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Heddle(n.) One of the sets of parallel doubled threads which, with mounting, compose the harness employed to guide the warp threads to the lathe or batten in a loom
(v. t.) To draw (the warp thread) through the heddle-eyes, in weaving.
Hedge(n.) A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes
(v. i.) To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on.
(v. t.) To inclose or separate with a hedge
Hedonic(a.) Of or relating to Hedonism or the Hedonic sect.
Heed(n.) A look or expression of heading.
(v. i.) To mind
(v. t.) To mind
Heel(n.) A cyma reversa
(v. i.) To lean or tip to one side, as a ship
(v. t.) To add a heel to
Heft(n.) A number of sheets of paper fastened together, as for a notebook
(v. t.) To heave up
Hegemony(n.) Leadership
Hegira(n.) The flight of Mohammed from Mecca, September 13, A. D. 622 (subsequently established as the first year of the Moslem era)
Heifer(n.) A young cow.
Height(n.) Degree of latitude either north or south.
Heinous(a.) Hateful
Heir(n.) One who inherits, or is entitled to succeed to the possession of, any property after the death of its owner
(v. t.) To inherit
Held(imp. & p. p.) of Hold
Heliacal(a.) Emerging from the light of the sun, or passing into it
Helical(a.) Of or pertaining to, or in the form of, a helix
Helichrysum(n.) A genus of composite plants, with shining, commonly white or yellow, or sometimes reddish, radiated involucres, which are often called "everlasting flowers
Helicograph(n.) An instrument for drawing spiral lines on a plane.
Helicoid(a.) Shaped like a snail shell
(n.) A warped surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner that every point of the line shall have a uniform motion in the direction of another fixed straight line, and at the same time a uniform angular motion about it
Helicon(n.) A mountain in Boeotia, in Greece, supposed by the Greeks to be the residence of Apollo and the Muses
Heliograph(n.) An apparatus for telegraphing by means of the sun's rays.
(v. t.) To photograph by sunlight.
Heliolatry(n.) Sun worship.
Heliometer(n.) An instrument devised originally for measuring the diameter of the sun
Heliostat(n.) An instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, by which a sunbeam is made apparently stationary, by being steadily directed to one spot during the whole of its diurnal period
Heliotrope(n.) An instrument for making signals to an observer at a distance, by means of the sun's rays thrown from a mirror
Heliotropism(n.) The phenomenon of turning toward the light, seen in many leaves and flowers.
Helium(n.) A gaseous element found in the atmospheres of the sun and earth and in some rare minerals.
Helix(n.) A caulicule or little volute under the abacus of the Corinthian capital.
Hell(v. t.) A dungeon or prison
Helm(n.) A heavy cloud lying on the brow of a mountain.
(v. t.) To cover or furnish with a helm or helmet.
Helot(n.) A slave in ancient Sparta
Help(v. i.) To lend aid or assistance
(v. t.) A helper
Helve(n.) A forge hammer which is lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head
(v. t.) To furnish with a helve, as an ax.
Hem(interj.) An onomatopoetic word used as an expression of hesitation, doubt, etc. It is often a sort of voluntary half cough, loud or subdued, and would perhaps be better expressed by hm
(n.) A border made on sheet-metal ware by doubling over the edge of the sheet, to stiffen it and remove the sharp edge
(pron.) Them
(v. i.) To make the sound expressed by the word hem
(v. t.) To border
Hemal(a.) Relating to the blood or blood vessels
Hematein(n.) A reddish brown or violet crystalline substance, C16H12O6, got from hematoxylin by partial oxidation, and regarded as analogous to the phthaleins
Hematic(n.) A medicine designed to improve the condition of the blood.
Hematin(n.) A bluish black, amorphous substance containing iron and obtained from blood. It exists the red blood corpuscles united with globulin, and the form of hemoglobin or oxyhemoglobin gives to the blood its red color
Hematite(n.) An important ore of iron, the sesquioxide, so called because of the red color of the powder
Hematology(n.) The science which treats of the blood.
Hematoma(n.) A circumscribed swelling produced by an effusion of blood beneath the skin.
Hematoxylin(n.) Haematoxylin.
Hematuria(n.) Passage of urine mingled with blood.
Hemeralopia(n.) A disease of the eyes, in consequence of which a person can see clearly or without pain only by daylight or a strong artificial light
Hemerocallis(n.) A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers
Hemicycle(n.) A half circle
Hemihedral(a.) Having half of the similar parts of a crystals, instead of all
Hemimorphic(a.) Having the two ends modified with unlike planes
Hemiplegia(n.) A palsy that affects one side only of the body.
Hemipode(n.) Any bird of the genus Turnix. Various species inhabit Asia, Africa, and Australia.
Hemipteran(n.) One of the Hemiptera
Hemipterous(a.) Of or pertaining to the Hemiptera.
Hemisphere(n.) A half sphere
Hemistich(n.) Half a poetic verse or line, or a verse or line not completed.
Hemlock(n.) An evergreen tree common in North America (Abies, / Tsuga, Canadensis)
Hemmer(n.) An attachment to a sewing machine, for turning under the edge of a piece of fabric, preparatory to stitching it down
Hemoglobin(n.) The normal coloring matter of the red blood corpuscles of vertebrate animals. It is composed of hematin and globulin, and is also called haematoglobulin
Hemoptysis(n.) The expectoration of blood, due usually to hemorrhage from the mucous membrane of the lungs
Hemorrhage(n.) Any discharge of blood from the blood vessels.
Hemorrhoids(n. pl.) Livid and painful swellings formed by the dilation of the blood vessels around the margin of, or within, the anus, from which blood or mucus is occasionally discharged
Hemostatic(a.) Of or relating to stagnation of the blood.
(n.) A medicine or application to arrest hemorrhage.
Hemp(n.) A plant of the genus Cannabis (C. sativa), the fibrous skin or bark of which is used for making cloth and cordage
Hemstitch(v. t.) To ornament at the head of a broad hem by drawing out a few parallel threads, and fastening the cross threads in successive small clusters
Henbane(n.) A plant of the genus Hyoscyamus (H. niger). All parts of the plant are poisonous, and the leaves are used for the same purposes as belladonna
Henbit(n.) A weed of the genus Lamium (L. amplexicaule) with deeply crenate leaves.
Hence(adv.) From this place
(v. t.) To send away.
Henchman(n.) An attendant
Hencoop(n.) A coop or cage for hens.
Hendecasyllable(n.) A metrical line of eleven syllables.
Hendiadys(n.) A figure in which the idea is expressed by two nouns connected by and, instead of by a noun and limiting adjective
Henhouse(n.) A house or shelter for fowls.
Henna(n.) A thorny tree or shrub of the genus Lawsonia (L. alba). The fragrant white blossoms are used by the Buddhists in religious ceremonies
Henotheism(n.) Primitive religion in which each of several divinities is regarded as independent, and is worshiped without reference to the rest
Henry(n.) The unit of electric induction
Hent(p. p.) of Hent
(v. t.) To seize
Hepatic(a.) Of or pertaining to the liver
Hepatitis(n.) Inflammation of the liver.
Hepatogenous(a.) Arising from the liver
Heptad(n.) An atom which has a valence of seven, and which can be theoretically combined with, substituted for, or replaced by, seven monad atoms or radicals
Heptagon(n.) A plane figure consisting of seven sides and having seven angles.
Heptahedron(n.) A solid figure with seven sides.
Heptamerous(a.) Consisting of seven parts, or having the parts in sets of sevens.
Heptane(n.) Any one of several isometric hydrocarbons, C7H16, of the paraffin series (nine are possible, four are known)
Heptarchy(n.) A government by seven persons
Heptastich(n.) A composition consisting of seven lines or verses.
Heptateuch(n.) The first seven books of the Testament.
Her(pron. & a.) The form of the objective and the possessive case of the personal pronoun she
Herald(n.) A forerunner
(v. t.) To introduce, or give tidings of, as by a herald
Herb(n.) A plant whose stem does not become woody and permanent, but dies, at least down to the ground, after flowering
Herculean(a.) Having extraordinary strength or size
Hercules(n.) A constellation in the northern hemisphere, near Lyra.
Hercynian(a.) Of or pertaining to an extensive forest in Germany, of which there are still portions in Swabia and the Hartz mountains
Herd(a.) Haired.
(n.) A crowd of low people
(v. i.) To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.
(v. t.) To form or put into a herd.
Here(adv.) At this point of time, or of an argument
(n.) Hair.
(pron.) Her
(pron. pl.) Of them
Heriot(n.) Formerly, a payment or tribute of arms or military accouterments, or the best beast, or chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant
Heritable(a.) Capable of being inherited or of passing by inheritance
Heritage(a.) A possession
Heritor(n.) A proprietor or landholder in a parish.
Hermaphrodite(a.) Including, or being of, both sexes
(n.) An individual which has the attributes of both male and female, or which unites in itself the two sexes
Hermeneutics(n.) The science of interpretation and explanation
Hermes(n.) Originally, a boundary stone dedicated to Hermes as the god of boundaries, and therefore bearing in some cases a head, or head and shoulders, placed upon a quadrangular pillar whose height is that of the body belonging to the head, sometimes having feet or other parts of the body sculptured upon it
Hermit(n.) A beadsman
Hern(n.) A heron
Hero(n.) A man of distinguished valor or enterprise in danger, or fortitude in suffering
Herpes(n.) An eruption of the skin, taking various names, according to its form, or the part affected
Herpetic(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the herpes
Herpetology(n.) The natural history of reptiles
Herr(n.) A title of respect given to gentlemen in Germany, equivalent to the English Mister.
Herself(pron.) An emphasized form of the third person feminine pronoun
Hesitant(a.) Not prompt in deciding or acting
Hesitate(v. i.) To stammer
(v. t.) To utter with hesitation or to intimate by a reluctant manner.
Hesitation(n.) A faltering in speech
Hesperian(a.) Of or pertaining to a family of butterflies called Hesperidae, or skippers.
(n.) A native or an inhabitant of a western country.
Hesperides(n. pl.) The daughters of Hesperus, or Night (brother of Atlas), and fabled possessors of a garden producing golden apples, in Africa, at the western extremity of the known world
Hesperidin(n.) A glucoside found in ripe and unripe fruit (as the orange), and extracted as a white crystalline substance
Hesperidium(n.) A large berry with a thick rind, as a lemon or an orange.
Hesperus(n.) Evening.
Hessian(a.) Of or relating to Hesse, in Germany, or to the Hessians.
(n.) A mercenary or venal person.
Hessite(n.) A lead-gray sectile mineral. It is a telluride of silver.
Hest(n.) Command
Hesychast(n.) One of a mystical sect of the Greek Church in the fourteenth century
Heterocercal(a.) Having the vertebral column evidently continued into the upper lobe of the tail, which is usually longer than the lower one, as in sharks
Heterochromous(a.) Having the central florets of a flower head of a different color from those of the circumference
Heteroclite(a.) Deviating from ordinary forms or rules
(n.) Any thing or person deviating from the common rule, or from common forms.
Heterodactylous(a.) Having the first and second toes turned backward, as in the trogons.
Heterodont(a.) Having the teeth differentiated into incisors, canines, and molars, as in man
(n.) Any animal with heterodont dentition.
Heterodox(a.) Contrary to, or differing from, some acknowledged standard, as the Bible, the creed of a church, the decree of a council, and the like
(n.) An opinion opposed to some accepted standard.
Heteroecious(a.) Passing through the different stages in its life history on an alternation of hosts, as the common wheat-rust fungus (Puccinia graminis), and certain other parasitic fungi
Heterogamy(n.) That form of alternate generation in which two kinds of sexual generation, or a sexual and a parthenogenetic generation, alternate
Heterogeneity(n.) The state of being heterogeneous
Heterogeneous(a.) Differing in kind
Heterogenesis(n.) Spontaneous generation, so called.
Heterogenetic(a.) Relating to heterogenesis
Heterogenous(a.) Of or pertaining to heterogenesis
Heterogony(n.) The condition of having two or more kinds of flowers, different as to the length of their stamens and pistils
Heterography(n.) That method of spelling in which the same letters represent different sounds in different words, as in the ordinary English orthography
Heterologous(a.) Characterized by heterology
Heteromerous(a.) Having five tarsal joints in the anterior and middle legs, but only four in the posterior pair, as the blister beetles and oil beetles
Heteromorphic(a.) Deviating from the normal, perfect, or mature form
Heteronomous(a.) Subject to the law of another.
Heteronym(n.) That which is heteronymous
Heteroousian(a.) Having different essential qualities
(n.) One of those Arians who held that the Son was of a different substance from the Father
Heterophyllous(a.) Having leaves of more than one shape on the same plant.
Heterosis(n.) A figure of speech by which one form of a noun, verb, or pronoun, and the like, is used for another, as in the sentence: "What is life to such as me?"
Heterosporous(a.) Producing two kinds of spores unlike each other.
Hetman(n.) A Cossack headman or general. The title of chief hetman is now held by the heir to the throne of Russia
Heulandite(n.) A mineral of the Zeolite family, often occurring in amygdaloid, in foliated masses, and also in monoclinic crystals with pearly luster on the cleavage face
Heuristic(a.) Serving to discover or find out.
Hew(n.) Destruction by cutting down.
(v. t.) To cut in pieces
Hexachord(n.) A series of six notes, with a semitone between the third and fourth, the other intervals being whole tones
Hexagon(n.) A plane figure of six angles.
Hexagram(n.) A figure composed of two equal triangles intersecting so that each side of one triangle is parallel to a side of the other, and the six points coincide with those of a hexagon
Hexamerous(a.) In six parts
Hexameter(a.) Having six metrical feet, especially dactyls and spondees.
(n.) A verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly be a dactyl, and the sixth always a spondee
Hexane(n.) Any one of five hydrocarbons, C6H14, of the paraffin series. They are colorless, volatile liquids, and are so called because the molecule has six carbon atoms
Hexapla(sing.) A collection of the Holy Scriptures in six languages or six versions in parallel columns
Hexastyle(a.) Having six columns in front
(n.) A hexastyle portico or temple.
Hexateuch(n.) The first six books of the Old Testament.
Hexavalent(p. pr.) Having a valence of six
Hexose(n.) Any member of a group of sugars containing six carbon atoms in the molecule. Some are widely distributed in nature, esp
Hexyl(n.) A compound radical, C6H13, regarded as the essential residue of hexane, and a related series of compounds
Hey(a.) High.
(interj.) A cry to set dogs on.
Heyday(interj.) An expression of frolic and exultation, and sometimes of wonder.
(n.) The time of triumph and exultation
Hiatus(n.) An opening
Hibernaculum(n.) A little case in which certain insects pass the winter.
Hibernal(a.) Belonging or relating to winter
Hibernate(v. i.) To winter
Hibernian(a.) Of or pertaining to Hibernia, now Ireland
(n.) A native or an inhabitant of Ireland.
Hibiscus(n.) A genus of plants (herbs, shrubs, or trees), some species of which have large, showy flowers
Hickory(n.) An American tree of the genus Carya, of which there are several species. The shagbark is the C
Hid(imp.) of Hide
Hidalgo(n.) A title, denoting a Spanish nobleman of the lower class.
Hidden(p. p.) of Hide
(p. p. & a.) from Hide. Concealed
Hide(n.) A measure of land, common in Domesday Book and old English charters, the quantity of which is not well ascertained, but has been differently estimated at 80, 100, and 120 acres
(v. i.) To lie concealed
(v. t.) To conceal, or withdraw from sight
Hiding(n.) A flogging.
Hidrosis(n.) Excessive perspiration
Hie(n.) Haste
(v. i.) To hasten
Hierarch(n.) One who has high and controlling authority in sacred things
Hieratic(a.) Consecrated to sacred uses
Hierocracy(n.) Government by ecclesiastics
Hierogram(n.) A form of sacred or hieratic writing.
Hierophant(n.) The presiding priest who initiated candidates at the Eleusinian mysteries
Higgle(v. i.) To chaffer
High(adv.) In a high manner
(n.) An elevated place
(superl.) Acute or sharp
(v. i.) To hie.
Hike(n.) The act of hiking
(v. i.) To hike one's self
(v. t.) To move with a swing, toss, throw, jerk, or the like.
Hilarious(a.) Mirthful
Hilarity(n.) Boisterous mirth
Hill(n.) A natural elevation of land, or a mass of earth rising above the common level of the surrounding land
(v. t.) A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them
Hilt(n.) A handle
Hilum(n.) The eye of a bean or other seed
Him(pron.) Them.
Himself(pron.) An emphasized form of the third person masculine pronoun
Himyaritic(a.) Pertaining to Himyar, an ancient king of Yemen, in Arabia, or to his successors or people
Hind(a.) In the rear
(n.) A domestic
Hinge(n.) One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
(v. i.) To stand, depend, hang, or turn, as on a hinge
(v. t.) To attach by, or furnish with, hinges.
Hinny(n.) A hybrid between a stallion and an ass.
(v. i.) To neigh
Hint(n.) A remote allusion
(v. i.) To make an indirect reference, suggestion, or allusion
(v. t.) To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion
Hip(interj.) Used to excite attention or as a signal
(v. t.) To dislocate or sprain the hip of, to fracture or injure the hip bone of (a quadruped) in such a manner as to produce a permanent depression of that side
Hippocampus(n.) A fabulous monster, with the head and fore quarters of a horse joined to the tail of a dolphin or other fish (Hippocampus brevirostris)
Hippocras(n.) A cordial made of spiced wine, etc.
Hippodrome(n.) A fraudulent contest with a predetermined winner.
(v. i.) To arrange contests with predetermined winners.
Hippogriff(n.) A fabulous winged animal, half horse and half griffin.
Hippopotamus(n.) A large, amphibious, herbivorous mammal (Hippopotamus amphibius), common in the rivers of Africa
Hire(n.) A bailment by which the use of a thing, or the services and labor of a person, are contracted for at a certain price or reward
Hirsute(a.) Covered with hairlike feathers, as the feet of certain birds.
His(pron.) Belonging or pertaining to him
Hispanic(a.) Of or pertaining to Spain or its language
Hispid(a.) Beset with stiff hairs or bristles.
Hiss(n.) Any sound resembling that above described
(v. i.) To make a similar noise by any means
(v. t.) To condemn or express contempt for by hissing.
Hist(interj.) Hush
Hit(imp. & p. p.) of Hit
(n.) A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts less than a gammon
(pron.) It.
(v. i.) To meet or come in contact
(v. t.) To guess
Hitch(n.) A catch
(v. t.) To become entangled or caught
Hither(a.) Applied to time: On the hither side of, younger than
(adv.) To this place
Hittite(n.) A member of an ancient people (or perhaps group of peoples) whose settlements extended from Armenia westward into Asia Minor and southward into Palestine
Hive(n.) A box, basket, or other structure, for the reception and habitation of a swarm of honeybees.
(v. i.) To take shelter or lodgings together
(v. t.) To collect into a hive
Ho(pron.) Who.
Hoar(a.) Gray or white with age
(n.) Hoariness
(v. t.) To become moldy or musty.
Hoax(n.) A deception for mockery or mischief
(v. t.) To deceive by a story or a trick, for sport or mischief
Hob(n.) A countryman
Hobble(n.) An unequal gait
(n. i.) To move roughly or irregularly
(v. t.) To fetter by tying the legs
Hobbyhorse(n.) A stick, often with the head or figure of a horse, on which boys make believe to ride.
Hobgoblin(n.) A frightful goblin
Hobnail(n.) A clownish person
(v. t.) To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes.
Hobnob(adv.) At random
(n.) Familiar, social intercourse.
(v. i.) To associate familiarly
Hobo(n.) A professional tramp
Hock(v. t.) To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock
Hocus(n.) Drugged liquor.
(v. t.) To adulterate
Hod(n.) A kind of wooden tray with a handle, borne on the shoulder, for carrying mortar, brick, etc.
Hodgepodge(n.) A mixed mass
Hoe(n.) A tool chiefly for digging up weeds, and arranging the earth about plants in fields and gardens
(v. i.) To use a hoe
(v. t.) To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with a hoe
Hoecake(n.) A cake of Indian meal, water, and salt, baked before the fire or in the ashes
Hog(n.) A device for mixing and stirring the pulp of which paper is made.
(v. i.) To become bent upward in the middle, like a hog's back
(v. t.) To cut short like bristles
Hogback(n.) An upward curve or very obtuse angle in the upper surface of any member, as of a timber laid horizontally
Hogfish(n.) A large, red, spiny-headed, European marine fish (Scorpaena scrofa).
Hogget(n.) A sheep or colt alter it has passed its first year.
Hoggish(a.) Swinish
Hogmanay(n.) The old name, in Scotland, for the last day of the year, on which children go about singing, and receive a dole of bread or cakes
Hognut(n.) In England, the Bunium flexuosum, a tuberous plant.
Hogshead(n.) A large cask or barrel, of indefinite contents
Hogwash(n.) Swill.
Hogweed(n.) A common weed (Ambrosia artemisiaege).
Hoist(n.) That by which anything is hoisted
(p. p.) Hoisted.
(v. t.) To raise
Holarctic(a.) designating a realm or region including the northern parts of the Old and the New World
Hold(n.) A character
(n. i.) In general, to keep one's self in a given position or condition
(v. t.) To accept, as an opinion
Hole(a.) Whole.
(n.) A hollow place or cavity
(v. i.) To go or get into a hole.
Holiday(a.) Occurring rarely
(n.) A consecrated day
Holiness(n.) The state of being hallowed, or consecrated to God or to his worship
Holland(n.) A kind of linen first manufactured in Holland
Hollow(a.) Depressed
(adv.) Wholly
(interj.) Hollo.
(n.) A cavity, natural or artificial
(v. i.) To shout
(v. t.) To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving
Holly(adv.) Wholly.
(n.) A tree or shrub of the genus Ilex. The European species (Ilex Aguifolium) is best known, having glossy green leaves, with a spiny, waved edge, and bearing berries that turn red or yellow about Michaelmas
Holm(n.) A common evergreen oak, of Europe (Quercus Ilex)
Holocaust(n.) A burnt sacrifice
Holograph(n.) A document, as a letter, deed, or will, wholly in the handwriting of the person from whom it proceeds and whose act it purports to be
Holohedral(a.) Having all the planes required by complete symmetry
Holophrastic(a.) Expressing a phrase or sentence in a single word
Holophytic(a.) Wholly or distinctively vegetable.
Holothurian(a.) Belonging to the Holothurioidea.
(n.) One of the Holothurioidea.
Holp(imp.) of Help
Holstein(n.) One of a breed of cattle, originally from Schleswig-Holstein, valued for the large amount of milk produced by the cows
Holster(n.) A leather case for a pistol, carried by a horseman at the bow of his saddle.
Holt(n.) A deep hole in a river where there is protection for fish
Holy(superl.) Set apart to the service or worship of God
Homage(n.) A symbolical acknowledgment made by a feudal tenant to, and in the presence of, his lord, on receiving investiture of fee, or coming to it by succession, that he was his man, or vassal
(v. t.) To cause to pay homage.
Home(a.) Close
(adv.) Close
(n.) A place of refuge and rest
Homicidal(a.) Pertaining to homicide
Homicide(v. t.) One who kills another
Homiletics(n.) The art of preaching
Homily(n.) A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience
Homing(a.) Home-returning
(p.a.) Home-returning.
Hominy(n.) Maize hulled and broken, and prepared for food by being boiled in water.
Homocentric(a.) Having the same center.
Homocercal(a.) Having the tail nearly or quite symmetrical, the vertebral column terminating near its base
Homochromous(a.) Having all the florets in the same flower head of the same color.
Homodont(a.) Having all the teeth similar in front, as in the porpoises
Homogamy(n.) The condition of being homogamous.
Homogeneous(a.) Of the same kind of nature
Homogenous(a.) Having a resemblance in structure, due to descent from a common progenitor with subsequent modification
Homogeny(n.) Joint nature.
Homograph(n.) One of two or more words identical in orthography, but having different derivations and meanings
Homoiousian(a.) Of or pertaining to Homoiousians, or their belief.
(n.) One of the semi-Arians of the 4th century, who held that the Son was of like, but not the same, essence or substance with the Father
Homologate(v. t.) To approve
Homological(a.) Pertaining to homology
Homologize(v. t.) To determine the homologies or structural relations of.
Homologous(a.) Being of the same typical structure
Homolographic(a.) Preserving the mutual relations of parts, especially as to size and form
Homologue(n.) That which is homologous to something else
Homology(n.) Correspondence or relation in type of structure in contradistinction to similarity of function
Homonym(n.) A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning
Homoousian(a.) Of or pertaining to the Homoousians, or to the doctrines they held.
(n.) One of those, in the 4th century, who accepted the Nicene creed, and maintained that the Son had the same essence or substance with the Father
Homophone(n.) A letter or character which expresses a like sound with another.
Homophony(n.) Plain harmony, as opposed to polyphony.
Homoplastic(a.) Of or pertaining to homoplasty
Homopteran(n.) An homopter.
Homotaxis(n.) Similarly in arrangement of parts
Homunculus(n.) A little man
Hond(n.) Hand.
Hone(n.) A kind of swelling in the cheek.
(v. i.) To grumble
(v. t.) To sharpen on, or with, a hone
Honk(n.) The cry of a wild goose.
Honor(n.) Academic or university prizes or distinctions
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