| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| haberdasher | noun | A dealer in small wares, as tapes, pins, needles, and thread; also, a hatter., A dealer in drapery goods of various descriptions, as laces, silks, trimmings, etc. |
| habituating | present participle & vb. noun | of Habituate |
| habituation | noun | The act of habituating, or accustoming; the state of being habituated. |
| hadrosaurus | noun | An American herbivorous dinosaur of great size, allied to the iguanodon. It is found in the Cretaceous formation. |
| haemachrome | noun | Hematin. |
| haemacyanin | noun | A substance found in the blood of the octopus, which gives to it its blue color. |
| haemaphaein | noun | A brownish substance sometimes found in the blood, in cases of jaundice. |
| haemapodous | adjective | Having the limbs on, or directed toward, the ventral or hemal side, as in vertebrates; — opposed to neuropodous. |
| haematocrya | noun pl. | The cold-blooded vertebrates. Same as Hematocrya. |
| haematoidin | noun | Same as Hematoidin. |
| haematology | noun | The science which treats of the blood. Same as Hematology. |
| haematozoon | noun | A parasite inhabiting the blood, Certain species of nematodes of the genus Filaria, sometimes found in the blood of man, the horse, the dog, etc., The trematode, Bilharzia haematobia, which infests the inhabitants of Egypt and other parts of Africa, often causing death. |
| haemochrome | noun | Same as Haemachrome. |
| haemocyanin | noun | Same as Haemacyanin. |
| haemoglobin | noun | Same as Hemoglobin. |
| haemolutein | noun | See Hematoidin. |
| haemostatic | adjective | Same as Hemostatic. |
| hagiographa | noun pl. | 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., The lives of the saints. |
| hagiography | noun | Same Hagiographa. |
| hagiologist | noun | One who treats of the sacred writings; a writer of the lives of the saints; a hagiographer. |
| hail-fellow | noun | An intimate companion. |
| hairbrained | adjective | See Harebrained. |
| hairbreadth | Alt. of Hair’sbreadth, Having the breadth of a hair; very narrow; as, a hairbreadth escape. | |
| hairdresser | noun | One who dresses or cuts hair; a barber. |
| hake’s-dame | noun | See Forkbeard. |
| halfcocking | present participle & vb. noun | of Halfcock |
| half-decked | adjective | Partially decked. |
| half-hourly | adjective | Done or happening at intervals of half an hour. |
| half-length | adjective | Of half the whole or ordinary length, as a picture. |
| half-sister | noun | A sister by one parent only. |
| half-tounue | noun | A jury, for the trial of a foreigner, composed equally of citizens and aliens. |
| half-witted | adjective | Weak in intellect; silly. |
| half-yearly | adjective | Two in a year; semiannual. — adv. Twice in a year; semiannually. |
| haliography | noun | Description of the sea; the science that treats of the sea. |
| hallucinate | verb i. | To wander; to go astray; to err; to blunder; — used of mental processes. |
| halter-sack | noun | A term of reproach, implying that one is fit to be hanged. |
| hamadryades | plural | of Hamadryad |
| hammer-beam | 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 | noun | The cloth which covers a coach box. |
| hammer-less | 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. |
| hand staves | plural | of Hand |
| handbreadth | noun | A space equal to the breadth of the hand; a palm. |
| handcuffing | present participle & vb. noun | of Handcuff |
| handfasting | present participle & vb. noun | of Handfast |
| handicapped | imp. & past participle | of Handicap |
| handicapper | noun | One who determines the conditions of a handicap. |
| handkercher | noun | A handkerchief. |
| handselling | of Handsel | |
| hand-winged | adjective | Having wings that are like hands in the structure and arrangement of their bones; — said of bats. See Cheiroptera. |
| handwriting | noun | The cast or form of writing peculiar to each hand or person; chirography., That which is written by hand; manuscript. |
| handystroke | noun | A blow with the hand. |
| hangmanship | noun | The office or character of a hangman. |
| hankeringly | adverb | In a hankering manner. |
| harangueful | adjective | Full of harangue. |
| harbingered | imp. & past participle | of Harbinger |
| hard-fisted | adjective | Having hard or strong hands; as, a hard-fisted laborer., Close-fisted; covetous; niggardly. |
| hard-fought | adjective vigorously | contested; as, a hard-fought battle. |
| hard-handed | adjective | Having hard hands, as a manual laborer. |
| hard-headed | adjective | Having sound judgment; sagacious; shrewd. |
| hardwaremen | plural | of Hardwareman |
| hardwareman | noun | One who makes, or deals in, hardware. |
| harengiform | adjective | Herring-shaped. |
| hare’s-tail | noun | A kind of grass (Eriophorum vaginatum). See Cotton grass, under Cotton. |
| harioiation | noun | Prognostication; soothsaying. |
| harmoniphon | 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. |
| harmonizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Harmonize |
| harpsichord | 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. |
| hart-tongue | noun | A common British fern (Scolopendrium vulgare), rare in America., A West Indian fern, the Polypodium Phyllitidis of Linnaeus. It is also found in Florida. |
| harvestless | adjective | Without harvest; lacking in crops; barren. |
| hatchelling | of Hatchel | |
| hatchettine | noun | Alt. of Hatchettite |
| hatchettite | noun | Mineral t/ low; a waxy or spermaceti-like substance, commonly of a greenish yellow color. |
| haughtiness | noun | The quality of being haughty; disdain; arrogance. |
| haustellata | noun pl. | An artificial division of insects, including all those with a sucking proboscis. |
| haustellate | adjective | Provided with a haustellum, or sucking proboscis., One of the Haustellata. |
| hawser-laid | adjective | Made in the manner of a hawser. Cf. Cable-laid, and see Illust. of Cordage. |