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.

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.

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.

That which heightens.

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.