hackiron

Min.: A miner's pick; a hack. hack-saw, 8. A frame saw of moderate set, tolerably close teeth, and good temper; used in sawing metal. Such a saw is used to cut the nicks in heads of screws, in cutting off bolts, . hack (3), s . [A doublet of hatch (q. v.); A. S. haca the bolt of a door; Dut. hek a fence or rail; Sw. häck a coop, a rack; Dan. hæk, hække=a rack.] A kind of frame or grating of various kinds, IMG:content-0881.png:[blocks in formation] pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, IMG:content-0882.png:[blocks in formation] 3. A carriage or coach kept for hire; a hackney- carriage. They were introduced about A. D. 1650. II. Figuratively : 1. A drudge; a person kept for drudgery or dirty work; a hack-writer. "Shall each spurgall'd hackney of the day, Or each new pension'd sycophant, pretend To break my windows?"-Pope. Ep. to Sat. 140. Pope: To Dr. Parnell. 2. Mean; low. hāde, s . [Etym. doubtful, perhaps from Ger. halde a declivity.] *1. Ord. Lang.: A ridge; a cliff. "And on the lower leas, as on the higher hades , The dainty clover grows." Drayton: Polyolbion, s. 13. (2) The steep descent of a shaft. hāde, v . i . [HADE, 8.] IMG:content-0883.png:[blocks in formation] *2. To make common or accustomed; to use much. "So common, long hackneyed in the eyes of men." Shakesp.: Henry IV., Pt . 1. , iii. 2. 3. To make trite, common, or commonplace. *4. To wear out. and worn out upon the errand of some contentious and obstinate bishop."-Marvell: Works, iii. 127. hack-neyed, hack-nied, pa . par.ora. [HACK- NEY, 2.] "He repre ed those robbers and hacksters , he visited and surveyed the foresayd prisons."-P. Holland: Sue- tonius, p. 53. hăd, pret . & pa . par . [HAVE.] *had-I-wist, interj . O that I had known! An interjectional exclamation of regret for something which has happened unexpectedly. The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia IMG:content-0885.png:[blocks in formation] hæ-ma-stat-ics, s . pl . [HEM A STATIC, B. 2.] hæ-măt'-, pref . [HEMA-.] hæ-ma-tă-chom-ě-tër, s . [Pref. hæma-, and Gr.tach us =swift, and metron =a measure.] hæmato- , and Gr. logos =a discourse.] Med.: A treatise on the blood. hæ-ma-tein, s . [Eng, ., hæmatin , with e in- serted simply to distinguish it from that word (?).] Chem.: C16H12O6. A substance obtained by ex- posing a solution of hæmatoxylin in ammonia to the air, and decomposing the ammonium salts thus formed by acetic acid. It is a red-brown powder, a cutting, a separation.] which gives a blue solution when di olved in pot- ash. hæ-ma-tem-ě-şis, s. [Pref. hæmat- (q. v.), and Gr. emesis vomiting.] Pathol.: Blood effused into the stomach, and thence rejected, differing thus from hæmoptysis, hæmorrhage from the lungs (q. v.). It is more fre- quent in later life than hæmoptysis, but may occur in the acute perforating ulcers of the stomach in young women. It is frequently a ociated with can cer, and other idiopathic diseases, but is also traumitic, especially from external violence. hæ-mat-ic, a. & s . [Greek haimatikos = full of blood.] IMG:content-0886.png:[blocks in formation] hæ-mat-in-one, s. [Greek haimatinos bloody; Eng. suff.- one .] A red gla known to the ancients, and used for mosaics, ornamental vases, .; it is mentioned by Pliny and occurs frequently in the ruins of Pompeii. Its fine red color, intermediate between red-lead and vermilion, is due to red oxide of copper, and is completely destroyed by fusion. Hæmatin one is opaque, harder than common gla , has a conchoidal fracture, and a specific gravity of 3.5. It contains no tin, and no coloring matter, ex- cept cupreous oxide. ( Watts : Dict. Chem., iii. 3.) hæ-mat-in-ür-i-a s. [Gr. haimatinos =bloody, hæ-ma-to-sis, s . [Gr. haimatosis (see def.). from haimatoō =to make bloody, to stain with blood to make into blood; Fr. hématose .] Physiology : 1. The conversion of chyle into blood. 2. The conversion of venous into arterial blood. hæ-mat-o-stā-phis, s. [Pref. hæmato- , and Gr. staph is a dried grape, a raisin.] Bot.: A genus of West African An a card i aceæ, hav- ing grape-like eatable fruits. IMG:content-0887.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0888.png:[blocks in formation] therapeutic agent for producing an efflux of blood.) hæ-mo-sta-şi-a, s. [Gr. haimostasis =a means of stopping blood.] Path.: Stagnation of blood arising from plethora. the-mo-stăt-1-ca, s. [Pref. hæmo- (q. v.), and Gr.histemi to make to stand.] Phar.: A medicine designed to stop hæmorrhage; a styptic. [STYPTIC.] hæ-mo-thör-ax, s . [Pref. hæmo-, and Eng., ., thorax (q. v.).] Path.: Hæmorrhage into the pleura; the physic- al signs are those of pleuritic effusion, pleurisy But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flower, but not in this soil tory state, generally from rupture of some blood- ve el, as in aneurism, or of carcinoma of the lung giving way into the pleura. hæ-mot-ro-phỹ, s . [Pref. hæmo-, and Greek trop he = nourishment; trepho = to make firm, to make fat, to nourish.] hæm-u-lon, s. [Pref. hæma- (q. v.), and Greek oulon the gum. Named from the red color of the gums of the fish.] Ichthy.: A genus of Sciæneide, one species of which is called in the Antilles Red Gullet. IMG:content-0889.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0890.png:[blocks in formation] "But such a hag to paradise conveyed, Had withered by her looks the bli ful shade." IMG:content-0891.png:[blocks in formation] hag-taper, 8. [HIG-TAPER.] hag-weed, s. Besom-weed. "My mother sent me, that was a hafflin callant, to show the stranger the gate."- Scott : Guy Manner ing, ch. xi. haf-linş, half-lings, adv . [HALFLING.] haf něf-jor-dite, s. [Named from Hafnefjord, in Iceland, where it is found. Min.: A variety of oligoclase. haft, heft, s. [A. S. hæft =a handle; cogn. with Dut. heft , hecht ; Icel. heft i ; Ger. heft , from the same root as A. S. habban ; Icel. hafa ; Goth.haban; Lat. çapio to take hold of.] IMG:content-0892.png:[blocks in formation] hag hăg (1), v. t. [HAG (1), 8.] To frighten; to hara ; to torment; to annoy. "The timorous man, whose nature is thus hagged with frightful imaginations of invisible powers." - Scott: Christian Life , pt. ii., ch. iii., § 2. hăg (2), v. t. [HAG (2), s.] To cut, fell, or hew down. ha-ga-da, 8. [Heb. hagadah =said, reported; Aramaic agadah , from nagad =in Hiphil, to point out, to announce, to proclaim, to say.] Hebrew Lit .: A branch of the Midrash, or most ancient Jewish exposition of the Old Testament. It extends over the whole of these sacred books and is homiletic and poetical. ( Ginsburg .)