4. (Zoˆl.) Covered with hairlike feathers, as the feet of certain
birds.
Hir*sute"ness, n. Hairiness. Burton.
Hir*tel"lous (?), a. [Dim., fr. L. hirtus hairy.] (Bot. & Zoˆl.)
Pubescent with minute and somewhat rigid hairs.
Hi*ru"dine (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Of or pertaining to the leeches.
||Hir`u*din"e*a (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. hirudo, hirudinis, a leech.]
||(Zoˆl.) An order of Annelida, including the leeches; -- called also
||Hirudinei.
||Hi*ru"do (?), n. [L., a leech.] (Zoˆl.) A genus of leeches, including
||the common medicinal leech. See Leech.
Hi*run"dine (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Like or pertaining to the swallows.
||Hi*run"do (?), n. [L., swallow.] (Zoˆl.) A genus of birds including
||the swallows and martins.
His (?), pron. [AS. his of him, his, gen. masc. & neut. of h&?;, neut.
hit. See He.] 1. Belonging or pertaining to him; -- used as a
pronominal adjective or adjective pronoun; as, tell John his papers are
ready; formerly used also for its, but this use is now obsolete.
No comfortable star did lend his light.
Shak.
Who can impress the forest, bid the tree Unfix his earth-bound
root?
Shak.
Also formerly used in connection with a noun simply as a sign of the
possessive. "The king his son." Shak. "By young Telemachus his blooming
years." Pope. This his is probably a corruption of the old possessive
ending - is or -es, which, being written as a separate word, was at
length confounded with the pronoun his.
2. The possessive of he; as, the book is his. "The sea is his, and he
made it." Ps. xcv. 5.
His"ing*er*ite (?), n. [Named after W. Hisinger, a Swedish
mineralogist.] (Min.) A soft black, iron ore, nearly earthy, a hydrous
silicate of iron.
His*pan"ic (?), a. [L. Hispanicus.] Of or pertaining to Spain or its
language; as, Hispanic words.
His*pan"i*cism, n. A Spanish idiom or mode of speech. Keightley.
His*pan"i*cize (?), v. t. To give a Spanish form or character to; as,
to Hispanicize Latin words.