(n.) The post to which a gate or door is hinged.

(n.) The quoin post of a lock gate.

(a.) Produced in hell.

(n.) An intestinal worm, or wormlike intestinal parasite; one of the Helminthes.

(n.) A species of Medicago (M. intertexta), the pods of which are armed with short spines; -- popularly so called.

(n.) A form of dredging machine.

(n.) A row of shrubs, or trees, planted for inclosure or separation of fields.

(a.) Without heed or care; inattentive; careless; thoughtless; unobservant.

(a.) Without a heel.

(interj.) An exclamation of surprise, joy, dejection, uneasiness, weariness, etc.

(v. t.) To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.

(v. t.) To carry forward; to advance; to increase; to augment; to aggravate; to intensify; to render more conspicuous; -- used of things, good or bad; as, to heighten beauty; to heighten a flavor or a tint.

(a.) Destitute of an heir.

(n.) Any furniture, movable, or personal chattel, which by law or special custom descends to the heir along with the inheritance; any piece of personal property that has been in a family for several generations.

(n.) The state, character, or privileges of an heir; right of inheriting.

(a.) Emerging from the light of the sun, or passing into it; rising or setting at the same, or nearly the same, time as the sun.

(a.) Curled; spiral; helicoid; -- applied esp. to certain arteries of the penis.

(a.) Spiral; curved, like the spire of a univalve shell.

(a.) Shaped like a snail shell; pertaining to the Helicidae, or Snail family.

(n.) A warped surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner that every point of the line shall have a uniform motion in the direction of another fixed straight line, and at the same time a uniform angular motion about it.

(a.) Born in or of hell.

(n.) A witch; a hag.

(n.) A kite of infernal breed.

(adv.) Toward hell.

(a.) Wearing a helmet; furnished with or having a helmet or helmet-shaped part; galeate.

(a.) Destitute of a helmet.

(a.) Without a helm or rudder.

(pl. ) of Helmsman

(n.) The man at the helm; a steersman.

(n.) The condition of the Helots or slaves in Sparta; slavery.

(a.) Destitute of help or strength; unable to help or defend one's self; needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless infant.

(a.) Beyond help; irremediable.

(a.) Bringing no help; unaiding.

(a.) Unsupplied; destitute; -- with of.

(n.) A helper; a companion; specifically, a wife.

(n.) A wife; a helpmate.

(n.) A composition made from blood, mixed with mineral or vegetable substances, used for making buttons, door knobs, etc.

(n.) A reddish brown or violet crystalline substance, C16H12O6, got from hematoxylin by partial oxidation, and regarded as analogous to the phthaleins.

(n.) An important ore of iron, the sesquioxide, so called because of the red color of the powder. It occurs in splendent rhombohedral crystals, and in massive and earthy forms; -- the last called red ocher. Called also specular iron, oligist iron, rhombohedral iron ore, and bloodstone. See Brown hematite, under Brown.

(a.) Resembling blood.

(n.) A circumscribed swelling produced by an effusion of blood beneath the skin.

(n.) A sheep of the second year. [Written also hogrel.] Ash.

(n.) An English measure of capacity, containing 63 wine gallons, or about 52/ imperial gallons; a half pipe.

(n.) A large cask or barrel, of indefinite contents; esp. one containing from 100 to 140 gallons.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hoist

(n.) An opening for the hoist, or elevator, in the floor of a wareroom.

(n.) Something used to secure and hold in place something else, as a long fiat-headed nail, a catch a hook, a clinch, a clamp, etc.; hence, a support.

(n.) A conical or branching body, by which a seaweed is attached to its support, and differing from a root in that it is not specially absorbent of moisture.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Holla

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hollo

(imp. & p. p.) of Hollow

(adv.) Insincerely; deceitfully.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Homage

(a.) Alt. of Homaloidal

(a.) Native; indigenous; not foreign.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the home or family.

(a.) Destitute of a home.

(a.) Like a home; comfortable; cheerful; cozy; friendly.

(adv.) Plainly; inelegantly.

(n.) A person or thing belonging to a home or to a particular country; a native; as, a word which is a homeling.

(a.) Pining for home; in a nostalgic condition.

(a.) Spun or wrought at home; of domestic manufacture; coarse; plain.

(a.) Plain in manner or style; not elegant; rude; coarse.

(n.) Cloth made at home; as, he was dressed in homespun.

(n.) An unpolished, rustic person.

(a.) Being in the direction of home; as, the homeward way.

(adv.) Alt. of Homewards

(v. t.) The killing of one human being by another.

(v. t.) One who kills another; a manslayer.

(a.) In human form.

(n.) A homilist.

(n.) One who prepares homilies; one who preaches to a congregation.

(n.) A borosilicate of iron and lime, near datolite in form and composition.

(pl. ) of Homily

(a.) Having all the teeth similar in front, as in the porpoises; -- opposed to heterodont.

(n.) The condition of being homogamous.

(a.) Homogeneous.

(n.) Joint nature.

(n.) The correspondence of common descent; -- a term used to supersede homology by Lankester, who also used homoplasy to denote any superinduced correspondence of position and structure in parts embryonically distinct (other writers using the term homoplasmy). Thus, there is homogeny between the fore limb of a mammal and the wing of a bird; but the right and left ventricles of the heart in both are only in homoplasy with each other, these having arisen independently since the divergence of both groups from a univentricular ancestor.

(n.) The condition of having homogonous flowers.

(n.) The quality of being homologous; correspondence; relation; as, the homologyof similar polygons.

(n.) Correspondence or relation in type of structure in contradistinction to similarity of function; as, the relation in structure between the leg and arm of a man; or that between the arm of a man, the fore leg of a horse, the wing of a bird, and the fin of a fish, all these organs being modifications of one type of structure.

(n.) The correspondence or resemblance of substances belonging to the same type or series; a similarity of composition varying by a small, regular difference, and usually attended by a regular variation in physical properties; as, there is an homology between methane, CH4, ethane, C2H6, propane, C3H8, etc., all members of the paraffin series. In an extended sense, the term is applied to the relation between chemical elements of the same group; as, chlorine, bromine, and iodine are said to be in homology with each other. Cf. Heterology.

(n.) The homology of parts arranged on transverse axes.

(n.) Sameness of name or designation; identity in relations.

(n.) Sameness of name or designation of things or persons which are different; ambiguity.

(n.) That part of a deed which follows the part called the premises, and determines the extent of the interest or estate granted; -- so called because it begins with the word Habendum.

(n.) Ability; aptitude.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Habit

(v. t.) An inhabitant; a dweller.

(v. t.) An inhabitant or resident; -- a name applied to and denoting farmers of French descent or origin in Canada, especially in the Province of Quebec; -- usually in plural.

(n.) Formed or acquired by habit or use.

(n.) According to habit; established by habit; customary; constant; as, the habiual practice of sin.

(n.) Habitual attitude; usual or accustomed state with reference to something else; established or usual relations.

(n.) Habitual association, intercourse, or familiarity.

(n.) Habit of body or of action.

(n.) Habitude.

(n.) A large estate where work of any kind is done, as agriculture, manufacturing, mining, or raising of animals; a cultivated farm, with a good house, in distinction from a farming establishment with rude huts for herdsmen, etc.; -- a word used in Spanish-American regions.

(n.) The greater shearwater or hagdon. See Hagdon.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hackle

(pl. ) of Hackney

(n.) A bully; a bravo; a ruffian; an assassin.

() Alt. of Haemo-

(a.) Of or pertaining to the blood; sanguine; brownish red.

(n.) Same as Hematin.

(prefix.) See Haema-.

(n.) A plant of the genus Prunus (P. Padus); the bird cherry.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Haggle

(n.) See Harebell.

(n.) The chipping sparrow.

(a.) Destitute of hair.

(n.) Any species of marine fishes of the genus Trichiurus; esp., T. lepterus of Europe and America. They are long and like a band, with a slender, pointed tail. Called also bladefish.

(n.) One of the Homoptera.

(n.) Same as Homotaxis.

(n.) That which has the same fundamental type of structure with something else; thus, the right arm is the homotype of the right leg; one arm is the homotype of the other, etc.

(n.) A term suggested by Haeckel to be instead of serial homology. See Homotype.

(adv.) Honorably; becomingly; decently.

(adv.) In an honest manner; as, a contract honestly made; to live honestly; to speak honestly.

(n.) An umbelliferous plant of the genus Sison (S. Amomum); -- so called because used to cure a swelling called a hone.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Honey

(n.) Any bee of the genus Apis, which lives in communities and collects honey, esp. the common domesticated hive bee (Apis mellifica), the Italian bee (A. ligustica), and the Arabiab bee (A. fasciata). The two latter are by many entomologists considered only varieties of the common hive bee. Each swarm of bees consists of a large number of workers (barren females), with, ordinarily, one queen or fertile female, but in the swarming season several young queens, and a number of males or drones, are produced.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Honor

(a.) A fee offered to professional men for their services; as, an honorarium of one thousand dollars.

(a.) An honorary payment, usually in recognition of services for which it is not usual or not lawful to assign a fixed business price.

(a.) Done as a sign or evidence of honor; as, honorary services.

(a.) Conferring honor, or intended merely to confer honor without emolument; as, an honorary degree.

(a.) Holding a title or place without rendering service or receiving reward; as, an honorary member of a society.

(a.) Having no hood.

(v. t.) To blind by covering the eyes.

(v. t.) To cover; to hide.

(v. t.) To deceive by false appearance; to impose upon.

(a.) Destitute of hoofs.

(a.) Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing.

(a.) Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate; as, a hopeless cause.

(a.) Unhoped for; despaired of.

(adv.) In a hopeful manner.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hopple

(n.) A tree of the genus Carpinus (C. Americana), having a smooth gray bark and a ridged trunk, the wood being white and very hard. It is common along the banks of streams in the United States, and is also called ironwood. The English hornbeam is C. Betulus. The American is called also blue beech and water beech.

(n.) Any bird of the family Bucerotidae, of which about sixty species are known, belonging to numerous genera. They inhabit the tropical parts of Asia, Africa, and the East Indies, and are remarkable for having a more or less horn-like protuberance, which is usually large and hollow and is situated on the upper side of the beak. The size of the hornbill varies from that of a pigeon to that of a raven, or even larger. They feed chiefly upon fruit, but some species eat dead animals.

(a.) Having no horn.

(a.) Quite mad; -- raving crazy.

(n.) An instrument of music formerly popular in Wales, consisting of a wooden pipe, with holes at intervals. It was so called because the bell at the open end was sometimes made of horn.

(n.) A lively tune played on a hornpipe, for dancing; a tune adapted for such playing.

(n.) See Horned pout, under Horned.

(n.) Any one of family (Uroceridae) of large hymenopterous insects, allied to the sawflies. The larvae bore in the wood of trees. So called from the long, stout ovipositors of the females.

(n.) An outwork composed of two demibastions joined by a curtain. It is connected with the works in rear by long wings.

(n.) An aquatic plant (Ceratophyllum), with finely divided leaves.

(n.) A servant who called out the hours.

(n.) An instrument indicating the time of day; a timepiece of any kind; a watch, clock, or dial.

(n.) The science of measuring time, or the principles and art of constructing instruments for measuring and indicating portions of time, as clocks, watches, dials, etc.

(n.) The line or surface in which are situated all the points which are seen single while the point of sight, or the adjustment of the eyes, remains unchanged.

(a.) Exciting, or tending to excite, horror or fear; dreadful; terrible; shocking; hideous; as, a horrible sight; a horrible story; a horrible murder.

(adv.) In a manner to excite horror; dreadfully; terribly.

(adv.) In a horrid manner.

(a.) Causing horror; frightful.

(pl. ) of Horseman

(n.) A rider on horseback; one skilled in the management of horses; a mounted man.

(n.) A mounted soldier; a cavalryman.

(n.) A land crab of the genus Ocypoda, living on the coast of Brazil and the West Indies, noted for running very swiftly.

(n.) A West Indian fish of the genus Eques, as the light-horseman (E. lanceolatus).

(a.) Belonging to a garden.

(n.) An orchard.

(pl. ) of Hosanna

(n.) A place for shelter or entertainment; an inn.

(n.) A building in which the sick, injured, or infirm are received and treated; a public or private institution founded for reception and cure, or for the refuge, of persons diseased in body or mind, or disabled, infirm, or dependent, and in which they are treated either at their own expense, or more often by charity in whole or in part; a tent, building, or other place where the sick or wounded of an army cared for.

(a.) Hospitable.

(n.) A title borne by the princes or governors of Moldavia and Wallachia before those countries were united as Roumania.

(n.) The keeper of a hostel or inn.

(n.) A student in a hostel, or small unendowed collede in Oxford or Cambridge.

(n.) An inn; a lodging house.

(a.) Inhospitable.

(n.) Alt. of Hotchpotch

(n.) A house kept warm to shelter tender plants and shrubs from the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer climates may be reared, and fruits ripened.

(n.) A bagnio, or bathing house.

(n.) A brothel; a bagnio.

(n.) A heated room for drying green ware.

(v. t.) To apply to, in conjunction with mechanical pressure, for the purpose of giving a smooth and glosay surface, or to express oil, etc.; as, to hotpress paper, linen, etc.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hound

(n.) The act of one who hounds.

(n.) The part of a mast below the hounds and above the deck.

(n.) A landlord's right, independently of stipulation, over the stocking (cattle, implements, etc.), and crops of his tenant, as security for payment of rent.

(a.) Anterior in age to the lowest rocks which contain organic remains.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Hyracoidea.

(n.) One of the Hyracoidea.

(n.) A nervous affection, occurring almost exclusively in women, in which the emotional and reflex excitability is exaggerated, and the will power correspondingly diminished, so that the patient loses control over the emotions, becomes the victim of imaginary sensations, and often falls into paroxism or fits.

(a.) Alt. of Hysterical

(n.) One portion of a fruit that spontaneously divides into halves.

(n.) A wild ass found in Thibet; the kiang.

(n.) Alt. of Hemiopsia

(n.) Any bird of the genus Turnix. Various species inhabit Asia, Africa, and Australia.

(n.) One of the Hemiptera.

(v. t.) To divide along the mesial plane.

(n.) See Semitone.

(n.) An attendant; a servant; a follower. Now chiefly used as a political cant term.

(n.) A cotquean; a man who intermeddles with women's concerns.

(n.) See Jeniquen.

(n.) A variety of barite emitting a fetid odor when rubbed or heated.

(v. t.) To impregnate with sulphureted hydrogen gas, formerly called hepatic gas.

(v. t.) To gorge with effused matter, as the lungs.

(n.) A plane figure consisting of seven sides and having seven angles.

(n.) Same as Heptarchist.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, heptyl or heptane; as, heptylic alcohol. Cf. /nanthylic.

(imp. & p. p.) of Herald

(a.) Of or pertaining to heralds or heraldry; as, heraldic blazoning; heraldic language.

(n.) The art or office of a herald; the art, practice, or science of recording genealogies, and blazoning arms or ensigns armorial; also, of marshaling cavalcades, processions, and public ceremonies.

(a.) Covered with grass.

(pl. ) of Herbarium

(a.) Destitute of herbs or of vegetation.

(n.) A book containing the list and pedigrees of one or more herds of choice breeds of cattle; -- also called herd record, or herd register.

(n.) The owner or keeper of a herd or of herds; one employed in tending a herd of cattle.

(n.) Hereditary transmission of the physical and psychical qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants. See Pangenesis.

(adv.) Into this.

(pl. ) of Heresy

(n.) Alt. of Heretog

(adv.) Unto this; up to this time; hereto.

(adv.) On this; hereon.

(adv.) With this.

(n.) A beam or bar armed with iron spikes, and turning on a pivot; -- used to block up a passage.

(a.) That which is inherited, or passes from heir to heir; inheritance.

(a.) A possession; the Israelites, as God's chosen people; also, a flock under pastoral charge.

(a.) Heroic.

(n.) A heronshaw.

(n.) The character or personality of a hero.

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the herpes; partaking of the nature of herpes; as, herpetic eruptions.

(a.) Not prompt in deciding or acting; hesitating.

(a.) Unready in speech.

(v. i.) To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination; as, he hesitated whether to accept the offer or not; men often hesitate in forming a judgment.

(v. i.) To stammer; to falter in speaking.

(v. t.) To utter with hesitation or to intimate by a reluctant manner.

(n.) A colorless, liquid hydrocarbon, C6H12, of the ethylene series, produced artificially, and found as a natural product of distillation of certain coals; also, any one several isomers of hexylene proper. Called also hexene.

(n.) A kind of country-dance or round.

(pl. ) of Hiatus

(a.) Belonging or relating to winter; wintry; winterish.

(n.) Alt. of Hickway

(adv.) In a hidden manner.

(n.) One who has high and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order; as, princely hierarchs.

(a.) Consecrated to sacred uses; sacerdotal; pertaining to priests.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Higgle

(a.) Pampered; fed luxuriously.

(n.) The European green woodpecker or yaffle.

(n.) A laced boot, ankle high.

(a.) Highest.

(n.) A highway; a much traveled or main road.

(n.) An appearance as of a halo of light, surrounding the edges of dark objects in a photographic picture.

(n.) Any slender, marine fish of the genus Hemirhamphus, having the upper jaw much shorter than the lower; -- called also balahoo.

(n.) The quality of being half; incompleteness.

(n.) A foolish; a dolt; a blockhead; a dunce.

(n.) See Halyard.

(imp. & p. p.) of Halloo

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Halloo

(imp. & p. p.) of Hallow

(a.) Of or pertaining to the hallux.

(imp. & p. p.) of Halter

(n. pl.) Balancers; the rudimentary hind wings of Diptera.

(n.) Hook-shaped.

(p. a.) Confined to a hamlet.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hammer

(n.) One who works with a hammer.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hamper

(a.) Furnished with a small hook; hook-shaped.

(a.) Bearing a small hook at the end.

(n.) A loose, printed sheet, to be distributed by hand.

(n.) A pruning hook.

(n.) A fastening, consisting of an iron ring around the wrist, usually connected by a chain with one on the other wrist; a manacle; -- usually in the plural.

(v. t.) To apply handcuffs to; to manacle.

(n.) Hold; grasp; custody; power of confining or keeping.

(n.) Contract; specifically, espousal.

(a.) Fast by contract; betrothed by joining hands.

(v. t.) To pledge; to bind; to betroth by joining hands, in order to cohabitation, before the celebration of marriage.

(n.) Strong; steadfast.

(n.) The frogfish.

(n.) An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race to the competitor possessing inferior advantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing superior advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success; as, the handicap was five seconds, or ten pounds, and the like.

(n.) A race, for horses or men, or any contest of agility, strength, or skill, in which there is an allowance of time, distance, weight, or other advantage, to equalize the chances of the competitors.

(n.) An old game at cards.

(v. t.) To encumber with a handicap in any contest; hence, in general, to place at disadvantage; as, the candidate was heavily handicapped.

(n.) See Andrion.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Handle

(a.) Without a hand.

(n.) A touching, controlling, managing, using, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands. See Handle, v. t.

(v. t.) The mode of using the pencil or brush, etc.; style of touch.

(n.) Alt. of Handmaiden

(superl.) Dexterous; skillful; handy; ready; convenient; -- applied to things as persons.

(superl.) Agreeable to the eye or to correct taste; having a pleasing appearance or expression; attractive; having symmetry and dignity; comely; -- expressing more than pretty, and less than beautiful; as, a handsome man or woman; a handsome garment, house, tree, horse.

(superl.) Suitable or fit in action; marked with propriety and ease; graceful; becoming; appropriate; as, a handsome style, etc.

(superl.) Evincing a becoming generosity or nobleness of character; liberal; generous.

(superl.) Ample; moderately large.

(n.) The Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula); -- so called because its nest is suspended from the limb of a tree. See Baltimore oriole.

(n.) A nest that hangs like a bag or pocket.

(n.) A bird which builds such a nest; a hangbird.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hanker

(imp. & p. p.) of Happen

(n.) See Hagbut.

(n.) A speech addressed to a large public assembly; a popular oration; a loud address a multitude; in a bad sense, a noisy or pompous speech; declamation; ranting.

(v. i.) To make an harangue; to declaim.

(v. t.) To address by an harangue.

(imp. & p. p.) of Harass

(n.) One who harasses.

(imp. & p. p.) of Harbor

(n.) One who, or that which, harbors.

(n.) A tree of the genus Carpinus, of compact, horny texture; hornbeam.

(imp. & p. p.) of Harden

(a.) Made hard, or compact; made unfeeling or callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or vice.

(n.) One who, or that which, hardens; specif., one who tempers tools.

(n.) A species of fern (Lomaria borealis), growing in Europe and Northwestern America.

(n.) A very astringent shrub (Spiraea tomentosa), common in pastures. The Potentilla fruticosa in also called by this name.

(n.) Clash or collision of heads in contest.

(n.) The menhaden. See Menhaden.

(n.) Block's gurnard (Trigla gurnardus) of Europe.

(n.) A California salmon; the steelhead.

(n.) The gray whale.

(n.) A coarse American commercial sponge (Spongia dura).

(n.) The quality or state of being hard, literally or figuratively.

(n.) The cohesion of the particles on the surface of a body, determined by its capacity to scratch another, or be itself scratched;-measured among minerals on a scale of which diamond and talc form the extremes.

(n.) The peculiar quality exhibited by water which has mineral salts dissolved in it. Such water forms an insoluble compound with soap, and is hence unfit for washing purposes.

(n.) That which is hard to hear, as toil, privation, injury, injustice, etc.

(n.) See Jurel.

(n.) Ware made of metal, as cutlery, kitchen utensils, and the like; ironmongery.

(n.) A small, slender, branching plant (Campanula rotundifolia), having blue bell-shaped flowers; also, Scilla nutans, which has similar flowers; -- called also bluebell.

(n.) A long, narrow foot, carried (that is, produced or extending) forward; -- said of dogs.

(n.) A tree (Ochroma Laqopus) of the West Indies, having the stamens united somewhat in the form of a hare's foot.

(n.) Ribaldry; buffoonery; a ribald story.

(n.) The trade or practice of prostitution; habitual or customary lewdness.

(n.) Anything meretricious; as, harlotry in art.

(n.) A harlot; a strumpet; a baggage.

(a.) Free from harm; unhurt; as, to give bond to save another harmless.

(a.) Free from power or disposition to harm; innocent; inoffensive.

(a.) Alt. of Harmonical

(n.) A musical note produced by a number of vibrations which is a multiple of the number producing some other; an overtone. See Harmonics.

(n.) A grappling iron.

(n. pl.) The fore parts of the wales, which encompass the bow of a vessel, and are fastened to the stem.

(n.) A female harper.

(n.) A worn-out strumpet; a vixenish woman; a hag.

(imp. & p. p.) of Harrow

(n.) One who harrows.

(n.) One who harries.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Harry

(n.) A coarse umbelliferous plant of Europe (Tordylium maximum).

(n.) Alt. of Hashish

(n.) Shaped like the head of a halberd; triangular, with the basal angles or lobes spreading; as, a hastate leaf.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hasten

(n.) One who hastens.

(n.) That which hastens; especially, a stand or reflector used for confining the heat of the fire to meat while roasting before it.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hatch

(n.) A house for hatching fish, etc.

(n.) A mode of execution in engraving, drawing, and miniature painting, in which shading is produced by lines crossing each other at angles more or less acute; -- called also crosshatching.

(n.) A square or oblong opening in a deck or floor, affording passage from one deck or story to another; the entrance to a cellar.

(n.) A stand of wood or iron, with hooks or pegs upon which to hang hats, etc.

(n.) Native sulphide of manganese a reddish brown or brownish black mineral.

(a.) Having haunches.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Haunt

(a.) In pale, with the head in chief; -- said of the figure of a fish, as if rising for air.

(n.) A blue isometric mineral, characteristic of some volcani/ rocks. It is a silicate of alumina, lime, and soda, with sulphate of lime.

(a.) Having little or nothing.

(n.) Harbor dues; port dues.

(n.) In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant.

(n.) Probably, the baked berry of the hawthorn tree, that is, coarse fare. See 1st Haw, 2.

(n.) The common European grosbeak (Coccothraustes vulgaris); -- called also cherry finch, and coble.

(n.) A sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), which yields the best quality of tortoise shell; -- called also caret.

(n.) A plant of the genus Hieracium; -- so called from the ancient belief that birds of prey used its juice to strengthen their vision.

(n.) A plant of the genus Senecio (S. hieracifolius).

(n.) One who cuts and cures hay.

(n.) A machine for curing hay in rainy weather.

(n.) A stack or conical pile of hay in the open air.

(n.) Hawthorn.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hazard

(n.) A player at the game of hazard; a gamester.

(n.) One who hazards or ventures.

(n.) Playing at hazard; gaming; gambling.

(n.) Rashness; temerity.

(a.) Destitute of haze.

(n.) The quality or state of being hazy.

(n.) Boisterous mirth; merriment; jollity.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hinder

(n.) One who, or that which, hinders.

(a.) Furthest in or toward the rear; last.

(a.) Obtained from the urine of horses; as, hippuric acid.

(a.) Without hire.

(n.) One who is hired, or who serves for wages; esp., one whose motive and interest in serving another are wholly gainful; a mercenary.

(a.) Serving for hire or wages; venal; mercenary.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the leeches.

(a.) Alt. of Historical

(n.) A player.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hitch

(adv.) To this place; to a prescribed limit.

(adv.) Up to this time; as yet; until now.

(a.) Destitute of a hive.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hoard

(n.) A screen of boards inclosing a house and materials while builders are at work.

(n.) A fence, barrier, or cover, inclosing, surrounding, or concealing something.

(adv.) With a harsh, grating sound or voice.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hobble

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hockle

(a.) Sacramental; as, housling fire.

() of Hovel

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hovel

(n.) A method of securing a good draught in chimneys by covering the top, leaving openings in the sides, or by carrying up two of the sides higher than the other two.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hover

(n.) A gun so short that the projectile, which was hollow, could be put in its place by hand; a kind of mortar.

(n.) A short, light, largebore cannon, usually having a chamber of smaller diameter than the rest of the bore, and intended to throw large projectiles with comparatively small charges.

(n.) A retailer of small articles, of provisions, and the like; a peddler; a hawker.

(n.) A mean, trickish fellow.

(v. i.) To deal in small articles, or in petty bargains.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Huddle

(a.) Indued with humanity.

(n.) The study of human nature.

(v. t.) To make human; to invest with a human personality; to incarnate.

(n.) Human nature or disposition; humanity.

(n.) The study of the humanities; polite learning.

(n.) One of the scholars who in the field of literature proper represented the movement of the Renaissance, and early in the 16th century adopted the name Humanist as their distinctive title.

(n.) One who purposes the study of the humanities, or polite literature.

(n.) One versed in knowledge of human nature.

(n.) The quality of being human; the peculiar nature of man, by which he is distinguished from other beings.

(n.) Mankind collectively; the human race.

(n.) The quality of being humane; the kind feelings, dispositions, and sympathies of man; especially, a disposition to relieve persons or animals in distress, and to treat all creatures with kindness and tenderness.

(n.) Mental cultivation; liberal education; instruction in classical and polite literature.

(n.) The branches of polite or elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the ancient classics; belles-letters.

(v. t.) To render human or humane; to soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize.

(v. t.) To give a human character or expression to.

(v. t.) To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to humanize vaccine lymph.

(v. i.) To become or be made more humane; to become civilized; to be ameliorated.

(n.) Interment; inhumation.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Humble

(n.) Moisture; dampness; a moderate degree of wetness, which is perceptible to the eye or touch; -- used especially of the atmosphere, or of anything which has absorbed moisture from the atmosphere, as clothing.

(a.) Spread over the surface of the ground; procumbent.

(n.) The state or quality of being humble; freedom from pride and arrogance; lowliness of mind; a modest estimate of one's own worth; a sense of one's own unworthiness through imperfection and sinfulness; self-abasement; humbleness.

(n.) An act of submission or courtesy.

(n.) One who, or a machine which, hummels.

(a.) Abounding in hummocks.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Humor

(n.) The theory founded on the influence which the humors were supposed to have in the production of disease; Galenism.

(n.) The manner or disposition of a humorist; humorousness.

(n.) One who attributes diseases of the state of the humors.

(n.) One who has some peculiarity or eccentricity of character, which he indulges in odd or whimsical ways.

(n.) One who displays humor in speaking or writing; one who has a facetious fancy or genius; a wag; a droll.

(v. t.) To humor.

(a.) Moist; humid; watery.

(a.) Subject to be governed by humor or caprice; irregular; capricious; whimsical.

(a.) Full of humor; jocular; exciting laughter; playful; as, a humorous story or author; a humorous aspect.

(n.) A crooked back; a humped back.

(n.) A humpbacked person; a hunchback.

(n.) Any whale of the genus Megaptera, characterized by a hump or bunch on the back. Several species are known. The most common ones in the North Atlantic are Megaptera longimana of Europe, and M. osphyia of America; that of the California coasts is M. versabilis.

(n.) A small salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha), of the northwest coast of America.

(a.) Without a hump.

(n.) An instrument out of tune or rudely constructed; music badly played.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hunch

(imp. & p. p.) of Hunger

(a.) Hungry; pinched for food.

(n.) One who hungers; one who longs.

(a.) Wanting food; starved.

(adv.) With keen appetite.

(adv.) In a hungry manner; voraciously.

(n.) A woman who hunts or follows the chase; as, the huntress Diana.

(pl. ) of Huntsman

(n.) One who hunts, or who practices hunting.

(n.) The person whose office it is to manage the chase or to look after the hounds.

(n.) A whirlwind.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hurry

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hurtle

(a.) Doing no injury; harmless; also, unhurt; without injury or harm.

(n. pl.) A court formerly held in several cities of England; specif., a court held in London, before the lord mayor, recorder, and sheriffs, to determine certain classes of suits for the recovery of lands within the city. In the progress of law reform this court has become unimportant.

(n. pl.) Any one of the temporary courts held for the election of members of the British Parliament.

(n. pl.) The platform on which candidates for Parliament formerly stood in addressing the electors.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hustle

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hutch

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Huzza

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an extinct genus of sharks (Hybodus), especially in the form of the teeth, which consist of a principal median cone with smaller lateral ones.

(a.) Resembling water; watery; aqueous; hyaloid.

(n.) An acid containing hydrogen; -- sometimes applied to distinguish acids like hydrochloric, hydrofluoric, and the like, which contain no oxygen, from the oxygen acids or oxacids. See Acid.

(n.) One of the nutritive zooids of a hydroid colony. Also applied to the proboscis or manubrium of a hydroid medusa. See Illust. of Hydroidea.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hydrate

(a.) Formed into a hydrate; combined with water.

(n.) A gaseous element, colorless, tasteless, and odorless, the lightest known substance, being fourteen and a half times lighter than air (hence its use in filling balloons), and over eleven thousand times lighter than water. It is very abundant, being an ingredient of water and of many other substances, especially those of animal or vegetable origin. It may by produced in many ways, but is chiefly obtained by the action of acids (as sulphuric) on metals, as zinc, iron, etc. It is very inflammable, and is an ingredient of coal gas and water gas. It is standard of chemical equivalents or combining weights, and also of valence, being the typical monad. Symbol H. Atomic weight 1.

(n.) A liquor consisting of honey diluted in water, and after fermentation called mead.

(a.) Alt. of Hydropical

(n.) Same as Dropsy.

(a.) Causing a discharge of water or phlegm.

(n.) A hydrotic medicine.

() A combining form, also used adjectively, indicating hydroxyl as an ingredient.

(n.) A compound radical, or unsaturated group, HO, consisting of one atom of hydrogen and one of oxygen. It is a characteristic part of the hydrates, the alcohols, the oxygen acids, etc.

(n.) A binary compound of hydrogen; a hydride.

(n.) A hygienist.

(a.) Of or pertaining to health or hygiene; sanitary.

(n.) A philosopher who treats chiefly of matter; one who adopts or teaches hylism.

(a.) Of or pertaining to hylozoism.

(n.) Alt. of Hymenean

(n.) Of or pertaining to marriage; as, hymeneal rites.

(n.) Alt. of Hymenean

(n.) A marriage song.

(n.) The spore-bearing surface of certain fungi, as that on the gills of a mushroom.

(a.) Alt. of Hyoidean

(a.) Same as Hyoid, a.

(n.) An alkaloid found with hyoscyamine (with which it is also isomeric) in henbane, and extracted as a white, amorphous, semisolid substance.

(a.) Beneath the axis of the skeleton; subvertebral; hyposkeletal.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hyphen

(n.) Supervention of sleep.

(a.) Having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific.

(a.) Of or pertaining to hypnotism; in a state of hypnotism; liable to hypnotism; as, a hypnotic condition.

(n.) Any agent that produces, or tends to produce, sleep; an opiate; a soporific; a narcotic.

(n.) A person who exhibits the phenomena of, or is subject to, hypnotism.

(n.) A figure in which several things are mentioned that seem to make against the argument, or in favor of the opposite side, each of them being refuted in order.

(n.) Alt. of Hypocarpium

(n.) An astringent inspissated juice obtained from the fruit of a plant (Cytinus hypocistis), growing from the roots of the Cistus, a small European shrub.

(n.) Same as Hypoblast.

(a.) Hypogeous.

(a.) Formed or crystallized at depths the earth's surface; -- said of granite, gneiss, and other rocks, whose crystallization is believed of have taken place beneath a great thickness of overlying rocks. Opposed to epigene.

(n.) The subterraneous portion of a building, as in amphitheaters, for the service of the games; also, subterranean galleries, as the catacombs.

(a.) Pertaining to one or more small elements in the hyoidean arch of fishes, between the caratohyal and urohyal.

(n.) One of the hypohyal bones or cartilages.

(n.) Pain in the head; cephalalgia.

(a.) Afflicted with headache.

(n.) A fillet; a band for the head.

(n.) The band at each end of the back of a book.

(n.) The sunfish (Mola).

(a.) Having no head; beheaded; as, a headless body, neck, or carcass.

(a.) Destitute of a chief or leader.

(a.) Destitute of understanding or prudence; foolish; rash; obstinate.

(a. & adv.) With the head foremost; as, to fall headlong.

(a. & adv.) Rashly; precipitately; without deliberation.

(a. & adv.) Hastily; without delay or respite.

(a.) Rash; precipitate; as, headlong folly.

(a.) Steep; precipitous.

(a.) Most advanced; most forward; as, the headmost ship in a fleet.

(n.) See Headway, 2.

(n.) That part of a boltrope which is sewed to the upper edge or head of a sail.

(n.) Authority or dignity; chief place.

(pl. ) of Headsman

(n.) An executioner who cuts off heads.

(n.) Mental labor.

(a.) Capable of being healed.

(adv.) From the heart; with all the heart; with sincerity.

(adv.) With zeal; actively; vigorously; willingly; cordially; as, he heartily assisted the prince.

(n.) A little heart.

(n.) Same as Heartseed.

(pl. ) of Hearty

(pl. ) of Heathen

(a.) Heathy; abounding in heather; of the nature of heath.

(a.) Destitute of heat; cold.

(a.) Pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting heaven; celestial; not earthly; as, heavenly regions; heavenly music.

(a.) Appropriate to heaven in character or happiness; perfect; pure; supremely blessed; as, a heavenly race; the heavenly, throng.

(adv.) In a manner resembling that of heaven.

(adv.) By the influence or agency of heaven.

(n.) A week; a period of seven days.

(v. t.) To render obtuse; to dull; to blunt; to stupefy; as, to hebetate the intellectual faculties.

(a.) Obtuse; dull.

(a.) Having a dull or blunt and soft point.

(n.) Dullness; stupidity.

(n.) A sacrifice of a hundred oxen or cattle at the same time; hence, the sacrifice or slaughter of any large number of victims.

(n.) The European blue titmouse (Parus coeruleus).

(imp. & p. p.) of Hector

(a.) Resembling a hector; blustering; insolent; taunting.

(a.) Pertaining to, or of, ivy; full of ivy.

(n.) A small European insectivore (Erinaceus Europaeus), and other allied species of Asia and Africa, having the hair on the upper part of its body mixed with prickles or spines. It is able to roll itself into a ball so as to present the spines outwardly in every direction. It is nocturnal in its habits, feeding chiefly upon insects.

(n.) The Canadian porcupine.

(n. pl.) Small shot which scatter like hailstones.

() A nematoid worm of the genus Gordius, resembling a hair. See Gordius.

(v. t.) To set the cock of (a firearm) at the first notch.

(n.) A platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight. See Quarterpace.

(n.) A cart drawn or pushed by hand.

(a.) Manufactured by hand; as, handmade shoes.

(n.) A small piece or silver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail.

(n.) A sweetmeat of boiled brown sugar or molasses made with almonds, and flavored with orange or lemon juice, etc.

(n.) See Hara-kiri.

(n.) A field where grass for hay has been cut; a meadow.

(n.) The nut of the hazel.

(n.) Headdress.

(n.) Apparatus above ground at the mouth of a mine or deep well.

(n.) The line at the head or top of a page.

(n.) See Headrope.

(n.) A note at the head of a page or chapter; in law reports, an abstract of a case, showing the principles involved and the opinion of the court.

(n.) See Race, a water course.

(n.) Any sail set forward of the foremast.

(n.) A headdress.

(n.) The manner of dressing the head, as at a particular time and place.

(n.) A young hedgehog.

(n.) A composition of wax and lampblack, used by shoemakers for polishing, and by antiquaries in copying inscriptions.

(n.) The post supporting the outer end of a propeller shaft.

(n.) A modified respiratory movement; a spasmodic inspiration, consisting of a sudden contraction of the diaphragm, accompanied with closure of the glottis, so that further entrance of air is prevented, while the impulse of the column of air entering and striking upon the closed glottis produces a sound, or hiccough.

(v. i.) To have a hiccough or hiccoughs.

(a.) Of noble birth.

(n.) A trussed frame extending fore and aft, usually above deck, and intended to increase the longitudinal strength and stiffness. Used chiefly in American river and lake steamers. Called also hogging frame, and hogback.

(n.) A civil officer charged with the duty of impounding hogs running at large.

(n.) Check; hindrance; restraint; obstacle.

(n.) The projection or loop on the thill of a vehicle. to which a strap of the harness is attached, to hold back a carriage when going down hill, or in backing; also, the strap or part of the harness so used.

(a.) Made at home; of domestic manufacture; made either in a private family or in one's own country.

(n.) A sweet, saccharine substance, found on the leaves of trees and other plants in small drops, like dew. Two substances have been called by this name; one exuded from the plants, and the other secreted by certain insects, esp. aphids.

(n.) A kind of tobacco moistened with molasses.

(n.) The first book for children, or that from which in former times they learned their letters and rudiments; -- so called because a sheet of horn covered the small, thin board of oak, or the slip of paper, on which the alphabet, digits, and often the Lord's Prayer, were written or printed; a primer.

(n.) A book containing the rudiments of any science or branch of knowledge; a manual; a handbook.

(n.) The garfish or sea needle.

(n.) Any dipterous fly of the family Tabanidae, that stings horses, and sucks their blood.

(n.) The horse tick or forest fly (Hippobosca).

(n.) A page; a servant.

(n.) A house or shelter for fowls.

(n.) A place where hens roost.