hasty-witted

(has’ti-wit’ed), a. Rash; inc on- siderate. An hasty-witted body Would say your head and butt were head and horn. Shak., T. of the 8., v. 2. hat! (hat), ». [ ult. EK. ca ock and chasuble, v. CE. Skt. /chhad, cover, cover over. Not found in HG.; the G. hut, a hat, is different, = E. hood; but there is prob. a remote connection: see hood and heed.) 1. A covering for the head; specifically, a he addre worn in the open air, having a crown, Forms of Hats worn in England in the 16th, sides, and a 17th, and 18th centuries. brim. Hats are I, 2, time of Henry VIII.; 3, time of Mary; made of various 4:time of Elizabeth; 5, 6, time of James and Charles I.; 7, 8, time of the Commonwealth; materials, as felt, 9, 10, time of William III.; 11-16, 18th censilk, wool, straw, tury. etc., and vary greatly in form and style; and they are worn, with characteristic differences of shape, by both men and women. Bonnets are sometimes loosely called hats. Thei hadden hattes of fin steill a-bove theire coiffes of Tren vpon theire heedes. Merlin (E. E. T. §.), ii. 260. I want to finish trimming my hat (bonnet she meant), Charlotte Bronté, Shirley, vii. “Hullo tho’,” says Hast, “this'll never do—hayen’t you got a hat?— we never wear caps here.” T. Hughes, tom Brown at Rugby, i. 5. Near me sat, Hypatia in her new spring hat. T. B. Aldrich, Harper's Mag., LX XVIII. 38. 2. The layer of tan-bark spread over hides in a tan-pit.—3. In a smelting-furnace, a depre ed place in the tunnel-head designed to detain gases.—4, In some soap-coppers and the like, a depre ed chamber in the bottom, provided with a tap for drawing off the contents: designed to collect impurities that settle. The copper, provided with a hat to receive impurities that subside, and to enable spent lye to be removed completely by the draw-off. W. L. Carpenter, Soap and Candles, p. 156, Cardinal’s hat. (a) See cardinal. (6) In her., a representation of the red hat, having the ta els on each side arranged as described under cordon.— Chimney-pot hat, a hat with a high, nearly cylindrical crown and a relatively narrow brim: a common head-dre of men in the nineteenth century. Also called pot-hat, plug-hat, and stovepipe hat or stovepipe.—Cocked hat. See cock2.— Cop at a in hat. See cop at a in.—Crush hat. See crushhat.— Gains borough hat, a hat with a broad brim, similar to those seen in some of the portraits of ladies by Thomas Gains borough, an English painter of the eighteenth century.—Gibus hat [named from the inventor, a hatter in London], a hat the crown of which collapses and can be pre ed flat, being held firmly in place by springs when open; an opera-hat.—Gipsy hat. See gipsy.—Hat of estate. Same as cap of maintenance (which see, under maintenance).— Hat of Mont Alban or Montalban. Same as chapeau Montaubyn (which see, under chapeau). —Ironhat, in mining, same as go an. [U. S..)—Panama hat, a fine plaited hat made of the young leaves (before exponies) of a stemle screw-pine (Car ludo vic a palimata) y the natives of Central America. They are commonly worn in the West Indies and frequently on the American continent.— Red hat, a cardinal’s hat. See cardinal. It may buy the red hat yet. C. Kingsley, Westward Ho. To give one a (one’s) hatt, to lift the hat to one, or to take it off in his presence; salute by lifting the hat. 76 hat I said nothing to you, but gave you my hat as I pa ed you. History of Col. Jack (1723). To hang up one’s hat in a house, to make one’s self at home; be continually in another's house, especially if not very welcome. The merchants of Calcutta are celebrated for a frank and liberal hospitality, which dates from the time when every European hung up his hat in his banker's or his agent's house on his arriving in the country. W. H, Ru ell, Diary in India, I. 107. To have a brick in one’s hat. See brick?._ To pa round the hat, to present a hat or any other convenient receptacle to receive contributions, as at a public meeting; hence, to ask for money for charitable use or some purpose of common interest. Lamartine, after pa ing round the hat in Durope and America, takes to his bed from wounded pride when the French Senate votes him a subsidy, and sheds tears of humiliation. Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p, 370. To thumb the hat, to determine the order or succe ion of the watches on board a fishing-schooner. Five or more men, each representing a dory, form a circle about the captain, placing each a thumb on the inside of the rim of a hat. The skipper, beginning at random, counts on the thumbs until he reaches the seventh, This seventh man has the first watch, the proce being repeated for the other watches, hat! (hat), v. t; pret. and pp. hatted, ppr. hatting. [