Hudibrastic, hū-di-bras′tik, adj. similar in style to Hudibras, a metrical burlesque on the Puritans by Samuel Butler (1612-80): doggerel.
Hue, hū, n. appearance: colour: tint: dye.—-adjs. Hued, having a hue; Hue′less. [A.S. hiw, heow; Sw. hy, complexion.]
Hue, hū, n. a shouting.—Hue and cry, a loud clamour about something: name of a police gazette, established in 1710. [Fr. huer, imit.]
Huff, huf, n. sudden anger or arrogance: a fit of disappointment or anger: a boaster.—v.t. to swell: to bully: to remove a 'man' from the board for not capturing pieces open to him, as in draughts.—v.i. to swell: to bluster.—adjs. Huff′ish, Huff′y, given to huff: insolent: arrogant.—adv. Huff′ishly.—ns. Huff′ishness, Huff′iness. [Imit., like puff; cf. Ger. hauchen, to breathe.]
Hug, hug, v.t. to embrace closely and fondly: to cherish: to congratulate (one's self): (naut.) to keep close to.—v.i. to crowd together:—pr.p. hug′ging; pa.p. hugged.—n. a close and fond embrace: a particular grip in wrestling.—Hug one's self, to congratulate one's self. [Scand., Ice. húka, to sit on one's hams. See Huckster.]
Huge, hūj, adj. having great dimensions, especially height: enormous: monstrous: (B.) large in number.—adv. Huge′ly.—n. Huge′ness. [M. E. huge; formed by dropping a from O. Fr. ahuge, of Teut. origin, cog. with Ger. hoch.]
Hugger-mugger, hug′ėr-mug′ėr, n. secrecy: confusion. [Perh. a rhyming extension of hug.]
Huguenot, hū′ge-not, or -nō, n. the name formerly given in France to an adherent of the Reformation. [Prob. a dim. of the personal name Hugo, Hugon, Hugues, Hugh, name of some French Calvinist, later a general nickname. Not the Swiss eidguenot, Ger. eidgenossen, confederates.]
Huia-bird, hwē′ä-bėrd, n. a New Zealand starling.
Hulk, hulk, n. the body of a ship: an old ship unfit for service: a big lubberly fellow: anything unwieldy—often confounded in meaning with hull, the body of a ship:—pl. The hulks, old ships formerly used as prisons.—adjs. Hulk′ing, Hulk′y, clumsy. [Low L. hulka—Gr. holkas—helkein, to draw.]