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.

Strung to a high pitch; spirited; sensitive; as, a high-strung horse.

Inflated; boastful.

High in tone or sound.

A ship's masthead.

an important or influential person.

having, operating on, or powered by high voltage; as, a high-voltage generator; a high-voltage line.

Pertaining to water at its highest achieved level; of or pertaining to high water; as, the high-water marks on the walls after a flood.

Wrought with fine art or skill; elaborate.

An alcoholic beverage having a liquor such as whiskey mixed with water or a carbonated beverage, and usually served with ice in a tall glass.

A ruffian; one who hounds, or spies upon, another; app. esp. to the members of certain alleged societies among the Chinese.

a high diving board.

Of noble or aristocratic birth. Contrasted with lowborn and common.

One who lives high; also, in politics, a highflyer.

a person of intellectual or erudite tastes; an intellectual.

highly cultured or educated; pertaining to highly educated people; as, highbrow events such as the ballet or opera.

advanced in complexity or elaboration; as, higher mathematics.

A certificate awarded for completing a course of vocational education beyond secondary school, preparing the student for a career in business or certain practical arts. It is a term used in the United Kingdom.

A computer programming language with an instruction set allowing one instruction to code for several assembly language instructions.

having a rank above that of another.

A superior officer or official; a person having greater rank or station or quality than others; -- used chiefly in pl.

Rising higher; ascending.

Affectedly genteel; pretentious; haughty; snobbish.

High-flown, bombastic language.

One who is extravagant in pretensions, opinions, or manners; one who is highfaluting.

Same as highflier.

Extravagant in opinions or ambition.

Same as highjacking.

The seizure of control of a vehicle while it is in transit, either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination.

Elevated or mountainous land; (often in the pl.) an elevated region or country; as, the Highlands of Scotland.

of, located in, or characteristic of high or hilly country. Contrasted to lowland.

a soldier in a Scottish Highland regiment.

Highlanders, collectively.

The part of an image that has the most intense light.

In a high manner, or to a high degree; very much; as, highly esteemed.

very complex or intricate; -- used especially of technology.

having unusually intense sexual desire or appeal.

Loaded dice so contrived as to turn up high numbers.

Highest.

The state of being high; elevation; loftiness.

A highway; a much traveled or main road.

To be called or named.

Variant of Height.

Hoity-toity.

A road or way open to the use of the public, especially a paved main road or thoroughfare between towns; in the latter sense it contrasts with local street; as, on the highways and byways.

Robbery committed on the public roads.

One who robs on the public road; a highway robber.

See Eagre.

See Hegira.

The act of hiking.

Of or pertaining to a hilum.

Belonging to the hilum.

Mirthful; noisy; merry.

Boisterous mirth; merriment; jollity.

A base, menial wretch. Base; spiritless.

Same as Hilum.

To surround with earth; to heap or draw earth around or upon; as, to hill corn.

The state of being hilly.

The act or process of heaping or drawing earth around plants.

A small hill.

The side or declivity of a hill.

The top of a hill.

Abounding with hills; uneven in surface; as, a hilly country.

A handle; especially, the handle of a sword, dagger, or the like.

Having a hilt; -- used in composition; as, basket-hilted, cross-hilted.

The eye of a bean or other seed; the mark or scar at the point of attachment of an ovule or seed to its base or support; -- called also hile.

Same as Hilum, 2.

The objective case of he. See He.

Of or pertaining to the Himalayas, the great mountain chain in Asia.

A small genus of terrestrial orchids of Europe and Mediterranean region.

one of two genera of stilts; they are similar to avocets but with straight bills.

A hymn.

An emphasized form of the third person masculine pronoun; -- used as a subject usually with he; as, he himself will bear the blame; used alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, it is himself who saved himself.

See 1st Himself.

Themselves. See Hemself.

Pertaining to Himyar, an ancient king of Yemen, in Arabia, or to his successors or people; as, the Himjaritic characters, language, etc.; applied esp. to certain ancient inscriptions showing the primitive type of the oldest form of the Arabic, still spoken in Southern Arabia.

A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing three quarts, one pint, one gill, English measure.

a major school of Buddhism teaching personal salvation through one's own efforts.

an adherent of Hinayana Buddhism.

In the rear; -- opposed to front; of or pertaining to the part or end which follows or is behind, in opposition to the part which leads or is before; as, the hind legs or hind feet of a quadruped; the hind man in a procession.

The raspberry.

The posterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the epencephalon and metencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the epencephalon only.

To interpose obstacles or impediments; to be a hindrance.

Same as Hindrance.

One who, or that which, hinders.

Hindermost; -- superl. of Hind, a.

A worthless, base, degenerate person or animal.

The posterior part of the alimentary canal, including the rectum, and sometimes the large intestine also.

The name given by Europeans to that form of the Hindustani language which is chiefly spoken by native Hindus. In employs the Devanagari character, in which Sanskrit is written.

Furthest in or toward the rear; last.

Same as Hindustani. See Hindoostanee.

the back half of a side of meat, from about the twelfth rib back.

the fleshy part of the human body at the back of the hip, on which a person sits; teh buttocks.

The act of hindering, or the state of being hindered.

a cut of meat from the upper part of a rear leg.

understanding the nature of an event after it has happened; as, hindsight is always clearer than foresight.

Same as Hindoo. This is now the more commonly used spelling.

A native inhabitant of Hindostan. As an ethnical term it is confined to the Dravidian and Aryan races; as a religious name it is restricted to followers of the Veda.

the dominant religion of India; characterized by a caste system anud belief in reincarnation.

The religious doctrines and rites of the Hindus; Brahmanism.

northern region of India where Hinduism predominates.

a native or inhabitant of Hindustan or India.