Act of gaping.
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An opening; an aperture; a gap; a chasm; esp., a defect in a manuscript, where some part is lost or effaced; a space where something is wanting; a break.
A genus of evergreen heathlike or scandent shrubs of Madagascar, Australasia, and Polynesia.
That which serves for protection or shelter in winter; winter quarters; as, the hibernacle of an animal or a plant.
A winter bud, in which the rudimentary foliage or flower, as of most trees and shrubs in the temperate zone, is protected by closely overlapping scales.
Belonging or relating to winter; wintry; winterish.
To winter; to pass the season of winter in close quarters, in a torpid or lethargic state, as certain mammals, reptiles, and insects.
in a state of suspended animation; -- of animals that sleep most of the winter.
The act or state of hibernating.
Of or pertaining to Hibernia, now Ireland; Irish. A native or an inhabitant of Ireland.
An idiom or mode of speech peculiar to the Irish.
The native language of the Irish; that branch of the Celtic languages spoken by the natives of Ireland. Also adj.
A genus of plants (herbs, shrubs, or trees), some species of which have large, showy flowers. Some species are cultivated in India for their fiber, which is used as a substitute for hemp. See Althea, Hollyhock, and Manoe.
To have a hiccough or hiccoughs.
rural. Opposite of urban.
A device used to adapt a lighting fixture for mounting in an outlet box, or on a pipe.
An American tree of the genus Carya, of which there are several species. The shagbark is the Carya alba, and has a very rough bark; it affords the hickory nut of the markets. The pignut, or brown hickory, is the Carya glabra. The swamp hickory is Carya amara, having a nut whose shell is very thin and the kernel bitter.
A member or follower of the /liberal/ party, headed by Elias Hicks, which, because of a change of views respecting the divinity of Christ and the Atonement, seceded from the conservative portion of the Society of Friends in the United States, in 1827.
See Hiccough.
The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor) of Europe.
imp. p. p. of Hide. See Hidden.
A tax formerly paid to the kings of England for every hide of land.
A title, denoting a Spanish nobleman of the lower class.
from Hide. Concealed; put out of view; secret; not known; mysterious.
An emerald-green variety of spodumene found in North Carolina; lithia emerald, -- used as a gem.
In a hidden manner.
To flog; to whip.
A game played by children, in which one child (who is /it/) covers his eyes for a short time while the other players hide, and then the one who is /it/ tries to find the others.
a hiding place; usually a remote place used by outlaws.
Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back as not to be easily loosened or raised; -- said of an animal.
Frightful, shocking, or offensive to the eyes; dreadful to behold; as, a hideous monster; hideous looks.
a hiding place; usually a remote place used by outlaws.
One who hides or conceals.
A flogging.
Excretion of sweat; perspiration.
A medicine that causes perspiration; a diaphoretic or a sudorific.
Haste; diligence.
Winter.
A warming cathartic medicine, made of aloes and canella bark.
One who has high and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order; as, princely hierarchs.
Pertaining to a hierarch.
Of or pertaining to a hierarchy; ordered in a hierarchy.
The principles or authority of a hierarchy.
Dominion or authority in sacred things.
Consecrated to sacred uses; sacerdotal; pertaining to priests.
Government by ecclesiastics; a hierarchy.
In hieroglyphics.
One versed in hieroglyphics.
A form of sacred or hieratic writing.
Written in, or pertaining to, hierograms; expressive of sacred writing.
A writer of hierograms; also, one skilled in hieroglyphics.
Of or pertaining to sacred writing.
Sacred writing.
The worship of saints or sacred things.
Pertaining to hierology.
One versed in, or whostudies, hierology.
A treatise on sacred things; especially, the science which treats of the ancient writings and inscriptions of the Egyptians, or a treatise on that science.
Divination by observing the objects offered in sacrifice.
A priest who becomes a martyr.
The sacred secretary or recorder sent by each state belonging to the Amphictyonic Council, along with the deputy or minister.
A consecrated place; esp., a temple.
See Jeronymite.
The presiding priest who initiated candidates at the Eleusinian mysteries; one who teaches the mysteries and duties of a religion or an arcane discipline; an expositor; as, In his television series /Cosmos/, Carl Sagan became the foremost hierophant of modern cosmology..
Of or relating to hierophants or their teachings.
Divination by inspection of entrails of victims offered in sacrifice.
A receptacle for sacred objects.
A sacred or holy work or worship.
See Highfaluting.
A plant of the genus Verbascum (Verbascum Thapsus); the common mullein. [Also high-taper and hag-taper.]
To hawk or peddle provisions.
In confusion; topsy-turvy.
One who higgles.
To rise; as, the sun higheth.
a chair designed for feeding a very young child, having four long legs and a footrest and a detachable tray, which rests in front of the child, holds the food, and also serves as a restraint, to keep the child from falling out of the chair.
The most ethical and honest method; -- used mostly in the phrase to take the high road (as in an election campaign). Contrasted with low road.
a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12; as, he goes to the neighborhood highschool.
the tide when the water is highest; high tide.
conceited and arrogant; imperious.
Inflated, as with conceit.
Bred in high life; of pure blood.
Of lofty structure; tall.
Of or pertaining to, or favoring, the party called the High Church, or their doctrines or policy. See High Church, under High, a.
The principles of the high-church party.
One who holds high-church principles.
The state of being a high-churchman.
Having a strong, deep, or glaring color; flushed.
Having lofty arches.
the branch of particle physics which studies collisions of particles accelerated to such high energy that new fundamental particles are generated in the process. The creation of new particles of very high energy is required to permit the study of the most fundamental relations between forms of matter, so as to understand the fundamental nature of matter. The high energies also reproduce the high-temperature conditions at the earliest phase of the big bang, allowing generation of some data relevant to understanding the nature and evolution of the universe.
Pampered; fed luxuriously.
Finished with great care; polished.
Elevated; proud.
Elated.
A spree; a revel.
Overbearing; oppressive; arbitrary; violent; as, a high-handed act.
Full of courage or nobleness; high-souled.
The European green woodpecker or yaffle.
The flicker; -- called also high-hole.
A laced boot, ankle high.
Having abundance of mettle; ardent; full of fire; as, a high-mettled steed.
Proud; arrogant.
The quality of being highminded; nobleness; magnanimity.
Having high antlers; bearing full-grown antlers aloft.
high in pitch or frequency; -- used of sounds and voices. Opposite of low.
vigorously energetic or forceful.
Having or involving a pressure greatly exceeding that of the atmosphere; -- said of steam, air, water, etc., and of steam, air, or hydraulic engines, water wheels, etc.
The office, dignity, or position of a high priest.
High-priesthood.
Possessed of noble or honorable principles.
Highly rectified; very strongly alcoholic; as, high-proof spirits.
Elevated; raised aloft; upreared.
Reaching high or upward; hence, ambitious; aspiring.
Of a strong red color.
Enriched with spice and condiments; hence, exciting; piquant.
Looking upward; supercilious.
Having a high or noble spirit; honorable.
Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
same as fast; as, fast film. Opposite of slow.
Full of spirit or natural fire; haughty; courageous; impetuous; not brooking restraint or opposition.
A horse that moves with a high step or proud gait; hence, a person having a proud bearing.
having or moving with a high step; as, a high-stepping horse.
Having a lofty spirit; haughty.
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