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.

Round-shoulded.

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.

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.

One of the scholars who in the field of literature proper represented the movement of the Renaissance, and early in the 16th century adopted the name Humanist as their distinctive title.

Of or pertaining to humanity; as, humanistic devotion.

One who denies the divinity of Christ, and believes him to have been merely human.

The distinctive tenet of the humanitarians in denying the divinity of Christ; also, the whole system of doctrine based upon this view of Christ.

A humanist.

The quality of being human; the peculiar nature of man, by which he is distinguished from other beings.

The act of humanizing.

To become or be made more humane; to become civilized; to be ameliorated.

One who renders humane.

Mankind.

resembling a human.

In a human manner; after the manner of men; according to the knowledge or wisdom of men; as, the present prospects, humanly speaking, promise a happy issue.

The quality or state of being human.

A salt of humic acid.

Interment; inhumation.

Humming bird.

To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate.

The bumblebee.

Humble condition or estate; humility.

The quality of being humble; humility; meekness.

One who, or that which, humbles some one.

Entrails of a deer.

Humbleness; abasement; low obeisance.

With humility; lowly.

To deceive; to impose; to cajole; to hoax.

One who humbugs.

The practice of imposition.

A dull fellow; a bore.

Diluent. A diluent drink or medicine.

To moisten; to wet.

A moistening.

Tending to moisten.

Of or pertaining to the humerus, or upper part of the arm; brachial.

The bone of the brachium, or upper part of the arm or fore limb. The part of the limb containing the humerus; the brachium.

Pertaining to, or derived from, vegetable mold; as, humic acid. See Humin.

The act or practice of lying on the ground.

Containing sensible moisture; damp; moist; as, a humidair or atmosphere; somewhat wet or watery; as, humid earth; consisting of water or vapor.

The act or process of increasing the moisture content; -- usually used of gases, especially air.

A device that increases the moisture content of the air; -- used to avoid excessive dryness in buildings, which can cause irritation to the throat. Compare dehumidifier.

to render (gases, especially air) humid or to increase the moisture content of; as, We have a machine that humidifies the air in the house.