| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| haberdash | verb i. | To deal in small wares. |
| haberdine | noun | A cod salted and dried. |
| habergeon | noun | Properly, a short hauberk, but often used loosely for the hauberk. |
| habitable | adjective | Capable of being inhabited; that may be inhabited or dwelt in; as, the habitable world. |
| habitakle | verb | A dwelling place. |
| habitance | noun | Dwelling; abode; residence. |
| habitator | noun | A dweller; an inhabitant. |
| habituate | verb t. | To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize., To settle as an inhabitant., Firmly established by custom; formed by habit; habitual. |
| hackamore | noun | A halter consisting of a long leather or rope strap and headstall, — used for leading or tieing a pack animal. |
| hackberry | noun | A genus of trees (Celtis) related to the elm, but bearing drupes with scanty, but often edible, pulp. C. occidentalis is common in the Eastern United States. |
| hackneyed | imp. & past participle | of Hackney |
| hacqueton | noun | Same as Acton. |
| haecceity | Literally, this-ness. A scholastic term to express individuality or singleness; as, this book. | |
| haematite | noun | Same as Hematite. |
| haematoid | adjective | Same as Hematoid. |
| haematoin | noun | 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 haematoporphyrin and haematolin, are formed in a similar manner. |
| hagbutter | noun | A soldier armed with a hagbut or arquebus. |
| haggadoth | plural | of Haggada |
| haggardly | adverb | In a haggard manner. |
| haggishly | adverb | In the manner of a hag. |
| hagiarchy | noun | A sacred government; by holy orders of men. |
| hagiology | noun | The history or description of the sacred writings or of sacred persons; a narrative of the lives of the saints; a catalogue of saints. |
| hag-taper | noun | The great woolly mullein (Verbascum Thapsus). |
| hailstone | noun | A single particle of ice falling from a cloud; a frozen raindrop; a pellet of hail. |
| hailstorm | noun | A storm accompanied with hail; a shower of hail. |
| hairbrush | noun | A brush for cleansing and smoothing the hair. |
| haircloth | noun | Stuff or cloth made wholly or in part of hair. |
| hairiness | noun | The state of abounding, or being covered, with hair. |
| hair-salt | noun | A variety of native Epsom salt occurring in silky fibers. |
| halachoth | plural | of Halacha |
| half-boot | noun | A boot with a short top covering only the ankle. See Cocker, and Congress boot, under Congress. |
| half-bred | adjective | Half-blooded., Imperfectly acquainted with the rules of good-breeding; not well trained. |
| half-deck | noun | A shell of the genus Crepidula; a boat shell. See Boat shell., See Half deck, under Deck. |
| half-fish | noun | A salmon in its fifth year of growth. |
| half-mast | noun | A point some distance below the top of a mast or staff; as, a flag a half-mast (a token of mourning, etc.). |
| half-moon | noun | The moon at the quarters, when half its disk appears illuminated., The shape of a half-moon; a crescent., An outwork composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon; — now called a ravelin., A marine, sparoid, food fish of California (Caesiosoma Californiense). The body is ovate, blackish above, blue or gray below. Called also medialuna. |
| half-pike | noun | A short pike, sometimes carried by officers of infantry, sometimes used in boarding ships; a spontoon. |
| half-port | noun | One half of a shutter made in two parts for closing a porthole. |
| half-read | adjective | Informed by insufficient reading; superficial; shallow. |
| haliotoid | adjective | Like or pertaining to the genus Haliotis; ear-shaped. |
| halituous | adjective | Produced by, or like, breath; vaporous. |
| hallidome | noun | Same as Halidom. |
| hall-mark | noun | The official stamp of the Goldsmiths’ Company and other assay offices, in the United Kingdom, on gold and silver articles, attesting their purity. Also used figuratively; — as, a word or phrase lacks the hall-mark of the best writers. |
| hallowing | present participle & vb. noun | of Hallow |
| halloween | noun | The evening preceding Allhallows or All Saints’ Day. |
| hallowmas | noun | The feast of All Saints, or Allhallows. |
| halomancy | noun | See Alomancy. |
| halometer | noun | An instrument for measuring the forms and angles of salts and crystals; a goniometer. |
| halophyte | noun | A plant found growing in salt marshes, or in the sea. |
| haloscope | noun | An instrument for exhibition or illustration of the phenomena of halos, parhelia, and the like. |
| halsening | adjective | Sounding harshly in the throat; inharmonious; rough. |
| haltering | present participle & vb. noun | of Halter |
| haltingly | adverb | In a halting or limping manner. |
| halysites | noun | A genus of Silurian fossil corals; the chain corals. See Chain coral, under Chain. |
| hamadryad | noun | A tree nymph whose life ended with that of the particular tree, usually an oak, which had been her abode., A large venomous East Indian snake (Orhiophagus bungarus), allied to the cobras. |
| hamadryas | noun | The sacred baboon of Egypt (Cynocephalus Hamadryas). |
| hamamelis | noun | A genus of plants which includes the witch-hazel (Hamamelis Virginica), a preparation of which is used medicinally. |
| hammering | present participle & vb. noun | of Hammer |
| hammerkop | noun | A bird of the Heron family; the umber. |
| hammermen | plural | of Hammerman |
| hammerman | noun | A hammerer; a forgeman. |
| hampering | present participle & vb. noun | of Hamper |
| hamstring | noun | One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh., To lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee; to hough; hence, to cripple; to incapacitate; to disable. |
| hamstrung | imp. & past participle | of Hamstring |
| handcloth | noun | A handkerchief. |
| handcraft | noun | Same as Handicraft. |
| hand flus | plural | of Handful |
| hand-hole | noun | A small hole in a boiler for the insertion of the hand in cleaning, etc. |
| handiness | noun | The quality or state of being handy. |
| handiwork | noun | Work done by the hands; hence, any work done personally. |
| handseled | imp. & past participle | of Handsel, of Handsel |
| handspike | noun | A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes. |
| handwheel | noun | Any wheel worked by hand; esp., one the rim of which serves as the handle by which a valve, car brake, or other part is adjusted. |
| hand-work | noun | See Handiwork. |
| hang-bies | plural | of Hang-by |
| hanger-on | noun | One who hangs on, or sticks to, a person, place, or service; a dependent; one who adheres to others’ society longer than he is wanted. |
| hankering | present participle & vb. noun | of Hanker |
| hanseatic | adjective | Pertaining to the Hanse towns, or to their confederacy. |
| hap’penny | noun | A half-penny. |
| haphazard | noun | Extra hazard; chance; accident; random. |
| haplessly | adverb | In a hapless, unlucky manner. |
| happening | present participle & vb. noun | of Happen |
| happiness | noun | Good luck; good fortune; prosperity., An agreeable feeling or condition of the soul arising from good fortune or propitious happening of any kind; the possession of those circumstances or that state of being which is attended enjoyment; the state of being happy; contentment; joyful satisfaction; felicity; blessedness., Fortuitous elegance; unstudied grace; — used especially of language. |
| hara-kiri | noun | Suicide, by slashing the abdomen, formerly practiced in Japan, and commanded by the government in the cases of disgraced officials; disembowelment; — also written, but incorrectly, hari-kari. |
| harangued | imp. & past participle | of Harangue |
| haranguer | noun | One who harangues, or is fond of haranguing; a declaimer. |
| harassing | present participle & vb. noun | of Harass |
| harberous | adjective | Harborous. |
| harbinger | noun | One who provides lodgings; especially, the officer of the English royal household who formerly preceded the court when traveling, to provide and prepare lodgings., A forerunner; a precursor; a messenger., To usher in; to be a harbinger of. |
| harboring | present participle & vb. noun | of Harbor |
| harborage | noun | Shelter; entertainment. |
| harbrough | A shelter. | |
| harborous | adjective | Hospitable. |
| hardening | present participle & vb. noun | of Harden, Making hard or harder., That which hardens, as a material used for converting the surface of iron into steel. |
| harderian | adjective | A term applied to a lachrymal gland on the inner side of the orbit of many animals which have a third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. See Nictitating membrane, under Nictitate. |
| hardiment | noun | Hardihood; boldness; courage; energetic action. |
| hardiness | noun | Capability of endurance., Hardihood; boldness; firmness; assurance., Hardship; fatigue. |
| hard-tack | noun | A name given by soldiers and sailors to a kind of hard biscuit or sea bread. |
| harehound | noun | See Harrier. |
| harlequin | noun | A buffoon, dressed in party-colored clothes, who plays tricks, often without speaking, to divert the bystanders or an audience; a merry-andrew; originally, a droll rogue of Italian comedy., To play the droll; to make sport by playing ludicrous tricks., Toremove or conjure away, as by a harlequin’s trick. |
| harlotize | verb i. | To harlot. |
| harmaline | noun | An alkaloid found in the plant Peganum harmala. It forms bitter, yellow salts. |
| harmattan | noun | A dry, hot wind, prevailing on the Atlantic coast of Africa, in December, January, and February, blowing from the interior or Sahara. It is usually accompanied by a haze which obscures the sun. |
| harmonica | noun | A musical instrument, consisting of a series of hemispherical glasses which, by touching the edges with the dampened finger, give forth the tones., A toy instrument of strips of glass or metal hung on two tapes, and struck with hammers. |
| harmonics | noun | The doctrine or science of musical sounds., Secondary and less distinct tones which accompany any principal, and apparently simple, tone, as the octave, the twelfth, the fifteenth, and the seventeenth. The name is also applied to the artificial tones produced by a string or column of air, when the impulse given to it suffices only to make a part of the string or column vibrate; overtones. |
| harmonist | noun | One who shows the agreement or harmony of corresponding passages of different authors, as of the four evangelists., One who understands the principles of harmony or is skillful in applying them in composition; a musical composer., Alt. of Harmonite |
| harmonite | noun | One of a religious sect, founded in Wurtemburg in the last century, composed of followers of George Rapp, a weaver. They had all their property in common. In 1803, a portion of this sect settled in Pennsylvania and called the village thus established, Harmony. |
| harmonium | noun | A musical instrument, resembling a small organ and especially designed for church music, in which the tones are produced by forcing air by means of a bellows so as to cause the vibration of free metallic reeds. It is now made with one or two keyboards, and has pedals and stops. |
| harmonize | verb i. | To agree in action, adaptation, or effect on the mind; to agree in sense or purport; as, the parts of a mechanism harmonize., To be in peace and friendship, as individuals, families, or public organizations., To agree in vocal or musical effect; to form a concord; as, the tones harmonize perfectly., To adjust in fit proportions; to cause to agree; to show the agreement of; to reconcile the apparent contradiction of., To accompany with harmony; to provide with parts, as an air, or melody. |
| harmonies | plural | of Harmony |
| harmotome | noun | A hydrous silicate of alumina and baryta, occurring usually in white cruciform crystals; cross-stone. |
| harnessed | imp. & past participle | of Harness |
| harnesser | noun | One who harnesses. |
| harpooned | imp. & past participle | of Harpoon |
| harpooner | noun | One who throws the harpoon. |
| harquebus | noun | Alt. of Harquebuse |
| harrowing | present participle & vb. noun | of Harrow |
| harshness | noun | The quality or state of being harsh. |
| hartbeest | noun | A large South African antelope (Alcelaphus caama), formerly much more abundant than it is now. The face and legs are marked with black, the rump with white. |
| hartshorn | noun | The horn or antler of the hart, or male red deer., Spirits of hartshorn (see below); volatile salts. |
| haruspice | noun | A diviner of ancient Rome. Same as Aruspice. |
| haruspicy | noun | The art or practices of haruspices. See Aruspicy. |
| harvested | imp. & past participle | of Harvest |
| harvester | noun | One who harvests; a machine for cutting and gathering grain; a reaper., A harvesting ant. |
| harvestry | noun | The act of harvesting; also, that which is harvested. |
| hastening | present participle & vb. noun | of Hasten |
| hastiness | noun | The quality or state of being hasty; haste; precipitation; rashness; quickness of temper. |
| hatcheled | imp. & past participle | of Hatchel |
| hatcheler | noun | One who uses a hatchel. |
| hatchment | noun | A sort of panel, upon which the arms of a deceased person are temporarily displayed, — usually on the walls of his dwelling. It is lozenge-shaped or square, but is hung cornerwise. It is used in England as a means of giving public notification of the death of the deceased, his or her rank, whether married, widower, widow, etc. Called also achievement., A sword or other mark of the profession of arms; in general, a mark of dignity. |
| haughtily | adverb | In a haughty manner; arrogantly. |
| haustella | plural | of Haustellum |
| haustoria | plural | of Haustorium |
| haversack | noun | A bag for oats or oatmeal., A bag or case, usually of stout cloth, in which a soldier carries his rations when on a march; — distinguished from knapsack., A gunner’s case or bag used carry cartridges from the ammunition chest to the piece in loading. |
| haversian | adjective | Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. |
| hawk-eyed | adjective | Having a keen eye; sharpsighted; discerning. |
| hawk moth | Any moth of the family Sphingidae, of which there are numerous genera and species. They are large, handsome moths, which fly mostly at twilight and hover about flowers like a humming bird, sucking the honey by means of a long, slender proboscis. The larvae are large, hairless caterpillars ornamented with green and other bright colors, and often with a caudal spine. See Sphinx, also Tobacco worm, and Tomato worm. | |
| haymaking | noun | The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay. |
| hazarding | present participle & vb. / | of Hazard |
| hazardize | noun | A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. |
| hazardous | adjective | Exposed to hazard; dangerous; risky. |
| hazelwort | noun | The asarabacca. |