for protection in a safe place. Cf. Hide to conceal.] To press together promiscuously, from confusion,
apprehension, or the like; to crowd together confusedly; to press or hurry in disorder; to crowd.
The cattle huddled on the lea.
Tennyson.
Huddling together on the public square . . . like a herd of panic-struck deer.
Prescott. Huddle
(Hud"dle), v. t.
1. To crowd (things) together to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system.
Our adversary, huddling several suppositions together, . . . makes a medley and confusion.
Locke. 2. To do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly; — usually with a following preposition
or adverb; as, to huddle on; to huddle up; to huddle together. "Huddle up a peace." J. H. Newman.
Let him forescat his work with timely care,
Which else is huddled when the skies are fair.
Dryden.
Now, in all haste, they huddle on
Their hoods, their cloaks, and get them gone.
Swift. Huddle
(Hud"dle), n. A crowd; a number of persons or things crowded together in a confused manner; tumult; confusion.
"A huddle of ideas." Addison.
Huddler
(Hud"dler) n. One who huddles things together.
Hudge
(Hudge) n. (Mining) An iron bucket for hoisting coal or ore. Raymond.
Hudibrastic
(Hu`di*bras"tic) a. Similar to, or in the style of, the poem "Hudibras," by Samuel Butler; in the
style of doggerel verse. Macaulay.
Hudsonian
(Hud*so"ni*an) a. Of or pertaining to Hudson's Bay or to the Hudson River; as, the Hudsonian
curlew.
Hue
(Hue) n. [OE. hew, heow, color, shape, form, AS. hiw, heow; akin to Sw. hy skin, complexion,
Goth. hiwi form, appearance.]
1. Color or shade of color; tint; dye. "Flowers of all hue." Milton.
Hues of the rich unfolding morn.
Keble. 2. (Painting) A predominant shade in a composition of primary colors; a primary color modified by combination
with others.
Hue
(Hue), n. [OE. hue, huer, to hoot, shout, prob. fr. OF. hu an exclamation.] A shouting or vociferation.
Hue and cry (Law), a loud outcry with which felons were anciently pursued, and which all who heard
it were obliged to take up, joining in the pursuit till the malefactor was taken; in later usage, a written
proclamation issued on the escape of a felon from prison, requiring all persons to aid in retaking him.
Burrill.
Hued
(Hued) a. Having color; — usually in composition; as, bright-hued; many- hued. Chaucer.
Hueless
(Hue"less) a. [AS. hiwleás. See Hue color.] Destitute of color. Hudibras.
Huer
(Hu"er) n. One who cries out or gives an alarm; specifically, a balker; a conder. See Balker.
