Part 5429

<i>Shak.</i>

<cs><col>Shear hulk</col>, <cd>an old ship fitted with an apparatus to fix or take out the masts of a ship.</cd> -- <col>The hulks</col>, <cd>old or dismasted ships, formerly used as prisons. <mark>[Eng.]</mark> <i>Dickens</i>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Hulk</h1> <Xpage=711>

<hw>Hulk</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[Cf. MLG. <ets>holken</ets> to hollow out, Sw. <ets>h\'86lka</ets>.]</ety> <def>To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; <as>as, to <ex>hulk</ex> a hare</as>.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Beau. & Fl.</i>

<h1>Hulking, Hulky</h1> <Xpage=711>

<hw><hw>Hulk"ing</hw>, <hw>Hulk"y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <def>Bulky; unwiedly.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark> "A huge <i>hulking</i> fellow."

<i>H. Brooke.</i>

<h1>Hull</h1> <Xpage=711>

<hw>Hull</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>hul</ets>, <ets>hol</ets>, shell, husk, AS. <ets>hulu</ets>; akin to G. <ets>h\'81lle</ets> covering, husk, case, <ets>h\'81llen</ets> to cover, Goth. <ets>huljan</ets> to cover, AS. <ets>helan</ets> to hele, conceal. &root;17. See <er>Hele</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>, <er>Hell</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The outer covering of anything, particularly of a nut or of grain; the outer skin of a kernel; the husk.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <ety>[In this sense perh. influenced by D. <ets>hol</ets> hold of a ship, E. <ets>hold</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>The frame or body of a vessel, exclusive of her masts, yards, sails, and rigging.</def>

<blockquote>Deep in their <b>hulls</b> our deadly bullets light. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Hull down</col>, <cd>said of a ship so distant that her hull is concealed by the convexity of the sea.</cd></cs>

<h1>Hull</h1> <Xpage=711>

<hw>Hull</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Hulled</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Hulling</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To strip off or separate the hull or hulls of; to free from integument; <as>as, to <ex>hull</ex> corn</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To pierce the hull of, as a ship, with a cannon ball.</def>

<h1>Hull</h1> <Xpage=711>

<hw>Hull</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To toss or drive on the water, like the hull of a ship without sails.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak. Milton.</i>

<h1>Hullabaloo</h1> <Xpage=711>

<hw>Hul`la*ba*loo"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Perh. a corruption of <ets>hurly-burly</ets>.]</ety> <def>A confused noise; uproar; tumult.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>

<i>Thackeray.</i>

<h1>Hulled</h1> <Xpage=711>

<hw>Hulled</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Deprived of the hulls.</def>

<cs><col>Hulled corn</col>, <cd>kernels of maize prepared for food by removing the hulls.</cd></cs>

<h1>Huller</h1> <Xpage=711>

<hw>Hull"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which, hulls; especially, an agricultural machine for removing the hulls from grain; a hulling machine.</def>

<h1>Hullo</h1> <Xpage=711>