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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.
A place to which one frequently resorts; as, drinking saloons are the haunts of tipplers; a den is the haunt of wild beasts.
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.
A field where grass for hay has been cut; a meadow.
A fork for pitching and tedding hay.
A loft or scaffold for hay.
One who cuts and cures hay.
The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay.
A mow or mass of hay laid up in a barn for preservation.
A frame mounted on the running gear of a wagon, and used in hauling hay, straw, sheaves, etc.; -- called also hay rigging and hay rig.
A rake for collecting hay; especially, a large rake drawn by a horse or horses.
A heap or pile of hay, usually covered with thatch for preservation in the open air.
a frame attached to a wagon to increase the amount of hay it can carry.
a rural, unsophisticated person; also used in an extended sense for one who is not very intelligent or uninterested in culture.
A stack or conical pile of hay in the open air.
A stalk of hay.
Hawthorn.
Of or pertaining to Haiti; now usually written Haitian. A native of Haiti.
An officer who is appointed to guard hedges, and to keep cattle from breaking or cropping them, and whose further duty it is to impound animals found running at large.
To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger.
Liable to hazard or chance; uncertain; risky.
A player at the game of hazard; a gamester.
A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard.
Exposed to hazard; dangerous; risky.
the state of being dangerous.
Playing at hazard; gaming; gambling.
To harass by exacting unnecessary, disagreeable, or difficult work.
Consisting of hazels, or of the wood of the hazel; pertaining to, or derived from, the hazel; as, a hazel wand.
Destitute of haze.
Of the color of the hazelnut; of a light brown.
The nut of the hazel.
A reddish-brown wood and lumber from the heartwood of the sweet gum tree.
The asarabacca.
In a hazy manner; mistily; obscurely; confusedly.
The quality or state of being hazy.
To make dry; to dry.
Thick with haze; somewhat obscured with haze; not clear or transparent.
High density lipoprotein, a lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood; high levels are thought to be associated with decreased risk of coronary heart disease and atherosclerosis; sometimes called good cholesterol. Contrasted with LDL.
The man or male being (or object personified to which the masculine gender is assigned), previously designated; a pronoun of the masculine gender, usually referring to a specified subject already indicated.
A deciduous much-branched shrub (Lyonia ligustrina) with dense downy panicles of small bell-shaped white flowers.
To originate; to spring; to have its source, as a river.
A dish made of portions of the head, or head and feet, of swine, cut up fine, seasoned, and pressed into a cheeselike mass.
A member of any tribe or race of savages who have the custom of decapitating human beings and preserving their heads as trophies. The Dyaks of Borneo are the most noted head-hunters.
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