Hug
(Hug), n. A close embrace or clasping with the arms, as in affection or in wrestling. Fuller.
Huge
(Huge) a. [Compar. Huger ; superl. Hugest ] [OE. huge, hoge, OF. ahuge, ahoge.] Very
large; enormous; immense; excessive; — used esp. of material bulk, but often of qualities, extent, etc.; as,
a huge ox; a huge space; a huge difference. "The huge confusion." Chapman. "A huge filly." Jer.
Taylor. — Huge"ly, adv. — Huge"ness, n.
Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea.
Shak. Syn. — Enormous; gigantic; colossal; immense; prodigious; vast.
Hugger
(Hug"ger) n. One who hugs or embraces.
Hugger
(Hug"ger), v. t. & i. To conceal; to lurk ambush. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
Hugger-mugger
(Hug"ger-mug`ger) n. [Scot. huggrie-muggrie; Prov. E. hugger to lie in ambush, mug
mist, muggard sullen.] Privacy; secrecy. Commonly in the phrase in hugger-mugger, with haste and
secrecy. [Archaic]
Many things have been done in hugger- mugger.
Fuller. Hugger-mugger
(Hug"ger-mug`ger), a.
1. Secret; clandestine; sly.
2. Confused; disorderly; slovenly; mean; as, hugger-mugger doings.
Huggle
(Hug"gle) v. t. [Freq. of hug.] To hug. [Obs.]
Huguenot
(Hu"gue*not) n. [F., properly a dim. of Hugues. The name is probably derived from the Christian
name (Huguenot) of some person conspicuous as a reformer.] (Eccl. Hist.) A French Protestant of the
period of the religious wars in France in the 16th century.
Huguenotism
(Hu"gue*not*ism) n. [Cf. F. huguenotisme.] The religion of the Huguenots in France.
Hugy
(Hu"gy) a. Vast. [Obs.] Dryden.
Huia bird
(Hu"ia bird`) [Native name; — so called from its cry.] (Zoöl.) A New Zealand starling (Heteralocha
acutirostris), remarkable for the great difference in the form and length of the bill in the two sexes,
that of the male being sharp and straight, that of the female much longer and strongly curved.
Huisher
(Hui"sher) n. [Obs.] See Usher. B. Jonson.
Huisher
(Hui"sher), v. t. To usher. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.
