A genus of small rubiaceous herbs, having tetramerous salveform blue or white flower. There are about twenty species, natives of North America. Also, a plant of this genus.

A beautiful South American motmot.

A genus of plants having only one species; East Asian low-growing plant of wet places.

A head covering of various kinds; a hood; a coif; a cap.

One of the race of horses described by Swift in his imaginary travels of Lemuel Gulliver. The Houyhnhnms were endowed with reason and noble qualities; subject to them were Yahoos, a race of brutes having the form and all the worst vices of men.

To hover around; to loiter; to lurk.

To put in a hovel; to shelter.

One who assists in saving life and property from a wreck; a coast boatman.

A method of securing a good draught in chimneys by covering the top, leaving openings in the sides, or by carrying up two of the sides higher than the other two.

Affected with the disease called hoove; as, hoven cattle.

Affected with hoove; as, hooven, or hoven, cattle.

To hang fluttering in the air, or on the wing; to remain in flight or floating about or over a place or object; to be suspended in the air above something.

The kestrel.

A vehicle that rides over water or land supported by the pressure of a stream of air generated by downward-thrusting fans, and is propelled forward by an air propeller; also called ACV and air-cushioned vehicle.

A device in an incubator for protecting the young chickens and keeping them warm.

In a hovering manner.

In what manner or way; by what means or process.

A traveler.

Be it as it may; nevertheless; notwithstanding; although; albeit; yet; but; however.

A seat or pavilion, generally covered, fastened on the back of an elephant, for the rider or riders.

A midwife.

To smooth; to plane; as, to howel a cask.

The upper stage of a porcelian furnace.

Nevertheless; notwithstanding; yet; still; though; as, I shall not oppose your design; I can not, however, approve of it.

A howitzer.

A gun so short that the projectile, which was hollow, could be put in its place by hand; a kind of mortar. A short, light, largebore cannon, usually having a chamber of smaller diameter than the rest of the bore, and intended to throw large projectiles with comparatively small charges.

Same as Hooker.

The protracted, mournful cry of a dog or a wolf, or other like sound.

One who howls.

An owl; an owlet.

To cry out; to whoop.

Howsoever.

In what manner soever; to whatever degree or extent; however.

A hood. See Houve.

To hock; to hamstring. See Hock.

Ho! Halloe! Stop!

Any plant of the genus Hoya having fleshy leaves and usually nectariferous flowers.

Same as Hoiden.

One who navigates a hoy.

Headquarters, the place from which a commander performs the functions of command.

An abbreviation for hour, the period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.

An administrative subdivision of a fu, or department, or of an independent chow; also, the seat of government of such a district.

Herpes simplex 1, a herpes virus that causes oral herpes; also called type I Herpes.

Herpes simplex 2, a herpes virus that can cause genital herpes; also called type II Herpes.

A common thorny tropical American tree (Pithecellobium dulce) having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle-shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum.

See Guanaco.

A kind of low-heeled sandal with the upper consisting of interwoven leather strips; -- usually used in pl.

a mountain in Peru, 22,205 feet high.

a rootlike attachment in parasitic plants that penetrates and obtains food from the host.

The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave. See Illust. of Axle box.

A large astromical optical telescope placed into orbit around the earth, from which, in the absence of absorption and distortion by the earth's atmosphere, clear high-resolution images of astronomical objects can be obtained in the visible, infrared, and ultraviolet wavelengths. The telescope was launched into orbit on April 24, 1990. Since then the telescope has taken thousands of images, many of them unique, recording never before seen astronomical phenomena. Service missions were performed in 1993 and 1997, during which astronauts upgraded or replaced equipment on the telescope. Link to Hubble Telescope Information.

A tobacco pipe, so arranged that the smoke passes through water, making a bubbling noise, whence its name. In India, the bulb containing the water is often a cocoanut shell. It is a simple type of hookah.

A loud noise of many confused voices; a tumult; uproar.

Full of hubs or protuberances; as, a road that has been frozen while muddy is hubby.

Husband.

A mineral of brownish black color, occurring in columnar or foliated masses. It is native manganese tungstate.

A large salmon (Salmo hucho or Salvelinus hucho) inhabiting the Danube; -- called also huso, and bull trout.

To higgle in trading.

A kind of linen cloth with raised figures, used for towelings.

The hip; the haunch.

The edible black or dark blue fruit of several species of the American genus Gaylussacia, shrubs nearly related to the blueberries (Vaccinium), and formerly confused with them. The commonest huckelberry comes from Gaylussacia resinosa. The shrub that bears the berries. Called also whortleberry.

To deal in small articles, or in petty bargains.

The business of a huckster; small dealing; peddling.

A huckster.

A female huckster.

A huck or hull, as of a nut.

A crowd; a number of persons or things crowded together in a confused manner; tumult; confusion.

One who huddles things together.

An iron bucket for hoisting coal or ore.

Similar to, or in the style of, the poem /Hudibras,/ by Samuel Butler; in the style of doggerel verse.

A genus of small evergreen subshrubs of North America.

Of or pertaining to Hudson's Bay or to the Hudson River; as, the Hudsonian curlew.

A shouting or vociferation.

Having color; -- usually in composition; as, bright-hued; many-hued.

Destitute of color.

One who cries out or gives an alarm; specifically, a balker; a conder. See Balker.

A swell of sudden anger or arrogance; a fit of disappointment and petulance or anger; a rage.

A blusterer; a bully. Blustering; swaggering.

A bully; a blusterer.

The state of being huffish; petulance; bad temper.

Blusteringly; arrogantly.

Disposed to be blustering or arrogant; petulant.

Puffed up; as, huffy bread.

A close embrace or clasping with the arms, as in affection or in wrestling.

A woman's fitted jacket.

Very large; enormous; immense; excessive; -- used esp. of material bulk, but often of qualities, extent, etc.; as, a huge ox; a huge space; a huge difference.

To conceal; to lurk ambush.

Secret; clandestine; sly.

Affectionate embracing; caressing.

To hug.

of, pertaining to, or in the style of Victor Hugo.

A genus having only one species, the tansy-leaved rocket.

A French Protestant of the period of the religious wars in France in the 16th century.

The religion of the Huguenots in France.

Vast.

To usher.

An outer garment worn in Europe in the Middle Ages.

See Uhlan.

A hunch.

Swollen; gibbous.

To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; as, to hulk a hare.

Bulky; unwiedly; of great size and bulk; ponderous.

To toss or drive on the water, like the hull of a ship without sails.

A confused noise; uproar; tumult.

Deprived of the hulls.

One who, or that which, hulls; especially, an agricultural machine for removing the hulls from grain; a hulling machine.

See Hollo.

Having or containing hulls.

See Hyloist.

See Hylotheism.

Holly, an evergreen shrub or tree.

Ahem; hem; an inarticulate sound uttered in a pause of speech implying doubt and deliberation.

A human being.

Indued with humanity.

Pertaining to man; human.

The study of human nature.

To make human; to invest with a human personality; to incarnate.

Same as humanization.

Same as humanize.

Human nature or disposition; humanity.