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Harmed

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

Harmel

H'ARMEL, noun The wild African rue.

Harmful

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

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

Harmfully

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

Harmfulness

H'ARMFULNESS, noun Hurtfulness; noxiousness.

Harming

H'ARMING, participle present tense Hurting; injuring.

Harmless

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.

Harmlessly

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.

Harmlessness

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

1. Innocence.

Harmonic

HARMON'IC

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

Harmonica

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

Harmonical

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.

Harmonics

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.

Harmonious

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.

Harmoniously

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.

Harmoniousness

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

1. Agreement; concord.

Harmonist

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

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

Harmonize

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.

Harmonized

H'ARMONIZED, participle passive Made to be accordant.

Harmonizer

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

1. In music, a practical harmonist.

Harmonizing

H'ARMONIZING, participle present tense Causing to agree.

Harmonometer

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

Harmony

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.]

Harmost

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

Harmotome

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

Harness

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.

Harnessed

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

Harnesser

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

Harnessing

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

Harp

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.

Harper

H'ARPER, noun A player on the harp.

Harping

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.

Harping-Iron

H'ARPING-IRON, noun A harpoon, which see.

Harpist

H'ARPIST, noun A harper.

Harpoon

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.

Harpooned

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

Harpooner

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

Harpooning

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

Harpsichord

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.

Harpy

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

HARQUEBUSE. [See Arquebuse.]

Harrateen

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

Harridan

HAR'RIDAN, noun A decayed strumpet.

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

Harrier

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

Harrow

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.

Harrowed

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

Harrower

HAR'ROWER, noun One who harrows.

1. A hawk.

Harrowing

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

Harry

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.

Harsh

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.

Harshly

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.

Harshness

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.

Harslet

H'ARSLET

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

Hart

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

Hartbeest

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

Hartroyal

H'ARTROY'AL, noun A plant.

Hartshorn

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.

Hartstongue

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

Hartwort

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

Haruspice

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.

Haruspicy

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

Harvest

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.

Harvest-Fly

H'ARVEST-FLY, noun A large four-winged insect of the cicada kind, common in Italy.

Harvest-Home

H'ARVEST-HOME, noun The time of harvest.

1. The song sung by reapers at the feast made at the gathering of corn, or the feast itself.

2. The opportunity of gathering treasure.

Harvest-Lord

H'ARVEST-LORD, noun The head-reaper at the harvest.

Harvest-Man

H'ARVEST-MAN, noun A laborer in harvest.

Harvest-Queen

H'ARVEST-QUEEN, noun An image representing Ceres, formerly carried about on the last day of harvest.

Harvested

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

Harvester

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

Harvesting

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

Hash

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

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

HAS'LET, noun [See Harslet.]

Haslet

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

Hasp

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

Hassoc

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

And knees and hassocs are well nigh divorc'd.

Hast

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

Hastate

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

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

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

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

Hastener

HASTENER, noun One that hastens or urges forward.

Hastening

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

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

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

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

Hastings

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

Hastive

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

Hasty

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

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

Hat

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.

Hatable

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

Hatch

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.

Hatchel

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.

Hatcheled

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

Hatcheler

HATCH'ELER, noun One who uses a hatchel.

Hatcheling

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

Hatchet

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.

Hatchet-Face

HATCH'ET-FACE, noun A prominent face, like the edge of a hatchet.

Hatchetine

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

Hatchment

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

Hatchway

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

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.

Hated

HA'TED, participle passive Greatly disliked.

Hateful

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.

Hatefully

HA'TEFULLY, adverb Odiously; with great dislike.

1. Malignantly; maliciously. Ezekiel 23:29.

Hatefulness

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

Hater

HA'TER, noun One that hates.

An enemy to God, and hater of all good.

Hating

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

Hatred

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.

Hatted

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

Hatter

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

Hattock

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

Hauberk

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

Haught

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

High; elevated; hence, proud; insolent.

Haughtily

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

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

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

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

Hauled

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

Hauling

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

Haulm

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

HAUM, n. [L. culmus, the stalk of corn.] 1. The stem or stalk of grain, of all kinds, or of peas, beans, hops, &c.2. Straw; the dry stalks of corn, &c. in general.

Haunce

HANCE, HAUNCE for enhance. [See Enhance.]

Haunch

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.]

Haunt

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.

Haunted

H'AUNTED, participle passive Frequently visited or resorted to, especially by apparitions.

1. Troubled by frequent visits.

Haunter

H'AUNTER, noun One who frequents a particular place, or is often about it.

Haunting

H'AUNTING, participle present tense Frequenting; visiting often; troubling with frequent visits.

Haust

HAUST, noun A dry cough.

Hautboy

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

HAUTEUR, noun Pride, haughtiness; insolent manner or spirit.

Hauyne

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

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

HAVELESS, adjective hav'les. Having little or nothing. [Not in use.]

Haven

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.

Havener

HA'VENER, noun The overseer of a port; a harbor-master. [Not used.]

Haver

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.

Haversack

HAV'ERSACK, noun A soldier's knapsack.

Having

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.

Havock

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

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

Hawfinch

HAW'FINCH, noun A bird, a species of Loxia.

Hawhaw

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.

Hawing

HAW'ING, participle present tense Speaking with a haw, or with hesitation.

Hawk

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.

Hawked

HAWK'ED, participle passive Offered for sale by outcry in the street.

1. Crooked; curving like a hawk's bill.

Hawker

HAWK'ER, noun One who offers goods for sale by outcry in the street; a peddlar.

1. A falconer.

Hawkeyed

HAWK'EYED, adjective Having acute sight; discerning.

Hawking

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.

Hawknosed

HAWK'NOSED, adjective Having an aquiline nose.

Hawkweed

HAWK'WEED, noun The vulgar name of several species of plants, of the genera, Hieracium, Crepis, Hyoseris, and Andryala.

Hawse

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.

Hawse-Hole

HAWSE-HOLE, noun A cylindrical hole in the bow of a ship through which a cable passes.

Hawse-Piece

HAWSE-PIECE, noun One of the foremost timbers of a ship.

Hawser

HAWS'ER, noun [See Halser.] A small cable; or a large rope, in size between a cable and a tow-line.

Hawthorn

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.

Hawthorn-Fly

HAW'THORN-FLY, noun An insect so called.

Hay

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.

Haybote

HA'YBOTE, noun Hedge-bote. In English law, an allowance of wood to a tenant for repairing hedges or fences.

Haycock

HA'YCOCK, noun A conical pile or heap of hay, in the field.

Haydenite

HA'YDENITE, noun A mineral discovered by Dr.Hayden, near Baltimore. It occurs in garnet colored crystals.

Hayknife

HA'YKNIFE, noun A sharp instrument used in cutting hay out of a stack or mow.

Hayloft

HA'YLOFT, noun A loft or scaffold for hay, particularly in a barn.

Haymaker

HA'YMAKER, noun One who cuts and dries grass for fodder.

Haymaking

HA'YMAKING, noun The business of cutting grass and curing it for fodder.

Haymarket

HA'YMARKET, noun A place for the sale of hay.

Haymow

HA'YMOW, noun A mow or mass of hay laid up in a barn for preservation.

Hayrick

HA'YRICK, noun A rick of hay; usually a long pile for preservation in the open air.

Haystack

HA'YSTACK, noun A stack or large conical pile of hay in the open air, laid up for preservation.

Hayward

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.

Hazard

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--

Hazardable

HAZ'ARDABLE, adjective That is liable to hazard or chance.

Hazarded

HAZ'ARDED, participle passive Put at risk or in danger; ventured.

Hazarder

HAZ'ARDER, noun One who ventures or puts at stake.

Hazarding

HAZ'ARDING, participle present tense Exposing to danger or peril; venturing to bring on.

Hazardous

HAZ'ARDOUS, adjective Dangerous; that exposes to peril or danger of loss or evil; as a hazardous attempt or experiment.

Hazardously

HAZ'ARDOUSLY, adverb With danger of loss or evil; with peril.

Hazardry

HAZ'ARDRY, noun Rashness; temerity.

1. Gaming in general.

Haze

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

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.

Hazel-Earth

HA'ZEL-EARTH, noun A kind of red loam.

Hazel-Nut

HA'ZEL-NUT, noun The nut or fruit of the hazel.

Hazelly

HA'ZELLY, adjective Of the color of the hazelnut; of a light brown.

Hazy

HA'ZY, adjective [See Haze.] Foggy; misty; thick with vapor; as hazy weather; the hazy north.

He

HE, pronoun of the third person; nom. he; poss.his; obj. him. [Latin id, for hid; hic.]

1. A pronoun, a substitute for the third person, masculine gender, representing the man or male person named before.

Thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. Genesis 3:16.

Thou shalt fear Jehovah thy God; him shalt thou serve. Deuteronomy 10:4.

2. It often has reference to a person that is named in the subsequent part of the sentence. he is the man.

3. he is often used without reference to any particular person, and may be referred to any person indefinitely that answers the description. It is then synonymous with any man.

HE that walketh with wise men, shall be wise. Proverbs 13:3.

4. he when a substitute for man in its general sense, expressing mankind, is of common gender, representing, like its antecedent, the whole human race.

My Spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh. Genesis 6:3.

5. Man; a male.

I stand to answer thee, or any he the proudest of thy sort.

In this use of he in the ludicrous style, the word has no variation of case. In the foregoing sentence, he is in the objective case, or position, and the word is to be considered as a noun.

6. he is sometimes prefixed to the names of animals to designate the male kind, as a he-goat, a he-bear. In such cases, he is to be considered as an adjective, or the two words as forming a compound.