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History piece, a representation in painting, drawing, etc., of any real event, including the actors and the action. -- Natural history, a description and classification of objects in nature, as minerals, plants, animals, etc., and the phenomena which they exhibit to the senses.

Syn. -- Chronicle; annals; relation; narration. -- History, Chronicle, Annals. History is a methodical record of important events which concern a community of men, usually so arranged as to show the connection of causes and effects, to give an analysis of motive and action etc. A chronicle is a record of such events, conforming to the order of time as its distinctive feature. Annals are a chronicle divided up into separate years. By poetic license annals is sometimes used for history.

Justly CÊsar scorns the poet's lays; It is to history he trusts for praise.

Pope.

No more yet of this; For 't is a chronicle of day by day, Not a relation for a breakfast.

Shak.

Many glorious examples in the annals of our religion.

Rogers.

His"to*ry, v. t. To narrate or record. [Obs.] Shak.

His*tot"o*my (?), n. [Gr. &?; tissue + &?; to cut.] The dissection of organic tissues.

His"to*zyme (?), n. [Gr. &?; tissue + &?; leaven.] (Physiol. Chem.) A soluble ferment occurring in the animal body, to the presence of which many normal decompositions and synthetical processes are supposed to be due.

His"tri*on (?), n. [L. histrio: cf. F. histrion.] A player. [R.] Pope.

{ His`tri*on"ic (?), His`tri*on"ic*al (?) }, a. [L. histrionicus: cf. F. histrionique. See Histrion.] Of or relating to the stage or a stageplayer; befitting a theatre; theatrical; -- sometimes in a bad sense. -- His`tri*on"ic*al*ly, adv.

Tainted with false and histrionic feeling.

De Quincey.

His`tri*on"i*cism (?), n. The histrionic art; stageplaying. W. Black.

His"tri*o*nism (?), n. Theatrical representation; acting; affectation. Sir T. Browne.

His"tri*o*nize (?), v. t. To act; to represent on the stage, or theatrically. Urquhart.

Hit (?), pron. It. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Hit, 3d pers. sing. pres. of Hide, contracted from hideth. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Hit (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hit; p. pr. & vb. n. Hitting.] [OE. hitten, hutten, of Scand. origin; cf. Dan. hitte to hit, find, Sw. & Icel. hitta.] 1. To reach with a stroke or blow; to strike or touch, usually with force; especially, to reach or touch (an object aimed at).

I think you have hit the mark.

Shak.

2. To reach or attain exactly; to meet according to the occasion; to perform successfully; to attain to; to accord with; to be conformable to; to suit.

Birds learning tunes, and their endeavors to hit the notes right.

Locke.

There you hit him; . . . that argument never fails with him.

Dryden.