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Hug   /həg/   Listen
noun
Hug  n.  A close embrace or clasping with the arms, as in affection or in wrestling.


verb
Hug  v. t.  
1.
To press closely within the arms; to clasp to the bosom; to embrace. "And huggen me in his arms."
2.
To hold fast; to cling to; to cherish. "We hug deformities if they bear our names."
3.
(Naut.) To keep close to; as, to hug the land; to hug the wind.
To hug one's self, to congratulate one's self; to chuckle.


Hug  v. i.  (past & past part. hugged; pres. part. hugging)  
1.
To cower; to crouch; to curl up. (Obs.)
2.
To crowd together; to cuddle. (Obs.)





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"Hug" Quotes from Famous Books



... arms. 'Quick!' He pressed me till the joints started. Leaned upon his broad chest, I heard the beating of his heart. It beat under my ears with a burden like our bell at [126] Camplong. What powerful vitality in Norine's grand! 'It does an old man good:—a good hug!' ...
— Essays from 'The Guardian' • Walter Horatio Pater
... sky, this morning. With a cold headwind on the starboard quarter, we hug the lee of the Ohio shore. The river is well up in the willows now. Crowding Pilgrim as closely as we may, within the narrow belt of unruffled water, our oars are swept by their bending boughs, which lightly tremble on the surface of the flood. The numerous rock-cumbered ravines, coursing down ...
— Afloat on the Ohio - An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo • Reuben Gold Thwaites
... cricket. At the gome. At the pounding stick. At the relapse. At jack and the box. At jog breech, or prick him At the queens. forward. At the trades. At knockpate. At heads and points. At the Cornish c(h)ough. At the vine-tree hug. At the crane-dance. At black be thy fall. At slash and cut. At ho the distaff. At bobbing, or flirt on the At Joan Thomson. nose. At the bolting cloth. At the larks. At the oat's ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais
... TO CLIP. To hug or embrace: to clip and cling. To clip the coin; to diminish the current coin. To clip the king's English; to be unable to speak ...
— 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue • Captain Grose et al.
... enabled them to keep near the Christian cavalry, and to annoy them by countless flights of arrows, darts, and spears, while, as usual, they avoided close contest, as a hunter would avoid the hug of the bear. When they could not do so, it was wondrous to see how limbs flew about, and bodies were cleft to the very chine before the ...
— The Rival Heirs being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune • A. D. Crake


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