hamate 
hamate (ha'inat), a. _ [< L. hamatits, furnished 
2696 
hamlet 
with a hook, hooked," < hamm, a hook.] 
Hooked; entangled. [Bare.] 
To explain cohesion by hamate atoms is accounted igno- ], ame l (ham), n. [< ME. hame, home, < AS. 
.11 7?^*.I-^7,in Kii-iu R 9">7 *"**** *- , . nr, . /~vl^ * 
given them in the classification adopted at the early Bir- 
mingham shows, are chiefly breeds of English origin. 
Kncyc. Bnt., XIX. 645. 
turn per ignotius. Berkeley, Siris, 227. 
2. InzooL, hooked; uncinate: same as hamii- 
late. [Rare.] 3. In bo t., curved like a hook; 
hooked at the tip : said of hairs, spines, etc. 
hamated (ha'ma-ted), a. Hooked, or set with 
hooks. [Rare.] 
Nothing less than a violent heat can disentangle these 
creatures from their hamated station of life. 
Smft, Mechanical Operations of the Spirit. 
ham-beetle (ham'be"tl), . Abeetle, Coryneies 
(or Necrobia) ntfipes, the larva of which often 
does great damage to cured hams in the United 
States. More fully called red-legged ham-beetle. 
The Hamburghs, erroneously so called from a name Hamiltonia (ham-il-to'ni-a), n. [NL., named 
' -'- "'- after F. Buchanan (1762-1829), who took in his 
later years the name of Hamilton, author of va- 
rious works, some relating to India.] A genus 
of shrubs, founded by Roxburgh in 1814, be- 
longing to the natural order Rubiaceai, tribe 
Pederietr, distinguished by the 5-celled ovary, 
5-parted style, and reticulate seed-coat, and 
embracing 3 or 4 species, natives of India, 
China, and the Indian archipelago. They have 
showy flowers with long tubular corollas, arranged in ter. 
minal panicles. Two of the species, //. suaveolenn and //. 
scabra, have fragrant white flowers, and are well known to 
florists. 
Samiltonian (ham-il-to man), a. and >i. 1. a. 
1. Pertaining to James Hamilton (1769-1831), 
and especially to a system of teaching lan- 
guages which he advocated, and which was 
based upon the two principles that language is 
to be presented to the scholar as a living or- 
ganism, and that its laws are to be learned by 
hama, homa, a cover, skin, = OS. hamo = OFries. 
homa, hama, a cover, = D. /mam, a hame (def. 2), 
= MLG. ham = OHG. hamo, MHG. hame, ham, G. 
hamen = Icel. hamr = Dan. ham = Goth, 'hama, 
a cover, covering C>ga-hamdn, cover). In sense 
2 the word is perhaps of D. origin.] If. A cov- 
ering ; a skin ; a membrane. 
Of he caste his dragouns hame. 
King Alinaunder (ed. Skeat), 1. 391. 
Hame, thyn skynne of an eye or other lyke, membra- 
nu ia. Prompt. Pan., p. 416. 
2. One of two curved pieces of wood or metal 
in the harness of a draft-horse, to which the 
traces are fastened, and which lie upon the 
collar or have pads attached to them fitting the 
Red-legged Hani-beetle ( Coryne tes rufipes). 
,d the larder-beetle, Dermestes lardarius, also occasion. BU i, trO pi c ' a i American shrubs, founded by Jac- Federalist' party and the first Secretary of the 
lyinjurehams.andthenamemaybeasoappliedtothern. KiMB.li immur to the natural order Tr fifl ,snrv. 
a, larva (line shows natural size); *, pupa (line shows natural T. _,l-x. e pB l, nm j f tl 
size)- c cocoon; rf, beetle, enlarged; f, beetle, natural size;/, leg flamelett, DW lamifl. 
of larva; f, mandible; It, labium ; I, maxilla;/, antenna of larva. Jamelia ( na " mg 'li'lj)>_ "' P^Xl., named after 
the French botanist Du Hamel (Duhamel-Du- 
Two other beetles, the bacon-beetle, Silpha anericana, monceau, 1700-82).] A genus of tropical or 
and the larder-beetle, Dermestes lardarius, also occasion. guttrop i ca l American shrubs, founded by Jac- 
allyinjurehanis.andthenam^ernaybealsoappHe^tothejn. ^P 1763, belonging to the natural order 
Jlubiacew, and type of the tribe Hameliea:, hav- 
ing a 5-lobed calyx, 5-ribbed corolla with sta- 
mens inserted at the base of its tube, a fusiform 
stigma, and the flowers arranged in scorpioid 
cymes. The genus embraces 6 or 8 species, several of 
which, especially H. patens, have handsome flowers, and 
are in cultivation as stove-plants. //. ventricoea, a native 
of Jamaica, is there called Spanish elm. 
Hameliaceae (ha-me-li-a'se-e), n. pi. [NL. (A. 
Richard, 1834), < Hameliu'+ -acece."] A group 
of genera of rubiaceous plants, of which Ha- 
melia is the type, equal to the tribe Hameliea! 
of De Candolle. 
[NL., < Hame- 
, a suborder of 
> ; having the genus Hamelia as the 
type, and substantially the same as the tribe 
Hameliea! of De Candolle. 
*~ j , IZtLll J9LLI* UiiiV*. liUOiU uo *** TI u wi v*. - - 1/ 
horse's neck. See cut under harness.-B&me- Observation and not by rules. 2. Pertaining 
to Sir William Hamilton (1788-1856), an influ- 
ential philosopher and logician of the Scottish 
school. 
The general principle of the Hamiltonian logic. 
R. Adamson, Encyc. Brit, XIV. 799. 
3. Pertaining to Sir William Rowan Hamilton 
(1805-65), an Irish mathematician. 4. Per- 
taining to or holding the political doctrines of 
Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804), an American 
statesman, who was one of the leaders of the 
straps or name-strings, the straps or strings which 
bind together the endsof the hames. See cut under har- 
ness. 
hame 2 (ham), n. An obsolete or dialectal form 
of halm 1 . 
hame 3 (ham), n. A Scotch form of home 1 . 
hamel (ham'el), v. See hamble. 
But both The latter chiefly affect tainted or" spoiled hams, 
while the true ham-beetle attacks well-cured hams. See 
also cut under bacon-beetle. 
hamble (ham'bl), .; pret. and pp. humbled, 
ppr. hambling. [Also dial, hammel, hamel; 
< ME. hamelen, mutilate, < AS. hamelian (only 
once), mutilate (= OFries. homelia (also in ver- 
bal n. homeJenga, hamelinga, hemelenga, hemi- 
linge, mutilation, as of the beard) = OHG. ham- 
aWn, MHG. hameln, mutilate, maim, G. 7mm- 
meln, hammeln, geld (lambs), = Icel. lutmla = 
ODan. hamle, mutilate, maim), < "hamol (found 
in only one passage, in def. form as noun, homo- 
la, homela, used to designate a person with his of De Candolle. 
head shaved (as a mark of disgrace) ; cf. OSc. Hamelldae (ha-mel i-de) n. pi. [ 
liomtill, liommel, mod. hummel, hummle, having / + -*.] In Lmdley's system, 
f ' ^ i 7 _T_ . n_j _ / 'iflmini'0rr> hflVlTltr r,tlA (TPT111S H 
no horns (of a cow), liumlock, a polled cow, 
also a person whose head has been shaved 
or hair cut: see further under humble s , r. t., 
UI UUiLl UUUi oco ililull^i Uiiiivji ., _ ,_,_ _. , rXTT / TT T 
which is ult. a doublet of hamble) = D. liamel, Hamelieae(ham-e-b'e-e),n.^. [NL ,< Hamelia 
Treasury. 
Laying entirely aside the general proposition that the 
Hamiltonian Federalists considered a national debt as In 
itself a desirable institution, and conceding that the Fed- 
eralists would themselves have ultimately reduced or dis- 
charged It, there still remains the fact that the Federal- 
ists made the debt a subordinate, Mr. Gallatin made it a 
paramount, consideration in politics. 
11. Adams, Oallatin, p. 174. 
Hamiltonian equation. 8ee equation. Hamilto- 
nian functions, see function. Hamiltonian opera- 
tor. See operator. 
II. . A follower of any one of the persons 
named above. See I. 
Hamiltonism (ham'il-ton-izm), n. [< Hamilton 
(see def.) + -ism.] The philosophy of Sir Wil- 
liam Hamilton. 
This is Kantism, but it is not Hamiltonism. 
J. S. Mill, Examination of Hamilton, iii. 
hamirostrate (ham-i-ros'trat), a. [< L. humus, 
wether, = MLG. hamel, castrated wether, = 
OHG. hamal, mutilated, cut off (> OHG. Jiamal, 
n., a (castrated) wether, MHG. hamel, a wether, 
also a precipitous height, a cliff, also a stick 
(cut off), G. liammel, a wether, mutton, > Sw. 
hammfl = ODan. hammel, a wether). Cf. OHG. 
ham (hamm-), mutilated, crippled, lame, para- 
lytic, MHG. hamen, G. hammen, maim, curtail, 
A tribe' of plants, of the natural order 
a hook, + rostrum, a beak.] 
beak; uncirostrate. 
Having a hooked 
liitbiacece, established by Bentham and Hooker Hamite 1 (ham'it), . [< Ham (see def. ) + -i 
in 1783, having the corolla-lobes imbricate or 
twisted in the bud, the ovary 2- to many-celled, 
with many ovules in each cell, and a fleshy or 
coriaceous, many-seeded, berry-like fruit, it em- 
braces genera, all but one of which are natives of trop- 
ical America ; one, Rertiera, is also found in tropical Africa, 
and one, Gouldia, is confined to the Hawaiian islands. 
and also OFries. hcmma, hamma, hinder, ob- h ame ly (ham'li), a. A Scotch form of homely. 
struct (a limb), MHG. hamen, hemmen, G. hem- Jj amer | . An obsolete form of hammer 1 , 
men, Dan. hemme, Sw. hamma, stop, hinder, fcamesucken (ham'suk-n), n. [Sc., < AS. Mm- 
check: senses near that of the ult. allied E. 
hamper : see hamper 1 , hem 1 , v.J I. trans. If. 
To mutilate; hamstring; cutaway. 
Algate a foot is hameled of thy sorwe. 
Chaucer, Troilus, ii. 064. 
To hammel, or ham-string, to cut the ham, to hough. 
E. Phillips, 1706. 
2. To cut out the balls of the feet of (dogs), 
so as to render them unfit for hunting. 
II. in trans. To walk lame; limp: in this sense 
usually hammel, hammle. [Prov. Eng.] 
Hambletonian (ham-bl-to'ni-an), n. [From 
Black Hambleton, a race-course in Yorkshire, 
England.] The name of a breed of American 
trotting-horses descended from Hambletonian 
an attack on a man's house, also the fine 
therefor (= Icel. heimsoku; cf. OFries. 7mm-, 
hemsekenge, hemsekninge, an attack on one's 
house, MLG. heimsoke, an attack on one's house, 
heimsokinge, visit, attack, Dan. hjemsogelse, Sw. 
hemsokande, hemsokelse, hemsokning, visitation, 
infliction, MHG. heimesuoche, heimsuoche, G. 
heimsuchnng, visitation, punishment, MLG. 
lieimsoken, visit, attack a house, MHG. heimesuo- 
chen, heimsuochen, G. heimsuchen, visit, punish, 
Dan. hjemsoge = Sw. hemsoka, visit upon, in- 
fest), < ham, home, + socn, a seeking: see home 1 
and soken.} In Scots law, the offense of felo- 
niously beating or assaulting a person in his 
own house or dwelling-place. Also homesocken. 
1. A descendant of Ham, one of the sons of 
Noah according to the account in Genesis; a 
member of one of the races supposed to have 
been derived from the four sons of Ham (Gen. 
x.); specifically, one of a race speaking a so- 
called Hamitic language. See Hamitic. 2. 
Popularly, an African ; a negro. 
Whilst the Caucasian doubt* the humanity of the Ham- 
ite, the latter repays the compliment in kind. 
H. Spencer, Study of Sociol., p. 207. 
hamite 2 (ha'mlt), n. [< L. hamns, a hook, + 
' A fossil cephalopod of the genus Hami- 
o _ -. 
(foaled in 1849), and more remotely from Mes- hamfat ter (ham 'fat" er), n. A term of con- 
senger, an English thoroughbred. t t for an actor of a low g,. ade) ag a negro 
hambrolme (ham bro-lin), . Naut., a sort of min8tre i. Said to be derived from an old-style 
small hue used for seizings. ne song called The Ham-fat Man." 
Hamburg (ham'berg), n. 1. An excellent black j^ )( | hiral of ^^ 
yariety of the FVHs rjnf/era or European grape, namiform (ham'i-f6rm), a. [< L. hamus, a 
indigenous m Tyrol, where it is called Trpl- hook + forma snape .] Hamate or hamulate 
linger or Ttrolmger, and perhaps the favorite . form; nncifonn; uncinate. 
tez), n. [NL. (Parkinson, 1811), 
a hook /4- -jL.] A genus of fossil 
j j > ed fo A ^ motli f es having the 
P I k ^ b t its elf in separate 
{ ^ j h } There are ^, 
'. f rom the Chalk 
a UBa^e 1 + -ic ] Of 
"Lah 
(Gen. x.), or to any of the races considered to 
be his descendants. The Hamitic tongues are a class 
of African languages, comprising the ancient Egyptian of 
the hieroglyphs and the later Egyptian or ( 'optic, and the 
non-Semitic languages of Abyssinia and the regions fur- 
ther south, including the Oalla and the Libyan or Berber, 
to which some authorities add the Hottentot. They are 
believed by many to have more or less distant affinities 
with the Semitic family. 
Haniitid.se (ha-mit'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < Hami- 
tex + -I*F.] A family of fossil cephalopods. 
typified by the genus Hamites, generally re- 
ferred to the family Ammonitidte. 
burg. The muscat Hamburg is a variety differing but 
little from the other. 
2. A variety of the domestic hen, of small size, 
with rose comb and blue legs, and the plumage 
of the male in general similar to that of the 
female. There are black Hamburga, and gold- and sil- 
of proboscis-bearing gastropods with the radu- 
lar teeth in three longitudinal rows, of which the 
IIACU, Yviiiio LIIO mucrw ivyvo ttic 
changeable. It includes such families as the 
Muriddce and Buccinidce, or the whelks and the 
like. 
yer-(yeUow-andwhite-)spangledandpenciledHamburgs, hamlglossate (ham-i-glos'at), a. Pertaining to 
the spangling or penciling being black on a yellow or white " , . ' ! . ff//M , . , 
ground. "They are among the~prettiest of fowls, and are r having the characters of the Hamiglossa. 
exceedingly prolific layers, though the eggs are small. Hamilton group, nee group 1 - 
pi. [NL., < L. hamkint (ham'kin), n. [Appar. < 71am 1 + dim. 
tongue.] A group -kin.] A pudding made upon the bone of a 
shoulder of mutton, all the flesh being first 
taken off. Halliwett. [Prov. Eng.] 
central row is fixed^while the lateral rows are hamlet 1 (ham'lot), . [< ME. hamli-t. limnelet, a 
hamlet, < OF. AF. hamlet, hamelet, m. (also lutni- 
lette, f.), dim., with -et, of OF. hamel, F. hameau 
(ML. hamellum), a village, dim., with -el, of 
*/IMI,< OFries. ham, Nortn Fries, hamm, ahome, 
dwelling, AS. ham, E. home, village : see home 1 
and /mm 2 .] A small village; a little cluster 
