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Habilitate
To fit out; to equip; to qualify; to entitle.
Hable
See .
Hachure
A short line used in drawing and engraving, especially in shading and denoting different surfaces, as in map drawing. See .
Hackmatack
The American larch (), a coniferous tree with slender deciduous leaves; also, its heavy, close-grained timber. Called also .
Hmatoidin
Same as .
Hmatosac
A vascular sac connected, beneath the brain, in many fishes, with the infundibulum.
Haf
Hove.
Haft
To set in, or furnish with, a haft; .
Hagiology
The history or description of the sacred writings or of sacred persons; a narrative of the lives of the saints; a catalogue of saints.
Haidingerite
A mineral consisting chiefly of the arseniate of lime; -- so named in honor of W. , of Vienna.
Half-sighted
Seeing imperfectly; having weak discernment.
Halyard
A rope or tackle for hoisting or lowering yards, sails, flags, etc.
handler
one who trains or exhibits animals.
Haplostemonous
Having but one series of stamens, and that equal in number to the proper number of petals; isostemonous.
Harden
To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; .
Hard-featured
Having coarse, unattractive or stern features.
Hard-mouthed
Not sensible to the bit; not easily governed; .
Harmel
A kind of rue () growing in India. At Lahore the seeds are used medicinally and for fumigation.
Hart's-ear
An Asiatic species of (), used medicinally in India.
Harvest
The gathering of a crop of any kind; the ingathering of the crops; also, the season of gathering grain and fruits, late summer or early autumn.
Hasp
To shut or fasten with a hasp.
Hazelwort
The asarabacca.
Headtire
A headdress.
Hearselike
Suitable to a funeral.
Heartiness
The quality of being hearty; .
Heavy
To make heavy.
Heavy-armed
Wearing heavy or complete armor; carrying heavy arms.
Hebraize
To speak Hebrew, or to conform to the Hebrew idiom, or to Hebrew customs.
Hebrew
Of or pertaining to the Hebrews; .
Hector
To treat with insolence; to threaten; to bully; hence, to torment by words; to tease; to taunt; to worry or irritate by bullying.
Heedful
Full of heed; regarding with care; cautious; circumspect; attentive; vigilant.
Hematoxylin
Hmatoxylin.
hep
Same as , , but older and now less frequently used.
Heptene
Same as .
Herapathite
The sulphate of iodoquinine, a substance crystallizing in thin plates remarkable for their effects in polarizing light.
Herbescent
Growing into herbs.
Herbivora
An extensive division of Mammalia. It formerly included the Proboscidea, Hyracoidea, Perissodactyla, and Artiodactyla, but by later writers it is generally restricted to the two latter groups (Ungulata). They feed almost exclusively upon vegetation.
Herodiones
A division of wading birds, including the herons, storks, and allied forms. Called also .
Herpesvirus
any of several dozen DNA-containing virus of the family , including among them such human-disease-causing agents as causing oral and genital , () causing shingles and chickenpox (varicella), (EB virus) causing infectious mononucleosis, and .
Herzog
A member of the highest rank of nobility in Germany and Austria, corresponding to the British duke.
Hight
A variant of .
Hindbrain
The posterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the epencephalon and metencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the only.
Hippuric
Obtained from the urine of horses; .
Hirsuteness
Hairiness.
Historiographer
An historian; a writer of history; especially, one appointed or designated to write a history; also, a title bestowed by some governments upon historians of distinction.
Hitch
To hook; to catch or fasten as by a hook or a knot; to make fast, unite, or yoke; .
hitchhike
To travel by getting free rides from passing vehicles; .
Hogger-pump
The top pump in the pit.
Hoit
To leap; to caper; to romp noisily.
Hold up
To rob, usually at gunpoint or knifepoint.
Holstein
One of a breed of cattle, originally from Schleswig-, valued for the large amount of milk produced by the cows. The color is usually black and white in irregular patches.
homebuilder
someone who builds houses as a business.
Hominy
Maize hulled and broken, and prepared for food by being boiled in water.
homogenize
To blend (a collection of unlike elements) together so as to make the whole uniform in character, composition, or function.
Homunculus
A little man; a dwarf; a manikin.
Honeymoon
The first month after marriage.
honours
A university degree with honors; -- a term used in Great Britain.
Horologiographer
A maker of clocks, watches, or dials.
Hospitality
The act or practice of one who is hospitable; reception and entertainment of strangers or guests without reward, or with kind and generous liberality.
Hostess-ship
The character, personality, or office of a hostess.
Hotel
A house for entertaining strangers or travelers; an inn or public house, of the better class.
Hoten
of .
Housekeeping
The state of occupying a dwelling house as a householder.
Hoven
Affected with the disease called ; .
Humin
A bitter, brownish yellow, amorphous substance, extracted from vegetable mold, and also produced by the action of acids on certain sugars and carbohydrates; -- called also , , , or , etc.
Humorousness
Moodiness; capriciousness.
Humorsome
Moody; whimsical; capricious.
Hunch
A hump; a protuberance.
Hunch
To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust suddenly.
Hunchback
A back with a hunch or hump; also, a hunchbacked person.
Hybrid
Produced from the mixture of two genetically distinct strains; .
Hydropath
A hydropathist.
Hylozoic
Of or pertaining to hylozoism.
Hymenoptera
An extensive order of insects, including the bees, ants, ichneumons, sawflies, etc.
Hyperoxymuriate
A perchlorate.
Hypostasize
To make into a distinct substance; to conceive or treat as an existing being; to hypostatize.
Hyposulphite
A salt of what was formerly called hyposulphurous acid; a thiosulphate.
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 .
Hypsiloid
Resembling the Greek letter Upsilon; in form; hyoid.