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Had
See .
Hmapod
An hmapodous animal.
Hmatachometry
The measurement of the velocity of the blood.
Half-faced
Showing only part of the face; wretched looking; meager.
Half-strained
Half-bred; imperfect.
Hallux
The first, or preaxial, digit of the hind limb, corresponding to the pollux in the fore limb; the great toe; the hind toe of birds.
Halter
A strong strap or cord.
handbasin
A small basin used for washing thehands; .
handful
As much as the hand will grasp or contain.
Handless
Without a hand.
hand-me-down
An outgrown garment given to one person after use by another; -- usually transferred between members of a family or close friends; .
Handygripe
Seizure by, or grasp of, the hand; also, close quarters in fighting.
Hanging
Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter.
Harpist
A player on the harp; a harper.
Haulm
The denuded stems or stalks of such crops as buckwheat and the cereal grains, beans, etc.; straw.
Haustellata
An artificial division of insects, including all those with a sucking proboscis.
Headlight
A light, with a powerful reflector, placed at the front of a vehicle such as an automobile, truck, locomotive etc., to throw light on the road or track ahead of the vehicle at night, or in going through a dark tunnel; a .
Headtire
A headdress.
Heave
To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
Heaviness
The state or quality of being heavy in its various senses; weight; sadness; sluggishness; oppression; thickness.
Hederiferous
Producing ivy; ivy-bearing.
Heliochromic
Pertaining to, or produced by, heliochromy.
Helioscope
A telescope or instrument for viewing the sun without injury to the eyes, as through colored glasses, or with mirrors which reflect but a small portion of light.
Helminthologist
One versed in helminthology.
Help
To furnish with strength or means for the successful performance of any action or the attainment of any object; to aid; to assist; ; -- the following infinitive is commonly used without ;
Hemaphin
Same as .
Hematachometer
Same as .
Hemialbumose
An albuminous substance formed in gastric digestion, and by the action of boiling dilute acids on albumin. It is readily convertible into hemipeptone. Called also .
Hemiglyph
The half channel or groove in the edge of the triglyph in the Doric order.
Hendy
See .
Herald
An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character.
Herborize
To form the figures of plants in; -- said in reference to minerals. See .
Hereditament
Any species of property that may be inherited; lands, tenements, anything corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, that may descend to an heir.
Heteroplasm
An abnormal formation foreign to the economy, and composed of elements different from those are found in it in its normal condition.
Hierogrammatist
A writer of hierograms; also, one skilled in hieroglyphics.
Highty-tighty
Hoity-toity.
Himselve
See 1st .
Hinderest
Hindermost; -- of ,
Hippodrome
A place set apart for equestrian and chariot races.
Hireless
Without hire.
Hirudine
Of or pertaining to the leeches.
Hirundo
A genus of birds including the swallows and martins.
Histiology
Same as .
Historiette
Historical narration on a small scale; a brief recital; a story.
Holocrystalline
Completely crystalline; -- said of a rock like granite, all the constituents of which are crystalline.
Holophrastic
Expressing a phrase or sentence in a single word, -- as is the case in the aboriginal languages of America.
Homelike
Like a home; comfortable; cheerful; cozy; friendly; .
Homeling
A person or thing belonging to a home or to a particular country; a native; .
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.
Homespun
Cloth made at home; .
Homogenesis
That method of reproduction in which the successive generations are alike, the offspring, either animal or plant, running through the same cycle of existence as the parent; gamogenesis; -- opposed to .
Homograph
One of two or more words identical in orthography, but having different derivations and meanings; .
homophobia
A strong dislike or fear of homosexuals, especially to an unreasonable degree.
Homopteran
An homopter.
Homotaxia
Same as .
Homotype
That which has the same fundamental type of structure with something else; thus, the right arm is the of the right leg; one arm is the of the other, etc.
Honeyberry
The fruit of either of two trees having sweetish berries: An Old World hackberry (). In the West Indies, the genip ().
Horse Guards
A body of cavalry so called; esp., a British regiment, called the Royal Horse Guards, which furnishes guards of state for the sovereign.
Hospital
Hospitable.
Household
Those who dwell under the same roof and compose a family.
house-raising
A gathering for the construction of a house by a group of neighbors, usually in a rural community, and sometimes accomplished in a single day; similar to a .
Howp
To cry out; to whoop.
Huckster
To deal in small articles, or in petty bargains.
Hugger
One who hugs or embraces.
Humane
Pertaining to man; human.
Humanness
The quality or state of being human.
Humph
An exclamation denoting surprise, or contempt, doubt, etc.
Humstrum
An instrument out of tune or rudely constructed; music badly played.
Hungerly
With keen appetite.
Hurdlework
Work after manner of a hurdle.
Hurryingly
In a hurrying manner.
Hybridous
Same as .
Hydration
The act of becoming, or state of being, a hydrate.
Hydrognosy
A treatise upon, or a history and description of, the water of the earth.
Hydrometry
The art of determining the specific gravity of liquids, and thence the strength of spirituous liquors, saline solutions, etc.
hymenopteron
Same as .
Hymnography
The art or act of composing hymns.
hypernym
a word that is more generic or more abstract than a given word; a word designating a class of which the given word is a member. Inverse of and .
Hypotrachelium
Same as .