Part 5096

<h1>Hamite</h1> <Xpage=666>

<hw>Ha"mite</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt><ety>[L. <ets>hamus</ets> hook.]</ety> <fld>(Paleon.)</fld> <def>A fossil cephalopod of the genus <spn>Hamites</spn>, related to the ammonites, but having the last whorl bent into a hooklike form.</def>

<h1>Hamite</h1> <Xpage=666>

<hw>Ham"ite</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A descendant of Ham, Noah's second son. See Gen. x. 6-20.</def>

<h1>Haitic</h1> <Xpage=666>

<hw>Ha*it"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Pertaining to Ham or his descendants.</def>

<cs><col>Hamitic languages</col>, <cd>the group of languages spoken mainly in the Sahara, Egypt, Galla, and Som&acir;li Land, and supposed to be allied to the Semitic.</cd></cs>

<i>Keith Johnson.</i>

<h1>Hamlet</h1> <Xpage=666>

<hw>Ham"let</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OWE. <ets>hamelet</ets>, OF. <ets>hamelet</ets>, dim. of <ets>hamel</ets>, F. <ets>hameau</ets>, LL. <ets>hamellum</ets>, a dim. of German origin; cf. G. <ets>heim</ets> home. &root;220. See <er>Home</er>.]</ety> <def>A small village; a little cluster of houses in the country.</def>

<blockquote>The country wasted, and the <b>hamlets</b> burned. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Village; neighborhood. See <er>Village</er>.</syn>

<h1>Hamleted</h1> <Xpage=666>

<hw>Ham"let*ed</hw>, <tt>p. a.</tt> <def>Confined to a hamlet.</def>

<i>Feltham.</i>

<h1>Hammer</h1> <Xpage=666>

<hw>Ham"mer</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>hamer</ets>, AS. <ets>hamer</ets>, <ets>hamor</ets>; akin to D. <ets>hamer</ets>, G. & Dan. <ets>hammer</ets>, Sw. <ets>hammare</ets>, Icel. <ets>hamarr</ets>, hammer, crag, and perh. to Gr. <?/ anvil, Skr. <ets>a<?/man</ets> stone.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle.</def>

<blockquote>With busy <b>hammers</b> closing rivets up. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Something which in firm or action resembles the common hammer</def>; as: <sd>(a)</sd> <def>That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour</def>. <sd>(b)</sd> <def>The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones</def>. <sd>(c)</sd> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>The malleus</def>. See under <er>Ear</er>. <fld>(Gun.)</fld> <def>That part of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, or firing pin; the cock; formerly, however, a piece of steel covering the pan of a flintlock musket and struck by the flint of the cock to ignite the priming</def>. <sd>(e)</sd> <def>Also, a person of thing that smites or shatters; <as>as, St. Augustine was the <ex>hammer</ex> of heresies.</as></def>

<blockquote>He met the stern legionaries [of Rome] who had been the "massive iron <b>hammers</b>" of the whole earth. <i>J. H. Newman.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Atmospheric hammer</col>, <cd>a dead-stroke hammer in which the spring is formed by confined air.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Drop hammer</col>, <col>Face hammer</col></mcol>, <cd>etc. See under <er>Drop</er>, <er>Face</er>, etc.</cd> -- <col>Hammer fish</col>. <cd>See <er>Hammerhead</er>.</cd> -- <col>Hammer hardening</col>, <cd>the process of hardening metal by hammering it when cold.</cd> -- <col>Hammer shell</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>any species of <spn>Malleus</spn>, a genus of marine bivalve shells, allied to the pearl oysters, having the wings narrow and elongated, so as to give them a hammer-shaped outline; -- called also <altname>hammer oyster</altname>.</cd> -- <col>To bring to the hammer</col>, <cd>to put up at auction.</cd></cs>

<h1>Hammer</h1> <Xpage=666>

<hw>Ham"mer</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Hammered</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Hammering</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; <as>as, to <ex>hammer</ex> iron</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.</def> "<i>Hammered</i> money."

<i>Dryden.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; -- usually with <i>out</i>.</def>

<blockquote>Who was <b>hammering</b> out a penny dialogue. <i>Jeffry.</i></blockquote>

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