Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter H - Page 34
High-raised (a.) Elated with great ideas or hopes. -- Milton.
High-reaching (a.) Reaching high or upward; hence, ambitious; aspiring. -- Shak.
High-red (a.) Of a strong red color.
Highroad (n.) A highway; a much traveled or main road. [Mostly British]
Syn: trunk road.
Highroad (n.) A highway [syn: highroad, trunk road].
High-seasoned (a.) Enriched with spice and condiments; hence, exciting; piquant.
High-sighted (a.) Looking upward; supercilious. -- Shak.
High-souled (a.) Having a high or noble spirit; honorable. -- E. Everett.
High-sounding (a.) Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
High-sounding (a.) Pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals); "high-flown talk of preserving the moral tone of the school"; "a high-sounding dissertation on the means to attain social revolution" [syn: high-flown, high-sounding, inflated].
High-spirited (a.) Full of spirit or natural fire; haughty; courageous; impetuous; not brooking restraint or opposition.
High-spirited (a.) Joyously unrestrained [syn: ebullient, exuberant, high-spirited].
High-stepper (n.) A horse that moves with a high step or proud gait; hence, a person having a proud bearing. [Colloq.]
High-stomached (a.) Having a lofty spirit; haughty. [Obs.] -- Shak.
High-strung (a.) Strung to a high pitch; spirited; sensitive; as, a high-strung horse.
High-strung (a.) Being in a tense state [syn: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, restive, uptight].
High-swelling (a.) Inflated; boastful.
Compare: Height
Height (n.) [Written also hight.] The condition of being high; elevated position.
Behold the height of the stars, how high they are! -- Job xxii. 12.
Height (n.) The distance to which anything rises above its foot, above that on which in stands, above the earth, or above the level of the sea; altitude; the measure upward from a surface, as the floor or the ground, of an animal, especially of a man; stature. -- Bacon.
[Goliath's] height was six cubits and a span. --1 Sam. xvii. 4.
Height (n.) Degree of latitude either north or south. [Obs.]
Guinea lieth to the north sea, in the same height as Peru to the south. -- Abp. Abbot.
Height (n.) That which is elevated; an eminence; a hill or mountain; as, Alpine heights. -- Dryden.
Height (n.) Elevation in excellence of any kind, as in power, learning, arts; also, an advanced degree of social rank; pre["e]minence or distinction in society; prominence.
Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts. -- R. Browning.
All would in his power hold, all make his subjects. -- Chapman.
Height (n.) Progress toward eminence; grade; degree.
Social duties are carried to greater heights, and enforced with stronger motives by the principles of our religion. -- Addison.
Height (n.) Utmost degree in extent; extreme limit of energy or condition; as, the height of a fever, of passion, of madness, of folly; the height of a tempest.
My grief was at the height before thou camest. -- Shak.
On height, Aloud. [Obs.]
[He]
spake these same words, all on hight. -- Chaucer.
Hight (n.) A variant of Height.
Hight (imp.) of Hight.
Hot () of Hight.
Hight (p. p.) of Hight.
Hote () of Hight.
Hoten () of Hight.
Hight (v. t. & i.) To be called or named. [Archaic & Poetic.]
Note: In the form hight, it is used in a passive sense as a present, meaning is called or named, also as a preterite, was called or named. This form has also been used as a past participle. See Hote.
The great poet of Italy, That highte Dante. -- Chaucer.
Bright was her hue, and Geraldine she hight. -- Surrey.
Entered then into the church the Reverend Teacher.
Father
he hight, and he was, in the parish. -- Longfellow.
Childe Harold was he hight. -- Byron.
Hight (v. t. & i.) To command; to direct; to impel. [Obs.]
But the sad steel seized not where it was hight Upon the child, but somewhat short did fall. -- Spenser.
Hight (v. t. & i.) To commit; to intrust. [Obs.]
Yet charge of them was to a porter hight. -- Spenser.
Hight
(v. t. &
i.) To promise. [Obs.]
He had hold his day, as he had hight. -- Chaucer.
Hightener (n.) That which heightens.
Highth (n.) Variant of Height.
High-toned (a.) High in tone or sound.
High-toned (a.) Elevated; high-principled; honorable.
High-top (n.) A ship's masthead.
Highty-tighty (a.) Hoity-toity.
Highway (n.) A road or way open to the use of the public; a main road or thoroughfare.
Highwaymen (n. pl. ) of Highwayman.
Highwayman (n.) One who robs on the public road; a highway robber.
High-wrought (a.) Wrought with fine art or skill; elaborate.
High-wrought (a.) Worked up, or swollen, to a high degree; as, a highwrought passion.
Higre (n.) See Eagre.
Hig-taper (n.) A plant of the genus Verbascum (V. Thapsus); the common mullein. [Also high-taper and hag-taper.]
Hijab (n.) 希賈布（穆斯林婦女戴的面紗或頭巾）A headscarf worn by Muslim women; conceals the hair and neck and usually has a face veil that covers the face.
Hijab (n.) The custom in some Islamic societies of women dressing modestly outside the home; "she observes the hijab and does not wear tight clothing".
Hijab (n.) A head covering worn in public by some Muslim women.
Hijab (n.) The religious code which governs the wearing of the hijab.
Hijab (n.) [C] 頭巾（伊斯蘭教女性出門時用於包裹頭部的頭巾） The head covering that some Muslim women wear when they are outside.
Hijab (n.) [U] 規定伊斯蘭教女性衣著的宗教法規 The religious law that controls the clothes that Muslim women can wear.
Hijera (n.) Alt. of Hijra.
Hijra (n.) See Hegira.
Hilal (a.) Of or pertaining to a hilum.
Hilar (a.) Belonging to the hilum.
Hilarious (a.) Mirthful; noisy; merry.
Hilarity (n.) Boisterous mirth; merriment; jollity.
Hilary term () Formerly, one of the four terms of the courts of common law in England, beginning on the eleventh of January and ending on the thirty-first of the same month, in each year; -- so called from the festival of St. Hilary, January 13th.
Hilding (n.) A base, menial wretch.
Hilding (a.) Base; spiritless.
Hile (v. t.) To hide. See Hele.
Hile (n.) Same as Hilum.
Hill (n.) A natural elevation of land, or a mass of earth rising above the common level of the surrounding land; an eminence less than a mountain.
Hill (n.) The earth raised about the roots of a plant or cluster of plants. [U. S.] See Hill, v. t.
Hill (v. t.) A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them; as, a hill of corn or potatoes.
Hilled (imp. & p. p.) of Hill.
Hilling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hill.
Hill (v. t.) To surround with earth; to heap or draw earth around or upon; as, to hill corn.
Hilliness (n.) The state of being hilly.
Hilling (n.) The act or process of heaping or drawing earth around plants.
Hillock (n.) A small hill.
Hillside (n.) The side or declivity of a hill.
Hilltop (n.) The top of a hill.
Hilly (a.) Abounding with hills; uneven in surface; as, a hilly country.
Hilly (a.) Lofty; as, hilly empire.
Hilt (n.) A handle; especially, the handle of a sword, dagger, or the like.
Hilted (a.) Having a hilt; -- used in composition; as, basket-hilted, cross-hilted.
Hilum (n.) 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.
Hilum (n.) The part of a gland, or similar organ, where the blood vessels and nerves enter; the hilus; as, the hilum of the kidney.
Hilus (n.) Same as Hilum, 2.
Him (pron.) Them. See Hem.
Him (pron.) The objective case of he. See He.
Himalayan (a.) Of or pertaining to the Himalayas, the great mountain chain in Hindostan.
Himpne (n.) A hymn.
Himself (pron.) 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.
Himself (pron.) One's true or real character; one's natural temper and disposition; the state of being in one's right or sane mind (after unconsciousness, passion, delirium, or abasement); as, the man has come to himself.
Himself (pron. pl.) Alt. of Himselven.
Himselven (pron. pl.) Themselves. See Hemself.
Himselve (pron.) See 1st Himself.
Himyaric (a.) Alt. of Himyaritic.
Himyaritic (a.) 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.
Hin (n.) A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing three quarts, one pint, one gill, English measure.
Hind (n.) The female of the red deer, of which the male is the stag.
Hind (n.) A spotted food fish of the genus Epinephelus, as E. apua of Bermuda, and E. Drummond-hayi of Florida; -- called also coney, John Paw, spotted hind.
Hind (n.) A domestic; a servant.
Hind (n.) A peasant; a rustic; a farm servant.
Hind (a.) 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.
Hindberry (n.) The raspberry.
Hindbrain (n.) The posterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the epencephalon and metencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the epencephalon only.
Hinder (a.) Of or belonging to that part or end which is in the rear, or which follows; as, the hinder part of a wagon; the hinder parts of a horse.
Hindered (imp. & p. p.) of Hinder.
Hindering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hinder.
Hinder (a.) To keep back or behind; to prevent from starting or moving forward; to check; to retard; to obstruct; to bring to a full stop; -- often followed by from; as, an accident hindered the coach; drought hinders the growth of plants; to hinder me from going.
Hinder (a.) To prevent or embarrass; to debar; to shut out.
Hinder (v. i.) To interpose obstacles or impediments; to be a hindrance.
Hinder (v.) [ T ] (C2) 阻礙，妨礙 To limit the ability of someone to do something, or to limit the development of something.
// High winds have hindered firefighters in their efforts to put out the blaze.
// Her progress certainly hasn't been hindered by her lack of experience.
Hinderance (n.) Same as Hindrance.
Hinderer (n.) One who, or that which, hinders.
Hinderest (a.) Hindermost; -- superl. of Hind, a.
Hinderling (a.) A worthless, base, degenerate person or animal.
Hindermost (a.) Alt. of Hindmost.
Hindmost (a.) Furthest in or toward the rear; last.
Hindgut (n.) The posterior part of the alimentary canal, including the rectum, and sometimes the large intestine also.
Hindi (n.) The name given by Europeans to that form of the Hindustani language which is chiefly spoken by native Hindoos. In employs the Devanagari character, in which Sanskrit is written. -- Whitworth.
Hindi (a.) Of or relating to or supporting Hinduism; "the Hindu faith" [syn: Hindu, Hindi, Hindoo].
Hindi (n.) The most widely spoken of modern Indic vernaculars; spoken mostly in the north of India; along with English it is the official language of India; usually written in Devanagari script
Hindleys screw () (Mech.) A screw cut on a solid whose sides are arcs of the periphery of a wheel into the teeth of which the screw is intended to work. It is named from the person who first used the form. Hindoo
Hindoos (n. pl. ) of Hindu.