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Habituate

Firmly established by custom; formed by habit; habitual.

Habituation

The act of habituating, or accustoming; the state of being habituated.

Habitude

Habitual attitude; usual or accustomed state with reference to something else; established or usual relations.

Habitue

One who habitually frequents a place; as, an habitu/ of a theater.

Habitus

Habitude; mode of life; general appearance.

Hachure

A short line used in drawing and engraving, especially in shading and denoting different surfaces, as in map drawing. See Hatching.

Hacienda

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.

Hack

To be exposed or offered to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.

Hackamore

A halter consisting of a long leather or rope strap and headstall, -- used for leading or tieing a pack animal.

Hackberry

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.

Hackbolt

The greater shearwater or hagdon. See Hagdon.

Hackee

The chipmunk; also, the chickaree or red squirrel.

Hackelia

A genus of plants with seeds that stick to clothing, including stickseed and some of the beggar's lice.

hacker

One who, or that which, hacks. A cutting instrument for making notches; esp., one used for notching pine trees in collecting turpentine; a hack.

hackery

A cart with wooden wheels, drawn by bullocks.

hackie

The driver of a taxicab; a hackman.

Hackle

To separate, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel.

Hackly

Rough or broken, as if hacked.

Hackman

The driver of a hack or carriage for public hire.

Hackmatack

The American larch (Larix Americana), a coniferous tree with slender deciduous leaves; also, its heavy, close-grained timber. Called also tamarack.

Hackney

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.

Hackneyman

A man who lets horses and carriages for hire.

Hackster

A bully; a bravo; a ruffian; an assassin.

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.

Hade

To deviate from the vertical; -- said of a vein, fault, or lode.

Hades

The nether world (according to classical mythology, the abode of the shades, ruled over by Hades or Pluto); the invisible world; the grave.

Hadj

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.

Hadji

A Muslim who has made a pilgrimage to Mecca; -- used among Orientals as a respectful salutation or a title of honor.

hadron

any elementary particle that interacts strongly with other particles.

hadrosaur

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.

Hadrosauridae

A natural family of extinct reptiles including the duck-billed dinosaurs.

Hadrosaurus

An American herbivorous dinosaur of great size, allied to the iguanodon. It is found in the Cretaceous formation.

Haemacyanin

A substance found in the blood of the octopus, which gives to it its blue color.

Haemacytometer

An apparatus for determining the number of corpuscles in a given quantity of blood.

Haemad

Toward the haemal side; on the haemal side of; -- opposed to neurad.

Haemal

Pertaining to the blood or blood vessels; also, ventral. See Hemal.

Haemaphaein

A brownish substance sometimes found in the blood, in cases of jaundice.

Haemapodous

Having the limbs on, or directed toward, the ventral or hemal side, as in vertebrates; -- opposed to neuropodous.

Haemapoietic

Blood-forming; as, the haemapoietic function of the spleen.

Haematachometer

A form of apparatus (somewhat different from the hemadrometer) for measuring the velocity of the blood.

Haematic

Of or pertaining to the blood; sanguine; brownish red.

Haematitic

Of a blood-red color; crimson; (Bot.) brownish red.

Haematoblast

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.

Haematocrya

The cold-blooded vertebrates. Same as Hematocrya.

Haematogenesis

The origin and development of blood. The transformation of venous into arterial blood by respiration; hematosis.

Haematoin

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.

Haematology

The science which treats of the blood. Same as Hematology.

Haematolysis

Dissolution of the red blood corpuscles with diminished coagulability of the blood; haemolysis.

Haematometer

Same as Hemadynamometer. An instrument for determining the number of blood corpuscles in a given quantity of blood.

Haematophilina

A division of Chiroptera, including the bloodsucking bats. See Vampire.

Haematoplastic

Blood formative; -- applied to a substance in early fetal life, which breaks up gradually into blood vessels.

Haematosac

A vascular sac connected, beneath the brain, in many fishes, with the infundibulum.

Haematoxylin

The coloring principle of logwood. It is obtained as a yellow crystalline substance, C16H14O6, with a sweetish taste. Formerly called also hematin.

Haematoxylon

A genus of leguminous plants containing but a single species, the Haematoxylon Campechianum or logwood tree, native in Yucatan.

Haematozoon

A parasite inhabiting the blood Certain species of nematodes of the genus Filaria, sometimes found in the blood of man, the horse, the dog, etc. The trematode, Bilharzia haematobia, which infests the inhabitants of Egypt and other parts of Africa, often causing death.

Haemic

Pertaining to the blood; hemal.

Haemochromogen

A body obtained from hemoglobin, by the action of reducing agents in the absence of oxygen.

Haemochromometer

An apparatus for measuring the amount of hemoglobin in a fluid, by comparing it with a solution of known strength and of normal color.

Haemocytotrypsis

A breaking up of the blood corpuscles, as by pressure, in distinction from solution of the corpuscles, or haemocytolysis.

Haemol

A dark brown powder containing iron, prepared by the action of zinc dust as a reducing agent upon the coloring matter of the blood, used medicinally as a hematinic.

Haemony

A plant described by Milton as /of sovereign use against all enchantments./

Haemoscope

An instrument devised by Hermann, for regulating and measuring the thickness of a layer of blood for spectroscopic examination.

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