. / , -l. Haunches of an Aich. 
hault 
haultt, haultyt, a. See hauft, haught, haughty. 
haulyard, . Same as halyard. 
haum 1 (ham), w. Same as halm. 
haum- (ham), n. A variant of /mine 1 , 
haunce't, . Same as haunch. 
haunce-t, v. t. Same as hance 1 . 
haunch (hanch or hauch), n. [Formerly also 
liaintce, hauitse, and in arch. hanch, hance, hanse; 
< ME. hanche, haunche,< OF. hanche, hance, anche, 
and without assibilation hanke (> appar. Fries. 
hancke, hencke, haunch, G. hanke, haunch (of a 
horse)), F. hanche =Pr. Sp. Pg. It. anca, haunch, 
ML. hancha, < OHG. anchd, enchd, einkd, the 
leg, lit. joint or bend, allied to OHG. anchila, 
enchila, ankle, =E. ankle: see ankle.'] 1. The 
fleshy part of the body, in men and quadru- 
peds, above the thigh, pertaining to each hip- 
joint and wing of the pelvis; the hip: as, a 
haunch of venison ; the haunches of a horse. 
Bi he hade belted the bronde vpon his balje haunchez. 
Sir Gawayne and the Green Kmght (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2032. 
The manner in which he sliced the venison, too, from 
the haunch suspended in the chimney corner, and pro 
ceeded to broil it, indicated a preoccupied and troubled 
mind. W. M. Baker, New Timothy, p. 298. 
2. The coxa or basal joint of the legs in insects 
and spiders. 3f. The rear; the hind part. 
Thou art a summer bird, 
Which ever in the haunch of winter sings 
The lifting up of day. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., iv. 4. 
4f. The jamb or upright post of a door. See 
Jamb 1 . 
He ordeyned the annual vse or ceremonie to eate the 
Faschall Lambe, with whose blonde they sprynkeled the 
thrasholde and haunxe of the dore. J. Uiiall, On Heb. xi. 
5. In arch., < 
the middle 
part between 
the vertex or 
crown and 
the springing 
of an arch 
sometimes 
used to include the spandrel or part of it; the 
flank. Also hauiichiiig. 
haunch (hanch or hanch), >. t. [Also dial. 
hainch, hench; < haunch, n.] To throw, as a 
stone, from the hand by jerking it against the 
haunch. Brockett. [Prov. Eug.] 
Launched (hancht or haneht), a. Having 
haunches. 
haunching (hii,n'- or han'ching), n. [< haunch 
+ -4ny 1 .] Same as haunch, 5. 
The arch was of brick, while the haunchi 1.7 ... was of 
rubble. Jour. Franklin Inst., OXXI. 433. 
haunt (hiiut or hant), v. [Also dial, nant ; < 
ME. haunten, hanten, frequent, use, employ, < 
OF. hantcr, F. hanter, haunt, frequent, resort 
unto, to be familiar with ; origin unknown, and 
variously guessed at: (1) < ML. "ambitare, go 
about, freq. of L. ambire, go about (see ambient, 
ambition); (2) < L. habitare, dwell (see habit. 
v., inhabit); (3) < Bret, henti, frequent, which, 
if not itself from the F., appears to be derived 
from Bret, hent, a way, road, path; (4) < Icel. 
heinita, draw, pull, claim, crave, lit. fetch home, 
< heim, home. None of these guesses is satis- 
factory; the 4th is certainly wrong.] I. trans. 
1. To frequent or visit; resort to much or of- 
ten, or be much about ; visit customarily. 
A man who for his hospitality is so much haunted that 
no news stir but come to his ears. 
Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, i. 
You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house. 
Shale., M. W. of W., ill. 4. 
I haunt the pine dark solitudes, 
With soft brown silence carpeted. 
Lowell, To the Muse. 
2. To come or recur to persistently, so as not 
to be prevented or driven away ; attend or ac- 
company so constantly as to be annoying or of- 
fensive ; intrude upon continually. 
And [beasts] are utter strangers to all those anxious and 
tormenting thoughts which perpetually haunt and dis- 
quiet mankind. Bp. Atteroury, Sermons, I. xi. 
Haunted by the new-found face 
Of his old foe. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, I. 106. 
You at once associate true songs with music, and if no 
tunes have been set to them, they haunt the mind and 
"beat time to nothing" in the brain. 
Stedman, Viet. Poets, p. 101. 
3. Specifically, to reappear frequently to after 
death ; visit habitually in a disembodied state, 
as a supposed spirit, ghost, or specter. 
If thou be'st slain, and with no stroke of mine, 
My wife and children's ghosts will haunt me still. 
Shak., Macbeth, v. 7. 
Foul spirits haunt my resting-place. Fairfax. 
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4f. To devote one's self to ; practise ; pursue ; 
use. 
Yonge folk that hattnteden folye. 
Chaucer, Pardoner's Tale, 1. 2. 
"What manere mynstralcie my dere trend," quath Con- 
science, 
"Hast thow vsed other haunted al thy lyf-tyme?" 
Piers Plomnan (C), xvi. 197. 
I do not meene, by all this my taulke, that yong gentle- 
men should alwaies be poring on a booke, . . . and haunt 
no good pastime. Ascham, The Scholemaster, i. 
II. intrans. 1. To be much about; be pres- 
ent often or persistently; go or visit often ; re- 
sort. [Now rare.] 
All fowles in ffether fell there vppon, 
tl'ur to reckon by right that to ryuer haunttes. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 344. 
I have charg'd thee not to haunt about my doors. 
Shak., Othello, i. 1. 
Seals that haunted on that coast have been known to 
speak to man in his own tongue, presaging great disasters. 
/.'. L. Stevenson, Merry Men. 
2. To reappear, as a disembodied spirit. 
Haunts he, my house's ghost, still at my door ? 
B. Jonsttn, Case Is Altered, ill. 1. 
haunt (hant or hant), n. [Also dial, hant; < 
haunt,v.] 1. A place of frequent resort or visi- 
tation ; a place in which any being, or, figura- 
tively, some quality or characteristic, is com- 
monly manifested or seen. 
Void of haunt and harbour 
Now am I like Plato's city, 
Whose fame flieth the world through. 
Sir T. More, Utopia (tr. by Bobinson). 
Ye who love the haunts of Nature, . . . 
Listen to these wild traditions. 
Longfellow, Hiawatha, Int. 
Those large eyes, the haunts of scorn. 
Tennyson, Pelleas and Ettarre. 
The region of the Fens, in the earliest times a haunt of 
marauders, . . . became, at the time of the Conquest, the 
last refuge of the still-resisting English. 
H. Spencer, Prin. of Sociol., 1 17. 
2f. A limited region assigned to or owned by 
one for his habitation or the practice of his pro- 
fession ; a district. 
But, if thou prike out of myn haunt, 
Anon I sle thy stede. 
Chaucer, Sir Thopas, 1. 100. 
3f. The act, habit, or custom of resorting to a 
place. 
This our life, exempt from public haunt. 
Shak., As you Like it, ii. 1. 
The haunt you have got about the courts will, one day 
or another, bring your family to beggary. Arbuthnot. 
4f. Custom; practice; skill. 
Of cloth-makyng she hadde such an haunt, 
She passede hem of Ypres and of Gaunt. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 447. 
And ache [parsley] also is sowen come denaunt, 
Bete and radisshe excerciseth thair haunt. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 160. 
5. A disembodied spirit supposed to haunt a 
certain place ; a ghost. [Local, U. S.] 
haunted (han'- or han'ted), p. a. Frequently 
visited or resorted to by apparitions or the 
shades of the dead; visited by a ghost: as, a 
haunted house. 
Where'er we tread, 'tis haunted, holy ground. 
Byron, Childe Harold, U. 88. 
The bedroom of Henry IV. [at Cheverny], where a le- 
gendary-looking bed, draped in folds long unaltered, de- 
fined itself in the haunted dusk. 
H. James, Jr., Little Tour, p. 43. 
haunter (han'- or han'ter), . [Cf. OF. han- 
teur.] One who haunts or frequents a partic- 
ular place or is often about it. 
goddess, haunter of the woodland green, 
To whom both heaven and earth and seas are seen. 
Dryden, Pal. and Arc., iii. 215. 
The vulgar sort, such as were haunters of theatres, took 
pleasure in the conceits of Aristophanes. 
Sir B. Wotton, Reliquiffi, p. 84. 
haunting (han'- or han'ting), n. [Verbal n. 
of hajin t, v. ] The appearance or visitation of 
disembodied spirits. 
The object of the Committee on Haunted Houses was to 
investigate the phenomenaof alleged hauntings whenever 
a suitable opportunity and an adequate prima facie case 
for inquiry might be presented. 
Proc. Soc. Psych. Research, 1. 101. 
A sufficient amount of evidence to connect clearly the 
commencement of hauntings with the death of particular 
persona. Mind in Nature, I. 86. 
hauntyt, a. [E. dial, hanty; origin obscure.] 
Kestless; impatient. 
Abner, Ishbosheths servant, grew so haughty and haunty 
that he might not be spoken unto. 2 Sam. 3, 8. 
5. Clarke, Examples (1671), p. 631. 
Hauranitic (ha-ran-it'ik), a. [< Hauran (see 
def.) + -ite 2 + -ic.] Pertaining to Hauran, a 
region in Syria east of the Jordan. 
The Eastern or Hauranitic Druses. 
Encyc. Brit., VTI. 483. 
haustellum 
haurient (ha'ri-ent), a. [< L. haurien(t-)s. ppr. 
of haurire, draw"(water, etc.), drain, drink up: 
see hausfi, exhaust.] In her., 
palewise with the head upper- 
most : applied to a fish used as 
a bearing, as if represented 
with the head above the water 
to draw or suck in the air. 
hause (has), n. A Scotch form 
of hulxel. 
hausen (ha'zn), n. [< G. haugen, 
a fish of the sturgeon kind, = ODan. hus (in 
comp. husblas) = D. Ituizen (in comp. huizen- 
blas, > E. isinglass, q. v.) : see huso.] The huso 
or great Russian sturgeon, Acipenser huso. 
hausmannite (hous'man-it), n. [After J. F. 
L. Hausmann, a German metallurgist (1782- 
1859).] Pyramidal manganese ore. It occurs 
in porphyry, in veins, in Germany and else- 
where. 
hausse (hos), n. [F., a lift, rise, < hausser, lift, 
raise: see/ia>e 2 .] I.ln</u;i.,abrass8caleused 
in aiming, attached to the barrel of a gun, near 
the breech, just behind the breech-ring, and 
giving the series of quarter-angles for a radius 
equal to the distance from the muzzle-sight to 
the axis about which the scale turns. The pen- 
dulum-hausse is so constructed as to retain a vertical 
position when the wheels of the gun-carriage are not on a 
level. 
2. The nut of a violin-bow. 
hausse-COl (hos'kol), n. [F., < hausser, raise, 
+ col, neck. ] 1 . A gorget or standard.of chain- 
mail, sometimes forming part of the camail. 
See cut under gorget. 2. A small gorget of 
plate-armor. 
The little metal gorget worn until quite recently by 
French officers when on duty . . . preserved the name of 
haujtse-col. 
W. Burgess, Archteol. Inst. Jour., XXXVII. 477. 
hausse-pouch (hos'pouch), n. A small leather 
pouch employed to carry the pendulum-hausse 
when not in use. It is usually worn by the 
gunner of a field-piece, and is slung over the 
shoulder by means of a strap. 
haust 1 , n. Same as hoast. [Scotch.] 
haust' 2 t (hast), . [< L. haustus, a draught, 
drinking, swallow, < haurire, pp. hauatus, draw 
(water,etc.): see haurient, exhaust.] Adraught; 
as much as a man can swallow. 
haustella, . Plural of haustellum. 
Haustellata (has-te-la'ta), n. pi. [NL., neut. 
pi. of NL. haustella tus : see haustellate.] 1. 
Haustellate or suctorial insects; a subclass or 
superorder of Insecta, containing those which 
suck instead of bite, having a haustellum of 
some form instead of manducatory mandibles 
or biting-jaws: opposed to Mandibulata. The 
Haustellata include the orders Lepidoptera, THptera, and 
Heniiptera, or butterflies and moths, flies proper, and 
bugs. Clairrille, and others. See haustellum. 
2. A suborder of Anoplwa, including haustel- 
late or true lice. 3. A division of Diptera. 
4. A subclass of Crustacea, including haustel- 
late, suctorial, or siphonostomous forms, as 
fish-lice. Also called Suctoria and Epizoa. 
haustellate (has'te-lat), a. and . [< NL. haus- 
tellatus, < haustellum, q. v.] I. a. 1. Fitted for 
sucking ; suctorial ; siphonostomous, as an in- 
sect or a crustacean, or the mouth-parts of such 
creatures. 
That which prevails among the . . . Butterfly-tribe . . . 
is termed the haustellate mouth. 
W. B. Carpenter, Micros., 630. 
2. Provided with a haustellum or suctorial pro- 
boscis ; of or pertaining to the Haustellata. 
Speculations . . . with reference to the mutual rela- 
tions of flowers and haustellate insects. 
Dawson, Origin of World, p. 364. 
II. w. One. of the Haustellata. 
haustellous (has-tel'us), a. Same as haustel- 
late. 
haustellum (has-tel'um), .; pi. haustella (-a). 
[NL., dim. of L. haustrum, a machine for draw- 
ing water, < haurire, pp. haustus, draw (water, 
etc.): see /iaiw< 2 .] The sucking-organ of an 
insect or a crustacean ; a suctorial proboscis. 
Haustellum of Protofarce Carolina. 
a, haustellum coiled in position (eye and right palpus cut away) ; b, 
section of base of haustellum, seen from above ; c , section of tip of 
haustellum, seen from above; J, haustellum extended, side view. 
(a, *, t, enlarged; rf, one half natural size.) 
