hurlbat 
Laying about him as if they had beene fighting at hurlt- 
bad. Holland, tr. of Aminianua (1609). 
2. A bat or club with a broad curved end used 
in one form of the game of hurling. Strutt. 
hurlblastt (herl'blast), . [A form of whirlblast, 
q. v. ; < hurl 2 , = whirl, + blast."} Same as whirl- 
blast. 
hurlbone (herl'bon), . [A form of whirlbone, 
q. v.] Same as whirlbone. 
hurler 1 (her'ler), n. [< hurl 1 + -er 1 .] One who 
hurls ; especially, one who plays at hurling. 
This cunning Shiinei. a hurler of stones, as well as a 
railer. Milton, Apology for Smectymnuus. 
hurler 2 (her'ler), n. [< Imrft + -er 1 ; = whirler, 
q. v.] One employed in carrying stones, peat. 
or other material on a wheelbarrow. [Scotch.] 
hurley (her'li), n. [Cf. hurl*.] The game of 
hockey or hurling; also, the stick or club used 
in this game. [Ireland.] 
The game of hockey is called hurley in Ireland ; so hur. 
Ifiix are probably hockey-sticks. N. and Q., 7th ser. , V. 300. 
hurley-house, . See hurly-house. 
hurling 1 (her'ling), n. [< ME. hurlytige, liur- 
lunge; verbal n. of hurl 1 ,.] 1. Agameinwhich 
opposite parties strive to hurl or force a ball 
through their opponents' goal, or to place it at 
one of two points in a district of country. A 
described by Carew in Cornwall in 1602, the former was 
called hurling to goal, and the latter (in which the people 
of the whole district took sides) hurling to the country. 
As played at the present time in Ireland, the game is the 
same as hockey. 
Hurling was practised with a passionate enthusiasm. 
Lecky, Eng. in 18th Cent., vii. 
2f. Strife. 
And therefore I pray you telle me now gone, 
Was ther any hurlyng in hande ? York Plays, p. 428. 
hurling 2 (her'ling), . The young of the com- 
mon perch. [Westmoreland, Eng.] 
hurlmentti [< hurl 1 + -merit.] Confusion. 
Doxies. 
King Edward, . . . dlscouering both this accident and 
the hurlement made by the change of place, slacks not to 
take aduantage thereof. Daniel, Hist Eng., p. 200. 
hurlwindt (herl'wind), n. [A form of whirl- 
wind, q. v. ; < hurfi + wind.'] An obsolete form 
of whirlwind. 
Oft-times upon some fearfull clap 
Of thunder, straight a hurlewind doth arise 
And lift the waves aloft. 
Sir J. Harrington, tr. of Ariosto's Orlando Furloso, xlv. 69. 
hurlyif (her'li), n. [Sw> hurly-burly 1 .] Tumult; 
bustle; confusion; hurly-burly. [Rare.] 
Methinks I see this hurly all on foot 
Slink., K. John, ill. 4. 
For though we be here at Burley, 
We'd be loth to make a hurly. 
/>'. Joiaon, Gipsies Metamorphosed. 
hurly 2 (her'li), n. Same as hurly-burly'*. 
hurly-burly 1 (her'li-ber'li), n. [First in the 
16th century; also written hurlie-burlie, hurly- 
burle (So. liurry-burry, assimilated to hurry- 
skurry) ; a varied redupl. of hurly 1 , if that is not 
itself an abbr. of the compound, which may be 
considered a popular formation intended to 
suggest hurry and bustle.] Tumult ; bustle ; 
confusion. 
Seeing the Englishmen to be oppressed with the warres 
and rapines of the cruell Danes, and all the land in a 
hurlie burlie. Hakluyt's Voyages, II. 6. 
Such a hurly-burly in country inns ! 
Lonyfellow, Golden Legend, v. 
hurly-burly 2 (her'li-ber'li), n. [Also simply 
liurly.] The last; the lag: a term very com- 
monly used among youug people. Jamieson. 
[Scotch.] 
hurlygush (her'li-gush), n. [< E. hurl 2 , = whirl, 
+ gush.] The bursting out of water, as from 
a pond. Jamieson. [Scotch.] 
hurly-hacket (hur'li-hak*et), n. [Also written 
hurlie-, hurley-hacket ; origin obscure ; referred 
by Jamieson to Sw. (dial.) liurra, whirl round, 
whizz (see hurry), + Sw. haiku, slip. The first 
element seems to rest on E. hurl 1 ."] 1. A small 
trough or sledge in which people used former- 
ly to slide down an inclined plane on the side of 
a hill. 2. An ill-hung carriage: in contempt. 
[Scotch in both senses.] 
"I never thought to have entered ane o' their hurley- 
hackets," she said, as she seated herself, "and sic a like 
thing as it is scarce room for twa folks ! " 
Scott, St Eonan'a Well, xv. 
hurlyhawkie (hur'li-ha/ki), n. [< hurly (T) + 
hawkie, hawkey, a cow with a white face: see 
hawkey 3 .] The call by which milkmaids use to 
call the cows home to be milked. Jamieson. 
[Scotch.] 
hurly-house (hur'li-hous), n. [< hurly (cf . hurly- 
hacket) + house.] A large house so much in 
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disrepair as to be nearly in a ruinous state. 
Also spelled hurley-house. [Scotch.] 
hurnet. . See hem 1 . 
Huron 1 (hu'ron), n. [A F. form of an Amer. 
Ind. name.] 1. One of an Indian tribe, the 
northwestern member of the Iroquois family, 
living west to Lake Huron, which is named 
from them. 2. [1. c.] [< NL. Huro, after Lake 
Huron.] An Anglicized equivalent of the ge- 
neric name Huro, applied by Cuvier to the 
large-mouthed black-bass, Microptcrus salntoi- 
des. The systematic relations of the fish were misunder- 
stood by Cuvier, on account of the imperfect state of the 
dorsal fin of the specimen examined by him. 
huron 2 (hu'ron), n. [Sp., < ML./wro(n-), a fer- 
ret: see ferret 1 .] A Spanish-American name of 
sundry animals of the family Mustelidai : spe- 
cifically applied to the grison. 
Huronian (hu-ro'ni-an), a. [< Huron 1 (see def . ) 
+ -ian.] Of or pertaining to Lake Huron, the 
central one of the chain of (*reat lakes between 
the United States and British America. In ge- 
ology the term is applied to a division of the azoic or 
archiean series, as indicated by the Canadian geologists. 
It is a lithological division exclusively, since it contains 
no fossils, so far as known. As used by the Canada Sur- 
vey, the Huronian includes rocks in part eruptive, in part 
detrital, and in part segregated, and of various geological 
ages. The epithet has no satisfactory basis, and has been 
abandoned by most geologists. 
huronite (hu'ron-it), n. [< Huron (Lake Hu- 
ron) + -ite%.] An impure kind of feldspar 
found in Canada. It probably belongs to the 
species anorthite. 
hurrt, hurt (her), r. i. [< ME. hurren, buzz ; cf. 
Dan. hurre, buzz, hum, G. hurren, whir, whirl; 
an imitative word : see hurry and whir.] 1 . To 
hum; buzz. 
Hurron [var. hurryn, hurren] or bombon, as bees or other 
lyke. Prompt. Pan. 
2. To make a trilling or rolling sound; snarl. 
R Is the dog's letter and hurreth In the sound. 
B. Jonson, Eng. Grammar. 
hurrah, hurra (ho-ra' or hu-ra'), interj. [Vul- 
garly hurray, hooray; formerly also spelled 
wliurra; < G. hurra, MHG. hurra, > also Dan. 
and Sw. hurra, Pol. and Bohcm. hurd, hurrah; 
in another form huzzah, huzza, < G. hussa ; like 
other exclamations, of indefinite origin, but it 
may be regarded as suggested by MHG. G. hur- 
ren, whir, whirl: see hurr, hurry, tcliir.] An 
exclamation expressive of joy, praise, applause, 
or encouragement : sometimes used as a noun. 
Coach. The same good man that ever he was. 
Gard. Whurra ! Addition, The Drummer, v. 1. 
Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah, bravo ! 
Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, 1. 2. 
Hurrah's nest, a state of confusion and disorder. [Col- 
loq., U. S.] 
Here you've got our clock all to pieces, and have been 
keeping up a perfect hurrah's nest in our kitchen for three 
days. H. B. Stowe, Oldtown, p. 81. 
hurrah, hurra (ho-ra' or hu-ra'), v. [< hurrah, 
liurra, interj.] I. intrans. To utter a loud shout 
of acclamation, encouragement, joy, or the like. 
II. trans. To receive or accompany with ac- 
clamation, or with shouts of joy ; encourage by 
rounds of cheering. 
hurr-bur (her'ber), n. [Perhaps for "hurd-bur, 
< hurds, same as hards, + bur 1 . Cf. burdock.] 
The burdock, Arctium Lappa. [Eng.] 
hurricane (hur'i-kau), n. [First at the end of 
the 16th century; also written herocane (the 
word being still often pronounced as if spelled 
*herricane), and with a seeming Sp. term, hur- 
ricano, herricano, hericano, hirecano (see hurri- 
cano), and sometimes furicano (simulating L. 
furia, fury), = D. orkaan (> Dan. Sw. orkan, G. 
orkan) = F. oiiragan = It. uracaiio (and oragano, 
after the F.), < Sp. huracan = Pg. furacSo, a 
hurricane, < Caribbean hurakan (Irving, "Life 
of Columbus," viii. 9, gives the accom. "In- 
dian" forms furicane or urican), a hurricane.] 
1 . A storm of the intensest severity ; a cyclone. 
Hurricanes prevail chiefly in the East and West Indies, 
Mauritius, and Bourbon, and also in parts of China and the 
Chinese seas, where they are generally known as typhoons. 
Violent tempests, besides the unexpected herocane, 
which dashed all the endeavours of the best pilots. 
Lady Alimony, iv. 1. 
2. Any violent tempest, or anything suggestive 
of one. 
Like a tempest down the ridges 
Swept the hurricane of steel. 
Aytoun, Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, iii. 
3t. In the eighteenth century, a social party ; 
a rout; a drum. [Slang.] = Syn. Tempest, etc. See 
wind-. 
hurricane-deck (hur'i-kan-dek), . See deck, 2. 
hurricanot (hur-i-ka'no), . [See hurricane.] 
1. Same as hurrieane. 
hurry 
A small Catch perished at Sea, in a Hericano. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith' Works, I. 234. 
I am possess d 
With whirlwinds, and each guilty thought to me is 
A dreadful hurricane. 
Massinger, Unnatural Combat, v. 2. 
2. A waterspout. 
Not the dreadful spout 
Which shipmen do the hurricano call, 
Constring'd in mass by the almighty sun, 
Shall dizzy with more clamour Neptune's ear 
In his descent. Shalt., 1. audC., v. 2. 
hurried (hur'id), p. a. [Pp. of hurry, v.] Done 
in a hurry ; exhibiting hurry. 
All this haste 
Of midnight march, and hurried meeting here. 
Milton, P. L., v. 778. 
hurriedly (hur'id-li), adv. In a hurried manner. 
hiirriedness (hur'id-nes), n. *The state of be- 
ing hurried. 
hurrier (hur'i-er), n. [< hurry + -er 1 .] 1. One 
who hurries, urges, or impels. 
Mars . . . (that horrid hurrier of men). 
Chapman, Iliad, xvii. 
2. One who draws a corf or wagoii in a coal- 
mine. [Great Britain.] 
hurrokt, . [Cf. E. dial, orruck, an oar.] An 
oar. 
hurry (hur'i), r. ; pret. and pp. hurried, ppr. 
hurrying. [< ME. horien (found only once), 
hurry: a secondary form, perhaps akin to 
OSw. and Sw. dial, hurra, whirl round, whizz 
(dial, hurr, great haste, hurry), = Norw. hurra, 
whirl, whizz, thunder, = MHG. hurren, move 
quickly, G. hurren, whirl, whir, hurr (hurre, 
adv., with a whirring noise); cf. Dan. hurre, 
hum, buzz, ME. hurren, E. hurr, buzz, Icel. 
hurr, a great noise: see hurr and whir, the 
last word well combining the two notions of 
rapid motion and buzzing sound.] I. trans. 
1 . To hasten ; urge forward or on ward ; impel 
to greater rapidity of movement or action. 
Impetuous lust hurries liini on to satisfy the cravings 
of It South. 
Sir Edward, who had been going with great composure, 
hurried his steps a little. 
Mrs. Oliphant, Poor Gentleman, xxxiii. 
2. To impel to violent or thoughtless action ; 
urge to confused or imprudent activity. 
And wild amazement hurries up and down 
The little number of your doubtful friends. 
Shah., K. John, v. 1. 
Would they, wise Clarion, were not hurried more 
With covetise and rage. B. Jonson, Sad Shepherd, L 2. 
3. To draw, as a corf or wagon, in a coal-mine. 
[Great Britain.] =Syn. 1. Hasten, Hurry (see hasten, 
T. i'.); precipitate. 2. To flurry. 
II. intrans. 1. To move or act with haste. 
Ere yet It [the storm] came, the trav'ller urg'd his steed, 
And hurried, but with unsuccessful speed. 
Cowper, Truth, 1. 245. 
Hope bids them hurry, fear's chain makes them slow. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, II. 8. 
2. To move or act with undue haste or with 
precipitation. 
Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she 
achieves her work. Emerson, Farming. 
= Syn. Hasten, Hurry. See hasten, v. i 
hurry (hur'i), n.; -pi. hurries (-iz). [< hurry, 
r.] 1. The act of hurrying, (o) The act of mak- 
ing haste; rapid movement or action ; also, urgency; bus- 
tle; haste. 
This place is full of charge, and full of hurry; 
No part of sweetness dwells about these cities. 
Fletcher, Eule a Wife, v. 3. 
This way of life is recommended ... in such a manner 
as disposes the reader for the time to a pleasing forget- 
fulness, or negligence of the particular liurru of life in 
which he is engaged. Steele, Spectator, No. 264. 
It was curious to see the footmen picking up stones in 
a great hurry to throw with their slings, which they have 
always tyed about their waists. 
Pococke, Description of the East, II. i. 145. 
(i>) Excessive haste ; precipitation ; hence, agitation ; con- 
fusion. 
The present peace 
And quietness o' the people, which before 
Were in wild hurry. Shak., Cor., iv. 6. 
Ambition raises a tumult in the soul, it inflames the 
mind, and puts it into a violent hurry of thought 
Addteon. 
The hurry of spirits, occasioned by too many visitors, 
rendered her feverish. Hone's Every-day Book, II. 181. 
2. A timber staging with spouts running from 
it, used in loading vessels with coal. [Great 
Britain.] 3. In dram, music, a tremolando 
passage for violins or tympani in connection 
with an exciting situation. [Colloq.] 
The wrongful heir comes in to two bars of quick music 
(technically called a hurry), and goes on in the most 
shocking manner. Dickens, Sketches (Greenwich Fair). 
= Syn. 1. Haste (see hasten, v.i.), flurry, nutter. 
