See Henbane.

Obtuse; dull.

The act of making blunt, dull, or stupid.

Dull; stupid.

Dullness; stupidity.

Of or pertaining to the Hebrews, or to the language of the Hebrews.

After the manner of the Hebrews or of the Hebrew language.

One versed in the Hebrew language and learning.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the Hebrew language or idiom.

In a Hebraistic sense or form.

To speak Hebrew, or to conform to the Hebrew idiom, or to Hebrew customs.

Of or pertaining to the Hebrews; as, the Hebrew language or rites.

An Israelitish woman.

A Hebraist.

Of or pertaining to the islands called Hebrides, west of Scotland. A native or inhabitant of the Hebrides.

A sacrifice of a hundred oxen or cattle at the same time; hence, the sacrifice or slaughter of any large number of victims.

A name given to the old Parthenon at Athens, because measuring 100 Greek feet, probably in the width across the stylobate.

A white, semisolid, spermaceti-like hydrocarbon, C16H34, of the paraffin series, found dissolved as an important ingredient of kerosene, and so called because each molecule has sixteen atoms of carbon; -- called also hexadecane.

hell; -- a euphemism. Used commonly in the phrase /What the heck/.

The teaching of Isaac Thomas Hecker (1819-88), which interprets Catholicism as promoting human aspirations after liberty and truth, and as the religion best suited to the character and institutions of the American people. Improperly, certain views or principles erroneously ascribed to Father Hecker in a French translation of Elliott's Life of Hecker. They were condemned as /Americanism/ by the Pope, in a letter to Cardinal Gibbons, January 22, 1899.

The European blue titmouse (Parus c/ruleus).

To interrogate, or ply with questions, esp. with severity or antagonism, as a candidate for the ministry.

Shouting in order to interrupt a speech with which the shouter disagrees.

A measure of area, or superficies, containing a hundred ares, or 10,000 square meters, and equivalent to 2.471 acres.

Hectic fever.

Changed into a hectocotylus; having a hectocotylis.

One of the arms of the male of most kinds of cephalopods, which is specially modified in various ways to effect the fertilization of the eggs. In a special sense, the greatly modified arm of Argonauta and allied genera, which, after receiving the spermatophores, becomes detached from the male, and attaches itself to the female for reproductive purposes.

A measure of mass or weight, containing a hundred grams, or about 3.527 ounces avoirdupois. See 3rd gram.

The same as Hectogram.

A contrivance for multiple copying, by means of a surface of gelatin softened with glycerin.

A measure of liquids, containing a hundred liters; equal to a tenth of a cubic meter, nearly 26/ gallons of wine measure, or 22.0097 imperial gallons. As a dry measure, it contains ten decaliters, or about 2/ Winchester bushels.

A measure of length, equal to a hundred meters. It is equivalent to 328.09 feet.

To play the bully; to bluster; to be turbulent or insolent.

The disposition or the practice of a hector; a bullying.

Resembling a hector; blustering; insolent; taunting.

A measure of solidity, containing one hundred cubic meters, and equivalent to 3531.66 English or 3531.05 United States cubic feet.

To draw (the warp thread) through the heddle-eyes, in weaving.

The eye or loop formed in each heddle to receive a warp thread.

The act of drawing the warp threads through the heddle-eyes of a weaver's harness; the harness itself.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, ivy.

Of or pertaining to ivy.

Pertaining to, or derived from, the ivy (Hedera); as, hederic acid, an acid of the acetylene series.

Producing ivy; ivy-bearing.

Pertaining to, or of, ivy; full of ivy.

To shelter one's self from danger, risk, duty, responsibility, etc., as if by hiding in or behind a hedge; to skulk; to slink; to shirk obligations.

a mutual fund or partnership of investors who pool large sums of money to speculate in securities, increasing the risk of such activity by using borrowed money to leverage the investments, or by selling short.

Born under a hedge; of low birth.

Same as Haybote.

qualified; limited or restricted; as, a hedged promise.

A small European insectivore (Erinaceus Europaeus), and other allied species of Asia and Africa, having the hair on the upper part of its body mixed with prickles or spines. It is able to roll itself into a ball so as to present the spines outwardly in every direction. It is nocturnal in its habits, feeding chiefly upon insects.

Having no hedge.

A young hedgehog.

One who makes or mends hedges; also, one who hedges, as, in betting.

A row of shrubs, or trees, planted for inclosure or separation of fields.

A desert shrub (Larrea tridentata) of the Southwestern U.S. and Northern Mexico having persistent resinous aromatic foliage and small yellow flowers.

Pertaining to pleasure.

That branch of moral philosophy which treats of the relation of duty to pleasure; the science of practical, positive enjoyment or pleasure.

The doctrine of the Hedonic sect; the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle.

One who believes in hedonism.

Same as Hedonic, 2.

a loud laugh that sounds like a horse neighing.

Attention; notice; observation; regard; -- often with give or take.

Full of heed; regarding with care; cautious; circumspect; attentive; vigilant.

Without heed or care; inattentive; careless; thoughtless; unobservant.

Heedful.

To perform by the use of the heels, as in dancing, running, and the like.

A composition of wax and lampblack, used by shoemakers for polishing, and by antiquaries in copying inscriptions.

A cock that strikes well with his heels or spurs.

Without a heel.

The bank of a canal opposite, and corresponding to, that of the towpath; berm.

A piece of armor to protect the heels.

The post supporting the outer end of a propeller shaft.

A slender bony or cartilaginous process developed from the heel bone of bats. It helps to support the wing membranes. See Illust. of Cheiropter.

To add a piece of leather to the heel of (a shoe, boot, etc.)

A tool used by turners in metal, having a bend forming a heel near the cutting end.

In Holland, and, until the 19th century, also in Cape Colony, a council to assist a local magistrate in the government of rural districts; hence, also, a member of such a council.

The hip of the dog-rose.

Hair.

To heave up; to raise aloft.

Moderately heavy.

Sudanese sorghums having white seeds; one variety is grown in Southwestern U.S.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, a German writer (1770-1831).

Pertaining to Hegelianism. A follower of Hegel.

The system of logic and philosophy set forth by Hegel, a German writer (1770-1831).

Leading; controlling; ruling; predominant.

Leadership; preponderant influence or authority; -- usually applied to the relation of a government or state to its neighbors or confederates.

A hedge.

The flight of Mohammed from Mecca, September 13, a. d. 622 (subsequently established as the first year of the Moslem era); hence, any flight or exodus regarded as like that of Mohammed.

A young cow.

An exclamation of surprise, joy, dejection, uneasiness, weariness, etc.

The condition of being high; elevated position.

To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.

One who, or that which, heightens.

a high place; the high part of a district; as, he doesn't like heights.

god of dawn and light; guardian of Asgard.

Same as Heimdal.

Same as Heimdal.

The buttocks; -- a word used with children.

Hateful; hatefully bad; flagrant; odious; atrocious; giving great offense; -- applied to deeds or to character.

the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane.

To inherit; to succeed to.

The state of an heir; succession by inheritance.

A female heir.

Destitute of an heir.

Any furniture, movable, or personal chattel, which by law or special custom descends to the heir along with the inheritance; any piece of personal property that has been in a family for several generations.

The state, character, or privileges of an heir; right of inheriting.

See Hegira.

See Hectograph.

Same as Hectare, Hectogram, Hectoliter, and Hectometer.

See Jumping hare, under Hare.

The act or process of repairing lesions made by ulcers, especially by a plastic operation.

imp. p. p. of Hold.

To hide; to cover; to roof.

See St. Elmo's fire, under Saint.

A neutral organic substance found in the root of the elecampane (Inula helenium), and extracted as a white crystalline or oily material, with a slightly bitter taste.

A genus comprising the cactus wrens; one of several alternative classifications.

Heliacal.

Emerging from the light of the sun, or passing into it; rising or setting at the same, or nearly the same, time as the sun.

In a heliacal manner.

An artificial, orange dyestuff, analogous to tropaolin, and like it used as an indicator in alkalimetry; -- called also methyl orange.