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& interj. [HUM, v.] A. As substantive: 1. The noise of bees and other insects in flight; the buzz of a top, a wheel, . "The hum of the wheel and the singing Suddenly ceased." Long fellow: Miles Standish, iii. 2. A low droning or murmuring sound. "Is it the bittern's early hum?" pell at i on into one of honor instead of reproach. D'Aubigné believed that the Reformation began in France in A. D. 1512, while that of Switzerland com- menced in 1516, and that of Germany in 1517. For a time France seemed as likely as the other two coun- tries to adopt Protestant ism. Though Margaret, the sister of Francis I., had favored it, yet that king had been strongly against it, at least during the latter part of his reign, as were Francis II. and Henry II. It arose among the people, and through their sympathy became so formidable, that when, 1. Ord . Lang.: To float; to drive to and fro buzz. in 1561, a year after the acce ion of Charles IX., the Huguenots were prohibited from preaching, they took up arms to achieve religious liberty. The chief seat of their power was in the south and west of France, that of the Catholics in the north and east. With an occasional hollow truce, or an interval of peace as hollow the struggle went on for the next century and a quarter. Its two most notable incidents were the Ma acre of St. Bartholomew, August 24, 1572 [BARTHOLOMEW], and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, Oct. 22, 1685 [REVOCATION]. The name Huguenot has not been permanent. Those so called were afterward denominated Reformed or simply Protestant. 1. To strip the hull or husk off; to free or clear from the outer shell or covering; as, to hull peas, . 2. To pierce the hull of; as, to hull a ship with a cannon-ball. *B. Intransitive: helple ly, like a dismasted ship. "And there they hull , expecting but the aid Of Bucking ham to welcome them ashore." Shakesp.: Richard III., iv. 4. IMG:content-1339.png:[blocks in formation] estants of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Hu-gue-not-ism, s. [Fr. huguenotisme.] Church History: 1. Attachment to the Reformed faith. ( Littré .) 2. The system of belief held by the Huguenots; French Protestant ism of the Calvin is tic type. *hūg-ỹ, *hūg-iě, a . [Eng. hug (e); -y.] Huge, vast, great. "Your three-fold army and my hugy host Shall swallow up these base-born Persians" Marlowe: 1 Tamburla : не , ііі. 3. *huîsh-er (uas w), s. [Fr. hui ier .] An usher (q. v.). To *huîsh'-er (u as w), v. t. [HUISHER, 8.] usher. *hūke, s . [Fr. hugue , from Low Lat. huca .] A cloak. [HEUK.] *hulch, s . [A variant of hunch (q.v.).] A hump or hunch.