| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| habile | adjective | Fit; qualified; also, apt. |
| habnab | adverb | By chance. |
| hacked | imp. & past participle | of Hack |
| hackee | noun | The chipmunk; also, the chickaree or red squirrel. |
| hacker | 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. |
| hackle | noun | A comb for dressing flax, raw silk, etc.; a hatchel., Any flimsy substance unspun, as raw silk., One of the peculiar, long, narrow feathers on the neck of fowls, most noticeable on the cock, — often used in making artificial flies; hence, any feather so used., An artificial fly for angling, made of feathers., To separate, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel., To tear asunder; to break in pieces. |
| hackly | adjective | Rough or broken, as if hacked., Having fine, short, and sharp points on the surface; as, the hackly fracture of metallic iron. |
| hadder | noun | Heather; heath. |
| haddie | noun | The haddock. |
| haema- | Alt. of Haemo- | |
| haemo- | Combining forms indicating relation or resemblance to blood, association with blood; as, haemapod, haematogenesis, haemoscope., See Haema-. | |
| haemad | adverb | Toward the haemal side; on the haemal side of; — opposed to neurad. |
| haemal | adjective | Pertaining to the blood or blood vessels; also, ventral. See Hemal. |
| haemic | adjective | Pertaining to the blood; hemal. |
| haemin | noun | Same as Hemin. |
| haffle | verb i. | To stammer; to speak unintelligibly; to prevaricate. |
| hafter | noun | A caviler; a wrangler. |
| hagged | imp. & past participle | of Hag, Like a hag; lean; ugly. |
| hagbut | noun | A harquebus, of which the but was bent down or hooked for convenience in taking aim. |
| hagdon | 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. |
| haggis | 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. |
| haggle | verb t. | 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., To be difficult in bargaining; to stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle., The act or process of haggling. |
| haikal | 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. |
| halled | imp. & past participle | of Hail |
| hailse | verb t. | To greet; to salute. |
| hain’t | A contraction of have not or has not; as, I hain’t, he hain’t, we hain’t. | |
| haired | adjective | Having hair., In composition: Having (such) hair; as, red-haired. |
| hairen | adjective | Hairy. |
| haling | present participle & vb. noun | of Hale |
| halves | plural | of Half, pl. of Half. |
| halfen | adjective | Wanting half its due qualities. |
| halfer | noun | One who possesses or gives half only; one who shares., A male fallow deer gelded. |
| halmas | adjective | The feast of All Saints; Hallowmas. |
| halite | noun | Native salt; sodium chloride. |
| halloa | See Halloo. | |
| halloo | noun | A loud exclamation; a call to invite attention or to incite a person or an animal; a shout., To cry out; to exclaim with a loud voice; to call to a person, as by the word halloo., To encourage with shouts., To chase with shouts or outcries., To call or shout to; to hail., An exclamation to call attention or to encourage one. |
| hallow | verb t. | To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. |
| hallux | 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. |
| haloed | imp. & past participle | of Halo, Surrounded with a halo; invested with an ideal glory; glorified. |
| haloid | 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., A haloid substance. |
| halsed | imp. & past participle | of Halse |
| halser | noun | See Hawser. |
| halted | imp. & past participle | of Halt |
| halter | noun | One who halts or limps; a cripple., A strong strap or cord., A rope or strap, with or without a headstall, for leading or tying a horse., A rope for hanging malefactors; a noose., To tie by the neck with a rope, strap, or halter; to put a halter on; to subject to a hangman’s halter. |
| halved | imp. & past participle | of Halve, Appearing as if one side, or one half, were cut away; dimidiate. |
| hamate | adjective | Hooked; bent at the end into a hook; hamous. |
| hamble | verb t. | To hamstring. |
| hamite | noun | A fossil cephalopod of the genus Hamites, related to the ammonites, but having the last whorl bent into a hooklike form., A descendant of Ham, Noah’s second son. See Gen. x. 6-20. |
| haitic | adjective | Pertaining to Ham or his descendants. |
| hamlet | noun | A small village; a little cluster of houses in the country. |
| hammer | 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., Something which in firm or action resembles the common hammer, That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour., The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones., The malleus., That part of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, or firing pin; the cock; formerly, however, a piece of steel covering the pan of a flintlock musket and struck by the flint of the cock to ignite the priming., Also, a person of thing that smites or shatters; as, St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies., To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to hammer iron., To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating., To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; — usually with out., To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer., To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively. |
| hamose | Alt. of Hamous | |
| hamous | Having the end hooked or curved. | |
| hamper | 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., To put in a hamper., To put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle; to insnare; to inveigle; hence, to impede in motion or progress; to embarrass; to encumber., A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes., Articles ordinarily indispensable, but in the way at certain times. |
| hamule | noun | A little hook. |
| hamuli | plural | of Hamulus |
| handed | imp. & past participle | of Hand, With hands joined; hand in hand., Having a peculiar or characteristic hand. |
| hander | noun | One who hands over or transmits; a conveyer in succession. |
| handle | verb t. | To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand., To manage in using, as a spade or a musket; to wield; often, to manage skillfully., To accustom to the hand; to work upon, or take care of, with the hands., To receive and transfer; to have pass through one’s hands; hence, to buy and sell; as, a merchant handles a variety of goods, or a large stock., To deal with; to make a business of., To treat; to use, well or ill., To manage; to control; to practice skill upon., To use or manage in writing or speaking; to treat, as a theme, an argument, or an objection., To use the hands., That part of vessels, instruments, etc., which is held in the hand when used or moved, as the haft of a sword, the knob of a door, the bail of a kettle, etc., That of which use is made; the instrument for effecting a purpose; a tool. |
| hanged | imp. & past participle | of Hang |
| hanger | noun | One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman., That by which a thing is suspended., A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended., A part that suspends a journal box in which shafting runs. See Illust. of Countershaft., A bridle iron., That which hangs or is suspended, as a sword worn at the side; especially, in the 18th century, a short, curved sword., A steep, wooded declivity. |
| hanker | verb i. | 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., To linger in expectation or with desire. |
| han sa | noun | See 2d Hanse. |
| hansel | noun & verb | See Handsel. |
| hansom | Alt. of Hansom cab | |
| happed | p. adjective | Wrapped; covered; cloaked. |
| happen | verb i. | To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out., To take place; to occur. |
| hapuku | noun | A large and valuable food fish (Polyprion prognathus) of New Zealand. It sometimes weighs one hundred pounds or more. |
| harass | verb t. | 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., Devastation; waste., Worry; harassment. |
| harbor | noun | A station for rest and entertainment; a place of security and comfort; a refuge; a shelter., Specif.: A lodging place; an inn., The mansion of a heavenly body., A portion of a sea, a lake, or other large body of water, either landlocked or artificially protected so as to be a place of safety for vessels in stormy weather; a port or haven., A mixing box materials., To afford lodging to; to enter as guest; to receive; to give a refuge to; indulge or cherish (a thought or feeling, esp. an ill thought)., To lodge, or abide for a time; to take shelter, as in a harbor. |
| harden | verb t. | To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron., To accustom by labor or suffering to endure with constancy; to strengthen; to stiffen; to inure; also, to confirm in wickedness or shame; to make unimpressionable., To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying., To become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a bad sense. |
| harder | noun | A South African mullet, salted for food. |
| hardly | adverb | In a hard or difficult manner; with difficulty., Unwillingly; grudgingly., Scarcely; barely; not guite; not wholly., Severely; harshly; roughly., Confidently; hardily., Certainly; surely; indeed. |
| hareld | noun | The long-tailed duck. |
| harier | noun | See Harrier. |
| harish | adjective | Like a hare. |
| harken | verb t. & i. | To hearken. |
| harlot | noun | A churl; a common man; a person, male or female, of low birth., A person given to low conduct; a rogue; a cheat; a rascal., A woman who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a common woman; a strumpet., Wanton; lewd; low; base., To play the harlot; to practice lewdness. |
| harmed | imp. & past participle | of Harm |
| harmel | noun | A kind of rue (Ruta sylvestris) growing in India. At Lahore the seeds are used medicinally and for fumigation. |
| harped | imp. & past participle | of Harp |
| harper | noun | A player on the harp; a minstrel., A brass coin bearing the emblem of a harp, — formerly current in Ireland. |
| harrow | 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., An obstacle formed by turning an ordinary harrow upside down, the frame being buried., To draw a harrow over, as for the purpose of breaking clods and leveling the surface, or for covering seed; as, to harrow land., To break or tear, as with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate; to torment or distress; to vex., Help! Halloo! An exclamation of distress; a call for succor;-the ancient Norman hue and cry., To pillage; to harry; to oppress. |
| harten | verb t. | To hearten; to encourage; to incite. |
| hasard | noun | Hazard. |
| hashed | imp. & past participle | of Hash |
| haslet | noun | The edible viscera, as the heart, liver, etc., of a beast, esp. of a hog. |
| hasped | imp. & past participle | of Hasp |
| hasted | imp. & past participle | of Haste |
| hasten | verb t. | To press; to drive or urge forward; to push on; to precipitate; to accelerate the movement of; to expedite; to hurry., To move celerity; to be rapid in motion; to act speedily or quickly; to go quickly. |
| hastif | adjective | Hasty. |
| hatbox | noun | A box for a hat. |
| hating | present participle & pr. & vb. noun | of Hate |
| hatred | noun | Strong aversion; intense dislike; hate; an affection of the mind awakened by something regarded as evil. |
| hatted | adjective | Covered with a hat. |
| hatter | verb t. | To tire or worry; — out., One who makes or sells hats. |
| haught | adjective | High; elevated; hence, haughty; proud. |
| hauled | imp. & past participle | of Haul |
| hauler | noun | One who hauls. |
| haulse | verb | See Halse. |
| haunce | verb t. | To enhance. |
| haunch | noun | The hip; the projecting region of the lateral parts of the pelvis and the hip joint; the hind part., Of meats: The leg and loin taken together; as, a haunch of venison. |
| hausen | noun | A large sturgeon (Acipenser huso) from the region of the Black Sea. It is sometimes twelve feet long. |
| hausse | noun | A kind of graduated breech sight for a small arm, or a cannon. |
| havana | adjective | Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar, An Havana cigar. |
| having | present participle & vb. noun | of Have, Possession; goods; estate. |
| havior | noun | Behavior; demeanor. |
| hawing | present participle & vb. noun | of Haw |
| hawhaw | verb i. | To laugh boisterously. |
| hawked | imp. & past participle | of Hawk, Curved like a hawk’s bill; crooked. |
| hawker | noun | One who sells wares by crying them in the street; hence, a peddler or a packman., To sell goods by outcry in the street., A falconer. |
| hawkey | noun | See Hockey. |
| hawser | noun | A large rope made of three strands each containing many yarns. |
| haymow | noun | A mow or mass of hay laid up in a barn for preservation., The place in a barn where hay is deposited. |
| hazard | noun | A game of chance played with dice., The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty., Risk; danger; peril; as, he encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life., Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player’s ball (losing hazard)., Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming., To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk., To venture to incur, or bring on., To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger. |
| hazing | present participle & vb. noun | of Haze |
| hazily | adverb | In a hazy manner; mistily; obscurely; confusedly. |