The quality of being half; incompleteness.

A platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight. See Quarterpace.

an English coin worth half a penny; -- no longer minted.

the amount that can be bought for a halfpenny.

an intermission between the first and second half of a game, especially a football game. Also used attributively, as the halftime entertainment

Equally distant from the extremes; situated at an intermediate point; midway; as, at the halfway mark.

A large, northern, marine flatfish (Hippoglossus vulgaris), of the family Pleuronectidae. It often grows very large, weighing more than three hundred pounds. It is an important food fish.

An order of sponges, having simple siliceous spicules and keratose fibers; -- called also Keratosilicoidea.

Same as Dugong.

Holiness; sanctity; sacred oath; sacred things; sanctuary; -- used chiefly in oaths.

A treatise upon fish or the art of fishing; ichthyology.

The feast of All Saints; Hallowmas.

A genus of trees consisting of one species, the salt tree.

One who writes about or describes the sea.

Description of the sea; the science that treats of the sea.

A natural family of mollusks including the abalone (Haliotis).

A genus of marine shells; the ear-shells. See Abalone.

Like or pertaining to the genus Haliotis; ear-shaped.

The Enaliosauria.

Native salt; sodium chloride.

Produced by, or like, breath; vaporous.

A nook; a corner.

A building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London.

The official stamp of the Goldsmiths' Company and other assay offices, in the United Kingdom, on gold and silver articles, attesting their purity.

A fee or toll paid for goods sold in a hall.

Praise ye Jehovah; praise ye the Lord; -- an exclamation used chiefly in songs of praise or thanksgiving to God, and as an expression of gratitude or adoration.

Pertaining to, or containing, hallelujahs.

See Halyard.

Same as Halidom.

A kind of net for catching birds.

An exclamation to call attention or to encourage one. Now mostly replaced by hello.

To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence.

belonging to or derived from or associated with a divine power; made holy. Opposite of unholy.

The evening preceding Allhallows or All Saints' Day (November 1); also the entire day, October 31. It is often marked by parties or celebrations, and sometimes by pranks played by young people.

The feast of All Saints, or Allhallows.

A claylike mineral, occurring in soft, smooth, amorphous masses, of a whitish color.

Of or pertaining to Hallstatt, Austria, or the Hallstatt civilization.

Of or pertaining to the hallux.

To wander; to go astray; to err; to blunder; -- used of mental processes.

To experience (something nonexistent) as an hallucination{2}.

Experiencing hallucinations.

The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; error; mistake; a blunder.

One whose judgment and acts are affected by hallucinations; one who errs on account of his hallucinations.

Partaking of, having the character of, or tending to produce, hallucinations; as, hallucinatory visions.

A substance capable of producing hallucinations when ingested; a hallucinogenic substance; as, LSD is a powerful hallucinogen.

capable of producing hallucinations; as, LSD is a powerful hallucinogenic drug.

The first, or preaxial, digit of the hind limb, corresponding to the pollux in the fore limb; the great toe; the hind toe of birds.

an interior passage or corridor in a building, onto which rooms open.

Same as Haulm.

A game played on a board having 256 squares, by two persons with 19 men each, or by four with 13 men each, starting from different corners and striving to place each his own set of men in a corresponding position in the opposite corner by moving them or by jumping them over those met in progress.

To form, or surround with, a halo; to encircle with, or as with, a halo.

Any halophilic bacterium of the archaebacteria group, expecially of the genera Halobacterium and Halococcus, which live in saline environments such as the Dead Sea or salt flats.

A genus of dioecious trees or shrubs of New Zealand; similar in habit to Dacrydium.

Surrounded with a halo; invested with an ideal glory; glorified.

An electro-negative element or radical, which, by combination with a metal, forms a haloid salt; especially, chlorine, fluorine, bromine, and iodine; sometimes, also cyanogen. See Chlorine family, under Chlorine.

Of the nature of a halogen.

Resembling salt; -- said of certain binary compounds consisting of a metal united to a negative element or radical, and now chiefly applied to the chlorides, bromides, iodides, and sometimes also to the fluorides and cyanides. A haloid substance.

See Alomancy.

An instrument for measuring the forms and angles of salts and crystals; a goniometer.

Alternating transparent and opaque white rings which are seen outside the blastoderm, on the surface of the developing egg of the hen and other birds.

An instrument for exhibition or illustration of the phenomena of halos, parhelia, and the like.

An iron alum occurring in silky fibrous aggregates of a yellowish white color.

An explosive mixture, consisting of sawdust, charcoal, niter, and ferrocyanide of potassium, used as a substitute for gunpowder.

Helped.

See Haut pas.

The neck or throat.

To haul; to hoist.

Sounding harshly in the throat; inharmonious; rough.

See Hawser.

The act of limping; lameness.

To tie by the neck with a rope, strap, or halter; to put a halter on; to subject to a hangman's halter.

A term of reproach, implying that one is fit to be hanged.

Balancers; the rudimentary hind wings of Diptera.

In a halting or limping manner.

Impure ore; dirty ore.

To divide into two equal parts; as, to halve an apple; to be or form half of.

Appearing as if one side, or one half, were cut away; dimidiate.

pl. of Half.

A saint.

A rope or tackle for hoisting or lowering yards, sails, flags, etc.

A genus of Silurian fossil corals; the chain corals. See Chain coral, under Chain.

To act with exaggerated voice and gestures; to overact.

not skillful in physical movement especially with the hands; clumsy; bungling; -- also used metaphorically of actions; as, ham-handed governmental interference.

The sacred baboon of Egypt (Cynocephalus Hamadryas).

In Turkey and other Oriental countries, a porter or burden bearer; specif., in Western India, a palanquin bearer.

A natural family of plants comprising the genera Hamamelis; Corylopsis; Fothergilla; Liquidambar; Parrotia; and other small genera.

a group of chiefly woody plants considered among the most primitive of angiosperms; they have a perianth poorly developed or lacking, and flowers often unisexual and often in catkins and often wind pollinated. The group contains 23 families including the Betulaceae and Fagaceae (includes the Amentiferae); sometimes it is classified as a superorder.

A genus of fossil plants of the Oligocene having flowers resembling those of the witch hazel; found in Baltic region.

A genus of fossil plants having wood identical with or similar to that of the witch hazel.

A genus of plants which includes the witch-hazel (Hamamelis Virginica), a preparation of which is used medicinally.

Hooked; bent at the end into a hook; hamous.

Hooked, or set with hooks; hamate.

See Unciform.

To hamstring.

A commercial city of Germany, near the mouth of the Elbe.

One of the two curved pieces of wood or metal, in the harness of a draught horse, to which the traces are fastened. They are fitted upon the collar, or have pads fitting the horse's neck attached to them.

Same as Hamble.

The felonious seeking and invasion of a person in his dwelling house.

A low-grade actor or performer; a ham.

Hook-shaped.

A common genus of marine bubble shells of the Pacific coast of North America.

A large edible river fish (Erythrinus macrodon) of Guiana.

A descendant of Ham, Noah's second son. See Gen. x. 6-20.

Pertaining to Ham or his descendants.

A small village; a little cluster of houses in the country.

Confined to a hamlet.

To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer.

A member of one description of roof truss, called hammer-beam truss, which is so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer-beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam.

Having the surface roughly shaped or faced with the stonecutter's hammer; -- said of building stone.

To harden, as a metal, by hammering it in the cold state.

Without a visible hammer; -- said of a gun having a cock or striker concealed from sight, and out of the way of an accidental touch.

Capable of being/formed or shapeo by a hammer.

The cloth which covers a coach box.

One who works with a hammer.

A shark of the genus Sphyrna or Zygaena, having the eyes set on projections from the sides of the head, which gives it a hammer shape. The Sphyrna zygaena is found in the North Atlantic. Called also hammer fish, and balance fish.

A bird of the Heron family; the umber.

A hammerer; a forgeman.

poor acting by a ham actor; see ham.

A stone with spangles of gold color in it.

A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet long and three feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends.