(n.) One who makes or mends hedges; also, one who hedges, as, in betting.

(imp. & p. p.) of Heed

(imp. & p. p.) of Heel

(n.) A cock that strikes well with his heels or spurs.

(n.) A dependent and subservient hanger-on of a political patron.

(imp. & p. p.) of Heft

(n.) A young cow.

(n.) The condition of being high; elevated position.

(n.) 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.

(n.) Degree of latitude either north or south.

(n.) That which is elevated; an eminence; a hill or mountain; as, Alpine heights.

(n.) Elevation in excellence of any kind, as in power, learning, arts; also, an advanced degree of social rank; preeminence or distinction in society; prominence.

(n.) Progress toward eminence; grade; degree.

(n.) 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.

(a.) Heliacal.

() A combining form from Gr. "h`lios the sun.

(n.) A gaseous element found in the atmospheres of the sun and earth and in some rare minerals.

(imp. & p. p.) of Helm

(a.) Covered with a helmet.

(n.) A defensive covering for the head. See Casque, Headpiece, Morion, Sallet, and Illust. of Beaver.

(n.) The representation of a helmet over shields or coats of arms, denoting gradations of rank by modifications of form.

(n.) 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.

(n.) That which resembles a helmet in form, position, etc.

(n.) The upper part of a retort.

(n.) The hood-formed upper sepal or petal of some flowers, as of the monkshood or the snapdragon.

(n.) A naked shield or protuberance on the top or fore part of the head of a bird.

(imp. & p. p.) of Help

(p. p.) of Help

(imp. & p. p.) of Helve

(imp. & p. p.) of Hem

(n.) A young boar of the second year.

(n.) A sheep or colt alter it has passed its first year.

(n.) The pignut.

(n.) In England, the Bunium flexuosum, a tuberous plant.

(n.) A pen or sty for hogs.

(n.) A pen, house, or inclosure, for hogs.

(n.) A rude, clownish youth.

(n.) A rude, bold girl; a romp.

(a.) Rustic; rude; bold.

(v. i.) To romp rudely or indecently.

(n.) A large ship of burden, in ancient Greece.

(adv.) Piously; with sanctity; in a holy manner.

(adv.) Sacredly; inviolably.

(n.) Undercutting in a bed of coal, in order to bring down the upper mass.

(n. & v. i.) Same as Hollo.

(a.) Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow sphere.

(a.) Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.

(a.) Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound; deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar.

(a.) Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as, a hollow heart; a hollow friend.

(n.) A cavity, natural or artificial; an unfilled space within anything; a hole, a cavern; an excavation; as the hollow of the hand or of a tree.

(n.) A low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a surface; a concavity; a channel.

(v. t.) To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate.

(adv.) Wholly; completely; utterly; -- chiefly after the verb to beat, and often with all; as, this story beats the other all hollow. See All, adv.

(interj.) Hollo.

(v. i.) To shout; to hollo.

(v. t.) To urge or call by shouting.

(n.) An oxide of holmium.

(n.) A name given to a vase having a rounded body

(n.) A closed vessel of nearly spherical form on a high stem or pedestal.

(n.) A drinking cup having a foot and stem.

(n.) A whoremonger.

() imp. & p. p. of Help.

(a.) Wholesome.

(n.) A symbolical acknowledgment made by a feudal tenant to, and in the presence of, his lord, on receiving investiture of fee, or coming to it by succession, that he was his man, or vassal; profession of fealty to a sovereign.

(n.) Respect or reverential regard; deference; especially, respect paid by external action; obeisance.

(n.) Reverence directed to the Supreme Being; reverential worship; devout affection.

(v. t.) To pay reverence to by external action.

(v. t.) To cause to pay homage.

(n.) Belonging to, or having the characteristics of, home; domestic; familiar; intimate.

(n.) Plain; unpretending; rude in appearance; unpolished; as, a homely garment; a homely house; homely fare; homely manners.

(n.) Of plain or coarse features; uncomely; -- contrary to handsome.

(adv.) Plainly; rudely; coarsely; as, homely dressed.

(n.) A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; a serious discourse.

(n.) A serious or tedious exhortation in private on some moral point, or on the conduct of life.

(a.) Home-returning; -- used specifically of carrier pigeons.

(a.) Like a home or a home circle.

(a.) Fit; qualified; also, apt.

(adv.) By chance.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hack

(n.) The chipmunk; also, the chickaree or red squirrel.

(n.) A comb for dressing flax, raw silk, etc.; a hatchel.

(n.) Any flimsy substance unspun, as raw silk.

(n.) 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.

(n.) An artificial fly for angling, made of feathers.

(v. t.) To separate, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel.

(v. t.) To tear asunder; to break in pieces.

(a.) Rough or broken, as if hacked.

(a.) Having fine, short, and sharp points on the surface; as, the hackly fracture of metallic iron.

(n.) Heather; heath.

(n.) The haddock.

() Alt. of Haemo-

() Combining forms indicating relation or resemblance to blood, association with blood; as, haemapod, haematogenesis, haemoscope.

(adv.) Toward the haemal side; on the haemal side of; -- opposed to neurad.

(a.) Pertaining to the blood or blood vessels; also, ventral. See Hemal.

(a.) Pertaining to the blood; hemal.

(n.) Same as Hemin.

(prefix.) See Haema-.

(v. i.) To stammer; to speak unintelligibly; to prevaricate.

(n.) A caviler; a wrangler.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hag

(n.) A harquebus, of which the but was bent down or hooked for convenience in taking aim.

(n.) 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.

(a.) Like a hag; lean; ugly.

(n.) 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.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. i.) To be difficult in bargaining; to stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.

(n.) The act or process of haggling.

(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.

(v. t.) To greet; to salute.

() A contraction of have not or has not; as, I hain't, he hain't, we hain't.

(a.) Having hair.

(a.) In composition: Having (such) hair; as, red-haired.

(a.) Hairy.

(p]. pr. & vb. n.) of Hone

(a.) Decent; honorable; suitable; becoming.

(a.) Characterized by integrity or fairness and straight/forwardness in conduct, thought, speech, etc.; upright; just; equitable; trustworthy; truthful; sincere; free from fraud, guile, or duplicity; not false; -- said of persons and acts, and of things to which a moral quality is imputed; as, an honest judge or merchant; an honest statement; an honest bargain; an honest business; an honest book; an honest confession.

(a.) Open; frank; as, an honest countenance.

(a.) Chaste; faithful; virtuous.

(a.) To adorn; to grace; to honor; to make becoming, appropriate, or honorable.

(a.) See Honeyed.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hood

(a.) Covered with a hood.

(a.) Furnished with a hood or something like a hood.

(a.) Hood-shaped; esp. (Bot.), rolled up like a cornet of paper; cuculate, as the spethe of the Indian turnip.

(a.) Having the head conspicuously different in color from the rest of the plumage; -- said of birds.

(a.) Having a hoodlike crest or prominence on the head or neck; as, the hooded seal; a hooded snake.

(n.) One who causes bad luck.

(pl. ) of Hoof

(a.) Furnished with hoofs.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hook

(n.) A pipe with a long, flexible stem, so arranged that the smoke is cooled by being made to pass through water.

(a.) Having the form of a hook; curvated; as, the hooked bill of a bird.

(a.) Provided with a hook or hooks.

(n.) See Hockey.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hoop

(n.) Alt. of Hoopoo

(n.) A European bird of the genus Upupa (U. epops), having a beautiful crest, which it can erect or depress at pleasure. Called also hoop, whoop. The name is also applied to several other species of the same genus and allied genera.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hoot

(imp. & p. p.) of Hop

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hope

(p. a.) Impregnated with hops.

(n.) A hand basket; also, a dish used by miners for measuring ore.

(n.) An infant in arms.

(v. t.) To impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hamper; to hobble; as, to hopple an unruly or straying horse.

(v. t.) Fig.: To entangle; to hamper.

(n.) A fetter for horses, or cattle, when turned out to graze; -- chiefly used in the plural.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an hour; noting the hours.

(a.) Occurring once an hour; continuing an hour; hourly; ephemeral.

(a.) Furnished with a horn or horns; furnished with a hornlike process or appendage; as, horned cattle; having some part shaped like a horn.

(n.) A large, strong wasp. The European species (Vespa crabro) is of a dark brown and yellow color. It is very pugnacious, and its sting is very severe. Its nest is constructed of a paperlike material, and the layers of comb are hung together by columns. The American white-faced hornet (V. maculata) is larger and has similar habits.

(a.) Rough; rugged; bristling.

(a.) Fitted to excite horror; dreadful; hideous; shocking; hence, very offensive.

(n.) A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement.

(n.) A shaking, shivering, or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever; in old medical writings, a chill of less severity than a rigor, and more marked than an algor.

(n.) A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking.

(n.) That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness.

(imp. & p. p.) of Horse

(n.) One who deals in hose or stocking, or in goods knit or woven like hose.

(n.) An inn.

(n.) A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.

(n.) The consecrated wafer; the host.

(n.) A hostelry; an inn or lodging house.

(n.) A stable for horses.

(n.) A bed of earth heated by fermenting manure or other substances, and covered with glass, intended for raising early plants, or for nourishing exotics.

(n.) A place which favors rapid growth or development; as, a hotbed of sedition.

(n.) See Howdah.

(n.) An owl. See Howlet.

(pl. ) of Houri

(a.) Happening or done every hour; occurring hour by hour; frequent; often repeated; renewed hour by hour; continual.

(adv.) Every hour; frequently; continually.

(pl. ) of House

(imp. & p. p.) of House

(n.) A plant (Hyssopus officinalis). The leaves have an aromatic smell, and a warm, pungent taste.

(n.) A measure of half a sextary.

(n.) A measure equal to about ten fluid ounces.

(n.) A shed or hovel for cattle.

(n.) One who, or that which, hems with a needle.

(n.) An attachment to a sewing machine, for turning under the edge of a piece of fabric, preparatory to stitching it down.

(n.) A tool for turning over the edge of sheet metal to make a hem.

(a.) Made of hemp; as, a hempen cord.

(a.) Like hemp.

(n.) A weed of the genus Lamium (L. amplexicaule) with deeply crenate leaves.

(adv.) Hence.

(pl. ) of Henry

(a.) Neat; fit; comfortable.

(n.) A young salmon; a parr.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A compound radical, C7H15, regarded as the essential radical of heptane and a related series of compounds.

(n.) A herald.

(a.) Of or pertaining to herbs.

(n.) A book containing the names and descriptions of plants.

(n.) A collection of specimens of plants, dried and preserved; a hortus siccus; an herbarium.

(n.) An herb.

(n.) A garden; a pleasure garden.

(a.) Covered with herbs.

(imp. & p. p.) of Herd

(n.) A kind of low-hung cab.

(adv.) By means of this.

(adv.) Close by; very near.

(adv.) In this.

(adv.) Of this; concerning this; from this; hence.

(adv.) On or upon this; hereupon.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(n.) An offense against Christianity, consisting in a denial of some essential doctrine, which denial is publicly avowed, and obstinately maintained.

(adv.) To this; hereunto.

(n.) Formerly, a payment or tribute of arms or military accouterments, or the best beast, or chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant; in modern use, a customary tribute of goods or chattels to the lord of the fee, paid on the decease of a tenant.

(pl. ) of Herma

(n.) A protrusion, consisting of an organ or part which has escaped from its natural cavity, and projects through some natural or accidental opening in the walls of the latter; as, hernia of the brain, of the lung, or of the bowels. Hernia of the abdominal viscera in most common. Called also rupture.

(pl. ) of Hero

(a.) Of or pertaining to, or like, a hero; of the nature of heroes; distinguished by the existence of heroes; as, the heroic age; an heroic people; heroic valor.

(a.) Worthy of a hero; bold; daring; brave; illustrious; as, heroic action; heroic enterprises.

(a.) Larger than life size, but smaller than colossal; -- said of the representation of a human figure.

(n.) An eruption of the skin, taking various names, according to its form, or the part affected; especially, an eruption of vesicles in small distinct clusters, accompanied with itching or tingling, including shingles, ringworm, and the like; -- so called from its tendency to creep or spread from one part of the skin to another.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hew

(n.) A series of six numbers.

(n.) Any one of five hydrocarbons, C6H14, of the paraffin series. They are colorless, volatile liquids, and are so called because the molecule has six carbon atoms.

(n.) Same as Hexylene.

(n.) A hydrocarbon, C6H10, of the acetylene series, obtained artificially as a colorless, volatile, pungent liquid; -- called also hexoylene.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, hexane; as, hexoic acid.

(n.) A liquid hydrocarbon, C6H8, of the valylene series, obtained from distillation products of certain fats and gums.

(pl. ) of Hiatus

(n.) An opening; an aperture; a gap; a chasm; esp., a defect in a manuscript, where some part is lost or effaced; a space where something is wanting; a break.

(n.) The concurrence of two vowels in two successive words or syllables.

(n.) A tax formerly paid to the kings of England for every hide of land.

(p. p. & a.) from Hide. Concealed; put out of view; secret; not known; mysterious.

(p. p.) of Hide

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hide

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hide

(n.) The act of hiding or concealing, or of withholding from view or knowledge; concealment.

(n.) A flogging.

(n.) A consecrated place; esp., a temple.

(v. i.) To hawk or peddle provisions.

(v. i.) To chaffer; to stickle for small advantages in buying and selling; to haggle.

(adv.) In a high manner, or to a high degree; very much; as, highly esteemed.

(n.) Variant of Height.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hale

(pl. ) of Half

(a.) Wanting half its due qualities.

(n.) One who possesses or gives half only; one who shares.

(n.) A male fallow deer gelded.

(n.) Native salt; sodium chloride.

() See Halloo.

(n.) A loud exclamation; a call to invite attention or to incite a person or an animal; a shout.

(v. i.) To cry out; to exclaim with a loud voice; to call to a person, as by the word halloo.

(v. t.) To encourage with shouts.

(v. t.) To chase with shouts or outcries.

(v. t.) To call or shout to; to hail.

(n.) An exclamation to call attention or to encourage one.

(v. t.) To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence.

(n.) 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.

(imp. & p. p.) of Halo

(a.) Surrounded with a halo; invested with an ideal glory; glorified.

(a.) 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.

(n.) See Hawser.

(imp. & p. p.) of Halt

(imp. & p. p.) of Halve

(a.) Appearing as if one side, or one half, were cut away; dimidiate.

(n.) pl. of Half.

(a.) Hooked; bent at the end into a hook; hamous.

(v. t.) To hamstring.

() Alt. of Hamous

() Having the end hooked or curved.

(n.) 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.

(v. t.) To put in a hamper.

(v. t.) To put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle; to insnare; to inveigle; hence, to impede in motion or progress; to embarrass; to encumber.

(n.) A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.

(n.) Articles ordinarily indispensable, but in the way at certain times.

(n.) A little hook.

(pl. ) of Hamulus

(imp. & p. p.) of Hand

(a.) With hands joined; hand in hand.

(a.) Having a peculiar or characteristic hand.

(n.) One who hands over or transmits; a conveyer in succession.

(v. t.) To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.

(v. t.) To manage in using, as a spade or a musket; to wield; often, to manage skillfully.

(v. t.) To accustom to the hand; to work upon, or take care of, with the hands.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To deal with; to make a business of.

(v. t.) To treat; to use, well or ill.

(v. t.) To manage; to control; to practice skill upon.

(v. t.) To use or manage in writing or speaking; to treat, as a theme, an argument, or an objection.

(v. i.) To use the hands.

(n.) 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.

(n.) That of which use is made; the instrument for effecting a purpose; a tool.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hang

(n.) One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman.

(n.) That by which a thing is suspended.

(n.) A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended.

(n.) A part that suspends a journal box in which shafting runs. See Illust. of Countershaft.

(n.) A bridle iron.

(n.) That which hangs or is suspended, as a sword worn at the side; especially, in the 18th century, a short, curved sword.

(n.) A steep, wooded declivity.

(v. i.) 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.

(v. i.) To linger in expectation or with desire.

() Alt. of Hansom cab

(p. a.) Wrapped; covered; cloaked.

(v. i.) To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out.

(v. i.) To take place; to occur.

(n.) A large and valuable food fish (Polyprion prognathus) of New Zealand. It sometimes weighs one hundred pounds or more.

(v. t.) 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.

(n.) Devastation; waste.

(n.) Worry; harassment.

(n.) A station for rest and entertainment; a place of security and comfort; a refuge; a shelter.

(n.) Specif.: A lodging place; an inn.

(n.) The mansion of a heavenly body.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A mixing box materials.

(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).

(v. i.) To lodge, or abide for a time; to take shelter, as in a harbor.

(n.) A South African mullet, salted for food.

(adv.) In a hard or difficult manner; with difficulty.

(adv.) Unwillingly; grudgingly.

(adv.) Scarcely; barely; not guite; not wholly.

(adv.) Severely; harshly; roughly.

(adv.) Confidently; hardily.

(adv.) Certainly; surely; indeed.

(n.) The long-tailed duck.

(n.) See Harrier.

(a.) Like a hare.

(v. t. & i.) To hearken.

(n.) A churl; a common man; a person, male or female, of low birth.

(n.) A person given to low conduct; a rogue; a cheat; a rascal.

(n.) A woman who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a common woman; a strumpet.

(a.) Wanton; lewd; low; base.

(v. i.) To play the harlot; to practice lewdness.

(imp. & p. p.) of Harm

(n.) A kind of rue (Ruta sylvestris) growing in India. At Lahore the seeds are used medicinally and for fumigation.

(imp. & p. p.) of Harp

(v. t.) To hearten; to encourage; to incite.

(n.) Hazard.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hash

(imp. & p. p.) of Hasp

(imp. & p. p.) of Haste

(v. t.) To press; to drive or urge forward; to push on; to precipitate; to accelerate the movement of; to expedite; to hurry.

(v. i.) To move celerity; to be rapid in motion; to act speedily or quickly; to go quickly.

(a.) Hasty.

(n.) A box for a hat.

(p. pr. & pr. & vb. n) of Hate

(n.) Strong aversion; intense dislike; hate; an affection of the mind awakened by something regarded as evil.

(a.) Covered with a hat.

(v. t.) To tire or worry; -- out.

(n.) One who makes or sells hats.

(a.) High; elevated; hence, haughty; proud.

(imp. & p. p.) of Haul

(n.) One who hauls.

(v.) See Halse.

(n.) The hip; the projecting region of the lateral parts of the pelvis and the hip joint; the hind part.

(n.) Of meats: The leg and loin taken together; as, a haunch of venison.

(n.) A large sturgeon (Acipenser huso) from the region of the Black Sea. It is sometimes twelve feet long.

(n.) A kind of graduated breech sight for a small arm, or a cannon.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Have

(n.) Possession; goods; estate.

(n.) Behavior; demeanor.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Haw

(imp. & p. p.) of Hawk

(a.) Curved like a hawk's bill; crooked.

(n.) See Hockey.

(n.) A large rope made of three strands each containing many yarns.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Haze

(adv.) In a hazy manner; mistily; obscurely; confusedly.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hill

(a.) Having a hilt; -- used in composition; as, basket-hilted, cross-hilted.

(a.) Of or belonging to that part or end which is in the rear, or which follows; as, the hinder part of a wagon; the hinder parts of a horse.

(a.) To keep back or behind; to prevent from starting or moving forward; to check; to retard; to obstruct; to bring to a full stop; -- often followed by from; as, an accident hindered the coach; drought hinders the growth of plants; to hinder me from going.

(a.) To prevent or embarrass; to debar; to shut out.

(v. i.) To interpose obstacles or impediments; to be a hindrance.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hinge

(a.) Furnished with hinges.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hint

(imp. & p. p.) of Hip

(a.) Alt. of Hippish

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, mutton suet; -- applied by Chevreul to an oily acid which was obtained from mutton suet, and to which he attributed the peculiar taste and smell of that substance. The substance has also been called hircin.

(n.) Hircic acid. See Hircic.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hire

(a.) Rough with bristles or minute spines.

(a.) Beset with stiff hairs or bristles.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hiss

(adv.) To this place; -- used with verbs signifying motion, and implying motion toward the speaker; correlate of hence and thither; as, to come or bring hither.

(adv.) To this point, source, conclusion, design, etc.; -- in a sense not physical.

(a.) Being on the side next or toward the person speaking; nearer; -- correlate of thither and farther; as, on the hither side of a hill.

(a.) Applied to time: On the hither side of, younger than; of fewer years than.

(n.) One who hits or strikes; as, a hard hitter.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hive

(a.) Moldy; musty.

(superl.) Having a harsh, rough, grating voice or sound, as when affected with a cold; making a rough, harsh cry or sound; as, the hoarse raven.

(superl.) Harsh; grating; discordant; -- said of any sound.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hoax

(n.) One who hoaxes.

(n.) A remarkable South American bird (Opisthocomus cristatus); the crested touraco. By some zoologists it is made the type of a distinct order (Opisthocomi).

(n. i.) To walk lame, bearing chiefly on one leg; to walk with a hitch or hop, or with crutches.

(n. i.) To move roughly or irregularly; -- said of style in writing.

(v. t.) To fetter by tying the legs; to hopple; to clog.

(v. t.) To perplex; to embarrass.

(n.) An unequal gait; a limp; a halt; as, he has a hobble in his gait.

(n.) Same as Hopple.

(n.) Difficulty; perplexity; embarrassment.

(a.) Rough; uneven; causing one to hobble; as a hobbly road.

(n.) A game in which two parties of players, armed with sticks curved or hooked at the end, attempt to drive any small object (as a ball or a bit of wood) toward opposite goals.

(n.) The stick used by the players.

(v. t.) To hamstring; to hock; to hough.

(v. t.) To mow, as stubble.

(pl. ) of Hodman

(n.) A man who carries a hod; a mason's tender.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hoe

(imp. & p. p.) of Hog

(a.) Broken or strained so as to have an upward curve between the ends. See Hog, v. i.

(n.) A stocking without a foot, worn by coal miners at work.

(n.) The eucharist.

(v. t.) To administer the eucharist to.

(n.) A beautiful South American motmot.

(n.) A seat or pavilion, generally covered, fastened on the back of an elephant, for the rider or riders.

(n.) A howitzer.

(n.) Same as Hooker.

(imp. & p. p.) of Howl

(n.) One who howls.

(n.) Any South American monkey of the genus Mycetes. Many species are known. They are arboreal in their habits, and are noted for the loud, discordant howling in which they indulge at night.

(n.) An owl; an owlet.

(n.) Same as Hoiden.

(n.) One who navigates a hoy.

(v. i.) A loud noise of many confused voices; a tumult; uproar.

(n.) A large salmon (Salmo, / Salvelinus, hucho) inhabiting the Danube; -- called also huso, and bull trout.

(n.) The hip; the haunch.

(n.) A bunch or part projecting like the hip.

(v. i.) To press together promiscuously, from confusion, apprehension, or the like; to crowd together confusedly; to press or hurry in disorder; to crowd.

(v. t.) To crowd (things) together to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system.

(v. t.) To do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly; -- usually with a following preposition or adverb; as, to huddle on; to huddle up; to huddle together.

(n.) A crowd; a number of persons or things crowded together in a confused manner; tumult; confusion.

(imp. & p. p.) of Huff

(n.) A bully; a blusterer.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hug

(n.) One who hugs or embraces.

(v. t. & i.) To conceal; to lurk ambush.

(v. t.) To hug.

(a.) Swollen; gibbous.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hull

(a.) Deprived of the hulls.

(n.) One who, or that which, hulls; especially, an agricultural machine for removing the hulls from grain; a hulling machine.

(n.) Holly, an evergreen shrub or tree.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hum

(a.) Pertaining to man; human.

(a.) Having the feelings and inclinations creditable to man; having a disposition to treat other human beings or animals with kindness; kind; benevolent.

(a.) Humanizing; exalting; tending to refine.

(n.) A salt of humic acid.

(adv.) With humility; lowly.

(n.) An imposition under fair pretenses; something contrived in order to deceive and mislead; a trick by cajolery; a hoax.

(n.) A spirit of deception; cajolery; trickishness.

(n.) One who deceives or misleads; a deceitful or trickish fellow; an impostor.

(v. t.) To deceive; to impose; to cajole; to hoax.

(v. t.) Alt. of Humectate

(pl. ) of Humerus

(n.) A mineral of a transparent vitreous brown color, found in the ejected masses of Vesuvius. It is a silicate of iron and magnesia, containing fluorine.

(n.) One who, or that which, hums; one who applauds by humming.

(n.) A humming bird.

(n.) A sweating bath or place for sweating.

(a.) Having a hump, as the back.

(superl.) Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire.

(superl.) Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious.

(superl.) Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved; as, a hungry soil.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hunt

(n.) A coarse kind of linen; -- called also harden.

(n.) A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for inclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes.

(n.) In England, a sled or crate on which criminals were formerly drawn to the place of execution.

(n.) An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which men or horses leap in a race.

(v. t.) To hedge, cover, make, or inclose with hurdles.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hurl

(n.) One who hurls, or plays at hurling.

(interj.) Alt. of Hurra

(n.) A cheer; a shout of joy, etc.

(v. i.) To utter hurrahs; to huzza.

(v. t.) To salute, or applaud, with hurrahs.

(n.) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound, bruise, or the like.

(n.) An injury causing pain of mind or conscience; a slight; a stain; as of sin.

(n.) Injury; damage; detriment; harm; mischief.

(n.) One who hurts or does harm.

(v. t.) A butting piece; a strengthening piece, esp.: (Mil.) A piece of wood at the lower end of a platform, designed to prevent the wheels of gun carriages from injuring the parapet.

(v. t.) To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle.

(v. t.) To move rapidly; to wheel or rush suddenly or with violence; to whirl round rapidly; to skirmish.

(v. t.) To make a threatening sound, like the clash of arms; to make a sound as of confused clashing or confusion; to resound.

(v. t.) To move with violence or impetuosity; to whirl; to brandish.

(v. t.) To push; to jostle; to hurl.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hush

(n.) An usher.

(imp. & p. p.) of Husk

(a.) Covered with a husk.

(a.) Stripped of husks; deprived of husks.

(v. t.) To shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly; as, to hustle a person out of a room.

(v. i.) To push or crows; to force one's way; to move hustily and with confusion; a hurry.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hutch

(n. & v. i.) See Huckster.

(n.) Same as Hyena.

(n.) The offspring of the union of two distinct species; an animal or plant produced from the mixture of two species. See Mongrel.

(a.) Produced from the mixture of two species; as, plants of hybrid nature.

(n.) A land tax. See Hidage.

(pl. ) of Hydra

(pl. ) of Hydra

(n.) A water jar; esp., one with a large rounded body, a small neck, and three handles. Some of the most beautiful Greek vases are of this form.

(a.) Pertaining to, or containing, hydrogen; as, hydric oxide.

() Alt. of Hydr-

(a.) Belonging to winter; done in winter.

(pl. ) of Hyena

(a.) Of or pertaining to rain; descriptive of the distribution of rain, or of rainy regions.

(n.) A theory which regards matter as the original principle of evil.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hymn

(n.) A collection of hymns; a hymn book.

(a.) Relating to hymns, or sacred lyrics.

(n. pl.) The long, branching filaments of which the mycelium (and the greater part of the plant) of a fungus is formed. They are also found enveloping the gonidia of lichens, making up a large part of their structure.

(n.) A mark or short dash, thus [-], placed at the end of a line which terminates with a syllable of a word, the remainder of which is carried to the next line; or between the parts of many a compound word; as in fine-leaved, clear-headed. It is also sometimes used to separate the syllables of words.

(v. t.) To connect with, or separate by, a hyphen, as two words or the parts of a word.

(imp. & p. p.) of Head

(a.) Furnished with a head (commonly as denoting intellectual faculties); -- used in composition; as, clear-headed, long-headed, thick-headed; a many-headed monster.

(a.) Formed into a head; as, a headed cabbage.

(n.) One who, or that which, heads nails, rivets, etc., esp. a machine for heading.

(n.) One who heads a movement, a party, or a mob; head; chief; leader.

(n.) A brick or stone laid with its shorter face or head in the surface of the wall.

(n.) In framing, the piece of timber fitted between two trimmers, and supported by them, and carrying the ends of the tailpieces.

(n.) A reaper for wheat, that cuts off the heads only.

(n.) A fall or plunge headforemost, as while riding a bicycle, or in bathing; as, to take a header.

(imp. & p. p.) of Heal

(n.) The state of being hale, sound, or whole, in body, mind, or soul; especially, the state of being free from physical disease or pain.

(n.) A wish of health and happiness, as in pledging a person in a toast.

(imp. & p. p.) of Heap

(n.) One who heaps, piles, or amasses.

(n.) One who hears; an auditor.

(n.) A hind in the year of its age.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.

(n.) A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.

(n.) A carriage specially adapted or used for conveying the dead to the grave.

(v. t.) To inclose in a hearse; to entomb.

(n.) 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.

(n.) The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of hospitality to strangers; fireside.

(n.) 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.

(superl.) 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.

(superl.) Exhibiting strength; sound; healthy; firm; not weak; as, a hearty timber.

(superl.) Promoting strength; nourishing; rich; abundant; as, hearty food; a hearty meal.

(n.) Comrade; boon companion; good fellow; -- a term of familiar address and fellowship among sailors.

(imp. & p. p.) of Heat

(a.) Full of heath; abounding with heath; as, heathy land; heathy hills.

(imp.) of Heave

(p. p.) of Heave

(n.) One who, or that which, heaves or lifts; a laborer employed on docks in handling freight; as, a coal heaver.

(n.) A bar used as a lever.

(n.) A disease of horses, characterized by difficult breathing, with heaving of the flank, wheezing, flatulency, and a peculiar cough; broken wind.

(a.) Dull; stupid.

(n. & v. t.) Same as Hackle.

(a.) Habitual; constitutional; pertaining especially to slow waste of animal tissue, as in consumption; as, a hectic type in disease; a hectic flush.

(a.) In a hectic condition; having hectic fever; consumptive; as, a hectic patient.

(n.) Hectic fever.

(n.) A hectic flush.

(n.) 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.

(v. t.) To draw (the warp thread) through the heddle-eyes, in weaving.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hedge

(n.) One who halts or limps; a cripple.

(n.) A strong strap or cord.

(n.) A rope or strap, with or without a headstall, for leading or tying a horse.

(n.) A rope for hanging malefactors; a noose.

(v. t.) To tie by the neck with a rope, strap, or halter; to put a halter on; to subject to a hangman's halter.

(n.) A mow or mass of hay laid up in a barn for preservation.

(n.) The place in a barn where hay is deposited.

(interj.) An expression of frolic and exultation, and sometimes of wonder.

(n.) The time of triumph and exultation; hence, joy, high spirits, frolicsomeness; wildness.

(adv.) Have or have not; -- a familiar invitation to reciprocal drinking.

(adv.) At random; hit or miss. (Obs.)

(v. i.) To drink familiarly (with another).

(v. i.) To associate familiarly; to be on intimate terms.

(n.) Familiar, social intercourse.

() A prefix signifying over, above; as, hyperphysical, hyperthyrion; also, above measure, abnormally great, excessive; as, hyperaemia, hyperbola, hypercritical, hypersecretion.

() A prefix equivalent to super- or per-; as hyperoxide, or peroxide. [Obs.] See Per-.