Words |
Parts of Speech |
Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
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. |
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 |