adv. [ Pref. a- + hull. ] (Naut.) With the sails furled, and the helm lashed alee; -- applied to ships in a storm. See Hull, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) The fragrant flowers of the Chloranthus inconspicuus, used in China for perfuming tea. [ 1913 Webster ]

ety>[ Ether + Gr. &unr_; substance, base. Cf. Ethyl, and see -yl. ] (Chem.) Ethyl. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ OE. See Fiddle. ] A fiddle. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Uhlan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Hunch. ] A hunch. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Swollen; gibbous. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. hulke a heavy ship, AS. hulc a light, swift ship; akin to D. hulk a ship of burden, G. holk, OHG. holcho; perh. fr. LL. holcas, Gr. &unr_;, prop., a ship which is towed, fr. &unr_; to draw, drag, tow. Cf. Wolf, Holcad. ] 1. The body of a ship or decked vessel of any kind; esp., the body of an old vessel laid by as unfit for service. “Some well-timbered hulk.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A heavy ship of clumsy build. Skeat. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Anything bulky or unwieldly. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shear hulk, an old ship fitted with an apparatus to fix or take out the masts of a ship. --
The hulks, old or dismasted ships, formerly used as prisons. [ Eng. ] Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. MLG. holken to hollow out, Sw. hålka. ] To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; as, to hulk a hare. [ R. ] Beau. & Fl.

{ } a. Bulky; unwiedly; of great size and bulk; ponderous. [ R. ] “A huge hulking fellow.” H. Brooke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. hul, hol, shell, husk, AS. hulu; akin to G. hülle covering, husk, case, hüllen to cover, Goth. huljan to cover, AS. helan to hele, conceal. √17. See Hele, v. t., Hell. ] 1. The outer covering of anything, particularly of a nut or of grain; the outer skin of a kernel; the husk. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ In this sense perh. influenced by D. hol hold of a ship, E. hold. ] (Naut.) The frame or body of a vessel, exclusive of her masts, yards, sails, and rigging. [ 1913 Webster ]

Deep in their hulls our deadly bullets light. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hull down, said of a ship so distant that her hull is concealed by the convexity of the sea. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Hulled p. pr. & vb. n. Hulling. ] 1. To strip off or separate the hull or hulls of; to free from integument; as, to hull corn. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To pierce the hull of, as a ship, with a cannon ball. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To toss or drive on the water, like the hull of a ship without sails. [ Obs. ] Shak. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Perh. a corruption of hurly-burly. ] A confused noise; uproar; tumult. [ Colloq. ] Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Deprived of the hulls. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hulled corn, kernels of maize prepared for food by removing the hulls. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, hulls; especially, an agricultural machine for removing the hulls from grain; a hulling machine. [ 1913 Webster ]

interj. See Hollo. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having or containing hulls. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Hyloist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Hylotheism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. hulfere; prob. akin to E. holly. ] Holly, an evergreen shrub or tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physiol. Chem.) A substance from the yolk of salmon's eggs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an alternate from of mogul. [ PJC ]

prop. a. [ See Mogul, n.. ] Of or pertaining to the Moguls{ 2 }; as, The Taj Mahal, the most beautiful piece of Mogul architecture, was built by the Mogul emperor Shah Jehan as a mausoleum for his favorite wife. [ PJC ]

prop. a. [ See Mogul, n.. ] The empire created in India by invading Mongolians (Tatars), established under Baber, who conquered Hindustan in 1526. The established religion of the empire was Islam. After the death of the Great Mogul Aurung-Zeb in 1707, power passed to the Mahrattas and the British. The empire existed only nominally in the early 1800's, and was finally abolished in 1857 by the deposing of the last emperor. [ PJC ]

n. (Chem.) A salt of sacchulmic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Saccharine + ulmic. ] (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained as a dark amorphous substance by the long-continued boiling of sucrose with very dilute sulphuric acid. It resembles humic acid. [ Written also sacculmic. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) An amorphous huminlike substance resembling sacchulmic acid, and produced together with it. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. So called because it was reputed to be a remedy for scrofula. ] (Bot.) A genus of coarse herbs having small flowers in panicled cymes; figwort. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to a very large natural order of gamopetalous plants (Scrophulariaceae, or Scrophularineae), usually having irregular didynamous flowers and a two-celled pod. The order includes the mullein, foxglove, snapdragon, figwort, painted cup, yellow rattle, and some exotic trees, as the Paulownia. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) Sea holly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Spatulate. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. ] (Med.) See Red-gum, 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To surfel. [ Obs. ] Marston. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. [ L. Thule, Thyle, Gr. Qoy`lh, Qy`lh. ] The name given by ancient geographers to the northernmost part of the habitable world. According to some, this land was Norway, according to others, Iceland, or more probably Mainland, the largest of the Shetland islands; hence, the Latin phrase ultima Thule, farthest Thule. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. ] (Chem.) Oxide of thulium. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. See Thule. ] (Chem.) A rare metallic element of the lanthanide group having atomic number 69, and atomic weight 168.93. It is found in the mineral gadolinite and other minerals, together with other rare earths. For more information see the data from ChemGlobe. [ 1913 Webster + PJC ]