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Habituate
To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize.
hadrosaur
Any member of the genus or family , an extinct family of heavy bipedal partly aquatic dinosaurs with duck-billed skull and webbed feet; of the Upper Cretaceous in North America.
Hmatachometry
The measurement of the velocity of the blood.
Hmatothermal
Warm-blooded; homoiothermal.
Haje
The Egyptian asp or cobra (.) It is related to the cobra of India, and like the latter has the power of inflating its neck into a hood. Its bite is very venomous. It is supposed to be the snake by means of whose bite Cleopatra committed suicide, and hence is sometimes called or . See .
Halisauria
The Enaliosauria.
handfast
Hold; grasp
Haploid
having half the number of chromosomes normally present in somatic cells; having only one chromosome of each type, and therefore having only one complete set of genes; Contrasted with and . See also .
Harass
Devastation; waste.
Harborer
One who, or that which, harbors.
Hardiness
Capability of endurance.
Haruspice
A diviner of ancient Rome. Same as .
Hatch
To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See .
Hatch
To produce, as young, from an egg or eggs by incubation, or by artificial heat; to produce young from (eggs); .
Haustellate
Provided with a haustellum, or sucking proboscis.
Havildar
In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant.
Hawm
To lounge; to loiter.
Heading
The act or state of one who, or that which, heads; formation of a head.
Hearing
The act or power of perceiving sound; perception of sound; the faculty or sense by which sound is perceived; .
Heartquake
Trembling of the heart; trepidation; fear.
Heartstruck
Driven to the heart; infixed in the mind.
Hector
To play the bully; to bluster; to be turbulent or insolent.
Heed
To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.
hegari
Sudanese sorghums having white seeds; one variety is grown in Southwestern U.S.
Helotium
The type genus of the .
Hem
An utterance or sound of the voice, or , often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention.
Hematocrya
The cold-blooded vertebrates, that is, all but the mammals and birds; -- the antithesis to .
Hemi-demi-semiquaver
A short note, equal to one fourth of a semiquaver, or the sixty-fourth part of a whole note.
Hemimellitic
Having as many () carboxyl radicals as acid; -- said of an organic acid.
hemosiderin
a granular yellowish-brown substance composed of protein and ferric oxide, resulting from the breakdown of hemoglobin; it has a higher iron content than ferritin, and its presence in body tissues or phagocytes can be a symptom of disturbed iron metabolism.
Henotic
Harmonizing; irenic.
Herehence
From hence.
Heronsew
A heronshaw.
Herpes zoster virus
same as .
Heterography
That method of spelling in which the same letters represent different sounds in different words, as in the ordinary English orthography; e. g., in and in .
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 .
Heteromera
A division of Coleoptera, having heteromerous tarsi.
Heteromerous
Unrelated in chemical composition, though similar or indentical in certain other respects; .
Heteroptics
False optics.
Hiberno-Celtic
The native language of the Irish; that branch of the Celtic languages spoken by the natives of Ireland. Also .
Hinderer
One who, or that which, hinders.
hippeastrum
An amaryllis of tropical America () often cultivated as a houseplant for its showy white to red flowers.
Hoar
To become moldy or musty.
Hobbler
One who hobbles.
Hogsty
A pen, house, or inclosure, for hogs.
Hollands
Gin made in Holland.
Holo-
A combining form fr. Gr. whole.
Holsom
Wholesome.
Homelike
Like a home; comfortable; cheerful; cozy; friendly; .
Hominoidea
A superfamily of mammals including anthropoid apes and human beings.
Homogenous
Having a resemblance in structure, due to descent from a common progenitor with subsequent modification; homogenetic; -- applied both to animals and plants. See .
Horometrical
Belonging to horometry.
Horse-jockey
A professional rider and trainer of race horses.
Horticulture
The cultivation of a garden or orchard; the art of cultivating gardens or orchards.
Hotpress
To apply heat to, in conjunction with mechanical pressure, for the purpose of giving a smooth and glossy surface, or to express oil, etc.;
Houdah
See .
Hours
Goddess of the seasons, or of the hours of the day.
Housebreaking
The act of breaking open and entering, with a felonious purpose, the dwelling house of another, whether done by day or night. See , and , under .
housetop
The roof of a house, especially the flat part of a roof; .
Hove
of .
Hoveringly
In a hovering manner.
Hub
The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave. See of .
Hugy
Vast.
humidify
to render (gases, especially air) humid or to increase the moisture content of; .
Humiri
A fragrant balsam obtained from Brazilian trees of the genus .
Humorism
The theory founded on the influence which the humors were supposed to have in the production of disease; Galenism.
Hurdlework
Work after manner of a hurdle.
Hydroguret
A hydride.
Hyemation
The passing of a winter in a particular place; a wintering.
Hyetal
Of or pertaining to rain; descriptive of the distribution of rain, or of rainy regions.
Hymnic
Relating to hymns, or sacred lyrics.
Hymnist
A writer of hymns.
Hyoglossal
Pertaining to or connecting the tongue and hyodean arch; .
Hyperboloid
A surface of the second order, which is cut by certain planes in hyperbolas; also, the solid, bounded in part by such a surface.
hyperon
Any baryon that is not a nucleon; it is an unstable particle with a mass greater than that of a neutron.
Hyphenated American
An American who is referred to by a hyphenated term with the first word indicating an origin in a foreign country, and the second term being American, as , , , .
Hypospadias
A deformity of the penis, in which the urethra opens upon its under surface.
Hysterogenic
Producing hysteria; .