Hunch"back` (?), n. [Cf. Humpback.] A back with a hunch or hump; also,
a hunchbacked person.
Hunch"backed` (?), a. Having a humped back.
Hun"dred (hn"drd), n. [OE. hundred, AS. hundred a territorial division;
hund hundred + a word akin to Goth. ga-ra˛jan to count, L. ratio
reckoning, account; akin to OS. hunderod, hund, D. hondred, G. hundert,
OHG. also hunt, Icel. hundra, Dan. hundrede, Sw. hundra, hundrade,
Goth. hund, Lith. szimtas, Russ. sto, W. cant, Ir. cead, L. centum, Gr.
"ekato`s, Skr. Áata. √309. Cf. Cent, Century, Hecatomb, Quintal,
and Reason.] 1. The product of ten multiplied by ten, or the number of
ten times ten; a collection or sum, consisting of ten times ten units
or objects; five score. Also, a symbol representing one hundred units,
as 100 or C.
With many hundreds treading on his heels.
Shak.
The word hundred, as well as thousand, million, etc., often takes a
plural form. We may say hundreds, or many hundreds, meaning individual
objects or units, but with an ordinal numeral adjective in
constructions like five hundreds, or eight hundreds, it is usually
intended to consider each hundred as a separate aggregate; as, ten
hundreds are one thousand.
2. A division of a country in England, supposed to have originally
contained a hundred families, or freemen.
Hundred court, a court held for all the inhabitants of a hundred.
[Eng.] Blackstone.
Hun"dred, a. Ten times ten; five score; as, a hundred dollars.
Hun"dred*er (?), n. 1. An inhabitant or freeholder of a hundred.
2. (Law) A person competent to serve on a jury, in an action for land
in the hundred to which he belongs.
3. One who has the jurisdiction of a hundred; and sometimes, a bailiff
of a hundred. Blount. Cowell.
Hun"dred*fold` (?), n. A hundred times as much or as many.
He shall receive as hundredfold now in this time.
Mark x. 30.
Hun"dredth (?), a. 1. Coming last of a hundred successive individuals
or units.
2. Forming one of a hundred equal parts into which anything is divided;
the tenth of a tenth.
Hun"dredth, n. One of a hundred equal parts into which one whole is, or
may be, divided; the quotient of a unit divided by a hundred.
Hun"dred*weight` (?), n. A denomination of weight, containing 100, 112,
or 120 pounds avoirdupois, according to differing laws or customs. By
the legal standard of England it is 112 pounds. In most of the United
States, both in practice and by law, it is 100 pounds avoirdupois, the
corresponding ton of 2,000 pounds, sometimes called the short ton,
being the legal ton.
Hung (?), imp. & p. p. of Hang.
Hung beef, the fleshy part of beef slightly salted and hung up to dry;
dried beef.
Hun*ga"ri*an (?), a. Of or pertaining to Hungary or to the people of
Hungary. -- n. A native or one of the people of Hungary.
Hungarian grass. See Italian millet, under Millet.
Hun"ga*ry (?), n. A country in Central Europe, now a part of the
Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Hungary water, a distilled "water," made from dilute alcohol aromatized
with rosemary flowers, etc.
Hun"ger (?), n. [AS. hungor; akin to OFries. hunger, D. honger, OS. &
OHG. hungar, G. hunger, Icel. hungr, Sw. & Dan. hunger, Goth. h&?;hrus
hunger, huggrjan to hunger.] 1. An uneasy sensation occasioned normally
by the want of food; a craving or desire for food.
The sensation of hunger is usually referred to the stomach, but is
probably dependent on excitation of the sensory nerves, both of the
stomach and intestines, and perhaps also on indirect impressions from
other organs, more or less exhausted from lack of nutriment.