Hutchinsia 
tive of Suchin, an assibilation of Huckin, a dim. 
of Hugh. The name Huggins is similarly de- 
rived from ME. Hutjtjn, Hugon, < OF. Hugon, 
Hugo, another form of Hugh: see Huguenot.] 
A genus of small perennial and annual crucif- 
erous plants of Europe and Asia, witli pinnate- 
ly divided leaves and small white flowers. They 
are chiefly alpine in habitat. II. petnea, an annual, grows 
on rocks and walls in England and Wales. 
Hutchinsonian (huch-m-so'ui-an), . and a. 
[The surname Hittchinson, ME. Huchynson, 
Hochinson, is a patronymic equiv. to Hutchins, 
1. e. Hutchin's son: see Hutchinsia.] I. n. 1. 
One who held the views of John Hutchinsoii 
(1674-1737), a secular English writer on theol- 
ogy and natural philosophy. He and his followers 
interpreted the Bible mystically, regarded it as an infalli- 
ble source of science and philosophy, opposed the New- 
tonian system, and laid great stress on the importance of 
the Hebrew language. The Hutchinsonian school existed 
till the nineteenth century. 
2. In A mer. hist., a follower of Mrs. Aiine Hutch- 
inson (died 1643), an autiuomiaii teacher, in 
the early years of the colony of Massachusetts 
Bay. 
II. a. Pertaining or relating to John Hutch- 
inson or Anne Hutchinson, or to the doctrines 
of either of them. 
Hutchinsonianism (huch-in-so'ni-an-izm), n. 
[< Hutchinsonian + -ism.] The system of doc- 
trine or thought taught by or derived from 
either John Hutchinson or Anne Hutchinson. 
See Hutchinsonian, n. 
HutcMns's goose. See goose. 
hutet, " A Middle English form of hoot. 
hutment (hut'ment), n. [< hut 1 , v., + -ment.] 
Accommodation'in huts ; housing. [Rare.] 
On foreign stations the only important sanitary works 
appear to be a contribution of 300 towards the drainage 
of Cape Town, . . . and 14,230 for hutment for increased 
garrison at Malta. The Lancet, No. 3422, p. 660. 
huttet, v. A Middle English form of hit 1 . 
Huttonian (hu-to'ni-an), a. In geol., relating to 
the views and theories of James Hutton (1726- 
1797). Button wrote and published voluminously in va- 
rious departments of natural science and metaphysics, but 
when the term Hultonian is used it is generally with ref- 
erence to his work in geology. The most important fea- 
ture of Button's theories was his attempt to explain the for- 
mer changes of the earth's crust by the aid of natural agen- 
cies exclusively. In opposition to Werner, he maintained 
that granite and basalt were rocks which had undergone 
fusion by subterranean heat, and this view and others held 
by him were for some years the subject of violent contro- 
versies. 
hut-urn (hut'ern), n A type of cinerary urn 
of pottery peculiar to the primitive Italic peo- 
ples, and anterior to 
Etruscan or other 
foreign influence. 
The form of the urn is 
that of a circular cabin 
or hut, with a conical 
roof, imitating a rude 
structure in osiers plas- 
tered with clay. These 
urns are found in all the 
sites of archaic Italic civ- 
ilization, as at Vetulonia, 
Civita Castellana, in the 
oldest tombs of Corneto, 
in the ancient necropolis 
of Torre del Mordillo 
nearSybaris, and notably 
in the cemetery of Alba Hut-um. 
Longa, beneath the strata 
of eruptive deposits from the volcanoes of Latium. The 
form persisted in the Roman temples of Vesta, which were 
always circular and with a conical roof, like the primeval 
huts of the race. Sometimes called houne-urn. 
huvettet, [P-, < OF. huvette, haveste, a kind 
of hat used by soldiers : cf. huve, an ornament 
for the head, a woman's head-gear: see liouve.~\ 
Same as humette^. 
hux (huks), v. t. [Origin obscure; perhaps trans- 
posed from "husk, s husk, a certain fish: see 
huslft."] To fish for, as pike, with hooks and 
lines fastened to floating bladders. 
huxter, n. See huckster. 
Huygenian (hl-ge'ni-an), a. Of or pertaining 
to Christian Huygens (often incorrectly written 
Huyghens), a Dutch natural philosopher and 
mathematician (1629-95). Also Huyglienian. 
Huygenian eyepiece. See eyepiece. 
huz (huz), pron. A vulgar pronunciation of its. 
[Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] 
He hasna settled his account . . . wi huz for sax weeks. 
Scott, Antiquary, I. 318. 
What need we care about his subsistence, sae lang as he 
asks nae thing frae huz, ye ken. Scott, Rob Roy, xxiv. 
huzzt, v. i. [Imitative : cf . buzs 1 and hizz, hiss, 
whizz.] To buzz; hum; murmur. 
If the fire then burne in the chimney pale, and keepe 
therewith a huzzing noise, wee find by experience that it 
forsheweth tempest and stormie weather. 
Holland, tr. of Pliny, xviii. 36. 
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But summiin 'till come ater mea mayhap wi' 'is kittle o' 
steam 
Huzzin' an' matizin' the blessed feiilds wi' the Divils oiin 
team. Tennyson, Northern farmer, Old Style. 
huzza, huzzah (hu-za' or-za,'),interj. [<G. hus- 
sa, another form of hurrah : see hurrah.'] Vari- 
ants of hurrah. Sometimes hu::ay. 
You begin to be something too old for us, we are for the 
brisk Huzza's of Seventeen or Eighteen. 
Wycherley, Gentleman Dancing-Master, i. 
"There are woodcocks for supper," says my lord, "Uuz- 
zay !" Thackeray, Henry Esmond, II. vii. 
The company rose twice and manifested their approba- 
tion by nine huzzas. Bancroft, Hist. Const., 1. 120. 
huzza (hu-za' or -za'), v. I. intrans. Same as 
hurrah. 
With that I huzzaed, and took a jump across the table. 
Taller, No. 45. 
II. trans. Same as hurrah. 
He was huzzaed into the court by several thousand of 
weavers and clothiers. Addixon. 
huzzy, n. See hussy 1 . 
hw-. The original form, in early Middle Eng- 
lish and Anglo-Saxon, of the consonant se- 
quence now written *-, For all words so be- 
ginning, see under wh-. 
tiwang (hwang), n. See fung -hwang. 
hy 1 t, a. An obsolete spelling of high. 
hy 2 t, v. An obsolete spelling of hie. 
hy 3 (hi), interj. See hi. 
hyacinet, A corrupt form of hyacinth. 
Deepe empurpled as the Hyacine. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. xii. 54. 
hyacinth (hi'a-sinth), u. [In older 'E. jacinth, 
jacint (see jacinth), < OF. hyacinthe, < ~L.hyacin- 
thus, < Or. iiaiuvBof, the hyacinth (a plant-name 
appar. comprehend- 
ing the blue iris, 
the gladiolus, and 
the larkspur) ; also 
a precious stone of 
blue color (prob. 
not the mod. hya- 
cinth, but perhaps 
the sapphire) ; ori- 
gin obscure ; accord- 
ing to one conjec- 
ture, connected with 
lov ( * Ftov) = L. mo-la, 
violet. Doublet ja- 
cinth, jacint.'] l.An 
ornamental bulbous 
plant of the genus 
Hyacinthus (H. ori- 
ental's), natural or- 
der Liliacete. It is a 
native of the Levant, 
and grows in abundance 
about Aleppo and Bag- 
dad. The root is a tuni- 
cated bulb ; the leaves 
are broad and green ; the 
scape is erect, bearing 
numerous often droop- 
ing bell-shaped flowers 
of almost all colors, and 
both single- and double- 
flowered. The hyacinth 
appears first to have been 
Hyacinth 
(Hyacinlhut erienlalis). 
a. Flower cut longitudinally ; b. 
"ft""" a, riuwer cur longuu'.iinauy ; P. 
cultivated as a garden- fruit cut transversely ; c, seed cut 
flower by the Dutch about longitudinally, showing the embryo. 
the beginning of the six- 
teenth century. It was introduced into England about 
the end of that century, and is now one of the most popu- 
lar of cultivated bullwus plants. [The so-called yellow 
isictmess of the hyacinth is produced by a parasitic bac- 
terium which occurs as yellow slimy masses in the vessels. 
" In the resting bulb the bacteria are confined to the vas- 
cular bundles of the bulb-scales ; at flowering time they 
are found also in the leaves, and not in the vessels only, 
but in the parenchyma also, where they fill the intercellul ar 
spaces, [and] destroy the cells." (De Bary. Coinp. Morph. 
and Biol., p. 482.)] 
The letter'd hyacinths of darksome hue, 
And the sweet violet, a sable blue. 
Fawkes, tr. of Idylls of Theocritus, x. 
Sheets of hyacinth 
That seem'd the heavens upbreaking thro' the earth. 
Tennyson, Guinevere. 
2. By transfer, a plant of some other genus. 
The California hyacinth is a plant of the liliaceous ge- 
nus Brodue; the Cape hyacinth, Scilla corymbosa and S. 
brachyphylla ; the fair-haired hyacinth, Muscaricomoxum; 
the grape-hyacinth, or globe-hyacinth. Muscari botryoidex : 
the lily-hyacinth, Scilla Lilio-Hyacinthus ; the Missouri 
hyacinth, a plant of either of the genera Hexperanthiix 
and Brodice; the hyacinth of Peru, Scilla Perumana; the 
star-hyacinth, Scilla amcena; the starch-hyacinth, Mus- 
cari racemosum; the tassel-hyacinth, Muscari comosumj 
the wild hyacinth, Camassia (Scilla) Fraseri. 
3. (a) Among the ancients, a gem of bluish- 
violet color, supposed to be the sapphire. (6) In 
modern usage, a gem of a reddish-orange color 
which is a variety of the mineral zircon. Some 
Hyaenidae 
varieties of garnet and topaz also receive this 
name. 
Dishes of agat set in gold, and studded 
With emeralds, sapphires, hyacinth*, and rubies. 
/;. Juitmii, Alchemist, ii. 1. 
4. In her., the tincture tenney or tawny when 
blazoning is done by colors of precious stones. 
See blazon. 5. In ornith., a purple gallinule, 
as of the genus lonornis or Pornhyrio; a sultan. 
Hyacinth beans. See Egyptian beans, under fconi. 
hyacinthian (hi-a-siu'thi-au), a. Same as hya- 
ciiitltiite. 
hyacinthine (hi-a-sin'thin), a. [< L. hyacin- 
thinus, < Gr. vaKivdivos, hyacinthine, < v6iuv6of, 
hyacinth : see hyacinth."] 1 . Made or consisting 
of hyacinth; resembling hyacinth in color or 
odor. 
Hyacinthine locks 
Round from his parted forelock manly hung 
Clustering. Milton, P. L., iv. 301. 
Her lips more fragrant than the summer air; 
And sweet as Scythian musk her hyacinthine hah-. 
Sir W. Jones, Palace of Fortune. 
They [Manhattan Island garnets] do not . . . possess 
the hyacinthine hue of the Alaskan examples, and are less 
translucent. Sci. Amer., N. S., LVIII. 311. 
2. Very beautiful or attractive : in allusion to 
Hyacinthus, a youth fabled to have been loved 
by Apollo. 
The hyacinthine boy, for whom 
Morn well might break and April bloom. 
Etnerfton, Threnody. 
Hyacinthus (hl-a-sin'thus), n. [NL., < L. hy- 
acinthus : see hyacinth.] A genus of liliaceous 
bulbous plants, including about 30 species, na- 
tives of central Europe, Asia, and Africa. It is 
characterized by having the perianth infundibulifonn- 
campanulate, not constricted at the throat, the lobes 
shorter, or rarely longer, than the tube, and the stamens 
fixed in the tube or throat, with slender filaments dilated 
at the base. //. orientally has been long celebrated for 
the endless varieties which culture has produced from it. 
H. ftomanus (the Roman hyacinth), a small white-blos- 
somed species, is often grown as an early spring flower ; 
there is also a pale-blue Roman hyacinth. 11. amethysti- 
nus is the amethyst or Spanish hyacinth, and H. candi- 
cans the white Cape hyacinth. See cut under hyacinth. 
Hyades (hi'a-dez), n. pi. [L., < Gr. Tddtf (sing. 
'Tdf not used), prpb. < if (cf. LGr. avaf, a sow) = 
L. sus, a pig, swine, like the equiv. L. suculce, 
the Hyades, lit. 'piglings,' < sus, a pig: see Sus, 
sow 2 , and swine. But the ancient derivation 
was < Gr. vciv, rain, whence Virgil calls them 
Pluvite, 'rainy' (see pluvious). See also the 
def.] 1. In astron., a group of about seven 
stars, of which the principal is Aldebaran, in 
the head of the Bull, supposed by the ancients 
to indicate the approach of rainy weather when 
they rose with the sun. In Greek mythology the 
Hyades were originally nymphs who nursed the infant 
Bacchus, and were transformed into stars in compassion 
for then- incessant weeping for the fate of their brother, 
who was torn to pieces by a wild beast. Also Hyads. 
Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyade* 
Vext the dim sea, Tennyton, Ulysses. 
2. [Used as a singular.] In eutoin., a genus of 
lepidopterous insects. Boisduval. 
Hyads (hi'adz), n.pl. Same as Hyades, 1. 
Then sailors quarter'd heaven, and found a name 
For every flx'd and every wandering star ; 
The Pleiads, Uyads, and the Northern Car. 
Dryden, tr. of Virgil's Georgics, i. 207. 
Hyaena (hi-e'na), . [NL., < L. hy&xa, hyena: 
see hyena.] 1. (o) The typical genus of the 
family Hycenidw. There are two living species of the 
genus in its restricted use : the common striped hyena, //. 
striata, and the brown hyena, H. brunnea. The spotted 
hyena is H. crocnta, or Crocuta maculata. The genus is 
now confined to the warmer parts of the old world, but 
the cave-hyena, H. spelaius, formerly inhabited much of 
Europe, its remains being now found in caverns in Ger- 
many, France, and England. See cut under hyena. (6) 
[I. c.] The Linnean specific name of Cams hy- 
tena, equivalent to the modern family Hyamidoe. 
2. In ichth., a genus of fishes. Oken, 1816. 
3. [/. c.] See hi/ena. 
Hyaenarctidse (hi-e-nark'ti-de), . pi. [NL., 
< Hyimarctos + -Ida;.] A family of fossil arc- 
toid mammals, the type of which is the genus 
Hymiarctos. 
Hyaenarctos (hi-e-nark'tos), n. [NL., < Gr. 
i'mva, hyena, + apKrof, a bear: see arctic.] A 
genus of fossil bear-like carnivorous mammals 
from the Miocene and Pliocene, referred to the 
Ursidce, or made the type of a family Hymiarc- 
tl(l(e. The genus, established by Cautley and Falconer, 
is equivalent to AifriotheriVHi of Wagner, Sivalarctos ana 
Amphiarctog of De Blainville, and Hemicyon of Lartet. 
Fossil remains referred to this genus have been named H. 
hemicyon and //. insiynis. 
hyaenic, a. See hyenic. 
Hyaenidas (hl-en'i-de), . pi. [NL., < Hymia + 
-irfa-.] A family of Ferca fissipedia, belonging 
