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Hmatoplastic
Blood formative; -- applied to a substance in early fetal life, which breaks up gradually into blood vessels.
Hmatothermal
Warm-blooded; homoiothermal.
Hmatothorax
Same as .
Hairpin
A pin, usually forked, or of bent wire, for fastening the hair in place, -- used by women.
Half
Consisting of a moiety, or half;
Hallucal
Of or pertaining to the hallux.
Halt
Halting or stopping in walking; lame.
Hanaper
A kind of basket, usually of wickerwork, and adapted for the packing and carrying of articles; a hamper.
Handiness
The quality or state of being handy.
Hanger-on
One who hangs on, or sticks to, a person, place, or service; a dependent; one who adheres to others' society longer than he is wanted.
Hangman
One who hangs another; esp., one who makes a business of hanging; a public executioner; -- sometimes used as a term of reproach, without reference to office.
Haranguer
One who harangues, or is fond of haranguing; a declaimer.
hard-and-fast
invariable; firmly established; .
Haruspice
A diviner of ancient Rome. Same as .
Hatrack
A hatstand; hattree.
Hatteria
A New Zealand lizard, which, in anatomical character, differs widely from all other existing lizards. It is the only living representative of the order , of which many Mesozoic fossil species are known; -- called also , , and .
Haulm
A part of a harness; a hame.
Haver
A possessor; a holder.
Havior
Behavior; demeanor.
Haytian
Of or pertaining to Haiti; now usually written .
Healthless
Without health, whether of body or mind; infirm.
Heam
The afterbirth or secundines of a beast.
Hear
To have the sense or faculty of perceiving sound.
Hearing
The act or power of perceiving sound; perception of sound; the faculty or sense by which sound is perceived; .
Hearty
Comrade; boon companion; good fellow; -- a term of familiar address and fellowship among sailors.
Heaven
To place in happiness or bliss, as if in heaven; to beatify.
Heavy-armed
Wearing heavy or complete armor; carrying heavy arms.
Heavy-haded
Clumsy; awkward.
heavyweight
heaviest in a category; .
Hebenon
See .
Heeltap
To add a piece of leather to the heel of (a shoe, boot, etc.)
Hegelian
Pertaining to Hegelianism.
heinie
The buttocks; -- a word used with children.
Hellenize
To use the Greek language; to play the Greek; to Grecize.
Hemicardia
A lateral half of the heart, either the right or left.
Herborization
The act of herborizing.
Hereinto
Into this.
Heron
Any wading bird of the genus and allied genera, of the family . The herons have a long, sharp bill, and long legs and toes, with the claw of the middle toe toothed. The common European heron () is remarkable for its directly ascending flight, and was formerly hunted with the larger falcons.
hesitating
holding back because of doubt or lack of confidence.
Hibiscus
A genus of plants (herbs, shrubs, or trees), some species of which have large, showy flowers. Some species are cultivated in India for their fiber, which is used as a substitute for hemp. See , , and .
Hierarchy
Dominion or authority in sacred things.
Hilary term
Formerly, one of the four terms of the courts of common law in England, beginning on the eleventh of January and ending on the thirty-first of the same month, in each year; -- so called from the festival of St. Hilary, January 13th.
Hin
A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing three quarts, one pint, one gill, English measure.
Hinderling
A worthless, base, degenerate person or animal.
Hippocrene
A fountain on Mount Helicon in Botia, fabled to have burst forth when the ground was struck by the hoof of Pegasus. Also, its waters, which were supposed to impart poetic inspiration.
Hirundo
A genus of birds including the swallows and martins.
Hitherward
Toward this place; hither.
Hitter
One who hits or strikes; .
Hoatzin
Same as .
Hognut
The pignut.
hollowed
having a cavity within; .
Holystone
To scrub with a holystone, as the deck of a vessel.
Home-bred
Bred at home; domestic; not foreign.
Homing
Home-returning; -- used specifically of carrier pigeons.
Homogeny
Joint nature.
Homonymy
Sameness of name or designation; identity in relations.
Homophony
Sameness of sound.
Honeyless
Destitute of honey.
Honor
To regard or treat with honor, esteem, or respect; to revere; to treat with deference and submission; when used of the Supreme Being, to reverence; to adore; to worship.
Hook
To bend; to curve as a hook.
Horaly
Hourly.
Horned
Furnished with a horn or horns; furnished with a hornlike process or appendage; ; having some part shaped like a horn.
Horner
One who works or deal in horn or horns.
Hortative
An exhortation.
house-trained
same as .
HQ
Headquarters, the place from which a commander performs the functions of command.
Hued
Having color; -- usually in composition;
Humblesse
Humbleness; abasement; low obeisance.
humourous
same as ; causing amusement or laughter.
Hungary
A country in Central Europe, formerly a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Hungered
Hungry; pinched for food.
Hungrily
In a hungry manner; voraciously.
Husked
Covered with a husk.
Hydrogenium
Hydrogen; -- called also in view of its supposed metallic nature.
Hydrostatician
One who is versed or skilled in hydrostatics.
Hyetology
The science which treats of the precipitation of rain, snow, etc.
Hymnody
Hymns, considered collectively; hymnology.
hyperactivity
an unusually high level of activity; -- used especially with respect to children who move around frequently and do not sit still very long, most noticeably in school. It is sometimes associated with .
Hypnotism
A form of sleep or trance, in some respects resembling somnambulism, but brought on by artificial means, in which there is an unusual suspension of some powers, and an unusual activity of others, especially a heightened susceptibility to suggestion. It is induced by an action upon the nerves, through the medium of the senses, by causing the subject to gaze steadily at a very bright object held before the eyes, or on an oscillating object, or by pressure upon certain points of the surface of the body, usually accompanied by the speaking of the hypnotist in quiet soothing tones. Called also .
Hypochondres
The hypochondriac regions. See .
Hypogeum
The subterraneous portion of a building, as in amphitheaters, for the service of the games; also, subterranean galleries, as the catacombs.
Hystricomorphous
Like, or allied to, the porcupines; -- said of a group () of rodents.