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[HUMORIST.] hū-mour-ous, a. [HUMOROUS.] hū-mous, a. [Lat.humus the ground.] Chem.: Contained in or derived from humus or vegetable mold (q. v.). pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, IMG:content-1349.png:[blocks in formation] hun-drěd, *hon-dred, *hun-dreth, *hun-drid, a. & s. [A. S. hundred , from hund =a hundred, and réd , ræd =speech, discourse, reckoning; Icel. hun dradh; O. H. Ger. hunter it; O. Fris. hundered ; Dan, hundrede : Sw. hundra, hundrade ; Dut. hon derd; O. H. Ger. hunt: Goth. hund; Wel. cant; Gael.ciad; Ir. cead; Lat. centum; Gr. hekaton; Sansc, çata , all=a hundred.] A. As adj .: Ten times ten; a number consisting of ten multiplied tenfold. "Everich of you shal bring an hundred knightes." Chaucer: C. Т. , 1,858. "In these cases of felonious destruction of property the law gives to the parties injured a civil remedy against the hundred in which the premises are situated, provided the persons damnified go within seven days before a justice of the peace, state upon oath the names of the offenders, if known, and become bound to prosecute." -Black stone : Comment., bk. iv., ch. 11. A long hundred, a great hundred: The sum or number of one hundred and twenty. hundred-court, s . (See extract.) "A hundred- court is only a larger court-baron being held for a particular hundred instead of a manor. The free suitors are here also the judges, and the steward the registrar."- Black stone : Comment . , bk. iii., ch. 2. *1. To crook; to make hunched or humped. "Thy crooked mind within hunch'd out thy back, And wander'd in thy limbs." Dryden. ( Todd .) IMG:content-1350.png:[blocks in formation] 2. One of a hundred parts or units into which anything is divided; the quotient of one divided by a hundred. hũng, pret . & pa. par. of v. [HANG, v.] hung-beef, s . Dried beef; beef slightly salted and hung up to dry. IMG:content-1351.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1352.png:[blocks in formation] Grew thin and hungerly." "His beard Shakesp.: Taming of the Shrew , iii. 2. B. As adv.: Hungrily; with keen appetite; like one hungry. "They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; They eat us hungerly." Shakesp.: Othello, iii. 4. *hun-gred (re as er), a . [HUNGERED.] hun-gri-lý, adv . [English hungry ; -ly .] In a hungry manner; with keen appetite. "When on harsh acorns hungrily they fed." Dryden: Juvenal. ( Todd.) 2228 2. To use, manage, or direct in the pursuit of game or wild animals. "The hounds have to be hunted through it on foot." London Field. 3. To direct or manage the pursuit of game or wild animals in; as, to hunt a county. 4. To pursue or chase game or wild animals in or over; as, The country was hunted with foxhounds. 5. To search for, to seek. "Not certainly affirming anything, but by conferring of times and monuments, I do hunt out a probability." Spenser . 6. To pursue; to follow close after. "Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him." Psalm cxl. 11. 7. To search, to explore. "Which when by tract they hunted had throughout, At length it brought them to a hollow cave." Spenser: F. Q. , I. i. 11. B. Intransitive: 1. To follow the chase; to chase or pursue game or wild animals with hounds, . 2. To pursue game or wild animals. "The hounds hun-grỹ, *hun-gri, a. [A. S. hungrig .] 1. Feeling a sensation of hunger; having a keen scent."- London Field. appetite; wanting food. "Clients of old were feasted; now a poor Divided dole is dealt at th' outward door; Which by the hungry rout is soon dispatched." Dryden: Juvenal , sat. i. IMG:content-1353.png:[blocks in formation] Bot.: The name given at Sierra Leone to Pas palum exile .