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Habergeon
Properly, a short hauberk, but often used loosely for the hauberk.
Hain't
A contraction of or ; .
Half-hourly
Done or happening at intervals of half an hour.
Hallidome
Same as .
Halloween
The evening preceding Allhallows or All Saints' Day (November 1); also the entire day, October 31. It is often marked by parties or celebrations, and sometimes by pranks played by young people.
Hamster
A small European rodent (). It is remarkable for having a pouch on each side of the jaw, under the skin, and for its migrations. Hamsters are commonly kept as a pets.
handbasin
A small basin used for washing thehands; .
Handed
With hands joined; hand in hand.
Handicraft
A trade requiring skill of hand; manual occupation; handcraft.
Handless
Without a hand.
Hangdog
A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird.
Haplomi
An order of freshwater fishes, including the true pikes, cyprinodonts, and blindfishes.
hari-kari
An incorrect but common spelling and pronunciation of .
Hardened
Made hard, or harder, or compact; made unfeeling or callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or vice.
Harlock
Probably a corruption either of or .
Harmaline
An alkaloid found in the plant . It forms bitter, yellow salts.
Harpoon
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, flat, triangular head, sharpened at both edges, and is thrown by hand, or discharged from a gun.
Harslet
See .
Harvesting
, from ,
Hasard
Hazard.
Having
Possession; goods; estate.
Haw
To stop, in speaking, with a sound like ; to speak with interruption and hesitation.
Hawk
To raise by hawking, as phlegm.
Hazard
A game of chance played with dice.
Hazardize
A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard.
headlinese
The abbreviated writing style of headline writers.
Hectic
Hectic fever.
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.
Heliolater
A worshiper of the sun.
Hellbender
A large North American aquatic salamander ( or ). It is very voracious and very tenacious of life. Also called , and .
Hellkite
A kite of infernal breed.
Helminthoid
Wormlike; vermiform.
Hemapophysis
The second element in each half of a hemal arch, corresponding to the sternal part of a rib.
Hematachometer
Same as .
Hempy
Like hemp.
Henceforward
From this time forward; from now into the indefinite future; henceforth.
Hepta
A combining form from Gr. , seven.
Heptavalent
Having seven units of attractive force or affinity; -- said of elements or radicals.
Herbless
Destitute of herbs or of vegetation.
Hersillon
A beam with projecting spikes, used to make a breach impassable.
Hesperidin
A glucoside found in ripe and unripe fruit (as the orange), and extracted as a white crystalline substance.
Hesychast
One of a mystical sect of the Greek Church in the fourteenth century; a quietist.
Heterology
The absence of correspondence, or relation, in type of structure; lack of analogy between parts, owing to their being composed of different elements, or of like elements in different proportions; variation in structure from the normal form; -- opposed to .
Heteromorphic
Deviating from the normal, perfect, or mature form; having different forms at different stages of existence, or in different individuals of the same species; -- applied especially to insects in which there is a wide difference of form between the larva and the adult, and to plants having more than one form of flower.
Hewe
A domestic servant; a retainer.
Hexapodous
Having six feet; belonging to the Hexapoda.
High
To hie.
Highboy
One who lives high; also, in politics, a highflyer.
Hilus
Same as , 2.
Hint
A remote allusion; slight mention; intimation; insinuation; a suggestion or reminder, without a full declaration or explanation; also, an occasion or motive.
Hireling
Serving for hire or wages; venal; mercenary.
Hirtellous
Pubescent with minute and somewhat rigid hairs.
Hit
of , contracted from .
Hobbler
One who hobbles.
holdover
Any person or thing remaining from a previous period of use, tenure, etc;
Homeliness
Domesticity; care of home.
Home run
a complete circuit of the bases made by the batter without being put out and without an error on the play; also, the hit on which the batter makes such a circuit; a four-base hit.
Homochromous
Having all the florets in the same flower head of the same color.
Homology
The quality of being homologous; correspondence; relation; .
Homophony
Sameness of sound.
Homoplast
One of the plastids composing the of Haeckel; -- also called .
Homopolic
In promorphology, pertaining to or exhibiting that kind of organic form, in which the stereometric ground form is a pyramid, with . See .
Honiton lace
A kind of pillow lace, remarkable for the beauty of its figures; -- so called because chiefly made in , England.
Hool
Whole.
hootenanny
An informal social gathering or concert featuring mostly folk songs, sometimes dancing, and where the audience often participates in the singing.
Hopeful
Full of hope, or agreeable expectation; inclined to hope; expectant.
Horary
Of or pertaining to an hour; noting the hours.
Horometer
An instrument for measuring time.
Horse-litter
A carriage hung on poles, and borne by and between two horses.
Horseshoe
A shoe for horses, consisting of a narrow plate of iron in form somewhat like the letter , nailed to a horse's hoof.
Hortative
An exhortation.
Hubbub
A loud noise of many confused voices; a tumult; uproar.
Hudibrastic
Similar to, or in the style of, the poem , by Samuel Butler; in the style of doggerel verse.
Humanitian
A humanist.
Humiliant
Humiliating; humbling.
Hurtle
To move with violence or impetuosity; to whirl; to brandish.
Husk
To strip off the external covering or envelope of; .
Hybridizable
Capable of forming a hybrid, or of being subjected to a hybridizing process; capable of producing a hybrid by union with another species or stock.
Hydroxanthic
Persulphocyanic.
Hygrodeik
A form of hygrometer having wet and dry bulb thermometers, with an adjustable index showing directly the percentage of moisture in the air, etc.
Hyperbolically
In the form of an hyperbola.
Hypercatalectic
Having a syllable or two beyond measure; .
Hypidiomorphic
Partly idiomorphic; -- said of rock a portion only of whose constituents have a distinct crystalline form.
Hyponitrite
A salt of hyponitrous acid.
Hyporhachis
The stem of an aftershaft or hypoptilum.