Huck"ster, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Huckstered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Huckstering.] To deal in small articles, or in petty bargains. Swift.
Huck"ster*age (?), n. The business of a huckster; small dealing;
peddling.
Ignoble huckster age of piddling tithes.
Milton.
Huck"ster*er (?), n. A huckster. Gladstone.
Those hucksterers or money- jobbers.
Swift.
Huck"stress (?), n. A female huckster.
Hud (?), n. [Cf. Hood a covering.] A huck or hull, as of a nut. [Prov.
Eng.] Wright.
Hud"dle (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Huddled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Huddling
(?).] [Cf. OE. hoderen, hodren, to cover, keep, warm; perh. akin to OE.
huden, hiden, to hide, E. hide, and orig. meaning, to get together for
protection in a safe place. Cf. Hide to conceal.] To press together
promiscuously, from confusion, apprehension, or the like; to crowd
together confusedly; to press or hurry in disorder; to crowd.
The cattle huddled on the lea.
Tennyson.
Huddling together on the public square . . . like a herd of
panic-struck deer.
Prescott.
Hud"dle, v. t. 1. To crowd (things) together to mingle confusedly; to
assemble without order or system.
Our adversary, huddling several suppositions together, . . . makes
a medley and confusion.
Locke.
2. To do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly;
-- usually with a following preposition or adverb; as, to huddle on; to
huddle up; to huddle together. "Huddle up a peace." J. H. Newman.
Let him forescat his work with timely care, Which else is huddled
when the skies are fair.
Dryden.
Now, in all haste, they huddle on Their hoods, their cloaks, and
get them gone.
Swift.
Hud"dle, n. A crowd; a number of persons or things crowded together in
a confused manner; tumult; confusion. "A huddle of ideas." Addison.
Hud"dler (?), n. One who huddles things together.
Hudge (?), n. (Mining) An iron bucket for hoisting coal or ore.
Raymond.
Hu`di*bras"tic (?), a. Similar to, or in the style of, the poem
"Hudibras," by Samuel Butler; in the style of doggerel verse. Macaulay.
Hud*so"ni*an (?), a. Of or pertaining to Hudson's Bay or to the Hudson
River; as, the Hudsonian curlew.
Hue (?), n. [OE. hew, heow, color, shape, form, AS. hiw, heow; akin to
Sw. hy skin, complexion, Goth. hiwi form, appearance.] 1. Color or
shade of color; tint; dye. "Flowers of all hue." Milton.
Hues of the rich unfolding morn.
Keble.
2. (Painting) A predominant shade in a composition of primary colors; a
primary color modified by combination with others.
Hue, n. [OE. hue, huer, to hoot, shout, prob. fr. OF. hu an
exclamation.] A shouting or vociferation.
Hue and cry (Law), a loud outcry with which felons were anciently
pursued, and which all who heard it were obliged to take up, joining in
the pursuit till the malefactor was taken; in later usage, a written
proclamation issued on the escape of a felon from prison, requiring all
persons to aid in retaking him. Burrill.
Hued (?), a. Having color; -- usually in composition; as, bright-hued;
many- hued. Chaucer.
Hue"less (?), a. [AS. hiwle·s. See Hue color.] Destitute of color.
Hudibras.
Hu"er (?), n. One who cries out or gives an alarm; specifically, a
balker; a conder. See Balker.
Huff (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Huffed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Huffing.]
[Cf. OE. hoove to puff up, blow; prob. of imitative origin.] 1. To
swell; to enlarge; to puff up; as, huffed up with air. Grew.
2. To treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke with
insolence; to hector; to bully.
You must not presume to huff us.
Echard.
3. (Draughts) To remove from the board (the piece which could have
captured an opposing piece). See Huff, v. i., 3.
Huff, v. i. 1. To enlarge; to swell up; as, bread huffs.
2. To bluster or swell with anger, pride, or arrogance; to storm; to
take offense.
THis senseless arrogant conceit of theirs made them huff at the
doctrine of repentance.
South.
3. (Draughts) To remove from the board a man which could have captured
a piece but has not done so; -- so called because it was the habit to
blow upon the piece.
Huff, n. 1. A swell of sudden anger or arrogance; a fit of
disappointment and petulance or anger; a rage. "Left the place in a
huff." W. Irving.
2. A boaster; one swelled with a false opinion of his own value or
importance.
Lewd, shallow-brained huffs make atheism and contempt of religion
the sole badge . . . of wit.
South.
To take huff, to take offence. Cowper.
Huff"cap` (?), n. A blusterer; a bully. [Obs.] -- a. Blustering;
swaggering. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
Huff"er (?), n. A bully; a blusterer. Hudibras.
Huff"i*ness (?), n. The state of being huffish; petulance; bad temper.
Ld. Lytton.