Hun

n. [ Perh. akin to huckle; cf. hump, hunch, bunch, hunk. ] 1. A hump; a protuberance. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A lump; a thick piece; as, a hunch of bread. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A push or thrust, as with the elbow. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A strong, intuitive impression that something will happen; -- said to be from the gambler's superstition that it brings luck to touch the hump of a hunchback. [ Colloq. or Slang ] “Get a hunch, bet a bunch.”
Syn. -- presentiment, premonition. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Hunched p. pr. & vb. n. Hunching. ] 1. To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust suddenly. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Humpback. ] A back with a hunch or hump; also, a hunchbacked person. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a humped back. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect; -- of people.
Syn. -- round-backed, round-shouldered, stooped, stooping, crooked. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Ten times ten; five score; as, a hundred dollars. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. hundred, AS. hundred a territorial division; hund hundred + a word akin to Goth. ga-raþjan to count, L. ratio reckoning, account; akin to OS. hunderod, hund, D. hondred, G. hundert, OHG. also hunt, Icel. hundrað, Dan. hundrede, Sw. hundra, hundrade, Goth. hund, Lith. szimtas, Russ. sto, W. cant, Ir. cead, L. centum, Gr. "ekato`s, Skr. çata. √309. Cf. Cent, Century, Hecatomb, Quintal, and Reason.] 1. The product of ten multiplied by ten, or the number of ten times ten; a collection or sum, consisting of ten times ten units or objects; five score. Also, a symbol representing one hundred units, as 100 or C. [1913 Webster]

With many hundreds treading on his heels. Shak. [1913 Webster]

☞ The word hundred, as well as thousand, million, etc., often takes a plural form. We may say hundreds, or many hundreds, meaning individual objects or units, but with an ordinal numeral adjective in constructions like five hundreds, or eight hundreds, it is usually intended to consider each hundred as a separate aggregate; as, ten hundreds are one thousand. [1913 Webster]

2. A division of a country in England, supposed to have originally contained a hundred families, or freemen. [1913 Webster]

Hundred court, a court held for all the inhabitants of a hundred. [Eng.] Blackstone. [1913 Webster]

n. 1. An inhabitant or freeholder of a hundred. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) A person competent to serve on a jury, in an action for land in the hundred to which he belongs. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who has the jurisdiction of a hundred; and sometimes, a bailiff of a hundred. Blount. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]