3. To bend or gather together for strenuous effort, as in running; to do or effect by such effort; to exert; -- usually reflexively or with it; as, you must hump yourself. [Slang, U. S.]
A half dozen other negroes, some limping and all scared, were humping it across a meadow.
McClure's Mag.
Hump"backed` salm"on. A small salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) which ascends the rivers of the Pacific coast from California to Alaska, and also on the Asiatic side. In the breeding season the male has a large dorsal hump and distorted jaws.
Hum"strum` (?), n. An instrument out of tune or rudely constructed; music badly played.
Hunch, n. A strong, intuitive impression that something will happen; -- said to be from the gambler's superstition that it brings luck to touch the hump of a hunchback. [Colloq. or Slang]
Hun"kers (?), n. pl. [See Hunker.] In the phrase on one's hunkers, in a squatting or crouching position. [Scot. & Local, U. S.]
Sit on your hunkers -- and pray for the bridge.
Kipling.
Hunk"y (?), a. [Perh. fr. Hunk.] All right; in a good condition; also, even; square. [Slang, U. S.]
He . . . began to shoot; began to get "hunky" with all those people who had been plugging at him.
Stephen Crane.
Hunt, v. i. 1. (Mach.) To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, or the like; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.