| H: | the eighth letter of the English alphabet is classed among the consonants and is formed with the mouth organs in the same position as that of the succeeding vowel It is used with certain consonants to form digraphs representing sounds which are not found in the alphabet as sh th as in shall thing for zh see tsh as in charm written also tch as in catch with the latter the sound of f as in phase phantom In some words mostly derived or introduced from foreign languages h following c and g indicates that those consonants have the hard sound before e i and y as in chemistry chiromancy chyle Ghent Ghibelline etc in some others ch has the sound of sh as in chicane See Guide to Pronunciation sectsect 153 179 1813 2378 |
| H: | The seventh degree in the diatonic scale being used by the Germans for B natural See B |
| HO: | The chemical formula for water |
| Ha: | 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 bdWell it is sob8 |
| Haaf: | The deepsea fishing for cod ling and tusk off the Shetland Isles |
| Haak: | A sea fish See Hake |
| Haar: | A fog esp a fog or mist with a chill wind |
| dHabeascorpus: | A writ having for its object to bring a party before a court or judge especially one to inquire into the cause of a persons 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 |
| dHabendum: | 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: | To deal in small wares |
| Haberdasher: | A dealer in small wares as tapes pins needles and thread |
| Haberdashery: | The goods and wares sold by a haberdasher also Fig trifles |
| Haberdine: | A cod salted and dried |
| Habergeon: | Properly a short hauberk but often used loosely for the hauberk |
| Habenaria: | A genus of chiefly terrestrial orchids with tubers or fleshy roots often having long slender spurs and petals and lip lobes it includes species formerly placed in the genus Gymnadeniopsis |
| Habilatory: | Of or pertaining to clothing wearing clothes |
| Habile: | Fit qualified also apt |
| Habiliment: | A garment an article of clothing |
| Habilimented: | Clothed |
| Habilitate: | Qualified or entitled |
| Habilitate: | To fit out to equip to qualify to entitle |
| Habilitation: | Equipment qualification |
| Hability: | Ability aptitude |
| Habit: | 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 |
| Habit: | To inhabit |
| Habitability: | Habitableness |
| Habitable: | Capable of being inhabited that may be inhabited or dwelt in as the habitable world |
| Habitacle: | A dwelling place |
| Habitan: | Same as Habitant 2 |
| Habitance: | Dwelling abode residence |
| Habitancy: | Same as Inhabitancy |
| Habitat: | The natural abode locality or region of an animal or plant |
| Habitation: | The act of inhabiting state of inhabiting or dwelling or of being inhabited occupancy |
| Habitator: | A dweller an inhabitant |
| Habited: | Clothed arrayed dressed as he was habited like a shepherd |
| Habitual: | Formed or acquired by habit or use |
| Habituate: | To make accustomed to accustom to familiarize |
| Habituate: | Firmly established by custom formed by habit habitual |
| Habituation: | The act of habituating or accustoming the state of being habituated |
| Habitude: | Habitual attitude usual or accustomed state with reference to something else established or usual relations |
| dHabitu: | One who habitually frequents a place as an habitu of a theater |
| Habiture: | Habitude |
| dHabitus: | Habitude mode of life general appearance |
| Hable: | See Habile |
| Habnab: | By chance |
| Hachure: | A short line used in drawing and engraving especially in shading and denoting different surfaces as in map drawing See Hatching |
| dHacienda: | 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 SpanishAmerican regions |
| Hack: | 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 |
| Hack: | To cut irregulary without skill or definite purpose to notch to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument as to hack a post |
| Hack: | To kick the shins of an opposing payer |
| Hack: | To cough faintly and frequently or in a short broken manner as a hacking cough |
| Hack: | A notch a cut |
| Hack: | To ride or drive as one does with a hack horse to ride at an ordinary pace or over the roads as distinguished from riding across country or in military fashion |
| Hack: | Hackneyed hired mercenary |
| Hack: | To use as a hack to let out for hire |
| Hack: | To be exposed or offered to common use for hire to turn prostitute |
| Hackamore: | A halter consisting of a long leather or rope strap and headstall used for leading or tieing a pack animal |
| Hackberry: | A genus of trees Celtis related to the elm but bearing drupes with scanty but often edible pulp Celtis occidentalis is common in the Eastern United States |
| Hackbolt: | The greater shearwater or hagdon See Hagdon |
| Hackbuss: | Same as Hagbut |
| Hackee: | The chipmunk also the chickaree or red squirrel |
| Hackelia: | A genus of plants with seeds that stick to clothing including stickseed and some of the beggars lice |
| hacker: | One who or that which hacks |
| hackery: | A cart with wooden wheels drawn by bullocks |
| hackie: | The driver of a taxicab a hackman |
| Hackle: | To separate as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine by drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel |
| Hackly: | Rough or broken as if hacked |
| Hackman: | The driver of a hack or carriage for public hire |
| Hackmatack: | The American larch Larix Americana a coniferous tree with slender deciduous leaves also its heavy closegrained timber Called also tamarack |
| Hackney: | A horse for riding or driving a nag a pony |
| Hackney: | Let out for hire devoted to common use hence much used trite mean as hackney coaches hackney authors |
| Hackney: | To devote to common or frequent use as a horse or carriage to wear out in common service to make trite or commonplace as a hackneyed metaphor or quotation |
| Hackneyman: | A man who lets horses and carriages for hire |
| Hackster: | A bully a bravo a ruffian an assassin |
| Hacqueton: | Same as Acton |
| Had: | See Have |
| Hadder: | Heather heath |
| Haddie: | The haddock |
| Haddock: | A marine food fish Melanogrammus glefinus 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: | The descent of a hill |
| Hade: | To deviate from the vertical said of a vein fault or lode |
| Hades: | The nether world according to classical mythology the abode of the shades ruled over by Hades or Pluto the invisible world the grave |
| dHadj: | The pilgrimage to Mecca performed by Mohammedans It is the duty of Moslems to make a journey to Mecca at least once ina lifetime or if that is not possible three journeys to one of the alternate sacred sites |
| Hadji: | A Mohammedan who has made a pilgrimage to Mecca used among Orientals as a respectful salutation or a title of honor |
| hadron: | any elementary particle that interacts strongly with other particles |
| hadrosaur: | Any member of the genus Hadrosaurus or family Hadrosauridae an extinct family of heavy bipedal partly aquatic dinosaurs with duckbilled skull and webbed feet of the Upper Cretaceous in North America |
| Hadrosauridae: | A natural family of extinct reptiles including the duckbilled dinosaurs |
| dHadrosaurus: | An American herbivorous dinosaur of great size allied to the iguanodon It is found in the Cretaceous formation |
| Hcceity: | Literally thisness A scholastic term to express individuality or singleness as this book |
| Hma: | Combining forms indicating relation or resemblance to blood association with blood as hmapod hmatogenesis hmoscope |
| Hmachrome: | Hematin |
| Hmacyanin: | A substance found in the blood of the octopus which gives to it its blue color |
| Hmacytometer: | An apparatus for determining the number of corpuscles in a given quantity of blood |
| Hmad: | Toward the hmal side on the hmal side of opposed to neurad |
| Hmadrometer: | Same as Hemadrometer |
| Hmadrometry: | Same as Hemadrometry |
| Hmadromograph: | An instrument for registering the velocity of the blood |
| Hmadynameter: | Same as Hemadynamometer |
| Hmadynamics: | Same as Hemadynamics |
| Hmal: | Pertaining to the blood or blood vessels also ventral See Hemal |
| Hmaphin: | A brownish substance sometimes found in the blood in cases of jaundice |
| Hmapod: | An hmapodous animal |
| Hmapodous: | Having the limbs on or directed toward the ventral or hemal side as in vertebrates opposed to neuropodous |
| Hmapoietic: | Bloodforming as the hmapoietic function of the spleen |
| dHmapophysis: | Same as Hemapophysis |
| Hmastatics: | Same as Hemastatics |
| Hmatachometer: | A form of apparatus somewhat different from the hemadrometer for measuring the velocity of the blood |
| Hmatachometry: | The measurement of the velocity of the blood |
| Hmatemesis: | Same as Hematemesis |
| Hmatic: | Of or pertaining to the blood sanguine brownish red |
| Hmatin: | Same as Hematin |
| Hmatinometer: | Same as Hematinometer |
| Hmatinometric: | Same as Hematinometric |
| Hmatite: | Same as Hematite |
| Hmatitic: | Of a bloodred color crimson Bot brownish red |
| Hmato: | See Hma |
| Hmatoblast: | One of the very minute diskshaped 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 |
| dHmatocrya: | The coldblooded vertebrates Same as Hematocrya |
| Hmatocryal: | Coldblooded |
| Hmatocrystallin: | Same as Hematocrystallin |
| Hmatodynamometer: | Same as Hemadynamometer |
| Hmatogenesis: | The origin and development of blood |
| Hmatogenic: | Relating to hmatogenesis |
| Hmatogenous: | Originating in the blood |
| Hmatoglobulin: | Same as Hematoglobulin |
| Hmatoid: | Same as Hematoid |
| Hmatoidin: | Same as Hematoidin |
| Hmatoin: | 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 hmatoporphyrin and hmatolin are formed in a similar manner |
| Hmatolin: | See Hmatoin |
| Hmatology: | The science which treats of the blood Same as Hematology |
| dHmatolysis: | Dissolution of the red blood corpuscles with diminished coagulability of the blood hmolysis |
| Hmatometer: | Same as Hemadynamometer |
| dHmatophilina: | A division of Chiroptera including the bloodsucking bats See Vampire |
| Hmatoplast: | Same as Hmatoblast |
| Hmatoplastic: | Blood formative applied to a substance in early fetal life which breaks up gradually into blood vessels |
| Hmatoporphyrin: | See Hmatoin |
| Hmatosac: | A vascular sac connected beneath the brain in many fishes with the infundibulum |
| Hmatoscope: | A hmoscope |
| Hmatosin: | Hematin |
| dHmatosis: | Same as Hematosis |
| dHmatotherma: | Same as Hematotherma |
| Hmatothermal: | Warmblooded homoiothermal |
| Hmatothorax: | Same as Hemothorax |
| Hmatoxylin: | The coloring principle of logwood It is obtained as a yellow crystalline substance C16H14O6 with a sweetish taste Formerly called also hematin |
| dHmatoxylon: | A genus of leguminous plants containing but a single species the Haematoxylon Campechianum or logwood tree native in Yucatan |
| dHmatozon: | A parasite inhabiting the blood |
| Hmic: | Pertaining to the blood hemal |
| Hmin: | Same as Hemin |
| Hmo: | See Hma |
| Hmochrome: | Same as Hmachrome |
| Hmochromogen: | A body obtained from hemoglobin by the action of reducing agents in the absence of oxygen |
| Hmochromometer: | An apparatus for measuring the amount of hemoglobin in a fluid by comparing it with a solution of known strength and of normal color |
| Hmocyanin: | Same as Hmacyanin |
| dHmocytolysis: | See Hmocytotrypsis |
| Hmocytometer: | See Hmacytometer |
| dHmocytotrypsis: | A breaking up of the blood corpuscles as by pressure in distinction from solution of the corpuscles or hmocytolysis |
| Hmodromograph: | Same as Hmadromograph |
| Haemodromometer: | Same as Hemadrometer |
| Hmodynameter: | Same as Hemadynamics |
| Hmoglobin: | Same as Hemoglobin |
| Hmoglobinometer: | Same as Hemochromometer |
| Hmol: | A dark brown powder containing iron prepared by the action of zinc dust as a reducing agent upon the coloring matter of the blood used medicinally as a hematinic |
| Hmolutein: | See Hematoidin |
| dHmolysis: | Same as Hmatolysis Hmatolytic |
| Hmomanometer: | Same as Hemadynamometer |
| Hmometer: | Same as Hemadynamometer |
| Hmony: | A plant described by Milton as bdof sovereign use against all enchantmentsb8 |
| Hmoplastic: | Same as Hmatoplastic |
| Hmorrhoidal: | Same as Hemorrhoidal |
| Hmoscope: | An instrument devised by Hermann for regulating and measuring the thickness of a layer of blood for spectroscopic examination |
| Hmostatic: | Same as Hemostatic |
| Hmotachometer: | Same as Hmatachometer |
| Hmotachometry: | Same as Hmatachometry |
| Haf: | Hove |
| Haffle: | To stammer to speak unintelligibly to prevaricate |
| hafnium: | A metallic element of atomic number 72 present together with zirconium to the extent of 1 to 5 in zirconium minerals It is a poisonous ductile metal with a brilliant silver luster has an atomic weight of 17849 and has a high melting point 2227norium |
| Haft: | 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 |
| Haft: | To set in or furnish with a haft as to haft a dagger |
| Hafter: | A caviler a wrangler |
| Hag: | A witch sorceress or enchantress also a wizard |
| Hag: | To harass to weary with vexation |
| Hag: | A small wood or part of a wood or copse which is marked off or inclosed for felling or which has been felled |
| Hagberry: | A plant of the genus Prunus Prunus Padus the bird cherry |
| Hagborn: | Born of a hag or witch |
| Hagbut: | A harquebus of which the but was bent down or hooked for convenience in taking aim |
| Hagbutter: | A soldier armed with a hagbut or arquebus |
| Hagdon: | One of several species of sea birds of the genus Puffinus esp Puffinus major the greater shearwarter and Puffinus Stricklandi the black hagdon or sooty shearwater called also hagdown haglin and hag See Shearwater |
| Hagfish: | See Hag 4 |
| Haggada: | A story anecdote or legend in the Talmud to explain or illustrate the text of the Old Testament |
| Haggard: | Wild or intractable disposed to break away from duty untamed as a haggard or refractory hawk |
| Haggard: | A young or untrained hawk or falcon |
| Haggard: | A stackyard |
| Haggardly: | In a haggard manner |
| Hagged: | Like a hag lean ugly |
| Haggis: | 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: | Like a hag ugly wrinkled |
| Haggishly: | In the manner of a hag |
| Haggle: | 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 |
| Haggle: | To be difficult in bargaining to stick at small matters to chaffer to higgle |
| Haggle: | The act or process of haggling |
| Haggler: | One who haggles or is difficult in bargaining |
| Hagiarchy: | A sacred government government by holy orders of men |
| Hagiocracy: | Government by a priesthood hierarchy |
| dHagiographa: | The last of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament comprising Psalms Proverbs Job Canticles Ruth Lamentations Ecclesiastes Esther Daniel Ezra Nehemiah and Chronicles or that portion of the Old Testament not contained in the Law Tora and the Prophets Neviim it is also called in Hebrew the Ketuvim Together with the Tora and Neviim it comprises the Hebrew Bible which is called in Hebrew the Tanach a vocalization of the first letters of its three parts |
| Hagiographal: | Pertaining to the hagiographa or to sacred writings |
| Hagiographer: | One of the writers of the hagiographa a writer of lives of the saints |
| hagiographic: | of or pertaining to the Hagiographa or to sacred writings same as hagiographal |
| Hagiography: | Same as Hagiographa |
| Hagiolatry: | The invocation or worship of saints |
| Hagiologist: | One who treats of the sacred writings a writer of the lives of the saints a hagiographer |
| Hagiology: | 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: | 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 |
| hagridden: | Ridden by a hag or witch |
| Hagseed: | The offspring of a hag |
| Hagship: | The state or title of a hag |
| Hagtaper: | The great woolly mullein Verbascum Thapsus |
| Haguebut: | See Hagbut |
| HagueTribunal: | The permanent court of arbitration created by the bdInternational Convention for the Pacific Settle of International Disputesb8 adopted by the International Peace Conference of 1899 It is composed of persons of known competency in questions of international law nominated by the signatory powers From these persons an arbitration tribunal is chosen by the parties to a difference submitted to the court On the failure of the parties to agree directly on the arbitrators each chooses two arbitrators an umpire is selected by them by a third power or by two powers selected by the parties |
| Hah: | Same as Ha |
| Haha: | A sunk fence a fence wall or ditch not visible till one is close upon it |
| Haidingerite: | A mineral consisting chiefly of the arseniate of lime so named in honor of W Haidinger of Vienna |
| Haiduck: | Formerly a mercenary foot soldier in Hungary now a halberdier of a Hungarian noble or an attendant in German or Hungarian courts |
| dHaik: | A large piece of woolen or cotton cloth worn by Arabs as an outer garment |
| dHaikal: | 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 |
| Haikwan: | Chinese maritime customs |
| Haikwantael: | A Chinese weight frac1x10 catty equivalent to 1frac13 oz or 37801 g |
| Hail: | 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 |
| Hail: | To pour down particles of ice or frozen vapors |
| Hail: | To pour forcibly down as hail |
| Hail: | Healthy See Hale the preferable spelling |
| Hail: | To call loudly to or after to accost to salute to address |
| Hail: | To declare by hailing the port from which a vessel sails or where she is registered hence to sail to come used with from as the steamer hails from New York |
| Hail: | An exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation or occasionally of familiar greeting |
| Hail: | A wish of health a salutation a loud call |
| Hailfellow: | An intimate companion |
| Hailse: | To greet to salute |
| Hailshot: | Small shot which scatter like hailstones |
| Hailstone: | A single particle of ice falling from a cloud a frozen raindrop a pellet of hail |
| Hailstorm: | A storm accompanied with hail a shower of hail |
| Haily: | Of hail |
| Hain: | To inclose for mowing to set aside for grass |
| Haint: | A contraction of have not or has not as I haint he haint we haint |
| Hair: | 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 |
| hairball: | a compact mass of hair that forms in the stomach of animals as a result of licking fur as the cat coughed up a hairball right on the new rug |
| Hairbell: | See Harebell |
| Hairbird: | The chipping sparrow |
| Hairbrained: | See Harebrained |
| Hairbreadth: | The diameter or breadth of a hair a very small distance sometimes definitely the fortyeighth part of an inch |
| Hairbreadth: | Having the breadth of a hair very narrow as a hairbreadth escape |
| Hairbrown: | Of a clear tint of brown resembling brown human hair It is composed of equal proportions of red and green |
| Hairbrush: | A brush for cleansing and smoothing the hair |
| Haircloth: | Stuff or cloth made wholly or in part of hair |
| Hairdresser: | One who dresses or cuts hair a barber |
| hairdressing: | a toiletry for the hair |
| Haired: | Having hair |
| Hairen: | Hairy |
| Hairgrass: | A grass with very slender leaves or branches as the Agrostis scabra and several species of Aira or Deschampsia |
| Hairiness: | The state of abounding or being covered with hair |
| Hairless: | Destitute of hair bald |
| hairlike: | shaped like a hair long and slender |
| hairline: | a very thin line |
| hairnet: | a small net that some women wear over their hair to keep it in place |
| hairpiece: | a covering or bunch of human or artificial hair used for disguise or adornment a toupee |
| Hairpin: | A pin usually forked or of bent wire for fastening the hair in place used by women |
| Hairsalt: | A variety of native Epsom salt occurring in silky fibers |
| Hairsplitter: | One who makes excessively fine or needless distinctions in reasoning one who quibbles |
| Hairsplitting: | Making excessively fine or trivial distinctions in reasoning overly subtle |
| Hairspring: | The slender recoil spring which regulates the motion of the balance in a timepiece |
| Hairstreak: | A butterfly of the genus Thecla as the green hairstreak Thecla rubi |
| Hairtail: | Any species of marine fishes of the genus Trichiurus esp Trichiurus lepturus of Europe and America They are long and like a band with a slender pointed tail Called also bladefish |
| Hairworm: | A nematoid worm of the genus Gordius resembling a hair See Gordius |
| Hairy: | Bearing or covered with hair made of or resembling hair rough with hair hirsute |
| Haiti: | a country on the island of Hispaniola |
| Haitian: | Same as Haytian now the preferred spelling |
| haj: | A pilgrimage to Mecca every Muslim must make this journey at least once |
| haji: | One who has made a journey to Mecca Same as hadji |
| Haje: | 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 Cleopatras snake or asp See Asp |
| Hake: | A drying shed as for unburned tile |
| Hake: | One of several species of marine gadoid fishes of the genera Phycis Merlucius and allies The common European hake is Merlucius vulgaris the American silver hake or whiting is Merlucius bilinearis Two American species Phycis chuss and Phycis tenius are important food fishes and are also valued for their oil and sounds Called also squirrel hake and codling |
| Hake: | To loiter to sneak |
| Hakesdame: | See Forkbeard |
| Haketon: | Same as Acton |
| dHakim: | A wise man a physician esp a Mohammedan |
| dHakim: | A Mohammedan title for a ruler a judge |
| Halacha: | The general term for the Hebrew oral or traditional law one of two branches of exposition in the Midrash See Midrash |
| Halation: | An appearance as of a halo of light surrounding the edges of dark objects in a photographic picture |
| Halberd: | An ancient longhandled 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: | One who is armed with a halberd |
| Halberdshaped: | Hastate |
| Halcyon: | 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 |
| Halcyon: | Pertaining to or resembling the halcyon which was anciently said to lay her eggs in nests on or near the sea during the calm weather about the winter solstice |
| Halcyonian: | Halcyon calm |
| Halcyonoid: | See Alcyonoid |
| Hale: | Sound entire healthy robust not impaired as a hale body |
| Hale: | Welfare |
| Hale: | To pull to drag to haul |
| Halenia: | A genus of herbs of Eurasia and the Americas spurred gentians |
| dHalesia: | A genus of American shrubs containing several species called snowdrop trees or silverbell trees They have showy white flowers drooping on slender pedicels |
| Half: | Consisting of a moiety or half as a half bushel a half hour a half dollar a half view |
| Half: | In an equal part or degree in some part approximating a half partially imperfectly as halfcolored half done halfhearted half persuaded half conscious |
| Half: | Part side behalf |
| Half: | To halve Obs See Halve |
| Halfandhalf: | A mixture of two malt liquors esp porter and ale in about equal parts |
| halfback: | A person who plays the position of halfback2 on a football team |
| halfbaked: | Insufficiently or poorly planned or thought out impractical or unrealistic as a halfbaked proposal halfbaked ideas of plans theories proposals etc |
| Halfbeak: | Any slender marine fish of the genus Hemirhamphus or of the family Hemiramphidae having an elongated protruding lower jaw called also balahoo |
| Halfblood: | 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 |
| Halfblooded: | Proceeding from a male and female of different breeds or races having only one parent of good stock as a halfblooded sheep |
| Halfboot: | A boot with a short top covering only the ankle See Cocker and Congress boot under Congress |
| Halfbound: | Having only the back and corners in leather as a book |
| Halfbred: | Halfblooded |
| Halfbreed: | Halfblooded |
| Halfbreed: | A person who is halfblooded the offspring of parents of different races especially of the American Indian and the white race |
| Halfbrother: | A brother by one parent but not by both |
| Halfcaste: | One born of a European parent on the one side and of a Hindu or Mohammedan on the other Also adjective as halfcaste parents |
| Halfclammed: | Halffilled |
| Halfcock: | To set the cock of a firearm at the first notch |
| Halfcracked: | Halfdemented halfwitted |
| Halfdeck: | A shell of the genus Crepidula a boat shell See Boat shell |
| Halfdecked: | Partially decked |
| Halfen: | Wanting half its due qualities |
| Halfendeal: | Half by the half part |
| Halfer: | One who possesses or gives half only one who shares |
| Halffaced: | Showing only part of the face wretched looking meager |
| Halffish: | A salmon in its fifth year of growth |
| Halfhatched: | Imperfectly hatched as halfhatched eggs |
| Halfheard: | Imperfectly or partly heard not heard to the end |
| halfhearted: | Wanting in heart or spirit ungenerous unkind |
| halfholiday: | a day on which half of the day is free from work or duty a holiday of one half of a day |
| Halfhourly: | Done or happening at intervals of half an hour |
| Halflearned: | Imperfectly learned |
| Halflength: | Of half the whole or ordinary length as a picture |
| Halflife: | the time it takes for onehalf of a substance decaying in a firstorder reaction to be destroyed For radioactive substances it is the time required for onehalf of the initial amount of the radioactive isotope to decay The halflifeis a measure of the rate of the reaction being observed For processes that are true firstorder processes such as radioactive decay the halflife is independent of the quantity of material present and it is thus a constant The time it takes for onehalf the remaining quantity of a radioactive isotope to decay will be the same regardless of how far the decay process has advanced Some chemical reactions are also first order and may be characterized as having a halflife However for chemical reactions the halflife will depend upon temperature and in some cases other environmental conditions whereas for radioactive isotopes the rate of decay is largely independent of the environment |
| halflight: | a grayish light as at dawn or dusk or in dim interiors |
| Halfmast: | A point some distance below the top of a mast or staff as a flag a halfmast a token of mourning etc |
| Halfmoon: | The moon at the quarters when half its disk appears illuminated |
| Halfnelson: | A hold in which one arm is thrust under the corresponding arm of the opponent generally behind and the hand placed upon the back of his neck In the full nelson both hands are so placed |
| Halfness: | The quality of being half incompleteness |
| Halfpace: | A platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight See Quarterpace |
| halfpence: | an English coin worth half a penny no longer minted |
| halfpenny: | An English coin of the value of half a penny no longer minted also the value of half a penny |
| halfpennyworth: | the amount that can be bought for a halfpenny |
| Halfpike: | A short pike sometimes carried by officers of infantry sometimes used in boarding ships a spontoon |
| Halfport: | One half of a shutter made in two parts for closing a porthole |
| Halfray: | 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 |
| Halfread: | Informed by insufficient reading superficial shallow |
| Halfseasover: | Half drunk |
| Halfsighted: | Seeing imperfectly having weak discernment |
| Halfsister: | A sister by one parent only |
| Halfstrained: | Halfbred imperfect |
| Halfsword: | Half the length of a sword close fight |
| Halftimbered: | Constructed of a timber frame having the spaces filled in with masonry said of buildings |
| halftime: | an intermission between the first and second half of a game especially a football game Also used attributively as the halftime entertainment |
| Halftone: | An intermediate or middle tone in a painting engraving photograph etc a middle tint neither very dark nor very light |
| Halftone: | Having consisting of or pertaining to half tones |
| Halftongue: | A jury for the trial of a foreigner composed equally of citizens and aliens |
| halftrack: | having caterpillar treads on the rear and wheels in front as halftrack armored vehicles |
| halftrack: | a halftracked vehicle used mostly of armored military vehicles |
| halftruth: | a partially true statement especially one intended to deceive or mislead |
| Halfway: | In the middle at half the distance imperfectly partially as he halfway yielded |
| Halfway: | Equally distant from the extremes situated at an intermediate point midway as at the halfway mark |
| halfwayhouse: | an inn or place of call midway on a journey |
| Halfwit: | A foolish person a dolt a blockhead a dunce |
| Halfwitted: | Weak in intellect silly |
| Halfyearly: | Two in a year semiannual |
| Halibut: | A large northern marine flatfish Hippoglossus vulgaris of the family Pleuronectid It often grows very large weighing more than three hundred pounds It is an important food fish |
| dHalichondri: | An order of sponges having simple siliceous spicules and keratose fibers called also Keratosilicoidea |
| dHalicore: | Same as Dugong |
| Halidom: | Holiness sanctity sacred oath sacred things sanctuary used chiefly in oaths |
| Halieutics: | A treatise upon fish or the art of fishing ichthyology |
| Halimas: | The feast of All Saints Hallowmas |
| Halimodendron: | A genus of trees consisting of one species the salt tree |
| Haliographer: | One who writes about or describes the sea |
| Haliography: | Description of the sea the science that treats of the sea |
| Haliotidae: | A natural family of mollusks including the abalone Haliotis |
| dHaliotis: | A genus of marine shells the earshells See Abalone |
| Haliotoid: | Like or pertaining to the genus Haliotis earshaped |
| dHalisauria: | The Enaliosauria |
| Halite: | Native salt sodium chloride |
| Halituous: | Produced by or like breath vaporous |
| Halk: | A nook a corner |
| Hall: | A building or room of considerable size and stateliness used for public purposes as Westminster Hall in London |
| Hallage: | A fee or toll paid for goods sold in a hall |
| Halleluiah: | 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: | Pertaining to or containing hallelujahs |
| Halliard: | See Halyard |
| Hallidome: | Same as Halidom |
| Hallier: | A kind of net for catching birds |
| Hallmark: | The official stamp of the Goldsmiths Company and other assay offices in the United Kingdom on gold and silver articles attesting their purity |
| Halloa: | See Halloo |
| Halloo: | A loud exclamation a call to invite attention or to incite a person or an animal a shout |
| Halloo: | To cry out to exclaim with a loud voice to call to a person as by the word halloo |
| Halloo: | To encourage with shouts |
| Halloo: | An exclamation to call attention or to encourage one Now mostly replaced by hello |
| Hallow: | To make holy to set apart for holy or religious use to consecrate to treat or keep as sacred to reverence |
| hallowed: | belonging to or derived from or associated with a divine power made holy Opposite of unholy |
| Halloween: | The evening preceding Allhallows or All Saints Day November 1 also the entire day October 31 It is often marked by parties or celebrations and sometimes by pranks played by young people |
| Hallowmas: | The feast of All Saints or Allhallows |
| Halloysite: | A claylike mineral occurring in soft smooth amorphous masses of a whitish color |
| Hallstatt: | Of or pertaining to Hallstatt Austria or the Hallstatt civilization |
| Hallucal: | Of or pertaining to the hallux |
| Hallucinate: | To wander to go astray to err to blunder used of mental processes |
| hallucinate: | To experience something nonexistent as an hallucination2 |
| hallucinating: | Experiencing hallucinations |
| Hallucination: | The act of hallucinating a wandering of the mind error mistake a blunder |
| Hallucinator: | One whose judgment and acts are affected by hallucinations one who errs on account of his hallucinations |
| Hallucinatory: | Partaking of having the character of or tending to produce hallucinations as hallucinatory visions |
| hallucinogen: | A substance capable of producing hallucinations when ingested a hallucinogenic substance as LSD is a powerful hallucinogen |
| hallucinogenic: | capable of producing hallucinations as LSD is a powerful hallucinogenic drug |
| dHallux: | 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 |
| hallway: | an interior passage or corridor in a building onto which rooms open |
| Halm: | Same as Haulm |
| dHalma: | The long jump with weights in the hands the most important of the exercises of the Pentathlon |
| Halma: | A game played on a board having 256 squares by two persons with 19 men each or by four with 13 men each starting from different corners and striving to place each his own set of men in a corresponding position in the opposite corner by moving them or by jumping them over those met in progress |
| Halo: | 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 |
| Halo: | To form or surround with a halo to encircle with or as with a halo |
| halobacter: | Any halophilic bacterium of the archaebacteria group expecially of the genera Halobacterium and Halococcus which live in saline environments such as the Dead Sea or salt flats |
| Halocarpus: | A genus of dioecious trees or shrubs of New Zealand similar in habit to Dacrydium |
| Haloed: | Surrounded with a halo invested with an ideal glory glorified |
| Halogen: | An electronegative element or radical which by combination with a metal forms a haloid salt especially chlorine fluorine bromine and iodine sometimes also cyanogen See Chlorine family under Chlorine |
| Halogenous: | Of the nature of a halogen |
| Haloid: | 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: | See Alomancy |
| Halometer: | An instrument for measuring the forms and angles of salts and crystals a goniometer |
| dHalones: | 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: | A plant found growing in salt marshes or in the sea |
| Haloscope: | An instrument for exhibition or illustration of the phenomena of halos parhelia and the like |
| Halotrichite: | An iron alum occurring in silky fibrous aggregates of a yellowish white color |
| Haloxyline: | An explosive mixture consisting of sawdust charcoal niter and ferrocyanide of potassium used as a substitute for gunpowder |
| Halp: | Helped |
| Halpace: | See Haut pas |
| Hals: | The neck or throat |
| Halse: | To embrace about the neck to salute to greet |
| Halse: | To haul to hoist |
| Halsening: | Sounding harshly in the throat inharmonious rough |
| Halser: | See Hawser |
| Halt: | 3d pers sing pres of Hold contraction for holdeth |
| Halt: | A stop in marching or walking or in any action arrest of progress |
| Halt: | To hold ones self from proceeding to hold up to cease progress to stop for a longer or shorter period to come to a stop to stand still |
| Halt: | To cause to cease marching to stop as the general halted his troops for refreshment |
| Halt: | Halting or stopping in walking lame |
| Halt: | The act of limping lameness |
| Halter: | One who halts or limps a cripple |
| Halter: | A strong strap or cord |
| Halter: | To tie by the neck with a rope strap or halter to put a halter on to subject to a hangmans halter |
| dHalteres: | Balancers the rudimentary hind wings of Diptera |
| Haltersack: | A term of reproach implying that one is fit to be hanged |
| Haltingly: | In a halting or limping manner |
| Halvans: | Impure ore dirty ore |
| Halve: | A half |
| Halve: | To divide into two equal parts as to halve an apple to be or form half of |
| Halved: | Appearing as if one side or one half were cut away dimidiate |
| Halves: | pl of Half |
| Halwe: | A saint |
| Halyard: | A rope or tackle for hoisting or lowering yards sails flags etc |
| dHalysites: | A genus of Silurian fossil corals the chain corals See Chain coral under Chain |
| Ham: | Home |
| Ham: | a person who performs in a showy or exaggerated style used especially of actors Also used attributively as a ham actor |
| Ham: | To act with exaggerated voice and gestures to overact |
| dHamadryas: | The sacred baboon of Egypt Cynocephalus Hamadryas |
| dHamal: | In Turkey and other Oriental countries a porter or burden bearer specif in Western India a palanquin bearer |
| Hamamelidaceae: | A natural family of plants comprising the genera Hamamelis Corylopsis Fothergilla Liquidambar Parrotia and other small genera |
| Hamamelidae: | a group of chiefly woody plants considered among the most primitive of angiosperms they have a perianth poorly developed or lacking and flowers often unisexual and often in catkins and often wind pollinated The group contains 23 families including the Betulaceae and Fagaceae includes the Amentiferae sometimes it is classified as a superorder |
| Hamamelidanthum: | A genus of fossil plants of the Oligocene having flowers resembling those of the witch hazel found in Baltic region |
| Hamamelidoxylon: | A genus of fossil plants having wood identical with or similar to that of the witch hazel |
| Hamamelis: | A genus of plants which includes the witchhazel Hamamelis Virginica a preparation of which is used medicinally |
| Hamate: | Hooked bent at the end into a hook hamous |
| Hamated: | Hooked or set with hooks hamate |
| dHamatum: | See Unciform |
| Hamble: | To hamstring |
| Hamburg: | A commercial city of Germany near the mouth of the Elbe |
| Hame: | Home |
| Hame: | One of the two curved pieces of wood or metal in the harness of a draught horse to which the traces are fastened They are fitted upon the collar or have pads fitting the horses neck attached to them |
| Hamel: | Same as Hamble |
| Hamesecken: | The felonious seeking and invasion of a person in his dwelling house |
| Hamfatter: | A lowgrade actor or performer a ham |
| hamfisted: | not skillful in physical movement especially with the hands clumsy bungling also used metaphorically of actions as hamhanded governmental interference |
| Hamiform: | Hookshaped |
| Hamiltonperiod: | 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 |
| Haminoea: | A common genus of marine bubble shells of the Pacific coast of North America |
| dHaminura: | A large edible river fish Erythrinus macrodon of Guiana |
| Hamite: | A fossil cephalopod of the genus Hamites related to the ammonites but having the last whorl bent into a hooklike form |
| Hamite: | A descendant of Ham Noahs second son See Gen x 620 |
| Hamitic: | Pertaining to Ham or his descendants |
| Hamlet: | A small village a little cluster of houses in the country |
| Hamleted: | Confined to a hamlet |
| Hammer: | An instrument for driving nails beating metals and the like consisting of a head usually of steel or iron fixed crosswise to a handle |
| Hammer: | To beat with a hammer to beat with heavy blows as to hammer iron |
| Hammer: | To be busy forming anything to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer |
| Hammerable: | Capable of beingformed or shapeo by a hammer |
| Hammerbeam: | A member of one description of roof truss called hammerbeam truss which is so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall Each principal has two hammerbeams which occupy the situation and to some extent serve the purpose of a tiebeam |
| Hammerbreak: | An interrupter in which contact is broken by the movement of an automatically vibrating hammer between a contact piece and an electromagnet or of a rapidly moving piece mechanically driven |
| Hammercloth: | The cloth which covers a coach box |
| Hammerdressed: | Having the surface roughly shaped or faced with the stonecutters hammer said of building stone |
| Hammerer: | One who works with a hammer |
| Hammerharden: | To harden as a metal by hammering it in the cold state |
| Hammerhead: | A shark of the genus Sphyrna or Zygna having the eyes set on projections from the sides of the head which gives it a hammer shape The Sphyrna zygna is found in the North Atlantic Called also hammer fish and balance fish |
| Hammerkop: | A bird of the Heron family the umber |
| Hammerless: | 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 |
| Hammerlock: | A hold in which an arm of one contestant is held twisted and bent behind his back by his opponent |
| Hammerman: | A hammerer a forgeman |
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