Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter H - Page 3
Haemin (n.) Same as Hemin.
Haemo- (prefix.) See H[ae]ma-.
Haema-, Haemato-, Haemo-, Combining forms indicating relation or resemblance to blood, association with blood; as, h[ae]mapod, h[ae]matogenesis, h[ae]moscope.
Note: Words from Gr. a"i^ma are written hema-, hemato-, hemo-, as well as h[ae]ma-, h[ae]mato-, h[ae]mo-.
Haemochrome (n.) Same as H[ae]machrome.
Haemochromogen (n.) (Physiol. Chem.) A body obtained from hemoglobin, by the action of reducing agents in the absence of oxygen.
Haemochromometer (n.) (Physiol. Chem.) An apparatus for measuring the amount of hemoglobin in a fluid, by comparing it with a solution of known strength and of normal color.
Haemocyanin (n.) Same as H[ae]macyanin.
Haemocytolysis (n.) (Physiol.) See H[ae]mocytotrypsis.
Haemocytometer (n.) See H[ae]macytometer.
Haemocytotrypsis (n.) (Physiol.) A breaking up of the blood corpuscles, as by pressure, in distinction from solution of the corpuscles, or h[ae]mcytolysis.
Haemodromograph (n.) Same as H[ae]madromograph.
Haemodynameter (n.) Same as Hemadynamics.
Haemoglobin (n.) Same as Hemoglobin.
Haemoglobinometer (n.) Same as Hemochromometer.
Compare: Hematoidin
Hematoidin (n.) (Physiol. Chem.) A crystalline or amorphous pigment, free from iron, formed from hematin in old blood stains, and in old hemorrhages in the body. It resembles bilirubin. When present in the corpora lutea it is called h[ae]molutein.
Haemolutein (n.) (Physiol.) See Hematoidin. Haemolysis
Compare: Hemadynamometer
Hemadynamometer (n.) (Physiol.) An instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury; -- called also a h[ae]momanometer.
Haemomanometer (n.) Same as Hemadynamometer.
Haemometer (n.) (Physiol.) Same as Hemadynamometer.
Haemony (n.) A plant described by Milton as "of sovereign use against all enchantments."
Haemoplastic (a.) Same as H[ae]matoplastic.
Haemorrhoids or Emerods, () Bleeding piles known to the ancient Romans as mariscae, but more probably malignant boils of an infectious and fatal character. With this loathsome and infectious disease the men of Ashdod were smitten by the hand of the Lord. This calamity they attributed to the presence of the ark in their midst, and therefore they removed it to Gath (1 Sam. 5:6-8). But the same consequences followed from its presence in Gath, and therefore they had it removed to Ekron, 11 miles distant. The Ekronites were afflicted with the same dreadful malady, but more severely; and a panic seizing the people, they demanded that the ark should be sent back to the land of Israel (9-12; 6:1-9).
Haemorrhoids (n.) (pl.) (UK specialized) (US hemorrhoids) 痔瘡 A medical condition in which the veins at the anus become swollen and painful and sometimes bleed.
Haemorrhoidal (a.) 痔瘡的 Same as Hemorrhoidal.
Haemoscope (n.) (Physiol.) An instrument devised by Hermann, for regulating and measuring the thickness of a layer of blood for spectroscopic examination.
Haemostatic (a.) Same as Hemostatic.
Haemotachometer (n.) Same as H[ae]matachometer.
Haemotachometry (n.) Same as H[ae]matachometry.
Haf (imp. of Heave.) Hove. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Haffle (v. i.) To stammer; to speak unintelligibly; to prevaricate. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Haft (n.) A handle; that part of an instrument or vessel taken into the hand, and by which it is held and used; -- said chiefly of a knife, sword, or dagger; the hilt.
This brandish'd dagger I'll bury to the haft in her fair breast. -- Dryden.
Haft (n.) A dwelling. [Scot.] -- Jamieson.
Haft (v. t.) To set in, or furnish with, a haft; as, to haft a dagger.
Haft (n.) The handle of a weapon or tool [syn: haft, helve].
Haft, () A handle as of a dagger (Judg. 3:22).
Hafter (n.) A caviler; a wrangler. [Obs.] -- Baret.
Hag (n.) A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard. [Obs.] "[Silenus] that old hag." -- Golding.
Hag (n.) An ugly old woman. -- Dryden.
Hag (n.) A fury; a she-monster. -- Crashaw.
Hag (n.) (Zool.) An eel-like marine marsipobranch ({Myxine glutinosa), allied to the lamprey. It has a suctorial mouth, with labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings. It is the type of the order Hyperotpeta. Called also hagfish, borer, slime eel, sucker, and sleepmarken.
Hag (n.) (Zool.) The hagdon or shearwater.
Hag (n.) An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair. -- Blount.
Hag+moth+(Zool.),+A+moth+({Phobetron+pithecium">Hag moth (Zool.), A moth ({Phobetron pithecium), the larva of which has curious side appendages, and feeds on fruit trees.
Hag's tooth (Naut.), An ugly irregularity in the pattern of matting or pointing.
Hagged (imp. & p. p.) of Hag.
Hagging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hag.
Hag (v. t.) To harass; to weary with vexation.
How are superstitious men hagged out of their wits with the fancy of omens. -- L'Estrange.
Hag (n.) A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or inclosed for felling, or which has been felled.
This said, he led me over hoults and hags; Through thorns and bushes scant my legs I drew. -- Fairfax.
Hag (n.) A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut. -- Dugdale.
Compare: Hagdon
Hagdon (n.) (Zool.) One of
several species of sea birds of the genus Puffinus; esp., Puffinus major, the
greater shearwarter, and Puffinus Stricklandi, the black hagdon or sooty
shearwater; -- called also hagdown, haglin, and hag. See Shearwater.
Hag (n.) An ugly evil-looking old woman [syn: hag, beldam, beldame, witch, crone].
Hag (n.) Eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles; feeds on dead or trapped fishes by boring into their bodies [syn: hagfish, hag, slime eels].
Hag, (n.) An elderly lady whom you do not happen to like; sometimes called, also, a hen, or cat. Old witches, sorceresses, etc., were called hags from the belief that their heads were surrounded by a kind of baleful lumination or nimbus -- hag being the popular name of that peculiar electrical light sometimes observed in the hair. At one time hag was not a word of reproach: Drayton speaks of a "beautiful hag, all smiles," much as Shakespeare said, "sweet wench." It would not now be proper to call your sweetheart a hag -- that compliment is reserved for the use of her grandchildren.
Hagberry (n.) A plant of the genus Prunus (P. Padus); the bird cherry.
Hagborn (a.) Born of a hag or witch.
Hagbut (n.) A harquebus, of which the but was bent down or hooked for convenience in taking aim.
Hagbutter (n.) A soldier armed with a hagbut or arquebus.
Hagdon (n.) One of several species of sea birds of the genus Puffinus; esp., P. major, the greater shearwarter, and P. Stricklandi, the black hagdon or sooty shearwater; -- called also hagdown, haglin, and hag. See Shearwater.
Haggadoth (n. pl. ) of Haggada.
Haggada (n.) A story, anecdote, or legend in the Talmud, to explain or illustrate the text of the Old Testament.
Haggard (a.) 憔悴的，形容枯槁的；發狂似的 Wild or intractable; disposed to break away from duty; untamed; as, a haggard or refractory hawk. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Haggard (a.) [For hagged, fr. hag a witch, influenced by haggard wild.] Having the expression of one wasted by want or suffering; hollow-eyed; having the features distorted or wasted, or anxious in appearance; as, haggard features, eyes.
Staring his eyes, and haggard was his look. -- Dryden.
Haggard (n.) (Falconry) 野鷹 [C] A young or untrained hawk or falcon.
Haggard (n.) A fierce, intractable creature.
I have loved this proud disdainful haggard. -- Shak.
Haggard (n.) [See {Haggard}, a., 2.] A hag. [Obs.] -- Garth.
Haggard (n.) A stackyard. [Prov. Eng.] -- Swift.
Haggard (a.) Showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"- Charles Dickens [syn: {careworn}, {drawn}, {haggard}, {raddled}, {worn}].
Haggard (a.) Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration" [syn: {bony}, {cadaverous}, {emaciated}, {gaunt}, {haggard}, {pinched}, {skeletal}, {wasted}].
Haggard (n.) 亨利·萊特·哈葛德爵士，KBE（Sir Henry Rider Haggard，1856年6月22日－1925年5月14日），英國小說家。英國維多利亞時代受歡迎的小說家，以浪漫的愛情與驚險的冒險故事為題材，代表作為《所羅門王的寶藏》。林紓最常翻譯哈葛德的小說。哈葛德常年住在非洲，擔任過南非納塔爾省省長祕書。 British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925) [syn: {Haggard}, {Rider Haggard}, {Sir Henry Rider Haggard}].
Haggardly (adv.) 憔悴地，形容枯槁地；發狂似地，不馴服地 In a haggard manner. -- Dryden.
Haggardly (adv.) In a haggard manner; "she looked haggardly out of her tent".
Hagged (a.) Like a hag; lean; ugly.
Haggis (n.) 【蘇格蘭】肉餡羊肚；羊肉雜碎布丁 A Scotch pudding made of the heart, liver, lights, etc., of a sheep or lamb, minced with suet, onions, oatmeal, etc., highly seasoned, and boiled in the stomach of the same animal; minced head and pluck. [Written also {haggiss}, {haggess}, and {haggies}.]
Haggis (n.) Made of sheep's or calf's viscera minced with oatmeal and suet and onions and boiled in the animal's stomach.
Haggish (a.) 女巫似的 Like a hag; ugly; wrinkled.
But on us both did haggish age steal on. -- Shak.
Haggishly (adv.) In the manner of a hag.
Haggled (imp. & p. p.) of Haggle.
Haggling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Haggle.
Haggle (v. t.) 亂劈，亂砍 To cut roughly or hack; to cut into small pieces; to notch or cut in an unskillful manner; to make rough or mangle by cutting; as, a boy haggles a stick of wood.
Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped. -- Shak.
Haggle (v. i.) 討價還價 To be difficult in bargaining; to stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.
Royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood. -- Walpole.
Haggle (n.) 爭論；論價，討價還價 The act or process of haggling. -- Carlyle.
Haggle (n.) An instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) [syn: {haggle}, {haggling}, {wrangle}, {wrangling}].
Haggle (v.) Wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); "Let's not haggle over a few dollars" [syn: {haggle}, {higgle}, {chaffer}, {huckster}].
Haggle (v.) [ I or T ]（對價格或條件）討價還價 To attempt to decide on a price or conditions that are acceptable to the person selling the goods and the person buying them, usually by arguing.
// It's traditional that you haggle over/ about the price of things in the market.
Haggler (n.) One who haggles or is difficult in bargaining.
Haggler (n.) One who forestalls a market; a middleman between producer and dealer in London vegetable markets.
Hagiarchy (n.) A sacred government; by holy orders of men. -- Southey.
Hagibis (n.) Typhoon Hagibis; 哈吉貝 On 2019 October 4, a tropical depression formed. On the next day, JMA issued a gale warning on the system. [126] On the same day, the JTWC issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert on the depression, with an added note of high risk of rapid intensification. Later, the JTWC initiated advisories on Tropical Depression 20W. By October 5, the depression rapidly intensified into Tropical Storm Hagibis while approaching the Mariana Islands. On October 6, after becoming a severe tropical storm, the storm began explosively intensifying, reaching typhoon status at 18:00 UTC, Category 3-equivalent intensity at 00:00 UTC October 7, and Category 4 super typhoon intensity by 06:00 UTC. Thus, Hagibis' 1-minute sustained winds increased by 140 km/h (85 mph) in just 18 hours.
Hagiocracy (n.) Government by a priesthood; hierarchy.
Hagiographa (n. pl.) The last of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament, comprising Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Canticles, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Chronicles, or that portion of the Old Testament not contained in the Law ({Tora) and the Prophets ({Nevi'im) -- it is also called in Hebrew the Ketuvim. Together with the Tora and Nevi'im, it comprises the Hebrew Bible, which is called in Hebrew the Tanach, a vocalization of the first letters of its three parts.
Hagiographa (n. pl.) (R. C. Ch.) The lives of the saints. -- Brande & C.
Hagiographa (n.) The third of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures [syn: Hagiographa, Ketubim, Writings].
Hagiographa, () The holy writings, a term which came early into use in the Christian church to denote the third division of the Old Testament scriptures, called by the Jews Kethubim, i.e., "Writings." It consisted of five books, viz., Job, Proverbs, and Psalms, and the two books of Chronicles. The ancient Jews classified their sacred books as the Law, the Prophets, and the Kethubim, or Writings. (See BIBLE.)
In the New Testament (Luke 24:44) we find three corresponding divisions, viz., the Law, the Prophets, and the Psalms.
Hagiographal () Pertaining to the hagiographa, or to sacred writings.
Hagiographic, Hagiographical, () Of or pertaining to the Hagiographa, or to sacred writings; -- same as hagiographal. [PJC]
Hagiographic, Hagiographical, Of or pertaining to hagiography.
Hagiographer (n.) One of the writers of the hagiographa; a writer of lives of the saints. -- Shipley. Hagiographic
Hagiographer (n.) The author of a worshipful or idealizing biography [syn: hagiographer, hagiographist, hagiologist].
Hagiography (n.) Same Hagiographa.
Hagiography (n.) A biography that idealizes or idolizes the person (especially a person who is a saint).
Hagiolatry (n.) The invocation or worship of saints.
Hagiolatry (n.) The worship of saints [syn: hagiolatry, hierolatry].
Hagiologist (n.) One who treats of the sacred writings; a writer of the lives of the saints; a hagiographer. -- Tylor.
Hagiologists have related it without scruple. -- Southey.
Hagiologist (n.) The author of a worshipful or idealizing biography [syn: hagiographer, hagiographist, hagiologist].
Hagiology (n.) The history or description of the sacred writings or of sacred persons; a narrative of the lives of the saints; a catalogue of saints. -- J. H. Newman.
Hagiology (n.) Literature narrating the lives (and legends) of the saints.
Hagioscope (n.) An opening made in the interior walls of a cruciform church to afford a view of the altar to those in the transepts; -- called, in architecture, a squint. -- Hook. Hag-ridden
Hag-ridden, Hagridden (a.) Ridden by a hag or witch; hence, afflicted with nightmares; tormented or harassed by nightmares or unreasonable fears. -- Beattie. -- Cheyne.
Syn: tormented.
Hagridden . . . by visions of an imminent heaven or hell upon
earth -- C. S. Lewis
Hag-ridden (a.) Tormented or
harassed by nightmares or unreasonable fears; "hagridden...by visions of
an imminent heaven or hell upon earth"- C.S.Lewis [syn: hag-ridden,
hagridden, tormented].
Hagseed (n.) The offspring of a hag. -- Shak.
Hagship (n.) The state or title of a hag. -- Middleton.
Hag-taper (n.) (Bot.) The great woolly mullein ({Verbascum Thapsus).
Hig-taper (n.) (Bot.) Verbascum+({Verbascum+Thapsus">A plant of the genus Verbascum ({Verbascum Thapsus); the common mullein. [Also high-taper and hag-taper.] Hijera
Compare: Hagbut
Hagbut (n.) A harquebus, of which the but was bent down or hooked for convenience in taking aim. [Written also haguebut and hackbuss.]
Haguebut (n.) See Hagbut.
Hah (interj.) Same as Ha.
Ha-ha (n.) A sunk fence; a fence, wall, or ditch, not visible till one is close upon it. [Written also haw-haw.]
Ha-ha (n.) A loud laugh that sounds like a horse neighing [syn: hee-haw, horselaugh, ha-ha, haw-haw].
Ha-ha (n.) A ditch with one side being a retaining wall; used to divide lands without defacing the landscape [syn: sunk fence, ha-ha, haw-haw].
Haidingerite (n.) (Min.) A mineral consisting of the arseniate of lime; -- so named in honor of W. Haidinger, of Vienna.
Haiduck (n.) Formerly, a mercenary foot soldier in Hungary, now, a halberdier of a Hungarian noble, or an attendant in German or Hungarian courts. [Written also hayduck, haiduk, heiduc, heyduck, and heyduk.]
Haik (n.) A large piece of woolen or cotton cloth worn by Arabs as an outer garment. [Written also hyke.] -- Heyse.
Haik (n.) An outer garment consisting of a large piece of white cloth; worn by men and women in northern Africa [syn: haik, haick].
Haikal (n.) The central chapel of the three forming the sanctuary of a Coptic church. It contains the high altar, and is usually closed by an embroidered curtain.
Compare: Hale
Hale (a.) [Written also hail.] Sound; entire; healthy; robust; not impaired; as, a hale body.
Last year we thought him strong and hale. -- Swift.
Hail (n.) Small roundish masses of ice precipitated from the clouds, where they are formed by the congelation of vapor. The separate masses or grains are called hailstones.
Thunder mixed with hail, Hail mixed with fire, must rend the Egyptian sky. -- Milton.
Halled (imp. & p. p.) of Hail.
Halting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hail.
Hail (v. i.) To pour down particles of ice, or frozen vapors.
Hail (v. t.) To pour forcibly down, as hail. -- Shak.
Hail (a.) Healthy. See Hale (the preferable spelling).
Hail (v. t.) To call loudly to, or after; to accost; to salute; to address.
Hail (v. t.) To name; to designate; to call.
And such a son as all men hailed me happy. -- Milton.
Hail (v. i.) To declare, by hailing, the port from which a vessel sails or where she is registered; hence, to sail; to come; -- used with from; as, the steamer hails from New York.
Hail (v. i.) To report as one's home or the place from whence one comes; to come; -- with from. [Colloq.] -- C. G. Halpine.
Hail (interj.) An exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting. "Hail, brave friend." -- Shak.
All hail. See in the Vocabulary.
Hail Mary, A form of prayer made use of in the Roman Catholic Church in invocation of the Virgin. See Ave Maria.
Hail (n.) A wish of health; a salutation; a loud call. "Their puissant hail." -- M. Arnold.
The angel hail bestowed. -- Milton.
Hail (n.) Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
Hail (n.) Many objects thrown forcefully through the air; "a hail o pebbles"; "a hail of bullets".
Hail (n.) Enthusiastic greeting.
Hail (v.) Praise vociferously; "The critics hailed the young pianisas a new Rubinstein" [syn: acclaim, hail, herald].Hail
Hail (v.) Be a native of; "She hails from Kalamazoo" [syn: hail, come].
Hail (v.) Call for; "hail a cab".
Hail (v.) Greet enthusiastically or joyfully [syn: hail, herald].
Hail (v.) Precipitate as small ice particles; "It hailed for an hour".
Hail! , () A salutation expressive of a wish for the welfare of the person addressed; the translation of the Greek _Chaire_, "Rejoice" (Luke 1:8). Used in mockery in Matt. 27:29.
Hail, () Frozen rain-drops; one of the plagues of Egypt (Ex. 9:23). It is mentioned by Haggai as a divine judgment (Hag. 2:17). A hail-storm destroyed the army of the Amorites when they fough against Joshua (Josh. 10:11). Ezekiel represents the wall daube with untempered mortar as destroyed by great hail-stones (Ezek 13:11). (See also 38:22; Rev. 8:7; 11:19; 16:21.)
Hail-fellow (n.) 好友；友好，友情 An intimate companion.
Hail-fellow well met. -- Lyly.
Hail-fellow, () Heartily friendly and congenial [syn: comradely, hail-fellow, hail-fellow-well-met].
Hail-fellow-well-met (a.) Heartily friendly and congenial [syn: comradely, hail-fellow, hail-fellow-well-met].
Hail-fellow-well-met (a.) （人或行爲）十分友善的，過分親熱的 Showing excessive familiarity or friendliness.
‘Arnold was very cheerful in a hail-fellow-well-met sort of way.’