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H Dictionary H - The seventh degree in the diatonic scale, being used by the Germans for B natural. See B.
Ha Dictionary H - interjection An exclamation denoting surprise, joy, or grief. Both as uttered and as written, it expresses a great variety of emotions, determined by the tone or the context. When repeated, ha, ha, it is an expression of laughter, satisfaction, or triumph, sometimes of derisive laughter; or sometimes it is equivalent to "Well, it is so.".
Haaf Dictionary H - noun The deepsea fishing for cod, ling, and tusk, off the Shetland Isles.
Haak Dictionary H - noun A sea fish. See Hake.
Haar Dictionary H - noun A fog; esp., a fog or mist with a chill wind.
Habeas corpus Dictionary H - A writ having for its object to bring a party before a court or judge; especially, one to inquire into the cause of a person's imprisonment or detention by another, with the view to protect the right to personal liberty; also, one to bring a prisoner into court to testify in a pending trial.
Habendum Dictionary H - noun 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.
Haberdash Dictionary H - intransitive verb To deal in small wares.
Haberdasher Dictionary H - noun A dealer in small wares, as tapes, pins, needles, and thread; also, a hatter.
Haberdashery Dictionary H - noun The goods and wares sold by a haberdasher; also (Fig.), trifles.
Haberdine Dictionary H - noun A cod salted and dried.
Habergeon Dictionary H - noun Properly, a short hauberk, but often used loosely for the hauberk.
Habilatory Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to clothing; wearing clothes.
Habile Dictionary H - adjective Fit; qualified; also, apt.
Habiliment Dictionary H - noun A garment; an article of clothing.
Habilimented Dictionary H - adjective Clothed. Taylor (1630).
Habilitate Dictionary H - adjective Qualified or entitled.
Habilitation Dictionary H - noun Equipment; qualification.
Hability Dictionary H - noun Ability; aptitude.
Habit Dictionary H - noun The usual condition or state of a person or thing, either natural or acquired, regarded as something had, possessed, and firmly retained; as, a religious habit; his habit is morose; elms have a spreading habit; esp., physical temperament or constitution; as, a full habit of body.
Habited Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Habit.
Habiting Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Habit.
Habitability Dictionary H - noun Habitableness.
Habitable Dictionary H - adjective Capable of being inhabited; that may be inhabited or dwelt in; as, the habitable world.
Habitakle Dictionary H - verb A dwelling place.
Habitan Dictionary H - noun Same as Habitant, 2.
Habitance Dictionary H - noun Dwelling; abode; residence.
Habiitancy Dictionary H - noun Same as Inhabitancy.
Habitant Dictionary H - verb transitive An inhabitant; a dweller.
Habitat Dictionary H - verb transitive The natural abode, locality or region of an animal or plant.
Habitation Dictionary H - noun The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
Habitator Dictionary H - noun A dweller; an inhabitant.
Habitual Dictionary H - noun Formed or acquired by habit or use.
Habituated Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Habituate.
Habituating Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Habituate.
Habituate Dictionary H - verb transitive To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize.
Habituation Dictionary H - noun The act of habituating, or accustoming; the state of being habituated.
Habitude Dictionary H - noun Habitual attitude; usual or accustomed state with reference to something else; established or usual relations.
Habitue Dictionary H - noun One who habitually frequents a place; as, an habitue of a theater.
Habiture Dictionary H - noun Habitude.
Habitus Dictionary H - noun Habitude; mode of life; general appearance.
Hable Dictionary H - adjective See Habile.
Habnab Dictionary H - adverb By chance.
Hachure Dictionary H - noun A short line used in drawing and engraving, especially in shading and denoting different surfaces, as in map drawing. See Hatching.
Hacienda Dictionary H - noun 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.
Hack Dictionary H - noun A frame or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a mill race, etc.
Hacked Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hack.
Hacking Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hack.
Hackamore Dictionary H - noun A halter consisting of a long leather or rope strap and headstall, - used for leading or tieing a pack animal.
Hackberry Dictionary H - noun A genus of trees (Celtis) related to the elm, but bearing drupes with scanty, but often edible, pulp. C. occidentalis is common in the Eastern United States.
Hackbolt Dictionary H - noun The greater shearwater or hagdon. See Hagdon.
Hackbuss Dictionary H - noun Same as Hagbut.
Hackee Dictionary H - noun The chipmunk; also, the chickaree or red squirrel.
Hacker Dictionary H - noun One who, or that which, hacks. Specifically: A cutting instrument for making notches; esp., one used for notching pine trees in collecting turpentine; a hack.
Hackery Dictionary H - noun A cart with wooden wheels, drawn by bullocks.
Hackle Dictionary H - noun A comb for dressing flax, raw silk, etc.; a hatchel.
Hackled Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hackle.
Hackling Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hackle.
Hackly Dictionary H - adjective Rough or broken, as if hacked.
Hackmen Dictionary H - pleural of Hackman.
Hackman Dictionary H - noun The driver of a hack or carriage for public hire.
Hackmatack Dictionary H - noun The American larch (Larix Americana), a coniferous tree with slender deciduous leaves; also, its heavy, close-grained timber. Called also tamarack.
Hackneys Dictionary H - pleural of Hackney.
Hackney Dictionary H - noun A horse for riding or driving; a nag; a pony.
Hackneyed Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hackney.
Hackneying Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hackney.
Hackneymen Dictionary H - pleural of Hackneyman.
Hackneyman Dictionary H - noun A man who lets horses and carriages for hire.
Hackster Dictionary H - noun A bully; a bravo; a ruffian; an assassin.
Hacqueton Dictionary H - noun Same as Acton.
Had Dictionary H - imperative & past particle See Have.
Hadder Dictionary H - noun Heather; heath.
Haddie Dictionary H - noun The haddock.
Haddock Dictionary H - noun A marine food fish (Melanogrammus aeglefinus), allied to the cod, inhabiting the northern coasts of Europe and America. It has a dark lateral line and a black spot on each side of the body, just back of the gills. Galled also haddie, and dickie.
Hade Dictionary H - noun The descent of a hill.
Hades Dictionary H - noun The nether world (according to classical mythology, the abode of the shades, ruled over by Hades or Pluto); the invisible world; the grave.
Hadj Dictionary H - noun The pilgrimage to Mecca, performed by Mohammedans.
Hadji Dictionary H - noun A Mohammedan pilgrim to Mecca; - used among Orientals as a respectful salutation or a title of honor.
Hadrosaurus Dictionary H - noun An American herbivorous dinosaur of great size, allied to the iguanodon. It is found in the Cretaceous formation.
Haecceity Dictionary H - Literally, this-ness. A scholastic term to express individuality or singleness; as, this book.
Haema- Dictionary H - Alt. of Haemo-.
Haemato- Dictionary H - Alt. of Haemo-.
Haemo- Dictionary H - Combining forms indicating relation or resemblance to blood, association with blood; as, haemapod, haematogenesis, haemoscope.
Haemachrome Dictionary H - noun Hematin.
Haemacyanin Dictionary H - noun A substance found in the blood of the octopus, which gives to it its blue color.
Haemacytometer Dictionary H - noun An apparatus for determining the number of corpuscles in a given quantity of blood.
Haemad Dictionary H - adverb Toward the haemal side; on the haemal side of; - opposed to neurad.
Haemadrometer Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Haemadremometer.
Haemadremometer Dictionary H - noun Same as Hemadrometer.
Haemadrometry Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Haemadromometry.
Haemadromometry Dictionary H - noun Same as Hemadrometry.
Haemadromograph Dictionary H - noun An instrument for registering the velocity of the blood.
Haemadynameter Dictionary H - Alt. of Haemadynamometer.
Haemadynamometer Dictionary H - Same as Hemadynamometer.
Haemadynamics Dictionary H - noun Same as Hemadynamics.
Haemal Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to the blood or blood vessels; also, ventral. See Hemal.
Haemaphaein Dictionary H - noun A brownish substance sometimes found in the blood, in cases of jaundice.
Haemapod Dictionary H - noun An haemapodous animal.
Haemapodous Dictionary H - adjective Having the limbs on, or directed toward, the ventral or hemal side, as in vertebrates; - opposed to neuropodous.
Haemapoietic Dictionary H - adjective Bloodforming; as, the haemapoietic function of the spleen.
Haemapophysis Dictionary H - noun Same as Hemapophysis.
Haemastatics Dictionary H - noun Same as Hemastatics.
Haematachometer Dictionary H - noun A form of apparatus (somewhat different from the hemadrometer) for measuring the velocity of the blood.
Haematachometry Dictionary H - noun The measurement of the velocity of the blood.
Haematemesis Dictionary H - noun Same as Hematemesis.
Haematic Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to the blood; sanguine; brownish red.
Haematin Dictionary H - noun Same as Hematin.
Haematinometer Dictionary H - noun Same as Hematinometer.
Haematinometric Dictionary H - adjective Same as Hematinometric.
Haematite Dictionary H - noun Same as Hematite.
Haematitic Dictionary H - adjective Of a blood-red color; crimson; (Bot.) brownish red.
Haematoblast Dictionary H - noun One of the very minute, disk-shaped bodies found in blood with the ordinary red corpuscles and white corpuscles; a third kind of blood corpuscle, supposed by some to be an early stage in the development of the red corpuscles; - called also blood plaque, and blood plate.
Haematocrya Dictionary H - noun plural The cold-blooded vertebrates. Same as Hematocrya.
Haematocryal Dictionary H - adjective Cold-blooded.
Haematocrystallin Dictionary H - noun Same as Hematocrystallin.
Haematodynamometer Dictionary H - noun Same as Hemadynamometer.
Haematogenesis Dictionary H - noun The origin and development of blood.
Haematogenic Dictionary H - adjective Relating to haematogenesis.
Haematogenous Dictionary H - adjective Originating in the blood.
Haematoglobulin Dictionary H - noun Same as Hematoglobin.
Haematoid Dictionary H - adjective Same as Hematoid.
Haematoidin Dictionary H - noun Same as Hematoidin.
Haematoin Dictionary H - noun A substance formed from the hematin of blood, by removal of the iron through the action of concentrated sulphuric acid. Two like bodies, called respectively haematoporphyrin and haematolin, are formed in a similar manner.
Haematolin Dictionary H - noun See Haematoin.
Haematology Dictionary H - noun The science which treats of the blood. Same as Hematology.
Haematometer Dictionary H - noun Same as Hemadynamometer.
Haematophlina Dictionary H - noun plural A division of Cheiroptera, including the bloodsucking bats. See Vampire.
Haematoplast Dictionary H - noun Same as Haematoblast.
Haematoplastic Dictionary H - adjective Blood formative; - applied to a substance in early fetal life, which breaks up gradually into blood vessels.
Haematoporphyrin Dictionary H - noun See Haematoin.
Haematosac Dictionary H - noun A vascular sac connected, beneath the brain, in many fishes, with the infundibulum.
Haematoscope Dictionary H - noun A haemoscope.
Haematosin Dictionary H - noun Hematin.
Haematosis Dictionary H - noun Same as Hematosis.
Haematotherma Dictionary H - noun plural Same as Hematotherma.
Haematothermal Dictionary H - adjective Warm-blooded; homoiothermal.
Haematothorax Dictionary H - noun Same as Hemothorax.
Haematexylin Dictionary H - noun The coloring principle of logwood. It is obtained as a yellow crystalline substance, C16H14O6, with a sweetish taste. Formerly called also hematin.
Haematoxylon Dictionary H - noun A genus of leguminous plants containing but a single species, the H. Campechianum or logwood tree, native in Yucatan.
Haematozoa Dictionary H - pleural of Haematozoon.
Haematozoon Dictionary H - noun A parasite inhabiting the blood.
Haemic Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to the blood; hemal.
Haemin Dictionary H - noun Same as Hemin.
Haemochrome Dictionary H - noun Same as Haemachrome.
Haemochromogen Dictionary H - noun A body obtained from hemoglobin, by the action of reducing agents in the absence of oxygen.
Haemochromometer Dictionary H - noun An apparatus for measuring the amount of hemoglobin in a fluid, by comparing it with a solution of known strength and of normal color.
Haemocyanin Dictionary H - noun Same as Haemacyanin.
Haemocytolysis Dictionary H - noun See Haemocytotrypsis.
Haemocytometer Dictionary H - noun See Haemacytometer.
Haemocytotrypsis Dictionary H - noun A breaking up of the blood corpuscles, as by pressure, in distinction from solution of the corpuscles, or haemcytolysis.
Haemodromograph Dictionary H - noun Same as Haemadromograph.
Haemodynameter Dictionary H - noun Same as Hemadynamics.
Haemoglobin Dictionary H - noun Same as Hemoglobin.
Haemoglobinometer Dictionary H - noun Same as Hemochromometer.
Haemolutein Dictionary H - noun See Hematoidin.
Haemomanometer Dictionary H - noun Same as Hemadynamometer.
Haemometer Dictionary H - noun Same as Hemadynamometer.
Haemony Dictionary H - noun A plant described by Milton as "of sovereign use against all enchantments.".
Haemoplastic Dictionary H - adjective Same as Haematoplastic.
Haemorrhoidal Dictionary H - adjective Same as Hemorrhoidal.
Haemoscope Dictionary H - noun An instrument devised by Hermann, for regulating and measuring the thickness of a layer of blood for spectroscopic examination.
Haemostatic Dictionary H - adjective Same as Hemostatic.
Haemotachometer Dictionary H - noun Same as Haematachometer.
Haemotachometry Dictionary H - noun Same as Haematachometry.
Haf Dictionary H - imperative Hove.
Haffle Dictionary H - intransitive verb To stammer; to speak unintelligibly; to prevaricate.
Haft Dictionary H - noun A handle; that part of an instrument or vessel taken into the hand, and by which it is held and used; - said chiefly of a knife, sword, or dagger; the hilt.
Hafter Dictionary H - noun A caviler; a wrangler.
Hag Dictionary H - noun A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard.
Hagged Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hag.
Hagging Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hag.
Hagberry Dictionary H - noun A plant of the genus Prunus (P. Padus); the bird cherry.
Hagborn Dictionary H - adjective Born of a hag or witch.
Hagbut Dictionary H - noun A harquebus, of which the but was bent down or hooked for convenience in taking aim.
Hagbutter Dictionary H - noun A soldier armed with a hagbut or arquebus.
Hagdon Dictionary H - noun One of several species of sea birds of the genus Puffinus; esp., P. major, the greater shearwarter, and P. Stricklandi, the black hagdon or sooty shearwater; - called also hagdown, haglin, and hag. See Shearwater.
Haggadoth Dictionary H - pleural of Haggada.
Haggada Dictionary H - noun A story, anecdote, or legend in the Talmud, to explain or illustrate the text of the Old Testament.
Haggard Dictionary H - adjective Wild or intractable; disposed to break away from duty; untamed; as, a haggard or refractory hawk.
Haggardly Dictionary H - adverb In a haggard manner.
Haggis Dictionary H - noun A Scotch pudding made of the heart, liver, lights, etc., of a sheep or lamb, minced with suet, onions, oatmeal, etc., highly seasoned, and boiled in the stomach of the same animal; minced head and pluck.
Haggish Dictionary H - adjective Like a hag; ugly; wrinkled.
Haggishly Dictionary H - adverb In the manner of a hag.
Haggled Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Haggle.
Haggling Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Haggle.
Haggle Dictionary H - verb transitive To cut roughly or hack; to cut into small pieces; to notch or cut in an unskillful manner; to make rough or mangle by cutting; as, a boy haggles a stick of wood.
Haggler Dictionary H - noun One who haggles or is difficult in bargaining.
Hagiarchy Dictionary H - noun A sacred government; by holy orders of men.
Hagiocracy Dictionary H - noun Government by a priesthood; hierarchy.
Hagiographa Dictionary H - noun plural The last of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament, or that portion not contained in the Law and the Prophets. It comprises Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Canticles, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Chronicles.
Hagiographal Dictionary H - Pertaining to the hagiographa, or to sacred writings.
Hagiographer Dictionary H - noun One of the writers of the hagiographa; a writer of lives of the saints.
Hagiography Dictionary H - noun Same Hagiographa.
Hagiolatry Dictionary H - noun The invocation or worship of saints.
Hagiologist Dictionary H - noun One who treats of the sacred writings; a writer of the lives of the saints; a hagiographer.
Hagiology Dictionary H - noun The history or description of the sacred writings or of sacred persons; a narrative of the lives of the saints; a catalogue of saints.
Hagioscope Dictionary H - noun An opening made in the interior walls of a cruciform church to afford a view of the altar to those in the transepts; - called, in architecture, a squint.
Hag-ridden Dictionary H - adjective Ridden by a hag or witch; hence, afflicted with nightmare.
Hagseed Dictionary H - noun The offspring of a hag.
Hagship Dictionary H - noun The state or title of a hag.
Hag-taper Dictionary H - noun The great woolly mullein (Verbascum Thapsus).
Haguebut Dictionary H - noun See Hagbut.
Hah Dictionary H - interjection Same as Ha.
Ha-ha Dictionary H - noun A sunk fence; a fence, wall, or ditch, not visible till one is close upon it.
Haidingerite Dictionary H - noun A mineral consisting of the arseniate of lime; - so named in honor of W. Haidinger, of Vienna.
Haiduck Dictionary H - noun Formerly, a mercenary foot soldier in Hungary, now, a halberdier of a Hungarian noble, or an attendant in German or Hungarian courts.
Haik Dictionary H - noun A large piece of woolen or cotton cloth worn by Arabs as an outer garment.
Haikal Dictionary H - noun The central chapel of the three forming the sanctuary of a Coptic church. It contains the high altar, and is usually closed by an embroidered curtain.
Hail Dictionary H - noun Small roundish masses of ice precipitated from the clouds, where they are formed by the congelation of vapor. The separate masses or grains are called hailstones.
Halled Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hail.
Halting Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hail.
Hail-fellow Dictionary H - noun An intimate companion.
Hailse Dictionary H - verb transitive To greet; to salute.
Hailshot Dictionary H - noun plural Small shot which scatter like hailstones.
Hailstone Dictionary H - noun A single particle of ice falling from a cloud; a frozen raindrop; a pellet of hail.
Hailstorm Dictionary H - noun A storm accompanied with hail; a shower of hail.
Haily Dictionary H - adjective Of hail.
Han Dictionary H - verb transitive To inclose for mowing; to set aside for grass.
Hain't Dictionary H - A contraction of have not or has not; as, I hain't, he hain't, we hain't.
Hair Dictionary H - noun The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole of the body.
Hairbell Dictionary H - noun See Harebell.
Hairbird Dictionary H - noun The chipping sparrow.
Hairbrained Dictionary H - adjective See Harebrained.
Hairbreadth Dictionary H - Alt. of Hair'sbreadth.
Hair'sbreadth Dictionary H - The diameter or breadth of a hair; a very small distance; sometimes, definitely, the forty-eighth part of an inch.
Hair-brown Dictionary H - adjective Of a clear tint of brown, resembling brown human hair. It is composed of equal proportions of red and green.
Hairbrush Dictionary H - noun A brush for cleansing and smoothing the hair.
Haircloth Dictionary H - noun Stuff or cloth made wholly or in part of hair.
Hairdresser Dictionary H - noun One who dresses or cuts hair; a barber.
Haired Dictionary H - adjective Having hair.
Hairen Dictionary H - adjective Hairy.
Hair grass Dictionary H - A grass with very slender leaves or branches; as the Agrostis scabra, and several species of Aira or Deschampsia.
Hairiness Dictionary H - noun The state of abounding, or being covered, with hair.
Hairless Dictionary H - adjective Destitute of hair.
Hairpin Dictionary H - noun A pin, usually forked, or of bent wire, for fastening the hair in place, - used by women.
Hair-salt Dictionary H - noun A variety of native Epsom salt occurring in silky fibers.
Hairsplitter Dictionary H - noun One who makes excessively nice or needless distinctions in reasoning; one who quibbles.
Hairsplitting Dictionary H - adjective Making excessively nice or trivial distinctions in reasoning; subtle.
Hairspring Dictionary H - noun The slender recoil spring which regulates the motion of the balance in a timepiece.
Hairstreak Dictionary H - noun A butterfly of the genus Thecla; as, the green hairstreak (T. rubi).
Hairtail Dictionary H - noun 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.
Hairworm Dictionary H - A nematoid worm of the genus Gordius, resembling a hair. See Gordius.
Hairy Dictionary H - adjective Bearing or covered with hair; made of or resembling hair; rough with hair; rough with hair; rough with hair; hirsute.
Haitian Dictionary H - adjective & noun See Haytian.
Haye Dictionary H - noun The Egyptian asp or cobra (Naja haje.) It is related to the cobra of India, and like the latter has the power of inflating its neck into a hood. Its bite is very venomous. It is supposed to be the snake by means of whose bite Cleopatra committed suicide, and hence is sometimes called Cleopatra's snake or asp. See Asp.
Hake Dictionary H - noun A drying shed, as for unburned tile.
Hake's-dame Dictionary H - noun See Forkbeard.
Haketon Dictionary H - noun Same as Acton.
Hakim Dictionary H - noun A wise man; a physician, esp. a Mohammedan.
Halachoth Dictionary H - pleural of Halacha.
Halacha Dictionary H - noun The general term for the Hebrew oral or traditional law; one of two branches of exposition in the Midrash. See Midrash.
Halation Dictionary H - noun An appearance as of a halo of light, surrounding the edges of dark objects in a photographic picture.
Halberd Dictionary H - noun An ancient long-handled weapon, of which the head had a point and several long, sharp edges, curved or straight, and sometimes additional points. The heads were sometimes of very elaborate form.
Halberdier Dictionary H - noun One who is armed with a halberd.
Halberd-shaped Dictionary H - adjective Hastate.
Halcyon Dictionary H - noun A kingfisher. By modern ornithologists restricted to a genus including a limited number of species having omnivorous habits, as the sacred kingfisher (Halcyon sancta) of Australia.
Halcyonian Dictionary H - adjective Halcyon; calm.
Halcyonold Dictionary H - adjective & noun See Alcyonoid.
Hale Dictionary H - adjective Sound; entire; healthy; robust; not impaired; as, a hale body.
Haled Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hale.
Haling Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hale.
Halesia Dictionary H - noun A genus of American shrubs containing several species, called snowdrop trees, or silver-bell trees. They have showy, white flowers, drooping on slender pedicels.
Half Dictionary H - adjective Consisting of a moiety, or half; as, a half bushel; a half hour; a half dollar; a half view.
Halves Dictionary H - pleural of Half.
Half-and-half Dictionary H - noun A mixture of two malt liquors, esp. porter and ale, in about equal parts.
Halfbeak Dictionary H - noun Any slender, marine fish of the genus Hemirhamphus, having the upper jaw much shorter than the lower; - called also balahoo.
Half blood Dictionary H - The relation between persons born of the same father or of the same mother, but not of both; as, a brother or sister of the half blood. See Blood, n., 2 and 4.
Half-blooded Dictionary H - adjective Proceeding from a male and female of different breeds or races; having only one parent of good stock; as, a half-blooded sheep.
Half-boot Dictionary H - noun A boot with a short top covering only the ankle. See Cocker, and Congress boot, under Congress.
Half-bound Dictionary H - noun Having only the back and corners in leather, as a book.
Half-bred Dictionary H - adjective Half-blooded.
Half-breed Dictionary H - adjective Half-blooded.
Half-brother Dictionary H - noun A brother by one parent, but not by both.
Half-caste Dictionary H - noun One born of a European parent on the one side, and of a Hindoo or Mohammedan on the other. Also adjective; as, half-caste parents.
Half-clammed Dictionary H - adjective Half-filled.
Halfcocked Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Halfcock.
Halfcocking Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Halfcock.
Halfcock Dictionary H - verb transitive To set the cock of (a firearm) at the first notch.
Half-cracked Dictionary H - adjective Half-demented; half-witted.
Half-deck Dictionary H - noun A shell of the genus Crepidula; a boat shell. See Boat shell.
Half-decked Dictionary H - adjective Partially decked.
Halfen Dictionary H - adjective Wanting half its due qualities.
Halfendeal Dictionary H - adverb Half; by the part.
Halfer Dictionary H - noun One who possesses or gives half only; one who shares.
Half-faced Dictionary H - adjective Showing only part of the face; wretched looking; meager.
Half-fish Dictionary H - noun A salmon in its fifth year of growth.
Half-hatched Dictionary H - adjective Imperfectly hatched; as, half-hatched eggs.
Half-heard Dictionary H - adjective Imperfectly or partly heard to the end.
Half-hearted Dictionary H - adjective Wanting in heart or spirit; ungenerous; unkind.
Half-hourly Dictionary H - adjective Done or happening at intervals of half an hour.
Half-learned Dictionary H - adjective Imperfectly learned.
Half-length Dictionary H - adjective Of half the whole or ordinary length, as a picture.
Half-mast Dictionary H - noun A point some distance below the top of a mast or staff; as, a flag a half-mast (a token of mourning, etc.).
Half-moon Dictionary H - noun The moon at the quarters, when half its disk appears illuminated.
Halfness Dictionary H - noun The quality of being half; incompleteness.
Halfpace Dictionary H - noun A platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight. See Quarterpace.
Half-pike Dictionary H - noun A short pike, sometimes carried by officers of infantry, sometimes used in boarding ships; a spontoon.
Half-port Dictionary H - noun One half of a shutter made in two parts for closing a porthole.
Half-ray Dictionary H - noun A straight line considered as drawn from a center to an indefinite distance in one direction, the complete ray being the whole line drawn to an indefinite distance in both directions.
Half-read Dictionary H - adjective Informed by insufficient reading; superficial; shallow.
Half seas over Dictionary H - Half drunk.
Half-sighted Dictionary H - adjective Seeing imperfectly; having weak discernment.
Half-sister Dictionary H - noun A sister by one parent only.
Half-strained Dictionary H - adjective Half-bred; imperfect.
Half-sword Dictionary H - noun Half the length of a sword; close fight.
Half-timbered Dictionary H - adjective Constructed of a timber frame, having the spaces filled in with masonry; - said of buildings.
Half-tounue Dictionary H - noun A jury, for the trial of a foreigner, composed equally of citizens and aliens.
Halfway Dictionary H - adverb In the middle; at half the distance; imperfectly; partially; as, he halfway yielded.
Half-wit Dictionary H - noun A foolish; a dolt; a blockhead; a dunce.
Half-witted Dictionary H - adjective Weak in intellect; silly.
Half-yearly Dictionary H - adjective Two in a year; semiannual. - adv. Twice in a year; semiannually.
Halibut Dictionary H - noun A large, northern, marine flatfish (Hippoglossus vulgaris), of the family Pleuronectidae. It often grows very large, weighing more than three hundred pounds. It is an important food fish.
Halichondriae Dictionary H - noun plural An order of sponges, having simple siliceous spicules and keratose fibers; - called also Keratosilicoidea.
Halicore Dictionary H - noun Same as Dugong.
Halidom Dictionary H - noun Holiness; sanctity; sacred oath; sacred things; sanctuary; - used chiefly in oaths.
Halieutics Dictionary H - noun A treatise upon fish or the art of fishing; ichthyology.
Halmas Dictionary H - adjective The feast of All Saints; Hallowmas.
Haliographer Dictionary H - noun One who writes about or describes the sea.
Haliography Dictionary H - noun Description of the sea; the science that treats of the sea.
Haliotis Dictionary H - noun A genus of marine shells; the ear-shells. See Abalone.
Haliotoid Dictionary H - adjective Like or pertaining to the genus Haliotis; ear-shaped.
Halisauria Dictionary H - noun plural The Enaliosauria.
Halite Dictionary H - noun Native salt; sodium chloride.
Halituous Dictionary H - adjective Produced by, or like, breath; vaporous.
Halk Dictionary H - noun A nook; a corner.
Hall Dictionary H - noun A building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London.
Hallage Dictionary H - noun A fee or toll paid for goods sold in a hall.
Halleluiah Dictionary H - noun & interjection Alt. of Hallelujah.
Hallelujah Dictionary H - noun & interjection Praise ye Jehovah; praise ye the Lord; - an exclamation used chiefly in songs of praise or thanksgiving to God, and as an expression of gratitude or adoration.
Hallelujatic Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or containing, hallelujahs.
Halliard Dictionary H - noun See Halyard.
Hallidome Dictionary H - noun Same as Halidom.
Hallier Dictionary H - noun A kind of net for catching birds.
Hall-mark Dictionary H - noun The official stamp of the Goldsmiths' Company and other assay offices, in the United Kingdom, on gold and silver articles, attesting their purity. Also used figuratively; - as, a word or phrase lacks the hall-mark of the best writers.
Halloa Dictionary H - See Halloo.
Halloo Dictionary H - noun A loud exclamation; a call to invite attention or to incite a person or an animal; a shout.
Hallooed Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Halloo.
Halloing Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Halloo.
Hallowed Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hallow.
Hallowing Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hallow.
Hallow Dictionary H - verb transitive To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence.
Halloween Dictionary H - noun The evening preceding Allhallows or All Saints' Day.
Hallowmas Dictionary H - noun The feast of All Saints, or Allhallows.
Halloysite Dictionary H - noun A claylike mineral, occurring in soft, smooth, amorphous masses, of a whitish color.
Hallucal Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to the hallux.
Hallucinate Dictionary H - intransitive verb To wander; to go astray; to err; to blunder; - used of mental processes.
Hallucination Dictionary H - noun The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; error; mistake; a blunder.
Hallucinator Dictionary H - noun One whose judgment and acts are affected by hallucinations; one who errs on account of his hallucinations.
Hallucinatory Dictionary H - adjective Partaking of, or tending to produce, hallucination.
Hallux Dictionary H - noun The first, or preaxial, digit of the hind limb, corresponding to the pollux in the fore limb; the great toe; the hind toe of birds.
Halm Dictionary H - noun Same as Haulm.
Halma Dictionary H - noun The long jump, with weights in the hands, - the most important of the exercises of the Pentathlon.
Halos Dictionary H - pleural of Halo.
Halo Dictionary H - noun A luminous circle, usually prismatically colored, round the sun or moon, and supposed to be caused by the refraction of light through crystals of ice in the atmosphere. Connected with halos there are often white bands, crosses, or arches, resulting from the same atmospheric conditions.
Haloed Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Halo.
Haloing Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Halo.
Halogen Dictionary H - noun An electro-negative element or radical, which, by combination with a metal, forms a haloid salt; especially, chlorine, bromine, and iodine; sometimes, also, fluorine and cyanogen. See Chlorine family, under Chlorine.
Halogenous Dictionary H - adjective Of the nature of a halogen.
Haloid Dictionary H - adjective Resembling salt; - said of certain binary compounds consisting of a metal united to a negative element or radical, and now chiefly applied to the chlorides, bromides, iodides, and sometimes also to the fluorides and cyanides.
Halomancy Dictionary H - noun See Alomancy.
Halometer Dictionary H - noun An instrument for measuring the forms and angles of salts and crystals; a goniometer.
Halones Dictionary H - noun plural Alternating transparent and opaque white rings which are seen outside the blastoderm, on the surface of the developing egg of the hen and other birds.
Halophyte Dictionary H - noun A plant found growing in salt marshes, or in the sea.
Haloscope Dictionary H - noun An instrument for exhibition or illustration of the phenomena of halos, parhelia, and the like.
Halotrichite Dictionary H - noun An iron alum occurring in silky fibrous aggregates of a yellowish white color.
Haloxyline Dictionary H - noun An explosive mixture, consisting of sawdust, charcoal, niter, and ferrocyanide of potassium, used as a substitute for gunpowder.
Halp Dictionary H - imperative Helped.
Halpace Dictionary H - noun See Haut pas.
Hals Dictionary H - noun The neck or throat.
Halse Dictionary H - verb transitive To embrace about the neck; to salute; to greet.
Halsed Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Halse.
Halsing Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Halse.
Halsening Dictionary H - adjective Sounding harshly in the throat; inharmonious; rough.
Halser Dictionary H - noun See Hawser.
Halt Dictionary H - 3d pers. sing. pres. of Hold, contraction for holdeth.
Halted Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Halt.
Halter Dictionary H - noun One who halts or limps; a cripple.
Haltered Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Halter.
Haltering Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Halter.
Halteres Dictionary H - noun plural Balancers; the rudimentary hind wings of Diptera.
Halter-sack Dictionary H - noun A term of reproach, implying that one is fit to be hanged.
Haltingly Dictionary H - adverb In a halting or limping manner.
Halvans Dictionary H - noun plural Impure ore; dirty ore.
Halve Dictionary H - noun A half.
Halved Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Halve.
Halving Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Halve.
Halwe Dictionary H - noun A saint.
Hal'yard Dictionary H - verb transitive A rope or tackle for hoisting or lowering yards, sails, flags, etc.
Halysites Dictionary H - noun A genus of Silurian fossil corals; the chain corals. See Chain coral, under Chain.
Ham Dictionary H - noun Home.
Hamadryads Dictionary H - pleural of Hamadryad.
Hamadryades Dictionary H - pleural of Hamadryad.
Hamadryad Dictionary H - noun A tree nymph whose life ended with that of the particular tree, usually an oak, which had been her abode.
Hamadryas Dictionary H - noun The sacred baboon of Egypt (Cynocephalus Hamadryas).
Hamamelis Dictionary H - noun A genus of plants which includes the witch-hazel (Hamamelis Virginica), a preparation of which is used medicinally.
Hamate Dictionary H - adjective Hooked; bent at the end into a hook; hamous.
Hamated Dictionary H - adjective Hooked, or set with hooks; hamate.
Hamatum Dictionary H - noun See Unciform.
Hamble Dictionary H - verb transitive To hamstring.
Hamburg Dictionary H - noun A commercial city of Germany, near the mouth of the Elbe.
Hame Dictionary H - noun Home.
Hamel Dictionary H - verb transitive Same as Hamele.
Hamesecken Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Hamesucken.
Hamesucken Dictionary H - noun The felonious seeking and invasion of a person in his dwelling house.
Hamiform Dictionary H - noun Hook-shaped.
Hamilton period Dictionary H - A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; - so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
Haminura Dictionary H - noun A large edible river fish (Erythrinus macrodon) of Guiana.
Hamite Dictionary H - noun A fossil cephalopod of the genus Hamites, related to the ammonites, but having the last whorl bent into a hooklike form.
Haitic Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to Ham or his descendants.
Hamlet Dictionary H - noun A small village; a little cluster of houses in the country.
Hamleted Dictionary H - particle adjective Confined to a hamlet.
Hammer Dictionary H - noun An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle.
Hammered Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hammer.
Hammering Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hammer.
Hammerable Dictionary H - adjective Capable of being formed or shaped by a hammer.
Hammer-beam Dictionary H - noun A member of one description of roof truss, called hammer-beam truss, which is so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer-beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam.
Hammercloth Dictionary H - noun The cloth which covers a coach box.
Hammer-dressed Dictionary H - adjective Having the surface roughly shaped or faced with the stonecutter's hammer; - said of building stone.
Hammerer Dictionary H - noun One who works with a hammer.
Hammer-harden Dictionary H - verb transitive To harden, as a metal, by hammering it in the cold state.
Hammerhead Dictionary H - noun A shark of the genus Sphyrna or Zygaena, having the eyes set on projections from the sides of the head, which gives it a hammer shape. The Sphyrna zygaena is found in the North Atlantic. Called also hammer fish, and balance fish.
Hammerkop Dictionary H - noun A bird of the Heron family; the umber.
Hammer-less Dictionary H - adjective Without a visible hammer; - said of a gun having a cock or striker concealed from sight, and out of the way of an accidental touch.
Hammermen Dictionary H - pleural of Hammerman.
Hammerman Dictionary H - noun A hammerer; a forgeman.
Hammochrysos Dictionary H - noun A stone with spangles of gold color in it.
Hammock Dictionary H - noun A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends.
Hamose Dictionary H - Alt. of Hamous.
Hamous Dictionary H - Having the end hooked or curved.
Hamper Dictionary H - noun A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles; as, a hamper of wine; a clothes hamper; an oyster hamper, which contains two bushels.
Hampered Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hamper.
Hampering Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hamper.
Hamshackle Dictionary H - verb transitive To fasten (an animal) by a rope binding the head to one of the fore legs; as, to hamshackle a horse or cow; hence, to bind or restrain; to curb.
Hamster Dictionary H - noun A small European rodent (Cricetus frumentarius). It is remarkable for having a pouch on each side of the jaw, under the skin, and for its migrations.
Hamstring Dictionary H - noun One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh.
Hamstrung Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hamstring.
Hamstringing Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hamstring.
Hamular Dictionary H - adjective Hooked; hooklike; hamate; as, the hamular process of the sphenoid bone.
Hamulate Dictionary H - adjective Furnished with a small hook; hook-shaped.
Hamule Dictionary H - noun A little hook.
Hamulose Dictionary H - adjective Bearing a small hook at the end.
Hamuli Dictionary H - pleural of Hamulus.
Hamulus Dictionary H - noun A hook, or hooklike process.
Hanap Dictionary H - noun A rich goblet, esp. one used on state occasions.
Hanaper Dictionary H - noun A kind of basket, usually of wickerwork, and adapted for the packing and carrying of articles; a hamper.
Hance Dictionary H - verb transitive To raise; to elevate.
Hanch Dictionary H - See Hanse.
Hand Dictionary H - noun That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in man and monkeys, and the corresponding part in many other animals; manus; paw. See Manus.
Hand staves Dictionary H - pleural of Hand.
Handed Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hand.
Handing Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hand.
Handbarrow Dictionary H - noun A frame or barrow, without a wheel, carried by hand.
Handbill Dictionary H - noun A loose, printed sheet, to be distributed by hand.
Handbook Dictionary H - noun A book of reference, to be carried in the hand; a manual; a guidebook.
Handbreadth Dictionary H - noun A space equal to the breadth of the hand; a palm.
Handcart Dictionary H - noun A cart drawn or pushed by hand.
Handcloth Dictionary H - noun A handkerchief.
Handcraft Dictionary H - noun Same as Handicraft.
Handcraftsman Dictionary H - noun A handicraftsman.
Handcuff Dictionary H - noun 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.
Handcuffed Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Handcuff.
Handcuffing Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Handcuff.
Hander Dictionary H - noun One who hands over or transmits; a conveyer in succession.
Handfast Dictionary H - noun Hold; grasp; custody; power of confining or keeping.
Handfasted Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Handfast.
Handfasting Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Handfast.
Handfastly Dictionary H - adverb In a handfast or publicly pledged manner.
Handfish Dictionary H - noun The frogfish.
Hand flus Dictionary H - pleural of Handful.
Handful Dictionary H - noun As much as the hand will grasp or contain.
Hand-hole Dictionary H - noun A small hole in a boiler for the insertion of the hand in cleaning, etc.
Handicap Dictionary H - noun 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.
Handicapped Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Handicap.
Handicapping Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Handicap.
Handicapper Dictionary H - noun One who determines the conditions of a handicap.
Handicraft Dictionary H - noun A trade requiring skill of hand; manual occupation; handcraft.
Handi-craftsman Dictionary H - noun A man skilled or employed in handcraft.
Handily Dictionary H - adverb In a handy manner; skillfully; conveniently.
Handiness Dictionary H - noun The quality or state of being handy.
Handiron Dictionary H - noun See Andrion.
Handiwork Dictionary H - noun Work done by the hands; hence, any work done personally.
Handkercher Dictionary H - noun A handkerchief.
Handkerchief Dictionary H - noun A piece of cloth, usually square and often fine and elegant, carried for wiping the face or hands.
Handled Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Handle.
Handling Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Handle.
Handle Dictionary H - verb transitive To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.
Handleable Dictionary H - adjective Capable of being handled.
Handless Dictionary H - adjective Without a hand.
Handmade Dictionary H - adjective Manufactured by hand; as, handmade shoes.
Handmaid Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Handmaiden.
Handmaiden Dictionary H - noun A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.
Handsaw Dictionary H - noun A saw used with one hand.
Handsel Dictionary H - noun A sale, gift, or delivery into the hand of another; especially, a sale, gift, delivery, or using which is the first of a series, and regarded as on omen for the rest; a first installment; an earnest; as the first money received for the sale of goods in the morning, the first money taken at a shop newly opened, the first present sent to a young woman on her wedding day, etc.
Handseled Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Handsel.
Handseling Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Handsel.
Handselling Dictionary H - of Handsel.
Handsome Dictionary H - superlative Dexterous; skillful; handy; ready; convenient; - applied to things as persons.
Hadsome Dictionary H - verb transitive To render handsome.
Handsomely Dictionary H - adverb In a handsome manner.
Handsomeness Dictionary H - noun The quality of being handsome.
Handspike Dictionary H - noun A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes.
Handspring Dictionary H - noun A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground.
Hand-tight Dictionary H - adjective As tight as can be made by the hand.
Handwheel Dictionary H - noun Any wheel worked by hand; esp., one the rim of which serves as the handle by which a valve, car brake, or other part is adjusted.
Hand-winged Dictionary H - adjective Having wings that are like hands in the structure and arrangement of their bones; - said of bats. See Cheiroptera.
Handwriting Dictionary H - noun The cast or form of writing peculiar to each hand or person; chirography.
Handy Dictionary H - superlative Performed by the hand.
Handyy-dandy Dictionary H - noun A child's play, one child guessing in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and forfeiting an equivalent if wrong; hence, forfeit.
Handyfight Dictionary H - noun A fight with the hands; boxing.
Handygripe Dictionary H - noun Seizure by, or grasp of, the hand; also, close quarters in fighting.
Handystroke Dictionary H - noun A blow with the hand.
Hand-work Dictionary H - noun See Handiwork.
Hanged Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hang.
Hung Dictionary H - of Hang.
Hanging Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hang.
Hang Dictionary H - intransitive verb To suspend; to fasten to some elevated point without support from below; - often used with up or out; as, to hang a coat on a hook; to hang up a sign; to hang out a banner.
Hangbird Dictionary H - noun The Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula); - so called because its nest is suspended from the limb of a tree. See Baltimore oriole.
Hang-bies Dictionary H - pleural of Hang-by.
Hang-by Dictionary H - noun A dependent; a hanger-on; - so called in contempt.
Hangdog Dictionary H - noun A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird.
Hanger Dictionary H - noun One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman.
Hangers-on Dictionary H - pleural of Hanger-on.
Hanger-on Dictionary H - noun One who hangs on, or sticks to, a person, place, or service; a dependent; one who adheres to others' society longer than he is wanted.
Hangmen Dictionary H - pleural of Hangman.
Hangman Dictionary H - noun One who hangs another; esp., one who makes a business of hanging; a public executioner; - sometimes used as a term of reproach, without reference to office.
Hangmanship Dictionary H - noun The office or character of a hangman.
Hangnail Dictionary H - noun A small piece or silver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail.
Hangnest Dictionary H - noun A nest that hangs like a bag or pocket.
Hank Dictionary H - noun A parcel consisting of two or more skeins of yarn or thread tied together.
Hankered Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hanker.
Hankering Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hanker.
Hanker Dictionary H - intransitive verb To long (for) with a keen appetite and uneasiness; to have a vehement desire; - usually with for or after; as, to hanker after fruit; to hanker after the diversions of the town.
Hankeringly Dictionary H - adverb In a hankering manner.
Hankey-pankey Dictionary H - noun Professional cant; the chatter of conjurers to divert attention from their tricks; hence, jugglery.
Hanoverian Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to Hanover or its people, or to the House of Hanover in England.
Han sa Dictionary H - noun See 2d Hanse.
Hansard Dictionary H - noun An official report of proceedings in the British Parliament; - so called from the name of the publishers.
Hanse Dictionary H - noun That part of an elliptical or many-centered arch which has the shorter radius and immediately adjoins the impost.
Hanseatic Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to the Hanse towns, or to their confederacy.
Hansel Dictionary H - noun & verb See Handsel.
Hanselines Dictionary H - noun A sort of breeches.
Hansom Dictionary H - Alt. of Hansom cab.
Hansom cab Dictionary H - A light, low, two-wheeled covered carriage with the driver's seat elevated behind, the reins being passed over the top.
Han't Dictionary H - A contraction of have not, or has not, used in illiterate speech. In the United States the commoner spelling is hain't.
Hanuman Dictionary H - noun See Hoonoomaun.
Hap Dictionary H - verb transitive To clothe; to wrap.
Hap'penny Dictionary H - noun A half-penny.
Haphazard Dictionary H - noun Extra hazard; chance; accident; random.
Hapless Dictionary H - adjective Without hap or luck; luckless; unfortunate; unlucky; unhappy; as, hapless youth; hapless maid.
Haplessly Dictionary H - adverb In a hapless, unlucky manner.
Haplomi Dictionary H - noun plural An order of freshwater fishes, including the true pikes, cyprinodonts, and blindfishes.
Haplostemonous Dictionary H - adjective Having but one series of stamens, and that equal in number to the proper number of petals; isostemonous.
Haply Dictionary H - adverb By hap, chance, luck, or accident; perhaps; it may be.
Happed Dictionary H - particle adjective Wrapped; covered; cloaked.
Happened Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Happen.
Happening Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Happen.
Happen Dictionary H - intransitive verb To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out.
Happily Dictionary H - adverb By chance; peradventure; haply.
Happiness Dictionary H - noun Good luck; good fortune; prosperity.
Happy Dictionary H - superlative Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate; successful; prosperous; satisfying desire; as, a happy expedient; a happy effort; a happy venture; a happy omen.
Hapuku Dictionary H - noun A large and valuable food fish (Polyprion prognathus) of New Zealand. It sometimes weighs one hundred pounds or more.
Haquebut Dictionary H - noun See Hagbut.
Hara-kiri Dictionary H - noun Suicide, by slashing the abdomen, formerly practiced in Japan, and commanded by the government in the cases of disgraced officials; disembowelment; - also written, but incorrectly, hari-kari.
Harangue Dictionary H - noun 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.
Harangued Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Harangue.
Haranguing Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Harangue.
Harangueful Dictionary H - adjective Full of harangue.
Haranguer Dictionary H - noun One who harangues, or is fond of haranguing; a declaimer.
Harassed Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Harass.
Harassing Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Harass.
Harass Dictionary H - verb transitive To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; - sometimes followed by out.
Harasser Dictionary H - noun One who harasses.
Harassment Dictionary H - noun The act of harassing, or state of being harassed; worry; annoyance; anxiety.
Harberous Dictionary H - adjective Harborous.
Harbinger Dictionary H - noun One who provides lodgings; especially, the officer of the English royal household who formerly preceded the court when traveling, to provide and prepare lodgings.
Harbingered Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Harbinger.
Harbingering Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Harbinger.
Harbor Dictionary H - noun A station for rest and entertainment; a place of security and comfort; a refuge; a shelter.
Harbored Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Harbor.
Harboring Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Harbor.
Harborage Dictionary H - noun Shelter; entertainment.
Harborer Dictionary H - noun One who, or that which, harbors.
Harborless Dictionary H - adjective Without a harbor; shelterless.
Harbor master Dictionary H - An officer charged with the duty of executing the regulations respecting the use of a harbor.
Harborough Dictionary H - Alt. of Harbrough.
Harbrough Dictionary H - A shelter.
Harborous Dictionary H - adjective Hospitable.
Hard Dictionary H - superlative Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact; - applied to material bodies, and opposed to soft; as, hard wood; hard flesh; a hard apple.
Hardbake Dictionary H - noun A sweetmeat of boiled brown sugar or molasses made with almonds, and flavored with orange or lemon juice, etc.
Hardbeam Dictionary H - noun A tree of the genus Carpinus, of compact, horny texture; hornbeam.
Hardened Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Harden.
Hardening Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Harden.
Harden Dictionary H - verb transitive To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.
Hardener Dictionary H - noun One who, or that which, hardens; specif., one who tempers tools.
Harder Dictionary H - noun A South African mullet, salted for food.
Harderian Dictionary H - adjective A term applied to a lachrymal gland on the inner side of the orbit of many animals which have a third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. See Nictitating membrane, under Nictitate.
Hard-favored Dictionary H - adjective Hard-featured; ill-looking; as, Vulcan was hard-favored.
Hardfavoredness Dictionary H - noun Coarseness of features.
Hard-featured Dictionary H - adjective Having coarse, unattractive or stern features.
Hardfern Dictionary H - noun A species of fern (Lomaria borealis), growing in Europe and Northwestern America.
Hard-fisted Dictionary H - adjective Having hard or strong hands; as, a hard-fisted laborer.
Hard-fought Dictionary H - adjective Vigorously contested; as, a hard-fought battle.
Hard grass Dictionary H - A name given to several different grasses, especially to the Roltbollia incurvata, and to the species of Aegilops, from one of which it is contended that wheat has been derived.
Hardhack Dictionary H - noun A very astringent shrub (Spiraea tomentosa), common in pastures. The Potentilla fruticosa in also called by this name.
Hard-handed Dictionary H - adjective Having hard hands, as a manual laborer.
Hardhead Dictionary H - noun Clash or collision of heads in contest.
Hard-headed Dictionary H - adjective Having sound judgment; sagacious; shrewd.
Hard-hearted Dictionary H - adjective Unsympathetic; inexorable; cruel; pitiless.
Harddihead Dictionary H - noun Hardihood.
Harddihood Dictionary H - noun Boldness, united with firmness and constancy of mind; bravery; intrepidity; also, audaciousness; impudence.
Hardily Dictionary H - adverb Same as Hardly.
Hardiment Dictionary H - noun Hardihood; boldness; courage; energetic action.
Hardiness Dictionary H - noun Capability of endurance.
Hardish Dictionary H - adjective Somewhat hard.
Hard-labored Dictionary H - adjective Wrought with severe labor; elaborate; studied.
Hardly Dictionary H - adverb In a hard or difficult manner; with difficulty.
Hard-mouthed Dictionary H - adjective Not sensible to the bit; not easily governed; as, a hard-mouthed horse.
Hardness Dictionary H - noun The quality or state of being hard, literally or figuratively.
Hardock Dictionary H - noun See Hordock.
Hardpan Dictionary H - noun The hard substratum. Same as Hard pan, under Hard, a.
Hards Dictionary H - noun plural The refuse or coarse part of fiax; tow.
Hard-shell Dictionary H - adjective Unyielding; insensible to argument; uncompromising; strict.
Hardship Dictionary H - noun That which is hard to hear, as toil, privation, injury, injustice, etc.
Hardspun Dictionary H - adjective Firmly twisted in spinning.
Hard-tack Dictionary H - noun A name given by soldiers and sailors to a kind of hard biscuit or sea bread.
Hardtail Dictionary H - noun See Jurel.
Hard-visaged Dictionary H - adjective Of a harsh or stern countenance; hard-featured.
Hardware Dictionary H - noun Ware made of metal, as cutlery, kitchen utensils, and the like; ironmongery.
Hardwaremen Dictionary H - pleural of Hardwareman.
Hardwareman Dictionary H - noun One who makes, or deals in, hardware.
Hardy Dictionary H - adjective Bold; brave; stout; daring; resolu?e; intrepid.
Hare Dictionary H - verb transitive To excite; to tease, or worry; to harry.
Harebell Dictionary H - noun A small, slender, branching plant (Campanula rotundifolia), having blue bell-shaped flowers; also, Scilla nutans, which has similar flowers; - called also bluebell.
Hare'brained' Dictionary H - adjective Wild; giddy; volatile; heedless.
Harefoot Dictionary H - noun A long, narrow foot, carried (that is, produced or extending) forward; - said of dogs.
Hare-hearted Dictionary H - adjective Timorous; timid; easily frightened.
Harehound Dictionary H - noun See Harrier.
Hareld Dictionary H - noun The long-tailed duck.
Harelip Dictionary H - noun A lip, commonly the upper one, having a fissure of perpendicular division like that of a hare.
Harem Dictionary H - noun The apartments or portion of the house allotted to females in Mohammedan families.
Harengiform Dictionary H - adjective Herring-shaped.
Hare's-ear Dictionary H - noun An umbelliferous plant (Bupleurum rotundifolium ); - so named from the shape of its leaves.
Hare's-foot fern Dictionary H - A species of fern (Davallia Canariensis) with a soft, gray, hairy rootstock; - whence the name.
Hare's-tail Dictionary H - noun A kind of grass (Eriophorum vaginatum). See Cotton grass, under Cotton.
Harfang Dictionary H - noun The snowy owl.
Hariali grass Dictionary H - The East Indian name of the Cynodon Dactylon; dog's-grass.
Haricot Dictionary H - noun A ragout or stew of meat with beans and other vegetables.
Harier Dictionary H - noun See Harrier.
Harikari Dictionary H - noun See Hara-kiri.
Harioiation Dictionary H - noun Prognostication; soothsaying.
Harish Dictionary H - adjective Like a hare.
Hark Dictionary H - intransitive verb To listen; to hearken.
Harken Dictionary H - verb transitive & intransitive To hearken.
Harl Dictionary H - noun A filamentous substance; especially, the filaments of flax or hemp.
Harle Dictionary H - noun The red-breasted merganser.
Harlech group Dictionary H - A minor subdivision at the base of the Cambrian system in Wales.
Harlequin Dictionary H - noun A buffoon, dressed in party-colored clothes, who plays tricks, often without speaking, to divert the bystanders or an audience; a merry-andrew; originally, a droll rogue of Italian comedy.
Harlequinade Dictionary H - noun A play or part of play in which the harlequin is conspicuous; the part of a harlequin.
Harlock Dictionary H - noun Probably a corruption either of charlock or hardock.
Harlot Dictionary H - noun A churl; a common man; a person, male or female, of low birth.
Harlotize Dictionary H - intransitive verb To harlot.
Harlotry Dictionary H - noun Ribaldry; buffoonery; a ribald story.
Harm Dictionary H - noun Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.
Harmed Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Harm.
Harming Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Harm.
Harmaline Dictionary H - noun An alkaloid found in the plant Peganum harmala. It forms bitter, yellow salts.
Harmattan Dictionary H - noun A dry, hot wind, prevailing on the Atlantic coast of Africa, in December, January, and February, blowing from the interior or Sahara. It is usually accompanied by a haze which obscures the sun.
Harmel Dictionary H - noun A kind of rue (Ruta sylvestris) growing in India. At Lahore the seeds are used medicinally and for fumigation.
Harmful Dictionary H - adjective Full of harm; injurious; hurtful; mischievous.
Harmine Dictionary H - noun An alkaloid accompanying harmaline (in the Peganum harmala), and obtained from it by oxidation. It is a white crystalline substance.
Harmless Dictionary H - adjective Free from harm; unhurt; as, to give bond to save another harmless.
Harmonic Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Harmonical.
Harmonical Dictionary H - adjective Concordant; musical; consonant; as, harmonic sounds.
Harmonica Dictionary H - noun A musical instrument, consisting of a series of hemispherical glasses which, by touching the edges with the dampened finger, give forth the tones.
Har monically Dictionary H - adverb In an harmonical manner; harmoniously.
Harmonicon Dictionary H - noun A small, flat, wind instrument of music, in which the notes are produced by the vibration of free metallic reeds.
Harmonics Dictionary H - noun The doctrine or science of musical sounds.
Harmonious Dictionary H - adjective Adapted to each other; having parts proportioned to each other; symmetrical.
Harmoniphon Dictionary H - noun An obsolete wind instrument with a keyboard, in which the sound, which resembled the oboe, was produced by the vibration of thin metallic plates, acted upon by blowing through a tube.
Harmonist Dictionary H - noun One who shows the agreement or harmony of corresponding passages of different authors, as of the four evangelists.
Harmonite Dictionary H - noun One of a religious sect, founded in Wurtemburg in the last century, composed of followers of George Rapp, a weaver. They had all their property in common. In 1803, a portion of this sect settled in Pennsylvania and called the village thus established, Harmony.
Harmonium Dictionary H - noun A musical instrument, resembling a small organ and especially designed for church music, in which the tones are produced by forcing air by means of a bellows so as to cause the vibration of free metallic reeds. It is now made with one or two keyboards, and has pedals and stops.
Harmonization Dictionary H - noun The act of harmonizing.
Harmonized Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Harmonize.
Harmonizing Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Harmonize.
Harmonize Dictionary H - intransitive verb To agree in action, adaptation, or effect on the mind; to agree in sense or purport; as, the parts of a mechanism harmonize.
Harmonizer Dictionary H - noun One who harmonizes.
Harmonometer Dictionary H - noun An instrument for measuring the harmonic relations of sounds. It is often a monochord furnished with movable bridges.
Harmonies Dictionary H - pleural of Harmony.
Harmony Dictionary H - noun The just adaptation of parts to each other, in any system or combination of things, or in things, or things intended to form a connected whole; such an agreement between the different parts of a design or composition as to produce unity of effect; as, the harmony of the universe.
Harmost Dictionary H - noun A governor or prefect appointed by the Spartans in the cities subjugated by them.
Harmotome Dictionary H - noun A hydrous silicate of alumina and baryta, occurring usually in white cruciform crystals; cross-stone.
Harness Dictionary H - noun Originally, the complete dress, especially in a military sense, of a man or a horse; hence, in general, armor.
Harnessed Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Harness.
Harnessing Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Harness.
Harness cask Dictionary H - A tub lashed to a vessel's deck and containing salted provisions for daily use; - called also harness tub.
Harnesser Dictionary H - noun One who harnesses.
Harns Dictionary H - noun plural The brains.
Harp Dictionary H - noun A musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame furnished with strings and sometimes with pedals, held upright, and played with the fingers.
Harped Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Harp.
Harping Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Harp.
Harpa Dictionary H - noun A genus of marine univalve shells; the harp shells; - so called from the form of the shells, and their ornamental ribs.
Harpagon Dictionary H - noun A grappling iron.
Harper Dictionary H - noun A player on the harp; a minstrel.
Harping iron Dictionary H - A harpoon.
Harpings Dictionary H - noun plural The fore parts of the wales, which encompass the bow of a vessel, and are fastened to the stem.
Harpist Dictionary H - noun A player on the harp; a harper.
Harpoon Dictionary H - noun A spear or javelin used to strike and kill large fish, as whales; a harping iron. It consists of a long shank, with a broad, fiat, triangular head, sharpened at both edges, and is thrown by hand, or discharged from a gun.
Harpooned Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Harpoon.
Harpooning Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Harpoon.
Harpooneer Dictionary H - noun An harpooner.
Harpooner Dictionary H - noun One who throws the harpoon.
Harpress Dictionary H - noun A female harper.
Harpsichon Dictionary H - noun A harpsichord.
Harpsichord Dictionary H - noun A harp-shaped instrument of music set horizontally on legs, like the grand piano, with strings of wire, played by the fingers, by means of keys provided with quills, instead of hammers, for striking the strings. It is now superseded by the piano.
Harpies Dictionary H - pleural of Harpy.
Harpy Dictionary H - noun A fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture, with long claws, and the face pale with hunger. Some writers mention two, others three.
Harquebus Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Harquebuse.
Harquebuse Dictionary H - noun A firearm with match holder, trigger, and tumbler, made in the second half of the 15th century. the barrel was about forty inches long. A form of the harquebus was subsequently called arquebus with matchlock.
Harrage Dictionary H - verb transitive To harass; to plunder from.
Harre Dictionary H - noun A hinge.
Harridan Dictionary H - noun A worn-out strumpet; a vixenish woman; a hag.
Harrier Dictionary H - noun One of a small breed of hounds, used for hunting hares.
Harrow Dictionary H - noun An implement of agriculture, usually formed of pieces of timber or metal crossing each other, and set with iron or wooden teeth. It is drawn over plowed land to level it and break the clods, to stir the soil and make it fine, or to cover seed when sown.
Harrowed Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Harrow.
Harrowing Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Harrow.
Harrower Dictionary H - noun One who harrows.
Harried Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Harry.
Harrying Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Harry.
Harry Dictionary H - verb transitive To strip; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came several times and harried the land.
Harsh Dictionary H - adjective Rough; disagreeable; grating.
Harshly Dictionary H - adverb In a harsh manner; gratingly; roughly; rudely.
Harshness Dictionary H - noun The quality or state of being harsh.
Harslet Dictionary H - noun See Haslet.
Hart Dictionary H - noun A stag; the male of the red deer. See the Note under Buck.
Hartbeest Dictionary H - noun A large South African antelope (Alcelaphus caama), formerly much more abundant than it is now. The face and legs are marked with black, the rump with white.
Harten Dictionary H - verb transitive To hearten; to encourage; to incite.
Hartford Dictionary H - noun The Hartford grape, a variety of grape first raised at Hartford, Connecticut, from the Northern fox grape. Its large dark-colored berries ripen earlier than those of most other kinds.
Harts clover Dictionary H - Melilot or sweet clover. See Melilot.
Hart's-ear Dictionary H - noun An Asiatic species of Cacalia (C. Kleinia), used medicinally in India.
Hartshorn Dictionary H - noun The horn or antler of the hart, or male red deer.
Hart-tongue Dictionary H - noun A common British fern (Scolopendrium vulgare), rare in America.
Hartwort Dictionary H - noun A coarse umbelliferous plant of Europe (Tordylium maximum).
Harum-scarum Dictionary H - verb transitive Wild; giddy; flighty; rash; thoughtless.
Haruspication Dictionary H - noun See Haruspicy.
Haruspice Dictionary H - noun A diviner of ancient Rome. Same as Aruspice.
Haruspicy Dictionary H - noun The art or practices of haruspices. See Aruspicy.
Harvest Dictionary H - noun The gathering of a crop of any kind; the ingathering of the crops; also, the season of gathering grain and fruits, late summer or early autumn.
Harvested Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Harvest.
Harvesting Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Harvest.
Harvester Dictionary H - noun One who harvests; a machine for cutting and gathering grain; a reaper.
Harvest-home Dictionary H - noun The gathering and bringing home of the harvest; the time of harvest.
Harvestless Dictionary H - adjective Without harvest; lacking in crops; barren.
Harvestmen Dictionary H - pleural of Harvestman.
Harvestman Dictionary H - noun A man engaged in harvesting.
Harvestry Dictionary H - noun The act of harvesting; also, that which is harvested.
Hary Dictionary H - verb transitive To draw; to drag; to carry off by violence.
Has Dictionary H - 3d pers. sing. pres. of Have.
Hasard Dictionary H - noun Hazard.
Hase Dictionary H - verb transitive See Haze, v. t.
Hash Dictionary H - noun That which is hashed or chopped up; meat and vegetables, especially such as have been already cooked, chopped into small pieces and mixed.
Hashed Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hash.
Hashing Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hash.
Hasheesh Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Hashish.
Hashish Dictionary H - noun A slightly acrid gum resin produced by the common hemp (Cannabis saltiva), of the variety Indica, when cultivated in a warm climate; also, the tops of the plant, from which the resinous product is obtained. It is narcotic, and has long been used in the East for its intoxicating effect. See Bhang, and Ganja.
Hask Dictionary H - noun A basket made of rushes or flags, as for carrying fish.
Haslet Dictionary H - noun The edible viscera, as the heart, liver, etc., of a beast, esp. of a hog.
Hasp Dictionary H - noun A clasp, especially a metal strap permanently fast at one end to a staple or pin, while the other passes over a staple, and is fastened by a padlock or a pin; also, a metallic hook for fastening a door.
Hasped Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hasp.
Hasping Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hasp.
Hassock Dictionary H - noun A rank tuft of bog grass; a tussock.
Hast Dictionary H - 2d pers. sing. pres. of. Have, contr. of havest.
Hastate Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Hastated.
Hastated Dictionary H - noun Shaped like the head of a halberd; triangular, with the basal angles or lobes spreading; as, a hastate leaf.
Haste Dictionary H - noun Celerity of motion; speed; swiftness; dispatch; expedition; - applied only to voluntary beings, as men and other animals.
Hasted Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Haste.
Hasting Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Haste.
Hastened Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hasten.
Hastening Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hasten.
Hasten Dictionary H - verb transitive To press; to drive or urge forward; to push on; to precipitate; to accelerate the movement of; to expedite; to hurry.
Hastener Dictionary H - noun One who hastens.
Hastif Dictionary H - adjective Hasty.
Hastile Dictionary H - adjective Same as Hastate.
Hastily Dictionary H - adverb In haste; with speed or quickness; speedily; nimbly.
Hastiness Dictionary H - noun The quality or state of being hasty; haste; precipitation; rashness; quickness of temper.
Hastings Dictionary H - verb Early fruit or vegetables; especially, early pease.
Hastings sands Dictionary H - The lower group of the Wealden formation; - so called from its development around Hastings, in Sussex, England.
Hastive Dictionary H - noun Forward; early; - said of fruits.
Hasty Dictionary H - noun Involving haste; done, made, etc., in haste; as, a hasty sketch.
Hasty pudding Dictionary H - A thick batter pudding made of Indian meal stirred into boiling water; mush.
Hat Dictionary H - adjective Hot.
Hatable Dictionary H - adjective Capable of being, or deserving to be, hated; odious; detestable.
Hatband Dictionary H - noun A band round the crown of a hat; sometimes, a band of black cloth, crape, etc., worn as a badge of mourning.
Hatbox Dictionary H - noun A box for a hat.
Hatched Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hatch.
Hatching Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hatch.
Hatch Dictionary H - verb transitive To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.
Hatch-boat Dictionary H - noun A vessel whose deck consists almost wholly of movable hatches; - used mostly in the fisheries.
Hatchel Dictionary H - noun An instrument with long iron teeth set in a board, for cleansing flax or hemp from the tow, hards, or coarse part; a kind of large comb; - called also hackle and heckle.
Hatcheled Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hatchel.
Hatchelled Dictionary H - of Hatchel.
Hatcheling Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hatchel.
Hatchelling Dictionary H - of Hatchel.
Hatcheler Dictionary H - noun One who uses a hatchel.
Hatcher Dictionary H - noun One who hatches, or that which hatches; a hatching apparatus; an incubator.
Hatchery Dictionary H - noun A house for hatching fish, etc.
Hatchet Dictionary H - noun A small ax with a short handle, to be used with one hand.
Hatchettine Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Hatchettite.
Hatchettite Dictionary H - noun Mineral t/ low; a waxy or spermaceti-like substance, commonly of a greenish yellow color.
Hatchment Dictionary H - noun A sort of panel, upon which the arms of a deceased person are temporarily displayed, - usually on the walls of his dwelling. It is lozenge-shaped or square, but is hung cornerwise. It is used in England as a means of giving public notification of the death of the deceased, his or her rank, whether married, widower, widow, etc. Called also achievement.
Hatchure Dictionary H - noun Same as Hachure.
Hatchway Dictionary H - noun A square or oblong opening in a deck or floor, affording passage from one deck or story to another; the entrance to a cellar.
Hated Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hate.
Hating Dictionary H - past particle & pr. & verb noun of Hate.
Hate Dictionary H - noun To have a great aversion to, with a strong desire that evil should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed; to dislike intensely; to detest; as, to hate one's enemies; to hate hypocrisy.
Hateful Dictionary H - adjective Manifesting hate or hatred; malignant; malevolent.
Hatel Dictionary H - adjective Hateful; detestable.
Hater Dictionary H - noun One who hates.
Hath Dictionary H - 3d pers. sing. pres. Has.
Hatless Dictionary H - adjective Having no hat.
Hatrack Dictionary H - noun A hatstand; hattree.
Hatred Dictionary H - noun Strong aversion; intense dislike; hate; an affection of the mind awakened by something regarded as evil.
Hatstand Dictionary H - noun A stand of wood or iron, with hooks or pegs upon which to hang hats, etc.
Hatte Dictionary H - pres. & imp. sing. & pl. of Hote, to be called. See Hote.
Hatted Dictionary H - adjective Covered with a hat.
Hatter Dictionary H - verb transitive To tire or worry; - out.
Hatteria Dictionary H - noun A New Zealand lizard, which, in anatomical character, differs widely from all other existing lizards. It is the only living representative of the order Rhynchocephala, of which many Mesozoic fossil species are known; - called also Sphenodon, and Tuatera.
Hatting Dictionary H - noun The business of making hats; also, stuff for hats.
Hatti-sherif Dictionary H - noun A irrevocable Turkish decree countersigned by the sultan.
Hattree Dictionary H - noun A hatstand.
Haubergeon Dictionary H - noun See Habergeon.
Hauberk Dictionary H - verb transitive A coat of mail; especially, the long coat of mail of the European Middle Ages, as contrasted with the habergeon, which is shorter and sometimes sleeveless. By old writers it is often used synonymously with habergeon. See Habergeon.
Hauerite Dictionary H - noun Native sulphide of manganese a reddish brown or brownish black mineral.
Haugh Dictionary H - noun A low-lying meadow by the side of a river.
Haught Dictionary H - adjective High; elevated; hence, haughty; proud.
Haughtily Dictionary H - adverb In a haughty manner; arrogantly.
Haughtiness Dictionary H - noun The quality of being haughty; disdain; arrogance.
Haughty Dictionary H - superlative High; lofty; bold.
Hauled Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Haul.
Hauling Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Haul.
Haul Dictionary H - verb transitive To pull or draw with force; to drag.
Haulage Dictionary H - noun Act of hauling; as, the haulage of cars by an engine; charge for hauling.
Hauler Dictionary H - noun One who hauls.
Haulm Dictionary H - noun The denuded stems or stalks of such crops as buckwheat and the cereal grains, beans, etc.; straw.
Hauls Dictionary H - noun See Hals.
Haulse Dictionary H - verb See Halse.
Hault Dictionary H - adjective Lofty; haughty.
Haum Dictionary H - noun See Haulm, stalk.
Haunce Dictionary H - verb transitive To enhance.
Haunch Dictionary H - noun The hip; the projecting region of the lateral parts of the pelvis and the hip joint; the hind part.
Haunched Dictionary H - adjective Having haunches.
Haunted Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Haunt.
Haunting Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Haunt.
Haunt Dictionary H - verb transitive To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon.
Haunter Dictionary H - noun One who, or that which, haunts.
Haurient Dictionary H - adjective In pale, with the head in chief; - said of the figure of a fish, as if rising for air.
Hausen Dictionary H - noun A large sturgeon (Acipenser huso) from the region of the Black Sea. It is sometimes twelve feet long.
Hausse Dictionary H - noun A kind of graduated breech sight for a small arm, or a cannon.
Haustellata Dictionary H - noun plural An artificial division of insects, including all those with a sucking proboscis.
Haustellate Dictionary H - adjective Provided with a haustellum, or sucking proboscis.
Haustella Dictionary H - pleural of Haustellum.
Haustellum Dictionary H - noun The sucking proboscis of various insects. See Lepidoptera, and Diptera.
Haustoria Dictionary H - pleural of Haustorium.
Haustorium Dictionary H - noun One of the suckerlike rootlets of such plants as the dodder and ivy.
Haut Dictionary H - adjective Haughty.
Hautboy Dictionary H - noun A wind instrument, sounded through a reed, and similar in shape to the clarinet, but with a thinner tone. Now more commonly called oboe. See Illust. of Oboe.
Hautboyist Dictionary H - noun A player on the hautboy.
Hautein Dictionary H - adjective Haughty; proud.
Hauteur Dictionary H - noun Haughty manner or spirit; haughtiness; pride; arrogance.
Hautgout Dictionary H - noun High relish or flavor; high seasoning.
Hautpas Dictionary H - noun A raised part of the floor of a large room; a platform for a raised table or throne. See Dais.
Hauynite Dictionary H - noun A blue isometric mineral, characteristic of some volcani/ rocks. It is a silicate of alumina, lime, and soda, with sulphate of lime.
Havana Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar.
Havanese Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to Havana, in Cuba.
Having Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Have.
have Dictionary H - Indic. present of Have.
Haveless Dictionary H - adjective Having little or nothing.
Havelock Dictionary H - noun A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
Haven Dictionary H - noun A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor; a port.
Havenage Dictionary H - noun Harbor dues; port dues.
Havened Dictionary H - particle adjective Sheltered in a haven.
Havener Dictionary H - noun A harbor master.
Haver Dictionary H - noun A possessor; a holder.
Haversack Dictionary H - noun A bag for oats or oatmeal.
Haversian Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century.
Havildar Dictionary H - noun In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant.
Havior Dictionary H - noun Behavior; demeanor.
Havoc Dictionary H - noun Wide and general destruction; devastation; waste.
Haw Dictionary H - noun A hedge; an inclosed garden or yard.
Hawed Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Haw.
Hawing Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Haw.
Hawaiian Dictionary H - adjective Belonging to Hawaii or the Sandwich Islands, or to the people of Hawaii.
Hawebake Dictionary H - noun Probably, the baked berry of the hawthorn tree, that is, coarse fare. See 1st Haw, 2.
Hawfinch Dictionary H - noun The common European grosbeak (Coccothraustes vulgaris); - called also cherry finch, and coble.
Haw-haw Dictionary H - noun See Ha-ha.
Hawhaw Dictionary H - intransitive verb To laugh boisterously.
Hawk Dictionary H - noun One of numerous species and genera of rapacious birds of the family Falconidae. They differ from the true falcons in lacking the prominent tooth and notch of the bill, and in having shorter and less pointed wings. Many are of large size and grade into the eagles. Some, as the goshawk, were formerly trained like falcons. In a more general sense the word is not infrequently applied, also, to true falcons, as the sparrow hawk, pigeon hawk, duck hawk, and prairie hawk.
Hawked Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hawk.
Hawking Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hawk.
Hawkbill Dictionary H - noun A sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), which yields the best quality of tortoise shell; - called also caret.
Hawkbit Dictionary H - noun The fall dandelion (Leontodon autumnale).
Hawker Dictionary H - noun One who sells wares by crying them in the street; hence, a peddler or a packman.
Hawkey Dictionary H - noun See Hockey.
Hawk-eyed Dictionary H - adjective Having a keen eye; sharpsighted; discerning.
Hawk moth Dictionary H - Any moth of the family Sphingidae, of which there are numerous genera and species. They are large, handsome moths, which fly mostly at twilight and hover about flowers like a humming bird, sucking the honey by means of a long, slender proboscis. The larvae are large, hairless caterpillars ornamented with green and other bright colors, and often with a caudal spine. See Sphinx, also Tobacco worm, and Tomato worm.
Hawkweed Dictionary H - noun A plant of the genus Hieracium; - so called from the ancient belief that birds of prey used its juice to strengthen their vision.
Hawm Dictionary H - noun See Haulm, straw.
Hawse Dictionary H - noun A hawse hole.
Hawser Dictionary H - noun A large rope made of three strands each containing many yarns.
Hawser-laid Dictionary H - adjective Made in the manner of a hawser. Cf. Cable-laid, and see Illust. of Cordage.
Hawthorn Dictionary H - noun A thorny shrub or tree (the Crataegus oxyacantha), having deeply lobed, shining leaves, small, roselike, fragrant flowers, and a fruit called haw. It is much used in Europe for hedges, and for standards in gardens. The American hawthorn is Crataegus cordata, which has the leaves but little lobed.
Hay Dictionary H - noun A hedge.
Haybird Dictionary H - noun The European spotted flycatcher.
Haybote Dictionary H - noun An allowance of wood to a tenant for repairing his hedges or fences; hedgebote. See Bote.
Haycock Dictionary H - noun A conical pile or hear of hay in the field.
Hay-cutter Dictionary H - noun A machine in which hay is chopped short, as fodder for cattle.
Hayfield Dictionary H - noun A field where grass for hay has been cut; a meadow.
Hayfork Dictionary H - noun A fork for pitching and tedding hay.
Hayloft Dictionary H - noun A loft or scaffold for hay.
Haymaker Dictionary H - noun One who cuts and cures hay.
Haymaking Dictionary H - noun The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay.
Haymow Dictionary H - noun A mow or mass of hay laid up in a barn for preservation.
Hayrack Dictionary H - noun A frame mounted on the running gear of a wagon, and used in hauling hay, straw, sheaves, etc.; - called also hay rigging.
Hayrake Dictionary H - noun A rake for collecting hay; especially, a large rake drawn by a horse or horses.
Hayrick Dictionary H - noun A heap or pile of hay, usually covered with thatch for preservation in the open air.
Haystack Dictionary H - noun A stack or conical pile of hay in the open air.
Haystalk Dictionary H - noun A stalk of hay.
Haythorn Dictionary H - noun Hawthorn.
Haytian Dictionary H - adjective Of pertaining to Hayti.
Hayward Dictionary H - noun An officer who is appointed to guard hedges, and to keep cattle from breaking or cropping them, and whose further duty it is to impound animals found running at large.
Hazard Dictionary H - noun A game of chance played with dice.
Hazarded Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hazard.
Hazarding Dictionary H - past particle & verb of Hazard.
Hazardable Dictionary H - adjective Liable to hazard or chance; uncertain; risky.
Hazarder Dictionary H - noun A player at the game of hazard; a gamester.
Hazardize Dictionary H - noun A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard.
Hazardous Dictionary H - adjective Exposed to hazard; dangerous; risky.
Hazardry Dictionary H - noun Playing at hazard; gaming; gambling.
Haze Dictionary H - noun Light vapor or smoke in the air which more or less impedes vision, with little or no dampness; a lack of transparency in the air; hence, figuratively, obscurity; dimness.
Hazed Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Haze.
Hazing Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Haze.
Hazel Dictionary H - noun A shrub or small tree of the genus Corylus, as the C. avellana, bearing a nut containing a kernel of a mild, farinaceous taste; the filbert. The American species are C. Americana, which produces the common hazelnut, and C. rostrata. See Filbert.
Hazeless Dictionary H - adjective Destitute of haze.
Hazelly Dictionary H - adjective Of the color of the hazelnut; of a light brown.
Hazelnut Dictionary H - noun The nut of the hazel.
Hazelwort Dictionary H - noun The asarabacca.
Hazily Dictionary H - adverb In a hazy manner; mistily; obscurely; confusedly.
Haziness Dictionary H - noun The quality or state of being hazy.
Hazle Dictionary H - verb transitive To make dry; to dry.
Hazy Dictionary H - noun Thick with haze; somewhat obscured with haze; not clear or transparent.
He Dictionary H - obj. The man or male being (or object personified to which the masculine gender is assigned), previously designated; a pronoun of the masculine gender, usually referring to a specified subject already indicated.
-head Dictionary H - suffix. A variant of -hood.
Head Dictionary H - noun The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the chief sensory organs; poll; cephalon.
Headed Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Head.
Heading Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Head.
Headache Dictionary H - noun Pain in the head; cephalalgia.
Headachy Dictionary H - adjective Afflicted with headache.
Headband Dictionary H - noun A fillet; a band for the head.
Headbeard Dictionary H - noun A board or boarding which marks or forms the head of anything; as, the headboard of a bed; the headboard of a grave.
Headborough Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Headborrow.
Headborrow Dictionary H - noun The chief of a frankpledge, tithing, or decennary, consisting of ten families; - called also borsholder, boroughhead, boroughholder, and sometimes tithingman. See Borsholder.
Head-cheese Dictionary H - noun A dish made of portions of the head, or head and feet, of swine, cut up fine, seasoned, and pressed into a cheeselike mass.
Headdress Dictionary H - noun A covering or ornament for the head; a headtire.
Header Dictionary H - noun One who, or that which, heads nails, rivets, etc., esp. a machine for heading.
Headfirst Dictionary H - adverb Alt. of Headforemost.
Headforemost Dictionary H - adverb With the head foremost.
Headfish Dictionary H - noun The sunfish (Mola).
Head gear Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Headgear.
Headgear Dictionary H - noun Headdress.
Head-hunter Dictionary H - noun A member of any tribe or race of savages who have the custom of decapitating human beings and preserving their heads as trophies. The Dyaks of Borneo are the most noted head-hunters.
Headily Dictionary H - adverb In a heady or rash manner; hastily; rashly; obstinately.
Headiness Dictionary H - noun The quality of being heady.
Headland Dictionary H - noun A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting into the sea or other expanse of water.
Headless Dictionary H - adjective Having no head; beheaded; as, a headless body, neck, or carcass.
Headlight Dictionary H - noun A light, with a powerful reflector, placed at the head of a locomotive, or in front of it, to throw light on the track at night, or in going through a dark tunnel.
Headline Dictionary H - noun The line at the head or top of a page.
Headlong Dictionary H - adjective & adverb With the head foremost; as, to fall headlong.
Head-lugged Dictionary H - adjective Lugged or dragged by the head.
Headmen Dictionary H - pleural of Headman.
Headman Dictionary H - noun A head or leading man, especially of a village community.
Headmold shot Dictionary H - Alt. of Headmould shot.
Headmould shot Dictionary H - An old name for the condition of the skull, in which the bones ride, or are shot, over each other at the sutures.
Headmost Dictionary H - adjective Most advanced; most forward; as, the headmost ship in a fleet.
Headnote Dictionary H - noun 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.
Headpan Dictionary H - noun The brainpan.
Headpiece Dictionary H - noun Head.
Headquarters Dictionary H - noun singular The quarters or place of residence of any chief officer, as the general in command of an army, or the head of a police force; the place from which orders or instructions are issued; hence, the center of authority or order.
Headrace Dictionary H - noun See Race, a water course.
Headroom Dictionary H - noun See Headway, 2.
Headrope Dictionary H - noun That part of a boltrope which is sewed to the upper edge or head of a sail.
Headsail Dictionary H - noun Any sail set forward of the foremast.
Headshake Dictionary H - noun A significant shake of the head, commonly as a signal of denial.
Headship Dictionary H - noun Authority or dignity; chief place.
Headsmen Dictionary H - pleural of Headsman.
Headsman Dictionary H - noun An executioner who cuts off heads.
Headspring Dictionary H - noun Fountain; source.
Headstall Dictionary H - noun That part of a bridle or halter which encompasses the head.
Headstock Dictionary H - noun A part (usually separate from the bed or frame) for supporting some of the principal working parts of a machine.
Headstone Dictionary H - noun The principal stone in a foundation; the chief or corner stone.
Headstrong Dictionary H - adjective Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn.
Headstrongness Dictionary H - noun Obstinacy.
Headtire Dictionary H - noun A headdress.
Headway Dictionary H - noun The progress made by a ship in motion; hence, progress or success of any kind.
Headwork Dictionary H - noun Mental labor.
Heady Dictionary H - adjective Willful; rash; precipitate; hurried on by will or passion; ungovernable.
Heal Dictionary H - verb transitive To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like.
Healed Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Heal.
Healing Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Heal.
Healable Dictionary H - adjective Capable of being healed.
Healall Dictionary H - noun A common herb of the Mint family (Brunela vulgaris), destitute of active properties, but anciently thought a panacea.
Heald Dictionary H - noun A heddle.
Healful Dictionary H - adjective Tending or serving to heal; healing.
Healingly Dictionary H - adverb So as to heal or cure.
Health Dictionary H - noun The state of being hale, sound, or whole, in body, mind, or soul; especially, the state of being free from physical disease or pain.
Healthful Dictionary H - adjective Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole; sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful plant.
Healthfully Dictionary H - adverb In health; wholesomely.
Healthfulness Dictionary H - noun The state of being healthful.
Healthily Dictionary H - adverb In a healthy manner.
Healthiness Dictionary H - noun The state of being healthy or healthful; freedom from disease.
Healthless Dictionary H - noun Without health, whether of body or mind; in firm.
Healthlessness Dictionary H - noun The state of being health/ess.
Healthsome Dictionary H - adjective Wholesome; salubrious.
Healthward Dictionary H - adjective & adverb In the direction of health; as, a healthward tendency.
Healthy Dictionary H - superlative Being in a state of health; enjoying health; hale; sound; free from disease; as, a healthy chid; a healthy plant.
Heam Dictionary H - noun The afterbirth or secundines of a beast.
Heap Dictionary H - noun A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of persons.
Heaped Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Heap.
Heaping Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Heap.
Heaper Dictionary H - noun One who heaps, piles, or amasses.
Heapy Dictionary H - adjective Lying in heaps.
Heard Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hear.
Hearing Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hear.
Hear Dictionary H - verb transitive To perceive by the ear; to apprehend or take cognizance of by the ear; as, to hear sounds; to hear a voice; to hear one call.
Hearer Dictionary H - noun One who hears; an auditor.
Hearkened Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hearken.
Hearkening Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hearken.
Hearken Dictionary H - intransitive verb To listen; to lend the ear; to attend to what is uttered; to give heed; to hear, in order to obey or comply.
Hearkener Dictionary H - noun One who hearkens; a listener.
Hearsal Dictionary H - noun Rehearsal.
Hearsay Dictionary H - noun Report; rumor; fame; common talk; something heard from another.
Hearse Dictionary H - noun A hind in the year of its age.
Hearsecloth Dictionary H - noun A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall.
Hearselike Dictionary H - adjective Suitable to a funeral.
Heart Dictionary H - noun A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood.
Heartache Dictionary H - noun Sorrow; anguish of mind; mental pang.
Heartbreak Dictionary H - noun Crushing sorrow or grief; a yielding to such grief.
Heartbreaking Dictionary H - adjective Causing overpowering sorrow.
Heartbroken Dictionary H - adjective Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.
Heartburn Dictionary H - noun An uneasy, burning sensation in the stomach, often attended with an inclination to vomit. It is sometimes idiopathic, but is often a symptom of often complaints.
Heartburned Dictionary H - adjective Having heartburn.
Heartburning Dictionary H - adjective Causing discontent.
Heartdear Dictionary H - adjective Sincerely beloved.
Heartdeep Dictionary H - adjective Rooted in the heart.
Heart-eating Dictionary H - adjective Preying on the heart.
Hearted Dictionary H - adjective Having a heart; having (such) a heart (regarded as the seat of the affections, disposition, or character).
Heartedness Dictionary H - noun Earnestness; sincerity; heartiness.
Hearten Dictionary H - verb transitive To encourage; to animate; to incite or stimulate the courage of; to embolden.
Heartener Dictionary H - noun One who, or that which, heartens, animates, or stirs up.
Heartfelt Dictionary H - adjective Hearty; sincere.
Heartgrief Dictionary H - noun Heartache; sorrow.
Hearth Dictionary H - noun The pavement or floor of brick, stone, or metal in a chimney, on which a fire is made; the floor of a fireplace; also, a corresponding part of a stove.
Hearthstone Dictionary H - noun Stone forming the hearth; hence, the fireside; home.
Heartily Dictionary H - adverb From the heart; with all the heart; with sincerity.
Heariness Dictionary H - noun The quality of being hearty; as, the heartiness of a greeting.
Heartless Dictionary H - adjective Without a heart.
Heartlet Dictionary H - noun A little heart.
Heartlings Dictionary H - interjection An exclamation used in addressing a familiar acquaintance.
Heartpea Dictionary H - noun Same as Heartseed.
Heartquake Dictionary H - noun Trembling of the heart; trepidation; fear.
Heartrending Dictionary H - adjective Causing intense grief; overpowering with anguish; very distressing.
Heart-robbing Dictionary H - adjective Depriving of thought; ecstatic.
Heart's-ease Dictionary H - noun Ease of heart; peace or tranquillity of mind or feeling.
Heartseed Dictionary H - noun A climbing plant of the genus Cardiospermum, having round seeds which are marked with a spot like a heart.
Heartshaped Dictionary H - adjective Having the shape of a heart; cordate.
Heartsick Dictionary H - adjective Sick at heart; extremely depressed in spirits; very despondent.
Heartsome Dictionary H - adjective Merry; cheerful; lively.
Heart-spoon Dictionary H - noun A part of the breastbone.
Heartstricken Dictionary H - adjective Shocked; dismayed.
Heartstrike Dictionary H - verb transitive To affect at heart; to shock.
Heartstring Dictionary H - noun A nerve or tendon, supposed to brace and sustain the heart.
Heartstruck Dictionary H - adjective Driven to the heart; infixed in the mind.
Heartswelling Dictionary H - adjective Rankling in, or swelling, the heart.
Heart-whole Dictionary H - adjective Having the heart or affections free; not in love.
Heartwood Dictionary H - noun The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum.
Heart-wounded Dictionary H - adjective Wounded to the heart with love or grief.
Hearty Dictionary H - superlative Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the heart; warm; cordial; bold; zealous; sincere; willing; also, energetic; active; eager; as, a hearty welcome; hearty in supporting the government.
Hearties Dictionary H - pleural of Hearty.
Heartyhale Dictionary H - adjective Good for the heart.
Heat Dictionary H - noun A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as manifested in fire, the sun's rays, mechanical action, chemical combination, etc., becomes directly known to us through the sense of feeling. In its nature heat is a mode if motion, being in general a form of molecular disturbance or vibration. It was formerly supposed to be a subtile, imponderable fluid, to which was given the name caloric.
Heated Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Heat.
Heating Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Heat.
Heater Dictionary H - noun One who, or that which, heats.
Heath Dictionary H - noun A low shrub (Erica, / Calluna, vulgaris), with minute evergreen leaves, and handsome clusters of pink flowers. It is used in Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens. It is also called heather, and ling.
Heathclad Dictionary H - adjective Clad or crowned with heath.
Heathens Dictionary H - pleural of Heathen.
Heathen Dictionary H - pleural of Heathen.
Heathendom Dictionary H - noun That part of the world where heathenism prevails; the heathen nations, considered collectively.
Heathenesse Dictionary H - noun Heathendom.
Heathenish Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to the heathen; resembling or characteristic of heathens.
Heathenishly Dictionary H - adverb In a heathenish manner.
Heathenishness Dictionary H - noun The state or quality of being heathenish.
Heathenism Dictionary H - noun The religious system or rites of a heathen nation; idolatry; paganism.
Heathenized Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Heathenize.
Heathenizing Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Heathenize.
Heathenize Dictionary H - verb transitive To render heathen or heathenish.
Heathenness Dictionary H - noun State of being heathen or like the heathen.
Heathenry Dictionary H - noun The state, quality, or character of the heathen.
Heather Dictionary H - noun Heath.
Heathery Dictionary H - adjective Heathy; abounding in heather; of the nature of heath.
Heathy Dictionary H - adjective Full of heath; abounding with heath; as, heathy land; heathy hills.
Heatingly Dictionary H - adverb In a heating manner; so as to make or become hot or heated.
Heatless Dictionary H - adjective Destitute of heat; cold.
Heaved Dictionary H - imperative of Heave.
Hove Dictionary H - of Heave.
Hoven Dictionary H - of Heave.
Heaving Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Heave.
Heave Dictionary H - verb transitive To cause to move upward or onward by a lifting effort; to lift; to raise; to hoist; - often with up; as, the wave heaved the boat on land.
Heaven Dictionary H - noun The expanse of space surrounding the earth; esp., that which seems to be over the earth like a great arch or dome; the firmament; the sky; the place where the sun, moon, and stars appear; - often used in the plural in this sense.
Heavened Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Heaven.
Heavening Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Heaven.
Heavenize Dictionary H - verb transitive To render like heaven or fit for heaven.
Heavenliness Dictionary H - noun The state or quality of being heavenly.
Heavenly Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting heaven; celestial; not earthly; as, heavenly regions; heavenly music.
Heavenlyminded Dictionary H - adjective Having the thoughts and affections placed on, or suitable for, heaven and heavenly objects; devout; godly; pious.
Heavenward Dictionary H - adjective & adverb Toward heaven.
Heave offering Dictionary H - An offering or oblation heaved up or elevated before the altar, as the shoulder of the peace offering. See Wave offering.
Heaver Dictionary H - noun One who, or that which, heaves or lifts; a laborer employed on docks in handling freight; as, a coal heaver.
Heaves Dictionary H - noun A disease of horses, characterized by difficult breathing, with heaving of the flank, wheezing, flatulency, and a peculiar cough; broken wind.
Heavily Dictionary H - adverb In a heavy manner; with great weight; as, to bear heavily on a thing; to be heavily loaded.
Heaviness Dictionary H - noun The state or quality of being heavy in its various senses; weight; sadness; sluggishness; oppression; thickness.
Heavisome Dictionary H - adjective Heavy; dull.
Heavy Dictionary H - adjective Having the heaves.
Heavy-armed Dictionary H - adjective Wearing heavy or complete armor; carrying heavy arms.
Heavy-haded Dictionary H - adjective Clumsy; awkward.
Heavy-headed Dictionary H - adjective Dull; stupid.
Heavy spar Dictionary H - Native barium sulphate or barite, - so called because of its high specific gravity as compared with other non-metallic minerals.
Hebdomad Dictionary H - noun A week; a period of seven days.
Hebdomadal Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hebdomadary.
Hebdomadary Dictionary H - adjective Consisting of seven days, or occurring at intervals of seven days; weekly.
Hebdomadally Dictionary H - adverb In periods of seven days; weekly.
Hebdomatical Dictionary H - adjective Weekly; hebdomadal.
Hebe Dictionary H - noun The goddess of youth, daughter of Jupiter and Juno. She was believed to have the power of restoring youth and beauty to those who had lost them.
Heben Dictionary H - noun Ebony.
Hebenon Dictionary H - noun See Henbane.
Hebetated Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hebetate.
Hebetating Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hebetate.
Hebetate Dictionary H - verb transitive To render obtuse; to dull; to blunt; to stupefy; as, to hebetate the intellectual faculties.
Hebetation Dictionary H - noun The act of making blunt, dull, or stupid.
Hebete Dictionary H - adjective Dull; stupid.
Hebetude Dictionary H - noun Dullness; stupidity.
Hebraic Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to the Hebrews, or to the language of the Hebrews.
Hebraically Dictionary H - adverb After the manner of the Hebrews or of the Hebrew language.
Hebraism Dictionary H - noun A Hebrew idiom or custom; a peculiar expression or manner of speaking in the Hebrew language.
Hebraist Dictionary H - noun One versed in the Hebrew language and learning.
Hebraistic Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, the Hebrew language or idiom.
Hebraistically Dictionary H - adverb In a Hebraistic sense or form.
Hebraize Dictionary H - verb transitive To convert into the Hebrew idiom; to make Hebrew or Hebraistic.
Hebraized Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hebraize.
Hebraizing Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hebraize.
Hebrew Dictionary H - noun An appellative of Abraham or of one of his descendants, esp. in the line of Jacob; an Israelite; a Jew.
Hebrewess Dictionary H - noun An Israelitish woman.
Hebrician Dictionary H - noun A Hebraist.
Hebridean Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hebridian.
Hebridian Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to the islands called Hebrides, west of Scotland.
Hecatomb Dictionary H - noun A sacrifice of a hundred oxen or cattle at the same time; hence, the sacrifice or slaughter of any large number of victims.
Hecatompedon Dictionary H - noun A name given to the old Parthenon at Athens, because measuring 100 Greek feet, probably in the width across the stylobate.
Hecdecane Dictionary H - noun A white, semisolid, spermaceti-like hydrocarbon, C16H34, of the paraffin series, found dissolved as an important ingredient of kerosene, and so called because each molecule has sixteen atoms of carbon; - called also hexadecane.
Heck Dictionary H - noun The bolt or latch of a door.
Heckimal Dictionary H - noun The European blue titmouse (Parus coeruleus).
Heckle Dictionary H - noun & transitive verb Same as Hackle.
Hectare Dictionary H - noun A measure of area, or superficies, containing a hundred ares, or 10,000 square meters, and equivalent to 2.471 acres.
Hectic Dictionary H - adjective Habitual; constitutional; pertaining especially to slow waste of animal tissue, as in consumption; as, a hectic type in disease; a hectic flush.
Hectocotylized Dictionary H - adjective Changed into a hectocotylus; having a hectocotylis.
Hectocotyli Dictionary H - pleural of Hectocotylus.
Hectocotylus Dictionary H - noun One of the arms of the male of most kinds of cephalopods, which is specially modified in various ways to effect the fertilization of the eggs. In a special sense, the greatly modified arm of Argonauta and allied genera, which, after receiving the spermatophores, becomes detached from the male, and attaches itself to the female for reproductive purposes.
Hectogram Dictionary H - noun A measure of weight, containing a hundred grams, or about 3.527 ounces avoirdupois.
Hectogramme Dictionary H - noun The same as Hectogram.
Hectograph Dictionary H - noun A contrivance for multiple copying, by means of a surface of gelatin softened with glycerin.
Hectoliter Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Hectolitre.
Hectolitre Dictionary H - noun A measure of liquids, containing a hundred liters; equal to a tenth of a cubic meter, nearly 26/ gallons of wine measure, or 22.0097 imperial gallons. As a dry measure, it contains ten decaliters, or about 2/ Winchester bushels.
Hectometer Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Hectometre.
Hectometre Dictionary H - noun A measure of length, equal to a hundred meters. It is equivalent to 328.09 feet.
Hector Dictionary H - noun A bully; a blustering, turbulent, insolent, fellow; one who vexes or provokes.
Hectored Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hector.
Hectoring Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hector.
Hectorism Dictionary H - noun The disposition or the practice of a hector; a bullying.
Hectorly Dictionary H - adjective Resembling a hector; blustering; insolent; taunting.
Hectostere Dictionary H - noun A measure of solidity, containing one hundred cubic meters, and equivalent to 3531.66 English or 3531.05 United States cubic feet.
Heddles Dictionary H - pleural of Heddle.
Heddle Dictionary H - noun One of the sets of parallel doubled threads which, with mounting, compose the harness employed to guide the warp threads to the lathe or batten in a loom.
Heddle-eye Dictionary H - noun The eye or loop formed in each heddle to receive a warp thread.
Heddling Dictionary H - [[vb. noun The act of drawing the warp threads through the heddle-eyes of a weaver's harness; the harness itself.
Hederaceous Dictionary H - adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling, ivy.
Hederal Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to ivy.
Hederic Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, the ivy (Hedera); as, hederic acid, an acid of the acetylene series.
Hederiferous Dictionary H - adjective Producing ivy; ivy-bearing.
Hederose Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or of, ivy; full of ivy.
Hedge Dictionary H - noun A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden.
Hedged Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hedge.
Hedging Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hedge.
Hedgeborn Dictionary H - adjective Born under a hedge; of low birth.
Hedgebote Dictionary H - noun Same as Haybote.
Hedgehog Dictionary H - noun 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.
Hedgeless Dictionary H - adjective Having no hedge.
Hedgepig Dictionary H - noun A young hedgehog.
Hedger Dictionary H - noun One who makes or mends hedges; also, one who hedges, as, in betting.
Hedgerow Dictionary H - noun A row of shrubs, or trees, planted for inclosure or separation of fields.
Hedging bill Dictionary H - A hedge bill. See under Hedge.
Hedonic Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to pleasure.
Hedonistic Dictionary H - adjective Same as Hedonic, 2.
Heeded Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Heed.
Heeding Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Heed.
Heed Dictionary H - verb transitive To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.
Heedful Dictionary H - adjective Full of heed; regarding with care; cautious; circumspect; attentive; vigilant.
Heedless Dictionary H - adjective Without heed or care; inattentive; careless; thoughtless; unobservant.
Heedy Dictionary H - adjective Heedful.
Heel Dictionary H - intransitive verb To lean or tip to one side, as a ship; as, the ship heels aport; the boat heeled over when the squall struck it.
Heeled Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Heel.
Heeling Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Heel.
Heelball Dictionary H - noun A composition of wax and lampblack, used by shoemakers for polishing, and by antiquaries in copying inscriptions.
Heeler Dictionary H - noun A cock that strikes well with his heels or spurs.
Heelless Dictionary H - adjective Without a heel.
Heelpiece Dictionary H - noun A piece of armor to protect the heels.
Heelpost Dictionary H - noun The post supporting the outer end of a propeller shaft.
Heelspur Dictionary H - noun A slender bony or cartilaginous process developed from the heel bone of bats. It helps to support the wing membranes. See Illust. of Cheiropter.
Heeltap Dictionary H - noun One of the segments of leather in the heel of a shoe.
Heeltapped Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Heeltap.
Heeltapping Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Heeltap.
Heeltool Dictionary H - noun A tool used by turners in metal, having a bend forming a heel near the cutting end.
Heep Dictionary H - noun The hip of the dog-rose.
Heer Dictionary H - noun A yarn measure of six hundred yards or / of a spindle. See Spindle.
Heft Dictionary H - noun Same as Haft, n.
Hefted Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Heft.
Hefting Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Heft.
Hefty Dictionary H - adjective Moderately heavy.
Hegelian Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to Hegelianism.
Hegelianism Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Hegelism.
Hegelism Dictionary H - noun The system of logic and philosophy set forth by Hegel, a German writer (1770-1831).
Hegemonic Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hegemonical.
Hegemonical Dictionary H - adjective Leading; controlling; ruling; predominant.
Hegemony Dictionary H - noun Leadership; preponderant influence or authority; - usually applied to the relation of a government or state to its neighbors or confederates.
Hegge Dictionary H - noun A hedge.
Hegira Dictionary H - noun The flight of Mohammed from Mecca, September 13, A. D. 622 (subsequently established as the first year of the Moslem era); hence, any flight or exodus regarded as like that of Mohammed.
Heifer Dictionary H - noun A young cow.
Heigh-ho Dictionary H - interjection An exclamation of surprise, joy, dejection, uneasiness, weariness, etc.
Height Dictionary H - noun The condition of being high; elevated position.
Heightened Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Heighten.
Heightening Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Heighten.
Heighten Dictionary H - verb transitive To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.
Heightener Dictionary H - noun One who, or that which, heightens.
Heinous Dictionary H - adjective Hateful; hatefully bad; flagrant; odious; atrocious; giving great great offense; - applied to deeds or to character.
Heir Dictionary H - noun One who inherits, or is entitled to succeed to the possession of, any property after the death of its owner; one on whom the law bestows the title or property of another at the death of the latter.
Heirdom Dictionary H - noun The state of an heir; succession by inheritance.
Heiress Dictionary H - noun A female heir.
Heirless Dictionary H - adjective Destitute of an heir.
Heirloom Dictionary H - noun 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.
Heirship Dictionary H - noun The state, character, or privileges of an heir; right of inheriting.
Hejira Dictionary H - noun See Hegira.
Hektare Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Hektometer.
Hektogram Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Hektometer.
Hektoliter Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Hektometer.
Hektometer Dictionary H - noun Same as Hectare, Hectogram, Hectoliter, and Hectometer.
Hektograph Dictionary H - noun See Hectograph.
Helamys Dictionary H - noun See Jumping hare, under Hare.
Helcoplasty Dictionary H - noun The act or process of repairing lesions made by ulcers, especially by a plastic operation.
Held Dictionary H - imp. & p. p. of Hold.
Hele Dictionary H - noun Health; welfare.
Helena Dictionary H - noun See St. Elmo's fire, under Saint.
Helenin Dictionary H - noun A neutral organic substance found in the root of the elecampane (Inula helenium), and extracted as a white crystalline or oily material, with a slightly bitter taste.
Heliac Dictionary H - adjective Heliacal.
Heliacal Dictionary H - adjective 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.
Heliacally Dictionary H - adverb In a heliacal manner.
Helianthin Dictionary H - noun An artificial, orange dyestuff, analogous to tropaolin, and like it used as an indicator in alkalimetry; - called also methyl orange.
Helianthoid Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to the Helianthoidea.
Helianthoidea Dictionary H - noun plural An order of Anthozoa; the Actinaria.
Helical Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to, or in the form of, a helix; spiral; as, a helical staircase; a helical spring.
Helichrysum Dictionary H - noun A genus of composite plants, with shining, commonly white or yellow, or sometimes reddish, radiated involucres, which are often called "everlasting flowers.".
Heliciform Dictionary H - adjective Having the form of a helix; spiral.
Helicin Dictionary H - noun A glucoside obtained as a white crystalline substance by partial oxidation of salicin, from a willow (Salix Helix of Linnaeus.).
Helicine Dictionary H - adjective Curled; spiral; helicoid; - applied esp. to certain arteries of the penis.
Helicograph Dictionary H - noun An instrument for drawing spiral lines on a plane.
Helicoid Dictionary H - adjective Spiral; curved, like the spire of a univalve shell.
Helicoidal Dictionary H - adjective Same as Helicoid.
Helicon Dictionary H - noun A mountain in Boeotia, in Greece, supposed by the Greeks to be the residence of Apollo and the Muses.
Heliconia Dictionary H - noun One of numerous species of Heliconius, a genus of tropical American butterflies. The wings are usually black, marked with green, crimson, and white.
Heliconian Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to Helicon.
Helicotrema Dictionary H - noun The opening by which the two scalae communicate at the top of the cochlea of the ear.
Helio- Dictionary H - A combining form from Gr. "h`lios the sun.
Heliocentric Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Heliocentrical.
Heliocentrical Dictionary H - adjective pertaining to the sun's center, or appearing to be seen from it; having, or relating to, the sun as a center; - opposed to geocentrical.
Heliochrome Dictionary H - noun A photograph in colors.
Heliochromic Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or produced by, heliochromy.
Heliochromy Dictionary H - noun The art of producing photographs in color.
Heliograph Dictionary H - noun A picture taken by heliography; a photograph.
Heliographic Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to heliography or a heliograph; made by heliography.
Heliography Dictionary H - noun Photography.
Heliogravure Dictionary H - noun The process of photographic engraving.
Heliolater Dictionary H - noun A worshiper of the sun.
Heliolatry Dictionary H - noun Sun worship. See Sabianism.
Heliolite Dictionary H - noun A fossil coral of the genus Heliolites, having twelve-rayed cells. It is found in the Silurian rocks.
Heliometer Dictionary H - noun An instrument devised originally for measuring the diameter of the sun; now employed for delicate measurements of the distance and relative direction of two stars too far apart to be easily measured in the field of view of an ordinary telescope.
Heliometric Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Heliometrical.
Heliometrical Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to the heliometer, or to heliometry.
Heliometry Dictionary H - noun The apart or practice of measuring the diameters of heavenly bodies, their relative distances, etc. See Heliometer.
Heliopora Dictionary H - noun An East Indian stony coral now known to belong to the Alcyonaria; - called also blue coral.
Helioscope Dictionary H - noun A telescope or instrument for viewing the sun without injury to the eyes, as through colored glasses, or with mirrors which reflect but a small portion of light.
Heliostat Dictionary H - noun An instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, by which a sunbeam is made apparently stationary, by being steadily directed to one spot during the whole of its diurnal period; also, a geodetic heliotrope.
Heliotrope Dictionary H - noun An instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line.
Heliotroper Dictionary H - noun The person at a geodetic station who has charge of the heliotrope.
Heliotropic Dictionary H - adjective Manifesting heliotropism; turning toward the sun.
Heliotropism Dictionary H - noun The phenomenon of turning toward the light, seen in many leaves and flowers.
Heliotype Dictionary H - noun A picture obtained by the process of heliotypy.
Heliotypic Dictionary H - adjective Relating to, or obtained by, heliotypy.
Heliotypy Dictionary H - noun A method of transferring pictures from photographic negatives to hardened gelatin plates from which impressions are produced on paper as by lithography.
Heliozoa Dictionary H - noun plural An order of fresh-water rhizopods having a more or less globular form, with slender radiating pseudopodia; the sun animalcule.
Helispheric Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Helispherical.
Helispherical Dictionary H - adjective Spiral.
Helium Dictionary H - noun A gaseous element found in the atmospheres of the sun and earth and in some rare minerals.
Helices Dictionary H - pleural of Helix.
Helixes Dictionary H - pleural of Helix.
Helix Dictionary H - noun A nonplane curve whose tangents are all equally inclined to a given plane. The common helix is the curve formed by the thread of the ordinary screw. It is distinguished from the spiral, all the convolutions of which are in the plane.
Hell Dictionary H - verb transitive The place of the dead, or of souls after death; the grave; - called in Hebrew sheol, and by the Greeks hades.
Hellanodic Dictionary H - noun A judge or umpire in games or combats.
Hellbender Dictionary H - noun A large North American aquatic salamander (Protonopsis horrida or Menopoma Alleghaniensis). It is very voracious and very tenacious of life. Also called alligator, and water dog.
Hellborn Dictionary H - adjective Born in or of hell.
Hellbred Dictionary H - adjective Produced in hell.
Hellbrewed Dictionary H - adjective Prepared in hell.
Hellbroth Dictionary H - noun A composition for infernal purposes; a magical preparation.
Hell-cat Dictionary H - noun A witch; a hag.
Hell-diver Dictionary H - noun The dabchick.
Helldoomed Dictionary H - adjective Doomed to hell.
Hellebore Dictionary H - noun A genus of perennial herbs (Helleborus) of the Crowfoot family, mostly having powerfully cathartic and even poisonous qualities. H. niger is the European black hellebore, or Christmas rose, blossoming in winter or earliest spring. H. officinalis was the officinal hellebore of the ancients.
Helleborein Dictionary H - noun A poisonous glucoside accompanying helleborin in several species of hellebore, and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a bittersweet taste. It has a strong action on the heart, resembling digitalin.
Helleborin Dictionary H - noun A poisonous glucoside found in several species of hellebore, and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a sharp tingling taste. It possesses the essential virtues of the plant; - called also elleborin.
Helleborism Dictionary H - noun The practice or theory of using hellebore as a medicine.
Hellene Dictionary H - noun A native of either ancient or modern Greece; a Greek.
Hellenian Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to the Hellenes, or Greeks.
Hellenic Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to the Hellenes, or inhabitants of Greece; Greek; Grecian.
Hellenism Dictionary H - noun A phrase or form of speech in accordance with genius and construction or idioms of the Greek language; a Grecism.
Hellenist Dictionary H - noun One who affiliates with Greeks, or imitates Greek manners; esp., a person of Jewish extraction who used the Greek language as his mother tongue, as did the Jews of Asia Minor, Greece, Syria, and Egypt; distinguished from the Hebraists, or native Jews (Acts vi. 1).
Hellenistic Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hellenistical.
Hellenistical Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to the Hellenists.
Hellenistically Dictionary H - adverb According to the Hellenistic manner or dialect.
Hellenize Dictionary H - intransitive verb To use the Greek language; to play the Greek; to Grecize.
Hellenotype Dictionary H - noun See Ivorytype.
Hellespont Dictionary H - noun A narrow strait between Europe and Asia, now called the Daradanelles. It connects the Aegean Sea and the sea of Marmora.
Hellespontine Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to the Hellespont.
Hellgamite Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Hellgramite.
Hellgramite Dictionary H - noun The aquatic larva of a large American winged insect (Corydalus cornutus), much used a fish bait by anglers; the dobson. It belongs to the Neuroptera.
Hellhag Dictionary H - noun A hag of or fit for hell.
Hell-haunted Dictionary H - adjective Haunted by devils; hellish.
Hellhound Dictionary H - noun A dog of hell; an agent of hell.
Hellier Dictionary H - verb transitive One who heles or covers; hence, a tiler, slater, or thatcher.
Hellish Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to hell; like hell; infernal; malignant; wicked; detestable; diabolical.
Hellkite Dictionary H - noun A kite of infernal breed.
Hello Dictionary H - interjection & noun See Halloo.
Hellward Dictionary H - adverb Toward hell.
Helly Dictionary H - adjective Hellish.
Helm Dictionary H - noun See Haulm, straw.
Helmed Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Helm.
Helming Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Helm.
Helmage Dictionary H - noun Guidance; direction.
Helmet Dictionary H - noun A defensive covering for the head. See Casque, Headpiece, Morion, Sallet, and Illust. of Beaver.
Helmeted Dictionary H - adjective Wearing a helmet; furnished with or having a helmet or helmet-shaped part; galeate.
Helmet-shaped Dictionary H - adjective Shaped like a helmet; galeate. See Illust. of Galeate.
Helminth Dictionary H - noun An intestinal worm, or wormlike intestinal parasite; one of the Helminthes.
Helminthagogue Dictionary H - noun A vermifuge.
Helminthes Dictionary H - noun plural One of the grand divisions or branches of the animal kingdom. It is a large group including a vast number of species, most of which are parasitic. Called also Enthelminthes, Enthelmintha.
Helminthiasis Dictionary H - noun A disease in which worms are present in some part of the body.
Helminthic Dictionary H - adjective Of or relating to worms, or Helminthes; expelling worms.
Helminthite Dictionary H - noun One of the sinuous tracks on the surfaces of many stones, and popularly considered as worm trails.
Helminthoid Dictionary H - adjective Wormlike; vermiform.
Helminthologic Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Helminthological.
Helminthological Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to helminthology.
Helminthologist Dictionary H - noun One versed in helminthology.
Helminthology Dictionary H - noun The natural history, or study, of worms, esp. parasitic worms.
Helmless Dictionary H - adjective Destitute of a helmet.
Helmsmen Dictionary H - pleural of Helmsman.
Helmsman Dictionary H - noun The man at the helm; a steersman.
Helmwind Dictionary H - noun A wind attending or presaged by the cloud called helm.
Helot Dictionary H - noun A slave in ancient Sparta; a Spartan serf; hence, a slave or serf.
Helotism Dictionary H - noun The condition of the Helots or slaves in Sparta; slavery.
Helotry Dictionary H - noun The Helots, collectively; slaves; bondsmen.
Helped Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Help.
Holp Dictionary H - imperative of Help.
Holpen Dictionary H - past participle of Help.
Helping Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Help.
Help Dictionary H - verb transitive To furnish with strength or means for the successful performance of any action or the attainment of any object; to aid; to assist; as, to help a man in his work; to help one to remember; - the following infinitive is commonly used without to; as, "Help me scale yon balcony.".
Helper Dictionary H - noun One who, or that which, helps, aids, assists, or relieves; as, a lay helper in a parish.
Helpful Dictionary H - adjective Furnishing help; giving aid; assistant; useful; salutary.
Helpless Dictionary H - adjective Destitute of help or strength; unable to help or defend one's self; needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless infant.
Helpmate Dictionary H - noun A helper; a companion; specifically, a wife.
Helpmeet Dictionary H - noun A wife; a helpmate.
Helter-skelter Dictionary H - adverb In hurry and confusion; without definite purpose; irregularly.
Helve Dictionary H - noun The handle of an ax, hatchet, or adze.
Helved Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Helve.
Helving Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Helve.
Helvetian Dictionary H - adjective Same as Helvetic.
Helvetic Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to the Helvetii, the ancient inhabitant of the Alps, now Switzerland, or to the modern states and inhabitant of the Alpine regions; as, the Helvetic confederacy; Helvetic states.
Helvine Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Helvite.
Helvite Dictionary H - noun A mineral of a yellowish color, consisting chiefly of silica, glucina, manganese, and iron, with a little sulphur.
Hem Dictionary H - pronoun Them.
Hemmed Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hem.
Hemming Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hem.
Hema- Dictionary H - Same as Haema-.
Hemachate Dictionary H - noun A species of agate, sprinkled with spots of red jasper.
Hemachrome Dictionary H - noun Same as Haemachrome.
Hemacite Dictionary H - noun A composition made from blood, mixed with mineral or vegetable substances, used for making buttons, door knobs, etc.
Hemadrometer Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Hemadromometer.
Hemadromometer Dictionary H - noun An instrument for measuring the velocity with which the blood moves in the arteries.
Hemadrometry Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Hemadromometry.
Hemadromometry Dictionary H - noun The act of measuring the velocity with which the blood circulates in the arteries; haemotachometry.
Hemadynamics Dictionary H - noun The principles of dynamics in their application to the blood; that part of science which treats of the motion of the blood.
Hemadynamometer Dictionary H - noun An instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury; - called also a haemomanometer.
Hemal Dictionary H - adjective Relating to the blood or blood vessels; pertaining to, situated in the region of, or on the side with, the heart and great blood vessels; - opposed to neural.
Hemaphaein Dictionary H - noun Same as Haemaphaein.
Hemapophyses Dictionary H - pleural of Hemapophysis.
Hemapophysis Dictionary H - noun The second element in each half of a hemal arch, corresponding to the sternal part of a rib.
Hemastatic Dictionary H - adjective & noun Alt. of Hemastatical.
Hemastatical Dictionary H - adjective & noun Same as Hemostatic.
Hemastatics Dictionary H - noun Laws relating to the equilibrium of the blood in the blood vessels.
Hematachometer Dictionary H - noun Same as Haematachometer.
Hematein Dictionary H - noun A reddish brown or violet crystalline substance, C16H12O6, got from hematoxylin by partial oxidation, and regarded as analogous to the phthaleins.
Hematemesis Dictionary H - noun A vomiting of blood.
Hematherm Dictionary H - noun A warm-blooded animal.
Hemathermal Dictionary H - adjective Warm-blooded; hematothermal.
Hematic Dictionary H - adjective Same as Haematic.
Hematin Dictionary H - noun Hematoxylin.
Hematinometer Dictionary H - noun A form of hemoglobinometer.
Hematinometric Dictionary H - adjective Relating to the measurement of the amount of hematin or hemoglobin contained in blood, or other fluids.
Hematinon Dictionary H - noun A red consisting of silica, borax, and soda, fused with oxide of copper and iron, and used in enamels, mosaics, etc.
Hematite Dictionary H - noun 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.
Hematitic Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to hematite, or resembling it.
Hemato Dictionary H - See Haema-.
Hematocele Dictionary H - noun A tumor filled with blood.
Hematocrya Dictionary H - noun plural The cold-blooded vertebrates, that is, all but the mammals and birds; - the antithesis to Hematotherma.
Hematocrystallin Dictionary H - noun See Hemoglobin.
Hematoid Dictionary H - adjective Resembling blood.
Hematoidin Dictionary H - noun A crystalline or amorphous pigment, free from iron, formed from hematin in old blood stains, and in old hemorrhages in the body. It resembles bilirubin. When present in the corpora lutea it is called haemolutein.
Hematology Dictionary H - noun The science which treats of the blood.
Hematoma Dictionary H - noun A circumscribed swelling produced by an effusion of blood beneath the skin.
Hematophilia Dictionary H - noun A condition characterized by a tendency to profuse and uncontrollable hemorrhage from the slightest wounds.
Hematosin Dictionary H - noun The hematin of blood.
Hematosis Dictionary H - noun Sanguification; the conversion of chyle into blood.
Hematotherma Dictionary H - noun plural The warm-blooded vertebrates, comprising the mammals and birds; - the antithesis to hematocrya.
Hematothermal Dictionary H - adjective Warm-blooded.
Hematoxylin Dictionary H - noun Haematoxylin.
Hematuria Dictionary H - noun Passage of urine mingled with blood.
Hemautography Dictionary H - noun The obtaining of a curve similar to a pulse curve or sphygmogram by allowing the blood from a divided artery to strike against a piece of paper.
Hemelytra Dictionary H - pleural of Hemelytrum.
Hemelytron Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Hemelytrum.
Hemelytrum Dictionary H - noun One of the partially thickened anterior wings of certain insects, as of many Hemiptera, the earwigs, etc.
Hemeralopia Dictionary H - noun A disease of the eyes, in consequence of which a person can see clearly or without pain only by daylight or a strong artificial light; day sight.
Hemerobian Dictionary H - noun A neuropterous insect of the genus Hemerobius, and allied genera.
Hemerobid Dictionary H - adjective Of relating to the hemerobians.
Hemerocallis Dictionary H - noun A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily.
Hemi- Dictionary H - A prefix signifying half.
Hemialbumin Dictionary H - noun Same as Hemialbumose.
Hemialbumose Dictionary H - noun An albuminous substance formed in gastric digestion, and by the action of boiling dilute acids on albumin. It is readily convertible into hemipeptone. Called also hemialbumin.
Hemianaesthesia Dictionary H - noun Anaesthesia upon one side of the body.
Hemibranchi Dictionary H - noun plural An order of fishes having an incomplete or reduced branchial apparatus. It includes the sticklebacks, the flutemouths, and Fistularia.
Hemicardia Dictionary H - noun A lateral half of the heart, either the right or left.
Hemicarp Dictionary H - noun One portion of a fruit that spontaneously divides into halves.
Hemicerebrum Dictionary H - noun A lateral half of the cerebrum.
Hemicollin Dictionary H - noun See Semiglutin.
Hemicrania Dictionary H - noun A pain that affects only one side of the head.
Hemicrany Dictionary H - noun Hemicranis.
Hemicycle Dictionary H - noun A half circle; a semicircle.
Hemidactyl Dictionary H - noun Any species of Old World geckoes of the genus Hemidactylus. The hemidactyls have dilated toes, with two rows of plates beneath.
Hemi-demi-semiquaver Dictionary H - noun A short note, equal to one fourth of a semiquaver, or the sixty-fourth part of a whole note.
Hemiditone Dictionary H - noun The lesser third.
Hemigamous Dictionary H - adjective Having one of the two florets in the same spikelet neuter, and the other unisexual, whether male or female; - said of grasses.
Hemiglyph Dictionary H - noun The half channel or groove in the edge of the triglyph in the Doric order.
Hemihedral Dictionary H - adjective Having half of the similar parts of a crystals, instead of all; consisting of half the planes which full symmetry would require, as when a cube has planes only on half of its eight solid angles, or one plane out of a pair on each of its edges; or as in the case of a tetrahedron, which is hemihedral to an octahedron, it being contained under four of the planes of an octahedron.
Hemihedrism Dictionary H - noun The property of crystallizing hemihedrally.
Hemihedron Dictionary H - noun A solid hemihedrally derived. The tetrahedron is a hemihedron.
Hemiholohedral Dictionary H - adjective Presenting hemihedral forms, in which half the sectants have the full number of planes.
Hemimellitic Dictionary H - adjective Having half as many (three) carboxyl radicals as mellitic acid; - said of an organic acid.
Hemimetabola Dictionary H - noun plural Those insects which have an incomplete metamorphosis.
Hemimetabolic Dictionary H - adjective Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larvae differing from the adults chiefly in laking wings, as in the grasshoppers and cockroaches.
Hemimorphic Dictionary H - adjective Having the two ends modified with unlike planes; - said of a crystal.
Hemin Dictionary H - noun A substance, in the form of reddish brown, microscopic, prismatic crystals, formed from dried blood by the action of strong acetic acid and common salt; - called also Teichmann's crystals. Chemically, it is a hydrochloride of hematin.
Heminae Dictionary H - pleural of Hemina.
Hemina Dictionary H - noun A measure of half a sextary.
Hemionus Dictionary H - noun A wild ass found in Thibet; the kiang.
Hemiopia Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Hemiopsia.
Hemiopsia Dictionary H - noun A defect of vision in consequence of which a person sees but half of an object looked at.
Hemiorthotype Dictionary H - adjective Same as Monoclinic.
Hemipeptone Dictionary H - noun A product of the gastric and pancreatic digestion of albuminous matter.
Hemiplegia Dictionary H - noun A palsy that affects one side only of the body.
Hemiplegy Dictionary H - noun Hemiplegia.
Hemipode Dictionary H - noun Any bird of the genus Turnix. Various species inhabit Asia, Africa, and Australia.
Hemiprotein Dictionary H - noun An insoluble, proteid substance, described by Schutzenberger, formed when albumin is heated for some time with dilute sulphuric acid. It is apparently identical with antialbumid and dyspeptone.
Hemipter Dictionary H - noun One of the Hemiptera.
Hemiptera Dictionary H - noun plural An order of hexapod insects having a jointed proboscis, including four sharp stylets (mandibles and maxillae), for piercing. In many of the species (Heteroptera) the front wings are partially coriaceous, and different from the others.
Hemipteral Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hemipterous.
Hemipterous Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to the Hemiptera.
Hemipteran Dictionary H - noun One of the Hemiptera; an hemipter.
Hemisected Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hemisect.
Hemisecting Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hemisect.
Hemisect Dictionary H - verb transitive To divide along the mesial plane.
Hemisection Dictionary H - noun A division along the mesial plane; also, one of the parts so divided.
Hemisphere Dictionary H - noun A half sphere; one half of a sphere or globe, when divided by a plane passing through its center.
Hemispheric Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hemispherical.
Hemispherical Dictionary H - adjective Containing, or pertaining to, a hemisphere; as, a hemispheric figure or form; a hemispherical body.
Hemispheroid Dictionary H - noun A half of a spheroid.
Hemispheroidal Dictionary H - adjective Resembling, or approximating to, a hemisphere in form.
Hemispherule Dictionary H - noun A half spherule.
Hemistich Dictionary H - noun Half a poetic verse or line, or a verse or line not completed.
Hemistichal Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or written in, hemistichs; also, by, or according to, hemistichs; as, a hemistichal division of a verse.
Hemisystole Dictionary H - noun Contraction of only one ventricle of the heart.
Hemitone Dictionary H - noun See Semitone.
Hemitropal Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hemitropous.
Hemitropous Dictionary H - adjective Turned half round; half inverted.
Hemitrope Dictionary H - adjective Half turned round; half inverted; (Crystallog.) having a twinned structure.
Hemitropy Dictionary H - noun Twin composition in crystals.
Hemlock Dictionary H - noun The name of several poisonous umbelliferous herbs having finely cut leaves and small white flowers, as the Cicuta maculata, bulbifera, and virosa, and the Conium maculatum. See Conium.
Hemmel Dictionary H - noun A shed or hovel for cattle.
Hemmer Dictionary H - noun One who, or that which, hems with a needle.
Hemo- Dictionary H - Same as Haema-, Haemo-.
Hemoglobin Dictionary H - noun The normal coloring matter of the red blood corpuscles of vertebrate animals. It is composed of hematin and globulin, and is also called haematoglobulin. In arterial blood, it is always combined with oxygen, and is then called oxyhemoglobin. It crystallizes under different forms from different animals, and when crystallized, is called haematocrystallin. See Blood crystal, under Blood.
Hemoglobinometer Dictionary H - noun Same as Haemochromometer.
Hemophilia Dictionary H - noun See Hematophilia.
Hemoptysis Dictionary H - noun The expectoration of blood, due usually to hemorrhage from the mucous membrane of the lungs.
Hemorrhage Dictionary H - noun Any discharge of blood from the blood vessels.
Hemorrhagic Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining or tending to a flux of blood; consisting in, or accompanied by, hemorrhage.
Hemorrhoidal Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, hemorrhoids.
Hemorrhoids Dictionary H - noun plural Livid and painful swellings formed by the dilation of the blood vessels around the margin of, or within, the anus, from which blood or mucus is occasionally discharged; piles; emerods.
Hemostatic Dictionary H - adjective Of or relating to stagnation of the blood.
Hemoothorax Dictionary H - noun An effusion of blood into the cavity of the pleura.
Hemp Dictionary H - noun A plant of the genus Cannabis (C. sativa), the fibrous skin or bark of which is used for making cloth and cordage. The name is also applied to various other plants yielding fiber.
Hempen Dictionary H - adjective Made of hemp; as, a hempen cord.
Hempy Dictionary H - adjective Like hemp.
Hemself Dictionary H - pronoun Alt. of Hemselven.
Hemselven Dictionary H - pronoun Themselves; - used reflexively.
Hemstitched Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hemstitch.
Hemstitching Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hemstitch.
Hemstitch Dictionary H - verb transitive To ornament at the head of a broad hem by drawing out a few parallel threads, and fastening the cross threads in successive small clusters; as, to hemstitch a handkerchief.
Hemuse Dictionary H - noun The roebuck in its third year.
Hen Dictionary H - noun The female of the domestic fowl; also, the female of grouse, pheasants, or any kind of birds; as, the heath hen; the gray hen.
Henbane Dictionary H - noun A plant of the genus Hyoscyamus (H. niger). All parts of the plant are poisonous, and the leaves are used for the same purposes as belladonna. It is poisonous to domestic fowls; whence the name. Called also, stinking nightshade, from the fetid odor of the plant. See Hyoscyamus.
Henbit Dictionary H - noun A weed of the genus Lamium (L. amplexicaule) with deeply crenate leaves.
Hence Dictionary H - adverb From this place; away.
Henceforth Dictionary H - adverb From this time forward; henceforward.
Henceforward Dictionary H - adverb From this time forward; henceforth.
Henchboy Dictionary H - noun A page; a servant.
Henchman Dictionary H - noun An attendant; a servant; a follower. Now chiefly used as a political cant term.
Hencoop Dictionary H - noun A coop or cage for hens.
Hende Dictionary H - adjective Skillful; dexterous; clever.
Hendecagon Dictionary H - noun A plane figure of eleven sides and eleven angles.
Hendecane Dictionary H - noun A hydrocarbon, C11H24, of the paraffin series; - so called because it has eleven atoms of carbon in each molecule. Called also endecane, undecane.
Hendecasyllabic Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to a line of eleven syllables.
Hendecasyllable Dictionary H - noun A metrical line of eleven syllables.
Hendecatoic Dictionary H - adjective Undecylic; pertaining to, or derived from, hendecane; as, hendecatoic acid.
Hendiadys Dictionary H - noun A figure in which the idea is expressed by two nouns connected by and, instead of by a noun and limiting adjective; as, we drink from cups and gold, for golden cups.
Hendy Dictionary H - adjective See Hende.
Henen Dictionary H - adverb Hence.
Henfish Dictionary H - noun A marine fish; the sea bream.
Heng Dictionary H - imperative Hung.
Hen-hearted Dictionary H - adjective Cowardly; timid; chicken-hearted.
Henhouses Dictionary H - pleural of Henhouse.
Henhouse Dictionary H - noun A house or shelter for fowls.
Henhussy Dictionary H - noun A cotquean; a man who intermeddles with women's concerns.
Heniquen Dictionary H - noun See Jeniquen.
Henna Dictionary H - noun A thorny tree or shrub of the genus Lawsonia (L. alba). The fragrant white blossoms are used by the Buddhists in religious ceremonies. The powdered leaves furnish a red coloring matter used in the East to stain the hails and fingers, the manes of horses, etc.
Hennery Dictionary H - noun An inclosed place for keeping hens.
Hennes Dictionary H - adverb Hence.
Hennotannic Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, a brown resinous substance resembling tannin, and extracted from the henna plant; as, hennotannic acid.
Henoge ny Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Henogenesis.
Henogenesis Dictionary H - noun Same as Ontogeny.
Henotheism Dictionary H - noun Primitive religion in which each of several divinities is regarded as independent, and is worshiped without reference to the rest.
Henotic Dictionary H - adjective Harmonizing; irenic.
Henpecked Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Henpeck.
Henpecking Dictionary H - past particle & verb of Henpeck.
Henpeck Dictionary H - verb transitive To subject to petty authority; - said of a wife who thus treats her husband. Commonly used in the past participle (often adjectively).
Henroost Dictionary H - noun A place where hens roost.
Henrys Dictionary H - pleural of Henry.
Henry Dictionary H - noun The unit of electric induction; the induction in a circuit when the electro-motive force induced in this circuit is one volt, while the inducing current varies at the rate of one ampere a second.
Hen's-foot Dictionary H - noun An umbelliferous plant (Caucalis daucoides).
Hente Dictionary H - imperative of Hent.
Hent Dictionary H - past participle of Hent.
Henware Dictionary H - noun A coarse, blackish seaweed. See Badderlocks.
Henxman Dictionary H - noun Henchman.
Hep Dictionary H - noun See Hip, the fruit of the dog-rose.
Hepar Dictionary H - noun Liver of sulphur; a substance of a liver-brown color, sometimes used in medicine. It is formed by fusing sulphur with carbonates of the alkalies (esp. potassium), and consists essentially of alkaline sulphides. Called also hepar sulphuris (/).
Hepatic Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to the liver; as, hepatic artery; hepatic diseases.
Hepaticae Dictionary H - pleural of Hepatica.
Hepatica Dictionary H - noun A genus of pretty spring flowers closely related to Anemone; squirrel cup.
Hepatical Dictionary H - adjective Hepatic.
Hepatite Dictionary H - noun A variety of barite emitting a fetid odor when rubbed or heated.
Hepatitis Dictionary H - noun Inflammation of the liver.
Hepatization Dictionary H - noun Impregnating with sulphureted hydrogen gas.
Hepatized Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hepatize.
Hepatizing Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hepatize.
Hepatize Dictionary H - verb transitive To impregnate with sulphureted hydrogen gas, formerly called hepatic gas.
Hepatocele Dictionary H - noun Hernia of the liver.
Hepatocystic Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to the liver and gall bladder; as, the hepatocystic ducts.
Hepatogastric Dictionary H - adjective See Gastrohepatic.
Hepatogenic Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hepatogenous.
Hepatogenous Dictionary H - adjective Arising from the liver; due to a condition of the liver; as, hepatogenic jaundice.
Hepatology Dictionary H - noun The science which treats of the liver; a treatise on the liver.
Hepato-pancreas Dictionary H - noun A digestive gland in Crustacea, Mollusca, etc., usually called the liver, but different from the liver of vertebrates.
Hepatorenal Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to the liver and kidneys; as, the hepatorenal ligament.
Hepatoscopy Dictionary H - noun Divination by inspecting the liver of animals.
Heppen Dictionary H - adjective Neat; fit; comfortable.
Hepper Dictionary H - noun A young salmon; a parr.
Hepta Dictionary H - A combining form from Gr. "epta`, seven.
Heptachord Dictionary H - noun A system of seven sounds.
Heptad Dictionary H - noun An atom which has a valence of seven, and which can be theoretically combined with, substituted for, or replaced by, seven monad atoms or radicals; as, iodine is a heptad in iodic acid. Also used as an adjective.
Heptade Dictionary H - noun The sum or number of seven.
Heptaglot Dictionary H - noun A book in seven languages.
Heptagon Dictionary H - noun A plane figure consisting of seven sides and having seven angles.
Heptagonal Dictionary H - adjective Having seven angles or sides.
Heptagynia Dictionary H - noun plural A Linnaean order of plants having seven pistils.
Heptagynian Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Heptagynous.
Heptagynous Dictionary H - adjective Having seven pistils.
Heptahedron Dictionary H - noun A solid figure with seven sides.
Heptamerous Dictionary H - adjective Consisting of seven parts, or having the parts in sets of sevens.
Heptandria Dictionary H - noun plural A Linnaean class of plants having seven stamens.
Heptandrian Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Heptandrous.
Heptandrous Dictionary H - adjective Having seven stamens.
Heptane Dictionary H - noun Any one of several isometric hydrocarbons, C7H16, of the paraffin series (nine are possible, four are known); - so called because the molecule has seven carbon atoms. Specifically, a colorless liquid, found as a constituent of petroleum, in the tar oil of cannel coal, etc.
Heptangular Dictionary H - adjective Having seven angles.
Heptaphyllous Dictionary H - adjective Having seven leaves.
Heptarch Dictionary H - noun Same as Heptarchist.
Heptarchic Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to a heptarchy; constituting or consisting of a heptarchy.
Heptarchist Dictionary H - noun A ruler of one division of a heptarchy.
Heptarchy Dictionary H - noun A government by seven persons; also, a country under seven rulers.
Heptaspermous Dictionary H - adjective Having seven seeds.
Heptastich Dictionary H - noun A composition consisting of seven lines or verses.
Heptateuch Dictionary H - noun The first seven books of the Testament.
Heptavalent Dictionary H - adjective Having seven units of attractive force or affinity; - said of heptad elements or radicals.
Heptene Dictionary H - noun Same as Heptylene.
Heptine Dictionary H - noun Any one of a series of unsaturated metameric hydrocarbons, C7H12, of the acetylene series.
Heptoic Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, heptane; as, heptoic acid.
Heptone Dictionary H - noun A liquid hydrocarbon, C7H10, of the valylene series.
Hep tree Dictionary H - The wild dog-rose.
Heptyl Dictionary H - noun A compound radical, C7H15, regarded as the essential radical of heptane and a related series of compounds.
Heptylene Dictionary H - noun A colorless liquid hydrocarbon, C7H14, of the ethylene series; also, any one of its isomers. Called also heptene.
Heptylic Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, heptyl or heptane; as, heptylic alcohol. Cf. /nanthylic.
Her Dictionary H - pronoun & adjective The form of the objective and the possessive case of the personal pronoun she; as, I saw her with her purse out.
Here Dictionary H - pronoun plural Of them; their.
Heracleonite Dictionary H - noun A follower of Heracleon of Alexandria, a Judaizing Gnostic, in the early history of the Christian church.
Herakline Dictionary H - noun A picrate compound, used as an explosive in blasting.
Herald Dictionary H - noun An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character.
Heralded Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Herald.
Heralding Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Herald.
Heraldic Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to heralds or heraldry; as, heraldic blazoning; heraldic language.
Heraldically Dictionary H - adverb In an heraldic manner; according to the rules of heraldry.
Heraldry Dictionary H - noun 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.
Heraldship Dictionary H - noun The office of a herald.
Herapathite Dictionary H - noun The sulphate of iodoquinine, a substance crystallizing in thin plates remarkable for their effects in polarizing light.
Heraud Dictionary H - noun A herald.
Herb Dictionary H - noun A plant whose stem does not become woody and permanent, but dies, at least down to the ground, after flowering.
Herbaceous Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to herbs; having the nature, texture, or characteristics, of an herb; as, herbaceous plants; an herbaceous stem.
Herbage Dictionary H - noun Herbs collectively; green food beasts; grass; pasture.
Herbaged Dictionary H - adjective Covered with grass.
Herbal Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to herbs.
Herbalism Dictionary H - noun The knowledge of herbs.
Herbalist Dictionary H - noun One skilled in the knowledge of plants; a collector of, or dealer in, herbs, especially medicinal herbs.
Herbar Dictionary H - noun An herb.
Herbarian Dictionary H - noun A herbalist.
Herbarist Dictionary H - noun A herbalist.
Herbariums Dictionary H - pleural of Herbarium.
Herbaria Dictionary H - pleural of Herbarium.
Herbarium Dictionary H - noun A collection of dried specimens of plants, systematically arranged.
Herbarize Dictionary H - verb transitive See Herborize.
Herbary Dictionary H - noun A garden of herbs; a cottage garden.
Herber Dictionary H - noun A garden; a pleasure garden.
Herbergage Dictionary H - noun Harborage; lodging; shelter; harbor.
Herbergeour Dictionary H - noun A harbinger.
Herbergh Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Herberwe.
Herberwe Dictionary H - noun A harbor.
Herbescent Dictionary H - adjective Growing into herbs.
Herbid Dictionary H - adjective Covered with herbs.
Herbiferous Dictionary H - adjective Bearing herbs or vegetation.
Herbist Dictionary H - noun A herbalist.
Herbivora Dictionary H - noun plural An extensive division of Mammalia. It formerly included the Proboscidea, Hyracoidea, Perissodactyla, and Artiodactyla, but by later writers it is generally restricted to the two latter groups (Ungulata). They feed almost exclusively upon vegetation.
Herbivore Dictionary H - noun One of the Herbivora.
Herbivorous Dictionary H - adjective Eating plants; of or pertaining to the Herbivora.
Herbless Dictionary H - adjective Destitute of herbs or of vegetation.
Herblet Dictionary H - noun A small herb.
Herborist Dictionary H - noun A herbalist.
Herborization Dictionary H - noun The act of herborizing.
Herborized Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Herborize.
Herborizing Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Herborize.
Herborize Dictionary H - intransitive verb To search for plants, or new species of plants, with a view to classifying them.
Herborough Dictionary H - noun A harbor.
Herbose Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Herbous.
Herbous Dictionary H - adjective Abounding with herbs.
Herb-women Dictionary H - pleural of Herb-woman.
Herb-woman Dictionary H - noun A woman that sells herbs.
Herby Dictionary H - adjective Having the nature of, pertaining to, or covered with, herbs or herbage.
Hercogamous Dictionary H - adjective Not capable of self-fertilization; - said of hermaphrodite flowers in which some structural obstacle forbids autogamy.
Herculean Dictionary H - adjective Requiring the strength of Hercules; hence, very great, difficult, or dangerous; as, an Herculean task.
Hercules Dictionary H - noun A hero, fabled to have been the son of Jupiter and Alcmena, and celebrated for great strength, esp. for the accomplishment of his twelve great tasks or "labors.".
Hercynian Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to an extensive forest in Germany, of which there are still portions in Swabia and the Hartz mountains.
Herd Dictionary H - adjective Haired.
Herded Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Herd.
Herding Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Herd.
Herdbook Dictionary H - noun A book containing the list and pedigrees of one or more herds of choice breeds of cattle; - also called herd record, or herd register.
Herder Dictionary H - noun A herdsman.
Herderite Dictionary H - noun A rare fluophosphate of glucina, in small white crystals.
Herdess Dictionary H - noun A shepherdess; a female herder.
Herdgroom Dictionary H - noun A herdsman.
Herdic Dictionary H - noun A kind of low-hung cab.
Herdman Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Herdsman.
Herdsman Dictionary H - noun The owner or keeper of a herd or of herds; one employed in tending a herd of cattle.
women Dictionary H - pleural of Herdswoman.
Herdswoman Dictionary H - noun A woman who tends a herd.
Herea-bout Dictionary H - adverb Alt. of Hereabouts.
Hereabouts Dictionary H - adverb About this place; in this vicinity.
Hereafter Dictionary H - adverb In time to come; in some future time or state.
Hereafterward Dictionary H - adverb Hereafter.
Here-at Dictionary H - adverb At, or by reason of, this; as, he was offended hereat.
Hereby Dictionary H - adverb By means of this.
Hereditability Dictionary H - noun State of being hereditable.
Hereditable Dictionary H - adjective Capable of being inherited. See Inheritable.
Hereditably Dictionary H - adverb By inheritance.
Hereditament Dictionary H - noun Any species of property that may be inherited; lands, tenements, anything corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, that may descend to an heir.
Hereditarily Dictionary H - adverb By inheritance; in an hereditary manner.
Hereditary Dictionary H - adjective Descended, or capable of descending, from an ancestor to an heir at law; received or passing by inheritance, or that must pass by inheritance; as, an hereditary estate or crown.
Heredity Dictionary H - noun 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.
Hereford Dictionary H - noun One of a breed of cattle originating in Herefordshire, England. The Herefords are good working animals, and their beef-producing quality is excellent.
Herehence Dictionary H - adverb From hence.
Herein Dictionary H - adverb In this.
Hereinafter Dictionary H - adverb In the following part of this (writing, document, speech, and the like).
Hereinbefore Dictionary H - adverb In the preceding part of this (writing, document, book, etc.).
Hereinto Dictionary H - adverb Into this.
Heremit Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Heremite.
Heremite Dictionary H - noun A hermit.
Heremitical Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to a hermit; solitary; secluded from society.
Heren Dictionary H - adjective Made of hair.
Hereof Dictionary H - adverb Of this; concerning this; from this; hence.
Hereon Dictionary H - adverb On or upon this; hereupon.
Hereout Dictionary H - adverb Out of this.
Heresiarch Dictionary H - noun A leader in heresy; the chief of a sect of heretics.
Heresiarchy Dictionary H - noun A chief or great heresy.
Heresiographer Dictionary H - noun One who writes on heresies.
Heresiography Dictionary H - noun A treatise on heresy.
Heresies Dictionary H - pleural of Heresy.
Heresy Dictionary H - noun An opinion held in opposition to the established or commonly received doctrine, and tending to promote a division or party, as in politics, literature, philosophy, etc.; - usually, but not necessarily, said in reproach.
Heretic Dictionary H - noun One who holds to a heresy; one who believes some doctrine contrary to the established faith or prevailing religion.
Heretical Dictionary H - adjective Containing heresy; of the nature of, or characterized by, heresy.
Heretically Dictionary H - adverb In an heretical manner.
Hereticate Dictionary H - verb transitive To decide to be heresy or a heretic; to denounce as a heretic or heretical.
Heretification Dictionary H - noun The act of hereticating or pronouncing heretical.
Hereto Dictionary H - adverb To this; hereunto.
Heretoch Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Heretog.
Heretog Dictionary H - noun The leader or commander of an army; also, a marshal.
Heretofore Dictionary H - adverb Up to this time; hitherto; before; in time past.
Hereunto Dictionary H - adverb Unto this; up to this time; hereto.
Hereupon Dictionary H - adverb On this; hereon.
Herewith Dictionary H - adverb With this.
Herie Dictionary H - verb transitive To praise; to worship.
Heriot Dictionary H - noun Formerly, a payment or tribute of arms or military accouterments, or the best beast, or chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant; in modern use, a customary tribute of goods or chattels to the lord of the fee, paid on the decease of a tenant.
Heriotable Dictionary H - adjective Subject to the payment of a heriot.
Herisson Dictionary H - noun A beam or bar armed with iron spikes, and turning on a pivot; - used to block up a passage.
Heritability Dictionary H - noun The state of being heritable.
Heritable Dictionary H - adjective Capable of being inherited or of passing by inheritance; inheritable.
Heritage Dictionary H - adjective That which is inherited, or passes from heir to heir; inheritance.
Heritance Dictionary H - noun Heritage; inheritance.
Heritor Dictionary H - noun A proprietor or landholder in a parish.
Herl Dictionary H - noun Same as Harl, 2.
Herling Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Hirling.
Hirling Dictionary H - noun The young of the sea trout.
Hermae Dictionary H - pleural of Herma.
Herma Dictionary H - noun See Hermes, 2.
Hermaphrodeity Dictionary H - noun Hermaphrodism.
Hermaphrodism Dictionary H - noun See Hermaphroditism.
Hermaphrodite Dictionary H - noun An individual which has the attributes of both male and female, or which unites in itself the two sexes; an animal or plant having the parts of generation of both sexes, as when a flower contains both the stamens and pistil within the same calyx, or on the same receptacle. In some cases reproduction may take place without the union of the distinct individuals. In the animal kingdom true hermaphrodites are found only among the invertebrates. See Illust. in Appendix, under Helminths.
Hermaphroditic Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hermaphroditical.
Hermaphroditical Dictionary H - adjective Partaking of the characteristics of both sexes; characterized by hermaphroditism.
Hermaphroditism Dictionary H - noun The union of the two sexes in the same individual, or the combination of some of their characteristics or organs in one individual.
Hermeneutic Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hermeneutical.
Hermeneutical Dictionary H - adjective Unfolding the signification; of or pertaining to interpretation; exegetical; explanatory; as, hermeneutic theology, or the art of expounding the Scriptures; a hermeneutic phrase.
Hermeneutically Dictionary H - adverb According to the principles of interpretation; as, a verse of Scripture was examined hermeneutically.
Hermeneutics Dictionary H - noun The science of interpretation and explanation; exegesis; esp., that branch of theology which defines the laws whereby the meaning of the Scriptures is to be ascertained.
Hermes Dictionary H - noun See Mercury.
Hermetic Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hermetical.
Hermetical Dictionary H - adjective Of, pertaining to, or taught by, Hermes Trismegistus; as, hermetic philosophy. Hence: Alchemical; chemic.
Hermetically Dictionary H - adverb In an hermetical manner; chemically.
Hermit Dictionary H - noun A person who retires from society and lives in solitude; a recluse; an anchoret; especially, one who so lives from religious motives.
Hermitage Dictionary H - noun The habitation of a hermit; a secluded residence.
Hermitary Dictionary H - noun A cell annexed to an abbey, for the use of a hermit.
Hermitess Dictionary H - noun A female hermit.
Hermitical Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or suited for, a hermit.
Hermodactyl Dictionary H - noun A heart-shaped bulbous root, about the size of a finger, brought from Turkey, formerly used as a cathartic.
Hermogenian Dictionary H - noun A disciple of Hermogenes, an heretical teacher who lived in Africa near the close of the second century. He held matter to be the fountain of all evil, and that souls and spirits are formed of corrupt matter.
Hern Dictionary H - noun A heron; esp., the common European heron.
Hernani Dictionary H - noun A thin silk or woolen goods, for women's dresses, woven in various styles and colors.
Herne Dictionary H - noun A corner.
Hernias Dictionary H - pleural of Hernia.
Herniae Dictionary H - pleural of Hernia.
Hernia Dictionary H - noun A protrusion, consisting of an organ or part which has escaped from its natural cavity, and projects through some natural or accidental opening in the walls of the latter; as, hernia of the brain, of the lung, or of the bowels. Hernia of the abdominal viscera in most common. Called also rupture.
Hernial Dictionary H - adjective Of, or connected with, hernia.
Herniotomy Dictionary H - noun A cutting for the cure or relief of hernia; celotomy.
Hernshaw Dictionary H - noun Heronshaw.
Heroes Dictionary H - pleural of Hero.
Hero Dictionary H - noun An illustrious man, supposed to be exalted, after death, to a place among the gods; a demigod, as Hercules.
Herodian Dictionary H - noun One of a party among the Jews, composed of partisans of Herod of Galilee. They joined with the Pharisees against Christ.
Herodiones Dictionary H - noun plural A division of wading birds, including the herons, storks, and allied forms. Called also Herodii.
Heroess Dictionary H - noun A heroine.
Heroic Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to, or like, a hero; of the nature of heroes; distinguished by the existence of heroes; as, the heroic age; an heroic people; heroic valor.
Heroical Dictionary H - adjective Heroic.
Heroicness Dictionary H - noun Heroism.
Heroicomic Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Heroicomical.
Heroicomical Dictionary H - adjective Combining the heroic and the ludicrous; denoting high burlesque; as, a heroicomic poem.
Heroine Dictionary H - noun A woman of an heroic spirit.
Heroism Dictionary H - noun The qualities characteristic of a hero, as courage, bravery, fortitude, unselfishness, etc.; the display of such qualities.
Heron Dictionary H - noun Any wading bird of the genus Ardea and allied genera, of the family Ardeidae. The herons have a long, sharp bill, and long legs and toes, with the claw of the middle toe toothed. The common European heron (Ardea cinerea) is remarkable for its directly ascending flight, and was formerly hunted with the larger falcons.
Heroner Dictionary H - noun A hawk used in hunting the heron.
Heronry Dictionary H - noun A place where herons breed.
Heronsew Dictionary H - noun A heronshaw.
Heronshaw Dictionary H - noun A heron.
Heroologist Dictionary H - noun One who treats of heroes.
Heroship Dictionary H - noun The character or personality of a hero.
Herpes Dictionary H - noun An eruption of the skin, taking various names, according to its form, or the part affected; especially, an eruption of vesicles in small distinct clusters, accompanied with itching or tingling, including shingles, ringworm, and the like; - so called from its tendency to creep or spread from one part of the skin to another.
Herpetic Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, the herpes; partaking of the nature of herpes; as, herpetic eruptions.
Herpetism Dictionary H - noun See Dartrous diathesis, under Dartrous.
Herpetologic Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Herpetological.
Herpetological Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to herpetology.
Herpetologist Dictionary H - noun One versed in herpetology, or the natural history of reptiles.
Herpetology Dictionary H - noun The natural history of reptiles; that branch of zoology which relates to reptiles, including their structure, classification, and habits.
Herpetotomist Dictionary H - noun One who dissects, or studies the anatomy of, reptiles.
Herpetotomy Dictionary H - noun The anatomy or dissection of reptiles.
Herr Dictionary H - noun A title of respect given to gentlemen in Germany, equivalent to the English Mister.
Herring Dictionary H - noun One of various species of fishes of the genus Clupea, and allied genera, esp. the common round or English herring (C. harengus) of the North Atlantic. Herrings move in vast schools, coming in spring to the shores of Europe and America, where they are salted and smoked in great quantities.
Herringbone Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or like, the spine of a herring; especially, characterized by an arrangement of work in rows of parallel lines, which in the alternate rows slope in different directions.
Herrnhuter Dictionary H - noun One of the Moravians; - so called from the settlement of Herrnhut (the Lord's watch) made, about 1722, by the Moravians at the invitation of Nicholas Lewis, count of Zinzendorf, upon his estate in the circle of Bautzen.
Hers Dictionary H - pronoun See the Note under Her, pron.
Hersal Dictionary H - noun Rehearsal.
Herschel Dictionary H - noun See Uranus.
Herschelian Dictionary H - adjective Of or relating to Sir William Herschel; as, the Herschelian telescope.
Herse Dictionary H - noun A kind of gate or portcullis, having iron bars, like a harrow, studded with iron spikes. It is hung above gateways so that it may be quickly lowered, to impede the advance of an enemy.
Herself Dictionary H - pronoun An emphasized form of the third person feminine pronoun; - used as a subject with she; as, she herself will bear the blame; also used alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, it is herself; she blames herself.
Hersillon Dictionary H - noun A beam with projecting spikes, used to make a breach impassable.
Hert Dictionary H - noun A hart.
Herte Dictionary H - noun A heart.
Hertely Dictionary H - adjective & adverb Hearty; heartily.
Hery Dictionary H - verb transitive To worship; to glorify; to praise.
Hesitancy Dictionary H - noun The act of hesitating, or pausing to consider; slowness in deciding; vacillation; also, the manner of one who hesitates.
Hesitant Dictionary H - adjective Not prompt in deciding or acting; hesitating.
Hesitantly Dictionary H - adverb With hesitancy or doubt.
Hesitated Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hesitate.
Hesitating Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hesitate.
Hesitate Dictionary H - intransitive verb 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.
Hesitatingly Dictionary H - adverb With hesitation or doubt.
Hesitation Dictionary H - noun The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation.
Hesitative Dictionary H - adjective Showing, or characterized by, hesitation.
Hesitatory Dictionary H - adjective Hesitating.
Hesp Dictionary H - noun A measure of two hanks of linen thread.
Hesper Dictionary H - noun The evening; Hesperus.
Hesperetin Dictionary H - noun A white, crystalline substance having a sweetish taste, obtained by the decomposition of hesperidin, and regarded as a complex derivative of caffeic acid.
Hesperian Dictionary H - adjective Western; being in the west; occidental.
Hesperid Dictionary H - adjective & noun Same as 3d Hesperian.
Hesperidene Dictionary H - noun An isomeric variety of terpene from orange oil.
Hesperides Dictionary H - noun plural The daughters of Hesperus, or Night (brother of Atlas), and fabled possessors of a garden producing golden apples, in Africa, at the western extremity of the known world. To slay the guarding dragon and get some of these apples was one of the labors of Hercules. Called also Atlantides.
Hesperidin Dictionary H - noun A glucoside found in ripe and unripe fruit (as the orange), and extracted as a white crystalline substance.
Hesperidium Dictionary H - noun A large berry with a thick rind, as a lemon or an orange.
Hesperornis Dictionary H - noun A genus of large, extinct, wingless birds from the Cretaceous deposits of Kansas, belonging to the Odontornithes. They had teeth, and were essentially carnivorous swimming ostriches. Several species are known. See Illust. in Append.
Hesperus Dictionary H - noun Venus when she is the evening star; Hesper.
Hessian Dictionary H - adjective Of or relating to Hesse, in Germany, or to the Hessians.
Hessite Dictionary H - noun A lead-gray sectile mineral. It is a telluride of silver.
Hest Dictionary H - noun Command; precept; injunction.
Hestern Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hesternal.
Hesternal Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to yesterday. Obs. See Yester, a.
Hesychast Dictionary H - noun One of a mystical sect of the Greek Church in the fourteenth century; a quietist.
Hetairism Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Hetarism.
Hetarism Dictionary H - noun A supposed primitive state of society, in which all the women of a tribe were held in common.
Hetchel Dictionary H - verb transitive Same as Hatchel.
Hete Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hete.
Het Dictionary H - of Hete.
Heteracanth Dictionary H - adjective Having the spines of the dorsal fin unsymmetrical, or thickened alternately on the right and left sides.
Heterarchy Dictionary H - noun The government of an alien.
Heterauxesis Dictionary H - noun Unequal growth of a cell, or of a part of a plant.
Hetero- Dictionary H - A combining form signifying other, other than usual, different; as, heteroclite, heterodox, heterogamous.
Heterocarpism Dictionary H - noun The power of producing two kinds of reproductive bodies, as in Amphicarpaea, in which besides the usual pods, there are others underground.
Heterocarpous Dictionary H - adjective Characterized by heterocarpism.
Hetercephalous Dictionary H - adjective Bearing two kinds of heads or capitula; - said of certain composite plants.
Heterocera Dictionary H - noun plural A division of Lepidoptera, including the moths, and hawk moths, which have the antennae variable in form.
Heterocercal Dictionary H - adjective Having the vertebral column evidently continued into the upper lobe of the tail, which is usually longer than the lower one, as in sharks.
Heterocercy Dictionary H - noun Unequal development of the tail lobes of fishes; the possession of a heterocercal tail.
Heterochromous Dictionary H - adjective Having the central florets of a flower head of a different color from those of the circumference.
Heterochronism Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Heterochrony.
Heterochrony Dictionary H - noun In evolution, a deviation from the typical sequence in the formation of organs or parts.
Heteroclite Dictionary H - adjective Deviating from ordinary forms or rules; irregular; anomalous; abnormal.
Heteroclitic Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Heteroclitical.
Heteroclitical Dictionary H - adjective Deviating from ordinary forms or rules; irregular; anomalous; abnormal.
Heteroclitous Dictionary H - adjective Heteroclitic.
Heterocyst Dictionary H - noun A cell larger than the others, and of different appearance, occurring in certain algae related to nostoc.
Heterodactyl Dictionary H - adjective Heterodactylous.
Heterodactylae Dictionary H - noun plural A group of birds including the trogons.
Heterodactylous Dictionary H - adjective Having the first and second toes turned backward, as in the trogons.
Heterodont Dictionary H - adjective Having the teeth differentiated into incisors, canines, and molars, as in man; - opposed to homodont.
Heterodox Dictionary H - adjective Contrary to, or differing from, some acknowledged standard, as the Bible, the creed of a church, the decree of a council, and the like; not orthodox; heretical; - said of opinions, doctrines, books, etc., esp. upon theological subjects.
Heterodoxal Dictionary H - adjective Not orthodox.
Heterodoxy Dictionary H - noun An opinion or doctrine, or a system of doctrines, contrary to some established standard of faith, as the Scriptures, the creed or standards of a church, etc.; heresy.
Heterodromous Dictionary H - adjective Having spirals of changing direction.
Heterogamous Dictionary H - adjective The condition of having two or more kinds of flowers which differ in regard to stamens and pistils, as in the aster.
Heterogamy Dictionary H - noun The process of fertilization in plants by an indirect or circuitous method; - opposed to orthogamy.
Heterogangliate Dictionary H - adjective Having the ganglia of the nervous system unsymmetrically arranged; - said of certain invertebrate animals.
Heterogene Dictionary H - adjective Heterogenous.
Heterogeneal Dictionary H - adjective Heterogeneous.
Heterogeneity Dictionary H - noun The state of being heterogeneous; contrariety.
Heterogeneous Dictionary H - adjective Differing in kind; having unlike qualities; possessed of different characteristics; dissimilar; - opposed to homogeneous, and said of two or more connected objects, or of a conglomerate mass, considered in respect to the parts of which it is made up.
Heterogenesis Dictionary H - noun Spontaneous generation, so called.
Heterogenetic Dictionary H - adjective Relating to heterogenesis; as, heterogenetic transformations.
Heterogenist Dictionary H - noun One who believes in the theory of spontaneous generation, or heterogenesis.
Heterogenous Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to heterogenesis; heterogenetic.
Heterogeny Dictionary H - noun Heterogenesis.
Heterogonous Dictionary H - adjective Characterized by heterogony.
Heterogony Dictionary H - noun The condition of having two or more kinds of flowers, different as to the length of their stamens and pistils.
Heterographic Dictionary H - adjective Employing the same letters to represent different sounds in different words or syllables; - said of methods of spelling; as, the ordinary English orthography is heterographic.
Heterography Dictionary H - noun That method of spelling in which the same letters represent different sounds in different words, as in the ordinary English orthography; e. g., g in get and in ginger.
Heterogynous Dictionary H - adjective Having females very unlike the males in form and structure; - as certain insects, the males of which are winged, and the females wingless.
Heterologous Dictionary H - adjective Characterized by heterology; consisting of different elements, or of like elements in different proportions; different; - opposed to homologous; as, heterologous organs.
Heterology Dictionary H - noun The absence of correspondence, or relation, in type of structure; lack of analogy between parts, owing to their being composed of different elements, or of like elements in different proportions; variation in structure from the normal form; - opposed to homology.
Heteromera Dictionary H - noun plural A division of Coleoptera, having heteromerous tarsi.
Heteromerous Dictionary H - adjective Unrelated in chemical composition, though similar or indentical in certain other respects; as, borax and augite are homoemorphous, but heteromerous.
Heteromorphic Dictionary H - adjective Deviating from the normal, perfect, or mature form; having different forms at different stages of existence, or in different individuals of the same species; - applied especially to insects in which there is a wide difference of form between the larva and the adult, and to plants having more than one form of flower.
Heteromorphism Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Heteromorphy.
Heteromorphy Dictionary H - noun The state or quality of being heteromorphic.
Heteromorphous Dictionary H - adjective Heteromorphic.
Heteromyaria Dictionary H - noun plural A division of bivalve shells, including the marine mussels, in which the two adductor muscles are very unequal. See Dreissena, and Illust. under Byssus.
Heteronereis Dictionary H - noun A free-swimming, dimorphic, sexual form of certain species of Nereis.
Heteronomous Dictionary H - adjective Subject to the law of another.
Heteronomy Dictionary H - noun Subordination or subjection to the law of another; political subjection of a community or state; - opposed to autonomy.
Heteronym Dictionary H - noun That which is heteronymous; a thing having a different name or designation from some other thing; - opposed to homonym.
Heteronymous Dictionary H - adjective Having different names or designations; standing in opposite relations.
Heteroousian Dictionary H - adjective Having different essential qualities; of a different nature.
Heteroousious Dictionary H - adjective See Heteroousian.
Heteropathic Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to the method of heteropathy; allopathic.
Heteropathy Dictionary H - noun That mode of treating diseases, by which a morbid condition is removed by inducing an opposite morbid condition to supplant it; allopathy.
Heteropelmous Dictionary H - adjective Having each of the two flexor tendons of the toes bifid, the branches of one going to the first and second toes; those of the other, to the third and fourth toes. See Illust. in Append.
Heterophagi Dictionary H - noun plural Altrices.
Heterophemist Dictionary H - noun One liable to the fault of heterophemy.
Heterophemy Dictionary H - noun The unconscious saying, in speech or in writing, of that which one does not intend to say; - frequently the very reverse of the thought which is present to consciousness.
Heterophony Dictionary H - noun An abnormal state of the voice.
Heterophyllous Dictionary H - adjective Having leaves of more than one shape on the same plant.
Heteroplasm Dictionary H - noun An abnormal formation foreign to the economy, and composed of elements different from those are found in it in its normal condition.
Heteroplastic Dictionary H - adjective Producing a different type of organism; developing into a different form of tissue, as cartilage which develops into bone.
Heteropod Dictionary H - noun One of the Heteropoda.
Heteropoda Dictionary H - noun plural An order of pelagic Gastropoda, having the foot developed into a median fin. Some of the species are naked; others, as Carinaria and Atlanta, have thin glassy shells.
Heteropodous Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to the Heteropoda.
Heteropter Dictionary H - noun One of the Heteroptera.
Heteroptera Dictionary H - noun plural A suborder of Hemiptera, in which the base of the anterior wings is thickened. See Hemiptera.
Heteroptics Dictionary H - noun False optics.
Heteroscian Dictionary H - noun One who lives either north or south of the tropics, as contrasted with one who lives on the other side of them; - so called because at noon the shadows always fall in opposite directions (the one northward, the other southward).
Heterosis Dictionary H - noun A figure of speech by which one form of a noun, verb, or pronoun, and the like, is used for another, as in the sentence: "What is life to such as me?".
Heterosomati Dictionary H - noun plural An order of fishes, comprising the flounders, halibut, sole, etc., having the body and head asymmetrical, with both eyes on one side. Called also Heterosomata, Heterosomi.
Heterosporic Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Heterosporous.
Heterosporous Dictionary H - adjective Producing two kinds of spores unlike each other.
Heterostyled Dictionary H - adjective Having styles of two or more distinct forms or lengths.
Heterostylism Dictionary H - noun The condition of being heterostyled.
Heterotactous Dictionary H - adjective Relating to, or characterized by, heterotaxy.
Heterotaxy Dictionary H - noun Variation in arrangement from that existing in a normal form; heterogenous arrangement or structure, as, in botany, the deviation in position of the organs of a plant, from the ordinary or typical arrangement.
Heterotopism Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Heterotopy.
Heterotopy Dictionary H - noun A deviation from the natural position; - a term applied in the case of organs or growths which are abnormal in situation.
Heterotricha Dictionary H - noun plural A division of ciliated Infusoria, having fine cilia all over the body, and a circle of larger ones around the anterior end.
Heterotropal Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Heterotropous.
Heterotropous Dictionary H - adjective Having the embryo or ovule oblique or transverse to the funiculus; amphitropous.
Hething Dictionary H - noun Contempt; scorn.
Hetmans Dictionary H - pleural of Hetman.
Hetman Dictionary H - noun A Cossack headman or general. The title of chief hetman is now held by the heir to the throne of Russia.
Heugh Dictionary H - noun A crag; a cliff; a glen with overhanging sides.
Heuk Dictionary H - noun Variant of Huke.
Heulandite Dictionary H - noun A mineral of the Zeolite family, often occurring in amygdaloid, in foliated masses, and also in monoclinic crystals with pearly luster on the cleavage face. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime.
Heuristic Dictionary H - adjective Serving to discover or find out.
Heved Dictionary H - noun The head.
Hewed Dictionary H - imperative of Hew.
Hewn Dictionary H - of Hew.
Hewing Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hew.
Hew Dictionary H - verb transitive To cut with an ax; to fell with a sharp instrument; - often with down, or off.
Hewe Dictionary H - noun A domestic servant; a retainer.
Hewer Dictionary H - noun One who hews.
Hewhole Dictionary H - noun The European green woodpecker. See Yaffle.
Hex- Dictionary H - Alt. of Hexa.
Hexa Dictionary H - A prefix or combining form, used to denote six, sixth, etc.; as, hexatomic, hexabasic.
Hexabasic Dictionary H - adjective Having six hydrogen atoms or six radicals capable of being replaced or saturated by bases; - said of acids; as, mellitic acid is hexabasic.
Hexacapsular Dictionary H - adjective Having six capsules or seed vessels.
Hexachord Dictionary H - noun A series of six notes, with a semitone between the third and fourth, the other intervals being whole tones.
Hexacid Dictionary H - adjective Having six atoms or radicals capable of being replaced by acids; hexatomic; hexavalent; - said of bases; as, mannite is a hexacid base.
Hexactinellid Dictionary H - adjective Having six-rayed spicules; belonging to the Hexactinellinae.
Hexactinelline Dictionary H - adjective Belonging to the Hexactinellinae, a group of sponges, having six-rayed siliceous spicules.
Hexactinia Dictionary H - noun plural The Anthozoa.
Hexad Dictionary H - noun An atom whose valence is six, and which can be theoretically combined with, substituted for, or replaced by, six monad atoms or radicals; as, sulphur is a hexad in sulphuric acid. Also used as an adjective.
Hexadactylous Dictionary H - adjective Having six fingers or toes.
Hexade Dictionary H - noun A series of six numbers.
Hexadecane Dictionary H - noun See Hecdecane.
Hexagon Dictionary H - noun A plane figure of six angles.
Hexagonal Dictionary H - adjective Having six sides and six angles; six-sided.
Hexagonally Dictionary H - adverb In an hexagonal manner.
Hexagony Dictionary H - noun A hexagon.
Hexagynia Dictionary H - noun plural A Linnaean order of plants having six pistils.
Hexagynian Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hexagynous.
Hexagynous Dictionary H - adjective Having six pistils.
Hexahedral Dictionary H - adjective In the form of a hexahedron; having six sides or faces.
Hexahedrons Dictionary H - pleural of Hexahedron.
Hexahedra Dictionary H - pleural of Hexahedron.
Hexahedron Dictionary H - noun A solid body of six sides or faces.
Hexahemeron Dictionary H - noun A term of six days.
Hexamerous Dictionary H - adjective In six parts; in sixes.
Hexameter Dictionary H - noun A verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly be a dactyl, and the sixth always a spondee. In this species of verse are composed the Iliad of Homer and the Aeneid of Virgil. In English hexameters accent takes the place of quantity.
Hexametric Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hexametrical.
Hexametrical Dictionary H - adjective Consisting of six metrical feet.
Hexametrist Dictionary H - noun One who writes in hexameters.
Hexandria Dictionary H - noun plural A Linnaean class of plants having six stamens.
Hexandrian Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hex-androus.
Hex-androus Dictionary H - adjective Having six stamens.
Hexane Dictionary H - noun Any one of five hydrocarbons, C6H14, of the paraffin series. They are colorless, volatile liquids, and are so called because the molecule has six carbon atoms.
Hexangular Dictionary H - adjective Having six angles or corners.
Hexapetalous Dictionary H - adjective Having six petals.
Hexaphyllous Dictionary H - adjective Having six leaves or leaflets.
Hexapla Dictionary H - singular A collection of the Holy Scriptures in six languages or six versions in parallel columns; particularly, the edition of the Old Testament published by Origen, in the 3d century.
Hexapod Dictionary H - adjective Having six feet.
Hexapoda Dictionary H - noun plural The true, or six-legged, insects; insects other than myriapods and arachnids.
Hexapodous Dictionary H - adjective Having six feet; belonging to the Hexapoda.
Hexapterous Dictionary H - adjective Having six processes.
Hexastich Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Hexastichon.
Hexastichon Dictionary H - noun A poem consisting of six verses or lines.
Hexastyle Dictionary H - adjective Having six columns in front; - said of a portico or temple.
Hexateuch Dictionary H - noun The first six books of the Old Testament.
Hexatomic Dictionary H - adjective Having six atoms in the molecule.
Hexavalent Dictionary H - past particle Having a valence of six; - said of hexads.
Hexdecyl Dictionary H - noun The essential radical, C16H33, of hecdecane.
Hexdecylic Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, hexdecyl or hecdecane; as, hexdecylic alcohol.
Hexeikosane Dictionary H - noun A hydrocarbon, C26H54, resembling paraffine; - so called because each molecule has twenty-six atoms of carbon.
Hexene Dictionary H - noun Same as Hexylene.
Hexicology Dictionary H - noun The science which treats of the complex relations of living creatures to other organisms, and to their surrounding conditions generally.
Hexine Dictionary H - noun A hydrocarbon, C6H10, of the acetylene series, obtained artificially as a colorless, volatile, pungent liquid; - called also hexoylene.
Hexoctahedron Dictionary H - noun A solid having forty-eight equal triangular faces.
Hexoic Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, hexane; as, hexoic acid.
Hexone Dictionary H - noun A liquid hydrocarbon, C6H8, of the valylene series, obtained from distillation products of certain fats and gums.
Hexyl Dictionary H - noun A compound radical, C6H13, regarded as the essential residue of hexane, and a related series of compounds.
Hexylene Dictionary H - noun 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.
Hexylic Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, hexyl or hexane; as, hexylic alcohol.
Hey Dictionary H - adjective High.
Heyday Dictionary H - interjection An expression of frolic and exultation, and sometimes of wonder.
Heydeguy Dictionary H - noun A kind of country-dance or round.
Heyh Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Heygh.
Heygh Dictionary H - adjective High.
Heyne Dictionary H - noun A wretch; a rascal.
Heyten Dictionary H - adverb Hence.
Hiation Dictionary H - noun Act of gaping.
Hiatus Dictionary H - pleural of Hiatus.
Hiatuses Dictionary H - pleural of Hiatus.
Hibernacle Dictionary H - noun That which serves for protection or shelter in winter; winter quarters; as, the hibernacle of an animal or a plant.
Hibernaculum Dictionary H - noun A winter bud, in which the rudimentary foliage or flower, as of most trees and shrubs in the temperate zone, is protected by closely overlapping scales.
Hibernal Dictionary H - adjective Belonging or relating to winter; wintry; winterish.
Hibernated Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hibernate.
Hibernating Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hibernate.
Hibernate Dictionary H - intransitive verb To winter; to pass the season of winter in close quarters, in a torpid or lethargic state, as certain mammals, reptiles, and insects.
Hibernation Dictionary H - noun The act or state of hibernating.
Hibernian Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to Hibernia, now Ireland; Irish.
Hibernicism Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Hibernianism.
Hibernianism Dictionary H - noun An idiom or mode of speech peculiar to the Irish.
Hiberno-Celtic Dictionary H - noun The native language of the Irish; that branch of the Celtic languages spoken by the natives of Ireland. Also adj.
Hibiscus Dictionary H - noun A genus of plants (herbs, shrubs, or trees), some species of which have large, showy flowers. Some species are cultivated in India for their fiber, which is used as a substitute for hemp. See Althea, Hollyhock, and Manoe.
Hiccius doctius Dictionary H - A juggler.
Hiccough Dictionary H - noun 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.
Hiccoughed Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hiccough.
Hiccoughing Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hiccough.
Hickory Dictionary H - noun An American tree of the genus Carya, of which there are several species. The shagbark is the C. alba, and has a very rough bark; it affords the hickory nut of the markets. The pignut, or brown hickory, is the C. glabra. The swamp hickory is C. amara, having a nut whose shell is very thin and the kernel bitter.
Hicksite Dictionary H - noun A member or follower of the "liberal" party, headed by Elias Hicks, which, because of a change of views respecting the divinity of Christ and the Atonement, seceded from the conservative portion of the Society of Friends in the United States, in 1827.
Hickup Dictionary H - noun & verb intransitive See Hiccough.
Hickwall Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Hickway.
Hickway Dictionary H - noun The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor) of Europe.
Hid Dictionary H - imp. & p. p. of Hide. See Hidden.
Hidage Dictionary H - noun A tax formerly paid to the kings of England for every hide of land.
Hidalgo Dictionary H - noun A title, denoting a Spanish nobleman of the lower class.
Hidden Dictionary H - past particle & adjective from Hide. Concealed; put out of view; secret; not known; mysterious.
Hiddenite Dictionary H - noun An emerald-green variety of spodumene found in North Carolina; lithia emerald, - used as a gem.
Hiddenly Dictionary H - adverb In a hidden manner.
Hiding Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hide.
Hide Dictionary H - verb transitive To conceal, or withdraw from sight; to put out of view; to secrete.
Hided Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hide.
Hidebound Dictionary H - adjective Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back as not to be easily loosened or raised; - said of an animal.
Hideous Dictionary H - adjective Frightful, shocking, or offensive to the eyes; dreadful to behold; as, a hideous monster; hideous looks.
Hider Dictionary H - noun One who hides or conceals.
Hied Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hie.
Hying Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hie.
Hie Dictionary H - intransitive verb To hasten; to go in haste; - also often with the reciprocal pronoun.
Hiems Dictionary H - noun Winter.
Hierapicra Dictionary H - noun A warming cathartic medicine, made of aloes and canella bark.
Hierarch Dictionary H - noun One who has high and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order; as, princely hierarchs.
Hierarchal Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hierarchic.
Hierarchic Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to a hierarch.
Hierarchical Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to a hierarchy.
Hierarchism Dictionary H - noun The principles or authority of a hierarchy.
Hierarchies Dictionary H - pleural of Hierarchy.
Hierarchy Dictionary H - noun Dominion or authority in sacred things.
Hieratic Dictionary H - adjective Consecrated to sacred uses; sacerdotal; pertaining to priests.
Hierocracy Dictionary H - noun Government by ecclesiastics; a hierarchy.
Hieroglyph Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hieroglyphic.
Hieroglyphic Dictionary H - adjective A sacred character; a character in picture writing, as of the ancient Egyptians, Mexicans, etc. Specifically, in the plural, the picture writing of the ancient Egyptian priests. It is made up of three, or, as some say, four classes of characters: first, the hieroglyphic proper, or figurative, in which the representation of the object conveys the idea of the object itself; second, the ideographic, consisting of symbols representing ideas, not sounds, as an ostrich feather is a symbol of truth; third, the phonetic, consisting of symbols employed as syllables of a word, or as letters of the alphabet, having a certain sound, as a hawk represented the vowel a.
Hieroglyphical Dictionary H - adjective Emblematic; expressive of some meaning by characters, pictures, or figures; as, hieroglyphic writing; a hieroglyphic obelisk.
Hieroglyphically Dictionary H - adverb In hieroglyphics.
Hieroglyphist Dictionary H - noun One versed in hieroglyphics.
Hierogram Dictionary H - noun A form of sacred or hieratic writing.
Hierogrammatic Dictionary H - adjective Written in, or pertaining to, hierograms; expressive of sacred writing.
Hierogrammatist Dictionary H - noun A writer of hierograms; also, one skilled in hieroglyphics.
Hierographic Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hierographical.
Hierographical Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to sacred writing.
Hierography Dictionary H - noun Sacred writing.
Hierolatry Dictionary H - noun The worship of saints or sacred things.
Hierologic Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hierological.
Hierological Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to hierology.
Hierologist Dictionary H - noun One versed in, or whostudies, hierology.
Hierology Dictionary H - noun A treatise on sacred things; especially, the science which treats of the ancient writings and inscriptions of the Egyptians, or a treatise on that science.
Hieromancy Dictionary H - noun Divination by observing the objects offered in sacrifice.
Hiermartyr Dictionary H - noun A priest who becomes a martyr.
Hieromnemon Dictionary H - noun The sacred secretary or recorder sent by each state belonging to the Amphictyonic Council, along with the deputy or minister.
Hieron Dictionary H - noun A consecrated place; esp., a temple.
Hieronymite Dictionary H - noun See Jeronymite.
Hierophant Dictionary H - noun The presiding priest who initiated candidates at the Eleusinian mysteries; hence, one who teaches the mysteries and duties of religion.
Hierophantic Dictionary H - adjective Of or relating to hierophants or their teachings.
Hieroscopy Dictionary H - noun Divination by inspection of entrails of victims offered in sacrifice.
-cae Dictionary H - pleural of Hierotheca.
Hierotheca Dictionary H - noun A receptacle for sacred objects.
Hierourgy Dictionary H - noun A sacred or holy work or worship.
Hifalutin Dictionary H - noun See Highfaluting.
Higgled Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Higgle.
Higgling Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Higgle.
Higgle Dictionary H - intransitive verb To hawk or peddle provisions.
Higgledy-piggledy Dictionary H - adverb In confusion; topsy-turvy.
Higgler Dictionary H - noun One who higgles.
High Dictionary H - intransitive verb To hie.
Highbinder Dictionary H - noun A ruffian; one who hounds, or spies upon, another; app. esp. to the members of certain alleged societies among the Chinese.
High-blown Dictionary H - adjective Inflated, as with conceit.
Highborn Dictionary H - adjective Of noble birth.
High-bred Dictionary H - adjective Bred in high life; of pure blood.
High-built Dictionary H - adjective Of lofty structure; tall.
High-church Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to, or favoring, the party called the High Church, or their doctrines or policy. See High Church, under High, a.
High-churchism Dictionary H - noun The principles of the high-church party.
High-churchman Dictionary H - noun One who holds high-church principles.
High-churchman-ship Dictionary H - noun The state of being a high-churchman.
High-colored Dictionary H - adjective Having a strong, deep, or glaring color; flushed.
High-embowed Dictionary H - adjective Having lofty arches.
Highering Dictionary H - adjective Rising higher; ascending.
Highfaluting Dictionary H - noun High-flown, bombastic language.
High-fed Dictionary H - adjective Pampered; fed luxuriously.
High-finished Dictionary H - adjective Finished with great care; polished.
Highflier Dictionary H - noun One who is extravagant in pretensions, opinions, or manners.
High-flown Dictionary H - adjective Elevated; proud.
High-flushed Dictionary H - adjective Elated.
Highflying Dictionary H - adjective Extravagant in opinions or ambition.
High-go Dictionary H - noun A spree; a revel.
High-handed Dictionary H - adjective Overbearing; oppressive; arbitrary; violent; as, a high-handed act.
High-hearted Dictionary H - adjective Full of courage or nobleness; high-souled.
High-hoe Dictionary H - noun The European green woodpecker or yaffle.
High-holder Dictionary H - noun The flicker; - called also high-hole.
Highland Dictionary H - noun Elevated or mountainous land; (often in the pl.) an elevated region or country; as, the Highlands of Scotland.
Highlander Dictionary H - noun An inhabitant of highlands, especially of the Highlands of Scotland.
Highlandry Dictionary H - noun Highlanders, collectively.
High-low Dictionary H - noun A laced boot, ankle high.
Highly Dictionary H - adverb In a high manner, or to a high degree; very much; as, highly esteemed.
Highmen Dictionary H - noun plural Loaded dice so contrived as to turn up high numbers.
High-mettled Dictionary H - adjective Having abundance of mettle; ardent; full of fire; as, a high-mettled steed.
High-minded Dictionary H - adjective Proud; arrogant.
High-mindedness Dictionary H - noun The quality of being highminded; nobleness; magnanimity.
Highmost Dictionary H - adjective Highest.
Highness Dictionary H - noun The state of being high; elevation; loftiness.
High-palmed Dictionary H - adjective Having high antlers; bearing full-grown antlers aloft.
High-pressure Dictionary H - adjective Having or involving a pressure greatly exceeding that of the atmosphere; - said of steam, air, water, etc., and of steam, air, or hydraulic engines, water wheels, etc.
High priest Dictionary H - A chief priest; esp., the head of the Jewish priesthood.
High-priesthood Dictionary H - noun The office, dignity, or position of a high priest.
High-priestship Dictionary H - noun High-priesthood.
High-principled Dictionary H - adjective Possessed of noble or honorable principles.
High-proof Dictionary H - adjective Highly rectified; very strongly alcoholic; as, high-proof spirits.
High-raised Dictionary H - adjective Elevated; raised aloft; upreared.
High-reaching Dictionary H - adjective Reaching high or upward; hence, ambitious; aspiring.
High-red Dictionary H - adjective Of a strong red color.
Highroad Dictionary H - noun A highway; a much traveled or main road.
High-seasoned Dictionary H - adjective Enriched with spice and condiments; hence, exciting; piquant.
High-sighted Dictionary H - adjective Looking upward; supercilious.
High-souled Dictionary H - adjective Having a high or noble spirit; honorable.
High-sounding Dictionary H - adjective Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
High-spirited Dictionary H - adjective Full of spirit or natural fire; haughty; courageous; impetuous; not brooking restraint or opposition.
High-stepper Dictionary H - noun A horse that moves with a high step or proud gait; hence, a person having a proud bearing.
High-stomached Dictionary H - adjective Having a lofty spirit; haughty.
High-strung Dictionary H - adjective Strung to a high pitch; spirited; sensitive; as, a high-strung horse.
High-swelling Dictionary H - adjective Inflated; boastful.
Hight Dictionary H - noun A variant of Height.
Hot Dictionary H - of Hight.
Hote Dictionary H - of Hight.
Hoten Dictionary H - of Hight.
Hightener Dictionary H - noun That which heightens.
Highth Dictionary H - noun Variant of Height.
High-toned Dictionary H - adjective High in tone or sound.
High-top Dictionary H - noun A ship's masthead.
Highty-tighty Dictionary H - adjective Hoity-toity.
Highway Dictionary H - noun A road or way open to the use of the public; a main road or thoroughfare.
Highwaymen Dictionary H - pleural of Highwayman.
Highwayman Dictionary H - noun One who robs on the public road; a highway robber.
High-wrought Dictionary H - adjective Wrought with fine art or skill; elaborate.
Higre Dictionary H - noun See Eagre.
Hig-taper Dictionary H - noun A plant of the genus Verbascum (V. Thapsus); the common mullein. Also high-taper and hag-taper..
Hijera Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Hijra.
Hijra Dictionary H - noun See Hegira.
Hilal Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to a hilum.
Hilar Dictionary H - adjective Belonging to the hilum.
Hilarious Dictionary H - adjective Mirthful; noisy; merry.
Hilarity Dictionary H - noun Boisterous mirth; merriment; jollity.
Hilary term Dictionary H - Formerly, one of the four terms of the courts of common law in England, beginning on the eleventh of January and ending on the thirty-first of the same month, in each year; - so called from the festival of St. Hilary, January 13th.
Hilding Dictionary H - noun A base, menial wretch.
Hile Dictionary H - verb transitive To hide. See Hele.
Hill Dictionary H - noun A natural elevation of land, or a mass of earth rising above the common level of the surrounding land; an eminence less than a mountain.
Hilled Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hill.
Hilling Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hill.
Hilliness Dictionary H - noun The state of being hilly.
Hillock Dictionary H - noun A small hill.
Hillside Dictionary H - noun The side or declivity of a hill.
Hilltop Dictionary H - noun The top of a hill.
Hilly Dictionary H - adjective Abounding with hills; uneven in surface; as, a hilly country.
Hilt Dictionary H - noun A handle; especially, the handle of a sword, dagger, or the like.
Hilted Dictionary H - adjective Having a hilt; - used in composition; as, basket-hilted, cross-hilted.
Hilum Dictionary H - noun The eye of a bean or other seed; the mark or scar at the point of attachment of an ovule or seed to its base or support; - called also hile.
Hilus Dictionary H - noun Same as Hilum, 2.
Him Dictionary H - pronoun Them. See Hem.
Himalayan Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to the Himalayas, the great mountain chain in Hindostan.
Himpne Dictionary H - noun A hymn.
Himself Dictionary H - pronoun An emphasized form of the third person masculine pronoun; - used as a subject usually with he; as, he himself will bear the blame; used alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, it is himself who saved himself.
Himselven Dictionary H - pronoun plural Themselves. See Hemself.
Himselve Dictionary H - pronoun See 1st Himself.
Himyaric Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Himyaritic.
Himyaritic Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to Himyar, an ancient king of Yemen, in Arabia, or to his successors or people; as, the Himjaritic characters, language, etc.; applied esp. to certain ancient inscriptions showing the primitive type of the oldest form of the Arabic, still spoken in Southern Arabia.
Hin Dictionary H - noun A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing three quarts, one pint, one gill, English measure.
Hind Dictionary H - noun The female of the red deer, of which the male is the stag.
Hindberry Dictionary H - noun The raspberry.
Hindbrain Dictionary H - noun The posterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the epencephalon and metencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the epencephalon only.
Hinder Dictionary H - adjective Of or belonging to that part or end which is in the rear, or which follows; as, the hinder part of a wagon; the hinder parts of a horse.
Hindered Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hinder.
Hindering Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hinder.
Hinderance Dictionary H - noun Same as Hindrance.
Hinderer Dictionary H - noun One who, or that which, hinders.
Hinderest Dictionary H - adjective Hindermost; - superl. of Hind, a.
Hinderling Dictionary H - adjective A worthless, base, degenerate person or animal.
Hindermost Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hindmost.
Hindmost Dictionary H - adjective Furthest in or toward the rear; last.
Hindgut Dictionary H - noun The posterior part of the alimentary canal, including the rectum, and sometimes the large intestine also.
Hindi Dictionary H - noun The name given by Europeans to that form of the Hindustani language which is chiefly spoken by native Hindoos. In employs the Devanagari character, in which Sanskrit is written.
Hindleys screw Dictionary H - A screw cut on a solid whose sides are arcs of the periphery of a wheel into the teeth of which the screw is intended to work. It is named from the person who first used the form.
Hindoos Dictionary H - pleural of Hindu.
Hindus Dictionary H - pleural of Hindu.
Hindoo Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Hindu.
Hindu Dictionary H - noun A native inhabitant of Hindostan. As an ethnical term it is confined to the Dravidian and Aryan races; as a religious name it is restricted to followers of the Veda.
Hindooism Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Hinduism.
Hinduism Dictionary H - noun The religious doctrines and rites of the Hindoos; Brahmanism.
Hindoostanee Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hindustani.
Hindustani Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to the Hindoos or their language.
Hindrance Dictionary H - verb transitive The act of hindering, or the state of being hindered.
Hine Dictionary H - noun A servant; a farm laborer; a peasant; a hind.
Hinge Dictionary H - noun The hook with its eye, or the joint, on which a door, gate, lid, etc., turns or swings; a flexible piece, as a strip of leather, which serves as a joint to turn on.
Hinged Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hinge.
Hinging Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hinge.
Hingeless Dictionary H - adjective Without a hinge or joint.
Hink Dictionary H - noun A reaping hook.
Hinniate Dictionary H - intransitive verb Alt. of Hinny.
Hinny Dictionary H - intransitive verb To neigh; to whinny.
Hinnies Dictionary H - pleural of Hinny.
Hinted Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hint.
Hinting Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hint.
Hint Dictionary H - verb transitive To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner; as, to hint a suspicion.
Hintingly Dictionary H - adverb In a hinting manner.
Hip Dictionary H - noun The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle.
Hipped Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hip.
Hipping Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hip.
Hipps Dictionary H - noun See Hyp, n.
Hiphalt Dictionary H - adjective Lame in the hip.
Hippa Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Hippe.
Hippe Dictionary H - noun A genus of marine decapod crustaceans, which burrow rapidly in the sand by pushing themselves backward; - called also bait bug. See Illust. under Anomura.
Hipparion Dictionary H - noun An extinct genus of Tertiary mammals allied to the horse, but three-toed, having on each foot a small lateral hoof on each side of the main central one. It is believed to be one of the ancestral genera of the Horse family.
Hippish Dictionary H - adjective Somewhat hypochondriac; melancholy. See Hyppish.
Hippobosca Dictionary H - noun A genus of dipterous insects including the horsefly or horse tick.
Hippocamp Dictionary H - noun See Hippocampus.
Hippocampal Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to the hippocampus.
Hippocampus Dictionary H - noun A fabulous monster, with the head and fore quarters of a horse joined to the tail of a dolphin or other fish (Hippocampus brevirostris), #NAME?.
Hippocentaur Dictionary H - noun Same as Centaur.
Hippocras Dictionary H - noun A cordial made of spiced wine, etc.
Hippocrates Dictionary H - noun A famous Greek physician and medical writer, born in Cos, about 460 B. C.
Hippocratic Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to Hippocrates, or to his teachings.
Hippocratism Dictionary H - noun The medical philosophy or system of Hippocrates.
Hippocrene Dictionary H - noun A fountain on Mount Helicon in Boeotia, fabled to have burst forth when the ground was struck by the hoof of Pegasus. Also, its waters, which were supposed to impart poetic inspiration.
Hippocrepian Dictionary H - noun One of an order of fresh-water Bryozoa, in which the tentacles are on a lophophore, shaped like a horseshoe. See Phylactolaema.
Hippocrepiform Dictionary H - adjective Shaped like a horseshoe.
Hippodame Dictionary H - noun A fabulous sea monster.
Hippodrome Dictionary H - noun A place set apart for equestrian and chariot races.
Hippogriff Dictionary H - noun A fabulous winged animal, half horse and half griffin.
Hippolith Dictionary H - noun A concretion, or kind of bezoar, from the intestines of the horse.
Hippopathology Dictionary H - noun The science of veterinary medicine; the pathology of the horse.
Hippophagi Dictionary H - noun plural Eaters of horseflesh.
Hippophagism Dictionary H - noun Hippophagy.
Hippophagist Dictionary H - noun One who eats horseflesh.
Hippophagous Dictionary H - adjective Feeding on horseflesh; - said of certain nomadic tribes, as the Tartars.
Hippophagy Dictionary H - noun The act or practice of feeding on horseflesh.
Hippophile Dictionary H - noun One who loves horses.
Hippopotamuses Dictionary H - pleural of Hippopotamus.
Hippopotami Dictionary H - pleural of Hippopotamus.
Hippopotamus Dictionary H - noun A large, amphibious, herbivorous mammal (Hippopotamus amphibius), common in the rivers of Africa. It is allied to the hogs, and has a very thick, naked skin, a thick and square head, a very large muzzle, small eyes and ears, thick and heavy body, and short legs. It is supposed to be the behemoth of the Bible. Called also zeekoe, and river horse. A smaller species (H. Liberiencis) inhabits Western Africa.
Hippotomy Dictionary H - noun Anatomy of the horse.
Hippuric Dictionary H - adjective Obtained from the urine of horses; as, hippuric acid.
Hippurite Dictionary H - noun A fossil bivalve mollusk of the genus Hippurites, of many species, having a conical, cup-shaped under valve, with a flattish upper valve or lid. Hippurites are found only in the Cretaceous rocks.
Hip-roofed Dictionary H - adjective Having a hip roof.
Hipshot Dictionary H - adjective Having the hip dislocated; hence, having one hip lower than the other.
Hip tree Dictionary H - The dog-rose.
Hir Dictionary H - pronoun See Here, pron.
Hircic Dictionary H - adjective Of, pertaining to, or derived from, mutton suet; - applied by Chevreul to an oily acid which was obtained from mutton suet, and to which he attributed the peculiar taste and smell of that substance. The substance has also been called hircin.
Hircin Dictionary H - noun Hircic acid. See Hircic.
Hircine Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hircinous.
Hircinous Dictionary H - adjective Goatlike; of or pertaining to a goat or the goats.
Hire Dictionary H - pronoun See Here, pron.
Hired Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hire.
Hiring Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hire.
Hireless Dictionary H - adjective Without hire.
Hireling Dictionary H - noun One who is hired, or who serves for wages; esp., one whose motive and interest in serving another are wholly gainful; a mercenary.
Hirer Dictionary H - noun One who hires.
Hires Dictionary H - pronoun Alt. of Hirs.
Hirs Dictionary H - pronoun Hers; theirs. See Here, pron.
Hirsute Dictionary H - adjective Rough with hair; set with bristles; shaggy.
Hirsuteness Dictionary H - noun Hairiness.
Hirtellous Dictionary H - adjective Pubescent with minute and somewhat rigid hairs.
Hirudine Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to the leeches.
Hirudinea Dictionary H - noun plural An order of Annelida, including the leeches; - called also Hirudinei.
Hirudo Dictionary H - noun A genus of leeches, including the common medicinal leech. See Leech.
Hirundine Dictionary H - adjective Like or pertaining to the swallows.
Hirundo Dictionary H - noun A genus of birds including the swallows and martins.
His Dictionary H - pronoun Belonging or pertaining to him; - used as a pronominal adjective or adjective pronoun; as, tell John his papers are ready; formerly used also for its, but this use is now obsolete.
Hisingerite Dictionary H - noun A soft black, iron ore, nearly earthy, a hydrous silicate of iron.
Hispanic Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to Spain or its language; as, Hispanic words.
Hispanicism Dictionary H - noun A Spanish idiom or mode of speech.
Hispanicize Dictionary H - verb transitive To give a Spanish form or character to; as, to Hispanicize Latin words.
Hispid Dictionary H - adjective Rough with bristles or minute spines.
Hispidulous Dictionary H - adjective Minutely hispid.
Hissed Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hiss.
Hissing Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hiss.
Hiss Dictionary H - intransitive verb To make with the mouth a prolonged sound like that of the letter s, by driving the breath between the tongue and the teeth; to make with the mouth a sound like that made by a goose or a snake when angered; esp., to make such a sound as an expression of hatred, passion, or disapproval.
Hissingly Dictionary H - adverb With a hissing sound.
Hist Dictionary H - interjection Hush; be silent; - a signal for silence.
Histiology Dictionary H - noun Same as Histology.
Histogenesis Dictionary H - noun The formation and development of organic tissues; histogeny; - the opposite of histolysis.
Histogenetic Dictionary H - adjective Tissue-producing; connected with the formation and development of the organic tissues.
Histogeny Dictionary H - noun Same as Histogenesis.
Histographer Dictionary H - noun One who describes organic tissues; an histologist.
Histographical Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to histography.
Histography Dictionary H - noun A description of, or treatise on, organic tissues.
Histohaematin Dictionary H - noun One of a class of respiratory pigments, widely distributed in the animal kingdom, capable of ready oxidation and reduction.
Histoid Dictionary H - adjective Resembling the normal tissues; as, histoid tumors.
Histologic Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Histological.
Histological Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to histology, or to the microscopic structure of the tissues of living organisms.
Histologist Dictionary H - noun One versed in histology.
Histology Dictionary H - noun That branch of biological science, which treats of the minute (microscopic) structure of animal and vegetable tissues; - called also histiology.
Histolysis Dictionary H - noun The decay and dissolution of the organic tissues and of the blood.
Histolytic Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to histolysis, or the degeneration of tissues.
Histonomy Dictionary H - noun The science which treats of the laws relating to organic tissues, their formation, development, functions, etc.
Histophyly Dictionary H - noun The tribal history of cells, a division of morphophyly.
Historial Dictionary H - adjective Historical.
Historian Dictionary H - noun A writer of history; a chronicler; an annalist.
Historic Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Historical.
Historical Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to history, or the record of past events; as, an historical poem; the historic page.
Historically Dictionary H - adverb In the manner of, or in accordance with, history.
Historicize Dictionary H - verb transitive To record or narrate in the manner of a history; to chronicle.
Historied Dictionary H - adjective Related in history.
Historier Dictionary H - noun An historian.
Historiette Dictionary H - noun Historical narration on a small scale; a brief recital; a story.
Histority Dictionary H - verb transitive To record in or as history.
Historiographer Dictionary H - noun An historian; a writer of history; especially, one appointed or designated to write a history; also, a title bestowed by some governments upon historians of distinction.
Historiographership Dictionary H - noun The office of an historiographer.
Historiography Dictionary H - noun The art of employment of an historiographer.
Historiology Dictionary H - noun A discourse on history.
Historionomer Dictionary H - noun One versed in the phenomena of history and the laws controlling them.
Historize Dictionary H - verb transitive To relate as history; to chronicle; to historicize.
Histories Dictionary H - pleural of History.
History Dictionary H - noun A learning or knowing by inquiry; the knowledge of facts and events, so obtained; hence, a formal statement of such information; a narrative; a description; a written record; as, the history of a patient's case; the history of a legislative bill.
Histotomy Dictionary H - noun The dissection of organic tissues.
Histozyme Dictionary H - noun A soluble ferment occurring in the animal body, to the presence of which many normal decompositions and synthetical processes are supposed to be due.
Histrion Dictionary H - noun A player.
Histrionic Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Histrionical.
Histrionical Dictionary H - adjective Of or relating to the stage or a stageplayer; befitting a theatre; theatrical; - sometimes in a bad sense.
Histrionicism Dictionary H - noun The histronic art; stageplaying.
Histrionism Dictionary H - noun Theatrical representation; acting; affectation.
Histrionize Dictionary H - verb transitive To act; to represent on the stage, or theatrically.
Hit Dictionary H - pronoun It.
Hitting Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hit.
Hit. Dictionary H - adjective having become very popular or acclaimed; - said of entertainment performances; as, a hit record, a hit movie.
Hitch Dictionary H - verb transitive To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.
Hitched Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hitch.
Hitching Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hitch.
Hitchel Dictionary H - noun & transitive verb See Hatchel.
Hithe Dictionary H - noun A port or small haven; - used in composition; as, Lambhithe, now Lambeth.
Hither Dictionary H - adverb To this place; - used with verbs signifying motion, and implying motion toward the speaker; correlate of hence and thither; as, to come or bring hither.
Hithermost Dictionary H - adjective Nearest on this side.
Hitherto Dictionary H - adverb To this place; to a prescribed limit.
Hitherward Dictionary H - adverb Toward this place; hither.
Hitter Dictionary H - noun One who hits or strikes; as, a hard hitter.
Hive Dictionary H - noun A box, basket, or other structure, for the reception and habitation of a swarm of honeybees.
Hived Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hive.
Hiving Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hive.
Hiveless Dictionary H - adjective Destitute of a hive.
Hiver Dictionary H - noun One who collects bees into a hive.
Hives Dictionary H - noun The croup.
Hizz Dictionary H - intransitive verb To hiss.
Ho Dictionary H - pronoun Who.
Hoa Dictionary H - interjection A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace.
Hoar Dictionary H - adjective White, or grayish white; as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs.
Hoard Dictionary H - noun See Hoarding, 2.
Hoarded Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hoard.
Hoarding Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hoard.
Hoarder Dictionary H - noun One who hoards.
Hoared Dictionary H - adjective Moldy; musty.
Hoarfrost Dictionary H - noun The white particles formed by the congelation of dew; white frost.
Hoarhound Dictionary H - noun Same as Horehound.
Hoariness Dictionary H - noun The state of being hoary.
Hoarse Dictionary H - superlative Having a harsh, rough, grating voice or sound, as when affected with a cold; making a rough, harsh cry or sound; as, the hoarse raven.
Hoarsely Dictionary H - adverb With a harsh, grating sound or voice.
Hoarsened Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hoarsen.
Hoarsening Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hoarsen.
Hoarsen Dictionary H - verb transitive To make hoarse.
Hoarseness Dictionary H - noun Harshness or roughness of voice or sound, due to mucus collected on the vocal cords, or to swelling or looseness of the cords.
Hoarstone Dictionary H - noun A stone designating the /ounds of an estate; a landmark.
Hoary Dictionary H - adjective White or whitish.
Hoatzin Dictionary H - noun Same as Hoazin.
Hoax Dictionary H - noun A deception for mockery or mischief; a deceptive trick or story; a practical joke.
Hoaxed Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hoax.
Hoaxing Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hoax.
Hoaxer Dictionary H - noun One who hoaxes.
Hoazin Dictionary H - noun A remarkable South American bird (Opisthocomus cristatus); the crested touraco. By some zoologists it is made the type of a distinct order (Opisthocomi).
Hob Dictionary H - noun The hub of a wheel. See Hub.
Hobanob Dictionary H - intransitive verb Alt. of Hobandnob.
Hobandnob Dictionary H - intransitive verb Same as Hobnob.
Hobbism Dictionary H - noun The philosophical system of Thomas Hobbes, an English materialist (1588-1679); esp., his political theory that the most perfect form of civil government is an absolute monarchy with despotic control over everything relating to law, morals, and religion.
Hobbist Dictionary H - noun One who accepts the doctrines of Thomas Hobbes.
Hobbled Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hobble.
Hobbling Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hobble.
Hobble Dictionary H - noun intransitive To walk lame, bearing chiefly on one leg; to walk with a hitch or hop, or with crutches.
Hobblebush Dictionary H - noun A low bush (Viburnum lantanoides) having long, straggling branches and handsome flowers. It is found in the Northern United States. Called also shinhopple.
Hobbledehoy Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Hobbletehoy.
Hobbletehoy Dictionary H - noun A youth between boy and man; an awkward, gawky young fellow.
Hobbler Dictionary H - noun One who hobbles.
Hobblingly Dictionary H - adverb With a limping step.
Hobbly Dictionary H - adjective Rough; uneven; causing one to hobble; as a hobbly road.
Hobbies Dictionary H - pleural of Hobby.
Hobby Dictionary H - noun A small, strong-winged European falcon (Falco subbuteo), formerly trained for hawking.
Hobbyhorse Dictionary H - noun A strong, active horse, of a middle size, said to have been originally from Ireland; an ambling nag.
Hobbyhorsical Dictionary H - noun Pertaining to, or having, a hobby or whim; eccentric; whimsical.
Hobgoblin Dictionary H - noun A frightful goblin; an imp; a bugaboo; also, a name formerly given to the household spirit, Robin Goodfellow.
Hobiler Dictionary H - noun A light horseman. See 2d Hobbler.
Hobit Dictionary H - noun A small mortar on a gun carriage, in use before the howitzer.
Hobnail Dictionary H - noun A short, sharp-pointed, large-headed nail, - used in shoeing houses and for studding the soles of heavy shoes.
Hobnailed Dictionary H - adjective See with hobnails, as a shoe.
Hobnob Dictionary H - adverb Have or have not; - a familiar invitation to reciprocal drinking.
Hornobbed Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hobnob.
Hornobbing Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hobnob.
Hobornob Dictionary H - adverb See Hobnob.
Hoboy Dictionary H - noun A hautboy or oboe.
Hobson's choice Dictionary H - A choice without an alternative; the thing offered or nothing.
Hocco Dictionary H - noun The crested curassow; - called also royal pheasant. See Curassow.
Hochepot Dictionary H - noun Hotchpot.
Hock Dictionary H - noun A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still. The name is also given indiscriminately to all Rhenish wines.
Hough Dictionary H - noun The joint in the hind limb of quadrupeds between the leg and shank, or tibia and tarsus, and corresponding to the ankle in man.
Hockamore Dictionary H - noun A Rhenish wine. Obs. See Hock.
Hockday Dictionary H - noun A holiday commemorating the expulsion of the Danes, formerly observed on the second Tuesday after Easter; - called also hocktide.
Hockey Dictionary H - noun A game in which two parties of players, armed with sticks curved or hooked at the end, attempt to drive any small object (as a ball or a bit of wood) toward opposite goals.
Hockherb Dictionary H - noun The mallow.
Hockled Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hockle.
Hockling Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hockle.
Hockle Dictionary H - verb transitive To hamstring; to hock; to hough.
Hocus Dictionary H - verb transitive To deceive or cheat.
Hocuspocus Dictionary H - noun A term used by jugglers in pretended incantations.
Hod Dictionary H - noun A kind of wooden tray with a handle, borne on the shoulder, for carrying mortar, brick, etc.
Hoddengray Dictionary H - adjective Applied to coarse cloth made of undyed wool, formerly worn by Scotch peasants.
Hoddy Dictionary H - noun See Dun crow, under Dun, a.
Hoddydoddy Dictionary H - noun An awkward or foolish person.
Hodgepodge Dictionary H - noun A mixed mass; a medley. See Hotchpot.
Hodgkin's disease Dictionary H - A morbid condition characterized by progressive anaemia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; - first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician.
Hodiern Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hodiernal.
Hodiernal Dictionary H - adjective Of this day; belonging to the present day.
Hodmen Dictionary H - pleural of Hodman.
Hodman Dictionary H - noun A man who carries a hod; a mason's tender.
Hodmandod Dictionary H - noun See Dodman.
Hodograph Dictionary H - noun A curve described by the moving extremity of a line the other end of which is fixed, this line being constantly parallel to the direction of motion of, and having its length constantly proportional to the velocity of, a point moving in any path; -used in investigations respecting central forces.
Hodometer Dictionary H - noun See Odometer.
Hoe Dictionary H - noun A tool chiefly for digging up weeds, and arranging the earth about plants in fields and gardens. It is made of a flat blade of iron or steel having an eye or tang by which it is attached to a wooden handle at an acute angle.
Hoed Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hoe.
Hoeing Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hoe.
Hoecake Dictionary H - noun A cake of Indian meal, water, and salt, baked before the fire or in the ashes; - so called because often cooked on a hoe.
Hoemother Dictionary H - noun The basking or liver shark; - called also homer. See Liver shark, under Liver.
Hoful Dictionary H - adjective Careful; wary.
Hog Dictionary H - noun A quadruped of the genus Sus, and allied genera of Suidae; esp., the domesticated varieties of S. scrofa, kept for their fat and meat, called, respectively, lard and pork; swine; porker; specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow.
Hogged Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hog.
Hogging Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hog.
Hogback Dictionary H - noun An upward curve or very obtuse angle in the upper surface of any member, as of a timber laid horizontally; - the opposite of camber.
Hogchain Dictionary H - noun A chain or tie rod, in a boat or barge, to prevent the vessel from hogging.
Hogchoker Dictionary H - noun An American sole (Achirus lineatus, or A. achirus), related to the European sole, but of no market value.
Hogcote Dictionary H - noun A shed for swine; a sty.
Hogfish Dictionary H - noun A large West Indian and Florida food fish (Lachnolaemus).
Hogframe Dictionary H - noun 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.
Hogger Dictionary H - noun A stocking without a foot, worn by coal miners at work.
Hoggerel Dictionary H - noun A sheep of the second year. Written also hogrel. Ash.
Hoggerpipe Dictionary H - noun The upper terminal pipe of a mining pump.
Hogger-pump Dictionary H - noun The for pump in the pit.
Hoggery Dictionary H - noun Hoggish character or manners; selfishness; greed; beastliness.
Hogget Dictionary H - noun A young boar of the second year.
Hoggish Dictionary H - adjective Swinish; gluttonous; filthy; selfish.
Hogh Dictionary H - noun A hill; a cliff.
Hogherd Dictionary H - noun A swineherd.
Hogmanay Dictionary H - noun The old name, in Scotland, for the last day of the year, on which children go about singing, and receive a dole of bread or cakes; also, the entertainment given on that day to a visitor, or the gift given to an applicant.
Hognosesnake Dictionary H - A harmless North American snake of the genus Heterodon, esp. H. platyrhynos; - called also puffing adder, blowing adder, and sand viper.
Hognut Dictionary H - noun The pignut.
Hogo Dictionary H - noun High flavor; strong scent.
Hogpen Dictionary H - noun A pen or sty for hogs.
Hogreeve Dictionary H - noun A civil officer charged with the duty of impounding hogs running at large.
Hogringer Dictionary H - noun One who puts rings into the snouts of hogs.
Hog's-back Dictionary H - noun A hogback.
Hogscore Dictionary H - noun A distance lime brawn across the rink or course between the middle line and the tee.
Hogshead Dictionary H - noun An English measure of capacity, containing 63 wine gallons, or about 52/ imperial gallons; a half pipe.
Hogskin Dictionary H - noun Leather tanned from a hog's skin. Also used adjectively.
Hogsties Dictionary H - pleural of Hogsty.
Hogsty Dictionary H - noun A pen, house, or inclosure, for hogs.
Hogwash Dictionary H - noun Swill.
Hogweed Dictionary H - noun A common weed (Ambrosia artemisiaege). See Ambrosia, 3.
Hoiden Dictionary H - noun A rude, clownish youth.
Hoidenhood Dictionary H - noun State of being a hoiden.
Hoidenish Dictionary H - adjective Like, or appropriate to, a hoiden.
Hoise Dictionary H - verb transitive To hoist.
Hoisted Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hoist.
Hoisting Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hoist.
Hoist Dictionary H - verb transitive To raise; to lift; to elevate; esp., to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle, as a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight.
Hoistaway Dictionary H - noun A mechanical lift. See Elevator.
Hoistway Dictionary H - noun An opening for the hoist, or elevator, in the floor of a wareroom.
Hoit Dictionary H - intransitive verb To leap; to caper; to romp noisily.
Hoity-toity Dictionary H - adjective Thoughtless; giddy; flighty; also, haughty; patronizing; as, to be in hoity-toity spirits, or to assume hoity-toity airs; used also as an exclamation, denoting surprise or disapprobation, with some degree of contempt.
Hokeday Dictionary H - noun Same as Hockday.
Hoker Dictionary H - noun Scorn; derision; abusive talk.
Hol Dictionary H - adjective Whole.
Holaspidean Dictionary H - adjective Having a single series of large scutes on the posterior side of the tarsus; - said of certain birds.
Holcad Dictionary H - noun A large ship of burden, in ancient Greece.
Hold Dictionary H - noun The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.
Holding Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hold.
Holden Dictionary H - of Hold.
Holdback Dictionary H - noun Check; hindrance; restraint; obstacle.
Holder Dictionary H - noun One who is employed in the hold of a vessel.
Holder-forth Dictionary H - noun One who speaks in public; an haranguer; a preacher.
Holdfast Dictionary H - noun 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.
Hole Dictionary H - adjective Whole.
Holethnic Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to a holethnos or parent race.
Holethnos Dictionary H - noun A parent stock or race of people, not yet divided into separate branches or tribes.
Holibut Dictionary H - noun See Halibut.
Holidam Dictionary H - noun See Halidom.
Holiday Dictionary H - noun A consecrated day; religious anniversary; a day set apart in honor of some person, or in commemoration of some event. See Holyday.
Holily Dictionary H - adverb Piously; with sanctity; in a holy manner.
Holiness Dictionary H - noun The state or quality of being holy; perfect moral integrity or purity; freedom from sin; sanctity; innocence.
Holing Dictionary H - noun Undercutting in a bed of coal, in order to bring down the upper mass.
Holla Dictionary H - interjection Hollo.
Hollaed Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Holla.
Hollaing Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Holla.
Holland Dictionary H - noun A kind of linen first manufactured in Holland; a linen fabric used for window shades, children's garments, etc.; as, brown or unbleached hollands.
Hollander Dictionary H - noun A native or one of the people of Holland; a Dutchman.
Hollandish Dictionary H - adjective Relating to Holland; Dutch.
Hollands Dictionary H - noun Gin made in Holland.
Hollo Dictionary H - interjection & noun Ho there; stop; attend; hence, a loud cry or a call to attract attention; a halloo.
Holloed Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hollo.
Holloing Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hollo.
Holloa Dictionary H - noun & verb intransitive Same as Hollo.
Hollow Dictionary H - adjective Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow sphere.
Hollowed Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hollow.
Hollowing Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hollow.
Hollow-hearted Dictionary H - adjective Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within.
Hollow-horned Dictionary H - adjective Having permanent horns with a bony core, as cattle.
Hollowly Dictionary H - adverb Insincerely; deceitfully.
Hollowness Dictionary H - noun State of being hollow.
Holly Dictionary H - adverb Wholly.
Hollyhock Dictionary H - noun A species of Althaea (A. rosea), bearing flowers of various colors; - called also rose mallow.
Holm Dictionary H - noun A common evergreen oak, of Europe (Quercus Ilex); - called also ilex, and holly.
Holmia Dictionary H - noun An oxide of holmium.
Holmium Dictionary H - noun A rare element said to be contained in gadolinite.
Holmos Dictionary H - noun A name given to a vase having a rounded body.
Holo- Dictionary H - A combining form fr. Gr. "o`los whole.
Holoblast Dictionary H - noun an ovum composed entirely of germinal matter. See Meroblast.
Holoblastic Dictionary H - adjective Undergoing complete segmentation; composed entirely of germinal matter, the whole of the yolk undergoing fission; - opposed to meroblastic.
Holocaust Dictionary H - noun A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations.
Holocephali Dictionary H - noun plural An order of elasmobranch fishes, including, among living species, only the chimaeras; - called also Holocephala. See Chimaera; also Illustration in Appendix.
Holocryptic Dictionary H - adjective Wholly or completely concealing; incapable of being deciphered.
Holocrystalline Dictionary H - adjective Completely crystalline; - said of a rock like granite, all the constituents of which are crystalline.
Holograph Dictionary H - noun A document, as a letter, deed, or will, wholly in the handwriting of the person from whom it proceeds and whose act it purports to be.
Holographic Dictionary H - adjective Of the nature of a holograph; pertaining to holographs.
Holohedral Dictionary H - adjective Having all the planes required by complete symmetry, - in opposition to hemihedral.
Holohemihedral Dictionary H - adjective Presenting hemihedral forms, in which all the sectants have halt the whole number of planes.
Holometabola Dictionary H - noun plural Those insects which have a complete metamorphosis; metabola.
Holometabolic Dictionary H - adjective Having a complete metamorphosis;-said of certain insects, as the butterflies and bees.
Holometer Dictionary H - noun An instrument for making of angular measurements.
Holophanerous Dictionary H - adjective Same as Holometabolic.
Holophotal Dictionary H - adjective Causing no loss of light; - applied to reflectors which throw back the rays of light without perceptible loss.
Holophote Dictionary H - noun A lamp with lenses or reflectors to collect the rays of light and throw them in a given direction; - used in lighthouses.
Holophrastic Dictionary H - adjective Expressing a phrase or sentence in a single word, - as is the case in the aboriginal languages of America.
Holophytic Dictionary H - adjective Wholly or distinctively vegetable.
Holorhinal Dictionary H - adjective Having the nasal bones contiguous.
Holosiderite Dictionary H - noun Meteoric iron; a meteorite consisting of metallic iron without stony matter.
Holostean Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to the Holostei.
Holostei Dictionary H - noun plural An extensive division of ganoids, including the gar pike, bowfin, etc.; the bony ganoids. See Illustration in Appendix.
Holosteric Dictionary H - adjective Wholly solid; - said of a barometer constructed of solid materials to show the variations of atmospheric pressure without the use of liquids, as the aneroid.
Holostomata Dictionary H - noun plural An artificial division of gastropods, including those that have an entire aperture.
Holostomate Dictionary H - adjective Same as Holostomatous.
Holostomatous Dictionary H - adjective Having an entire aperture; - said of many univalve shells.
Holostome Dictionary H - noun One of the Holostomata.
Holostraca Dictionary H - noun plural A division of phyllopod Crustacea, including those that are entirely covered by a bivalve shell.
Holothure Dictionary H - noun A holothurian.
Holothurian Dictionary H - adjective Belonging to the Holothurioidea.
Holothurioidea Dictionary H - noun plural One of the classes of echinoderms.
Holotricha Dictionary H - noun plural A group of ciliated Infusoria, having cilia all over the body.
Holour Dictionary H - noun A whoremonger.
Holsom Dictionary H - adjective Wholesome.
Holster Dictionary H - noun A leather case for a pistol, carried by a horseman at the bow of his saddle.
Holstered Dictionary H - adjective Bearing holsters.
Holt Dictionary H - 3d pers. sing. pres. of Hold, contr. from holdeth.
Holwe Dictionary H - adjective Hollow.
Holy Dictionary H - superlative Set apart to the service or worship of God; hallowed; sacred; reserved from profane or common use; holy vessels; a holy priesthood.
Holy cross Dictionary H - The cross as the symbol of Christ's crucifixion.
Holyday Dictionary H - noun A religious festival.
Holystone Dictionary H - noun A stone used by seamen for scrubbing the decks of ships.
Homacanth Dictionary H - adjective Having the dorsal fin spines symmetrical, and in the same line; - said of certain fishes.
Homage Dictionary H - noun A symbolical acknowledgment made by a feudal tenant to, and in the presence of, his lord, on receiving investiture of fee, or coming to it by succession, that he was his man, or vassal; profession of fealty to a sovereign.
Homaged Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Homage.
Homaging Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Homage.
Homageable Dictionary H - adjective Subject to homage.
Homager Dictionary H - noun One who does homage, or holds land of another by homage; a vassal.
Homalographic Dictionary H - adjective Same as Homolographic.
Homaloid Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Homaloidal.
Homaloidal Dictionary H - adjective Flat; even; - a term applied to surfaces and to spaces, whether real or imagined, in which the definitions, axioms, and postulates of Euclid respecting parallel straight lines are assumed to hold true.
Homarus Dictionary H - noun A genus of decapod Crustacea, including the common lobsters.
Homatropine Dictionary H - noun An alkaloid, prepared from atropine, and from other sources. It is chemically related to atropine, and is used for the same purpose.
Homaxonial Dictionary H - adjective Relating to that kind of homology or symmetry, the mathematical conception of organic form, in which all axes are equal. See under Promorphology.
Home Dictionary H - noun See Homelyn.
Homeborn Dictionary H - adjective Native; indigenous; not foreign.
Home-bound Dictionary H - adjective Kept at home.
Home-bred Dictionary H - adjective Bred at home; domestic; not foreign.
Home-coming Dictionary H - noun Return home.
Home-driven Dictionary H - adjective Driven to the end, as a nail; driven close.
Home-dwelling Dictionary H - adjective Keeping at home.
Home-felt Dictionary H - adjective Felt in one's own breast; inward; private.
Homefield Dictionary H - noun A field adjacent to its owner's home.
Home-keeping Dictionary H - adjective Staying at home; not gadding.
Homeless Dictionary H - adjective Destitute of a home.
Homelike Dictionary H - adjective Like a home; comfortable; cheerful; cozy; friendly.
Homelily Dictionary H - adverb Plainly; inelegantly.
Homeliness Dictionary H - noun Domesticity; care of home.
Homeling Dictionary H - noun A person or thing belonging to a home or to a particular country; a native; as, a word which is a homeling.
Homely Dictionary H - noun Belonging to, or having the characteristics of, home; domestic; familiar; intimate.
Homelyn Dictionary H - noun The European sand ray (Raia maculata); - called also home, mirror ray, and rough ray.
Homemade Dictionary H - adjective Made at home; of domestic manufacture; made either in a private family or in one's own country.
Homeopath Dictionary H - noun A practitioner of homeopathy.
Homeopathic Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to homeopathy; according to the principles of homeopathy.
Homeopathically Dictionary H - adverb According to the practice of homeopathy.
Homeopathist Dictionary H - noun A believer in, or practitioner of, homeopathy.
Homeopathy Dictionary H - noun The art of curing, founded on resemblances; the theory and its practice that disease is cured (tuto, cito, et jucunde) by remedies which produce on a healthy person effects similar to the symptoms of the complaint under which the patient suffers, the remedies being usually administered in minute doses. This system was founded by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, and is opposed to allopathy, or heteropathy.
Homer Dictionary H - noun A carrier pigeon remarkable for its ability to return home from a distance.
Homeric Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to Homer, the most famous of Greek poets; resembling the poetry of Homer.
Homesick Dictionary H - adjective Pining for home; in a nostalgic condition.
Home-speaking Dictionary H - noun Direct, forcible, and effective speaking.
Homespun Dictionary H - adjective Spun or wrought at home; of domestic manufacture; coarse; plain.
Homestall Dictionary H - noun Place of a home; homestead.
Homestead Dictionary H - noun The home place; a home and the inclosure or ground immediately connected with it.
Homesteader Dictionary H - noun One who has entered upon a portion of the public land with the purpose of acquiring ownership of it under provisions of the homestead law, so called; one who has acquired a homestead in this manner.
Homeward Dictionary H - adjective Being in the direction of home; as, the homeward way.
Homewards Dictionary H - adverb Toward home; in the direction of one's house, town, or country.
Homicidal Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to homicide; tending to homicide; murderous.
Homicide Dictionary H - verb transitive The killing of one human being by another.
Homiform Dictionary H - adjective In human form.
Homilete Dictionary H - noun A homilist.
Homiletic Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Homiletical.
Homiletical Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to familiar intercourse; social; affable; conversable; companionable.
Homiletics Dictionary H - noun The art of preaching; that branch of theology which treats of homilies or sermons, and the best method of preparing and delivering them.
Homilist Dictionary H - noun One who prepares homilies; one who preaches to a congregation.
Homilite Dictionary H - noun A borosilicate of iron and lime, near datolite in form and composition.
Homilies Dictionary H - pleural of Homily.
Homily Dictionary H - noun A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; a serious discourse.
Homing Dictionary H - adjective Home-returning; - used specifically of carrier pigeons.
Hominy Dictionary H - noun Maize hulled and broken, and prepared for food by being boiled in water.
Homish Dictionary H - adjective Like a home or a home circle.
Hommock Dictionary H - noun A small eminence of a conical form, of land or of ice; a knoll; a hillock. See Hummock.
Hommocky Dictionary H - adjective Filled with hommocks; piled in the form of hommocks; - said of ice.
Homo- Dictionary H - A combining form from Gr. "omo`s, one and the same, common, joint.
Homocategoric Dictionary H - adjective Belonging to the same category of individuality; - a morphological term applied to organisms so related.
Homocentric Dictionary H - adjective Having the same center.
Homocercal Dictionary H - adjective Having the tail nearly or quite symmetrical, the vertebral column terminating near its base; - opposed to heterocercal.
Homocercy Dictionary H - noun The possession of a homocercal tail.
Homocerebrin Dictionary H - noun A body similar to, or identical with, cerebrin.
Homochromous Dictionary H - adjective Having all the florets in the same flower head of the same color.
Homodemic Dictionary H - adjective A morphological term signifying development, in the case of multicellular organisms, from the same unit deme or unit of the inferior orders of individuality.
Homodermic Dictionary H - adjective Relating to homodermy; originating from the same germ layer.
Homodermy Dictionary H - noun Homology of the germinal layers.
Homodont Dictionary H - adjective Having all the teeth similar in front, as in the porpoises; - opposed to heterodont.
Homodromal Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Homodromous.
Homodromous Dictionary H - adjective Running in the same direction; - said of stems twining round a support, or of the spiral succession of leaves on stems and their branches.
Homodynamic Dictionary H - adjective Homodynamous.
Homodynamous Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or involving, homodynamy; as, successive or homodynamous parts in plants and animals.
Homodynamy Dictionary H - noun The homology of metameres. See Metamere.
Homoeomeria Dictionary H - noun The state or quality of being homogeneous in elements or first principles; likeness or identity of parts.
Homoeomeric Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Homoeomerical.
Homoeomerical Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or characterized by, sameness of parts; receiving or advocating the doctrine of homogeneity of elements or first principles.
Homoeomerous Dictionary H - adjective Having the main artery of the leg parallel with the sciatic nerve; - said of certain birds.
Homoeomery Dictionary H - noun Same as Homoeomeria.
Homoeomorphism Dictionary H - noun A near similarity of crystalline forms between unlike chemical compounds. See Isomorphism.
Homoeomorphous Dictionary H - adjective Manifesting homoeomorphism.
Homoeopathic Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Homoeopathy.
Homoeopathist Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Homoeopathy.
Homoeopathy Dictionary H - noun Same as Homeopathic, Homeopathist, Homeopathy.
Homoeothermal Dictionary H - adjective See Homoiothermal.
Homoeozoic Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or including, similar forms or kinds of life; as, homoeozoic belts on the earth's surface.
Homogamous Dictionary H - adjective Having all the flowers alike; - said of such composite plants as Eupatorium, and the thistels.
Homogamy Dictionary H - noun The condition of being homogamous.
Homogangliate Dictionary H - adjective Having the ganglia of the nervous system symmetrically arranged, as in certain invertebrates; - opposed to heterogangliate.
Homogene Dictionary H - adjective Homogeneous.
Homogeneal Dictionary H - adjective Homogeneous.
Homogenealness Dictionary H - noun Homogeneousness.
Homogeneity Dictionary H - noun Same as Homogeneousness.
Homogeneous Dictionary H - adjective Of the same kind of nature; consisting of similar parts, or of elements of the like nature; - opposed to heterogeneous; as, homogeneous particles, elements, or principles; homogeneous bodies.
Homogeneousness Dictionary H - noun Sameness 9kind or nature; uniformity of structure or material.
Homogenesis Dictionary H - noun That method of reproduction in which the successive generations are alike, the offspring, either animal or plant, running through the same cycle of existence as the parent; gamogenesis; - opposed to heterogenesis.
Homogenetic Dictionary H - adjective Homogenous; - applied to that class of homologies which arise from similarity of structure, and which are taken as evidences of common ancestry.
Homogenous Dictionary H - adjective Having a resemblance in structure, due to descent from a common progenitor with subsequent modification; homogenetic; - applied both to animals and plants. See Homoplastic.
Homogeny Dictionary H - noun Joint nature.
Homogonous Dictionary H - adjective Having all the flowers of a plant alike in respect to the stamens and pistils.
Homogony Dictionary H - noun The condition of having homogonous flowers.
Homograph Dictionary H - noun One of two or more words identical in orthography, but having different derivations and meanings; as, fair, n., a market, and fair, a., beautiful.
Homographic Dictionary H - adjective Employing a single and separate character to represent each sound; - said of certain methods of spelling words.
Homography Dictionary H - noun That method of spelling in which every sound is represented by a single character, which indicates that sound and no other.
Homoioptoton Dictionary H - noun A figure in which the several parts of a sentence end with the same case, or inflection generally.
Homoiothermal Dictionary H - adjective Maintaining a uniform temperature; haematothermal; homothermic; - applied to warm-bodied animals, because they maintain a nearly uniform temperature in spite of the great variations in the surrounding air; in distinct from the cold-blooded (poikilothermal) animals, whose body temperature follows the variations in temperature of the surrounding medium.
Homoiousian Dictionary H - noun One of the semi-Arians of the 4th century, who held that the Son was of like, but not the same, essence or substance with the Father; - opposed to homoousian.
Homologated Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Homologate.
Homologating Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Homologate.
Homologate Dictionary H - verb transitive To approve; to allow; to confirm; as, the court homologates a proceeding.
Homologation Dictionary H - noun Confirmation or ratification (as of something otherwise null and void), by a court or a grantor.
Homological Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to homology; having a structural affinity proceeding from, or base upon, that kind of relation termed homology.
Homologinic Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or characterized by, homology; as, homologinic qualities, or differences.
Homologize Dictionary H - verb transitive To determine the homologies or structural relations of.
Homologon Dictionary H - noun See Homologue.
Homologoumena Dictionary H - noun plural Those books of the New Testament which were acknowledged as canonical by the early church; - distinguished from antilegomena.
Homologous Dictionary H - adjective Having the same relative position, proportion, value, or structure.
Homolographic Dictionary H - adjective Preserving the mutual relations of parts, especially as to size and form; maintaining relative proportion.
Homologue Dictionary H - noun That which is homologous to something else; as, the corresponding sides, etc., of similar polygons are the homologues of each other; the members or terms of an homologous series in chemistry are the homologues of each other; one of the bones in the hand of man is the homologue of that in the paddle of a whale.
Homology Dictionary H - noun The quality of being homologous; correspondence; relation; as, the homologyof similar polygons.
Homomallous Dictionary H - adjective Uniformly bending or curving to one side; - said of leaves which grow on several sides of a stem.
Homomorphic Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Homomorphous.
Homomorphous Dictionary H - adjective Characterized by homomorphism.
Homomorphism Dictionary H - noun Same as Homomorphy.
Homomorphy Dictionary H - noun Similarity of form; resemblance in external characters, while widely different in fundamental structure; resemblance in geometric ground form. See Homophyly, Promorphology.
Homonomous Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to homonomy.
Homonomy Dictionary H - noun The homology of parts arranged on transverse axes.
Homonym Dictionary H - noun A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning; as the noun bear and the verb bear.
Homonymous Dictionary H - adjective Having the same name or designation; standing in the same relation; - opposed to heteronymous.
Homonymously Dictionary H - adverb In an homonymous manner; so as to have the same name or relation.
Homonymy Dictionary H - noun Sameness of name or designation; identity in relations.
Homoorgan Dictionary H - Same as Homoplast.
Homoousian Dictionary H - noun One of those, in the 4th century, who accepted the Nicene creed, and maintained that the Son had the same essence or substance with the Father; - opposed to homoiousian.
Homophone Dictionary H - noun A letter or character which expresses a like sound with another.
Homophonic Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Homophonous.
Homophonous Dictionary H - adjective Originally, sounding alike; of the same pitch; unisonous; monodic.
Homophony Dictionary H - noun Sameness of sound.
Homophylic Dictionary H - adjective Relating to homophily.
Homophyly Dictionary H - noun That form of homology due to common ancestry (phylogenetic homology), in opposition to homomorphy, to which genealogic basis is wanting.
Homoplasmy Dictionary H - noun Resemblance between different plants or animals, in external shape, in general habit, or in organs, which is not due to descent from a common ancestor, but to similar surrounding circumstances.
Homoplast Dictionary H - noun One of the plastids composing the idorgan of Haeckel; - also called homoorgan.
Homoplastic Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to homoplasty; as, homoplasticorgans; homoplastic forms.
Homoplasty Dictionary H - noun The formation of homologous tissues.
Homoplasy Dictionary H - noun See Homogeny.
Homopolic Dictionary H - adjective In promorphology, pertaining to or exhibiting that kind of organic form, in which the stereometric ground form is a pyramid, with similar poles. See Promorphology.
Homopter Dictionary H - noun One of the Homoptera.
Homoptera Dictionary H - noun plural A suborder of Hemiptera, in which both pairs of wings are similar in texture, and do not overlap when folded, as in the cicada. See Hemiptera.
Homopteran Dictionary H - noun An homopter.
Homopterous Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to the Homoptera.
Homostyled Dictionary H - adjective Having only one form of pistils; - said of the flowers of some plants.
Homosystemic Dictionary H - adjective Developing, in the case of multicellular organisms, from the same embryonic systems into which the secondary unit (gastrula or plant enbryo) differentiates.
Homotaxia Dictionary H - noun Same as Homotaxis.
Homotaxial Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Homotaxic.
Homotaxic Dictionary H - adjective Relating to homotaxis.
Homotaxis Dictionary H - noun Similarly in arrangement of parts; - the opposite of heterotaxy.
Homotaxy Dictionary H - noun Same as Homotaxis.
Homothermic Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Homothermous.
Homothermous Dictionary H - adjective Warm-blooded; homoiothermal; haematothermal.
Homotonous Dictionary H - adjective Of the same tenor or tone; equable; without variation.
Homotropal Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Homotropous.
Homotropous Dictionary H - adjective Turned in the same direction with something else.
Homotypal Dictionary H - adjective Of the same type of structure; pertaining to a homotype; as, homotypal parts.
Homotype Dictionary H - noun 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.
Homotypic Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Homotypical.
Homotypical Dictionary H - adjective Same as Homotypal.
Homotypy Dictionary H - noun A term suggested by Haeckel to be instead of serial homology. See Homotype.
Homunculi Dictionary H - pleural of Homunculus.
Homunculus Dictionary H - noun A little man; a dwarf; a manikin.
Hond Dictionary H - noun Hand.
Hone Dictionary H - intransitive verb To pine; to lament; to long.
Honed Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hone.
Honing Dictionary H - [[p. pr. & verb noun of Hone.
Honest Dictionary H - adjective Decent; honorable; suitable; becoming.
Honestation Dictionary H - noun The act of honesting; grace; adornment.
Honestetee Dictionary H - noun Honesty; honorableness.
Honestly Dictionary H - adverb Honorably; becomingly; decently.
Honesty Dictionary H - adjective Honor; honorableness; dignity; propriety; suitableness; decency.
Honewort Dictionary H - noun An umbelliferous plant of the genus Sison (S. Amomum); - so called because used to cure a swelling called a hone.
Honey Dictionary H - noun A sweet viscid fluid, esp. that collected by bees from flowers of plants, and deposited in the cells of the honeycomb.
Honeyed Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Honey.
Honeying Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Honey.
Honey-bag Dictionary H - noun The receptacle for honey in a honeybee.
Honeybee Dictionary H - noun 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.
Honeybird Dictionary H - noun The honey guide.
Honeycomb Dictionary H - noun A mass of hexagonal waxen cells, formed by bees, and used by them to hold their honey and their eggs.
Honeycombed Dictionary H - adjective Formed or perforated like a honeycomb.
Honeydew Dictionary H - noun 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.
Honeyless Dictionary H - adjective Destitute of honey.
Honeymoon Dictionary H - noun The first month after marriage.
Honey-mouthed Dictionary H - adjective Soft to sweet in speech; persuasive.
Honeystone Dictionary H - noun See Mellite.
Honeysucker Dictionary H - noun See Honey eater, under Honey.
Honeysuckle Dictionary H - noun One of several species of flowering plants, much admired for their beauty, and some for their fragrance.
Honeysuckled Dictionary H - adjective Covered with honeysuckles.
Honey-sweet Dictionary H - adjective Sweet as honey.
Honey-tongued Dictionary H - adjective Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive.
Honeyware Dictionary H - noun See Badderlocks.
Honeywort Dictionary H - noun A European plant of the genus Cerinthe, whose flowers are very attractive to bees.
Hong Dictionary H - noun A mercantile establishment or factory for foreign trade in China, as formerly at Canton; a succession of offices connected by a common passage and used for business or storage.
Honied Dictionary H - adjective See Honeyed.
Honiton lace Dictionary H - A kind of pillow lace, remarkable for the beauty of its figures; - so called because chiefly made in Honiton, England.
Honk Dictionary H - noun The cry of a wild goose.
Honor Dictionary H - noun Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of respect or reverence.
Honored Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Honor.
Honoring Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Honor.
Honorable Dictionary H - adjective Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious.
Honorableness Dictionary H - noun The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction.
Honorably Dictionary H - adverb In an honorable manner; in a manner showing, or consistent with, honor.
Honorarium Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Honorary.
Honorary Dictionary H - adjective A fee offered to professional men for their services; as, an honorarium of one thousand dollars.
Honorer Dictionary H - noun One who honors.
Honorific Dictionary H - adjective Conferring honor; tending to honor.
Honorless Dictionary H - adjective Destitute of honor; not honored.
Hont Dictionary H - noun & verb See under Hunt.
Hoo Dictionary H - interjection See Ho.
-hood Dictionary H - A termination denoting state, condition, quality, character, totality, as in manhood, childhood, knighthood, brotherhood. Sometimes it is written, chiefly in obsolete words, in the form -head.
Hood Dictionary H - noun State; condition.
Hooded Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hood.
Hooding Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hood.
Hoodcap Dictionary H - noun See Hooded seal, under Hooded.
Hoodless Dictionary H - adjective Having no hood.
Hoodlum Dictionary H - noun A young rowdy; a rough, lawless fellow.
Hoodman Dictionary H - noun The person blindfolded in the game called hoodman-blind.
Hoodman-blind Dictionary H - noun An old term for blindman's buff.
Hood molding Dictionary H - Alt. of Hood moulding.
Hood moulding Dictionary H - A projecting molding over the head of an arch, forming the outermost member of the archivolt; - called also hood mold.
Hoodoo Dictionary H - noun One who causes bad luck.
Hoodwink Dictionary H - verb transitive To blind by covering the eyes.
Hoody Dictionary H - noun The hooded crow; also, in Scotland, the hooded gull.
Hoofs Dictionary H - pleural of Hoof.
Hooves Dictionary H - pleural of Hoof.
Hoof Dictionary H - noun The horny substance or case that covers or terminates the feet of certain animals, as horses, oxen, etc.
Hoofbound Dictionary H - adjective Having a dry and contracted hoof, which occasions pain and lameness.
Hoofed Dictionary H - adjective Furnished with hoofs.
Hoofless Dictionary H - adjective Destitute of hoofs.
Hook Dictionary H - noun A piece of metal, or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything; as, a hook for catching fish; a hook for fastening a gate; a boat hook, etc.
Hooked Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hook.
Hooking Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hook.
Hookah Dictionary H - noun A pipe with a long, flexible stem, so arranged that the smoke is cooled by being made to pass through water.
Hook-billed Dictionary H - adjective Having a strongly curved bill.
Hookedness Dictionary H - noun The state of being bent like a hook; incurvation.
Hooker Dictionary H - noun One who, or that which, hooks.
Hooke's gearing Dictionary H - Spur gearing having teeth slanting across the face of the wheel, sometimes slanting in opposite directions from the middle.
Hooke's joint Dictionary H - A universal joint. See under Universal.
Hookey Dictionary H - noun See Hockey.
Hooklet Dictionary H - noun A little hook.
Hook-nosed Dictionary H - adjective Having a hooked or aquiline nose.
Hooky Dictionary H - adjective Full of hooks; pertaining to hooks.
Hool Dictionary H - adjective Whole.
Hoolock Dictionary H - noun A small black gibbon (Hylobates hoolock), found in the mountains of Assam.
Hoom Dictionary H - noun Home.
Hoonoomaun Dictionary H - noun An Indian monkey. See Entellus.
Hoop Dictionary H - noun A pliant strip of wood or metal bent in a circular form, and united at the ends, for holding together the staves of casks, tubs, etc.
Hooped Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hoop.
Hooping Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hoop.
Hooper Dictionary H - noun One who hoops casks or tubs; a cooper.
Hoopoe Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Hoopoo.
Hoopoo Dictionary H - noun A European bird of the genus Upupa (U. epops), having a beautiful crest, which it can erect or depress at pleasure. Called also hoop, whoop. The name is also applied to several other species of the same genus and allied genera.
Hoosier Dictionary H - noun A nickname given to an inhabitant of the State of Indiana.
Hooted Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hoot.
Hooting Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hoot.
Hoot Dictionary H - intransitive verb To cry out or shout in contempt.
Hoove Dictionary H - noun A disease in cattle consisting in inflammation of the stomach by gas, ordinarily caused by eating too much green food; tympany; bloating.
Hooven Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hoven.
Hopped Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hop.
Hopping Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hop.
Hop Dictionary H - intransitive verb To move by successive leaps, as toads do; to spring or jump on one foot; to skip, as birds do.
Hopbine Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Hopbind.
Hopbind Dictionary H - noun The climbing stem of the hop.
Hope Dictionary H - noun A sloping plain between mountain ridges.
Hoped Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hope.
Hoping Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hope.
Hopeful Dictionary H - adjective Full of hope, or agreeable expectation; inclined to hope; expectant.
Hopeite Dictionary H - noun A hydrous phosphate of zinc in transparent prismatic crystals.
Hopeless Dictionary H - adjective Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing.
Hoper Dictionary H - noun One who hopes.
Hopingly Dictionary H - adverb In a hopeful manner.
Hoplite Dictionary H - noun A heavy-armed infantry soldier.
Hop-o'-my-thumb Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Hop-thumb.
Hop-thumb Dictionary H - noun A very diminutive person.
Hopper Dictionary H - noun One who, or that which, hops.
Hopperings Dictionary H - noun Gravel retaining in the hopper of a cradle.
Hoppestere Dictionary H - adjective An unexplained epithet used by Chaucer in reference to ships. By some it is defined as "dancing (on the wave)"; by others as "opposing," "warlike.".
Hoppet Dictionary H - noun A hand basket; also, a dish used by miners for measuring ore.
Hoppled Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hopple.
Hoppling Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hopple.
Hopple Dictionary H - verb transitive To impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hamper; to hobble; as, to hopple an unruly or straying horse.
Hopplebush Dictionary H - noun Same as Hobblebush.
Hoppo Dictionary H - noun A collector of customs, as at Canton; an overseer of commerce.
Hopscotch Dictionary H - noun A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground; - called also hoppers.
Hopyard Dictionary H - noun A field where hops are raised.
Horal Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to an hour, or to hours.
Horaly Dictionary H - adverb Hourly.
Horary Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to an hour; noting the hours.
Horatian Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to Horace, the Latin poet, or resembling his style.
Horde Dictionary H - noun A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude.
Hordeic Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, barley; as, hordeic acid, an acid identical or isomeric with lauric acid.
Hordein Dictionary H - noun A peculiar starchy matter contained in barley. It is complex mixture.
Hordeolum Dictionary H - noun A small tumor upon the eyelid, resembling a grain of barley; a sty.
Hordock Dictionary H - noun An unidentified plant mentioned by Shakespeare, perhaps equivalent to burdock.
Hore Dictionary H - adjective Hoar.
Horehound Dictionary H - noun A plant of the genus Marrubium (M. vulgare), which has a bitter taste, and is a weak tonic, used as a household remedy for colds, coughing, etc.
Horizon Dictionary H - noun The circle which bounds that part of the earth's surface visible to a spectator from a given point; the apparent junction of the earth and sky.
Horizontal Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or near, the horizon.
Horizontality Dictionary H - noun The state or quality of being horizontal.
Horizontally Dictionary H - adverb In a horizontal direction or position; on a level; as, moving horizontally.
Hormogonium Dictionary H - noun A chain of small cells in certain algae, by which the plant is propogated.
Horn Dictionary H - noun A hard, projecting, and usually pointed organ, growing upon the heads of certain animals, esp. of the ruminants, as cattle, goats, and the like. The hollow horns of the Ox family consist externally of true horn, and are never shed.
Hornbeak Dictionary H - noun A fish. See Hornfish.
Hornbeam Dictionary H - noun 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.
Hornbill Dictionary H - noun 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.
Hornblende Dictionary H - noun The common black, or dark green or brown, variety of amphibole. (See Amphibole.) It belongs to the aluminous division of the species, and is also characterized by its containing considerable iron. Also used as a general term to include the whole species.
Hornblendic Dictionary H - adjective Composed largely of hornblende; resembling or relating to hornblende.
Hornblower Dictionary H - noun One who, or that which, blows a horn.
Hornbook Dictionary H - noun 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.
Hornbug Dictionary H - noun A large nocturnal beetle of the genus Lucanus (as L. capreolus, and L. dama), having long, curved upper jaws, resembling a sickle. The grubs are found in the trunks of old trees.
Horned Dictionary H - adjective Furnished with a horn or horns; furnished with a hornlike process or appendage; as, horned cattle; having some part shaped like a horn.
Hornedness Dictionary H - noun The condition of being horned.
Hornel Dictionary H - noun The European sand eel.
Horner Dictionary H - noun One who works or deal in horn or horns.
Hornet Dictionary H - noun A large, strong wasp. The European species (Vespa crabro) is of a dark brown and yellow color. It is very pugnacious, and its sting is very severe. Its nest is constructed of a paperlike material, and the layers of comb are hung together by columns. The American white-faced hornet (V. maculata) is larger and has similar habits.
Hornfish Dictionary H - noun The garfish or sea needle.
Hornfoot Dictionary H - adjective Having hoofs; hoofed.
Hornify Dictionary H - verb transitive To horn; to cuckold.
Horning Dictionary H - noun Appearance of the moon when increasing, or in the form of a crescent.
Hornish Dictionary H - adjective Somewhat like horn; hard.
Hornito Dictionary H - noun A low, oven-shaped mound, common in volcanic regions, and emitting smoke and vapors from its sides and summit.
Hornless Dictionary H - adjective Having no horn.
Horn-mad Dictionary H - adjective Quite mad; - raving crazy.
Hornotine Dictionary H - noun A yearling; a bird of the year.
Hornowl Dictionary H - noun See Horned Owl.
Hornpike Dictionary H - noun The garfish.
Hornpipe Dictionary H - noun 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.
Hornpout Dictionary H - noun See Horned pout, under Horned.
Hornsnake Dictionary H - noun A harmless snake (Farancia abacura), found in the Southern United States. The color is bluish black above, red below.
Hornstone Dictionary H - noun A siliceous stone, a variety of quartz, closely resembling flint, but more brittle; - called also chert.
Horntail Dictionary H - noun 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.
Hornwork Dictionary H - noun An outwork composed of two demibastions joined by a curtain. It is connected with the works in rear by long wings.
Hornwort Dictionary H - noun An aquatic plant (Ceratophyllum), with finely divided leaves.
Hornwrack Dictionary H - noun A bryozoan of the genus Flustra.
Horny Dictionary H - superlative Having horns or hornlike projections.
Horny-handed Dictionary H - adjective Having the hands horny and callous from labor.
Hornyhead Dictionary H - noun Any North American river chub of the genus Hybopsis, esp. H. biguttatus.
Horography Dictionary H - noun An account of the hours.
Horologe Dictionary H - noun A servant who called out the hours.
Horologer Dictionary H - noun A maker or vender of clocks and watches; one skilled in horology.
Horological Dictionary H - adjective Relating to a horologe, or to horology.
Horologiographer Dictionary H - noun A maker of clocks, watches, or dials.
Horologiographic Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to horologiography.
Horologiography Dictionary H - noun An account of instruments that show the hour.
Horologist Dictionary H - noun One versed in horology.
Horology Dictionary H - noun 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.
Horometer Dictionary H - noun An instrument for measuring time.
Horometrical Dictionary H - adjective Belonging to horometry.
Horometry Dictionary H - noun The art, practice, or method of measuring time by hours and subordinate divisions.
Horopter Dictionary H - noun 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.
Horopteric Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to the horopter.
Horoscope Dictionary H - noun The representation made of the aspect of the heavens at the moment of a person's birth, by which the astrologer professed to foretell the events of the person's life; especially, the sign of the zodiac rising above the horizon at such a moment.
Horoscoper Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Horoscopist.
Horoscopist Dictionary H - noun One versed in horoscopy; an astrologer.
Horoscopy Dictionary H - noun The art or practice of casting horoscopes, or observing the disposition of the stars, with a view to prediction events.
Horrendous Dictionary H - adjective Fearful; frightful.
Horrent Dictionary H - adjective Standing erect, as bristles; covered with bristling points; bristled; bristling.
Horrible Dictionary H - adjective Exciting, or tending to excite, horror or fear; dreadful; terrible; shocking; hideous; as, a horrible sight; a horrible story; a horrible murder.
Horribleness Dictionary H - noun The state or quality of being horrible; dreadfulness; hideousness.
Horribly Dictionary H - adverb In a manner to excite horror; dreadfully; terribly.
Horrid Dictionary H - adjective Rough; rugged; bristling.
Horridly Dictionary H - adverb In a horrid manner.
Horridness Dictionary H - noun The quality of being horrid.
Horrific Dictionary H - adjective Causing horror; frightful.
Horrification Dictionary H - noun That which causes horror.
Horrified Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Horrify.
Horrifying Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Horrify.
Horrify Dictionary H - verb transitive To cause to feel horror; to strike or impress with horror; as, the sight horrified the beholders.
Horripilation Dictionary H - noun A real or fancied bristling of the hair of the head or body, resulting from disease, terror, chilliness, etc.
Horrisonant Dictionary H - adjective Horrisonous.
Horrisonous Dictionary H - adjective Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound.
Horror Dictionary H - noun A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement.
Horror-sticken Dictionary H - adjective Struck with horror; horrified.
Horror-struck Dictionary H - adjective Horror-stricken; horrified.
Hors de combat Dictionary H - Out of the combat; disabled from fighting.
Horse Dictionary H - noun A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus; especially, the domestic horse (E. caballus), which was domesticated in Egypt and Asia at a very early period. It has six broad molars, on each side of each jaw, with six incisors, and two canine teeth, both above and below. The mares usually have the canine teeth rudimentary or wanting. The horse differs from the true asses, in having a long, flowing mane, and the tail bushy to the base. Unlike the asses it has callosities, or chestnuts, on all its legs. The horse excels in strength, speed, docility, courage, and nobleness of character, and is used for drawing, carrying, bearing a rider, and like purposes.
Horsed Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Horse.
Horsing Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Horse.
Horseback Dictionary H - noun The back of a horse.
Horse-chestnut Dictionary H - noun The large nutlike seed of a species of Aesculus (Ae. Hippocastanum), formerly ground, and fed to horses, whence the name.
Horse-drench Dictionary H - noun A dose of physic for a horse.
Horsefish Dictionary H - noun The moonfish (Selene setipinnis).
Horseflesh Dictionary H - noun The flesh of horses.
Horseflies Dictionary H - pleural of Horsefly.
Horsefly Dictionary H - noun Any dipterous fly of the family Tabanidae, that stings horses, and sucks their blood.
Horsefeet Dictionary H - pleural of Horsefoot.
Horsefoot Dictionary H - noun The coltsfoot.
Horse Guards Dictionary H - A body of cavalry so called; esp., a British regiment, called the Royal Horse Guards, which furnishes guards of state for the sovereign.
Horsehair Dictionary H - noun A hair of a horse, especially one from the mane or tail; the hairs of the mane or tail taken collectively; a fabric or tuft made of such hairs.
Horsehead Dictionary H - noun The silver moonfish (Selene vomer).
Horsehide Dictionary H - noun The hide of a horse.
Horse-jockey Dictionary H - noun A professional rider and trainer of race horses.
Horseknop Dictionary H - noun Knapweed.
Horselaugh Dictionary H - noun A loud, boisterous laugh; a guffaw.
Horse-leech Dictionary H - noun A large blood-sucking leech (Haemopsis vorax), of Europe and Northern Africa. It attacks the lips and mouths of horses.
Horse-leechery Dictionary H - noun The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses.
Horse-litter Dictionary H - noun A carriage hung on poles, and borne by and between two horses.
Horsemen Dictionary H - pleural of Horseman.
Horseman Dictionary H - noun A rider on horseback; one skilled in the management of horses; a mounted man.
Horsemanship Dictionary H - noun The act or art of riding, and of training and managing horses; manege.
Horsemint Dictionary H - noun A coarse American plant of the Mint family (Monarda punctata).
Horsenail Dictionary H - noun A thin, pointed nail, with a heavy flaring head, for securing a horsehoe to the hoof; a horsehoe nail.
Horseplay Dictionary H - noun Rude, boisterous play.
Horsepond Dictionary H - noun A pond for watering horses.
Horse power Dictionary H - The power which a horse exerts.
Horse-radish Dictionary H - noun A plant of the genus Nasturtium (N. Armoracia), allied to scurvy grass, having a root of a pungent taste, much used, when grated, as a condiment and in medicine.
Horserake Dictionary H - noun A rake drawn by a horse.
Horseshoe Dictionary H - noun A shoe for horses, consisting of a narrow plate of iron in form somewhat like the letter U, nailed to a horse's hoof.
Horseshoer Dictionary H - noun One who shoes horses.
Horseshoeing Dictionary H - noun The act or employment of shoeing horses.
Horsetail Dictionary H - noun A leafless plant, with hollow and rushlike stems. It is of the genus Equisetum, and is allied to the ferns. See Illust. of Equisetum.
Horseweed Dictionary H - noun A composite plant (Erigeron Canadensis), which is a common weed.
Horsewhip Dictionary H - noun A whip for horses.
Horsewomen Dictionary H - pleural of Horsewoman.
Horsewoman Dictionary H - noun A woman who rides on horseback.
Horsewood Dictionary H - noun A West Indian tree (Calliandra latifolia) with showy, crimson blossoms.
Horseworm Dictionary H - noun The larva of a botfly.
Horsiness Dictionary H - noun The condition or quality of being a horse; that which pertains to a horse.
Horsly Dictionary H - adjective Horselike.
Horsy Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or suggestive of, a horse, or of horse racing; as, horsy manners; garments of fantastically horsy fashions.
Hortation Dictionary H - noun The act of exhorting, inciting, or giving advice; exhortation.
Hortative Dictionary H - adjective Giving exhortation; advisory; exhortative.
Hortatory Dictionary H - adjective Giving exhortation or advise; encouraging; exhortatory; inciting; as, a hortatory speech.
Hortensial Dictionary H - adjective Fit for a garden.
Horticultor Dictionary H - noun One who cultivates a garden.
Horticultural Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to horticulture, or the culture of gardens or orchards.
Horticulture Dictionary H - noun The cultivation of a garden or orchard; the art of cultivating gardens or orchards.
Horticulturist Dictionary H - noun One who practices horticulture.
Hortulan Dictionary H - adjective Belonging to a garden.
Hortus siccus Dictionary H - A collection of specimens of plants, dried and preserved, and arranged systematically; an herbarium.
Hortyard Dictionary H - noun An orchard.
Hosannas Dictionary H - pleural of Hosanna.
Hosanna Dictionary H - noun A Hebrew exclamation of praise to the Lord, or an invocation of blessings.
Hose Dictionary H - pleural of Hose.
Hosen Dictionary H - pleural of Hose.
Hosier Dictionary H - noun One who deals in hose or stocking, or in goods knit or woven like hose.
Hosiery Dictionary H - noun The business of a hosier.
Hospice Dictionary H - noun A convent or monastery which is also a place of refuge or entertainment for travelers on some difficult road or pass, as in the Alps; as, the Hospice of the Great St. Bernard.
Hospitable Dictionary H - adjective Receiving and entertaining strangers or guests with kindness and without reward; kind to strangers and guests; characterized by hospitality.
Hospitableness Dictionary H - noun The quality of being hospitable; hospitality.
Hospitably Dictionary H - adverb In a hospitable manner.
Hospitage Dictionary H - noun Hospitality.
Hospital Dictionary H - noun A place for shelter or entertainment; an inn.
Hospitaler Dictionary H - noun One residing in a hospital, for the purpose of receiving the poor, the sick, and strangers.
Hospitalism Dictionary H - noun A vitiated condition of the body, due to long confinement in a hospital, or the morbid condition of the atmosphere of a hospital.
Hospitalities Dictionary H - pleural of Hospitality.
Hospitality Dictionary H - noun The act or practice of one who is hospitable; reception and entertainment of strangers or guests without reward, or with kind and generous liberality.
Hospitalize Dictionary H - verb transitive To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital.
Hospitate Dictionary H - intransitive verb To receive hospitality; to be a guest.
Hospitium Dictionary H - noun An inn; a lodging; a hospice.
Hospodar Dictionary H - noun A title borne by the princes or governors of Moldavia and Wallachia before those countries were united as Roumania.
Host Dictionary H - noun The consecrated wafer, believed to be the body of Christ, which in the Mass is offered as a sacrifice; also, the bread before consecration.
Hostage Dictionary H - noun A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, on the performance of which the person is to be released.
Hostel Dictionary H - noun An inn.
Hosteler Dictionary H - noun The keeper of a hostel or inn.
Hostelry Dictionary H - noun An inn; a lodging house.
Hostess Dictionary H - noun A female host; a woman who hospitably entertains guests at her house.
Hostess-ship Dictionary H - noun The character, personality, or office of a hostess.
Hostie Dictionary H - noun The consecrated wafer; the host.
Hostile Dictionary H - adjective Belonging or appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence, or a desire to thwart and injure; occupied by an enemy or enemies; inimical; unfriendly; as, a hostile force; hostile intentions; a hostile country; hostile to a sudden change.
Hostilely Dictionary H - adverb In a hostile manner.
Hostilities Dictionary H - pleural of Hostility.
Hostility Dictionary H - noun State of being hostile; public or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity.
Hostilize Dictionary H - verb transitive To make hostile; to cause to become an enemy.
Hosting Dictionary H - noun An encounter; a battle.
Hostler Dictionary H - noun An innkeeper. Obs. See Hosteler.
Hostless Dictionary H - adjective Inhospitable.
Hostry Dictionary H - noun A hostelry; an inn or lodging house.
Hotbed Dictionary H - noun A bed of earth heated by fermenting manure or other substances, and covered with glass, intended for raising early plants, or for nourishing exotics.
Hot blast Dictionary H - See under Blast.
Hot-blooded Dictionary H - adjective Having hot blood; excitable; high-spirited; irritable; ardent; passionate.
Hot-brained Dictionary H - adjective Ardent in temper; violent; rash; impetuous; as, hot-brained youth.
Hotchpot Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Hotchpotch.
Hotchpotch Dictionary H - noun A mingled mass; a confused mixture; a stew of various ingredients; a hodgepodge.
Hotcockles Dictionary H - noun A childish play, in which one covers his eyes, and guesses who strikes him or his hand placed behind him.
Hotel Dictionary H - noun A house for entertaining strangers or travelers; an inn or public house, of the better class.
Hotel-de-ville Dictionary H - noun A city hall or townhouse.
Hotel-Dieu Dictionary H - noun A hospital.
Hotfoot Dictionary H - adverb In haste; foothot.
Hot-head Dictionary H - noun A violent, passionate person; a hasty or impetuous person; as, the rant of a hot-head.
Hot-headed Dictionary H - adjective Fiery; violent; rash; hasty; impetuous; vehement.
Hothouse Dictionary H - noun 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.
Hot-livered Dictionary H - adjective Of an excitable or irritable temperament; irascible.
Hotly Dictionary H - adjective In a hot or fiery manner; ardently; vehemently; violently; hastily; as, a hotly pursued.
Hot-mouthed Dictionary H - adjective Headstrong.
Hotness Dictionary H - noun The quality or state of being hot.
Hotpress Dictionary H - verb transitive 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.
Hotpressed Dictionary H - adjective Pressed while heat is applied. See Hotpress, v. t.
Hot-short Dictionary H - adjective More or less brittle when heated; as, hot-short iron.
Hot-spirited Dictionary H - adjective Having a fiery spirit; hot-headed.
Hotspur Dictionary H - noun A rash, hot-headed man.
Hotspurred Dictionary H - adjective Violent; impetuous; headstrong.
Hottentot Dictionary H - noun One of a degraded and savage race of South Africa, with yellowish brown complexion, high cheek bones, and wooly hair growing in tufts.
Hottentotism Dictionary H - noun A term employed to describe one of the varieties of stammering.
Houdah Dictionary H - noun See Howdah.
Houghed Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hough.
Houghing Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hough.
Houlet Dictionary H - noun An owl. See Howlet.
Hoult Dictionary H - noun A piece of woodland; a small wood. Obs. See Holt.
Hound Dictionary H - noun A variety of the domestic dog, usually having large, drooping ears, esp. one which hunts game by scent, as the foxhound, bloodhound, deerhound, but also used for various breeds of fleet hunting dogs, as the greyhound, boarhound, etc.
Hounded Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hound.
Hounding Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hound.
Houndfish Dictionary H - noun Any small shark of the genus Galeus or Mustelus, of which there are several species, as the smooth houndfish (G. canis), of Europe and America; - called also houndshark, and dogfish.
Hound's-tongue Dictionary H - noun A biennial weed (Cynoglossum officinale), with soft tongue-shaped leaves, and an offensive odor. It bears nutlets covered with barbed or hooked prickles. Called also dog's-tongue.
Houp Dictionary H - noun See Hoopoe.
Hour Dictionary H - noun The twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes.
Hourglass Dictionary H - noun An instrument for measuring time, especially the interval of an hour. It consists of a glass vessel having two compartments, from the uppermost of which a quantity of sand, water, or mercury occupies an hour in running through a small aperture unto the lower.
Houris Dictionary H - pleural of Houri.
Houri Dictionary H - noun A nymph of paradise; - so called by the Mohammedans.
Hourly Dictionary H - adjective Happening or done every hour; occurring hour by hour; frequent; often repeated; renewed hour by hour; continual.
Hours Dictionary H - noun plural Goddess of the seasons, or of the hours of the day.
Housage Dictionary H - noun A fee for keeping goods in a house.
Houses Dictionary H - pleural of House.
House Dictionary H - noun A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind; but especially, a building or edifice for the habitation of man; a dwelling place, a mansion.
Housed Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of House.
Housing Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of House.
Housebote Dictionary H - noun Wood allowed to a tenant for repairing the house and for fuel. This latter is often called firebote. See Bote.
Housebreaker Dictionary H - noun One who is guilty of the crime of housebreaking.
Housebreaking Dictionary H - noun The act of breaking open and entering, with a felonious purpose, the dwelling house of another, whether done by day or night. See Burglary, and To break a house, under Break.
Housebuilder Dictionary H - noun One whose business is to build houses; a housewright.
Housecarl Dictionary H - noun A household servant; also, one of the bodyguard of King Canute.
Household Dictionary H - noun Those who dwell under the same roof and compose a family.
Householder Dictionary H - noun The master or head of a family; one who occupies a house with his family.
Housekeeper Dictionary H - noun One who occupies a house with his family; a householder; the master or mistress of a family.
Housekeeping Dictionary H - noun The state of occupying a dwelling house as a householder.
Housel Dictionary H - noun The eucharist.
Houseleek Dictionary H - noun A succulent plant of the genus Sempervivum (S. tectorum), originally a native of subalpine Europe, but now found very generally on old walls and roofs. It is very tenacious of life under drought and heat; - called also ayegreen.
Houseless Dictionary H - adjective Destitute of the shelter of a house; shelterless; homeless; as, a houseless wanderer.
Houselessness Dictionary H - noun The state of being houseless.
Houseline Dictionary H - noun A small line of three strands used for seizing; - called also housing.
Houseling Dictionary H - adjective Same as Housling.
Housemaid Dictionary H - noun A female servant employed to do housework, esp. to take care of the rooms.
Housemate Dictionary H - noun One who dwells in the same house with another.
Houseroom Dictionary H - noun Room or place in a house; as, to give any one houseroom.
Housewarming Dictionary H - noun A feast or merry-making made by or for a family or business firm on taking possession of a new house or premises.
Housewife Dictionary H - noun The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household.
Housewive Dictionary H - verb transitive To manage with skill and economy, as a housewife or other female manager; to economize.
Housewifely Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining or appropriate to a housewife; domestic; economical; prudent.
Housewifery Dictionary H - noun The business of the mistress of a family; female management of domestic concerns.
Housework Dictionary H - noun The work belonging to housekeeping; especially, kitchen work, sweeping, scrubbing, bed making, and the like.
Housewright Dictionary H - noun A builder of houses.
Housling Dictionary H - adjective Sacramental; as, housling fire.
Houss Dictionary H - noun A saddlecloth; a housing.
Houtou Dictionary H - noun A beautiful South American motmot.
Houve Dictionary H - noun A head covering of various kinds; a hood; a coif; a cap.
Houyhnhnm Dictionary H - noun One of the race of horses described by Swift in his imaginary travels of Lemuel Gulliver. The Houyhnhnms were endowed with reason and noble qualities; subject to them were Yahoos, a race of brutes having the form and all the worst vices of men.
Hovel Dictionary H - noun An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.
Hoveled Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hovel.
Hovelled Dictionary H - of Hovel.
Hoveling Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hovel.
Hovelling Dictionary H - of Hovel.
Hoveler Dictionary H - noun One who assists in saving life and property from a wreck; a coast boatman.
Hover Dictionary H - noun A cover; a shelter; a protection.
Hovered Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hover.
Hovering Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hover.
Hoverer Dictionary H - noun A device in an incubator for protecting the young chickens and keeping them warm.
Hover-hawk Dictionary H - noun The kestrel.
Hoveringly Dictionary H - adverb In a hovering manner.
How Dictionary H - adverb In what manner or way; by what means or process.
Howadji Dictionary H - noun A traveler.
Howbeit Dictionary H - conjecture Be it as it may; nevertheless; notwithstanding; although; albeit; yet; but; however.
Howdah Dictionary H - noun A seat or pavilion, generally covered, fastened on the back of an elephant, for the rider or riders.
Howdy Dictionary H - noun A midwife.
Howel Dictionary H - noun A tool used by coopers for smoothing and chamfering rheir work, especially the inside of casks.
Howell Dictionary H - noun The upper stage of a porcelian furnace.
However Dictionary H - adverb In whetever manner, way, or degree.
Howitz Dictionary H - noun A howitzer.
Howitzer Dictionary H - noun A gun so short that the projectile, which was hollow, could be put in its place by hand; a kind of mortar.
Howker Dictionary H - noun Same as Hooker.
Howled Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Howl.
Howling Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Howl.
Howl Dictionary H - intransitive verb To utter a loud, protraced, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do.
Howler Dictionary H - noun One who howls.
Howlet Dictionary H - noun An owl; an owlet.
Howp Dictionary H - intransitive verb To cry out; to whoop.
Howso Dictionary H - adverb Howsoever.
Howsoever Dictionary H - [[adj. & conjecture In what manner soever; to whatever degree or extent; however.
Howve Dictionary H - noun A hood. See Houve.
Hox Dictionary H - verb transitive To hock; to hamstring. See Hock.
Hoy Dictionary H - noun A small coaster vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in conveying passengers and goods from place to place, or as a tender to larger vessels in port.
Hoyden Dictionary H - noun Same as Hoiden.
Hoymen Dictionary H - pleural of Hoyman.
Hoyman Dictionary H - noun One who navigates a hoy.
Huanaco Dictionary H - noun See Guanaco.
Hub Dictionary H - noun The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave. See Illust. of Axle box.
Hubble-bubble Dictionary H - noun A tobacco pipe, so arranged that the smoke passes through water, making a bubbling noise, whence its name. In India, the bulb containing the water is often a cocoanut shell.
Hubbub Dictionary H - intransitive verb A loud noise of many confused voices; a tumult; uproar.
Hubby Dictionary H - adjective Full of hubs or protuberances; as, a road that has been frozen while muddy is hubby.
Hubner Dictionary H - noun A mineral of brownish black color, occurring in columnar or foliated masses. It is native manganese tungstate.
Huch Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Huchen.
Huchen Dictionary H - noun A large salmon (Salmo, / Salvelinus, hucho) inhabiting the Danube; - called also huso, and bull trout.
Huck Dictionary H - intransitive verb To higgle in trading.
Huckaback Dictionary H - noun A kind of linen cloth with raised figures, used for towelings.
Huckle Dictionary H - noun The hip; the haunch.
Huckle-backed Dictionary H - adjective Round-shoulded.
Huckleberry Dictionary H - noun The edible black or dark blue fruit of several species of the American genus Gaylussacia, shrubs nearly related to the blueberries (Vaccinium), and formerly confused with them. The commonest huckelberry comes from G. resinosa.
Huckster Dictionary H - noun A retailer of small articles, of provisions, and the like; a peddler; a hawker.
Huckstered Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Huckster.
Huckstering Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Huckster.
Hucksterage Dictionary H - noun The business of a huckster; small dealing; peddling.
Hucksterer Dictionary H - noun A huckster.
Huckstress Dictionary H - noun A female huckster.
Hud Dictionary H - noun A huck or hull, as of a nut.
Huddled Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Huddle.
Huddling Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Huddle.
Huddle Dictionary H - intransitive verb To press together promiscuously, from confusion, apprehension, or the like; to crowd together confusedly; to press or hurry in disorder; to crowd.
Huddler Dictionary H - noun One who huddles things together.
Hudge Dictionary H - noun An iron bucket for hoisting coal or ore.
Hudibrastic Dictionary H - adjective Similar to, or in the style of, the poem "Hudibras," by Samuel Butler; in the style of doggerel verse.
Hudsonian Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to Hudson's Bay or to the Hudson River; as, the Hudsonian curlew.
Hue Dictionary H - noun Color or shade of color; tint; dye.
Hued Dictionary H - adjective Having color; - usually in composition; as, bright-hued; many-hued.
Hueless Dictionary H - adjective Destitute of color.
Huer Dictionary H - noun One who cries out or gives an alarm; specifically, a balker; a conder. See Balker.
Huffed Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Huff.
Huffing Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Huff.
Huff Dictionary H - verb transitive To swell; to enlarge; to puff up; as, huffed up with air.
Huffcap Dictionary H - noun A blusterer; a bully.
Huffer Dictionary H - noun A bully; a blusterer.
Huffiness Dictionary H - noun The state of being huffish; petulance; bad temper.
Huffingly Dictionary H - adverb Blusteringly; arrogantly.
Huffish Dictionary H - adjective Disposed to be blustering or arrogant; petulant.
Huffy Dictionary H - adjective Puffed up; as, huffy bread.
Hugged Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hug.
Hugging Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hug.
Hug Dictionary H - intransitive verb To cower; to crouch; to curl up.
Huge Dictionary H - superlative Very large; enormous; immense; excessive; - used esp. of material bulk, but often of qualities, extent, etc.; as, a huge ox; a huge space; a huge difference.
Hugger Dictionary H - noun One who hugs or embraces.
Hugger-mugger Dictionary H - noun Privacy; secrecy. Commonly in the phrase in hugger-mugger, with haste and secrecy.
Huggle Dictionary H - verb transitive To hug.
Huguenot Dictionary H - noun A French Protestant of the period of the religious wars in France in the 16th century.
Huguenotism Dictionary H - noun The religion of the Huguenots in France.
Hugy Dictionary H - adjective Vast.
Huia bird Dictionary H - A New Zealand starling (Heteralocha acutirostris), remarkable for the great difference in the form and length of the bill in the two sexes, that of the male being sharp and straight, that of the female much longer and strongly curved.
Huisher Dictionary H - noun See Usher.
Huke Dictionary H - noun An outer garment worn in Europe in the Middle Ages.
Hulan Dictionary H - noun See Uhlan.
Hulch Dictionary H - noun A hunch.
Hulchy Dictionary H - adjective Swollen; gibbous.
Hulk Dictionary H - noun The body of a ship or decked vessel of any kind; esp., the body of an old vessel laid by as unfit for service.
Hulking Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hulky.
Hulky Dictionary H - adjective Bulky; unwiedly.
Hull Dictionary H - verb transitive The outer covering of anything, particularly of a nut or of grain; the outer skin of a kernel; the husk.
Hulled Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hull.
Hulling Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hull.
Hullabaloo Dictionary H - noun A confused noise; uproar; tumult.
Huller Dictionary H - noun One who, or that which, hulls; especially, an agricultural machine for removing the hulls from grain; a hulling machine.
Hullo Dictionary H - interjection See Hollo.
Hully Dictionary H - adjective Having or containing hulls.
Huloist Dictionary H - noun See Hyloist.
Hulotheism Dictionary H - noun See Hylotheism.
Hulver Dictionary H - noun Holly, an evergreen shrub or tree.
Hummed Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hum.
Humming Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hum.
Hum Dictionary H - intransitive verb To make a low, prolonged sound, like that of a bee in flight; to drone; to murmur; to buzz; as, a top hums.
Human Dictionary H - adjective Belonging to man or mankind; having the qualities or attributes of a man; of or pertaining to man or to the race of man; as, a human voice; human shape; human nature; human sacrifices.
Humanate Dictionary H - adjective Indued with humanity.
Humane Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to man; human.
Humanics Dictionary H - noun The study of human nature.
Humanify Dictionary H - verb transitive To make human; to invest with a human personality; to incarnate.
Humanism Dictionary H - noun Human nature or disposition; humanity.
Humanist Dictionary H - noun 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.
Humanistic Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to humanity; as, humanistic devotion.
Humanitarian Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to humanitarians, or to humanitarianism; as, a humanitarian view of Christ's nature.
Humanitarianism Dictionary H - noun The distinctive tenet of the humanitarians in denying the divinity of Christ; also, the whole system of doctrine based upon this view of Christ.
Humanitian Dictionary H - noun A humanist.
Humanities Dictionary H - pleural of Humanity.
Humanity Dictionary H - noun The quality of being human; the peculiar nature of man, by which he is distinguished from other beings.
Humanization Dictionary H - noun The act of humanizing.
Humanized Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Humanize.
Humanizing Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Humanize.
Humanize Dictionary H - verb transitive To render human or humane; to soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize.
Humanizer Dictionary H - noun One who renders humane.
Humankind Dictionary H - noun Mankind.
Humanly Dictionary H - adverb In a human manner; after the manner of men; according to the knowledge or wisdom of men; as, the present prospects, humanly speaking, promise a happy issue.
Humanness Dictionary H - noun The quality or state of being human.
Humate Dictionary H - noun A salt of humic acid.
Humation Dictionary H - noun Interment; inhumation.
Humbird Dictionary H - noun Humming bird.
Humble Dictionary H - superlative Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.
Humbled Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Humble.
Humbling Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Humble.
Humblebee Dictionary H - noun The bumblebee.
Humblehead Dictionary H - noun Humble condition or estate; humility.
Humbleness Dictionary H - noun The quality of being humble; humility; meekness.
Humbler Dictionary H - noun One who, or that which, humbles some one.
Humbles Dictionary H - noun plural Entrails of a deer.
Humblesse Dictionary H - noun Humbleness; abasement; low obeisance.
Humbly Dictionary H - adverb With humility; lowly.
Humbug Dictionary H - noun An imposition under fair pretenses; something contrived in order to deceive and mislead; a trick by cajolery; a hoax.
Humbugged Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Humbug.
Humbugging Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Humbug.
Humbugger Dictionary H - noun One who humbugs.
Humbuggery Dictionary H - noun The practice of imposition.
Humdrum Dictionary H - adjective Monotonous; dull; commonplace.
Humect Dictionary H - verb transitive Alt. of Humectate.
Humectate Dictionary H - verb transitive To moisten; to wet.
Humectant Dictionary H - adjective Diluent.
Humectation Dictionary H - noun A moistening.
Humective Dictionary H - adjective Tending to moisten.
Humeral Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to the humerus, or upper part of the arm; brachial.
Humeri Dictionary H - pleural of Humerus.
Humerus Dictionary H - noun The bone of the brachium, or upper part of the arm or fore limb.
Humic Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, vegetable mold; as, humic acid. See Humin.
Humicubation Dictionary H - noun The act or practice of lying on the ground.
Humid Dictionary H - adjective Containing sensible moisture; damp; moist; as, a humidair or atmosphere; somewhat wet or watery; as, humid earth; consisting of water or vapor.
Humidity Dictionary H - noun 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.
Humidness Dictionary H - noun Humidity.
Humifuse Dictionary H - adjective Spread over the surface of the ground; procumbent.
Humiliant Dictionary H - adjective Humiliating; humbling.
Humiliated Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Humiliate.
Humiliating Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Humiliate.
Humiliate Dictionary H - verb transitive To reduce to a lower position in one's own eyes, or in the eyes of others; to humble; to mortify.
Humiliation Dictionary H - noun The act of humiliating or humbling; abasement of pride; mortification.
Humilities Dictionary H - pleural of Humility.
Humility Dictionary H - noun 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.
Humin Dictionary H - noun A bitter, brownish yellow, amorphous substance, extracted from vegetable mold, and also produced by the action of acids on certain sugars and carbohydrates; - called also humic acid, ulmin, gein, ulmic or geic acid, etc.
Humiri Dictionary H - noun A fragrant balsam obtained from Brazilian trees of the genus Humirium.
Humite Dictionary H - noun A mineral of a transparent vitreous brown color, found in the ejected masses of Vesuvius. It is a silicate of iron and magnesia, containing fluorine.
Hummel Dictionary H - verb transitive To separate from the awns; - said of barley.
Hummeler Dictionary H - noun One who, or a machine which, hummels.
Hummer Dictionary H - noun One who, or that which, hums; one who applauds by humming.
Hummock Dictionary H - noun A rounded knoll or hillock; a rise of ground of no great extent, above a level surface.
Hummocking Dictionary H - noun The process of forming hummocks in the collision of Arctic ice.
Hummocky Dictionary H - adjective Abounding in hummocks.
Hummum Dictionary H - noun A sweating bath or place for sweating.
Humor Dictionary H - noun Moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.; as, the humors of the eye, etc.
Humored Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Humor.
Humoring Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Humor.
Humoral Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the humors; as, a humoral fever.
Humoralism Dictionary H - noun The state or quality of being humoral.
Humoralist Dictionary H - noun One who favors the humoral pathology or believes in humoralism.
Humorism Dictionary H - noun The theory founded on the influence which the humors were supposed to have in the production of disease; Galenism.
Humorist Dictionary H - noun One who attributes diseases of the state of the humors.
Humoristic Dictionary H - adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a humorist.
Humorize Dictionary H - verb transitive To humor.
Humorless Dictionary H - adjective Destitute of humor.
Humorous Dictionary H - adjective Moist; humid; watery.
Humorously Dictionary H - adverb Capriciously; whimsically.
Humorousness Dictionary H - noun Moodiness; capriciousness.
Humorsome Dictionary H - adjective Moody; whimsical; capricious.
Humorsomely Dictionary H - adverb Pleasantly; humorously.
Humorsomeness Dictionary H - noun Quality of being humorsome.
Hump Dictionary H - noun A protuberance; especially, the protuberance formed by a crooked back.
Humpback Dictionary H - noun A crooked back; a humped back.
Humpbacked Dictionary H - adjective Having a humped back.
Humped Dictionary H - adjective Having a hump, as the back.
Humph Dictionary H - interjection An exclamation denoting surprise, or contempt, doubt, etc.
Humpless Dictionary H - adjective Without a hump.
Hump-shouldered Dictionary H - adjective Having high, hunched shoulders.
Humpy Dictionary H - adjective Full of humps or bunches; covered with protuberances; humped.
Humstrum Dictionary H - noun An instrument out of tune or rudely constructed; music badly played.
Humulin Dictionary H - noun An extract of hops.
Humus Dictionary H - noun That portion of the soil formed by the decomposition of animal or vegetable matter. It is a valuable constituent of soils.
Hun Dictionary H - noun One of a warlike nomadic people of Northern Asia who, in the 5th century, under Atilla, invaded and conquered a great part of Europe.
Hunch Dictionary H - noun A hump; a protuberance.
Hunched Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hunch.
Hunching Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hunch.
Hunchback Dictionary H - noun A back with a hunch or hump; also, a hunchbacked person.
Hunchbacked Dictionary H - adjective Having a humped back.
Hundred Dictionary H - noun The product of ten mulitplied 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.
Hundreder Dictionary H - noun An inhabitant or freeholder of a hundred.
Hundredfold Dictionary H - noun A hundred times as much or as many.
Hundredth Dictionary H - adjective Coming last of a hundred successive individuals or units.
Hundredweight Dictionary H - noun A denomination of weight, containing 100, 112, or 120 pounds avoirdupois, according to differing laws or customs. By the legal standard of England it is 112 pounds. In most of the United States, both in practice and by law, it is 100 pounds avoirdupois, the corresponding ton of 2,000 pounds, sometimes called the short ton, being the legal ton.
Hungarian Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to Hungary or to the people of Hungary.
Hungary Dictionary H - noun A country in Central Europe, now a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Hunger Dictionary H - noun An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food.
Hungered Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hunger.
Hungering Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hunger.
Hunger-bit Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hunger-bitten.
Hunger-bitten Dictionary H - adjective Pinched or weakened by hunger.
Hungerer Dictionary H - noun One who hungers; one who longs.
Hungerly Dictionary H - adjective Wanting food; starved.
Hunger-starve Dictionary H - verb transitive To starve with hunger; to famish.
Hungred Dictionary H - adjective Hungered; hungry.
Hungrily Dictionary H - adverb In a hungry manner; voraciously.
Hungry Dictionary H - superlative Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire.
Hunk Dictionary H - noun A large lump or piece; a hunch; as, a hunk of bread.
Hunker Dictionary H - noun Originally, a nickname for a member of the conservative section of the Democratic party in New York; hence, one opposed to progress in general; a fogy.
Hunkerism Dictionary H - noun Excessive conservatism; hostility to progress.
Hunks Dictionary H - noun A covetous, sordid man; a miser; a niggard.
Hunted Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hunt.
Hunting Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hunt.
Hunt Dictionary H - verb transitive To search for or follow after, as game or wild animals; to chase; to pursue for the purpose of catching or killing; to follow with dogs or guns for sport or exercise; as, to hunt a deer.
Hunt-counter Dictionary H - noun A worthless dog that runs back on the scent; a blunderer.
Hunte Dictionary H - noun A hunter.
Hunter Dictionary H - noun One who hunts wild animals either for sport or for food; a huntsman.
Hunterian Dictionary H - adjective Discovered or described by John Hunter, an English surgeon; as, the Hunterian chancre. See Chancre.
Huntress Dictionary H - noun A woman who hunts or follows the chase; as, the huntress Diana.
Huntsmen Dictionary H - pleural of Huntsman.
Huntsman Dictionary H - noun One who hunts, or who practices hunting.
Huntsmanship Dictionary H - noun The art or practice of hunting, or the qualification of a hunter.
Hunt's-up Dictionary H - noun A tune played on the horn very early in the morning to call out the hunters; hence, any arousing sound or call.
Hurden Dictionary H - noun A coarse kind of linen; - called also harden.
Hurdle Dictionary H - noun A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for inclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes.
Hurdleed Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hurdle.
Hurdleing Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hurdle.
Hurdlework Dictionary H - noun Work after manner of a hurdle.
Hurds Dictionary H - noun The coarse part of flax or hemp; hards.
Hurdy-gurdy Dictionary H - noun A stringled instrument, lutelike in shape, in which the sound is produced by the friction of a wheel turned by a crank at the end, instead of by a bow, two of the strings being tuned as drones, while two or more, tuned in unison, are modulated by keys.
Hurkaru Dictionary H - noun In India, a running footman; a messenger.
Hurled Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hurl.
Hurling Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hurl.
Hurl Dictionary H - verb transitive To send whirling or whizzing through the air; to throw with violence; to drive with great force; as, to hurl a stone or lance.
Hurlbat Dictionary H - noun See Whirlbat.
Hurlbone Dictionary H - noun See Whirlbone.
Hurler Dictionary H - noun One who hurls, or plays at hurling.
Hurlwind Dictionary H - noun A whirlwind.
Hurly Dictionary H - noun Noise; confusion; uproar.
Hurly-burly Dictionary H - noun Tumult; bustle; confusion.
Huronian Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to certain non-fossiliferous rocks on the borders of Lake Huron, which are supposed to correspond in time to the latter part of the Archaean age.
Huron-Iroquous Dictionary H - noun A linguistic group of warlike North American Indians, belonging to the same stock as the Algonquins, and including several tribes, among which were the Five Nations. They formerly occupied the region about Lakes Erie and Ontario, and the larger part of New York.
Hurons Dictionary H - noun plural; sing. Huron. (Ethnol.) A powerful and warlike tribe of North American Indians of the Algonquin stock. They formerly occupied the country between Lakes Huron, Erie, and Ontario, but were nearly exterminated by the Five Nations about 1650.
Hurr Dictionary H - intransitive verb To make a rolling or burring sound.
Hurrah Dictionary H - interjection Alt. of Hurra.
Hurra Dictionary H - interjection A word used as a shout of joy, triumph, applause, encouragement, or welcome.
Hurricane Dictionary H - noun A violent storm, characterized by extreme fury and sudden changes of the wind, and generally accompanied by rain, thunder, and lightning; - especially prevalent in the East and West Indies. Also used figuratively.
Hurricanoes Dictionary H - pleural of Hurricano.
Hurricano Dictionary H - noun A waterspout; a hurricane.
Hurried Dictionary H - adjective Urged on; hastened; going or working at speed; as, a hurried writer; a hurried life.
Hurrier Dictionary H - noun One who hurries or urges.
Hurries Dictionary H - noun A staith or framework from which coal is discharged from cars into vessels.
Hurrying Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hurry.
Hurry Dictionary H - verb transitive To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.
Hurryingly Dictionary H - adverb In a hurrying manner.
Hurry-skurry Dictionary H - adverb Confusedly; in a bustle.
Hurst Dictionary H - noun A wood or grove; - a word used in the composition of many names, as in Hazlehurst.
Hurt Dictionary H - noun A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
Hurting Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hurt.
Hurter Dictionary H - noun A bodily injury causing pain; a wound, bruise, or the like.
Hurtful Dictionary H - adjective Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury; as, hurtful words or conduct.
Hurtled Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hurtle.
Hurtling Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hurtle.
Hurtle Dictionary H - verb transitive To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle.
Hurtleberry Dictionary H - noun See Whortleberry.
Hurtless Dictionary H - adjective Doing no injury; harmless; also, unhurt; without injury or harm.
Husband Dictionary H - noun The male head of a household; one who orders the economy of a family.
Husbanded Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Husband.
Husbanding Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Husband.
Husbandable Dictionary H - adjective Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy.
Husbandage Dictionary H - noun The commission or compensation allowed to a ship's husband.
Husbandless Dictionary H - adjective Destitute of a husband.
Husbandly Dictionary H - adjective Frugal; thrifty.
Husbandmen Dictionary H - pleural of Husbandman.
Husbandman Dictionary H - noun The master of a family.
Husbandry Dictionary H - noun Care of domestic affairs; economy; domestic management; thrift.
Hushed Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hush.
Hushing Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hush.
Hush Dictionary H - verb transitive To still; to silence; to calm; to make quiet; to repress the noise or clamor of.
Husher Dictionary H - noun An usher.
Husk Dictionary H - noun The external covering or envelope of certain fruits or seeds; glume; hull; rind; in the United States, especially applied to the covering of the ears of maize.
Husked Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Husk.
Husking Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Husk.
Huskily Dictionary H - adverb In a husky manner; dryly.
Huskiness Dictionary H - noun The state of being husky.
Husky Dictionary H - noun Abounding with husks; consisting of husks.
Huso Dictionary H - noun A large European sturgeon (Acipenser huso), inhabiting the region of the Black and Caspian Seas. It sometimes attains a length of more than twelve feet, and a weight of two thousand pounds. Called also hausen.
Hussar Dictionary H - noun Originally, one of the national cavalry of Hungary and Croatia; now, one of the light cavalry of European armies.
Hussite Dictionary H - noun A follower of John Huss, the Bohemian reformer, who was adjudged a heretic and burnt alive in 1415.
Hussy Dictionary H - noun A housewife or housekeeper.
Hustings Dictionary H - noun plural 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.
Hustled Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hustle.
Hustling Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hustle.
Hustle Dictionary H - verb transitive To shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly; as, to hustle a person out of a room.
Huswife Dictionary H - noun A female housekeeper; a woman who manages domestic affairs; a thirfty woman.
Huswifely Dictionary H - adjective Like a huswife; capable; economical; prudent.
Huswifery Dictionary H - noun The business of a housewife; female domestic economy and skill.
Hut Dictionary H - noun A small house, hivel, or cabin; a mean lodge or dwelling; a slightly built or temporary structure.
Hutted Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hutch.
Hutting Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hutch.
Hutch Dictionary H - verb transitive & intransitive To place in huts; to live in huts; as, to hut troops in winter quarters.
Hutched Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hutch.
Hutching Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hutch.
Hutchunsonian Dictionary H - noun A follower of John Hutchinson of Yorkshire, England, who believed that the Hebrew Scriptures contained a complete system of natural science and of theology.
Huttonian Dictionary H - adjective Relating to what is now called the Plutonic theory of the earth, first advanced by Dr. James Hutton.
Huxter Dictionary H - noun & verb intransitive See Huckster.
Huyghenian Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or invented by, Christian Huyghens, a Dutch astronomer of the seventeenth century; as, the Huyghenian telescope.
Huzz Dictionary H - intransitive verb To buzz; to murmur.
Huzza Dictionary H - interjection A word used as a shout of joy, exultation, approbation, or encouragement.
Huzzaed Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Huzza.
Huzzaing Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Huzza.
Hy Dictionary H - adjective High.
Hyacine Dictionary H - noun A hyacinth.
Hyacinth Dictionary H - noun A bulbous plant of the genus Hyacinthus, bearing beautiful spikes of fragrant flowers. H. orientalis is a common variety.
Hyacinthian Dictionary H - adjective Hyacinthine.
Hyacinthine Dictionary H - adjective Belonging to the hyacinth; resemblingthe hyacinth; in color like the hyacinth.
Hyades Dictionary H - noun plural Alt. of Hyads.
Hyads Dictionary H - noun plural A cluster of five stars in the face of the constellation Taurus, supposed by the ancients to indicate the coming of rainy weather when they rose with the sun.
Hyaena Dictionary H - noun Same as Hyena.
Hyalea Dictionary H - noun A pteroid of the genus Cavolina. See Pteropoda, and Illustration in Appendix.
Hyalescence Dictionary H - noun The process of becoming, or the state of being, transparent like glass.
Hyaline Dictionary H - adjective Glassy; resembling glass; consisting of glass; transparent, like crystal.
Hyalite Dictionary H - noun A pellucid variety of opal in globules looking like colorless gum or resin; - called also Muller's glass.
Hyalograph Dictionary H - noun An instrument for tracing designs on glass.
Hyalography Dictionary H - noun Art of writing or engraving on glass.
Hyaloid Dictionary H - adjective Resembling glass; vitriform; transparent; hyaline; as, the hyaloid membrane, a very delicate membrane inclosing the vitreous humor of the eye.
Hyalonema Dictionary H - noun A genus of hexactinelline sponges, having a long stem composed of very long, slender, transparent, siliceous fibres twisted together like the strands of a color. The stem of the Japanese species (H. Sieboldii), called glass-rope, has long been in use as an ornament. See Glass-rope.
Hyalophane Dictionary H - noun A species of the feldspar group containing barium. See Feldspar.
Hyalospongia Dictionary H - noun plural An order of vitreous sponges, having glassy six-rayed, siliceous spicules; - called also Hexactinellinae.
Hyalotype Dictionary H - noun A photographic picture copied from the negative on glass; a photographic transparency.
Hybernacle Dictionary H - Alt. of Hybernation.
Hybernate Dictionary H - Alt. of Hybernation.
Hybernation Dictionary H - See Hibernacle, Hibernate, Hibernation.
Hyblaean Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to Hybla, an ancient town of Sicily, famous for its bees.
Hybodont Dictionary H - adjective 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.
Hybodus Dictionary H - noun An extinct genus of sharks having conical, compressed teeth.
Hybrid Dictionary H - noun The offspring of the union of two distinct species; an animal or plant produced from the mixture of two species. See Mongrel.
Hybridism Dictionary H - noun The state or quality of being hybrid.
Hybridist Dictionary H - noun One who hybridizes.
Hybridity Dictionary H - noun Hybridism.
Hybridizable Dictionary H - adjective Capable of forming a hybrid, or of being subjected to a hybridizing process; capable of producing a hybrid by union with another species or stock.
Hybridization Dictionary H - noun The act of hybridizing, or the state of being hybridized.
Hybridized Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hybridize.
Hybridizing Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hybridize.
Hybridize Dictionary H - verb transitive To render hybrid; to produce by mixture of stocks.
Hybridizer Dictionary H - noun One who hybridizes.
Hybridous Dictionary H - adjective Same as Hybrid.
Hydage Dictionary H - noun A land tax. See Hidage.
Hydantoic Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, hydantoin. See Glycoluric.
Hydantoin Dictionary H - noun A derivative of urea, C3H4N2O2, obtained from allantion, as a white, crystalline substance, with a sweetish taste; - called also glycolyl urea.
Hydatid Dictionary H - noun A membranous sac or bladder filled with a pellucid fluid, found in various parts of the bodies of animals, but unconnected with the tissues. It is usually formed by parasitic worms, esp. by larval tapeworms, as Echinococcus and Coenurus. See these words in the Vocabulary.
Hydatiform Dictionary H - adjective Resembling a hydatid.
Hydatoid Dictionary H - adjective Resembling water; watery; aqueous; hyaloid.
Hydr- Dictionary H - See under Hydro-.
Hydras Dictionary H - pleural of Hydra.
Hydrae Dictionary H - pleural of Hydra.
Hydra Dictionary H - noun A serpent or monster in the lake or marsh of Lerna, in the Peloponnesus, represented as having many heads, one of which, when cut off, was immediately succeeded by two others, unless the wound was cauterized. It was slain by Hercules. Hence, a terrible monster.
Hydrachnid Dictionary H - noun An aquatic mite of the genus Hydrachna. The hydrachnids, while young, are parasitic on fresh-water mussels.
Hydracid Dictionary H - noun 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.
Hydracrylic Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, an isomeric variety of lastic acid that breaks down into acrylic acid and water.
Hydractinian Dictionary H - noun Any species or marine hydroids, of the genus Hydractinia and allied genera. These hydroids form, by their rootstalks, a firm, chitinous coating on shells and stones, and esp. on spiral shells occupied by hermit crabs. See Illust. of Athecata.
Hydraemia Dictionary H - noun An abnormally watery state of the blood; anaemia.
Hydragogue Dictionary H - adjective Causing a discharge of water; expelling serum effused into any part of the body, as in dropsy.
Hydramide Dictionary H - noun One of a group of crystalline bodies produced by the action of ammonia on certain aldehydes.
Hydramine Dictionary H - noun One of a series of artificial, organic bases, usually produced as thick viscous liquids by the action of ammonia on ethylene oxide. They have the properties both of alcohol and amines.
Hydrangea Dictionary H - noun A genus of shrubby plants bearing opposite leaves and large heads of showy flowers, white, or of various colors. H. hortensis, the common garden species, is a native of China or Japan.
Hydrant Dictionary H - noun A discharge pipe with a valve and spout at which water may be drawn from the mains of waterworks; a water plug.
Hydranth Dictionary H - noun One of the nutritive zooids of a hydroid colony. Also applied to the proboscis or manubrium of a hydroid medusa. See Illust. of Hydroidea.
Hydrargochloride Dictionary H - noun A compound of the bichloride of mercury with another chloride.
Hydrargyrate Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to mercury; containing, or impregnated with, mercury.
Hydrargyrism Dictionary H - noun A diseased condition produced by poisoning with hydrargyrum, or mercury; mercurialism.
Hydrargyrum Dictionary H - noun Quicksilver; mercury.
Hydrarthrosis Dictionary H - noun An effusion of watery liquid into the cavity of a joint.
Hydrastine Dictionary H - noun An alkaloid, found in the rootstock of the golden seal (Hydrastis Canadensis), and extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance. It is used as a tonic and febrifuge.
Hydra-tainted Dictionary H - adjective Dipped in the gall of the fabulous hydra; poisonous; deadly.
Hydrate Dictionary H - noun A compound formed by the union of water with some other substance, generally forming a neutral body, as certain crystallized salts.
Hydrated Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hydrate.
Hydrating Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hydrate.
Hydration Dictionary H - noun The act of becoming, or state of being, a hydrate.
Hydraulic Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to hydraulics, or to fluids in motion; conveying, or acting by, water; as, an hydraulic clock, crane, or dock.
Hydraulical Dictionary H - adjective Hydraulic.
Hydraulicon Dictionary H - noun An ancient musical instrument played by the action of water; a water organ.
Hydraulics Dictionary H - noun That branch of science, or of engineering, which treats of fluids in motion, especially of water, its action in rivers and canals, the works and machinery for conducting or raising it, its use as a prime mover, and the like.
Hydrazine Dictionary H - noun Any one of a series of nitrogenous bases, resembling the amines and produced by the reduction of certain nitroso and diazo compounds; as, methyl hydrazine, phenyl hydrazine, etc. They are derivatives of hydrazine proper, H2N.NH2, which is a doubled amido group, recently -1887 isolated as a stable, colorless gas, with a peculiar, irritating odor. As a base it forms distinct salts. Called also diamide, amidogen, (or more properly diamidogen), etc.
Hydrencephsloid Dictionary H - adjective Same as Hydrocephaloid.
Hydria Dictionary H - noun A water jar; esp., one with a large rounded body, a small neck, and three handles. Some of the most beautiful Greek vases are of this form.
Hydriad Dictionary H - noun A water nymph.
Hydric Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or containing, hydrogen; as, hydric oxide.
Hydride Dictionary H - noun A compound of the binary type, in which hydrogen is united with some other element.
Hydriform Dictionary H - adjective Having the form or structure of a hydra.
Hydrina Dictionary H - noun plural The group of hydroids to which the fresh-water hydras belong.
Hydriodate Dictionary H - noun Same as Hydriodide.
Hydriodic Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, hydrogen and iodine; - said of an acid produced by the combination of these elements.
Hydriodide Dictionary H - noun A compound of hydriodic acid with a base; - distinguished from an iodide, in which only the iodine combines with the base.
Hydro- Dictionary H - Alt. of Hydr-.
Hydrobarometer Dictionary H - noun An instrument for determining the depth of the sea water by its pressure.
Hydrobilirubin Dictionary H - noun A body formed from bilirubin, identical with urobilin.
Hydrobranchiata Dictionary H - noun plural An extensive artificial division of gastropod mollusks, including those that breathe by gills, as contrasted with the Pulmonifera.
Hydrobromate Dictionary H - noun Same as Hydrobromide.
Hydrobromic Dictionary H - adjective Composed of hydrogen and bromine; as, hydrobromic acid.
Hydrobromide Dictionary H - noun A compound of hydrobromic acid with a base; - distinguished from a bromide, in which only the bromine unites with the base.
Hydrocarbon Dictionary H - noun A compound containing only hydrogen and carbon, as methane, benzene, etc.; also, by extension, any of their derivatives.
Hydrocarbonaceous Dictionary H - adjective Of the nature, or containing, hydrocarbons.
Hydrocarbonate Dictionary H - noun A hydrocarbon.
Hydrocarbostyril Dictionary H - noun A white, crystalline, nitrogenous hydrocarbon, C9H9NO, obtained from certain derivatives of cinnamic acid and closely related to quinoline and carbostyril.
Hydrocarburet Dictionary H - noun Carbureted hydrogen; also, a hydrocarbon.
Hydrocauli Dictionary H - pleural of Hydrocaulus.
Hydrocaulus Dictionary H - noun The hollow stem of a hydroid, either simple or branched. See Illust. of Gymnoblastea and Hydroidea.
Hydrocele Dictionary H - noun A collection of serous fluid in the areolar texture of the scrotum or in the coverings, especially in the serous sac, investing the testicle or the spermatic cord; dropsy of the testicle.
Hydrocephalic Dictionary H - adjective Relating to, or connected with, hydrocephalus, or dropsy of the brain.
Hydrocephaloid Dictionary H - adjective Resembling hydrocephalus.
Hydrocephalous Dictionary H - adjective Having hydrocephalus.
Hydrocephalus Dictionary H - noun An accumulation of liquid within the cavity of the cranium, especially within the ventricles of the brain; dropsy of the brain. It is due usually to tubercular meningitis. When it occurs in infancy, it often enlarges the head enormously.
Hydrochlorate Dictionary H - noun Same as Hydrochloride.
Hydrochloric Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or compounded of, chlorine and hydrogen gas; as, hydrochloric acid; chlorhydric.
Hydrochloride Dictionary H - noun A compound of hydrochloric acid with a base; - distinguished from a chloride, where only chlorine unites with the base.
Hydrocorallia Dictionary H - noun plural A division of Hydroidea, including those genera that secrete a stony coral, as Millepora and Stylaster. Two forms of zooids in life project from small pores in the coral and resemble those of other hydroids. See Millepora.
Hydrocyanate Dictionary H - noun See Hydrocyanide.
Hydrocyanic Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from the combination of, hydrogen and cyanogen.
Hydrocyanide Dictionary H - noun A compound of hydrocyanic acid with a base; - distinguished from a cyanide, in which only the cyanogen so combines.
Hydrodynamic Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hydrodynamical.
Hydrodynamical Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, the dynamical action of water of a liquid; of or pertaining to water power.
Hydrodynamics Dictionary H - noun That branch of the science of mechanics which relates to fluids, or, as usually limited, which treats of the laws of motion and action of nonelastic fluids, whether as investigated mathematically, or by observation and experiment; the principles of dynamics, as applied to water and other fluids.
Hydrodynamometer Dictionary H - noun An instrument to measure the velocity of a liquid current by the force of its impact.
Hydro-electric Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, employed in, or produced by, the evolution of electricity by means of a battery in which water or steam is used.
Hydro-extractor Dictionary H - noun An apparatus for drying anything, as yarn, cloth, sugar, etc., by centrifugal force; a centrifugal.
Hydroferricyanic Dictionary H - noun Pertaining to, or containing, or obtained from, hydrogen, ferric iron, and cyanogen; as, hydroferricyanic acid. See Ferricyanic.
Hydroferrocyanic Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or containing, or obtained from, hydrogen, ferrous iron, and cyanogen; as, hydroferrocyanic acid. See Ferrocyanic.
Hydrofluate Dictionary H - noun A supposed compound of hydrofluoris acid and a base; a fluoride.
Hydrofluoric Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or containing, hydrogen and fluorine; fluohydric; as, hydrofluoric acid.
Hydrofluosilicate Dictionary H - noun A salt of hydrofluosilic acid; a silicofluoride. See Silicofluoride.
Hydrofluosilicic Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or denoting, a compound consisting of a double fluoride of hydrogen and silicon; silicofluoric. See Silicofluoric.
Hydrogalvanic Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, produced by, or consisting of, electricity evolved by the action or use of fluids; as, hydrogalvanic currents.
Hydrogen Dictionary H - noun 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.
Hydrogenated Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hydrogenate.
Hydrogenating Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hydrogenate.
Hydrogenate Dictionary H - verb transitive To hydrogenize.
Hydrogenation Dictionary H - noun The act of combining with hydrogen, or the state of being so combined.
Hydrogenide Dictionary H - noun A binary compound containing hydrogen; a hydride. R. See Hydride.
Hydrogenium Dictionary H - noun Hydrogen; - called also in view of its supposed metallic nature.
Hydrogenized Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hydrogenize.
Hydrogenizing Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hydrogenize.
Hydrogenize Dictionary H - verb transitive To combine with hydrogen; to treat with, or subject to the action of, hydrogen; to reduce; - contrasted with oxidize.
Hydrogenous Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to hydrogen; containing hydrogen.
Hydrognosy Dictionary H - noun A treatise upon, or a history and description of, the water of the earth.
Hydrogode Dictionary H - noun The negative pole or cathode.
Hydrographer Dictionary H - noun One skilled in the hydrography; one who surveys, or draws maps or charts of, the sea, lakes, or other waters, with the adjacent shores; one who describes the sea or other waters.
Hydrographic Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hydrographical.
Hydrographical Dictionary H - adjective Of or relating to hydrography.
Hydrography Dictionary H - noun The art of measuring and describing the sea, lakes, rivers, and other waters, with their phenomena.
Hydroguret Dictionary H - noun A hydride.
Hydroid Dictionary H - adjective Related to, or resembling, the hydra; of or pertaining to the Hydroidea.
Hydroidea Dictionary H - noun plural An extensive order of Hydrozoa or Acalephae.
Hydrokinetic Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to the motions of fluids, or the forces which produce or affect such motions; - opposed to hydrostatic.
Hydrological Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to hydrology.
Hydrologist Dictionary H - noun One skilled in hydrology.
Hydrology Dictionary H - noun The science of water, its properties, phenomena, and distribution over the earth's surface.
Hydrolytic Dictionary H - adjective Tending to remove or separate water; eliminating water.
Hydromagnesite Dictionary H - noun A hydrous carbonate of magnesia occurring in white, early, amorphous masses.
Hydromancy Dictionary H - noun Divination by means of water, - practiced by the ancients.
Hydromantic Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to divination by water.
Hydromechanics Dictionary H - noun That branch of physics which treats of the mechanics of liquids, or of their laws of equilibrium and of motion.
Hydromedusae Dictionary H - pleural of Hydromedusa.
Hydromedusa Dictionary H - noun Any medusa or jellyfish which is produced by budding from a hydroid. They are called also Craspedota, and naked-eyed medusae.
Hydromel Dictionary H - noun A liquor consisting of honey diluted in water, and after fermentation called mead.
Hydromellonic Dictionary H - adjective See Cyamellone.
Hydrometallurgical Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to hydrometallurgy; involving the use of liquid reagents in the treatment or reduction of ores.
Hydrometallurgy Dictionary H - noun The art or process of assaying or reducing ores by means of liquid reagents.
Hydrometeor Dictionary H - noun A meteor or atmospheric phenomenon dependent upon the vapor of water; - in the pl., a general term for the whole aqueous phenomena of the atmosphere, as rain, snow, hail, etc.
Hydrometeorological Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to hydrometeorology, or to rain, clouds, storms, etc.
Hydrometeorology Dictionary H - noun That branch of meteorology which relates to, or treats of, water in the atmosphere, or its phenomena, as rain, clouds, snow, hail, storms, etc.
Hydrometer Dictionary H - noun An instrument for determining the specific gravities of liquids, and thence the strength spirituous liquors, saline solutions, etc.
Hydrometric Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hydrometrical.
Hydrometrical Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to an hydrometer, or to the determination of the specific gravity of fluids.
Hydrometrograph Dictionary H - noun An instrument for determining and recording the quantity of water discharged from a pipe, orifice, etc., in a given time.
Hydrometry Dictionary H - noun The art of determining the specific gravity of liquids, and thence the strength of spirituous liquors, saline solutions, etc.
Hydromica Dictionary H - noun A variety of potash mica containing water. It is less elastic than ordinary muscovite.
Hydronephrosis Dictionary H - noun An accumulation of urine in the pelvis of the kidney, occasioned by obstruction in the urinary passages.
Hydropath Dictionary H - noun A hydropathist.
Hydropathic Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hydropathical.
Hydropathical Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to hydropathy.
Hydropathist Dictionary H - noun One who practices hydropathy; a water-cure doctor.
Hydropathy Dictionary H - noun The water cure; a mode of treating diseases by the copious and frequent use of pure water, both internally and externally.
Hydroperitoneum Dictionary H - noun Same as Ascites.
Hydrophane Dictionary H - noun A semitranslucent variety of opal that becomes translucent or transparent on immersion in water.
Hydrophanous Dictionary H - adjective Made transparent by immersion in water.
Hydrophid Dictionary H - noun Any sea snake of the genus Hydrophys and allied genera. These snakes are venomous, live upon fishes, and have a flattened tail for swimming.
Hydrophlorone Dictionary H - noun A white, crystalline benzene derivative, C8H10O2, obtained by the reduction of phlorone.
Hydrophobia Dictionary H - noun An abnormal dread of water, said to be a symptom of canine madness; hence:.
Hydrophobic Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to hydrophobia; producing or caused by rabies; as, hydrophobic symptoms; the hydrophobic poison.
Hydrophoby Dictionary H - noun See Hydrophobia.
Hydrophora Dictionary H - noun plural The Hydroidea.
Hydrophore Dictionary H - noun An instrument used for the purpose of obtaining specimens of water from any desired depth, as in a river, a lake, or the ocean.
Hydrophyllia Dictionary H - pleural of Hydrophyllium.
Hydrophylliums Dictionary H - pleural of Hydrophyllium.
Hydrophyllium Dictionary H - noun One of the flat, leaflike, protective zooids, covering other zooids of certain Siphonophora.
Hydrophyte Dictionary H - noun An aquatic plant; an alga.
Hydrophytology Dictionary H - noun The branch of botany which treats of water plants.
Hydropic Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hydropical.
Hydropical Dictionary H - adjective Dropsical, or resembling dropsy.
Hydropically Dictionary H - adverb In a hydropical manner.
Hydropiper Dictionary H - noun A species (Polygonum Hydropiper) of knotweed with acrid foliage; water pepper; smartweed.
Hydropneumatic Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or depending upon, both liquid and gaseous substances; as, hydropneumatic apparatus for collecting gases over water or other liquids.
Hydropsy Dictionary H - noun Same as Dropsy.
Hydropult Dictionary H - noun A machine for throwing water by hand power, as a garden engine, a fire extinguisher, etc.
Hydroquinone Dictionary H - noun A white crystalline substance, C6H4(OH)2, obtained by the reduction of quinone. It is a diacid phenol, resembling, and metameric with, pyrocatechin and resorcin. Called also dihydroxy benzene.
Hydrorhizae Dictionary H - pleural of Hydrorhiza.
Hydrorhizas Dictionary H - pleural of Hydrorhiza.
Hydrorhiza Dictionary H - noun The rootstock or decumbent stem by which a hydroid is attached to other objects. See Illust. under Hydroidea.
Hydrosalt Dictionary H - noun A salt supposed to be formed by a hydracid and a base.
Hydroscope Dictionary H - noun An instrument designed to mark the presence of water, especially in air.
Hydrosome Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Hydrosoma.
Hydrosoma Dictionary H - noun All the zooids of a hydroid colony collectively, including the nutritive and reproductive zooids, and often other kinds.
Hydrosorbic Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from sorbic acid when this takes up hydrogen; as, hydrosorbic acid.
Hydrostat Dictionary H - noun A contrivance or apparatus to prevent the explosion of steam boilers.
Hydrostatic Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hydrostatical.
Hydrostatical Dictionary H - adjective Of or relating to hydrostatics; pertaining to, or in accordance with, the principles of the equilibrium of fluids.
Hydrostatically Dictionary H - adverb According to hydrostatics, or to hydrostatic principles.
Hydrostatician Dictionary H - noun One who is versed or skilled in hydrostatics.
Hydrostatics Dictionary H - noun The branch of science which relates to the pressure and equilibrium of nonelastic fluids, as water, mercury, etc.; the principles of statics applied to water and other liquids.
Hydrosulphate Dictionary H - noun Same as Hydrosulphurent.
Hydrosulphide Dictionary H - noun One of a series of compounds, derived from hydrogen sulphide by the replacement of half its hydrogen by a base or basic radical; as, potassium hydrosulphide, KSH. The hydrosulphides are analogous to the hydrates and include the mercaptans.
Hydrosulphite Dictionary H - noun A saline compound of hydrosulphurous acid and a base.
Hydrosulphuret Dictionary H - noun A hydrosulphide.
Hydrosulphureted Dictionary H - adjective Combined with hydrogen sulphide.
Hydrosulphuric Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, hydrogen and sulphur; as, hydrosulphuric acid, a designation applied to the solution of hydrogen sulphide in water.
Hydrosulphurous Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained by the reduction of sulphurous acid. See Hyposulphurous acid, under Hyposulphurous.
Hydrotellurate Dictionary H - noun A salt formed by the union of hydrotelluric acid and the base.
Hydrotelluric Dictionary H - adjective Formed by hydrogen and tellurium; as, hydrotelluric acid, or hydrogen telluride.
Hydrothecae Dictionary H - pleural of Hydrotheca.
Hydrothecas Dictionary H - pleural of Hydrotheca.
Hydrotheca Dictionary H - noun One of the calicles which, in some Hydroidea (Thecaphora), protect the hydrants. See Illust. of Hydroidea, and Campanularian.
Hydrotherapy Dictionary H - noun See Hydropathy.
Hydrothermal Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to hot water; - used esp. with reference to the action of heated waters in dissolving, redepositing, and otherwise producing mineral changes within the crust of the globe.
Hydrothorax Dictionary H - noun An accumulation of serous fluid in the cavity of the chest.
Hydrotic Dictionary H - adjective Causing a discharge of water or phlegm.
Hydrotical Dictionary H - adjective Hydrotic.
Hydrotrope Dictionary H - noun A device for raising water by the direct action of steam; a pulsometer.
Hydrotropic Dictionary H - adjective Turning or bending towards moisture, as roots.
Hydrotropism Dictionary H - noun A tendency towards moisture.
Hydrous Dictionary H - adjective Containing water; watery.
Hydroxanthane Dictionary H - noun A persulphocyanate.
Hydroxanthic Dictionary H - adjective Persulphocyanic.
Hydroxide Dictionary H - noun A hydrate; a substance containing hydrogen and oxygen, made by combining water with an oxide, and yielding water by elimination. The hydroxides are regarded as compounds of hydroxyl, united usually with basic element or radical; as, calcium hydroxide ethyl hydroxide.
Hydroxy- Dictionary H - A combining form, also used adjectively, indicating hydroxyl as an ingredient.
Hydroxyl Dictionary H - noun 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.
Hydroxylamine Dictionary H - noun A nitrogenous, organic base, NH2.OH, resembling ammonia, and produced by a modified reduction of nitric acid. It is usually obtained as a volatile, unstable solution in water. It acts as a strong reducing agent.
Hydrozoa Dictionary H - noun plural The Acalephae; one of the classes of coelenterates, including the Hydroidea, Discophora, and Siphonophora.
Hydrozoal Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to the Hydrozoa.
Hydrozoons Dictionary H - pleural of Hydrozoon.
Hydrozoon Dictionary H - noun One of the Hydrozoa.
Hydruret Dictionary H - noun A binary compound of hydrogen; a hydride.
Hydrus Dictionary H - noun A constellation of the southern hemisphere, near the south pole.
Hye Dictionary H - noun & verb See Hie.
Hyemal Dictionary H - adjective Belonging to winter; done in winter.
Hyemate Dictionary H - intransitive verb To pass the winter.
Hyemation Dictionary H - noun The passing of a winter in a particular place; a wintering.
Hyen Dictionary H - noun A hyena.
Hyenas Dictionary H - pleural of Hyena.
Hyena Dictionary H - noun Any carnivorous mammal of the family Hyaenidae, of which three living species are known. They are large and strong, but cowardly. They feed chiefly on carrion, and are nocturnal in their habits.
Hyetal Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to rain; descriptive of the distribution of rain, or of rainy regions.
Hyetograph Dictionary H - noun A chart or graphic representation of the average distribution of rain over the surface of the earth.
Hyetographic Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to to hyetography.
Hyetography Dictionary H - noun The branch of physical science which treats of the geographical distribution of rain.
Hygeia Dictionary H - noun The goddess of health, daughter of Esculapius.
Hygeian Dictionary H - adjective Relating to Hygeia, the goddess of health; of or pertaining to health, or its preservation.
Hygeist Dictionary H - noun One skilled in hygiena; a hygienist.
Hygieist Dictionary H - noun A hygienist.
Hygiene Dictionary H - noun That department of sanitary science which treats of the preservation of health, esp. of households and communities; a system of principles or rules designated for the promotion of health.
Hygienic Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to health or hygiene; sanitary.
Hygienics Dictionary H - noun The science of health; hygiene.
Hygienism Dictionary H - noun Hygiene.
Hygienist Dictionary H - noun One versed in hygiene.
Hygiology Dictionary H - noun A treatise on, or the science of, the preservation of health.
Hygrine Dictionary H - noun An alkaloid associated with cocaine in coca leaves (Erythroxylon coca), and extracted as a thick, yellow oil, having a pungent taste and odor.
Hygrodeik Dictionary H - noun A form of hygrometer having wet and dry bulb thermometers, with an adjustable index showing directly the percentage of moisture in the air, etc.
Hygrograph Dictionary H - noun An instrument for recording automatically the variations of the humidity of the atmosphere.
Hygrology Dictionary H - noun The science which treats of the fluids of the body.
Hygrometer Dictionary H - noun An instrument for measuring the degree of moisture of the atmosphere.
Hygrometric Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hygrometrical.
Hygrometrical Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to hygrometry; made with, or according to, the hygrometer; as, hygrometric observations.
Hygrometry Dictionary H - noun That branch of physics which relates to the determination of the humidity of bodies, particularly of the atmosphere, with the theory and use of the instruments constructed for this purpose.
Hygrophanous Dictionary H - adjective Having such a structure as to be diaphanous when moist, and opaque when dry.
Hygrophthalmic Dictionary H - adjective Serving to moisten the eye; - sometimes applied to the lachrymal ducts.
Hygroplasm Dictionary H - noun The fluid portion of the cell protoplasm, in opposition to stereoplasm, the solid or insoluble portion. The latter is supposed to be partly nutritive and partly composed of idioplasm.
Hygroscope Dictionary H - noun An instrument which shows whether there is more or less moisture in the atmosphere, without indicating its amount.
Hygroscopic Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to, or indicated by, the hygroscope; not readily manifest to the senses, but capable of detection by the hygroscope; as, glass is often covered with a film of hygroscopic moisture.
Hygroscopicity Dictionary H - noun The property possessed by vegetable tissues of absorbing or discharging moisture according to circumstances.
Hygrostatics Dictionary H - noun The science or art of comparing or measuring degrees of moisture.
Hyke Dictionary H - noun See Haik, and Huke.
Hylaeosaur Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Hylaeosaurus.
Hylaeosaurus Dictionary H - noun A large Wealden dinosaur from the Tilgate Forest, England. It was about twenty feet long, protected by bony plates in the skin, and armed with spines.
Hylarchical Dictionary H - adjective Presiding over matter.
Hyleosaur Dictionary H - noun Same as Hylaeosaur.
Hylic Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to matter; material; corporeal; as, hylic influences.
Hylicist Dictionary H - noun A philosopher who treats chiefly of matter; one who adopts or teaches hylism.
Hylism Dictionary H - noun A theory which regards matter as the original principle of evil.
Hylobate Dictionary H - noun Any species of the genus Hylobates; a gibbon, or long-armed ape. See Gibbon.
Hylodes Dictionary H - noun The piping frog (Hyla Pickeringii), a small American tree frog, which in early spring, while breeding in swamps and ditches, sings with high, shrill, but musical, notes.
Hyloism Dictionary H - noun Same as Hylotheism.
Hyloist Dictionary H - noun Same as Hylotheist.
Hylopathism Dictionary H - noun The doctrine that matter is sentient.
Hylopathist Dictionary H - noun One who believes in hylopathism.
Hylophagous Dictionary H - adjective Eating green shoots, as certain insects do.
Hylotheism Dictionary H - noun The doctrine of belief that matter is God, or that there is no God except matter and the universe; pantheism. See Materialism.
Hylotheist Dictionary H - noun One who believes in hylotheism.
Hylozoic Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to hylozoism.
Hylozoism Dictionary H - noun The doctrine that matter possesses a species of life and sensation, or that matter and life are inseparable.
Hylozoist Dictionary H - noun A believer in hylozoism.
Hymar Dictionary H - noun The wild ass of Persia.
Hymen Dictionary H - noun A fold of muscous membrane often found at the orifice of the vagina; the vaginal membrane.
Hymeneal Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Hymenean.
Hymenean Dictionary H - noun Of or pertaining to marriage; as, hymeneal rites.
Hymenia Dictionary H - pleural of Hymenium.
Hymeniums Dictionary H - pleural of Hymenium.
Hymenium Dictionary H - noun The spore-bearing surface of certain fungi, as that on the gills of a mushroom.
Hymenogeny Dictionary H - noun The production of artificial membranes by contact of two fluids, as albumin and fat, by which the globules of the latter are surrounded by a thin film of the former.
Hymenomycetes Dictionary H - noun plural One of the great divisions of fungi, containing those species in which the hymenium is completely exposed.
Hymenophore Dictionary H - noun That part of a fungus which is covered with the hymenium.
Hymenopter Dictionary H - noun One of the Hymenoptera.
Hymenoptera Dictionary H - noun plural An extensive order of insects, including the bees, ants, ichneumons, sawflies, etc.
Hymenopteral Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hymenopterous.
Hymenopterous Dictionary H - adjective Like, or characteristic of, the Hymenoptera; pertaining to the Hymenoptera.
Hymenopteran Dictionary H - noun One of the Hymenoptera.
Hymn Dictionary H - noun An ode or song of praise or adoration; especially, a religious ode, a sacred lyric; a song of praise or thankgiving intended to be used in religious service; as, the Homeric hymns; Watts' hymns.
Hymned Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hymn.
Hymning Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hymn.
Hymnal Dictionary H - noun A collection of hymns; a hymn book.
Hymnic Dictionary H - adjective Relating to hymns, or sacred lyrics.
Hymnist Dictionary H - noun A writer of hymns.
Hymnody Dictionary H - noun Hymns, considered collectively; hymnology.
Hymnographer Dictionary H - noun One who writes on the subject of hymns.
Hymnography Dictionary H - noun The art or act of composing hymns.
Hymnologist Dictionary H - noun A composer or compiler of hymns; one versed in hymnology.
Hymnology Dictionary H - noun The hymns or sacred lyrics composed by authors of a particular country or period; as, the hymnology of the eighteenth century; also, the collective body of hymns used by any particular church or religious body; as, the Anglican hymnology.
Hympne Dictionary H - noun A hymn.
Hyndreste Dictionary H - adjective See Hinderest.
Hyne Dictionary H - noun A servant. See Hine.
Hyo- Dictionary H - A prexif used in anatomy, and generally denoting connection with the hyoid bone or arch; as, hyoglossal, hyomandibular, hyomental, etc.
Hyoganoidei Dictionary H - noun plural A division of ganoid fishes, including the gar pikes and bowfins.
Hyoglossal Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to or connecting the tongue and hyodean arch; as, the hyoglossal membrane.
Hyoglossus Dictionary H - noun A flat muscle on either side of the tongue, connecting it with the hyoid bone.
Hyoid Dictionary H - adjective Having the form of an arch, or of the Greek letter upsilon /.
Hyoideal Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hyoidean.
Hyoidean Dictionary H - adjective Same as Hyoid, a.
Hyomandibular Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining both to the hyoidean arch and the mandible or lower jaw; as, the hyomandibular bone or cartilage, a segment of the hyoid arch which connects the lower jaw with the skull in fishes.
Hyomental Dictionary H - adjective Between the hyoid bone and the lower jaw, pertaining to them; suprahyoid; submaxillary; as, the hyomental region of the front of the neck.
Hyopastron Dictionary H - noun The second lateral plate in the plastron of turtles; - called also hyosternum.
Hyoscine Dictionary H - noun An alkaloid found with hyoscyamine (with which it is also isomeric) in henbane, and extracted as a white, amorphous, semisolid substance.
Hyoscyamine Dictionary H - noun An alkaloid found in henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), and regarded as its active principle. It is also found with other alkaloids in the thorn apple and deadly nightshade. It is extracted as a white crystalline substance, with a sharp, offensive taste. Hyoscyamine is isomeric with atropine, is very poisonous, and is used as a medicine for neuralgia, like belladonna. Called also hyoscyamia, duboisine, etc.
Hyoscyamus Dictionary H - noun A genus of poisonous plants of the Nightshade family; henbane.
Hyosternal Dictionary H - adjective Between the hyoid bone and the sternum, or pertaining to them; infrahyoid; as, the hyosternal region of the neck.
Hyosternum Dictionary H - noun See Hyoplastron.
Hyostylic Dictionary H - adjective Having the mandible suspended by the hyomandibular, or upper part of the hyoid arch, as in fishes, instead of directly articulated with the skull as in mammals; - said of the skull.
Hyp Dictionary H - noun An abbreviation of hypochonaria; - usually in plural.
Hypaethral Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hypethral.
Hypethral Dictionary H - adjective Exposed to the air; wanting a roof; - applied to a building or part of a building.
Hypallage Dictionary H - noun A figure consisting of a transference of attributes from their proper subjects to other. Thus Virgil says, "dare classibus austros," to give the winds to the fleets, instead of dare classibus austris, to give the fleets to the winds.
Hypanthia Dictionary H - pleural of Hypanthium.
Hypanthiums Dictionary H - pleural of Hypanthium.
Hypanthium Dictionary H - noun A fruit consisting in large part of a receptacle, enlarged below the calyx, as in the Calycanthus, the rose hip, and the pear.
Hypapophyles Dictionary H - pleural of Hypapophysis.
Hypapophysis Dictionary H - noun A process, or other element, of a vertebra developed from the ventral side of the centrum, as haemal spines, and chevron bones.
Hyparterial Dictionary H - adjective Situated below an artery; applied esp. to the branches of the bronchi given off below the point where the pulmonary artery crosses the bronchus.
Hypaspist Dictionary H - noun A shield-bearer or armor-bearer.
Hypaxial Dictionary H - adjective Beneath the axis of the skeleton; subvertebral; hyposkeletal.
Hyper- Dictionary H - A prefix signifying over, above; as, hyperphysical, hyperthyrion; also, above measure, abnormally great, excessive; as, hyperaemia, hyperbola, hypercritical, hypersecretion.
Hyperaemia Dictionary H - noun A superabundance or congestion of blood in an organ or part of the body.
Hyperaesthesia Dictionary H - noun A state of exalted or morbidly increased sensibility of the body, or of a part of it.
Hyperapophyses Dictionary H - pleural of Hyperapophysis.
Hyperapophysis Dictionary H - noun A lateral and backward-projecting process on the dorsal side of a vertebra.
Hyperaspist Dictionary H - noun One who holds a shield over another; hence, a defender.
Hyperbatic Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to an hyperbaton; transposed; inverted.
Hyperbaton Dictionary H - noun A figurative construction, changing or inverting the natural order of words or clauses; as, "echoed the hills" for "the hills echoed.".
Hyperbola Dictionary H - noun A curve formed by a section of a cone, when the cutting plane makes a greater angle with the base than the side of the cone makes. It is a plane curve such that the difference of the distances from any point of it to two fixed points, called foci, is equal to a given distance. See Focus. If the cutting plane be produced so as to cut the opposite cone, another curve will be formed, which is also an hyperbola. Both curves are regarded as branches of the same hyperbola. See Illust. of Conic section, and Focus.
Hyperbole Dictionary H - noun A figure of speech in which the expression is an evident exaggeration of the meaning intended to be conveyed, or by which things are represented as much greater or less, better or worse, than they really are; a statement exaggerated fancifully, through excitement, or for effect.
Hyperbolic Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hyperbolical.
Hyperbolical Dictionary H - adjective Belonging to the hyperbola; having the nature of the hyperbola.
Hyperbolically Dictionary H - adverb In the form of an hyperbola.
Hyperboliform Dictionary H - adjective Having the form, or nearly the form, of an hyperbola.
Hyperbolism Dictionary H - noun The use of hyperbole.
Hyperbolist Dictionary H - noun One who uses hyperboles.
Hyperbolized Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hyperbolize.
Hyperbolizing Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hyperbolize.
Hyperbolize Dictionary H - intransitive verb To speak or write with exaggeration.
Hyperboloid Dictionary H - noun A surface of the second order, which is cut by certain planes in hyperbolas; also, the solid, bounded in part by such a surface.
Hyperborean Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to the region beyond the North wind, or to its inhabitants.
Hypercarbureted Dictionary H - adjective Having an excessive proportion of carbonic acid; - said of bicarbonates or acid carbonates.
Hypercatalectic Dictionary H - adjective Having a syllable or two beyond measure; as, a hypercatalectic verse.
Hyperchloric Dictionary H - adjective See Perchloric.
Hyperchromatism Dictionary H - noun The condition of having an unusual intensity of color.
Hypercritic Dictionary H - noun One who is critical beyond measure or reason; a carping critic; a captious censor.
Hypercritical Dictionary H - adjective Over critical; unreasonably or unjustly critical; carping; captious.
Hypercritically Dictionary H - adverb In a hypercritical manner.
Hypercriticise Dictionary H - verb transitive To criticise with unjust severity; to criticise captiously.
Hypercriticism Dictionary H - noun Excessive criticism, or unjust severity or rigor of criticism; zoilism.
Hyperdicrotic Dictionary H - adjective Excessive dicrotic; as, a hyperdicrotic pulse.
Hyperdicrotism Dictionary H - noun A hyperdicrotic condition.
Hyperdicrotous Dictionary H - adjective Hyperdicrotic.
Hyperdulia Dictionary H - noun Veneration or worship given to the Virgin Mary as the most exalted of mere creatures; higher veneration than dulia.
Hyperduly Dictionary H - noun Hyperdulia.
Hyperesthesia Dictionary H - noun Same as Hyperaesthesia.
Hypericum Dictionary H - noun A genus of plants, generally with dotted leaves and yellow flowers; - called also St. John's-wort.
Hyperinosis Dictionary H - noun A condition of the blood, characterized by an abnormally large amount of fibrin, as in many inflammatory diseases.
Hyperion Dictionary H - noun The god of the sun; in the later mythology identified with Apollo, and distinguished for his beauty.
Hyperkinesis Dictionary H - noun Abnormally increased muscular movement; spasm.
Hyperkinetic Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to hyperkinesis.
Hypermetamorphosis Dictionary H - noun A kind of metamorphosis, in certain insects, in which the larva itself undergoes remarkable changes of form and structure during its growth.
Hypermeter Dictionary H - noun A verse which has a redundant syllable or foot; a hypercatalectic verse.
Hypermetrical Dictionary H - adjective Having a redundant syllable; exceeding the common measure.
Hypermetropia Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Hypermetropy.
Hypermetropy Dictionary H - noun A condition of the eye in which, through shortness of the eyeball or fault of the refractive media, the rays of light come to a focus behind the retina; farsightedness; - called also hyperopia. Cf. Emmetropia.
Hypermyriorama Dictionary H - noun A show or exhibition having a great number of scenes or views.
Hyperoartia Dictionary H - noun plural An order of marsipobranchs including the lampreys. The suckerlike moth contains numerous teeth; the nasal opening is in the middle of the head above, but it does not connect with the mouth. See Cyclostoma, and Lamprey.
Hyperopia Dictionary H - noun Hypermetropia.
Hyperorganic Dictionary H - adjective Higher than, or beyond the sphere of, the organic.
Hyperorthodoxy Dictionary H - noun Orthodoxy pushed to excess.
Hyperotreta Dictionary H - noun plural An order of marsipobranchs, including the Myxine or hagfish and the genus Bdellostoma. They have barbels around the mouth, one tooth on the plate, and a communication between the nasal aperture and the throat. See Hagfish.
Hyperoxide Dictionary H - noun A compound having a relatively large percentage of oxygen; a peroxide.
Hyperoxygenated Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hyperoxygenized.
Hyperoxygenized Dictionary H - adjective Combined with a relatively large amount of oxygen; - said of higher oxides.
Hyperoxymuriate Dictionary H - noun A perchlorate.
Hyperoxymuriatic Dictionary H - adjective Perchloric; as, hyperoxymuriatic acid.
Hyperphysical Dictionary H - adjective Above or transcending physical laws; supernatural.
Hyperplasia Dictionary H - noun An increase in, or excessive growth of, the normal elements of any part.
Hyperplastic Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to hyperplasia.
Hypernoea Dictionary H - noun Abnormal breathing, due to slightly deficient arterialization of the blood; - in distinction from eupnoea. See Eupnoea, and Dispnoea.
Hyperpyrexia Dictionary H - noun A condition of excessive fever; an elevation of temperature in a disease, in excess of the limit usually observed in that disease.
Hypersecretion Dictionary H - noun Morbid or excessive secretion, as in catarrh.
Hypersensibility Dictionary H - noun See Hyperaesthesia.
Hyperspace Dictionary H - noun An imagined space having more than three dimensions.
Hypersthene Dictionary H - noun An orthorhombic mineral of the pyroxene group, of a grayish or greenish black color, often with a peculiar bronzelike luster (schiller) on the cleavage surface.
Hypersthenic Dictionary H - adjective Composed of, or containing, hypersthene.
Hyperthetical Dictionary H - adjective Exaggerated; excessive; hyperbolical.
Hyperthyrion Dictionary H - noun That part of the architrave which is over a door or window.
Hypertrophic Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hypertrophical.
Hypertrophical Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to hypertrophy; affected with, or tending to, hypertrophy.
Hypertrophied Dictionary H - adjective Excessively developed; characterized by hypertrophy.
Hypertrophy Dictionary H - noun A condition of overgrowth or excessive development of an organ or part; - the opposite of atrophy.
Hyphae Dictionary H - noun plural The long, branching filaments of which the mycelium (and the greater part of the plant) of a fungus is formed. They are also found enveloping the gonidia of lichens, making up a large part of their structure.
Hyphen Dictionary H - noun A mark or short dash, thus -, placed at the end of a line which terminates with a syllable of a word, the remainder of which is carried to the next line; or between the parts of many a compound word; as in fine-leaved, clear-headed. It is also sometimes used to separate the syllables of words.
Hyphened Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hyphen.
Hyphening Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hyphen.
Hyphenated Dictionary H - adjective United by hyphens; hyphened; as, a hyphenated or hyphened word.
Hyphomycetes Dictionary H - noun plural One of the great division of fungi, containing those species which have naked spores borne on free or only fasciculate threads.
Hypidiomorphic Dictionary H - adjective Partly idiomorphic; - said of rock a portion only of whose constituents have a distinct crystalline form.
Hypinosis Dictionary H - noun A diminution in the normal amount of fibrin present in the blood.
Hypnagogic Dictionary H - adjective Leading to sleep; - applied to the illusions of one who is half asleep.
Hypnobate Dictionary H - noun A somnambulist.
Hypnocyst Dictionary H - noun A cyst in which some unicellular organisms temporarily inclose themselves, from which they emerge unchanged, after a period of drought or deficiency of food. In some instances, a process of spore formation seems to occur within such cysts.
Hypnogenic Dictionary H - adjective Relating to the production of hypnotic sleep; as, the so-called hypnogenic pressure points, pressure upon which is said to cause an attack of hypnotic sleep.
Hypnologist Dictionary H - noun One who is versed in hypnology.
Hypnology Dictionary H - noun A treatise on sleep; the doctrine of sleep.
Hypnosis Dictionary H - noun Supervention of sleep.
Hypnotic Dictionary H - adjective Having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific.
Hypnotism Dictionary H - noun A form of sleep or somnambulism brought on by artificial means, in which there is an unusual suspension of some powers, and an unusual activity of others. It is induced by an action upon the nerves, through the medium of the senses, as in persons of very feeble organization, by gazing steadly at a very bright object held before the eyes, or by pressure upon certain points of the surface of the body.
Hypnotization Dictionary H - noun The act or process of producing hypnotism.
Hypnotized Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hypnotize.
Hypnotizing Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hypnotize.
Hypnotize Dictionary H - verb transitive To induce hypnotism in; to place in a state of hypnotism.
Hypnotizer Dictionary H - noun One who hypnotizes.
Hypnum Dictionary H - noun The largest genus of true mosses; feather moss.
Hypo- Dictionary H - A prefix signifying a less quantity, or a low state or degree, of that denoted by the word with which it is joined, or position under or beneath.
Hypo Dictionary H - noun Hypochondria.
Hypoarian Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to a hypoarion.
Hypoaria Dictionary H - pleural of Hypoarion.
Hypoarion Dictionary H - noun An oval lobe beneath each of the optic lobes in many fishes; one of the inferior lobes.
Hypoblast Dictionary H - noun The inner or lower layer of the blastoderm; - called also endoderm, entoderm, and sometimes hypoderm. See Illust. of Blastoderm, Delamination, and Ectoderm.
Hypoblastic Dictionary H - adjective Relating to, or connected with, the hypoblast; as, the hypoic sac.
Hypobole Dictionary H - noun 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.
Hypobranchial Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to the segment between the basibranchial and the ceratobranchial in a branchial arch.
Hypocarp Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Hypocarpium.
Hypocarpium Dictionary H - noun A fleshy enlargement of the receptacle, or for the stem, below the proper fruit, as in the cashew. See Illust. of Cashew.
Hypocarpogean Dictionary H - adjective Producing fruit below the ground.
Hypocaust Dictionary H - noun A furnace, esp. one connected with a series of small chambers and flues of tiles or other masonry through which the heat of a fire was distributed to rooms above. This contrivance, first used in bath, was afterwards adopted in private houses.
Hypochlorite Dictionary H - noun A salt of hypochlorous acid; as, a calcium hypochloride.
Hypochlorous Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, chlorine having a valence lower than in chlorous compounds.
Hypochondres Dictionary H - noun plural The hypochondriac regions. See Hypochondrium.
Hypochondria Dictionary H - noun Hypochondriasis; melancholy; the blues.
Hypochondriac Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to hypochondria, or the hypochondriac regions.
Hypochondriacal Dictionary H - adjective Same as Hypochondriac, 2.
Hypochondriacism Dictionary H - noun Hypochondriasis.
Hypochondriasis Dictionary H - noun A mental disorder in which melancholy and gloomy views torment the affected person, particularly concerning his own health.
Hypochondriasm Dictionary H - noun Hypochondriasis.
Hypochondriums Dictionary H - pleural of Hypochondrium.
Hypochondrium Dictionary H - noun Either of the hypochondriac regions.
Hypochondry Dictionary H - noun Hypochondriasis.
Hypocist Dictionary H - noun An astringent inspissated juice obtained from the fruit of a plant (Cytinus hypocistis), growing from the roots of the Cistus, a small European shrub.
Hypocleida Dictionary H - pleural of Hypocleidium.
Hypocleidiums Dictionary H - pleural of Hypocleidium.
Hypocleidium Dictionary H - noun A median process on the furculum, or merrythought, of many birds, where it is connected with the sternum.
Hypocoristic Dictionary H - adjective Endearing; diminutive; as, the hypocoristic form of a name.
Hypocrateriform Dictionary H - adjective hypocraterimorphous; salver-shaped.
Hypocraterimorphous Dictionary H - adjective Salver-shaped; having a slender tube, expanding suddenly above into a bowl-shaped or spreading border, as in the blossom of the phlox and the lilac.
Hypocrisies Dictionary H - pleural of Hypocrisy.
Hypocrisy Dictionary H - noun The act or practice of a hypocrite; a feigning to be what one is not, or to feel what one does not feel; a dissimulation, or a concealment of one's real character, disposition, or motives; especially, the assuming of false appearance of virtue or religion; a simulation of goodness.
Hypocrite Dictionary H - noun One who plays a part; especially, one who, for the purpose of winning approbation of favor, puts on a fair outside seeming; one who feigns to be other and better than he is; a false pretender to virtue or piety; one who simulates virtue or piety.
Hypocritely Dictionary H - adverb Hypocritically.
Hypocritic Dictionary H - adjective See Hypocritical.
Hypocritical Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to a hypocrite, or to hypocrisy; as, a hypocriticalperson; a hypocritical look; a hypocritical action.
Hypocrystalline Dictionary H - adjective Partly crystalline; - said of rock which consists of crystals imbedded in a glassy ground mass.
Hypocycloid Dictionary H - noun A curve traced by a point in the circumference of a circle which rolls on the concave side in the fixed circle. Cf. Epicycloid, and Trochoid.
-tyla Dictionary H - pleural of Hypodactylum.
Hypodactylum Dictionary H - noun The under side of the toes.
Hypoderm Dictionary H - noun Same as Hypoblast.
Hypoderma Dictionary H - noun A layer of tissue beneath the epidermis in plants, and performing the physiological function of strengthening the epidermal tissue. In phanerogamous plants it is developed as collenchyma.
Hypodermatic Dictionary H - adjective Hypodermic.
Hypodermic Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to the parts under the skin.
Hypodermis Dictionary H - noun Same as Hypoblast.
Hypodicrotic Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hypodicrotous.
Hypodicrotous Dictionary H - adjective Exhibiting retarded dicrotism; as, a hypodicrotic pulse curve.
Hypogaeic Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or obtained from, the peanut, or earthnut (Arachis hypogaea).
Hypogastric Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to the hypogastrium or the hypogastric region.
Hypogastrium Dictionary H - noun The lower part of the abdomen.
Hypogean Dictionary H - adjective Hypogeous.
Hypogene Dictionary H - adjective 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.
Hypogeous Dictionary H - adjective Growing under ground; remaining under ground; ripening its fruit under ground.
Hypogea Dictionary H - pleural of Hypogeum.
Hypogeum Dictionary H - noun The subterraneous portion of a building, as in amphitheaters, for the service of the games; also, subterranean galleries, as the catacombs.
Hypoglossal Dictionary H - adjective Under the tongue; - applied esp., in the higher vertebrates, to the twelfth or last pair of cranial nerves, which are distributed to the base of the tongue.
Hypognatous Dictionary H - adjective Having the maxilla, or lower jaw, longer than the upper, as in the skimmer.
Hypogyn Dictionary H - noun An hypogynous plant.
Hypogynous Dictionary H - adjective Inserted below the pistil or pistils; - said of sepals, petals, and stamens; having the sepals, petals, and stamens inserted below the pistil; - said of a flower or a plant.
Hypohyal Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to one or more small elements in the hyoidean arch of fishes, between the caratohyal and urohyal.
Hyponastic Dictionary H - adjective Exhibiting a downward convexity caused by unequal growth. Cf. Epinastic.
Hyponasty Dictionary H - noun Downward convexity, or convexity of the inferior surface.
Hyponitrite Dictionary H - noun A salt of hyponitrous acid.
Hyponitrous Dictionary H - adjective Containing or derived from nitrogen having a lower valence than in nitrous compounds.
Hypopharynx Dictionary H - noun An appendage or fold on the lower side of the pharynx, in certain insects.
Hypophosphate Dictionary H - noun A salt of hypophosphoric acid.
Hypophosphite Dictionary H - noun A salt of hypophosphorous acid.
Hypophosphoric Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, or containing, phosphorus in a lower state of oxidation than in phosphoric compounds; as, hypophosphoric acid.
Hypophosphorous Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or containing, phosphorus in a lower state of oxidation than in phosphoric compounds; as, hypophosphorous acid.
Hypophyllous Dictionary H - adjective Being or growing on the under side of a leaf, as the fruit dots of ferns.
Hypophysial Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to the hypophysis; pituitary.
Hypophysis Dictionary H - noun See Pituitary body, under Pituitary.
Hypoplastra Dictionary H - pleural of Hypoplastron.
Hypoplastron Dictionary H - noun The third lateral plate in the plastron of turtles; - called also hyposternum.
Hypoptila Dictionary H - pleural of Hypoptilum.
Hypoptilums Dictionary H - pleural of Hypoptilum.
Hypoptilum Dictionary H - noun An accessory plume arising from the posterior side of the stem of the contour feathers of many birds; - called also aftershaft. See Illust. of Feather.
Hyporadii Dictionary H - pleural of Hyporadius.
Hyporadius Dictionary H - noun One of the barbs of the hypoptilum, or aftershaft of a feather. See Feather.
Hyporhachides Dictionary H - pleural of Hyporhachis.
Hyporhachis Dictionary H - noun The stem of an aftershaft or hypoptilum.
Hyposkeletal Dictionary H - adjective Beneath the endoskeleton; hypaxial; as, the hyposkeletal muscles; - opposed to episkeletal.
Hypospadias Dictionary H - noun A deformity of the penis, in which the urethra opens upon its under surface.
Hypostases Dictionary H - pleural of Hypostasis.
Hypostasis Dictionary H - noun That which forms the basis of anything; underlying principle; a concept or mental entity conceived or treated as an existing being or thing.
Hypostasize Dictionary H - verb transitive To make into a distinct substance; to conceive or treat as an existing being; to hypostatize.
Hypostatic Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hypostatical.
Hypostatical Dictionary H - adjective Relating to hypostasis, or substance; hence, constitutive, or elementary.
Hypostatically Dictionary H - adverb In a hypostatic manner.
Hypostatize Dictionary H - verb transitive To make into, or regarded as, a separate and distinct substance.
Hyposterna Dictionary H - pleural of Hyposternum.
Hyposternums Dictionary H - pleural of Hyposternum.
Hyposternum Dictionary H - noun See Hypoplastron.
Hypostome Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Hypostoma.
Hypostoma Dictionary H - noun The lower lip of trilobites, crustaceans, etc.
Hypostrophe Dictionary H - noun The act of a patient turning himself.
Hypostyle Dictionary H - adjective Resting upon columns; constructed by means of columns; - especially applied to the great hall at Karnak.
Hyposulphate Dictionary H - noun A salt of hyposulphuric acid.
Hyposulphite Dictionary H - noun A salt of what was formerly called hyposulphurous acid; a thiosulphate.
Hyposulphuric Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or containing, sulphur in a lower state of oxidation than in the sulphuric compounds; as, hyposulphuric acid.
Hyposulphurous Dictionary H - adjective Pertaining to, or containing, sulphur, all, or a part, in a low state of oxidation.
Hypotarsi Dictionary H - pleural of Hypotarsus.
Hypotarsus Dictionary H - noun A process on the posterior side of the tarsometatarsus of many birds; the calcaneal process.
Hypotenuse Dictionary H - noun Alt. of Hypothenuse.
Hypothenuse Dictionary H - noun The side of a right-angled triangle that is opposite to the right angle.
Hypothec Dictionary H - noun A landlord's right, independently of stipulation, over the stocking (cattle, implements, etc.), and crops of his tenant, as security for payment of rent.
Hypotheca Dictionary H - noun An obligation by which property of a debtor was made over to his creditor in security of his debt.
Hypothecated Dictionary H - imperative & past particle of Hypothecate.
Hypothecating Dictionary H - past particle & verb noun of Hypothecate.
Hypothecate Dictionary H - verb transitive To subject, as property, to liability for a debt or engagement without delivery of possession or transfer of title; to pledge without delivery of possession; to mortgage, as ships, or other personal property; to make a contract by bottomry. See Hypothecation, Bottomry.
Hypothecation Dictionary H - noun The act or contract by which property is hypothecated; a right which a creditor has in or to the property of his debtor, in virtue of which he may cause it to be sold and the price appropriated in payment of his debt. This is a right in the thing, or jus in re.
Hypothecator Dictionary H - noun One who hypothecates or pledges anything as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
Hypothenal Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hypothenar.
Hypothenar Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to the prominent part of the palm of the hand above the base of the little finger, or a corresponding part in the forefoot of an animal; as, the hypothenar eminence.
Hypothenusal Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to hypothenuse.
Hypotheses Dictionary H - pleural of Hypothesis.
Hypothesis Dictionary H - noun A supposition; a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof of the point in question; something not proved, but assumed for the purpose of argument, or to account for a fact or an occurrence; as, the hypothesis that head winds detain an overdue steamer.
Hypothetic Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hypothetical.
Hypothetical Dictionary H - adjective Characterized by, or of the nature of, an hypothesis; conditional; assumed without proof, for the purpose of reasoning and deducing proof, or of accounting for some fact or phenomenon.
Hypothetist Dictionary H - noun One who proposes or supports an hypothesis.
Hypotrachelium Dictionary H - noun Same as Gorgerin.
Hypotricha Dictionary H - noun plural A division of ciliated Infusoria in which the cilia cover only the under side of the body.
Hypotrochoid Dictionary H - noun A curve, traced by a point in the radius, or radius produced, of a circle which rolls upon the concave side of a fixed circle. See Hypocycloid, Epicycloid, and Trochoid.
Hypotyposis Dictionary H - noun A vivid, picturesque description of scenes or events.
Hypoxanthin Dictionary H - noun A crystalline, nitrogenous substance, closely related to xanthin and uric acid, widely distributed through the animal body, but especially in muscle tissue; - called also sarcin, sarkin.
Hypozoic Dictionary H - adjective Anterior in age to the lowest rocks which contain organic remains.
Hyppish Dictionary H - adjective Affected with hypochondria; hypped.
Hyppogriff Dictionary H - noun See Hyppogriff.
Hypsiloid Dictionary H - adjective Resembling the Greek letter / in form; hyoid.
Hypsometer Dictionary H - noun An instrument for measuring heights by observation of barometric pressure; esp., one for determining heights by ascertaining the boiling point of water. It consists of a vessel for water, with a lamp for heating it, and an inclosed thermometer for showing the temperature of ebullition.
Hypsometric Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hypsometrical.
Hypsometrical Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to hypsometry.
Hypsometry Dictionary H - noun That branch of the science of geodesy which has to do with the measurement of heights, either absolutely with reference to the sea level, or relatively.
Hypural Dictionary H - adjective Under the tail; - applied to the bones which support the caudal fin rays in most fishes.
Hyracoid Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to the Hyracoidea.
Hyracoidea Dictionary H - noun plural An order of small hoofed mammals, comprising the single living genus Hyrax.
Hyrax Dictionary H - noun Any animal of the genus Hyrax, of which about four species are known. They constitute the order Hyracoidea. The best known species are the daman (H. Syriacus) of Palestine, and the klipdas (H. capensis) of South Africa. Other species are H. arboreus and H. Sylvestris, the former from Southern, and the latter from Western, Africa. See Daman.
Hyrcanian Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hyrcan.
Hyrcan Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to Hyrcania, an ancient country or province of Asia, southeast of the Caspian (which was also called the Hyrcanian) Sea.
Hyrse Dictionary H - noun Millet.
Hyrst Dictionary H - noun A wood. See Hurst.
Hyson Dictionary H - noun A fragrant kind of green tea.
Hyssop Dictionary H - noun A plant (Hyssopus officinalis). The leaves have an aromatic smell, and a warm, pungent taste.
Hysteranthous Dictionary H - adjective Having the leaves expand after the flowers have opened.
Hysteresis Dictionary H - noun A lagging or retardation of the effect, when the forces acting upon a body are changed, as if from velocity or internal friction; a temporary resistance to change from a condition previously induced, observed in magnetism, thermoelectricity, etc., on reversal of polarity.
Hysteria Dictionary H - noun 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.
Hysteric Dictionary H - adjective Alt. of Hysterical.
Hysterical Dictionary H - adjective Of or pertaining to hysteria; affected, or troubled, with hysterics; convulsive, fitful.
Hysterics Dictionary H - noun plural Hysteria.
Hysteroepilepsy Dictionary H - noun A disease resembling hysteria in its nature, and characterized by the occurrence of epileptiform convulsions, which can often be controlled or excited by pressure on the ovaries, and upon other definite points in the body.
Hysterogenic Dictionary H - adjective Producing hysteria; as, the hysterogenicpressure points on the surface of the body, pressure upon which is said both to produce and arrest an attack of hysteria.
Hysterology Dictionary H - noun A figure by which the ordinary course of thought is inverted in expression, and the last put first; - called also hysteron proteron.
Hysteron proteron Dictionary H - A figure in which the natural order of sense is reversed; hysterology; as, valet atque vivit, "he is well and lives.".
Hysterophyte Dictionary H - noun A plant, like the fungus, which lives on dead or living organic matter.
Hysterotomy Dictionary H - noun The Caesarean section. See under Caesarean.
Hystricine Dictionary H - adjective Like or pertaining to the porcupines.
Hystricomorphous Dictionary H - adjective Like, or allied to, the porcupines; - said of a group (Hystricomorpha) of rodents.
Hystrix Dictionary H - noun A genus of rodents, including the porcupine.
Hythe Dictionary H - noun A small haven. See Hithe.

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