A child's play, one child guessing in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and forfeiting an equivalent if wrong; hence, forfeit.

A fight with the hands; boxing.

Seizure by, or grasp of, the hand; also, close quarters in fighting.

A blow with the hand.

See Handiwork.

The manner in which one part or thing hangs upon, or is connected with, another; as, the hang of a scythe.

A dependent; a hanger-on; -- so called in contempt.

a large building at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintained.

The Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula); -- so called because its nest is suspended from the limb of a tree. See Baltimore oriole.

Low; sneaking; ashamed.

One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman.

One who hangs on, or sticks to, a person, place, or service; a dependent; one who adheres to others' society longer than he is wanted.

The act of suspending anything; the state of being suspended.

One who hangs another; esp., one who makes a business of hanging; a public executioner; -- sometimes used as a term of reproach, without reference to office.

The office or character of a hangman.

A small piece or sliver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of a finger nail.

A nest that hangs like a bag or pocket.

An unpleasant feeling, such as a headache, occurring as an aftereffect from the use of drugs (especially alcohol).

To fasten with a rope, as a gate.

To long (for) with a keen appetite and uneasiness; to have a vehement desire; -- usually with for or after; as, to hanker after fruit; to hanker after the diversions of the town.

In a hankering manner.

Professional cant; the chatter of conjurers to divert attention from their tricks; hence, jugglery.

Same as handkerchief.

Same as handkerchief.

the English royal house that reigned from 1714 to 1901.

A native or naturalized inhabitant of Hanover; one of the House of Hanover.

See 2d Hanse.

A merchant of one of the Hanse towns. See the Note under 2d Hanse.

An association; a league or confederacy.

Pertaining to the Hanse towns, or to their confederacy.

See Handsel.

A sort of breeches.

A light, low, two-wheeled covered carriage with the driver's seat elevated behind, the reins being passed over the top.

The Jewish Feast of the Dedication, instituted by Judas Maccabaeus, his brothers, and the whole congregation of Israel, in 165 b. c., to commemorate the dedication of the new altar set up at the purification of the temple of Jerusalem to replace the altar which had been polluted by Antiochus Epiphanes of Syria (1 Maccabees i. 58, iv. 59). The feast, which is mentioned in John x. 22, is held for eight days (beginning with the 25th day of Kislev, corresponding to December), and is celebrated everywhere, chiefly as a festival of lights, by the Jews.

See Hoonoomaun.

A leafless East Indian vine (Sarcostemma acidum); its sour milky juice was formerly used to make an intoxicating drink.

To happen; to befall; to chance.

Extra hazard; chance; accident; random.

Determined by chance, whimsy, or guesswork; unplanned; aimless; random; -- used mostly of human actions.

One of the lessons from the Nebiim (or Prophets) read in the Jewish synagogue on Sabbaths, feast days, fasts, and the ninth of Ab, at the end of the service, after the parashoth, or lessons from the Law. Such a practice is evidenced in Luke iv.17 and Acts xiii.15.

Without hap or luck; luckless; unfortunate; unlucky; unhappy; as, hapless youth; hapless maid.

In a hapless, unlucky manner.

having half the number of chromosomes normally present in somatic cells; having only one chromosome of each type, and therefore having only one complete set of genes; Contrasted with diploid and polyploid. See also diploid.

An order of freshwater fishes, including the true pikes, cyprinodonts, and blindfishes.

A parasite in invertebrates and lower vertebrates of no known economic importance.

Having but one series of stamens, and that equal in number to the proper number of petals; isostemonous.

By hap, chance, luck, or accident; perhaps; it may be.

Wrapped; covered; cloaked.

To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out.

something that happens; an occurrence; an event.

By chance; peradventure; haply.

Good luck; good fortune; prosperity.

Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate; successful; prosperous; satisfying desire; as, a happy expedient; a happy effort; a happy venture; a happy omen.

relating to or based on the sense of touch.

A large and valuable food fish (Polyprion prognathus) of New Zealand. It sometimes weighs one hundred pounds or more.

See Hagbut.

A ritual form of suicide, by slashing the abdomen, formerly practiced in Japan, and commanded by the government in the cases of disgraced officials; disembowelment; -- also written, but incorrectly, hari-kari.

To address by an harangue.

Full of harangue.

One who harangues, or is fond of haranguing; a declaimer.

troubled persistently, especially with petty annoyances; as, harassed working mothers.

One who harasses.

The act of harassing, or state of being harassed; worry; annoyance; anxiety.

Harborous.

To usher in; to be a harbinger of.

To lodge, or abide for a time; to take shelter, as in a harbor.

Shelter; entertainment.

One who, or that which, harbors.

Without a harbor; shelterless.

Hospitable.

A shelter.

A ford or passage across a river or swamp.

Contained within the circuitry of a computer or computer peripheral device, and not changeable by programming; -- of functions; as, error correction is hard-wired into the circuit of the disk drive, so it proceeds very rapidly.

invariable; firmly established; as, hard-and-fast regulations.

baked until hard.

same as hard-bitten.

not given to sentimentality or gentleness; -- of people; as, a hard-bitten character.

Having rigid front and back covers, usually boards covered with paper, cloth, or leather; -- of books. Contrasted with softcover and paperback.

Hard-featured; ill-looking; as, Vulcan was hard-favored.

Coarseness of features.

Having coarse, unattractive or stern features.

Having hard or strong hands; as, a hard-fisted laborer.

Vigorously contested by both opponents; -- of contests; as, a hard-fought battle; a hard-fought primary election.

Having hard hands, as a manual laborer.

Having sound judgment; sagacious; shrewd; practical and pragmatic.

Unsympathetic; inexorable; cruel; pitiless.

characterized by or full of force and vigor; forceful; as, a hard-hitting expose.

Wrought with severe labor; elaborate; studied.

Not sensible to the bit; not easily governed; as, a hard-mouthed horse.

facing reality squarely; guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory; tough and pragmatic; as, a hard-nosed businessman.

having a reduced ability to hear, but not fully deaf; partly deaf.

An erect penis; a penile erection.

facing or experiencing trouble or difficulty; as, financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices; they were hard-pressed to find a substitute on short notice; -- see distressed{1}.

Unyielding; insensible to argument; uncompromising; strict.

paved; -- of roads. Opposite of unpaved.

A name given by soldiers and sailors to a kind of unleavened hard biscuit or sea bread. Called also pilot biscuit, pilot bread, ship biscuit and ship bread

Requiring great patience and effort and skill; demanding; -- of persons. Opposite of undemanding.

Of a harsh or stern countenance; hard-featured.

Acquired with difficulty; as, to squander one's hard-won fortune.

A person who strictly enforces rules and regulations.

A book with cardboard or cloth or leather covers; a hardcover book. Compare paperback.

A sweetmeat of boiled brown sugar or molasses made with almonds, and flavored with orange or lemon juice, etc.

A tree of the genus Carpinus, of compact, horny texture; hornbeam.

a cheap hard material made from wood chips that are pressed together and bound with synthetic resin to form sheets, used in construction and various other purposes; -- called also particle board and chipboard.

same as hardback; -- used of books.

Same as hardback n. and a.

To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying.

A small genus of Australian woody vines with small violet flowers; closely related to genus Kennedia.

Made hard, or harder, or compact; made unfeeling or callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or vice.

One who, or that which, hardens; specif., one who tempers tools.

Making hard or harder.

A South African mullet, salted for food.

A term applied to a lachrymal gland on the inner side of the orbit of many animals which have a third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. See Nictitating membrane, under Nictitate.

A species of fern (Lomaria borealis), growing in Europe and Northwestern America.

A very astringent shrub (Spiraea tomentosa), common in pastures. The Potentilla fruticosa is also called by this name.

Clash or collision of heads in contest.

Hardihood.

Boldness, united with firmness and constancy of mind; bravery; intrepidity; also, audaciousness; impudence.

Same as Hardly.

Hardihood; boldness; courage; energetic action.