A convoluted ridge between grooves; a convolution; as, the gyri of the brain; the gyri of brain coral. See Brain.
Guise.
Delirious; senselessly extravagant; as, the man is clean gyte.
To fetter; to shackle; to chain.
The hydrogen bomb, a thermonuclear weapon that releases atomic energy by union of hydrogen nuclei at high temperatures to form helium. The force of its explosion may range from one to hundreds of megatons of TNT equivalent.
A prefix used in the names of British warships, meaning His Majesty's Ship or Her Majesty's Ship; as, H. M. S. Pinafore.
The chemical formula for water.
An exclamation denoting surprise, joy, or grief. Both as uttered and as written, it expresses a great variety of emotions, determined by the tone or the context. When repeated, ha, ha, it is an expression of laughter, satisfaction, or triumph, sometimes of derisive laughter; or sometimes it is equivalent to /Well, it is so./
A sunk fence; a fence, wall, or ditch, not visible till one is close upon it.
A half-penny.
The deep-sea fishing for cod, ling, and tusk, off the Shetland Isles.
A sea fish. See Hake.
A fog; esp., a fog or mist with a chill wind.
A genus of chiefly terrestrial orchids with tubers or fleshy roots often having long slender spurs and petals and lip lobes; it includes species formerly placed in the genus Gymnadeniopsis.
That part of a deed which follows the part called the premises, and determines the extent of the interest or estate granted; -- so called because it begins with the word Habendum.
To deal in small wares.
A dealer in small wares, as tapes, pins, needles, and thread.
The goods and wares sold by a haberdasher; also (Fig.), trifles.
A cod salted and dried.
Properly, a short hauberk, but often used loosely for the hauberk.
Of or pertaining to clothing; wearing clothes.
Fit; qualified; also, apt.
A garment; an article of clothing.
Clothed.
To fit out; to equip; to qualify; to entitle.
Equipment; qualification.
Ability; aptitude.
To inhabit.
Habitableness.
Capable of being inhabited; that may be inhabited or dwelt in; as, the habitable world.
A dwelling place.
Same as Habitant, 2.
Dwelling; abode; residence.
Same as Inhabitancy.
The natural abode, locality or region of an animal or plant.
The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
A dweller; an inhabitant.
Clothed; arrayed; dressed; as, he was habited like a shepherd.
Formed or acquired by habit or use.
Firmly established by custom; formed by habit; habitual.
The act of habituating, or accustoming; the state of being habituated.
Habitual attitude; usual or accustomed state with reference to something else; established or usual relations.
One who habitually frequents a place; as, an habitu/ of a theater.
Habitude.
Habitude; mode of life; general appearance.
See Habile.
By chance.
A short line used in drawing and engraving, especially in shading and denoting different surfaces, as in map drawing. See Hatching.
A large estate where work of any kind is done, as agriculture, manufacturing, mining, or raising of animals; a cultivated farm, with a good house, in distinction from a farming establishment with rude huts for herdsmen, etc.; -- a word used in Spanish-American regions.
To be exposed or offered to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.
A halter consisting of a long leather or rope strap and headstall, -- used for leading or tieing a pack animal.
A genus of trees (Celtis) related to the elm, but bearing drupes with scanty, but often edible, pulp. Celtis occidentalis is common in the Eastern United States.
The greater shearwater or hagdon. See Hagdon.
Same as Hagbut.
The chipmunk; also, the chickaree or red squirrel.
A genus of plants with seeds that stick to clothing, including stickseed and some of the beggar's lice.
One who, or that which, hacks. A cutting instrument for making notches; esp., one used for notching pine trees in collecting turpentine; a hack.
A cart with wooden wheels, drawn by bullocks.
The driver of a taxicab; a hackman.
To separate, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel.
Rough or broken, as if hacked.
The driver of a hack or carriage for public hire.
The American larch (Larix Americana), a coniferous tree with slender deciduous leaves; also, its heavy, close-grained timber. Called also tamarack.
To devote to common or frequent use, as a horse or carriage; to wear out in common service; to make trite or commonplace; as, a hackneyed metaphor or quotation.
A man who lets horses and carriages for hire.
A bully; a bravo; a ruffian; an assassin.
Same as Acton.
See Have.
Heather; heath.
The haddock.
A marine food fish (Melanogrammus aeglefinus), allied to the cod, inhabiting the northern coasts of Europe and America. It has a dark lateral line and a black spot on each side of the body, just back of the gills. Galled also haddie, and dickie.
To deviate from the vertical; -- said of a vein, fault, or lode.
The nether world (according to classical mythology, the abode of the shades, ruled over by Hades or Pluto); the invisible world; the grave.
The pilgrimage to Mecca, performed by Muslims. It is the duty of Moslems to make a journey to Mecca at least once ina lifetime, or if that is not possible, three journeys to one of the alternate sacred sites.
A Muslim who has made a pilgrimage to Mecca; -- used among Orientals as a respectful salutation or a title of honor.
any elementary particle that interacts strongly with other particles.
Any member of the genus Hadrosaurus or family Hadrosauridae, an extinct family of heavy bipedal partly aquatic dinosaurs with duck-billed skull and webbed feet; of the Upper Cretaceous in North America.
A natural family of extinct reptiles including the duck-billed dinosaurs.
An American herbivorous dinosaur of great size, allied to the iguanodon. It is found in the Cretaceous formation.
Hematin.
A substance found in the blood of the octopus, which gives to it its blue color.
An apparatus for determining the number of corpuscles in a given quantity of blood.
Toward the haemal side; on the haemal side of; -- opposed to neurad.
An instrument for registering the velocity of the blood.
Same as Hemadrometer.
Same as Hemadrometry.
Same as Hemadynamics.
Pertaining to the blood or blood vessels; also, ventral. See Hemal.
A brownish substance sometimes found in the blood, in cases of jaundice.
An haemapodous animal.
Having the limbs on, or directed toward, the ventral or hemal side, as in vertebrates; -- opposed to neuropodous.
Blood-forming; as, the haemapoietic function of the spleen.
Same as Hemapophysis.
Same as Hemastatics.
A form of apparatus (somewhat different from the hemadrometer) for measuring the velocity of the blood.
The measurement of the velocity of the blood.
Same as Hematemesis.
Of or pertaining to the blood; sanguine; brownish red.
Same as Hematin.
Same as Hematinometer.
Same as Hematinometric.
Same as Hematite.
Of a blood-red color; crimson; (Bot.) brownish red.
See Haema-.
One of the very minute, disk-shaped bodies found in blood with the ordinary red corpuscles and white corpuscles; a third kind of blood corpuscle, supposed by some to be an early stage in the development of the red corpuscles; -- called also blood plaque, and blood plate.
The cold-blooded vertebrates. Same as Hematocrya.
Cold-blooded.
Same as Hematocrystallin.
Same as Hemadynamometer.
The origin and development of blood. The transformation of venous into arterial blood by respiration; hematosis.
Relating to haematogenesis.
Originating in the blood.
Same as Hematoglobulin.
Same as Hematoid.
Same as Hematoidin.
A substance formed from the hematin of blood, by removal of the iron through the action of concentrated sulphuric acid. Two like bodies, called respectively haematoporphyrin and haematolin, are formed in a similar manner.
See Haematoin.
The science which treats of the blood. Same as Hematology.
Dissolution of the red blood corpuscles with diminished coagulability of the blood; haemolysis.
Same as Hemadynamometer. An instrument for determining the number of blood corpuscles in a given quantity of blood.
A division of Chiroptera, including the bloodsucking bats. See Vampire.