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Hir"er (?), n. One who hires.

Hires (?), Hirs, pron. Hers; theirs. See Here, pron. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Hir*sute" (?), a. [L. hirsutus; prob. akin to horridus horrid. Cf. Horrid.] 1. Rough with hair; set with bristles; shaggy.

2. Rough and coarse; boorish. [R.]

Cynical and hirsute in his behavior.

Life of A. Wood.

3. (Bot.) Pubescent with coarse or stiff hairs. Gray.

4. (Zoˆl.) Covered with hairlike feathers, as the feet of certain birds.

Hir*sute"ness, n. Hairiness. Burton.

Hir*tel"lous (?), a. [Dim., fr. L. hirtus hairy.] (Bot. & Zoˆl.) Pubescent with minute and somewhat rigid hairs.

Hi*ru"dine (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Of or pertaining to the leeches.

||Hir`u*din"e*a (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. hirudo, hirudinis, a leech.] ||(Zoˆl.) An order of Annelida, including the leeches; -- called also ||Hirudinei.

||Hi*ru"do (?), n. [L., a leech.] (Zoˆl.) A genus of leeches, including ||the common medicinal leech. See Leech.

Hi*run"dine (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Like or pertaining to the swallows.

||Hi*run"do (?), n. [L., swallow.] (Zoˆl.) A genus of birds including ||the swallows and martins.

His (?), pron. [AS. his of him, his, gen. masc. & neut. of h&?;, neut. hit. See He.] 1. Belonging or pertaining to him; -- used as a pronominal adjective or adjective pronoun; as, tell John his papers are ready; formerly used also for its, but this use is now obsolete.

No comfortable star did lend his light.

Shak.

Who can impress the forest, bid the tree Unfix his earth-bound root?

Shak.

Also formerly used in connection with a noun simply as a sign of the possessive. "The king his son." Shak. "By young Telemachus his blooming years." Pope. This his is probably a corruption of the old possessive ending - is or -es, which, being written as a separate word, was at length confounded with the pronoun his.

2. The possessive of he; as, the book is his. "The sea is his, and he made it." Ps. xcv. 5.

His"ing*er*ite (?), n. [Named after W. Hisinger, a Swedish mineralogist.] (Min.) A soft black, iron ore, nearly earthy, a hydrous silicate of iron.

His*pan"ic (?), a. [L. Hispanicus.] Of or pertaining to Spain or its language; as, Hispanic words.

His*pan"i*cism, n. A Spanish idiom or mode of speech. Keightley.

His*pan"i*cize (?), v. t. To give a Spanish form or character to; as, to Hispanicize Latin words.

His"pid (?), a. [L. hispidus: cf. F. hispide.]

1. Rough with bristles or minute spines.