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hive-bee (hiv'be), . The common honey-bee, 
2f. To this time. 
And fro that tyme hidvrwardes, the! nevere wnlden suf- A)>is mellijica. 
fren man to dwelle amonges hem lenger than 7 dayes and hive-nest (hiv'nest), n. A large nest built anil 
7 uyghtes. Mantlevitle, Travels, p. 1M. OCCU pi e( i by sev eral pairs of birds in common, 
hit-off (hit'of) Jl. [< hit off. See liifl, *'.<.] A The most remarkable structures of this kind are made by 
clever presentation, imitation, or travesty. African birds of the family Ploceida,, or weavers ; those 
hoar 
2. In particular, a cry used to stop one who is 
passing, or to command a stop in some action; 
now, especially (also written whoa), a cry used 
to stop a horse or other draft-animal ; used im- 
peratively, stop! hold! 
The plaudits which would accompany a successful hit- 
off oi the subject under treatment. 
Jon Bee, Essay on Samuel Foote, p. xl. 
hit-or-miss (hit'or-mis'), adv. and a. I. adv. 
Kecklessly; haphazard: as, he rode hi 't-or-miss. 
II. . Reckless; haphazard. 
She talked with a hit-or-miss kind of carelessness. 
Aidi, Eita, p. 80. 
hitter (hit'er), . [< hit* + -cr*.] One who 
hits or strikes, as in batting, boxing, etc.: as, a 
hard hitter (that is, one who delivers a hard or 
heavy blow). 
Then the cover-point hitter, that cunning man, goes on 
to bowl slow twisters. 
T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, ii. 8. 
Hittite (hit'it), H. and . [With suffix -ite? 
(equiv. to Hetean with suffix -an, < LL. He- 
thwus, rarely Cetlmus, pi. Hetha-i, also Het- 
thim: Vulgate), < Heb. Khittim, pi. (initial 
heth), Hittites.] I. n. One of a powerful ancient 
people, probably not Semitic, of northern Syria 
and parts of Asia Minor. In the Old Testament the 
Hittites are represented as one of the original Canaanitish 
races, and as finally subjected to tribute by Solomon. 
Under the names Khita and Khatti, they appear in Egyp- 
tian and Assyrian history as possessing a great empire, 
and as formidable antagonists during many centuries. 
They were a commercial and civilizing people. 
And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built 
a city, and called the name thereof Lnz. Judges i. 26. 
II. a. Of or pertaining to the Hittites Hit- 
tite art, the art of the Hittites, barbarous but original, 
and with marked reminiscences of Egyptian and notably 
of Assyrian art. Its remains consist of numerous funeral 
and other reliefs in Lycaonia, Phrygia, Lydia, and else- 
where in Asia Minor and in Syria. 
hity-tity (hi'ti-ti'ti), interj. and a. Same as 
hoity-toity. 
hive (hiv), n. [< ME. hive, hyvc, earlier Injfe, 
< AS. hyfe, earliest form hyfi, a hive ; perhaps 
radically = L. cupa, a tub, cask, tun, vat, etc., 
> ult. E. cup and coop, q. v.] 1. An artificial 
Hive-nest of Republican Grosbeak {Philetarus sofius). 
made by the republican grosbeak, Philetcerus sociui, are 
shaped like a great umbrella or gigantic mushroom. Clus- 
ters of the bottle-nosed nests built of mud by the republi- 
lav up honey. Hives were for ages, and in some places _2!l u * w "y 1I i e ' , , .-, - 
still are, made of thick ropes of straw, wound and fastened Hivite (hi' vit), n. One of an ancient Canaamte 
in a characteristic conical form still distinctively known people in northern Palestine. 
There was not a city that made peace with the children 
of Israel, save the Uivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. 
Josh. xi. 19. 
as the beehive form ; but they are now generally square 
chests of several compartments, or with many small boxes, 
for the storage and removal of the honey. The natural 
harbor of wild bees is usually in a hollow tree. 
Our thighs pack'd with wax, our mouths with honey, hizzt (hiz ),.. [A variant of htss. ] 1 o hiss. 
We bring it to the him. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., iv. 4. xhe Wheels and Horses Hoofs hizz'd as they past them 
[Snow and Frosts] o'er. Cowley, Pindaric Odes, x. 10. 
To haue a thousand with red burning spits 
And bees in hiees as idly wait 
The call of early Spring. 
Cowper, To Mr. Newton. 
2f. A bonnet or hat shaped like a beehive. 
Upon her head a platted hive of straw, 
Which fortified her visage from the sun. 
Shak., Lover's Complaint, 1. 8. 
3. A swarm of bees, orthe bees inhabiting a hive. 
The commons, like an angry hive of bees 
That want their leader, scatter up and down. 
Shak., 2 Hen. VI., iii. 2. 
Audley feast 
Humm'd like a hive all round the narrow quay. 
Tennyson, Audley Court. 
4f. The abode of any animal. 
Hens, Peacocks, Geese, and Ducks, bred in and accus- 
tomed to Houses, forsook their wonted Hives, and turned , 
wild. Baker, Chronicles, p. 29. h m (h m), interj. 
5. Figuratively, a place swarming with busy 
occupants ; a bustling company. 
hold! 
But hoo ! for we han ryght ynogh of this. 
Chaucer, Troilus, iv. 1242. 
I leepe, y daunce, y skippe, y synge, 
I am so myrie y can not seie hoo. 
Hymns to Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 67. 
I had rather thrash than be bound to kick these rascals 
till they cried ho ! Beau, and Fl., King and No King, v. 3. 
Heave ho ! See heave. 
hoH (ho), . [< ME. 7io, appar. < ho, interj.; but 
perhaps considered as short for hold: cf. D. 
how. hold, stop, prop, houd, impv. of houden = 
E. hold 1 : see OM8t,\ 1. A command to keep 
silence, or to cease from anything. 
An heraud on a skaffold made an hoo, 
Til al the noyse of the peple was ido. 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 1675. 
2. Cessation; end; pause; intermission. 
After that than gan he telle his wo, 
But that was endeles, withouten ho. 
Chaucer, Troilus, ii. 1083. 
Out Of all ho, without any moderation ; out of all mea- 
sure. 
He loved the fair maid of Fressingfleld once out .of all ho. 
Greene, Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. 
There is no ho with Mm, he is not to be restrained. 
But now these courtiers there's no ho with 'em. 
Beau, and Fl. CO, Faithful Friends, iii. 2. 
ho 1 (ho), v. i. [< ME. hoen = Icel. hoa, cry ho ; 
from the interj. Cf. hoy?.] 1 . To cry out ; call 
out; hail. 2f. To stop; cease. 
Whanne thou art taust that thou schuldist hoo 
Of sweering, but whanne it were neede, 
Thou scornest hem that sayn thee soo. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furuivall), p. 195. 
can swallow, Petrochelidon lunifrons, and affixed to cliffs Jwj2* nron A Middle English form of who. 
throughout the western United States, or under the eaves {rX'u' ,,.., c,. Q i lf \ 
of houses in populous districts, are hive-nests, as are also npt, 1 on. B te . ... 
the remarkable structures made by the anis (Crotophaga Ho. The chemical symbol ot holmiiim. 
oni), inhabiting the warm parts of America. _ hoactzin, lioaczin (ho-akt'zin, -ak'zin), n. 
[S. Amer.] The Opisihocomus cristatus, a re- 
markable bird 
of South Amer- 
ica, of uncer- 
tain affinities, 
so 
all 
other known 
birds that 
a superfamily 
group, Opistho- 
comi or Hete- 
romorphee, has 
been formed for 
its reception. 
Also hoatzin, 
hoazin. 
hoamingt, n. A 
word not found 
elsewhere than 
in the passage 
cited, where it 
is probably an 
error (for combing in the form coaming, or else 
for foaming 1). 
Vent. What a Sea comes in ! 
Hast. A hoaming Sea t We shall have foul Weather. 
Dryden, Tempest, i. 1. 
hoar (hor), a. [Early mod. E. also hore; < ME. 
hore, hoor, < AS. har = Icel. hdrr, hoar, hoary ; 
;-nest of Republican Swallow (Petrochelidon lunifrons). 
(hi'ver), n. One who gathers bees into a 
hive. 
hives (hivz), n. [Origin uncertain.] 1. Laryn- 
/ uit. *. wy a ^ u wj,, H . ,.j .. Oi ^v>.. gjtis.-2. Urticaria and (loosely) other skin 
shelter or cell for the habitation of a swarm of affections, bee urticaria. 
honey-bees ; a place in which bees harbor and hive-vine (hiv'vin). . The partridge-berry or differing 
* . ...,,,.ii. *nnt\ Ifn+fhallsl VOYtttvto TYlllpll frnlYl 
Come hizzing in vpon 'em. 
Shak., Lear, iii. 6 (folio 1623). 
hizzingt (hiz'ing), n. A hissing or hiss. 
Lest, by the sun the organs parch'd and spill'd, 
The dismal ghost uncertain hizzings yield. 
May, tr. of Lucan, vi. 
H. J. An abbreviation in epitaphs of the Latin 
phrase hicjacet (which see). 
hi-. An initial combination formerly in use in 
early Middle English and Anglo-Saxon, now 
reduced to I- by the omission of h. For ex- 
amples, see laugh, lean 1 , listen, loaf, lord, loud, 
fowA, etc. 
H. L. An abbreviation of House of Lords. 
A form of 7iem 2 , hum 1 . 
Hoactzin (Opisthotomvs crtstatus). 
Tt , , . = . , , 
- T- - -, ' prob. = OS. her = OHG. her, distinguished, 
also used as a murmur of assent, being then " 
often repeated, h'm, h'm. 
H. M. An abbreviation of His (or Her) Ma- 
Our public hives of puerile resort, 
That are of chief and most approv'd report. i* fit r, M__I J * TT- / TT \ 
Cowper, Tirocinium, 1. 458. H. M. C. An abbreviation of His (or Her) 
Majesty's customs. 
H. M. S. An abbreviation of His (or Her) 
uvc v"'v,, " , *<=" "" vv ""> ft -v Majesty's ship, or steamer, or service : as, H. M. 
[< hive, .l I. trans. 1. To gather into a hive; S. Bellerophon. 
cause to enter a hive : as, to ftiuebees. 2. To ho 1 (ho), interj. [Also written hoa, formerly hoe, 
stow, as in a place of deposit ; lay up in store and, as a teamster's cry, whoa, q. v. ; < ME. ho, 
hoo = G. ho = Icel. ho = F.ho= Hind, ho, etc.; 
an aspirated form of 0, oh, a sonorous syllable : 
see O 2 , oft, and cf. ah, and ha 1 , hoo, etc.] 1. A 
cry or call uttered to arrest attention ; also, an 
exclamation of satisfaction or exultation. 
There the hive of Roman liars worship a gluttonous em 
peror-idiot. Tennyson, Boadicea. 
hive (hiv),, '.j pret. and pp. hived, ppr. hiving. 
for future use or enjoyment. 
So hive him 
In the swan-skin coverlid and cambric sheets. 
B. Jonson, Alchemist, iii. 2. 
Hiving wisdom with each studious year. Byron. 
This learning won by loving looks I hived 
As sweeter lore than all from books derived. 
Lowell, To Geo. Wm. Curtis. 
II. intrans. To enter a hive ; take to a hive, 
as bees ; take shelter or lodgings together, in 
the manner of bees. 
Drones hive not with me, 
Therefore I part with him. Shak., M. of V., ii. 5. 
At this season we get into warmer houses, and hive to- 
gether in cities. Pope, Letters. 
Ho ! every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters. 
Isa. Iv. 1. 
Ho, ho, quoth the devyll, we are well pleased. 
J. Heywood, The Four P's. 
Here dwells my father Jew : Ho ! who's within? 
Shak., M. of V., ii. 6. 
Half in dread 
To hear my father's clamour at our backs 
With Ho '. from some bay-window shake the night. 
Tennyson, Princess, i. 
ven erable> (t) : see herre. Cf. Aa] 1. 
White: as, hoar frost (see hoar-frost); hoar 
cliffs. 
And the warm breathings of the southwest passed 
Over the hoar rime of the Saugus hills. 
Whittier, Bridal of Pennacook, v. 
2. Gray, as with age ; hoary : as, hoar locks. 
Thanne mette I with a man, a Mydlenten Spndaye, 
As hore as an hawethorne, and Abraham he hijte. 
Pien Plowman (B), xvi. 173. 
He toke the heed all white hnor in the foreste of Dar- 
mauntes, where he mette hym in gise of a palmer. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 401. 
And trembles on its arid stalk 
The hoar plume of the golden-rod. 
Whittier, Last Walk in Autumn. 
Hence 3. Old; ancient; antique. 
At length she found the troden gras, 
In which the tract of peoples footing was, 
Under the steepe foot of a mountaine hore. 
Spenser, F. Q., I. iii. 10. 
These hoar relics (flint implements] of long-vanished 
generations of men. Huxley, Lay Sermons, p. 193. 
4f. Moldy; musty. 
A hare, sir, in a lenten pie, that is something stale and 
hoar ere it be spent. Shak., R. and J., ii. 4. 
