Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter H - Page 32
Hexone (n.) (Chem.) A liquid hydrocarbon, C6H8, of the valylene series, obtained from distillation products of certain fats and gums.
Hexyl (n.) (Chem.) A univalent organic radical, C6H13-, regarded as the essential residue of hexane, and a related series of compounds.
Hexylene (n.) (Chem.) A colorless, liquid hydrocarbon, C6H12, of the ethylene series, produced artificially, and found as a natural product of distillation of certain coals; also, any one several isomers of hexylene proper. Called also hexene.
Hexylic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, hexyl or hexane; as, hexylic alcohol.
Hey (a.) High. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Hey (interj.) An exclamation of joy, surprise, or encouragement. -- Shak.
Hey (interj.) A cry to set dogs on. -- Shak.
Heyday (n.) The time of triumph and exultation; hence, joy, high spirits, frolicsomeness; wildness.
The heyday in the blood is tame. -- Shak.
In the heyday of their victories. -- J. H. Newman.
Heyday (interj.) 【古】（喜悅或驚奇所發聲音）嘿！ An expression of frolic and exultation, and sometimes of wonder. -- B. Jonson.
Heyday (n.) 全盛期 The period of greatest prosperity or productivity [syn: {flower}, {prime}, {peak}, {heyday}, {bloom}, {blossom}, {efflorescence}, {flush}].
Heydeguy (n.) A kind of country-dance or round. [Obs.] -- Spenser. Heyh
Heyh (a.) Alt. of Heygh.
Heygh (a.) High. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Heyne (n.) A wretch; a rascal. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Heyten (adv.) Hence. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Hiation (n.) Act of gaping. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Hiatus (n. pl. ) of Hiatus.
Hiatuses (n. pl. ) of Hiatus.
Hiatus (n.) 裂縫；空隙；短暫的中斷；（文件中）脫漏部分 An opening; an aperture; a gap; a chasm; esp., a defect in a manuscript, where some part is lost or effaced; a space where something is wanting; a break.
Hiatus (n.) (Gram.) The concurrence of two vowels in two successive words or syllables. -- Pope.
Hiatus (n.) An interruption in the intensity or amount of something [syn: suspension, respite, reprieve, hiatus, abatement].
Hiatus (n.) A missing piece (as a gap in a manuscript).
Hiatus (n.) A natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure [syn: foramen, hiatus].
Hibernacle (n.) That which serves for protection or shelter in winter; winter quarters; as, the hibernacle of an animal or a plant. -- Martyn.
Hibernaculum (n.) (Bot.) 越冬棲所；越冬巢 {動物學}；冬芽 {植物學} A winter bud, in which the rudimentary foliage or flower, as of most trees and shrubs in the temperate zone, is protected by closely overlapping scales.
Hibernaculum (n.) (Zool.) A little case in which certain insects pass the winter.
Hibernaculum (n.) Winter home or abiding place. -- J. Burroughs.
Hibernal (a.) Belonging or relating to winter; wintry; winterish. -- Sir T. Browne.
Hibernal (a.) Characteristic of or relating to winter; "bears in brumal sleep" [syn: brumal, hibernal, hiemal].
Hibernated (imp. & p. p.) of Hibernate.
Hibernating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hibernate.
Hibernate (v. i.) （動物）過冬，冬眠 To winter; to pass the season of winter in close quarters, in a torpid or lethargic state, as certain mammals, reptiles, and insects.
Inclination would lead me to hibernate, during half the year, in this uncomfortable climate of Great Britain. -- Southey.
Hibernate (v.) Sleep during winter; "Bears must eat a lot of food before they hibernate in their caves" [syn: hibernate, hole up] [ant: aestivate, estivate].
Hibernate (v.) Be in an inactive or dormant state.
Hibernate (v. i.) To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been many singular popular notions about the hibernation of various animals. Many believe that the bear hibernates during the whole winter and subsists by mechanically sucking its paws. It is admitted that it comes out of its retirement in the spring so lean that it had to try twice before it can cast a shadow. Three or four centuries ago, in England, no fact was better attested than that swallows passed the winter months in the mud at the bottom of their brooks, clinging together in globular masses. They have apparently been compelled to give up the custom and account of the foulness of the brooks. Sotus Ecobius discovered in Central Asia a whole nation of people who hibernate. By some investigators, the fasting of Lent is supposed to have been originally a modified form of hibernation, to which the Church gave a religious significance; but this view was strenuously opposed by that eminent authority, Bishop Kip, who did not wish any honors denied to the memory of the Founder of his family.
Hibernation (n.) 過冬；冬眠 The act or state of hibernating. -- Evelyn.
Hibernation (n.) The torpid or resting state in which some animals pass the winter.
Hibernation (n.) Cessation from or slowing of activity during the winter; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals.
Hibernation (n.) The act of retiring into inactivity; "he emerged from his hibernation to make his first appearance in several years".
Hibernian (a.) Of or pertaining to Hibernia, now Ireland; Irish.
Hibernian (n.) A native or an inhabitant of Ireland. Hibernicism
Hibernicism (n.) Alt. of Hibernianism.
Hibernianism (n.) An idiom or mode of speech peculiar to the Irish. -- Todd.
Compare: Irish
Irish (n. sing. & pl.) pl. The natives or inhabitants of Ireland, esp. the Celtic natives or their descendants.
Irish (n. sing. & pl.) The language of the Irish; also called Irish Gaelic or the Hiberno-Celtic.
Irish (n. sing. & pl.) An old game resembling backgammon.
Get one's Irish up, To become angry. Irish American
Hiberno-Celtic (n.) The native language of the Irish; that branch of the Celtic languages spoken by the natives of Ireland. Also adj.
Hibiscus (n.) (Bot.) A genus of plants (herbs, shrubs, or trees), some species of which have large, showy flowers. Some species are cultivated in India for their fiber, which is used as a substitute for hemp. See Althea, Hollyhock, and Manoe.
Hibiscus (n.) Any plant of the genus Hibiscus.
Hiccius doctius () A juggler. [Cant] -- Hudibras.
Hiccough (n.) (Physiol.) A modified respiratory movement; a spasmodic inspiration, consisting of a sudden contraction of the diaphragm, accompanied with closure of the glottis, so that further entrance of air is prevented, while the impulse of the column of air entering and striking upon the closed glottis produces a sound, or hiccough. [Written also hickup or hiccup.]
Hiccoughed (imp. & p. p.) of Hiccough.
Hiccoughing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hiccough.
Hiccough (v. i.) To have a hiccough or hiccoughs.
Hiccough (n.) (Usually plural) The state of having reflex spasms of the diaphragm accompanied by a rapid closure of the glottis producing an audible sound; sometimes a symptom of indigestion; "how do you cure the hiccups?" [syn: hiccup, hiccough, singultus].
Hiccough (v.) Breathe spasmodically, and make a sound; "When you have to hiccup, drink a glass of cold water" [syn: hiccup, hiccough].
Hickory (n.) (Bot.) An American tree of the genus Carya, of which there are several species. The shagbark is the C. alba, and has a very rough bark; it affords the hickory nut of the markets. The pignut, or brown hickory, is the C. glabra. The swamp hickory is C. amara, having a nut whose shell is very thin and the kernel bitter.
Hickory shad (Zool.) The mattowacca, or fall herring.
Hickory shad (Zool.) The gizzard shad.
Hickory (n.) Valuable tough heavy hardwood from various hickory trees.
Hickory (n.) American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts [syn: hickory, hickory tree].
Hicksite (n.) A member or follower of the "liberal" party, headed by Elias Hicks, which, because of a change of views respecting the divinity of Christ and the Atonement, seceded from the conservative portion of the Society of Friends in the United States, in 1827.
Compare: Hiccough
Hiccough (n.) (Physiol.) A modified respiratory movement; a spasmodic inspiration, consisting of a sudden contraction of the diaphragm, accompanied with closure of the glottis, so that further entrance of air is prevented, while the impulse of the column of air entering and striking upon the closed glottis produces a sound, or hiccough. [Written also hickup or hiccup.]
Hickup (n. & v. i.) See Hiccough. Hickwall
Compare: Tapper
Tapper (n.) (Zool.) The lesser spotted woodpecker ({Dendrocopus minor); -- called also tapperer, tabberer, little wood pie, barred woodpecker, wood tapper, hickwall, and pump borer. [Prov. Eng.]
Hickwall (n.) Alt. of Hickway.
Hickway (n.) The lesser spotted woodpecker ({Dendrocopus minor) of Europe. [Prov. Eng.]
Hid () (imp. & p. p.) of Hide. See Hidden.
Hide (v. t.) [imp. Hid (h[i^]d); p. p.
Hidden (Hid; p. pr. & vb. n. Hiding) To conceal, or withdraw from sight; to put out of view; to secrete.
A city that is set on an hill can not be hid. -- Matt. v. 15.
If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid. -- Shak.
Hidden (Hid; p. pr. & vb. n. Hiding) To withhold from knowledge; to keep secret; to refrain from avowing or confessing.
Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate. -- Pope.
Hidden (Hid; p. pr. & vb. n. Hiding) To remove from danger; to shelter.
In the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion. -- Ps. xxvi. 5.
To hide one's self, To put one's self in a condition to be safe; to secure protection. "A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself." -- Prov. xxii. 3.
To hide the face, To withdraw favor. "Thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled." -- Ps. xxx. 7.
To hide the face from. To overlook; to pardon. "Hide thy face from my sins." -- Ps. li. 9.
To hide the face from. To withdraw favor from; to be displeased with.
Syn: To conceal; secrete; disguise; dissemble; screen; cloak; mask; veil. See Conceal.
HID, () Human Interface Device (MS)
Human Interface Device
HID
(HID) Any device to interact directly with humans (mostly input) like keyboard, mouse, joystick, or graphics tablet. (2001-03-29)
Compare: Tallage, Talliage
Tallage, Talliage, (n.) (O. Eng. Law) A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants, toward the public expenses. [Written also tailage, taillage.]
Note: When paid out of knight's fees, it was called scutage; when by cities and burghs, tallage; when upon lands not held by military tenure, hidage. -- Blackstone.
Hidage (n.) A tax formerly paid to the kings of England for every hide of land.
Hidalgo (n.) A title, denoting a Spanish nobleman of the lower class.
Hidalgo -- U.S. County in New Mexico
Population (2000): 5932
Housing Units (2000): 2848
Land area (2000): 3445.633240 sq. miles (8924.148744 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.279146 sq. miles (0.722985 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3445.912386 sq. miles (8924.871729 sq. km)
Located within: New Mexico (NM), FIPS 35
Location: 32.025077 N, 108.736570 W
Headwords:
Hidalgo
Hidalgo, NM
Hidalgo County
Hidalgo County, NM
Hidalgo -- U.S. County in Texas
Population (2000): 569463
Housing Units (2000): 192658
Land area (2000): 1569.746365 sq. miles (4065.624249 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 12.917617 sq. miles (33.456472 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1582.663982 sq. miles (4099.080721 sq. km)
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 26.242291 N, 98.159799 W
Headwords:
Hidalgo
Hidalgo, TX
Hidalgo County
Hidalgo County, TX
Hidden (p. p. & a.) from Hide. Concealed; put out of view; secret; not known; mysterious.
Hiddenite (n.) An emerald-green variety of spodumene found in North Carolina; lithia emerald, -- used as a gem.
Hiddenly (adv.) In a hidden manner.
Hid (imp.) of Hide.
Hidden (p. p.) of Hide.
Hid () of Hide.
Hiding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hide.
Hide (v. t.) To conceal, or withdraw from sight; to put out of view; to secrete.
Hide (v. t.) To withhold from knowledge; to keep secret; to refrain from avowing or confessing.
Hide (v. t.) To remove from danger; to shelter.
Hide (v. i.) To lie concealed; to keep one's self out of view; to be withdrawn from sight or observation.
Hide (n.) An abode or dwelling.
Hide (n.) A measure of land, common in Domesday Book and old English charters, the quantity of which is not well ascertained, but has been differently estimated at 80, 100, and 120 acres.
Hide (n.) The skin of an animal, either raw or dressed; -- generally applied to the undressed skins of the larger domestic animals, as oxen, horses, etc.
Hide (n.) The human skin; -- so called in contempt.
Hided (imp. & p. p.) of Hide.
Hiding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hide.
Hide (v. t.) To flog; to whip.
Hidebound (a.) Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back as not to be easily loosened or raised; -- said of an animal.
Hidebound (a.) Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth; -- said of trees.
Hidebound (a.) Untractable; bigoted; obstinately and blindly or stupidly conservative.
Hidebound (a.) Niggardly; penurious.
Hidebound (a.) (Of a domestic animal) having a dry skin lacking in pliancy and adhering closely to the underlying flesh ; having an inflexible or ultraconservative character.
Hideous (a.) 醜惡的，可憎的，可怕的 Frightful, shocking, or offensive to the eyes; dreadful to behold; as, a hideous monster; hideous looks.
Hideous (a.) Distressing or offensive to the ear; exciting terror or dismay; as, a hideous noise.
Hideous (a.) Hateful; shocking.
Hideous (a.) Grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror; "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry" [syn: {hideous}, {horrid}, {horrific}, {outrageous}].
Hideous (a.) So extremely ugly as to be terrifying; "a hideous scar"; "a repulsive mask" [syn: {hideous}, {repulsive}].
Hider (n.) One who hides or conceals.
Hiding (n.) The act of hiding or concealing, or of withholding from view or knowledge; concealment.
Hiding (n.) A flogging.
Hied (imp. & p. p.) of Hie.
Hying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hie.
Hie (v. i.) To hasten; to go in haste; -- also often with the reciprocal pronoun.
Hie (n.) Haste; diligence.
Hie (v. i.) - Hied, - Hying or - Hieing : To go quickly : Hasten.
Hie (v. t.) To cause (oneself) to go quickly.
Hiemal (a.) 冬天的；冬季的；寒冷的 Characteristic of or relating to winter; "bears in brumal sleep" [syn: brumal, hibernal, hiemal].
Hiemal (a.) Of or relating to winter : Wintry.
Hiems (n.) Winter. . -- Shak.
Hierapicra (n.) (Med.) A warming cathartic medicine, made of aloes and canella bark. -- Dunglison.
Hierarch (n.) One who has high and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order; as, princely hierarchs. -- Milton. Hierarchal
Hierarch (n.) A person who holds a high position in a hierarchy
Hierarch (n.) A senior clergyman and dignitary [syn: archpriest, hierarch, high priest, prelate, primate].
Hierarchal (a.) Alt. of Hierarchic.
Hierarchic (a.) Pertaining to a hierarch. "The great hierarchal standard." -- Milton. hierarchic
Hierarchical (a.) 等級制度的；僧侶統治的；有統治權的 Pertaining to a hierarchy. "The great hierarchal standard." -- Milton. hierarchic
Hierarchic, Hierarchical (a.) Of or pertaining to a hierarchy; ordered in a hierarchy. -- {Hi`er*arch`ic*al*ly}, adv.
Syn: hierarchical, hierarchal.
Hierarchic, Hierarchical (a.) Pertaining to a transitive relation between objects by which they may be ordered into a hierarchy; as, a hierarchical relation.
Hierarchical (a.) Classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers; "it has been said that only a hierarchical society with a leisure class at the top can produce works of art"; "in her hierarchical set of values honesty comes first" [syn: {hierarchical}, {hierarchal}, {hierarchic}] [ant: {nonhierarchic}, {nonhierarchical}].
Hierarchism (n.) The principles or authority of a hierarchy.
The more dominant hierarchism of the West. -- Milman.
Hierarchies (n. pl. ) of Hierarchy.
Hierarchy (n.) Dominion or authority in sacred things.
Hierarchy (n.) A body of officials disposed organically in ranks and orders each subordinate to the one above it; a body of ecclesiastical rulers.
Hierarchy (n.) A form of government administered in the church by patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in an inferior degree, by priests. -- Shipley.
Hierarchy (n.) A rank or order of holy beings.
Standards and gonfalons . . . for distinction serve Of hierarchies, of orders, and degrees. -- Milton.
Hierarchy (n.) (Math., Logic, Computers) Any group of objects ranked so that every one but the topmost is subordinate to a specified one above it; also, the entire set of ordering relations between such objects. The ordering relation between each object and the one above is called a hierarchical relation.
Note: Classification schemes, as in biology, usually form hierarchies.
Hierarchy (n.) A series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system; "put honesty first in her hierarchy of values".
Hierarchy (n.) The organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body [syn: hierarchy, power structure, pecking order].
Hierarchy, () An organisation with few things, or one thing, at the top and with several things below each other thing. An inverted tree structure. Examples in computing include a directory hierarchy where each directory may contain files or other directories; a hierarchical network (see hierarchical routing), a class hierarchy in object-oriented programming. (1994-10-11)
Hierarchy, () eccl. law. A hierarchy signified, originally, power of the priest; for in the beginning of societies, the priests were entrusted with all the power but, among the priests themselves, there were different degrees of power and authority, at the summit of which was the sovereign pontiff, and this was called the hierarchy. Now it signifies, not so much the power of the priests as the border of power.
Hieratic (a.) Consecrated to sacred uses; sacerdotal; pertaining to priests.
Hieratic character, A mode of ancient Egyptian writing; a modified form of hieroglyphics, tending toward a cursive hand and formerly supposed to be the sacerdotal character, as the demotic was supposed to be that of the people.
It was a false notion of the Greeks that of the three kinds of writing used by the Egyptians, two -- for that reason called hieroglyphic and hieratic -- were employed only for sacred, while the third, the demotic, was employed for secular, purposes. No such distinction is discoverable on the more ancient Egyptian monuments; bur we retain the old names founded on misapprehension. -- W. H. Ward (Johnson's Cyc.).
Hieratic (a.) Associated with the priesthood or priests; "priestly (or sacerdotal) vestments"; "hieratic gestures" [syn: priestly, hieratic, hieratical, sacerdotal].
Hieratic (a.) Written or belonging to a cursive form of ancient Egyptian writing; "hieratic Egyptian script".
Hieratic (a.) Adhering to fixed types or methods; highly restrained and formal; "the more hieratic sculptures leave the viewer curiously unmoved".
Hieratic (n.) A cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphics; used especially by the priests [syn: hieratic, hieratic script].
Hierocracy (n.) Government by ecclesiastics; a hierarchy. -- Jefferson. Hieroglyph
Hierocracy (n.) A ruling body composed of clergy.
Hieroglyph (n.) Alt. of Hieroglyphic.
Hieroglyphic (n.) 象形文字；（常複數）用象形文字寫的文章；（常複數）潦草難懂的文章 A sacred character; a character in picture writing, as of the ancient Egyptians, Mexicans, etc. Specifically, in the plural, the picture writing of the ancient Egyptian priests. It is made up of three, or, as some say, four classes of characters: first, the hieroglyphic proper, or figurative, in which the representation of the object conveys the idea of the object itself; second, the ideographic, consisting of symbols representing ideas, not sounds, as an ostrich feather is a symbol of truth; third, the phonetic, consisting of symbols employed as syllables of a word, or as letters of the alphabet, having a certain sound, as a hawk represented the vowel a.
Hieroglyphic (n.) Any character or figure which has, or is supposed to have, a hidden or mysterious significance; hence, any unintelligible or illegible character or mark. [Colloq.] Hieroglyphic
Hieroglyph (n.) Writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible) [syn: hieroglyph, hieroglyphic].
Hieroglyph (n.) A writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt [syn: hieroglyph, hieroglyphic].
Hieroglyphic (a.) Alt. of Hieroglyphical.
Hieroglyphical (a.) 象形文字的；難解的 Emblematic; expressive of some meaning by characters, pictures, or figures; as, hieroglyphic writing; a hieroglyphic obelisk.
Pages no better than blanks to common minds, to his, hieroglyphical of wisest secrets. -- Prof. Wilson.
Hieroglyphical (a.) Resembling hieroglyphics; not decipherable. "An hieroglyphical scrawl." -- Sir W. Scott.
Hieroglyphical (a.) Of or pertaining to hieroglyphs.
Hieroglyphic (a.) Resembling hieroglyphic writing [syn: hieroglyphic, hieroglyphical].
Hieroglyphic (a.) Written in or belonging to a writing system using pictorial symbols [syn: hieroglyphic, hieroglyphical].
Hieroglyphic (n.) Writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible) [syn: hieroglyph, hieroglyphic].
Hieroglyphic (n.) A writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt [syn: hieroglyph, hieroglyphic].
Hieroglyphically (adv.) In hieroglyphics.
Hieroglyphically (adv.) By means of hieroglyphs; "hieroglyphically written".