Part 5427

<hw>Hug</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To press closely within the arms; to clasp to the bosom; to embrace.</def> "And <i>huggen</i> me in his arms."

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To hold fast; to cling to; to cherish.</def>

<blockquote>We <b>hug</b> deformities if they bear our names. <i>Glanvill.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>To keep close to; <as>as, to <ex>hug</ex> the land; to <ex>hug</ex> the wind.</as></def>

<cs><col>To hug one's self</col>, <cd>to congratulate one's self; to chuckle.</cd></cs>

<h1>Hug</h1> <Xpage=711>

<hw>Hug</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A close embrace or clasping with the arms, as in affection or in wrestling.</def>

<i>Fuller.</i>

<h1>Huge</h1> <Xpage=711>

<hw>Huge</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>Compar.</tt> <er>Huger</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>superl.</tt> <er>Hugest</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>huge</ets>, <ets>hoge</ets>, OF. <ets>ahuge</ets>, <ets>ahoge</ets>.]</ety> <def>Very large; enormous; immense; excessive; -- used esp. of material bulk, but often of qualities, extent, etc.; <as>as, a <ex>huge</ex> ox; a <ex>huge</ex> space; a <ex>huge</ex> difference.</as></def> "The <i>huge</i> confusion." <i>Chapman</i>. "A <i>huge</i> filly." <i>Jer. Taylor</i>. -- <wordforms><wf>Huge"ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>Huge"ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<blockquote>Doth it not flow as <b>hugely</b> as the sea. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Enormous; gigantic; colossal; immense; prodigious; vast.</syn>

<h1>Hugger</h1> <Xpage=711>

<hw>Hug"ger</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who hugs or embraces.</def>

<h1>Hugger</h1> <Xpage=711>

<hw>Hug"ger</hw>, <tt>v. t. & i.</tt> <def>To conceal; to lurk ambush.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Bp. Hall.</i>

<h1>Hugger-mugger</h1> <Xpage=711>

<hw>Hug"ger-mug`ger</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Scot. <ets>huggrie-muggrie</ets>; Prov. E. <ets>hugger</ets> to lie in ambush, <ets>mug</ets> mist, <ets>muggard</ets> sullen.]</ety> <def>Privacy; secrecy. Commonly in the phrase <i>in hugger-mugger</i>, with haste and secrecy.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark>

<blockquote>Many things have been done in <b>hugger-mugger</b>. <i>Fuller.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Hugger-mugger</h1> <Xpage=711>

<hw>Hug"ger-mug`ger</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Secret; clandestine; sly.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Confused; disorderly; slovenly; mean; <as>as, <ex>hugger-mugger</ex> doings</as>.</def>

<h1>Huggle</h1> <Xpage=711>

<hw>Hug"gle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[Freq. of <ets>hug</ets>.]</ety> <def>To hug.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Huguenot</h1> <Xpage=711>

<hw>Hu"gue*not</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F., properly a dim. of <ets>Hugues</ets>. The name is probably derived from the Christian name (<ets>Huguenot</ets>) of some person conspicuous as a reformer.]</ety> <fld>(Eccl. Hist.)</fld> <def>A French Protestant of the period of the religious wars in France in the 16th century.</def>