Resembling the normal tissues; as, histoid tumors.

Pertaining to histology, or to the microscopic structure of the tissues of living organisms.

One versed in histology.

That branch of biological science, which treats of the minute (microscopic) structure of animal and vegetable tissues; -- called also histiology.

The decay and dissolution of the organic tissues and of the blood.

Of or pertaining to histolysis, or the degeneration of tissues.

The science which treats of the laws relating to organic tissues, their formation, development, functions, etc.

The tribal history of cells, a division of morphophyly.

Historical.

A writer of history; a chronicler; an annalist.

Of or pertaining to history, or the record of past events; as, an historical poem; the historic page.

In the manner of, or in accordance with, history.

To record or narrate in the manner of a history; to chronicle.

Related in history.

An historian.

Historical narration on a small scale; a brief recital; a story.

To record in or as history.

An historian; a writer of history; especially, one appointed or designated to write a history; also, a title bestowed by some governments upon historians of distinction.

The office of an historiographer.

The art of employment of an historiographer.

A discourse on history.

One versed in the phenomena of history and the laws controlling them.

To relate as history; to chronicle; to historicize.

To narrate or record.

The dissection of organic tissues.

A soluble enzyme occurring in the animal body, to the presence of which many normal decompositions and synthetical processes are supposed to be due.

A player.

Of or relating to the stage or a stageplayer; befitting a theatre; theatrical.

The histrionic art; stageplaying.

The histrionic art; stageplaying; acting.

Theatrical representation; acting; affectation.

To act; to represent on the stage, or theatrically.

A striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.

To get along well together; to be compatible; to work well together; -- of people in interactive situations; as, the new chemist hit it off immediately with his supervisor.

A professional murderer, esp. one working for a criminal organization; also called torpedo.

To make sexual advances toward; -- usually of men making advances to women.

performed without care or close attention; slipshod; careless; -- of the manner of performing a task. Opposite of careful, conscientious or methodical.

Having become very popular or acclaimed; -- said of entertainment performances; as, a hit song, a hit movie.

A catch; anything that holds, as a hook; an impediment; an obstacle; an entanglement.

See Hatchel.

To travel by getting free rides from passing vehicles; as, to hitchhike across the country.

a person who travels by getting free rides from passing vehicles; one who hitchhikes.

A port or small haven; -- used in composition; as, Lambhithe, now Lambeth.

Being on the side next or toward the person speaking; nearer; -- correlate of thither and farther; as, on the hither side of a hill.

Nearest on this side.

To this place; to a prescribed limit.

Toward this place; hither.

of or pertaining to Adolf Hitler; resembling the policies of Hitler.

Having no hits scored; -- of a baseball game (or the pitching) in which a pitcher allows the opponent no hits; as, a hitless game.

One who hits or strikes; as, a hard hitter.

The act of striking one thing against another; as, repeated hitting raised a large bruise

A member of an ancient people (or perhaps group of peoples) whose settlements extended from Armenia westward into Asia Minor and southward into Palestine. They are known to have been met along the Orontes as early as 1500 b. c., and were often at war with the Egyptians and Assyrians. Especially in the north they developed a considerable civilization, of which numerous monuments and inscriptions are extant. Authorities are not agreed as to their race. While several attempts have been made to decipher the Hittite characters, little progress has yet been made.

To take shelter or lodgings together; to reside in a collective body.

Destitute of a hive.

One who collects bees into a hive.

The croup. An eruptive disease (Varicella globularis), allied to the chicken pox.

To hiss.

A health maintenance organization; a form of group health insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians.

a colorless explosive liquid that is volatile, poisonous, and foul-smelling.

The chemical symbol for Holmium.

A crested ill-smelling South American bird (Opisthocomus hoazin) whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings.

a large sandwich on a long crusty roll that is split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the U. S., such as hero, grinder, and submarine.

To become moldy or musty.

To lay up a store or hoard, as of money.

One who hoards.

A screen of boards inclosing a house and materials while builders are at work.

Moldy; musty.

The white particles formed by the congelation of dew; white frost.

Same as Horehound.

The state of being hoary.

Having a harsh, rough, grating voice or sound, as when affected with a cold; making a rough, harsh cry or sound; as, the hoarse raven.

With a harsh, grating sound or voice.

To make hoarse.

Harshness or roughness of voice or sound, due to mucus collected on the vocal cords, or to swelling or looseness of the cords.

A stone designating the bounds of an estate; a landmark.

White or whitish.

Same as Hoazin.

To deceive by a story or a trick, for sport or mischief; to impose upon sportively.

One who hoaxes.

A remarkable South American bird (Opisthocomus cristatus); the crested touraco. By some Zoologists it is made the type of a distinct order (Opisthocomi).

The male ferret.

Same as Hobnob.

The philosophical system of Thomas Hobbes, an English materialist (1588-1679); esp., his political theory that the most perfect form of civil government is an absolute monarchy with despotic control over everything relating to law, morals, and religion.

One who accepts the doctrines of Thomas Hobbes.

An unequal gait; a limp; a halt; as, he has a hobble in his gait.

A woman's skirt so scant at the bottom as to restrain freedom of movement after the fashion of a hobble.

A low bush (Viburnum lantanoides) having long, straggling branches and handsome flowers. It is found in the Northern United States. Called also shinhopple.

One who by his tenure was to maintain a horse for military service; a kind of light horseman in the Middle Ages who was mounted on a hobby.

A youth between boy and man; an awkward, gawky young fellow .

With a limping step.

Rough; uneven; causing one to hobble; as a hobbly road.

A small, strong-winged European falcon (Falco subbuteo), formerly trained for hawking.

A strong, active horse, of a middle size, said to have been originally from Ireland; an ambling nag.

Pertaining to, or having, a hobby or whim; eccentric; whimsical.

A frightful goblin; an imp; a bugaboo; also, a name formerly given to the household spirit, Robin Goodfellow.

A light horseman. See 2d Hobbler.

A small mortar on a gun carriage, in use before the howitzer.

To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes.

See with hobnails, as a shoe.

Familiar, social intercourse.

A professional tramp; one who spends his life traveling from place to place, esp. by stealing rides on trains, and begging for a living.

See Hobnob.

A hautboy or oboe.

The crested curassow; -- called also royal pheasant. See Curassow.

Hotchpot.

The state of having been pawned; usually preceded by in; as, all her jewelry is in hock.

A Rhenish wine.

A holiday commemorating the expulsion of the Danes, formerly observed on the second Tuesday after Easter; -- called also hocktide.

A game in which two parties of players, armed with sticks curved or hooked at the end, attempt to drive any small object (as a ball or a bit of wood) toward opposite goals.

The mallow.

To hamstring; to hock; to hough.

One who cheats or deceives.

To cheat.

A kind of wooden tray with a handle, having V-shaped trough, made of wood or metal, attached to a long handle and usually carried over the shoulder; it is a tool used by construction workers for carrying bricks or mortar.

A construction worker whose main function is to carry construction materials in a hod{1}.

Applied to coarse cloth made of undyed wool, formerly worn by Scotch peasants.

See Dun crow, under Dun, a.

An awkward or foolish person.

A mixed mass; a medley. See Hotchpot.

Of this day; belonging to the present day.