| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| habited | imp. & past participle | of Habit, Clothed; arrayed; dressed; as, he was habited like a shepherd., Fixed by habit; accustomed., Inhabited. |
| habitan | noun | Same as Habitant, 2. |
| habitat | verb t. | The natural abode, locality or region of an animal or plant., Place where anything is commonly found. |
| habitue | noun | One who habitually frequents a place; as, an habitue of a theater. |
| habitus | noun | Habitude; mode of life; general appearance. |
| hachure | noun | A short line used in drawing and engraving, especially in shading and denoting different surfaces, as in map drawing. See Hatching. |
| hacking | present participle & vb. noun | of Hack |
| hackery | noun | A cart with wooden wheels, drawn by bullocks. |
| hackled | imp. & past participle | of Hackle |
| hackmen | plural | of Hackman |
| hackman | noun | The driver of a hack or carriage for public hire. |
| hackney | noun | A horse for riding or driving; a nag; a pony., A horse or pony kept for hire., A carriage kept for hire; a hack; a hackney coach., A hired drudge; a hireling; a prostitute., Let out for hire; devoted to common use; hence, much used; trite; mean; as, hackney coaches; hackney authors., 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., To carry in a hackney coach. |
| haddock | 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. |
| haemony | noun | A plant described by Milton as “of sovereign use against all enchantments.” |
| hagging | present participle & vb. noun | of Hag |
| hagborn | adjective | Born of a hag or witch. |
| haggada | noun | A story, anecdote, or legend in the Talmud, to explain or illustrate the text of the Old Testament. |
| haggard | adjective | Wild or intractable; disposed to break away from duty; untamed; as, a haggard or refractory hawk., Having the expression of one wasted by want or suffering; hollow-eyed; having the features distorted or wasted, or anxious in appearance; as, haggard features, eyes., A young or untrained hawk or falcon., A fierce, intractable creature., A hag., A stackyard. |
| haggish | adjective | Like a hag; ugly; wrinkled. |
| haggled | imp. & past participle | of Haggle |
| haggler | noun | One who haggles or is difficult in bargaining., One who forestalls a market; a middleman between producer and dealer in London vegetable markets. |
| hagseed | noun | The offspring of a hag. |
| hagship | noun | The state or title of a hag. |
| haiduck | noun | Formerly, a mercenary foot soldier in Hungary, now, a halberdier of a Hungarian noble, or an attendant in German or Hungarian courts. |
| halting | present participle & vb. noun | of Hail, of Halt |
| hairpin | noun | A pin, usually forked, or of bent wire, for fastening the hair in place, — used by women. |
| haitian | adjective & noun | See Haytian. |
| haketon | noun | Same as Acton. |
| halacha | noun | The general term for the Hebrew oral or traditional law; one of two branches of exposition in the Midrash. See Midrash. |
| halberd | 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. |
| halcyon | 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., 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., Hence: Calm; quiet; peaceful; undisturbed; happy. |
| halesia | 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. |
| halfway | adverb | In the middle; at half the distance; imperfectly; partially; as, he halfway yielded., Equally distant from the extremes; situated at an intermediate point; midway. |
| halibut | 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. |
| halidom | noun | Holiness; sanctity; sacred oath; sacred things; sanctuary; — used chiefly in oaths., Holy doom; the Last Day. |
| hallage | noun | A fee or toll paid for goods sold in a hall. |
| hallier | noun | A kind of net for catching birds. |
| haloing | present participle & vb. noun | of Halo |
| halogen | 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. |
| halones | noun pl. | 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. |
| halpace | noun | See Haut pas. |
| halsing | present participle & vb. noun | of Halse |
| halvans | noun pl. | Impure ore; dirty ore. |
| halving | present participle & vb. noun | of Halve |
| hamated | adjective | Hooked, or set with hooks; hamate. |
| hamatum | noun | See Unciform. |
| hamburg | noun | A commercial city of Germany, near the mouth of the Elbe. |
| hammock | noun | A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends., A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines. Used also adjectively; as, hammock land. |
| hamster | 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. |
| hamular | adjective | Hooked; hooklike; hamate; as, the hamular process of the sphenoid bone. |
| hamulus | noun | A hook, or hooklike process., A hooked barbicel of a feather. |
| hanaper | noun | A kind of basket, usually of wickerwork, and adapted for the packing and carrying of articles; a hamper. |
| handing | present participle & vb. noun | of Hand |
| handful | noun | As much as the hand will grasp or contain., A hand’s breadth; four inches., A small quantity. |
| handily | adverb | In a handy manner; skillfully; conveniently. |
| handled | imp. & past participle | of Handle |
| handsaw | noun | A saw used with one hand. |
| handsel | 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., Price; payment., To give a handsel to., To use or do for the first time, esp. so as to make fortunate or unfortunate; to try experimentally. |
| hadsome | verb t. | To render handsome. |
| hanging | present participle & vb. noun | of Hang, Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter., Suspended from above; pendent; as, hanging shelves., Adapted for sustaining a hanging object; as, the hanging post of a gate, the post which holds the hinges., The act of suspending anything; the state of being suspended., Death by suspension; execution by a halter., That which is hung as lining or drapery for the walls of a room, as tapestry, paper, etc., or to cover or drape a door or window; — used chiefly in the plural. |
| hang-by | noun | A dependent; a hanger-on; — so called in contempt. |
| hangdog | noun | A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird., Low; sneaking; ashamed. |
| hangmen | plural | of Hangman |
| hangman | 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. |
| hansard | noun | An official report of proceedings in the British Parliament; — so called from the name of the publishers., A merchant of one of the Hanse towns. See the Note under 2d Hanse. |
| hanuman | noun | See Hoonoomaun. |
| hapless | adjective | Without hap or luck; luckless; unfortunate; unlucky; unhappy; as, hapless youth; hapless maid. |
| haplomi | noun pl. | An order of freshwater fishes, including the true pikes, cyprinodonts, and blindfishes. |
| happily | adverb | By chance; peradventure; haply., By good fortune; fortunately; luckily., In a happy manner or state; in happy circumstances; as, he lived happily with his wife., With address or dexterity; gracefully; felicitously; in a manner to success; with success. |
| hardily | adverb | Same as Hardly., Boldly; stoutly; resolutely. |
| hardish | adjective | Somewhat hard. |
| hardock | noun | See Hordock. |
| hardpan | noun | The hard substratum. Same as Hard pan, under Hard, a. |
| harelip | noun | A lip, commonly the upper one, having a fissure of perpendicular division like that of a hare. |
| harfang | noun | The snowy owl. |
| haricot | noun | A ragout or stew of meat with beans and other vegetables., The ripe seeds, or the unripe pod, of the common string bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), used as a vegetable. Other species of the same genus furnish different kinds of haricots. |
| harlock | noun | Probably a corruption either of charlock or hardock. |
| harming | present participle & vb. noun | of Harm |
| harmful | adjective | Full of harm; injurious; hurtful; mischievous. |
| harmine | noun | An alkaloid accompanying harmaline (in the Peganum harmala), and obtained from it by oxidation. It is a white crystalline substance. |
| harmony | 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., Concord or agreement in facts, opinions, manners, interests, etc.; good correspondence; peace and friendship; as, good citizens live in harmony., A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency; as, a harmony of the Gospels., A succession of chords according to the rules of progression and modulation., The science which treats of their construction and progression., See Harmonic suture, under Harmonic. |
| harmost | noun | A governor or prefect appointed by the Spartans in the cities subjugated by them. |
| harness | noun | Originally, the complete dress, especially in a military sense, of a man or a horse; hence, in general, armor., The equipment of a draught or carriage horse, for drawing a wagon, coach, chaise, etc.; gear; tackling., The part of a loom comprising the heddles, with their means of support and motion, by which the threads of the warp are alternately raised and depressed for the passage of the shuttle., To dress in armor; to equip with armor for war, as a horseman; to array., Fig.: To equip or furnish for defense., To make ready for draught; to equip with harness, as a horse. Also used figuratively. |
| harping | present participle & vb. noun | of Harp, Pertaining to the harp; as, harping symphonies. |
| harpist | noun | A player on the harp; a harper. |
| harpoon | 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., To strike, catch, or kill with a harpoon. |
| harpies | plural | of Harpy |
| harrage | verb t. | To harass; to plunder from. |
| harrier | noun | One of a small breed of hounds, used for hunting hares., One who harries., One of several species of hawks or buzzards of the genus Circus which fly low and harry small animals or birds, — as the European marsh harrier (Circus aerunginosus), and the hen harrier (C. cyaneus). |
| harried | imp. & past participle | of Harry |
| harshly | adverb | In a harsh manner; gratingly; roughly; rudely. |
| harslet | noun | See Haslet. |
| harvest | 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., That which is reaped or ready to be reaped or gath//ed; a crop, as of grain (wheat, maize, etc.), or fruit., The product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward., To reap or gather, as any crop. |
| hashing | present participle & vb. noun | of Hash |
| hashish | 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. |
| hasping | present participle & vb. noun | of Hasp |
| hassock | noun | A rank tuft of bog grass; a tussock., A small stuffed cushion or footstool, for kneeling on in church, or for home use. |
| hastate | noun | Alt. of Hastated |
| hasting | present participle & vb. noun | of Haste |
| hastile | adjective | Same as Hastate. |
| hastily | adverb | In haste; with speed or quickness; speedily; nimbly., Without due reflection; precipitately; rashly., Passionately; impatiently. |
| hastive | noun | Forward; early; — said of fruits. |
| hatable | adjective | Capable of being, or deserving to be, hated; odious; detestable. |
| hatband | noun | A band round the crown of a hat; sometimes, a band of black cloth, crape, etc., worn as a badge of mourning. |
| hatched | imp. & past participle | of Hatch |
| hatchel | 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., To draw through the teeth of a hatchel, as flax or hemp, so as to separate the coarse and refuse parts from the fine, fibrous parts., To tease; to worry; to torment. |
| hatcher | noun | One who hatches, or that which hatches; a hatching apparatus; an incubator., One who contrives or originates; a plotter. |
| hatchet | noun | A small ax with a short handle, to be used with one hand., Specifically, a tomahawk. |
| hateful | adjective | Manifesting hate or hatred; malignant; malevolent., Exciting or deserving great dislike, aversion, or disgust; odious. |
| hatless | adjective | Having no hat. |
| hatrack | noun | A hatstand; hattree. |
| hatting | noun | The business of making hats; also, stuff for hats. |
| hattree | noun | A hatstand. |
| hauberk | verb t. | 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. |
| haughty | superl. | High; lofty; bold., Disdainfully or contemptuously proud; arrogant; overbearing., Indicating haughtiness; as, a haughty carriage. |
| hauling | present participle & vb. noun | of Haul |
| haulage | noun | Act of hauling; as, the haulage of cars by an engine; charge for hauling. |
| haunted | imp. & past participle | of Haunt, Inhabited by, or subject to the visits of, apparitions; frequented by a ghost. |
| haunter | noun | One who, or that which, haunts. |
| hautboy | 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., A sort of strawberry (Fragaria elatior). |
| hautein | adjective | Haughty; proud., High; — said of the voice or flight of birds. |
| hauteur | noun | Haughty manner or spirit; haughtiness; pride; arrogance. |
| hautpas | noun | A raised part of the floor of a large room; a platform for a raised table or throne. See Dais. |
| havened | p. adjective | Sheltered in a haven. |
| havener | noun | A harbor master. |
| haw-haw | noun | See Ha-ha. |
| hawking | present participle & vb. noun | of Hawk |
| hawkbit | noun | The fall dandelion (Leontodon autumnale). |
| haybird | noun | The European spotted flycatcher., The European blackcap. |
| haybote | noun | An allowance of wood to a tenant for repairing his hedges or fences; hedgebote. See Bote. |
| haycock | noun | A conical pile or hear of hay in the field. |
| hayfork | noun | A fork for pitching and tedding hay. |
| hayloft | noun | A loft or scaffold for hay. |
| hayrack | noun | A frame mounted on the running gear of a wagon, and used in hauling hay, straw, sheaves, etc.; — called also hay rigging. |
| hayrake | noun | A rake for collecting hay; especially, a large rake drawn by a horse or horses. |
| hayrick | noun | A heap or pile of hay, usually covered with thatch for preservation in the open air. |
| haytian | adjective | Of pertaining to Hayti., A native of Hayti. |
| hayward | 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. |
| hazelly | adjective | Of the color of the hazelnut; of a light brown. |