huckleberry 
O.resinosa is the common high-bush huckleberry or black 
huckleberry of the markets ; G. frondosa, is the bluetangle 
or blue huckleberry ; G. unrino of North and South Caro. 
Una is the bear-huckleberry. For the huckleberries of the 
genus Vaccinium, see blufbernj, their more appropriate 
name. V. com/iiliosum is also called the blue huckleberry, 
and V. Pennsytvanicum the sugar-huckleberry or low-bush 
huckleberry. Also called whortleberry, hurtleberry. 
The greater part of what is now Cambridgeport was then 
(in the native dialect) a "huckleberry pastur. ' 
Lowell, Fireside Travels, p. 42. 
hucklebone (huk'1-bon), n. [Early mod. E. also 
luiffle-bime; < huckle + lone.] If. The hip- 
bone. 
The hip, . . . wherein the Joint doth move 
The thigh, 'tis called the hucklebone. Chapman. 
2. The ankle-bone ; the tarsal bone known in 
anatomy as the astragalus. See out under foot. 
The little square huccle-bone in the ancle place of the 
hinder legge in all beasts. 
Udall, tr. of Apophthegms of Erasmus, p. 185. 
Jug. I can shew you very fine tricks. 
Bot>. Prithee, hocus pocus, keep thy grannam's huckle- 
bone, and leave us. Shirley, Love's Cruelty, iii. 1. 
hucklort, n. A kind of dance. 
Some speeches ; of the rest, dancing the huckler, Tom 
Bedlo, and the Cowp Justice of Peace. 
Ashton, Diary (1617). 
buck-muck (huk'muk), . [Origin obscure; 
cf. hugger-mugger.] 1. A dwarf. [Prov. Eng.] 
2. The willow-warbler, Pliylloscopus trochi- 
lus. [Prov. Eng.] 
bucksont (huk'son), . [E. dial, also hucksheen; 
< ME. hokschyne, etc., hock: see Aoefc 1 .] The 
hock or ham. 
Or, sweet lady, reach to me 
The abdomen of a bee ; 
Or commend a cricket's hip, 
Or his huekson, to my scrip. 
Hernck, Hesperides, p. 239. 
huckster (huk'ster), n. [Sometimes written 
hujcter (cf. baxter), early mod. E. also hucster; < 
ME. hukster, hucster, hukstere, hokestere, hogge- 
ster, < MD. heulcster (cf. Sw. hugster, < E. ?), 
with suffix -ster, equiv. to "hucker (not used in 
E., except in variant form hawker^, q. v.), < 
MD. hucker, a huckster or a mercer, D. heuker, 
a retailer (= MLG-. hoker = G. hocker, a huck- 
ster (prob. from D.), = Dan. hoker, a chandler, 
huckster, = 8 w. ho'kare, a cheesemonger) ; prob. 
lit. ' stooper' or ' croucher ' (i. e. a peddler stoop- 
ing under the burden of his wares), as a par- 
ticular use of MD. hucker, a stooper, from the 
verb represented by E. hug (with now deflected 
meaning) for *huek, < MD. hucken, stoop, bow, 
= LG. huken, crouch, = G. hocken, crouch, squat, 
take upon the back, also be idle, = Icel. huka, 
sit on one's hams (> hokra, go bent, crouch, 
creep, slink about; in mod. usage, live as a 
small farmer); cf. G. dial, hucke, LG. hukke, 
the back, prop, the bent back. See huckaback, 
hitckle, hucklebacked. Connected with hug, and 
ult. with huck% = hook, q. v.] 1. A retailer of 
small articles ; a hawker ; a peddler ; now, espe- 
cially, a small dealer in agricultural produce. 
The Wardonesof the said crafte hafe full power to make 
serche, with a sergent, att all hoggeaters houses with-yn 
the Jurisdiccion of the said Cite, vppon alle forenes brede 
broght to the same. English Gild* (E. E. T. S.), p. 337. 
These were the first inuenters of coyning money, the 
first hucsters and pedlers. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 329. 
And watched her table with its huckster's wares 
Assiduous, through the length of sixty years. 
Wordsworth, Prelude, ii. 
This broad-brimm'd hawker of holy things. 
Whose ear is cramm'd with his cotton, and rings 
Even in dreams to the chink of his pence, 
This huckster put down war ! Tennyson, Maud, x. 
2. A wholesale fish-dealer ; one who buys fresh 
fish for shipment to the retail trade. [North 
Carolina, U. S.] 
huckster (huk'ster), v. [< huckster, .] I. in- 
trans. To deal in small articles or in petty bar- 
gains ; hence, to higgle ; contend in a small or 
mean way about monetary transactions. 
But I never could drive a hard bargain in my life, con- 
cerning any matter whatever ; and least of all do I know 
how to haggle and huckster with merit. 
Burke, To a Noble lord. 
The estates . . . irritated the Prince of Orange by huck- 
stering about subsidies. Motley, Dutch Eepublic, II. 522. 
There are hardly any of our trades, except the merely 
huckstering ones, in which some knowledge of science may 
not be directly profitable to the pursuer of that occupa- 
tion. Huxley, Lay Sermons, p. 66. 
II. trans. To expose for sale ; make a matter 
of bargain. [Rare.] 
Som who had bin call'd from shops and warehouses, 
without other merit, to sit in Supreme Councills and Com- 
mittees, (as thir breeding was) fell to huckster the Com- 
monwealth. Milttm, Hist Hi IK., iii. 
2909 
hucksterage (huk'ster-aj), . [< huckster + 
-age.] The business of a huckster ; petty deal- 
ing. 
Ignoble hucksterage of piddling tithes. 
Milton, Reformation in Eng., ii. 
hucksterer (huk'ster-er), n. [< huckster, v., + 
-er l , or a mere extension of huckster, n.] A 
huckster. 
Those hucknterers or money-jobbers will be found neces- 
sary if this brass money is made current. Swift. 
hucksteryt, n. [ME. hoxterye; as huckster + 
-2/ 1 '] Same as huckery. 
buckstress (huk'stres), n. [Formerly some- 
times written huxteress; < huckster + -ess. In 
ME. huckster was used of both sexes, being 
strictly only fern.] A female huckster or ped- 
dler. Also written hucksteress. 
In the Pyncheon-house, where she [Hepzibah] has spent 
all her days reduced now, iu that very house, to be the 
hucksteress of a cent-shop 1 Hawthorne, Seven Gables, ii. 
hud (hud), n. [A dial, form of hood.] The shell 
or hull of a nut. [Prov. Eng.] 
huddle (hud'l), v. ; pret. and pp. huddled, ppr. 
huddling. [< ME. as if *hudelen for "huderen, 
of which the only two examples found present 
the spelling hoderen (hodre, hodur), huddle or 
press together, also cover, =LG. *hudern (Matz- 
ner), dim. hudderken, of hens, sit upon the chick- 
ens and keep them warm, also of nurses, to cud- 
dle or coddle children (de kinder in den slaap 
hudderken, lull children to sleep), freq. of ME. 
huden, hiden, < AS. hydan (= LG. huden), hide, 
cover: see hide 1 . The change from -er to -el 
(-le) may have been due to ME. hudels, hudles, 
hidels, etc., < AS. hydels, a hiding-place, < hydan, 
hide. The D. hoetelen, bungle, = Dan. hutle, 
huddle, botch, bungle, = Sw. hutla, shuffle, = 
G. hudeln, do a thing hastily and carelessly, 
is a different word, connected with hustle, q. v., 
but it may have affected the form and sense of 
the E. word.] I. trans. 1. To throw together 
in confusion; crowd together without order. 
She told me ... that I was the prince's jester, and that 
I was duller than a great thaw ; huddling jest upon jest, 
"'c., Much Ado, ii. 1. 
- Therefore is Space, and therefore Time, that man may 
know that things are not huddled and lumped, but sun- 
dered and individual. Emerson, Misc., p. 38. 
The sedimentary rocks have not been huddled together 
at random. Oeikie, Geol. Sketches, i. 87. 
2. To perform in haste and disorder ; put toge- 
ther or produce in a hurried manner : often with 
up, over, or together. 
A weake Man is one whom Nature huddled vp in haste, 
and left his best part vnftnish't. 
Bp. Earle, Micro-cosmographie, A Weake Man. 
A man, in the least degree below the spirit of a saint or 
a martyr, will loll, huddle over his duty, look confused. 
Steele, Guardian, No. 66. 
Humbled by the events of the war, and dreading the just 
anger of Parliament, the English ministry hastened to 
huddle up a peace with France and Holland at Breda. 
Macaulay, Sir William Temple. 
3. To put on in haste and disorder, as clothes: 
usually with on. 
Now all in haste they huddle on 
Their hoods, their cloaks, and get them gone. 
Swift, Journal of Modern Lady. 
I got up and huddled on my clothes. 
Smollett, Peregrine Pickle (2d ed.), Ixxxi. 
I perceive 
That fear is like a cloak which old men huddle 
About then* love, as if to keep it warm. 
Wordsworth, The Borderers, i. 
4f. To hush (up). Nares. 
The matter was hudled upand little spoken of it. 
Wilson, James I. (1653), p. 285. 
5. To embrace. [Prov. Eng.] 
U. intrans. 1. To crowd; press together pro- 
miscuously; press or hurry in disorder. 
Glancing an eye of pity on his losses, 
That have of late so huddled on his back. 
SAai.,M. of V., Iv. 1. 
Thyrsis? whose artful strains have oft delay'd 
The huddling brook to hear his madrigal. 
Milton, Comus, 1. 495. 
Huddling together on the public square, . . . like a 
herd of panic-struck deer. Prescott. 
2. In the University of Cambridge, to keep 
an act in a perfunctory manner, requiring no 
study, in order that the necessary oath may be 
taken. 
If he has not kept the requisite exercises, he goes to the 
sophs' schools and huddles for that part which he has not 
kept. Wall, Senate House Ceremonies (1798), p. 112. 
huddle (hud'l), n. and a. [< huddle, .] I. n. 
1. A number of persons or things thrown toge- 
ther without rule or order; a confused crowd 
or cluster ; a jumble. 
hue 
This filled my mind with such a huddle of ideas that, 
upon my going to sleep, I fell into the following dream. 
Addition, Husbands and Wives. 
The soldiers were crowded together in a huddle. 
Franklin, Autobiog., p. 22S. 
2. A winning cast at shovel-board. 
The Earl of Kiltlare, seeing his writ of death brought in, 
when he was at shuffle-board, throws his cast with this in 
his mouth, ' ' Whatsoever that is, this is for a huddle. " 
S. Ward, Sermons, p. 68. 
3f. An old decrepit person. 
This old miser asking of Aristippus what he would take 
to teachc and bring vp his sonne, he aunswered a thousand 
groates : a thousand groats, God shield, aunswered this 
olde huddle, I can haue two seruaunts of yat price. 
Lyly, Euphues, Anat. of Wit, p. 133. 
What, ye brain-sick fools, ye hoddy-pecks, ye doddy- 
pouls, ye huddes [read huddles], do ye believe Him? are 
ye seduced also 1 Latimer, Works, I. 136. 
4t. A list. [Prov. Eng.]-Huddle upon huddle, 
aU in a heap. 
Sandal's fortunes come tumbling in like lawyers' fees, 
huddle upon huddle. Rowley, Match at Midnight, iv. 
Il.t a. Confused; jumbled. 
A suddain, huddle, indigested thought 
Eowls in my brain 'tis the safest method. 
The Revengeful Queen (1698). 
huddlet (hud'l), adv. [< huddle, a.] In disor- 
der; confusedly. 
It is impossible to set forth either all that was (God 
knoweth !) tumultuously spoken, and like as of mad men 
objected of so many, which spake oftentimes huddle, so 
that one couldn't well hear another. 
Ridley, p. 304. (Daviet.) 
huddle-duddlet, n. A decrepit person. 
Those gray-beard hmlille-duddles. 
Nashe, Lenten Stuffe (Harl. Misc., VI. 147). 
huddler (hud'ler), n. One who huddles or 
throws things together in confusion. 
huddup (hud-up'), interj. Get up; go along: 
addressed to a horse. [New Eng.] 
Here comes the wonderful one-boss shay, 
Drawn by a rat-tailed, ewe-necKed bay. 
"Huddup!" said the parson. Off went they. 
O. W. Holmes, One-Hoss Shay. 
Hudibrastic (hu-di-bras'tik), a. and n. [< Hu- 
dibras + -t-ic, after enthusiastic, etc. The name 
Hudibras is said to have been taken from that 
of one of the knights of the Round Table, Sir 
Hugh de Bras.'] I. a. Of or pertaining to, or 
resembling the style of, "Hudibras," a satire 
directed against the Puritans by Samuel Butler, 
published in 1663 ; burlesque-heroic : as, Hudi- 
brastic verse ; Hudibrastic humor. 
There is nothing puffy, blustering, or Hudibrastic in his 
(Clement Marot's) onslaught. 
W. J. Eckoff, Appleton's Journal, XI. 
Dr. Bryant . . . was fond of exercising his talent for 
rhyming by throwing his thoughts into verse, and suc- 
ceeded in producing some very respectable Hudibrastic 
lines. D. J. Hill, Bryant, p. 20. 
II. n. A line or verse in the style of Butler's 
"Hudibras": as, a poem composed inHudibras- 
tics. 
Hudsonian (hud-so'ni-an), a. [< Hudson (see 
defs.) + -tan.] 1. Pertaining to Henry Hud- 
son (died about 1611), an English navigator 
in the English and Dutch service, discoverer 
of Hudson river, strait, and bay. 2. In zool. 
and bot., pertaining to Hudson's Bay, or to the 
fauna or flora of that region: applied to nu- 
merous animals, etc Hudsonian fauna, a fauna 
of North America intervening between the Canadian and 
Arctic faunae, between the isothermal lines of 50 and 57 F. 
The next ornithological fauna north of the Canadian may 
well be termed the Hudsonian Fauna, . . . that portion 
of boreal America situated between the Canadian Fauna 
and the Barren grounds. 
J. A. Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., II. 400. 
hudsonite (hud'son-It), n. [(.Hudson, the river 
so named, which flows by Cornwall (see def.), 
+ -tie 2 .] An aluminous variety of pyroxene, 
occurring in lamellar masses at Cornwall in 
Orange county, New York. 
Hudson River group. See group 1 . 
hue 1 (liu), .. [Early mod. E. also hew; < ME. hew, 
hewe, heu, heow, heowe, hiw, etc., form, appear- 
ance, color, < AS. hiw, heow, heo, form, appear- 
ance, = Sw. liy, skin, complexion, = Icel. he- (in 
he-gilja, a vain song, nonsense, tittle-tattle, he- 
goma, speak falsely or vainly) = Goth, hitci, 
form, show, appearance.] It. Form; appear- 
ance; guise. 
He taught to imitate that Lady trew. 
Whose semblance she did carrie under feigned hew. 
Spenser, F. Q., I. i. 46. 
" Have over ferryman," there cried a boy; 
And with him was a paragon for hue, 
A lovely damsel beauteous and coy. 
Greene, Never too Late. 
2. Color ; specifically and technically, distinc- 
tive quality of color in an object or on a sur- 
