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face; the respect in which red, yellow, green, breathe hard, hauch, the forcible respiration huffiness (huf 'i-nes), n. The state of being 
blue, etc., differ one from another; that in of one who exerts all his strength in giving huffy; petulance; ill humor. 
which colors of equal luminosity and chroma a stroke; MHG. (rare) huclien, G. hauchen, It would be time well spent that should join professional 
may differ. line is the distinctive quality of a color, breathe, blow, aspirate : ult. imitative of hard studies with that degree of polite culture which gives dig- 
the respect in which colors may differ though they have breathing: of. puff.] 1 intrans. 1+ To puff nity aud cures /mffinesg. 
the same luminosity and chroma. Thus, scarlet and crim- n ,. v>] nw Bulwer, What will he Do with It? iv. 11. 
son differ in hue, but buff and yellow especially in chroma, 
myrtle and emerald-green chiefly in luminosity. 
The Hollanders in the Bay of Anton Gil Southwards from 
Madascar in sixteene degrees saw the King, blacke of hew. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 710. 
Don Carlos is of a differing Complexion from all the rest, 
for he is black-haired, and of a Spanish Hue. 
Howell, Letters, I. iii. 9. 
A smile that glow'd 
Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue. 
Milton, P. L., viiL 619. 
Of ripen'd Quinces, such the yellow Hue. 
Congreve, tr. of Ovid's Art of Love. 
3. In painting, a compound color in which one 
of the primaries predominates, as the various 
grays, which are composed of the three primary 
colors in unequal proportion. [Not in use.] 
hue 2 (hu), n. [Formerly also hew; < ME. hue, 
< OF. hu, hui, huy, huit, huyt, lieu (also huee, F. 
hu6e), a cry, shout, noise, esp. a cry in pursuit, 
as in the chase ; cf . huer, huier, huyer, cry, shout, 
exclaim ; prob. orig. a mere interjection, like 
E. hoo, ho, etc. Cf. hoot.] A cry; a shout; 
huffingly (huf'ing-li), adr. In a swaggering 
manner; arrogantly. 
The sword at thy haunch was a huge black blade, 
With a great basket-hilt of iron made ; 
But now a long rapier doth hang by his side. 
And huffingly doth this bonny Scot ride. Old ballad. 
huffish (huf'ish), a. [< huff+ -ish\] 1. Swag- 
MiMleton, Mlcro-Cynicon, L, ; Prol. vfSSl&i ^^TlT 8 ' Petulant; ill-humored, 
nuffishly (huf'ish-h), adv. In a huffish man- 
7i_ llat ? ; o we m up: , as ' &? bread *"?* ner ! with arrogance or bluster, or with petu- 
[Prov. Eng.] 3. To swell with anger, pride, lance. 
or arrogance; bluster; storm; rant. huffishness (huf 'ish-nes). n. The state of be- 
This senseless arrogant conceit of theirs made them huff ing huffish ; petulance; bluster, 
at the doctrine of repentance. South, Sermons. fc^ (nuri ) 7 . pret and pp ^^ ppr huf _ 
Shew the gentlemen what thou canst do; speak a huff- fling. I. intrans. [E. dial., freq. of huff.] 1 
. and Fl., Knight of Burning Pestle, Ind. To ghift . waver ._ 2 . To blow unsteadily or in 
You shall not wrong a lady flaws. [Prov. Eng.] 
When on the Surges I perceiue, from far, 
Th' Ork, Whirl-pool, Whale, or huffing Physeter. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 5. 
Surely all JEol's huffing brood 
Are met to war against the flood. 
Cotton (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 215> 
Those high sky-kissing mounts, 
Where huffing winds cast up their airy accounts. 
In a high huffing strain, and think to bear it 
Fletcher, Rule a Wife, iii. 5. 
He huffs and dings, because we will not spend the little 
re have left to get him the tiUeof Lord Strut. Arbuthnot. 
II. trans. 1. To swell; puff; distend. 
now used only in the make issue. 
game or of a : 
phrase hue and cry. 
A hue fro heuen I herde thoo. 
Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), L 872. 
Hue and cry. [OF. hu et cri, hui et cry; ML. huesium (hu- 
teiium) et clamor.} (a) In law: (1) The pursuit of a felon 
or an off ender with loud outcries or clamor to give an alarm. 
At common law, a private person who has been robbed, or 
who knows that a felony has been committed, is bound to 
raise a hue and cry, and thereupon all persons, constables 
as well as others, are bound to join in the pursuit and as- 
sist in the capture of the felon. 
In Love's name you are charged hereby 
To make a speedy hue and cry, 
After a face who t'other day 
Came and stole my heart away. 
Shirley, Witty Fair One, iii. 2. 
To dare offend in that kind now is for a thief to leave 
the covertj and meet a strong hue and cry in the teeth. 
Donne, Letters, xxi. 
"Harro and help, and hue and cry, every true man ! " said 
the mercer; "I am withstood in seeking to recover mine 
own." Scott, Kenilworth, xxiv. 
(2) In English practice, a written proclamation issued on 
the escape of a felon from prison, requiring officers and 
all other people to assist in retaking him. Burrill. (6) A 
Holland, tr. of Pliny, ii. 85. 
In many wild birds, the diaphragm may easily be huffed 
up with air. Grew. 
Too swage seas surging, or raise by blusterus huffling. 
Stanihurst, jEneid, L 75. 
II. trans. To rumple ; roughen. [Prov. Eng.] 
huffle (huf'l), n. [< huffle, v.~\ A merrymeet- 
ing ; a feast. [Prov. Eng.] 
huffling (huf'ling), n. [Verbal n. of huffie, .] 
A process of embossing, or decorating in re- 
lief, usually in color. 
Embroidering or hufling gilded leather [patent of 1638]. 
Art Journal, 1881, p. 202. 
huff-puffedt, a. Swollen ; bloated. Dames. 
Huff-pufft Ambition, tinder-box of war, 
Down-fall of angels, Adam's murderer ! 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Decay. 
2. To treat with insolence or arrogance; re- 
buke rudely ; hector. 
One went to Holland, where they huffVolk, 
T other to vend his Wares in Suffolk. 
Prior, The Mice. 
You must not presume to huff us. Echard. huff-Snufft (huf 'snuf ), n. A quarrelsome fellow ; 
3. (a) In chess, to remove from the board, as a ^^7- 
a captured piece. (6) In checkers, to remove , T, 1 "? 86 T * Tla <S hectors, free-hooters, desperadoes, and 
from the hoard no n. nippo hplmi<rin<r tn no bull y |n huff^nuffs, for the most part like those whom 
Doara, as a piece Delongmg to one Tacitus stiles " hospitibus tantum metuendi." 
player, as a penalty for not having taken an Ozell, tr. of Rabelais, IV. xxiiL, Pref. 
exposed piece belonging to the other. It is hnffv flmf'H a r<hutr + l 1 l PnflWl nn- 
rw\f^ p fe!^ 
Characterized by arrogance or bluster; swag- 
gering : as, a huffy person. 
Well, you see, he found Canterbury & Co. rather huffy, 
and somewhat on the high-and-mighty order with him, 
and, being a democratic American, he didn't like it. 
H. B. Stowe, Oldtown, p. 811. 
3. Characterized by petulance or ill temper : 
blow upon it. See huff, n., 3. 
huff (huf), . [< huff, 1>.] 1. A swell of sud- 
den an or arrogance; a fit of petulance or 
ill humor 
Shall I fear an anger . . . that is but as the spleen of a 
wasp, a short phester and huff of passion? 
South, Works, VII. xli. 
He had a great dispute with the congressman about 
as, a huffy mood. 
general outcry or atarm; a. greaV;stFoV_cfamor\m^e P ' '^ PlSCe '/A^f Knickerbocker, p. 20. tuftyt, [Vir.' of huff.] A swagger. Nares. 
about any matter. Hue and Cry Act, an English statute 
of 1585 (27 Eliz., c. 13) amending the old laws respecting 
hue and cry (1285, Stat. of Winchester, c. 1 and 2, 13 Edw. 
I.; and 1354, 28 Edw. III., c. 11) by reducing the liability 
of the hundred to half the value of goods stolen, and re- 
quiring that pursuit be made by horsemen as well as 
footmen, and that the person robbed give notice and be 
examined by a justice. 
hued (hud), a. [Formerly also hewed; < ME. 
hewed; < huel + -ed 2 .] Havi 
used chiefly in composition 
bright-Tmed, etc. 
Phebus wax old and hewed lyk latoun [brass]. 
Chaucer, Franklin's Tale, 1. 517. 
But thus muche I dare saine that she 
Was white, rody, fresh and lifely hewed, 
And euery day her beaute newed. 
The Me of Ladies. 
Desti- 
Cut their meat after an Italian fashion, weare their hat 
and feather after a Germaine hufty. Melton, p. 62. 
[A varied redupl. of huffy.] 
manners. 
2f. One puffed up with an extravagant opinion 
of his own value or importance. , -, 
Lewd shallow-brained huffs make atheism and contempt Si..,T?^ ,^Vn'o, 
of religion the sole badge and character of wit. bwaggenng mai 
South, Sermons. Master Wyldgoose, it is not your huftie tuftie can make 
3. In checkers, ^removal of a.player's piece ' ^Ztf^ftStftStot of Mad Letters (1637). 
hug- 
rde7m7i^his 8 v;Se,d^a 1 n a dlL^trfn^ ( a \n Dan. ) lor re g>^,' the'basT of S"! 
*ly also hewed; < ME. f ' 1] aovalot a player's piece Bre^ PostewUh a Packet of Mad Letters 
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of removing the piece. The removal is usually marked 
by blowing on the piece. 
4. Light paste, or pie-crust. [Prov. Eng.] 
5. A dry, scurfy, or scaly incrustation on the 
[Prov. Eng.] 6. Strong' 
hiipl'-i ii A vii'i'iiit f\f i-l f ii" N >-i~" *" - - .-j/. j AUgTy j UlUI- 
huel-bonet, . A Middle English form of whale- huffKiapTtuf 'kap), n. and a. I. n. 1 . A swag- 
oone, eerer: a blusterer. TProv En^ 1 
hueless (hu'les), a. [<" *">! J- '"< i T..,. 
tute of hue or color. 
As for you, Colonel Huff-cap, we shall try before a civil 
magistrate who's the greater plotter. 
Dryden, Spanish Friar. 
2. Strong ale. [Cant.] 
The wild expression of intense anguish . . . dwelt on 
those hueless and sunken features. Bulwer, Pelham, vi. 
A vapour heavy, hueless, formless, cold. When this nippitatnm, this huffe-cappe, as they call it, 
Tennyson, Vision of Sin. this nectar of life, is set abroach, well is he that can get 
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gaged in seining, to watch the movements of the 
fish and direct the course of the boat accord- 
ingly. 2. A man stationed on a hill or at a 
H. a. 1. Of or pertaining to a huff-cap; 
swaggering; blustering. 
A huff-cap, swaggering sir. 
Marston, What you Will, iii. 1. 
2. Strong; heady. 
In what towne there is the signe of the three mariners, 
the huffe-cappest drink in that house you shall be sure of 
1 hey lie houering upon the coast, and are directed ... alwayes. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe (Harl. Misc VI. 180) 
by a balker or huer, who standeth on the cliffe-side and i. a? /i. / * \ 
from thence best discerneth the quantitie and course of nutter ( nut er )> " A swaggerer; a blusterer. 
R. Carew, Survey of Cornwall, fol. 32. . Therefore not to make much noise to disturbe these in- 
i cannot hear a little for their 
Olaneille, On Witchcraft, Pref. 
masthead to signal to fishing-boats the course 
taken by shoals of pilchard, herring, or other 
fish which shoal. Also called balker 
En f lish form f - 
f und earher than toward 
ometh up as a Flower, vii. 
, 
the hip, hueklebacked, crook-backed, huckster, 
etc.: see huckster. The earliest sense of hug 
in E., 'shrink, crouch,' appears to be due to 
Scand. use.] I.t intrans. 1. To crouch; hud- 
dle as with cold. 
I hugge, I shrink in my bedde. It is good sport to see 
this little boy hugge in his bed for cold. Palsgrave. 
2. To lie close ; cuddle. 
To lie, like pawns, lock'd up in chests and trunks ; 
To hug with swine. Shak:, K. John, v. 2. 
H. trans. 1. To grasp firmly and completely 
with the arms; embrace closely; clasp to the 
breast. 
Within his arms he hugged them both. 
Robin Hood and the Stranger (Child's Ballads, V. 418). 
He bewept my fortune, 
And hugg'd me in his arms, and swore, with sobs, 
That he would labour my delivery. 
SAa*., Rich. III., i. 4. 
Braisted and I sprang out instantly, hugged each other 
in delight, and rushed into the warm inn. 
B. Taylor, Northern Travel, p. 96. 
Cold to the very bone, . . . 
He hugged himself against the biting wind 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, HI. 364. 
2. To cling to mentally ; cherish fondly or fer- 
vently ; hold fast to : as, to hug delusions. 
The inventors rather hug their errors than improve 
upon them, and go on struggling with nature. 
Bacon, Physical Fables, v., Expl. 
With what greediness 
Do I hug my afflictions ! 
Ford, Lover's Melancholy, iv. 2. 
Everywhere we see men . . . hugging their prejudices 
of education and training as chains were never hugged 
before. Channing, Perfect Life, p. 238. 
