Hilt (?), n. [AS. hilt, hilte; akin to OHG. helza, Prov. G. hilze,
Icel. hjalt.] 1. A handle; especially, the handle of a sword, dagger,
or the like.
Hilt"ed, a. Having a hilt; -- used in composition; as, basket-hilted,
cross- hilted.
Hi"lum (?), n. [L., a little thing, trifle.] 1. (Bot.) The eye of a
bean or other seed; the mark or scar at the point of attachment of an
ovule or seed to its base or support; -- called also hile.
2. (Anat.) The part of a gland, or similar organ, where the blood
vessels and nerves enter; the hilus; as, the hilum of the kidney.
||Hi"lus (?), n. [NL.] (Anat.) Same as Hilum, 2.
Him (?), pron. Them. See Hem. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Him, pron. [AS. him, dat. of h. √183. See He.] The objective case
of he. See He.
Him that is weak in the faith receive.
Rom. xiv. 1.
Friends who have given him the most sympathy.
Thackeray.
In old English his and him were respectively the genitive and dative
forms of it as well as of he. This use is now obsolete. Poetically, him
is sometimes used with the reflexive sense of himself.
I never saw but Humphrey, duke of Gloster, Did bear him like a
noble gentleman.
Shak.
Hi*ma"la*yan (?), a. [Skr. himlaya, prop., the abode of snow.] Of or
pertaining to the Himalayas, the great mountain chain in Hindostan.
Himp"ne (?), n. A hymn. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Him*self" (?), pron. 1. An emphasized form of the third person
masculine pronoun; -- used as a subject usually with he; as, he himself
will bear the blame; used alone in the predicate, either in the
nominative or objective case; as, it is himself who saved himself.
But he himself returned from the quarries.
Judges iii. 19.
David hid himself in the field.