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Hilt"ed, a. Having a hilt; -- used in composition; as, basket-hilted, cross- hilted.

Hi"lum (?), n. [L., a little thing, trifle.] 1. (Bot.) The eye of a bean or other seed; the mark or scar at the point of attachment of an ovule or seed to its base or support; -- called also hile.

2. (Anat.) The part of a gland, or similar organ, where the blood vessels and nerves enter; the hilus; as, the hilum of the kidney.

||Hi"lus (?), n. [NL.] (Anat.) Same as Hilum, 2.

Him (?), pron. Them. See Hem. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Him, pron. [AS. him, dat. of h. √183. See He.] The objective case of he. See He.

Him that is weak in the faith receive.

Rom. xiv. 1.

Friends who have given him the most sympathy.

Thackeray.

In old English his and him were respectively the genitive and dative forms of it as well as of he. This use is now obsolete. Poetically, him is sometimes used with the reflexive sense of himself.

I never saw but Humphrey, duke of Gloster, Did bear him like a noble gentleman.

Shak.

Hi*ma"la*yan (?), a. [Skr. himlaya, prop., the abode of snow.] Of or pertaining to the Himalayas, the great mountain chain in Hindostan.

Himp"ne (?), n. A hymn. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Him*self" (?), pron. 1. An emphasized form of the third person masculine pronoun; -- used as a subject usually with he; as, he himself will bear the blame; used alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, it is himself who saved himself.

But he himself returned from the quarries.

Judges iii. 19.

David hid himself in the field.

1 Sam. xx. 24.

The Lord himself shall give you a sign.

Is. vii. 14.

Who gave himself for us, that he might . . . purify unto himself a peculiar people.

Titus ii. 14.

With shame remembers, while himself was one Of the same herd, himself the same had done.

Denham.

Himself was formerly used instead of itself. See Note under Him.

It comprehendeth in himself all good.