Part 5460

<blockquote>The troops <b>hutted</b> among the heights of Morristown. <i>W. Irving.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Hutch</h1> <Xpage=715>

<hw>Hutch</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>hucche</ets>, <ets>huche</ets>, <ets>hoche</ets>, F. <ets>huche</ets>, LL. <ets>hutica</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A chest, box, coffer, bin, coop, or the like, in which things may be stored, or animals kept; <as>as, a grain <ex>hutch</ex>; a rabbit <ex>hutch</ex>.</as></def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A measure of two Winchester bushels.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Mining)</fld> <def>The case of a flour bolt.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Mining)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>A jig for washing ore.</def>

<cs><mcol><col>Bolting hutch</col>, <col>Booby hutch</col></mcol>, <cd>etc. See under <er>Bolting</er>, etc.</cd></cs>

<h1>Hutch</h1> <Xpage=715>

<hw>Hutch</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Hutched</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Hutching</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To hoard or lay up, in a chest.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark> "She <i>hutched</i> the . . . ore."

<i>Milton.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Mining)</fld> <def>To wash (ore) in a box or jig.</def>

<h1>Hutchunsonian</h1> <Xpage=715>

<hw>Hutch`un*so"ni*an</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A follower of John <i>Hutchinson</i> of Yorkshire, England, who believed that the Hebrew Scriptures contained a complete system of natural science and of theology.</def>

<h1>Huttonian</h1> <Xpage=715>

<hw>Hut*to"ni*an</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Relating to what is now called the <i>Plutonic</i> theory of the earth, first advanced by Dr. James <i>Hutton</i>.</def>

<i>Lyell.</i>

<h1>Huxter</h1> <Xpage=715>

<hw>Hux"ter</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. & v. i.</tt> <def>See <er>Huckster</er>.</def>

<h1>Huyghenian</h1> <Xpage=715>

<hw>Huy*ghe"ni*an</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Pertaining to, or invented by, Christian <i>Huyghens</i>, a Dutch astronomer of the seventeenth century; <as>as, the <ex>Huyghenian</ex> telescope</as>.</def>

<cs><col>Huyghenian eyepiece</col><cd>See under <er>Eyepiece</er>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Huzz</h1> <Xpage=715>

<hw>Huzz</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <ety>[An onomatop\'d2a. &root;43. Cf. <er>Buzz</er>.]</ety> <def>To buzz; to murmur.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Huzzing and burring in the preacher's ear. <i>Latimer.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Huzza</h1> <Xpage=715>

<hw>Huz*za"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>interj.</tt> <ety>[Cf. G. <ets>hussa</ets>, <ets>husa</ets>, interj., hurrah, huzza. &root;43. Cf. <er>Hurrah</er>.]</ety> <def>A word used as a shout of joy, exultation, approbation, or encouragement.</def>

<h1>Huzza</h1> <Xpage=715>

<hw>Huz"za</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A shout of <i>huzza</i>; a cheer; a hurrah.</def>