The quality or state of being hasty; haste; precipitation; rashness; quickness of temper.

Early fruit or vegetables; especially, early pease.

Forward; early; -- said of fruits.

Involving haste; done, made, etc., in haste; as, a hasty retreat; a hasty sketch.

A covering for the head; esp., one with a crown and brim, made of various materials, and worn by men or women for protecting the head from the sun or weather, or for ornament.

Capable of being, or deserving to be, hated; odious; detestable.

A band round the crown of a hat; sometimes, a band of black cloth, crape, etc., worn as a badge of mourning.

A box for a hat.

To close with a hatch or hatches.

A vessel whose deck consists almost wholly of movable hatches; -- used mostly in the fisheries.

produced from an egg.

To draw through the teeth of a hatchel, as flax or hemp, so as to separate the coarse and refuse parts from the fine, fibrous parts.

One who uses a hatchel.

One who hatches, or that which hatches; a hatching apparatus; an incubator.

A house for hatching fish, etc.

A small ax with a short handle, to be used with one hand.

A person hired to murder or physically attack another; a hit man.

Mineral tallow; a waxy or spermaceti-like substance, commonly of a greenish yellow color.

A mode of execution in engraving, drawing, and miniature painting, in which shading is produced by lines crossing each other at angles more or less acute; -- called also crosshatching.

Same as Hachure.

A square or oblong opening in a deck or floor, affording passage from one deck or story to another; the entrance to a cellar.

Strong aversion coupled with desire that evil should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed; as exercised toward things, intense dislike; hatred; detestation; -- opposed to love.

Manifesting hate or hatred; malignant; malevolent.

Hateful; detestable.

one who arouses hatred for others by speech or writing.

One who hates.

Has.

A small genus of South American epiphytic or lithophytic cacti.

Having no hat.

a long sturdy pin used by women to secure a hat to their hair.

A hatstand; hattree.

Strong aversion; intense dislike; hate; an affection of the mind awakened by something regarded as evil.

A stand of wood or iron, with hooks or pegs upon which to hang hats, etc.

pres. imp. sing. pl. of Hote, to be called. See Hote.

Covered with a hat.

One who makes or sells hats.

A New Zealand lizard, which, in anatomical character, differs widely from all other existing lizards. It is the only living representative of the order Rhynchocephala, of which many Mesozoic fossil species are known; -- called also Sphenodon, tuatara, and Tuatera.

A irrevocable Turkish decree countersigned by the sultan.

The business of making hats; also, stuff for hats.

A hatstand.

See Habergeon.

A coat of mail; especially, the long coat of mail of the European Middle Ages, as contrasted with the habergeon, which is shorter and sometimes sleeveless. By old writers it is often used synonymously with habergeon. See Habergeon.

Native sulphide of manganese, a reddish brown or brownish black mineral.

A low-lying meadow by the side of a river.

High; elevated; hence, haughty; proud.

In a haughty manner; arrogantly.

The quality of being haughty; disdain; arrogance.

A pulling with force; a violent pull.

A bargelike vessel with steel hull, large hatchways, and coal transporters, for coaling war vessels from its own hold or from other colliers.

Act of hauling; as, the haulage of cars by an engine; charge for hauling.

One who hauls.

a haulage contractor.

A part of a harness; a hame.

See Hals.

See Halse.

Lofty; haughty.

See Haulm, stalk.

To enhance.

The hip; the projecting region of the lateral parts of the pelvis and the hip joint; the hind part.

Having haunches.

Inhabited by, or subject to the visits of, apparitions; frequented by a ghost.

One who, or that which, haunts.

In pale, with the head in chief; -- said of the figure of a fish, as if rising for air.

A large sturgeon (Acipenser huso syn. Huso huso) from the region of the Black Sea; also called Beluga. It is sometimes twelve feet long, and provides the highest quality caviar.

A kind of graduated breech sight for a small arm, or a cannon.

An artificial division of insects, including all those with a sucking proboscis.

Provided with a haustellum, or sucking proboscis. One of the Haustellata.

The sucking proboscis of various insects. See Lepidoptera, and Diptera.

One of the suckerlike rootlets of such plants as the dodder and ivy.

Haughty.

A wind instrument, sounded through a reed, and similar in shape to the clarinet, but with a thinner tone. Now more commonly called oboe. See Illust. of Oboe.

A player on the hautboy.

Haughty; proud.

Haughty manner or spirit; haughtiness; pride; arrogance.

High relish or flavor; high seasoning.

A raised part of the floor of a large room; a platform for a raised table or throne. See Dais.

A blue isometric mineral, characteristic of some volcanic rocks. It is a silicate of alumina, lime, and soda, with sulphate of lime.

Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar An Havana cigar.

Of or pertaining to Havana, in Cuba. A native or inhabitant, or the people, of Havana.

To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm.

Having little or nothing.

A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.

To shelter, as in a haven.

Harbor dues; port dues.

Sheltered in a haven.

A harbor master.

To maunder; to talk foolishly; to chatter.

Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century.

A castrated deer.

In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant.

Possession; goods; estate.

Behavior; demeanor.

A cry in war as the signal for indiscriminate slaughter.

To cause to turn, as a team, to the near side, or toward the driver; as, to haw a team of oxen.

See Ha-ha.

Belonging to Hawaii or the Sandwich Islands, or to the people of Hawaii. A native of Hawaii.

Probably, the baked berry of the hawthorn tree, that is, coarse fare. See 1st Haw, 2.

The common European grosbeak (Coccothraustes vulgaris); -- called also cherry finch, and coble.

To laugh boisterously.

A small board, with a handle on the under side, to hold mortar.

Having very keen vision; sharp-sighted; discerning.

Any of various plants of the genus Crepis having loose heads of yellow flowers on top of a long branched leafy stem; found in the Northern hemisphere.

The fall dandelion (Leontodon autumnale).

Curved like a hawk's bill; crooked.

A falconer.

See Hockey.

See hawkbill.

A sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), which yields the best quality of tortoise shell; -- called also caret.

A plant of the genus Hieracium; -- so called from the ancient belief that birds of prey used its juice to strengthen their vision. A plant of the genus Senecio (Senecio hieracifolius).

To lounge; to loiter.

A hawse hole.

a hole in the bow of a ship, through which the anchor rope or cable passes.

A large rope made of three strands each containing many yarns.

Made in the manner of a hawser. Cf. Cable-laid, and see Illust. of Cordage.

A thorny shrub or tree (the Crataegus oxyacantha), having deeply lobed, shining leaves, small, roselike, fragrant flowers, and a fruit called haw. It is much used in Europe for hedges, and for standards in gardens. The American hawthorn is Crataegus cordata, which has the leaves but little lobed.

To cut and cure grass for hay.

A machine in which hay is chopped short, as fodder for cattle.

The European spotted flycatcher. The European blackcap.

An allowance of wood to a tenant for repairing his hedges or fences; hedgebote. See Bote.

A conical pile or heap of hay in the field.