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Gryphon
  • (n.) The griffin vulture.

    Guacharo
  • (n.) A nocturnal bird of South America and Trinidad (Steatornis Caripensis, or S. steatornis)

    Guaiac
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, guaiacum.
  • (n.) Guaiacum.

    Guan
  • (n.) Any one of many species of large gallinaceous birds of Central and South America, belonging to Penelope, Pipile, Ortalis, and allied genera

    Guarantee
  • (n.) In law and common usage: A promise to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some duty, in case of the failure of another person, who is, in the first instance, liable to such payment or performance

    Guarantor
  • (n.) One who engages to secure another in any right or possession.

    Guaranty
  • (n.) In law and common usage: An undertaking to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some contract or duty, of another, in case of the failure of such other to pay or perform

    Guard
  • (n.) To fasten by binding
  • (v. i.) To watch by way of caution or defense
  • (v. t.) A chain or cord for fastening a watch to one's person or dress.

    Guava
  • (n.) A tropical tree, or its fruit, of the genus Psidium. Two varieties are well known, the P. pyriferum, or white guava, and P

    Gubernatorial
  • (a.) Pertaining to a governor, or to government.

    Gudgeon
  • (n.) A metal eye or socket attached to the sternpost to receive the pintle of the rudder.
  • (v. t.) To deprive fraudulently

    Guenon
  • (n.) One of several long-tailed Oriental monkeys, of the genus Cercocebus, as the green monkey and grivet

    Guerdon
  • (n.) A reward

    Guereza
  • (n.) A beautiful Abyssinian monkey (Colobus guereza), having the body black, with a fringe of long, silky, white hair along the sides, and a tuft of the same at the end of the tail

    Guerrilla
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or engaged in, warfare carried on irregularly and by independent bands
  • (n.) An irregular mode of carrying on war, by the constant attacks of independent bands, adopted in the north of Spain during the Peninsular war

    Guess
  • (n.) An opinion as to anything, formed without sufficient or decisive evidence or grounds
  • (v. i.) To make a guess or random judgment
  • (v. t.) To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge

    Guest
  • (n.) An inquiline.
  • (v. i.) To be, or act the part of, a guest.
  • (v. t.) To receive or entertain hospitably.

    Guffaw
  • (n.) A loud burst of laughter

    Guidance
  • (n.) The act or result of guiding

    Guide
  • (n.) The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder
  • (v. t.) A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the wheel buckets.

    Guidon
  • (v. t.) A small flag or streamer, as that carried by cavalry, which is broad at one end and nearly pointed at the other, or that used to direct the movements of a body of infantry, or to make signals at sea

    Guild
  • (v. t.) A guildhall.

    Guile
  • (n.) Craft

    Guillemot
  • (n.) One of several northern sea birds, allied to the auks. They have short legs, placed far back, and are expert divers and swimmers

    Guilloche
  • (n.) An ornament in the form of two or more bands or strings twisted over each other in a continued series, leaving circular openings which are filled with round ornaments

    Guillotine
  • (n.) A machine for beheading a person by one stroke of a heavy ax or blade, which slides in vertical guides, is raised by a cord, and let fall upon the neck of the victim
  • (v. t.) To behead with the guillotine.

    Guilt
  • (v. t.) Exposure to any legal penalty or forfeiture.

    Guimpe
  • (n.) A kind of short chemisette, worn with a low-necked dress.

    Guinea
  • (n.) A district on the west coast of Africa (formerly noted for its export of gold and slaves) after which the Guinea fowl, Guinea grass, Guinea peach, etc

    Guipure
  • (n.) A term used for lace of different kinds

    Guise
  • (n.) Cover

    Guitar
  • (n.) A stringed instrument of music resembling the lute or the violin, but larger, and having six strings, three of silk covered with silver wire, and three of catgut

    Gulch
  • (n.) Act of gulching or gulping.
  • (v. t.) To swallow greedily

    Gules
  • (n.) The tincture red, indicated in seals and engraved figures of escutcheons by parallel vertical lines

    Gulf
  • (n.) A hollow place in the earth

    Gull
  • (n.) A cheating or cheat
  • (v. t.) To deceive

    Gulosity
  • (n.) Excessive appetite

    Gulp
  • (n.) A disgorging.
  • (v. t.) To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts

    Gum
  • (n.) A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree
  • (v. i.) To exude or from gum
  • (v. t.) To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw).

    Gum ammoniac
  • (n.) The concrete juice (gum resin) of an umbelliferous plant, the Dorema ammoniacum. It is brought chiefly from Persia in the form of yellowish tears, which occur singly, or are aggregated into masses

    Gumbo
  • (n.) A soup thickened with the mucilaginous pods of the okra

    Gumma
  • (n.) A kind of soft tumor, usually of syphilitic origin.

    Gummite
  • (n.) A yellow amorphous mineral, essentially a hydrated oxide of uranium derived from the alteration of uraninite

    Gummous
  • (a.) Gumlike, or composed of gum

    Gummy
  • (a.) Consisting of gum

    Gump
  • (n.) A dolt

    Gun
  • (n.) A piece of heavy ordnance
  • (v. i.) To practice fowling or hunting small game

    Gunboat
  • (n.) A vessel of light draught, carrying one or more guns.

    Gunflint
  • (n.) A sharpened flint for the lock of a gun, to ignite the charge. It was in common use before the introduction of percussion caps

    Gunlock
  • (n.) The lock of a gun, for producing the discharge.

    Gunnel
  • (n.) A gunwale.

    Gunner
  • (n.) A warrant officer in the navy having charge of the ordnance on a vessel.

    Gunpowder
  • (n.) A black, granular, explosive substance, consisting of an intimate mechanical mixture of niter, charcoal, and sulphur

    Gunroom
  • (n.) An apartment on the after end of the lower gun deck of a ship of war, usually occupied as a messroom by the commissioned officers, except the captain

    Gunshot
  • (a.) Made by the shot of a gun: as. a gunshot wound.
  • (n.) Act of firing a gun

    Gunsmith
  • (n.) One whose occupation is to make or repair small firearms

    Gunstock
  • (n.) The stock or wood to which the barrel of a hand gun is fastened.

    Gunwale
  • (n.) The upper edge of a vessel's or boat's side

    Gurgle
  • (n.) The act of gurgling
  • (v. i.) To run or flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current, as water from a bottle, or a small stream among pebbles or stones

    Guru
  • (n.) A spiritual teacher, guide, or confessor amoung the Hindoos.

    Gush
  • (v. i.) To issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid
  • (v. t.) A sentimental exhibition of affection or enthusiasm, etc.

    Gusset
  • (n.) A kind of bracket, or angular piece of iron, fastened in the angles of a structure to give strength or stiffness

    Gust
  • (n.) A sudden squall
  • (v. t.) To taste

    Gut
  • (n.) A narrow passage of water
  • (v. t.) To plunder of contents

    Gutta
  • (n.) A drop.

    Gutter
  • (n.) A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain
  • (v. i.) To become channeled, as a candle when the flame flares in the wind.
  • (v. t.) To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows

    Guttural
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the throat
  • (n.) A sound formed in the throat

    Guy
  • (n.) A grotesque effigy, like that of Guy Fawkes, dressed up in England on the fifth of November, the day of the Gunpowder Plot
  • (v. t.) To fool

    Guzzle
  • (n.) An insatiable thing or person.
  • (v. i.) To swallow liquor greedily
  • (v. t.) To swallow much or often

    Gybe
  • (v. t. & i.) To shift from one side of a vessel to the other

    Gymnasium
  • (n.) A place or building where athletic exercises are performed

    Gymnast
  • (n.) One who teaches or practices gymnastic exercises

    Gymnosperm
  • (n.) A plant that bears naked seeds (i. e., seeds not inclosed in an ovary), as the common pine and hemlock

    Gyn
  • (v. i.) To begin

    Gynandromorph
  • (n.) An animal affected with gynandromorphism,

    Gynandrous
  • (a.) Having stamens inserted in the pistil

    Gynarchy
  • (n.) Government by a woman.

    Gynecocracy
  • (n.) Government by a woman, female power

    Gynecological
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to gynecology.

    Gynecology
  • (n.) The science which treats of the structure and diseases of women.

    Gynephobia
  • (n.) Hatred of women

    Gynocracy
  • (n.) Female government

    Gynodioecious
  • (a.) Dioecious, but having some hermaphrodite or perfect flowers on an individual plant which bears mostly pistillate flowers

    Gynoecium
  • (n.) The pistils of a flower, taken collectively.

    Gynophore
  • (n.) One of the branches bearing the female gonophores, in certain Siphonophora.

    Gypsiferous
  • (a.) Containing gypsum.

    Gypsum
  • (n.) A mineral consisting of the hydrous sulphate of lime (calcium). When calcined, it forms plaster of Paris

    Gypsy
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or suitable for, gypsies.
  • (n.) A cunning or crafty person
  • (v. i.) To play the gypsy

    Gyral
  • (a.) Moving in a circular path or way

    Gyrate
  • (a.) Winding or coiled round
  • (n.) To revolve round a central point

    Gyration
  • (n.) One of the whorls of a spiral univalve shell.

    Gyratory
  • (a.) Moving in a circle, or spirally

    Gyre
  • (n.) A circular motion, or a circle described by a moving body
  • (v. t. & i.) To turn round

    Gyrfalcon
  • (n.) One of several species and varieties of large Arctic falcons, esp. Falco rusticolus and the white species F

    Gyron
  • (n.) A subordinary of triangular form having one of its angles at the fess point and the opposite aide at the edge of the escutcheon

    Gyroscope
  • (n.) A form of the above apparatus, invented by M. Foucault, mounted so delicately as to render visible the rotation of the earth, through the tendency of the rotating wheel to preserve a constant plane of rotation, independently of the earth's motion

    Gyrostat
  • (n.) A modification of the gyroscope, consisting essentially of a fly wheel fixed inside a rigid case to which is attached a thin flange of metal for supporting the instrument

    Gyrus
  • (n.) A convoluted ridge between grooves

    Gyve
  • (n.) A shackle
  • (v. t.) To fetter

    Ha
  • (interj.) An exclamation denoting surprise, joy, or grief. Both as uttered and as written, it expresses a great variety of emotions, determined by the tone or the context

    Haberdasher
  • (n.) A dealer in drapery goods of various descriptions, as laces, silks, trimmings, etc.

    Habergeon
  • (n.) Properly, a short hauberk, but often used loosely for the hauberk.

    Habile
  • (a.) Fit

    Habiliment
  • (n.) A garment

    Habilitate
  • (a.) Qualified or entitled.
  • (v. t.) To fit out

    Habit
  • (n.) Fixed or established custom

    Hachure
  • (n.) A short line used in drawing and engraving, especially in shading and denoting different surfaces, as in map drawing

    Hacienda
  • (n.) A large estate where work of any kind is done, as agriculture, manufacturing, mining, or raising of animals

    Hack
  • (a.) Hackneyed
  • (n.) A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work
  • (v. i.) To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire

    Had
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Have

    Haddock
  • (n.) A marine food fish (Melanogrammus aeglefinus), allied to the cod, inhabiting the northern coasts of Europe and America

    Hade
  • (n.) The descent of a hill.
  • (v. i.) To deviate from the vertical

    Hadj
  • (n.) The pilgrimage to Mecca, performed by Mohammedans.

    Haft
  • (n.) A dwelling.
  • (v. t.) To set in, or furnish with, a haft

    Hag
  • (n.) A fury
  • (v. t.) To harass

    Haggard
  • (a.) A fierce, intractable creature.
  • (n.) A stackyard.

    Haggis
  • (n.) A Scotch pudding made of the heart, liver, lights, etc., of a sheep or lamb, minced with suet, onions, oatmeal, etc

    Haggle
  • (n.) The act or process of haggling.
  • (v. i.) To be difficult in bargaining
  • (v. t.) To cut roughly or hack

    Hagiocracy
  • (n.) Government by a priesthood

    Hagiographa
  • (n. pl.) The last of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament, or that portion not contained in the Law and the Prophets

    Hagiographer
  • (n.) One of the writers of the hagiographa

    Hagiography
  • (n.) Same Hagiographa.

    Hagiolatry
  • (n.) The invocation or worship of saints.

    Hagiology
  • (n.) The history or description of the sacred writings or of sacred persons

    Hagioscope
  • (n.) An opening made in the interior walls of a cruciform church to afford a view of the altar to those in the transepts

    Haik
  • (n.) A large piece of woolen or cotton cloth worn by Arabs as an outer garment.

    Hail
  • (a.) Healthy.
  • (n.) A wish of health
  • (v. i.) To declare, by hailing, the port from which a vessel sails or where she is registered
  • (v. t.) An exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting

    Hair
  • (n.) A haircloth.

    Hake
  • (n.) A drying shed, as for unburned tile.
  • (v. t.) To loiter

    Hakim
  • (n.) A Mohammedan title for a ruler

    Halacha
  • (n.) The general term for the Hebrew oral or traditional law

    Halation
  • (n.) An appearance as of a halo of light, surrounding the edges of dark objects in a photographic picture

    Halberd
  • (n.) An ancient long-handled weapon, of which the head had a point and several long, sharp edges, curved or straight, and sometimes additional points

    Halcyon
  • (a.) Hence: Calm
  • (n.) A kingfisher. By modern ornithologists restricted to a genus including a limited number of species having omnivorous habits, as the sacred kingfisher (Halcyon sancta) of Australia

    Hale
  • (a.) Sound
  • (n.) Welfare.
  • (v. t.) To pull

    Half
  • (a.) Consisting of a moiety, or half
  • (adv.) In an equal part or degree
  • (v. t.) To halve.

    Halibut
  • (n.) A large, northern, marine flatfish (Hippoglossus vulgaris), of the family Pleuronectidae. It often grows very large, weighing more than three hundred pounds

    Halite
  • (n.) Native salt

    Hall
  • (n.) A building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes

    Halma
  • (n.) A game played on a board having 256 squares, by two persons with 19 men each, or by four with 13 men each, starting from different corners and striving to place each his own set of men in a corresponding position in the opposite corner by moving them or by jumping them over those met in progress

    Halo
  • (n.) A circle of light
  • (v. t. & i.) To form, or surround with, a halo

    Halt
  • (a.) Halting or stopping in walking
  • (n.) A stop in marching or walking, or in any action
  • (v. i.) To hold one's self from proceeding
  • (v. t.) To cause to cease marching

    Halve
  • (n.) A half.
  • (v. t.) Of a hole, match, etc., to reach or play in the same number of strokes as an opponent.

    Ham
  • (n.) Home.

    Hamadryad
  • (n.) A large venomous East Indian snake (Orhiophagus bungarus), allied to the cobras.

    Hamal
  • (n.) In Turkey and other Oriental countries, a porter or burden bearer

    Hamate
  • (a.) Hooked

    Hamburg
  • (n.) A commercial city of Germany, near the mouth of the Elbe.

    Hame
  • (n.) Home.

    Hamite
  • (n.) A descendant of Ham, Noah's second son.

    Hamlet
  • (n.) A small village

    Hammer
  • (n.) Also, a person of thing that smites or shatters
  • (v. i.) To be busy forming anything
  • (v. t.) To beat with a hammer

    Hammock
  • (n.) A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines. Used also adjectively

    Hamper
  • (n.) A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles
  • (v. t.) To put a hamper or fetter on

    Hamster
  • (n.) A small European rodent (Cricetus frumentarius). It is remarkable for having a pouch on each side of the jaw, under the skin, and for its migrations

    Hamstring
  • (n.) One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh
  • (v. t.) To lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee

    Hamstrung
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Hamstring

    Hamulus
  • (n.) A hook, or hooklike process.

    Han
  • (inf. & plural pres.) To have
  • (v. t.) To inclose for mowing

    Hand
  • (n.) A bundle of tobacco leaves tied together.
  • (v. i.) To cooperate.
  • (v. t.) To furl

    Hang
  • (n.) A sharp or steep declivity or slope.
  • (v. i.) Of a ball: To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of ground
  • (v. t.) To prevent from reaching a decision, esp. by refusing to join in a verdict that must be unanimous

    Hank
  • (n.) A parcel consisting of two or more skeins of yarn or thread tied together.
  • (v. t.) To fasten with a rope, as a gate.

    Hanoverian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Hanover or its people, or to the House of Hanover in England.
  • (n.) A native or naturalized inhabitant of Hanover

    Hansard
  • (n.) A merchant of one of the Hanse towns.

    Hanse
  • (n.) An association

    Hanukkah
  • (n.) The Jewish Feast of the Dedication, instituted by Judas Maccabaeus, his brothers, and the whole congregation of Israel, in 165 b

    Hap
  • (n.) A cloak or plaid.
  • (v. i.) To happen
  • (v. t.) To clothe

    Haphazard
  • (n.) Extra hazard

    Haphtarah
  • (n.) One of the lessons from the Nebiim (or Prophets) read in the Jewish synagogue on Sabbaths, feast days, fasts, and the ninth of Ab, at the end of the service, after the parashoth, or lessons from the Law

    Hapless
  • (a.) Without hap or luck

    Haply
  • (adv.) By hap, chance, luck, or accident

    Happen
  • (v. i.) To come by chance

    Happily
  • (adv.) By chance

    Happy
  • (superl.) Dexterous

    Harangue
  • (n.) A speech addressed to a large public assembly
  • (v. i.) To make an harangue
  • (v. t.) To address by an harangue.

    Harass
  • (n.) Devastation
  • (v. t.) To fatigue

    Harbinger
  • (n.) A forerunner
  • (v. t.) To usher in

    Harbor
  • (n.) A mixing box materials.
  • (v. i.) To lodge, or abide for a time

    Hard
  • (adv.) Close or near.
  • (n.) A ford or passage across a river or swamp.
  • (superl.) Abrupt or explosive in utterance
  • (v. t.) To harden

    Hare
  • (n.) A rodent of the genus Lepus, having long hind legs, a short tail, and a divided upper lip. It is a timid animal, moves swiftly by leaps, and is remarkable for its fecundity
  • (v. t.) To excite

    Haricot
  • (n.) A ragout or stew of meat with beans and other vegetables.

    Hark
  • (v. i.) To listen

    Harlequin
  • (n.) A buffoon, dressed in party-colored clothes, who plays tricks, often without speaking, to divert the bystanders or an audience
  • (n. i.) To play the droll
  • (v. t.) Toremove or conjure away, as by a harlequin's trick.

    Harlot
  • (a.) Wanton
  • (n.) A churl
  • (v. i.) To play the harlot

    Harm
  • (n.) Injury

    Harness
  • (n.) Originally, the complete dress, especially in a military sense, of a man or a horse

    Harp
  • (n.) A constellation
  • (v. t.) To play on, as a harp

    Harrier
  • (n.) One of a small breed of hounds, used for hunting hares.

    Harrow
  • (interj.) Help! Halloo! An exclamation of distress
  • (n.) An implement of agriculture, usually formed of pieces of timber or metal crossing each other, and set with iron or wooden teeth
  • (v. t.) To pillage

    Harry
  • (v. i.) To make a predatory incursion
  • (v. t.) To agitate

    Harsh
  • (a.) disagreeable to the ear.

    Hart
  • (n.) A stag

    Harvest
  • (n.) That which is reaped or ready to be reaped or gath//ed
  • (v. t.) To reap or gather, as any crop.

    Hash
  • (n.) A new mixture of old matter

    Haslet
  • (n.) The edible viscera, as the heart, liver, etc., of a beast, esp. of a hog.

    Hasp
  • (n.) A clasp, especially a metal strap permanently fast at one end to a staple or pin, while the other passes over a staple, and is fastened by a padlock or a pin
  • (v. t.) To shut or fasten with a hasp.

    Hassock
  • (n.) A rank tuft of bog grass

    Haste
  • (n.) Celerity of motion

    Hasty
  • (n.) Demanding haste or immediate action.

    Hat
  • (a.) Hot.
  • (n.) A covering for the head

    Hatband
  • (n.) A band round the crown of a hat

    Hatbox
  • (n.) A box for a hat.

    Hatch
  • (n.) A bedstead.
  • (v. i.) To produce young
  • (v. t.) To close with a hatch or hatches.

    Hate
  • (n.) To be very unwilling
  • (v.) Strong aversion coupled with desire that evil should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed

    Hath
  • (3d pers. sing. pres.) Has.

    Hatred
  • (n.) Strong aversion

    Hatter
  • (n.) One who makes or sells hats.
  • (v. t.) To tire or worry

    Hauberk
  • (v. t.) A coat of mail

    Haugh
  • (n.) A low-lying meadow by the side of a river.

    Haul
  • (n.) A bundle of about four hundred threads, to be tarred.
  • (v. i.) To change the direction of a ship by hauling the wind.
  • (v. t.) To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.

    Haunch
  • (n.) Of meats: The leg and loin taken together

    Haunt
  • (n.) A place to which one frequently resorts
  • (v. i.) To persist in staying or visiting.
  • (v. t.) To accustom

    Haustellum
  • (n.) The sucking proboscis of various insects.

    Haustorium
  • (n.) One of the suckerlike rootlets of such plants as the dodder and ivy.

    Hautboy
  • (n.) A sort of strawberry (Fragaria elatior).

    Hauteur
  • (n.) Haughty manner or spirit

    have
  • (Indic. present) of Have
  • (v. t.) To accept possession of

    Havoc
  • (n.) A cry in war as the signal for indiscriminate slaughter.
  • (v. t.) To devastate

    Haw
  • (n.) A hedge
  • (v. i.) To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw
  • (v. t.) To cause to turn, as a team, to the near side, or toward the driver

    Hawaiian
  • (a.) Belonging to Hawaii or the Sandwich Islands, or to the people of Hawaii.
  • (n.) A native of Hawaii.

    Hawfinch
  • (n.) The common European grosbeak (Coccothraustes vulgaris)

    Hawk
  • (n.) An effort to force up phlegm from the throat, accompanied with noise.
  • (v. i.) To catch, or attempt to catch, birds by means of hawks trained for the purpose, and let loose on the prey
  • (v. t.) To offer for sale by outcry in the street

    Hawse
  • (n.) A hawse hole.

    Hawthorn
  • (n.) A thorny shrub or tree (the Crataegus oxyacantha), having deeply lobed, shining leaves, small, roselike, fragrant flowers, and a fruit called haw

    Hay
  • (n.) A hedge.
  • (v. i.) To cut and cure grass for hay.

    Haycock
  • (n.) A conical pile or hear of hay in the field.

    Hayfork
  • (n.) A fork for pitching and tedding hay.

    Hayloft
  • (n.) A loft or scaffold for hay.

    Haymaker
  • (n.) A machine for curing hay in rainy weather.

    Haymow
  • (n.) A mow or mass of hay laid up in a barn for preservation.

    Hayrack
  • (n.) A frame mounted on the running gear of a wagon, and used in hauling hay, straw, sheaves, etc

    Hayrick
  • (n.) A heap or pile of hay, usually covered with thatch for preservation in the open air.

    Haystack
  • (n.) A stack or conical pile of hay in the open air.

    Hazard
  • (n.) A game of chance played with dice.
  • (v. i.) To try the chance

    Haze
  • (n.) Light vapor or smoke in the air which more or less impedes vision, with little or no dampness
  • (v. i.) To be hazy, or tick with haze.
  • (v. t.) To harass by exacting unnecessary, disagreeable, or difficult work.

    Hazy
  • (n.) Obscure

    He
  • (obj.) Any one

    Headache
  • (n.) Pain in the head

    Headband
  • (n.) A fillet

    Headdress
  • (n.) A covering or ornament for the head

    Headed
  • (a.) Formed into a head

    Header
  • (n.) A brick or stone laid with its shorter face or head in the surface of the wall.

    Headforemost
  • (adv.) With the head foremost.

    Headgear
  • (n.) Apparatus above ground at the mouth of a mine or deep well.

    Heading
  • (n.) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine

    Headland
  • (n.) A cape

    Headless
  • (a.) Destitute of a chief or leader.

    Headlight
  • (n.) A light, with a powerful reflector, placed at the head of a locomotive, or in front of it, to throw light on the track at night, or in going through a dark tunnel

    Headlong
  • (a.) Rash
  • (a. & adv.) Hastily

    Headman
  • (n.) A head or leading man, especially of a village community.

    Headmost
  • (a.) Most advanced

    Headnote
  • (n.) A note at the head of a page or chapter

    Headpiece
  • (n.) A cap of defense

    Headquarters
  • (n. sing.) The quarters or place of residence of any chief officer, as the general in command of an army, or the head of a police force

    Headsail
  • (n.) Any sail set forward of the foremast.

    Headship
  • (n.) Authority or dignity

    Headsman
  • (n.) An executioner who cuts off heads.

    Headstall
  • (n.) That part of a bridle or halter which encompasses the head.

    Headstock
  • (n.) A part (usually separate from the bed or frame) for supporting some of the principal working parts of a machine

    Headstone
  • (n.) The principal stone in a foundation

    Headstrong
  • (a.) Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy.

    Headway
  • (n.) Clear space under an arch, girder, and the like, sufficient to allow of easy passing underneath

    Headwork
  • (n.) Mental labor.

    Heady
  • (a.) Apt to affect the head

    Heal
  • (v. i.) To grow sound
  • (v. t.) Health.

    Heap
  • (n.) A crowd
  • (v. t.) To collect in great quantity

    Hear
  • (v. i.) To be informed by oral communication
  • (v. t.) To accede to the demand or wishes of

    Heat
  • (imp. & p. p.) Heated
  • (n.) A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as manifested in fire, the sun's rays, mechanical action, chemical combination, etc
  • (v. i.) To grow warm or hot by fermentation, or the development of heat by chemical action
  • (v. t.) To excite ardor in

    Heave
  • (n.) A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode
  • (v. i.) To be thrown up or raised
  • (v. t.) To cause to move upward or onward by a lifting effort

    Heavily
  • (adv.) As if burdened with a great weight

    Heavy
  • (a.) Having the heaves.
  • (adv.) Heavily
  • (superl.) Dark with clouds, or ready to rain
  • (v. t.) To make heavy.

    Hebdomad
  • (n.) A week

    Hebe
  • (n.) An African ape

    Hebraic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Hebrews, or to the language of the Hebrews.

    Hebraism
  • (n.) A Hebrew idiom or custom

    Hebraist
  • (n.) One versed in the Hebrew language and learning.

    Hebraize
  • (v. i.) To speak Hebrew, or to conform to the Hebrew idiom, or to Hebrew customs.
  • (v. t.) To convert into the Hebrew idiom

    Hebrew
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Hebrews
  • (n.) An appellative of Abraham or of one of his descendants, esp. in the line of Jacob

    Hecatomb
  • (n.) A sacrifice of a hundred oxen or cattle at the same time

    Heck
  • (n.) A bend or winding of a stream.

    Hectare
  • (n.) A measure of area, or superficies, containing a hundred ares, or 10,000 square meters, and equivalent to 2

    Hectic
  • (a.) Habitual
  • (n.) A hectic flush.

    Hectocotylus
  • (n.) One of the arms of the male of most kinds of cephalopods, which is specially modified in various ways to effect the fertilization of the eggs

    Hectogram
  • (n.) A measure of weight, containing a hundred grams, or about 3.527 ounces avoirdupois.

    Hector
  • (n.) A bully
  • (v. i.) To play the bully
  • (v. t.) To treat with insolence


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