| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| holpen | past participle | of Help, imp. & p. p. of Help. |
| hoared | adjective | Moldy; musty. |
| hoarse | superl. | 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., Harsh; grating; discordant; — said of any sound. |
| hoaxed | imp. & past participle | of Hoax |
| hoaxer | noun | One who hoaxes. |
| hoazin | noun | A remarkable South American bird (Opisthocomus cristatus); the crested touraco. By some zoologists it is made the type of a distinct order (Opisthocomi). |
| hobble | noun i. | To walk lame, bearing chiefly on one leg; to walk with a hitch or hop, or with crutches., To move roughly or irregularly; — said of style in writing., To fetter by tying the legs; to hopple; to clog., To perplex; to embarrass., An unequal gait; a limp; a halt; as, he has a hobble in his gait., Same as Hopple., Difficulty; perplexity; embarrassment. |
| hobbly | adjective | Rough; uneven; causing one to hobble; as a hobbly road. |
| hobnob | adverb | Have or have not; — a familiar invitation to reciprocal drinking., At random; hit or miss. (Obs.), To drink familiarly (with another)., To associate familiarly; to be on intimate terms., Familiar, social intercourse. |
| hockey | 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., The stick used by the players. |
| hockle | verb t. | To hamstring; to hock; to hough., To mow, as stubble. |
| hodmen | plural | of Hodman |
| hodman | noun | A man who carries a hod; a mason’s tender. |
| hoeing | present participle & vb. noun | of Hoe |
| hogged | imp. & past participle | of Hog, Broken or strained so as to have an upward curve between the ends. See Hog, v. i. |
| hogger | noun | A stocking without a foot, worn by coal miners at work. |
| hogget | noun | A young boar of the second year., A sheep or colt alter it has passed its first year. |
| hognut | noun | The pignut., In England, the Bunium flexuosum, a tuberous plant. |
| hogpen | noun | A pen or sty for hogs. |
| hogsty | noun | A pen, house, or inclosure, for hogs. |
| hoiden | noun | A rude, clownish youth., A rude, bold girl; a romp., Rustic; rude; bold., To romp rudely or indecently. |
| holcad | noun | A large ship of burden, in ancient Greece. |
| holden | of Hold | |
| holder | noun | One who is employed in the hold of a vessel., One who, or that which, holds., One who holds land, etc., under another; a tenant., The payee of a bill of exchange or a promissory note, or the one who owns or holds it. |
| holily | adverb | Piously; with sanctity; in a holy manner., Sacredly; inviolably. |
| holing | noun | Undercutting in a bed of coal, in order to bring down the upper mass. |
| holloa | noun & verb i. | Same as Hollo. |
| hollow | 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., Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken., Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound; deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar., Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as, a hollow heart; a hollow friend., A cavity, natural or artificial; an unfilled space within anything; a hole, a cavern; an excavation; as the hollow of the hand or of a tree., A low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a surface; a concavity; a channel., To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate., Wholly; completely; utterly; — chiefly after the verb to beat, and often with all; as, this story beats the other all hollow. See All, adv., Hollo., To shout; to hollo., To urge or call by shouting. |
| holmia | noun | An oxide of holmium. |
| holmos | noun | A name given to a vase having a rounded body, A closed vessel of nearly spherical form on a high stem or pedestal., A drinking cup having a foot and stem. |
| holour | noun | A whoremonger. |
| holsom | adjective | Wholesome. |
| homage | 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., Respect or reverential regard; deference; especially, respect paid by external action; obeisance., Reverence directed to the Supreme Being; reverential worship; devout affection., To pay reverence to by external action., To cause to pay homage. |
| homely | noun | Belonging to, or having the characteristics of, home; domestic; familiar; intimate., Plain; unpretending; rude in appearance; unpolished; as, a homely garment; a homely house; homely fare; homely manners., Of plain or coarse features; uncomely; — contrary to handsome., Plainly; rudely; coarsely; as, homely dressed. |
| homily | noun | A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; a serious discourse., A serious or tedious exhortation in private on some moral point, or on the conduct of life. |
| homing | adjective | Home-returning; — used specifically of carrier pigeons. |
| hominy | noun | Maize hulled and broken, and prepared for food by being boiled in water. |
| homish | adjective | Like a home or a home circle. |
| honing | p]. pr. & vb. noun | of Hone |
| honest | adjective | Decent; honorable; suitable; becoming., Characterized by integrity or fairness and straight/forwardness in conduct, thought, speech, etc.; upright; just; equitable; trustworthy; truthful; sincere; free from fraud, guile, or duplicity; not false; — said of persons and acts, and of things to which a moral quality is imputed; as, an honest judge or merchant; an honest statement; an honest bargain; an honest business; an honest book; an honest confession., Open; frank; as, an honest countenance., Chaste; faithful; virtuous., To adorn; to grace; to honor; to make becoming, appropriate, or honorable. |
| honied | adjective | See Honeyed. |
| hooded | imp. & past participle | of Hood, Covered with a hood., Furnished with a hood or something like a hood., Hood-shaped; esp. (Bot.), rolled up like a cornet of paper; cuculate, as the spethe of the Indian turnip., Having the head conspicuously different in color from the rest of the plumage; — said of birds., Having a hoodlike crest or prominence on the head or neck; as, the hooded seal; a hooded snake. |
| hoodoo | noun | One who causes bad luck. |
| hooves | plural | of Hoof |
| hoofed | adjective | Furnished with hoofs. |
| hooked | imp. & past participle | of Hook, Having the form of a hook; curvated; as, the hooked bill of a bird., Provided with a hook or hooks. |
| hookah | noun | A pipe with a long, flexible stem, so arranged that the smoke is cooled by being made to pass through water. |
| hooker | noun | One who, or that which, hooks., A Dutch vessel with two masts., A fishing boat with one mast, used on the coast of Ireland., A sailor’s contemptuous term for any antiquated craft. |
| hookey | noun | See Hockey. |
| hooped | imp. & past participle | of Hoop |
| hooper | noun | One who hoops casks or tubs; a cooper., The European whistling, or wild, swan (Olor cygnus); — called also hooper swan, whooping swan, and elk. |
| hoopoe | noun | Alt. of Hoopoo |
| hoopoo | 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. |
| hooted | imp. & past participle | of Hoot |
| hooven | adjective | Alt. of Hoven |
| hopped | imp. & past participle | of Hop, Impregnated with hops. |
| hoping | present participle & vb. noun | of Hope |
| hopper | noun | One who, or that which, hops., A chute, box, or receptacle, usually funnel-shaped with an opening at the lower part, for delivering or feeding any material, as to a machine; as, the wooden box with its trough through which grain passes into a mill by joining or shaking, or a funnel through which fuel passes into a furnace, or coal, etc., into a car., See Grasshopper, 2., A game. See Hopscotch., See Grasshopper, and Frog hopper, Grape hopper, Leaf hopper, Tree hopper, under Frog, Grape, Leaf, and Tree., The larva of a cheese fly., A vessel for carrying waste, garbage, etc., out to sea, so constructed as to discharge its load by a mechanical contrivance; — called also dumping scow. |
| hoppet | noun | A hand basket; also, a dish used by miners for measuring ore., An infant in arms. |
| hopple | verb t. | 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., Fig.: To entangle; to hamper., A fetter for horses, or cattle, when turned out to graze; — chiefly used in the plural. |
| horaly | adverb | Hourly. |
| horary | adjective | Of or pertaining to an hour; noting the hours., Occurring once an hour; continuing an hour; hourly; ephemeral. |
| horned | adjective | Furnished with a horn or horns; furnished with a hornlike process or appendage; as, horned cattle; having some part shaped like a horn. |
| hornel | noun | The European sand eel. |
| horner | noun | One who works or deal in horn or horns., One who winds or blows the horn., One who horns or cuckolds., The British sand lance or sand eel (Ammodytes lanceolatus). |
| hornet | 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. |
| horrid | adjective | Rough; rugged; bristling., Fitted to excite horror; dreadful; hideous; shocking; hence, very offensive. |
| horror | noun | A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement., A shaking, shivering, or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever; in old medical writings, a chill of less severity than a rigor, and more marked than an algor., A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking., That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness. |
| horsed | imp. & past participle | of Horse |
| horsly | adjective | Horselike. |
| hosier | noun | One who deals in hose or stocking, or in goods knit or woven like hose. |
| hostel | noun | An inn., A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge. |
| hostie | noun | The consecrated wafer; the host. |
| hostry | noun | A hostelry; an inn or lodging house., A stable for horses. |
| hotbed | 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., A place which favors rapid growth or development; as, a hotbed of sedition. |
| houdah | noun | See Howdah. |
| houlet | noun | An owl. See Howlet. |
| houris | plural | of Houri |
| hourly | adjective | Happening or done every hour; occurring hour by hour; frequent; often repeated; renewed hour by hour; continual., Every hour; frequently; continually. |
| houses | plural | of House |
| housed | imp. & past participle | of House |
| housel | noun | The eucharist., To administer the eucharist to. |
| houtou | noun | A beautiful South American motmot. |
| howdah | noun | A seat or pavilion, generally covered, fastened on the back of an elephant, for the rider or riders. |
| howell | noun | The upper stage of a porcelian furnace. |
| howitz | noun | A howitzer. |
| howker | noun | Same as Hooker. |
| howled | imp. & past participle | of Howl |
| howler | noun | One who howls., Any South American monkey of the genus Mycetes. Many species are known. They are arboreal in their habits, and are noted for the loud, discordant howling in which they indulge at night. |
| howlet | noun | An owl; an owlet. |
| hoyden | noun | Same as Hoiden. |
| hoymen | plural | of Hoyman |
| hoyman | noun | One who navigates a hoy. |