A stackyard.

In a haggard manner.

Like a hag; lean; ugly.

A Scotch pudding made of the heart, liver, lights, etc., of a sheep or lamb, minced with suet, onions, oatmeal, etc., highly seasoned, and boiled in the stomach of the same animal; minced head and pluck.

Like a hag; ugly; wrinkled.

In the manner of a hag.

The act or process of haggling.

One who haggles or is difficult in bargaining.

A sacred government; government by holy orders of men.

Government by a priesthood; hierarchy.

The last of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament, comprising Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Canticles, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Chronicles, or that portion of the Old Testament not contained in the Law (Tora) and the Prophets (Nevi'im) -- it is also called in Hebrew the Ketuvim. Together with the Tora and Nevi'im, it comprises the Hebrew Bible, which is called in Hebrew the Tanach, a vocalization of the first letters of its three parts.

One of the writers of the hagiographa; a writer of lives of the saints.

Same as Hagiographa.

The invocation or worship of saints.

One who treats of the sacred writings; a writer of the lives of the saints; a hagiographer.

The history or description of the sacred writings or of sacred persons; a narrative of the lives of the saints; a catalogue of saints.

An opening made in the interior walls of a cruciform church to afford a view of the altar to those in the transepts; -- called, in architecture, a squint.

Ridden by a hag or witch; afflicted with nightmares; tormented or harassed by nightmares or unreasonable fears.

The offspring of a hag.

The state or title of a hag.

See Hagbut.

Same as Ha.

A mineral consisting chiefly of the arseniate of lime; -- so named in honor of W. Haidinger, of Vienna.

Formerly, a mercenary foot soldier in Hungary, now, a halberdier of a Hungarian noble, or an attendant in German or Hungarian courts.

A large piece of woolen or cotton cloth worn by Arabs as an outer garment.

The central chapel of the three forming the sanctuary of a Coptic church. It contains the high altar, and is usually closed by an embroidered curtain.

Chinese maritime customs.

A wish of health; a salutation; a loud call.

An intimate companion.

To greet; to salute.

Small shot which scatter like hailstones.

A single particle of ice falling from a cloud; a frozen raindrop; a pellet of hail.

A storm accompanied with hail; a shower of hail.

Of hail.

To inclose for mowing; to set aside for grass.

The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole of the body.

a compact mass of hair that forms in the stomach of animals as a result of licking fur; as, the cat coughed up a hairball right on the new rug.

Of a clear tint of brown, resembling brown human hair. It is composed of equal proportions of red and green.

A variety of native Epsom salt occurring in silky fibers.

See Harebell.

The chipping sparrow.

See Harebrained.

Having the breadth of a hair; very narrow; as, a hairbreadth escape.

A brush for cleansing and smoothing the hair.

Stuff or cloth made wholly or in part of hair.

One who dresses or cuts hair; a barber.

a toiletry for the hair.

Having hair.

Hairy.

The state of abounding, or being covered, with hair.

Destitute of hair; bald.

shaped like a hair; long and slender.

a very thin line.

a small net that some women wear over their hair to keep it in place.

a covering or bunch of human or artificial hair used for disguise or adornment; a toupee.

A pin, usually forked, or of bent wire, for fastening the hair in place, -- used by women.

One who makes excessively fine or needless distinctions in reasoning; one who quibbles.

Making excessively fine or trivial distinctions in reasoning; overly subtle. The act or practice of making trivial distinctions.

The slender recoil spring which regulates the motion of the balance in a timepiece.

A butterfly of the genus Thecla; as, the green hairstreak (Thecla rubi).

Bearing or covered with hair; made of or resembling hair; rough with hair; hirsute.

a country on the island of Hispaniola.

Same as Haytian; -- now the preferred spelling.

The Egyptian asp or cobra (Naja haje.) It is related to the cobra of India, and like the latter has the power of inflating its neck into a hood. Its bite is very venomous. It is supposed to be the snake by means of whose bite Cleopatra committed suicide, and hence is sometimes called Cleopatra's snake or asp. See Asp.

A pilgrimage to Mecca; every Muslim must make this journey at least once.

One who has made a journey to Mecca; Same as hadji.

To loiter; to sneak.

See Forkbeard.

Same as Acton.

A Muslim title for a ruler; a judge.

Harold; -- a nickname.

The name of an intelligent computer in the movie 2001, directed by Stanley Kubrick.

The general term for the Hebrew oral or traditional law; one of two branches of exposition in the Midrash. See Midrash.

An appearance as of a halo of light, surrounding the edges of dark objects in a photographic picture.

An ancient long-handled weapon, of which the head had a point and several long, sharp edges, curved or straight, and sometimes additional points. The heads were sometimes of very elaborate form.

Hastate.

One who is armed with a halberd.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the halcyon, which was anciently said to lay her eggs in nests on or near the sea during the calm weather about the winter solstice.

Halcyon; calm.

See Alcyonoid.

To pull; to drag; to haul.

A genus of herbs of Eurasia and the Americas: spurred gentians.

A genus of American shrubs containing several species, called snowdrop trees, or silver-bell trees. They have showy, white flowers, drooping on slender pedicels.

To halve. [Obs.] See Halve.

The relation between persons born of the same father or of the same mother, but not of both; as, a brother or sister of the half blood. See Blood, n., 2 and 4.

A mixture of two malt liquors, esp. porter and ale, in about equal parts.

Insufficiently or poorly planned or thought out; impractical or unrealistic; as, a half-baked proposal; half-baked ideas; -- of plans, theories, proposals, etc.

Proceeding from a male and female of different breeds or races; having only one parent of good stock; as, a half-blooded sheep.

A boot with a short top covering only the ankle. See Cocker, and Congress boot, under Congress.

Having only the back and corners in leather, as a book.

Half-blooded.

A person who is half-blooded; the offspring of parents of different races, especially of the American Indian and the white race.

A brother by one parent, but not by both.

One born of a European parent on the one side, and of a Hindu or Muslim on the other. Also adjective; as, half-caste parents.

Half-filled.

Half-demented; half-witted.

A shell of the genus Crepidula; a boat shell. See Boat shell.

Partially decked.

Showing only part of the face; wretched looking; meager.

A salmon in its fifth year of growth.

Imperfectly hatched; as, half-hatched eggs.

Imperfectly or partly heard; not heard to the end.

Wanting in heart or spirit; ungenerous; unkind.

a day on which half of the day is free from work or duty; a holiday of one half of a day.

Done or happening at intervals of half an hour.

Imperfectly learned.

Of half the whole or ordinary length, as a picture.

the time it takes for one-half of a substance decaying in a first-order reaction to be destroyed. For radioactive substances, it is the time required for one-half of the initial amount of the radioactive isotope to decay. The half-lifeis a measure of the rate of the reaction being observed. For processes that are true first-order processes, such as radioactive decay, the half-life is independent of the quantity of material present, and it is thus a constant. The time it takes for one-half the remaining quantity of a radioactive isotope to decay will be the same regardless of how far the decay process has advanced. Some chemical reactions are also first order, and may be characterized as having a half-life. However, for chemical reactions the half-life will depend upon temperature and in some cases other environmental conditions, whereas for radioactive isotopes the rate of decay is largely independent of the environment.

a grayish light (as at dawn or dusk or in dim interiors).

A point some distance below the top of a mast or staff; as, a flag a half-mast (a token of mourning, etc.).

The moon at the quarters, when half its disk appears illuminated.

An English coin of the value of half a penny, no longer minted; also, the value of half a penny.

A short pike, sometimes carried by officers of infantry, sometimes used in boarding ships; a spontoon.

One half of a shutter made in two parts for closing a porthole.

A straight line considered as drawn from a center to an indefinite distance in one direction, the complete ray being the whole line drawn to an indefinite distance in both directions.

Informed by insufficient reading; superficial; shallow.

Seeing imperfectly; having weak discernment.

A sister by one parent only.

Half-bred; imperfect.

Half the length of a sword; close fight.