, 
d with beveled 
mortise; e, hub with two hollow shells, and 
T-shaped lugs which interlock to form 
spoke-sockets; f, hub with a metallic band 
, nortises Iec< . ive the spokes in clusters. 
H. R. H. 
H. R. H. An abbreviation of His (or Her) Royal 
Highness. 
H. S. H. An abbreviation of His (or Her) Se- 
rene Highness. 
Huamilies bark. See bark 2 . 
huanaco, huanaca (hwa-na'ko, -ka), . Same 
as guanaco. 
huanot (hwa'no), . Same as guano. 
hub (hub), n. [See hob 1 .] 1. A lump; a ridge; 
a small mass ; any rough protuberance or pro- 
jection: as, a hub in the road. [U. S.] 2. A 
small stack of hav. [Prov. Eng.] 3. A thick 
square sod pared off the surface of a peat-bog 
when digging for peat. Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
4. A block of wood for stopping a carriage- 
wheel. 6. In die-sinking, a cylindrical piece 
of steel on which the design for a coin is en- 
graved in relief. 6. A fluted screw of harden- 
ed steel, adapted to be placed on a mandrel be- 
tween the centers of a lathe, notched to present 
cutting edges, and used in cutting screw-tools, 
chasing-tools, t ,, M , 
etc. Knight. I . 
7. In plumbing, 
a short piece of 
pipe with a bell 
at each end, 
used for join- 
ing pipes in line 
or at an angle. 
When one end 
is smaller than 
the other, to 
form a redu- 
cing-joint, it is 
a reduced hub. 
8. The wooden 
or metal center 
of a carriage- or 
i Hubs. 
WagOll-Wheel, hub with circumfercn ,ial groove; a', 
into which the spoke for same ; b, section of a hub which 
* has two hollow disks around the hollow axle- 
SpOKeS are in- 5,,, . Ci Ct nuh wltn two metallic disks, and 
serfrpd* the projecting lugs to form spoke-mortises; d. 
hub which has a metallic ban " 
nave. It is slipped 
over the arm of the 
axle, and turns up- 
on it. In metallic 
car-wheels the hub is the central part next to the axle ; in 
paper car-wheels it is the central metallic part to which 
the paper web is clamped. See wheel. 
9. Something resembling the hub of a wheel in 
central position or importance. 
Boston State House is the hub of the Solar System. You 
couldn't pry that out of a Boston man if you had the tire 
of all creation straightened out for a crowbar. 
0. W. Holmes, Autocrat, vi. 
10. A mark at which quoits, etc., are cast. 11. 
The hilt of a weapon. [Rare.] 
Also hob in some uses. 
Suspension hub. a hub supported from the felly by rods : 
a common form for the wheels of bicycles. The Hub, 
short for the Hub of the universe that is, Boston in Mas- 
sachusetts. [Humorous.] The hub of the universe, 
the center of all things : humorously applied to places sup- 
posed to be regarded by their inhabitants as of the first im- 
portance ; originally and usually to Boston in Massachu- 
setts : compare the passage from Holmes quoted under 
def. 9. 
Calcutta . . . swaggers as if it were the hub of the uni- 
verse. Cor. Daily News (London), Jan. 18, 1876. 
hubara, n. See houbara, 1. 
hubbaboo (hub'a-bo'), n. See hubbubboo. 
hub-band (hub'band), n. A reinforcing ring 
or metal band placed about the end of a wood- 
en hub. 
Hubbite (hub'It), . [< hub ("The Hub," as 
applied to Boston in Massachusetts) + -ite 2 .] 
A Bostonian. [Humorous.] 
As keen and as wide awake as a veritable New England- 
er, and as a native-born Hubbite. 
CongregationalM, April 28, 1877. 
hubble (hub'l), n. [Dim. of hub.] 1. A small 
lump ; a small prominence, as a hump in a road, 
or ice formed on the surface of water. The Ad- 
vance, Feb. 18, 1886. [U. S.] 2. A "heap," 
as of work. [Scotch.] 
She says: "and they'll a' be in a hubble o' work" at 
home. ... I tell her . . . that " the hubble at home" will 
go on rightly enough in her absence. Carlyle, in Froude. 
3. An uproar or tumult; a row. 
[Scotch and North. Eng.] 
The ragabash were ordered back, 
And then began the hubble ; 
For cudgells now were seen to bounce 
Aff sculls and bloody noses. 
Oali, Encyc., p. 267. 
hubble-bubble (hub'1-bubl), 
n. [A varied redupl. of bub- 
ble.] 1 . A continued bubbling 
prgurgling sound. 2. Aprim- 
itive form of pipe for smok- nubbie-bubbie. 
2908 
ing, popular among the lower classes in India. 
It consists of a cocoanut-shell having a bowl and reed in- 
serted in the top, and a hole in the side, usually without 
a mouthpiece, through which the smoke is drawn, as it 
passes from the bowl through the reed into water con- 
tained in the shell, causing the bubbling or gurgling sound 
which gives the name to the pipe. The name is also ap- 
plied to similar pipes made of clay, glass, silver, etc. Com 
pare hooka and narghile. Also hobble-bobble. 
Dealers in metal or earthen vessels, every man sitting 
knee-deep in his wares, smoking the eternal hubble- bubble . 
F. M. Crawford, Mr. Isaacs, iv. 
A glimpse of the heavenly profile of some half-caste Ar- 
menian maiden, as she lights her father's hubble-bubble in 
the back shop. 
J. W. Palmer, Up and Down the Irrawaddi, p. 58. 
hubbleshow (hub'1-sho), n. [Also hobbleshow, 
hubbyshoo, etc.: see hubbub.] Confusion; tu- 
mult. Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
hubble-shubblet, Same as hubbleshow. 
With that all was on a hubble-shubble. 
Doetour Double Ale. (Halliwell.) 
hubbly (hub'li), a. [< hubble + -jA.] Full of 
hubbies ; rough : as, hubbly ice ; a hubbly road ; 
hubbly skating or sleighing. The Advance, Feb. 
18, 1886. [U. S.] 
hub-borer (hub'bor'er), n. A hand-tool or a 
power-machine for boring out carriage-hubs 
for the boxing or for the spokes, or for boring 
wheel-fellies for the spokes. 
hubbub (hub'ub), n. [Formerly also hobub.hoo- 
boob, also whoobub (appar. simulating whoop, 
hoop%) ; also extended or reduplicated hubbub- 
boo, hubbleshow, hubble-shubble words showing 
imitative variation of a base *hub, prob. of in- 
terjectional origin, but perhaps in part a form 
of Aoop 2 , shout.] 1. A great noise of many con- 
fused voices or sounds ; a tumult ; uproar ; riot. 
And shrieking Hububs them approching nere, 
Which all the forest did with horrour fill. 
Spenser, F. Q., IIL x. 43. 
A universal hubbub wild 
Of stunning sounds and voices all confused. 
Milton, P. L.,IL961. 
Down the street arose a great hub'itb. Dogs and boys 
were howling and barking : men were laughing, shouting, 
groaning, and blowing horns, whooping, and clanking cow- 
bells, whinnying and howling, and rattling pots and pans. 
O. W. Cable, Old Creole Days, p. 203. 
2f. An old game played by the Indians who for- 
merly inhabited New England, with bones and 
a platter or tray, and which was accompanied 
with much noise and the shouting of the word 
"Hubhub" or "Hubbub." 
hubbubboo (hub'u-bo'),w. [Also hubbaboo, etc.: 
see hubbub.] A din ; a racket. 
They come running with a terrible yell and hubbaboice, 
as yf heaven and earth would have gone togither. 
Spenser, State of Ireland. 
.'i),*!. [<&& + -3/1.] Full of hubs or 
inequalities ; hubbly : as, a hubby road. [U. S.] 
hubby 2 (hub'i), n. ; pi. hubbies (-iz). A vulgar 
contraction of husband. 
htibnerite (hub'ner-It), . [Named after a Mr. 
Hiibner, who analyzed it.] Manganese tung- 
state, a rare mineral occurring in bladed cleav- 
able masses of a brownish-red color. 
Hubsb.ee (hub'she), n. [< Ar. Habashi, Pers. 
Habshi,a,n Abyssinian: see Abyssinian.] 1. 
In the East, an Ethiopian; a negro; a descen- 
dant of Abyssinians. 
The Negro blood in the veins of the present Sultan af- 
fects no Mussulman's loyalty, and Hub>thees, who looked, 
though they were not, Negroes, have in India carved out 
thrones. Contemporary Ret:., 1111. 167. 
Hence 2. [I.e.] A Himalayan pony having 
short curly hair. 
One of my Tibetan ponies had short curly brown hair 
and was called ... a hubshee. 
Sir J. D. Hooker, Himalayan Journals. 
huccatoon (huk-a-ton'), n. A kind of cotton 
cloth manufactured especially for the African 
trade. 
huchen (huk'en), n. Same as hucho, 1. 
hucho (hu'ko), n. [NL.: see huck 9 .] 1. A sal- 
monid of the Danube, Hucho or Salmo hucho, of 
long and slender form, with a flat snout, large 
teeth, and silvery color dotted with black. Also 
huck,huchen. 2. leap.] AgemisofStilmonidee. 
differing from Salmo in having no median hyoid 
teeth and in certain osteological characters. 
The type is the hucho, Hucho hucho. 
huck 1 , (huk), v. i. [Late ME. huk, hucke (= G. 
hiiken), haggle, traffic; developed, like the equiv. 
and ult. identical hawk% (q. v.), from the asso- 
ciated noun: see huckster. The orig. verb *huck, 
bend, crouch, is represented in E. by hug, q. v., 
and by the derivatives huckster, huckle, etc.] 
To higgle in trading. 
Awxionor [L.], to merchaunt or huk. 
Medulla, In Prompt. Parv., p. 252, n. 4. 
huckleberry 
I hucke, as one dothe that wolde bye a thing good cheape, 
je harelle, je marchande. Palmjrave. 
Now is the time (time is a god)to worke our loue good lucke, 
Long since I cheapnecl it, nor is my coming now to hucke. 
Warner, Albion's England, v. 20. 
buck 2 (huk), n. A dialectal form of hook. 
huck :: (huk), n. A dialectal corruption of husk 1 . 
buck 4 (huk), n. [Origin obscure.] A hard blow 
or knock. [Prov. Eng. (Sussex).] 
huck 5 (huk), n. [A var. of hock 1 .] In beef, the 
part between the shin and the round. JJ/illi- 
well. [Prov. Eng. (Devonshire).] 
huck (huk), n. [Short for huckle; perhaps in 
part due to huck 6 = hock 1 .] The hip. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
Once of a frosty night I slither'd an' hurted my huck. 
Tennyson, Northern Cobbler. 
huck 7 t (huk), n. Same as hnke 1 . Patent Rolls, 
13 Hen. VII., p. 33. 
huck 8 (huk), n. and a. A commercial contrac- 
tion of huckaback : as, huck towels or toweling. 
huck 9 (huk), n. [< G. huch, m., or hitche, f., a 
kind of river-trout.] Same as hucho, 1. 
huckaback (huk'a-bak), n. and a. [Prob. of 
LG. origin, and appar., as Skeat suggests (evi- 
dence is lacking), orig. 'peddler's ware,' < LG. 
hukfabak ( > G. huckeback), pickaback (cf. MLG. 
hokeboken, carry on the back), < huken, "hukken 
(= MD. hucken, crouch, bend, = G. hocken, 
crouch, bend: cf. LG. hukke, G. hucke, back, 
bunch the verb being represented in E. by 
hug, q. Vy and huck 1 (huckster, etc.)), + bak, 
back.] I. . A coarse and very durable cloth 
of linen, or linen and cotton, woven with alter- 
nate elevations and depressions so as to have a 
rough face. It is used especially for towels, and Is made 
in separate towels or in lengths which may be cut at will. 
Campbell-goodness no more wears out than Campbell- 
beauty ; all their good qualities are huckaback. 
Walpole, Letters, II. 121. 
II. a. Made or consisting of huckaback : as, 
a huckaback towel. 
Often shortened to huck. 
huckberry (huk'ber'i), . Same as hackberry. 
huckeryt, [< ME. hukkeryc, hockerye: cf . G. 
hockerei, hockerei, hiikerei, < hocker, huckster : 
see huckster, and cf. huckstery.] Huckstering; 
petty traffic; peddling. 
Rose the regrater was hir rigte name; 
She hath holden hokkerye al hire lyf-tyme. 
Piers Plowman (B\ v. 227. 
huckie-buckie (huk'i-buk'i), . [Sc., appar. a 
varied redupl. of *huck, crouch: see huckster, 
hug, huckle.] A play in which children slide 
down a hill on their hunkers. Jamieson. 
[Scotch.] 
huckle (hnk'l), n. [E. dial., lit. 'bender' (cf. 
bender, leg) : prob. of LG. origin, < LG. 'hukken, 
huken = OD. hucken, bend, crouch : see huck 1 , 
hug, and cf . huckaback, hucklebacked, hueklebone. ] 
1. The hip. 
For getting up on stump and huelcle, 
He with his foe began to buckle. 
S. Butler, Hudibras, I. U. 925. 
2. A bunch or part projecting like the hip. 
hucklebacked (huk'l-bakt), a. [E. dial., < 
huckle, implying 'bent' or 'crooked,' or ' crook' 
(see huckle, .), + backed: cf. huckaback.] 
Round-shouldered ; humpbacked. 
huckleberry (huk'l-ber'i), .; pi. huckleberries 
(-iz). [Prob. a corruption of hurtleberry : see 
hurtleberry, whortleberry.] A name for the differ- 
ent species of Gaylussacia, and for some of the 
species of Vaccinium, belonging to the natural 
order Vacciniacete, as also for their fruit. The 
name is properly restricted to the species of Gaylussacia. 
They are shrubs with either evergreen or deciduous alter - 
Branches of Huckleberry f Gaylussacia rcsinosa), with flowers 
and fruit, a, single flower on larger scale. 
nate leaves, commonly glandular or resin-bearing ; flow- 
ers In lateral racemes, from separate scaly buds, with tubu- 
lar reddish- or greenish-white corolla ; calyx-tube adnate 
to the ovary, which In fruit becomes drupaceous, crowned 
with the calyx-lobes, 10-celled, with 10 seed-like nutlets. 
