Hew

Definitions

1. Destruction by cutting down or hewing.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
2. Hue; colour.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
3. A surname originating as a patronymic.
4. Initialism of (US Department of) Health, Education, and Welfare, now HHS.
   US, abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism
5. Shape; form.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Of whom he makes such hauocke and such hew, / That swarmes of damned soules to hell he sends”

“[…] while the youthful hew Sits on thy skin like⟳ morning dew”

“He taught to imitate that Lady trew, Whose semblance she did carrie under feigned hew.”

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