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Habenaria
A genus of chiefly terrestrial orchids with tubers or fleshy roots often having long slender spurs and petals and lip lobes; it includes species formerly placed in the genus .
Habitual
Formed or acquired by habit or use.
Hmoglobin
Same as .
Halfness
The quality of being half; incompleteness.
Half seas over
Half drunk.
Halliard
See .
Handcraft
Same as .
Handcuff
A fastening, consisting of an iron ring around the wrist, usually connected by a chain with one on the other wrist; a manacle; -- usually in the plural.
Harasser
One who harasses.
Harikari
See .
Hariolation
Prognostication; soothsaying.
Harmonics
The doctrine or science of musical sounds.
harpsichordist
someone who plays the harpsichord.
Haught
High; elevated; hence, haughty; proud.
Haunter
One who, or that which, haunts.
Hay
To lay snares for rabbits.
Hazel
Consisting of hazels, or of the wood of the hazel; pertaining to, or derived from, the hazel; .
Hazelnut
The nut of the hazel.
headpin
The front pin in the triangular arrangement of ten pins.
Heal
To make hale, sound, or whole; to cure of a disease, wound, or other derangement; to restore to soundness or health.
hearing-impaired
having a hearing impairment making hearing difficult; having a defective but functioning sense of hearing.
Hearken
To listen; to lend the ear; to attend to what is uttered; to give heed; to hear, in order to obey or comply.
Heathery
Heathy; abounding in heather; of the nature of heath.
heliport
an airport for helicopters.
Helmless
Destitute of a helmet.
Hematophilia
Same as ; -- an obsolete term.
Hemiramphidae
A natural family of fish including the halfbeaks, marine and freshwater fishes closely related to the flying fishes but not able to glide.
Hemispheroid
A half of a spheroid.
Hemitropy
Twin composition in crystals.
Hemorrhoidal
Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, hemorrhoids.
Hendy
See .
Heptad
An atom which has a valence of seven, and which can be theoretically combined with, substituted for, or replaced by, monad atoms or radicals; . Also used as an adjective.
Herodiones
A division of wading birds, including the herons, storks, and allied forms. Called also .
Hey
An exclamation of joy, surprise, or encouragement.
Hidrosis
Excretion of sweat; perspiration.
High
To rise; .
Highering
Rising higher; ascending.
Hilding
A base, menial wretch.
Hippogriff
A fabulous winged animal, half horse and half griffin.
Hippuric
Obtained from the urine of horses; .
Hispanicism
A Spanish idiom or mode of speech.
hit it off
To get along well together; to be compatible; to work well together; -- of people in interactive situations; .
Hoarding
A screen of boards inclosing a house and materials while builders are at work.
Hoiden
A rude, clownish youth.
Holiday
A consecrated day; religious anniversary; a day set apart in honor of some person, or in commemoration of some event. See .
Holostomata
An artificial division of gastropods, including those that have an entire aperture.
Home-felt
Felt in one's own breast; inward; private.
Homologon
See .
Hone
To grumble; pine; lament; long.
Honestly
Honorably; becomingly; decently.
hooflike
resembling a hoof.
Hop
A climbing plant (), having a long, twining, annual stalk. It is cultivated for its fruit (hops).
Horseback
The back of a horse.
Horse-radish
A plant of the genus (), allied to scurvy grass, having a root of a pungent taste, much used, when grated, as a condiment and in medicine.
Hottentot
One of a degraded and savage race of South Africa, with yellowish brown complexion, high cheek bones, and wooly hair growing in tufts.
Huckle-backed
Round-shoulded.
Huckstress
A female huckster.
Huge
Very large; enormous; immense; excessive; -- used esp. of material bulk, but often of qualities, extent, etc.;
Hull
To toss or drive on the water, like the hull of a ship without sails.
Humectation
A moistening.
Hurlbone
See .
Hydage
A land tax. See .
Hydrometallurgical
Of or pertaining to hydrometallurgy; involving the use of liquid reagents in the treatment or reduction of ores.
Hydrophobia
An abnormal dread of water, said to be a symptom of canine madness; hence:
Hydrorhiza
The rootstock or decumbent stem by which a hydroid is attached to other objects. See under .
Hyemation
The passing of a winter in a particular place; a wintering.
Hyetography
The branch of physical science which treats of the geographical distribution of rain.
Hygeia
The goddess of health, daughter of Esculapius.
Hygroscope
An instrument which shows whether there is more or less moisture in the atmosphere, without indicating its amount.
Hyke
See , and .
Hylotheism
The doctrine of belief that matter is God, or that there is no God except matter and the universe; pantheism. See .
Hyperbola
A curve formed by a section of a cone, when the cutting plane makes a greater angle with the base than the side of the cone makes. It is a plane curve such that the difference of the distances from any point of it to two fixed points, called , is equal to a given distance. See . If the cutting plane be produced so as to cut the opposite cone, another curve will be formed, which is also an hyperbola. Both curves are regarded as branches of the same hyperbola. See of , and .
Hypoderm
Same as .