hucksteress, huckstress

[Eng. huckster; -e .] A female huckster. sin, as; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. hud nud, s. [HoOD.) The hull or shell of a nut. ( Provincial.) *hud, v. t. [HOOD.] To cover over; to wrap up. "But Valerius hudded them with their gowns over their heads."- North: Plutarch, p. 84. hud-der, *hod-er, *hod-ren, *hod-ur, v . t . [A frequent. from Mid. Eng. huden to hide (q. v.).] 1. To crowd together, to huddle. "Scatred on thi Scott is and hodred in their hottes." Robert de Brunne, p. 273. 2. To cover, to wrap up. "Hodur and happe." -La Bone Florence, 112. huddle, *hud-le, v. i. [A variant of hudler (q. v.).] A. In trans.: To crowd, to pre ; to hurry pro. miscuously without order or regularity; to throng. "Fools huddle on, and always are in haste." Rowe: Golden Verses of Pythagoras. B. Transitive: 1. To throw, hurry, or crowd together promiscuously or in confusion. "For that grand lev'ler huddles to one place Rich, poor, wise, foolish, noble and the base." Brome: On the Death of his Schoolmaster . 2. To get or bring together without order or system; to throw together confusedly. "His soul did huddled notions try." Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel , i. 171. 3. To crowd; to add hastily. "Huddling jest upon jest."-Shakesp.: Much Ado about Nothing , ii. 1. 4. To perform hastily, without order or regu larity; to produce hurriedly or without due consideration and preparation. (Usually followed by up .) "Reading what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene!" Cowper : Task , ii. 412. IMG:content-1333.png:[blocks in formation] "After his blunt and huddling fashion."- Bacon . 2. Hurrying or pre ing along. "Whose artful strains have oft delayed The huddling brook." Milton: Comus, 495. Hu-di-brăs-tic, a. [Eng. Hudibras; -tic.] Of or pertaining to or resembling Hudibras , a satire against the Puritans, written by Samuel Butler and published in 1663; in the meter in which Hudibras is written; doggerel. "His hymns, odes, ballads, and Hudibrastic satires are of very little intrinsic value." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xiii. Hud-sốn, s . & a. (See the compound.) Hudson-river, s . & a. A. As subst.: A river in New York State, which, after a course of three hundred miles, flows into the Atlantic, its estuary forming the harbor of New York. B. As adj .: Of or belonging to the river described under A. Hudson-river Group: Geol.: An American formation homotaxial to the Caradoc or Bala Group of the Lower Silurian. Various trilobites and mollusks are the same in both. Hud-son-ite, s. [Named from the Hudson river, near which it occurs.] Min.: A variety of Augite (q. v.). (Brit. Mus. Cat.) It is arranged by Dana as Aluminous IronLime Pyroxene. It is black with a green streak.