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<hw>Haugh"ti*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[For <ets>hauteinness</ets>. See <er>Haughty</er>.]</ety> <def>The quality of being haughty; disdain; arrogance.</def>

<syn>Syn. -- Arrogance; disdain; contemptuousness; superciliousness; loftiness.</syn> <usage> -- <er>Haughtiness</er>, <er>Arrogance</er>, <er>Disdain</er>. <i>Haughtiness</i> denotes the expression of conscious and proud superiority; <i>arrogance</i> is a disposition to claim for one's self more than is justly due, and enforce it to the utmost; <i>disdain</i> in the exact reverse of condescension toward inferiors, since it expresses and desires others to feel how far below ourselves we consider them. A person is <i>haughty</i> in disposition and demeanor; <i>arrogant</i> in his claims of homage and deference; <i>disdainful</i> even in accepting the deference which his <i>haughtiness</i> leads him <i>arrogantly</i> to exact.</usage>

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<hw>Haugh"ty</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>Compar.</tt> <er>Haughtier</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>superl.</tt> <er>Haughtiest</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>hautein</ets>, F. <ets>hautain</ets>, fr. <ets>haut</ets> high, OF. also <ets>halt</ets>, fr. L. <ets>altus</ets>. See <er>Altitude</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>High; lofty; bold.</def> <mark>[Obs. or Archaic]</mark>

<blockquote>To measure the most <b>haughty</b> mountain's height. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Equal unto this <b>haughty</b> enterprise. <i>Spenser</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Disdainfully or contemptuously proud; arrogant; overbearing.</def>

<blockquote>A woman of a <b>haughty</b> and imperious nature. <i>Clarendon.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Indicating haughtiness; <as>as, a <ex>haughty</ex> carriage</as></def>.

<blockquote>Satan, with vast and <b>haughty</b> strides advanced, Came towering. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Haul</h1> <Xpage=674>

<hw>Haul</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Hauled</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Hauling</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>halen</ets>, <ets>halien</ets>, F. <?/aler, of German or Scand. origin; akin to AS. <ets>geholian</ets> to acquire, get, D. <ets>halen</ets> to fetch, pull, draw, OHG. <ets>hol<?/n</ets>, <ets>hal<?/n</ets>, G. <ets>holen</ets>, Dan. <ets>hale</ets> to haul, Sw. <ets>hala</ets>, and to L. <ets>calare</ets> to call, summon, Gr. <?/ to call. Cf. <er>Hale</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>, <er>Claim</er>. <er>Class</er>, <er>Council</er>, <er>Ecclesiastic</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To pull or draw with force; to drag.</def>

<blockquote>Some dance, some <b>haul</b> the rope. <i>Denham.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Thither they bent, and <b>hauled</b> their ships to land. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Romp-loving miss Is <b>hauled</b> about in gallantry robust. <i>Thomson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen; <as>as, to <ex>haul</ex> logs to a sawmill</as>.</def>

<blockquote>When I was seven or eight years of age, I began <b>hauling</b> all the wood used in the house and shops. <i>U. S. Grant.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To haul over the coals</col>. <cd>See under <er>Coal</er>.</cd> -- <col>To haul the wind</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>to turn the head of the ship nearer to the point from which the wind blows.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Haul</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>To change the direction of a ship by hauling the wind. See under <er>Haul</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt></def>

<blockquote>I . . . <b>hauled</b> up for it, and found it to be an island. <i>Cook.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.</def>

<cs><col>To haul around</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>to shift to any point of the compass; -- said of the wind.</cd> -- <col>To haul off</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>to sail closer to the wind, in order to get farther away from anything; hence, to withdraw; to draw back.</cd></cs><-- haul off (b), to get ready (usu. for violent action) -- used with "and" -- "hauled off and punched him on the nose" -->

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<hw>Haul</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A pulling with force; a violent pull.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A single draught of a net; <as>as, to catch a hundred fish at a <ex>haul</ex></as>.</def>