HA, an exclamation, denoting surprise, joy or grief. With the first or long sound of a, it is used as a question, and is equivalent to 'What do you say?' When repeated, ha ha it is an expression of laughter, or sometimes it is equivalent to 'Well! it is so.'

HAAK, noun A fish.

Habeas Corpus, [Latin have the body.] A writ for delivering a person from false imprisonment, or for removing a person from one court to another, etc.

HAB'ERDASHER, noun A seller of small wares; a word little used or not at all in the U. States.

HAB'ERDASHERY, noun The goods and wares sold by a haberdasher.

HAB'ERDINE, noun A dried salt cod.

HAB'ERGEON, noun A coat of mail or armor to defend the neck and breast. It was formed of little iron rings united, and descended from the neck to the middle of the body.

HAB'ILE, adjective Fit; proper. [Not in use.]

HABIL'IMENT, noun [Latin habeo, to have.] A garment; clothing; usually in the plural, habiliments, denoting garments, clothing or dress in general.

HABIL'ITATE, verb transitive To qualify. [Not used.]

HABILITA'TION, noun Qualification. [Not in use.]

HABILITY. [See Ability.]

HAB'IT, noun [Latin habitus, from habeo, to have to hold. See Have.]

1. Garb; dress; clothes or garments in general.

The scenes are old, the habits are the same,

We wore last year.

There are among the statues, several of Venus,

in different habits.

2. A coat worn by ladies over other garments.

3. State of any thing; implying some continuance or permanence; temperament or particular state of a body, formed by nature or induced by extraneous circumstances; as a costive or lax habit of body; a sanguine habit

4. A disposition or condition of the mind or body acquired by custom or a frequent repetition of the same act. habit is that which is held or retained, the effect of custom or frequent repetition. Hence we speak of good habits and bad habits.

Frequent drinking of spirits leads to a habit of intemperance. We should endeavor to correct evil habits by a change of practice. A great point in the education of children, is to prevent the formation of bad habits.

Habit of plants, the general form or appearance, or the conformity of plants of the same kind in structure and growth.

HAB'IT, verb transitive To dress; to clothe; to array.

They habited themselves like rural deities.

HAB'IT, verb transitive To dwell; to inhabit.

HAB'ITABLE, adjective [Latin habitabilis, from habito, to dwell.]

That may be inhabited or dwelt in; capable of sustaining human beings; as the habitable world. Some climates are scarcely habitable

HAB'ITABLENESS, noun Capacity of being inhabited.

HAB'ITABLY, adverb In such a manner as to habitable.

HAB'ITANCE, noun Dwelling; abode; residence. [Not now used.]

HAB'ITANCY, noun Legal settlement or inhabitancy. [See Inhabitancy.]

HAB'ITANT, noun [Latin habitans.] An inhabitant; a dweller; a resident; one who has a permanent abode in a place.

HAB'ITAT, noun Habitation.

HABITA'TION, noun [Latin habitatio, from habito, to dwell, from habeo, to hold, or as we say in English, to keep.

1. Act of inhabiting; state of dwelling.

2. Place of abode; a settled dwelling; a mansion; a house or other place in which man or any animal dwells.

The stars may be the habitations of numerous races of beings.

The Lord blesseth the habitation of the just. Proverbs 3:33.

HAB'ITATOR, noun [Latin] A dweller; an inhabitant. [Not used.]

HAB'ITED, adjective Clothed; dressed. He was habited like a shepherd.

1. Accustomed. [Not usual.]

HABIT'UAL, adjective Formed or acquired by habit, frequent use or custom.

Art is properly an habitual knowledge of certain rules and maxims.

1. Customary; according to habit; as the habitual practice of sin; the habitual exercise of holy affections.

It is the distinguishing mark of habitual piety to be grateful for the most common blessings.

2. Formed by repeated impressions; rendered permanent by continued causes; as an habitual color of the skin.

HABIT'UALLY, adverb By habit; customarily; by frequent practice or use; as habitually profane; habitually kind and benevolent.

HABIT'UATE, verb transitive

1. To accustom; to make familiar by frequent use or practice. Men may habituate themselves to the taste of oil or tobacco. They habituate themselves to vice. Let us habituate ourselves and our children to the exercise of charity.

2. To settle as an inhabitant in a place.

HABIT'UATE, adjective Inveterate by custom.

1. Formed by habit.

HABIT'UATED, participle passive Accustomed; made familiar by use.

HABIT'UATING, participle present tense Accustoming; making easy and familiar by practice.

HAB'ITUDE, noun [Latin habitudo, from habitus.]

1. Relation; respect; state with regard to something else. [Little used.]

2. Frequent intercourse; familiarity. [Not usual.]

To write well, one must have frequent habitudes with the best company.

3. Customary manner or mode of life; repetition of the same acts; as the habitudes of fowls or insects.

4. Custom; habit.

HAB'NAB, adverb [hap ne hap, let it happen or not.]

At random; by chance; without order or rule.

HACK, verb transitive

1. To cut irregularly and into small pieces; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument.

2. To speak with stops or catches; to speak with hesitation.

HACK, noun A notch; a cut.

HACK, noun A horse kept for hire; a horse much used in draught, or in hard service; any thing exposed to hire, or used in common. [from hackney.]

1. A coach or other carriage kept for hire. [from hackney.]

2. Hesitating or faltering speech.

3. A rack for feeding cattle.

HACK, adjective Hired.

HACK, verb intransitive To be exposed or offered to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.

1. To make an effort to raise phlegm. [See Hawk.]

HACK'ED, participle passive Chopped; mangled.

HACK'ING, participle present tense Chopping into small pieces; mangling; mauling.

HACK'LE, verb transitive

1. To comb flax or hemp; to separate the coarse part of these substances from the fine, by drawing them through the teeth of a hatchel.

2. To tear asunder.

HACK'LE, noun A hatchel. The latter word is used in the U. States.

1. Raw silk; any flimsy substance unspun.

2. A fly for angling, dressed with feathers or silk.

HACK'LY, adjective [from hack.] Rough; broken as if hacked.

In mineralogy, having fine, short, and sharp points on the surface; as a hackly fracture.

HACK'MATACK, noun The popular name of the red larch, the Pinus microcarpa.

HACK'NEY, noun

1. A pad; a nag; a pony.

2. A horse kept for hire; a horse much used.

3. A coach or other carriage kept for hire, and often exposed in the streets of cities. The word is sometimes contracted to hack.

4. Any thing much used or used in common; a hireling; a prostitute.

HACK'NEY, adjective Let out for hire; devoted to common use; as a hackney-coach.

1. Prostitute; vicious for hire.

2. Much used; common; trite; as a hackney author or remark.

HACK'NEY, verb transitive To use much; to practice in one thing; to make

trite.

1. To carry in a hackney-coach.

HACK'NEYED, participle passive Used much or in common.

1. Practiced; accustomed.

He is long hackneyed in the ways of men.

HACK'NEYING, participle present tense Using much; accustoming.

HACK'NEYMAN, noun A man who lets horses and carriages for hire.

HACK'STER, noun A bully; a ruffian or assassin.

HAC'QUETON, noun A stuffed jacket formerly worn under armor, sometimes made of leather. [Not used.]

HAD, preterit tense and participle passive of have; contracted from Sax.haefd, that is, haved; as, I had; I have had In the phrase, 'I had better go, ' it is supposed that had is used for would; 'I'd better go.' The sense of the phrase is, 'it would be better for me to go.'

HAD'DER, noun Heath. [Not in use. See Heath.]

HAD'DOCK, noun A fish of the genus Gadus or cod, and order of Jugulars. It has a long body, the upper part of a dusky brown color, and the belly of a silvery hue; the lateral line is black. This fish breeds in immense numbers in the northern seas, and constitutes a considerable article of food.

HADE, noun Among miners, the steep descent of a shaft; also, the descent of a hill.

In mining, the inclination or deviation from the vertical of a mineral vein.

H'AFT, noun [Latin capio.] A handle; that part of an instrument or vessel which is taken into the hand, and by which it is held and used. It is used chiefly for the part of a sword or dagger by which it is held; the hilt.

H'AFT, verb transitive To set in a haft; to furnish with a handle.

H'AFTER, noun A caviller; a wrangler. [Not in use.]

HAG, noun

1. An ugly old woman; as an old hag of threescore.

2. A witch; a sorceress; an enchantress.

3. A fury; a she-monster.

4. A cartilaginous fish, the Gastrobranchus, which enters other fishes and devours them. It is about five or six inches long, and resembles a small eel. It is allied to the lamprey.

5. Appearances of light and fire on horses' manes or men's hair, were formerly called hags.

HAG, verb transitive To harass; to torment.

1. To tire; to weary with vexation.

HAG'ARD, adjective

1. Literally, having a ragged look, as if hacked or gashed. Hence, lean; meager; rough; having eyes sunk in their orbits; ugly.

2. Wild; fierce; intractable; as a hagard hawk.

HAG'ARD, noun

1. Any thing wild and intractable.

2. A species of hawk.

3. A hag.

HAG'ARDLY, adverb In a hagard or ugly manner; with deformity.

HAG'BORN, noun Born of a hag or witch.

HAG'GARD, noun A stack-yard.

HAG'GESS, noun [from hack.] A mess of meat, generally pork, chopped and inclosed in a membrane.

1. A sheep's head and pluck minced.

HAG'GLE, verb transitive To cut into small pieces; to notch or cut in an unskillful manner; to make rough by cutting; to mangle; as, a boy haggles a stick of wood.

Suffolk first died, and York all haggled o'er,

Comes to him where in gore he lay insteep'd.

HAG'GLE, verb intransitive To be difficult in bargaining; to hesitate and cavil. [See Higgle.]

HAG'GLED, participle passive Cut irregularly into notches; made rough by cutting; mangled.

HAG'GLER, noun One who haggles.

1. One who cavils, hesitates and makes difficulty in bargaining.

HAG'GLING, participle present tense Hacking; mangling; caviling and hesitating in bargaining.

HAGIOG'RAPHAL, noun Pertaining to hagiography, which see.

HAGIOG'RAPHER, noun [See the next word.] A writer of holy or sacred books.

HAGIOG'RAPHY, noun [Gr. holy, and a writing.]

Sacred writings. The Jews divide the books of the Scriptures into three parts; the Law, which is contained in the five first books of the Old Testament; the Prophets, or Nevim; and the Cetuvim, or writings, by way of eminence. The latter class is called by the Greeks Hagiographa, comprehending the books of Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, Ruth, Esther, Chronicles, Canticles, Lamentations, and Ecclesiastes.

HAG'ISH, adjective Of the nature of a hag; deformed; ugly; horrid.

HAG'-RIDDEN, adjective Afflicted with the nightmare.

HAG'SHIP, noun The state or title of a hag or witch.

HAGUEBUT. [See Arquebuse.]

HAH, an exclamation expressing surprise or effort.

HAIL, noun Masses of ice or frozen vapor, falling from the clouds in showers or storms. These masses consist of little spherules united, but not all of the same consistence; some being as hard and solid as perfect ice; others soft, like frozen snow. Hailstones assume various figures; some are round, others angular, others pyramidical, others flat, and sometimes they are stellated with six radii, like crystals of snow.

HAIL, verb intransitive To pour down masses of ice or frozen vapors.

HAIL, verb transitive To pour.

HAIL, adjective [Gr. whole.] Sound; whole; healthy; not impaired by disease; as a hail body; hail corn. [In this sense, it is usually written hale.]

HAIL, an exclamation, or rather a verb in the imperative mode, being the adjective hail used as a verb. hail be well; be in health; health to you; a term of salutation, equivalent to Latin salve, salvete.

HAIL, hail brave friend.

HAIL, noun A wish of health; a salutation. This word is sometimes used as a noun; as, the angel hail bestowed.

HAIL, verb transitive [Latin calo. See Call and Heal.] To call; to call to a person at a distance, to arrest his attention. It is properly used in any case where the person accosted is distant, but is appropriately used by seamen. Hoa or hoi, the ship ahoay, is the usual manner of hailing; to which the answer is holloa, or hollo. Then follow the usual questions, whence came ye? where are you bound? etc.

HA'ILED, participle passive Called to from a distance; accosted.

HA'ILING, participle present tense Saluting; calling to from a distance.

1. Pouring down hail.

HA'ILSHOT, noun Small shot which scatter like hailstones. [Not used.]

HA'ILSTONE, noun A single mass of ice falling from a cloud.

HA'ILY, adjective Consisting of hail; as haily showers.

HA'INOUS, adjective Properly, hateful; odious. Hence, great, enormous, aggravated; as a hainous sin or crime.

HA'INOUSLY, adverb Hatefully; abominably; enormously.

HA'INOUSNESS, noun Odiousness; enormity; as the hainousness of theft or robbery of any crime.

HAIR, noun

1. A small filament issuing from the skin of an animal, and from a bulbous root. Each filament contains a tube or hollow within, occupied by a pulp or pith, which is intended for its nutrition, and extends only to that part which is in a state of growth.

When hair means a single filament, it has a plural, hairs.

2. The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming an integument or covering; as the hair of the head. hair is the common covering of many beasts. When the filaments are very fine and short, the collection of them is called fur. Wool, also, is a kind of hair When hair signifies a collection of these animal filaments, it has no plural.

3. Any thing very small or fine; or a very small distance; the breadth of a hair He judges to a hair that is, very exactly.

4. A trifling value. It is not worth a hair

5. Course; order; grain; the hair falling in a certain direction. [Not used.]

You go against the hair of your profession.

6. Long, straight and distinct filaments on the surface of plants; a species of down or pubescence.

HA'IRBELL, noun A plant, a species of hyacinth.

HA'IRCLOTH, noun Stuff or cloth made of hair, or in part with hair. In military affairs, pieces of this cloth are used for covering the powder in wagons, or on batteries, or for covering charged bombs, etc.

HA'IRHUNG, adjective Hanging by a hair.

HA'IRINESS, noun [from hairy.] The state of abounding or being covered with hair.

HA'IRLACE, noun A fillet for tying up the hair of the head.

HA'IRLESS, adjective Destitute of hair; bald; as hairless scalps.

HA'IRPIN, noun A pin used in dressing the hair.

HA'IRPOWDER, noun A fine powder of flour for sprinkling the hair of the head.

HA'IRWORM, noun A genus of worms [vermes, ] called Gordius; a filiform animal found in fresh water or in the earth. There are several species.

HA'IRY, adjective [from hair.] Overgrown with hair; covered with hair; abounding with hair.

Esau, my brother, is a hairy man. Genesis 27:11.

1. Consisting of hair; as hairy honors.

2. Resembling hair; of the nature of hair.

HAKE, noun A kind of fish, the Gadus merlucius; called by some authors lucius marinus. It was formerly salted and dried.

HAK'OT, noun A fish.

HAL, in some names, signifies hall.

HAL'BERD, noun A military weapon, consisting of a pole or shaft of wood, with a head armed with a steel point, with a cross piece of steel, flat and pointed at both ends, or with a cutting edge at one end, and a bent point at the other. It is carried by sergeants of foot and dragoons.

HALBERDIE'R, noun One who is armed with a halberd.

HAL'CYON, noun hal'shon. [Latin halcyon; Gr. a king-fisher.]

The name anciently given to the king-fisher, otherwise called alcedo; a bird that was said to lay her eggs in nests, on rocks near the sea, during the calm weather about the winter solstice. Hence,

HAL'CYON, adjective Calm; quiet; peaceful; undisturbed; happy. halcyon days were seven days before and as many after the winter solstice, when the weather was calm. Hence by halcyon days are now understood days of peace and tranquility.

HALCYO'NIAN, adjective Halcyon; calm.

HALE, adjective Sound; entire; healthy; robust; not impaired; as a hale body.

HALE, noun Welfare. [Not in use.]

HALE, verb transitive To pull or draw with force; to drag. This is now more generally written and pronounced haul, which see. It is always to be pronounced haul.

H'ALF, noun h'af. plural halves, pronoun h'avz.

One equal part of a thing which is divided into two parts, either in fact or in contemplation; a moiety; as half a pound; half a tract of land; half an orange; half the miseries or pleasures of life. It is applied to quantity, number, length, and every thing susceptible of division. In practice, of is often or usually omitted after half We say, half a pound; half a mile; half the number.

Half the misery of life.

H'ALF, verb transitive To divide into halves. [See Halve.]

H'ALF, adverb In part, or in an equal part of degree.

Half loth, and half consenting.

In composition, half denotes an equal part; or indefinitely, a part, and hence, imperfect.

H'ALFBLOOD, noun Relation between persons born of the same father or of the same mother, but not of both; as a brother or sister of the halfblood The word is sometimes used as an adjective.

H'ALFEN, adjective Wanting half its due qualities. [Not used.]

H'ALFER, noun One that possesses half only.

1. A male fallow deer gelded.

HAL'IBUT, noun A fish of the genus Pleuronectes, and order of Thoracics. This fish has a compressed body, one side resembling the back, the other the belly; and both eyes on the same side of the head. It grows to a great size; some to the weight of 300 or 400 pounds. It forms an article of food, and some parts of the body are fat, tender and delicious. This fish swims on its side, and hence the name of the genus.

HAL'IDOM, noun Adjuration by what is holy.

HALING. [See Hauling.]

HALIT'UOUS, adjective [Latin halitus, breath.] Like breath; vaporous.

HALL, noun [Latin aula; Heb. a tent, a palace.]

1. In architecture, a large room at the entrance of a house or palace. In the houses of ministers of state, magistrates, etc., it is the place where they give audience and dispatch business.

2. An edifice in which courts of justice are held; as Westminster hall which was originally a royal palace, the kings of England formerly holding their parliaments and courts of judicature in their own dwellings, as is still the practice in Spain.

3. A manor-house, in which courts were formerly held.

4. A college, or large edifice belonging to a collegiate institution.

5. A room for a corporation or public assembly; as a town-hall; Fanueil hall in Boston, etc.

6. A collegiate body in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

HALLELU'IAH, noun [Heb. praise ye Jah or Jehovah, to praise, that is, to throw, or raise the voice, to utter a loud sound; Latin ululo.]

Praise ye Jehovah; give praise to God; a word used in songs or praise, or a term of rejoicing in solemn ascriptions of thanksgiving to God. It is used as a noun, or as an exclamation.

HAL'LIARD, noun [from hale, haul.] A rope or tackle for hoisting or lowering a sail.

HAL'LIER, noun A particular kind of net for catching birds.

HAL'LOO, verb intransitive To cry out; to exclaim with a loud voice; to call to by name, or by the word halloo

Country folks hallooed and hooted after me.

HAL'LOO, verb transitive To encourage with shouts.

Old John hallooes his hounds again.

1. To chase with shouts.

2. To call or shout to.

[This verb is regular, and pronounced with the accent on the first syllable.]

HALLOO', an exclamation, used as a call to invite attention.

HAL'LOOING, participle present tense Crying out; as a noun, a loud outcry.

HAL'LOW, verb transitive [Latin calleo, to be able.]

1. To make holy; to consecrate; to set apart for holy or religious use. Exodus 28:38. 1 Kings 8:64.

2. To devote to holy or religious exercises; to treat as sacred.

Hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jeremiah 17:22.

3. To reverence; to honor as sacred.

Hallowed be thy name.

HAL'LOWED, participle passive Consecrated to a sacred use, or to religious exercises; treated as sacred; reverenced.

HAL'LOWING, participle present tense Setting apart for sacred purposes; consecrating; devoting to religious exercises; reverencing.

HAL'LOWMAS, noun [See Mass.] The feast of All Souls.

HALLUCINA'TION, noun [Latin hallucinatio, from hallucinor, to blunder.]

1. Error; blunder; mistake. [Little used.]

2. In medicine, faulty sense [dysaesthesia, ] or erroneous imagination. Hallucinations of the senses, arise from some defect in the organs of sense, or from some unusual circumstances attending the object, as when it is seen by moonlight; and they are sometimes symptoms of general disease, as in fevers. Maniacal hallucinations arise from some imaginary or mistaken idea. Similar hallucinations occur in revery.

HALM, noun haum. [Latin culmus.] Straw. [See Haum.]

HA'LO, noun A circle appearing round the body of the sun, moon or stars, called also Corona, or crown. Halos are sometimes white and sometimes colored. Sometimes one only appears, and sometimes several concentric circles appear at the same time.

HALSE, noun The neck or throat.

HALSE, verb intransitive hals. To embrace about the neck; to adjure; to greet.

HAL'SENING, adjective Sounding harshly in the throat or tongue.

HALSER, noun hawz'er. A large rope of a size between the cable and the tow-line. [See Hawser.]

HALT, verb intransitive

1. To stop in walking; to hold. In military affairs, the true sense is retained, to stop in a march. The army halted at noon.

2. To limp; that is, to stop with lameness.

3. To hesitate; to stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do.

How long halt ye between two opinions? 1 Kings 18:21.

4. To fail; to falter; as a halting sonnet.

HALT, verb transitive To stop; to cause to cease marching; a military term. The general halted his troops for refreshment.

HALT, adjective Lame; that is, holding or stopping in walking.

Bring hither the poor, the maimed, the halt and the blind. Luke 14:21.

HALT, noun A stopping; a stop in marching.

The troops made a halt at the bridge.

1. The act of limping.

HALT'ER, noun One who halts or limps.

HALT'ER, noun

1. A rope or strap and head-stall for leading or confining a horse.

2. A rope for hanging malefactors.

3. A strong cord or string.

HALT'ER, verb transitive To put a halter on; as, to halter a horse.

1. To catch and hold, or to bind with a rope or cord.

HALT'ING, participle present tense Stopping; limping.

HALT'INGLY, adverb With limping; slowly.

H'ALVE, verb transitive h'av. [from half.] To divide into two equal parts; as, to halve an apple.

H'ALVED, adjective In botany, hemispherical; covering one side; placed on one side.

H'ALVES, noun plural of half. Two equal parts of a thing. To cry halves is to claim an equal share. To go halves is to have an equal share.

HAM, Sax.ham, a house, is our modern word home, G.heim. It is used in hamlet, and in the names of places, as in Walt-ham, wood-house, walt, a wood, and ham a house, [not Wal-tham, as it is often pronounced, ] Bucking-ham, Notting-ham, Wrent-ham, Dur-ham, etc.

HAM, noun The inner or hind part of the knee; the inner angle of the joint which unites the thigh and the leg of an animal. Hence,

1. The thigh of a beast, particularly of a hog, whether salted and cured or not. But the word is more generally understood to mean the thigh of a hog salted and dried in smoke.

A'MA, or HA'MA, noun

In church affairs, a vessel to contain wine for the eucharist; also, a wine measure, as a cask, a pipe, etc.

HAM'ADRYAD, noun [Gr. together, and a tree.] A wood nymph, feigned to live and die with the tree to which it was attached.

HAM'ATE, adjective [Latin hamatus.] Hooked; entangled.

HAM'ATED, adjective [Latin hamatus, from hama, a hook.]

Hooked or set with hooks.

HAM'BLE, verb transitive To hamstring. [Not used.]

HAME, noun plural hames. A kind or collar for a draught horse, consisting of two bending pieces of wood or bows, and these placed on curving pads or stuffed leather, made to conform to the shape of the neck.

HAM'ITE, noun The fossil remains of a curved shell.

HAM'LET, noun A small village; a little cluster of houses in the country.

This word seems originally to have signified the seat of a freeholder, comprehending the mansion house and adjacent buildings. It now denotes a small collection of houses in the country, in distinction from a city, a large town or township.

The country wasted and the hamlets burned.

HAM'LETED, adjective Accustomed to a hamlet, or to a country life.

HAM'MER, noun An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like. It consists of an iron head, fixed crosswise to a handle. Hammers are of various sizes; a large hammer used by smiths is called a sledge.

HAM'MER, verb transitive To beat with a hammer; as, to hammer iron or steel.

1. To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.

2. To work in the mind; to contrive by intellectual labor; usually with out; as, to hammer out a scheme.

HAM'MER, verb intransitive To work; to be busy; to labor in contrivance.

1. To be working or in agitation.

HAM'MERABLE, adjective That may be shaped by a hammer.

HAM'MERCLOTH, noun The cloth which covers a coach-box, so called from the old practice of carrying a hammer, nails, etc. in a little pocket hid by this cloth.

HAM'MERED, participle passive Beaten with a hammer.

HAM'MERER, noun One who works with a hammer.

HAM'MERHARD, noun Iron or steel hardened by hammering.

HAM'MERING, participle present tense Beating with a hammer; working; contriving.

HAMMITE. [See Ammite.]

HAM'MOC, noun A kind of hanging bed, suspended between trees or posts, or by hooks. It consists of a piece of hempen cloth about six feet long and three feet wide, gathered at the ends and suspended by cords. It forms a bed, or a receptacle for a bed, on board of ships.

HAM'OUS, [Latin hamus, a hook.] Hooked; having the end hooked or curved; a term of botany.

HAM'PER, noun [contracted form hanaper, or from hand pannier.]

1. A large basket for conveying things to market, etc.

2. Fetters, or some instrument that shackles.

[This signification and that of the verb following indicate that this word is from hanaper, and that the latter is from the sense of interweaving twigs.]

HAM'PER, verb transitive [See the Noun.] To shackle; to entangle; hence, to impede in motion or progress, or to render progress difficult.

A lion hampered in a net.

1. To ensnare; to inveigle; to catch with allurements.

2. To tangle; to render complicated.

3. To perplex; to embarrass.

Hampered by the laws.

HAM'PERED, participle passive Shackled; entangled; ensnared; perplexed.

HAM'PERING, participle present tense Shackling; entangling; perplexing.

HAM'STER, noun A species of rat, the Mus cricetus, or German marmot. This rat is of the size of the water rat, but is of a browner color, and its belly and legs of a dirty yellow. It is remarkable for two bags, like those of a baboon, on each side of the jaw, under the skin, in which it conveys grain, peas and acorns to its winter residence.

HAM'STRING, noun The tendons of the ham.

HAM'STRING, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive hamstrung or hamstringed.

To cut the tendons of the ham, and this to lame or disable.

HAN, for have, in the plural.

HAN'APER, noun The hanaper was used in early days by the kings of England, for holding and carrying with them their money, as they journeyed from place to place. It was a kind of basket, like the fiscus, and hence came to be considered as the king's treasury. Hence, the clerk or warden of the hanaper is an officer who receives the fees due to the king for seals of charters, patents, commissions, and writs. There is also an officer who is controller of the hanaper This word therefore answered to the modern exchequer.

HANCE, HAUNCE, for enhance. [See Enhance.]

HAN'CES, noun plural [Latin ansa.] In architecture, the ends of elliptical arches, which are the arches of smaller circles than the scheme or middle part of the arch.

1. In a ship, falls of the fife-rails placed on balusters on the poop and quarter-deck down to the gangway.

HAND, noun [Latin hendo, in prehendo.]

1. In man, the extremity of the arm, consisting of the palm and fingers, connected with the arm at the wrist; the part with which we hold and use any instrument.

2. In falconry, the foot of a hawk; and in the manege, the fore-foot of a horse.

3. A measure of four inches; a palm applied chiefly to horses; as a horse 14 hands high.

4. Side; part; right or left; as on the one hand or the other. This is admitted on all hands, that is, on all sides, or by all parties.

5. Act; deed; performance; external action; that is, the effect for the cause, the hand being the instrument of action.

Thou sawest the contradiction between my heart and hand

6. Power of performance; skill.

A friend of mine has a very fine hand on the violin.

He had a mind to try his hand at a Spectator.

7. Power of making or producing.

An intelligent being coming out of the hands of infinite perfection.

8. Manner of acting or performance; as, he changed his hand

9. Agency; part in performing or executing. Punish every man who had a hand in the mischief. We see the hand of God in this event.

10. Conveyance; agency in transmitting.

11. Possession; power. The estate is in the hands of the owner. The papers are in my hands.

12. The cards held at a game; hence, a game.

13. That which performs the office of the hand or of a finger in pointing; as the hand of a clock; the hour hand and the minute hand

14. A person; an agent; a man employed in agency or service. The mason employs twenty hands.

15. Form of writing; style of penmanship; as a good hand; a bad hand; a fine hand

16. Agency; service; ministry. Exodus 4:2. Leviticus 8:23.

17. In Scripture, the hand of God, is his eternal purpose and executive power. Acts 4:28.

18. The providential bounty of God. Psalms 104:28.

19. The power of God exerted in judgments or mercies, in punishing or defending. Judges 2:15. Psalms 32:4.

20. The spirit of God; divine influence. 1 Kings 18:9.

21. The favor of God, or his support. Nehemiah 2:8. Luke 1:1.

At hand near; either present and within reach, or not far distant.

Your husband is at hand I hear his trumpet.

1. Near in time; not distant.

The day of Christ is at hand 2 Thessalonians 2:2.

By hand with the hands, in distinction from the instrumentality of tools, engines or animals; as, to weed a garden by hand; to lift, draw or carry by hand

In hand present payment; in respect to the receiver.

Receiving in hand one year's tribute.

1. In a state of execution. I have a great work in hand

At my hand at his hand etc., denote from the person or being.

Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? Job 2:5.

Of hand in present possession; as, he has a supply of goods on hand

1. Under one's care or management.

Jupiter had a farm on his hands.

Off hand without delay, hesitation or difficulty; immediately; dexterously; without previous preparation.

Out of hand ready payment; with regard to the payer.

Let not the wages of any man tarry with thee; but give it him out of hand

To his hand to my hand etc., in readiness; already prepared; ready to be received.

The work is made to his hands.

Under his hand under her hand etc., with the proper writing or signature of the name.

This deed is executed under the hand and seal of the owner.

HAND over head, negligently; rashly; without seeing what one does. [Little used.]

HAND over hand by passing the hands alternately one before or above another, as to climb hand over hand; also, rapidly, as to come up with a chase hand over hand; ; used by seamen.

HAND to hand in close union; close fight.

But from hand to hand is from one person to another.

HAND in hand in union; conjointly; unitedly.

To join hand in hand is to unite efforts and act in concert.

HAND in hand fit; pat; suitable.

HAND to mouth. To live from hand to mouth, is to obtain food and other necessaries, as want requires, without making previous provision, or having an abundant previous supply.

To bear in hand to keep in expectation; to elude. [Not used.]

To bear a hand to hasten; a seaman's phrase.

To be hand and glove, to be intimate and familiar, as friends or associates.

To set the hand to, to engage in; to undertake.

That the Lord thy God may bless thee, in all thou

settest thine hand to. Dest.23.

To take in hand to attempt; to undertake. Luke 1:1. Also, to seize and deal with.

To have a hand in, to be concerned in; to have a part or concern in doing; to have an agency in.

To put the last hand or finishing hand to, to complete; to perfect; to make the last corrections, or give the final polish.

To change hands, to change sides; to shift.

HAND, in the sense of rate, price, terms, conditions, as used by Bacon, Taylor, etc., is obsolete; as, 'to buy at a dear hand; ' 'accept the mystery, but at no hand wrest it by pride or ignorance.' So in the sense of advantage, gain, superiority, as used by Hayward; and in that of competition, content, as used by Shakespeare.

To get hand to gain influence, is obsolete.

A heavy hand severity or oppression.

A light hand gentleness; moderation.

A strict hand severe discipline; rigorous government.

HANDs off, a vulgar phrase for keep off, forbear.

pour water on the hands, in the phraseology of the Scriptures, is to serve or minister to. 2 Kings 3:10.

To wash the hands, to profess in innocence. Matthew 27:29.

To kiss the hand imports adoration. Job 31:21.

To lean on the hand imports familiarity. 2 Kings 5:11.

To strike hands, to make a contract, or to become surety for another's debt or good behavior. Proverbs 17:16.

Putting the hand under the thigh, was an ancient ceremony used in swearing.

To give the hand is to make a covenant with one, or to unite with him in design. 2 Ki 10.

The stretching out of the hand denotes an exertion of power. But,

The stretching out of the hand to God, imports earnest prayer or solemn dedication of one's self to him. Psa 68, and 143.

The lifting of the hand was used in affirmation and swearing, and in prayer imported a solemn wishing of blessings from God. Genesis 14:15. Leviticus 1:4.

To lift the hand against a superior, to rebel. 2 Samuel 20:9.

To put forth the hand against one, to kill him. 1 Samuel 24:4.

To put one's hand to a neighbor's goods, to steal them. Exodus 22:4.

To lay hands on in anger, to assault or seize, or to smite. Exo 24. Isaiah 11:8.

To lay the hand on the mouth, imports silence. Job 40.

The laying on of hands, was also a ceremony used in consecrating one to office. Numbers 27:18. 1 Timothy 4:14.

It was also used in blessing persons. Mark 10:37.

Hiding the hand in the bosom, denotes idleness; inactivity; sluggishness. Proverbs 19:24.

The clapping of hands, denotes joy and rejoicing. But in some instances, contempt or derision, or joy at the calamities of others. Psa 47. Ezekiel 25:7.

A station at the right hand is honorable, and denotes favor, approbation or honor. A station on the left hand is less honorable. Matthew 20:21.

's standing at the right hand of men, imports his regard for them, and his readiness to defend and assist them. Psa 16.

Satan's standing at the right hand of men, imports his readiness to accuse them, or to hinder or torment them. Zechariah 3:1.

Clean hands, denotes innocence and a blameless and holy life. Psa 24.

A slack hand denotes idleness; carelessness; sloth. Prov 10.

The right hand denotes power; strength. Exo 15.

HAND, verb transitive To give or transmit with the hand

HAND me a book.

1. To lead, guide and lift with the hand; to conduct.

2. To manage; as, I hand my oar.

3. To seize; to lay hands on. [Not used.]

4. In seamanship, to furl; to wrap or roll a sail close to the yard, stay or mast, and fasten it with gaskets.

To hand down, to transmit in succession, as from father to son, or from predecessor to successor. Fables are handed down from age to age.

HAND'BALL, noun An ancient game with a ball.

HAND'BARROW, noun A barrow or vehicle borne by the hands of men, and without a wheel.

HAND'BASKET, noun A small or portable basket.

HAND'BELL, noun A small bell rung by the hand; a table bell.

HAND'BREADTH, noun A space equal to the breadth of the hand; a palm. Exodus 25:1.

HAND'CLOTH, noun A handkerchief.

HAND'CR'AFT, noun Work performed by the hands; usually written handicraft.

HAND'CUFF, noun A manacle, consisting of iron rings for the wrists, and a connecting chain to confine the hands.

HAND'CUFF, verb transitive To manacle; to confine the hands with handcuffs.

HAND'ED, participle passive Given or transmitted by the hands; conducted; furled.

HAND'ED, adjective With hands joined.

1. In composition, as right-handed, most dextrous or strong with the right hand; having the right hand most able and ready.

Left-handed, having the left hand most strong and convenient for principal use.

HAND'ER, noun One who hands or transmits; a conveyer in succession.

HAND'F'AST, noun Hold; custody; power of confining or keeping.

HAND'F'AST, adjective Fast by contract; firm.

HAND'F'AST, verb transitive To pledge; to betroth; to bind; to join solemnly by the hand.

HAND'F'ASTING, noun A kind of betrothing, or marriage contract.

HAND'-FETTER, noun A fetter for the hand; a manacle.

HAND'FUL, noun As much as the hand will grasp or contain.

1. As much as the arms will embrace.

2. A palm; four inches.

3. A small quantity or number. A handful of men.

4. As much as can be done; full employment.

In America, the phrase is, he has his hands full.

HAND'GALLOP, noun A slow and easy gallop, in which the hand presses the bridle to hinder increase of speed.

HAND'GL'ASS, noun In gardening, a glass used for placing over, protecting and forwarding various plants, in winter.

HAND'GUN, noun A gun to be used by the hand.

HAND'ICR'AFT, noun Manual occupation; work performed by the hand.

1. A man who obtains his living by manual labor; one skilled in some mechanical art.

HAND'ICR'AFTSMAN, noun A man skilled or employed in manual occupation; a manufacturer.

HAND'ILY, adverb [See Handy.] With dexterity or skill; dexterously; adroitly.

1. With ease or convenience.

HAND'INESS, noun The ease of performance derived from practice; dexterity; adroitness.

HAND'IWORK, noun [for hand-work.] Work of the hands; product of manual labor; manufacture.

1. Work performed by power and wisdom. Psalms 19:1.

HAND'KERCHIEF, noun [hand and kerchief. See Kerchief.]

1. A piece of cloth, usually silk or linen, carried about the person for the purpose of cleaning the face or hands, as occasion requires.

2. A piece of cloth to be worn about the neck, and sometimes called a neckerchief.

HAND'LANGUAGE, noun The art of conversing by the hands. [Not in use.]

HAND'LE, verb transitive [Latin manus.]

1. To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.

The bodies we daily handle--hinder the approach of the part of our hands that press them.

2. To manage; to use; to wield.

That fellow handles a bow like a crow-keeper.

3. To make familiar by frequent touching.

The breeders in Flanders--handle their colts six months every year.

4. To treat; to discourse on; to discuss; to use or manage in writing or speaking. The author handled the subject with address. The speaker handled the arguments to the best advantage.

5. To use; to deal with; to practice.

They that handle the law knew me not. Jeremiah 2:8.

6. To treat; to use well or ill.

How wert thou handled?

7. To manage; to practice on; to transact with.

You shall see how I will handle her.

HAND'LE, noun [Latin ansa.]

1. That part of a vessel or instrument which is held in the hand when used, as the haft of a sword, the bail of a kettle, etc.

2. That of which use is made; the instrument of effecting a purpose.

HAND'LEAD, noun A lead for sounding.

HAND'LED, participle passive Touched; treated; managed.

HAND'LESS, adjective Without a hand.

HAND'LING, participle present tense Touching; feeling; treating; managing.

HAND'MAID

HAND'MAIDEN, noun A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.

HAND'MILL, noun A mill moved by the hand.

HAND'SAILS, noun Sails managed by the hand.

HAND'SAW, noun A saw to be used with the hand.

HAND'SCREW, noun An engine for raising heavy timbers or weights; a jack.

HAND'SEL, noun

1. The first act of using any thing; the first sale.

2. An earnest; money for the first sale. [Little used.]

HAND'SEL, verb transitive To use or do any thing the first time.

HAND'SOME, adjective

1. Properly, dexterous; ready; convenient.

For a thief it is so handsome as it may seem it was first invented for him.

This sense is either from the original meaning of hand, or from the use of the hand, or rather of the right hand. In this sense the word is still used. We say of a well fought combat and victory, it is a handsome affair, an affair well performed, done with dexterity or skill. [See Handy.]

2. Moderately beautiful, as the person or other thing; well made; having symmetry of parts; well formed. It expresses less than beautiful or elegant; as a handsome woman or man; she has a handsome person or face. So we say, a handsome house; a handsome type.

3. Graceful in manner; marked with propriety and ease; as a handsome address.

4. Ample; large; as handsome fortune.

5. Neat; correct; moderately elegant; as a handsome style or composition.

6. Liberal; generous; as a handsome present.

The applications of this word in popular language are various and somewhat indefinite. In general, when applied to things, it imports that the form is agreeable to the eye, or to just taste; and when applied to manner, it conveys the idea of suitableness or propriety with grace.

HAND'SOME, as a verb, to render neat or beautiful, is not an authorized word.

HAND'SOMELY, adverb Dexterously; cleverly; with skill.

1. Gracefully; with propriety and ease.

2. Neatly; with due symmetry or proportions; as, a thing is handsomely made or finished.

3. With a degree of beauty; as a room handsomely furnished or ornamented.

4. Amply; generously; liberally.

She is handsomely endowed.

HAND'SOMENESS, noun A moderate degree of beauty or elegance; as the handsomeness of the person or of an edifice.

1. Grace; gracefulness; ease and propriety in manner.

HAND'SPIKE, noun A wooden bar, used with the hand as a lever, for various purposes, as in raising weights, heaving about a windlass, etc.

HAND'ST'AFF, noun A javelin; plural handstaves. Ezekiel 39:1.

HAND'VISE, noun A vise used by hand, or for small work.

HAND'WEAPON, noun Any weapon to be wielded by the hand. Numbers 35:1.

HAND'WRITING, noun The cast or form of writing peculiar to each hand or person.

1. Any writing.

HAND'Y, adjective

1. Performed by the hand.

They came to handy blows.

2. Dexterous; ready; adroit; skilled to use the hands with ease in performance; applied to persons. He is handy with the saw or the place. Each is handy in his way.

3. Ingenious; performing with skill and readiness.

4. Ready to the hand; near. My books are very handy

5. Convenient; suited to the use of the hand.

6. Near; that may be used without difficulty or going to a distance. We have a spring or pasture that is handy

HAND'YBLOW, noun A blow with the hand; an act of hostility.

HAND'YGRIPE, noun Seizure by the hand.

HAND'YSTROKE, noun A blow inflicted by the hand.

HANG, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive hanged or hung.

1. To suspend; to fasten to some fixed object above, in such a manner as to swing or move; as, to hang a thief. Pharaoh hanged the chief baker. Hence,

2. To put to death by suspending by the neck.

Many men would rebel, rather than be ruined; but they would rather not rebel than be hanged.

3. To place without any solid support or foundation.

He hangeth the earth upon nothing. Job 36:1.

4. To fix in such a manner as to be movable; as, to hang a door or grate on hooks or by butts.

5. To cover or furnish by any thing suspended or fastened to the walls; as, to hang an apartment with curtains or with pictures.

Hung by the heavens with black--

And hung thy holy roofs with savage spoils.

To hang out, to suspend in open view; to display; to exhibit to notice; as, to hang out false colors.

1. To hang abroad; to suspend in the open air.

HANG over, to project or cause to project above.

To hang down, to let fall below the proper situation; to bend down; to decline; as, to hand down the head, and elliptically, to hang the head.

To hang up, to suspend; to place on something fixed on high.

1. To suspend; to keep or suffer to remain undecided; as, to hang up a question in debate.

HANG, verb intransitive To be suspended; to be sustained by something above, so as to swing or be movable below.

1. To dangle; to be loose and flowing below.

2. To bend forward or downward; to lean or incline.

His neck obliquely o'er his shoulder hung.

3. To float; to play.

And fall those sayings from that gentle tongue,

Where civil speech and soft persuasion hung.

4. To be supported by something raised above the ground; as a hanging garden on the top of a house.

5. To depend; to rest on something for support. This question hangs on a single point.

6. To rest on by embracing; to cling to; as, to hang on the neck of a person.

Two infants hanging on her neck.

7. To hover; to impend; with over.

View the dangers that hang over the country.

8. To be delayed; to linger.

A noble stroke he lifted high,

Which hung not.

9. To incline; to have a steep declivity; as hanging grounds.

10. To be executed by the halter.

Sir Balaam hangs.

To hang fire, in the military art, is to be slow in communicating, as fire in the pan of a gun to the charge.

To hang on, to adhere to, often as something troublesome and unwelcome.

A cheerful temper dissipates the apprehensions which hang on the timorous.

1. To adhere obstinately; to be importunate.

2. To rest; to reside; to continue.

3. To be dependent on.

How wretched

Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors!

4. In seamen's language, to hold fast without belaying; to pull forcibly.

To hang in doubt, to be in suspense, or in a state of uncertainty.

Thy life shall hang in doubt before thee. Deuteronomy 28:66.

HANG together, to be closely united; to cling.

In the common cause we are all of a piece; we hang together.

1. To be just united, so as barely to hold together.

To hang on or upon, to drag; to be incommodiously jointed.

Life hangs upon me and becomes a burden.

To hang to, to adhere closely; to cling.

HANG, noun A sharp declivity.

HANG'BY, noun A dependent, in contempt.

HANG'ED, participle passive Suspended; put to death by being suspended by the neck.

HANG'ER, noun That by which a thing is suspended.

1. A short broad sword, incurvated towards the point.

2. One that hangs, or causes to be hanged.

HANG'ING, participle present tense Suspending to something above.

1. Being suspended; dangling; swinging.

2. Foreboding death by the halter.

What a hanging face!

3. Requiring punishment by the halter; as a hanging matter.

HANG'ING, noun Any kind of drapery hung or fastened to the walls or a room, by way of ornament.

No purple hangings clothe the palace walls.

1. Death by the halter; as hard words or hanging

2. Display; exhibition.

HANG'MAN, noun One who hangs another; a public executioner; also, a term of reproach.

HANG'NEST, noun The name of certain species of birds, which build nests suspended from the branches of trees, such as the Baltimore oriole or red-bird; also, the nest so suspended.

HANK, noun

1. A skein of thread; as much thread as is tied together; a tie.

2. In ships. a wooden ring fixed to a stay, to confine the stay-sails; used in the place of a grommet.

3. A rope or withy for fastening a gate.

HANK, verb transitive To form into hanks.

HANK'ER, verb intransitive

1. To long for with a keen appetite and uneasiness; in a literal sense; as, to hanker for fruit, or after fruit.

2. To have a vehement desire of something, accompanied with uneasiness; as, to hanker after the diversions of the town.

It is usually followed by after. It is a familiar, but not a low word.

HANK'ERING, participle present tense Longing for with keen appetite or ardent desire.

HANK'ERING, noun A keen appetite that causes uneasiness till it is gratified; vehement desire to possess or enjoy.

HANK'LE, verb transitive [See Hank.] To twist. [Not in use.]

HANSEAT'IC, adjective Pertaining to the Hanse towns, or to their confederacy.

HA'NT, a contraction of have not, or has not; as, I ha'nt, he ha'nt, we ha'nt.

Hanse Towns. Hanse signifies a society; Goth. hansa, a multitude. The Hanse towns in Germany were certain commercial cities which associated for the protection of commerce as early as the twelfth century. To this confederacy acceded certain commercial cities in Holland, England, France, Spain and Italy, until they amounted to seventy two, and for centuries, this confederacy commanded the respect and defied the power of kings. This confederacy at present consists of the cities of Lubeck, Hamburg, and Bremen.

HAP, noun [Latin capio.]

1. That which comes suddenly or unexpectedly; chance; fortune; accident; casual event. [See Chance and Casual.]

Whether art it was or heedless hap

Curs'd by good haps, and curs'd be they that build

Their hopes on haps.

2. Misfortune. [But this word is obsolete or obsolescent, except in compounds and derivatives.]

HAP, verb intransitive To happen; to befall; to come by chance.

HAP'LESS, adjective Luckless; unfortunate; unlucky; unhappy; as hapless youth; hapless maid.

HAP'LY, adverb By chance; perhaps; it may be.

Lest haply ye be found to fight against God. Acts 5:39.

1. By accident; casually.

HAP'PEN, verb intransitive hap'n.

1. To come by chance; to come without one's previous expectation; to fall out.

There shall no evil happen to the just. Proverbs 12:21.

2. To come; to befall.

They talked together of all those things which had happened. Luke 24:14.

3. To light; to fall or come unexpectedly.

I have happened on some other accounts relating to mortalities.

HAP'PILY, adverb [See Happy.] By good fortune; fortunately; luckily; with success.

Preferr'd by conquest, happily o'erthrown.

1. In a happy state; in a state of felicity.

He lived happily with his consort.

2. With address or dexterity; gracefully; in a manner to ensure success.

Formed by thy converse, happily to steer

From grave to gay, from lively to severe.

3. By chance. [See Haply.]

HAP'PINESS, noun [from happy.] The agreeable sensations which spring from the enjoyment of good; that state of a being in which his desires are gratified, by the enjoyment of pleasure without pain; felicity; but happiness usually expresses less than felicity, and felicity less than bliss. happiness is comparative. To a person distressed with pain, relief from that pain affords happiness; in other cases we give the name happiness to positive pleasure or an excitement of agreeable sensations. happiness therefore admits of indefinite degrees of increase in enjoyment, or gratification of desires. Perfect happiness or pleasure unalloyed with pain, is not attainable in this life.

2. Good luck; good fortune.

3. Fortuitous elegance; unstudied grace.

For there's a happiness as well as care.

HAP'PY adjective [from hap.]

1. Lucky; fortunate; successful.

Chimists have been more happy in finding experiments, than the causes of them.

So we say, a happy thought; a happy expedient.

2. Being in the enjoyment of agreeable sensations from the possession of good; enjoying pleasure from the gratification of appetites or desires. The pleasurable sensations derived from the gratification of sensual appetites render a person temporarily happy; but he only can be esteemed really and permanently happy who enjoys peace of mind in the favor of God. To be in any degree happy we must be free from pain both of body and of mind; to be very happy we must be in the enjoyment of lively sensations of pleasure, either of body or mind.

Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed. Genesis 30:13.

He found himself happiest, in communicating happiness to others.

3. Prosperous; having secure possession of good.

Happy is that people whose God is Jehovah. Psalms 144:15.

4. That supplies pleasure; that furnishes enjoyment; agreeable; applied to things; as a happy condition.

5. Dexterous; ready; able.

One gentleman is happy at a reply, another excels in a rejoinder.

6. Blessed; enjoying the presence and favor of God, in a future life.

7. Harmonious; living in concord; enjoying the pleasures of friendship; as a happy family.

8. Propitious; favorable.

HAR, HARE, HERE, in composition, signify an army, Sax. here, G. heer, D. heir. So Harold is a general of an army; Herwin, a victorious army.

HARANGUE, noun harang'. har'ang.

1. A speech addressed to an assembly or an army; a popular oration; a public address. This word seems to imply loudness or declamation, and is therefore appropriated generally to an address made to a popular assembly or to an army, and not to a sermon, or to an argument at the bar of a court, or to a speech in a deliberative council, unless in contempt.

2. Declamation; a noisy, pompous or irregular address.

HARANGUE, verb intransitive harang'. To make an address or speech to a large assembly; to make a noisy speech.

HARANGUE, verb transitive harang'. To address by oration; as, the general harangued the troops.

HARANG'UER, noun harang'er. An orator; one who addresses an assembly or army; a noisy declaimer.

HARANG'UING, participle present tense Declaiming; addressing with noisy eloquence.

HAR'ASS, verb transitive

1. To weary; to fatigue to excess; to tire with bodily labor; as, to harass an army by a long march.

2. To weary with importunity, care, or perplexity; to tease; to perplex.

Nature oppress'd and harrass'd out with care.

3. To waste or desolate.

HAR'ASS, noun Waste; disturbance; devastation. [Little used.]

HAR'ASSED, participle passive Wearied; tired; teased.

HAR'ASSER, noun One who harasses or teases; a spoiler.

HAR'ASSING, participle present tense Tiring; fatiguing; teasing.

H'ARBINGER, noun [See Harbor. harbinger is properly a person who goes to provide harbor or lodgings for those that follow.]

1. In England, an officer of the king's household who rides a day's journey before the court when traveling, to provide lodgings and other accommodations.

2. A forerunner; a precursor; that which precedes and gives notice of the expected arrival of something else.

H'ARBOR, noun

1. A lodging; a place of entertainment and rest.

For harbor at a thousand doors they knocked.

2. A port or haven for ships; a bay or inlet of the sea, in which ships can moor, and be sheltered from the fury of winds and a heavy sea; any navigable water where ships can ride in safety.

3. An asylum; a shelter; a place of safety from storms or danger.

H'ARBOR, verb transitive To shelter; to secure; to secrete; as, to harbor a thief.

1. To entertain; to permit to lodge, rest or reside; as, to harbor malice or revenge.

Harbor not a thought of revenge.

H'ARBOR, verb intransitive To lodge or abide for a time; to receive entertainment.

This night let's harbor here in York.

1. To take shelter.

H'ARBORAGE, noun Shelter; entertainment. [Not used.]

H'ARBORED, participle passive Entertained; sheltered.

H'ARBORER, noun One who entertains or shelters another.

H'ARBORING, participle present tense Entertaining; sheltering.

H'ARBORLESS, adjective Without a harbor; destitute of shelter or a lodging.

HAR'BOROUGH, noun A harbor or lodging. [Not in use.]

HAR'BOROUS, adjective Hospitable. [Not in use.]

H'ARD, adjective

1. Firm; solid; compact; not easily penetrated, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; applied to material bodies, and opposed to soft; as hard wood; hard flesh; a hard apple.

2. Difficult; not easy to the intellect.

In which are some things hard to be understood. 2 Peter 3:16.

The hard causes they brought to Moses. Exodus 18:26.

3. Difficult of accomplishment; not easy to be done or executed. A hard task; a disease hard to cure.

Is any thing too hard for the Lord? Genesis 18:14.

4. Full of difficulties or obstacles; not easy to be traveled; as a hard way.

5. Painful; difficult; distressing.

Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor. Genesis 35:16.

6. Laborious; fatiguing; attended with difficulty or pain, or both; as hard work or labor; hard duty; hard service.

7. Oppressive; rigorous; severe; cruel; as hard bondage; a hard master. Exodus 1:14. Isaiah 14:3.

8. Unfeeling; insensible; not easily moved by pity; not susceptible of kindness, mercy or other tender affections; as a hard heart.

9. Severe; harsh; rough; abusive.

Have you given him any hard words of late?

10. Unfavorable; unkind; implying blame of another; as hard thoughts.

11. Severe; rigorous; oppressive. The enemy was compelled to submit to hard terms. So we say, a hard bargain; hard conditions.

12. Unreasonable; unjust. It is hard to punish a man for speculative opinions. It is a hard case.

13. Severe; pinching with cold; rigorous; tempestuous; as a hard winter; hard weather.

14. Powerful; forcible; urging; pressing close on.

The stag was too hard for the horse.

The disputant was too hard for his antagonist.

15. Austere; rough; acid; sour; as liquors.

The cider is hard

16. Harsh; stiff; forced; constrained; unnatural.

Others--make the figures harder than the marble itself.

His diction is hard his figures too bold.

17. Not plentiful; not prosperous; pressing; distressing; as hard times, when markets are bad, and money of course scarce.

18. Avaricious; difficult in making bargains; close. Matthew 25:24.

19. Rough; of coarse features; as a hard face or countenance.

20. Austere; severe; rigorous.

21. Rude; unpolished or unintelligible.

A people of hard language. Ezekiel 3:5.

22. Coarse; unpalatable or scanty; as hard fare.

H'ARD, adverb Close; near; as in the phrase, hard by. In this phrase, the word retains its original sense of pressed, or pressing.

[Latin pressus.]

1. With pressure; with urgency; hence, diligently; laboriously; earnestly; vehemently; importunately; as, to work hard for a living.

And pray'd so hard for mercy from the prince.

2. With difficulty; as, the vehicle moves hard

3. Uneasily; vexatiously.

4. Closely; so as to raise difficulties.

The question is hard set.

5. Fast; nimbly; rapidly; vehemently; as, to run hard that is, with pressure or urgency.

6. Violently; with great force; tempestuously; as, the wind blows hard or it blows hard

7. With violence; with a copious descent of water; as, it rains hard

8. With force; as, to press hard

Hard-a-lee, in seamen's language, an order to put the helm close to the lee side of the ship, to tack or keep her head to the wind; also, that situation of the helm.

Hard-a-weather, an order to put the helm close to the weather or windward side of the ship; also, that position of the helm.

Hard-a-port, an order to put the helm close to the larboard side of a ship.

Hard-a-starboard, an order to put the helm close to the starboard side of a ship.

H'ARDBOUND, adjective Costive; fast or tight; as hardbound brains.

H'ARDEARNED, adjective Earned with toil and difficulty.

H'ARDEN, verb transitive h'ardn. To make hard or more hard; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden iron or steel; to harden clay.

1. To confirm in effrontery; to make impudent; as, to harden the face.

2. To make obstinate, unyielding or refractory; as, to harden the neck. Jeremiah 19:15.

3. To confirm in wickedness, opposition or enmity; to make obdurate.

Why then do ye harden your hearts, as Pharaoh and the Egyptians hardened their hearts? 1 Samuel 6:6.

So God is said to harden the heart, when he withdraws the influences of his spirit from men, and leaves them to pursue their own corrupt inclinations.

4. To make insensible or unfeeling; as, to harden one against impressions of pity or tenderness.

5. To make firm; to endure with constancy.

I would harden myself in sorrow. Job 6:10.

6. To inure; to render firm or less liable to injury, by exposure or use; as, to harden to a climate or to labor.

H'ARDEN, verb intransitive h'ardn. To become hard or more hard; to acquire solidity or more compactness. Mortar hardens by drying.

1. To become unfeeling.

2. To become inured.

3. To indurate, as flesh.

H'ARDENED, participle passive Made hard, or more hard or compact; made unfeeling; made obstinate; confirmed in error or vice.

H'ARDENER, noun He or that which makes hard, or more firm and compact.

H'ARDENING, participle present tense Making hard or more compact; making obdurate or unfeeling; confirming; becoming more hard.

H'ARDENING, noun The giving a greater degree of hardness to bodies than they had before.

HARDFA'VORED, adjective Having coarse features; harsh of countenance.

HARDFA'VOREDNESS, noun Coarseness of features.

H'ARDFEATURED, adjective Having coarse features.

H'ARDFISTED, adjective Close fisted; covetous.

H'ARDFOUGHT, adjective Vigorously contested; as a hard-fought battle.

H'ARDGOTTEN, adjective Obtained with difficulty.

H'ARDHANDED, adjective Having hard hands, as a laborer.

H'ARDHEAD, noun Clash or collision of heads in contest.

HARDHE'ARTED, adjective Cruel; pitiless; merciless; unfeeling; inhuman; inexorable.

HARDHE'ARTEDNESS, noun Want of feeling or tenderness; cruelty; inhumanity.

H'ARDIHOOD, noun [See Hardy and Hood.] Boldness, united with firmness and constancy of mind; dauntless bravery; intrepidity.

It is the society of numbers which gives hardihood to

iniquity.

Hardihead and hardiment, in the sense of hardihood are obsolete.

H'ARDILY, adverb With great boldness; stoutly.

1. With hardship; not tenderly.

H'ARDINESS, noun

1. Boldness; firm courage; intrepidity; stoutness; bravery; applied to the mind, it is synonymous with hardihood.

2. Firmness of body derived from laborious exercises.

3. Hardship; fatigue.

4. Excess of confidence; assurance; effrontery.

H'ARDLY, adverb [See Hard.] With difficulty; with great labor.

Recovering hardly what he lost before.

1. Scarcely; barely; almost not.

Hardly shall you find any one so bad, but he desires the credit of being thought good.

2. Not quite or wholly. The object is so distant we can hardly see it. The veal is hardly done. The writing is hardly completed.

3. Grudgingly, as an injury.

4. Severely; unfavorably; as, to think hardly of public measures.

5. Rigorously; oppressively. The prisoners were hardly used or treated.

6. Unwelcomely; harshly.

Such information comes very hardly and harshly to a grown man.

7. Coarsely; roughly; not softly.

Heaven was her canopy, bare earth her bed;

So hardly lodged.

H'ARDNESS, noun [See Hard.] Firmness; close union of the component parts; compactness; solidity; the quality of bodies which resists impression; opposed to softness and fluidity.

1. Difficulty to be understood.

2. Difficulty to be executed or accomplished; as the hardness of an enterprise.

3. Scarcity; penury; difficulty of obtaining money; as the hardness of the times.

4. Obduracy; impenitence; confirmed state of wickedness; as hardness of heart.

5. Coarseness of features; harshness of look; as hardness of favor.

6. Severity of cold; rigor; as the hardness of winter.

7. Cruelty of temper; savageness; harshness.

The blame

May hang upon your hardness

8. Stiffness; harshness; roughness; as the hardnesses of sculpture.

9. Closeness; niggardliness; stinginess.

10. Hardship; severe labor, trials or sufferings.

Endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 2 Timothy 2:3.

H'ARDNIBBED, adjective Having a hard nib or point.

H'ARDOCK, noun Probably hoardock, dock with whitish leaves.

H'ARDS, noun The refuse or coarse part of flax; tow.

H'ARDSHIP, noun Toil; fatigue; severe labor or want; whatever oppresses the body.

1. Injury; oppression; injustice.

H'ARDVISAGED, adjective Having coarse features; of a harsh countenance.

H'ARDWARE, noun Wares made of iron or other metal, as pots, kettles, saws, knives, etc.

H'ARDWAREMAN, noun A maker or seller of hardwares.

H'ARDY, adjective

1. Bold; brave; stout; daring; resolute; intrepid.

Who is hardy enough to encounter contempt?

2. Strong; firm; compact.

An unwholesome blast may shake in pieces his hardy fabric.

3. Confident; full of assurance; impudent; stubborn to excess.

4. Inured to fatigue; rendered firm by exercise, as a veteran soldier.

HARE, noun A quadruped of the genus Lepus, with long ears, a short tail, soft hair, and a divided upper lip. It is a timid animal, often hunted for sport or for its flesh, which is excellent food. It moves by leaps, and is remarkable for its fecundity.

1. A constellation.

HARE, verb transitive To fright, or to excite, tease and harass, or worry. [Not used. See Harry.]

HA'REBELL, noun A plant of the genus Hyacinthus, with campaniform or bell-shaped flowers.

HA'REBRAINED, adjective [hare and brain.] Wild; giddy; volatile; heedless.

HA'REFOOT, noun A bird; a plant.

HA'REHE'ARTED, adjective Timorous; easily frightened.

HA'REHOUND, noun A hound for hunting hares.

HA'REHUNTER, noun One who hunts or is used to hunting hares.

HA'REHUNTING, noun The hunting of hares.

HA'RELIP, noun A divided upper lip, like that of a hare.

HA'RELIPPED, adjective Having a harelip.

HAR'EM, noun A seraglio; a place where Eastern princes confine their women, who are prohibited from the society of others.

HA'REMINT, noun A plant.

HAREN'GIFORM, adjective [See Herring.] Shaped like a herring.

HA'REPIPE, noun A snare for catching hares.

HA'REWORT, noun A plant.

HAR'ICOT, noun A kind of ragout of meat and roots.

1. In French, beans.

HAR'IER

HARIOLA'TION, noun [Latin harioltio.] Sooth-saying. [Not in use.]

H'ARK, verb transitive [contracted from hearken, which see.]

To listen; to lend the ear.

This word is rarely or never used, except in the imperative mode, hark that is, listen, hear.

H'ARL

H'ARLEQUIN, noun A buffoon, dressed in party-colored clothes, who plays tricks, like a merry-andrew, to divert the populace. This character was first introduced into Italian comedy, but is now a standing character in English pantomime entertainments.

H'ARLEQUIN, verb intransitive To play the droll; to make sport by playing ludicrous tricks.

H'ARLOCK, noun A plant.

H'ARLOT, noun

1. A woman who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a common woman.

2. In Scripture, one who forsakes the true God and worships idols. Isaiah 1:21.

3. A servant; a rogue; a cheat.

H'ARLOT, adjective Wanton; lewd; low; base.

H'ARLOT, verb intransitive To practice lewdness.

H'ARLOTRY, noun The trade or practice of prostitution; habitual or customary lewdness.

H'ARM, noun

1. Injury; hurt; damage; detriment.

Do thyself no harm Acts 16:28.

He shall make amends for the harm he hath done in the holy thing. Leviticus 5:16.

2. Moral wrong; evil; mischief; wickedness; a popular sense of the word.

H'ARM, verb transitive To hurt; to injure; to damage; to impair soundness of body, either animal or vegetable.

HARMAT'TAN, noun A dry easterly wind in Africa, which destroys vegetation.

H'ARMED, participle passive Injured; hurt; damaged.

H'ARMEL, noun The wild African rue.

H'ARMFUL, adjective Hurtful; injurious; noxious; detrimental; mischievous.

The earth brought forth fruit and food for man, without any mixture of harmful quality.

H'ARMFULLY, adverb Hurtfully; injuriously; with damage.

H'ARMFULNESS, noun Hurtfulness; noxiousness.

H'ARMING, participle present tense Hurting; injuring.

H'ARMLESS, adjective Not hurtful or injurious; innoxious. Ceremonies are harmless in themselves.

1. Unhurt; undamaged; uninjured; as, to give bond to save another harmless

2. Innocent; not guilty.

Who is holy, harmless undefiled, separate from sinners. Hebrews 7:26.

H'ARMLESSLY, adverb Innocently; without fault or crime; as, to pass the time harmlessly in recreations.

1. Without hurt or damage.

Bullets fall harmlessly into wood or feathers.

H'ARMLESSNESS, noun The quality of being innoxious; freedom from a tendency to injure.

1. Innocence.

HARMON'IC

HARMON'ICA, noun A collection of musical glasses of a particular form, so arranged as to produce exquisite music.

HARMON'ICA, n. A collection of musical glasses of a particular form, so arranged as to produce exquisite music.

HARMON'ICAL, adjective [See Harmony.] Relating to harmony or music; as harmonical use.

1. Concordant; musical; consonant; as harmonic sounds.

Harmonic twang of leather, horn and brass.

The basis of an harmonic system.

The harmonic elements are the three smallest concords.

2. An epithet applied to the accessary sounds which accompany the predominant and apparently simple tone of any chord or string.

Harmonical mean, in arithmetic and algebra, a term used to express certain relations of numbers and quantities, which are supposed to bear an analogy to musical consonances.

Harmonical proportion, in arithmetic and algebra, is said to obtain between three quantities, or four quantities, in certain cases.

Harmonical series, a series of many numbers in continued harmonical proportion.

HARMON'ICS, noun Harmonious sounds; consonances.

1. The doctrine or science of musical sounds.

2. Derivative sounds, generated with predominant sounds, and produced by subordinate vibrations of a chord or string, when its whole length vibrates. These shorter vibrations produce more acute sounds, and are called acute harmonics

3. Grave harmonics are low sounds which accompany every perfect consonance of two sounds.

HARMO'NIOUS, adjective Adapted to each other; having the parts proportioned to each other; symmetrical.

God hath made the intellectual world harmonious and beautiful without us.

1. Concordant; consonant; symphonious; musical. harmonious sounds are such as accord, and are agreeable to the ear.

2. Agreeing; living in peace and friendship; as a harmonious family or society.

HARMO'NIOUSLY, adverb With just adaptation and proportion of parts to each other.

Distances, motions, and quantities of matter harmoniously adjusted in this great variety of our system.

1. With accordance of sound; musically; in concord.

2. In agreement; in peace and friendship.

HARMO'NIOUSNESS, noun Proportion and adaption of parts; musicalness.

1. Agreement; concord.

H'ARMONIST, noun A musician; a composer of music.

1. One who brings together corresponding passages, to show their agreement.

H'ARMONIZE, verb intransitive To be in concord; to agree in sounds.

1. To agree; to be in peace and friendship; as individuals or families.

2. To agree in sense or purport; as, the arguments harmonize; the facts stated by different witnesses harmonize

H'ARMONIZE, verb transitive To adjust in fit proportions; to cause to agree.

1. To make musical; to combine according to the laws of counterpoint.

H'ARMONIZED, participle passive Made to be accordant.

H'ARMONIZER, noun One that brings together or reconciles.

1. In music, a practical harmonist.

H'ARMONIZING, participle present tense Causing to agree.

HARMONOM'ETER, noun An instrument or monochord for measuring the harmonic relations of sounds.

H'ARMONY, noun [Latin harmonia; Gr. a setting together, a closure or seam, agreement, concert, to fit or adapt, to square.]

1. The just adaptation of parts to each other, in any system or composition of things, intended to form a connected whole; as the harmony of the universe.

Equality and correspondence are the causes of harmony

All discord, harmony not understood.

2. Just proportion of sound; consonance; musical concord; the accordance of two or more intervals or sounds, or that union of different sounds which pleases the ear; or a succession of such sounds, called chords.

Ten thousand harps that tuned Angelic harmonies.

3. Concord; agreement; accordance in facts; as the harmony of the gospels.

4. Concord or agreement in views, sentiments or manners, interests, etc., good correspondence; peace and friendship.

The citizens live in harmony

5. Natural harmony in music, consists of the harmonic triad or common chord. Artificial harmony is a mixture of concords and discords. Figured harmony is when one or more of the parts move, during the continuance of a chord, through certain notes which do not form any of the constituent parts of that chord.

6. Perfect harmony implies the use of untempered concords only. Tempered harmony is when the notes are varied by temperament. [See Temperament.]

H'ARMOST, noun [Gr. to regulate.] In ancient Greece, a Spartan governor, regulator or perfect.

H'ARMOTOME, noun [Gr. a joint, and to cut.] In mineralogy, cross-stone, or staurolite, called also pyramidical zeolite. [See Cross-stone.

H'ARNESS, noun

1. Armor; the whole accouterments or equipments of a knight or horseman; originally perhaps defensive armor, but in a more modern and enlarged sense, the furniture of a military man, or offensive, as a casque, cuirass, helmet, girdle, sword, buckler, etc.

2. The furniture of a draught horse, whether for a wagon, coach, gig, chaise, etc., called in some of the American states, tackle or tackling, with which, in its primary sense, it is synonymous.

H'ARNESS, verb transitive To dress in armor; to equip with armor for war, as a horseman.

Harnessed in rugged steel.

1. To put on the furniture of a horse for draught.

Harness the horses. Jeremiah 46:4.

2. To defend; to equip or furnish for defense. 1 Macc.4.

H'ARNESSED, participle passive Equipped with armor; furnished with the dress for draught; defended.

H'ARNESSER, noun One who puts on the harness of a horse.

H'ARNESSING, participle present tense Putting on armor or furniture for draught.

H'ARP, noun

1. An instrument of music of the stringed kind, of a triangular figure, held upright and commonly touched with the fingers.

2. A constellation.

H'ARP, verb intransitive To play on the harp

I heard the voice of harpers, harping with their harps. Revelation 14:2.

1. To dwell on, in speaking or writing; to continue sounding.

He seems

Proud and disdainful, harping on what I am--

Not what he knew I was.

2. To touch as a passion; to affect.

H'ARPER, noun A player on the harp.

H'ARPING, participle present tense Playing on a harp; dwelling on continually.

H'ARPING, noun A continual dwelling on.

Making infinite merriment by harpings upon old themes.

H'ARPING, noun plural harpings. In ships, harpings are the fore-parts of the wales, which encompass the bow of the ship, and are fastened to the stem. Their use is to strengthen the ship, in the place where she sustains the greatest shock in plunging into the sea.

Cat-harpings, are ropes which serve to brace in the shrouds of the lower masts, behind their respective yards.

H'ARPIST, noun A harper.

HARPOON', noun [Gr. to seize with the claws; probably Latin rapio, by transposition of letters.]

A harping-iron; a spear or javelin, used to strike whales for killing them. It consists of a long shank, with a broad flat triangular head, sharpened at both edges for penetrating the whale with facility. It is generally thrown by hand.

HARPOON', verb transitive To strike, catch or kill with a harpoon

The beluga is usually caught in nets, but is sometimes harpooned.

HARPOON'ED, participle passive Struck, caught or killed with a harpoon.

HARPOON'ER, noun One who uses a harpoon; the man in a whale-boat who throws the harpoon.

HARPOON'ING, participle present tense Striking with a harpoon.

H'ARPSICHORD, noun [harp and chord.] An instrument of music with strings of wire, played by the fingers, by means of keys. The striking of these keys moves certain little jacks, which move a double row of chords or strings, stretched over four bridges on the table of the instrument.

H'ARPY, noun [Latin harpyia; Gr. to seize or claw.]

1. In antiquity, the harpies were fabulous winged monsters, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture, with their feet and fingers armed with sharp claws. They were three in number, Aello, Ocypete, and Celeno. They were sent by Juno to plunder the table of Phineus. They are represented as rapacious and filthy animals.

2. Any rapacious or ravenous animal; an extortioner; a plunderer.

HARQUEBUSE. [See Arquebuse.]

HARRATEE'N, noun A kind of stuff or cloth.

HAR'RIDAN, noun A decayed strumpet.

HAR'RIER, noun A hunting hound with a nice sense of smelling.

HAR'RIER, noun [from hare.] A dog for hunting hares; a kind of hound with an acute sense of smelling.

HAR'ROW, noun An instrument of agriculture, formed of pieces of timber sometimes crossing each other, and set with iron teeth. It is drawn over plowed land to level it and break the clods, and to cover seed when sown.

HAR'ROW, verb transitive To draw a harrow over, for the purpose of breaking clods and leveling the surface, or for covering seed sown; as, to harrow land or ground.

1. To break or tear with a harrow

Will he harrow the valleys after thee? Job 39:10

2. To tear; to lacerate; to torment.

I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word

Would harrow up thy soul--

3. To pillage; to strip; to lay waste by violence. [Not used.]

4. To disturb; to agitate.

HAR'ROWED, participle passive Broken or smoothed by a harrow.

HAR'ROWER, noun One who harrows.

1. A hawk.

HAR'ROWING, participle present tense Breaking or leveling with a harrow.

HAR'RY, verb transitive

1. To strip; to pillage. [See Harrow.]

2. To harass; to agitate; to tease.

HAR'RY, verb intransitive To make harassing incursions.

H'ARSH, adjective

1. Rough to the touch; rugged; grating; as harsh sand; harsh cloth; opposed to smooth.

2. Sour; rough to the taste; as harsh fruit.

3. Rough to the ear; grating; discordant; jarring; as a harsh sound; harsh notes; a harsh voice.

4. Austere; crabbed; morose; peevish. Civilization softens the harsh temper or nature of man.

5. Rough; rude; abusive; as harsh words; a harsh reflection.

6. Rigorous; severe.

Though harsh the precept, yet the preacher charm'd.

H'ARSHLY, adverb Roughly; in a harsh manner.

1. Sourly; austerely.

2. Severely; morosely; crabbedly; as, to speak or answer harshly

3. Roughly; rudely; with violence; as, to treat a person harshly

4. Roughly; with a grating sound; unpleasantly.

It would sound harshly in her ears.

H'ARSHNESS, noun Roughness to the touch; opposed to softness and smoothness.

1. Sourness; austereness; as the harshness of fruit.

2. Roughness to the ear; as the harshness of sound or of a voice, or of verse.

'Tis not enough no harshness gives offense,

The sound must seem an echo to the sense.

3. Roughness of temper; moroseness; crabbedness; peevishness.

4. Roughness in manner or words; severity; as the harshness of reproof.

H'ARSLET

H'ART, noun A stag or male deer, an animal of the cervine genus.

H`ART, n. A stag or male deer, an animal of the cervine genus.

H'ARTBEEST, noun The quanga, or cervine antelope of Africa.

H'ARTROY'AL, noun A plant.

H'ARTSHORN, noun The horn of the hart or male deer. The scrapings or raspings of this horn are medicinal, and used in decoctions, ptisans, etc. hartshorn jelly is nutritive and strengthening. hartshorn calcined by a strong and long continued heat, is changed into a white earth, which is employed in medicine as an absorbent. The salt of hartshorn is powerful sudorific, and hartshorn yields also a pungent volatile spirit.

The jelly of hartshorn is simply gelatine; the earth remaining after calcination, is phosphate of lime; the salt and spirit of hartshorn are muriate of ammonia, with a little animal oil.

Hartshorn plantain, a species of Plantago.

H'ARTSTONGUE, noun [See Tongue.] A plant, a species of Asplenium.

H'ARTWORT, noun The name of certain plants of the genera, Seseli, Tordylium, and Buplerum.

HAR'USPICE, noun [Latin haruspex, from specio, to view.]

In Roman history, a person who pretended to foretell future events by inspecting the entrails of beasts sacrificed, or watching the circumstances attending their slaughter, or their manner of burning and the ascent of the smoke.

HAR'USPICY, noun Divination by the inspection of victims.

H'ARVEST, noun [Latin acerbus.]

1. The season of reaping and gathering in corn or other crops. It especially refers to the time of collecting corn or grain, which is the chief food of men, as wheat and rye. In Egypt and Syria, the wheat harvest is in April and May; in the south of Europe and of the United States, in June; in the Northern states of America, in July; and in the north of Europe, in August and September. In the United States, the harvest of maiz is mostly in October.

2. The ripe corn or grain collected and secured in barns or stacks. The harvest this year is abundant.

3. The product of labor; fruit or fruits.

Let us the harvest of our labor eat.

4. Fruit or fruits; effects; consequences.

He that sows iniquity will reap a harvest of woe.

5. In Scripture, harvest signifies figuratively the proper season for business.

He that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame. Proverbs 10:5.

Also, a people whose sins have ripened them for judgment. Joel 3:13.

Also, the end of the world. Matthew 13:30.

Also, a seasonable time for instructing men in the gospel. Matthew 9:37.

H'ARVEST, verb transitive To reap or gather ripe corn and other fruits for the use of man and beast.

H'ARVESTED, participle passive Reaped and collected, as ripe corn and fruits.

H'ARVESTER, noun A reaper; a laborer in gathering grain.

H'ARVESTING, participle present tense Reaping and collecting, as ripe corn and other fruits.

HASH, verb transitive [Eng. to hack. See Hack.] To chop into small pieces; to mince and mix; as, to hash meat.

HASH, noun Minced meat, or a dish of meat and vegetables chopped into small pieces and mixed.

HASK, noun A case made of rushes or flags. [Not used.]

HAS'LET, noun [See Harslet.]

HAS'LET, noun The heart, liver, lights, etc. of a hog.

H'ASP, noun

1. A clasp that passes over a staple to be fastened by a padlock.

2. A spindle to wind thread or silk on.

H'ASP, verb transitive To shut or fasten with a hasp

HAS'SOC, noun A thick mat or bass on which persons kneel in church.

And knees and hassocs are well nigh divorc'd.

HAST, the second person singular of have, I have, thou hast contracted from havest. It is used only in the solemn style.

HAS'TATE

HAS'TATED, adjective [Latin hastatus, from hasta, a spear.] In botany, spear-shaped; resembling the head of a halberd; triangular, hollowed at the base and on the sides, with the angles spreading; as a hastate leaf.

HASTE, noun

1. Celerity of motion; speed; swiftness; dispatch; expedition; applied only to voluntary beings, as men and other animals; never to other bodies. We never say, a ball flies with haste

The king's business required haste l Sam.21.

2. Sudden excitement of passion; quickness; precipitance; vehemence.

I said in my haste all men are liars. Psalms 116:11.

3. The state of being urged or pressed by business; as, I am in great haste

HASTE

HASTED

HASTEN, verb transitive To press; to drive or urge forward; to push on; to precipitate; to accelerate movement.

I would hasten my escape from the windy storm. Psalms 55:1.

HASTE

HASTEN, verb intransitive To move with celerity; to be rapid in motion; to be speedy or quick.

They were troubled and hasted away. Psalms 48:5.

HASTENED, participle passive Moved rapidly; accelerated; urged with speed.

HASTENER, noun One that hastens or urges forward.

HASTENING, participle present tense Urging forward; pushing on; proceeding rapidly.

That state is hastening to ruin, in which no difference is made between good and bad men.

HASTILY, adverb [See Hasty.] In haste; with speed or quickness; speedily; nimbly.

Half clothed, half naked, hastily retire.

1. Rashly; precipitately; without due reflection.

We hastily engaged in the war.

2. Passionately; under sudden excitement of passion.

HASTINESS, noun Haste; speed; quickness or celerity in motion or action, as of animals.

1. Rashness; heedless eagerness; precipitation. Our hastiness to engage in the war caused deep regret.

2. Irritability; susceptibility of anger, warmth or temper.

HASTING

HASTING-PEAR, noun An early pear, called also green chissel.

HASTINGS, noun [from hasty.] Peas that come early.

HASTIVE, adjective Forward; early; as fruit. [Not much used.]

HASTY, adjective Quick; speedy; opposed to slow.

Be not hasty to go out of his sight. Ecclesiastes 8:3.

1. Eager precipitate; rash; opposed to deliberate.

Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words?

There is more hope of a fool than of him. Proverbs 29:20.

2. Irritable; easily excited to wrath; passionate.

He that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly. Proverbs 14:29.

3. Early ripe; forward; as hasty fruit. Isaiah 28:4.

HASTYPUDDING, noun A pudding made of the meal of maiz moistened with water and boiled, or of milk and flour boiled.

HAT, noun

1. A covering for the head; a garment made of different materials, and worn by men or women for defending the head from rain or heat, or for ornament. Hats for men are usually made of fur or wool, and formed with a crown and brim. Hats for females are made of straw or grass braid, and various other materials. Of these the ever varying forms admit of no description that can long be correct.

2. The dignity of a cardinal.

HAT'-BAND, noun A band round the crown of a hat

HAT'-BOX

HAT'-CASE, noun A box for a hat But a case for a lady's hat is called a band-box.

HA'TABLE, adjective [from hate.] That may be hated; odious.

HATCH, verb transitive

1. To produce young from eggs by incubation, or by artificial heat. In Egypt, chickens are hatched by artificial heat.

The partridge sitteth on eggs and hatcheth them not. Jeremiah 17:11

2. To contrive or plot; to form by meditation, and bring into being; to originate and produce in silence; as, to hatch mischief; to hatch heresy.

HATCH, verb transitive To shade by lines in drawing and engraving.

Those hatching strokes of the pencil.

1. To steep.

HATCH, verb intransitive To produce young; to bring the young to maturity. Eggs will not hatch without a due degree and continuance of heat.

HATCH, noun A brood; as many chickens as are produced at once, or by one incubation.

1. The act of exclusion from the egg.

2. Disclosure; discovery.

HATCH, or HATCHES, noun

1. Properly, the grate or frame of cross-bars laid over the opening in a ship's deck, now called hatch-bars. The lid or cover of a hatchway is also called hatches.

2. The opening in a ship's deck, or the passage from one deck to another, the name of the grate itself being used for the opening; but this is more properly called the hatchway.

3. A half-door, or door with an opening over it.

4. Floodgates.

5. In Cornwall, Eng. openings into mines, or in search of them.

6. To be under the hatches, to be confined, or to be in distress, depression or slavery.

HATCH'EL, noun An instrument formed with long iron teeth set in a board, for cleaning flax or hemp from the tow, hards or coarse part. The hatchel is a large species of comb.

HATCH'EL, verb transitive To draw flax or hemp through the teeth of a hatchel for separating the coarse part and broken pieces of the stalk from the fine fibrous parts.

1. To tease or vex, by sarcasms or reproaches; a vulgar use of the word.

HATCH'ELED, participle passive Cleansed by a hatchel; combed.

HATCH'ELER, noun One who uses a hatchel.

HATCH'ELING, participle present tense Drawing through the teeth of a hatchel.

HATCH'ET, noun A small ax with a short handle, to be used with one hand.

To take up the hatchet a phrase borrowed from the natives of America, is to make war.

To bury the hatchet is to make peace.

HATCH'ETINE, noun A substance of the hardness of soft tallow, of a yellowish white or greenish yellow color, found in South Wales.

HATCH'MENT, noun [corrupted from achievement.] An armorial escutcheon on a herse at funerals, or in a church.

HATCH'WAY, noun In ships, a square or oblong opening in the deck, affording a passage from one deck, affording a passage from one deck to another, or into the hold or lower apartments.

HATE, verb transitive [Latin odi, for hodi.]

1. To dislike greatly; to have a great aversion to. It expresses less than abhor, detest, and abominate, unless pronounced with a peculiar emphasis.

How long will fools hate knowledge? Proverbs 1:22.

Blessed are ye when men shall hate you. Luke 6:22.

The Roman tyrant was contented to be hated, if he was but feared.

2. In Scripture, it signifies to love less.

If any man come to me, and hate not father and mother, etc. Luke 14:26.

He that spareth the rod, hateth his son. Proverbs 13:24.

HATE, noun Great dislike or aversion; hatred.

HA'TED, participle passive Greatly disliked.

HA'TEFUL, adjective Odious; exciting great dislike, aversion or disgust. All sin is hateful in the sight of God and of good men.

1. That feels hatred; malignant; malevolent.

And, worse than death, to view with hateful eyes

His rival's conquest.

HA'TEFULLY, adverb Odiously; with great dislike.

1. Malignantly; maliciously. Ezekiel 23:29.

HA'TEFULNESS, noun Odiousness; the quality of being hateful, or of exciting aversion or disgust.

HA'TER, noun One that hates.

An enemy to God, and hater of all good.

HA'TING, participle present tense Disliking extremely; entertaining a great aversion for.

HA'TRED, noun Great dislike or aversion; hate; enmity. hatred is an aversion to evil, and may spring from utter disapprobation, as the hatred of vice or meanness; or it may spring from offenses or injuries done by fellow men, or from envy or jealousy, in which case it is usually accompanied with malevolence or malignity. Extreme hatred is abhorrence or detestation.

HAT'TED, adjective [from hat.] Covered with a hat; wearing a hat.

HAT'TER, verb transitive To harass. [Not in use.]

HAT'TOCK, noun [Erse, attock.] A shock of corn. [Not in use.]

HAU'BERK, noun A coat of mail without sleeves.

HAUGHT, adjective haut. [Latin altus, that is, haltus, changed to haut.]

High; elevated; hence, proud; insolent.

HAUGHTILY, adverb hau'tily. [See Haught and Haughty.]

Proudly; arrogantly; with contempt or disdain; as, to speak or behave haughtily

Her heavenly form too haughtily she prized.

HAUGHTINESS, noun hau'tiness. The quality of being haughty; pride mingled with some degree of contempt for others; arrogance.

I will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. Isaiah 13:11.

HAUGHTY, adjective hau'ty. [from haught.]

1. Proud and disdainful; having a high opinion of one's self, with some contempt for others; lofty and arrogant; supercilious.

His wife was a woman of a haughty and imperious nature.

A haughty spirit goeth before a fall. Proverbs 16:18.

2. Proceeding from excessive pride, or pride mingled with contempt; manifesting pride and disdain; as a haughty air or walk.

3. Proud and imperious; as a haughty nation.

4. Lofty; bold; of high hazard; as a haughty enterprise.

HAUL, verb transitive

1. To pull or draw with force; to drag; as, to haul a heavy body along on the ground; to haul a boat on shore. haul is equivalent to drag, and differs sometimes from pull and draw, in expressing more force and labor. It is much used by seamen; as, to haul down the sails; haul in the boom; haul aft, etc.

2. To drag; to compel to go.

Lest he haul thee to the judge. Luke 12:1.

When applied to persons, haul implies compulsion or rudeness, or both.

To haul the wind, in seamanship, is to turn the head of the ship nearer to the point from which the wind blows, by arranging the sails more obliquely, bracing the yards more forward, hauling the sheets more aft, etc.

HAUL, noun A pulling with force; a violent pull.

1. A draft of a net; as, to catch a hundred fish at a haul

HAUL'ED, participle passive Pulled with force; dragged; compelled to move.

HAUL'ING, participle present tense Drawing by force or violence; dragging.

HAULM

HAUM, noun [Latin culmus, the stalk of corn.]

1. The stem or stalk of grain, of all kinds, or of peas, beans, hops, etc.

2. Straw; the dry stalks of corn, etc. in general.

HAUM, n. [L. culmus, the stalk of corn.]

HANCE, HAUNCE for enhance. [See Enhance.]

H'AUNCH, noun

1. The hip; that part of the body of man and of quadrupeds, which lies between the last ribs and the thigh.

2. The rear; the hind part. [Not used.]

H'AUNT, verb transitive

1. To frequent; to resort to much or often, or to be much about; to visit customarily.

Celestial Venus haunts Idalia's groves.

2. To come to frequently; to intrude on; to trouble with frequent visits; to follow importunately.

You wrong me, Sir, thus still to haunt my house.

Those cares that haunt the court and town.

3. It is particularly applied to specters or apparitions, which are represented by fear and credulity as frequenting or inhabiting old, decayed and deserted houses.

Foul spirits haunt my resting place.

H'AUNT, verb intransitive To be much about; to visit or be present often.

I've charged thee not to haunt about my door.

H'AUNT, noun A place to which one frequently resorts. Taverns are often the haunts of tipplers. A den is the haunt of wild beasts.

1. The habit or custom of resorting to a place. [Not used.]

2. Custom; practice.

H'AUNTED, participle passive Frequently visited or resorted to, especially by apparitions.

1. Troubled by frequent visits.

H'AUNTER, noun One who frequents a particular place, or is often about it.

H'AUNTING, participle present tense Frequenting; visiting often; troubling with frequent visits.

HAUST, noun A dry cough.

HAUTBOY, noun ho'boy. A wind instrument, somewhat resembling a flute, but widening towards the bottom, and sounded through a reed. The treble is two feet long. The tenor goes a fifth lower, when blown open. It has only eight holes; but the base, which is five feet long, has eleven.

HAUTEUR, noun Pride, haughtiness; insolent manner or spirit.

HAUYNE, noun A mineral, called by Hauy latialite, occurring in grains or small masses, and also in groups of minute, shining crystals. Its color is blue, of various shades. It is found imbedded in volcanic rocks, basalt, clinkstone, etc.

HAVE, verb transitive hav. preterit tense and participle passive had. Present, I have thou hast, he has; we, ye, they, have [Latin habeo.]

1. To possess; to hold in possession or power.

How many loaves have ye? Matthew 15:6.

He that gathered much had nothing over. Exodus 16:3.

I have no Levite to my priest. Judges 17:13.

To have and to hold, terms in a deed of conveyance.

2. To possess, as something that is connected with, or belongs to one.

HAVE ye a father? have ye another brother? Genesis 43:7, and 44.

--Sheep that have no shepherd. l Kings 22.

3. To marry; to take for a wife or husband.

In the resurrection, whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her. Matthew 22:4.

4. To hold; to regard. Thus, to have in honor, is to hold in esteem; to esteem; to honor.

To have in derision or contempt, to hold in derision or contempt; to deride; to despise.

5. To maintain; to hold in opinion.

Sometimes they will have them to be the natural heat; sometimes they will have them to be the qualities of the tangible parts.

6. To be urged by necessity or obligation; to be under necessity, or impelled by duty.

I have to visit twenty patients every day.

We have to strive against temptations.

We have to encounter strong prejudices.

The nation has to pay the interest of an immense debt.

7. To seize and hold; to catch. The hound has him. [The original, but now a vulgar use of the word.]

8. To contain. The work has many beauties and many faults.

9. To gain; to procure; to receive; to obtain; to purchase.

I had this cloth very cheap.

He has a guinea a month.

He has high wages for his services.

Had rather, denotes wish or preference.

I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than dwell in the tents of wickedness. Psalms 84:1.

Is not this phrase a corruption of would rather?

To have after, to pursue. [Not much used, nor elegant.]

To have away, to remove; to take away.

To have at, to encounter; to assail; as, to have at him; to have at you. [Legitimate, but vulgar.]

To enter into competition with; to make trial with.

Dryden uses in a like sense, have with you; but these uses are inelegant.

To have in, to contain.

To have on, to wear; to carry; as raiment or weapons.

He saw a man who had not on a wedding garment. Matthew 22:4.

To have out, to cause to depart. 2 Samuel 13:9.

To have a care, to take care; to be on the guard, or to guard.

To have pleasure, to enjoy.

To have pain, to suffer.

To have sorrow, to be grieved or afflicted.

With would and should.

He would have he desires to have or he requires.

He should have he ought to have

But the various uses of have in such phrases, and its uses as an auxiliary verb, are fully explained in grammars. As an auxiliary, it assists in forming the perfect tense, as I have formed, thou hast formed, he hath or has formed, we have formed, and the prior-past tense, as I had seen, thou hadst seen, he had seen.

HAVELESS, adjective hav'les. Having little or nothing. [Not in use.]

HA'VEN, noun ha'vn.

1. A harbor; a port; a bay, recess or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river which affords good anchorage and a safe station for ships; any place in which ships can be sheltered by the land from the force of tempests and a violent sea.

2. A shelter; an asylum; a place of safety.

HA'VENER, noun The overseer of a port; a harbor-master. [Not used.]

HAV'ER, noun One who has or possesses; a possessor; a holder. [Little used.]

HAV'ER, noun [Latin avena.] Oats; a word of local use in the north of England; as haverbread, oaten bread.

HAV'ERSACK, noun A soldier's knapsack.

HAV'ING, participle present tense [from have.] Possessing; holding in power or possession; containing; gaining; receiving; taking.

HAV'ING, noun Possession; goods; estate. [Not in use.]

1. The act or state of possessing.

HAV'OCK, noun Waste; devastation; wide and general destruction.

Ye gods! what havock does ambition make Among your works.--Addison

As for Saul, he made havock of the church. Acts 8:3.

HAV'OCK, verb transitive To waste; to destroy; to lay waste.

To waste and havock yonder world.

HAW, noun

1. The berry and seed of the hawthorn, that is, hedge-thorn.

2. A small piece of ground adjoining a house; a small field; properly, an inclosed piece of land, from hedge, like garden, which also signifies an inclosure.

3. In farriery, an excrescence resembling a gristle, growing under the nether eyelid and eye of a horse.

4. A dale.

HAW, verb intransitive [corrupted from hawk, or hack.] To stop in speaking with a haw or to speak with interruption and hesitation; as, to hem and haw

HAW'FINCH, noun A bird, a species of Loxia.

HAW'HAW, noun [duplication of haw, a hedge.] A fence or bank that interrupts an alley or walk, sunk between slopes and not perceived till approached.

HAW'ING, participle present tense Speaking with a haw, or with hesitation.

HAWK, noun A genus of fowls, the Falco, of many species, having a crooked beak, furnished with a cere at the base, a cloven tongue, and the head thick set with feathers. Most of the species are rapacious, feeding on birds or other small animals. Hawks were formerly trained for sport or catching small birds.

HAWK, verb intransitive To catch or attempt to catch birds by means of hawks trained for the purpose, and let loose on the prey; to practice falconry.

He that hawks at larks and sparrows.

A falc'ner Henry is, when Emma hawks.

1. To fly at; to attack on the wing; with at.

To hawk at flies.

HAWK, verb intransitive To make an effort to force up phlegm with noise; as, to hawk and spit.

To hawk up, transitively; as, to hawk up phlegm.

HAWK, noun An effort to force up phlegm from the throat, accompanied with noise.

HAWK, verb transitive [Latin auctio, auction, a sale by outcry.] To cry; to offer for sale by outcry in the street, or to sell by outcry; as, to hawk goods or pamphlets.

HAWK'ED, participle passive Offered for sale by outcry in the street.

1. Crooked; curving like a hawk's bill.

HAWK'ER, noun One who offers goods for sale by outcry in the street; a peddlar.

1. A falconer.

HAWK'EYED, adjective Having acute sight; discerning.

HAWK'ING, participle present tense Catching wild birds by hawks.

1. Making an effort to discharge phlegm.

2. Offering for sale in the street by outcry.

HAWK'ING, noun The exercise of taking wild fowls by means of hawks.

HAWK'NOSED, adjective Having an aquiline nose.

HAWK'WEED, noun The vulgar name of several species of plants, of the genera, Hieracium, Crepis, Hyoseris, and Andryala.

HAWSE, noun hawz. [See Halser.] The situation of a ship moored with two anchors from the bows, one on the starboard, the other on the larboard bow; as, the ship has a clear hawse or a foul hawse A foul hawse is when the cables cross each other or are twisted together.

HAWS'ER, noun [See Halser.] A small cable; or a large rope, in size between a cable and a tow-line.

HAW'THORN, noun A shrub or tree which bears the haw, of the genus Crataegus; the white-thorn. The hawthorn is much used for hedges, and for standards in gardens. It grows naturally in all parts of Europe.

HAY, noun Grass cut and dried for fodder; grass prepared for preservation.

Make hay while the sun shines.

To dance the hay to dance in a ring.

HAY, verb transitive To dry or cure grass for preservation.

HAY, noun A hedge.

1. A net which incloses the haunt of an animal.

HAY, verb transitive To lay snares for rabbits.

HA'YBOTE, noun Hedge-bote. In English law, an allowance of wood to a tenant for repairing hedges or fences.

HA'YCOCK, noun A conical pile or heap of hay, in the field.

HA'YDENITE, noun A mineral discovered by Dr.Hayden, near Baltimore. It occurs in garnet colored crystals.

HA'YKNIFE, noun A sharp instrument used in cutting hay out of a stack or mow.

HA'YLOFT, noun A loft or scaffold for hay, particularly in a barn.

HA'YMAKER, noun One who cuts and dries grass for fodder.

HA'YMAKING, noun The business of cutting grass and curing it for fodder.

HA'YMARKET, noun A place for the sale of hay.

HA'YMOW, noun A mow or mass of hay laid up in a barn for preservation.

HA'YRICK, noun A rick of hay; usually a long pile for preservation in the open air.

HA'YSTACK, noun A stack or large conical pile of hay in the open air, laid up for preservation.

HA'YWARD, noun [hay and ward, hedgeward.] A person who keeps the common herd or cattle of a town, and guards hedges or fences. In New England, the hayward is a town officer whose duty it to impound cattle, and particularly swine which are found running at large in the highways, contrary to law.

HAZ'ARD, noun [Latin casus, a fall, and ard, the common termination.]

1. Chance; accident; casualty; a fortuitous event; that which falls or comes suddenly or unexpectedly, the cause of which is unknown, or whose operation is unforeseen or unexpected.

I will stand the hazard of the die.

2. Danger; peril; risk. He encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.

Men are led on from one stage of life to another, in a condition of the utmost hazard

3. A game at dice.

To run the hazard to risk; to take the chance; to do or neglect to do something, when the consequences are not foreseen, and not within the powers of calculation.

HAZ'ARD, verb transitive To expose to chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk; as, to hazard life to save a friend; to hazard an estate on the throw of a dice; to hazard salvation for temporal pleasure.

Men hazard nothing by a course of evangelical obedience.

1. To venture to incur, or bring on; as, to hazard the loss or reputation.

HAZ'ARD, verb intransitive To try the chance; to adventure; to run the risk or danger.

Pause a day or two, before you hazard--

HAZ'ARDABLE, adjective That is liable to hazard or chance.

HAZ'ARDED, participle passive Put at risk or in danger; ventured.

HAZ'ARDER, noun One who ventures or puts at stake.

HAZ'ARDING, participle present tense Exposing to danger or peril; venturing to bring on.

HAZ'ARDOUS, adjective Dangerous; that exposes to peril or danger of loss or evil; as a hazardous attempt or experiment.

HAZ'ARDOUSLY, adverb With danger of loss or evil; with peril.

HAZ'ARDRY, noun Rashness; temerity.

1. Gaming in general.

HAZE, noun [The primary sense of this word is probably to mix, or to turn, stir and make thick.]

Fog; a watery vapor in the air, or a dry vapor like smoke, which renders the air thick.

HAZE

, verb intransitive To be foggy. [A local word.]

HAZE, verb transitive To frighten. [Not used.]

HAZEL, noun ha'zl. A shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing a nut containing a kernel of a mild farinaceous taste.

HAZEL, adjective ha'zl. Pertaining to the hazel or like it; of a light brown color, like the hazel-nut.

HA'ZELLY, adjective Of the color of the hazelnut; of a light brown.

HA'ZY, adjective [See Haze.] Foggy; misty; thick with vapor; as hazy weather; the hazy north.