haubergeon 
the middle of the thighs : also used indiscrim- 
inately for any coat of linked mail. 
A gepoun 
Al bysniotered with his habt'woun. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 76. 
This lesus of his gentrice wole luste in Piers armes, 
In his helme and in his habrrimtn humana nature. 
Piers Plowman (B), xviii. 23. 
First hadde Arthur the kynge put on hym an habergon 
vndir his robes er he yede oute of the tour. 
Merlin (E. E. T. 8.), i. 110. 
The scaly beetles, with their habergeons, 
That make a humming murmur as they fly ! 
B. Jonson, Sad Shepherd, ii. 2. 
hauberk (ha'berk), 'ii. [Early mod. E. also haw- 
berk, liaubeiyh; < ME. IIIIH- 
berk, hawberk, haubergh, 
also haubert, < OF. hauberc, 
older halberc, also haubert, 
F. haubert = Pr. ausberc, 
ausberg = It. usbergo, < 
OHG. MHG. halsberc, hals- 
berge (= MLG. halsberch 
= AS. healsbeor = Icel. 
Norw. lialsbjiirg = ODan. 
halsbjerg), hauberk, gor- 
get, protection for the 
neck, < hals(= AS. heals, E. 
halse 1 ), the neck, + bergan 
(= AS. beorgan), protect, 
save: see halse 1 and bury 1 , 
etc. Hence dim. hauber- 
geon, q. v.] 1. (a) A part 
of mail armor intended 
originally for the protec- 
tion of the neck and shoul- 
ders, but as generally used 
a long coat of mail com- c -< ^viont 
ing below the knees and le-Duc's-oict. duMobiiicr 
even nearly to the ankles, franc ; ais -" ) 
slit up the sides, and sometimes in front and 
behind, to allow the wearer to mount a horse. 
Than he a-valed the coyf of his hauberke benethe his 
shuldres, and seide that he was but deed, but yef he 
wolde yelde hym to prison. MerlinfE. E. T. S.), iii. 476. 
On the haubergh stroke the Prince so sore, 
That quite disparted all the linked frame. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. viii. 44. 
(6) In the fourteenth century and later, a piece 
of defensive armor, probably an outer garment 
of splint armor. See splint, jesserant, and cre- 
risse. 
Godfrey arose ; that day he laid aside 
His hawberk strong, he wont to combat in, 
And donn'd a breast-plate fair, of proof untried, 
Such one as loot-men use, light, easy, thin. 
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But bootlesse on a ruthles god 
I see my prayers spent ; 
As hawjhtely doest thou reuenge, 
As humbly I repent. 
Warner, Albion's England, iii. 16. 
haughtiness (ha'ti-nes), . [Prop., as former- 
tfihauttoiess (the git being erroneously inserted 
asm ha ugh til), < ME. hautenesse, contr. of "hau- 
teinnesse, < "hautein, haughty, T -nesse, -ness.] 
If. Highness; loftiness. 
haulser 
All the same night wee hailed Southeast. 
Halduyt's Voyages, I. 445. 
He hailed into the Harbour, close to the Island, and un- 
rigg'd his Ship. Dainpier, Voyages, I. ill. 
I immediately hauled up for it, and found it to be an 
island. Cook, First Voyage, i. 7. 
3. To shift, veer, or change, as the wind. 
The morning looked wild and threatening, but the 
clouds gradually hauled off to the eastward, leaving us 
the promise of a fine day. 
B. Taylor, Northern Travel, p. 265. 
the East was conquered. Qolding, tr. of Justine, fol. 77. 
2. The quality or character of being haughty, 
proud, or arrogant; supercilious bearing; ar- 
rogance. 
I ... will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. 
Isa. xiii. 11. 
'Tis pride, rank pride and haughtiness of soul ; 
I think the Romans call it Stoicism. 
Addison, Cato, i. 4. 
=Syn. Pride, Presumption, etc. (see arrogance); con- 
temptuousness, hauteur, lordliness, rudeness, 
haughtonite (ha'ton-it), n. [After Prof. Sam- 
uel Haughton of Dublin.] A kind of mica (bi- 
otite) occurring in the granite of Scotland, char- 
acterized by its large amount of iron and rela- 
tively small amount of magnesium, 
haughty (ha'ti), a. ; compar. haughtier, superl. 
haughtiest. [Prop., as formerly, hauty (the gh 
having been erroneously inserted in this word 
and haught after the supposed analogy of 
naughty, etc., perhaps particularly in imitation 
of high, hight, etc.) ; formerly hauty, haultic, 
< ME. hautein, hautain (the suffix -ein, -ain, be- 
coming -y through the form hautenesse, standing 
for *hauteinnesse : see haughtiness), < OF. hau- 
tain, later spelled haultain, F. hautain, haughty, 
lofty, stately, proud, < OF. Jiaut, hault, halt, 
high: see haut 1 ."] If. High; elevated: same 
as haut 1 , 1. 
At his haughty helmet making mark, 
So hugely stroke that it the steele did rive, 
And cleft his head. Spenser, F. Q., I. ii. 19. 
2f. Lofty; bold; adventurous. 
Who now s.hall give unto me words and sound 
Equall unto this haughty enterprise? 
Spenter, F. Q., II. x. 1. 
Till his sonne Anchurus (esteeming man to be most 
precious) leaped in, and the reconciled Element receiued 
an Altar in witnesse of his haughtie courage. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 326. 
The Warder view'd it blazing strong, 
And blew his war-note loud and long, 
Till at the high and haughty sound 
Hock, wood, and river rung around. 
Scott, L. of L. M., Iii. 26. 
of a ship so as to get further off from an object. (6) To 
draw off or away; withdraw, as from a movement or 
scheme. To haul round (to), to veer or shift to another 
point of the compass: said of the wind when it gradually 
goes round with the sun, or in the same way as the hands 
of a watch. To haul up, to come up or to a rest by a 
hauling or drawing action : as, seals haul up on land to 
breed ; the boat hauled up at the wharf. 
haul (hal), n. [< haul, v. Cf. hale 1 , .] 1. A 
pulling with force; a pull; a tug. 
On October 5th [1869], it happens that both the sun and 
the moon will give a particularly vigorous haul upon the 
earth's waters. B. A. Proctor, Light Science, p. 156. 
2. In fishing: (a) The draft of a net: as, to 
catch so many fish at a haul, (b) The place 
where a seine is hauled. 3. That which is 
taken or obtained by hauling ; specifically, the 
number or quantity of fish taken in one haul of 
a seine ; a catch. 
And the bulging nets swept shoreward, 
With their silver-sided haul. 
Whittier, The Sycamores. 
Hence 4. Any valuable acquisition; a"find." 
[Colloq.] 
An old forest fence . . . was a great haul for me. I 
sacrificed it to Vulcan, for it was past serving the god 
Terminus. Thoreau, Walden, p. 268. 
Haul Of yarn, in rope-making, a bundle of about 400 
threads, with a slight turn in it, to be tarred, the tarring 
being done by first dipping the bundle of yarn in a tar- 
kettle, and then hauling it through nippers to press out 
the superfluous tar. 
haulage (ha'laj),. [< haul + -age.} 1. The act 
or labor of hauling or drawing. In coal-mining 
haulage is the drawing or conveying, in cars or otherwise, 
of the produce of the mine from the place where the coal 
is got to the place where it is raised to the surface. It is 
done by men or boys, by horses or mules drawing the 
cars or trams on a railway, or by hauling-ropes worked by 
stationary engines, which are driven by compressed air, 
by steam, or by water-power. This last method is chiefly 
used in England. When hauling-ropes are used, the cars 
or trams are attached to or detached from them at plea- 
sure by means of the haulage-clip. 
The company so arranges its work that the wire rope 
tugs do the haulage up the rapid portion of the Khine. 
Set. Amer. Supp., p. 446. 
The border land of old romance, 
Where glitter hauberk, helm, and lance. 
Longfellow, Wayside Inn, Prel. 
2. Among actors, a short tunic forming a part 
of medieval dress Grand hauberk, the long hau- 
berk, reaching to the knees or below, as distinguished 
from the haubergeon. White hauberk, an early name 
for the hauberk of ring-mail or chain-mail, to distinguish 
it from coats of fence which were not composed entirely 
or chiefly of bright iron, such as the broigne and the dif- 
ferent stuffed and quilted garments. 
haud (had), v. A Scotch form of hold 1 . 
hauerite (hou'er-it), . [After F. von Hauer, an 
Austrian geologist (born 1822).] Native man- 
ganese disulphid occurring in reddish-brown 
isometric crystals, isomorphous with pyrite. 
haugh (ha; Sc. pron. hach), n. [Sc. haugh, hawch, 
a particular form and use of haw 1 , an mclosure, 
etc., due perhaps to the Icel. form hagi, a 
pasture, S\v. hage, a pasture : see haw 1 .'] Low- 
lying flat ground, properly on the border of a 
river, and such as is sometimes overflowed. 
[Prov. Eug. and Scotch.] 
They were buried by Dornoch haugh, 
On the bent before the sun. 
Bessie Bell and Mary Gray (Child's Ballads, III. 127). 
On a haurih, or level plain, close to a royal borough. 
Scott, Old Mortality, ii. 
haught (hat), a. [An erroneous spelling of haut, 
conformed, as in haughty, to height, etc.: see 
haut 1 .'] If. High; elevated: same as haut 1 , 1. 
Pompey, that second Mars, whose haught renown 
And noble deeds were greater than his fortunes. 
Kyd, tr. of Garuier's Cornelia, iv. 
Hence 2. Proud; insolent; haughty. [Ar- 
chaic.] 
No lord of thine, thou haught, insulting man, 
No, nor no man's lord. Shak., Rich. II., iv. 1. 
The portraits of my noble ancestry, . . . 
Haught peers and princes centuries ago. 
R. H. Stoddard, Castle in the Air. 
haughtily (ha'ti-li), adt. If. Highly; loftily. 
Her heavenly form too haughtily she prized. Dryden. 
2. In a haughty manner; proudly; arrogantly. 
Spenser, F. Q., IV. vi. 26. 
The lower thir Minds debas'd with Court-opinions, con- 
trary to all Vertue and Reformation, the haughtier will 
be thir Pride and Profuseness 
? Commonwealth. 
Perhaps it was diffidence rather than pride which made 
her appear so haughty. Charlotte Bronte, Shirley, xxv. 
4. Proceeding from excessive pride, or pride 
mingled with contempt; manifesting a sense 
of superiority: as, a haughty air or walk; a 
haughty tone. 
haul (hal), v. [Early mod. E. also hall; < ME. 
haulen, a rare form, due appar. to OF. influence, 
of ME. halen, > reg. E. hale, the now less com- 
mon but historically more correct form of the 
verb: see hale 1 .'] I. trans. To pull or draw 
with force; move or transport by drawing; 
drag: as, to haul down the sails ; to haul in the 
boom ; to haul a load of wood. 
I never was so pulled and hauled in my whole life. 
"-" "ft, To the Printer. 
Bravest of all in Fredericktown, 
She took up the flag the men hauled down. 
Whittier, Barbara Frietchie. 
To haul over the coals. See coal. To haul the wind, 
to haul up (naut.), to turn the head of the ship nearer to 
the point from which the wind blows, by arranging the 
sails more obliquely, bracing the yards more forward, 
hauling the sheets more aft, etc. 
A man on the forecastle called out "Land ho! " We 
Immediately took in studding-sails and hauled our ^rind, 
running in for the land. 
R. H. Dana, Jr., Before the Mast, p. 23. 
= Syn. Drag, Draw, etc. See draw. 
II. iiitrans. 1. To pull or tug; endeavor to 
drag something: as, to haul at a heavy load. 
The skipper hauled at the heavy sail. 
Whittier, Wreck of Rivermouth. 
2. Naut., to alter a ship's course ; change the 
direction of sailing; move on a new course; 
hence, to sail, in general. 
haulage-clirj (ha'laj-klip), n. In coal-mining, 
the mechanical arrangement by which a car is 
connected with the haulage-rope. There are 
several ingenious contrivances for this. 
haul-bowlinest, haul-bowlingst, An able 
seaman on a man-of-war. 
hauld (hald), n. [A Scotch form of hold 1 .'] 1. 
Hold ; habitation ; place of resort. 
In the Cyclopes huge caue tynt me, 
Ane gousty hold, within laithlie to se. 
Gavin Douglas, tr. of Virgil, p. 89. 
2. A clutch or grasp By haulds, or by the haulds, 
by holding on: said of a child unable to walk without a 
hold. 
Now leave we Robin . . . 
[To] learn himself to stand and gang 
/.'/; haulds, for all his eild. 
Robin Hood and the Beggar (Child's Ballads, V. 195). 
Out Of house and hauld, ejected from home ; destitute. 
The Laird never throve after that day, but was just care- 
less of everything, ... so now they're out of house and 
hauld. Scott, Guy Manuering, xii. 
hauler (ha'ler), n. [< haul + -er 1 . Cf. haler, 
who pul 
...One- 
Prouydid alweys that the woddesillers leve not the bak 
all destitute and bare of wodde, ne sofflr not the halyers 
to hale it all awey. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.X p. 425. 
The crowd of haulers fastened on the cable, [and] ran 
off frantically with it. Harper's Mag., LXV. 658. 
2. A device for catching fish, consisting of 
several hooks connected together and hauled 
through the water by a line ; a jigger ; a scrod- 
gill ; a pull-devil : as, a hauler for bluefish. 
haulm 1 , . See halm. 
haulm 2 t (ham), n. An improper form of hame 1 . 
haulset (hals), n. Naut., same as halse? for 
lutirsc 1 . 
haul-seine (hal'sen), n. A large seine, so called 
in distinction from a purse-seine ; a drag-seine, 
haulsert, An obsolete form of hawser. 
His vessel moored, and made with haulsers fast 
Dryden, Iliad, 1. 599. 
