haydenite 
haydenite (ha'dn-It), n. [Named after Dr. H. 
H. Hitytlfii (1709-1844), a dentist, who discov- 
ered it near Baltimore in Maryland.] A variety 
of the zeolite chabazite. 
hay-elevator (ha'el"e-va-tor), . A mechani- 
cal hay-fork or hay-lifting and -conveying ap- 
paratus, used to lift a quantity of hay from a 
wagon and place it in a loft. 
hayesin (ha'nin), . [Named after A. A. Hayes 
(1806-82), an American chemist.] A hydrous 
calcium borate related to ulexite. 
hay-fever (ha'fe"ver), . A feverish attack, 
coming on in the summer, with inflammation of 
the mucous membrane of the nose and eyes, 
or conjunctivitis, bronchitis, and asthma, and 
caused by the pollen of various plants, especial- 
ly of the ragweed. Also called summer fever, summer 
catarrh, hay-cold, hay-asthma, autumnal catarrh, pollen- 
fever, pollen-catarrh, and (early forms) rose-cold and June 
cold. 
hay-field (ha'feld), n. A field where grass de- 
signed to be made into hay is grown; a field 
where grass is being made into hay. 
There from the sun-hurnt hayfield homeward creeps 
The loaded wain. Camper, Task, i. 295. 
hay-fork (ha'fork), . A fork used for turning 
over hay to dry, or in lifting it, as into a cart, 
on to a rick, etc. 
hay-hook (ha'huk), n. 1. A hand-tool for pull- 
ing hay from the side of a stack or mow. 2. 
In her., a rare bearing representing a large 
hook with a sort of square socket at the upper 
end. The point is sometimes finished with a 
head, as of a dog. 
having (ha'ing), n. [Verbal n. of hay 1 , v.~\ The 
process of making hay; the work of cutting, 
curing, and storing grass. 
hay-jack (ha'jak), . A name of several war- 
blers, as of species of Sylvia and Phylloscopus, 
which build nests of hay; a hay-bird. [Local, 
Bug.] 
This style of nest-building [with the sides and bottom 
like open basketwork] seems to be common to all the spe- 
cies of the genus Sylvia, as now restricted, and in many 
districts has obtained for the builders the name of Hay- 
Jack, quite without reference to the kind of bird which 
puts the nests together. Eneyc. Brit., XXIV. 553. 
Black-headed hay-jack, Sylvia, atricapilla, the black- 
cap. 
hay-knife (ha'mf), . A long knife with the 
blade set at right angles to the handle, or a 
spade-like cutting-tool with a blade, foot-rest, 
and curved handle, used to cut hay from the 
side of a haystack or haymow. 
hay-loader (ha'16"der), n. A device attached 
to a hay-rack or hay-wagon, for gathering up 
the hay from windrows or from haycocks and 
loading it upon the wagon. The most simple form 
is a crane fastened to the body of a wagon, and having a 
large hay-fork suspended from its arm. A more compli- 
cated machine includes a hay-rake trailing behind the 
wagon, and an elevator for raising the hay gathered by the 
rake and depositing it upon the wagon. 
hay-loft (ha'loft), . In a stable or barn, a 
storing-place for hay. 
hay-maiden, hay-maids (ha'ma"dn, -madz), n. 
[In poet, allusion to girls in the hay-field. ] The 
ground-ivy, Nepeta Glechoma. [Eng.] 
haymaker (ha'ma"ker), n. 1. One who cuts 
and dries grass for use as fodder; specifically, 
in England, one who follows the mowers and 
tosses the grass over to dry it. 
The conversation turned commonly on the incidents of 
the summer ; how the hay-makers overtook the mowers, 
or how the rain kept the labour back. 
Hone's Year Book, Oct. 8. 
2. An apparatus for drying and curing hay. 
It consists of a long inclined shoot, through which fresh- 
cut grass is passed by means of a conveyer, and in which 
It meets a volume of hot air from a coke-furnace. It re- 
sembles the more simple fruit-driers. 
3. pi. A kind of country-dance. Also called 
haymakers' jig. 
hay-market (ha'mar' ! 'ket), n. A place for the 
sale of hay. 
haymow (ha'mou), . A mow or mass of hay 
stored in a barn. 
haynselynst, n. pi. See hanselines. 
hay-plant (ha 'plant), n. An umbelliferous 
plant, Prangos pabularia, which grows in Tibet 
and adjacent mountainous countries, and is 
there highly valued as a forage-plant, its value 
was first made known to Europeans Dy Moorcroft, and at- 
tempts have been made to introduce it into Europe, but 
generally without success. It has been thought to be the 
"Sitphium" mentioned by Arrian in his account of the 
wars of Alexander the Great. 
hay-press (ha'pres), n. A press for making 
loose hay into bales for convenience of storage 
and transportation; a baling-press. 
hay-rack (ha'rak), . A light framework of 
wood placed on an open wagon for the purpose 
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of carrying bulky material, such as hay or 
straw. 
The deputy sheriff and then his prisoner had to climb 
over a hayrack and thence down to the ground. 
E. Effffleston, The Graysons, xvi. 
hay-rake (ha'rak), . 1. A hand-rake used 
in raking hay. 2. A machine for raking hay 
into windrows ; a horse-rake, 
hayrick (ha'rik), n. A haystack. 
The stable, sheds, and other outbuildings, with the hay- 
ricks and the pens for such cattle as we bring in during 
winter, are near the house. 
T. Roosevelt, The Century, XXXV. 665. 
hayrift, . See hairif. 
hay-scent (ha'sent), n. A fern, Neplirodium ore- 
opteris: so called on account of the fragrance 
of its fronds. It is common in northern Europe, 
and ranges from Norway to Spain. See Ne- 
phrodium. 
hay-seed (ha'sed), n. 1. Grass-seed. [Col- 
loq.] 2. The redseed, brit, etc., upon which 
mackerel, menhaden, and other fish largely 
feed. [New Eng.] 3. A countryman; a rus- 
tic. [Slang, U. 8.] 
haysoget, An obsolete variant of haysuck. 
hay-spreader (ha'spred"er), n. An apparatus 
for spreading out hay to expose it to the sun 
and the air. 
haystack (ha'stak), n. [= Dan. hostak = Sw. 
hdstack.~\ A large stack or pile of hay, made 
in the open air as a means of storing or pre- 
serving the hay. It is finished above in conical form, 
or in the form of a ridged roof, and the sides are generally 
made to project somewhat for better protection from rain. 
Set fire on barns and haystacks in the night. 
Shak., Tit. And., v. 1. 
Haystack boiler, an old form of steam-boiler, somewhat 
resembling a haystack in form. To look for a needle 
In a haystack, to seek for what it is almost impossible 
to find. 
How in the world will we manage to find you after- 
wards? After we get into the thick of the bresh, it'll be 
like lookin'for a needle in the biggest sort of a haystack. 
W. M. Baker, New Timothy, p. 200. 
haysuck (ha'suk), n. [E. dial, also hazock, ha- 
zeck, hay-jack, isaac, etc. (and haysucker), < ME. 
haisugge,heisugge, heysoge,<. AS. hegesugge (men- 
tioned once, in a list of birds, next to the wren, 
glossed "cicada, vicetula": see below), < liege, 
E. hay 2 , hedge, -r "sugge, sugga, a certain bird, 
glossed "ficetula," "ficitula," i. e., L. ficedula, 
the fig-pecker, beccafico, garden- warbler. The 
" with sugan, siican, , 
i hedge-sparrow, Accen- 
connection of AS. sugga with sugan, sucan, suck, 
is not obvious.] 1. The hedge-sps 
tor modularis. 
Thou [the cuckoo] mortherere of the heysoge on the 
braunche, 
That broughte the forth. 
Chaucer, Parliament of Fowls, 1. 612. 
2. The whitethroat, Sylvia cinerea. 
haysucker (ha'suk'er), n. Same as haysuck. 
haytt, interj. See hait. 
hay-tea (ha'te), n. The juice of hay extracted 
by boiling, and used as food for cattle. 
hay-tedder (ha ' ted " er), n. A machine for 
scattering hay so as to expose it to the sun 
Hay-tedder (an English form). 
and air. It consists of a pair of wheels supporting a 
reel, which carries bars set with curved tines pointing 
outward. The reel is rotated by a pinion connected with 
a spur-wheel in the hub of one of the wheels. 
haythorn (ha'thorn), . [< AS. htegthorn; same 
as hawthorn, which prop, represents ONorth. 
hagathorn: see hawthorn."] Same as hawthorn. 
Haytian (ha'ti-an), a. and . [< Hayti (see 
def.) + -an.} 'I. a. 1. Of or pertaining to 
Hayti or San Domingo, a large island of the 
West Indies lying east of Cuba. 2. Pertaining 
to the republic of Hayti, comprising the western 
part of this island. 
H. n. A native or citizen of Hayti. 
hay-tit (ha'tit), n. 1. The whitethroat, Sylvia 
cinerea : so called from the hay used in its nest. 
[Oxfordshire, Eng.] 2. The sedge-warbler, 
Acrocephalus phragmitis: so called from the 
materials of its nest. [Oxfordshire, Eng.] 
haytorite (ha'tor-It), n. [< Haytor (see def.) 
+ -ite 2 .] A pseudomorphous mineral occurring 
hazard 
in crystals having the form of datolite but con- 
sisting of chalcedony. It is from the Haytor 
iron-mines in Devonshire, England. 
haywardt (ha'ward), . [Early mod. E. also 
heyward; < ME. Iiryward, heyeward, heiward, 
also, through OF. influence, haward, < AS. hceig- 
weard (rare), for "haigweard, < haga (in comp. 
hceg-, of. hawthorn, haythorn), haw, hedge, in- 
closure, + weard, keeper. Hence the proper 
names Hayward, Heyward, Haward, and also 
Howard (ME. Howard, var. of Haward), which 
is not, as often said, a contraction of "hogicard 
(cf. Hoggart, which represents hogherd, equiv. 
to swineherd).] An official whose duty was to 
guard the common herd or cattle of a town and 
to prevent them from breaking the hedges or 
fences of inclosed grounds; in New England, 
a similar official whose special duty was to im- 
pound strays. 
Haue an home and be hayu'arde, and liggen oute a 
nyghtes, 
And kepe my corn in my croft fro pykers and theeues. 
Piers Plowman (C), vL 16. 
The meanest sort of men, as shepheards, heywards and 
such like. Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 20. 
The hayuard in England was the watcher of bounds, 
but his office in Massachusetts resembled that of the im- 
pounder and common driver more than it did that of the 
hedge warden of the mother country. E. Channing. 
The hay-ward, who watched over the common pasture 
when enclosed for grass-growing, was paid by a piece of 
cornland at its side. J. R. Green, Couq. of Eng., p. 316. 
hayz (ha'iz), . [Ar.] In astrol. , an accidental 
fortitude, consisting in the situation of a mas- 
culine diurnal planet in a masculine sign above 
the horizon in the daytime, or of a feminine noc- 
turnal planet in a feminine sign below the hori- 
zon in the night-time. The planet is properly 
said to be in its own hayz or running-place. 
hazard (haz'ard), . [Formerly also hasard ; 
< ME. hasard, hazard, a game of chance, < OF. 
hasard, hazard, a game at dice, the six at dice, 
adventure, F. hasard, hazard, = Olt. zara, a 
game at dice, also a hazard or a nick at dice, 
It. (after F.) azzardo, hazard, risk, danger, < 
Sp. azar, an unforeseen disaster, unexpected 
accident, an unfortunate card or throw at dice, 
hazard, formerly also the ace at dice, = Pg. 
azar, ill luck, a cast at dice losing all; orig. 
a die, < Ar. al-zar, the die, < al, the, + zar 
(in vulgar speech), a die (Devic), < Pers. zar, 
die (Zenker). Mahn, in Webster, gives Ar. 
sehar, sar, a die, < Sahara, be white, shine (cf. 
Ar. sehar, dawn of day?).] 1. The leading 
game at dice. The instruments are a box and two 
dice. The players are a caster and any number of setters. 
The setter stakes his money upon the table ; the caster 
accepts the bet if he chooses, and must cover the setter's 
money if required. The setter can bar any throw. The 
caster first calls a main that is, he calls any of the 
numbers 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9. He then throws his chance. If 
this is 2, 3, li, or 12, it is called crabs and he loses, unless 
the main were 7 and he throws 11, or the main were 6 or 
8 and he throws 12. In these cases, and also if he throws 
the main, his throw is called nick, and he wins. If he 
throws neither crabs nor nick, he must continue to throw 
until he again throws the main or his chance ; if he throws 
the former first, the setter wins, if the latter the caster 
wins. Owing to the complicated chances, a good player 
at hazard has a great advantage over a novice. 
In Flaundres whylom was a companye 
Of yonge folk that haunteden folye, 
As ryot, hasard, stewes and tavernes. 
Chaucer, Pardoner's Tale, 1. 3. 
Early at business, and at hazard late ; 
Mad at a fox-chase, wise at a debate. 
Pope, Moral Essays, i. 73. 
2. A fortuitous event ; chance; accident. 
I will stand the hazard of the die. 
Shak., Rich. III., v. 4. 
Fortune 
(The blind foe to all beauty that is good) 
Bandied you from one hazard to another. 
Beau, and FL, Knight of Malta, v. 1. 
Two plants taken by hazard were protected under sep- 
arate nets. Darwin, Cross and Self Fertilisation, p. 339. 
3. Bisk; peril; exposure to danger; liability 
to do or to receive harm : as, the hazards of the 
sea; he did it at the hazard of his reputation. 
But Fame said, take heed how you loose me, for if you 
do, you will run a great hazard never to meet me again, 
there's no retrieving of me. Howell, Letters, ii. 14. 
The tragedies of former times, 
Hazards and strange escapes. 
Wordsworth, Prelude, viil. 
4f. One of the holes in the sides of a billiard- 
table. Bailey, 1731. Hence 5. A stroke in bil- 
liards : known as losing hazard when the player 
pockets his own ball off another, and as winning 
hazard when he pockets the object-ball. [Eng.] 
The object of the player . . . is to drive one or other of 
the balls in one or other of the pockets. . . . [This stroke] 
is known as a hazard. Encyc. Brit., III. 675. 
6. Something risked or staked. 
