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  • English Word Hustings Definition Any one of the temporary courts held for the election of members of the British Parliament.
  • English Word Hustings Definition The platform on which candidates for Parliament formerly stood in addressing the electors.
  • English Word Hustle Definition To shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly; as, to hustle a person out of a room.
  • English Word Hustle Definition To push or crows; to force one's way; to move hustily and with confusion; a hurry.
  • English Word Hustled Definition of Hustle
  • English Word Hustling Definition of Hustle
  • English Word Huswife Definition A female housekeeper; a woman who manages domestic affairs; a thirfty woman.
  • English Word Huswife Definition A worthless woman; a hussy.
  • English Word Huswife Definition A case for sewing materials. See Housewife.
  • English Word Huswife Definition To manage with frugality; -- said of a woman.
  • English Word Huswifely Definition Like a huswife; capable; economical; prudent.
  • English Word Huswifely Definition In a huswifely manner.
  • English Word Huswifery Definition The business of a housewife; female domestic economy and skill.
  • English Word Hut Definition A small house, hivel, or cabin; a mean lodge or dwelling; a slightly built or temporary structure.
  • English Word Hutch Definition To place in huts; to live in huts; as, to hut troops in winter quarters.
  • English Word Hutch Definition A chest, box, coffer, bin, coop, or the like, in which things may be stored, or animals kept; as, a grain hutch; a rabbit hutch.
  • English Word Hutch Definition A measure of two Winchester bushels.
  • English Word Hutch Definition The case of a flour bolt.
  • English Word Hutch Definition A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.
  • English Word Hutch Definition A jig for washing ore.
  • English Word Hutch Definition To hoard or lay up, in a chest.
  • English Word Hutch Definition To wash (ore) in a box or jig.
  • English Word Hutched Definition of Hutch
  • English Word Hutching Definition of Hutch
  • English Word Hutchunsonian Definition A follower of John Hutchinson of Yorkshire, England, who believed that the Hebrew Scriptures contained a complete system of natural science and of theology.
  • English Word Hutted Definition of Hutch
  • English Word Hutting Definition of Hutch
  • English Word Huttonian Definition Relating to what is now called the Plutonic theory of the earth, first advanced by Dr. James Hutton.
  • English Word Huxter Definition See Huckster.
  • English Word Huyghenian Definition Pertaining to, or invented by, Christian Huyghens, a Dutch astronomer of the seventeenth century; as, the Huyghenian telescope.