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H (?), the eighth letter of the English alphabet, is classed among the
consonants, and is formed with the mouth organs in the same position
as that of the succeeding vowel. It is used with certain consonants to
form digraphs representing sounds which are not found in the alphabet,
as sh, th, th, as in shall, thing, thine (for zh see §274); also, to
modify the sounds of some other letters, as when placed after c and p,
with the former of which it represents a compound sound like that of
tsh, as in charm (written also tch as in catch), with the latter, the
sound of f, as in phase, phantom. In some words, mostly derived or
introduced from foreign languages, h following c and g indicates that
those consonants have the hard sound before e, i, and y, as in
chemistry, chiromancy, chyle, Ghent, Ghibelline, etc.; in some others,
ch has the sound of sh, as in chicane. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§
153, 179, 181-3, 237-8.
NOTE: The na me (a itch) is from the French ache; its form is from
the Latin, and this from the Greek H, which was used as the sign of
the spiritus asper (rough breathing) before it came to represent
the long vowel, Gr. y. The Greek H is from Ph\'d2nician, the
ultimate origin probably being Egyptian. Etymologically H is most
closely related to c; as in E. horn, L. cornu, Gr. ke`ras; E. hele,
v. t., conceal; E. hide, L. cutis, Gr. ky`tos; E. hundred, L.
centum, Gr. 'e-kat-on, Skr. &csdot;ata.
H piece (Mining), the part of a plunger pump which contains the valve.
H
H (h&add;). (Mus.) The seventh degree in the diatonic scale, being
used by the Germans for B natural. See B.
Ha
Ha (h&add;), interj. [AS.] An exclamation denoting surprise, joy, or
grief. Both as uttered and as written, it expresses a great variety of
emotions, determined by the tone or the context. When repeated, ha,
ha, it is an expression of laughter, satisfaction, or triumph,
sometimes of derisive laughter; or sometimes it is equivalent to
"Well, it is so."
Ha-has, and inarticulate hootings of satirical rebuke. Carlyle.
Haaf
Haaf (?), n. [Of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. & Sw. haf the sea, Dan. hav,
perh. akin to E. haven.] The deepsea fishing for cod, ling, and tusk,
off the Shetland Isles.
Haak
Haak (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) A sea fish. See Hake. Ash.
Haar
Haar (?), n. [See Hoar.] A fog; esp., a fog or mist with a chill wind.
[Scot.] T. Chalmers.
Habeas corpus
Ha"be*as corpus (?). [L. you may have the body.] (Law) A writ having
for its object to bring a party before a court or judge; especially,
one to inquire into the cause of a person's imprisonment or detention
by another, with the view to protect the right to personal liberty;
also, one to bring a prisoner into court to testify in a pending
trial. Bouvier.
Habendum
Ha*ben"dum (?), n. [L., that must be had.] (Law) That part of a deed
which follows the part called the premises, and determines the extent
of the interest or estate granted; -- so called because it begins with
the word Habendum. Kent.
Haberdash
Hab"er*dash (?), v. i. [See Haberdasher.] To deal in small wares. [R.]
To haberdash in earth's base ware. Quarles.
Haberdasher
Hab"er*dash"er (?), n. [Prob. fr. Icel. hapurtask trumpery, trifles,
perh. through French. It is possibly akin to E. haversack, and to
Icel. taska trunk, chest, pocket, G. tasche pocket, and the orig.
sense was perh., peddler's wares.]
1. A dealer in small wares, as tapes, pins, needles, and thread; also,
a hatter. [Obs.]
The haberdasher heapeth wealth by hats. Gascoigne.
2. A dealer in drapery goods of various descriptions, as laces, silks,
trimmings, etc.
Haberdashery
Hab"er*dash"er*y (?), n. The goods and wares sold by a haberdasher;
also (Fig.), trifles. Burke.
Haberdine
Hab"er*dine" (?), n. [D. abberdaan, labberdaan; or a French form, cf.
OF. habordeau, from the name of a Basque district, cf. F. Labourd,
adj. Labourdin. The l was misunderstood as the French article.] A cod
salted and dried. Ainsworth.
Habergeon
Ha*ber"ge*on (?), n. [F. haubergeon a small hauberk, dim. of OF.
hauberc, F. haubert. See Hauberk.] Properly, a short hauberk, but
often used loosely for the hauberk. Chaucer.
Habilatory
Hab"i*la*to*ry (?), a. Of or pertaining to clothing; wearing clothes.
Ld. Lytton.
Habile
Hab"ile (?), a. [F. habile, L. habilis. See Able, Habit.] Fit;
qualified; also, apt. [Obs.] Spenser.
Habiliment
Ha*bil"i*ment (?), n. [F. habillement, fr. habiller to dress, clothe,
orig., to make fit, make ready, fr. habile apt, skillful, L. habilis.
See Habile.]
1. A garment; an article of clothing. Camden.
2. pl. Dress, in general. Shak.
Habilimented
Ha*bil"i*ment*ed, a. Clothed. Taylor (1630).
Habilitate
Ha*bil"i*tate (?), a. [LL. habilitatus, p. p. of habilitare to
enable.] Qualified or entitled. [Obs.] Bacon.
Habilitate
Ha*bil"i*tate (?), v. t. To fit out; to equip; to qualify; to entitle.
Johnson.
Habilitation
Ha*bil"i*ta"tion (?), n. [LL. habilitatio: cf. F. habilitation.]
Equipment; qualification. [Obs.] Bacon.
Hability
Ha*bil"i*ty (?), n. [See Ability.] Ability; aptitude. [Obs.] Robynson.
(More's Utopia).
Habit
Hab"it (#) n. [OE. habit, abit fr. habit fr. L. habitus state,
appearance, dress, fr. habere to have, be in a condition; prob. akin
to E. have. See Have, and cf. Able, Binnacle, Debt, Due, Exhibit,
Malady.]
1. The usual condition or state of a person or thing, either natural
or acquired, regarded as something had, possessed, and firmly
retained; as, a religious habit; his habit is morose; elms have a
spreading habit; esp., physical temperament or constitution; as, a
full habit of body.
2. (Biol.) The general appearance and manner of life of a living
organism.
3. Fixed or established custom; ordinary course of conduct; practice;
usage; hence, prominently, the involuntary tendency or aptitude to
perform certain actions which is acquired by their frequent
repetition; as, habit is second nature; also, peculiar ways of acting;
characteristic forms of behavior.
A man of very shy, retired habits. W. Irving.
4. Outward appearance; attire; dress; hence, a garment; esp., a
closely fitting garment or dress worn by ladies; as, a riding habit.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy. Shak.
There are, among the states, several of Venus, in different habits.
Addison.
Syn. -- Practice; mode; manner; way; custom; fashion. -- Habit,
Custom. Habit is a disposition or tendency leading us to do easily,
naturally, and with growing certainty, what we do often; custom is
external, being habitual use or the frequent repetition of the same
act. The two operate reciprocally on each other. The custom of giving
produces a habit of liberality; habits of devotion promote the custom
of going to church. Custom also supposes an act of the will, selecting
given modes of procedure; habit is a law of our being, a kind of
"second nature" which grows up within us.
How use doth breed a habit in a man ! Shak.
He who reigns . . . upheld by old repute,
Consent, or custom. Milton.
Habit
Hab"it (?), v. t. [ Habited; p. pr. & vb. n. Habiting.] [OE.
habiten to dwell, F. habiter, fr. L. habitare to have frequently,
to dwell, intens. fr. habere to have. See Habit, n.]
1. To inhabit. [Obs.]
In thilke places as they [birds] habiten. Rom. of R.
2. To dress; to clothe; to array.
They habited themselves lite those rural deities. Dryden.
3. To accustom; to habituate. [Obs.] Chapman.
Habitability
Hab"it*a*bil"i*ty (?), n. Habitableness.
Habitable
Hab"it*a*ble (?), a. [F. habitable, L. habitbilis.] Capable of
being inhabited; that may be inhabited or dwelt in; as, the
habitable world. -- Hab"it*a*ble*ness, n. -- Hab"it*a*bly, adv.
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Habitakle
Hab"ita*kle (?), n [F. habitacle dwelling place, binnacle, L.
habitaculum dwelling place. See Binnacle, Habit, v.] A dwelling
place. Chaucer. Southey.
Habitan
Ha`bi`tan" (?), n. Same as Habitant, 2.
General met an emissary . . . sent . . . to ascertain the feelings
of the habitans or French yeomanry. W. Irwing.
Habitance
Hab"it*ance (?), n. [OF. habitance, LL. habitania.] Dwelling;
abode; residence. [Obs.] Spenser.
Habiitancy
Habi"it*an*cy (?), n. Same as Inhabitancy.
Habitant
Hab`it*ant (?), n. [F. habitant. See Habit, v.t]
1. An inhabitant; a dweller. Milton. Pope.
2. [F. pron. (] An inhabitant or resident; -- a name applied to and
denoting farmers of French descent or origin in Canada, especially
in the Province of Quebec; -- usually in plural. The habitants or
cultivators of the soil. Parkman.
Habitat
Hab`i*tat (?), n. [L., it dwells, fr. habitare. See Habit, v. t.]
1. (Biol.) The natural abode, locality or region of an animal or
plant.
2. Place where anything is commonly found.
This word has its habitat in Oxfordshire. Earle.
Habitation
Hab`i*ta"tion (?), n. [F. habitation, L. habi(atio.]
1. The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of
being inhabited; occupancy. Denham.
2. Place of abode; settled dwelling; residence; house.
The Lord . . . blesseth the habitation of the just. Prov. iii. 33.
Habitator
Hab"ita`tor (?), n. [L.] A dweller; an inhabitant. [Obs.] Sir T.
Browne.
Habited
Hab`it*ed (?), p. p. & a.
1. Clothed; arrayed; dressed; as, he was habited like a shepherd.
2. Fixed by habit; accustomed. [Obs.]
So habited he was in sobriety. Fuller.
3. Inhabited. [Archaic]
Another world, which is habited by the ghosts of men and women.
Addison.
Habitual
Ha*bit"ual (?; 135), a. [Cf. F. habituel, LL. habituals. See Habit,
n.]
1. Formed or acquired by habit or use.
An habitual knowledge of certain rules and maxims. South.
2. According to habit; established by habit; customary; constant;
as, the habiual practice of sin.
It is the distinguishing mark of habitual piety to be grateful for
the most common and ordinary blessings. Buckminster.
Syn. -- Customary; accustomed; usual; common; wonted; ordinary;
regular; familiar. -- Ha*bit"u*al*ly, adv. -- Ha*bit"u*al*ness, n.
Habituate
Ha*bit"u*ate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Habituated (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Habituating (?).] [L. habituatus, p. p. of habituare to bring
into a condition or habit of body: cf. F. habituer. See Habit.]
1. To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize.
Our English dogs, who were habituated to a colder clime. Sir K.
Digby.
Men are first corrupted . . . and next they habituate themselves to
their vicious practices. Tillotson.
2. To settle as an inhabitant. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.
Habituate
Ha*bit"u*ate (?), a. Firmly established by custom; formed by habit;
habitual. [R.] Hammond.
Habituation
Ha*bit`u*a"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. habituation.] The act of
habituating, or accustoming; the state of being habituated.
Habitude
Hab"i*tude (?), n. [F., fr. L. habitudo condition. See Habit.]
1. Habitual attitude; usual or accustomed state with reference to
something else; established or usual relations. South.
The same ideas having immutably the same habitudes one to another.
Locke.
The verdict of the judges was biased by nothing else than habitudes
of thinking. Landor.
2. Habitual association, intercourse, or familiarity.
To write well, one must have frequent habitudes with the best
company. Dryden.
3. Habit of body or of action. Shak.
It is impossible to gain an exact habitude without an infinite
Dryden.
Habitue
Ha`bi`tu`e" (?), n. [F., p. p. of habituer. See Habituate.] One who
habitually frequents a place; as, an habitu\'82 of a theater.
Habiture
Hab"i*ture (?; 135), n. Habitude. [Obs.]
Habitus
Hab"i*tus (?), n. [L.] (Zo\'94l.) Habitude; mode of life; general
appearance.
Hable
Ha"ble (?), a. See Habile. [Obs.] Spenser.
Habnab
Hab"nab (?), adv. [Hobnob.] By chance. [Obs.]
Hachure
Hach"ure (?), n. [F., fr. hacher to hack. See Hatching.] (Fine
Arts) A short line used in drawing and engraving, especially in
shading and denoting different surfaces, as in map drawing. See
Hatching.
Hacienda
Ha`ci*en"da (? or ?), n. [Sp., fr. OSp. facienda employment,
estate, fr. L. facienda, pl. of faciendum what is to be done, fr.
facere to do. See Fact.] A large estate where work of any kind is
done, as agriculture, manufacturing, mining, or raising of animals;
a cultivated farm, with a good house, in distinction from a farming
establishment with rude huts for herdsmen, etc.; -- a word used in
Spanish-American regions. <-- 2. The main residence of a hacienda
1. -->
Hack
Hack (?), n. [See Hatch a half door.]
1. A frame or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying
bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a
mill race, etc.
2. Unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying.
Hack
Hack, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hacked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hacking.]
[OE. hakken; akin to D. hakken, G. hacken, Dan. hakke, Sw. hacka,
and perh. to E. hew. Cf. Hew to cut, Haggle.]
1. To cut irregulary, without skill or definite purpose; to notch;
to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument; as, to hack
a post.
My sword hacked like a handsaw. Shak.
2. Fig.: To mangle in speaking. Shak.
Hack
Hack, v. i. To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken
manner; as, a hacking cough.
Hack
Hack, n.
1. A notch; a cut. Shak.
2. An implement for cutting a notch; a large pick used in breaking
stone.
3. A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough. Dr. H.
More.
4. (Football) A kick on the shins. T. Hughes.
Hack saw
, a handsaw having a narrow blade stretched in an iron frame, for
cutting metal.
Hack
Hack (?), n. [Shortened fr. hackney. See Hackney.]
1. A horse, hackneyed or let out for common hire; also, a horse used
in all kinds of work, or a saddle horse, as distinguished from hunting
and carriage horses.
2. A coach or carriage let for hire; particularly, a a coach with two
seats inside facing each other; a hackney coach.
On horse, on foot, in hacks and gilded chariots. Pope.
3. A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an
overworked man; a drudge.
Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, Who long was a
bookseller's hack. Goldsmith.
4. A procuress.
Hack
Hack, a. Hackneyed; hired; mercenary. Wakefield. Hack writer, a hack;
one who writes for hire. "A vulgar hack writer." Macaulay.
Hack
Hack, v. t.
1. To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
2. To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and
commonplace.<-- = hackney? -->
The word "remarkable" has been so hacked of late. J. H. Newman.
Hack
Hack, v. i.
1. To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn
prostitute. Hanmer.
2. To live the life of a drudge or hack. Goldsmith.
Hackamore
Hack"a*more (?), n. [Cf. Sp. jaquima headstall of a halter.] A halter
consisting of a long leather or rope strap and headstall, -- used for
leading or tieing a pack animal. [Western U.S.]
Hackberry
Hack"ber`ry (?), n. (Bot.) 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. Gray.
Hackbolt
Hack"bolt` (?), n, (Zo\'94l.) The greater shearwater or hagdon. See
Hagdon.
Hackbuss
Hack"buss (?), n. Same as Hagbut.
Hackee
Hack"ee (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) The chipmunk; also, the chickaree or red
squirrel. [U.S.]
Hacker
Hack"er (?), n. 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.
Hackery
Hack"er*y (?), n. [Hind. chakr\'be.] A cart with wooden wheels, drawn
by bullocks. [Bengal] Malcom.
Hackle
Hac"kle (?), n. [See Heckle, and cf. Hatchel.]
1. A comb for dressing flax, raw silk, etc.; a hatchel.
2. Any flimsy substance unspun, as raw silk.
3. 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.
4. An artificial fly for angling, made of feathers.
Hackle
Hac"kle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hackled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hackling
(?).]
1. To separate, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by
drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel.
2. To tear asunder; to break in pieces.
The other divisions of the kingdom being hackled and torn to
pieces. Burke.
Hackly
Hac"kly (?), a. [From Hackle]
1. Rough or broken, as if hacked.
2. (Min.) Having fine, short, and sharp points on the surface; as, the
hackly fracture of metallic iron.
Hackman
Hack"man (?), n.; pl. Hackmen (. The driver of a hack or carriage for
public hire.
Hackmatack
Hack"ma*tack` (?), n. [Of American Indian origin.] (Bot.) The American
larch (Larix Americana), a coniferous tree with slender deciduous
leaves; also, its heavy, close-grained timber. Called also tamarack.
Hackney
Hack"ney (?), n.; pl. Hackneys (#). [OE. haceney, hacenay; cf. F.
haquen\'82e a pacing horse, an ambling nag, OF. also haquen\'82e, Sp.
hacanea, OSp. facanea, D. hakkenei, also OF. haque horse, Sp. haca,
OSp. faca; perh akin to E. hack to cut, and orig. meaning, a jolting
horse. Cf. Hack a horse, Nag.]
1. A horse for riding or driving; a nag; a pony. Chaucer.
2. A horse or pony kept for hire.
3. A carriage kept for hire; a hack; a hackney coach.
4. A hired drudge; a hireling; a prostitute.
Hackney
Hack"ney, a. Let out for hire; devoted to common use; hence, much
used; trite; mean; as, hackney coaches; hackney authors. "Hackney
tongue." Roscommon. <-- also hackneyed -->
Hackney
Hack"ney, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hackneyed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Hackneying.]
1. 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.
Had I lavish of my presence been, So common-hackneyed in the eyes
of men. Shak.
2. To carry in a hackney coach. Cowper.
Hackneyman
Hack"ney*man (?), n.; pl. Hackneymen (. A man who lets horses and
carriages for hire.
Hackster
Hack"ster (?), n. [From Hack to cut.] A bully; a bravo; a ruffian; an
assassin. [Obs.] Milton.
Hacqueton
Hac"que*ton (?), n. Same as Acton. [Obs.]
Had
Had (?), imp. & p. p. of Have. [OE.had, hafde, hefde, AS. h\'91fde.]
See Have. Had as lief, Had rather, Had better, Had as soon, etc., with
a nominative and followed by the infinitive without to, are well
established idiomatic forms. The original construction was that of the
dative with forms of be, followed by the infinitive. See Had better,
under Better.
And lever me is be pore and trewe. [And more agreeable to me it is
to be poor and true.] C. Mundi (Trans. ).
Him had been lever to be syke. [To him it had been preferable to be
sick.] Fabian.
For him was lever have at his bed's head Twenty bookes, clad in
black or red, . . . Than robes rich, or fithel, or gay sawtrie.
Chaucer.
NOTE: Gradually the nominative was substituted for the dative, and
had for the forms of be. During the process of transition, the
nominative with was or were, and the dative with had, are found.
Poor lady, she were better love a dream. Shak.
You were best hang yourself. Beau. & Fl.
Me rather had my heart might feel your love Than my unpleased eye
see your courtesy. Shak.
I hadde levere than my scherte, That ye hadde rad his legende, as
have I. Chaucer.
I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I
myself. Shak.
I had rather be a dog and bay the moon, Than such a Roman. Shak.
I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell
in the tents of wickedness. Ps. lxxxiv.10.
Hadder
Had"der (?), n. Heather; heath. [Obs.] Burton.
Haddie
Had"die (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) The haddock. [Scot.]
Haddock
Had"dock (?), n. [OE. hadoc, haddok, of unknown origin; cf. Ir. codog,
Gael. adag, F. hadot.] (Zo\'94l.) A marine food fish (Melanogrammus
\'91glefinus), 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. Norway haddock, a marine edible fish (Sebastes marinus) of
Northern Europe and America. See Rose fish.
Hade
Hade (?), n. [Cf. heald inclined, bowed down, G. halde declivity.]
1. The descent of a hill. [Obs.]
2. (Mining) The inclination or deviation from the vertical of any
mineral vein.
Hade
Hade, v. i. (Mining) To deviate from the vertical; -- said of a vein,
fault, or lode.
Hades
Ha"des (?), n. [Gr.Un-, Wit.] The nether world (according to classical
mythology, the abode of the shades, ruled over by Hades or Pluto); the
invisible world; the grave.
And death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them. Rev. xx.
13 (Rev. Ver. ).
Neither was he left in Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.
Acts ii. 31 (Rev. Ver.).
And in Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torments. Luke xvi.23
(Rev. Ver.).
Hadj
Hadj (?), n. [Ar.hajj, fr. hajja to set out, walk, go on a
pilgrimage.] The pilgrimage to Mecca, performed by Mohammedans.
Hadji
Hadj"i (?), n. [Ar. h\'bej&imac;. See Hadj.]
1. A Mohammedan pilgrim to Mecca; -- used among Orientals as a
respectful salutation or a title of honor. G. W. Curtis.
2. A Greek or Armenian who has visited the holy sepulcher at
Jerusalem. Heyse.
Hadrosaurus
Had`ro*sau"rus (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. "adro`s thick + say^ros lizard.]
(Paleon.) An American herbivorous dinosaur of great size, allied to
the iguanodon. It is found in the Cretaceous formation.
H\'91cceity
H\'91c*ce`i*ty (?), [L. h\'91cce this.] (Logic) Literally, this-ness.
A scholastic term to express individuality or singleness; as, this
book.
H\'91ma-
H\'91m"a- (, H\'91m"a*to- (, H\'91m"o- (. [Gr. ai^"ma, blood.]
Combining forms indicating relation or resemblance to blood,
association with blood; as, h\'91mapod, h\'91matogenesis,
h\'91moscope.
NOTE: &hand; Wo rds fr om Gr . (h ema-, he mato-, hemo-, as well as
h\'91ma-, h\'91mato-, h\'91mo-.
H\'91machrome
H\'91m"a*chrome (? OR ?), n. [H\'91ma- + Gr. (Physiol. Chem.) Hematin.
H\'91macyanin
H\'91m`a*cy"a*nin (?), n. [H\'91ma- + Gr. (Physiol. Chem.) A substance
found in the blood of the octopus, which gives to it its blue color.
NOTE: &hand; Wh en de prived of oxygen it is colorless, but becomes
quickly blue in contact with oxygen, and is then generally called
oxyh\'91macyanin. A similar blue coloring matter has been detected
in small quantity in the blood of other animals and in the bile.
H\'91macytometer
H\'91m`a*cy*tom"e*ter (?), n. [H\'91ma + Gr. -meter.] (Physiol.) An
apparatus for determining the number of corpuscles in a given quantity
of blood.
H\'91mad
H\'91"mad (?), adv. [H\'91ma- + L. ad toward.] (Anat.) Toward the
h\'91mal side; on the h\'91mal side of; -- opposed to neurad.
H\'91madrometer or, H\'91madremometer
H\'91m`a*drom"e*ter (? or ?), H\'91m`a*dre*mom"e*ter (?), n. Same as
Hemadrometer.
H\'91madrometry,H\'91madromometry
H\'91m`a*drom"e*try (?),H\'91m`a*dro*mom"e*try (?), n. Same as
Hemadrometry.
H\'91madromograph
H\'91m`a*drom"o*graph (?), n. [H\'91ma- + Gr. -graph.] (Physiol.) An
instrument for registering the velocity of the blood.
H\'91madynameter or H\'91madynamometer
H\'91`ma*dy*nam"e*ter (? or ?) H\'91`ma*dy`na*mom"e*ter (? or ?), Same
as Hemadynamometer.
H\'91madynamics
H\'91ma*dy*nam"ics (, n. Same as Hemadynamics.
H\'91mal
H\'91"mal (?), a. [Gr. Pertaining to the blood or blood vessels; also,
ventral. See Hemal.
H\'91maph\'91in
H\'91m`a*ph\'91"in (?), n. [H\'91ma- + Gr. (Physiol.) A brownish
substance sometimes found in the blood, in cases of jaundice.
H\'91mapod
H\'91m"a*pod (? or ?), n. [H\'91ma + -pod.] (Zo\'94l.) An
h\'91mapodous animal. G. Rolleston.
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H\'91mapodous
H\'91*map"o*dous (?), a. (Anat.) Having the limbs on, or directed
toward, the ventral or hemal side, as in vertebrates; -- opposed to
neuropodous.
H\'91mapoietic
H\'91m`a*poi*et"ic (? or ?), a. [H\'91ma- + Gr. (Physiol.)
Bloodforming; as, the h\'91mapoietic function of the spleen.
H\'91mapophysis
H\'91m`a*poph"y*sis (?), n. [NL.] Same as Hemapophysis. --
H\'91m`a*po*phys"i*al (#), a.
H\'91mastatics
H\'91m`a*stat"ics, n. Same as Hemastatics.
H\'91matachometer
H\'91m`a*ta*chom"e*ter (?), n. [H\'91ma- + Gr. -meter.] (Physiol.) A
form of apparatus (somewhat different from the hemadrometer) for
measuring the velocity of the blood.
H\'91matachometry
H\'91m`a*ta*chom"e*try (?), n. (Physiol.) The measurement of the
velocity of the blood.
H\'91matemesis
H\'91m`a*tem"e*sis, n. Same as Hematemesis.
H\'91matic
H\'91*mat"ic (?), a. [Gr. Of or pertaining to the blood; sanguine;
brownish red. H\'91matic acid (Physiol.), a hypothetical acid,
supposed to be formed from hemoglobin during its oxidation in the
lungs, and to have the power of freeing carbonic acid from the sodium
carbonate of the serum. Thudichum.
H\'91matin
H\'91m"a*tin, n. Same as Hematin.
H\'91matinometer
H\'91m`a*ti*nom"e*ter, n. Same as Hematinometer.
H\'91matinometric
H\'91m`a*tin`o*met"ric, a. Same as Hematinometric.
H\'91matite
H\'91m"a*tite, n. Same as Hematite.
H\'91matitic
H\'91m`a*tit"ic (?), a. (Zo\'94l.) Of a blood-red color; crimson;
(Bot.) brownish red.
H\'91mato-
H\'91m"a*to- (? or ?), prefix. See H\'91ma-.
H\'91matoblast
H\'91m"a*to*blast (?), n. [H\'91mato- + -blast.] (Anat.) One of the
very minute, disk-shaped bodies found in blood with the ordinary red
corpuscles and white corpuscles; a third kind of blood corpuscle,
supposed by some to be an early stage in the development of the red
corpuscles; -- called also blood plaque, and blood plate.<-- =
hemocytoblast, hematocytoblast. Precursor of erythroblasts,
lymphoblasts, and myeloblasts, found mostly in bone marrow. Hayem's
hematoblast = a platelet -->
H\'91matocrya
H\'91m`a*toc"ry*a (?), n. pl. (Zo\'94l.) The cold-blooded vertebrates.
Same as Hematocrya.
H\'91matocryal
H\'91m`*a*toc"ry*al (?), a. Cold-blooded.
H\'91matocrystallin
H\'91m`a*to*crys"tal*lin, n. Same as Hematocrystallin.
H\'91matodynamometer
H\'91`ma*to*dy`na*mom"e*ter (? or ?), n. Same as Hemadynamometer.
H\'91matogenesis
H\'91m`a*to*gen"e*sis (?), n. [H\'91mato- + genesis.] (Physiol.) (a)
The origin and development of blood. (b) The transformation of venous
arterial blood by respiration; hematosis.
H\'91matogenic
H\'91m`a*to*gen"ic (?), a. (Physiol.) Relating to h\'91matogenesis.
H\'91matogenous
H\'91m`a*tog"e*nous (?), a. (Physiol.) Originating in the blood.
H\'91matoglobulin
H\'91m`a*to*glob"u*lin, n. Same as Hematoglobin.
H\'91matoid
H\'91m"a*toid, a. Same as Hematoid.
H\'91matoidin
H\'91m`a*toid"in, n. Same as Hematoidin.
H\'91matoin
H\'91*mat"o*in (?), n. [H\'91mato- + -in.] (Physiol. Chem.) 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 h\'91matoporphyrin and h\'91matolin, are formed in
a similar manner.
H\'91matolin
H\'91*mat"o*lin (?), n. See H\'91matoin.
H\'91matology
H\'91m`a*tol"o*gy (? or ?), n. The science which treats of the blood.
Same as Hematology.
H\'91matometer
H\'91m`a*tom"e*ter (?), n. [H\'91mato- + -meter.] (Physiol.) (a) Same
as Hemadynamometer. (b) An instrument for determining the number of
blood corpuscles in a given quantity of blood.
H\'91matophlina
H\'91m`a*to*ph*li"na (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. -gr. (Zo\'94l.) A division
of Cheiroptera, including the bloodsucking bats. See Vampire.
H\'91matoplast
H\'91m"a*to*plast` (?), n. [H\'91mato- + Gr. (Anat.) Same as
H\'91matoblast.
H\'91matoplastic
H\'91m`a*to*plas"tic (?), a. [H\'91mato- + -plastic.] (Physiol.) Blood
formative; -- applied to a substance in early fetal life, which breaks
up gradually into blood vessels.
H\'91matoporphyrin
H\'91m`a*to*por"phy*rin (?), n. [H\'91mato- + Gr. (Physiol. Chem.) See
H\'91matoin.
H\'91matosac
H\'91m"a*to*sac` (?), n. [H\'91mato- + sac.] (Anat.) A vascular sac
connected, beneath the brain, in many fishes, with the infundibulum.
H\'91matoscope
H\'91m"a*to*scope` (?), n. A h\'91moscope.
H\'91matosin
H\'91m`a*to"sin (? or ?), n. (Physiol. Chem.) Hematin. [R.]
H\'91matosis
H\'91m`a*to"sis, n. Same as Hematosis.
H\'91matotherma
H\'91m`a*to*ther"ma (?), n. pl. (Zo\'94l.) Same as Hematotherma.
H\'91matothermal
H\'91m`a*to*ther"mal (?), a. Warm-blooded; homoiothermal.
H\'91matothorax
H\'91m`a*to*tho"rax, n. Same as Hemothorax.
H\'91matexylin
H\'91m`a*tex"y*lin (?), n. [See H\'91matoxylon.] (Chem.) The coloring
principle of logwood. It is obtained as a yellow crystalline
substance, C16H14O6, with a sweetish taste. Formerly called also
hematin.
H\'91matoxylon
H\'91m`a*tox"y*lon (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. (Bot.) A genus of leguminous
plants containing but a single species, the H. Campechianum or logwood
tree, native in Yucatan.
H\'91matozo\'94n
H\'91m`a*to*zo"\'94n (?), n.; pl. H\'91matozoa (#). [NL., fr. Gr.
(Zo\'94l.) A parasite inhabiting the blood; esp.: (a) Certain species
of nematodes of the genus Filaria, sometimes found in the blood of
man, the horse, the dog, etc. (b) The trematode, Bilharzia
h\'91matobia, which infests the inhabitants of Egypt and other parts
of Africa, often causing death.
H\'91mic
H\'91"mic (? or ?),
H\'91min
H\'91"min (?), n. Same as Hemin.
H\'91mo-
H\'91m"o- (? or ?), prefix. See H\'91ma-.
H\'91mochrome
H\'91m"ochrome (?), n. Same as H\'91machrome.
H\'91mochromogen
H\'91m`o*chro"mogen (?), n. [H\'91mochrome + -gen.] (Physiol. Chem.) A
body obtained from hemoglobin, by the action of reducing agents in the
absence of oxygen.
H\'91mochromometer
H\'91m`o*chro*mom`e*ter (?), n. [H\'91mochrome + -meter.] (Physiol.
Chem.) An apparatus for measuring the amount of hemoglobin in a fluid,
by comparing it with a solution of known strength and of normal color.
H\'91mocyanin
H\'91m`o*cy"a*nin (?), n. Same as H\'91macyanin.
H\'91mocytolysis
H\'91m`o*cy*tol"y*sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. (Physiol.) See
H\'91mocytotrypsis.
H\'91mocytometer
H\'91m`o*cy*tom"e*ter, n. See H\'91macytometer.
H\'91mocytotrypsis
H\'91m`o*cy`to*tryp"sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. (Physiol.) A breaking up
of the blood corpuscles, as by pressure, in distinction from solution
of the corpuscles, or h\'91mcytolysis.
H\'91modromograph
H\'91m`o*drom"o*graph (?), n. Same as H\'91madromograph.
H\'91modynameter
H\'91`mo*dy*nam"e*ter (? or ?), n. Same as Hemadynamics.
H\'91moglobin
H\'91m`o*glo"bin, n. Same as Hemoglobin.
H\'91moglobinometer
H\'91m`o*glo`bin*om"e*ter (?), n. [H\'91moglobin + -meter.] Same as
Hemochromometer.
H\'91molutein
H\'91m`o*lu"te*in (?), n. [H\'91mo- + corpus luteum.] (Physiol.) See
Hematoidin.
H\'91momanometer
H\'91m`o*ma*nom"e*ter (?), n. [H\'91mo- + manometer.] Same as
Hemadynamometer.
H\'91mometer
H\'91*mom"e*ter (?), n. [H\'91mo- + -meter.] (Physiol.) Same as
Hemadynamometer.
H\'91mony
H\'91"mo*ny (?), n. [L. H\'91monia a name of Thessaly, the land of
magic.] A plant described by Milton as "of sovereign use against all
enchantments."
H\'91moplastic
H\'91mo*plas"tic, a. Same as H\'91matoplastic.
H\'91morrhoidal
H\'91m"or*rhoid"al, a. Same as Hemorrhoidal.
H\'91moscope
H\'91m"o*scope (? or ?), n. [H\'91mo- + -scope.] (Physiol.) An
instrument devised by Hermann, for regulating and measuring the
thickness of a layer of blood for spectroscopic examination.
H\'91mostatic
H\'91m`o*stat"ic (?), a. Same Hemostatic.
H\'91motachometer
H\'91m`o*ta*chom"e*ter (?), n. Same as H\'91matachometer.
H\'91motachometry
H\'91m`o*ta*chom"e*try (?), n. Same as H\'91matachometry.
Haf
Haf (?), imp. of Heave. Hove. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Haffle
Haf"fle (?), v. i. [Cf. G. haften to cling, stick to, Prov. G., to
stop, stammer.] To stammer; to speak unintelligibly; to prevaricate.
[Prov.Eng.] Halliwell.
Haft
Haft (?), n. [AS. h\'91ft; akin to D. & G. heft, Icel. hepti, and to
E. Heave, or have. Cf. Heft.]
1. A handle; that part of an instrument or vessel taken into the hand,
and by which it is held and used; -- said chiefly of a knife, sword,
or dagger; the hilt.
This brandish'dagger I'll bury to the haft in her fair breast.
Dryden.
2. A dwelling. [Scot.] Jamieson.
Haft
Haft, v. t. To set in, or furnish with, a haft; as, to haft a dagger.
Hafter
Haft"er (?), n. [haften to cling or stick to, and E. haffle.] A
caviler; a wrangler. [Obs.] Baret.
Hag
Hag (?), n. [OE. hagge, hegge, with, hag, AS. h\'91gtesse; akin to
OHG. hagazussa, G. hexe, D. heks, Dan. hex, Sw. h\'84xa. The first
part of the word is prob. the same as E. haw, hedge, and the orig.
meaning was perh., wood woman, wild woman.
1. A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard. [Obs.]
"[Silenus] that old hag." Golding.
2. An ugly old woman.
3. A fury; a she-monster. Grashaw.
4. (Zo\'94l.) An eel-like marine marsipobranch (Myxine glutinosa),
allied to the lamprey. It has a suctorial mouth, with labial
appendages, and a single pair of gill openings. It is the type of the
order Hyperotpeta. Called also hagfish, borer, slime eel, sucker, and
sleepmarken.
5. (Zo\'94l.) The hagdon or shearwater.
6. An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair.
Blount.
Hag moth (Zo\'94l.), a moth (Phobetron pithecium), the larva of which
has curious side appendages, and feeds on fruit trees. -- Hag's tooth
(Naut.), an ugly irregularity in the pattern of matting or pointing.
Hag
Hag, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hagged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hagging.] To
harass; to weary with vexation.
How are superstitious men hagged out of their wits with the fancy
of omens. L'Estrange.
Hag
Hag, n. [Scot. hag to cut; cf. E. hack.]
1. A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or
inclosed for felling, or which has been felled.
This said, he led me over hoults and hags; Through thorns and
bushes scant my legs I drew. Fairfax.
2. A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut. Dugdale.
Hagberry
Hag"ber"ry (?), n. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Prunus (P. Padus); the
bird cherry. [Scot.]
Hagborn
Hag"born`, a. Born of a hag or witch. Shak.
Hagbut
Hag"but (?), n. [OF. haquebute, prob. a corruption of D. haakbus; haak
hook + bus gun barrel. See Hook, and 2d Box, and cf. Arquebus.] A
harquebus, of which the but was bent down or hooked for convenience in
taking aim. [Written also haguebut and hackbuss.]
Hagbutter
Hag"but*ter (?), n. A soldier armed with a hagbut or arquebus.
[Written also hackbutter.] Froude.
Hagdon
Hag"don (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) 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.
Haggada
Hag*ga"da (?), n.; pl. Haggadoth (#). [Rabbinic hagg\'bedh\'be, fr.
Heb. higg\'c6dh to relate.] A story, anecdote, or legend in the
Talmud, to explain or illustrate the text of the Old Testament.
[Written also hadaga.]
Haggard
Hag"gard (?), a. [F. hagard; of German origin, and prop. meaning, of
the hegde or woods, wild, untamed. See Hedge, 1st Haw, and -ard.]
1. Wild or intractable; disposed to break away from duty; untamed; as,
a haggard or refractory hawk. [Obs.] Shak
2. [For hagged, fr. hag a witch, influenced by haggard wild.] 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.
Staring his eyes, and haggard was his look. Dryden.
Haggard
Hag"gard, n. [See Haggard, a.]
1. (Falconry) A young or untrained hawk or falcon.
2. A fierce, intractable creature.
I have loved this proud disdainful haggard. Shak.
3. [See Haggard, a., 2.] A hag. [Obs.] Garth.
Haggard
Hag"gard, n. [See 1st Haw, Hedge, and Yard an inclosed space.] A
stackyard. [Prov. Eng.] Swift.
Haggardly
Hag"gard*ly, adv. In a haggard manner. Dryden.
Hagged
Hag"ged (?), a. Like a hag; lean; ugly. [R.]
Haggis
Hag"gis (?), n. [Scot. hag to hack, chop, E. hack. Formed, perhaps, in
imitation of the F. hachis (E. hash), fr. hacher.] 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. [Written also
haggiss, haggess, and haggies.]
Haggish
Hag"gish (?), a. Like a hag; ugly; wrinkled.
But on both did haggish age steal on. Shak.
Haggishly
Hag"gish*ly, adv. In the manner of a hag.
Haggle
Hag"gle (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Haggled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Haggling
(?).] [Freq. of Scot. hag, E. hack. See Hack to cut.] 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.
Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, Comes to him, where
in gore he lay insteeped. Shak.
Haggle
Hag"gle, v. i. To be difficult in bargaining; to stick at small
matters; to chaffer; to higgle.
Royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood.
Walpole.
Haggle
Hag"gle, n. The act or process of haggling. Carlyle.
Haggler
Hag"gler (?), n.
1. One who haggles or is difficult in bargaining.
2. One who forestalls a market; a middleman between producer and
dealer in London vegetable markets.
Hagiarchy
Ha"gi*ar`chy (?), n. [Gr. -archy.] A sacred government; by holy orders
of men. Southey.
Hagiocracy
Ha`gi*oc"ra*cy (?), n. [Gr. Government by a priesthood; hierarchy.
Hagiographa
Ha`gi*og"ra*pha (?), n. pl. [L., fr. Gr.
1. The last of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament, or
that portion not contained in the Law and the Prophets. It comprises
Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Canticles, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes,
Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Chronicles.
2. (R. C. Ch.) The lives of the saints. Brande & C.
Hagiographal
Ha`gi*og"ra*phal (?), Pertaining to the hagiographa, or to sacred
writings.
Hagiographer
Ha`gi*og"ra*pher (?), n. One of the writers of the hagiographa; a
writer of lives of the saints. Shipley.
Hagiography
Ha`gi*og"ra*phy (?, 277), n. Same Hagiographa.
Hagiolatry
Ha`gi*ol"a*try (?), n. [Gr. The invocation or worship of saints.
Hagiologist
Ha`gi*ol"o*gist (?), n. One who treats of the sacred writings; a
writer of the lives of the saints; a hagiographer. Tylor.
Hagiologists have related it without scruple. Southey.
Hagiology
Ha`gi*ol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. -logy.] The history or description of the
sacred writings or of sacred persons; a narrative of the lives of the
saints; a catalogue of saints. J. H. Newman.
Hagioscope
Ha"gi*o*scope` (?), n. [Gr. -scope.] An opening made in the interior
walls of a cruciform church to afford a view of the altar to those in
the transepts; -- called, in architecture, a squint. Hook.
Hag-ridden
Hag"-rid`den (?), a. Ridden by a hag or witch; hence, afflicted with
nightmare. Beattie. Cheyne.
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Hagseed
Hag"seed` (?), n. The offspring of a hag. Shak.
Hagship
Hag"ship, n. The state or title of a hag. Middleton.
Hag-taper
Hag"-ta`per (?), n. [Cf. 1st Hag, and Hig-taper.] (Bot.) The great
woolly mullein (Verbascum Thapsus).
Haguebut
Hague"but (?), n. See Hagbut.
Hah
Hah , interj. Same as Ha.
Ha-ha
Ha-ha" (?), n. [See Haw-haw.] A sunk fence; a fence, wall, or ditch,
not visible till one is close upon it. [Written also haw-haw.]
Haidingerite
Hai"ding*er*ite (?), n. (Min.) A mineral consisting of the arseniate
of lime; -- so named in honor of W. Haidinger, of Vienna.
Haiduck
Hai"duck (?), n. [G. haiduck, heiduck, fr. Hung. hajdu.] Formerly, a
mercenary foot soldier in Hungary, now, a halberdier of a Hungarian
noble, or an attendant in German or Hungarian courts. [Written also
hayduck, heiduc, heiduck, and heyduk.]
Haik
Haik (?), n. [Ar. h\'beik, fr. h\'beka to weave.] A large piece of
woolen or cotton cloth worn by Arabs as an outer garment. [Written
also hyke.] Heyse.
Haikal
Hai"kal (?), n. 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.
Hail
Hail (?), n. [OE. hail, ha, AS. h\'91gel; akin to D., G., Dan., & Sw.
hagel; Icel. hagl; cf. Gr. Small roundish masses of ice precipitated
from the clouds, where they are formed by the congelation of vapor.
The separate masses or grains are called hailstones.
Thunder mixed with hail, Hail mixed with fire, must rend the
Egyptian sky. Milton.
Hail
Hail, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Halled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Halting.]
[OE. hailen, AS. haqalian.] To pour down particles of ice, or
frozen vapors.
Hail
Hail, v. t. To pour forcibly down, as hail. Shak.
Hail
Hail, a. Healthy. See Hale (the preferable spelling).
Hail
Hail, v. t. [OE. hailen, heilen, Icel. heil hale, sound, used in
greeting. See Hale sound.]
1. To call loudly to, or after; to accost; to salute; to address.
2. To name; to designate; to call.
And such a son as all men hailed me happy. Milton.
Hail
Hail, v. i.
1. To declare, by hailing, the port from which a vessel sails or
where she is registered; hence, to sail; to come; -- used with
from; as, the steamer hails from New York.
2. To report as one's home or the place from whence one comes; to
come; -- with from. [Colloq.] G. G. Halpine.
Hail
Hail, interj. [See Hail, v. t.] An exclamation of respectful or
reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting. "Hail,
brave friend." Shak.
All hail. See in the Vocabulary. -- Hail Mary, a form of prayer made
use of in the Roman Catholic Church in invocation of the Virgin. See
Ave Maria.
Hail
Hail, n. A wish of health; a salutation; a loud call. "Their puissant
hail." M. Arnold.
The angel hail bestowed. Milton.
Hail-fellow
Hail"-fel`low (?), n. An intimate companion.
Hail-fellow well met. Lyly.
Hailse
Hailse (?), v. t. [OE. hailsen, Icel. heilsa. Cf. Hall to call to.] To
greet; to salute. [Obs.] P. Plowman.
Hailshot
Hail"shot` (?), n. pl. Small shot which scatter like hailstones.
[Obs.] Hayward.
Hailstone
Hail"stone` (?), n. A single particle of ice falling from a cloud; a
frozen raindrop; a pellet of hail.
Hailstorm
Hail"storm` (?), n. A storm accompanied with hail; a shower of hail.
Haily
Hai"ly (?), a. Of hail. "Haily showers." Pope.
Han
Han (?), v. t. [Cf. Sw. h\'84gn hedge, inclosure, Dan. hegn hedge,
fence. See Hedge.] To inclose for mowing; to set aside for grass. "A
ground . . . hained in." Holland.
Hain't
Hain't (?). A contraction of have not or has not; as, I hain't, he
hain't, we hain't. [Colloq. or illiterate speech.] [Written also
han't.]<-- now ain't -->
Hair
Hair (?), n. [OE. her, heer, h\'91r, AS. h&aemac;r; akin to OFries,
h&emac;r, D. & G. haar, OHG. & Icel. h&amac;r, Dan. haar, Sw. h\'86r;
cf. Lith. kasa.]
1. The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an
animal, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part
or the whole of the body.
2. One the above-mentioned filaments, consisting, in invertebrate
animals, of a long, tubular part which is free and flexible, and a
bulbous root imbedded in the skin.
Then read he me how Sampson lost his hairs. Chaucer.
And draweth new delights with hoary hairs. Spenser.
3. Hair (human or animal) used for various purposes; as, hair for
stuffing cushions.
4. (Zo\'94l.) A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of
insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are
totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and
mode of growth.
5. An outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several
cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated. Internal hairs
occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily (Nuphar).
6. A spring device used in a hair-trigger firearm.
7. A haircloth. [Obc.] Chaucer.
8. Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.
NOTE: &hand; Hairs is often used adjectively or in combination; as,
hairbrush or hair brush, hair dye, hair oil, hairpin, hair powder,
a brush, a dye, etc., for the hair.
Against the hair, in a rough and disagreeable manner; against the
grain. [Obs.] "You go against the hair of your professions." Shak. --
Hair bracket (Ship Carp.), a molding which comes in at the back of, or
runs aft from, the figurehead. -- Hair cells (Anat.), cells with
hairlike processes in the sensory epithelium of certain parts of the
internal ear. -- Hair compass, Hair divider, a compass or divider
capable of delicate adjustment by means of a screw. -- Hair glove, a
glove of horsehair for rubbing the skin. -- Hair lace, a netted fillet
for tying up the hair of the head. Swift. -- Hair line, a line made of
hair; a very slender line. -- Hair moth (Zo\'94l.), any moth which
destroys goods made of hair, esp. Tinea biselliella. -- Hair pencil, a
brush or fine hair, for painting; -- generally called by the name of
the hair used; as, a camel's hair pencil, a sable's hair pencil, etc.
-- Hair plate, an iron plate forming the back of the hearth of a
bloomery fire. -- Hair powder, a white perfumed powder, as of flour or
starch, formerly much used for sprinkling on the hair of the head, or
on wigs. -- Hair seal (Zo\'94l.), any one of several species of eared
seals which do not produce fur; a sea lion. -- Hair seating, haircloth
for seats of chairs, etc. -- Hair shirt, a shirt, or a band for the
loins, made of horsehair, and worn as a penance. -- Hair sieve, a
strainer with a haircloth bottom. -- Hair snake. See Gordius. -- Hair
space (Printing), the thinnest metal space used in lines of type. --
Hair stroke, a delicate stroke in writing. -- Hair trigger, a trigger
so constructed as to discharge a firearm by a very slight pressure, as
by the touch of a hair. Farrow. -- Not worth a hair, of no value. --
To a hair, with the nicest distinction. -- To split hairs, to make
distinctions of useless nicety.
Hairbell
Hair"bell` (?), n. (Bot.) See Harebell.
Hairbird
Hair"bird` (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) The chipping sparrow.
Hairbrained
Hair"brained` (?), a. See Harebrained.
Hairbreadth, Hair'sbreadth
Hair"breadth` (?), Hair's"breadth` (. The diameter or breadth of a
hair; a very small distance; sometimes, definitely, the forty-eighth
part of an inch.
Every one could sling stones at an hairbreadth and not miss. Judg.
xx. 16
Hairbreadth
Hair"breadth`, a. Having the breadth of a hair; very narrow; as, a
hairbreadth escape.
Hair-brown
Hair"-brown` (?), a. Of a clear tint of brown, resembling brown human
hair. It is composed of equal proportions of red and green.
Hairbrush
Hair"brush` (?), n. A brush for cleansing and smoothing the hair.
Haircloth
Hair"cloth`, n. Stuff or cloth made wholly or in part of hair.
Hairdresser
Hair"dress`er (?), n. One who dresses or cuts hair; a barber.
Haired
Haired (?), a.
1. Having hair. "A beast haired like a bear." Purchas.
2. In composition: Having (such) hair; as, red-haired.
Hairen
Hai"ren (?), a. [AS. h.] Hairy. [Obc.]
His hairen shirt and his ascetic diet. J. Taylor.
Hair grass
Hair" grass` (?). (Bot.) A grass with very slender leaves or branches;
as the Agrostis scabra, and several species of Aira or Deschampsia.
Hairiness
Hair"i*ness (?), n. The state of abounding, or being covered, with
hair. Johnson.
Hairless
Hair"less, a. Destitute of hair. Shak.
Hairpin
Hair"pin` (, n. A pin, usually forked, or of bent wire, for fastening
the hair in place, -- used by women.
Hair-salt
Hair"-salt` (?), n. [A translation of G. haarsalz.] (Min.) A variety
of native Epsom salt occurring in silky fibers.
Hairsplitter
Hair"split`ter (?), n. One who makes excessively nice or needless
distinctions in reasoning; one who quibbles. "The caviling
hairsplitter." De Quincey.
Hairsplitting
Hair"split`ting (?), a. Making excessively nice or trivial
distinctions in reasoning; subtle. -- n. The act or practice of making
trivial distinctions.
The ancient hairsplitting technicalities of special pleading.
Charles Sumner.
Hairspring
Hair"spring` (?), n. (Horology) The slender recoil spring which
regulates the motion of the balance in a timepiece.
Hairstreak
Hair"streak` (?), n. A butterfly of the genus Thecla; as, the green
hairstreak (T. rubi).
Hairtail
Hair"tail` (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) Any species of marine fishes of the
genus Trichiurus; esp., T. lepterus of Europe and America. They are
long and like a band, with a slender, pointed tail. Called also
bladefish.
Hairworm
Hair"worm` (?). (Zo\'94l.) A nematoid worm of the genus Gordius,
resembling a hair. See Gordius.
Hairy
Hair"y (?), a. Bearing or covered with hair; made of or resembling
hair; rough with hair; rough with hair; rough with hair; hirsute.
His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge. Milton.
Haitian
Hai"ti*an (?), a. & n. See Haytian.<-- Now the preferred spelling. -->
Haye
Ha"ye (?), n. [Ar. hayya snake.] (Zo\'94l.) The Egyptian asp or cobra
(Naja haje.) It is related to the cobra of India, and like the latter
has the power of inflating its neck into a hood. Its bite is very
venomous. It is supposed to be the snake by means of whose bite
Cleopatra committed suicide, and hence is sometimes called Cleopatra's
snake or asp. See Asp.
Hake
Hake (?), n. [See Hatch a half door.] A drying shed, as for unburned
tile.
Hake
Hake, n. [Also haak.] [Akin to Norweg. hakefisk, lit., hook fish,
Prov. E. hake hook, G. hecht pike. See Hook.] (Zo\'94l.) One of
several species of marine gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis,
Merlucius, and allies. The common European hake is M. vulgaris; the
American silver hake or whiting is M. bilinearis. Two American species
(Phycis chuss and P. tenius) are important food fishes, and are also
valued for their oil and sounds. Called also squirrel hake, and
codling.
Hake
Hake (?), v. t. To loiter; to sneak. [Prov. Eng.]
Hake's-dame
Hake's"-dame` (?), n. See Forkbeard.
Haketon
Hak"e*ton (?), n. Same as Acton. [Obs.]
Hakim
Ha*kim" (?), n. [Ar. hak\'c6m.] A wise man; a physician, esp. a
Mohammedan. [India]
Hakim
Ha"kim (?), n. [Ar. h\'bekim.] A Mohammedan title for a ruler; a
judge. [India]
Halacha
Ha*la"cha (?), n.; pl. Halachoth([Heb. hal\'bech\'beh.] The general
term for the Hebrew oral or traditional law; one of two branches of
exposition in the Midrash. See Midrash.
Ha-lation
Ha-la"tion (?), n. (Photog.) An appearance as of a halo of light,
surround the edges of dark object
Halberd
Hal"berd (?; 277), n. [F. hallebarde; of German origin; cf. MHG.
helmbarte, G. hellebarte; prob. orig., an ax to split a helmet, fr. G.
barte a broad ax (orig. from the same source as E. beard; cf. Icel.
bar, a kind of ax, skegg beard, skeggia a kind of halberd) + helm
helmet; but cf. also MNG. helm, halm, handle, and E. helve. See Beard,
Helmet.] (Mil.) 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. [Written also halbert.]
Halberdier
Hal`berd*ier" (?), n. [F. hallebardier.] One who is armed with a
halberd. Strype.
Halberd-shaped
Hal"berd-shaped` (?), a. Hastate.
Halcyon
Hal"cy*on (?), n. [L. halcyon, alcyon, Gr.halcyon.] (Zo\'94l.) 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.
Amidst our arms as quiet you shall be As halcyons brooding on a
winter sea. Dryden.
Halcyon
Hal"cy*on, a.
1. 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.
2. Hence: Calm; quiet; peaceful; undisturbed; happy. "Deep, halcyon
repose." De Quincy.
Halcyonian
Hal`cy*o"ni*an (?), a. Halcyon; calm.
Halcyonold
Hal"cy*o*nold (?), a. & n. [Halcyon + -oid.] (Zo\'94l.) See Alcyonoid.
Hale
Hale (?), a. [Written also heil, Icel. heill; akin to E. whole. See
Whole.] Sound; entire; healthy; robust; not impaired; as, a hale body.
Last year we thought him strong and hale. Swift.
Hale
Hale, n. Welfare. [Obs.]
All heedless of his dearest hale. Spenser.
Hale
Hale (h&amac;l OR h&add;l; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Haled (h\'beld OR
h&add;ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Haling.] [OE. halen, halien; cf. AS.
holian, to acquire, get. See Haul.] To pull; to drag; to haul. See
Haul. Chaucer.
Easier both to freight, and to hale ashore. Milton.
As some dark priest hales the reluctant victim. Shelley.
Halesia
Ha*le"si*a (?), n. [NL.] (Bot.) A genus of American shrubs containing
several species, called snowdrop trees, or silver-bell trees. They
have showy, white flowers, drooping on slender pedicels.
Half
Half (?), a. [AS. healf, half, half; as a noun, half, side, part; akin
to OS., OFries., & D. half, G. halb, Sw. half, Dan. halv, Icel.
h\'belfr, Goth. halbs. Cf. Halve, Behalf.]
1. Consisting of a moiety, or half; as, a half bushel; a half hour; a
half dollar; a half view.
NOTE: &hand; Th e ad jective an d no un ar e often united to form a
compound.
2. Consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half;
approximately a half, whether more or less; partial; imperfect; as, a
half dream; half knowledge.
Assumed from thence a half consent. Tennyson.
Half ape (Zo\'94l.), a lemur. -- Half back. (Football) See under 2d
Back. -- Half bent, the first notch, for the sear point to enter, in
the tumbler of a gunlock; the halfcock notch. -- Half binding, a style
of bookbinding in which only the back and corners are in leather. --
Half boarder, one who boards in part; specifically, a scholar at a
boarding school who takes dinner only. -- Half-breadth plan
(Shipbuilding), a horizontal plan of the half a vessel, divided
lengthwise, showing the lines. -- Half cadence (Mus.), a cadence on
the dominant. -- Half cap, a slight salute with the cap. [Obs.] Shak.
-- A half cock, the position of the cock of a gun when retained by the
first notch.<-- half cocked: see below, halfcocked: = unprepared,
lacking forethought; -- as in go off half cocked --> -- Half hitch, a
sailor's knot in a rope; half of a clove hitch. -- Half hose, short
stockings; socks. -- Half measure, an imperfect or weak line of
action. -- Half note (Mus.), a minim, one half of a semibreve. -- Half
pay, half of the wages or salary; reduced pay; as, an officer on half
pay. -- Half price, half the ordinary price; or a price much reduced.
-- Half round. (a) (Arch.) A molding of semicircular section. (b)
(Mech.) Having one side flat and the other rounded; -- said of a file.
-- Half shift (Mus.), a position of the hand, between the open
position and the first shift, in playing on the violin and kindred
instruments. See Shift. -- Half step (Mus.), a semitone; the smallest
difference of pitch or interval, used in music. -- Half tide, the time
or state of the tide equally distant from ebb and flood. -- Half time,
half the ordinary time for work or attendance; as, the half-time
system. -- Half tint (Fine Arts), a middle or intermediate tint, as in
drawing or painting. See Demitint. -- Half truth, a statement only
partially true, or which gives only a part of the truth. Mrs.
Browning. -- Half year, the space of six moths; one term of a school
when there are two terms in a year.
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Half
Half, adv. In an equal part or degree; in some paas, half-colored,
half done, half-hearted, half persuaded, half conscious. "Half loth
and half consenting." Dryden.
Their children spoke halfin the speech of Ashdod. Neh. xiii. 24
Half
Half (?), n.; pl. Halves (#). [AS. healf. See Half, a.]
1. Part; side; behalf. [Obs.] Wyclif.
The four halves of the house. Chaucer.
2. One of two equal parts into which anything may be divided, or
considered as divided; -- sometimes followed by of; as, a half of an
apple.
Not half his riches known, and yet despised. Milton.
A friendship so complete Portioned in halves between us. Tennyson.
Better half. See under Better. -- In half, in two; an expression
sometimes used improperly instead of in OR into halves; as, to cut in
half. [Colloq.] Dickens. -- In, OR On, one's half, in one's behalf; on
one's part. [Obs.] -- To cry halves, to claim an equal share with
another. -- To go halves, to share equally between two.
Half
Half, v. t. To halve. [Obs.] See Halve. Sir H. Wotton.
Half-and-half
Half`-and-half", n. A mixture of two malt liquors, esp. porter and
ale, in about equal parts. Dickens.
Halfbeak
Half"beak` (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) Any slender, marine fish of the genus
Hemirhamphus, having the upper jaw much shorter than the lower; --
called also balahoo.
Half blood
Half" blood` (?).
1. The relation between persons born of the same father or of the same
mother, but not of both; as, a brother or sister of the half blood.
See Blood, n., 2 and 4.
2. A person so related to another.
3. A person whose father and mother are of different races; a
half-breed.
NOTE: &hand; In the 2d and 3d senses usually with a hyphen.
Half-blooded
Half"-blood`ed, a.
1. Proceeding from a male and female of different breeds or races;
having only one parent of good stock; as, a half-blooded sheep.
2. Degenerate; mean.
Half-boot
Half"-boot` (?), n. A boot with a short top covering only the ankle.
See Cocker, and Congress boot, under Congress.
Half-bound
Half"-bound` (?), n. Having only the back and corners in leather, as a
book.
Half-bred
Half"-bred` (?), a.
1. Half-blooded. [Obs.]
2. Imperfectly acquainted with the rules of good-breeding; not well
trained. Atterbury.
Half-breed
Half"-breed` (?), a. Half-blooded.
Half-breed
Half"-breed`, n. A person who is blooded; the offspring of parents of
different races, especially of the American Indian and the white race.
Half-brother
Half"-broth`er (?), n. A brother by one parent, but not by both.
Half-caste
Half"-caste` (?), n. One born of a European parent on the one side,
and of a Hindoo or Mohammedan on the other. Also adjective; as,
half-caste parents.
Half-clammed
Half"-clammed` (?), a. Half-filled. [Obs.]
Lions' half-clammed entrails roar food. Marston.
Halfcock
Half"cock` (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Halfcocked(?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Halfcocking.] To set the cock of (a firearm) at the first notch. To go
off halfcocked. (a) To be discharged prematurely, or with the trigger
at half cock; -- said of a firearm. (b) To do or say something without
due thought or care. [Colloq. or Low] <-- now written half-cocked -->
Half-cracked
Half"-cracked` (?), a. Half-demented; half-witted. [Colloq.]
Half-deck
Half"-deck` (?), n.
1. (Zo\'94l.) A shell of the genus Crepidula; a boat shell. See Boat
shell.
2. See Half deck, under Deck.
Half-decked
Half"-decked` (?), a. Partially decked.
The half-decked craft . . . used by the latter Vikings. Elton.
Halfen
Half"en (?), a. [From Half.] Wanting half its due qualities. [Obs.]
Spencer.
Halfendeal
Half"en*deal` (?), adv. [OE. halfendele. See Half, and Deal.] Half; by
the part. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- n. A half part. [Obs.] R. of Brunne.
Halfer
Half"er (?), n.
1. One who possesses or gives half only; one who shares. [Obs.] Bp.
Montagu.
2. A male fallow deer gelded. Pegge (1814).
Half-faced
Half"-faced` (?), a. Showing only part of the face; wretched looking;
meager. Shak.
Half-fish
Half"-fish` (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) A salmon in its fifth year of growth.
[Prov. Eng.]
Half-hatched
Half"-hatched` (?), a. Imperfectly hatched; as, half-hatched eggs.
Gay.
Half-heard
Half"-heard` (?), a. Imperfectly or partly heard to the end.
And leave half-heard the melancholy tale. Pope.
Half-hearted
Half"-heart`ed (?), a.
1. Wanting in heart or spirit; ungenerous; unkind. B. Jonson.
2. Lacking zeal or courage; lukewarm. <-- (of actions) not performed
with full effort --> H. James.
Half-hourly
Half"-hour`ly (?), a. Done or happening at intervals of half an hour.
Half-learned
Half"-learned` (?), a. Imperfectly learned.
Half-length
Half"-length` (?), a. Of half the whole or ordinary length, as a
picture.
Half-mast
Half"-mast` (?), n. 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
Half"-moon`, n.
1. The moon at the quarters, when half its disk appears illuminated.
2. The shape of a half-moon; a crescent.
See how in warlike muster they appear, In rhombs, and wedges, and
half-moons, and wings. Milton.
3. (Fort.) An outwork composed of two faces, forming a salient angle
whose gorge resembles a half-moon; -- now called a ravelin.
4. (Zo\'94l.) A marine, sparoid, food fish of California (C\'91siosoma
Californiense). The body is ovate, blackish above, blue or gray below.
Called also medialuna.
Halfness
Half"ness (?), n. The quality of being half; incompleteness. [R.]
As soon as there is any departure from simplicity, and attempt at
halfness, or good for me that is not good for him, my neighbor
feels the wrong. Emerson.
Halfpace
Half"pace` (?), n. (Arch.) A platform of a staircase where the stair
turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight. See
Quarterpace.
NOTE: &hand; Th is te rm an d quartepace are rare or unknown in the
United States, platform or landing being used instead.
Half-pike
Half"-pike` (?), n. (Mil.) A short pike, sometimes carried by officers
of infantry, sometimes used in boarding ships; a spontoon. Tatler.
Half-port
Half"-port` (?), n. (Naut.) One half of a shutter made in two parts
for closing a porthole.
Half-ray
Half"-ray` (?), n. (Geom.) A straight line considered as drawn from a
center to an indefinite distance in one direction, the complete ray
being the whole line drawn to an indefinite distance in both
directions.
Half-read
Half"-read` (?), a. Informed by insufficient reading; superficial;
shallow. Dryden.
Half seas over
Half" seas` o`ver (?). Half drunk. [Slang: used only predicatively.]
Spectator.
Half-sighted
Half"-sight`ed (?), a. Seeing imperfectly; having weak discernment.
Bacon.
Half-sister
Half"-sis`ter (?), n. A sister by one parent only.
Half-strained
Half"-strained` (?), a. Half-bred; imperfect. [R.] "A half-strained
villain." Dryden.
Half-sword
Half"-sword` (?), n. Half the length of a sword; close fight. "At
half-sword." Shak.
Half-timbered
Half"-tim`bered (?), a. (Arch.) Constructed of a timber frame, having
the spaces filled in with masonry; -- said of buildings.
Half-tounue
Half"-tounue` (?), n. (O. Law) A jury, for the trial of a fore
foreigner, composed equally of citizens and aliens.
Halfway
Half"way` (?), adv. In the middle; at half the distance; imperfectly;
partially; as, he halfway yielded.
Temples proud to meet their gods halfway. Young.
Halfway
Half"way`, a. Equally distant from the extremes; situated at an
intermediate point; midway. Halfway covenant, a practice among the
Congregational churches of New England, between 1657 and 1662, of
permitting baptized persons of moral life and orthodox faith to enjoy
all the privileges of church membership, save the partaking of the
Lord's Supper. They were also allowed to present their children for
baptism. -- Halfway house, an inn or place of call midway on a
journey.
Half-wit
Half"-wit` (?), n. A foolish; a dolt; a blockhead; a dunce. Dryden.
Half-witted
Half"-wit`ted (?), a. Weak in intellect; silly.
Half-yearly
Half"-year`ly (?), a. Two in a year; semiannual. -- adv. Twice in a
year; semiannually.
Halibut
Hal"i*but (?;277), n. [OE. hali holy + but, butte, flounder; akin to
D. bot, G. butte; cf. D. heilbot, G. heilbutt. So named as being eaten
on holidays. See Holy, Holiday.] (Zo\'94l.) A large, northern, marine
flatfish (Hippoglossus vulgaris), of the family Pleuronectid\'91. It
often grows very large, weighing more than three hundred pounds. It is
an important food fish. [Written also holibut.]
Halichondri\'91
Hal`i*chon"dri*\'91 (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. (Zo\'94l.) An order of
sponges, having simple siliceous spicules and keratose fibers; --
called also Keratosilicoidea.
Halicore
Hal"i*core (?; L.?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. Same as Dugong.
Halidom
Hal"i*dom (?), n. [AS. h\'beligd holiness, sacrament, sanctuary,
relics; h\'belig holy + -d, E. -dom. See Holy.]
1. Holiness; sanctity; sacred oath; sacred things; sanctuary; -- used
chiefly in oaths. [Archaic]
So God me help and halidom. Piers Plowman.
By my halidom, I was fast asleep. Shak.
2. Holy doom; the Last Day. [R.] Shipley.
Halieutics
Hal`i*eu"tics (?), n. [L. halieuticus pertaining to fishing, Gr. A
treatise upon fish or the art of fishing; ichthyology.
Halmas
Hal"mas (?), a. [See Hallowmas.] The feast of All Saints; Hallowmas.
[Obs.]
Haliographer
Ha`li*og"ra*pher (? or ?), n. One who writes about or describes the
sea.
Haliography
Ha`li*og"ra*phy (?), n. [Gr. -graphy.] Description of the sea; the
science that treats of the sea.
Haliotis
Ha`li*o"tis (? or ?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. (Zo\'94l.) A genus of marine
shells; the ear-shells. See Abalone.
Haliotoid
Ha"li*o*toid` (? or ?), a. [Haliots + -oid.] (Zo\'94l.) Like or
pertaining to the genus Haliotis; ear-shaped.
Halisauria
Hal`i*sau"ri*a (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. (Paleon.) The Enaliosauria.
Halite
Ha"lite (? or ?), n. [Gr. (Min.) Native salt; sodium chloride.
Halituous
Ha*lit"u*ous (?; 135), a. [L. halitus breath, vapor, fr. halare to
breathe: cf. F. halitueux.] Produced by, or like, breath; vaporous.
Boyle.
Halk
Halk (?), n. A nook; a corner. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Hall
Hall (?), n. [OE. halle, hal, AS. heal, heall; akin to D. hal, OS. &
OHG. halla, G. halle, Icel. h\'94lt, and prob. from a root meaning, to
hide, conceal, cover. See Hell, Helmet.]
1. A building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for
public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London.
2. (a) The chief room in a castle or manor house, and in early times
the only public room, serving as the place of gathering for the lord's
family with the retainers and servants, also for cooking and eating.
It was often contrasted with the bower, which was the private or
sleeping apartment.
Full sooty was her bower and eke her hall. Chaucer.
Hence, as the entrance from outside was directly into the hall: (b) A
vestibule, entrance room, etc., in the more elaborated buildings of
later times. Hence: (c) Any corridor or passage in a building.
3. A name given to many manor houses because the magistrate's court
was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion house. Cowell.
4. A college in an English university (at Oxford, an unendowed
college).
5. The apartment in which English university students dine in common;
hence, the dinner itself; as, hall is at six o'clock.
6. Cleared passageway in a crowd; -- formerly an exclamation. [Obs.]
"A hall! a hall!" B. Jonson. Syn. -- Entry; court; passage. See
Vestibule.
Hallage
Hall"age (?; 48), n. (O. Eng. Law) A fee or toll paid for goods sold
in a hall.
Halleluiah, Hallelujah
Hal`le*lu"iah, Hal`le*lu"jah (?), n. & interj. [Heb. See Alleluia.]
Praise ye Jehovah; praise ye the Lord; -- an exclamation used chiefly
in songs of praise or thanksgiving to God, and as an expression of
gratitude or adoration. Rev. xix. 1 (Rev. Ver. )
So sung they, and the empyrean rung With Hallelujahs. Milton.
In those days, as St. Jerome tells us,"any one as he walked in the
fields, might hear the plowman at his hallelujahs." Sharp.
Hallelujatic
Hal`le*lu*jat"ic (?), a. Pertaining to, or containing, hallelujahs.
[R.]
Halliard
Hal"liard (?), n. See Halyard.
Hallidome
Hal"li*dome (?), n. Same as Halidom.
Hallier
Hal"li*er (? or ?), n. [From Hale to pull.] A kind of net for catching
birds.
Hall-mark
Hall"-mark` (?), n. 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.
Halloa
Hal*loa" (?). See Halloo.
Halloo
Hal*loo" (?), n. [Perh. fr. ah + lo; cf. AS. eal\'be, G. halloh, F.
haler to set (a dog) on. Cf. Hollo, interj.] A loud exclamation; a
call to invite attention or to incite a person or an animal; a shout.
List! List! I hear Some far off halloo break the silent air.
Milton.
Halloo
Hal*loo", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Hallooed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Halloing.]
To cry out; to exclaim with a loud voice; to call to a person, as by
the word halloo.
Country folks hallooed and hooted after me. Sir P. Sidney.
Halloo
Hal*loo", v. t.
1. To encourage with shouts.
Old John hallooes his hounds again. Prior.
2. To chase with shouts or outcries.
If I fly . . . Halloo me like a hare. Shak.
3. To call or shout to; to hail. Shak.
Halloo
Hal*loo", interj. [OE. halow. See Halloo, n.] An exclamation to call
attention or to encourage one.
Hallow
Hal"low (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hallowed(?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Hallowing.] [OE. halowen, halwien, halgien, AS. h\'belgian, fr.
h\'belig holy. See Holy.] To make holy; to set apart for holy or
religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to
reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9.
Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24.
His secret altar touched with hallowed fire. Milton.
In a larger sense . . . we can not hallow this ground [Gettysburg].
A. Lincoln.
Halloween
Hal`low*een" (?), n. The evening preceding Allhallows or All Saints'
Day. [Scot.]<-- October 31 --> Burns.
Hallowmas
Hal"low*mas (?), n. [See Mass the eucharist.] The feast of All Saints,
or Allhallows.
To speak puling, like a beggar at Hallowmas. Shak.
Halloysite
Hal*loy"site (?), n. [Named after Omalius d'Halloy.] (Min.) A claylike
mineral, occurring in soft, smooth, amorphous masses, of a whitish
color.
Hallucal
Hal"lu*cal (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the hallux.
Hallucinate
Hal*lu"ci*nate (?), v. i. [L. hallucinatus, alucinatus, p. p. of
hallucinari, alucinari, to wander in mind, talk idly, dream.] To
wander; to go astray; to err; to blunder; -- used of mental processes.
[R.] Byron.
Hallucination
Hal*lu`ci*na"tion (?), n. [L. hallucinatio cf. F. hallucination.]
1. The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; error; mistake;
a blunder.
This must have been the hallucination of the transcriber. Addison.
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2. (Med.) The perception of objects which have no reality, or of
sensations which have no corresponding external cause, arising from
disorder or the nervous system, as in delirium tremens; delusion.
Hallucinations are always evidence of cerebral derangement and are
common phenomena of insanity. W. A. Hammond.
Hallucinator
Hal*lu"ci*na`tor (?), n. [L.] One whose judgment and acts are affected
by hallucinations; one who errs on account of his hallucinations. N.
Brit. Rev.
Hallucinatory
Hal*lu"ci*na*to*ry (?), a. Partaking of, or tending to produce,
hallucination.
Hallux
Hal"lux (?), n. [NL., fr. L. hallex, allex.] (Anat.) 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.
Halm
Halm (?), n. (Bot.) Same as Haulm.
Halma
Hal"ma (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. (Greek Antiq.) The long jump, with
weights in the hands, -- the most important of the exercises of the
Pentathlon.
Halo
Ha"lo (?), n.; pl. Halos(. [L. halos, acc. halo, Gr. volvere, and E.
voluble.]
1. A luminous circle, usually prismatically colored, round the sun or
moon, and supposed to be caused by the refraction of light through
crystals of ice in the atmosphere. Connected with halos there are
often white bands, crosses, or arches, resulting from the same
atmospheric conditions.
2. A circle of light; especially, the bright ring represented in
painting as surrounding the heads of saints and other holy persons; a
glory; a nimbus.
3. An ideal glory investing, or affecting one's perception of, an
object.
4. A colored circle around a nipple; an areola.
Halo
Ha"lo, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Haloed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Haloing.]
To form, or surround with, a halo; to encircle with, or as with, a
halo.
The fire That haloed round his saintly brow. Sothey.
Haloed
Ha"loed (?), a. Surrounded with a halo; invested with an ideal glory;
glorified.
Some haloed face bending over me. C. Bront\'82.
Halogen
Hal"o*gen (?), n. [Gr. "a`ls, "alo`s, salt + -gen: cf. F.
halog\'8ane.] (Chem.) 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.
Halogenous
Ha*log"e*nous (?), a. Of the nature of a halogen.
Haloid
Ha"loid (? or ?), a. [Gr. "a`ls, "alo`s salt + -oid: cf. F. cal.]
(Chem.) 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. -- n. A haloid substance.
Halomancy
Hal"o*man`cy (?), n. See Alomancy.
Halometer
Ha*lom"e*ter (?), n. [Gr. "a`ls, "alo`s, salt + -meter.] An instrument
for measuring the forms and angles of salts and crystals; a
goniometer.
Halones
Ha*lo"nes (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. (Biol.) 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.
Halophyte
Hal"o*phyte (?), n. [Gr. "a`ls, "alo`s, salt + (Bot.) A plant found
growing in salt marshes, or in the sea.
Haloscope
Ha"lo*scope (?), n. [Halo + -scope.] An instrument for exhibition or
illustration of the phenomena of halos, parhelia, and the like.
Halotrichite
Hal*o*tri"chite (?), n. [Gr. "a`ls sea + fri`x, tricho`s, hair.]
(Min.) An iron alum occurring in silky fibrous aggregates of a
yellowish white color.
Haloxyline
Ha*lox"y*line, n. [Gr. "a`ls, "alo`s, salt + xy`lon wood.] An
explosive mixture, consisting of sawdust, charcoal, niter, and
ferrocyanide of potassium, used as a substitute for gunpowder.
Halp
Halp (?), imp. of Help. Helped. [Obs.]
Halpace
Hal"pace (?), n. (Arch.) See Haut pas.
Hals
Hals (?), n. [AS. heals; akin to D., G., & Goth. hals. See Collar.]
The neck or throat. [Obs.]
Do me hangen by the hals. Chaucer.
Halse
Halse (?), v. t. [AS. healsian.]
1. To embrace about the neck; to salute; to greet. [Obs.]
Each other kissed glad And lovely halst. Spenser.
2. To adjure; to beseech; to entreat. [Obs.]
O dere child, I halse thee, In virtue of the Holy Trinity. Chaucer.
Halse
Halse, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Halsed (h?lst); p. pr. & vb. n. Halsing.]
[Cf. Hawser.] To haul; to hoist. [Obs.]
Halsening
Hal"sen*ing (?), a. Sounding harshly in the throat; inharmonious;
rough. [Obs.] Carew.
Halser
Hals"er (?), n. See Hawser. Pope.
Halt
Halt (?), 3d pers. sing. pres. of Hold, contraction for holdeth.
[Obs.] Chaucer.
Halt
Halt (?), n. [Formerly alt, It. alto, G. halt, fr. halten to hold. See
Hold.] A stop in marching or walking, or in any action; arrest of
progress.
Without any halt they marched. Clarendon.
[Lovers] soon in passion's war contest, Yet in their march soon
make a halt. Davenant.
Halt
Halt, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Halted; p. pr. & vb. n. Halting.]
1. To hold one's self from proceeding; to hold up; to cease progress;
to stop for a longer or shorter period; to come to a stop; to stand
still.
2. To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; to h
How long halt ye between two opinions? 1 Kings xviii. 21
Halt
Halt (?), v. t. (Mil.) To cause to cease marching; to stop; as, the
general halted his troops for refreshment.
Halt
Halt, a. [AS. healt; akin to OS., Dan., & Sw. halt, Icel. haltr,
halltr, Goth. halts, OHG. halz.] Halting or stopping in walking; lame.
Bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the
blind. Luke xiv. 21.
Halt
Halt, n. The act of limping; lameness.
Halt
Halt, v. i. [OE. halten, AS. healtian. See Halt, a.]
1. To walk lamely; to limp.
2. To have an irregular rhythm; to be defective.
The blank verse shall halt for it. Shak.
Halter
Halt"er (?), n. One who halts or limps
Halter
Hal"ter (?), n. [OE. halter, helter, helfter, AS. h\'91lftre; akin to
G. halfter, D. halfter, halster, and also to E. helve. See Helve.] A
strong strap or cord. Especially: (a) A rope or strap, with or without
a headstall, for leading or tying a horse. (b) A rope for hanging
malefactors; a noose. Shak.
No man e'er felt the halter draw With good opinion of the law.
Trumbull.
Halter
Hal"ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Haltered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Haltering.]
To tie by the neck with a rope, strap, or halter; to put a halter on;
to subject to a hangman's halter. "A haltered neck." Shak.
Halteres
Hal*te"res (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. (Zo\'94l.) Balancers; the
rudimentary hind wings of Diptera.
Halter-sack
Hal"ter-sack` (?), n. A term of reproach, implying that one is fit to
be hanged. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
Haltingly
Halt"ing*ly (?), adv. In a halting or limping manner.
Halvans
Hal"vans (?), n. pl. (Mining) Impure ore; dirty ore.
Halve
Hal"ve (?), n. A half. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Halve
Halve (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Halved (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Halving.]
[From Half.]
1. To divide into two equal parts; as, to halve an apple; to be or
form half of.
So far apart their lives are thrown From the twin soul that halves
their own. M. Arnold.
2. (Arch.) To join, as two pieces of timber, by cutting away each for
half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.
Halved
Halved (?), a. Appearing as if one side, or one half, were cut away;
dimidiate.
Halves
Halves (?), n., pl. of Half. By halves, by one half at once; halfway;
fragmentarily; partially; incompletely.
I can not believe by halves; either I have faith, or I have it not.
J. H. Newman.
To go halves. See under Go.
Halwe
Hal"we (?), n. [OE., fr. AS. h\'belga. See Holy.] A saint. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Hal'yard
Hal'yard (?), n. [Hale, v. t. + yard.] (Naut.) A rope or tackle for
hoisting or lowering yards, sails, flags, etc. [Written also halliard,
haulyard.]
Halysites
Hal`y*si"tes (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. (Paleon.) A genus of Silurian
fossil corals; the chain corals. See Chain coral, under Chain.
Ham
Ham (?), n. Home. [North of Eng.] Chaucer.
Ham
Ham (?), n. [AS. ham; akin to D. ham, dial. G. hamme, OHG. hamma.
Perh. named from the bend at the ham, and akin to E. chamber. Cf.
Gammon ham.]
1. (Anat.) The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the
hock.
2. The thigh of any animal; especially, the thigh of a hog cured by
salting and smoking.
A plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak ham. Shak.
Hamadryad
Ham"a*dry`ad (?), n.; pl. E. Hamadryads (#), L. Hamadryades (#). [L.
Hamadryas, -adis, Gr. hamadryade. See Same, and Tree.]
1. (Class. Myth.) A tree nymph whose life ended with that of the
particular tree, usually an oak, which had been her abode.
2. (Zo\'94l.) A large venomous East Indian snake (Orhiophagus
bungarus), allied to the cobras.
Hamadryas
Ha*ma"dry*as (?), n. [L., a hamadryad. See Hamadryad.] (Zo\'94l.) The
sacred baboon of Egypt (Cynocephalus Hamadryas).
Hamamelis
Ham`a*me"lis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. (Bot.) A genus of plants which
includes the witch-hazel (Hamamelis Virginica), a preparation of which
is used medicinally.
Hamate
Ha"mate (?), a. [L. hamatus, fr. hamus hook.] Hooked; bent at the end
into a hook; hamous.
Hamated
Ha"ma*ted (?), a. Hooked, or set with hooks; hamate. Swift.
Hamatum
Ha*ma"tum (?), n. [NL., fr. L. hamatus hooked.] (Anat.) See Unciform.
Hamble
Ham"ble (?), v. t. [OE. hamelen to mutilate, AS. hamelian; akin to
OHG. hamal to mutilate, hamal mutilated, ham mutilated, Icel. hamla to
mutilate. Cf.Ham to fetter.] To hamstring. [Obs.]
Hamburg
Ham"burg (?), n. A commercial city of Germany, near the mouth of the
Elbe. Black Hamburg grape. See under Black. -- Hamburg , a kind of
embroidered work done by machinery on cambric or muslin; -- used for
trimming. -- Hamburg lake, a purplish crimson pigment resembling
cochineal.
Hame
Hame (?), n. Home. [Scot. & O. Eng.]
Hame
Hame, n. [Scot. haims, hammys, hems, OE. ham; cf. D. haam.] One of the
two curved pieces of wood or metal, in the harness of a draught horse,
to which the traces are fastened. They are fitted upon the collar, or
have pads fitting the horse's neck attached to them.
Hamel
Ham"el (?), v. t. [Obs.] Same as Hamele.
Hamesecken, Hamesucken
Hame"seck`en (?), Hame"suck`en (?), n. [AS. h\'bems. See Home, and
Seek.] (Scots Law) The felonious seeking and invasion of a person in
his dwelling house. Bouvier.
Hamiform
Ha"mi*form (?), n. [L. hamus hook + -form.] Hook-shaped.
Hamilton period
Ham"il*ton pe"ri*od (?). (Geol.) A subdivision of the Devonian system
of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It
includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See
the Chart of Geology.
Haminura
Ham`i*nu"ra (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) A large edible river fish (Erythrinus
macrodon) of Guiana.
Hamite
Ha"mite (?), n.[L. hamus hook.] (Paleon.) A fossil cephalopod of the
genus Hamites, related to the ammonites, but having the last whorl
bent into a hooklike form.
Hamite
Ham"ite (?), n. A descendant of Ham, Noah's second son. See Gen. x.
6-20.
Haitic
Ha*it"ic (?), a. Pertaining to Ham or his descendants. Hamitic
languages, the group of languages spoken mainly in the Sahara, Egypt,
Galla, and Som&acir;li Land, and supposed to be allied to the Semitic.
Keith Johnson.
Hamlet
Ham"let (?), n. [OWE. hamelet, OF. hamelet, dim. of hamel, F. hameau,
LL. hamellum, a dim. of German origin; cf. G. heim home. &root;220.
See Home.] A small village; a little cluster of houses in the country.
The country wasted, and the hamlets burned. Dryden.
Syn. -- Village; neighborhood. See Village.
Hamleted
Ham"let*ed, p. a. Confined to a hamlet. Feltham.
Hammer
Ham"mer (?), n. [OE. hamer, AS. hamer, hamor; akin to D. hamer, G. &
Dan. hammer, Sw. hammare, Icel. hamarr, hammer, crag, and perh. to Gr.
a stone.]
1. An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like,
consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a
handle.
With busy hammers closing rivets up. Shak.
2. Something which in firm or action resembles the common hammer; as:
(a) That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the
hour. (b) The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to
produce the tones. (c) (Anat.) The malleus. See under Ear. (Gun.) 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. (e) Also, a person of thing that smites or shatters; as, St.
Augustine was the hammer of heresies.
He met the stern legionaries [of Rome] who had been the "massive
iron hammers" of the whole earth. J. H. Newman.
Atmospheric hammer, a dead-stroke hammer in which the spring is formed
by confined air. -- Drop hammer, Face hammer, etc. See under Drop,
Face, etc. -- Hammer fish. See Hammerhead. -- Hammer hardening, the
process of hardening metal by hammering it when cold. -- Hammer shell
(Zo\'94l.), any species of Malleus, a genus of marine bivalve shells,
allied to the pearl oysters, having the wings narrow and elongated, so
as to give them a hammer-shaped outline; -- called also hammer oyster.
-- To bring to the hammer, to put up at auction.
Hammer
Ham"mer, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hammered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hammering.]
1. To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to hammer
iron.
2. To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating. "Hammered
money." Dryden.
3. To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; --
usually with out.
Who was hammering out a penny dialogue. Jeffry.
Hammer
Ham"mer, v. i.
1. To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something
with a hammer.
Whereon this month I have hammering. Shak.
2. To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively.
Blood and revenge are hammering in my head. Shak.
Hammerable
Ham"mer*a*ble (?), a. Capable of being formed or shaped by a hammer.
Sherwood.
Hammer-b
Ham"mer-b (?), n. (Cothic Arch.) A member of one description of roof
truss, called hammer-beam truss, which is so framed as not to have a
tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer-beams,
which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a
tiebeam.
Hammercloth
Ham"mer*cloth` (?; 115), n. [Prob. fr. D. hemel heaven, canopy, tester
(akin to G. himmel, and perh. also to E. heaven) + E. cloth; or perh.
a corruption of hamper cloth.] The cloth which covers a coach box.
Hammer-dressed
Ham"mer-dressed` (?), a. Having the surface roughly shaped or faced
with the stonecutter's hammer; -- said of building stone.
Hammerer
Ham"mer*er (?), n. One who works with a hammer.
Hammer-harden
Ham"mer-hard`en (?), v. t. To harden, as a metal, by hammering it in
the cold state.
Hammerhead
Ham"mer*head` (?), n.
1. (Zo\'94l.) A shark of the genus Sphyrna or Zyg\'91na, having the
eyes set on projections from the sides of the head, which gives it a
hammer shape. The Sphyrna zyg\'91na is found in the North Atlantic.
Called also hammer fish, and balance fish.
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2. (Zo\'94l.) A fresh-water fish; the stone-roller.
3. (Zo\'94l.) An African fruit bat (Hypsignathus monstrosus); -- so
called from its large blunt nozzle.
Hammerkop
Ham"mer*kop (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) A bird of the Heron family; the umber.
Hammer-less
Ham"mer-less, a. (Firearms) Without a visible hammer; -- said of a gun
having a cock or striker concealed from sight, and out of the way of
an accidental touch.
Hammerman
Ham"mer*man (?), n.; pl. Hammermen (. A hammerer; a forgeman.
Hammochrysos
Ham`mo*chry"sos (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. chryso`s gold.] A stone with
spangles of gold color in it.
Hammock
Ham"mock (?), n. [A word of Indian origin: cf. Sp. hamaca. Columbus,
in the Narrative of his first voyage, says: "A great many Indians in
canoes came to the ship to-day for the purpose of bartering their
cotton, and hamacas, or nets, in which they sleep."]
1. A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about
six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends.
2. A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and
vines. Used also adjectively; as, hammock land. [Southern U. S.]
Bartlett.
Hammock nettings (Naut.), formerly, nets for stowing hammocks; now,
more often, wooden boxes or a trough on the rail, used for that
purpose.
Hamose, Hamous
Ha*mose" (?), Ha"mous (?),[L. hamus hook.] (Bot.) Having the end
hooked or curved.
Hamper
Ham"per (?), n. [Contr. fr. hanaper.] 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.
Hamper
Ham"per, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hampered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hampering.]
To put in a hamper.
Hamper
Ham"per, v. t. [OE. hamperen, hampren, prob. of the same origin as E.
hamble.] To put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle; to insnare; to
inveigle; hence, to impede in motion or progress; to embarrass; to
encumber. "Hampered nerves." Blackmore.
A lion hampered in a net. L'Estrange.
They hamper and entangle our souls. Tillotson.
Hamper
Ham"per, n. [See Hamper to shackle.]
1. A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes. W. Browne.
2. (Naut.) Articles ordinarily indispensable, but in the way at
certain times. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Top hamper (Naut.), unnecessary spars and rigging kept aloft.
Hamshackle
Ham"shac`kle (?), v. t. [Ham + shackle.] To fasten (an animal) by a
rope binding the head to one of the fore legs; as, to hamshackle a
horse or cow; hence, to bind or restrain; to curb.
Hamster
Ham"ster (?), n. [G. hamster.] (Zo\'94l.) 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.<-- often kept
as a pet -->
Hamstring
Ham"string` (?), n. (Anat.) 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.
Hamstring
Ham"string`, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hamstrung; p. pr. & vb. n.
Hamstringing. See String.] To lame or disable by cutting the tendons
of the ham or knee; to hough; hence, to cripple; to incapacitate; to
disable.
So have they hamstrung the valor of the subject by seeking to
effeminate us all at home. Milton.
Hamular
Ham"u*lar (?), a. Hooked; hooklike; hamate; as, the hamular process of
the sphenoid bone.
Hamulate
Ham"u*late (?), a. Furnished with a small hook; hook-shaped. Gray.
Hamule
Ham"ule (?), n. [L. hamulus.] A little hook.
Hamulose
Ham"u*lose" (?), a. [L. hamulus, dim. of hamus a hook.] Bearing a
small hook at the end. Gray.
Hamulus
Ham"u*lus (?), n.; pl. Hamuli (. [L., a little hook.]
1. (Anat.) A hook, or hooklike process.
2. (Zo\'94l.) A hooked barbicel of a feather.
Han
Han (?), contr. inf. & plural pres. of Haven. To have; have. [Obs.]
Piers Plowman.
Him thanken all, and thus they han an end. Chaucer.
Hanap
Han"ap (?), n. [F. hanap. See Hanaper.] A rich goblet, esp. one used
on state occasions. [Obs.]
Hanaper
Han"a*per (?), n. [LL. hanaperium a large vase, fr. hanaus vase, bowl,
cup (whence F. hanap); of German origin; cf. ONG. hnapf, G. napf, akin
to AS. hn\'91p cup, bowl. Cf. Hamper, Nappy, n.] A kind of basket,
usually of wickerwork, and adapted for the packing and carrying of
articles; a hamper. Hanaper office, an office of the English court of
chancery in which writs relating to the business of the public, and
the returns to them, were anciently kept in a hanaper or hamper.
Blackstone.
Hance
Hance (?), v. t. [See Enhance.] To raise; to elevate. [Obs.] Lydgate.
Hance, Hanch
Hance (?), Hanch (?),[See Hanse.]
1. (Arch.) See Hanse.
2. (Naut.) A sudden fall or break, as the fall of the fife rail down
to the gangway.
Hand
Hand (?), n. [AS. hand, hond; akin to D., G., & Sw. hand, OHG. hant,
Dan. haand, Icel. h\'94nd, Goth. handus, and perh. to Goth. hinpan to
seize (in comp.). Cf. Hunt.]
1. That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in man and
monkeys, and the corresponding part in many other animals; manus; paw.
See Manus.
2. That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a
human hand; as: (a) A limb of certain animals, as the foot of a hawk,
or any one of the four extremities of a monkey. (b) An index or
pointer on a dial; as, the hour or minute hand of a clock.
3. A measure equal to a hand's breadth, -- four inches; a palm.
Chiefly used in measuring the height of horses.
4. Side; part; direction, either right or left.
On this hand and that hand, were hangings. Ex. xxxviii. 15.
The Protestants were then on the winning hand. Milton.
5. Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill;
dexterity.
He had a great mind to try his hand at a Spectator. Addison.
6. Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner
of performance.
To change the hand in carrying on the war. Clarendon.
Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by my hand. Judges
vi. 36.
7. An agent; a servant, or laborer; a workman, trained or competent
for special service or duty; a performer more or less skillful; as, a
deck hand; a farm hand; an old hand at speaking.
A dictionary containing a natural history requires too many hands,
as well as too much time, ever to be hoped for. Locke.
I was always reckoned a lively hand at a simile. Hazlitt.
8. Handwriting; style of penmanship; as, a good, bad or running hand.
Hence, a signature.
I say she never did invent this letter; This is a man's invention
and his hand. Shak.
Some writs require a judge's hand. Burril.
9. Personal possession; ownership; hence, control; direction;
management; -- usually in the plural. "Receiving in hand one year's
tribute." Knolles.
Albinus . . . found means to keep in his hands the goverment of
Britain. Milton.
10. Agency in transmission from one person to another; as, to buy at
first hand, that is, from the producer, or when new; at second hand,
that is, when no longer in the producer's hand, or when not new.
11. Rate; price. [Obs.] "Business is bought at a dear hand, where
there is small dispatch." Bacon.
12. That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once; as: (a) (Card
Playing) The quota of cards received from the dealer. (b) (Tobacco
Manuf.) A bundle of tobacco leaves tied together.
13. (Firearms) The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is
grasped by the hand in taking aim.
NOTE: &hand; Ha nd is used figuratively for a large variety of acts
or things, in the doing, or making, or use of which the hand is in
some way employed or concerned; also, as a symbol to denote various
qualities or conditions, as: (a) Activity; operation; work; -- in
distinction from the head, which implies thought, and the heart,
which implies affection. "His hand will be against every man." Gen.
xvi. 12.(b) Power; might; supremacy; -- often in the Scriptures.
"With a mighty hand . . . will I rule over you." Ezek. xx. 33.(c)
Fraternal feeling; as, to give, or take, the hand; to give the
right hand. (d) Contract; -- commonly of marriage; as, to ask the
hand; to pledge the hand.
NOTE: &hand; Ha nd is often used adjectively or in compounds (with
or without the hyphen), signifying performed by the hand; as, hand
blow or hand-blow, hand gripe or hand-gripe: used by, or designed
for, the hand; as, hand ball or handball, hand bow, hand fetter,
hand grenade or hand-grenade, handgun or hand gun, handloom or hand
loom, handmill or hand organ or handorgan, handsaw or hand saw,
hand-weapon: measured or regulated by the hand; as, handbreadth or
hand's breadth, hand gallop or hand-gallop. Most of the words in
the following paragraph are written either as two words or in
combination.
Hand bag, a satchel; a small bag for carrying books, papers, parcels,
etc. -- Hand basket, a small or portable basket. -- Hand bell, a small
bell rung by the hand; a table bell. Bacon. -- Hand bill, a small
pruning hook. See 4th Bill. -- Hand car. See under Car. -- Hand
director (Mus.), an instrument to aid in forming a good position of
the hands and arms when playing on the piano; a hand guide. -- Hand
drop. See Wrist drop. -- Hand gallop. See under Gallop. -- Hand gear
(Mach.), apparatus by means of which a machine, or parts of a machine,
usually operated by other power, may be operated by hand. -- Hand
glass. (a) A glass or small glazed frame, for the protection of
plants. (b) A small mirror with a handle. -- Hand guide. Same as Hand
director (above). -- Hand language, the art of conversing by the
hands, esp. as practiced by the deaf and dumb; dactylology. -- Hand
lathe. See under Lathe. -- Hand money, money paid in hand to bind a
contract; earnest money. -- Hand organ (Mus.), a barrel organ,
operated by a crank turned by hand. -- Hand plant. (Bot.) Same as Hand
tree (below). -- Hand rail, a rail, as in staircases, to hold by.
Gwilt. -- Hand sail, a sail managed by the hand. Sir W. Temple. --
Hand screen, a small screen to be held in the hand. -- Hand screw, a
small jack for raising heavy timbers or weights; (Carp.) a screw
clamp. -- Hand staff (pl. Hand staves), a javelin. Ezek. xxxix. 9. --
Hand stamp, a small stamp for dating, addressing, or canceling papers,
envelopes, etc. -- Hand tree (Bot.), a lofty tree found in Mexico
(Cheirostemon platanoides), having red flowers whose stamens unite in
the form of a hand. -- Hand vise, a small vise held in the hand in
doing small work. Moxon. -- Hand work, OR Handwork, work done with the
hands, as distinguished from work done by a machine; handiwork. -- All
hands, everybody; all parties. -- At all hands, On all hands, on all
sides; from every direction; generally. -- At any hand, At no hand, in
any (or no) way or direction; on any account; on no account. "And
therefore at no hand consisting with the safety and interests of
humility." Jer. Taylor. -- At first hand, At second hand. See def. 10
(above). -- At hand. (a) Near in time or place; either present and
within reach, or not far distant. "Your husband is at hand; I hear his
trumpet." Shak. (b) Under the hand or bridle. [Obs.] "Horses hot at
hand." Shak. -- At the hand of, by the act of; as a gift from. "Shall
we receive good at the hand of God and shall we not receive evil?" Job
ii. 10. -- Bridle hand. See under Bridle. -- By hand, with the hands,
in distinction from instrumentality of tools, engines, or animals; as,
to weed a garden by hand; to lift, draw, or carry by hand. -- Clean
hands, freedom from guilt, esp. from the guilt of dishonesty in money
matters, or of bribe taking. "He that hath clean hands shall be
stronger and stronger." Job xvii. 9. -- From hand to hand, from one
person to another. -- Hand in hand. (a) In union; conjointly;
unitedly. Swift. (b) Just; fair; equitable.
As fair and as good, a kind of hand in hand comparison. Shak.
-- Hand over hand, Hand over fist, by passing the hands alternately
one before or above another; as, to climb hand over hand; also,
rapidly; as, to come up with a chase hand over hand. -- Hand over
head, negligently; rashly; without seeing what one does. [Obs.] Bacon.
-- Hand running, consecutively; as, he won ten times hand running. --
Hand off! keep off! forbear! no interference or meddling! -- Hand to
hand, in close union; in close fight; as, a hand to hand contest.
Dryden. -- Heavy hand, severity or oppression. -- In hand. (a) Paid
down. "A considerable reward in hand, and . . . a far greater reward
hereafter." Tillotson. (b) In preparation; taking place. Chaucer.
"Revels . . . in hand." Shak. (c) Under consideration, or in the
course of transaction; as, he has the business in hand. -- In one's
hand OR hands. (a) In one's possession or keeping. (b) At one's risk,
or peril; as, I took my life in my hand. -- Laying on of hands, a form
used in consecrating to office, in the rite of confirmation, and in
blessing persons. -- Light hand, gentleness; moderation. -- Note of
hand, a promissory note. -- Off hand, Out of hand, forthwith; without
delay, hesitation, or difficulty; promptly. "She causeth them to be
hanged up out of hand." Spenser. -- Off one's hands, out of one's
possession or care. -- On hand, in present possession; as, he has a
supply of goods on hand. -- On one's hands, in one's possession care,
or management. -- Putting the hand under the thigh, an ancient Jewish
ceremony used in swearing. -- Right hand, the place of honor, power,
and strength. -- Slack hand, idleness; carelessness; inefficiency;
sloth. -- Strict hand, severe discipline; rigorous government. -- To
bear a hand (Naut), to give help quickly; to hasten. -- To bear in
hand, to keep in expectation with false pretenses. [Obs.] Shak. -- To
be hand and glove, OR in glove with. See under Glove. -- To be on the
mending hand, to be convalescent or improving. -- To bring up by hand,
to feed (an infant) without suckling it. -- To change hand. See
Change. -- To change hands, to change sides, or change owners.
Hudibras. -- To clap the hands, to express joy or applause, as by
striking the palms of the hands together. -- To come to hand, to be
received; to be taken into possession; as, the letter came to hand
yesterday. -- To get hand, to gain influence. [Obs.]
Appetites have . . . got such a hand over them. Baxter.
-- To got one's hand in, to make a beginning in a certain work; to
become accustomed to a particular business. -- To have a hand in, to
be concerned in; to have a part or concern in doing; to have an agency
or be employed in. -- To have in hand. (a) To have in one's power or
control. Chaucer. (b) To be engaged upon or occupied with. -- To have
one's hands full, to have in hand al that one can do, or more than can
be done conveniently; to be pressed with labor or engagements; to be
surrounded with difficulties. -- To have, OR get, the (higher) upper
hand, to have, or get, the better of another person or thing. -- To
his hand, To my hand, etc., in readiness; already prepared. "The work
is made to his hands." Locke. -- To hold hand, to compete successfully
or on even conditions. [Obs.] Shak. -- To lay hands on, to seize; to
assault. -- To lend a hand, to give assistance. -- To lift, OR put
forth, the hand against, to attack; to oppose; to kill. -- To live
from hand to mouth, to obtain food and other necessaries as want
compels, without previous provision. -- To make one's hand, to gain
advantage or profit. -- To put the hand unto, to steal. Ex. xxii. 8.--
To put the last, OR finishing, hand to, to make the last corrections
in; to complete; to perfect. -- To set the hand to, to engage in; to
undertake.
That the Lord thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine
hand to. Deut. xxiii. 20.
-- To stand one in hand, to concern or affect one. -- To strike hands,
to make a contract, or to become surety for another's debt or good
behavior. -- To take in hand. (a) To attempt or undertake. (b) To
seize and deal with; as, he took him in hand. -- To wash the hands of,
to disclaim or renounce interest in, or responsibility for, a person
or action; as, to wash one's hands of a business. Matt. xxvii. 24. --
Under the hand of, authenticated by the handwriting or signature of;
as, the deed is executed under the hand and seal of the owner.
Hand
Hand (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Handed; p. pr. & vb. n. Handing.]
1. To give, pass, or transmit with the hand; as, he handed them the
letter.
2. To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct; as, to hand a
lady into a carriage.
3. To manage; as, I hand my oar. [Obs.] Prior.
4. To seize; to lay hands on. [Obs.] Shak.
5. To pledge by the hand; to handfast. [R.]
6. (Naut.) To furl; -- said of a sail. Totten.
To hand down, to transmit in succession, as from father to son, or
from predecessor to successor; as, fables are handed down from age to
age; to forward to the proper officer (the decision of a higher
court); as, the Clerk of the Court of Appeals handed down its
decision. -- To hand over, to yield control of; to surrender; to
deliver up.
Hand
Hand, v. i. To co\'94perate. [Obs.] Massinger.
Handbarrow
Hand"bar"row (?), n. A frame or barrow, without a wheel, carried by
hand.
Handbill
Hand"bill` (?), n.
1. A loose, printed sheet, to be distributed by hand.
2. A pruning hook. [Usually written hand bill.]
Handbook
Hand"book` (?), n. [Hand + book; cf. AS. handb, or G. handbuch.] A
book of reference, to be carried in the hand; a manual; a guidebook.
Handbreadth
Hand"breadth` (?), n. A space equal to the breadth of the hand; a
palm. Ex. xxxvii. 12.
Handcart
Hand"cart`, n. A cart drawn or pushed by hand.
Handcloth
Hand"cloth` (?; 115), n. A handkerchief.
Handcraft
Hand"craft` (?), n. Same as Handicraft.
Handcraftsman
Hand"crafts`man (?), n.; pl. -men (. A handicraftsman.
Handcuff
Hand"cuff` (?), n. [AS. handcops; hand hand + cosp, cops, fetter. The
second part was confused with E. cuffs,] A fastening, consisting of an
iron ring around the wrist, usually connected by a chain with one on
the other wrist; a manacle; -- usually in the plural.
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Handcuff
Hand"cuff` (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Handcuffed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Handcuffing.] To apply handcuffs to; to manacle. Hay (1754).
Handed
Hand"ed, a.
1. With hands joined; hand in hand.
Into their inmost bower, Handed they went. Milton.
2. Having a peculiar or characteristic hand.
As poisonous tongued as handed. Shak.
NOTE: &hand; Ha nded is used in composition in the sense of having
(such or so many) hands; as, bloody-handed; free-handed;
heavy-handed; left-handed; single-handed.
Hander
Hand"er (?), n. One who hands over or transmits; a conveyer in
succession. Dryden.
Handfast
Hand"fast` (?), n.
1. Hold; grasp; custody; power of confining or keeping. [Obs.] Shak.
2. Contract; specifically, espousal. [Obs.]
Handfast
Hand"fast`, a. Fast by contract; betrothed by joining hands. [Obs.]
Bale.
Handfast
Hand"fast`, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Handfasted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Handfasting.] To pledge; to bind; to betroth by joining hands, in
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Handfast
Hand"fast`, n. [G. handfest; hand hand + fest strong. See Fast.]
Strong; steadfast.[R.] Carlyle.
Handfastly
Hand"fast`ly, adv. In a handfast or publicly pledged manner. [Obs.]
Holinshed.
Handfish
Hand"fish` (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) The frogfish.
Handful
Hand"ful (?), n.; pl. Hand flus (#). [AS. handfull.]
1. As much as the hand will grasp or contain. Addison.
2. A hand's breadth; four inches. [Obs.]
Knap the tongs together about a handful from the bottom. Bacon.
3. A small quantity.
This handful of men were tied to very hard duty. Fuller.
To have one's handful, to have one's hands full; to have all one can
do. [Obs.]
They had their handful to defend themselves from firing. Sir. W.
Raleigh.
Hand-hole
Hand"-hole (?), n. (Steam Boilers) A small hole in a boiler for the
insertion of the hand in cleaning, etc. Hand-hole plate, the cover of
a hand-hole.
Handicap
Hand"i*cap (?), n. [From hand in cap; -- perh. in reference to an old
mode of setting a bargain by taking pieces of money from a cap.]
1. An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting,
granted in a race to the competitor possessing inferior advantages; or
an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one
possessing superior advantages, in order to equalize, as much as
possible, the chances of success; as, the handicap was five seconds,
or ten pounds, and the like.
2. A race, for horses or men, or any contest of agility, strength, or
skill, in which there is an allowance of time, distance, weight, or
other advantage, to equalize the chances of the competitors.
3. An old game at cards. [Obs.] Pepys.
Handicap
Hand"i*cap, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Handicapped (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Handicapping.] To encumber with a handicap in any contest; hence, in
general, to place at disadvantage; as, the candidate was heavily
handicapped.
Handicapper
Hand"i*cap`per (?), n. One who determines the conditions of a
handicap.
Handicraft
Hand"i*craft (?), n. [For handcraft, influenced by handiwork; AS.
handcr\'91ft.]
1. A trade requiring skill of hand; manual occupation; handcraft.
Addison.
2. A man who earns his living by handicraft; a handicraftsman. [R.]
Dryden.
Handi-craftsman
Hand"i-crafts`man (?), n.; pl. -men (. A man skilled or employed in
handcraft. Bacon.
Handily
Hand"i*ly (?), adv. [See Handy.] In a handy manner; skillfully;
conveniently.
Handiness
Hand"i*ness, n. The quality or state of being handy.
Handiron
Hand"i`ron (?), n. See Andrion. [Obs.]
Handiwork
Hand"i*work` (?), n. [OE. handiwerc, AS. handgeweorc; hand hand +
geweorc work; prefix ge- + weorc. See Work.] Work done by the hands;
hence, any work done personally.
The firmament showeth his handiwork. Ps. xix. 1.
Handkercher
Hand"ker*cher (?), n. A handkerchief. [Obs. or Colloq.] Chapman
(1654). Shak.
Handkerchief
Hand"ker*chief (h&acr;n"k&etil;r*ch&icr;f; 277), n. [Hand + kerchief.]
1. A piece of cloth, usually square and often fine and elegant,
carried for wiping the face or hands.
2. A piece of cloth shaped like a handkerchief to be worn about the
neck; a neckerchief; a neckcloth.
Handle
Han"dle (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Handled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Handling
.] [OE. handlen, AS. handian; akin to D. handelen to trade, G.
handeln. See Hand.]
1. To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.
Handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh. Luke xxiv. 39.
About his altar, handling holy things. Milton.
2. To manage in using, as a spade or a musket; to wield; often, to
manage skillfully.
That fellow handles his bow like a crowkeeper. Shak.
3. To accustom to the hand; to work upon, or take care of, with the
hands.
The hardness of the winters forces the breeders to house and handle
their colts six months every year. Sir W. Temple.
4. 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.
5. To deal with; to make a business of.
They that handle the law knew me not. Jer. ii. 8.
6. To treat; to use, well or ill.
How wert thou handled being prisoner. Shak.
7. To manage; to control; to practice skill upon.
You shall see how I will handle her. Shak.
8. To use or manage in writing or speaking; to treat, as a theme, an
argument, or an objection.
We will handle what persons are apt to envy others. Bacon.
To handle without gloves. See under Glove. [Colloq.]
Handle
Han"dle (?), v. i. To use the hands.
They have hands, but they handle not. Ps. cxv. 7.
Handle
Han"dle, n. [AS. handle. See Hand.]
1. 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.
2. That of which use is made; the instrument for effecting a purpose;
a tool. South.
To give a handle, to furnish an occasion or means.
Handleable
Han"dle*a*ble (?), a. Capable of being handled.
Handless
Hand"less (?), a. Without a hand. Shak.
Handling
Han"dling (?), n. [AS. handlung.]
1. A touching, controlling, managing, using, etc., with the hand or
hands, or as with the hands. See Handle, v. t.
The heavens and your fair handling Have made you master of the
field this day. Spenser.
2. (Drawing, Painting, etc.) The mode of using the pencil or brush,
etc.; style of touch. Fairholt.
Handmade
Hand"made" (?), a. Manufactured by hand; as, handmade shoes.
Handmaid, Handmaiden
Hand"maid" (?), Hand"maiden (?), n. A maid that waits at hand; a
female servant or attendant.
Handsaw
Hand"saw` (#) n. A saw used with one hand.
Handsel
Hand"sel (?), n. [Written also hansel.] [OE. handsal, hansal, hansel,
AS. handsa giving into hands, or more prob. fr. Icel. handsal; hand
hand + sal sale, bargain; akin to AS. sellan to give, deliver. See
Sell, Sale. ]
1. 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.
Their first good handsel of breath in this world. Fuller.
Our present tears here, not our present laughter, Are but the
handsels of our joys hereafter. Herrick.
2. Price; payment. [Obs.] Spenser.
Handsel Monday, the first Monday of the new year, when handsels or
presents are given to servants, children, etc.
Handsel
Hand"sel, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Handseled OR Handseled (; p. pr. & vb.
n. Handseling OR Handselling.] [Written also hansel.] [OE handsellen,
hansellen;cf. Isel. hadsala, handselja. See Handsel, n.]
1. To give a handsel to.
2. To use or do for the first time, esp. so as to make fortunate or
unfortunate; to try experimentally.
No contrivance of our body, but some good man in Scripture hath
handseled it with prayer. Fuller.
Handsome
Hand"some (?; 277), a. [Compar. Handsomer (?); superl. Handsomest.]
[Hand + -some. It at first meant, dexterous; cf. D. handzaam
dexterous, ready, limber, manageable, and E. handy.]
1. Dexterous; skillful; handy; ready; convenient; -- applied to things
as persons. [Obs.]
That they [engines of war] be both easy to be carried and handsome
to be moved and turned about. Robynson (Utopia).
For a thief it is so handsome as it may seem it was first invented
for him. Spenser.
2. Agreeable to the eye or to correct taste; having a pleasing
appearance or expression; attractive; having symmetry and dignity;
comely; -- expressing more than pretty, and less than beautiful; as, a
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3. Suitable or fit in action; marked with propriety and ease;
graceful; becoming; appropriate; as, a handsome style, etc.
Easiness and handsome address in writing. Felton.
4. Evincing a becoming generosity or nobleness of character; liberal;
generous.
Handsome is as handsome does. Old Proverb.
5. Ample; moderately large.
He . . . accumulated a handsome sum of money. V. Knox.
To do the handsome thing, to act liberally. [Colloq.] Syn. --
Handsome, Pretty. Pretty applies to things comparatively small, which
please by their delicacy and grace; as, a pretty girl, a pretty
flower, a pretty cottage. Handsome rises higher, and is applied to
objects on a larger scale. We admire what is handsome, we are pleased
with what is pretty. The word is connected with hand, and has thus
acquired the idea of training, cultivation, symmetry, and proportion,
which enters so largely into our conception of handsome. Thus Drayton
makes mention of handsome players, meaning those, who are well
trained; and hence we speak of a man's having a handsome address,
which is the result of culture; of a handsome horse or dog, which
implies well proportioned limbs; of a handsome face, to which, among
other qualities, the idea of proportion and a graceful contour are
essential; of a handsome tree, and a handsome house or villa. So, from
this idea of proportion or suitableness, we have, with a different
application, the expressions, a handsome fortune, a handsome offer.
Hadsome
Had"some, v. t. To render handsome. [Obs.] Donne
Handsomely
Hand"some*ly, adv.
1. In a handsome manner.
2. (Naut.) Carefully; in shipshape style.
Handsomeness
Hand"some*ness, n. The quality of being handsome.
Handsomeness is the mere animal excellence, beauty the mere
imaginative. Hare.
Handspike
Hand"spike` (?), n. A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a
windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for
various purposes.
Handspring
Hand"spring` (?), n. A somersault made with the assistance of the
hands placed upon the ground.
Hand-tight
Hand"-tight` (?), a. (Naut.) As tight as can be made by the hand.
Totten.
Handwheel
Hand"wheel` (?), n. (Mach.) 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-winged
Hand"-winged` (?), a. (Zo\'94l.) Having wings that are like hands in
the structure and arrangement of their bones; -- said of bats. See
Cheiroptera.
Handwriting
Hand"writ`ing (?), n.
1. The cast or form of writing peculiar to each hand or person;
chirography.
2. That which is written by hand; manuscript.
The handwriting on the wall, a doom pronounced; an omen of disaster.
Dan. v. 5.
Handy
Hand"y (?), a. [Compar. Handier (?); superl. Handiest.] [OE. hendi,
AS. hendig (in comp.), fr. hand hand; akin to D. handig, Goth. handugs
clever, wise.]
1. Performed by the hand. [Obs.]
To draw up and come to handy strokes. Milton.
2. Skillful in using the hand; dexterous; ready; adroit. "Each is
handy in his way." Dryden.
3. Ready to the hand; near; also, suited to the use of the hand;
convenient; valuable for reference or use; as, my tools are handy; a
handy volume.
4. (Naut.) Easily managed; obedient to the helm; -- said of a vessel.
Handyy-dandy
Handy"y-dan`dy (?), n. A child's play, one child guessing in which
closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if
right and forfeiting an equivalent if wrong; hence, forfeit. Piers
Plowman.
Handyfight
Hand"y*fight` (?), n. A fight with the hands; boxing. "Pollux loves
handyfights." B. Jonson.
Handygripe
Hand"y*gripe` (?), n. Seizure by, or grasp of, the hand; also, close
quarters in fighting. Hudibras.
Handystroke
Hand"y*stroke` (?), n. A blow with the hand.
Hand-work
Hand"-work` (?), n. See Handiwork.
Hang
Hang (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hanged (h?ngd) OR Hung (; p. pr. & vb.
n. Hanging. The use of hanged is preferable to that of hung, when
reference is had to death or execution by suspension, and it is also
more common.] [OE. hangen, hangien, v. t. & i., AS. hangian, v. i.,
fr. h, v. t. (imp. heng, p. p. hongen); akin to OS. hang, v. i. D.
hangen, v. t. & i., G. hangen, v. i, h\'84ngen, v. t, Isel hanga, v.
i., Goth. h\'behan, v. t. (imp. ha\'a1hah), h\'behan, v. i. (imp.
hahaida), and perh. to L. cunctari to delay. &root;37. ]
1. To suspend; to fasten to some elevated point without support from
below; -- often used with up or out; as, to hang a coat on a hook; to
hang up a sign; to hang out a banner.
2. To fasten in a manner which will allow of free motion upon the
point or points of suspension; -- said of a pendulum, a swing, a door,
gate, etc.
3. To fit properly, as at a proper angle (a part of an implement that
is swung in using), as a scythe to its snath, or an ax to its helve.
[U. S.]
4. To put to death by suspending by the neck; -- a form of capital
punishment; as, to hang a murderer.
5. To cover, decorate, or furnish by hanging pictures trophies,
drapery, and the like, or by covering with paper hangings; -- said of
a wall, a room, etc.
Hung be the heavens with black. Shak.
And hung thy holy roofs with savage spoils. Dryden.
6. To paste, as paper hangings, on the walls of a room.
7. To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position
instead of erect; to droop; as, he hung his head in shame.
Cowslips wan that hang the pensive head. Milton.
To hang down, to let fall below the proper position; to bend down; to
decline; as, to hang down the head, or, elliptically, to hang the
head. -- To hang fire (Mil.), to be slow in communicating fire through
the vent to the charge; as, the gun hangs fire; hence, to hesitate, to
hold back as if in suspense.
Hand
Hand, v. i.
1. To be suspended or fastened to some elevated point without support
from below; to dangle; to float; to rest; to remain; to stay.
2. To be fastened in such a manner as to allow of free motion on the
point or points of suspension.
3. To die or be put to death by suspension from the neck. [R.] "Sir
Balaam hangs." Pope.
4. To hold for support; to depend; to cling; -- usually with on or
upon; as, this question hangs on a single point. "Two infants hanging
on her neck." Peacham.
5. To be, or be like, a suspended weight.
Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden. Addison.
6. To hover; to impend; to appear threateningly; -- usually with over;
as, evils hang over the country.
7. To lean or incline; to incline downward.
To decide which way hung the victory. Milton.
His neck obliquely o'er his shoulder hung. Pope.
8. To slope down; as, hanging grounds.
9. To be undetermined or uncertain; to be in suspense; to linger; to
be delayed.
A noble stroke he lifted high, Which hung not, but so swift with
tempest fell On the proud crest of Satan. Milton.
To hang around, to loiter idly about. -- To hang back, to hesitate; to
falter; to be reluctant. "If any one among you hangs back." Jowett
(Thucyd.). -- To hang by the eyelids. (a) To hang by a very slight
hold or tenure. (b) To be in an unfinished condition; to be left
incomplete. -- To hang in doubt, to be in suspense. -- To hang on
(with the emphasis on the preposition), to keep hold; to hold fast; to
stick; to be persistent, as a disease. -- To hang on the lips, words,
etc., to be charmed by eloquence. -- To hang out. (a) To be hung out
so as to be displayed; to project. (b) To be unyielding; as, the
juryman hangs out against an agreement. [Colloq.]<-- =hold out?--> (c)
to lounge around a particular place; as, teenageers tend to hang out
at the mall these days--> -- To hang over. (a) To project at the top.
(b) To impend over. -- To hang to, to cling. -- To hang together. (a)
To remain united; to stand by one another. "We are all of a piece; we
hang together." Dryden. (b) To be self-consistent; as, the story does
not hang together. [Colloq.] -- To hang upon. (a) To regard with
passionate affection. (b) (Mil.) To hover around; as, to hang upon the
flanks of a retreating enemy.
Hang
Hang, n.
1. The manner in which one part or thing hangs upon, or is connected
with, another; as, the hang of a scythe.
2. Connection; arrangement; plan; as, the hang of a discourse.
[Colloq.]
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3. A sharp or steep declivity or slope. [Colloq.]
To get the hang of, to learn the method or arrangement of; hence, to
become accustomed to. [Colloq.]
Hangbird
Hang"bird` (?), n. (Zo\'94l) The Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula);
-- so called because its nest is suspended from the limb of a tree.
See Baltimore oriole.
Hang-by
Hang"-by` (?), n.; pl. Hang-bies (. A dependent; a hanger-on; -- so
called in contempt. B. Jonson.
Hagdog
Hag"dog` (?), n. A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird.
Hangdog
Hang"dog`, Low; sneaking; ashamed.
The poor colonel went out of the room with a hangdog look.
Thackeray.
Hanger
Hang"er (?), n.
1. One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman.
2. That by which a thing is suspended. Especially: (a) A strap hung to
the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended. (b) (Mach.) A
part that suspends a journal box in which shafting runs. See Illust.
of Countershaft. (c) A bridle iron.<-- (d) clothes hanger -->
3. That which hangs or is suspended, as a sword worn at the side;
especially, in the 18th century, a short, curved sword.
4. A steep, wooded declivity. [Eng.] Gilbert White.
Hanger-on
Hang"er-on` (?), n.; pl. Hangers-on (. 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. Goldsmith.
Hanging
Hang"ing, a.
1. Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter. "What a
hanging face!" Dryden.
2. Suspended from above; pendent; as, hanging shelves.
3. Adapted for sustaining a hanging object; as, the hanging post of a
gate, the post which holds the hinges.
Hanging compass, a compass suspended so that the card may be read from
beneath. -- Hanging garden, a garden sustained at an artificial
elevation by any means, as by the terraces at Babylon. -- Hanging
indentation. See under Indentation. -- Hanging rail (Arch.), that rail
of a door or casement to which hinges are attached. -- Hanging side
(Mining), the overhanging side of an inclined or hading vein. --
Hanging sleeves. (a) Strips of the same stuff as the gown, hanging
down the back from the shoulders. (b) Loose, flowing sleeves. --
Hanging stile. (Arch.) (a) That stile of a door to which hinges are
secured. (b) That upright of a window frame to which casements are
hinged, or in which the pulleys for sash windows are fastened. --
Hanging wall (Mining), the upper wall of inclined vein, or that which
hangs over the miner's head when working in the vein.
Hanging
Hang"ing, n.
1. The act of suspending anything; the state of being suspended.
2. Death by suspension; execution by a halter.
3. 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.
Nor purple hangings clothe the palace walls. Dryden.
Hangman
Hang"man (?), n.; pl. Hangmen( 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. Shak.
Hangmanship
Hang"man*ship, n.. The office or character of a hangman.
Hangnail
Hang"nail` (?), n. [A corruption of agnail.] A small piece or silver
of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail. Holloway.
Hangnest
Hang"nest` (?), n.
1. A nest that hangs like a bag or pocket.
2. A bird which builds such a nest; a hangbird.
Hank
Hank (?), n. [Cf. Dan. hank handle, Sw. hank a band or tie, Icel.
hanki hasp, clasp, h\'94nk, hangr, hank, coil, skein, G. henkel, henk,
handle; ar prob. akin to E. hang. See Hang.]
1. A parcel consisting of two or more skeins of yarn or thread tied
together.
2. A rope or withe for fastening a gate. [Prov. Eng.]
3. Hold; influence.
When the devil hath got such a hank over him. Bp. Sanderson.
4. (Naut.) A ring or eye of rope, wood, or iron, attached to the edge
of a sail and running on a stay.
Hank
Hank, v. t.
1. [OE. hanken.] To fasten with a rope, as a gate. [Prov. Eng.]
Wright.
2. To form into hanks.
Hanker
Han"ker (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Hankered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Hankering.] [Prob. fr. hang; cf. D. hunkeren, hengelen.]
1. 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. Addison.
He was hankering to join his friend. J. A. Symonds.
2. To linger in expectation or with desire. Thackeray.
Hankeringly
Han"ker*ing*ly, adv. In a hankering manner.
Hankey-pankey
Han"key-pan"key (?), n. [Cf. Hocus-pocus.] Professional cant; the
chatter of conjurers to divert attention from their tricks; hence,
jugglery. [Colloq.]
Hanoverian
Han`o*ve"ri*an (?), a. Of or pertaining to Hanover or its people, or
to the House of Hanover in England.
Hanoverian
Han`o*ve"ri*an, n. A native or naturalized inhabitant of Hanover; one
of the House of Hanover.
Han sa
Han" sa (?), n. See 2d Hanse.
Hansard
Han"sard (?), n. An official report of proceedings in the British
Parliament; -- so called from the name of the publishers.
Hansard
Han"sard, n. A merchant of one of the Hanse towns. See the Note under
2d Hanse.
Hanse
Hanse (?), n. [Cf. F. anse handle, anse de panier surbased arch, flat
arch, vault, and E. haunch hip.] (Arch.) That part of an elliptical or
many-centered arch which has the shorter radius and immediately
adjoins the impost.
Hanse
Hanse, n. [G. hanse, or F. hanse (from German), OHG. & Goth. hansa;
akin to AS. h band, troop.] An association; a league or confederacy.
Hanse towns (Hist.), certain commercial cities in Germany which
associated themselves for the protection and enlarging of their
commerce. The confederacy, called also Hansa and Hanseatic league,
held its first diet in 1260, and was maintained for nearly four
hundred years. At one time the league comprised eighty-five cities.
Its remnants, L\'81beck, Hamburg, and Bremen, are free cities, and are
still frequently called Hanse towns.
Hanseatic
Han`se*at"ic (?), a. Pertaining to the Hanse towns, or to their
confederacy. Hanseatic league. See under 2d Hanse.
Hansel
Han"sel (?), n. & v. See Handsel.
Hanselines
Han"sel*ines (?), n. A sort of breeches. [Obs..] Chaucer.
Hansom, n., Hansom cab
Han"som (?), n., Han"som cab` (. [From the name of the inventor.] A
light, low, two-wheeled covered carriage with the driver's seat
elevated behind, the reins being passed over the top.
He hailed a cruising hansom . . . " 'Tis the gondola of London,"
said Lothair. Beaconsfield.
Han't
Han't (?). A contraction of have not, or has not, used in illiterate
speech. In the United States the commoner spelling is hain't.
Hanuman
Han"u*man (?), n. See Hoonoomaun.
Hap
Hap (?), v. t. [OE.happen.] To clothe; to wrap.
The surgeon happed her up carefully. Dr. J. Brown.
Hap
Hap, n. [Cf. Hap to clothe.] A cloak or plaid. [O. Eng. & Scot.]
Hap
Hap, n. [Icel. happ unexpected good luck. That which happens or comes
suddenly or unexpectedly; also, the manner of occurrence or taking
place; chance; fortune; accident; casual event; fate; luck; lot.
Chaucer.
Whether art it was or heedless hap. Spenser.
Cursed be good haps, and cursed be they that build Their hopes on
haps. Sir P. Sidney.
Loving goes by haps: Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
Shak.
Hap
Hap, v. i. [OE. happen. See Hap chance, and cf. Happen.] To happen; to
befall; to chance. Chaucer.
Sends word of all that haps in Tyre. Shak.
Hap'penny
Hap'"pen*ny (?), n. A half-penny.
Haphazard
Hap"haz`ard (?), n. [Hap + hazard.] Extra hazard; chance; accident;
random.
We take our principles at haphazard, upon trust. Locke.
Hapless
Hap"less (?), a. Without hap or luck; luckless; unfortunate; unlucky;
unhappy; as, hapless youth; hapless maid. Dryden.
Haplessly
Hap"less*ly, adv. In a hapless, unlucky manner.
Haplomi
Ha*plo"mi (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. (Zo\'94l.) An order of freshwater
fishes, including the true pikes, cyprinodonts, and blindfishes.
Hallostemonous
Hal`lo*stem"o*nous (?), a. [Gr. (Bot.) Having but one series of
stamens, and that equal in number to the proper number of petals;
isostemonous.
Haply
Hap"ly (?), adv. By hap, chance, luck, or accident; perhaps; it may
be.
Lest haply ye be found even to fight against God. Acts v. 39.
Happed
Happed (?), p. a. [From 1st Hap.] Wrapped; covered; cloaked. [Scot.]
All happed with flowers in the green wood were. Hogg.
Happen
Hap"pen (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Happened (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Happening.] [OE. happenen, hapnen. See Hap to happen.]
1. To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall
out.
There shall no evil happen to the just. Prov. xii. 21.
2. To take place; to occur.
All these things which had happened. Luke xxiv. 14.
To happen on, to meet with; to fall or light upon. "I have happened on
some other accounts." Graunt. -- To happen in, to make a casual call.
[Colloq.]
Happily
Hap"pi*ly (?), adv. [From Happy.]
1. By chance; peradventure; haply. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.
2. By good fortune; fortunately; luckily.
Preferred by conquest, happily o'erthrown. Waller.
3. In a happy manner or state; in happy circumstances; as, he lived
happily with his wife.
4. With address or dexterity; gracefully; felicitously; in a manner to
success; with success.
Formed by thy converse, happily to steer From grave to gay, from
lively to severe. Pope.
Syn. -- Fortunately; luckily; successfully; prosperously; contentedly;
dexterously; felicitously.
Happiness
Hap"pi*ness, n. [From Happy.]
1. Good luck; good fortune; prosperity.
All happiness bechance to thee in Milan! Shak.
2. 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.
3. Fortuitous elegance; unstudied grace; -- used especially of
language.
Some beauties yet no precepts can declare, For there's a happiness,
as well as care. Pope.
Syn. -- Happiness, Felicity, Blessedness, Bliss. Happiness is generic,
and is applied to almost every kind of enjoyment except that of the
animal appetites; felicity is a more formal word, and is used more
sparingly in the same general sense, but with elevated associations;
blessedness is applied to the most refined enjoyment arising from the
purest social, benevolent, and religious affections; bliss denotes
still more exalted delight, and is applied more appropriately to the
joy anticipated in heaven.
O happiness! our being's end and aim! Pope.
Others in virtue place felicity, But virtue joined with riches and
long life; In corporal pleasures he, and careless ease. Milton.
His overthrow heaped happiness upon him; For then, and not till
then, he felt himself, And found the blessedness of being little.
Shak.
Happy
Hap"py (?), a. [Compar. Happier (?); superl. Happiest.] [From Hap
chance.]
1. Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate; successful;
prosperous; satisfying desire; as, a happy expedient; a happy effort;
a happy venture; a happy omen.
Chymists have been more happy in finding experiments than the
causes of them. Boyle.
2. Experiencing the effect of favorable fortune; having the feeling
arising from the consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying
good of any kind, as peace, tranquillity, comfort; contented; joyous;
as, happy hours, happy thoughts.
Happy is that people, whose God is the Lord. Ps. cxliv. 15.
The learned is happy Nature to explore, The fool is happy that he
knows no more. Pope.
3. Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous.
One gentleman is happy at a reply, another excels in a in a
rejoinder. Swift.
Happy family, a collection of animals of different and hostile
propensities living peaceably together in one cage. Used ironically of
conventional alliances of persons who are in fact mutually repugnant.
-- Happy-go-lucky, trusting to hap or luck; improvident; easy-going.
"Happy-go-lucky carelessness." W. Black.
Hapuku
Ha*pu"ku (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) A large and valuable food fish (Polyprion
prognathus) of New Zealand. It sometimes weighs one hundred pounds or
more.
Haquebut
Haque"but (?), n. See Hagbut.
Hara-kiri
Ha"ra-ki`ri (?), n. [Jap., stomach cutting.] 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. W. E. Griffis.
Harangue
Ha*rangue" (?), n. [F. harangue: cf. Sp. arenda, It. aringa; lit., a
speech before a multitude or on the hustings, It. aringo arena,
hustings, pulpit; all fr. OHG. hring ring, anything round, ring of
people, G. ring. See Ring.] A speech addressed to a large public
assembly; a popular oration; a loud address a multitude; in a bad
sense, a noisy or pompous speech; declamation; ranting.
Gray-headed men and grave, with warriors mixed, Assemble, and
harangues are heard. Milton.
Syn. -- Harangue, Speech, Oration. Speech is generic; an oration is an
elaborate and rhetorical speech; an harangue is a vehement appeal to
the passions, or a noisy, disputatious address. A general makes an
harangue to his troops on the eve of a battle; a demagogue harangues
the populace on the subject of their wrongs.
Harangue
Ha*rangue", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Harangued (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Haranguing.] [Cf. F. haranguer, It. aringare.] To make an harangue; to
declaim.
Harangue
Ha*rangue", v. t. To address by an harangue.
Harangueful
Ha*rangue"ful (?), a. Full of harangue.
Haranguer
Ha*rang"uer (?), n. One who harangues, or is fond of haranguing; a
declaimer.
With them join'd all th' harangues of the throng, That thought to
get preferment by the tongue. Dryden.
Harass
Har"ass (h&acr;r"as), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Harassed (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Harassing.] [F. harasser; cf. OF. harace a basket made of cords,
harace, harasse,a very heavy and large shield; or harer to set (a dog)
on.] 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.
[Troops] harassed with a long and wearisome march. Bacon.
Nature oppressed and harass'd out with care. Addison.
Vext with lawyers and harass'd with debt. Tennyson.
Syn. -- To weary; jade; tire; perplex; distress; tease; worry;
disquiet; chafe; gall; annoy; irritate; plague; vex; molest; trouble;
disturb; torment.
Harass
Har"ass, n.
1. Devastation; waste. [Obs.] Milton.
2. Worry; harassment. [R.] Byron.
Harasser
Har"ass*er (?), n. One who harasses.
Harassment
Har"ass*ment (?), n. The act of harassing, or state of being harassed;
worry; annoyance; anxiety.
Little harassments which I am led to suspect do occasionally molest
the most fortunate. Ld. Lytton.
Harberous
Har"ber*ous (?), a. Harborous. [Obs.]
A bishop must be faultless, the husband of one wife, honestly
appareled, harberous. Tyndale (1 Tim. iii. 2)
Harbinger
Har"bin*ger (?), n. [OE. herbergeour, OF. herbergeor one who provides
lodging, fr. herbergier to provide lodging, F. h\'82berger, OF.
herberge lodging, inn, F. auberge; of German origin. See Harbor.]
1. One who provides lodgings; especially, the officer of the English
royal household who formerly preceded the court when traveling, to
provide and prepare lodgings. Fuller.
2. A forerunner; a precursor; a messenger.
I knew by these harbingers who were coming. Landor.
Harbinger
Har"bin*ger, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Harbingered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Harbingering.] To usher in; to be a harbinger of. "Thus did the star
of religious freedom harbinger the day." Bancroft.
Harbor
Har"bor (?), n. [Written also harbour.] [OE herbor, herberwe,
herberge, Icel. herbergi (cf. OHG. heriberga), orig., a shelter for
soldiers; herr army + bjarga to save, help, defend; akin to AS. here
army, G. heer, OHG. heri, Goth. harjis, and AS. beorgan to save,
shelter, defend, G. bergen. See Harry, 2d Bury, and cf. Harbinger.]
1. A station for rest and entertainment; a place of security and
comfort; a refuge; a shelter.
[A grove] fair harbour that them seems. Spenser.
For harbor at a thousand doors they knocked. Dryden.
2. Specif.: A lodging place; an inn. [Obs.] Chaucer.
3. (Astrol.) The mansion of a heavenly body. [Obs.]
4. 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.
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5. (Glass Works) A mixing box materials.
Harbor dues (Naut.), fees paid for the use of a harbor. -- Harbor seal
(Zo\'94l.), the common seal. -- Harbor watch, a watch set when a
vessel is in port; an anchor watch.
Harbor
Har"bor (?), v. t. [Written also harbour.] [imp. & p. p. Harbored (#);
p. pr. & vb. n. Harboring.] [OE. herberen, herberwen, herbergen; cf.
Icel. herbergja. See Harbor, n.] 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).
Any place that harbors men. Shak.
The bare suspicion made it treason to harbor the person suspected.
Bp. Burnet.
Let not your gentle breast harbor one thought of outrage. Rowe.
Harbor
Har"bor, v. i. To lodge, or abide for a time; to take shelter, as in a
harbor.
For this night let's harbor here in York. Shak.
Harborage
Har"bor*age (?), n. Shelter; entertainment.[R.]
Where can I get me harborage for the night? Tennyson.
Harborer
Har"bor*er (?), n. One who, or that which, harbors.
Geneva was . . . a harborer of exiles for religion. Strype.
Harborless
Har"bor*less, a. Without a harbor; shelterless.
Harbor master
Har"bor mas`ter (?). An officer charged with the duty of executing the
regulations respecting the use of a harbor.
Harborough, Harbrough
Har"bor*ough (?), Har"brough (?),[See Harbor.] A shelter. [Obs].
Spenser.
Harborous
Har"bor*ous (?), a. Hospitable. [Obs.]
Hard
Hard (?), a. [Compar. Harder (?); superl. Hardest.] [OE. heard, AS.
heard; akin to OS. & D. heard, G. hart, OHG. harti, Icel. har, Dan.
haard, Sw. h\'86rd, Goth. hardus, Gr.,, strength, and also to E. -ard,
as in coward, drunkard, -crat, -cracy in autocrat, democracy; cf. Skr.
kratu strength, to do, make. Gf.Hardy.]
1. Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not yielding
to pressure; firm; solid; compact; -- applied to material bodies, and
opposed to soft; as, hard wood; hard flesh; a hard apple.
2. Difficult, mentally or judicially; not easily apprehended, decided,
or resolved; as a hard problem.
The hard causes they brought unto Moses. Ex. xviii. 26.
In which are some things hard to be understood. 2 Peter iii. 16.
3. Difficult to accomplish; full of obstacles; laborious; fatiguing;
arduous; as, a hard task; a disease hard to cure.
4. Difficult to resist or control; powerful.
The stag was too hard for the horse. L'Estrange.
A power which will be always too hard for them. Addison.
5. Difficult to bear or endure; not easy to put up with or consent to;
hence, severe; rigorous; oppressive; distressing; unjust; grasping;
as, a hard lot; hard times; hard fare; a hard winter; hard conditions
or terms.
I never could drive a hard bargain. Burke.
6. Difficult to please or influence; stern; unyielding; obdurate;
unsympathetic; unfeeling; cruel; as, a hard master; a hard heart; hard
words; a hard character.
7. Not easy or agreeable to the taste; stiff; rigid; ungraceful;
repelling; as, a hard style.
Figures harder than even the marble itself. Dryden.
8. Rough; acid; sour, as liquors; as, hard cider.
9. (Pron.) Abrupt or explosive in utterance; not aspirated, sibilated,
or pronounced with a gradual change of the organs from one position to
another;- said of certain consonants, as c in came, and g in go, as
distinguished from the same letters in center, general, etc.
10. Wanting softness or smoothness of utterance; harsh; as, a hard
tone.
11. (Painting) (a) Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the
figures; formal; lacking grace of composition. (b) Having disagreeable
and abrupt contrasts in the coloring or light and shade.
Hard cancer, Hard case, etc. See under Cancer, Case, etc. -- Hard
clam, OR Hard-shelled clam (Zo\'94l.), the guahog. -- Hard coal,
anthracite, as distinguished from bituminous or soft coal. -- Hard and
fast. (Naut.) See under Fast. -- Hard finish (Arch.), a smooth
finishing coat of hard fine plaster applied to the surface of rough
plastering. -- Hard lines, hardship; difficult conditions. -- Hard
money, coin or specie, as distinguished from paper money. -- Hard
oyster (Zo\'94l.), the northern native oyster. [Local, U. S.] -- Hard
pan, the hard stratum of earth lying beneath the soil; hence,
figuratively, the firm, substantial, fundamental part or quality of
anything; as, the hard pan of character, of a matter in dispute, etc.
See Pan. -- Hard rubber. See under Rubber. -- Hard solder. See under
Solder. -- Hard water, water, which contains lime or some mineral
substance rendering it unfit for washing. See Hardness, 3.- Hard wood,
wood of a solid or hard texture; as walnut, oak, ash, box, and the
like, in distinction from pine, poplar, hemlock, etc.- In hard
condition, in excellent condition for racing; having firm
muscles;-said of race horses. Syn. -- Solid; arduous; powerful;
trying; unyielding; stubborn; stern; flinty; unfeeling; harsh;
difficult; severe; obdurate; rigid. See Solid, and Arduous.
Hard
Hard, adv. [OE. harde, AS. hearde.]
1. With pressure; with urgency; hence, diligently; earnestly.
And prayed so hard for mercy from the prince. Dryden.
My father Is hard at study; pray now, rest yourself. Shak.
2. With difficulty; as, the vehicle moves hard.
3. Uneasily; vexatiously; slowly. Shak.
4. So as to raise difficulties. " The guestion is hard set". Sir T.
Browne.
5. With tension or strain of the powers; violently; with force;
tempestuously; vehemently; vigorously; energetically; as, to press, to
blow, to rain hard; hence, rapidly; as, to run hard.
6. Close or near.
Whose house joined hard to the synagogue. Acts xviii.7.
Hard by, near by; close at hand; not far off. "Hard by a cottage
chimney smokes." Milton. -- Hard pushed, Hard run, greatly pressed;
as, he was hard pushed or hard run for time, money, etc. [Colloq.] --
Hard up, closely pressed by want or necessity; without money or
resources; as, hard up for amusements. [Slang]
NOTE: &hand; Ha rd in nautical language is often joined to words of
command to the helmsman, denoting that the order should be carried
out with the utmost energy, or that the helm should be put, in the
direction indicated, to the extreme limit, as, Hard aport! Hard
astarboard! Hard alee! Hard aweather up! Hard is also often used in
composition with a participle; as, hard-baked; hard-earned;
hard-working; hard-won.
Hard
Hard (?), v. t. To harden; to make hard. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Hard
Hard, n. A ford or passage across a river or swamp.
Hardbake
Hard"bake` (?), n. A sweetmeat of boiled brown sugar or molasses made
with almonds, and flavored with orange or lemon juice, etc. Thackeray.
Hardbeam
Hard"beam` (?), n. (Bot.) A tree of the genus Carpinus, of compact,
horny texture; hornbeam.
Harden
Hard"en (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hardened (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Hardening (?).] [OE. hardnen, hardenen.]
1. To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as,
to harden clay or iron.
2. 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. "Harden not your heart." Ps. xcv. 8.
I would harden myself in sorrow. Job vi. 10.
Harden
Hard"en, v. i.
1. To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness;
as, mortar hardens by drying.
The deliberate judgment of those who knew him [A. Lincoln] has
hardened into tradition. The Century.
2. To become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a bad
sense.
They, hardened more by what might most reclaim. Milton.
Hardened
Hard"ened (?), a. Made hard, or compact; made unfeeling or callous;
made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or vice. Syn. --
Impenetrable; hard; obdurate; callous; unfeeling; unsusceptible;
insensible. See Obdurate.
Hardener
Hard"en*er (?), n. One who, or that which, hardens; specif., one who
tempers tools.
Hardening
Hard"en*ing, n.
1. Making hard or harder.
2. That which hardens, as a material used for converting the surface
of iron into steel.
Harder
Har"der (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) A South African mullet, salted for food.
Harderian
Har*de"ri*an (?), a. (Anat.) 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.
Hard-favored
Hard"-fa`vored (?), a. Hard-featured; ill-looking; as, Vulcan was
hard-favored. Dryden.
Hardfavoredness
Hard"fa`vored*ness, n. Coarseness of features.
Hard-featured
Hard"-fea`tured (?), a Having coarse, unattractive or stern features.
Smollett.
Hardfern
Hard"fern` (?), n. (Bot.) A species of fern (Lomaria borealis),
growing in Europe and Northwestern America.
Hard-fisted
Hard"-fist`ed (?), a.
1. Having hard or strong hands; as, a hard-fisted laborer.
2. Close-fisted; covetous; niggardly. Bp. Hall.
Hard-fought
Hard"-fought` (?), a. Vigorously contested; as, a hard-fought battle.
Hard grass
Hard" grass` (. (Bot.) A name given to several different grasses,
especially to the Roltb\'94llia incurvata, and to the species of
\'92gilops, from one of which it is contended that wheat has been
derived.
Hardhack
Hard"hack` (, n. (Bot.) A very astringent shrub (Spir\'91a tomentosa),
common in pastures. The Potentilla fruticosa in also called by this
name.
Hard-handed
Hard"-hand`ed (?), a. Having hard hands, as a manual laborer.
Hard-handed men that work in Athens here. Shak.
Hardhead
Hard"head` (?), n.
1. Clash or collision of heads in contest. Dryden.
2. (Zo\'94l.) (a) The menhaden. See Menhaden. [Local, U.S.] (b)
Block's gurnard (Trigla gurnardus) of Europe. (c) A California salmon;
the steelhead. (d) The gray whale. See Gray whale, under Gray. (e) A
coarse American commercial sponge (Spongia dura).
Hard-headed
Hard"-head`ed, a. Having sound judgment; sagacious; shrewd. --
Hard"-head`ed*ness, n.
Hard-hearted
Hard"-heart`ed (?), a. Unsympathetic; inexorable; cruel; pitiless. --
Hard"-heart`ed*ness, n.
Harddihead
Hard"di*head (?), n. Hardihood. [Obs.]
Harddihood
Hard"di*hood (?), n. [Hardy + -hood.] Boldness, united with firmness
and constancy of mind; bravery; intrepidity; also, audaciousness;
impudence.
A bound of graceful hardihood. Wordsworth.
It is the society of numbers which gives hardihood to iniquity.
Buckminster.
Syn. -- Intrepidity; courage; pluck; resolution; stoutness; audacity;
effrontery; impudence.
Hardily
Har"di*ly, adv.
1. Same as Hardly. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. Boldly; stoutly; resolutely. Wyclif.
Hardiment
Har"di*ment (?), n. [OF. hardement. See Hardy.] Hardihood; boldness;
courage; energetic action. [Obs.]
Changing hardiment with great Glendower. Shak.
Hardiness
Har"di*ness (?), n.
1. Capability of endurance.
2. Hardihood; boldness; firmness; assurance. Spenser.
Plenty and peace breeds cowards; Hardness ever Of hardiness is
mother. Shak.
They who were not yet grown to the hardiness of avowing the
contempt of the king. Clarendon.
3. Hardship; fatigue. [Obs.] Spenser.
Hardish
Hard"ish (?), a. Somewhat hard.
Hard-labored
Hard"-la`bored (?), a. Wrought with severe labor; elaborate; studied.
Swift.
Hardly
Hard"ly (?), adv. [AS.heardlice. See Hand.]
1. In a hard or difficult manner; with difficulty.
Recovering hardly what he lost before. Dryden.
2. Unwillingly; grudgingly.
The House of Peers gave so hardly theiMilton.
3. Scarcely; barely; not guite; not wholly.
Hardly shall you one so bad, but he desires the credit of being
thought good. South.
4. Severely; harshly; roughly.
He has in many things been hardly used. Swift.
5. Confidently; hardily. [Obs.] Holland.
6. Certainly; surely; indeed. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Hard-mouthed
Hard"-mouthed` (?), a. Not sensible to the bit; not easily governed;
as, a hard-mouthed horse.
Hardness
Hard"ness, n. [AS. heardness.]
1. The quality or state of being hard, literally or figuratively.
The habit of authority also had given his manners some peremptory
hardness. Sir W. Scott.
2. (Min.) The cohesion of the particles on the surface of a body,
determined by its capacity to scratch another, or be itself
scratched;-measured among minerals on a scale of which diamond and
talc form the extremes.
3. (Chem.) The peculiar quality exhibited by water which has mineral
salts dissolved in it. Such water forms an insoluble compound with
soap, and is hence unfit for washing purposes.
NOTE: &hand; Th is qu ality is ca used by the presence of calcium
carbonate, causing temporary hardness which can be removed by
boiling, or by calcium sulphate, causing permanent hardness which
can not be so removed, but may be improved by the addition of
sodium carbonate.
Hardock
Har"dock (?), n. [Obs.] See Hordock.
Hardpan
Hard"pan` (?), n. The hard substratum. Same as Hard pan, under Hard,
a.
Hards
Hards (?), n. pl. [OE. herdes, AS. heordan; akin to G. hede.] The
refuse or coarse part of fiax; tow.
Hard-shell
Hard"-shell` (?), a. Unyielding; insensible to argument;
uncompromising; strict. [Collog., U.S.]
Hardship
Hard"ship (?), n. That which is hard to hear, as toil, privation,
injury, injustice, etc. Swift.
Hardspun
Hard"spun`, a. Firmly twisted in spinning.
Hard-tack
Hard"-tack` (?), n. A name given by soldiers and sailors to a kind of
hard biscuit or sea bread.
Hardtail
Hard"tail` (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) See Jurel.
Hard-visaged
Hard"-vis`aged (?), a. Of a harsh or stern countenance; hard-featured.
Burke.
Hardware
Hard"ware` (?), n. Ware made of metal, as cutlery, kitchen utensils,
and the like; ironmongery.
Hardwareman
Hard"ware`man (?), n.; pl. Hardwaremen (. One who makes, or deals in,
hardware.
Hardy
Har"dy (?), a. [Compar. Hardier (?); superl. Hardiest.] [F.hardi, p.
p. fr. OF. hardir to make bold; of German origin, cf. OHG. hertan to
harden, G. h\'84rten. See Hard, a.]
1. Bold; brave; stout; daring; resolu?e; intrepid.
Hap helpeth hardy man alway. Chaucer.
2. Confident; full of assurance; in a bad sense, morally hardened;
shameless.
3. Strong; firm; compact.
[A] blast may shake in pieces his hardy fabric. South.
4. Inured to fatigue or hardships; strong; capable of endurance; as, a
hardy veteran; a hardy mariner.
5. Able to withstand the cold of winter.
NOTE: &hand; Pl ants wh ich are hardy in Virginia may perish in New
England. Half-hardy plants are those which are able to withstand
mild winters or moderate frosts.
Hardy
Har"dy, n. A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for
insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole.
Hare
Hare (?), v. t. [Cf. Harry, Harass.] To excite; to tease, or worry; to
harry. [Obs.] Locke.
Hare
Hare, n. [AS. hara; akin to D. haas, G. hase, OHG. haso, Dan. \'91 Sw.
hare, Icel. h, Skr. .
1. (Zo\'94l.) A rodent of the genus Lepus, having long hind legs, a
short tail, and a divided upper lip. It is a timid animal, moves
swiftly by leaps, and is remarkable for its fecundity.
NOTE: &hand; The species of hares are numerous. The common European
hare is Lepustimidus. The northern or varying hare of America (L.
Americanus), and the prairie hare (L. campestris), turn white in
winter. In America, the various species of hares are commonly
called rabbits.
2. (Astron.) A small constellation situated south of and under the
foot of Orion; Lepus.
Hare and hounds, a game played by men and boys, two, called hares,
having a few minutes' start, and scattering bits of paper to indicate
their course, being chased by the others, called the hounds, through a
wide circuit. -- Hare kangaroo (Zo\'94l.)., a small Australian
kangaroo (Lagorchestes Leporoides), resembling the hare in size and
color, -- Hare's lettuce (Bot.), a plant of the genus Sonchus, or sow
thistle; -- so called because hares are said to eat it when fainting
with heat. Dr. Prior. -- Jumping hare. (Zo\'94l.) See under Jumping.
-- Little chief hare, OR Crying hare. (Zo\'94l.) See Chief hare. --
Sea hare. (Zo\'94l.) See Aplysia.
Harebell
Hare"bell` (?), n. (Bot.) A small, slender, branching plant (Campanula
rotundifolia), having blue bell-shaped flowers; also, Scilla nutans,
which has similar flowers; -- called also bluebell. [Written also
hairbell.]
E'en the light harebell raised its head. Sir W. Scott .
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Hare'brained'
Hare"'brained`' (?), a. Wild; giddy; volatile; heedless. "A mad
hare-brained fellow." North (Plutarch). [Written also hairbrained.]
Harefoot
Hare"foot` (?), n.
1. (Zo\'94l.) A long, narrow foot, carried (that is, produced or
extending) forward; -- said of dogs.
2. (Bot) A tree (Ochroma Laqopus) of the West Indies, having the
stamens united somewhat in the form of a hare's foot.
Harefoot clover (Bot.), a species of clover (Trifolium arvense) with
soft and silky heads.
Hare-hearted
Hare"-heart`ed (?), a. Timorous; timid; easily frightened. Ainsworth.
Harehound
Hare"hound` (?), n. See Harrier. A. Chalmers.
Hareld
Har"eld (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) The long-tailed duck. See Old Squaw.
Harelip
Hare"lip` (?), n. A lip, commonly the upper one, having a fissure of
perpendicular division like that of a hare. -- Hare"lipped` (#), a.
Harem
Ha"rem (?), n.[Ar.haram, orig., anything forbidden of sacred, fr.
harama to forbid, prohibit.] [Written also haram and hareem.]
1. The apartments or portion of the house allotted to females in
Mohammedan families.
2. The family of wives and concubines belonging to one man, in
Mohammedan countries; a seraglio.
Harengiform
Ha*ren"gi*form (?), a. [F. hareng herring (LL.harengus) + -form.]
Herring-shaped.
Hare's-ear
Hare's"-ear` (?), n. (Bot.) An umbelliferous plant (Bupleurum
rotundifolium ); -- so named from the shape of its leaves. Dr. Prior.
Hare's-foot fern
Hare's"-foot` fern` (?). (Bot.) A species of fern (Davallia
Canariensis) with a soft, gray, hairy rootstock; -- whence the name.
Hare's-tail
Hare's"-tail` (-t&amac;l`), n. (Bot.) A kind of grass (Eriophorum
vaginatum). See Cotton grass, under Cotton. Hare's-tail grass (Bot.),
a species of grass (Lagurus ovatus) whose head resembles a hare's
tail.
Harfang
Har"fang (?), n. [See Hare, n., and Fang.] (Zo\'94l.) The snowy owl.
Hariali grass
Ha`ri*a"li grass` (?). (Bot.) The East Indian name of the Cynodon
Dactylon; dog's-grass.
Haricot
Har"i*cot (?), n. [F.]
1. A ragout or stew of meat with beans and other vegetables.
2. 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.
Harier
Har"i*er (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) See Harrier.
Harikari
Ha"ri*ka`ri (?), n. See Hara-kiri.
Harioiation
Har`i*o*ia"tion (?), n. [See Ariolation.] Prognostication;
soothsaying. [Obs.] Cockeram.
Harish
Har"ish (?), a. Like a hare. [R.] Huloet.
Hark
Hark (?), v. i. [OE. herken. See Hearken.] To listen; to hearken. [Now
rare, except in the imperative form used as an interjection, Hark!
listen.] Hudibras. Hark away! Hark back! Hark forward! (Sporting),
cries used to incite and guide hounds in hunting. -- To hark back, to
go back for a fresh start, as when one has wandered from his direct
course, or made a digression.
He must have overshot the mark, and must hark back. Haggard. He
harked back to the subject. W. E. Norris.
Harken
Hark"en (?), v. t. & i. To hearken. Tennyson.
Harl
Harl (?), n. [Cf. OHG. harluf noose, rope; E. hards refuse of flax.]
1. A filamentous substance; especially, the filaments of flax or hemp.
2. A barb, or barbs, of a fine large feather, as of a peacock or
ostrich, -- used in dressing artificial flies. [Written also herl.]
Harle
Harle (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) The red-breasted merganser.
Harlech group
Har"lech group` (?). [ So called from Harlech in Wales.] (Geol.) A
minor subdivision at the base of the Cambrian system in Wales.
Harlequin
Har"le*quin (?), n. [F. arlequin,formerly written also harlequin (cf.
It, arlecchino), prob. fr. OF. hierlekin, hellequin, goblin, elf,
which is prob. of German or Dutch origin; cf. D. hel hell. Cf. Hell,
Kin.] 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. Percy
Smith.
As dumb harlequin is exhibited in our theaters. Johnson.
Harlequin bat (Zo\'94l.), an Indian bat (Scotophilus ornatus),
curiously variegated with white spots. -- Harlequin beetle (Zo\'94l.),
a very large South American beetle (Acrocinus longimanus) having very
long legs and antenn\'91. The elytra are curiously marked with red,
black, and gray. -- Harlequin cabbage bug. (Zo\'94l.) See Calicoback.
-- Harlequin caterpillar. (Zo\'94l.), the larva of an American
bombycid moth (Euch\'91tes egle) which is covered with black, white,
yellow, and orange tufts of hair. -- Harlequin duck (Zo\'94l.), a
North American duck (Histrionicus histrionicus). The male is dark ash,
curiously streaked with white. -- Harlequin moth. (Zo\'94l.) See
Magpie Moth. -- Harlequin opal. See Opal. -- Harlequin snake
(Zo\'94l.), a small, poisonous snake (Elaps fulvius), ringed with red
and black, found in the Southern United States.
Harlequin
Har"le*quin (?), n. i. To play the droll; to make sport by playing
ludicrous tricks.
Harlequin
Har"le*quin, v. t. Toremove or conjure away, as by a harlequin's
trick.
And kitten,if the humor hit Has harlequined away the fit. M. Green.
Harlequinade
Har"le*quin*ade` (?), n. [F. arleguinade.] A play or part of play in
which the harlequin is conspicuous; the part of a harlequin. Macaulay.
Harlock
Har"lock (?), n. Probably a corruption either of charlock or hardock.
Drayton.
Harlot
Har"lot (?), n. [OE.harlot, herlot, a vagabond, OF. harlot, herlot,
arlot; cf. Pr. arlot, Sp. arlote, It. arlotto; of uncertain origin.]
1. A churl; a common man; a person, male or female, of low birth.
[Obs.]
He was a gentle harlot and a kind. Chaucer.
2. A person given to low conduct; a rogue; a cheat; a rascal. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
3. A woman who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a common
woman; a strumpet.
Harlot
Har"lot, a. Wanton; lewd; low; base. Shak.
Harlot
Har"lot, v. i. To play the harlot; to practice lewdness. Milton.
Harlotize
Har"lot*ize (?), v. i. To harlot. [Obs.] Warner.
Harlotry
Har"lot*ry (?), n.
1. Ribaldry; buffoonery; a ribald story. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.
Chaucer.
2. The trade or practice of prostitution; habitual or customary
lewdness. Dryden.
3. Anything meretricious; as, harlotry in art.
4. A harlot; a strumpet; a baggage. [Obs.]
He sups to-night with a harlotry. Shak.
Harm
Harm (?), n. [OE.harm, hearm, AS.hearm; akin to OS. harm, G. harm
grief, Icel. harmr, Dan. harme, Sw. harm; cf. OSlav. & Russ. sram'
shame, Skr. crama toil, fatigue.]
1. Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.
2. That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms. Shak.
Syn. -- Mischief; evil; loss; injury. See Mischief.
Harm
Harm, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Harmed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Harming.] [OE.
harmen, AS. hearmian. See Harm, n.] To hurt; to injure; to damage; to
wrong.
Though yet he never harmed me. Shak.
No ground of enmity between us known Why he should mean me ill or
seek to harm. Milton.
Harmaline
Har"ma*line (?), n. [Cf. F. harmaline See Harmel.] (Chem.) An alkaloid
found in the plant Peganum harmala. It forms bitter, yellow salts.
Harmattan
Har*mat"tan (?), n. [F. harmattan, prob. of Arabic origin.] 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.
Harmel
Har"mel (?), n. [Ar. harmal.] (Bot.) A kind of rue (Ruta sylvestris)
growing in India. At Lahore the seeds are used medicinally and for
fumigation.
Harmful
Harm"ful (?), a. Full of harm; injurious; hurtful; mischievous. " Most
harmful hazards." Strype. --Harm"ful*ly, adv. -- Harm"ful*ness, n.
Harmine
Har"mine (?), n.[See Harmaline.] (Chem.) An alkaloid accompanying
harmaline (in the Peganum harmala), and obtained from it by oxidation.
It is a white crystalline substance.
Harmless
Harm"less (?), a.
1. Free from harm; unhurt; as, to give bond to save another harmless.
2. Free from power or disposition to harm; innocent; inoffensive. "
The harmless deer." Drayton Syn. -- Innocent; innoxious; innocuous;
inoffensive; unoffending; unhurt; uninjured; unharmed. --Harm"less*ly,
adv.- Harm"less*ness, n.
Harmonic, Harmonical
Har*mon"ic (?), Har*mon"ic*al (, a. [L. harmonicus, Gr. harmonique.
See Harmony.]
1. Concordant; musical; consonant; as, harmonic sounds.
Harmonic twang! of leather, horn, and brass. Pope.
2. (Mus.) Relating to harmony, -- as melodic relates to melody;
harmonious; esp., relating to the accessory sounds or overtones which
accompany the predominant and apparent single tone of any string or
sonorous body.
3. (Math.) Having relations or properties bearing some resemblance to
those of musical consonances; -- said of certain numbers, ratios,
proportions, points, lines. motions, and the like.
Harmonic interval (Mus.), the distance between two notes of a chord,
or two consonant notes. -- Harmonical mean (Arith. & Alg.), certain
relations of numbers and quantities, which bear an analogy to musical
consonances. -- Harmonic motion, <-- reference to diagram of a circle
with radius having point P on the circle, and a diameter with point A
in the diameter. THe motion of point A, plotted over time, will
describe a sine wave! -->the motion of the point A, of the foot of the
perpendicular PA, when P moves uniformly in the circumference of a
circle, and PA is drawn perpendicularly upon a fixed diameter of the
circle. This is simple harmonic motion. The combinations, in any way,
of two more simple harmonic motions, make other kinds of harmonic
motion. The motion of the pendulum bob of a clock is approximately
simple harmonic motion. -- Harmonic proportion. See under Proportion.
-- Harmonic series OR progression. See under Progression. -- Spherical
harmonic analysis, a mathematical method, sometimes referred to as
that of Laplace's Coefficients, which has for its object the
expression of an arbitrary, periodic function of two independent
variables, in the proper form for a large class of physical problems,
involving arbitrary data, over a spherical surface, and the deduction
of solutions for every point of space. The functions employed in this
method are called spherical harmonic functions. Thomson & Tait. --
Harmonic suture (Anat.), an articulation by simple apposition of
comparatively smooth surfaces or edges, as between the two superior
maxillary bones in man; -- called also harmonic, and harmony. --
Harmonic triad (Mus.), the chord of a note with its third and fifth;
the common chord.
Harmonic
Har*mon"ic (?), n. (Mus.) A musical note produced by a number of
vibrations which is a multiple of the number producing some other; an
overtone. See Harmonics.
Harmonica
Har*mon"i*ca (?), n. [Fem. fr. L. harmonicus harmonic. See Harmonic,
n. ]
1. A musical instrument, consisting of a series of hemispherical
glasses which, by touching the edges with the dampened finger, give
forth the tones.<-- NOTE: This is now called the "Glass harmonica".
The modern hand instrument has reeds -->
2. A toy instrument of strips of glass or metal hung on two tapes, and
struck with hammers.
Har monically
Har* mon"ic*al*ly (?), adv.
1. In an harmonical manner; harmoniously.
2. In respect to harmony, as distinguished from melody; as, a passage
harmonically correct.
3. (Math.) In harmonical progression.
Harmonicon
Har*mon"i*con (?), n. A small, flat, wind instrument of music, in
which the notes are produced by the vibration of free metallic
reeds.<-- now called the harmonica. -->
Harmonics
Har*mon"ics (?), n.
1. The doctrine or science of musical sounds.
2. pl. (Mus.) 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.
Harmonious
Har*mo"ni*ous (?), a. [Cf. F. harmonieux. See Harmony.]
1. Adapted to each other; having parts proportioned to each other;
symmetrical.
God hath made the intellectual world harmonious and beautiful
without us. Locke.
2. Acting together to a common end; agreeing in action or feeling;
living in peace and friendship; as, an harmonious family.
3. Vocally or musically concordant; agreeably consonant; symphonious.
-- Har*mo"ni*ous*ly, adv. -- Har*mo"ni*ous*ness, n.
Harmoniphon
Har*mon"i*phon (?), n. [Gr. (Mus.) An obsolete wind instrument with a
keyboard, in which the sound, which resembled the oboe, was produced
by the vibration of thin metallic plates, acted upon by blowing
through a tube.
Harmonist
Har"mo*nist (?), n. [Cf. F. harmoniste.]
1. One who shows the agreement or harmony of corresponding passages of
different authors, as of the four evangelists.
2. (Mus.) One who understands the principles of harmony or is skillful
in applying them in composition; a musical composer.
Harmonist, Harmonite
Har"mo*nist, Har"mo*nite (?), n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a religious
sect, founded in W\'81rtemburg 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
Har*mo"ni*um (?), n. [NL. See Harmony. ] 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.
Harmonization
Har`mo*ni*za"tion (?), n. The act of harmonizing.
Harmonize
Har"mo*nize (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Harmonized (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Harmonizing (?).] [Cf. F. harmoniser. ]
1. To agree in action, adaptation, or effect on the mind; to agree in
sense or purport; as, the parts of a mechanism harmonize.
2. To be in peace and friendship, as individuals, families, or public
organizations.
3. To agree in vocal or musical effect; to form a concord; as, the
tones harmonize perfectly.
Harmonize
Har"mo*nize, v. t.
1. To adjust in fit proportions; to cause to agree; to show the
agreement of; to reconcile the apparent contradiction of.
2. (Mus.) To accompany with harmony; to provide with parts, as an air,
or melody.
Harmonizer
Har"mo*ni`zer (?), n. One who harmonizes.
Harmonometer
Har`mo*nom"e*ter (?), n. [Gr. meter: cf. F. harmonometre.] An
instrument for measuring the harmonic relations of sounds. It is often
a monochord furnished with movable bridges.
Harmony
Har"mo*ny (?), n.; pl. Harmonies (#). [ F.harmonic, L. harmonia, Gr.
Article. ]
1. 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.
2. Concord or agreement in facts, opinions, manners, interests, etc.;
good correspondence; peace and friendship; as, good citizens live in
harmony.
3. 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.
4. (Mus.) (a) A succession of chords according to the rules of
progression and modulation. (b) The science which treats of their
construction and progression.
Ten thousand harps, that tuned Angelic harmonies. Milton.
5. (Anat.) See Harmonic suture, under Harmonic.
Close harmony, Dispersed harmony, etc. See under Close, Dispersed,
etc. -- Harmony of the spheres. See Music of the spheres, under Music.
Syn. -- Harmony, Melody. Harmony results from the concord of two or
more strains or sounds which differ in pitch and quality. Melody
denotes the pleasing alternation and variety of musical and measured
sounds, as they succeed each other in a single verse or strain.
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Harmost
Har"most (?), n. [Gr. , fr. harmoste. See Harmony.] (Gr. Antiq.) A
governor or prefect appointed by the Spartans in the cities subjugated
by them.
Harmotome
Har"mo*tome (?), n. [Gr. harmotome.] (Min.) A hydrous silicate of
alumina and baryta, occurring usually in white cruciform crystals;
cross-stone.
NOTE: &hand; A re lated mi neral, ca lled li me ha rmotome, an d
Phillipsite, contains lime in place of baryta.
Dana.
Harness
Har"ness (?), n. [OE. harneis, harnes, OF.harneis, F. harnais,
harnois; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor. harnez old iron, armor, W.
haiarn iron, Armor. houarn, Ir. iarann, Gael. iarunn. Gf. Iron.]
1. Originally, the complete dress, especially in a military sense, of
a man or a horse; hence, in general, armor.
At least we 'll die witch harness on our back. Shak.
2. The equipment of a draught or carriage horse, for drawing a wagon,
coach, chaise, etc.; gear; tackling.
3. 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 die in harness, to die with armor on; hence, colloquially, to die
while actively engaged in work or duty.
Harness
Har"ness, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Harnessed (#); p. pr. & vb. n.
Harnessing.] [OE. harneisen; cf. F. harnacher, OF. harneschier.]
1. To dress in armor; to equip with armor for war, as a horseman; to
array.
Harnessed in rugged steel. Rowe.
A gay dagger, Harnessed well and sharp as point of spear. Chaucer.
2. Fig.: To equip or furnish for defense. Dr. H. More.
3. To make ready for draught; to equip with harness, as a horse. Also
used figuratively.
Harnessed to some regular profession. J. C. Shairp.
Harnessed antelope. (Zo\'94l.) See Guib. -- Harnessed moth (Zo\'94l.),
an American bombycid moth (Arctia phalerata of Harris), having, on the
fore wings, stripes and bands of buff on a black ground.
Harness cask
Har"ness cask` (?). (Naut.) A tub lashed to a vessel's deck and
containing salted provisions for daily use; -- called also harness
tub. W. C. Russell.
Harnesser
Har"ness*er (?), n. One who harnesses.
Harns
Harns (?), n. pl. [Akin to Icel.hjarni, Dan. hierne.] The brains.
[Scot.]
Harp
Harp (?), n. [OE. harpe, AS. hearpe; akin to D. harp, G.harfe, OHG.
harpha, Dan. harpe, Icel. & Sw. harpa.]
1. A musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame furnished
with strings and sometimes with pedals, held upright, and played with
the fingers.
2. (Astron.) A constellation; Lyra, or the Lyre.
3. A grain sieve. [Scot.]
\'92olian harp. See under \'92olian. Harp seal (Zo\'94l.), an arctic
seal (Phoca Gr\'d2nlandica). The adult males have a light-colored
body, with a harp-shaped mark of black on each side, and the face and
throat black. Called also saddler, and saddleback. The immature ones
are called bluesides. -- Harp shell (Zo\'94l.), a beautiful marine
gastropod shell of the genus Harpa, of several species, found in
tropical seas. See Harpa.
Harp
Harp, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Harped (?) p. pr. & vb. n. Harping.] [AS.
hearpian. See Harp, n.]
1. To play on the harp.
I heard the voice of harpers, harping with their harps. Rev. xiv.
2.
2. To dwell on or recur to a subject tediously or monotonously in
speaking or in writing; to refer to something repeatedly or
continually; -- usually with on or upon. "Harpings upon old themes."
W. Irving.
Harping on what I am, Not what he knew I was. Shak.
To harp on one string, to dwell upon one subject with disagreeable or
wearisome persistence. [Collog.]
Harp
Harp, v. t. To play on, as a harp; to play (a tune) on the harp; to
develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from
a harp; to hit upon.
Thou 'harped my fear aright. Shak.
Harpa
Har"pa (?), n. [L., harp.] (Zo\'94l.) A genus of marine univalve
shells; the harp shells; -- so called from the form of the shells, and
their ornamental ribs.
Harpagon
Har"pa*gon (?), n [L. harpago, Gr. A grappling iron. [Obs.]
Harper
Harp"er (?), n. [AS. hearpere.]
1. A player on the harp; a minstrel.
The murmuring pines and the hemlocks . . . Stand like harpers hoar,
with beards that rest on their bosoms. Longfellow.
2. A brass coin bearing the emblem of a harp, -- formerly current in
Ireland. B. Jonson.
Harping
Harp"ing (?), a. Pertaining to the harp; as, harping symphonies.
Milton.
Harping iron
Harp"ing i`ron (?). [F.harper to grasp strongly. See Harpoon.] A
harpoon. Evelyn.
Harpings
Harp"ings (?), n. pl. (Naut.) The fore parts of the wales, which
encompass the bow of a vessel, and are fastened to the stem. [Written
also harpins.] Totten.
Harpist
Harp"ist, n. [Gf. F. harpiste.] A player on the harp; a harper. W.
Browne.
Harpoon
Har*poon" (?), n. [F. harpon, LL. harpo, perh. of Ger. origin, fr. the
harp; cf. F. harper to take and grasp strongly, harpe a dog's claw,
harpin boathook (the sense of hook coming from the shape of the harp);
but cf. also Gr. harpy. Cf. Harp.] 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. Harpoon fork, a kind
of hayfork, consisting of bar with hinged barbs at one end a loop for
a rope at the other end, used for lifting hay from the load by horse
power. -- Harpoon gun, a gun used in the whale fishery for shooting
the harpoon into a whale.
Harpoon
Har*poon", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Harpooned (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Harpooning.] To strike, catch, or kill with a harpoon.
Harpooneer
Har`poon*eer` (?), n. An harpooner. Grabb.
Harpooner
Har*poon`er (?), n. [Gf. F. harponneur.] One who throws the harpoon.
Harpress
Harp`ress (?), n. A female harper. [R.] Sir W. Scott.
Harpsichon
Harp"si*chon (?), n. A harpsichord. [Obs.]
Harpsichord
Harp"si*chord (?), n. [OF. harpechorde, in which the harpe is of
German origin. See Harp, and Chord.] (Mus.) A harp-shaped instrument
of music set horizontally on legs, like the grand piano, with strings
of wire, played by the fingers, by means of keys provided with quills,
instead of hammers, for striking the strings. It is now superseded by
the piano.
Harpy
Har"py (?), n.; pl. Harpies (#). [F. harpie, L. harpyia, Gr.
Rapacious.]
1. (Gr. Myth.) A fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having
the face of a woman and the body of a vulture, with long claws, and
the face pale with hunger. Some writers mention two, others three.
Both table and provisions vanished guite. With sound of harpies'
wings and talons heard. Milton.
2. One who is rapacious or ravenous; an extortioner.
The harpies about all pocket the pool. Goldsmith.
3. (Zo\'94l.) (a) The European moor buzzard or marsh harrier (Circus
\'91ruginosus). (b) A large and powerful, double-crested, short-winged
American eagle (Thrasa\'89tus harpyia). It ranges from Texas to
Brazil.
Harpy bat (Zo\'94l.) (a) An East Indian fruit bat of the genus Harpyia
(esp. H. cerphalotes), having prominent, tubular nostrils. (b) A
small, insectivorous Indian bat (Harpiocephalus harpia). Harpy fly
(Zo\'94l.), the house fly.
Harquebus, Harquebuse
Har"que*bus, Har"que*buse (?), n. [See Arquebus.] A firearm with match
holder, trigger, and tumbler, made in the second half of the 15th
century. the barrel was about forty inches long. A form of the
harquebus was subsequently called arquebus with matchlock.
Harrage
Har"rage (?) v. t.. [See Harry.] To harass; to plunder from. [Obs.]
Fuller.
Harre
Har"re (?), n. [OE., fr. AS. heorr, hior.] A hinge. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Harridan
Har"ri*dan (?), n. [F. haridelle a worn-out horse, jade.] A worn-out
strumpet; a vixenish woman; a hag.
Such a weak, watery, wicked old harridan, substituted for the
pretty creature I had been used to see. De Quincey.
Harrier
Har"ri*er (?), n. [From Hare, n.] (Zo\'94l.) One of a small breed of
hounds, used for hunting hares. [Written also harier.]
Harrier
Har"ri*er, n. [From Harry.]
1. One who harries.
2. (Zo\'94l.) 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 \'91runginosus), and the hen harrier
(C. cyaneus).
Harrier hawk(Micrastur.
Harrow
Har"row (?), n. [OE. harowe, harwe, AS. hearge; cf. D. hark rake, G.
harke, Icel. herfi harrow, Dan. harve, Sw. harf.
1. 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.
2. (Mil.) An obstacle formed by turning an ordinary harrow upside
down, the frame being buried.
Bush harrow, a kind of light harrow made of bushes, for harrowing
grass lands and covering seeds, or to finish the work of a toothed
harrow. -- Drill harrow. See under 6th Drill. -- Under the harrow,
subjected to actual torture with a toothed instrument, or to great
affliction or oppression.
Harrow
Har"row, v. t.. [imp. & p. p. Harrowed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Harrowing.] [OE. harowen, harwen; cf. Dan. harve. See Harrow, n.]
1. To draw a harrow over, as for the purpose of breaking clods and
leveling the surface, or for covering seed; as, to harrow land.
Will he harrow the valleys after thee? Job xxxix. 10.
2. To break or tear, as with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate; to
torment or distress; to vex.
My aged muscles harrowed up with whips. Rowe.
I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy
soul. Shak.
Harrow
Har"row, interj. [OF. harau, haro; fr. OHG. hara, hera, herot, or fr.
OS. herod hither, akin to E. here.] Help! Halloo! An exclamation of
distress; a call for succor;-the ancient Norman hue and cry. "Harrow
and well away!" Spenser.
Harrow! alas! here lies my fellow slain. Chaucer.
Harrow
Har"row, v. t.. [See Harry.] To pillage; to harry; to oppress. [Obs.]
Spenser.
Meaning thereby to harrow his people. Bacon
Harrower
Har"row*er (?), n. One who harrows.
Harrower
Har"row*er, n. One who harries. [Obs.]
Harry
Har"ry (?), v. t.. [imp. & p. p. Harried( ?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Harrying.] [OF. harwen, herien, her, AS. hergisn to act as an army, to
ravage, plunder, fr. here army; akin to G. here army; akin to G. heer,
Icel. herr, Goth. harjis, and Lith. karas war. Gf. Harbor, Herald,
Heriot.]
1. To strip; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came several times and
harried the land.
To harry this beautiful region. W. Irving.
A red squirrel had harried the nest of a wood thrush. J. Burroughs.
2. To agitate; to worry; to harrow; to harass. Shak. Syn. -- To
ravage; plunder; pillage; lay waste; vex; tease; worry; annoy; harass.
Harry
Har"ry, v. i.. To make a predatory incursion; to plunder or lay waste.
[Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
Harsh
Harsh (?), a. [Compar. Harsher (?); superl. Harshest.] [OE. harsk;
akin to G. harsch, Dan. harsk rancid, Sw. h\'84rsk; from the same
source as E. hard. See Hard, a.]
1. Rough; disagreeable; grating; esp.:(a) To the touch."Harsh sand."
Boyle. (b) To the taste. "Berries harsh and crude." Milton. (c) To the
ear. "Harsh din." Milton.
2. Unpleasant and repulsive to the sensibilities; austere; crabbed;
morose; abusive; abusive; severe; rough.
Clarence is so harsh, so blunt. Shak.
Though harsh the precept, yet the charmed. Dryden.
3. (Painting, Drawing, etc.) Having violent contrasts of color, or of
light and shade; lacking in harmony.
Harshly
Harsh"ly, adv. In a harsh manner; gratingly; roughly; rudely.
'T will sound harshly in her ears. Shak.
Harshness
Harsh"ness, n. The quality or state of being harsh.
O, she is Ten times more gentle than her father 's crabbed, And
he's composed of harshness. Shak.
'Tis not enough no harshness gives offense, The sound must seem an
echo to the sense. Pope.
Syn. -- Acrimony; roughness; sternness; asperity; tartness. See
Acrimony.
Harslet
Hars"let (?), n. See Haslet.
Hart
Hart (?), n. [OE.hart, hert, heort, AS. heort, heorot; akin to D.
hert, OHG. hiruz, hirz, G. hirsch, Icel. hj\'94rtr, Dan. & Sw. hjort,
L. cervus, and prob. to Gr.Horn.] (Zo\'94l.) A stag; the male of the
red deer. See the Note under Buck.
Goodliest of all the forest, hart and hind. Milton.
Hartbeest
Hart"beest` (?), n. [D. hertebeest. See Hart, and Beast.] (Zo\'94l.) 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. [Written also hartebeest, and hartebest.]
Harten
Hart"en (?), v. t. To hearten; to encourage; to incite. [Obs.]
Spenser.
Hartford
Hart"ford (?), n. The Hartford grape, a variety of grape first raised
at Hartford, Connecticut, from the Northern fox grape. Its large
dark-colored berries ripen earlier than those of most other kinds.
Harts clover
Hart"s` clo`ver (?). (Bot.) Melilot or sweet clover. See Melilot.
Hart's-ear
Hart's`-ear` (?), n. (Bot.) An Asiatic species of Cacalia (C.
Kleinia), used medicinally in India.
Hartshorn
Harts"horn` (?), n.
1. The horn or antler of the hart, or male red deer.
2. Spirits of hartshorn (see below); volatile salts.
Hartshorn plantain (Bot.), an annual species of plantain (Plantago
Coronopus); -- called also duck's-horn. Booth. -- Hartshorn shavings,
originally taken from the horns of harts, are now obtained chiefly by
planing down the bones of calves. They afford a kind of jelly. Hebert.
-- Salt of hartshorn (Chem.), an impure solid carbonate of ammonia,
obtained by the destructive distillation of hartshorn, or any kind of
bone; volatile salts. Brande & C.-- Spirits of hartshorn (Chem.), a
solution of ammonia in water; -- so called because formerly obtained
from hartshorn shavings by destructive distillation. Similar
ammoniacal solutions from other sources have received the same name.
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Hart-tongue
Hart"-tongue` (?), n. (Bot.) (a) A common British fern (Scolopendrium
vulgare), rare in America. (b) A West Indian fern, the Polypodium
Phyllitidis of Linn\'91us. It is also found in Florida.
Hartwort
Hart"wort` (?), n. (Bot.) A coarse umbelliferous plant of Europe
(Tordylium maximum).
NOTE: &hand; The name is often vaguely given to other plants of the
same order, as species of Seseli and Bupleurum.
Harum-scarum
Har"um-scar"um (?), a. [Cf. hare,v. t., and scare, v. t.] Wild; giddy;
flighty; rash; thoughtless. [Colloq.]
They had a quarrel with Sir Thomas Newcome's own son, a
harum-scarum lad. Thackeray.
Haruspication
Ha*rus`pi*ca"tion (?), n. See Haruspicy. Tylor.
Haruspice
Ha*rus"pice (?), n. [F., fr. L. haruspex.] A diviner of ancient Rome.
Same as Aruspice.
Haruspicy
Ha*rus"pi*cy (?), n. The art or practices of haruspices. See Aruspicy.
Harvest
Har"vest (?), n. [OE. harvest, hervest, AS. h\'91rfest autumn; akin to
LG. harfst, D. herfst, OHG. herbist, G. herbst, and prob. to L.
carpere to pluck, Gr. Carpet.]
1. 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.
Seedtime and harvest . . . shall not cease. Gen viii. 22.
At harvest, when corn is ripe. Tyndale.
2. That which is reaped or ready to be reaped or gath
Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Joel iii. 13.
To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps.
Shak.
3. The product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward.
The pope's principal harvest was in the jubilee. Fuller.
The harvest of a quiet eye. Wordsworth.
Harvest fish (Zo\'94l.), a marine fish of the Southern United States
(Stromateus alepidotus); -- called whiting in Virginia. Also applied
to the dollar fish. -- Harvest fly (Zo\'94l.), an hemipterous insect
of the genus Cicada, often called locust. See Cicada. -- Harvest lord,
the head reaper at a harvest. [Obs.] Tusser. -- Harvest mite
(Zo\'94l.), a minute European mite (Leptus autumnalis), of a bright
crimson color, which is troublesome by penetrating the skin of man and
domestic animals; -- called also harvest louse, and harvest bug. --
Harvest moon, the moon near the full at the time of harvest in
England, or about the autumnal equinox, when, by reason of the small
angle that is made by the moon's orbit with the horizon, it rises
nearly at the same hour for several days. -- Harvest mouse (Zo\'94l.),
a very small European field mouse (Mus minutus). It builds a globular
nest on the stems of wheat and other plants. -- Harvest queen, an
image pepresenting Ceres, formerly carried about on the last day of
harvest. Milton. -- Harvest spider. (Zo\'94l.) See Daddy longlegs.
Harvest
Har"vest, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Harvested; p. pr. & vb. n. Harvesting.]
To reap or gather, as any crop.
Harvester
Har"vest*er (?), n.
1. One who harvests; a machine for cutting and gathering grain; a
reaper.
2. (Zo\'94l.) A harvesting ant.
Harvest-home
Har"vest-home" (?), n.
1. The gathering and bringing home of the harvest; the time of
harvest.
Showed like a stubble land at harvest-home. Shak.
2. The song sung by reapers at the feast made at the close of the
harvest; the feast itself. Dryden.
3. A service of thanksgiving, at harvest time, in the Church of
England and in the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States.
4. The opportunity of gathering treasure. Shak.
Harvest-ing
Har"vest-ing, a. & n., from Harvest, v. t. Harvesting ant (Zo\'94l.),
any species of ant which gathers and stores up seeds for food. Many
species are known.
NOTE: &hand; The species found in Southern Europe and Palestine are
Aphenogaster structor and A. barbara; that of Texas, called
agricultural ant, is Pogonomyrmex barbatus or Myrmica molifaciens;
that of Florida is P. crudelis. See Agricultural ant, under
Agricultural.
Harvestless
Har"vest*less, a. Without harvest; lacking in crops; barren.
"Harvestless autumns." Tennyson.
Harvestman
Har"vest*man (?), n.; pl. Harvestmen (. /def>
1. A man engaged in harvesting. Shak.
2. (Zo\'94l.) See Daddy longlegs, 1.
Harvestry
Har"vest*ry (?), n. The act of harvesting; also, that which is
harvested. Swinburne.
Hary
Har"y (?), v. t. [Cf. OF. harier to harass, or E. harry, v. t.] To
draw; to drag; to carry off by vio [Obs.] Chaucer.
Has
Has (?), 3d pers. sing. pres. of Have.
Hasard
Has"ard (?), n. Hazard. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Hase
Hase (?), v. t. [Obs.] See Haze, v. t.
Hash
Hash (?), n. [Formerly hachey, hachee, F. hachis, hacher to hash; of
German origin; cf. G. hippe sickle, OHG. hippa, for happia. Cf.
Hatchet.]
1. That which is hashed or chopped up; meat and vegetables, especially
such as have been already cooked, chopped into small pieces and mixed.
2. A new mixture of old matter; a second preparation or exhibition.
I can not bear elections, and still less the hash of them over
again in a first session. Walpole.
Hash
Hash, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hashed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hashing.] [From
Hash, n.: cf. F. hacher to hash.] To as, to hash meat. Hudibras.
Hasheesh, Hashish
Hash"eesh, Hash"ish (?), n. [Ar. hash\'c6sh.] 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.
Hask
Hask (?), n. [See Hassock.] A basket made of rushes or flags, as for
carrying fish. [Obs.] Spenser.
Haslet
Has"let (?), n. [F. h\'83telettes broil, for hastelettes, fr. F. haste
spit; cf. L. hasta spear, and also OHG. harst gridiron.] The edible
viscera, as the heart, liver, etc., of a beast, esp. of a hog.
[Written also harslet.]
Hasp
Hasp (?), n. [OE. hasp, hesp, AS. h\'91pse; akin to G. haspe,
h\'84spe, Sw. & Dan. haspe, Icel. hespa.]
1. A clasp, especially a metal strap permanently fast at one end to a
staple or pin, while the other passes over a staple, and is fastened
by a padlock or a pin; also, a metallic hook for fastening a door.
2. A spindle to wind yarn, thread, or silk on.
3. An instrument for cutting the surface of grass land; a scarifier.
Hasp
Hasp, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hasped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hasping.] [AS.
h\'91psian.] To shut or fasten with a hasp.
Hassock
Has"sock (?), n. [Scot. hassock, hassik, a besom, anything bushy, a
large, round turf used as a seat, OE. hassok sedgy ground, W. hesgog
sedgy, hesg sedge, rushes; cf. Ir. seisg, and E. sedge.]
1. A rank tuft of bog grass; a tussock. Forby.
2. A small stuffed cushion or footstool, for kneeling on in church, or
for home use.
And knees and hassocks are well nigh divorced. Cowper.
Hast
Hast (?), 2d pers. sing. pres. of. Fave, contr. of havest.
[Archaic]
Hastate, Hastated
Has"tate (?), Has"ta*ted, a. [L. hastatus, fr. hasta spear. Cf.
Gad, n.] Shaped like the head of a halberd; triangular, with the
basal angles or lobes spreading; as, a hastate leaf.
Haste
Haste (?), n. [OE. hast; akin to D. haast, G., Dan., Sw., & OFries.
hast, cf. OF. haste, F. h\'83te (of German origin); all perh. fr.
the root of E. hate in a earlier sense of, to pursue. See Hate.]
1. Celerity of motion; speed; swiftness; dispatch; expedition; --
applied only to voluntary beings, as men and other animals.
The king's business required haste. 1 Sam. xxi. 8.
2. The state of being urged or pressed by business; hurry; urgency;
sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
I said in my haste, All men are liars. Ps. cxvi. 11.
To make haste, to hasten. Syn. -- Speed; quickness; nimbleness;
swiftness; expedition; dispatch; hurry; precipitance; vehemence;
precipitation. -- Haste, Hurry, Speed, Dispatch. Haste denotes
quickness of action and a strong desire for getting on; hurry includes
a confusion and want of collected thought not implied in haste; speed
denotes the actual progress which is made; dispatch, the promptitude
and rapidity with which things are done. A man may properly be in
haste, but never in a hurry. Speed usually secures dispatch.
Haste
Haste, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Hasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Hasting.] [OE.
hasten; akin to G. hasten, D. haasten, Dan. haste, Sw. hasta, OF.
haster, F. h\'83ter. See Haste, n.] To hasten; to hurry. [Archaic]
I 'll haste the writer. Shak.
They were troubled and hasted away. Ps. xlviii. 5.
Hasten
Has"ten (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hastened (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Hastening (?).] To press; to drive or urge forward; to push on; to
precipitate; to accelerate the movement of; to expedite; to hurry.
I would hasten my escape from the windy storm. Ps. lv. 8.
Hasten
Has"ten, v. i. To move celerity; to be rapid in motion; to act
speedily or quickly; to go quickly.
I hastened to the spot whence the noise came. D
Hastener
Has"ten*er (?), n.
1. One who hastens.
2. That which hastens; especially, a stand or reflector used for
confining the heat of the fire to meat while roasting before it.
Hastif
Has"tif (?), a. [OF. See Hastive.] Hasty. [Obs.] Chaucer. --
Has"tif*ly, adv. [Obs.]
Hastile
Has"tile (?), a. [L. hasta a spear.] (Bot.) Same as Hastate. Gray.
Hastily
Has"ti*ly (?), adv. [From Hasty.]
1. In haste; with speed or quickness; speedily; nimbly.
2. Without due reflection; precipitately; rashly.
We hastily engaged in the war. Swift.
3. Passionately; impatiently. Shak.
Hastiness
Has"ti*ness, n. The quality or state of being hasty; haste;
precipitation; rashness; quickness of temper.
Hastings
Has"tings (?), n. pl. [From Haste, v.] Early fruit or vegetables;
especially, early pease. Mortimer.
Hastings sands
Has"tings sands" (?). (Geol.) The lower group of the Wealden
formation; -- so called from its development around Hastings, in
Sussex, England.
Hastive
Has"tive (?), a. [OF. hastif. See Haste, n., and cf. Hastif.] Forward;
early; -- said of fruits. [Obs.]
Hasty
Has"ty (?), a. [Compar. Hastier (?); superl. Hastiest.] [Akin to D.
haastig, G., Sw., & Dan. hastig. See Haste, n.]
1. Involving haste; done, made, etc., in haste; as, a hasty sketch.
2. Demanding haste or immediate action. [R.] Chaucer. "Hasty
employment." Shak.
3. Moving or acting with haste or in a hurry; hurrying; hence, acting
without deliberation; precipitate; rash; easily excited; eager.
4. Made or reached without deliberation or due caution; as, a hasty
conjecture, inference, conclusion, etc., a hasty resolution.
5.
Proceeding from, or indicating, a quick temper.
Take no unkindness of his hasty words. Shak
6. Forward; early; first ripe. [Obs.] "As the hasty fruit before the
summer." Is. xxviii. 4.
Hasty pudding
Has"ty pud"ding (?).
1. A thick batter pudding made of Indian meal stirred into boiling
water; mush. [U. S.]
2. A batter or pudding made of flour or oatmeal, stirred into boiling
water or milk. [Eng.]
Hat
Hat (?), a. Hot. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Hat
Hat, sing. pres. of Hote to be called. Cf. Hatte. [Obs.] "That one hat
abstinence." Piers Plowman.
Hat
Hat (?), n. [AS. h\'91t, h\'91tt; akin to Dan. hat, Sw. hatt, Icel.
hattr a hat, h\'94ttr hood, D. hoed hat, G. hut, OHG. huot, and prob.
to L. cassis helmet. Hood.] A covering for the head; esp., one with a
crown and brim, made of various materials, and worn by men or women
for protecting the head from the sun or weather, or for ornament. Hat
block, a block on which hats are formed or dressed. -- To pass around
the hat, to take up a collection of voluntary contributions, which are
often received in a hat. [Collog.] Lowell.
Hatable
Hat"a*ble (?), a. [From Hate.] Capable of being, or deserving to be,
hated; odious; detestable.
Hatband
Hat"band` (?), n. A band round the crown of a hat; sometimes, a band
of black cloth, crape, etc., worn as a badge of mourning.
Hatbox
Hat"box` (?), n. A box for a hat.
Hatch
Hatch (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hatched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hatching.]
[F. hacher to chop, hack. See Hash.]
1. To cross with lines in a peculiar manneHatching.
Shall win this sword, silvered and hatched. Chapman.
Those hatching strokes of the pencil. Dryden.
2. To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep. [Obs.]
His weapon hatched in blood. Beau. & Fl.
Hatch
Hatch, v. t. [OE. hacchen, hetchen; akin to G. hecken, Dan. hekke; cf.
MHG. hagen bull; perh. akin to E. hatch a half door, and orig.
meaning, to produce under a hatch.
1. To produce, as young, from an egg or eggs by incubation, or by
artificial heat; to produce young from (eggs); as, the young when
hatched. Paley.
As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not. Jer. xvii.
11.
For the hens do not sit upon the eggs; but by keeping them in a
certain equal heat they [the husbandmen] bring life into them and
hatch them. Robynson (More's Utopia).
2. To contrive or plot; to form by meditation, and bring into being;
to originate and produce; to concoct; as, to hatch mischief; to hatch
heresy. Hooker.
Fancies hatched In silken-folded idleness. Tennyson.
Hatch
Hatch, v. i. To produce young; -- said of eggs; to come forth from the
egg; -- said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc.
Hatch
Hatch, n.
1. The act of hatching.
2. Development; disclosure; discovery. Shak.
3. The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.
Hatch
Hatch, n. [OE. hacche, AS. h\'91c, cf. haca the bar of a door, D. hek
gate, Sw. h\'84ck coop, rack, Dan. hekke manger, rack. Prob. akin to
E. hook, and first used of something made of pieces fastened together.
Cf. Heck, Hack a frame.]
1. A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with
spikes on the upper edge.
In at the window, or else o'er the hatch. Shak.
2. A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
3. A flood gate; a a sluice gate. Ainsworth.
4. A bedstead. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.
5. An opening in the deck of a vessel or floor of a warehouse which
serves as a passageway or hoistway; a hatchway; also; a cover or door,
or one of the covers used in closing such an opening.
6. (Mining) An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
Booby hatch, Buttery hatch, Companion hatch, etc. See under Booby,
Buttery, etc. -- To batten down the hatches (Naut.), to lay tarpaulins
over them, and secure them with battens. -- To be under hatches, to be
confined below in a vessel; to be under arrest, or in slavery,
distress, etc.
Hatch
Hatch, v. t. To close with a hatch or hatches.
'T were not amiss to keep our door hatched. Shak
Hatch-boat
Hatch"-boat` (?), n. (Naut.) A vessel whose deck consists almost
wholly of movable hatches; -- used mostly in the fisheries.
Hatchel
Hatch"el (?; 277), n. [OE. hechele, hekele; akin to D. hekel, G.
hechel, Dan. hegle, Sw. h\'84kla, and prob. to E. hook. See Hook, and
cf. Hackle, Heckle.] 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.
Hatchel
Hatch"el, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hatcheled or Hatchelled (; p. pr. & vb.
n. Hatcheling or Hatchelling.] [OE. hechelen, hekelen; akin to D.
hekelen, G. hecheln, Dan. hegle, Sw. h\'84kla. See Hatchel, n.]
1. 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.
2. To tease; to worry; to torment. [Colloq.]
Hatcheler
Hatch"el*er (?), n. One who uses a hatchel.
Hatcher
Hatch"er (?), n.
1. One who hatches, or that which hatches; a hatching apparatus; an
incubator.
2. One who contrives or originates; a plotter.
A great hatcher and breeder of business. Swift.
Hatchery
Hatch"er*y (?), n. A house for hatching fish, etc.
Hatchet
Hatch"et (?), n. [F. hachette, dim. of hache Hatch, Hash.]
1. A small ax with a short handle, to be used with one hand.
2. Specifically, a tomahawk.
Buried was the bloody hatchet. Longfellow.
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Hatchet face, a thin, sharp face, like the edge of a hatchet; hence:
Hatchet-faced, sharp-visaged. Dryden. -- To bury the hatchet, to make
peace or become reconciled. -- To take up the hatchet, to make or
declare war. The last two phrases are derived from the practice of the
American Indians. <--
Hatchet man
Hatchet man 1. A person hired to murder or physically attack another;
a hit man. 2. A person who deliberately tries to ruin the reputation
of another, often unscrupulously, by slander or other malicious
communication, often with political motive, and sometimes for pay. -->
Hatchettine, Hatchettite
Hatch"et*tine (?), Hatch"et*tite (?), n. [Named after the discoverer,
Charles Hatchett.] (Min.) Mineral t
Hatching
Hatch"ing, n. [See 1st Hatch.] A mode of execution in engraving,
drawing, and miniature painting, in which shading is produced by lines
crossing each other at angles more or less acute; -- called also
crosshatching.
Hatchment
Hatch"ment (?), n. [Corrupt. fr. achievement.]
1. (Her.) 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.
His obscure funeral; No trophy, sword, or hatchment o'er his bones.
Shak.
2. A sword or other mark of the profession of arms; in general, a mark
of dignity.
Let there be deducted, out of our main potation, Five marks in
hatchments to adorn this thigh. Beau. & Fl.
Hatchure
Hatch"ure (?; 135), n. Same as Hachure.
Hatchway
Hatch"way` (?), n. A square or oblong opening in a deck or floor,
affording passage from one deck or story to another; the entrance to a
cellar.
Hate
Hate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hated; p. pr. & pr. & vb. n. Hating.]
[OE. haten, hatien, AS. hatian; akin to OS. hatan, hat to be hostile
to, D. haten to hate, OHG. hazz, hazz, G. hassen, Icel. & Sw. hata,
Dan. hade, Goth. hatan, hatian. . Cf. Hate, n., Heinous.]
1. To have a great aversion to, with a strong desire that evil should
befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed; to dislike
intensely; to detest; as, to hate one's enemies; to hate hypocrisy.
Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer. 1 John iii. 15.
2. To be very unwilling; followed by an infinitive, or a substantive
clause with that; as, to hate to get into debt; to hate that anything
should be wasted.
I hate that he should linger here. Tennyson.
3. (Script.) To love less, relatively. Luke xiv. 26. Syn. -- To Hate,
Abhor, Detest, Abominate, Loathe. Hate is the generic word, and
implies that one is inflamed with extreme dislike. We abhor what is
deeply repugnant to our sensibilities or feelings. We detest what
contradicts so utterly our principles and moral sentiments that we
feel bound to lift up our voice against it. What we abominate does
equal violence to our moral and religious sentiments. What we loathe
is offensive to our own nature, and excites unmingled disgust. Our
Savior is said to have hated the deeds of the Nicolaitanes; his
language shows that he loathed the lukewarmness of the Laodiceans; he
detested the hypocrisy of the scribes and Pharisees; he abhorred the
suggestions of the tempter in the wilderness.
Hate
Hate, n. [OE. hate, hete, AS. hete; akin to D. haat, G. hass, Icel.
hatr, SW. hat, Dan. had, Goth. hatis. Cf. Hate, v.] Strong aversion
coupled with desire that evil should befall the person toward whom the
feeling is directed; as exercised toward things, intense dislike;
hatred; detestation; -- opposed to love.
For in a wink the false love turns to hate. Tennyson.
Hateful
Hate"ful (?), a.
1. Manifesting hate or hatred; malignant; malevolent. [Archaic or R.]
And worse than death, to view with hateful eyes His rival's
conquest. Dryden.
2. Exciting or deserving great dislike, aversion, or disgust; odious.
Unhappy, wretched, hateful day! Shak.
Syn. -- Odious; detestable; abominable; execrable; loathsome;
abhorrent; repugnant; malevolent. -- Hate"ful*ly, adv. --
Hate"ful*ness, n.
Hatel
Hat"el (?), a. Hateful; detestable. [Obs.]
Hater
Hat"er (?), n. One who hates.
An enemy to God, and a hater of all good. Sir T. Browne.
Hath
Hath (?), 3d pers. sing. pres. of Have, contracted from haveth. Has.
[Archaic.]
Hatless
Hat"less (?), a. Having no hat.
Hatrack
Hat"rack` (?), n. A hatstand; hattree.
Hatred
Ha"tred (?), n. [OE. hatred, hatreden. See Hate, and cf. Kindred.]
Strong aversion; intense dislike; hate; an affection of the mind
awakened by something regarded as evil. Syn. -- Odium; ill will;
enmity; hate; animosity; malevolence; rancor; malignity; detestation;
loathing; abhorrence; repugnance; antipathy. See Odium.
Hatstand
Hat"stand` (?), n. A stand of wood or iron, with hooks or pegs upon
which to hang hats, etc.
Hatte
Hat`te (?), pres. & imp. sing. & pl. of Hote, to be called. See Hote.
[Obs.] Chaucer.
A full perilous place, purgatory it hatte. Piers Plowman.
Hatted
Hat"ted (?), a. Covered with a hat.
Hatter
Hat"ter (?), v. t. [Prov. E., to entangle; cf. LG. verhaddern,
verheddern, verhiddern.] To tire or worry; -- out. [Obs.] Dryden.
Hatter
Hat"ter, n. One who makes or sells hats.
Hatteria
Hat*te"ri*a (?), n. [NL.] (Zo\'94l.) A New Zealand lizard, which, in
anatomical character, differs widely from all other existing lizards.
It is the only living representative of the order Rhynchocephala, of
which many Mesozoic fossil species are known; -- called also
Sphenodon, and Tuatera.
Hatting
Hat"ting (?), n. The business of making hats; also, stuff for hats.
Hatti-sherif
Hat"ti-sher`if (?), n. [Turk., fr. Ar. knatt a writing + sher\'c6f
noble.] A irrevocable Turkish decree countersigned by the sultan.
Hattree
Hat"tree` (?), n. A hatstand.
Haubergeon
Hau*ber"ge*on (?), n. See Habergeon.
Hauberk
Hau"berk (?), n. [OF. hauberc, halberc, F.haubert, OHG. halsberc; hals
neck + bergan to protect, G. bergen; akin to AS. healsbeorg, Icel.
h\'belsbj\'94rg. See Collar, and Bury, v. 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. [Written variously hauberg, hauberque,
hawberk, etc.] Chaucer.
Helm, nor hawberk's twisted mail. Gray.
Hauerite
Hau"er*ite (?), n. [Named after Von Hauer, of Vienna.] (Min.) Native
sulphide of manganese a reddish brown or brownish black mineral.
Haugh
Haugh (?), n. [See Haw a hedge.] A low-lying meadow by the side of a
river. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
On a haugh or level plain, near to a royal borough. Sir W. Scott.
Haught
Haught (?), a. [See Haughty.] High; elevated; hence, haughty; proud.
[Obs.] Shak.
Haughtily
Haugh"ti*ly (?), adv. [From Haughty.] In a haughty manner; arrogantly.
Haughtiness
Haugh"ti*ness, n. [For hauteinness. See Haughty.] The quality of being
haughty; disdain; arrogance. Syn. -- Arrogance; disdain;
contemptuousness; superciliousness; loftiness. -- Haughtiness,
Arrogance, Disdain. Haughtiness denotes the expression of conscious
and proud superiority; arrogance is a disposition to claim for one's
self more than is justly due, and enforce it to the utmost; disdain in
the exact reverse of condescension toward inferiors, since it
expresses and desires others to feel how far below ourselves we
consider them. A person is haughty in disposition and demeanor;
arrogant in his claims of homage and deference; disdainful even in
accepting the deference which his haughtiness leads him arrogantly to
exact.
Haughty
Haugh"ty, a. [Compar. Haughtier (?); superl. Haughtiest.] [OE.
hautein, F. hautain, fr. haut high, OF. also halt, fr. L. altus. See
Altitude.]
1. High; lofty; bold. [Obs. or Archaic]
To measure the most haughty mountain's height. Spenser.
Equal unto this haughty enterprise. Spenser
2. Disdainfully or contemptuously proud; arrogant; overbearing.
A woman of a haughty and imperious nature. Clarendon.
3. Indicating haughtiness; as, a haughty carriage.
Satan, with vast and haughty strides advanced, Came towering.
Milton.
Haul
Haul (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hauled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hauling.]
[OE. halen, halien, F. geholian to acquire, get, D. halen to fetch,
pull, draw, OHG. hol, hal, G. holen, Dan. hale to haul, Sw. hala, and
to L. calare to call, summon, Gr. Hale, v. t., Claim. Class, Council,
Ecclesiastic.]
1. To pull or draw with force; to drag.
Some dance, some haul the rope. Denham.
Thither they bent, and hauled their ships to land. Pope.
Romp-loving miss Is hauled about in gallantry robust. Thomson.
2. To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen; as, to haul logs
to a sawmill.
When I was seven or eight years of age, I began hauling all the
wood used in the house and shops. U. S. Grant.
To haul over the coals. See under Coal. -- To haul the wind (Naut.),
to turn the head of the ship nearer to the point from which the wind
blows.
Haul
Haul, v. i.
1. (Naut.) To change the direction of a ship by hauling the wind. See
under Haul, v. t.
I . . . hauled up for it, and found it to be an island. Cook.
2. To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
To haul around (Naut.), to shift to any point of the compass; -- said
of the wind. -- To haul off (Naut.), to sail closer to the wind, in
order to get farther away from anything; hence, to withdraw; to draw
back.<-- haul off (b), to get ready (usu. for violent action) -- used
with "and" -- "hauled off and punched him on the nose" -->
Haul
Haul, n.
1. A pulling with force; a violent pull.
2. A single draught of a net; as, to catch a hundred fish at a haul.
3. That which is caught, taken, or gained at once, as by hauling a
net.
4. Transportation by hauling; the distance through which anything is
hauled, as freight in a railroad car; as, a long haul or short haul.
5. (Rope Making) A bundle of about four hundred threads, to be tarred.
Haulage
Haul"age (?), n. Act of hauling; as, the haulage of cars by an engine;
charge for hauling.
Hauler
Haul"er (?), n. One who hauls.
Haulm
Haulm (, n. [OE. halm, AS. healm; akin to D., G., Dan., & Sw. halm,
Icel. h\'belmr, L. calamus reed, cane, stalk, Gr. Excel, Culminate,
Culm, Shawm, Calamus.] The denuded stems or stalks of such crops as
buckwheat and the cereal grains, beans, etc.; straw.
Haulm
Haulm, n. A part of a harness; a hame.
Hauls
Hauls (?), n. [Obs.] See Hals.
Haulse
Haulse (?), v. [Obs.] See Halse.
Hault
Hault (?), a. [OF. hault, F. haut. See Haughty.] Lofty; haughty.
[Obs.]
Through support of countenance proud and hault. Spenser.
Haum
Haum (?), n. See Haulm, stalk. Smart.
Haunce
Haunce (?), v. t. To enhance. [Obs.] Lydgate.
Haunch
Haunch (?; 277), n. [F. hanche, of German origin; cf. OD. hancke,
hencke, and also OHG. ancha; prob. not akin to E. ankle.]
1. The hip; the projecting region of the lateral parts of the pelvis
and the hip joint; the hind part.
2. Of meats: The leg and loin taken together; as, a haunch of venison.
Haunch bone. See Innominate bone, under Innominate. -- Haunches of an
arch (Arch.), the parts on each side of the crown of an arch. (See
Crown, n., 11.) Each haunch may be considered as from one half to two
thirds of the half arch.
Haunched
Haunched (?), a. Having haunches.
Haunt
Haunt (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Haunted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Haunting.] [F. hanter; of uncertain origin, perh. from an assumed LL.
ambitare to go about, fr. L. ambire (see Ambition); or cf. Icel.
heimta to demand, regain, akin to heim home (see Home). &root;36.]
1. To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit pertinaciously or
intrusively; to intrude upon.
You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house. Shak.
Those cares that haunt the court and town. Swift.
2. To inhabit or frequent as a specter; to visit as a ghost or
apparition.
Foul spirits haunt my resting place. Fairfax.
3. To practice; to devote one's self to. [Obs.]
That other merchandise that men haunt with fraud . . . is cursed.
Chaucer.
Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime. Ascham.
4. To accustom; to habituate. [Obs.]
Haunt thyself to pity. Wyclif.
Haunt
Haunt, v. i. To persist in staying or visiting.
I've charged thee not to haunt about my doors. Shak.
Haunt
Haunt, n.
1. A place to which one frequently resorts; as, drinking saloons are
the haunts of tipplers; a den is the haunt of wild beasts.
NOTE: &hand; In Ol d En glish th e pl ace occupied by any one as a
dwelling or in his business was called a haunt.
NOTE: Often used figuratively.
The household nook, The haunt of all affections pure. Keble.
The feeble soul, a haunt of fears. Tennyson.
2. The habit of resorting to a place. [Obs.]
The haunt you have got about the courts. Arbuthnot.
3. Practice; skill. [Obs.]
Of clothmaking she hadde such an haunt. Chaucer.
Haunted
Haunt"ed, a. Inhabited by, or subject to the visits of, apparitions;
frequented by a ghost.
All houses wherein men have lived and died Are haunted houses.
Longfellow.
Haunter
Haunt"er (?), n. One who, or that which, haunts.
Haurient
Hau"ri*ent (?), a. [L. hauriens, p. pr. of haurire to breathe.] (Her.)
In pale, with the head in chief; -- said of the figure of a fish, as
if rising for air.
Hausen
Hau"sen (?), n. [G.] (Zo\'94l.) A large sturgeon (Acipenser huso) from
the region of the Black Sea. It is sometimes twelve feet long.<-- syn
= Huso huso, and also called Beluga. Provides the highest quality
caviar -->
Hausse
Hausse (?), n. [F.] (Gun.) A kind of graduated breech sight for a
small arm, or a cannon.
Haustellata
Haus`tel*la"ta (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. haustellum, fr. L. haurire,
haustum, to draw water, to swallow. See Exhaust.] (Zo\'94l.) An
artificial division of insects, including all those with a sucking
proboscis.
Haustellate
Haus"tel*late (?), a. [See Haustellata.] (Zo\'94l.) Provided with a
haustellum, or sucking proboscis. -- n. One of the Haustellata.
Haustellum
Haus*tel"lum (?), n.; pl. Haustella (#). [NL.] (Zo\'94l.) The sucking
proboscis of various insects. See Lepidoptera, and Diptera.
Haustorium
Haus*to"ri*um (?), n.; pl. Haustoria (#). [LL., a well, fr. L.
haurire, haustum, to drink.] (Bot.) One of the suckerlike rootlets of
such plants as the dodder and ivy. R. Brown.
Haut
Haut (?), a. [F. See Haughty.] Haughty. [Obs.] "Nations proud and
haut." Milton.
Hautboy
Haut"boy (?), n. [F. hautbois, lit., high wood; haut high + bois wood.
So called on account of its high tone. See Haughty, Bush; and cf.
Oboe.]
1. (Mus.) 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.
2. (Bot.) A sort of strawberry (Fragaria elatior).
Hautboyist
Haut"boy*ist (-&icr;st), n. [Cf. F. hautbo\'8bste.] A player on the
hautboy.
Hautein
Hau"tein (?), a. [See Haughty.]
1. Haughty; proud. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. High; -- said of the voice or flight of birds. [Obs.]
Hauteur
Hau`teur" (?), n. [F., fr. haut high. See Haughty.] Haughty manner or
spirit; haughtiness; pride; arrogance.
Hautgo\'96t
Haut`go\'96t" (?), n. [F.] High relish or flavor; high seasoning.
Hautpas
Haut`pas" (?), n. [F. haut high + pas step.] A raised part of the
floor of a large room; a platform for a raised table or throne. See
Dais.
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Ha\'81ynite
Ha"\'81y*nite (?), n. [From the French mineralogist Ha\'81y.] (Min.) A
blue isometric mineral, characteristic of some volcani
Havana
Ha*van"a (?), a. Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island
of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah.
-- n. An Havana cigar.
Young Frank Clavering stole his father's Havannahs, and . . .
smoked them in the stable. Thackeray.
Havanese
Hav`an*ese" (?), a. Of or pertaining to Havana, in Cuba. -- n. sing. &
pl. A native or inhabitant, or the people, of Havana.
Have
Have (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Had (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Having. Indic.
present, I have, thou hast, he has; we, ye, they have.] [OE. haven,
habben, AS. habben (imperf. h\'91fde, p. p. geh\'91fd); akin to OS.
hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw.
hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F.
avoir. Cf. Able, Avoirdupois, Binnacle, Habit.]
1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm.
2. To possess, as something which appertains to, is connected with, or
affects, one.
The earth hath bubbles, as the water has. Shak.
He had a fever late. Keats.
3. To accept possession of; to take or accept.
Break thy mind to me in broken English; wilt thou have me? Shak.
4. To get possession of; to obtain; to get. Shak.
5. To cause or procure to be; to effect; to exact; to desire; to
require.
It had the church accurately described to me. Sir W. Scott.
Wouldst thou have me turn traitor also? Ld. Lytton.
6. To bear, as young; as, she has just had a child.
7. To hold, regard, or esteem.
Of them shall I be had in honor. 2 Sam. vi. 22.
8. To cause or force to go; to take. "The stars have us to bed."
Herbert. "Have out all men from me." 2 Sam. xiii. 9.
9. To take or hold (one's self); to proceed promptly; -- used
reflexively, often with ellipsis of the pronoun; as, to have after
one; to have at one or at a thing, i. e., to aim at one or at a thing;
to attack; to have with a companion. Shak.
10. To be under necessity or obligation; to be compelled; followed by
an infinitive.
Science has, and will long have, to be a divider and a separatist.
M. Arnold.
The laws of philology have to be established by external comparison
and induction. Earle.
11. To understand.
You have me, have you not? Shak.
12. To put in an awkward position; to have the advantage of; as, that
is where he had him. [Slang]
NOTE: &hand; Ha ve, as an au xiliary ve rb, is used with the past
participle to form preterit tenses; as, I have loved; I shall have
eaten. Originally it was used only with the participle of
transitive verbs, and denoted the possession of the object in the
state indicated by the participle; as, I have conquered him, I have
or hold him in a conquered state; but it has long since lost this
independent significance, and is used with the participles both of
transitive and intransitive verbs as a device for expressing past
time. Had is used, especially in poetry, for would have or should
have.
Myself for such a face had boldly died. Tennyson.
To have a care, to take care; to be on one's guard. -- To have (a man)
out, to engage (one) in a duel. -- To have done (with). See under Do,
v. i. -- To have it out, to speak freely; to bring an affair to a
conclusion. -- To have on, to wear. -- To have to do with. See under
Do, v. t. Syn. -- To possess; to own. See Possess.
Haveless
Have"less, a. Having little or nothing. [Obs.] Gower.
Havelock
Hav"e*lock (?), n. [From Havelock, an English general distinguished in
India in the rebellion of 1857.] A light cloth covering for the head
and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
Haven
Ha"ven (?), n. [AS. h\'91fene; akin to D. & LG. haven, G. hafen, MNG.
habe, Dan. havn, Icel. h\'94fn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence
orig., a holder; or to heave (see Heave); or akin to AS. h\'91f sea,
Icel. & Sw. haf, Dan. hav, which is perh. akin to E. heave.]
1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which
affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor; a port.
What shipping and what lading's in our haven. Shak.
Their haven under the hill. Tennyson.
2. A place of safety; a shelter; an asylum. Shak.
The haven, or the rock of love. Waller.
Haven
Ha"ven, v. t. To shelter, as in a haven. Keats.
Havenage
Ha"ven*age (?), n. Harbor dues; port dues.
Havened
Ha"vened (?), p. a. Sheltered in a haven.
Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
Havener
Ha"ven*er (?), n. A harbor master. [Obs.]
Haver
Ha"ver (?), n. A possessor; a holder. Shak.
Haver
Hav"er, n. [D. haver; akin to G. haber.] The oat; oats. [Prov. Eng. &
Scot.] Haver bread, oaten bread. -- Haver cake, oaten cake. Piers
Plowman. -- Haver grass, the wild oat. -- Haver meal, oatmeal.
Haver
Ha"ver (?), v. i. [Etymol. uncertain.] To maunder; to talk foolishly;
to chatter. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.
Haversack
Hav"er*sack (?), n. [F. havresac, G. habersack, sack for oats. See 2d
Haver, and Sack a bag.]
1. A bag for oats or oatmeal. [Prov. Eng.]
2. A bag or case, usually of stout cloth, in which a soldier carries
his rations when on a march; -- distinguished from knapsack.
3. A gunner's case or bag used carry cartridges from the ammunition
chest to the piece in loading.
Haversian
Ha*ver"sian (?), a. Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers,
an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals
(Anat.), the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in
bone.
Havildar
Hav`il*dar" (?), n. In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned
officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant. Havildar
major, a native sergeant major in the East Indian army.
Having
Hav"ing (?), n. Possession; goods; estate.
I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak.
Havior
Hav"ior (?), n. [OE. havour, a corruption of OF. aveir, avoir, a
having, of same origin as E. aver a work horse. The h is due to
confusion with E. have.] Behavior; demeanor. [Obs.] Shak.
Havoc
Hav"oc (?), n. [W. hafog devastation, havoc; or, if this be itself fr.
E. havoc, cf. OE. havot, or AS. hafoc hawk, which is a cruel or
rapacious bird, or F. hai, voux! a cry to hounds.] Wide and general
destruction; devastation; waste.
As for Saul, he made havoc of the church. Acts viii. 3.
Ye gods, what havoc does ambition make Among your works! Addison.
Havoc
Hav"oc, v. t. To devastate; to destroy; to lay waste.
To waste and havoc yonder world. Milton.
Havoc
Hav"oc, interj. [See Havoc, n.] A cry in war as the signal for
indiscriminate slaughter. Toone.
Do not cry havoc, where you should but hunt With modest warrant.
Shak.
Cry 'havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war! Shak.
Haw
Haw (?), n. [OE. hawe, AS. haga; akin to D. haag headge, G. hag,
hecke, Icel. hagi pasture, Sw. hage, Dan. have garden. Haggard, Ha-ha,
Haugh, Hedge.]
1. A hedge; an inclosed garden or yard.
And eke there was a polecat in his haw. Chaucer.
2. The fruit of the hawthorn. Bacon.
Haw
Haw, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Anat.) The third eyelid, or nictitating
membrane. See Nictitating membrane, under Nictitate.
Haw
Haw, n. [Cf. ha an interjection of wonder, surprise, or hesitation.]
An intermission or hesitation of speech, with a sound somewhat like
haw! also, the sound so made. "Hums or haws." Congreve.
Haw
Haw, v. i. To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw; to speak with
interruption and hesitation.
Cut it short; don't prose -- don't hum and haw. Chesterfield.
Haw
Haw, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Hawed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hawing.] [Written
also hoi.] [Perhaps connected with here, hither; cf., however, F.
huhau, hue, interj. used in turning a horse to the right, G. hott,
h\'81, interj. used in calling to a horse.] To turn to the near side,
or toward the driver; -- said of cattle or a team: a word used by
teamsters in guiding their teams, and most frequently in the
imperative. See Gee. To haw and gee, OR To haw and gee about, to go
from one thing to another without good reason; to have no settled
purpose; to be irresolute or unstable. [Colloq.]
Haw
Haw, v. t. To cause to turn, as a team, to the near side, or toward
the driver; as, to haw a team of oxen. To haw and gee, OR To haw and
gee about, to lead this way and that at will; to lead by the nose; to
master or control. [Colloq.]
Hawaiian
Ha*wai"ian (?), a. Belonging to Hawaii or the Sandwich Islands, or to
the people of Hawaii. -- n. A native of Hawaii.
Hawebake
Hawe"bake` (?), n. Probably, the baked berry of the hawthorn tree,
that is, coarse fare. See 1st Haw, 2. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Hawfinch
Haw"finch` (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) The common European grosbeak
(Coccothraustes vulgaris); -- called also cherry finch, and coble.
Haw-haw
Haw-haw" (?), n. [Duplication of haw a hedge.] See Ha-ha.
Hawhaw
Haw*haw", v. i. [Of imitative origin.] To laugh boisterously. [Colloq.
U. S.]
We haw-haw'd, I tell you, for more than half an hour. Major Jack
Downing.
Hawk
Hawk (?), n. [OE. hauk (prob. fr. Icel.), havek, AS. hafoc, heafoc;
akin to D. havik, OHG. habuh, G. habicht, Icel. haukr, Sw. h\'94k,
Dan. h\'94g, prob. from the root of E. heave.] (Zo\'94l.) One of
numerous species and genera of rapacious birds of the family
Falconid\'91. They differ from the true falcons in lacking the
prominent tooth and notch of the bill, and in having shorter and less
pointed wings. Many are of large size and grade into the eagles. Some,
as the goshawk, were formerly trained like falcons. In a more general
sense the word is not infrequently applied, also, to true falcons, as
the sparrow hawk, pigeon hawk, duck hawk, and prairie hawk.
NOTE: &hand; Am ong th e common American species are the red-tailed
hawk (Buteo borealis); the red-shouldered (B. lineatus); the
broad-winged (B. Pennsylvanicus); the rough-legged (Archibuteo
lagopus); the sharp-shinned Accipiter fuscus). See Fishhawk,
Goshawk, Marsh hawk, under Marsh, Night hawk, under Night.
Bee hawk (Zo\'94l.), the honey buzzard. -- Eagle hawk. See under
Eagle. -- Hawk eagle (Zo\'94l.), an Asiatic bird of the genus
Spiz\'91tus, or Limn\'91tus, intermediate between the hawks and
eagles. There are several species. -- Hawk fly (Zo\'94l.), a voracious
fly of the family Asilid\'91. See Hornet fly, under Hornet. -- Hawk
moth. (Zo\'94l.) See Hawk moth, in the Vocabulary. -- Hawk owl.
(Zo\'94l.) (a) A northern owl (Surnia ulula) of Europe and America. It
flies by day, and in some respects resembles the hawks. (b) An owl of
India (Ninox scutellatus). -- Hawk's bill (Horology), the pawl for the
rack, in the striking mechanism of a clock.
Hawk
Hawk (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Hawked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hawking.]
1. To catch, or attempt to catch, birds by means of hawks trained for
the purpose, and let loose on the prey; to practice falconry.
A falconer Henry is, when Emma hawks. Prior.
2. To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a
hawk; -- generally with at; as, to hawk at flies. Dryden.
A falcon, towering in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl
hawked at and killed. Shak.
Hawk
Hawk, v. i. [W. hochi.] To clear the throat with an audible sound by
forcing an expiratory current of air through the narrow passage
between the depressed soft palate and the root of the tongue, thus
aiding in the removal of foreign substances.
Hawk
Hawk, v. t. To raise by hawking, as phlegm.
Hawk
Hawk, n. [W. hoch.] An effort to force up phlegm from the throat,
accompanied with noise.
Hawk
Hawk, v. t. [Akin to D. hauker a hawker, G. h\'94ken, h\'94cken, to
higgle, to retail, h\'94ke, h\'94ker, a higgler, huckster. See
Huckster.] To offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry
(merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle; as, to
hawk goods or pamphlets.
His works were hawked in every street. Swift.
Hawk
Hawk, n. (Masonry) A small board, with a handle on the under side, to
hold mortar. Hawk boy, an attendant on a plasterer to supply him with
mortar.
Hawkbill
Hawk"bill` (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) A sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata),
which yields the best quality of tortoise shell; -- called also caret.
Hawkbit
Hawk"bit` (?), n. (Bot.) The fall dandelion (Leontodon autumnale).
Hawked
Hawked (?), a. Curved like a hawk's bill; crooked.
Hawker
Hawk"er (?), n. One who sells wares by crying them in the street;
hence, a peddler or a packman.
Hawker
Hawk"er, v. i. To sell goods by outcry in the street. [Obs.] Hudibras.
Hawker
Hawk"er, n. [Cf. AS. hafecere. See 1st Hawk.] A falconer.
Hawkey
Hawk"ey (?), n. See Hockey. Holloway.
Hawk-eyed
Hawk"-eyed` (?), a. Having a keen eye; sharpsighted; discerning.
Hawk moth
Hawk" moth` (?; 115). (Zo\'94l.) Any moth of the family Sphingid\'91,
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 larv\'91 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.
CAPTION: Tobacco Ha wk Mo th (M acrosila Carolina), and its Larva, the
Tobacco Worm.
NOTE: &hand; Th e larv\'91 of several species of hawk moths feed on
grapevines. The elm-tree hawk moth is Ceratomia Amyntor.
Hawkweed
Hawk"weed` (?), n. (Bot.) (a) A plant of the genus Hieracium; -- so
called from the ancient belief that birds of prey used its juice to
strengthen their vision. (b) A plant of the genus Senecio (S.
hieracifolius). Loudon.
Hawm
Hawm (?), n. See Haulm, straw.
Hawm
Hawm, v. i. [Etymol. uncertain.] To lounge; to loiter. [Prov. Eng.]
Tennyson.
Hawse
Hawse (?; 277), n. [Orig. a hawse hole, or hole in the ship; cf. Icel.
hals, h\'bels, neck, part of the bows of a ship, AS. heals neck. See
Collar, and cf. Halse to embrace.]
1. A hawse hole. Harris.
2. (Naut.) (a) The situation of the cables when a vessel is moored
with two anchors, one on the starboard, the other on the port bow. (b)
The distance ahead to which the cables usually extend; as, the ship
has a clear or open hawse, or a foul hawse; to anchor in our hawse, or
athwart hawse. (c) That part of a vessel's bow in which are the hawse
holes for the cables.
Athwart hawse. See under Athwart. -- Foul hawse, a hawse in which the
cables cross each other, or are twisted together. -- Hawse block, a
block used to stop up a hawse hole at sea; -- called also hawse plug.
-- Hawse hole, a hole in the bow of a ship, through which a cable
passes. -- Hawse piece, one of the foremost timbers of a ship, through
which the hawse hole is cut. -- Hawse plug. Same as Hawse block
(above). -- To come in at the hawse holes, to enter the naval service
at the lowest grade. [Cant] -- To freshen the hawse, to veer out a
little more cable and bring the chafe and strain on another part.
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Hawser
Haws"er (?), n. [From F. hausser to hausser\'82e towpath, towing, F.
haussi\'8are hawser), LL. altiare, fr. L. altus high. See Haughty.] A
large rope made of three strands each containing many yarns.
NOTE: &hand; Th ree ha wsers tw isted together make a cable; but it
nautical usage the distinction between cable and hawser is often
one of size rather than of manufacture.
Hawser iron, a calking iron.
Hawser-laid
Haws"er-laid` (?), a. Made in the manner of a hawser. Cf. Cable-laid,
and see Illust. of Cordage.
Hawthorn
Haw"thorn` (?), n. [AS. hagaborn, h\'91g. See Haw a hedge, and Thorn.]
(Bot.) A thorny shrub or tree (the Crat\'91gus oxyacantha), having
deeply lobed, shining leaves, small, roselike, fragrant flowers, and a
fruit called haw. It is much used in Europe for hedges, and for
standards in gardens. The American hawthorn is Crat\'91gus cordata,
which has the leaves but little lobed.
Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds? Shak.
Hay
Hay (?), n. [AS. hege: cf. F. haie, of German origin. See Haw a hedge,
Hedge.]
1. A hedge. [Obs.]
2. A net set around the haunt of an animal, especially of a rabbit.
Rowe.
To dance the hay, to dance in a ring. Shak.
Hay
Hay, v. i. To lay snares for rabbits. Huloet.
Hay
Hay, n. [OE. hei, AS. h; akin to D. kooi, OHG. hewi, houwi, G. heu,
Dan. & Sw. h\'94, Icel. hey, ha, Goth. hawi grass, fr. the root of E.
hew. See Hew to cut. ] Grass cut and cured for fodder.
Make hay while the sun shines. Camden.
Hay may be dried too much as well as too little. C. L. Flint.
Hay cap, a canvas covering for a haycock. -- Hay fever (Med.), nasal
catarrh accompanied with fever, and sometimes with paroxysms of
dyspn\'d2a, to which some persons are subject in the spring and summer
seasons. It has been attributed to the effluvium from hay, and to the
pollen of certain plants. It is also called hay asthma, hay cold, and
rose fever. -- Hay knife, a sharp instrument used in cutting hay out
of a stack or mow. -- Hay press, a press for baling loose hay. -- Hay
tea, the juice of hay extracted by boiling, used as food for cattle,
etc. -- Hay tedder, a machine for spreading and turning newmown hay.
See Tedder.
Hay
Hay, v. i. To cut and cure grass for hay.
Haybird
Hay"bird` (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) (a) The European spotted flycatcher. (b)
The European blackcap.
Haybote
Hay"bote` (?), n. [See Hay hedge, and Bote, and cf. Hedgebote.] (Eng.
Law.) An allowance of wood to a tenant for repairing his hedges or
fences; hedgebote. See Bote. Blackstone.
Haycock
Hay"cock` (?), n. A conical pile or hear of hay in the field.
The tanned haycock in the mead. Milton.
Hay-cutter
Hay"-cut`ter (?), n. A machine in which hay is chopped short, as
fodder for cattle.
Hayfield
Hay"field` (?), n. A field where grass for hay has been cut; a meadow.
Cowper.
Hayfork
Hay"fork` (?), n. A fork for pitching and tedding hay. Horse hayfork,
a contrivance for unloading hay from the cart and depositing it in the
loft, or on a mow, by horse power.
Hayloft
Hay"loft` (?; 115), n. A loft or scaffold for hay.
Haymaker
Hay"mak`er (?), n.
1. One who cuts and cures hay.
2. A machine for curing hay in rainy weather.
Haymaking
Hay"mak`ing, n. The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it
for hay.
Haymow
Hay"mow` (?), n.
1. A mow or mass of hay laid up in a barn for preservation.
2. The place in a barn where hay is deposited.
Hayrack
Hay"rack` (?), n. A frame mounted on the running gear of a wagon, and
used in hauling hay, straw, sheaves, etc.; -- called also hay rigging.
Hayrake
Hay"rake` (?), n. A rake for collecting hay; especially, a large rake
drawn by a horse or horses.
Hayrick
Hay"rick (?), n. A heap or pile of hay, usually covered with thatch
for preservation in the open air.
Haystack
Hay"stack` (?), n. A stack or conical pile of hay in the open air.
Haystalk
Hay"stalk` (?), n. A stalk of hay.
Haythorn
Hay"thorn` (?), n. Hawthorn. R. Scot.
Haytian
Hay"ti*an (?), a. Of pertaining to Hayti. -- n. A native of Hayti.
[Written also Haitian.]
Hayward
Hay"ward (?), n. [Hay a hedge + ward.] 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.
Hazard
Haz"ard (?), n. [F. hazard, Sp. azar an unforeseen disaster or
accident, an unfortunate card or throw at dice, prob. fr. Ar. zahr,
z\'ber, a die, which, with the article al the, would give azzahr,
azz\'ber.]
1. A game of chance played with dice. Chaucer.
2. The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event;
chance; accident; casualty.
I will stand the hazard of the die. Shak.
3. Risk; danger; peril; as, he encountered the enemy at the hazard of
his reputation and life.
Men are led on from one stage of life to another in a condition of
the utmost hazard. Rogers
4. (Billiards Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard)
or the player's ball (losing hazard).
5. Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming. "Your
latter hazard." Shak.
Hazard table, a a table on which hazard is played, or any game of
chance for stakes. -- To ru, to take the chance or risk. Syn. --
Danger; risk; chance. See Danger.
Hazard
Haz"ard, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hazarded; p. pr. & vb. Hazarding.] [Cf.
F. hazarder. See Hazard, n.]
1. To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or
injury; to venture; to risk.
Men hazard nothing by a course of evangelical obedience. John
Clarke.
He hazards his neck to the halter. Fuller.
2. To venture to incur, or bring on.
I hazarded the loss of whom I loved. Shak.
They hazard to cut their feet. Landor.
Syn. -- To venture; risk; jeopard; peril; endanger.
Hazard
Haz"ard (?), v. i. To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger.
Shak.
Hazardable
Haz"ard*a*ble (?), a.
1. Liable to hazard or chance; uncertain; risky. Sir T. Browne.
2. Such as can be hazarded or risked.
Hazarder
Haz"ard*er (?), n.
1. A player at the game of hazard; a gamester. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. One who hazards or ventures.
Hazardize
Haz"ard*ize (?), n. A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. [Obs.]
Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
Hazardous
Haz"ard*ous (?), a. [Cf. F. hasardeux.] Exposed to hazard; dangerous;
risky.
To enterprise so hazardous and high! Milton.
Syn. -- Perilous; dangerous; bold; daring; adventurous; venturesome;
precarious; uncertain. -- Haz"ard*ous*ly, adv. -- Haz"ard*ous*ness, n.
Hazardry
Haz"ard*ry (?), n.
1. Playing at hazard; gaming; gambling. [R.] Chaucer.
2. Rashness; temerity. [R.] Spenser.
Haze
Haze (?), n. [Cf. Icel. h\'94ss gray; akin to AS. hasu, heasu, gray;
or Armor. a\'82zen, \'82zen, warm vapor, exhalation, zephyr.] Light
vapor or smoke in the air which more or less impedes vision, with
little or no dampness; a lack of transparency in the air; hence,
figuratively, obscurity; dimness.
O'er the sky The silvery haze of summer drawn. Tennyson.
Above the world's uncertain haze. Keble.
Haze
Haze, v. i. To be hazy, or tick with haze. Ray.
Haze
Haze, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hazed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hazing.] [Also
haze.] [Cf. Sw. haza to hamstring, fr. has hough, OD. h\'91ssen ham.]
1. To harass by exacting unnecessary, disagreeable, or difficult work.
2. To harass or annoy by playing abusive or shameful tricks upon; to
humiliate by practical jokes; -- used esp. of college students; as,
the sophomores hazed a freshman.
Hazel
Ha"zel (?), n. [OE. hasel, AS. h\'91sel; akin to D. hazelaar, G.
hazel, OHG. hasal, hasala, Icel. hasl, Dan & Sw. hassel, L. corylus,
for cosylus.]
1. (Bot.) A shrub or small tree of the genus Corylus, as the C.
avellana, bearing a nut containing a kernel of a mild, farinaceous
taste; the filbert. The American species are C. Americana, which
produces the common hazelnut, and C. rostrata. See Filbert. Gray.
2. A miner's name for freestone. Raymond.
Hazel earth, soil suitable for the hazel; a fertile loam. -- Hazel
grouse (Zo\'94l.), a European grouse (Bonasa betulina), allied to the
American ruffed grouse. -- Hazel hoe, a kind of grub hoe. -- Witch
hazel. See Witch-hazel, and Hamamelis.
Hazel
Ha"zel, a.
1. Consisting of hazels, or of the wood of the hazel; pertaining to,
or derived from, the hazel; as, a hazel wand.
I sit me down beside the hazel grove. Keble.
2. Of a light brown color, like the hazelnut. "Thou hast hazel eyes."
Shak.
Hazeless
Haze"less (?), a. Destitute of haze. Tyndall.
Hazelly
Ha"zel*ly (?), a. Of the color of the hazelnut; of a light brown.
Mortimer.
Hazelnut
Ha"zel*nut` (?), n. [AS. h\'91selhnutu.] The nut of the hazel. Shak.
Hazelwort
Ha"zel*wort` (?), n. (Bot.) The asarabacca.
Hazily
Ha"zi*ly (?), adv. In a hazy manner; mistily; obscurely; confusedly.
Haziness
Ha"zi*ness, n. The quality or state of being hazy.
Hazle
Ha"zle (?), v. t. To make dry; to dry. [Obs.]
Hazy
Ha"zy (?), a. [From Haze, n.]
1. Thick with haze; somewhat obscured with haze; not clear or
transparent. "A tender, hazy brightness." Wordsworth.
2. Obscure; confused; not clear; as, a hazy argument; a hazy
intellect. Mrs. Gore.
He
He (?), pron. [nom. He; poss. His (?); obj. Him (?); pl. nom. They
(?); poss. Their or Theirs (; obj. Them (?).] [AS. h, masc., he\'a2,
fem., hit, neut.; pl. h\'c6, or hie, hig; akin to Ofries. hi, D. hij,
OS. he, hi, G. heute to-day, Goth. himma, dat. masc., this, hina,
accus. masc., and hita, accus. neut., and prob. to L. his this.
&root;183. Cf. It.]
1. The man or male being (or object personified to which the masculine
gender is assigned), previously designated; a pronoun of the masculine
gender, usually referring to a specified subject already indicated.
Thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Gen. iii. 16.
Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God; him shalt thou serve. Deut. x.
20.
2. Any one; the man or person; -- used indefinitely, and usually
followed by a relative pronoun.
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise. Prov. xiii. 20.
3. Man; a male; any male person; -- in this sense used substantively.
Chaucer.
I stand to answer thee, Or any he, the proudest of thy sort. Shak.
NOTE: &hand; Wh en a collective noun or a class is referred to, he
is of common gender. In early English, he referred to a feminine or
neuter noun, or to one in the plural, as well as to noun in the
masculine singular. In composition, he denotes a male animal; as, a
he-goat.
-head
-head (?), suffix. A variant of -hood.
Head
Head (?), n. [OE. hed, heved, heaved, AS. he\'a0fod; akin to D. hoofd,
OHG. houbit, G. haupt, Icel. h\'94fu, Sw. hufvud, Dan. hoved, Goth.
haubip. The word does not corresponds regularly to L. caput head (cf.
E. Chief, Cadet, Capital), and its origin is unknown.]
1. The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain,
or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher
animals, the chief sensory organs; poll; cephalon.
2. The uppermost, foremost, or most important part of an inanimate
object; such a part as may be considered to resemble the head of an
animal; often, also, the larger, thicker, or heavier part or
extremity, in distinction from the smaller or thinner part, or from
the point or edge; as, the head of a cane, a nail, a spear, an ax, a
mast, a sail, a ship; that which covers and closes the top or the end
of a hollow vessel; as, the head of a cask or a steam boiler.
3. The place where the head should go; as, the head of a bed, of a
grave, etc.; the head of a carriage, that is, the hood which covers
the head.
4. The most prominent or important member of any organized body; the
chief; the leader; as, the head of a college, a school, a church, a
state, and the like. "Their princes and heads." Robynson (More's
Utopia).
The heads of the chief sects of philosophy. Tillotson.
Your head I him appoint. Milton.
5. The place or honor, or of command; the most important or foremost
position; the front; as, the head of the table; the head of a column
of soldiers.
An army of fourscore thousand troops, with the duke Marlborough at
the head of them. Addison.
6. Each one among many; an individual; -- often used in a plural
sense; as, a thousand head of cattle.
It there be six millions of people, there are about four acres for
every head. Graunt.
7. The seat of the intellect; the brain; the understanding; the mental
faculties; as, a good head, that is, a good mind; it never entered his
head, it did not occur to him; of his own head, of his own thought or
will.
Men who had lost both head and heart. Macaulay.
8. The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or
river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of the source, or
the height of the surface, as of water, above a given place, as above
an orifice at which it issues, and the pressure resulting from the
height or from motion; sometimes also, the quantity in reserve; as, a
mill or reservoir has a good head of water, or ten feet head; also,
that part of a gulf or bay most remote from the outlet or the sea.
9. A headland; a promontory; as, Gay Head. Shak.
10. A separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be expanded;
a subdivision; as, the heads of a sermon.
11. Culminating point or crisis; hence, strength; force; height.
Ere foul sin, gathering head, shall break into corruption. Shak.
The indisposition which has long hung upon me, is at last grown to
such a head, that it must quickly make an end of me or of itself.
Addison.
12. Power; armed force.
My lord, my lord, the French have gathered head. Shak.
13. A headdress; a covering of the head; as, a laced head; a head of
hair. Swift.
14. An ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small cereals.
15. (Bot.) (a) A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies,
thistles; a capitulum. (b) A dense, compact mass of leaves, as in a
cabbage or a lettuce plant.
16. The antlers of a deer.
17. A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or other
effervescing liquor. Mortimer.
18. pl. Tiles laid at the eaves of a house. Knight.
NOTE: &hand; He ad is often used adjectively or in self-explaining
combinations; as, head gear or headgear, head rest. Cf. Head, a.
A buck of the first head, a male fallow deer in its fifth year, when
it attains its complete set of antlers. Shak. -- By the head. (Naut.)
See under By. -- Elevator head, Feed head, etc. See under Elevator,
Feed, etc. -- From head to foot, through the whole length of a man;
completely; throughout. "Arm me, audacity, from head to foot." Shak.
-- Head and ears, with the whole person; deeply; completely; as, he
was head and ears in debt or in trouble. [Colloq.] -- Head fast.
(Naut.) See 5th Fast. -- Head kidney (Anat.), the most anterior of the
three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in most vertebrates --
Head money, a capitation tax; a poll tax. Milton. -- Head pence, a
poll tax. [Obs.] -- Head sea, a sea that meets the head of a vessel or
rolls against her course. -- Head and shoulders. (a) By force;
violently; as, to drag one, head and shoulders. "They bring in every
figure of speech, head and shoulders." Felton. (b) By the height of
the head and shoulders; hence, by a great degree or space; by far;
much; as, he is head and shoulders above them. -- Head or tail, this
side or that side; this thing or that; -- a phrase used in throwing a
coin to decide a choice, guestion, or stake, head being the side of
the coin bearing the effigy or principal figure (or, in case there is
no head or face on either side, that side which has the date on it),
and tail the other side. -- Neither head nor tail, neither beginning
nor end; neither this thing nor that; nothing distinct or definite; --
a phrase used in speaking of what is indefinite or confused; as, they
made neither head nor tail of the matter. [Colloq.] -- Head wind, a
wind that blows in a direction opposite the vessel's course. -- Out
one's own head, according to one's own idea; without advice or
co\'94peration of another. Over the head of, beyond the comprehension
of. M. Arnold.<-- go over one's head = appeal to one's superior in
line of command --> -- To be out of one's head, to be temporarily
insane. -- To come or draw to a head. See under Come, Draw. -- To give
(one) the head, OR To give head, to let go, or to give up, control; to
free from restraint; to give license. "He gave his able horse the
head." Shak. "He has so long given his unruly passions their head."
South. -- To his head, before his face. "An uncivil answer from a son
to a father, from an obliged person to a benefactor, is a greater
indecency than if an enemy should storm his house or revile him to his
head." Jer. Taylor. -- To lay heads together, to consult; to conspire.
-- To lose one's head, to lose presence of mind. -- To make head, OR
To make head against, to resist with success; to advance. -- To show
one's head, to appear. Shak. -- To turn head, to turn the face or
front. "The ravishers turn head, the fight renews." Dryden.
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Head
Head (?), a. Principal; chief; leading; first; as, the head master of
a school; the head man of a tribe; a head chorister; a head cook.
Head
Head (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Headed; p. pr. & vb. n. Heading.]
1. To be at the head of; to put one's self at the head of; to lead; to
direct; to act as leader to; as, to head an army, an expedition, or a
riot. Dryden.
2. To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a
nail. Spenser.
3. To behead; to decapitate. [Obs.] Shak.
4. To cut off the top of; to lop off; as, to head trees.
5. To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop;
to oppose; hence, to check or restrain; as, to head a drove of cattle;
to head a person; the wind heads a ship.
6. To set on the head; as, to head a cask.
To head off, to intercept; to get before; as, an officer heads off a
thief who is escaping. -- To head up, to close, as a cask or barrel,
by fitting a head to.
Head
Head, v. i.
1. To originate; to spring; to have its
A broad river, that heads in the great Blue Ridge. Adair.
2. To go or point in a certain direction; to tend; as, how does the
ship head?
3. To form a head; as, this kind of cabbage heads early.
Headache
Head"ache` (?), n. Pain in the head; ceph "Headaches and shivering
fits." Macaulay.
Headachy
Head"ach`y, a. Afflicted with headache. [Colloq.]
Headband
Head"band` (?), n.
1. A fillet; a band for the head. "The headbands and the tablets." Is.
iii. 20.
2. The band at each end of the back of a book.
Headbeard
Head"beard` (?), n. A board or boarding which marks or forms the head
of anything; as, the headboard of a bed; the headboard of a grave.
Headborough, Headborrow
Head"bor*ough (?), Head"bor*row n.
1. The chief of a frankpledge, tithing, or decennary, consisting of
ten families; -- called also borsholder, boroughhead, boroughholder,
and sometimes tithingman. See Borsholder. [Eng.] Blackstone.
2. (Modern Law) A petty constable. [Eng.]
Head-cheese
Head"-cheese (?), n. A dish made of portions of the head, or head and
feet, of swine, cut up fine, seasoned, and pressed into a cheeselike
mass.
Headdress
Head"dress` (?), n.
1. A covering or ornament for the head; a headtire.
Among birds the males very often appear in a most beautiful
headdress, whether it be a crest, a comb, a tuft of feathers, or a
natural little plume. Addison.
2. A manner of dressing the hair or of adorning it, whether with or
without a veil, ribbons, combs, etc.
Headed
Head"ed, a.
1. Furnished with a head (commonly as denoting intellectual
faculties); -- used in composition; as, clear-headed, long-headed,
thick-headed; a many-headed monster.
2. Formed into a head; as, a headed cabbage.
Header
Head"er, n.
1. One who, or that which, heads nails, rivets, etc., esp. a machine
for heading.
2. One who heads a movement, a party, or a mob; head; chief; leader.
[R.]
3. (Arch.) (a) A brick or stone laid with its shorter face or head in
the surface of the wall. (b) In framing, the piece of timber fitted
between two trimmers, and supported by them, and carrying the ends of
the tailpieces.
4. A reaper for wheat, that cuts off the heads only.
5. A fall or plunge headforemost, as while riding a bicycle, or in
bathing; as, to take a header. [Colloq.]
Headfirst, Headforemost
Head`first" (?), Head`fore"most` (?), adv. With the head foremost.
Headfish
Head`fish" (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) The sunfish (Mola).
Head gear, OR Headgear
Head" gear`, OR Head"gear` (, n.
1. Headdress.
2. Apparatus above ground at the mouth of a mine or deep well.
Head-hunter
Head"-hunt`er (?), n. A member of any tribe or race of savages who
have the custom of decapitating human beings and preserving their
heads as trophies. The Dyaks of Borneo are the most noted
head-hunters. <-- 2. (fig.) an executive personnel recruiter --> --
Head"-hunt`ing, n.
Headily
Head"i*ly (?), adv. In a heady or rash manner; hastily; rashly;
obstinately.
Headiness
Head"i*ness, n. The quality of being heady.
Heading
Head"ing, n.
1. The act or state of one who, or that which, heads; formation of a
head.
2. That which stands at the head; title; as, the heading of a paper.
3. Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc.
4. (Mining.) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a
drift or gallery; the vein above a drift.
5. (sewing) The extension of a line ruffling above the line of stitch.
6. (Masonry) That end of a stone or brick which is presented outward.
Knight.
Heading course (Arch.), a course consisting only of headers. See
Header, n. 3 (a). -- Heading joint. (a) (Carp.) A joint, as of two or
more boards, etc., at right angles to the grain of the wood. (b)
(Masonry) A joint between two roussoirs in the same course.
Headland
Head"land (?), n.
1. A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting into the sea or
other expanse of water. "Sow the headland with wheat." Shak.
2. A ridge or strip of unplowed at the ends of furrows, or near a
fence. Tusser.
Headless
Head"less, a. [AS. he\'a0fodle\'a0s.]
1. Having no head; beheaded; as, a headless body, neck, or carcass.
2. Destitute of a chief or leader. Sir W. Raleigh.
3. Destitute of understanding or prudence; foolish; rash; obstinate.
[Obs.]<-- = mindless -->
Witless headiness in judging or headless hardiness in condemning.
Spenser.
Headlight
Head"light` (?), n. (Engin.) A light, with a powerful reflector,
placed at the head of a locomotive, or in front of it, to throw light
on the track at night, or in going through a dark tunnel.
Headline
Head"line` (?), n.
1. (Print.) The line at the head or top of a page.
2. (Naut.) See Headrope.
Headlong
Head"long` (?; 115), adv. [OE. hedling, hevedlynge; prob. confused
with E. long, a. & adv.]
1. With the head foremost; as, to fall headlong. Acts i. 18.
2. Rashly; precipitately; without deliberation.
3. Hastily; without delay or respite.
Headlong
Head"long, a.
1. Rash; precipitate; as, headlong folly.
2. Steep; precipitous. [Poetic]
Like a tower upon a headlong rock. Byron.
Head-lugged
Head"-lugged` (?), a. Lugged or dragged by the head. [R.] "The
head-lugged bear." Shak.
Headman
Head"man` (?), n.; pl. Headmen (#). [AS. he\'a0fodman.] A head or
leading man, especially of a village community.
Headmold shot, Headmould shot
Head"mold" shot", Head"mould` shot" (?). (Med.) An old name for the
condition of the skull, in which the bones ride, or are shot, over
each other at the sutures. Dunglison.
Headmost
Head"most` (?), a. Most advanced; most forward; as, the headmost ship
in a fleet.
Headnote
Head"note` (?), n. A note at the head of a page or chapter; in law
reports, an abstract of a case, showing the principles involved and
the opinion of the court.
Headpan
Head"pan` (?), n. [AS. he\'a0fodpanne.] The brainpan. [Obs.]
Headpiece
Head"piece` (?), n.
1. Head.
In his headpiece he felt a sore pain. Spenser.
2. A cap of defense; especially, an open one, as distinguished from
the closed helmet of the Middle Ages.
3. Understanding; mental faculty.
Eumenes had the best headpiece of all Alexander's captains.
Prideaux.
4. An engraved ornament at the head of a chapter, or of a page.
Headquarters
Head"quar`ters (?), n. pl. [but sometimes used as a n. sing.] The
quarters or place of residence of any chief officer, as the general in
command of an army, or the head of a police force; the place from
which orders or instructions are issued; hence, the center of
authority or order.
The brain, which is the headquarters, or office, of intelligence.
Collier.
Headrace
Head"race` (?), n. See Race, a water course.
HeadRome
Head"Rome` (?), n. (Arch.) See Headway, 2.
Headrope
Head"rope` (?), n. (Naut.) That part of a boltrope which is sewed to
the upper edge or head of a sail.
Headsail
Head"sail` (?), n. (Naut.) Any sail set forward of the foremast.
Totten.
Headshake
Head`shake` (?), n. A significant shake of the head, commonly as a
signal of denial. Shak.
Headship
Head"ship, n. Authority or dignity; chief place.
Headsman
Heads"man (?), n; pl. Headsmen (. An executioner who cuts off heads.
Dryden.
Headspring
Head"spring` (?), n. Fountain; source.
The headspring of our belief. Stapleton.
Headstall
Head"stall` (?), n. That part of a bridle or halter which encompasses
the head. Shak.
Headstock
Head"stock` (?), n. (Mach.) A part (usually separate from the bed or
frame) for supporting some of the principal working parts of a
machine; as: (a) The part of a lathe that holds the revolving spindle
and its attachments; -- also called poppet head, the opposite
corresponding part being called a tailstock. (b) The part of a planing
machine that supports the cutter, etc.
Headstone
Head"stone` (?), n.
1. The principal stone in a foundation; the chief or corner stone. Ps.
cxviii. 22.
2. The stone at the head of a grave.
Headstrong
Head"strong` (?; 115), a.
1. Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn.
Not let headstrong boy my will control. Dryden.
2. Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy.
Dryden. Syn. -- Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; unratable; stubborn;
unruly; venturesome; heady.
Headstrongness
Head"strong`ness, n. Obstinacy. [R.] Gayton.
Headtire
Head"tire` (?), n.
1. A headdress. "A headtire of fine linen." 1 Edras iii. 6.
2. The manner of dressing the head, as at a particular time and place.
Headway
Head"way` (?), n.
1. The progress made by a ship in motion; hence, progress or success
of any kind.
2. (Arch.) Clear space under an arch, girder, and the like, sufficient
to allow of easy passing underneath.<-- = clearance, or
headroom[Brit.] -->
Headwork
Head"work` (?), n. Mental labor.
Heady
Head"y, a. [From Head.]
1. Willful; rash; precipitate; hurried on by will or passion;
ungovernable.
All the talent required is to be hot, to be heady, -- to be violent
on one side or the other. Sir W. Temple.
2. Apt to affect the head; intoxicating; strong.
The liquor is too heady. Dryden.
3. Violent; impetuous. "A heady currance." Shak.
Heal
Heal, v. t. [See Hele.] To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead,
or the like. [Obs.]
Heal
Heal, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Healed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Healing.] [OE.
helen, h\'91len, AS. h\'d6lan, fr. h\'bel hale, sound, whole; akin to
OS. h&emac;lian, D. heelen, G. heilen, Goth. hailjan. See Whole.]
1. To make hale, sound, or whole; to cure of a disease, wound, or
other derangement; to restore to soundness or health.
Speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. Matt. viii. 8.
2. To remove or subdue; to cause to pass away; to cure; -- said of a
disease or a wound.
I will heal their backsliding. Hos. xiv. 4.
3. To restore to original purity or integrity.
Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters. 2 Kings ii. 21.
4. To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free
from guilt; as, to heal dissensions.
Heal
Heal (?), v. i. To grow sound; to return to a sound state; as, the
limb heals, or the wound heals; -- sometimes with up or over; as, it
will heal up, or over.
Those wounds heal ill that men do give themselves. Shak.
Heal
Heal, n. [AS. h, h. See Heal, v. t.] Health. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Healable
Heal"a*ble (?), a. Capable of being healed.
Healall
Heal"all` (?), n. (Bot.) A common herb of the Mint family (Brunela
vulgaris), destitute of active properties, but anciently thought a
panacea.
Heald
Heald (?), n. [CF. Heddle.] A heddle. Ure.
Healful
Heal"ful (?), a. Tending or serving to heal; healing. [Obs.] Ecclus.
xv. 3.
Healing
Heal"ing, a. Tending to cure; soothing; mollifying; as, the healing
art; a healing salve; healing words.
Here healing dews and balms abound. Keble.
Healingly
Heal"ing*ly, adv. So as to heal or cure.
Health
Health (?), n. [OE. helthe, AS. hh\'bel hale, sound, whole. See
Whole.]
1. The state of being hale, sound, or whole, in body, mind, or soul;
especially, the state of being free from physical disease or pain.
There is no health in us. Book of Common Prayer.
Though health may be enjoyed without gratitude, it can not be
sported with without loss, or regained by courage. Buckminster.
2. A wish of health and happiness, as in pledging a person in a toast.
"Come, love and health to all." Shak.
Bill of health. See under Bill. -- Health lift, a machine for
exercise, so arranged that a person lifts an increasing weight, or
moves a spring of increasing tension, in such a manner that most of
the muscles of the body are brought into gradual action; -- also
called lifting machine. -- Health officer, one charged with the
enforcement of the sanitary laws of a port or other place. -- To drink
a health. See under Drink.
Healthful
Health"ful (?), a.
1. Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole; sound;
healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful plant.
2. Serving to promote health of body or mind; wholesome; salubrious;
salutary; as, a healthful air, diet.
The healthful Spirit of thy grace. Book of Common Prayer.
3. Indicating, characterized by, or resulting from, health or
soundness; as, a healthful condition.
A mind . . . healthful and so well-proportioned. Macaulay.
4. Well-disposed; favorable. [R.]
Gave healthful welcome to their shipwrecked guests. Shak.
Healthfully
Health"ful*ly, adv. In health; wholesomely.
Healthfulness
Health"ful*ness, n. The state of being healthful.
Healthily
Health"i*ly (?), adv. In a healthy manner.
Healthiness
Health"i*ness, n. The state of being healthy or healthful; freedom
from disease.
Healthless
Health"less, n.
1. Without health, whether of body or mind; in firm. "A healthless or
old age." Jer. Taylor.
2. Not conducive to health; unwholesome. [R.]
Healthlessness
Health"less*ness, n. The state of being health
Healthsome
Health"some, a. Wholesome; salubrious. [R.] "Healthsome air." Shak.
Healthward
Health"ward (?), a. & adv. In the direction of health; as, a
healthward tendency.
Healthy
Health"y (?), a. [Compar. Healthier (?); superl. Healthiest.]
1. Being in a state of health; enjoying health; hale; sound; free from
disease; as, a healthy chid; a healthy plant.
His mind was now in a firm and healthy state. Macaulay.
2. Evincing health; as, a healthy pulse; a healthy complexion.
3. Conducive to health; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthy
exercise; a healthy climate. Syn. -- Vigorous; sound; hale;
salubrious; healthful; wholesome; salutary.
Heam
Heam (?), n. [Cf. AS. cidhamma womb, OD. hamme afterbirth, LG. hamen.]
The afterbirth or secundines of a beast.
Heap
Heap (?), n. [OE. heep, heap, heap, multitude, AS. he\'a0p; akin to
OS. h, D. hoop, OHG. houf, h, G. haufe, haufen, Sw. hop, Dan. hob.,
Icel. h troop, flock, Russ. kupa heap, crowd, Lith. kaupas. Cf. Hope,
in Forlorn hope.]
1. A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of persons. [Now Low
or Humorous]
The wisdom of a heap of learned men. Chaucer.
A heap of vassals and slaves. Bacon.
He had heaps of friends. W.Black.
2. A great number or large quantity of things not placed in a pile.
[Now Low or Humorous]
A vast heap, both of places of scripture and quotations. Bp.
Burnet.
I have noticed a heap of things in my life. R. L. Stevenson.
3. A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown
together so as to form an elevation; as, a heap of earth or stones.
Huge heaps of slain around the body rise. Dryden.
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Heap
Heap, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Heaped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Heaping.] [AS.
he\'a0pian.]
1. To collect in great quantity; to amass; to lay up; to accumulate;
-- usually with up; as, to heap up treasures.
Though he heap up silver as the dust. Job. xxvii. 16.
2. To throw or lay in a heap; to make a heap of; to pile; as, to heap
stones; -- often with up; as, to heap up earth; or with on; as, to
heap on wood or coal.
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3. To form or round into a heap, as in measuring; to fill (a measure)
more than even full.
Heaper
Heap"er (?), n. One who heaps, piles, or amasses.
Heapy
Heap"y (?), a. Lying in heaps. Gay.
Hear
Hear (, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Heard (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Hearing.] [OE.
heren, AS,. hi\'82ran, hran, hran; akin to OS. h, OFries. hera, hora,
D. hooren, OHG. h, G. h\'94ren, Icel. heyra, Sw: h\'94ra, Dan. hore,
Goth. hausjan, and perh. to Gr. acoustic. Cf. Hark, Hearken.]
1. To perceive by the ear; to apprehend or take cognizance of by the
ear; as, to hear sounds; to hear a voice; to hear one call.
Lay thine ear close to the ground, and list if thou canst hear the
tread of travelers. Shak.
He had been heard to utter an ominous growl. Macaulay.
2. To give audience or attention to; to listen to; to heed; to accept
the doctrines or advice of; to obey; to examine; to try in a judicial
court; as, to hear a recitation; to hear a class; the case will be
heard to-morrow.
3. To attend, or be present at, as hearer or worshiper; as, to hear a
concert; to hear Mass.
4. To give attention to as a teacher or judge.
Thy matters are good and right, but there is no man deputed of the
king to hear thee. 2 Sam. xv. 3.
I beseech your honor to hear me one single word. Shak.
5. To accede to the demand or wishes of; to listen to and answer
favorably; to favor.
I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice. Ps. cxvi. 1.
They think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Matt.
vi. 7.
Hear him. See Remark, under Hear, v. i. -- To hear a bird sing, to
receive private communication. [Colloq.] Shak. -- To hear say, to hear
one say; to learn by common report; to receive by rumor. [Colloq.]
Hear
Hear, v. i.
1. To have the sense or faculty of perceiving sound. "The Hearing
ear." Prov. xx. 12.
2. To use the power of perceiving sound; to perceive or apprehend by
the ear; to attend; to listen.
So spake our mother Eve, and Adam heard, Well pleased, but answered
not. Milton.
3. To be informed by oral communication; to be told; to receive
information by report or by letter.
I have heard, sir, of such a man. Shak.
I must hear from thee every day in the hour. Shak.
To hear ill, to be blamed. [Obs.]
Not only within his own camp, but also now at Rome, he heard ill
for his temporizing and slow proceedings. Holland.
-- To hear well, to be praised. [Obs.]
NOTE: &hand; He ar, or He ar him, is often used in the imperative,
especially in the course of a speech in English assemblies, to call
attention to the words of the speaker.
Hear him, . . . a cry indicative, according to the tone, of
admiration, acquiescence, indignation, or derision. Macaulay.
Heard
Heard (?), imp. & p. p. of Hear.
Hearer
Hear"er (?), n. One who hears; an auditor.
Hearing
Hear"ing, n.
1. The act or power of perceiving sound; perception of sound; the
faculty or sense by which sound is perceived; as, my hearing is good.
I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear. Job xlii. 5.
NOTE: &hand; Hearing in a special sensation, produced by stimEar.
2. Attention to what is delivered; opportunity to be heard; audience;
as, I could not obtain a hearing.
3. A listening to facts and evidence, for the sake of adjudication; a
session of a court for considering proofs and determining issues.
His last offenses to us Shall have judicious hearing. Shak.
Another hearing before some other court. Dryden.
NOTE: &hand; He aring, as ap plied to equity cases, means the same
thing that the word trial does at law.
Abbot.
4. Extent within which sound may be heard; sound; earshot. "She's not
within hearing." Shak.
They laid him by the pleasant shore, And in the hearing of the
wave. Tennyson.
Hearken
Heark"en (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Hearkened (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Hearkening.] [OE. hercnen, hercnien, AS. hercnian, heorcnian, fr.
hi\'82ran, h, to hear; akin to OD. harcken, horcken, LG. harken,
horken, G. horchen. See Hear, and cf. Hark..]
1. To listen; to lend the ear; to attend to what is uttered; to give
heed; to hear, in order to obey or comply.
The Furies hearken, and their snakes uncurl. Dryden.
Hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which
I teach you. Deut. iv. 1.
2. To inquire; to seek information. [Obs.] "Hearken after their
offense." Shak. Syn. -- To attend; listen; hear; heed. See Attend, v.
i.
Hearken
Heark"en, v. t.
1. To hear by listening. [Archaic]
[She] hearkened now and then Some little whispering and soft
groaning sound. Spenser.
2. To give heed to; to hear attentively. [Archaic]
The King of Naples . . . hearkens my brother's suit. Shak.
To hearken out, to search out. [Obs.]
If you find none, you must hearken out a vein and buy. B. Johnson.
Hearkener
Heark"en*er (?), n. One who hearkens; a listener.
Hearsal
Hear"sal (?), n. Rehearsal. [Obs.] Spenser.
Hearsay
Hear"say` (?), n. Report; rumor; fame; common talk; something heard
from another.
Much of the obloquy that has so long rested on the memory of our
great national poet originated in frivolous hearsays of his life
and conversation. Prof. Wilson.
Hearsay evidence (Law), that species of testimony which consists in a
a narration by one person of matters told him by another. It is, with
a few exceptions, inadmissible as testimony. Abbott.
Hearse
Hearse (?), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A hind in the year of its age.
[Eng.] Wright.
Hearse
Hearse (?), n. [See Herse.]
1. A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a
deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy
bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was
placed during the funeral ceremonies. [Obs.] Oxf. Gloss.
2. A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument. [Archaic]
"Underneath this marble hearse." B. Johnson.
Beside the hearse a fruitful palm tree grows. Fairfax
Who lies beneath this sculptured hearse. Longfellow.
3. A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave. [Obs.]
Set down, set down your honorable load, It honor may be shrouded in
a hearse. Shak.
4. A carriage specially adapted or used for conveying the dead to the
grave.
Hearse
Hearse, v. t. To inclose in a hearse; to entomb. [Obs.] "Would she
were hearsed at my foot." Shak.
Hearsecloth
Hearse"cloth` (?; 115), n. A cloth for covering a coffin when on a
bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson.
Hearselike
Hearse"like" (?), a. Suitable to a funeral.
If you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearselike
airs as carols. Bacon.
Heart
Heart (?), n. [OE. harte, herte, heorte, AS. heorte; akin to OS.
herta, OFies. hirte, D. hart, OHG. herza, G. herz, Icel. hjarta, Sw.
hjerta, Goth. ha\'a1rt, Lith. szirdis, Russ. serdtse, Ir. cridhe, L.
cor, Gr. Accord, Discord, Cordial, 4th Core, Courage.]
1. (Anat.) A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting
rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood.
Why does my blood thus muster to my heart! Shak.
NOTE: &hand; In ad ult ma mmals an d bi rds, th e he art is
four-chambered, the right auricle and ventricle being completely
separated from the left auricle and ventricle; and the blood flows
from the systematic veins to the right auricle, thence to the right
ventricle, from which it is forced to the lungs, then returned to
the left auricle, thence passes to the left ventricle, from which
it is driven into the systematic arteries. See Illust. under Aorta.
In fishes there are but one auricle and one ventricle, the blood
being pumped from the ventricle through the gills to the system,
and thence returned to the auricle. In most amphibians and
reptiles, the separation of the auricles is partial or complete,
and in reptiles the ventricles also are separated more or less
completely. The so-called lymph hearts, found in many amphibians,
reptiles, and birds, are contractile sacs, which pump the lymph
into the veins.
2. The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or
separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, and the like; rarely,
the seat of the understanding or will; -- usually in a good sense,
when no epithet is expressed; the better or lovelier part of our
nature; the spring of all our actions and purposes; the seat of moral
life and character; the moral affections and character itself; the
individual disposition and character; as, a good, tender, loving, bad,
hard, or selfish heart.
Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain. Emerson.
3. The nearest the middle or center; the part most hidden and within;
the inmost or most essential part of any body or system; the source of
life and motion in any organization; the chief or vital portion; the
center of activity, or of energetic or efficient action; as, the heart
of a country, of a tree, etc.
Exploits done in the heart of France. Shak.
Peace subsisting at the heart Of endless agitation. Wordsworth.
4. Courage; courageous purpose; spirit.
Eve, recovering heart, replied. Milton.
The expelled nations take heart, and when they fly from one country
invade another. Sir W. Temple.
5. Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production;
condition of the soil, whether good or bad.
That the spent earth may gather heart again. Dryden.
6. That which resembles a heart in shape; especially, a roundish or
oval figure or object having an obtuse point at one end, and at the
other a corresponding indentation, -- used as a symbol or
representative of the heart.
7. One of a series of playing cards, distinguished by the figure or
figures of a heart; as, hearts are trumps.
8. Vital part; secret meaning; real intention.
And then show you the heart of my message. Shak.
9. A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address. "I speak to
thee, my heart." Shak.
NOTE: &hand; He art is us ed in many compounds, the most of which
need no special explanation; as, heart-appalling, heart-breaking,
heart-cheering, heart-chilled, heart-expanding, heart-free,
heart-hardened, heart-heavy, heart-purifying, heart-searching,
heart-sickening, heart-sinking, heart-stirring, heart-touching,
heart-wearing, heart-whole, heart-wounding, heart-wringing, etc.
After one's own heart, conforming with one's inmost approval and
desire; as, a friend after my own heart.
The Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart. 1 Sam. xiii.
14.
-- At heart, in the inmost character or disposition; at bottom;
really; as, he is at heart a good man. -- By heart, in the closest or
most thorough manner; as, to know or learn by heart. "Composing songs,
for fools to get by heart" (that is, to commit to memory, or to learn
thoroughly). Pope. -- For my heart, for my life; if my life were at
stake. [Obs.] "I could not get him for my heart to do it." Shak. --
Heart bond (Masonry), a bond in which no header stone stretches across
the wall, but two headers meet in the middle, and their joint is
covered by another stone laid header fashion. Knight. -- Heart and
hand, with enthusiastic co\'94peration. -- Heart hardness, hardness of
heart; callousness of feeling; moral insensibility. Shak. -- Heart
heaviness, depression of spirits. Shak. -- Heart point (Her.), the
fess point. See Escutcheon. -- Heart rising, a rising of the heart, as
in opposition. -- Heart shell (Zo\'94l.), any marine, bivalve shell of
the genus Cardium and allied genera, having a heart-shaped shell;
esp., the European Isocardia cor; -- called also heart cockle. --
Heart sickness, extreme depression of spirits. -- Heart and soul, with
the utmost earnestness. -- Heart urchin (Zo\'94l.), any heartshaped,
spatangoid sea urchin. See Spatangoid. -- Heart wheel, a form of cam,
shaped like a heart. See Cam. -- In good heart, in good courage; in
good hope. -- Out of heart, discouraged. -- Poor heart, an exclamation
of pity. -- To break the heart of. (a) To bring to despair or hopeless
grief; to cause to be utterly cast down by sorrow. (b) To bring almost
to completion; to finish very nearly; -- said of anything undertaken;
as, he has broken the heart of the task. -- To find in the heart, to
be willing or disposed. "I could find in my heart to ask your pardon."
Sir P. Sidney. -- To have at heart, to desire (anything) earnestly. --
To have in the heart, to purpose; to design or intend to do. -- To
have the heart in the mouth, to be much frightened. -- To lose heart,
to become discouraged. -- To lose one's heart, to fall in love. -- To
set the heart at rest, to put one's self at ease. -- To set the heart
upon, to fix the desires on; to long for earnestly; to be very fond
of. -- To take heart of grace, to take courage. -- To take to heart,
to grieve over. -- To wear one's heart upon one's sleeve, to expose
one's feelings or intentions; to be frank or impulsive. -- With all
one's whole heart, very earnestly; fully; completely; devotedly.
Heart
Heart (?), v. t. To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage; to
inspirit. [Obs.]
My cause is hearted; thine hath no less reason. Shak.
Heart
Heart, v. i. To form a compact center or heart; as, a hearting
cabbage.
Heartache
Heart"ache` (?), n. [Cf. AS. heortece.] Sorrow; anguish of mind;
mental pang. Shak.
Heartbreak
Heart"break` (?), n. Crushing sorrow or grief; a yielding to such
grief. Shak.
Heartbreaking
Heart"break`ing, a. Causing overpowering sorrow.
Heartbroken
Heart"bro`ken (?), a. Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.
Heartburn
Heart"burn` (?), n. (Med.) An uneasy, burning sensation in the
stomach, often attended with an inclination to vomit. It is sometimes
idiopathic, but is often a symptom of often complaints.
Heartburned
Heart"burned` (?), a. Having heartburn. Shak.
Heartburning
Heart"burn`ing (?), a. Causing discontent.
Heartburning
Heart"burn`ing, n.
1. (Med.) Same as Heartburn.
2. Discontent; secret enmity. Swift.
The transaction did not fail to leave heartburnings. Palfrey.
Heartdear
Heart"dear` (?), a. Sincerely beloved. [R.] Shak.
Heartdeep
Heart"deep` (?), a. Rooted in the heart. Herbert.
Heart-eating
Heart"-eat`ing (?), a. Preying on the heart.
Hearted
Heart"ed, a.
1. Having a heart; having (such) a heart (regarded as the seat of the
affections, disposition, or character).
2. Shaped like a heart; cordate. [R.] Landor.
3. Seated or laid up in the heart.
I hate the Moor: my cause is hearted. Shak.
NOTE: &hand; Th is wo rd is ch iefly us ed in co mposition; as ,
hard-hearted, faint-hearted, kind-hearted, lion-hearted,
stout-hearted, etc. Hence the nouns hard-heartedness,
faint-heartedness, etc.
Heartedness
Heart"ed*ness, n. Earnestness; sincerity; heartiness. [R.] Clarendon.
NOTE: &hand; Se e al so the Note under Hearted. The analysis of the
compounds gives hard-hearted + -ness, rather than hard +
heartedness, etc.
Hearten
Heart"en (?), v. t. [From Heart.]
1. To encourage; to animate; to incite or stimulate the courage of; to
embolden.
Hearten those that fight in your defense. Shak.
2. To restore fertility or strength to, as to land.
Heartener
Heart"en*er (?), n. One who, or that which, heartens, animates, or
stirs up. W. Browne.
Heartfelt
Heart"felt` (?), a. Hearty; sincere.
Heartgrief
Heart"grief` (?), n. Heartache; sorrow. Milton.
Hearth
Hearth (?), n. [OE. harthe, herth, herthe, AS. heor; akin to D. haard,
heerd, Sw. h\'84rd, G. herd; cf. Goth. ha\'a3ri a coal, Icel. hyrr
embers, and L. cremare to burn.]
1. The pavement or floor of brick, stone, or metal in a chimney, on
which a fire is made; the floor of a fireplace; also, a corresponding
part of a stove.
There was a fire on the hearth burning before him. Jer. xxxvi. 22.
Where fires thou find'st unraked and hearths unswept. There pinch
the maids as blue as bilberry. Shak.
2. The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of
hospitality to strangers; fireside.
3. (Metal. & Manuf.) The floor of a furnace, on which the material to
be heated lies, or the lowest part of a melting furnace, into which
the melted material settles.
Hearth ends (Metal.), fragments of lead ore ejected from the furnace
by the blast. -- Hearth money, Hearth penny [AS. heor&edh;pening], a
tax formerly laid in England on hearths, each hearth (in all houses
paying the church and poor rates) being taxed at two shillings; --
called also chimney money, etc.
He had been importuned by the common people to relieve them from
the . . . burden of the hearth money. Macaulay.
Hearthstone
Hearth"stone` (?), n. Stone forming the hearth; hence, the fireside;
home.
Chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot
grave to every living heart and hearthstone. A. Lincoln.
Heartily
Heart"i*ly (?), adv. [From Hearty.]
1. From the heart; with all the heart; with sincerity.
I heartily forgive them. Shak.
2. With zeal; actively; vigorously; willingly; cordially; as, he
heartily assisted the prince.
To eat heartily, to eat freely and with relish. Addison. Syn. --
Sincerely; cordially; zealously; vigorously; actively; warmly;
eagerly; ardently; earnestly.
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Heariness
Hear"i*ness (?), n. The quality of being hearty; as, the heartiness of
a greeting.
Heartless
Heart"less, a.
1. Without a heart.
You have left me heartess; mine is in your bosom. J. Webster.
2. Destitute of courage; spiritless; despodent.
Heartless they fought, and quitted soon their ground. Dryden.
Heartless and melancholy. W. Irwing.
3. Destitute of feeling or affection; unsympathetic; cruel. "The
heartless parasites." Byron. -- Heart"less*ly, adv. --
Heart"less*ness, n.
Heartlet
Heart"let (?), n.. A little heart.
Heartlings
Heart"lings (?), interj. An exclamation used in addressing a familiar
acquaintance. [Obs.] Shak.
Heartpea
Heart"pea` (?), n. (Bot.) Same as Heartseed.
Heartquake
Heart"quake` (?), n. Trembling of the heart; trepidation; fear.
In many an hour of danger and heartquake. Hawthorne.
Heartrending
Heart"rend`ing (?), a. Causing intense grief; overpowering with
anguish; very distressing.
Heart-robbing
Heart"-rob`bing (?), a.
1. Depriving of thought; ecstatic. "Heart-robbing gladness." Spenser.
2. Stealing the heart or affections; winning.
Heart's-ease
Heart's"-ease` (?), n.
1. Ease of heart; peace or tranquillity of mind or feeling. Shak.
2. (Bot.) A species of violet (Viola tricolor); -- called also pansy.
Heartseed
Heart"seed` (?), n. (Bot.) A climbing plant of the genus
Cardiospermum, having round seeds which are marked with a spot like a
heart. Loudon.
Heartshaped
Heart"shaped` (, a. Having the shape of a heart; cordate.
Heartsick
Heart"sick` (?), a. [AS. heorise\'a2c.] Sick at heart; extremely
depressed in spirits; very despondent.
Heartsome
Heart"some (?), a. Merry; cheerful; lively. [Scot.]
Heart-spoon
Heart"-spoon` (?), n. A part of the breastbone. [Obs.]
He feeleth through the herte-spon the pricke. Chaucer.
Heartstricken
Heart"strick`en (?), a. Shocked; dismayed.
Heartstrike
Heart"strike` (?), v. t. To affect at heart; to shock. [R.] "The seek
to heartstrike us." B. Jonson.
Heartstring
Heart"string` (?), n. A nerve or tendon, supposed to brace and sustain
the heart. Shak.
Sobbing, as if a hearstring broke. Moore.
Heartstruck
Heart"struck` (?), a.
1. Driven to the heart; infixed in the mind. "His heartstruck
injuries." Shak.
2. Shocked with pain, fear, or remorse; dismayed; heartstricken.
Milton.
Heartswelling
Heart"swell`ing (?), a. Rankling in, or swelling, the heart.
"Heartswelling hate." Spenser.
Heart-whole
Heart"-whole` (?), a. [See Whole.]
1. Having the heart or affections free; not in love. Shak.
2. With unbroken courage; undismayed.
3. Of a single and sincere heart.
If he keeps heart-whole towards his Master. Bunyan.
Heartwood
Heart"wood` (?), n. The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree,
consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color
from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and
distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum.
Heart-wounded
Heart"-wound`ed (?), a. Wounded to the heart with love or grief. Pope.
Hearty
Heart"y (?), a. [Compar. Heartier (?); superl. Heartiest.]
1. Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the heart; warm; cordial; bold;
zealous; sincere; willing; also, energetic; active; eager; as, a
hearty welcome; hearty in supporting the government.
Full of hearty tears For our good father's loss. Marston.
2. Exhibiting strength; sound; healthy; firm; not weak; as, a hearty
timber.
3. Promoting strength; nourishing; rich; abundant; as, hearty food; a
hearty meal. Syn. -- Sincere; real; unfeigned; undissembled; cordial;
earnest; warm; zealous; ardent; eager; active; vigorous. -- Hearty,
Cordial, Sincere. Hearty implies honesty and simplicity of feelings
and manners; cordial refers to the warmth and liveliness with which
the feelings are expressed; sincere implies that this expression
corresponds to the real sentiments of the heart. A man should be
hearty in his attachment to his friends, cordial in his reception of
them to his house, and sincere in his offers to assist them.
Hearty
Heart"y, n.; pl. Hearties (. Comrade; boon companion; good fellow; --
a term of familiar address and fellowship among sailors. Dickens.
Heartyhale
Heart"y*hale` (?), a. Good for the heart. [Obs.]
Heat
Heat (?), n. [OE. hete, h\'91te, AS. h, h, fr. h\'bet hot; akin to
OHG. heizi heat, Dan. hede, Sw. hetta. See Hot.]
1. A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but
especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as
manifested in fire, the sun's rays, mechanical action, chemical
combination, etc., becomes directly known to us through the sense of
feeling. In its nature heat is a mode if motion, being in general a
form of molecular disturbance or vibration. It was formerly supposed
to be a subtile, imponderable fluid, to which was given the name
caloric.
NOTE: &hand; As af fecting the human body, heat produces different
sensations, which are called by different names, as heat or
sensible heat, warmth, cold, etc., according to its degree or
amount relatively to the normal temperature of the body.
2. The sensation caused by the force or influence of heat when
excessive, or above that which is normal to the human body; the bodily
feeling experienced on exposure to fire, the sun's rays, etc.; the
reverse of cold.
3. High temperature, as distinguished from low temperature, or cold;
as, the heat of summer and the cold of winter; heat of the skin or
body in fever, etc.
Else how had the world . . . Avoided pinching cold and scorching
heat! Milton.
4. Indication of high temperature; appearance, condition, or color of
a body, as indicating its temperature; redness; high color; flush;
degree of temperature to which something is heated, as indicated by
appearance, condition, or otherwise.
It has raised . . . heats in their faces. Addison.
The heats smiths take of their iron are a blood-red heat, a
white-flame heat, and a sparking or welding heat. Moxon.
5. A single complete operation of heating, as at a forge or in a
furnace; as, to make a horseshoe in a certain number of heats.
6. A violent action unintermitted; a single effort; a single course in
a race that consists of two or more courses; as, he won two heats out
of three.
Many causes . . . for refreshment betwixt the heats. Dryden.
[He] struck off at one heat the matchless tale of "Tam o'Shanter."
J. C. Shairp.
7. Utmost violence; rage; vehemence; as, the heat of battle or party.
"The heat of their division." Shak.
8. Agitation of mind; inflammation or excitement; exasperation. "The
head and hurry of his rage." South.
9. Animation, as in discourse; ardor; fervency.
With all the strength and heat of eloquence. Addison.
10. Sexual excitement in animals.
11. Fermentation.
Animal heat, Blood heat, Capacity for heat, etc. See under Animal,
Blood, etc. -- Atomic heat (Chem.), the product obtained by
multiplying the atomic weight of any element by its specific heat. The
atomic heat of all solid elements is nearly a constant, the mean value
being 6.4. -- Dynamical theory of heat, that theory of heat which
assumes it to be, not a peculiar kind of matter, but a peculiar motion
of the ultimate particles of matter. Heat engine, any apparatus by
which a heated substance, as a heated fluid, is made to perform work
by giving motion to mechanism, as a hot-air engine, or a steam engine.
-- Heat producers. (Physiol.) See under Food. -- Heat rays, a term
formerly applied to the rays near the red end of the spectrum, whether
within or beyond the visible spectrum. -- Heat weight (Mech.), the
product of any quantity of heat by the mechanical equivalent of heat
divided by the absolute temperature; -- called also thermodynamic
function, and entropy. -- Mechanical equivalent of heat. See under
Equivalent. -- Specific heat of a substance (at any temperature), the
number of units of heat required to raise the temperature of a unit
mass of the substance at that temperature one degree. -- Unit of heat,
the quantity of heat required to raise, by one degree, the temperature
of a unit mass of water, initially at a certain standard temperature.
The temperature usually employed is that of 0° Centigrade, or 32°
Fahrenheit.
Heat
Heat (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Heated; p. pr. & vb. n. Heating.] [OE.
heten, AS. h, fr. h\'bet hot. See Hot.]
1. To make hot; to communicate heat to, or cause to grow warm; as, to
heat an oven or furnace, an iron, or the like.
Heat me these irons hot. Shak.
2. To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
Pray, walk softly; do not heat your blood. Shak.
3. To excite ardor in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to
inflame, as the passions.
A noble emulation heats your breast. Dryden.
Heat
Heat, v. i.
1. To grow warm or not by the action of fire or friction, etc., or
the communication of heat; as, the iron or the water heats slow.
2. To grow warm or hot by fermentation, or the development of heat
by chemical action; as, green hay heats in a mow, and manure in the
dunghill.
Heat
Heat (?), imp. & p. p. of Heat. Heated; as, the iron though heat
red-hot. [Obs. or Archaic.] Shak.
Heater
Heat"er (?), n.
1. One who, or that which, heats.
2. Any contrivance or implement, as a furnace, stove, or other
heated body or vessel, etc., used to impart heat to something, or
to contain something to be heated.
Feed heater. See under Feed.
Heath
Heath (?), n. [OE. heth waste land, the plant heath, AS. h; akin to D.
& G. heide, Icel. hei waste land, Dan. hede, Sw. hed, Goth. haipi
field, L. bucetum a cow pasture; cf. W. coed a wood, Skr. ksh field.
&root;20.]
1. (Bot.) (a) A low shrub (Erica, OR Calluna, vulgaris), with minute
evergreen leaves, and handsome clusters of pink flowers. It is used in
Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating
ovens. It is also called heather, and ling. (b) Also, any species of
the genus Erica, of which several are European, and many more are
South African, some of great beauty. See Illust. of Heather.
2. A place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of country
overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage.
Their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath.
Milton
Heath cock (Zo\'94l.), the blackcock. See Heath grouse (below). --
Heath grass (Bot.), a kind of perennial grass, of the genus Triodia
(T. decumbens), growing on dry heaths. -- Heath grouse, OR Heath game
(Zo\'94l.), a European grouse (Tetrao tetrix), which inhabits heats;
-- called also black game, black grouse, heath poult, heath fowl, moor
fowl. The male is called, heath cock, and blackcock; the female, heath
hen, and gray hen. -- Heath hen. (Zo\'94l.) See Heath grouse (above).
-- Heath pea (bot.), a species of bitter vetch (Lathyris macrorhizus),
the tubers of which are eaten, and in Scotland are used to flavor
whisky. -- Heath throstle (Zo\'94l.), a European thrush which
frequents heaths; the ring ouzel.
Heathclad
Heath"clad` (?), a. Clad or crowned with heath.
Heathen
Hea"then (?; 277), n.; pl. Heathens (#) or collectively Heathen. [OE.
hethen, AS. h, prop. an adj. fr. h heath, and orig., therefore, one
who lives in the country or on the heaths and in the woods (cf. pagan,
fr. pagus village); akin to OS. h, adj., D. heiden a heathen, G.
heide, OHG. heidan, Icel. hei, adj., Sw. heden, Goth. haipn, n. fem.
See Heath, and cf. Hoiden.]
1. An individual of the pagan or unbelieving nations, or those which
worship idols and do not acknowledge the true God; a pagan; an
idolater.
2. An irreligious person.
If it is no more than a moral discourse, he may preach it and they
may hear it, and yet both continue unconverted heathens. V. Knox.
The heathen, as the term is used in the Scriptures, all people except
the Jews; now used of all people except Christians, Jews, and
Mohammedans.
Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance.
Ps. ii. 8.
Syn. -- Pagan; gentile. See Pagan.
Heathen
Hea"then (?), a.
1. Gentile; pagan; as, a heathen author. "The heathen philosopher."
"All in gold, like heathen gods." Shak.
2. Barbarous; unenlightened; heathenish.
3. Irreligious; scoffing.
Heathendom
Hea"then*dom (?), n. [AS. h&aemac;&edh;end&omac;m.]
1. That part of the world where heathenism prevails; the heathen
nations, considered collectively.
2. Heathenism. C. Kingsley.
Heathenesse
Hea"then*esse (?), n. [AS. h&aemac;&edh;ennes, i. e., heathenness.]
Heathendom. [Obs.] Chaucer. Sir W. Scott.
Heathenish
Hea"then*ish, a. [AS. h&aemac;&edh;enisc.]
1. Of or pertaining to the heathen; resembling or characteristic of
heathens. "Worse than heathenish crimes." Milton.
2. Rude; uncivilized; savage; cruel. South.
3. Irreligious; as, a heathenish way of living.
Heathenishly
Hea"then*ish"ly, adv. In a heathenish manner.
Heathenishness
Hea"then*ish*ness, n. The state or quality of being heathenish. "The .
. . heathenishness and profaneness of most playbooks." Prynne.
Heathenism
Hea"then*ism (?), n.
1. The religious system or rites of a heathen nation; idolatry;
paganism.
2. The manners or morals usually prevalent in a heathen country;
ignorance; rudeness; barbarism.
Heathenize
Hea"then*ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Heathenized (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Heathenizing (?).] To render heathen or heathenish. Firmin.
Heathenness
Hea"then*ness, n. [Cf. Heathenesse.] State of being heathen or like
the heathen.
Heathenry
Hea"then*ry (?), n.
1. The state, quality, or character of the heathen.
Your heathenry and your laziness. C. Kingsley.
2. Heathendom; heathen nations.
Heather
Heath"er (?; 277. This is the only pronunciation in Scotland), n. [See
Heath.] Heath. [Scot.]
Gorse and grass And heather, where his footsteps pass, The brighter
seem. Longfellow.
Heather bell (Bot.), one of the pretty subglobose flowers of two
European kinds of heather (Erica Tetralix, and E. cinerea).
Heathery
Heath"er*y (?), a. Heathy; abounding in heather; of the nature of
heath.
Heathy
Heath"y (?), a. Full of heath; abounding with heath; as, heathy land;
heathy hills. Sir W. Scott.
Heating
Heat"ing (?), a. That heats or imparts heat; promoting warmth or heat;
exciting action; stimulating; as, heating medicines or applications.
Heating surface (Steam Boilers), the aggregate surface exposed to fire
or to the heated products of combustion, esp. of all the plates or
sheets that are exposed to water on their opposite surfaces; -- called
also fire surface.
Heatingly
Heat"ing*ly, adv. In a heating manner; so as to make or become hot or
heated.
Heatless
Heat"less, a. Destitute of heat; cold. Beau. & Fl.
Heave
Heave (?), v. t. [imp. Heaved (?), or Hove (; p. p. Heaved, Hove,
formerly Hoven (; p. pr. & vb. n. Heaving.] [OE. heven, hebben, As.
hebban; akin to OS. hebbian, D. heffen, OHG. heffan, hevan, G. heven,
Icel. h\'84fva, Dan. h\'91ve, Goth. hafjan, L. capere to take, seize;
cf. Gr. Accept, Behoof, Capacious, Forceps, haft, Receipt.]
1. To cause to move upward or onward by a lifting effort; to lift; to
raise; to hoist; -- often with up; as, the wave heaved the boat on
land.
One heaved ahigh, to be hurled down below. Shak.
NOTE: &hand; He ave, as now used, implies that the thing raised is
heavy or hard to move; but formerly it was used in a less
restricted sense.
Here a little child I stand, Heaving up my either hand. Herrick.
2. To throw; to cast; -- obsolete, provincial, or colloquial, except
in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the lead; to heave the log.
3. To force from, or into, any position; to cause to move; also, to
throw off; -- mostly used in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave
the ship ahead.
4. To raise or force from the breast; to utter with effort; as, to
heave a sigh.
The wretched animal heaved forth such groans. Shak.
5. To cause to swell or rise, as the breast or bosom.
The glittering, finny swarms That heave our friths, and crowd upon
our shores. Thomson.
To heave a cable short (Naut.), to haul in cable till the ship is
almost perpendicularly above the anchor. -- To heave a ship ahead
(Naut.), to warp her ahead when not under sail, as by means of cables.
-- To heave a ship down (Naut.), to throw or lay her down on one side;
to careen her. -- To heave a ship to (Naut.), to bring the ship's head
to the wind, and stop her motion. -- To heave about (Naut.), to put
about suddenly. -- To heave in (Naut.), to shorten (cable). -- To
heave in stays (Naut.), to put a vessel on the other tack. -- To heave
out a sail (Naut.), to unfurl it. -- To heave taut (Naut.), to turn a
capstan, etc., till the rope becomes strained. See Taut, and Tight. --
To heave the lead (Naut.), to take soundings with lead and line. -- To
heave the log. (Naut.) See Log. -- To heave up anchor (Naut.), to
raise it from the bottom of the sea or elsewhere.
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Heave
Heave (?), v. i.
1. To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
And the huge columns heave into the sky. Pope.
Where heaves the turf in many a moldering heap. Gray.
The heaving sods of Bunker Hill. E. Everett.
2. To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the lungs in heavy
breathing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the billows, as the
earth when broken up by frost, etc.; to swell; to dilate; to expand;
to distend; hence, to labor; to struggle.
Frequent for breath his panting bosom heaves. Prior.
The heaving plain of ocean. Byron.
3. To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to
do something difficult.
The Church of England had struggled and heaved at a reformation
ever since Wyclif's days. Atterbury.
4. To make an effort to vomit; to retch; to vomit.
To heave at. (a) To make an effort at. (b) To attack, to oppose.
[Obs.] Fuller. -- To heave in sight (as a ship at sea), to come in
sight; to appear. -- To heave up, to vomit. [Low]
Heave
Heave, n.
1. An effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to
move something heavy.
After many strains and heaves He got up to his saddle eaves.
Hudibras.
2. An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast
in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake,
and the like.
There's matter in these sighs, these profound heaves, You must
translate. Shak.
None could guess whether the next heave of the earthquake would
settle . . . or swallow them. Dryden.
3. (Geol.) A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place
at an intersection with another lode.
Heaven
Heav"en (?), n. [OE. heven, hefen, heofen, AS. heofon; akin to OS.
hevan, LG. heben, heven, Icel. hifinn; of uncertain origin, cf. D.
hemel, G. himmel, Icel. himmin, Goth. himins; perh. akin to, or
influenced by, the root of E. heave, or from a root signifying to
cover, cf. Goth. gaham to put on, clothe one's self, G. hemd shirt,
and perh. E. chemise.]
1. The expanse of space surrounding the earth; esp., that which seems
to be over the earth like a great arch or dome; the firmament; the
sky; the place where the sun, moon, and stars appear; -- often used in
the plural in this sense.
I never saw the heavens so dim by day. Shak.
When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in
heaven. D. Webster.
2. The dwelling place of the Deity; the abode of bliss; the place or
state of the blessed after death.
Unto the God of love, high heaven's King. Spenser.
It is a knell That summons thee to heaven or to hell. Shak.
New thoughts of God, new hopes of Heaven. Keble.
NOTE: &hand; In th is ge neral se nse heaven and its corresponding
words in other languages have as various definite interpretations
as there are phases of religious belief.
3. The sovereign of heaven; God; also, the assembly of the blessed,
collectively; -- used variously in this sense, as in No. 2.
Her prayers, whom Heaven delights to hear. Shak.
The will And high permission of all-ruling Heaven. Milton.
4. Any place of supreme happiness or great comfort; perfect felicity;
bliss; a sublime or exalted condition; as, a heaven of delight. "A
heaven of beauty." Shak. "The brightest heaven of invention." Shak.
O bed! bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary
head! Hood.
NOTE: &hand; He aven is very often used, esp. with participles, in
forming compound words, most of which need no special explanation;
as, heaven-appeasing, heaven-aspiring, heaven-begot, heaven-born,
heaven-bred, heaven-conducted, heaven-descended, heaven-directed,
heaven-exalted, heaven-given, heaven-guided, heaven-inflicted,
heaven-inspired, heaven-instructed, heaven-kissing, heaven-loved,
heaven-moving, heaven-protected, heaven-taught, heaven-warring, and
the like.
Heaven
Heav"en, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Heavened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Heavening.]
To place in happiness or bliss, as if in heaven; to beatify. [R.]
We are happy as the bird whose nest Is heavened in the hush of
purple hills. G. Massey.
Heavenize
Heav"en*ize (?), v. t. To render like heaven or fit for heaven. [R.]
Bp. Hall.
Heavenliness
Heav"en*li*ness (?), n. [From Heavenly.] The state or quality of being
heavenly. Sir J. Davies.
Heavenly
Heav"en*ly, a. [AS. heofonic.]
1. Pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting heaven; celestial; not
earthly; as, heavenly regions; heavenly music.
As is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. 1 Cor.
xv. 48.
2. Appropriate to heaven in character or happiness; perfect; pure;
supremely blessed; as, a heavenly race; the heavenly, throng.
The love of heaven makes one heavenly. Sir P. Sidney.
Heavenly
Heav"en*ly, adv.
1. In a manner resembling that of heaven. "She was heavenly true."
Shak.
2. By the influence or agency of heaven.
Out heavenly guided soul shall climb. Milton.
Heavenlyminded
Heav"en*ly*mind`ed (?), a. Having the thoughts and affections placed
on, or suitable for, heaven and heavenly objects; devout; godly;
pious. Milner. -- Heav"en*ly*mind`ed*ness, n.
Heavenward
Heav"en*ward (?), a & adv. Toward heaven.
Heave offering
Heave" of`fer*ing (?). (Jewish Antiq.) An offering or oblation heaved
up or elevated before the altar, as the shoulder of the peace
offering. See Wave offering. <-- sic!? --> Ex. xxix. 27.
Heaver
Heav"er (?), n.
1. One who, or that which, heaves or lifts; a laborer employed on
docks in handling freight; as, a coal heaver.
2. (Naut.) A bar used as a lever. Totten.
Heaves
Heaves (?), n. A disease of horses, characterized by difficult
breathing, with heaving of the flank, wheezing, flatulency, and a
peculiar cough; broken wind.
Heavily
Heav"i*ly (?), adv. [From 2d Heavy.]
1. In a heavy manner; with great weight; as, to bear heavily on a
thing; to be heavily loaded.
Heavily interested in those schemes of emigration. The Century.
2. As if burdened with a great weight; slowly and laboriously; with
difficulty; hence, in a slow, difficult, or suffering manner;
sorrowfully.
And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily.
Ex. xiv. 25.
Why looks your grace so heavily to-day? Shak.
Heaviness
Heav"i*ness, n. The state or quality of being heavy in its various
senses; weight; sadness; sluggishness; oppression; thickness.
Heaving
Heav"ing (?), n. A lifting or rising; a swell; a panting or deep
sighing. Addison. Shak.
Heavisome
Heav"i*some (?), a. Heavy; dull. [Prov.]
Heavy
Heav"y (?), a. Having the heaves.
Heavy
Heav"y (?), a. [Compar. Heavier (?); superl. Heaviest.] [OE. hevi, AS.
hefig, fr. hebban to lift, heave; akin to OHG. hebig, hevig, Icel.
h\'94figr, h\'94fugr. See Heave.]
1. Heaved or lifted with labor; not light; weighty; ponderous; as, a
heavy stone; hence, sometimes, large in extent, quantity, or effects;
as, a heavy fall of rain or snow; a heavy failure; heavy business
transactions, etc.; often implying strength; as, a heavy barrier;
also, difficult to move; as, a heavy draught.
2. Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive; hard to endure or
accomplish; hence, grievous, afflictive; as, heavy yokes, expenses,
undertakings, trials, news, etc.
The hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod. 1 Sam. v. 6.
The king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make. Shak.
Sent hither to impart the heavy news. Wordsworth.
Trust him not in matter of heavy consequence. Shak.
3. Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down,
either with an actual burden, or with care, grief, pain,
disappointment.
The heavy [sorrowing] nobles all in council were. Chapman.
A light wife doth make a heavy husband. Shak.
4. Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid; as,
a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, and the like; a heavy writer or
book.
Whilst the heavy plowman snores. Shak.
Of a heavy, dull, degenerate mind. Dryden.
Neither [is] his ear heavy, that it can not hear. Is. lix. 1.
5. Strong; violent; forcible; as, a heavy sea, storm, cannonade, and
the like.
6. Loud; deep; -- said of sound; as, heavy thunder.
But, hark! that heavy sound breaks in once more. Byron.
7. Dark with clouds, or ready to rain; gloomy; -- said of the sky.
8. Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey; -- said of earth; as, a heavy
road, soil, and the like.
9. Not raised or made light; as, heavy bread.
10. Not agreeable to, or suitable for, the stomach; not easily
digested; -- said of food.
11. Having much body or strength; -- said of wines, or other liquors.
12. With child; pregnant. [R.]
Heavy artillery. (Mil.) (a) Guns of great weight or large caliber,
esp. siege, garrison, and seacoast guns. (b) Troops which serve heavy
guns. -- Heavy cavalry. See under Cavalry. -- Heavy fire (Mil.), a
continuous or destructive cannonading, or discharge of small arms. --
Heavy metal (Mil.), large guns carrying balls of a large size; also,
large balls for such guns.<-- a type of rock music (1970's), with a
hard beat, amplified electronically --> -- Heavy metals. (Chem.) See
under Metal. -- Heavy weight, in wrestling, boxing, etc., a term
applied to the heaviest of the classes into which contestants are
divided. Cf. Feather weight (c), under Feather.
NOTE: &hand; He avy is used in composition to form many words which
need no special explanation; as, heavy-built, heavy-browed,
heavy-gaited, etc.
Heavy
Heav"y, adv. Heavily; -- sometimes used in composition; as,
heavy-laden.
Heavy
Heav"y, v. t. To make heavy. [Obs.] Wyclif.
Heavy-armed
Heav"y-armed` (?), a. (Mil.) Wearing heavy or complete armor; carrying
heavy arms.
Heavy-haded
Heav"y-had"ed (?), a. Clumsy; awkward.
Heavy-headed
Heav"y-head"ed (?), a. Dull; stupid. "Gross heavy-headed fellows."
Beau. & Fl.
Heavy spar
Heav"y spar` (?). (Min.) Native barium sulphate or barite, -- so
called because of its high specific gravity as compared with other
non-metallic minerals.
Hebdomad
Heb"do*mad (?), n. [L. hebdomas, -adis, Gr. "ebdoma`s the number seven
days, fr. Seven.] A week; a period of seven days. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
Hebdomadal, Hebdomadary
Heb*dom"a*dal (?), Heb*dom"a*da*ry (?), a. [L. hebdomadalis, LL.
hebdomadarius: cf. F. hebdomadaire.] Consisting of seven days, or
occurring at intervals of seven days; weekly.
Hebdomadally
Heb*dom"a*dal*ly (?), adv. In periods of seven days; weekly. Lowell.
Hebdomadary
Heb*dom"a*da*ry (?), n. [LL. hebdomadarius: cf. F. hebdomadier.] (R.
C. Ch.) A member of a chapter or convent, whose week it is to
officiate in the choir, and perform other services, which, on
extraordinary occasions, are performed by the superiors.
Hebdomatical
Heb`do*mat"ic*al (?), a. [L. hebdomaticus, Gr. Weekly; hebdomadal.
[Obs.]
Hebe
He"be (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. "h`bh youth, "H`bh Hebe.]
1. (Class. Myth.) The goddess of youth, daughter of Jupiter and Juno.
She was believed to have the power of restoring youth and beauty to
those who had lost them.
2. (Zo\'94l.) An African ape; the hamadryas.
Heben
Heb"en (?), n. Ebony. [Obs.] Spenser.
Hebenon
Heb"e*non (?), n. See Henbane. [Obs.] Shak.
Hebetate
Heb"e*tate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hebetated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Hebetating.] [L. hebetatus, p. p. of hebetare to dull. See Hebete.] To
render obtuse; to dull; to blunt; to stupefy; as, to hebetate the
intellectual faculties. Southey
Hebetate
Heb"e*tate (?), a.
1. Obtuse; dull.
2. (Bot.) Having a dull or blunt and soft point. Gray.
Hebetation
Heb`e*ta"tion (?), n. [L. hebetatio: cf. F. h\'82b\'82tation.]
1. The act of making blunt, dull, or stupid.
2. The state of being blunted or dulled.
Hebete
He*bete" (?), a. [L. hebes, hebetis, dull, stupid, fr. hebere to be
dull.] Dull; stupid. [Obs.]
Hebetude
Heb"e*tude (?), n. [L. hebetudo.] Dullness; stupidity. Harvey.
Hebraic
He"bra"ic (?), a. [L. Hebraicus, Gr. hebra\'8bque. See Hebrew.] Of or
pertaining to the Hebrews, or to the language of the Hebrews.
Hebraically
He*bra"ic*al*ly (?), adv. After the manner of the Hebrews or of the
Hebrew language.
Hebraism
He"bra*ism (?), n. [Cf. F. h\'82bra\'8bsme.]
1. A Hebrew idiom or custom; a peculiar expression or manner of
speaking in the Hebrew language. Addison.
2. The type of character of the Hebrews.
The governing idea of Hebraism is strictness of conscience. M.
Arnold.
Hebraist
He"bra*ist, n. [Cf. F. h\'82bra\'8bste.] One versed in the Hebrew
language and learning.
Hebraistic
He`bra*is"tic (?), a. Pertaining to, or resembling, the Hebrew
language or idiom.
Hebraistically
He`bra*is"tic*al*ly (?), adv. In a Hebraistic sense or form.
Which is Hebraistically used in the New Testament. Kitto.
Hebraize
He"bra*ize (?), v. t. [Gr. h\'82bra\'8bser.] To convert into the
Hebrew idiom; to make Hebrew or Hebraistic. J. R. Smith.
Hebraize
He"bra*ize, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Hebraized (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Hebraizing.] To speak Hebrew, or to conform to the Hebrew idiom, or to
Hebrew customs.
Hebrew
He"brew (?), n. [F. H\'82breu, L. Hebraeus, Gr. 'ibhr\'c6.]
1. An appellative of Abraham or of one of his descendants, esp. in the
line of Jacob; an Israelite; a Jew.
There came one that had escaped and told Abram the Hebrew. Gen.
xiv. 13.
2. The language of the Hebrews; -- one of the Semitic family of
languages.
Hebrew
He"brew, a. Of or pertaining to the Hebrews; as, the Hebrew language
or rites.
Hebrewess
He"brew*ess, n. An Israelitish woman.
Hebrician
He*bri"cian (?), n. A Hebraist. [R.]
Hebridean, Hebridian
He*brid"e*an (?), He*brid"i*an (?), a. Of or pertaining to the islands
called Hebrides, west of Scotland. -- n. A native or inhabitant of the
Hebrides.
Hecatomb
Hec"a*tomb (?), n. [L. hecatombe, Gr. h\'82catombe.] (Antiq.) A
sacrifice of a hundred oxen or cattle at the same time; hence, the
sacrifice or slaughter of any large number of victims.
Slaughtered hecatombs around them bleed. Addison.
More than a human hecatomb. Byron.
Hecatompedon
Hec`a*tom"pe*don (?), n. [Gr. (Arch.) A name given to the old
Parthenon at Athens, because measuring 100 Greek feet, probably in the
width across the stylobate.
Hecdecane
Hec"de*cane (?), n. [Gr. (Chem.) A white, semisolid, spermaceti-like
hydrocarbon, C16H34, of the paraffin series, found dissolved as an
important ingredient of kerosene, and so called because each molecule
has sixteen atoms of carbon; -- called also hexadecane.
Heck
Heck (?), n. [See Hatch a half door.] [Written also hack.]
1. The bolt or latch of a door. [Prov. Eng.]
2. A rack for cattle to feed at. [Prov. Eng.]
3. A door, especially one partly of latticework; -- called also heck
door. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
4. A latticework contrivance for catching fish.
5. (Weaving) An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into
sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping
machine.
6. A bend or winding of a stream. [Prov. Eng.]
Half heck, the lower half of a door. -- Heck board, the loose board at
the bottom or back of a cart. -- Heck box OR frame, that which carries
the heck in warping.
Heckimal
Heck"i*mal (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) The European blue titmouse (Parus
c\'d2ruleus). [Written also heckimel, hackeymal, hackmall, hagmall,
and hickmall.]
Heckle
Hec"kle (?), n. & v. t. Same as Hackle.
Hectare
Hec"tare` (?), n. [F., fr. Gr. are an are.] A measure of area, or
superficies, containing a hundred ares, or 10,000 square meters, and
equivalent to 2.471 acres.
Hectic
Hec"tic (?), a. [F. hectique, Gr. sah to overpower, endure; cf. AS.
sige, sigor, victory, G. sieg, Goth. sigis. Cf. Scheme.]
1. Habitual; constitutional; pertaining especially to slow waste of
animal tissue, as in consumption; as, a hectic type in disease; a
hectic flush.
2. In a hectic condition; having hectic fever; consumptive; as, a
hectic patient.
Hectic fever (Med.), a fever of irritation and debility, occurring
usually at a advanced stage of exhausting disease, as a in pulmonary
consumption.
Hectic
Hec"tic, n.
1. (Med.) Hectic fever.
2. A hectic flush.
It is no living hue, but a strange hectic. Byron.
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Hectocotylized
Hec`to*cot"y*lized (?), a. (Zo\'94l.) Changed into a hectocotylus;
having a hectocotylis.
Hectocotylus
Hec`to*cot"y*lus (?), n.; pl. Hectocotyli (#). [NL., fr. Gr.
(Zo\'94l.) One of the arms of the male of most kinds of cephalopods,
which is specially modified in various ways to effect the
fertilization of the eggs. In a special sense, the greatly modified
arm of Argonauta and allied genera, which, after receiving the
spermatophores, becomes detached from the male, and attaches itself to
the female for reproductive purposes.
Hectogram
Hec"to*gram (?), n. [F. hectogramme, fr. Gr. gramme a gram.] A measure
of weight, containing a hundred grams, or about 3.527 ounces
avoirdupois.
Hectogramme
Hec"to*gramme (?), n. [F.] The same as Hectogram.
Hectograph
Hec"to*graph (?), n. [Gr. -graph.] A contrivance for multiple copying,
by means of a surface of gelatin softened with glycerin. [Written also
hectograph.]
Hectoliter, Hectolitre
Hec"to*li`ter, Hec"to*li`tre (?), n. [F. hectolitre, fr. Gr. litre a
liter.] A measure of liquids, containing a hundred liters; equal to a
tenth of a cubic meter, nearly 26 gallons of wine measure, or 22.0097
imperial gallons. As a dry measure, it contains ten decaliters, or
about 2 Winchester bushels.
Hectometer, Hectometre
Hec"to*me`ter, Hec"to*me`tre (?), n. [F. hectom\'8atre, fr. Gr.
m\'8atre a meter.] A measure of length, equal to a hundred meters. It
is equivalent to 328.09 feet.
Hector
Hec"tor (?), n. [From the Trojan warrior Hector, the son of Priam.] A
bully; a blustering, turbulent, insolent, fellow; one who vexes or
provokes.
Hector
Hec"tor, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hectored (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hectoring.]
To treat with insolence; to threaten; to bully; hence, to torment by
words; to tease; to taunt; to worry or irritate by bullying. Dryden.
Hector
Hec"tor, v. i. To play the bully; to bluster; to be turbulent or
insolent. Swift.
Hectorism
Hec"to*rism (?), n. The disposition or the practice of a hector; a
bullying. [R.]
Hectorly
Hec"tor*ly, a. Resembling a hector; blustering; insolent; taunting.
"Hectorly, ruffianlike swaggering or huffing." Barrow.
Hectostere
Hec"to*stere (?), n. [F. hectost\'8are; Gr. st\'8are.] A measure of
solidity, containing one hundred cubic meters, and equivalent to
3531.66 English or 3531.05 United States cubic feet.
Heddle
Hed"dle (?), n.; pl. Heddles (#). [Cf. Heald.] (Weaving) One of the
sets of parallel doubled threads which, with mounting, compose the
harness employed to guide the warp threads to the lathe or batten in a
loom.
Heddle
Hed"dle, v. t. To draw (the warp thread) through the heddle-eyes, in
weaving.
Heddle-eye
Hed"dle-eye` (?), n. (Weaving) The eye or loop formed in each heddle
to receive a warp thread.
Heddling
Hed"dling (?), vb. n. The act of drawing the warp threads through the
heddle-eyes of a weaver's harness; the harness itself. Knight.
Hederaceous
Hed`er*a"ceous (?), a. [L. hederaceus, fr. hedera ivy.] Of, pertaining
to, or resembling, ivy.
Hederal
Hed"er*al (?), a. Of or pertaining to ivy.
Hederic
He*der"ic (?), a. Pertaining to, or derived from, the ivy (Hedera);
as, hederic acid, an acid of the acetylene series.
Hederiferous
Hed`er*if"er*ous (?), a. [L. hedera ivy + -ferous.] Producing ivy;
ivy-bearing.
Hederose
Hed"er*ose` (?), a. [L. hederosus, fr. hedera ivy.] Pertaining to, or
of, ivy; full of ivy.
Hedge
Hedge (?), n. [OE. hegge, AS. hecg; akin to haga an inclosure, E. haw,
AS. hege hedge, E. haybote, D. hegge, OHG. hegga, G. hecke. &root;12.
See Haw a hedge.] A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes;
especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions
of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a
line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field
to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden.
The roughest berry on the rudest hedge. Shak.
Through the verdant maze Of sweetbrier hedges I pursue my walk.
Thomson.
NOTE: &hand; He dge, when used adjectively or in composition, often
means rustic, outlandish, illiterate, poor, or mean; as, hedge
priest; hedgeborn, etc.
Hedge bells, Hedge bindweed (Bot.), a climbing plant related to the
morning-glory (Convolvulus sepium). -- Hedge bill, a long-handled
billhook. -- Hedge garlic (Bot.), a plant of the genus Alliaria. See
Garlic mustard, under Garlic. -- Hedge hyssop (Bot.), a bitter herb of
the genus Gratiola, the leaves of which are emetic and purgative. --
Hedge marriage, a secret or clandestine marriage, especially one
performed by a hedge priest. [Eng.] -- Hedge mustard (Bot.), a plant
of the genus Sisymbrium, belonging to the Mustard family. -- Hedge
nettle (Bot.), an herb, or under shrub, of the genus Stachys,
belonging to the Mint family. It has a nettlelike appearance, though
quite harmless. -- Hedge note. (a) The note of a hedge bird. (b) Low,
contemptible writing. [Obs.] Dryden. -- Hedge priest, a poor,
illiterate priest. Shak. -- Hedge school, an open-air school in the
shelter of a hedge, in Ireland; a school for rustics. -- Hedge sparrow
(Zo\'94l.), a European warbler (Accentor modularis) which frequents
hedges. Its color is reddish brown, and ash; the wing coverts are
tipped with white. Called also chanter, hedge warbler, dunnock, and
doney. -- Hedge writer, an insignificant writer, or a writer of low,
scurrilous stuff. [Obs.] Swift. -- To breast up a hedge. See under
Breast. -- To hang in the hedge, to be at a standstill. "While the
business of money hangs in the hedge." Pepys.
Hedge
Hedge (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hedged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hedging.]
1. To inclose or separate with a hedge; to fence with a thickly set
line or thicket of shrubs or small trees; as, to hedge a field or
garden.
2. To obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to hinder from progress or
success; -- sometimes with up and out.
I will hedge up thy way with thorns. Hos. ii. 6.
Lollius Urbius . . . drew another wall . . . to hedge out
incursions from the north. Milton.
3. To surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem (in).
"England, hedged in with the main." Shak.
4. To surround so as to prevent escape.
That is a law to hedge in the cuckoo. Locke.
To hedge a bet, to bet upon both sides; that is, after having bet on
one side, to bet also on the other, thus guarding against loss.
Hedge
Hedge, v. i.
1. To shelter one's self from danger, risk, duty, responsibility,
etc., as if by hiding in or behind a hedge; to skulk; to slink; to
shirk obligations.
I myself sometimes, leaving the fear of God on the left hand and
hiding mine honor in my necessity, am fain to shuffle, to hedge and
to lurch. Shak.
2. (Betting) To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the
side or chance one has bet on.
3. To use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so as to
avoid committing one's self to anything definite.
The Heroic Stanzas read much more like an elaborate attempt to
hedge between the parties than . . . to gain favor from the
Roundheads. Saintsbury.
Hedgeborn
Hedge"born` (?), a. Born under a hedge; of low birth. Shak.
Hedgebote
Hedge"bote` (?), n. (Eng. Law) Same as Haybote.
Hedgehog
Hedge"hog` (?), n.
1. (Zo\'94l.) A small European insectivore (Erinaceus Europ\'91us),
and other allied species of Asia and Africa, having the hair on the
upper part of its body mixed with prickles or spines. It is able to
roll itself into a ball so as to present the spines outwardly in every
direction. It is nocturnal in its habits, feeding chiefly upon
insects.
2. (Zo\'94l.) The Canadian porcupine.[U.S]
3. (Bot.) A species of Medicago (M. intertexta), the pods of which are
armed with short spines; -- popularly so called. Loudon.
4. A form of dredging machine. Knight.
Hedgehog caterpillar (Zo\'94l.), the hairy larv\'91 of several species
of bombycid moths, as of the Isabella moth. It curls up like a
hedgehog when disturbed. See Woolly bear, and Isabella moth. --
Hedgehog fish (Zo\'94l.), any spinose plectognath fish, esp. of the
genus Diodon; the porcupine fish. -- Hedgehog grass (Bot.), a grass
with spiny involucres, growing on sandy shores; burgrass (Cenchrus
tribuloides). -- Hedgehog rat (Zo\'94l.), one of several West Indian
rodents, allied to the porcupines, but with ratlike tails, and few
quills, or only stiff bristles. The hedgehog rats belong to Capromys,
Plagiodon, and allied genera. -- Hedgehog shell (Zo\'94l.), any
spinose, marine, univalve shell of the genus Murex. -- Hedgehog
thistle (Bot.), a plant of the Cactus family, globular in form, and
covered with spines (Echinocactus). -- Sea hedgehog. See Diodon.
Hedgeless
Hedge"less, a. Having no hedge.
Hedgepig
Hedge"pig` (?), n. A young hedgehog. Shak.
Hedger
Hedg"er (?), n. One who makes or mends hedges; also, one who hedges,
as, in betting.
Hedgerow
Hedge"row` (?), n. A row of shrubs, or trees, planted for inclosure or
separation of fields.
By hedgerow elms and hillocks green. Milton.
Hedging bill
Hedg"ing bill` (?). A hedge bill. See under Hedge.
Hedonic
He*don"ic (?), a. [Gr.
1. Pertaining to pleasure.
2. Of or relating to Hedonism or the Hedonic sect.
Hedonistic
Hed`o*nis"tic (?), a. Same as Hedonic, 2.
Heed
Heed (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Heeded; p. pr. & vb. n. Heeding.] [OE.
heden, AS. h; akin to OS. hdian, D. hoeden, Fries. hoda, OHG. huoten,
G. h\'81ten, Dan. hytte.Hood.] To mind; to regard with care; to take
notice of; to attend to; to observe.
With pleasure Argus the musician heeds. Dryden.
Syn. -- To notice; regard; mind. See Attend, v. t.
Heed
Heed, v. i. To mind; to consider.
Heed
Heed, n.
1. Attention; notice; observation; regard; -- often with give or take.
With wanton heed and giddy cunning. Milton.
Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand. 2 Sam. xx.
10.
Birds give more heed and mark words more than beasts. Bacon.
2. Careful consideration; obedient regard.
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things
which we have heard. Heb. ii. 1.
3. A look or expression of heading. [R.]
He did it with a serious mind; a heed Was in his countenance. Shak.
Heedful
Heed"ful (?), a. Full of heed; regarding with care; cautious;
circumspect; attentive; vigilant. Shak. -- Heed"ful*ly, adv. --
Heed"ful*ness, n.
Heedless
Heed"less, a. Without heed or care; inattentive; careless;
thoughtless; unobservant.
O, negligent and heedless discipline! Shak.
The heedless lover does not know Whose eyes they are that wound him
so. Waller.
-- Heed"less*ly, adv. -- Heed"less*ness, n.
Heedy
Heed"y (?), a. Heedful. [Obs.] "Heedy shepherds." Spenser. --
Heed"i*ly (#), adv. [Obs.] -- Heed"i*ness, n. [Obs.] Spenser.
Heel
Heel (?), v. i. [OE. helden to lean, incline, AS. heldan, hyldan; akin
to Icel. halla, Dan. helde, Sw. h\'84lla to tilt, pour, and perh. to
E. hill.] (Naut.) To lean or tip to one side, as a ship; as, the ship
heels aport; the boat heeled over when the squall struck it. Heeling
error (Naut.), a deviation of the compass caused by the heeling of an
iron vessel to one side or the other.
Heel
Heel, n. [OE. hele, heele, AS. h&emac;la, perh. for h&omac;hila, fr.
AS. h&emac;h heel (cf. Hough); but cf. D. hiel, OFries. heila, h,
Icel. h\'91ll, Dan. h\'91l, Sw. h\'84l, and L. calx. &root;12. Cf.
Inculcate.]
1. The hinder part of the foot; sometimes, the whole foot; -- in man
or quadrupeds.
He [the stag] calls to mind his strength and then his speed, His
winged heels and then his armed head. Denham.
2. The hinder part of any covering for the foot, as of a shoe, sock,
etc.; specif., a solid part projecting downward from the hinder part
of the sole of a boot or shoe.
3. The latter or remaining part of anything; the closing or concluding
part. "The heel of a hunt." A. Trollope. "The heel of the white loaf."
Sir W. Scott.
4. Anything regarded as like a human heel in shape; a protuberance; a
knob.
5. The part of a thing corresponding in position to the human heel;
the lower part, or part on which a thing rests; especially: (a)
(Naut.) The after end of a ship's keel. (b) (Naut.) The lower end of a
mast, a boom, the bowsprit, the sternpost, etc. (c) (Mil.) In a small
arm, the corner of the but which is upwards in the firing position.
(d) (Mil.) The uppermost part of the blade of a sword, next to the
hilt. (e) The part of any tool next the tang or handle; as, the heel
of a scythe.
6. (Man.) Management by the heel, especially the spurred heel; as, the
horse understands the heel well.
7. (Arch.) (a) The lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or
rafter. In the United States, specif., the obtuse angle of the lower
end of a rafter set sloping. (b) A cyma reversa; -- so called by
workmen. Gwilt.
Heel chain (Naut.), a chain passing from the bowsprit cap around the
heel of the jib boom. -- Heel plate, the butt plate of a gun. -- Heel
of a rafter. (Arch.) See Heel, n., 7. -- Heel ring, a ring for
fastening a scythe blade to the snath. -- Neck and heels, the whole
body. (Colloq.) -- To be at the heels of, to pursue closely; to follow
hard: as, hungry want is at my heels. Otway. -- To be down at the
heel, to be slovenly or in a poor plight. -- To be out at the heels,
to have on stockings that are worn out; hence, to be shabby, or in a
poor plight. Shak. -- To cool the heels. See under Cool. -- To go
heels over head, to turn over so as to bring the heels uppermost;
hence, to move in a inconsiderate, or rash, manner. -- To have the
heels of, to outrun. -- To lay by the heels, to fetter; to shackle; to
imprison. Shak. Addison. -- To show the heels, to flee; to run from.
-- To take to the heels, to flee; to betake to flight. -- To throw up
another's heels, to trip him. Bunyan. -- To tread upon one's heels, to
follow closely. Shak.
Heel
Heel, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Heeled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Heeling.]
1. To perform by the use of the heels, as in dancing, running, and the
like. [R.]
I cannot sing, Nor heel the high lavolt. Shak.
2. To add a heel to; as, to heel a shoe.
3. To arm with a gaff, as a cock for fighting.
Heelball
Heel"ball` (?), n. A composition of wax and lampblack, used by
shoemakers for polishing, and by antiquaries in copying inscriptions.
Heeler
Heel"er (?), n.
1. A cock that strikes well with his heels or spurs.
2. A dependent and subservient hanger-on of a political patron.
[Political Cant, U. S.]
The army of hungry heelers who do their bidding. The Century.
Heelless
Heel"less, a. Without a heel.
Heelpiece
Heel"piece` (?), n.
1. A piece of armor to protect the heels. Chesterfield.
2. A piece of leather fixed on the heel of a shoe.
3. The end. "The heelpiece of his book." Lloyd.
Heelpost
Heel"post` (?), n.
1. (Naut.) The post supporting the outer end of a propeller shaft.
2. (Carp.) The post to which a gate or door is hinged.
3. (Engineering) The quoin post of a lock gate.
Heelspur
Heel"spur` (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) A slender bony or cartilaginous process
developed from the heel bone of bats. It helps to support the wing
membranes. See Illust. of Cheiropter.
Heeltap
Heel"tap` (?), n.
1. One of the segments of leather in the heel of a shoe.
2. A small portion of liquor left in a glass after drinking. "Bumpers
around and no heeltaps." Sheridan.
Heeltap
Heel"tap`, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Heeltapped (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Heeltapping.] To add a piece of leather to the heel of (a shoe, boot,
etc.)
Heeltool
Heel"tool` (?), n. A tool used by turners in metal, having a bend
forming a heel near the cutting end.
Heep
Heep (?), n. The hip of the dog-rose. [Obs.]
Heer
Heer (?), n.[Etymol. uncertain.] A yarn measure of six hundred yards
or Spindle.
Heer
Heer, n. [See Hair.] Hair. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Heft
Heft (?), n. Same as Haft, n. [Obs.] Waller.
Heft
Heft, n. [From Heave: cf. hefe weight. Cf. Haft.]
1. The act or effort of heaving [Obs.]
He craks his gorge, his sides, With violent hefts. Shak.
2. Weight; ponderousness. [Colloq.]
A man of his age and heft. T. Hughes.
3. The greater part or bulk of anything; as, the heft of the crop was
spoiled. [Colloq. U. S.] J. Pickering.
Heft
Heft, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hefted (Heft, obs.); p. pr. & vb. n.
Hefting.]
1. To heave up; to raise aloft.
Inflamed with wrath, his raging blade he heft. Spenser.
2. To prove or try the weight of by raising. [Colloq.]
Hefty
Heft"y, a. Moderately heavy. [Colloq. U. S.]
Hegelian
He*ge"li*an (?; 106), a. Pertaining to Hegelianism. -- n. A follower
of Hegel.
Hegelianism, Hegelism
He*ge"li*an*ism (?), He"gel*ism (?), n. The system of logic and
philosophy set forth by Hegel, a German writer (1770-1831).
Hegemonic, Hegemonical
Heg`e*mon"ic (?), Heg`e*mon"ic*al (?), a. [Gr. Hegemony.] Leading;
controlling; ruling; predominant. "Princelike and hegemonical."
Fotherby.
Hegemony
He*gem`o*ny (?), n. [Gr. Leadership; preponderant influence or
authority; -- usually applied to the relation of a government or state
to its neighbors or confederates. Lieber.
Hegge
Heg"ge (?), n. A hedge. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Hegira
He*gi"ra (?; 277), n. [Written also hejira.] [Ar. hijrah flight.] The
flight of Mohammed from Mecca, September 13, A. D. 622 (subsequently
established as the first year of the Moslem era); hence, any flight or
exodus regarded as like that of Mohammed.
NOTE: &hand; Th e st arting point of the Era was made to begin, not
from the date of the flight, but from the first day of the Arabic
year, which corresponds to July 16, A. D. 622.
Heifer
Heif"er (?), n. [OE. hayfare, AS. he\'a0hfore, he\'a0fore; the second
part of this word seems akin to AS. fearr bull, ox; akin to OHG.
farro, G. farre, D. vaars, heifer, G. f\'84rse, and perh. to Gr.
(Zo\'94l.) A young cow.
Heigh-ho
Heigh"-ho (h&imac;"-h&omac;), interj. An exclamation of surprise, joy,
dejection, uneasiness, weariness, etc. Shak.
Height
Height (?), n. [Written also hight.] [OE. heighte, heght, heighthe,
AS. he\'a0h, fr. heah high; akin to D. hoogte, Sw. h\'94jd, Dan.
h\'94ide, Icel. h\'91, Goth. hauhipa. See High.]
1. The condition of being high; elevated position.
Behold the height of the stars, how high they are! Job xxii. 12.
2. The distance to which anything rises above its foot, above that on
which in stands, above the earth, or above the level of the sea;
altitude; the measure upward from a surface, as the floor or the
ground, of animal, especially of a man; stature. Bacon.
[Goliath's] height was six cubits and a span. 1 Sam. xvii. 4.
3. Degree of latitude either north or south. [Obs.]
Guinea lieth to the north sea, in the same height as Peru to the
south. Abp. Abbot.
4. That which is elevated; an eminence; a hill or mountain; as, Alpine
heights. Dryden.
5. Elevation in excellence of any kind, as in power, learning, arts;
also, an advanced degree of social rank; pre\'89minence or distinction
in society; prominence.
Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts. R. Browning.
All would in his power hold, all make his subjects. Chapman.
6. Progress toward eminence; grade; degree.
Social duties are carried to greater heights, and enforced with
stronger motives by the principles of our religion. Addison.
7. Utmost degree in extent; extreme limit of energy or condition; as,
the height of a fever, of passion, of madness, of folly; the height of
a tempest.
My grief was at the height before thou camest. Shak.
On height, aloud. [Obs.]
[He] spake these same words, all on hight. Chaucer.
Heighten
Height"en (h&imac;t"'n), v. t. [Written also highten.] [imp. & p. p.
Heightened (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Heightening.]
1. To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.
2. To carry forward; to advance; to increase; to augment; to
aggravate; to intensify; to render more conspicuous; -- used of
things, good or bad; as, to heighten beauty; to heighten a flavor or a
tint. "To heighten our confusion." Addison.
An aspect of mystery which was easily heightened to the miraculous.
Hawthorne.
Heightener
Height"en*er (?), n. [Written also hightener.] One who, or that which,
heightens.
Heinous
Hei"nous (?), a. [OF. ha\'8bnos hateful, F. haineux, fr. OF. ha\'8bne
hate, F. haine, fr. ha\'8br to hate; of German origin. See Hate.]
Hateful; hatefully bad; flagrant; odious; atrocious; giving great
great offense; -- applied to deeds or to character.
It were most heinous and accursed sacrilege. Hooker.
How heinous had the fact been, how deserving Contempt! Milton.
Syn. -- Monstrous; flagrant; flagitious; atrocious. -- Hei"nous*ly,
adv. -- Hei"nous*ness, n.
Heir
Heir (?), n. [OE. heir, eir, hair, OF. heir, eir, F. hoir, L. heres;
of uncertain origin. Cf. Hereditary, Heritage.]
1. One who inherits, or is entitled to succeed to the possession of,
any property after the death of its owner; one on whom the law bestows
the title or property of another at the death of the latter.
I am my father's heir and only son. Shak.
2. One who receives any endowment from an ancestor or relation; as,
the heir of one's reputation or virtues.
And I his heir in misery alone. Pope.
Heir apparent. (Law.) See under Apparent. -- Heir at law, one who,
after his ancector's death, has a right to inherit all his intestate
estate. Wharton (Law Dict.). -- Heir presumptive, one who, if the
ancestor should die immediately, would be his heir, but whose right to
the inheritance may be defeated by the birth of a nearer relative, or
by some other contingency.
Heir
Heir (?), v. t. To inherit; to succeed to. [R.]
One only daughter heired the royal state. Dryden.
Heirdom
Heir"dom (?), n. The state of an heir; succession by inheritance.
Burke.
Heiress
Heir"ess, n, A female heir.
Heirless
Heir"less a. Destitute of an heir. Shak.
Heirloom
Heir"loom` (?), n. [Heir + loom, in its earlier sense of implement,
tool. See Loom the frame.] Any furniture, movable, or personal
chattel, which by law or special custom descends to the heir along
with the inheritance; any piece of personal property that has been in
a family for several generations.
Woe to him whose daring hand profanes The honored heirlooms of his
ancestors. Moir.
Heirship
Heir"ship (?), n. The state, character, or privileges of an heir;
right of inheriting. Heirship movables, certain kinds of movables
which the heir is entitled to take, besides the heritable estate.
[Scot.]
Hejira
He*ji"ra (?), n. See Hegira.
Hektare, Hektogram, Hektoliter, AND Hektometer
Hek"tare`, Hek"to*gram, Hek"to*li`ter, AND Hek"to*me`ter, n. Same as
Hectare, Hectogram, Hectoliter, and Hectometer.
Hektograph
Hek"to*graph (?), n. See Hectograph.
Helamys
Hel*a*mys (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. (Zo\'94l.) See Jumping hare, under
Hare.
Helcoplasty
Hel"co*plas`ty (?), n. [Gr. -plasty.] (Med.) The act or process of
repairing lesions made by ulcers, especially by a plastic operation.
Held
Held (?), imp. & p. p. of Hold.
Hele
Hele (?), n. [See Heal, n.] Health; welfare. [Obs.] "In joy and perfyt
hele." Chaucer.
Hele
Hele, v. t. [AS. helan, akin to D. helen, OHG. helan, G. hehlen, L.
celare. &root;17. See Hell, and cf. Conceal.] To hide; to cover; to
roof. [Obs.]
Hide and hele things. Chaucer.
Helena
Hel"e*na (?), n. [L.: cf. Sp. helena.] See St. Elmo's fire, under
Saint.
Helenin
Hel"e*nin (?), n. (Chem.) A neutral organic substance found in the
root of the elecampane (Inula helenium), and extracted as a white
crystalline or oily material, with a slightly bitter taste. <-- used
to induce interferon -- contains RNA -->
Heliac
He"li*ac (?), a. Heliacal.
Heliacal
He*li"a*cal (?), a. [Gr. h\'82liaque.] (Astron.) Emerging from the
light of the sun, or passing into it; rising or setting at the same,
or nearly the same, time as the sun. Sir T. Browne.
NOTE: &hand; Th e heliacal rising of a star is when, after being in
conjunction with the sun, and invisible, it emerges from the light
so as to be visible in the morning before sunrising. On the
contrary, the heliacal setting of a star is when the sun approaches
conjunction so near as to render the star invisible.
Heliacally
He*li"a*cal*ly, adv. In a heliacal manner. De Quincey.
Helianthin
He`li*an"thin (?), n. [Prob. fr. L. helianthes, or NL. helianthus,
sunflower, in allusion to its color.] (Chem.) An artificial, orange
dyestuff, analogous to tropaolin, and like it used as an indicator in
alkalimetry; -- called also methyl orange.
Helianthoid
He`li*an"thoid (?), a. (Zo\'94l.) Of or pertaining to the
Helianthoidea.
Helianthoidea
He`li*an"thoi"de*a (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. helianthes sunflower +
-oid.] (Zo\'94l.) An order of Anthozoa; the Actinaria.
Helical
Hel"i*cal (?), a. [From Helix.] Of or pertaining to, or in the form
of, a helix; spiral; as, a helical staircase; a helical spring. --
Hel"i*cal*ly, adv.
Helichrysum
Hel`i*chry"sum (, n. [L., the marigold, fr. Gr. (Bot.) A genus of
composite plants, with shining, commonly white or yellow, or sometimes
reddish, radiated involucres, which are often called "everlasting
flowers."
Heliciform
He*lic"i*form (?), a. [Helix + -form.] Having the form of a helix;
spiral.
Helicin
Hel"i*cin (?), n. (Chem.) A glucoside obtained as a white crystalline
substance by partial oxidation of salicin, from a willow (Salix Helix
of Linn\'91us.)
Helicine
Hel"i*cine (?), a. (Anat.) Curled; spiral; helicoid; -- applied esp.
to certain arteries of the penis.
Hellicograph
Hel"li*co*graph` (?), n. [Helix + -graph.] An instrument for drawing
spiral lines on a plane.
Helicoid
Hel"i*coid (?), a. [Gr. h\'82lico\'8bde. See Helix.]
1. Spiral; curved, like the spire of a univalve shell.
2. (Zo\'94l.) Shaped like a snail shell; pertaining to the
Helicid\'91, or Snail family.
Helicoid parabola (Math.), the parabolic spiral.
Helicoid
Hel"i*coid, n. (Geom.) A warped surface which may be generated by a
straight line moving in such a manner that every point of the line
shall have a uniform motion in the direction of another fixed straight
line, and at the same time a uniform angular motion about it.
Helicoidal
Hel`i*coid"al (?), a. Same as Helicoid. -- Hel`i*coid"al*ly, adv.
Helicon
Hel"i*con (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. A mountain in B\'d2otia, in Greece,
supposed by the Greeks to be the residence of Apollo and the Muses.
From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy
progress take. Gray.
Heliconia
Hel`i*co"ni*a (?), n. [NL. See Helicon.] (Zo\'94l.) One of numerous
species of Heliconius, a genus of tropical American butterflies. The
wings are usually black, marked with green, crimson, and white.
Heliconian
Hel`i*co"ni*an (?), a. [L. Heliconius.]
1. Of or pertaining to Helicon. "Heliconian honey." Tennyson.
2. (Zo\'94l.) Like or pertaining to the butterflies of the genus
Heliconius.
Helicotrema
Hel`i*co"tre"ma (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. (Anat.) The opening by which the
two scal\'91 communicate at the top of the cochlea of the ear.
Helio-
He"li*o- (?). A combining form from Gr. "h`lios the sun.
Heliocentric, Heliocentrical
He`li*o*cen"tric (?), He`li*o*cen"tric"al (?), a. [Helio- + centric,
centrical: cf. F. h\'82liocentrique.] (Astron.) pertaining to the
sun's center, or appearing to be seen from it; having, or relating to,
the sun as a center; -- opposed to geocentrical. Heliocentric
parallax. See under Parallax. -- Heliocentric place, latitude,
longitude, etc. (of a heavenly body), the direction, latitude,
longitude, etc., of the body as viewed from the sun.
Heliochrome
He"li*o*chrome (?), n. [Helio- + Gr. A photograph in colors.<-- now,
just color photograph --> R. Hunt.
Heliochromic
He`li*o*chro"mic (?), a. Pertaining to, or produced by, heliochromy.
Heliochromy
He"li*o*chro`my (?), n. The art of producing photographs in color.<--
color photography? -->
Heliograph
He"li*o*graph (?), n. [Helio- + -graph.]ets>
1. A picture taken by heliography; a photograph.
2. An instrument for taking photographs of the sun.
3. An apparatus for telegraphing by means of the sun's rays. See
Heliotrope, 3.
Heliographic
He`li*o*graph"ic (?), a. Of or pertaining to heliography or a
heliograph; made by heliography. Heliographic chart. See under Chart.
Heliography
He`li*og"ra*phy (?), n. [Helio- + -graphy.] Photography. R. Hunt.
Heliogravure
He`li*o*grav"ure (?), n. [F. h\'82liogravure.] The process of
photographic engraving.
Heliolater
He`li*ol"a*ter (?), n. [Helio- + Gr. A worshiper of the sun.
Heliolatry
He`li*ol"a*try (?), n. [Helio- + Gr. Sun worship. See Sabianism.
Heliolite
He"li*o*lite (?), n. [Helio- + -lite.] (Paleon.) A fossil coral of the
genus Heliolites, having twelve-rayed cells. It is found in the
Silurian rocks.
Heliometer
He`li*om"e*ter (?), n. [Helio- + -meter: cf. F. h\'82liom\'8atre.]
(Astron.) An instrument devised originally for measuring the diameter
of the sun; now employed for delicate measurements of the distance and
relative direction of two stars too far apart to be easily measured in
the field of view of an ordinary telescope.
Heliometric, Heliometrical
He`li*o*met"ric (?), He`li*o*met"ric*al (?), a. Of or pertaining to
the heliometer, or to heliometry.
Heliometry
He`li*om"e*try (?), n. The apart or practice of measuring the
diameters of heavenly bodies, their relative distances, etc. See
Heliometer.
Heliopora
He`li*op"o*ra (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. (Zo\'94l.) An East Indian stony
coral now known to belong to the Alcyonaria; -- called also blue
coral.
Helioscope
He"li*o*scope (?), n. [Helio- + -scope: cf. F. h\'82lioscope.]
(Astron.) A telescope or instrument for viewing the sun without injury
to the eyes, as through colored glasses, or with mirrors which reflect
but a small portion of light. -- He`li*o*scop`ic (#), a.
Heliostat
He"li*o*stat (?), n. [Helio- + Gr. h\'82liostate.] An instrument
consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, by which a sunbeam is made
apparently stationary, by being steadily directed to one spot during
the whole of its diurnal period; also, a geodetic heliotrope.
Heliotrope
He"li*o*trope (?), n. [F. h\'82liotrope, L. heliotropium, Gr.
Heliacal, Trope.]
1. (Anc. Astron.) An instrument or machine for showing when the sun
arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line.
2. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Heliotropium; -- called also turnsole
and girasole. H. Peruvianum is the commonly cultivated species with
fragrant flowers.
3. (Geodesy & Signal Service) An instrument for making signals to an
observer at a distance, by means of the sun's rays thrown from a
mirror.
4. (Min.) See Bloodstone (a).
Heliotrope purple, a grayish purple color.
Heliotroper
He"li*o*tro`per (?), n. The person at a geodetic station who has
charge of the heliotrope.
Heliotropic
He`li*o*trop"ic (?), a. (Bot.) Manifesting heliotropism; turning
toward the sun.
Heliotropism
He`li*ot"ro*pism (?), n. [Helio- + Gr. (Bot.) The phenomenon of
turning toward the light, seen in many leaves and flowers.
Heliotype
He"li*o*type (?), n. [Helio- + -type.] A picture obtained by the
process of heliotypy.
Heliotypic
He`li*o*typ"ic (?), a. Relating to, or obtained by, heliotypy.
Heliotypy
He"li*o*ty`py (?), n. A method of transferring pictures from
photographic negatives to hardened gelatin plates from which
impressions are produced on paper as by lithography.
Heliozoa
He`li*o*zo"a (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. (Zo\'94l.) An order of
fresh-water rhizopods having a more or less globular form, with
slender radiating pseudopodia; the sun animalcule.
Helispheric, Helispherical
Hel`i*spher"ic (?), Hel`i*spher"ic*al (, a. [Helix + spheric,
spherical.] Spiral. Helispherical line (Math.). the rhomb line in
navigation. [R.]
Helium
He"li*um (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. (Chem.) A gaseous element found in the
atmospheres of the sun and earth and in some rare minerals.<-- Symbol
He, atomic number 2. A noble (or rare) gas. -->
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Helix
He"lix (?), n.; pl. L. Helices (#), E. Helixes (#). [L. helix, Gr.
volvere, and E. volute, voluble.]
1. (Geom.) A nonplane curve whose tangents are all equally inclined to
a given plane. The common helix is the curve formed by the thread of
the ordinary screw. It is distinguished from the spiral, all the
convolutions of which are in the plane.
2. (Arch.) A caulicule or little volute under the abacus of the
Corinthian capital.
3. (Anat.) The incurved margin or rim of the external ear. See Illust.
of Ear.
4. (Zo\'94l.) A genus of land snails, including a large number of
species.
NOTE: &hand; Th e ge nus originally included nearly all shells, but
is now greatly restricted. See Snail, Pulmonifera.
Hell
Hell (?), n. [AS. hell; akin to D. hel, OHG. hella, G. h\'94lle, Icel.
hal, Sw. helfvete, Dan. helvede, Goth. halja, and to AS. helan to
conceal. Hele, v. t., Conceal, Cell, Helmet, Hole, Occult.]
1. The place of the dead, or of souls after death; the grave; --
called in Hebrew sheol, and by the Greeks hades.
He descended into hell. Book of Common Prayer.
Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell. Ps. xvi. 10.
2. The place or state of punishment for the wicked after death; the
abode of evil spirits. Hence, any mental torment; anguish. "Within him
hell." Milton.
It is a knell That summons thee to heaven or to hell. Shak.
3. A place where outcast persons or things are gathered; as: (a) A
dungeon or prison; also, in certain running games, a place to which
those who are caught are carried for detention. (b) A gambling house.
"A convenient little gambling hell for those who had grown reckless."
W. Black. (c) A place into which a tailor throws his shreds, or a
printer his broken type. Hudibras.
Gates of hell. (Script.) See Gate, n., 4.
Hell
Hell, v. t. To overwhelm. [Obs.] Spenser.
Hellanodic
Hel`la*nod"ic (?), n. [Gr. (Gr. Antiq.) A judge or umpire in games or
combats.
Hellbender
Hell"bend`er (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) A large North American aquatic
salamander (Protonopsis horrida or Menopoma Alleghaniensis). It is
very voracious and very tenacious of life. Also called alligator, and
water dog.
Hellborn
Hell"born` (?), a. Born in or of hell. Shak.
Hellbred
Hell`bred` (?), a. Produced in hell. Spenser.
Hellbrewed
Hell"brewed` (?), a. Prepared in hell. Milton.
Hellbroth
Hell"broth` (?), n. A composition for infernal purposes; a magical
preparation. Shak.
Hell-cat
Hell"-cat ` (?), n. A witch; a hag. Middleton.
Hell-diver
Hell`-div`er (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) The dabchick.
Helldoomed
Hell`doomed` (?), a. Doomed to hell. Milton.
Hellebore
Hel"le*bore (?), n. [L. helleborus, elleborus, Gr. hell\'82bore,
ell\'82bore.]
1. (Bot.) A genus of perennial herbs (Helleborus) of the Crowfoot
family, mostly having powerfully cathartic and even poisonous
qualities. H. niger is the European black hellebore, or Christmas
rose, blossoming in winter or earliest spring. H. officinalis was the
officinal hellebore of the ancients.
2. (Bot.) Any plant of several species of the poisonous liliaceous
genus Veratrum, especially V. album and V. viride, both called white
hellebore.
Helleborein
Hel`le*bo"re*in (?), n. (Chem.) A poisonous glucoside accompanying
helleborin in several species of hellebore, and extracted as a white
crystalline substance with a bittersweet taste. It has a strong action
on the heart, resembling digitalin.
Helleborin
Hel*leb"o*rin (? OR ?), n. (Chem.) A poisonous glucoside found in
several species of hellebore, and extracted as a white crystalline
substance with a sharp tingling taste. It possesses the essential
virtues of the plant; -- called also elleborin.
Helleborism
Hel"le*bo*rism (?), n. The practice or theory of using hellebore as a
medicine.
Hellene
Hel"lene (?), n. [Gr. A native of either ancient or modern Greece; a
Greek. Brewer.
Hellenian
Hel*le"ni*an (?), a. Of or pertaining to the Hellenes, or Greeks.
Hellenic
Hel*len"ic (?; 277), a. [Gr. Of or pertaining to the Hellenes, or
inhabitants of Greece; Greek; Grecian. "The Hellenic forces." Jowett
(Thucyd. ).
Hellenic
Hel*len"ic, n. The dialect, formed with slight variations from the
Attic, which prevailed among Greek writers after the time of
Alexander.
Hellenism
Hel"len*ism (?), n. [Gr. Hell\'82nisme.]
1. A phrase or form of speech in accordance with genius and
construction or idioms of the Greek language; a Grecism. Addison.
2. The type of character of the ancient Greeks, who aimed at culture,
grace, and amenity, as the chief elements in human well-being and
perfection.
Hellenist
Hel"len*ist (?), n. [Gr. Hell\'82niste.]
1. One who affiliates with Greeks, or imitates Greek manners; esp., a
person of Jewish extraction who used the Greek language as his mother
tongue, as did the Jews of Asia Minor, Greece, Syria, and Egypt;
distinguished from the Hebraists, or native Jews (Acts vi. 1).
2. One skilled in the Greek language and literature; as, the critical
Hellenist.
Hellenistic, Hellenistical
Hel`le*nis"tic (?), Hel`le*nis"tic*al (?), a. [Cf. F.
Hell\'82nistique.] Pertaining to the Hellenists. Hellenistic language,
dialect, OR idiom, the Greek spoken or used by the Jews who lived in
countries where the Greek language prevailed; the Jewish-Greek dialect
or idiom of the Septuagint.
Hellenistically
Hel`le*nis"tic*al*ly, adv. According to the Hellenistic manner or
dialect. J. Gregory.
Hellenize
Hel"len*ize (?), v. i. [Gr. To use the Greek language; to play the
Greek; to Grecize.
Hellenize
Hel"len*ize (?), v. t. [Gr. To give a Greek form or character to; to
Grecize; as, to Hellenize a word.
Hellenotype
Hel*len"o*type (?), n. See Ivorytype.
Hellespont
Hel"les*pont (?), n. [L. Hellespontus, Gr. A narrow strait between
Europe and Asia, now called the Daradanelles. It connects the \'92gean
Sea and the sea of Marmora.
Hellespontine
Hel`les*pon"tine (?), a. Of or pertaining to the Hellespont. Mitford.
Hellgamite, Hellgramite
Hell"ga*mite (?), Hell"gra*mite (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) The aquatic larva
of a large American winged insect (Corydalus cornutus), much used a
fish bait by anglers; the dobson. It belongs to the Neuroptera.
Hellhag
Hell"hag` (?), n. A hag of or fit for hell. Bp. Richardson.
Hell-haunted
Hell"-haunt`ed (, a. Haunted by devils; hellish. Dryden.
Hellhound
Hell"hound` (?), n. [AS. hellehund.] A dog of hell; an agent of hell.
A hellhound, that doth hunt us all to death. Shak.
Hellier
Hel"li*er (?), n. [See Hele, v. t.] One who heles or covers; hence, a
tiler, slater, or thatcher. [Obs.] [Written also heler.] Usher.
Hellish
Hell"ish (?), a. Of or pertaining to hell; like hell; infernal;
malignant; wicked; detestable; diabolical. "Hellish hate." Milton. --
Hell"ish*ly, adv. -- Hell"ish*ness, n.
Hellkite
Hell"kite` (?), n. A kite of infernal breed. Shak.
Hello
Hel*lo" (?), interj. & n. See Halloo.
Hellward
Hell"ward (?), adv. Toward hell. Pope.
Helly
Hell"y, a. [AS. hell\'c6c.] Hellish. Anderson (1573).
Helm
Helm (?), n. See Haulm, straw.
Helm
Helm (?), n. [OE. helme, AS. helma rudder; akin to D. & G. helm, Icel.
hj\'belm, and perh. to E. helve.]
1. (Naut.) The apparatus by which a ship is steered, comprising
rudder, tiller, wheel, etc.; -- commonly used of the tiller or wheel
alone.
2. The place or office of direction or administration. "The helm of
the Commonwealth." Melmoth.
3. One at the place of direction or control; a steersman; hence, a
guide; a director.
The helms o' the State, who care for you like fathers. Shak.
4. [Cf. Helve.] A helve. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Helm amidships, when the tiller, rudder, and keel are in the same
plane. -- Helm aport, when the tiller is borne over to the port side
of the ship. -- Helm astarboard, when the tiller is borne to the
starboard side. -- Helm alee, Helm aweather, when the tiller is borne
over to the lee or to the weather side. -- Helm hard alee OR hard
aport, hard astarboard, etc., when the tiller is borne over to the
extreme limit. -- Helm port, the round hole in a vessel's counter
through which the rudderstock passes. -- Helm down, helm alee. -- Helm
up, helm aweather. -- To ease the helm, to let the tiller come more
amidships, so as to lessen the strain on the rudder. -- To feel the
helm, to obey it. -- To right the helm, to put it amidships. -- To
shift the helm, to bear the tiller over to the corresponding position
on the opposite side of the vessel. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Helm
Helm, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Helmed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Helming.] To
steer; to guide; to direct. [R.]
The business he hath helmed. Shak.
A wild wave . . . overbears the bark, And him that helms it.
Tennyson.
Helm
Helm, n. [AS. See Helmet.]
1. A helmet. [Poetic]
2. A heavy cloud lying on the brow of a mountain. [Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.
Helm
Helm, v. t. To cover or furnish with a helm or helmet. [Perh. used
only as a past part. or part. adj.]
She that helmed was in starke stours. Chaucer.
Helmage
Helm"age (?), n. Guidance; direction. [R.]
Helmed
Helm"ed (?), a. Covered with a helmet.
The helmed cherubim Are seen in glittering ranks. Milton.
Helmet
Hel"met (?), n. [OF. helmet, a dim of helme, F. heaume; of Teutonic
origin; cf. G. helm, akin to AS. & OS. helm, D. helm, helmet, Icel.
hj\'belmr, Sw. hjelm, Dan. hielm, Goth. hilms; and prob. from the root
of AS. helan to hide, to hele; cf. also Lith. szalmas, Russ. shleme,
Skr. \'87arman protection. &root;17. Cf. Hele, Hell, Helm a helmet.]
1. (Armor) A defensive covering for the head. See Casque, Headpiece,
Morion, Sallet, and Illust. of Beaver.
2. (Her.) The representation of a helmet over shields or coats of
arms, denoting gradations of rank by modifications of form.
3. A helmet-shaped hat, made of cork, felt, metal, or other suitable
material, worn as part of the uniform of soldiers, firemen, etc., also
worn in hot countries as a protection from the heat of the sun.
4. That which resembles a helmet in form, position, etc.; as: (a)
(Chem.) The upper part of a retort. Boyle. (b) (Bot.) The hood-formed
upper sepal or petal of some flowers, as of the monkshood or the
snapdragon. (c) (Zo\'94l.) A naked shield or protuberance on the top
or fore part of the head of a bird.
Helmet beetle (Zo\'94l.), a leaf-eating beetle of the family
Chrysomelid\'91, having a short, broad, and flattened body. Many
species are known. -- Helmet shell (Zo\'94l.), one of many species of
tropical marine univalve shells belonging to Cassis and allied genera.
Many of them are large and handsome; several are used for cutting as
cameos, and hence are called cameo shells. See King conch. -- Helmet
shrike (Zo\'94l.), an African wood shrike of the genus Prionodon,
having a large crest.
Helmeted
Hel`met*ed (?), a. Wearing a helmet; furnished with or having a helmet
or helmet-shaped part; galeate.
Helmet-shaped
Hel"met-shaped` (, a. Shaped like a helmet; galeate. See Illust. of
Galeate.
Helminth
Hel"minth (?), n. [Gr. (Zo\'94l.) An intestinal worm, or wormlike
intestinal parasite; one of the Helminthes.
Helminthagogue
Hel*min"tha*gogue (?), n. [Gr. (Med.) A vermifuge.
Helminthes
Hel*min"thes (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. (Zo\'94l.) One of the grand
divisions or branches of the animal kingdom. It is a large group
including a vast number of species, most of which are parasitic.
Called also Enthelminthes, Enthelmintha.
NOTE: &hand; Th e fo llowing cl asses ar e included, with others of
less importance: Cestoidea (tapeworms), Trematodea (flukes, etc.),
Turbellaria (planarians), Acanthocephala (thornheads), Nematoidea
(roundworms, trichina, gordius), Nemertina (nemerteans). See
Plathelminthes, and Nemathelminthes.
Helminthiasis
Hel`min*thi"a*sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. (Med.) A disease in which
worms are present in some part of the body.
Helminthic
Hel*min"thic (?), a. [Cf. F. helminthique.] Of or relating to worms,
or Helminthes; expelling worms. -- n. A vermifuge; an anthelmintic.
Helminthite
Hel*min"thite (?), n. [Gr. (Geol.) One of the sinuous tracks on the
surfaces of many stones, and popularly considered as worm trails.
Helminthoid
Hel*min"thoid (?), a. [Gr. -oid.] Wormlike; vermiform.
Helminthologic, Helminthological
Hel*min`tho*log"ic (?), Hel*min`tho*log"ic*al, a. [Cf. F.
helminthologique.] Of or pertaining to helminthology.
Helminthologist
Hel`min*thol"o*gist (?), n. [Cf. F. helminthologiste.] One versed in
helminthology.
Helminthology
Hel`min*thol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. -logy: cf. F. helminthologie.] The
natural history, or study, of worms, esp. parasitic worms.
Helmless
Helm"less (?), a.
1. Destitute of a helmet.
2. Without a helm or rudder. Carlyle.
Helmsman
Helms"man (?), n.; pl. Helmsmen (. The man at the helm; a steersman.
Helmwind
Helm"wind` (?), n. A wind attending or presaged by the cloud called
helm. [Prov. Eng.]
Helot
He"lot (?; 277), n. [L. Helotes, Hilotae, pl., fr. Gr. E'e`lws and
E'elw`ths a bondman or serf of the Spartans; so named from 'Elos, a
town of Laconia, whose inhabitants were enslaved; or perh. akin to
e`lei^n to take, conquer, used as 2d aor. of A slave in ancient
Sparta; a Spartan serf; hence, a slave or serf.
Those unfortunates, the Helots of mankind, more or less numerous in
every community. I. Taylor.
Helotism
He"lot*ism (?), n. The condition of the Helots or slaves in Sparta;
slavery.
Helotry
He"lot*ry (?), n. The Helots, collectively; slaves; bondsmen. "The
Helotry of Mammon." Macaulay.
Help
Help (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Helped (?) (Obs. imp. Holp (, p. p.
Holpen (; p. pr. & vb. n. Helping.] [AS. helpan; akin to OS. helpan,
D. helpen, G. helfen, OHG. helfan, Icel. hj\'belpa, Sw. hjelpa, Dan.
hielpe, Goth. hilpan; cf. Lith. szelpti, and Skr. klp to be fitting.]
1. To furnish with strength or means for the successful performance of
any action or the attainment of any object; to aid; to assist; as, to
help a man in his work; to help one to remember; -- the following
infinitive is commonly used without to; as, "Help me scale yon
balcony." Longfellow.
2. To furnish with the means of deliverance from trouble; as, to help
one in distress; to help one out of prison. "God help, poor souls, how
idly do they talk!" Shak.
3. To furnish with relief, as in pain or disease; to be of avail
against; -- sometimes with of before a word designating the pain or
disease, and sometimes having such a word for the direct object. "To
help him of his blindness." <-- now, in is used for that function; --
"to help him in his misery" --> Shak.
The true calamus helps coughs. Gerarde.
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4. To change for the better; to remedy.
Cease to lament for what thou canst not help. Shak.
5. To prevent; to hinder; as, the evil approaches, and who can help
it? Swift.
6. To forbear; to avoid.
I can not help remarking the resemblance betwixt him and our
author. Pope.
<-- often used with "but" -->
7. To wait upon, as the guests at table, by carving and passing food.
To help forward, to assist in advancing. -- To help off, to help to go
or pass away, as time; to assist in removing. Locke. -- To help on, to
forward; to promote by aid. -- To help out, to aid, as in delivering
from a difficulty, or to aid in completing a design or task.
The god of learning and of light Would want a god himself to help
him out. Swift.
-- To help over, to enable to surmount; as, to help one over an
obstacle. -- To help to, to supply with; to furnish with; as, to help
one to soup. -- To help up, to help (one) to get up; to assist in
rising, as after a fall, and the like. "A man is well holp up that
trusts to you." Shak. Syn. -- To aid; assist; succor; relieve; serve;
support; sustain; befriend. -- To Help, Aid, Assist. These words all
agree in the idea of affording relief or support to a person under
difficulties. Help turns attention especially to the source of relief.
If I fall into a pit, I call for help; and he who helps me out does it
by an act of his own. Aid turns attention to the other side, and
supposes co\'94peration on the part of him who is relieved; as, he
aided me in getting out of the pit; I got out by the aid of a ladder
which he brought. Assist has a primary reference to relief afforded by
a person who "stands by" in order to relieve. It denotes both help and
aid. Thus, we say of a person who is weak, I assisted him upstairs,
or, he mounted the stairs by my assistance. When help is used as a
noun, it points less distinctively and exclusively to the source of
relief, or, in other words, agrees more closely with aid. Thus we say,
I got out of a pit by the help of my friend.
Help
Help (?), v. i. To lend aid or assistance; to contribute strength or
means; to avail or be of use; to assist.
A generous present helps to persuade, as well as an agreeable
person. Garth.
To help out, to lend aid; to bring a supply.
Help
Help, n. [AS. help; akin to D. hulp, G. h\'81lfe, hilfe, Icel.
hj\'belp, Sw. hjelp, Dan. hielp. See Help, v. t.]
1. Strength or means furnished toward promoting an object, or
deliverance from difficulty or distress; aid; ^; also, the person or
thing furnishing the aid; as, he gave me a help of fifty dollars.
Give us help from trouble, for vain is the help of man. Ps. lx. 11.
God is . . . a very present help in trouble. Ps. xlvi. 1.
Virtue is a friend and a help to nature. South.
2. Remedy; relief; as, there is no help for it.
3. A helper; one hired to help another; also, thew hole force of hired
helpers in any business.
4. Specifically, a domestic servant, man or woman. [Local, U. S.]
Helper
Help"er (?), n. One who, or that which, helps, aids, assists, or
relieves; as, a lay helper in a parish.
Thou art the helper of the fatherless. Ps. x. 14.
Compassion . . . oftentimes a helper of evils. Dr. H. More.
Helpful
Help"ful (?), a. Furnishing help; giving aid; assistant; useful;
salutary.
Heavens make our presence and our practices Pleasant and helpful to
him! Shak.
-- Help"ful*ly, adv. -- Help"ful*ness, n. Milton.
Helpless
Help"less, a.
1. Destitute of help or strength; unable to help or defend one's self;
needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless infant.
How shall I then your helpless fame defend? Pope.
2. Beyond help; irremediable.
Some helpless disagreement or dislike, either of mind or body.
Milton.
3. Bringing no help; unaiding. [Obs.]
Yet since the gods have been Helpless foreseers of my plagues.
Chapman.
4. Unsupplied; destitute; -- with of. [R.]
Helpless of all that human wants require. Dryden.
-- Help"less*ly, adv. -- Help"less*ness, n.
Helpmate
Help"mate` (?), n. [A corruption of the "help meet for him" of Genesis
ii. 18.Fitzedward Hall.] A helper; a companion; specifically, a wife.
In Minorca the ass and the hog are common helpmates, and are yoked
together in order to turn up the land. Pennant.
A waiting woman was generally considered as the most suitable
helpmate for a parson. Macaulay.
Helpmeet
Help"meet` (?), n. [See Helpmate.] A wife; a helpmate.
The Lord God created Adam, . . . and afterwards, on his finding the
want of a helpmeet, caused him to sleep, and took one of his ribs
and thence made woman. J. H. Newman.
Helter-skelter
Hel"ter-skel"ter (?), adv. [An onomatholter-polter, D. holder de
bolder.] In hurry and confusion; without definite purpose;
irregularly. [Colloq.]
Helter-skelter have I rode to thee. Shak.
A wistaria vine running helter-skelter across the roof. J. C.
Harris.
Helve
Helve (?), n. [OE. helve, helfe, AS. hielf, helf, hylf, cf. OHG. halb;
and also E. halter, helm of a rudder.]
1. The handle of an ax, hatchet, or adze.
2. (Iron Working) (a) The lever at the end of which is the hammer
head, in a forge hammer. (b) A forge hammer which is lifted by a cam
acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head.
Helve
Helve, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Helved (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Helving.] To
furnish with a helve, as an ax.
Helvetian
Hel*ve"tian (?), a. Same as Helvetic. -- n. A Swiss; a Switzer.
Helvetic
Hel*ve"tic (?), a. [L. Helveticus, fr. Helvetii the Helvetii.] Of or
pertaining to the Helvetii, the ancient inhabitant of the Alps, now
Switzerland, or to the modern states and inhabitant of the Alpine
regions; as, the Helvetic confederacy; Helvetic states.
Helvine, Helvite
Hel"vine (?), Hel"vite (?), n. [L. helvus of a light bay color.]
(Min.) A mineral of a yellowish color, consisting chiefly of silica,
glucina, manganese, and iron, with a little sulphur.
Hem
Hem (?), pron. [OE., fr. AS. him, heom, dative pl. of. h he. See He,
They.] Them [Obs.] Chaucer.
Hem
Hem, interj. An onomatopoetic word used as an expression of
hesitation, doubt, etc. It is often a sort of voluntary half cough,
loud or subdued, and would perhaps be better expressed by hm.
Cough or cry hem, if anybody come. Shak.
Hem
Hem, n. An utterance or sound of the voice, hem or hm, often
indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention.
"His morning hems." Spectator.
Hem
Hem, v. i. [Hem, interj.] To make the sound expressed by the word hem;
hence, to hesitate in speaking. "Hem, and stroke thy beard." Shak.
Hem
Hem, n. [AS. hem, border, margin; cf. Fries. h\'84mel, Prov. G. hammel
hem of mire or dirt.]
1. The edge or border of a garment or cloth, doubled over and sewed,
to strengthen raveling.
2. Border; edge; margin. "Hem of the sea." Shak.
3. A border made on sheet-metal ware by doubling over the edge of the
sheet, to stiffen it and remove the sharp edge.
Hem
Hem, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hemmed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hemming.]
1. To form a hem or border to; to fold and sew down the edge of.
Wordsworth.
2. To border; to edge
All the skirt about Was hemmed with golden fringe. Spenser.
To hem about, around, OR in, to inclose and confine; to surround; to
environ. "With valiant squadrons round about to hem." Fairfax. "Hemmed
in to be a spoil to tyranny." Daniel. -- To hem out, to shut out. "You
can not hem me out of London." J. Webster.
Hema-
Hem"a- (?). Same as H\'91ma-.
Hemachate
Hem"a*chate (?), n. [L. haemachates; Gr. (Min.) A species of agate,
sprinkled with spots of red jasper.
Hemachrome
Hem"a*chrome (?), n. Same as H\'91machrome.
Hemacite
Hem"a*cite (?), n. [Gr. a"i^ma blood.] A composition made from blood,
mixed with mineral or vegetable substances, used for making buttons,
door knobs, etc.
Hemadrometer, Hemadromometer
Hem`a*drom"e*ter (?), Hem`a*dro*mom"e*ter (?), n. [Hema- + Gr.
-meter.] (Physiol.) An instrument for measuring the velocity with
which the blood moves in the arteries.<-- now hemodromometer -->
Hemadrometry, Hemadromometry
Hem`a*drom`e*try (?), Hem`a*dro*mom"e*try (?), n. (Physiol.) The act
of measuring the velocity with which the blood circulates in the
arteries; h\'91motachometry.
Hemadynamics
He`ma*dy*nam"ics (?), n. [Hema- + dynamics.] (Physiol.) The principles
of dynamics in their application to the blood; that part of science
which treats of the motion of the blood.
Hemadynamometer
He`ma*dy"na*mom"e*ter (?), n. [Hema- + dynamometr.] (Physiol.) An
instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or
veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of
mercury; -- called also a h\'91momanometer.
Hemal
He"mal (?), a. [Gr. a"i^ma blood.] Relating to the blood or blood
vessels; pertaining to, situated in the region of, or on the side
with, the heart and great blood vessels; -- opposed to neural.
NOTE: &hand; As ap plied to ve rtebrates, he mal is th e same as
ventral, the heart and great blood vessels being on the ventral,
and the central nervous system on the dorsal, side of the vertebral
column.
Hemal arch (Anat.), the ventral arch in a segment of the spinal
skeleton, formed by vertebral processes or ribs.
Hemaph\'91in
Hem`a*ph\'91"in (?), n. Same as H\'91maph\'91in.
Hemapophysis
Hem`a*poph"y*sis (?), n.; pl. Hemapophyses . [NL. See H\'91ma-, and
Apophysis.] (Anat.) The second element in each half of a hemal arch,
corresponding to the sternal part of a rib. Owen. --
Hem`a*po*phys"i*al (#), a.
Hemastatic, Hemastatical
Hem`a*stat"ic (?), Hem`a*stat"ic*al (?), a. & n. Same as Hemostatic.
Hemastatics
Hem`a*stat"ics (?), n. (Physiol.) Laws relating to the equilibrium of
the blood in the blood vessels.
Hematachometer
Hem`a*ta*chom"e*ter (?), n. Same as H\'91matachometer.
Hematein
Hem`a*te"in (?), n. [Gr. (Chem.) A reddish brown or violet crystalline
substance, C16H12O6, got from hematoxylin by partial oxidation, and
regarded as analogous to the phthaleins.
Hematemesis
Hem`a*tem"e*sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. a"i^ma, a"i`matos, blood +
(Med.) A vomiting of blood.
Hematherm
Hem"a*therm (?), n. [Gr. a"i^ma blood + (Zo\'94l.) A warm-blooded
animal. [R.]
Hemathermal
Hem`a*ther"mal (?), a. (Zo\'94l.) Warm-blooded; hematothermal. [R]
Hematic
He*mat"ic (?), a. Same as H\'91matic.
Hematic
He*mat"ic, n. (Med.) A medicine designed to improve the condition of
the blood.
Hematin
Hem"a*tin (?), n. [Gr. a"i^ma, a"i`matos, blood.]
1. Hematoxylin.
2. (Physiol. Chem.) A bluish black, amorphous substance containing
iron and obtained from blood. It exists the red blood corpuscles
united with globulin, and the form of hemoglobin or oxyhemoglobin
gives to the blood its red color.
Hematinometer
Hem`a*ti*nom"e*ter (?), n. [Hematin + -meter.] (Physiol. Chem.) A form
of hemoglobinometer.
Hematinometric
Hem`a*tin`o*met"ric (?), a. (Physiol.) Relating to the measurement of
the amount of hematin or hemoglobin contained in blood, or other
fluids.
Hematinon
He*mat"i*non (?), n. [Gr. a"i^ma, a"i`matos, blood.] A red consisting
of silica, borax, and soda, fused with oxide of copper and iron, and
used in enamels, mosaics, etc.
Hematite
Hem"a*tite (?), n. [L. haematites, Gr. a"i^ma, a"i`matos, blood.]
(Min.) An important ore of iron, the sesquioxide, so called because of
the red color of the powder. It occurs in splendent rhombohedral
crystals, and in massive and earthy forms; -- the last called red
ocher. Called also specular iron, oligist iron, rhombohedral iron ore,
and bloodstone. See Brown hematite, under Brown.
Hematitic
Hem`a*tit"ic (?), a. Of or pertaining to hematite, or resembling it.
Hemato
Hem"a*to (?). See H\'91ma-.
Hematocele
He*mat"o*cele (?), n. [Hemato- + Gr. h\'82matoc\'8ale.] (Med.) A tumor
filled with blood.
Hematocrya
Hem`a*toc"ry*a (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. a"i^ma, a"i`matos, blood +
kry`os cold.] (Zo\'94l.) The cold-blooded vertebrates, that is, all
but the mammals and birds; -- the antithesis to Hematotherma.
Hematocrystallin
Hem`a*to*crys"tal*lin (?), n. [Hemato + crystalline.] (Physiol.) See
Hemoglobin.
Hematoid
Hem"a*toid (?), a. [Hemato- + -oid.] (Physiol.) Resembling blood.
Hematoidin
Hem`a*toid"in (?), n. (Physiol. Chem.) A crystalline or amorphous
pigment, free from iron, formed from hematin in old blood stains, and
in old hemorrhages in the body. It resembles bilirubin. When present
in the corpora lutea it is called h\'91molutein.
Hematology
Hem`a*tol"o*gy (?), n. [Hemato- + -logy.] The science which treats of
the blood.
Hematoma
Hem`a*to"ma (?), n. [NL. See Hema-, and -oma.] (Med.) A circumscribed
swelling produced by an effusion of blood beneath the skin.
Hematophilia
Hem`a*to*phil"i*a (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. a"i^ma, a"i`matos, blood +
(Med.) A condition characterized by a tendency to profuse and
uncontrollable hemorrhage from the slightest wounds.<-- = hemophilia
-->
Hematosin
Hem`a*to"sin (?), n. (Physiol. Chem.) The hematin of blood. [R.]
Hematosis
Hem`a*to"sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. a"ima`twsis.] (Physiol.) (a)
Sanguification; the conversion of chyle into blood. (b) The
arterialization of the blood in the lungs; the formation of blood in
general; h\'91matogenesis.
Hematotherma
Hem`a*to*ther"ma (?), n. pl. [NL., from Gr. a"i^ma, a"i`matos, blood +
thermo`s warm.] (Zo\'94l.) The warm-blooded vertebrates, comprising
the mammals and birds; -- the antithesis to hematocrya.
Hematothermal
Hem"a*to*ther"mal (?), a. Warm-blooded.
Hematoxylin
Hem`a*tox"y*lin (?), n. H\'91matoxylin.
Hematuria
Hem`a*tu"ri*a (?), n. [NL. See Hema-, and Urine.] (Med.) Passage of
urine mingled with blood.
Hemautography
Hem`au*tog"ra*phy (?), n. (Physiol.) The obtaining of a curve similar
to a pulse curve or sphygmogram by allowing the blood from a divided
artery to strike against a piece of paper.
Hemelytron OR, Hemelytrum
Hem*el"y*tron (? OR ?), Hem*el"y*trum (-tr&ucr;m cf. Elytron, 277),,
n.; pl. Hemelytra (. [NL. See Hemi, and Elytron.] (Zo\'94l.) One of
the partially thickened anterior wings of certain insects, as of many
Hemiptera, the earwigs, etc.
Hemeralopia
Hem`e*ra*lo"pi*a (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. Nyctalopia.] (Med.) A disease
of the eyes, in consequence of which a person can see clearly or
without pain only by daylight or a strong artificial light; day sight.
NOTE: &hand; So me wr iters (as Quain) use the word in the opposite
sense, i. e., day blindness. See Nyctalopia.
Hemerobian
Hem`er*o"bi*an (?), n. [Gr. (Zo\'94l.) A neuropterous insect of the
genus Hemerobius, and allied genera.
Hemerobid
He*mer"o*bid (?), a. (Zo\'94l.) Of relating to the hemerobians.
Hemerocallis
Hem`e*ro*cal"lis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. (Bot.) A genus of plants, some
species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily.
Hemi-
Hem"i- (?). [Gr. "hmi-. See Semi-.] A prefix signifying half.
Hemialbumin
Hem`i*al*bu"min (?), n. [Hemi- + albumin.] (Physiol. Chem.) Same as
Hemialbumose.
Hemialbumose
Hem`i*al"bu"mose` (?), n. [Hemi- + albumose.] (Physiol. Chem.) An
albuminous substance formed in gastric digestion, and by the action of
boiling dilute acids on albumin. It is readily convertible into
hemipeptone. Called also hemialbumin.
Hemian\'91sthesia
Hem`i*an`\'91s*the"si*a (?), n. [Hemi- + an\'91sthesia.] (Med.)
An\'91sthesia upon one side of the body.
Hemibranchi
Hem`i*bran"chi (?), n. pl. [NL. See Hemi-, and Branchia.] (Zo\'94l.)
An order of fishes having an incomplete or reduced branchial
apparatus. It includes the sticklebacks, the flutemouths, and
Fistularia.
Hemicardia
Hem`i*car"di*a (?), n. [NL. See Hemi-, and Cardia.] (Anat.) A lateral
half of the heart, either the right or left. B. G. Wilder.
Hemicarp
Hem`i*carp (?), n. [Hemi- + Gr. (Bot.) One portion of a fruit that
spontaneously divides into halves.
Hemicerebrum
Hem`i*cer"e*brum (?), n. [Hemi- + cerebrum.] (Anat.) A lateral half of
the cerebrum. Wilder.
Hemicollin
Hem`i*col"lin (?), n. [Hemi- + collin.] (Physiol. Chem.) See
Semiglutin.
Hemicrania
Hem`i*cra"ni*a (?), n. [L.: cf. F. h\'82micr\'83nie. See Cranium, and
Megrim.] (Med.) A pain that affects only one side of the head.
Hemicrany
Hem"i*cra`ny (?), n. (Med.) Hemicranis.
Hemicycle
Hem"i*cy`cle (?), n. [L. hemicyclus, Gr.
1. A half circle; a semicircle.
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2. A semicircular place, as a semicircular arena, or room, or part of
a room.
The collections will be displayed in the hemicycle of the central
pavilion. London Academy.
Hemidactyl
Hem`i*dac"tyl (?), n. [See Hemi-, and Dactyl.] (Zo\'94l.) Any species
of Old World geckoes of the genus Hemidactylus. The hemidactyls have
dilated toes, with two rows of plates beneath.
Hemi-demi-semiquaver
Hem`i-dem`i-sem"i*quaver (?), n. [Hemi- + demi-semiquaver.] (Mus.) A
short note, equal to one fourth of a semiquaver, or the sixty-fourth
part of a whole note.
Hemiditone
Hem`i*di"tone (?), n. [Hemi- + ditone.] (Gr. Mus.) The lesser third.
Busby.
Hemigamous
He*mig"a*mous (?), a. [Hemi- + Gr. (Bot.) Having one of the two
florets in the same spikelet neuter, and the other unisexual, whether
male or female; -- said of grasses.
Hemiglyph
Hem"i*glyph (?), n. [Hemi- + Gr. (Arch.) The half channel or groove in
the edge of the triglyph in the Doric order.
Hemihedral
Hem`i*he"dral (?), a. [Hemi- + Gr. (Crystallog.) Having half of the
similar parts of a crystals, instead of all; consisting of half the
planes which full symmetry would require, as when a cube has planes
only on half of its eight solid angles, or one plane out of a pair on
each of its edges; or as in the case of a tetrahedron, which is
hemihedral to an octahedron, it being contained under four of the
planes of an octahedron. -- Hem`i*he"dral*ly, adv.
Hemihedrism
Hem`i*he"drism (?), n. (Crystallog.) The property of crystallizing
hemihedrally.
Hemihedron
Hem`i*he"dron (?), n. (Crystallog.) A solid hemihedrally derived. The
tetrahedron is a hemihedron.
Hemiholohedral
Hem`i*hol`o*he"dral (?), a. [Hemi- + holohedral.] (Crystallog.)
Presenting hemihedral forms, in which half the sectants have the full
number of planes.
Hemimellitic
Hem`i*mel*lit"ic (?), a. [Hemi- + mellitic.] (Chem.) Having half as
many (three) carboxyl radicals as mellitic acid; -- said of an organic
acid.
Hemimetabola
Hem`i*me*tab"o*la (?), n. pl. [NL. See Hemi-, and Metabola.]
(Zo\'94l.) Those insects which have an incomplete metamorphosis.
Hemimetabolic
Hem`i*met`a*bol"ic (?), a. (Zo\'94l.) Having an incomplete
metamorphosis, the larv\'91 differing from the adults chiefly in
laking wings, as in the grasshoppers and cockroaches.
Hemimorphic
Hem`i*mor"phic (?), a. [Hemi- + Gr. (Crystallog.) Having the two ends
modified with unlike planes; -- said of a crystal.
Hemin
He"min (?), n. [Gr. (Physiol. Chem.) A substance, in the form of
reddish brown, microscopic, prismatic crystals, formed from dried
blood by the action of strong acetic acid and common salt; -- called
also Teichmann's crystals. Chemically, it is a hydrochloride of
hematin.
NOTE: &hand; Th e obtaining of these small crystals, from old blood
clots or suspected blood stains, constitutes one of the best
evidences of the presence of blood.
Hemina
He*mi"na (?), n.; pl. Hemin\'91 (#). [L., fr. Gr.
1. (Rom. Antiq.) A measure of half a sextary. Arbuthnot.
2. (Med.) A measure equal to about ten fluid ounces.
Hemionus
He*mi"o*nus (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. (Zo\'94l.) A wild ass found in
Thibet; the kiang. Darwin.
Hemiopia, Hemiopsia
Hem`i*o"pi*a (?), Hem`i*op"si*a (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. (Med.) A defect
of vision in consequence of which a person sees but half of an object
looked at.
Hemiorthotype
Hem`i*or"tho*type (?), a. [Hemi- + Gr. -type.] Same as Monoclinic.
Hemipeptone
Hem`i*pep"tone (?), n. [Hemi- + peptone.] (Physiol. Chem.) A product
of the gastric and pancreatic digestion of albuminous matter.
NOTE: &hand; Un like an tipeptone it is convertible into leucin and
tyrosin, by the continued action of pancreatic juice. See Peptone.
It is also formed from hemialbumose and albumin by the action of
boiling dilute sulphuric acid.
Hemiplegia
Hem`i*ple"gi*a (?), n.[NL., fr. Gr. h\'82miplagie.] (Med.) A palsy
that affects one side only of the body. -- Hem`i"pleg"ic (#), a.
Hemiplegy
Hem"i*ple`gy (?), n. (Med.) Hemiplegia.
Hemipode
Hem"i*pode (?), n. [Hemi- + Gr. (Zo\'94l.) Any bird of the genus
Turnix. Various species inhabit Asia, Africa, and Australia.
Hemiprotein
Hem`i*pro"te*in (?), n. [Hemi- + protein.] (Physiol. Chem.) An
insoluble, proteid substance, described by Sch\'81tzenberger, formed
when albumin is heated for some time with dilute sulphuric acid. It is
apparently identical with antialbumid and dyspeptone.
Hemipter
He*mip"ter (?), n. [Cf. F. h\'82mipt\'8ares, pl.] (Zo\'94l.) One of
the Hemiptera.
Hemiptera
He*mip"te*ra (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. (Zo\'94l.) An order of hexapod
insects having a jointed proboscis, including four sharp stylets
(mandibles and maxill\'91), for piercing. In many of the species
(Heteroptera) the front wings are partially coriaceous, and different
from the others.
NOTE: &hand; Th ey ar e divided into the Heteroptera, including the
squash bug, soldier bug, bedbug, etc.; the Homoptera, including the
cicadas, cuckoo spits, plant lice, scale insects, etc.; the
Thysanoptera, including the thrips, and, according to most recent
writers, the Pediculina or true lice.
Hemipteral, Hemipterous
He*mip"ter*al (?), He*mip"ter*ous (?), a. (Zo\'94l.) Of or pertaining
to the Hemiptera.
Hemipteran
He*mip"ter*an (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) One of the Hemiptera; an hemipter.
Hemisect
Hem`i*sect" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hemisected; p. pr. & vb. n.
Hemisecting.] [Hemi- + L. secare to cut.] (Anat.) To divide along the
mesial plane.
Hemisection
Hem`i*sec"tion (?), n. (Anat.) A division along the mesial plane;
also, one of the parts so divided.
Hemisphere
Hem"i*sphere (?), n. [L. hemisphaerium, Gr. h\'82misph\'8are. See
Hemi-, and Sphere.]
1. A half sphere; one half of a sphere or globe, when divided by a
plane passing through its center.
2. Half of the terrestrial globe, or a projection of the same in a map
or picture.
3. The people who inhabit a hemisphere.
He died . . . mourned by a hemisphere. J. P. Peters.
ten Cerebral hemispheres. (Anat.) See Brain. -- Magdeburg hemispheres
(Physics), two hemispherical cups forming, when placed together, a
cavity from which the air can be withdrawn by an air pump; -- used to
illustrate the pressure of the air. So called because invented by Otto
von Guericke at Magdeburg.
Hemispheric, Hemispherical
Hem`i*spher"ic (?), Hem`i*spher"ic*al (?), a. [Cf. F.
h\'82misph\'82rique.] Containing, or pertaining to, a hemisphere; as,
a hemispheric figure or form; a hemispherical body.
Hemispheroid
Hem`i*sphe"roid (?), n. [Hemi- + spheroid.] A half of a spheroid.
Hemispheroidal
Hem`i*sphe*roid"al (?), a. Resembling, or approximating to, a
hemisphere in form.
Hemispherule
Hem`i*spher"ule (?), n. A half spherule.
Hemistich
Hem"i*stich (?; 277), n. [L. hemistichium, Gr. "hmisti`chion; "hmi-
half + sti`chos row, line, verse: cf. F. h\'82mistiche.] Half a poetic
verse or line, or a verse or line not completed.
Hemistichal
He*mis"ti*chal (?), a. Pertaining to, or written in, hemistichs; also,
by, or according to, hemistichs; as, a hemistichal division of a
verse.
Hemisystole
Hem`i*sys"to*le (?), n. (Physiol.) Contraction of only one ventricle
of the heart.
NOTE: &hand; He misystole is noticed in rare cases of insufficiency
of the mitral valve, in which both ventricles at times contract
simultaneously, as in a normal heart, this condition alternating
with contraction of the right ventricle alone; hence, intermittent
hemisystole.
Hemitone
Hem"i*tone (?), n. [L. hemitonium, Gr. See Semitone.
Hemitropal, Hemitropous
He*mit"ro*pal (?), He*mit"ro*pous (?), a. [See Hemitrope.]
1. Turned half round; half inverted.
2. (Bot.) Having the raphe terminating about half way between the
chalaza and the orifice; amphitropous; -- said of an ovule. Gray.
Hemitrope
Hem"i*trope (?), a. [Hemi- + Gr. h\'82mitrope.] Half turned round;
half inverted; (Crystallog.) having a twinned structure.
Hemitrope
Hem"i*trope, n. That which is hemitropal in construction;
(Crystallog.) a twin crystal having a hemitropal structure.
Hemitropy
He*mit"ro*py (?), n. (Crystallog.) Twin composition in crystals.
Hemlock
Hem"lock (?), n. [OE. hemeluc, humloc, AS. hemlic, hymlic.]
1. (Bot.) The name of several poisonous umbelliferous herbs having
finely cut leaves and small white flowers, as the Cicuta maculata,
bulbifera, and virosa, and the Conium maculatum. See Conium.
NOTE: &hand; Th e po tion of hemlock administered to Socrates is by
some thought to have been a decoction of Cicuta virosa, or water
hemlock, by others, of Conium maculatum.
2. (Bot.) An evergreen tree common in North America (Abies, OR Tsuga,
Canadensis); hemlock spruce.
The murmuring pines and the hemlocks. Longfellow.
3. The wood or timber of the hemlock tree.
Ground hemlock, OR Dwarf hemlock. See under Ground.
Hemmel
Hem"mel (?), n. [Scot. hemmel, hammel, Prov. E. hemble hovel, stable,
shed, perh. allied to D. hemel heaven, canopy, G. himmel; cf. E.
heaven. A shed or hovel for cattle. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.
Hemmer
Hem"mer (?), n. One who, or that which, hems with a needle.
Specifically: (a) An attachment to a sewing machine, for turning under
the edge of a piece of fabric, preparatory to stitching it down. (b) A
tool for turning over the edge of sheet metal to make a hem.
Hemo-
Hem"o- (?). Same as H\'91ma-, H\'91mo-.
Hemoglobin
Hem"o*glo"bin (?), n. [Hemo- + globe.] (Physiol.) The normal coloring
matter of the red blood corpuscles of vertebrate animals. It is
composed of hematin and globulin, and is also called
h\'91matoglobulin. In arterial blood, it is always combined with
oxygen, and is then called oxyhemoglobin. It crystallizes under
different forms from different animals, and when crystallized, is
called h\'91matocrystallin. See Blood crystal, under Blood.
Hemoglobinometer
Hem`o*glo"bin*om"e*ter (?), n. (Physiol. Chem.) Same as
H\'91mochromometer.
Hemophilia
Hem`o*phil"i*a (?), n. See Hematophilia.
Hemoptysis
He*mop"ty*sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. h\'82moptysie.] (Med.) The
expectoration of blood, due usually to hemorrhage from the mucous
membrane of the lungs.
Hemorrhage
Hem"or*rhage (?), n. [L. haemorrhagia, Gr. h\'82morriage,
h\'82morrhagie.] (Med.) Any discharge of blood from the blood vessels.
NOTE: &hand; Th e blood circulates in a system of closed tubes, the
rupture of which gives rise to hemorrhage.
Hemorrhagic
Hem`or*rhag"ic (?), a. [Gr. h\'82morrhagique.] Pertaining or tending
to a flux o
Hemorrhoidal
Hem`or*rhoid"al (?), a. [Cf. F. h\'82morro\'8bdal,
h\'82morrho\'8bdal.]
1. Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, hemorrhoids.
2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the rectum; rectal; as, the
hemorrhoidal arteries, veins, and nerves.
Hemorrhoids
Hem"or*rhoids (?), n. pl. [L. haemorrhoidae, pl., Gr.
h\'82morro\'8bdes, h\'82morrho\'8bdes. See Rheum.] (Med.) Livid and
painful swellings formed by the dilation of the blood vessels around
the margin of, or within, the anus, from which blood or mucus is
occasionally discharged; piles; emerods. [The sing. hemorrhoid is
rarely used.]
Hemostatic
Hem`o*stat"ic (?), a. [Hemo- + Gr. ets>
1. (Med.) Of or relating to stagnation of the blood.
2. Serving to arrest hemorrhage; styptic.
Hemostatic
Hem`o*stat"ic, n. A medicine or application to arrest hemorrhage.
Hemoothorax
Hemo"o*tho"rax (?), n. [NL. See Hemo-, and Thorax.] (Med.) An effusion
of blood into the cavity of the pleura.
Hemp
Hemp (?), n. [OE. hemp, AS. henep, h\'91nep; akin to D. hennep, OHG.
hanaf, G. hanf, Icel. hampr, Dan. hamp, Sw. hampa, L. cannabis,
cannabum, Gr. conoplia, Skr. a; all prob. borrowed from some other
language at an early time. Cf. Cannabine, Canvas.]
1. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Cannabis (C. sativa), the fibrous skin
or bark of which is used for making cloth and cordage. The name is
also applied to various other plants yielding fiber.
2. The fiber of the skin or rind of the plant, prepared for spinning.
The name has also been extended to various fibers resembling the true
hemp.
African hemp, Bowstring hemp. See under African, and Bowstring. --
Bastard hemp, the Asiatic herb Datisca cannabina. -- Canada hemp, a
species of dogbane (Apocynum cannabinum), the fiber of which was used
by the Indians. -- Hemp agrimony, a coarse, composite herb of Europe
(Eupatorium cannabinum), much like the American boneset. -- Hemp
nettle, a plant of the genus Galeopsis (G. Tetrahit), belonging to the
Mint family. -- Indian hemp. See under Indian, a. -- Manila hemp, the
fiber of Musa textilis. -- Sisal hemp, the fiber of Agave sisalana, of
Mexico and Yucatan. -- Sunn hemp, a fiber obtained from a leguminous
plant (Crotalaria juncea). -- Water hemp, an annual American weed
(Acnida cannabina), related to the amaranth.
Hempen
Hemp"en (?), a.
1. Made of hemp; as, a hempen cord.
2. Like hemp. "Beat into a hempen state." Cook.
Hempy
Hemp"y (?), a. Like hemp. [R.] Howell.
Hemself, Hemselve
, Hemselven Hem*self" (?), Hem*selve" (, Hem*selv"en (, pron. pl. [See
Hem, pron.] Themselves; -- used reflexively. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Hemstitch
Hem"stitch (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hemstitched (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Hemstitching.] [Hem + stitch.] To ornament at the head of a broad hem
by drawing out a few parallel threads, and fastening the cross threads
in successive small clusters; as, to hemstitch a handkerchief.
Hemstitched
Hem"stitched (?), a. Having a broad hem separated from the body of the
article by a line of open work; as, a hemistitched handkerchief.
Hemuse
He"muse (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) The roebuck in its third year. [Prov. Eng.]
Hen
Hen (?), n. [AS. henn, hen, h\'91n; akin to D. hen, OHG. henna, G.
henne, Icel. hna, Dan. h\'94na; the fem. corresponding to AS. hana
cock, D. haan, OHG. hano, G. hahn, Icel. hani, Dan. & Sw. hane. Prob.
akin to L. canere to sing, and orig. meaning, a singer. Cf.
Chanticleer.] (Zo\'94l.) The female of the domestic fowl; also, the
female of grouse, pheasants, or any kind of birds; as, the heath hen;
the gray hen.
NOTE: &hand; Us ed ad jectively or in combination to indicate the
female; as, hen canary, hen eagle, hen turkey, peahen.
Hen clam. (Zo\'94l.) (a) A clam of the Mactra, and allied genera; the
sea clam or surf clam. See Surf clam. (b) A California clam of the
genus Pachydesma. -- Hen driver. See Hen harrier (below). -- Hen
harrier (Zo\'94l.), a hawk (Circus cyaneus), found in Europe and
America; -- called also dove hawk, henharm, henharrow, hen driver, and
usually, in America, marsh hawk. See Marsh hawk. -- Hen hawk
(Zo\'94l.), one of several species of large hawks which capture hens;
esp., the American red-tailed hawk (Buteo borealis), the
red-shouldered hawk (B. lineatus), and the goshawk.
Henbane
Hen"bane` (?), n. [Hen + bane.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Hyoscyamus
(H. niger). All parts of the plant are poisonous, and the leaves are
used for the same purposes as belladonna. It is poisonous to domestic
fowls; whence the name. Called also, stinking nightshade, from the
fetid odor of the plant. See Hyoscyamus.
Henbit
Hen"bit` (?), n. (Bot.) A weed of the genus Lamium (L. amplexicaule)
with deeply crenate leaves.
Hence
Hence (?), adv. [OE. hennes, hens (the s is prop. a genitive ending;
cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan,
heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinn\'ben, G. hinnen, OHG. hina, G.
hin; all from the root of E. he. See He.]
1. From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." Chaucer.
Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31.
I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles. Acts xxii. 21.
2. From this time; in the future; as, a week hence. "Half an hour
hence." Shak.
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3. From this reason; as an inference or deduction.
Hence, perhaps, it is, that Solomon calls the fear of the Lord the
beginning of wisdom. Tillotson.
4. From this source or origin.
All other faces borrowed hence Their light and grace. Suckling.
Whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence, even
of your lusts? James. iv. 1.
NOTE: &hand; He nce is used, elliptically and imperatively, for go
hence; depart hence; away; be gone. "Hence with your little ones."
Shak. -- From hence, though a pleonasm, is fully authorized by the
usage of good writers.
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An ancient author prophesied from hence. Dryden.
Expelled from hence into a world Of woe and sorrow. Milton.
Hence
Hence (?), v. t. To send away. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.
Henceforth
Hence`forth" (?), adv. From this time forward; henceforward.
I never from thy side henceforth to stray. Milton.
Henceforward
Hence`for"ward (?), adv. From this time forward; henceforth.
Henchboy
Hench"boy` (?), n. A page; a servant. [Obs.]
Henchman
Hench"man (?), n.; pl. -men (#). [OE. hencheman, henxman; prob. fr.
OE. & AS. hengest horse + E. man, and meaning, a groom. AS. hengest is
akin to D. & G. hengst stallion, OHG. hengist horse, gelding.] An
attendant; a servant; a follower. Now chiefly used as a political cant
term.
Hencoop
Hen"coop` (?), n. A coop or cage for hens.
Hende
Hende (?), a. [OE., near, handy, kind, fr. AS. gehende near, fr. hand
hand. See Handy.]
1. Skillful; dexterous; clever. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. Friendly; civil; gentle; kind. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Hendecagon
Hen*dec"a*gon (?), n. [Gr. hend\'82cagone.] (Geom.) A plane figure of
eleven sides and eleven angles. [Written also endecagon.]
Hendecane
Hen"de*cane (?), n. [Gr. "e`ndeka eleven.] (Chem.) A hydrocarbon,
C11H24, of the paraffin series; -- so called because it has eleven
atoms of carbon in each molecule. Called also endecane, undecane.
Hendecasyllabic
Hen*dec`a*syl*lab"ic (?), a. Pertaining to a line of eleven syllables.
Hendecasyllable
Hen*dec"a*syl`la*ble (?), n. [L. hendecasyllabus, Gr.
hend\'82casyllabe.] A metrical line of eleven syllables. J. Warton.
Hendecatoic
Hen*dec`a*to"ic (?), a. [See Hendecane.] (Chem.) Undecylic; pertaining
to, or derived from, hendecane; as, hendecatoic acid.
Hendiadys
Hen*di"a*dys (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. (Gram.) A figure in which the idea
is expressed by two nouns connected by and, instead of by a noun and
limiting adjective; as, we drink from cups and gold, for golden cups.
Hendy
Hen"dy (?), a. [Obs.] See Hende.
Henen
Hen"en (?), adv. Hence. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Henfish
Hen"fish` (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) (a) A marine fish; the sea bream. (b) A
young bib. See Bib, n., 2.
Heng
Heng (?), obs. imp. of Hang. Hung. Chaucer.
Hen-hearted
Hen"-heart`ed (?), a. Cowardly; timid; chicken-hearted. Udall.
Henhouse
Hen"house` (?), n.; pl. Henhouses. A house or shelter for fowls.
Henhussy
Hen"hus`sy (?), n. A cotquean; a man who intermeddles with women's
concerns.
Heniquen
He*ni"quen (?), n. See Jeniquen.
Henna
Hen"na (?), n. [Ar. hinn\'be alcanna (Lawsonia inermis or alba). Cf.
Alcanna, Alkanet, Orchanet.]
1. (Bot.) A thorny tree or shrub of the genus Lawsonia (L. alba). The
fragrant white blossoms are used by the Buddhists in religious
ceremonies. The powdered leaves furnish a red coloring matter used in
the East to stain the hails and fingers, the manes of horses, etc.
2. (Com.) The leaves of the henna plant, or a preparation or dyestuff
made from them.
Hennery
Hen"ner*y (?), n. An inclosed place for keeping hens. [U. S.]
Hennes
Hen"nes (?), adv. Hence. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Hennotannic
Hen`no*tan"nic (?), a. [Henna + tannic.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or
designating, a brown resinous substance resembling tannin, and
extracted from the henna plant; as, hennotannic acid.
Henoge ny, Henogenesis
He*nog"e* ny (?), Hen`o*gen"e*sis (?), n. [Gr. (Biol.) Same as
Ontogeny.
Henotheism
Hen"o*the*ism (?), n. [Gr. theism.] Primitive religion in which each
of several divinities is regarded as independent, and is worshiped
reference to the rest. [R.]
Henotic
He*not"ic (?), a. [Gr. Harmonizing; irenic. Gladstone.
Henpeck
Hen"peck` (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Henpecked (?); p. pr. & vb.
Henpecking.] To subject to petty authority; -- said of a wife who thus
treats her husband. Commonly used in the past participle (often
adjectively).
Henroost
Hen"roost` (?), n. A place where hens roost.
Henry
Hen"ry (?), n.; pl. Henrys. [From Joseph Henry, an American
physicist.] The unit of electric induction; the induction in a circuit
when the electro-motive force induced in this circuit is one volt,
while the inducing current varies at the rate of one amp\'8are a
second.
Hen's-foot
Hen's-foot` (, n. (Bot.) An umbelliferous plant (Caucalis daucoides).
Hent
Hent (?), v. t. [imp. Hente; p. p. Hent.] [OE. hente, henten, fr. AS.
hentan, gehentan, to pursue, take, seize; cf. Icel. henda, Goth.
hinpan (in compos.), and E. hunt.] To seize; to lay hold on; to catch;
to get. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. Spenser.
This cursed Jew him hente and held him fast. Chaucer.
But all that he might of his friendes hente On bookes and on
learning he it spente. Chaucer.
Henware
Hen"ware` (?), n. (Bot.) A coarse, blackish seaweed. See Badderlocks.
Henxman
Henx"man (?), n. Henchman. [Obs.]
Hep
Hep (?), n. See Hip, the fruit of the dog-rose.
Hepar
He"par (?), n. [L. hepar, hepatis, the liver, Gr.
1. (Old Chem.) Liver of sulphur; a substance of a liver-brown color,
sometimes used in medicine. It is formed by fusing sulphur with
carbonates of the alkalies (esp. potassium), and consists essentially
of alkaline sulphides. Called also hepar sulphuris (.
2. Any substance resembling hepar proper, in appearance; specifically,
in homeopathy, calcium sulphide, called also hepar sulphuris calcareum
(
Hepar antimonii ( (Old Chem.), a substance, of a liver-brown color,
obtained by fusing together antimony sulphide with alkaline sulphides,
and consisting of sulphantimonites of the alkalies; -- called also
liver of antimony.
Hepatic
He*pat"ic (?), a. [L. hepaticus, Gr. jecur, Skr. yak: cf. F.
h\'82patique.]
1. Of or pertaining to the liver; as, hepatic artery; hepatic
diseases.
2. Resembling the liver in color or in form; as, hepatic cinnabar.
3. (Bot.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the plants called Hepatic\'91,
or scale mosses and liverworts.
Hepatic duct (Anat.), any biliary duct; esp., the duct, or one of the
ducts, which carries the bile from the liver to the cystic and common
bile ducts. See Illust., under Digestive. -- Hepatic gas (Old Chem.),
sulphureted hydrogen gas. -- Hepatic mercurial ore, OR Hepatic
cinnabar. See under Cinnabar.
Hepatica
He*pat"i*ca (?), n.; pl. Hepatic\'91 (#). [NL. See Hepatic. So called
in allusion to the shape of the lobed leaves or fronds.]
1. (Bot.) A genus of pretty spring flowers closely related to Anemone;
squirrel cup.
2. (bot.) Any plant, usually procumbent and mosslike, of the
cryptogamous class Hepatic\'91; -- called also scale moss and
liverwort. See Hepatic\'91, in the Supplement.
Hepatical
He*pat"ic*al, a. Hepatic. [R.]
Hepatite
Hep"a*tite (?; 277), n. [L. hepatitis an unknown precious stone, Gr.
h\'82patite.] (Min.) A variety of barite emitting a fetid odor when
rubbed or heated.
Hepatitis
Hep`a*ti"tis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. -itis.] (Med.) Inflammation of the
liver.
Hepatization
Hep`a*ti*za"tion (?), n.
1. (Chem.) Impregnating with sulphureted hydrogen gas. [Obs.]
2. [Cf. F. h\'82patisation.] (Med.) Conversion into a substance
resembling the liver; a state of the lungs when gorged with effused
matter, so that they are no longer pervious to the air.
Hepatize
Hep"a*tize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hepatized (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Hepatizing (?).] [Gr. hepatite, and (for sense 2) F. h\'82patiser.]
1. To impregnate with sulphureted hydrogen gas, formerly called
hepatic gas.
On the right . . . were two wells of hepatized water. Barrow.
2. To gorge with effused matter, as the lungs.
Hepatocele
He*pat"o*cele (?), n. [Gr. (Med.) Hernia of the liver.
Hepatocystic
Hep`a*to*cys"tic (?), a. [Hepatic + cystic.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining
to the liver and gall bladder; as, the hepatocystic ducts.
Hepatogastric
Hep`a*to*gas"tric (?), a. [Hepatic + gastric.] (Anat.) See
Gastrohepatic.
Hepatogenic, Hepatogenous
Hep`a*to*gen"ic (?), Hep`a*tog"e*nous (?), a. [Gr. "h^par, "h`patos,
the liver + root of gi`gnesthai to be born] (Med.) Arising from the
liver; due to a condition of the liver; as, hepatogenic jaundice.
Hepatology
Hep`a*tol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. "h^par, "h`patos, the liver + -logy.] The
science which treats of the liver; a treatise on the liver.
Hepato-pancreas
Hep"a*to-pan"cre*as (?), n. [Gr. "h^par, "h`patos, the liver + E.
pancreas.] (Zo\'94l.) A digestive gland in Crustacea, Mollusca, etc.,
usually called the liver, but different from the liver of vertebrates.
Hepatorenal
Hep`a*to*re"nal (?), a. [Hepatic + renal.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to
the liver and kidneys; as, the hepatorenal ligament.
Hepatoscopy
Hep`a*tos"co*py (?), n. [Gr. "h^par, "h`patos, the liver +
h\'82patoscopie.] Divination by inspecting the liver of animals.
Heppen
Hep"pen (?), a. [Cf. AS. geh\'91p fit, Icel. heppinn lucky, E. happy.]
Neat; fit; comfortable. [Obs.]
Hepper
Hep"per (?), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zo\'94l.) A young salmon; a
parr.
Hepta
Hep"ta (?). [See Seven.] A combining form from Gr. "epta`, seven.
Heptachord
Hep"ta*chord (?), n. [Gr. "epta`xordos seven-stringed; "epta` seven +
xordh` chord: cf. F. heptacorde. See Seven, and Chord.]
1. (Anc. Mus.) (a) A system of seven sounds. (b) A lyre with seven
chords.
2. (Anc. Poet.) A composition sung to the sound of seven chords or
tones. Moore (Encyc. of Music).
Heptad
Hep"tad (?), n. [L. heptas the number seven. Gr. "epta` seven.]
(Chem.) An atom which has a valence of seven, and which can be
theoretically combined with, substituted for, or replaced by, seven
monad atoms or radicals; as, iodine is a heptad in iodic acid. Also
used as an adjective.
Heptade
Hep"tade (?), n. [Cf. F. heptade. See Heptad.] The sum or number of
seven.
Heptaglot
Hep"ta*glot (?), n. [Gr. "epta` seven + 3, A book in seven languages.
Heptagon
Hep"ta*gon (?), n. [Gr. "epta` seven + heptagone.] (Geom.) A plane
figure consisting of seven sides and having seven angles.
Heptagonal
Hep*tag"o*nal (?), a. [Cf. F. heptagonal.] Having seven angles or
sides. Heptagonal numbers (Arith.), the numbers of the series 1, 7,
18, 34, 55, etc., being figurate numbers formed by adding successively
the terms of the arithmetical series 1, 6, 11, 16, 21, etc.
Heptagynia
Hep`ta*gyn"i*a (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. "epta` seven + heptagunie.]
(Bot.) A Linn\'91an order of plants having seven pistils.
Heptagynian, Heptagynous
Hep`ta*gyn"i*an (?), Hep*tag"y*nous (?), a. [Cf. F. heptagyne.] (Bot.)
Having seven pistils.
Heptahedron
Hep`ta*he"dron (?), n. [Hepta- + Gr. hepta\'8adre.] (Geom.) A solid
figure with seven sides.
Heptamerous
Hep*tam"er*ous (?), a. [Hepta- + Gr. (Bot.) Consisting of seven parts,
or having the parts in sets of sevens. Gray.
Heptandria
Hep*tan"dri*a (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. "epta` seven + heptandrie.]
(Bot.) A Linn\'91an class of plants having seven stamens.
Heptandrian, Heptandrous
Hep*tan"dri*an (?), Hep*tan"drous (?), a. [Cf. F. heptandre.] (Bot.)
Having seven stamens.
Heptane
Hep"tane (?), n. [Gr. "epta` seven.] (Chem.) Any one of several
isometric hydrocarbons, C7H16, of the paraffin series (nine are
possible, four are known); -- so called because the molecule has seven
carbon atoms. Specifically, a colorless liquid, found as a constituent
of petroleum, in the tar oil of cannel coal, etc.
Heptangular
Hep*tan"gu*lar (?), a. [Hepta- + angular: cf. F. heptangulaire. Cf.
Septangular.] Having seven angles.
Heptaphyllous
Hep*taph"yl*lous (?), a. [Hepta- + Gr. heptaphylle.] (Bot.) Having
seven leaves.
Heptarch
Hep"tarch (?), n. Same as Heptarchist.
Heptarchic
Hep*tar"chic (?), a. [Cf. F. heptarchique.] Of or pertaining to a
heptarchy; constituting or consisting of a heptarchy. T. Warton.
Heptarchist
Hep"tarch*ist (?), n. A ruler of one division of a heptarchy. [Written
also heptarch.]
Heptarchy
Hep"tarch*y (?), n. [Hepta- + -archy: cf. F. heptarchie.] A government
by seven persons; also, a country under seven rulers.
NOTE: &hand; Th e word is most commonly applied to England, when it
was divided into seven kingdoms; as, the Saxon heptachy, which
consisted of Kent, the South Saxons (Sussex), West Saxons (Wessex),
East Saxons (Essex), the East Angles, Mercia, and Northumberland.
Heptaspermous
Hep`ta*sper"mous (?), a. [Hepta- + Gr. (Bot.) Having seven seeds.
Heptastich
Hep"ta*stich (?), n. [Hepta- + Gr. sti`chos line, verse.] (Pros.) A
composition consisting of seven lines or verses.
Heptateuch
Hep"ta*teuch (?), n. [L. heptateuchos, Gr. "epta` seven +
heptateuque.] The first seven books of the Testament.
Heptavalent
Hep*tav"a*lent (?), a. [Hepta- + L. valens, p. pr. See Valence.]
(Chem.) Having seven units of attractive force or affinity; -- said of
heptad elements or radicals.
Heptene
Hep"tene (?), n. [Gr. "epta` seven.] (Chem.) Same as Heptylene.
Heptine
Hep"tine (?), n. [Heptane + -ine.] (Chem.) Any one of a series of
unsaturated metameric hydrocarbons, C7H12, of the acetylene series.
Heptoic
Hep*to"ic (?), a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, heptane; as,
heptoic acid.
Heptone
Hep"tone (?), n. [Gr. "epta` seven.] (Chem.) A liquid hydrocarbon,
C7H10, of the valylene series.
Hep tree
Hep" tree` (?). [See Hep.] The wild dog-rose.
Heptyl
Hep"tyl (?), n. [Hepta- + -yl.] (Chem.) A compound radical, C7H15,
regarded as the essential radical of heptane and a related series of
compounds.
Heptylene
Hep"tyl*ene (?), n. (Chem.) A colorless liquid hydrocarbon, C7H14, of
the ethylene series; also, any one of its isomers. Called also
heptene.
Heptylic
Hep*tyl"ic (?), a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, heptyl or
heptane; as, heptylic alcohol. Cf. nanthylic.
Her
Her (?), pron. & a. [OE. hire, here, hir, hure, gen. and dat. sing.,
AS. hire, gen. and dat. sing. of h\'82o she. from the same root as E.
he. See He.] The form of the objective and the possessive case of the
personal pronoun she; as, I saw her with her purse out.
NOTE: &hand; Th e po ssessive her takes the form hers when the noun
with which in agrees is not given, but implied. "And what his
fortune wanted, hers could mend."
Dryden.
Her, Here
Her, Here (, pron. pl. [OE. here, hire, AS. heora, hyra, gen. pl. of
h&emac;. See He.] Of them; their. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.
On here bare knees adown they fall. Chaucer.
Heracleonite
He*rac"le*on*ite (?), n. (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Heracleon of
Alexandria, a Judaizing Gnostic, in the early history of the Christian
church.
Herakline
He*rak"line (?), n. [Gr. A picrate compound, used as an explosive in
blasting.
Herald
Her"ald (?), n. [OE. herald, heraud, OF. heralt, heraut, herault, F.
h\'82raut, LL. heraldus, haraldus, fr. (assumed) OHG. heriwalto,
hariwaldo, a (civil) officer who serves the army; hari, heri, army +
waltan to manage, govern, G. walten; akin to E. wield. See Harry,
Wield.]
1. (Antiq.) An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war,
to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from
the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable
character.
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2. In the Middle Ages, the officer charged with the above duties, and
also with the care of genealogies, of the rights and privileges of
noble families, and especially of armorial bearings. In modern times,
some vestiges of this office remain, especially in England. See
Heralds' College (below), and King-at-Arms.
3. A proclaimer; one who, or that which, publishes or announces; as,
the herald of another's fame. Shak.
4. A forerunner; a a precursor; a harbinger.
It was the lark, the herald of the morn. Shak.
5. Any messenger. "My herald is returned." Shak.
Heralds' College, in England, an ancient corporation, dependent upon
the crown, instituted or perhaps recognized by Richard III. in 1483,
consisting of the three Kings-at-Arms and the Chester, Lancaster,
Richmond, Somerset, Windsor, and York Heralds, together with the Earl
Marshal. This retains from the Middle Ages the charge of the armorial
bearings of persons privileged to bear them, as well as of genealogies
and kindred subjects; -- called also College of Arms.
Herald
Her"ald (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Heralded; p. pr. & vb. n. Heralding.]
[Cf. OF. herauder, heraulder.] To introduce, or give tidings of, as by
a herald; to proclaim; to announce; to foretell; to usher in. Shak.
Heraldic
He*ral"dic (?), a. [Cf. F. h\'82raldique.] Of or pertaining to heralds
or heraldry; as, heraldic blazoning; heraldic language. T. Warton.
Heraldically
He*ral"dic*al*ly (?), adv. In an heraldic manner; according to the
rules of heraldry.
Heraldry
Her"ald*ry (?), n. The art or office of a herald; the art, practice,
or science of recording genealogies, and blazoning arms or ensigns
armorial; also, of marshaling cavalcades, processions, and public
ceremonies.
Heraldship
Her"ald*ship, n. The office of a herald. Selden.
Herapathite
Her"a*path*ite (?), n. [Named after Dr. Herapath, the discoverer.]
(Chem.) The sulphate of iodoquinine, a substance crystallizing in thin
plates remarkable for their effects in polarizing light.
Heraud
Her"aud (?), n. A herald. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Herb
Herb (?; 277), n. [OE. herbe, erbe, OF. herbe, erbe, F. herbe, L.
herba; perh. akin to Gr. forbh` food, pasture, fe`rbein to feed.]
1. A plant whose stem does not become woody and permanent, but dies,
at least down to the ground, after flowering.
NOTE: &hand; An nual he rbs li ve bu t on e se ason; biennial herbs
flower the second season, and then die; perennial herbs produce new
stems year after year.
2. Grass; herbage.
And flocks Grazing the tender herb. Milton.
Herb bennet. (Bot.) See Bennet. -- Herb Christopher (Bot.), an herb
(Act\'91a spicata), whose root is used in nervous diseases; the
baneberry. The name is occasionally given to other plants, as the
royal fern, the wood betony, etc. -- Herb Gerard (Bot.), the goutweed;
-- so called in honor of St. Gerard, who used to be invoked against
the gout. Dr. Prior. -- Herb grace, OR Herb of grace. (Bot.) See Rue.
-- Herb Margaret (Bot.), the daisy. See Marguerite. -- Herb Paris
(Bot.), an Old World plant related to the trillium (Paris
quadrifolia), commonly reputed poisonous. -- Herb Robert (Bot.), a
species of Geranium (G. Robertianum.)
Herbaceous
Her*ba"ceous (?), a. [L. herbaceus grassy. See Herb.] Of or pertaining
to herbs; having the nature, texture, or characteristics, of an herb;
as, herbaceous plants; an herbaceous stem.
Herbage
Herb"age (?; 48), n. [F. See Herb.]
1. Herbs collectively; green food beasts; grass; pasture. "Thin
herbage in the plaims." Dryden.
2. (Law.) The liberty or right of pasture in the forest or in the
grounds of another man. Blount.
Herbaged
Herb"aged (?), a. Covered with grass. Thomson.
Herbal
Herb"al (?), a. Of or pertaining to herbs. Quarles.
Herbal
Herb"al (?), n.
1. A book containing the names and descriptions of plants. Bacon.
2. A collection of specimens of plants, dried and preserved; a hortus
siccus; an herbarium. Steele.
Herbalism
Herb"al*ism (?), n. The knowledge of herbs.
Herbalist
Herb"al*ist, n. One skilled in the knowledge of plants; a collector
of, or dealer in, herbs, especially medicinal herbs.
Herbar
Herb"ar (?), n. An herb. [Obs.] Spenser.
Herbarian
Her*ba"ri*an (?), n. A herbalist.
Herbarist
Herb"a*rist (?), n. A herbalist. [Obs.]
Herbarium
Her*ba"ri*um (?), n.; pl. E. Herbariums (#), L. Herbaria (#). [LL.,
fr. L. herba. See Herb, and cf. Arbor, Herbary.]
1. A collection of dried specimens of plants, systematically arranged.
Gray.
2. A book or case for preserving dried plants.
Herbarize
Herb"a*rize (?), v. t. See Herborize.
Herbary
Herb"a*ry (?), n. [See Herbarium.] A garden of herbs; a cottage
garden. T. Warton.
Herber
Herb"er (?), n. [OF. herbier, LL. herbarium. See Herbarium.] A garden;
a pleasure garden. [Obs.] "Into an herber green." Chaucer.
Herbergage
Her"berg*age (?), n. [See Harborage.] Harborage; lodging; shelter;
harbor. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Herbergeour
Her"ber*geour (?), n. [See Harbinger.] A harbinger. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Herbergh, Herberwe
Her"bergh (?), Her"ber*we (, n. [See Harbor.] A harbor. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Herbescent
Her*bes"cent (?), a. [L. herbescens, p. pr. of herbescere.] Growing
into herbs.
Herbid
Herb"id (?), a. [L. herbidus.] Covered with herbs. [Obs.] Bailey.
Herbiferous
Her*bif"er*ous (?), a. [Herb + -ferous: cf. F. herbif\'82re.] Bearing
herbs or vegetation.
Herbist
Herb"ist (?), n. A herbalist.
Herbivora
Her*biv"o*ra (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. herba herb + vorare to devour.]
(Zo\'94l.) An extensive division of Mammalia. It formerly included the
Proboscidea, Hyracoidea, Perissodactyla, and Artiodactyla, but by
later writers it is generally restricted to the two latter groups
(Ungulata). They feed almost exclusively upon vegetation.
Herbivore
Her"bi*vore (?), n. [Cf. F. herbivore.] (Zo\'94l.) One of the
Herbivora. P. H. Gosse.
Herbivorous
Her*biv"o*rous (?), a. (Zo\'94l.) Eating plants; of or pertaining to
the Herbivora.
Herbless
Herb"less (?), a. Destitute of herbs or of vegetation. J. Warton.
Herblet
Herb"let (?), n. A small herb. Shak.
Herborist
Her"bo*rist (?), n. [F. herboriste.] A herbalist. Ray.
Herborization
Her`bo*ri*za"tion (?), n. [F. herborisation.]
1. The act of herborizing.
2. The figure of plants in minerals or fossils.
Herborize
Her"bo*rize (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Herborized (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Herborizing (?).] [F. herboriser, for herbariser, fr. L. herbarium.
See Hebrarium.] To search for plants, or new species of plants, with a
view to classifying them.
He herborized as he traveled. W. Tooke.
Herborize
Her"bo*rize, v. t. To form the figures of plants in; -- said in
reference to minerals. See Arborized.
Herborized stones contain fine mosses. Fourcroy (Trans.)
Herborough
Her"bor*ough (?), n. [See Harborough, and Harbor.] A harbor. [Obs.] B.
Jonson.
Herbose, Herbous
Her*bose" (?), Herb"ous (?), a. [L. herbosus: cf. F. herbeux.]
Abounding with herbs. "Fields poetically called herbose." Byrom.
Herb-woman
Herb"-wom`an (?), n.; pl. Herb-women (. A woman that sells herbs.
Herby
Herb"y (?), a. Having the nature of, pertaining to, or covered with,
herbs or herbage. "Herby valleys." Chapman.
Hercogamous
Her*cog"a*mous (?), a. [Gr. (Bot.) Not capable of self-fertilization;
-- said of hermaphrodite flowers in which some structural obstacle
forbids autogamy.
Herculean
Her*cu"le*an (?), a. [L. herculeus, fr. Hercules: cf. F. hercul\'82en.
See Hercules.]
1. Requiring the strength of Hercules; hence, very great, difficult,
or dangerous; as, an Herculean task.
2. Having extraordinary strength or size; as, Herculean limbs.
"Herculean Samson." Milton.
Hercules
Her"cu*les (?), n.
1. (Gr. Myth.) A hero, fabled to have been the son of Jupiter and
Alcmena, and celebrated for great strength, esp. for the
accomplishment of his twelve great tasks or "labors."
2. (Astron.) A constellation in the northern hemisphere, near Lyra.
Hercules' beetle (Zo\'94l.), any species of Dynastes, an American
genus of very large lamellicorn beetles, esp. D. hercules of South
America, which grows to a length of six inches. -- Hercules' club.
(Bot.) (a) An ornamental tree of the West Indies (Zanthoxylum
Clava-Herculis), of the same genus with the prickly ash. (b) A variety
of the common gourd (Lagenaria vulgaris). Its fruit sometimes exceeds
five feet in length. (c) The Angelica tree. See under Angelica. --
Hercules powder, an explosive containing nitroglycerin; -- used for
blasting.
Hercynian
Her*cyn"i*an (?), a. [L. Hercynia silva, Hercynius saltus, the
Hercynian forest; cf. Gr. Of or pertaining to an extensive forest in
Germany, of which there are still portions in Swabia and the Hartz
mountains.
Herd
Herd (?), a. Haired. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Herd
Herd (?), n. [OE. herd, heord, AS. heord; akin to OHG. herta,G. herde,
Icel. hj\'94r, Sw. hjord, Dan. hiord, Goth. ha\'a1rda; cf. Skr.
\'87ardha troop, host.]
1. A number of beasts assembled together; as, a herd of horses, oxen,
cattle, camels, elephants, deer, or swine; a particular stock or
family of cattle.
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea. Gray.
NOTE: &hand; He rd is di stinguished fr om flock, as being chiefly
applied to the larger animals. A number of cattle, when driven to
market, is called a drove.
2. A crowd of low people; a rabble.
But far more numerous was the herd of such Who think too little and
who talk too much. Dryden.
You can never interest the common herd in the abstract question.
Coleridge.
Herd's grass (Bot.), one of several species of grass, highly esteemed
for hay. See under Grass.
Herd
Herd, n. [OE. hirde, herde, heorde, AS. hirde, hyrde, heorde; akin to
G. hirt, hirte, OHG. hirti, Icel. hirir, Sw. herde, Dan. hyrde, Goth.
ha\'a1rdeis. See 2d Herd.] One who herds or assembles domestic
animals; a herdsman; -- much used in composition; as, a shepherd; a
goatherd, and the like. Chaucer.
Herd
Herd, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Herded; p. pr. & vb. n. Herding.] [See 2d
Herd.]
1. To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in
company; as, sheep herd on many hills.
2. To associate; to ally one's self with, or place one's self among, a
group or company.
I'll herd among his friends, and seem One of the number. Addison.
3. To act as a herdsman or a shepherd. [Scot.]
Herd
Herd, v. t. To form or put into a herd.
Herdbook
Herd"book` (?), n. A book containing the list and pedigrees of one or
more herds of choice breeds of cattle; -- also called herd record, or
herd register.
Herder
Herd"er (?), n. A herdsman. [R.]
Herderite
Her"der*ite (?), n. [Named after Baron von Herder, who discovered it.]
(Min.) A rare fluophosphate of glucina, in small white crystals.
Herdess
Herd"ess (?), n. A shepherdess; a female herder. Sir P. Sidney.
Chaucer.
Herdgroom
Herd"groom` (?), n. A herdsman. [Obs.]
Herdic
Her"dic (?), n. [Named from Peter Herdic, the inventor.] A kind of
low-hung cab.
Herdman, Herdsman
Herd"man (?), Herds"man (?), n.; pl. -men (. The owner or keeper of a
herd or of herds; one employed in tending a herd of cattle.
Herdswoman
Herds"wom`an (?), n.; pl. -women (. A woman who tends a herd. Sir W.
Scott.
Here
Here (?), n. Hair. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Here
Here (?), pron.
1. See Her, their. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. Her; hers. See Her. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Here
Here (?), adv. [OE. her, AS. h; akin to OS. h, D. hier, OHG. hiar, G.
hier, Icel. & Goth. h, Dan. her, Sw. h\'84r; fr. root of E. he. See
He.]
1. In this place; in the place where the speaker is; -- opposed to
there.
He is not here, for he is risen. Matt. xxviii. 6.
2. In the present life or state.
Happy here, and more happy hereafter. Bacon.
3. To or into this place; hither. [Colloq.] See Thither.
Here comes Virgil. B. Jonson.
Thou led'st me here. Byron.
4. At this point of time, or of an argument; now.
The prisoner here made violent efforts to rise. Warren.
NOTE: &hand; He re, in th e last sense, is sometimes used before a
verb without subject; as, Here goes, for Now (something or
somebody) goes; -- especially occurring thus in drinking healths.
"Here's [a health] to thee, Dick."
Cowley. Here and there, in one place and another; in a dispersed
manner; irregularly. "Footsteps here and there." Longfellow. -- It is
neither, here nor there, it is neither in this place nor in that,
neither in one place nor in another; hence, it is to no purpose,
irrelevant, nonsense.<-- mostly used to mean "irrelevant" --> Shak.
Herea-bout, Hereabouts
Here"a-bout` (?), Here"a*bouts` (?), adv.
1. About this place; in this vicinity.
2. Concerning this. [Obs.]
Hereafter
Here*aft"er (?), adv. [AS. hr\'91fter.] In time to come; in some
future time or state.
Hereafter he from war shall come. Dryden.
Hereafter
Here*aft"er, n. A future existence or state. <-- Syn. afterlife, the
life to come, future life, eternal bliss, eternal reward, -->
'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter. Addison.
Hereafterward
Here*aft"er*ward (?), adv. Hereafter. [Obs.]
Thou shalt hereafterward . . . come. Chaucer.
Here-at
Here-at" (?), adv. At, or by reason of, this; as, he was offended
hereat. Hooker.
Hereby
Here*by" (?), adv.
1. By means of this.
And hereby we do know that we know him. 1 John ii. 3.
2. Close by; very near. [Obs.] Shak.
Hereditability
He*red`i*ta*bil"i*ty (?), n. State of being hereditable. Brydges.
Hereditable
He*red"i*ta*ble (?), a. [LL. hereditabilis, fr. hereditare to inherit,
fr. L. hereditas heirship inheritance, heres heir: cf. OF.
hereditable. See Heir, and cf. Heritable.]
1. Capable of being inherited. See Inheritable. Locke.
2. Qualified to inherit; capable of inheriting.
Hereditably
He*red"i*ta*bly, adv. By inheritance. W. Tooke.
Hereditament
Her`e*dit"a*ment (?), n. [LL. hereditamentum. See Hereditable.] (Law)
Any species of property that may be inherited; lands, tenements,
anything corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, that may
descend to an heir. Blackstone.
NOTE: &hand; A co rporeal hereditament is visible and tangible; an
incorporeal hereditament is not in itself visible or tangible,
being an hereditary right, interest, or obligation, as duty to pay
rent, or a right of way.
Hereditarily
He*red"i*ta*ri*ly (?), adv. By inheritance; in an hereditary manner.
Pope.
Hereditary
He*red"i*ta*ry (?), a. [L. hereditarius, fr. hereditas heirship,
inheritance, fr. heres heir: cf. F. h\'82r\'82ditaire. See Heir.]
1. Descended, or capable of descending, from an ancestor to an heir at
law; received or passing by inheritance, or that must pass by
inheritance; as, an hereditary estate or crown.
2. Transmitted, or capable of being transmitted, as a constitutional
quality or condition from a parent to a child; as, hereditary pride,
bravery, disease. Syn. -- Ancestral; patrimonial; inheritable.
Heredity
He*red"i*ty (?), n. [L. hereditas heirship.] (Biol.) Hereditary
transmission of the physical and psychical qualities of parents to
their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to
repeat their characteristics in their descendants. See Pangenesis.
Hereford
Her"e*ford (?), n. One of a breed of cattle originating in
Herefordshire, England. The Herefords are good working animals, and
their beef-producing quality is excellent.
Herehence
Here"hence` (?), adv. From hence. [Obs.]
Herein
Here*in" (?), adv. [AS. hrinne.] In this.
Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit. John xv. 8.
Hereinafter
Here`in*aft"er (?), adv. In the following part of this (writing,
document, speech, and the like).
Hereinbefore
Here`in*be*fore", adv. In the preceding part of this (writing,
document, book, etc.).
Hereinto
Here`in*to" (?; 277), adv. Into this. Hooker.
Heremit, Heremite
Her"e*mit (?), Her"e*mite (?), n. [See Hermit.] A hermit. [Obs.] Bp.
Hall.
Heremitical
Her`e*mit"ic*al (?), a. Of or pertaining to a hermit; solitary;
secluded from society. Pope.
Heren
Her"en (?), a. Made of hair. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Hereof
Here*of" (?), adv. Of this; concerning this; from this; hence.
Hereof comes it that Prince Harry is valiant. Shak.
Hereon
Here*on" (?), adv. On or upon this; hereupon.
Hereout
Here*out" (?), adv. Out of this. [Obs.] Spenser.
Heresiarch
Her"e*si*arch (?; 277), n. [L. haeresiarcha, Gr. h\'82r\'82siarque.] A
leader in heresy; the chief of a sect of heretics. Bp. Stillingfleet.
Heresiarchy
Her"e*si*arch`y (?), n. A chief or great heresy. [R.]
The book itself [the Alcoran] consists of heresiarchies against our
blessed Savior. Sir T. Herbert.
Heresiographer
Her`e*si*og"ra*pher (?), n. [See Heresiography.] One who writes on
heresies.
Heresiography
Her`e*si*og"ra*phy (?), n. [Gr. -graphy: cf. F. h\'82r\'82siographie.]
A treatise on heresy.
Heresy
Her"e*sy (?), n.; pl. Heresies (#). [OE. heresie, eresie, OF. heresie,
iresie, F. h\'82r\'82sie, L. haeresis, Gr.
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1. An opinion held in opposition to the established or commonly
received doctrine, and tending to promote a division or party, as in
politics, literature, philosophy, etc.; -- usually, but not
necessarily, said in reproach.
New opinions Divers and dangerous, which are heresies, And, not
reformed, may prove pernicious. Shak.
After the study of philosophy began in Greece, and the
philosophers, disagreeing amongst themselves, had started many
questions . . . because every man took what opinion he pleased,
each several opinion was called a heresy; which signified no more
than a private opinion, without reference to truth or falsehood.
Hobbes.
2. (Theol.) Religious opinion opposed to the authorized doctrinal
standards of any particular church, especially when tending to promote
schism or separation; lack of orthodox or sound belief; rejection of,
or erroneous belief in regard to, some fundamental religious doctrine
or truth; heterodoxy.
Doubts 'mongst divines, and difference of texts, From whence arise
diversity of sects, And hateful heresies by God abhor'd. Spenser.
Deluded people! that do not consider that the greatest heresy in
the world is a wicked life. Tillotson.
3. (Law) An offense against Christianity, consisting in a denial of
some essential doctrine, which denial is publicly avowed, and
obstinately maintained.
A second offense is that of heresy, which consists not in a total
denial of Christianity, but of some its essential doctrines,
publicly and obstinately avowed. Blackstone.
NOTE: &hand; "W hen I ca ll du eling, an d si milar aberrations of
honor, a moral heresy, I refer to the force of the Greek Coleridge.