s. A person who denies the divinity of Christ, and asserts that he was a mere man. HUMANITY, hu-man'e-te, s. (humanitas, Lat.) The peculiar nature of man, by which he is distinguished. from all other beings; mankind collectively; the kind feelings, dispositions, and sympathies of man by which he is separated from the lower orders of animals; benevolence; the exercise of kindness; acts of tenderness; philology; grammatical studies: humanities, in the plural, signifies grammar, rhetoric, and poetry. Professor of humanity, in the Scottish universities, the professor who teaches the Latin language is so called. HUMANIZATION, hu-man-e-za'shun, s. The act of humanizing.

HUMANIZE, hu'man-ize, v. n. To soften; to render susceptible of humane and tender dispositions; to subdue cruel or unfeeling propensities. HUMANKIND, hu'man-kind, s. The race of man;

man.

HUMANLY, hu'man-le, ad. After the manner of men; according to the power of men; kindly; with humane dispositions.-In the last two senses humanely should be used.

HUMATION, hu-ma'shun, s. Interment.-Obsolete. HUMBERTIA, bum-ber'she-a, s. (in honour of some person of the name of Humbert.) A genus of plants: Order, Convolvulace.

HUMBLE, um'bl, a. (French) Low, opposed to high or lofty, or great; lowly, meek, modest, submissive, opposed to proud, haughty, arrogant, or assuming;-v. a. to make humble or lowly in mind; to reduce to a low state; to mortify; to crush; to break; to subdue; to abase; to make meek and submissive; to make to condescend; to bring down; to lower; to humble one's self, to

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HUMBLEBEE-HUMERAL.

repent; to afflict one's self for sin; to make contrite.

HUMBLEBEE, um′bl-be, s. A sort of bee which makes its nest in the earth; the Apis terrestris of Linnæus. HUMBLEMOUTHED, um'bl-mowthd, z Mild;

meek.

HUMBLENESS, um'bl-nes, s of pride.

Humility; absence

HUMBLE-PLANT, um'bl-plant, s. The plant Mimosa pudica, a native of Brazil.

HUMBLER, um'bl-ur, s. He or that which humbles; he that reduces pride or mortifies. HUMBLES, um'blz, s.

Entrails of a deer: also

written umbles. HUMBLESS, um'bles, s. (humblesse, old Fr.) Humbleness; humility.-Obsolete.

And with meek humbless, and afflicted mood, Pardon for thee, and grace for me intreat.-Spenser. HUMBLING, um'bl-ing, s. Humiliation; abatement of pride;-a. adapted to subdue pride and selfdependence.

HUMBLY, um'ble, ad. Without pride; with humility; modestly; with submissiveness; in a low state or condition; without elevation. HUMBOLDTIA, hum-bole'te-a, s. (in honour of Baron de Humboldt, the celebrated traveller and naturalist.) A genus of Leguminous plants, natives of Java: Suborder, Mimoseæ.

HUMBOLDTILITE, hum-bole'te-lite, s. (in honour of Humboldt, the celebrated traveller.) A mineral found in the lavas of Vesuvius; colour brown, inclining slightly to yellowish, or greenish-yellow; primary crystal a right square prism; lustre vitreous, translucent. Its constituents aresilica, 34.16; lime, 31.67; magnesia, 8.83; alumina, 0.50; protoxide of iron, 2.00: scratches glass. Sp. gr. 3.104.

HUMBOLDTINE, hum-bole'tine, s. (in honour of Humboldt.) A mineral found in the Moor coa! of Bohemia. According to Count Rivera, it is composed of oxalic acid, 46.14; protoxide of iron, 53.86.

HUMBOLDTITE.-See Datholite.

HUMBUG, hum'bug, s. An imposition;-v. a. to

deceive for the purpose of ridicule.-A low word. HUMDRUM, hum'drum, a. (perhaps from hum, and drone.) Dull; stupid;-8. a stupid fellow; a drone.

HUMEA, hu'me-a, s. (in honour of Sir Abraham Hume.) A genus of Composite plants, with immense capillary pannicles of brilliant crimson flowers, natives of New South Wales: Suborder, Tubuliflora.

v. a. (humecto, Lat.) To moisten; to wet;

HUMECT, hu'mekt, HUMECTATE, hu-mek'tate, to water. Seldom used. HUMECTANT, hu-mek'tant, a. (humectans, Lat.) In Therapeutics, pertaining to remedies which are supposed to augment the fluidity of the blood, and to remove the acrid condition of an organ. HUMECTANTIA, hu-mek-tan'she-a, s. Medicines for moistening and softening. HUMECTATION, hu-mek ta'shun, s. In Pharmacy, the preparing of medicine by steeping it for a time in water.

HUMECTIVE, hu-mek'tiv, a. Having the power to moisten.

HUMERAL, hu'me-ral, a. (French.) Belonging to

the shoulder.

HUMERO-CUBITAL-HUMMING-ALE.

HUMERO-CUBITAL, hu'me ro-ku'be-tal, a. An epithet employed by Chaussier to designate the brachial interual muscle, as extending from the humerus to the cubitus, or ulna. HUMERUS, hu'mer-us, s. (Latin.) The arm-bone, or that of the former extremity in vertebrated animals, which articulates with the scapula; the third joint of the anterior pair of legs of Hexapod insects is also so called by Kirby. HCMHUM, hum'hum, 9. A kind of plain, coarse India cloth, made of cotton.

HUMICUBATION, hu-me-ku-ba'shun, s. (humus, the ground, and cubo, I lie, Lat.) The act of lying on the ground.-Seldom used.

Fasting and sackcloth, and ashes, and tears, and humicubations, used to be companions of repentance.Bp. Bramhall.

HUMID, hu'mid, a. (humidus, Lat.) Moist; containing sensible moisture; damp, wet, or watery. HUMIDITY, hu-mid'e-te, s. A moderate degree HUMIDNESS, hu'mid-nes,) of wetness; moisture; dampness; that quality in bodies by which they are capable of wetting other bodies. HUMIFUSUS, hu-me-fu ́sus, a. (humus, the ground, and fundo, I pour, Gr.) An epithet sometimes used by botanists to express the spreading of plants over the surface of the ground; procumbent.

HUMILE, hu'mile, r. a. (humilier, old Fr.) To humiliate or humble.-Obsolete.

Davyd ought to humile himselfe,-Bp. Fisher. HUMILIATE, hu-mil'e-ate, v. a. (humilio, Lat.) To humble; to lower in condition; to depress. HUMILIATING, hu-mil'e-ay-ting, a. Abating pride or self-confidence; mortifying. HUMILIATION, hu-mil-e-a'shuu, s.

Descent from

an elevated state or rank to one that is low or humble; act of humility; mortification; external expression of sin and unworthiness; the state of being reduced to lowliness of mind, meekness, penitence, and submission; abatement of pride. HUMILITY, hu-mil’e-te, s. (humilitas, Lat.) Frecdom from pride and arrogance; humbleness of mind; a modest estimate of one's own worth. In Scripture, humidity is designated as lowliness of mind; a deep sense of one's own unworthiness in the sight of God; act of submission. HUMIRIACEÆ, bu-me-re-a'se-a, s. (humiriam, one

of the genera.) An order of Exogenous plants, belonging to the Erical alliance of Lindley. It consists of trees or shrubs, with balsamic juice; leaves alternate and coriaceous, without stipules; flowers polypetalous, in terminal or axillary cymes; perfect monodelphous stamens, and two-celled anthers, with a long membranous connective. HUMIRIUM, hu-mer'e-um, s. (houmiri, the name of II. balsamiferum, in Guinea.) A genus of plants, consisting of trees, flowing with balsam: Order, Humiriacea.

HUMITE, hu'mite, s, (in honour of Sir A. Hume.) A vitreous mineral, from Monte Somna, of various shades of yellow, sometimes almost wlate, passing into reddish-brown. It occurs in minute crystals, often marked. Hardness, 6.5 to 7.0. HIMMER, hum'mur, s. One that hums; an applauder.

HUMMING, hum'ming, 8. The sound of bees; an inarticulate sound; a dull, murmuring noise. HUMMING-ALE, hum'mning-ale, s. Sprightly ale. With humming-ale encouraging his text.-Dryden.

HUMMINGBIRDS-HUMP.

HUMMINGBIRDS.-See Trochilus. HUMMOCK, hum'mok, s. A solid mass of turf elevated above the surrounding earth. HUMMUMS, hum'mumz, s. pl. (Persian.) Sweating places or baths. HUMORAL, u'mo-ral, a. Relating to or proceeding from the humours. Humoral pathology, a system in medicine which attributed all the dis-¦ eases to morbid changes in the humours, or fluid parts of the body, without assigning any influes ce to the state of the fluids.

IIUMORALISM, u'mur-al-izm, s. The doctrine that diseases have their seat in the humours; also, state of being humoral. HUMORALIST, u'mur-al-ist, s. One who adopts the humoral pathology. HUMORISM, u'mur-izm, s.

mours.

HUMORIST, u'nur-ist, s.

The state of the bu

One who conducts him

self by his own fancy; one who gratifies his own humour; one of a playful, humorous disposition in speaking or writing; one who is fond of jest- | ing, or odd conceits; a wag; a droll. HUMORLESS, u'mur les, a. Without any ha

mour.

HɩMOROUS, uʼmur us, a. Distinguished by Lumour; full of curious contrasts or images, adapted to excite laughter; jocular; having the power to speak or write in a humorous style; fanciful; playful; exciting laughter; subject to be governed by humour or caprice; irregular; capricious;

Vast is his courage, boundless is his mind, Rough as a storm, and humorous as the wind.Drylen moist; humid.-Obsolete in the last two senses. HUMOROUSLY, u'mur-us-le, ad. With a fanciful or grotesque combination of ideas; in a manner to excite laughter or mirth; pleasantly; jocosely; capriciously; whimsically; in conformity with one's humour.

HUMOROUSNESS, u'mur-us-nes, 3. The state or quality of being humorous; jocularity; oddness of conceit; petulance; peevishness; fickleness; capricious levity.

HUMORSOME, u'mur-sum, a. Peerish; petulant: of a capricious turn; odd; humorous; adapted to excite laughter.

HUMORSOMELY, u'mur-sum-le, ad. Peevishly; petulantly; humorously; oddly.

HUMOUR, a'mur, s. (from humeo, to be moist, Lat.) Moisture. The humours of the eye are the aqueous, or watery; the crystaline, or icy; and the vitreous. The two first contains about 80 per cent. of albumen, muriate, acetate of soda, pure soda, and animal matter; the last, besides the usual salts, 36 per cont. of a peculiar matter, like albumen;-general turn or temper of mind; disposition, or rather a peculiarity of disposition, often temporary; grotesque imagery; jocularity; | inerriment; that quality of the imagination which gives to ideas a fantastic turn, and tends to excite laughter, or to produce a pleasant and agreea state of mind; petulance; peevishness; a trick; a practice;

I like not the humour of lying-Shaks caprice; whim; predominant inclination ;—e. e. to gratify; to sooth by compliance; to suit; to indulge; to favour by imposing no restraint. HUMP, hump, s. (umbo, Lat.) The protuberance formed by a crooked back.

HUMPBACK-HUNDREDUM.

HUMPBACK, hump'bak, 8. A crooked back; high shoulders.

HUMPBACKED, hump'bakt, a. Having a crooked back.

HUMULUS, hu'mu-lus, s. (humus, earth, Lat. from the plants only growing in rich soils.) The hop, a genus of climbing plants, which has been long cultivated in England for the sake of its flowers, used in the making of beer.

HUMUS, buʼmus, s. (humus, ground or earth, Lat.) Vegetable mould. When exposed to air and moisture, wood suffers decay or eremacausis, and is said to moulder, being converted into a darkbrown or black powder, called by modern chemists humus. The longer the decay operates, the greater is the proportion of carbon in the residue; thus, oak-wood is C36 H22 O22, and two species of humus, one more old than the other, were C35 H20 020, and C84 H18 O18; showing, that for every two equivalents of hydrogen oxidized by the air, one equivalent of carbonic acid had separated. HUNCH, hunsh, 8. A protuberance or hump; a lamp; a thick piece; a push or jerk with the fist or elbow-v. a. to push with the elbow; to push or thrust with a sudden jerk; to push out in a protuberance; to crook the back.

In

Thy crooked mind within hunch'd out thy back, And wander'd in thy limbs.-Dryden. HUNCH-BACKED, hunsh'bakt, a. Having a crooked back. HUNDRED, hun'dred, a. (hund or hundred, Sax.) Denoting the product of ten multiplied by ten, or the number of ten times ten-s. a company, body, or collection, consisting of ten times ten; the number 100. Hundred court, in Law, a hundred court is much the same as a court baron, only that it is larger, and is held for the inhabitants of a particular hundred, instead of a manor: it resembles a court baron in not being a court of record, and in the free suitors being the judges, and the steward the registrar.-3 Bl. 34. Politics, an ancient territorial division, having for its object the more convenient and efficient administration of justice. To each hundred belonged a court baron, similar in the nature and extent of its jurisdiction to the county court, and also a court leet; both of which were usually held by the sheriff, or by a deputy or steward having authority under him. The inhabitants of a hundred, when an offence was committed in their district, were bound to produce the offender, or make good the damage done. Hundred of lime, a measure used by lime-burners in some places equal to 35, and in others to 25, heaped bushels or bags, the latter being the quantity about London, and equal to 100 pecks. Long hundredweight, six score, by which certain articles are sold. Hundredweight, 112 lbs. avoirdupois.

HUNDREDORS, hun'dre-durs, s. (hundredarii, low Lat.) In Law, persons empannelled or fit to be empannelled on a jury, upon a controversy arising within the hundred where the land in question lies. It also sometimes signifies he who has the jurisdiction of a hundred, and holds the hundred court; and sometimes it is used for the bailiff of a hundred.-Cromp. Juris. 217. HUNDREDTH, hun'dredth, a.

The ordinal of a

hundred. HUNDREDUM, hun'dre-dum, s. In Law, sometimes means to be free or quit from money or

HUNG-HUNT.

customs due to governors and hundredors.-Les Termes de la Ley.

HUNG, hung. Past and past part. of the verb To hang. Hung double and single, in Carpentry, applied to sashes, the first when both the upper and fower sash are balanced by weights for raising and depressing, and the last when only one: usually the lower one is balanced over the pulleys. HUNGARIAN, hung-ga're-an, a. Pertaining to Hungary; s. a native of Hungary. HUNGARY-WATER, hung'ga-re-waw-tur, s. A distilled water, prepared originally for the Queen of Hungary.

HUNGER, hung'gur, s. (Sax. Germ. and Dan.) A craving of food by the stomach, or a sensation of uneasiness occasioned by the want of food; craving appetite; any strong or eager desire ;-v. n. to feel the pain or uneasiness which is produced by a long abstinence from food; to crave food; to desire with restless eagerness; to long for;v. a. to famish.-Obsolete as an active verb. HUNGER-BIT, hung'gur-bit, HUNGER-BITTEN, hung'gur-bit-tn, hunger. HUNGERED, hung'gurd, a. Hungry; pinched by want of nourishment.

a. Pained or weakened by

When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterwards an hungered.-St. Matt. iv. 2. HUNGERLY, hung'gur-le, a. Hungry; in want of nourishment;-ad. with keen appetite.- Seldom used as an adverb.

You have sav'd my longing, and I feed Most hungerly on your sight.-Shaks. HUNGER-STARVED, hung'gur-stărvd, a. Starved with hunger; pinched by want of food. HUNGER-STUNG, hung gur-stung, a. Feeling most acutely the craving of hunger.

HUNGRILY, hung'gre-le, ad. With keen appetite. HUNGRY, hung'gre, a. Feeling pain or uneasiness from want of food; having an eager desire; emaciated; lean, as if reduced by hunger; not rich or fertile; poor; not prolific; more disposed to draw from other substances than to impart to them. HUNKS, hungks, s. A covetous, sordid wretch; a niggard; a miser. She has a husband-a jealous, covetous old hunks.Dryden. HUNNEMANIA, hun-ne-man'ne-a, s. (in honour of John Hunneman, a zealous botanist.) A genus of Mexican plants: Order, Papaveraceæ. HUNS, hunz, 8. (hunni, Lat.) The Scythians, who conquered Pannonia, and gave it its present name, Hungary.

HUNT, hunt, v. a. (huntian, Sax.) To chase wild animals for the purpose of catching them for food, or for the diversion of sportsmen; to pursue; to follow closely; to search for; to direct or manage hounds in the chase; to hunt out or after, to seek; to search for; to hunt from, to pursue or drive out or away; to hunt down, to depress; to bear down by persecution or violence; -v. n. to follow the chase; to seek wild animals for game, or for killing them by shooting when noxious; to seek by close pursuit;-s. a chase of wild animals for catching them; a huntsman ;(obsolete in the last sense ;)

Ready for to ride

With hunte and horne, and houndes him beside.Chaucer.

a pack of hounds; chase; pursuit; a seeking of

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