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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



... cried the other with a kind of tickled modesty and pleased concern, "mine is an understanding too weak to throw out grapnels and hug another to it. I have indeed heard of some great scholars in these days, whose boast is less that they have made disciples than victims. But for me, had I the power to do such things, I have not ...
— The Confidence-Man • Herman Melville
... said I. "But oh, Sally, listen to that wind, and tell me how it sounds to you. A wet hug if you ...
— The Spread Eagle and Other Stories • Gouverneur Morris
... see learned men use the same apparatus of calculation and reach the most diverse results. It is bewildering to attempt a reconciliation of these varying calculations." In an appended note the same author states: "For example: the birth of our Lord is placed in B.C. 1 by Pearson and Hug; B.C. 2 by Scalinger; B.C. 3 by Baronius and Paulus; B.C. 4 by Bengel, Wieseler, and Greswell; B.C. 5 by Usher and Petavius; B.C. 6 by Strong, Luvin, and Clark; B.C. 7 ...
— Jesus the Christ - A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy - Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern • James Edward Talmage
... intimidation, and seeking to make neutrals her ally in an attempt to starve Britain into defeat. The American Ambassador is leaving Berlin, hundreds of neutral vessels hug havens of safety all over the world, but the women in Grimsby and Hull still wave farewell to the little trawlers that slip down the Humber to grapple with death. Freighters, mine-sweepers, trawlers, and the rest of the unsung tollers of the sea continue ...
— The Land of Deepening Shadow - Germany-at-War • D. Thomas Curtin
... off. Then a little Indian boy about his age, held out his book that he might teach him, the white boy complied, and by the time he had showed him three or four letters, he was unable to contain his grateful feelings, clasped the white boy round his neck, and began to hug and kiss him. ...
— The Story of My Life - Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada • Egerton Ryerson


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