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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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