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Habilitate
Qualified or entitled.
Hack
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.
Hack
To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
hackie
The driver of a taxicab; a hackman.
Hacqueton
Same as .
Hmony
A plant described by Milton as of sovereign use against all enchantments.
Haggle
The act or process of haggling.
Hail
To pour forcibly down, as hail.
Half-sister
A sister by one parent only.
hallway
an interior passage or corridor in a building, onto which rooms open.
Hamite
A descendant of Ham, Noah's second son. See Gen. x. 6-20.
Hanaper
A kind of basket, usually of wickerwork, and adapted for the packing and carrying of articles; a hamper.
Handless
Without a hand.
Hard
Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact; -- applied to material bodies, and opposed to ;
Harder
A South African mullet, salted for food.
Hardihead
Hardihood.
hard-to-please
Requiring great patience and effort and skill; demanding; -- of persons. Opposite of .
Harrower
One who harrows.
Hauls
See .
Haw
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 .
Hawkweed
A plant of the genus ; -- so called from the ancient belief that birds of prey used its juice to strengthen their vision.
Hazelnut
The nut of the hazel.
Healthfully
In health; wholesomely.
Heartseed
A climbing plant of the genus , having round seeds which are marked with a spot like a heart.
Hectocotylized
Changed into a hectocotylus; having a hectocotylis.
Heedless
Without heed or care; inattentive; careless; thoughtless; unobservant.
Heliolite
A fossil coral of the genus , having twelve-rayed cells. It is found in the Silurian rocks.
Helminthite
One of the sinuous tracks on the surfaces of many stones, and popularly considered as worm trails.
Hemicollin
See .
Hemimetabola
Those insects which have an incomplete metamorphosis.
Herbalist
One skilled in the knowledge of plants; a collector of, or dealer in, herbs, especially medicinal herbs.
Herbergeour
A harbinger.
Hermaphrodism
See .
Herzog
A member of the highest rank of nobility in Germany and Austria, corresponding to the British duke.
Heterogangliate
Having the ganglia of the nervous system unsymmetrically arranged; -- said of certain invertebrate animals.
Heterophagi
Altrices.
Hexatomic
Having six atoms in the molecule.
Hexeikosane
A hydrocarbon, , resembling paraffine; -- so called because each molecule has atoms of carbon.
Hexyl
A univalent organic radical, , regarded as the essential residue of , and a related series of compounds.
Hierophantic
Of or relating to hierophants or their teachings.
High-built
Of lofty structure; tall.
Himselve
See 1st .
Hispidulous
Minutely hispid.
Historial
Historical.
Hive
A box, basket, or other structure, for the reception and habitation of a swarm of honeybees.
Hocus-pocus
To cheat.
Hogsty
A pen, house, or inclosure, for hogs.
Holethnos
A parent stock or race of people, not yet divided into separate branches or tribes.
Homatropine
An alkaloid, prepared from atropine, and from other sources. It is chemically related to atropine, and is used for the same purpose.
Homestead
The home place; a home and the inclosure or ground immediately connected with it.
Homilist
One who prepares homilies; one who preaches to a congregation.
Homochromous
Having all the florets in the same flower head of the same color.
Homodemic
A morphological term signifying development, in the case of multicellular organisms, from the same unit deme or unit of the inferior orders of individuality.
Honeybee
Any bee of the genus , which lives in communities and collects honey, esp. the common domesticated hive bee (), the Italian bee (), and the Arabiab bee (). The two latter are by many entomologists considered only varieties of the common hive bee. Each swarm of bees consists of a large number of workers (barren females), with, ordinarily, one queen or fertile female, but in the swarming season several young queens, and a number of males or drones, are produced.
Hoop
A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
Hopped
Impregnated with hops.
Hordeolum
A small tumor upon the eyelid, resembling a grain of barley; a sty.
Hornbill
Any bird of the family , of which about sixty species are known, belonging to numerous genera. They inhabit the tropical parts of Asia, Africa, and the East Indies, and are remarkable for having a more or less horn-like protuberance, which is usually large and hollow and is situated on the upper side of the beak. The size of the hornbill varies from that of a pigeon to that of a raven, or even larger. They feed chiefly upon fruit, but some species eat dead animals.
Horseweed
A composite plant (), which is a common weed.
Hotfoot
In haste; foothot.
Hotshot
a successful, self-confident person who is regarded by others as highly skilled; -- sometimes used ironically in reference to aggressive persons whose opinion of their own talents is considered exaggerated.
houseful
as many as a house will accommodate; .
Housewifely
Pertaining or appropriate to a housewife; domestic; economical; prudent.
Howdy
A midwife.
Huckstress
A female huckster.
Humiri
A fragrant balsam obtained from Brazilian trees of the genus .
Hunterian
Discovered or described by John , an English surgeon; . See .
Husband
To direct and manage with frugality; to use or employ to good purpose and the best advantage; to spend, apply, or use, with economy.
Hutch
To place in huts; to live in huts; .
Hydatid
A membranous sac or bladder filled with a pellucid fluid, found in various parts of the bodies of animals, but unconnected with the tissues. It is usually formed by parasitic worms, esp. by larval tapeworms, as Echinococcus and Cnurus. See these words in the Vocabulary.
Hydrobiplane
A hydro-aroplane having two supporting planes.
Hydroidea
An extensive order of Hydrozoa or Acaleph.
Hydrometallurgical
Of or pertaining to hydrometallurgy; involving the use of liquid reagents in the treatment or reduction of ores.
Hydrothorax
An accumulation of serous fluid in the cavity of the chest.
Hylotheist
One who believes in hylotheism.
hyperon
Any baryon that is not a nucleon; it is an unstable particle with a mass greater than that of a neutron.
hypersphere
A mathematical object existing in more than three dimensions, analogous to the sphere in that all points on the surface are equidistant from the central point; a generalization of a sphere in more than three dimensions.
Hypocist
An astringent inspissated juice obtained from the fruit of a plant (), growing from the roots of the , a small European shrub.
Hypoderm
Same as .
Hypostrophe
The act of a patient turning himself.
Hyppish
Affected with hypochondria; hypped.