huen.1
/hjuː/, U.S. /(h)ju/ a. Form, shape, figure; appearance, aspect; species. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > [noun]
hue971
shapec1050
form1297
casta1300
entailc1320
fashionc1320
featurec1325
tailc1325
suitc1330
figuringc1385
figure1393
makinga1398
fasurec1400
facea1402
makec1425
proportionc1425
figuration?a1475
protracture1551
physiognomy1567
set1567
portraiturea1578
imagerya1592
model1597
plasmature1610
figurature1642
scheme1655
morphosis1675
turn1675
plasma1712
mould1725
format1936
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > [noun] > shape or form
hue971
shapea1300
featurec1325
appearancec1385
portraiturec1450
facturec1460
idol1584
stampa1586
apparition1610
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > [noun]
hue971
glozea1300
showingc1300
coloura1325
illusionc1340
frontc1374
simulationc1380
visage1390
cheera1393
sign?a1425
countenance?c1425
study?c1430
cloak1526
false colour1531
visure1531
face1542
masquery?1544
show1547
gloss1548
glass1552
affectation1561
colourableness1571
fashion1571
personage?1571
ostentation1607
disguise1632
lustrementa1641
grimace1655
varnish1662
masquerade1674
guisea1677
whitewash1730
varnish1743
maya1789
vraisemblance1802
Japan1856
veneering1865
veneer1868
affectedness1873
candy coating1885
simulance1885
window dressing1903
971 Blickl. Hom. 197 Heo [the church of St. Michael] is eac on onsyne utan yfeles heowes.
OE Cynewulf Crist II 721 Wæs se forma hylp þa he on fæmnan astag, mægeð unmæle, ond þær mennisc hiw onfeng butan firenum.
c1000 Ælfric Genesis i. 12 Æfter his hiwe [L. secundum speciem suam].
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xvi. 3 Nu cunne ge tocnawan heofones hiw.
a1100 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 317/37 Forma, hiw.
a1175 Cott. Hom. 223 He com þa a nedren hiwe.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 12605 Godess gast. Inn aness cullfress heowe.
c1386 G. Chaucer Pardoner's Tale (Harl.) 93 Thus put I out my venym vnder hiewe Of holynes.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum viii. xv. (Tollem. MS.) A fayre persone, fayre yȝen, fayre face and semely hye.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4225 For þi suettnes and þi fair heu.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) ii. l. 398 [He] Hynt out his suerd that was of nobill hew.
a1592 R. Greene Hist. Orlando Furioso (1594) sig. G2v Thrice hath Cynthia changde her hiew.
1653 H. More Second Lash of Alazonomastix in Wks. (1713) 187 In that squallid and horrid hew he sets out this Hyle or First Matter, in the First Day's Creation.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > ghost or phantom > [noun]
soulOE
huea1000
ghostOE
fantasyc1325
spiritc1350
phantomc1384
phantasmc1430
haunterc1440
shadowa1464
appearance1488
wraith1513
hag1538
spoorn1584
vizarda1591
life-in-death1593
phantasma1598
umbra1601
larve1603
spectre1605
spectrum1611
apparitiona1616
shadea1616
shapea1616
showa1616
idolum1619
larva1651
white hat?1693
zumbi1704
jumbie1764
duppy1774
waff1777
zombie1788
Wild Huntsman1796
spook1801
ghostie1810
hantua1811
preta1811
bodach1814
revenant1823
death-fetch1826
sowlth1829
haunt1843
night-bat1847
spectrality1850
thivish1852
beastie1867
ghost soul1869
barrow-wight1891
resurrect1892
waft1897
churel1901
comeback1908
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [noun]
huea1000
imagination1340
imagea1393
portraiturea1393
trowc1460
fume1531
imaginary1594
phantasm1594
trajection1594
representationa1602
idolum1619
object1651
tablature1661
fancy1663
representamen1677
phantom1686
presentment1817
fantasy1823
projection1836
visuality1841
thought-picture1844
imago1863
vestige1885
a1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 236/8 Fantasia,..fantasma, scinlac, uel hiw.
c1420 J. Lydgate Assembly of Gods 2049 When I sy hit, hit was but a whew, A dreme, a fantasy, and a thing of nought.
1603 Philotus cxxii. sig. E2v I conjure the..Be Sanctis of Heuin and hewis of Hell.
2. External appearance of the face and skin, complexion. Also transferred. (In late use passing into 3.) hide and (or) hue: see hide n.1 2b.
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the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > [noun]
bleea1225
huec1275
colourc1300
complexion1580
reward1673
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12298 Wimmen wunliche on heowen.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 4051 Wimmen..Faiger on sigte..And brigte on hewe.
?a1366 Romaunt Rose 1213 She was not broun ne dun of hewe.
c1440 Generydes 1677 How fayre of hewe and womanly she was.
c1560 A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) vii. 33 Ȝe ladeis cleir of hew.
1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. ii. 25 The women..contenting themselves only with their naturall hiew.
a1816 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal (rev. ed.) Portrait in Wks. (1821) II. 6 The tender hue of female doubt.
1836 H. Smith Tin Trumpet I. 105 Our mental hue depends as completely on the social atmosphere in which we move, as our complexion upon the climate in which we live.
3.
a. Colour.Down to the 16th cent. apparently exactly synonymous with ‘colour’; but it appears to have become archaic in prose use about 1600, for it is included by Bullokar, Cockeram, etc., in their collections of ‘Hard Words’, and explained as = ‘colour’. In modern use it is either a poetic and rhetorical synonym of ‘colour’, or a vaguer term, including quality, shade or tinge of colour, tint, and applicable to any mixture of colours as well as to a primary or simple colour.
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the world > matter > colour > [noun] > a colour
bleec888
hue971
colourc1300
lita1325
tincture1477
tainture1490
taint1567
distain1581
complexion1597
tinct1604
tint1716
tinto1739
hwe-
971 Blickl. Hom. 73 Seo [smerenes] is brunes heowes & godes stences.
c1050 Byrhtferth's Handboc in Anglia (1885) 8 322 Hyt sceal beon hwites hiwes.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 119 Grene of alle heowes froureð mest echnen.
c1480 (a1400) St. Bartholomew 56 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 181 Sete with stanis of purpure hew.
a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 431 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 108 The colour of asure ane hevinliche hewe.
1576 A. Fleming Panoplie Epist. Ep. Ded. sig. ¶iij With leaues and blossoms of glorious hewe.
1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Hew, colour.
1694 J. Addison tr. Virgil Fourth Georgic in Poems The flower it self is of a golden hue.
1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest I. ii. 54 In the east, the hues became more vivid.
1808 W. Scott Marmion vi. xiv. 337 On the Earl's cheek the flush of rage O'ercame the ashen hue of age.
1836 W. Irving Astoria I. 169 Wild flowers of every hue.
1857 E. L. Birkett Bird's Urinary Deposits (ed. 5) 233 The urine is of a fine amber hue, often darker than in health.
1859 W. S. Coleman Our Woodlands 16 The autumnal hues of the Beech are rich and glowing in the extreme.
1880 Daily News 7 Dec. 5/2 The hue of health will instantly revisit his sunburnt cheek.
b. Chromatics. Variety of any colour, caused by approach to or slight admixture of another; tint or quality of a particular colour.
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the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [noun] > hue
hue1857
the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [noun] > shade or tone
shadowing1580
shade1690
key1713
nuance1823
colour tone1853
colour value1857
hue1857
neutral1859
shadow-script1898
value1902
1857 R. A. Willmott Pleasures of Lit. xi. 43 A phrase or an epithet in a book is a particular hue or shade of a picture.
1861 Chem. News 4 187 Crimson..and..scarlet. The first is a red with a violet hue, and the second is a red with an orange hue.
1874 R. St. J. Tyrwhitt Our Sketching Club 32 Hue [means] variety of colour.
1891 H. B. Harris Apol. Aristides ii. 19 The green of its garden with the contrasted hues of the almond and the cypress.
1898 Westm. Gaz. 19 May 3/2 Between tone and hue there is sometimes confusion; a colour has both tones and hues. There are, for example, a turquoise hue of blue and a cornflower hue of blue..the first having been influenced by the addition of green, and the second by that of white or black... There may be many hues of a colour and many tones of each hue.
c. That attribute of a colour by which it is recognized as a red, a purple, a green, etc., and which approximately corresponds to its dominant wavelength (or to that of its complementary colour); it constitutes, along with saturation (‘tint’, purity, intensity) and lightness (‘shade’), one of the three attributes required for the complete specification of any colour. In this sense hue is the quality in which different ‘hues’ (as distinct from ‘tints’ and ‘shades’: see shade n. 4) differ; cf. quot. 1835 below and quot. 18591 at tint n.1 2a.
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1835 G. Field Chromatogr. iii. 28 By mixing his colours with white, the artist obtains..tints; by mixing colours with colours, he obtains compound colours, or hues; finally, by mixing colours or tints with black, he gets..shades.]
1855 J. C. Maxwell in Trans. Royal Scottish Soc. Arts IV. 395 There will be two things on which the nature of each ray will depend:—(1.) its intensity or brightness; (2.) its hue, which may be estimated by its position in the spectrum, and measured by its wave length.
1855 J. C. Maxwell in Trans. Royal Scottish Soc. Arts IV. 396 Colours differ not only in intensity and hue, but also in tint; that is, they are more or less pure.
1872 J. C. Maxwell in Notices Proc. Royal Inst. Great Brit. 6 263 Colour may vary in hue, tint, and shade... A difference in hue may be illustrated by the difference between adjoining colours in the spectrum.
1900 G. H. Hurst Colour i. 13 The hue of a colour is that constant which is commonly denominated by the term colour, as blue, or green, or red.
1936 A. B. Klein Colour Cinematogr. i. 89 There are about 130 steps of just distinguishable difference in hue in the spectrum.
1939 M. Luckiesh Colour 39 The names of colors are often taken from the hue and usually imply it.
1955 P. D. Trevor-Roper Ophthalmol. x. 137 Mono~chromatic light may alter its apparent hue as it becomes more unsaturated, red turning to pink, orange to yellow.
1960 G. M. Wyburn Nerv. Syst. vi. 83 Colour or hue, which is our interpretation of variations in light wave~length is comparable to the pitch of sound.
1966 R. R. Coupe Sci. of Printing Technol. ix. 209 To describe completely a colour, we must take into account three different properties, namely hue, saturation and lightness.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† huen.2
Outcry, shouting, clamour, esp. that raised by a multitude in war or the chase. Obsolete except in hue and cry n.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > [noun] > outcry or clamour
reamOE
ropeOE
brack?c1200
utas1202
hootinga1225
berec1225
noise?c1225
ludea1275
cryc1275
gredingc1275
boastc1300
utasa1325
huec1330
outcrya1382
exclamation1382
ascry1393
spraya1400
clamourc1405
shoutingc1405
scry1419
rumourc1425
motion?a1439
bemec1440
harrowc1440
shout1487
songa1500
brunt1523
ditec1540
uproar1544
clamouring1548
outrage1548
hubbub1555
racket1565
succlamation1566
rear1567
outcrying1569
bellowing1579
brawl1581
hue and cry1584
exclaiming1585
exclaim1587
sanctus1594
hubbaboo1596
oyez1597
conclamation1627
sputter1673
rout1684
dirduma1693
hallalloo1737
yelloching1773
pillaloo1785
whillaloo1790
vocitation1819
blue murder1828
blaring1837
shilloo1842
shillooing1845
pillalooing1847
shriek1929
yammering1937
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 6089 Þe Wa[l]ssche and Scottes wyþal þer here Comen wyþ gret noise & hew [v.r. hu].
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 11984 Þey..tok þer weye toward Moungu Wyþ mykel noyse & cry & heu [v.r. hu].
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 872 A hue fro heuen I herde þoo.
1423 Rolls Parl. IV. 198/2 Wyth outen hewe or cry.
1565–73 T. Cooper Thesaurus Acclamatio,..an hue or crie.
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie xliii. 136 Why dost thou..me pursue, with cry of hounds, with blast of horne, with hallow, and with hue?
1619 M. Drayton Barons Warres ii. liii, in Poems (rev. ed.) 27 Like as a Heard of ouer-heated Deere..With Hues and Hounds recou'red eu'ry where.
1779 Gentleman's Mag. 49 253 As soon as M. Lally appeared, a hue was set up by the whole assembly, hisses, pointing, threats and every abusive name.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
huen.3
/ˈhuːeɪ/, U.S. /ˈhuˌeɪ/, New Zealand English /hue/, /ˈhuːæe/ New Zealand.
A local name for the bottle gourd, Lagenaria vulgaris.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants, nuts, seeds, or fruits used as beads or vessels > [noun] > calabash plant
calabash1596
calabash-tree1737
calabash gourd1824
hue1843
gourd tree1854
jicara1859
1843 E. Dieffenbach Trav. N.Z. II. iv. 49 The calabashes (hue) were..the next addition to their stock of eatables.
1868 W. Colenso in Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 1868 (1869) 1 iii. Essay. 36 The Hue, or gourd, (a species of Cucurbitæ), gave useful Calabashes, and vessels of several kinds and sizes, from a gill to three gallons.
1905 W. Baucke Where White Man Treads 15 Besides being a succulent delicacy when young, the matured vegetable hue, with its strong, horny rind, could be put to the uses of many utensils, as drinking cups, bowls, etc., and, most important of all, water and oil flasks.
1921 H. Guthrie-Smith Tutira viii. 55 The land [was] usually too poor for the cultivation on a great scale of such exotics as..the hue (Lagenaria vulgaris).
1949 P. H. Buck Coming of Maori (1950) ii. i. 91 The gourd (hue) was grown principally to provide containers for water and for preserved birds.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
huev.1
/hjuː/, U.S. /(h)ju/ 1.
a. transitive. To form, fashion, figure, give an external appearance to; esp. (in later use) to colour. †In early use sometimes, To fashion falsely, feign, pretend. Chiefly in past participle: see hued adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > colour > colouring > colour [verb (transitive)]
dyea1000
huec1000
litc1230
coloura1325
paint?c1335
infecta1398
taint1471
recolour1566
becolour1567
tinct1594
colorate1599
colourize1611
tincture1616
tint1791
encolour1850
pigment1896
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > have (specific) appearance [verb (transitive)] > give appearance
huec1000
show1484
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > pretend, simulate, feign [verb (transitive)]
mitheeOE
bipechec1000
huec1000
feigna1300
unlikena1382
counterfeitc1400
pretend1402
dissimulec1430
dissimule1483
simule?a1500
semble1530
counterfeit1534
dissemblea1538
suppose1566
countenance1590
mock1595
assume1604
to put on1625
assimulate1630
personate1631
to take on1645
simulate1652
forge1752
sham1775
possum1850
to turn on1865
fake1889
c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 484 Herodes hiwode hine sylfne unrotne.
c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 178/39 Colorare, hiwian.
c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 408/26 Fingo, ic hiwige.
a1300 Cursor Mundi 28013 Yee leuedis..studis hu your hare to heu, hu to dub and hu to paynt.
1830 Ld. Tennyson Poems 39 All that blue heaven which hues and paves The other.
1839 J. E. Reade Deluge 4 We..watched The sunset hueing the rich clouds.
b. figurative. To tinge.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > mix or blend [verb (transitive)] > add as ingredient to a mixture > qualify by admixture > to a slight degree
hue1576
salt1576
season1604
taint1605
tinct1616
tincture1636
tinge1690
spike1956
1576 A. Fleming tr. P. Manutius in Panoplie Epist. 315 My mynde being surprised with sorrow, and hewed with heavinesse.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > describe [verb (transitive)] > in detail or graphically
descrive?c1225
depaint1382
painta1387
portraya1387
huea1525
portrait1581
imagea1586
picture1586
pencil1610
detail1650
depict1713
depicture1798
daguerreotype1839
word-paint1839
photograph1849
Kodak1892
a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 424 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 108 Part of ye principale..I sall haist me to hewe hartlie but hyre.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > colour > colouring > become coloured [verb (intransitive)]
fleckena1642
hue1682
tone1868
tint1892
1682 J. Collins Salt & Fishery 51 The Liquor begins to hew, and is ready to kern or granulate.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
huev.2
Now local.
1. intransitive. To shout, make an outcry; spec. in hunting, and now in the Cornish sea fisheries. Cf. huer n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry or shout [verb (intransitive)] > outcry or clamour
galstrec1230
huea1250
galec1386
noisea1393
clamourc1400
brawl1447
yammer1513
to noise it1663
hue-and-crya1734
beclamour1832
chi-hike1874
hullabaloo1936
a1250 Owl & Night. 1264 Huan ich min huing to heom sende.
c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 6728 Þe wisest hunt folweþ fast, Huweþ & gredeþ wiþ gret blast.
1799 Naval Chron. 1 475 By the 1st of James I. c. 23, fishermen are empowered to go on the grounds of others to hue.
1864 B. Lloyd Ladies Polcarrow 39 Do 'ee ‘hue’ to the ladies for the life of 'ee. Look to that ground swell.
2. transitive. To assail, drive, or guide with shouts.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > catch fish [verb (transitive)] > direct fishing boats
hue1590
cond1602
balk1603
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry or shout [verb (transitive)] > incite or pursue with shout
hallowc1369
hoyc1536
whoop1582
hue1590
hollo away?1602
vociferate1794
to bellow off1837
1590 T. Cokayne Treat. Hunting B ij b Euery Huntsman..is to hew him or backe him into the Couert againe.
1590 T. Cokayne Treat. Hunting B ij b To hewe the Roe bucke in, both with voyce and horne.
1603–4 Act 1 James I c. 23 §1 It shall..be lawfull..for euery such Watchmen, Balcors, Huors, Condors, Directors and Guidors..to enter..any Landes..and there to watch..and to Balke, Hue, Conde, Direct and Guide the Fisher~men which shall be vpon the said Sea and Sea Coasts.
1676 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Iliads xi. 163 As when a Lion coming from the Wood..Is hu'd by Dogs and Pesants in the night.
1676 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Iliads (1677) 259 Dogs and herds-men looking on And hueing him.
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