hug 
3. To keep close to: as, to hug the land. 
Lund's cutlery warehouse . . . hugs St. Peter a Church 
so closely as nearly to form a part of it. 
ff. and Q., 6th ser., X. 398. 
And thus, by running the byes of the wind, and craftily 
hugging the corners, we got to the foot of the street at last. 
A D. Dlackmore, Erema, liv. 
4. To cany, especially with difficulty. [Prov. 
Eng.] To hug one'8 self, to congratulate one's self; 
chuckle, as with secret satisfaction. 
We cannot hug ourxelw* upon the freedom of the Prot- 
estant faith from such forms of bigotry. 
Harper's Mag., LXXVJ. 965. 
hug (hug), [< hug, .] A close embrace ; a 
clasp or pressure with or as with the arras : as, 
to give one a hug ; the hug of a beav Cornish 
hug, formerly, in wrestling, a tackle or grip in which one 
wrestler gets the other on his breast and holds him there ; 
hence, figuratively, treacherous or deceitful treatment or 
dealing. 
And a prime wrestler as e'er tript, 
E'er gave the Cornish hug, or hipt. 
Cotton, Burlesque upon Burlesque. 
huge (huj), a. and n. [< ME. huge, hoge, howge, 
also with guttural g, hugge, hughe, hogge, hoghe, 
by apheresis for "ahuge, *ahoge, < AF. ahoge, 
ahuge, OF. ahoge, ahuge, ahoje, ahoege, ahugue, 
high, lofty, great, large, huge, also as adv., in 
great quantity or number; prob. orig. a phrase, 
a hoge, lit. at height: a, < L. ad, at, on, in; hoge, 
hogue, a hill, height, of Teut. origin, from the 
noun represented by E. how 2 , and thus ult. from 
the adj. high: see "hmifl, high.] I. a. 1. Having 
great bulk; very large; immense; enormous 
of its kind: as, a huge mountain; a huge ox; a 
huge beetle. 
Other Snayles there ben, that ben f ulle grete, but not so 
huge as the other. Uandemlle, Travels, p. 193. 
I call it a huge amphitheatre, because it is reported it 
contained at least flftie thousand persons. 
Coryat, Crudities, I. 63. 
In Australia a huge marsupial, with the head of an ox, 
and compared to which our kangaroo is only a great rat, 
straddled and hopped about as it pleased. 
P. Robinson, Under the Sun, p. 177. 
2. Very great in any respect ; of exceptionally 
great capacity, extent, degree, etc. ; inordinate : 
as, a huge difference. [Now chiefly colloq.] 
He . . . seyde, "Lord! this is an huge reyne ! 
This were a weder for to slepen inne." 
Chaucer, Troilus, iii. 656. 
The patch [Launcelot] is kind enough ; but a huge feeder. 
SAff*., M. of V., ii. 5. 
But, O ! ere long, 
Huge pangs and strong 
Will pierce more near his heart. 
Milton, Circumcision, 1. 27. 
He took the hugest pains to adorn his big person. 
Thackeray, Vanity Fair, iii. 
=Syn. 1. Vast, bulky, immense, gigantic, colossal, pro- 
digious. See bulky. 
Il.t n. Great bulk. 
The Arke of God, which wisedom more did holde, 
In Tables two, then all the Greeks haue tolde ; 
And more than euer Rome could comprehend 
In huge of learned books that they ypend. 
T. Hudson, tr. of Du Bartas's Judith, i. 102. 
huget (huj), adv. [< huge, a.] Hugely. 
He talked huge high that my Lord Protector would come 
in place again. Pepys, Diary, March 3, 1660. 
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hugger 1 (hug'i-r), . [< hug + -eel.] One who 
hugs or embraces. 
hugger a t (hug'er), v. [Cf. hugger-mugger.] I. 
intraits. To lie in ambush ; lurk. Bp. Hall. 
II. tranx. To muffle ; conceal. 
Goe, Muse, abroade, and beate the world about, 
Tell trueth for shame and hugger vp no ill. 
Breton, Pasquil's Madcappe, p. 11. 
hugger-mugger (hug'er-mug'er), . and a. 
[Also written hucker-mucker, Sc. huggrie-mug- 
grie, hudge-mudge: in the sense of confusion, 
disorder, sometimes contr. to hug-mug; Ascham 
has huddermother (Toxophilus, 1545), Skelton, 
hoder-moder (Halliwell), and ME. hody-moke oc- 
curs, indicating that the mod. forms are popu- 
lar variations of a compound which would be 
analogically *hudder-mucker,< ME. huden, hiden, 
hide (> also the closely similar huddle, which 
stands for "hudder, < ME. hoderen : see huddle), 
+ ME. *muken, *moken, a verb not found ex- 
cept as in hody-moke, but the prob. source of 
ME. mokerere, a miser, and of mod. E. dial, mog, 
sulk, be sullen, muggard, sullen, displeased ; cf . 
OHG;. muceazzen, mutter, MHG. muckzen, much- 
zen, G. mucksen. G. also mucken, mutter, grum- 
ble, = Sw. mucka = Dan. mukka : see mog and 
muggard. For the connection of ' secrecy ' with 
'confusion,' cf. hide 1 as related to huddle.] I. 
. Privacy; secrecy. 
Judge Thorp. Sir Edward Coke is law, and he says, The 
Attorney-general or any other prosecutor may speak with 
us in open Court, to inform us about the business before 
us in open court. 
Lilburne. Not in hugger-mugger, privately or whisper- 
ingly. . . . 
La. Keble, No sir ; it is no hugger-mugger for him to 
do as he did ; spare your words. 
State Trials, Lieut. -Col. John Lilburne. 
In hugger-mugger, (a) In privacy or secrecy ; in con- 
cealment. 
We know not any man's intent (God only knoweth the 
heart), yea, the words we know not, they are so spoke m 
hugger-mugger. 
J. Bradford, Works (Parker Soc., 1863), II. 283. 
Where'er th' in hugger-mugger lurk, 
I'll make them rue their handy-work. 
S. Butler, Hudibras, I. iii. 267. 
(b) In confusion ; with slovenliness. [Low and colloq.] 
II. a. 1. Clandestine; sly; underhanded. 
2. Confused; disorderly; slovenly: as, he works 
in a very hugger-mugger fashion. 
Hugger-mugger they lived, but they wasn't that easy to 
please. Tennyson, Village Wife. 
hugger-mugger (hug'er-mug'er), v. I. trans. 
To nush; smother. 
That is a venial offem 
th your 
Steele, Lying Lover, iv. 1. 
[< ME. hugely, -li, -liche; 
a huge manner; enor- 
(huj'li), adv. 
<Tiuge + -lyV.] In 
mously; immensely. 
Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea? 
SAa*., As you Like it, ii. 7. 
All impatience ... is perfectly useless to all purposes 
of ease, but hugely effective to the multiplying the trouble. 
Jer. Taylor, Holy Dying, iii. 4. 
They love one another hugely. Steele, Tatler, No. 266. 
hugeness (huj'nes), n. [< ME. hugenys; < huge 
+ -ness.] The state of being huge ; enormous 
bulk or largeness : as, the hugeness of a moun- 
tain, or of an elephant. 
, 
blue air, in their shattered hugeness, seemed like vast 
overhanging rocks. E. Dowden, Shelley, II. 245. 
hugeoust (hu'jus), a. [Early mod. E. hogeous; 
< huge + -ems; an extension of huge.] Huge. 
He made his hawke to fly 
With hogeous showte and crye. 
Skelton, Ware the Hawke. 
What would have fed a thousand mouths was sunk 
To fill his own [an elephant's] by hugeous length of trunk. 
Byrom, Verses spoken at Breaking-up. 
hugeouslyt, adv. Hugely ; very greatly. Nares. 
Catch. To satisfle you 
In that point, we will sing a song of his. 
And. Let 's ha 't; I love these ballads hugeously. 
W. Cartwright, The Ordinary (1651). 
II. intrans. To take secret counsel ; proceed 
clandestinely. 
Listening to keyhole revelations, and hugger-muggering 
with disappointed politicians. 
New York Tribune, Feb. 25, 1862. 
hugglet (hug'l), v. t. [Freq. of hug.] To hug; 
embrace. Holland. 
Huguenot (hu'ge-not), . [= Sp. Hugonote = 
Pg. Huguenote = It. Ugonotto (NL. Huenoticus, 
A. D. 1562), < F. Huguenot, a Huguenot ; prob.ult. 
< F. Huguenot, a personal name (found as a sur- 
name as early as 1387), dim. of Hugo, Hugon, 
Hugues, < MHG. Hug, Hue, Hugh, a man's name, 
< MHG. huge, OHG. hugu = OS. hug i = AS. hyge, 
hige, mind, thought : cf . hogu, care : see how*. 
The name as applied to the Protestants of 
France was first used about 1560, being appar. 
imported from Geneva, where it appears to 
have been for some time in use as a political 
nickname. Its particular origin is unknown; 
no contemporary information has been found. 
No person named Huguenot is conspicuous in 
the history of the Huguenots ; but the nick- 
name, if of merely local origin, may have taken 
its rise from a person so named of whom no 
record has been preserved. Scheler mentions 
16 proposed etymologies, of which 8 rest on 
the name Hugo or Hugues. One of the others 
refers the name to the Swiss eidguenot, repr. 
G. eidgenoss, pi. eidgenossen, confederates, lit. 
'oath-fellows,' < eid = ~E. oath, + genoss, MHG. 
getioz = AS. genedt, a fellow, companion: see 
oath and geneat. The F. word was at first used 
and felt as a term of reproach, prob. because it 
was regarded as a synonym of Genevan, i. e. 'a 
foreign (German) heretic.'] A member of the 
Reformed or Calvinistic communion of France 
in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The 
Huguenots were the Puritans of France, noted in gen- 
eral for their austere virtues and the singular purity of 
their lives. They were persecuted in the reign of Francis 
I. and his immediate successors, and after 1562 were fre- 
hulk 
quently at war with the Catholics, under the lead of such 
men as Admiral Coligny and the King of Navarre (after- 
ward Henry IV. of France). In spite or these wars and the 
massacre of St. Bartholomew, August 24th, 1572, they con- 
tinued numerous and powerful, and the edict of Nantes, is- 
sued by Henry IV, (1598), secured to them full political and 
civil rights. Their political power was broken after the 
surrender of La Rochelle in 1828, and the revocation of the 
edict of Nantes by Louis XIV. (1685) and the subsequent 
persecutions forced hundreds of thousands into exile to 
Prussia, the Netherlands, Switzerland, England, etc. Many 
settled in the colonies of New York, Virginia, etc., but 
especially in South Carolina. The name is sometimes ap- 
plied at the present day to the descendants of the origi- 
nal Huguenots. 
Huguenotism (hu'ge-not-izm), n. [< Huguenot 
+ -ism.] The religion and principles of the 
Huguenots. 
Huguierian (hu-gi-e'ri-an), a. Of or pertaining 
to P. C. Huguier (1804-73), a French surgeon. 
Huguierian canal. See canali. 
hugyt (hu'ji), a. [< huge + -y l ; an extension 
of huge: cf. vasty for vast.] Huge. 
The Langa, skimming (as it were) 
The Oceans surface, seeketh every where 
The hugy Whale. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 5. 
A serpent from the tomb began to glide ; 
His hugy bulk on seven high volumes roll'd. 
Dryden, /Eneid, v. 111. 
huia-bird (hwe'a-berd), . A New Zealand bird, 
Heteralocha acuiirostris. See cut under Hetera- 
locha. 
huishert, . and v. An obsolete form of usher. 
In alle his wey he fyndeth no let. 
That dore can none huissher schet. 
dower, MS. Soc. Antiq. 134, f. 75. (HaUiwell.) 
Studying 
For footmen for you, fine-paced huishers, pages, 
To serve you on the knee. 
B. Jonson, Devil is an Ass, ii. 3. 
hukah, n. Same as hooka. 
huket (huk), . [Also heuk, huik, huck; < ME. 
huke, hewk, hewke, also heyke (after the OD.), < 
OF. huque, hucque, ML. huca, a mantle, < OD. 
huycke, D. huik = MLG. hoike, heike, huke, hoke, 
LG. heuken, hoiken = MHG. hoike, cloak, man- 
tle.] An outer garment worn during the fif- 
teenth century in western Europe, the form and 
character of which are not certain. It appears 
tohavebeen often decorated with fur. Fairholt. 
Heralds with hukes, hearing full hie, 
Cryd largesse, largesse, chevaliers tres hardy. 
Muses' Recreation, Defiance to K. Arthur. 
As we were thus in conference, there came one that 
seemed to be a messenger in a rich huke. 
Bacon, New Atlantis. 
huket, t. [< huke, n.] To cloak. Nares. 
And yet I will not let it alone, but throw some light 
vaile of spotlesse pretended well-meaning over it, to huke 
and mask it from publicke shame and obloquy. 
H. King, Halfe-pennyworth of Wit (1613), Ded. 
hulcht (hulch), n. and a. [A form of hunch, 
appar. by mixture with hulk 1 .] I. n. 1. A 
hump or hunch. 2. A slice. 
II. a. Crooked. Halliwell. 
hulcnbackedt (hulch 'bakt), a. [A form of 
hunchbacked: see hulch and hunch.] Hunch- 
backed. 
"Can you tell me with what instruments they did it?" 
"With fair gullies, which are little haulch-backed demi- 
knives." Urquhart, tr. of Rabelais, i. 27. 
hulchedt (hulcht), a. Having hulches or humps, 
hulchyt(nul'ehi), a. [< hulch + -yi.] Humpy. 
What can be the signification of the uneven shrugging 
of her hulchy shoulders ? Urquhart, tr. of Rabelais, iii. 17. 
huldee (hul'de), n. An East Indian plant, Cur- 
cuma longa, the old tubers of which furnish 
the substance called turmeric, which is used 
as a mild aromatic and for medicinal pur- 
poses. 
huldert, n. Apparently a variant of alder 1 . 
Hulder, black thorne, serues tree, beche, elder, aspe, 
and salowe . . . make holow, starting, studding, gad- 
dynge shaftes. Ascham, Toxophilus, p. 126. 
hulferet, A Middle English form of hulver. 
hulk 1 (hulk), n. [< ME. "hulke, shyppe, hulcus" 
(Prompt. Parv.), < AS. hulc (rare), glossed by L. 
liburna (which means prop, a light, fast-sailing 
vessel, a Liburnian galley), = OD. hulke, hoike, 
D. hulk = MLG. hoik, hollik, hulk, hoike, LG. 
hoik = OHG. holcho, MHG. holche, G. hoik, also 
hulk, hulke, = ODan. hoik = OSw. holker = OF. 
hurque, orque, a hulk or huge ship, < ML. tiul- 
ca, hulka, hulcus, olca, prop, holcas, a ship of 
burden, < Gr. o/kdf, a ship which is towed, a 
ship of burden, a trading- vessel, merchantman 
(cf. 6/Udf, a machine for dragging ships on 
land), < efaetv, draw, drag, = OBulg. vUka, 
vleshti = Pol. wloke = Bohem. vleku = Russ. 
vlechl, etc., drag, draw.] If. A ship, particu- 
larly a heavy ship. 
