hussif 
hussy 2 , which has on the other hand attracted 
hussif 1 into the form hussy 1 : see hussy 2 , hussy 1 .} 
Same as hussy 2 . 
Hussite (hus'it), M. [< late ML. Hussitce, 
The name Huss, or more prop. Hus, is 
abbr., adopted by Huss himself (about 1396), 
of his full name (Johann) Hussinetz (so called 
Hustings court, in Richmond and other cities of Virginia, 
acourt Saving a criminal jurisdiction nearly exclusive as 
to offenses committed within the city limits, and a juris- 
Hutcliinsia 
This care hath a huswife all day in her head, 
That all thing in season be hwnnfelu fed. 
Turner, lustructioas to Huswlfery. 
diction in many other cases, civil and criminal, concurrent v_,._j*,.__. T. . . -r / -c 
pi. with the circuit court, bat locally limited. nUSWlleryt,nUSWlfryt(huz wif-n or huz'lf-ri), 
an hustle (hus'l), r. ; pret. and pp. hustled, ppr. " [< "w* 1 + *.] Housewifery. 
hustling. [< D. hutselen, shake, jolt, freq. of 
hutai-n, hotseii, shake, jog, jolt, > ult. E. hatch: 
..-, I/M>C>I, ana*.v, jug, juu, / iuu. i^. HVIUI . 
from his native village Hussinetz).] A follower see hatch.'] 1. trans. To shake or throw toge- 
ij 
of John Huss of Bohemia, the religious IT 
former, who was burned in 1415. The Hussites 
organized themselves immediately afterward into a polit- 
ico-religious party, and waged fierce civil war from 1419 to 
1434, when they were overcome. They were divided In doc- 
trine into radical and conservative sections, called Tabor- 
ites and Calixtinex ; the former finally became merged with 
the Bohemian Brethren, and the latter partly with the Lu- 
therans and partly with the Roman Catholics. 
Of Brownist, Hussite, or of Calvinist, 
Arminiau, Puritan, or Familist. 
Taylor's Motto (1622). (Halliwell.) 
The cardinal [Beaufort] had already forwarded to Chi- 
chele the papal bull under which he was commissioned to 
raise money for the Hussite crusade. 
Stubbs, Const Hist, 334. 
hussy 1 (huz'i), n.; pi. hussies (-iz). [Also writ- 
ten hussey, huzzy, and dial, huzz; a reduced form 
oihusttif 1 , huswife 1 , houseicife 1 : see housewife 1 ,] 
If. The mistress of the house : same as house- 
" Dame, ye mon to the pinch (plow] to morne ; 
I salbe hussy, gif I may. " 
"Husband," quoth scho, "content am I." 
Wuf of Auchtirmuchty (Child's Ballads, VIIL 117X 
2. A pert, wilful woman or girl; a frolicsome 
or mischievous girl ; a quean ; a jade ; a wench : 
used either in reproach or jocosely. 
Now you think me a corrupt Hussey. 
Steele, Conscious Lovers, L 1. 
ther confusedly or in a disorderly manner; 
shove roughly, as by crowding; jostle: as, to 
huKtlc things out of the way; he was hustled off 
the course. 
She saw a blue-jay washing itself, ducking its crest, and 
huttlinj the water with its wings. S. Judd, Margaret, 1. 2. 
And then 
Was hustled by the sullen baffled men 
Who shouldered past him back into the hall. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, II. 852. 
A beggar woman hustled the duchess as she was stand- 
ing astonished because her maid had left her to carry her 
own bag. Froude, Sketches, p. 42. 
When night after night a ministry is hustled and jostled 
in argument ; when its members are unable to hold their 
own in the fiery ordealof House of Commons interrogation, 
. . . their end is not far off. Edinburgh Kev., CLXV. 272. 
II. intrans. 1. To push or crowd; move about 
with difficulty, as in a crowd; shuffle or sham- 
ble hurriedly. 
Leaving the king, who had hustled along the floor with 
his dress wofully ill-arrayed. Scott. 
Every theatre had its footmen's gallery ; an army of the 
liveried race hustled round every chapel-door. Thackeray. 
2. To make haste ; move or act energetically : 
as, come, hustle now. [Colloq., U. S.J 3. To 
shake up the halfpence in the game of pitch 
and hustle. See below. 
Good husu"iferjf trieth 
To rise with the cock; 
111 hutipifery lieth 
Till nine of the clock. 
Tusser, Five Hundred Points. 
By Ceres huswifrie and paine, 
Men learn 'd to burie the reviving graine. 
Bp. Hall, Satires, III. i. 34. 
(hut), n. [< ME. 'hutte, hotte, < OF. hutte, 
hutc. a cot, cottage, F. hutte, a hut, a cottage, 
= MD. hutte, D. hut = Dan. hytte = Sw. hyMa 
(an accom. of the expected *hytta), a hut, < OHG. 
hutta, MHG. hutte, G. hutte, a hut, cottage, bow- 
er; prob. = Goth, as if 'hudja, AS. as if *hydd, 
from the root of AS. hi/dan, ME. hi/den, huden, 
hiden, E. hide 1 , cover, whence also ult. AS. Ms, 
E. house: see hide 1 , house 1 .} 1. A small or hum- 
ble house; a hovel or cabin; a mean lodge or 
dwelling. 
Sore pierced by wintry wind, 
How many shrink into the sordid hut 
Of cheerless poverty ! Thomson, Winter, L 337. 
They built, and thatch'd with leaves of palm, a hut, 
Half hut, half native cavern. Tennyson, Enoch Arden. 
2. Milit., a rude wooden structure for the tem- 
porary housing of troops, as during a winter. 
Some military huts are large enough to house 
a hundred men. 3. The back end or body of 
the breech-pin of a musket. 
The Barrels . . . shall be smoothed in the finished State 
with the Breeches in the percussioned State, lluls filed 
up. W. W. Greener, The Gun, p. 277. 
JTttB5ab24Stt *? "SZS^X&S&te hnt 1 (huO,,.^r^and^.^ P pr.A; ( ^: 
, . 
Sheridan, The Rivals, ii. 2. 
hussy 2 (huz'i), n. ; pi. hussies (-iz). [Also writ- 
ten huzzy; usually regarded as a particular use 
of hussy 1 = huzzy = huswife' 1 = housewife 1 , but 
according to Skeat < Icel. husi, a case (comp. 
skairis-husi, a scissors-case), < hus (= Norw. 
huss), a house, also a case, = AS. hus, a house: 
see house 1 .} Acase for scissors, needles, thread, 
etc. Also housewife, hussif. 
I went towards the pond, the maid following me, and 
dropt purposely my hussu ; and when I came near the 
tiles I said, "Mrs. Anne, I have dropt ray hussy." 
Richardson, Pamela, I. 162. 
hustt. An obsolete past participle of hush. 
hustilmentt, See hustlcment. 
Fitch and hustle, an old game in which the contestants 
pitch halfpence at a mark, to see who can come the near- 
est to It The halfpence are then collected, shaken toge- 
ther, and deposited on the ground, and that player who has 
pitched one of his halfpence nearest the mark takes all 
those which turn head upward. The remaining halfpence 
are again shaker, together and deposited on the ground, 
and the player who pitched a halfpenny next nearest the 
mark takes all that turn head upward. This continues 
until all the halfpence are taken. Strutt. 
hustle-cap (hus'1-kap), n. Same as fitch and 
hustle. See hustle, v. i. 
Squandered what little money they could procure at 
hustle-cap and chuck-farthing. 
Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 175. 
[< hut 1 , n.} f. trans. To place in a hut or in 
huts : as, to hut troops in winter quarters. 
There was a mill near, round which were left several 
pine boards, with which we soon hutted ourselves. 
Franklin, Autobiog., p. 203. 
These tools are a light coolie load, but they will be 
found invaluable for cutting a camping-ground out of the 
side of a hill, and for huttimj both yourself and atten- 
dants. W. W. Greener, The Gun, p. 587. 
II. intrans. To lodge in a hut or in huts. 
hut 2 t (hut), n. [< ME. hutte, var. of 'hotte, a 
heap.] A clod. 
With a shelle or a hutte [tr. L. glcba] adoune hem [lettuces] 
presse, 
And thai wol glade and fate under this presse. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. 8.), p. 50. 
[In 
hustlement (hus'1-ment), . [< ME. hustle- 
merit, hustilment, hostilement, < OF. hustilement, . 
hustmg(hus tmg),n. \_<M.E.husting(>OF.hus- hostilement, hostillement, ostillement, an imple- hutch 1 (huch), n. [< ME. hucche, huche, hoche, 
teng), a council, < late AS. hunting, a council (of ment, pi. furniture, also simply hostil ostil ustil whucche, a box, chest, < OF. huche, F. huche, a 
hutch, bin, a kneading-trough or -tub, amill-hop- 
per, = Sp. OPg. hucha, < ML. hutica, a chest; 
prob. of Teut. origin, perhaps connected ult. 
with OHG. hutta, a hut, shelter : see hut 1 .} 1. 
A chest, box, coffer, bin, or other receptacle in 
which things maybe stored: as, a gr&m-hutch. 
The name was formerly applied specifically to one of the 
chests into which smaller receptacles called forcers, hana- 
pers, etc., were packed ; documents and valuable articles 
were commonly stored in this way. 
That Arke or Bueche, with the Kelikes, Tytus ledde 
with hym to Rome, whan he had scomfyted alle the Jewes. 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 85. 
The best way to keep them, after they are threshed, is 
to dry them well, and keep them in hutches, or close casks. 
Mortimer, Husbandry. 
2. A bakers' kneading-trough. 3. A box or 
trough used in connection with certain ore- 
dressing machines. [Eng.] 4. A low-wheeled 
wagon in which coal is drawn up out of the pit. 
5. As a measure : (a) A measure of two Win- 
chester bushels. 
+ thing, a thing; as a law term, an assembly, ture. 2. Odds and ends. [Prov. Eng ] 
meeting, a general term for any public meeting, both senses usually in the plural.] 
esp. for purposes of legislation; a parliament, hustler (hus'ler), n. One who hustles; specifi- 
includmg courts of law; = AS. and E. thing: C ally, one who is active and energetic in busi- 
eee house 1 &nA thing.} 1 . A public meeting for ness ; a lively worker. [Colloq., U. S.] 
conference; a council; specifically, a court: 
now usually in the plural, hustings, used also as 
singular. Courts so called were formerly held in many 
cities of England, as Great Yarmouth, Lincoln, York, and 
Norwich, and are still held in London, before the mayor, 
A strictly first-class stenographer and type-writer, young 
man, a hustler in every respect, wants a strictly first-class 
position. Publishers' Weekly, Dec. IS, 1886. 
Superintendent B is a hustler, and he is backed by 
an active company. Elect. Rev. (Amer.), XIIL 8. 
recorder, and sheriffs. They formerly had exclusive an- . . . , . , .. , ,. ," 
thority in all real and mixed actions for the recovery of uUSWlie't (huz Wlf or huz if ), n. [< ME. hus- 
Hence hussif 1 , hussy 1 .} 
land within the city, except ejectment, but their juris- 
diction has fallen into comparative desuetude. In Vir- 
ginia, the municipal courts established in cities of over 
5,000 inhabitants were at one time called hustings courts. 
A hustiiig court (for the purpose of a city of London 
school) was held in 1885, and again in 1888. 
Academy (London), June 1, 1889, p. 374. 
[By Henry the First's charter to London] the ancient 
assemblies, husting, folk-motes, ward-motes, are to be 
kept up. E. A. Freeman, Norman Conquest, V. 814. 
Now the idea of representation begins to work in the 
National Council the Sheriff of each Shire is directed to 
send up a certain number of freeholders, or royal tenants, 
to talk with the King. These are chosen by the free votes 
of their fellows at the Shire-moot or Hustings as it was 
called later. A. Buckland, Nat Institutions, p. 11. 
2. pi. (also as singular). A temporary plat- 
form on which nominations of members of Par- 
liament were made, and from which a candidate 
addressed his constituency. Since the passing 
of the Ballot Act of 1872 the use of hustings 
has been discontinued, but the word is still 
see housewife 1 . 
1. A housewife. 
Sith th' onely Spider teacheth every one 
The Husbands and the Huswife* function. 
For, for their food the valiant Male doth roam ; 
The cunning Female tends her work at home. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, t 7. 
The poore husbandmans baken, halfe lost for lacke of 
a good huswives looking too. 
Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 113. 
It was the hour when husioife morn 
With pearl and linen hangs each thorn. 
Churchill, The Ghost. 
Hutch, a measure of 2 Winchester bushels, 
of coal make a cart-load of about 14 cwt. 
Six hutches 
Simiiionds. 
used with reference to any platform from which huswifelf (huz'wif or huz'if), ,.. t. [< huswife 1 , 
?>_.' on ? ermg 8 P eeches are delivered. [Great .] To manage with economy and frugality: 
said of a woman. 
(6) In Renfrewshire, Scotland, two hundred- 
weight of pyrites. 6. The casing of a flour- 
bolt. 7. A box, coop, or pen in which a (small) 
2. A pert, wilful woman or girl; a hussy. See animal is confined : as, a rabbit-7<fc/t. 
hussu 1 . 2. A drunken face . . . flaring out of a heap of rags on the 
floor of a dog-hutch which is her private apartment. 
Dickens, Bleak House, xxiL 
In a hutch near the corner of the house was William's 
pointer. C. Jleade, Never Too Late to Mend, i. 8. 
8. A fisherman's shanty. [Local, U. S.] 
hutch 1 (huch), v. t. [< hutchi, .] 1. To hoard 
or lay up, as in a chest. 
hussy*, 2. 
If she should yeelde at the first assault, he would thinke 
hir a light hunwife. Lyly, Euphues, Anat of Wit, p. 74. 
Why should you dare to imagine me 
So light a husu^fe that, from four hours' knowledge, 
Yon might presume to offer to my credit 
This rude and ruffian trial? 
Beau, and Fl., Coxcomb, iii. 1. 
Britain.] 
I stood on the hustings, . . . less like a candidate than 
an unconcerned spectator of a publick meeting. 
Burke, Speech at Bristol. 
That so, when the rotten hustings shake 
In another month to his brazen lies, 
A wretched vote may be gain'd. Tennyson, Maud, vi. 
He was ... a second-rate hustings orator. 
Disraeli, quoted in Edinburgh Rev., CLXIII. 513. 
And, that no corner might 
Be vacant of her plenty, in her own loins 
She hutch'd the all-worshipp'd ore, and precious gems. 
To store her children with. Hilton, Comus, 1. 719. 
2. In mining, to wash, as ore, in a tub or hutch. 
But hunmfing the little Heaven had lent, 
She duly paid a groat for quarter rent. ... . , 
Dryden, Cock and Fox, 1. 9. hutch 2 (huch), v. t. [A var. of hatch : see hotel,, 
huswife 2 ! (huz'wif or huz'if), n. [See hussif 2 , and cf. hustle.'] To shrug. [Prov. Eng.] 
Ai<s2/ 2 .] Same as housewife*. Hutchinsia (hu-chin'si-a), . [NL., after Miss 
huswifelyt (huz'wif-li or huz'if-li), a. and adv. Hutchins, an Irish cryptbgamist. The surname 
Like a housewife ; housewifely. Hutchins, ME. Huchyns, is a patronymic geni- 
