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.

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.

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.

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.