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T. Roosvelt.

2. To put or carry on the (humped) back; to shoulder; hence, to carry, in general. [Slang, Australia]

Having collected a sufficient quantity, we humped it out of the bush.

C. L. Money.

3. To bend or gather together for strenuous effort, as in running; to do or effect by such effort; to exert; -- usually reflexively or with it; as, you must hump yourself. [Slang, U. S.]

A half dozen other negroes, some limping and all scared, were humping it across a meadow.

McClure's Mag.

Hump"backed` salm"on. A small salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) which ascends the rivers of the Pacific coast from California to Alaska, and also on the Asiatic side. In the breeding season the male has a large dorsal hump and distorted jaws.

Hum"strum` (?), n. An instrument out of tune or rudely constructed; music badly played.

Hunch, n. A strong, intuitive impression that something will happen; -- said to be from the gambler's superstition that it brings luck to touch the hump of a hunchback. [Colloq. or Slang]

Hun"kers (?), n. pl. [See Hunker.] In the phrase on one's hunkers, in a squatting or crouching position. [Scot. & Local, U. S.]

Sit on your hunkers -- and pray for the bridge.

Kipling.

Hunk"y (?), a. [Perh. fr. Hunk.] All right; in a good condition; also, even; square. [Slang, U. S.]

He . . . began to shoot; began to get "hunky" with all those people who had been plugging at him.

Stephen Crane.

Hunt, v. i. 1. (Mach.) To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, or the like; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.

2. (Change Ringing) To shift up and down in order regularly.

Hunt, v. t. (Change Ringing) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.

Hus"ky (?), a. Powerful; strong; burly. [Colloq., U. S.]

A good, husky man to pitch in the barnyard.

Hamlin Garland.

Hus"ky (?), n.; pl. - kies (#). [Cf. Eskimo.] 1. An Eskimo; also, an Eskimo dog.

2. The Eskimo language.

Hut"ton*ing (?), n. [So named after two English bonesetters, Richard and Robert Hutton, who made it a part of their method.] (Med.) Forcible manipulation of a dislocated, stiff, or painful joint.

Hy"brid (?), n. (Philol.) A word composed of elements which belong to different languages.

Hy"brid*ize (?), v. i. (Biol.) To produce hybrid offspring; to interbreed; to cross.

Hy"dro (?), n. A hydro- aëroplane.