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Hack
Hackneyed; hired; mercenary.
Hmad
Toward the hmal side; on the hmal side of; -- opposed to .
Hmatoplastic
Blood formative; -- applied to a substance in early fetal life, which breaks up gradually into blood vessels.
Haggada
A story, anecdote, or legend in the Talmud, to explain or illustrate the text of the Old Testament.
Haggard
A young or untrained hawk or falcon.
Hagseed
The offspring of a hag.
Half
Consisting of a moiety, or half;
Half-brother
A brother by one parent, but not by both.
Half-tongue
A jury, for the trial of a foreigner, composed equally of citizens and aliens.
Halituous
Produced by, or like, breath; vaporous.
Halliard
See .
Hammer-dressed
Having the surface roughly shaped or faced with the stonecutter's hammer; -- said of building stone.
handbasket
a container that is usually woven and has handles.
handstand
The gymnastic act of supporting oneself by one's hands alone in an upside down position; .
Hangnail
A small piece or sliver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of a finger nail.
Harm
To hurt; to injure; to damage; to wrong.
Haul
A pulling with force; a violent pull.
Haustellum
The sucking proboscis of various insects. See , and .
Hawm
To lounge; to loiter.
Hazy
Thick with haze; somewhat obscured with haze; not clear or transparent.
Heavy-haded
Clumsy; awkward.
Hebrician
A Hebraist.
Hecdecane
A white, semisolid, spermaceti-like hydrocarbon, , 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 .
Heckle
To interrogate, or ply with questions, esp. with severity or antagonism, as a candidate for the ministry.
Hedge fund
a mutual fund or partnership of investors who pool large sums of money to speculate in securities, increasing the risk of such activity by using borrowed money to leverage the investments, or by selling short.
Hedging bill
A hedge bill. See under .
Heeltap
One of the segments of leather in the heel of a shoe.
Helcoplasty
The act or process of repairing lesions made by ulcers, especially by a plastic operation.
Helicograph
An instrument for drawing spiral lines on a plane.
Hemal
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 .
Hematinic
Any substance, such as an iron salt or organic compound containing iron, which when ingested tends to increase the hemoglobin contents of the blood.
Hematosis
Sanguification; the conversion of chyle into blood.
Hemionus
A wild ass found in Tibet; the kiang.
hen-of-the-woods
A large grayish-brown edible fungus () forming a mass of overlapping caps at the base of trees that somewhat resembles a hen.
Herber
A garden; a pleasure garden.
Hert
A hart.
Hesitatingly
With hesitation or doubt.
Heterochromous
Having the central florets of a flower head of a different color from those of the circumference.
Hexachord
A series of six notes, with a semitone between the third and fourth, the other intervals being whole tones.
Hidage
A tax formerly paid to the kings of England for every hide of land.
Hieronymite
See .
Higgledy-piggledy
In confusion; topsy-turvy.
highjacking
The seizure of control of a vehicle while it is in transit, either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination.
High-reaching
Reaching high or upward; hence, ambitious; aspiring.
Highwayman
One who robs on the public road; a highway robber.
Hind
A domestic; a servant.
hindquarter
the back half of a side of meat, from about the twelfth rib back.
Hippuric
Obtained from the urine of horses; .
Hirundo
A genus of birds including the swallows and martins.
Histrionize
To act; to represent on the stage, or theatrically.
Hithe
A port or small haven; -- used in composition; .
Hogsty
A pen, house, or inclosure, for hogs.
Homageable
Subject to homage.
Home
Of or pertaining to one's dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; .
Home-keeping
Staying at home; not gadding.
Homonymy
Sameness of name or designation; identity in relations.
Homophony
Sameness of sound.
Hoosier State
Indiana; -- a nickname of obscure origin.
Hop
To gather hops.
Horometry
The art, practice, or method of measuring time by hours and subordinate divisions.
Hosanna
A Hebrew exclamation of praise to the Lord, or an invocation of blessings.
Hosteler
The keeper of a hostel or inn.
Housebote
Wood allowed to a tenant for repairing the house and for fuel. This latter is often called . See .
houseman
an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience in a hospital or other medical institution.
Humidity
Moisture; dampness; a moderate degree of wetness, which is perceptible to the eye or touch; -- used especially of the atmosphere, or of anything which has absorbed moisture from the atmosphere, as clothing.
humiliating
causing humiliation.
Humorously
Capriciously; whimsically.
Hungarian
Of or pertaining to Hungary or to the people of Hungary.
Hunger-starve
To starve with hunger; to famish.
Huzza
A shout of ; a cheer; a hurrah.
Hydrastine
An alkaloid, found in the rootstock of the golden seal (), and extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance. It is used as a tonic and febrifuge.
Hydration
The act of becoming, or state of being, a hydrate.
Hydromechanics
That branch of physics which treats of the mechanics of liquids, or of their laws of equilibrium and of motion.
Hydropsy
Same as .
Hylobate
Any species of the genus ; a gibbon, or long-armed ape. See .
Hymenogeny
The production of artificial membranes by contact of two fluids, as albumin and fat, by which the globules of the latter are surrounded by a thin film of the former.
Hyo-
A prexif used in anatomy, and generally denoting or ;
Hyphen
To connect with, or separate by, a hyphen, as two words or the parts of a word.
Hypochondriasm
Hypochondriasis.
Hypophosphate
A salt of hypophosphoric acid.