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[O. Fr. hachis, from hacher =to hack or slice; Ger. hacken; Eng. hack.] I. Lit .: A dish of meat chopped or cut into small slices; meat, especially such as has already been cooked, cut into small pieces and mixed with vegetables. II. Figuratively : 1. A mixture or second preparation of old matter; a repetition. "To ruminate over those hashes of absurdity which were disgusting to our ancestors."-Goldsmith: Polite Learning, ch. xii. 2. A me ; confusion. 2136 2. A thick mat for kneeling on in church; a small stuffed footstool covered with cloth or other material. "Buy a mat for a bed, buy a mat, A ha ock for your feet." Beaum. & Flet .: Night Walker , v. 3. Anything thick, bushy, and ill-arranged; a besom. "That ne'er had a better cov ering than his ain shaggy ha ock of hair."- Scott : Rob Roy, ch. xxxiv. hast, participle of verb. [HAVE.] The second person sing. pres. indic. of the verb to have. has-tāte, thăs-tāt-ed, s . [Lat. has tatus =armed with a spear, from hasta a spear.] Bot.: The same as HALBERT-HEADED (q. v.). The leaf shown in the illustration is that of the Sheep's Sorrel, Rumex ace to sell a . has-tāte-ly, adv. [Eng. hastate; -ly.] Hastate. Bot . In a hastate manner; so as to be halbert shaped. hastately-lanceolate, a. Bot.: Between lance-shaped and halbert-shaped. ( Paxton.) hastately-sagittate, a. Bot.: Between arrow-shaped and halbert-shaped. ( Paxton, .) hăs-tā-to-, pref. [Lat. has tatus =armed with a spear.] Bot.: Hastate; halbert-shaped. hasta to-lanceolate, a. Bot.: Between lanceolate and halbert-shaped, as the leaf of Dicranium varium. (Loudon, .) hasta to-sagittate, a. Bot.: Between arrow-shaped and balbert-shaped, as the leaf of Arum maculatum , shown in the ill us IMG:content-1008.png:[blocks in formation] hash-eēsh, hash-ish, s. [HASCHISH.] *hăsk, *haske, s. [Wel. hesg =sedge, rushes.] A case or basket made of rushes or flags; a wicker basket for carrying fish, . "Phœbus, weary of his yerely taske, Ystabled hath his steedes in lowlye laye, And taken up his inn in fishes' hask ." Spenser: Shepherd's Calendar ; Nov.