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hackery
A cart with wooden wheels, drawn by bullocks.
Hadrosaurus
An American herbivorous dinosaur of great size, allied to the iguanodon. It is found in the Cretaceous formation.
Haf
Hove.
Haggis
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.
Hairbell
See .
Hake
A drying shed, as for unburned tile.
Half
To halve. See .
halftime
an intermission between the first and second half of a game, especially a football game. Also used attributively, as the entertainment
Half-yearly
Two in a year; semiannual.
hallucinogen
A substance capable of producing hallucinations when ingested; a hallucinogenic substance; .
Hamfatter
A low-grade actor or performer; a ham.
Handicraftsman
A man skilled or employed in handcraft.
Harmonically
In an harmonical manner; harmoniously.
Harre
A hinge.
Hasard
Hazard.
Haulabout
A bargelike vessel with steel hull, large hatchways, and coal transporters, for coaling war vessels from its own hold or from other colliers.
Having
Possession; goods; estate.
Haycock
A conical pile or heap of hay in the field.
Haymaking
The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay.
Heeltap
To add a piece of leather to the heel of (a shoe, boot, etc.)
Heightener
One who, or that which, heightens.
helianthus
any plant of the genus having large flower heads with dark disk florets and showy yellow rays.
Heliolatry
Sun worship. See .
heliport
an airport for helicopters.
Hemato
See .
Hematoma
A localised leakage of blood from the blood vessels into nearby tissues, usually confined within a tissue or organ; especially, a local swelling produced by an effusion of blood beneath the skin, which may clot and discolor the affected area.
Hemorrhoids
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.
Henhussy
A cotquean; a man who intermeddles with women's concerns.
Heptine
Any one of a series of unsaturated metameric hydrocarbons, , of the acetylene series.
Hereafterward
Hereafter.
Hereby
By means of this.
Hereto
To this; hereunto.
Hermeneutically
According to the principles of interpretation; .
Heroicness
Heroism.
Heroship
The character or personality of a hero.
Hers
See the Note under ,
Hery
To worship; to glorify; to praise.
Heteroclitous
Heteroclitic.
Heteropter
One of the Heteroptera.
High-toned
High in tone or sound.
Hile
Same as .
Him
The objective case of . See .
Hinderer
One who, or that which, hinders.
hipbone
Either of two large flaring bones, each forming one half of the ; made up of the and and .
Hippodame
A fabulous sea monster.
Hippopotamus
A large, amphibious, herbivorous mammal (), common in the rivers of tropical Africa. It is allied to the hogs, and has a very thick, naked skin, a thick and square head, a very large muzzle, small eyes and ears, thick and heavy body, and short legs. It is supposed to be the behemoth of the Bible. Called also , and . A smaller species () inhabits Western Africa.
Hirsuteness
Hairiness.
Hobbler
One who by his tenure was to maintain a horse for military service; a kind of light horseman in the Middle Ages who was mounted on a hobby.
Hockle
To hamstring; to hock; to hough.
Hogchoker
An American sole ( syn. ), related to the European sole, but of no market value.
Hogged
Broken or strained so as to have an upward curve between the ends. See ,
Hokkaido
The northernmost of the main islands of Japan. Together with the islands of Honshu, Kyushu and Shikoku it forms the bulk of the land area of Japan.
holier-than-thou
being excessively or hypocritically pious while condemning others as being less virtuous than oneself.
Hommocky
Filled with hommocks; piled in the form of hommocks; -- said of ice.
Homoousian
Of or pertaining to the Homoousians, or to the doctrines they held.
Honeymoon
The first month after marriage.
hook-and-ladder company
A company of firefighters who operate a hook-and-ladder truck; a fire company; called also .
Horary
Of or pertaining to an hour; noting the hours.
Horn
To furnish with horns; to give the shape of a horn to.
Hortative
An exhortation.
Hose
Close-fitting trousers or breeches, as formerly worn, reaching to the knee.
Hot-brained
Ardent in temper; violent; rash; impetuous; .
housetrained
same as .
Hoy
A small coaster vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in conveying passengers and goods from place to place, or as a tender to larger vessels in port.
Humblesse
Humbleness; abasement; low obeisance.
Hurt
A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
Hurtleberry
See .
Husbandman
The master of a family.
hushed
having the sound level reduced; -- especially used of the noise of conversation; .
Huso
A large European sturgeon ( or ), inhabiting the region of the Black and Caspian Seas. It sometimes attains a length of more than twelve feet, and a weight of two thousand pounds. Called also and . It is the source of the finest and most esteemed caviar.
Hyalospongia
An order of vitreous sponges, having glassy six-rayed, siliceous spicules; -- called also .
Hydrarthrosis
An effusion of watery liquid into the cavity of a joint.
Hydrated
Formed into a hydrate; combined with water.
Hydriad
A water nymph.
Hydrogenous
Of or pertaining to hydrogen; containing hydrogen.
Hydrogode
The negative pole or cathode.
Hydroscope
An instrument designed to mark the presence of water, especially in air.
Hyksos
A dynasty of Egyptian kings, often called the , of foreign origin, who, according to the narrative of Manetho, ruled for about 500 years, forming the XVth and XVIth dynasties. It is now considered that the XVIth is merely a double of the XVth dynasty, and that the total period of the six Hyksos kings was little more than 100 years. It is supposed that they were Asiatic Semites.
Hyperborean
One of the people who lived beyond the North wind, in a land of perpetual sunshine.
Hypochondrium
Either of the hypochondriac regions.
Hypophosphorous
Pertaining to, or containing, phosphorus in a lower state of oxidation than in phosphoric compounds; .
Hypothecation
The act or contract by which property is hypothecated; a right which a creditor has in or to the property of his debtor, in virtue of which he may cause it to be sold and the price appropriated in payment of his debt. This is a right in the thing, or .
Hypothenusal
Of or pertaining to hypothenuse.
Hyracotherium
An extinct horse genus, formerly called genus .