Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter H - Page 35
Hindus (n. pl. ) of Hindu.
Hindoo (n.) Alt. of Hindu.
Hindu (n.) 印度人 A native inhabitant of Hindostan. As an ethnical term it is confined to the Dravidian and Aryan races; as a religious name it is restricted to followers of the Veda. Hindoo calendar
Hindooism (n.) Alt. of Hinduism.
Hinduism (n.) The religious doctrines and rites of the Hindoos; Brahmanism.
Hindoostanee (a.) Alt. of Hindustani.
Hindustani (a.) Of or pertaining to the Hindoos or their language.
Hindustani (n.) The language of Hindostan; the name given by Europeans to the most generally spoken of the modern Aryan languages of India. It is Hindi with the addition of Persian and Arabic words.
Hindrance (n.) 妨害，障礙，阻礙物 The act of hindering, or the state of being hindered.
Hindrance (n.) That which hinders; an impediment.
Hindu (n.) Same as Hindoo.
Hine (n.) A servant; a farm laborer; a peasant; a hind.
Hinge (n.) The hook with its eye, or the joint, on which a door, gate, lid, etc., turns or swings; a flexible piece, as a strip of leather, which serves as a joint to turn on.
Hinge (n.) That on which anything turns or depends; a governing principle; a cardinal point or rule; as, this argument was the hinge on which the question turned.
Hinge (n.) One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
Hinged (imp. & p. p.) of Hinge.
Hinging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hinge.
Hinge (v. t.) To attach by, or furnish with, hinges.
Hinge (v. t.) To bend.
Hinge (v. i.) To stand, depend, hang, or turn, as on a hinge; to depend chiefly for a result or decision or for force and validity; -- usually with on or upon; as, the argument hinges on this point.
Hinged (a.) Furnished with hinges.
Hingeless (a.) Without a hinge or joint.
Hink (n.) A reaping hook.
Hinniate (v. i.) Alt. of Hinny.
Hinny (v. i.) To neigh; to whinny.
Hinnies (n. pl. ) of Hinny.
Hinny (n.) A hybrid between a stallion and an ass.
Hinny (n.) A term of endearment; darling; -- corrupted from honey.
Hinted (imp. & p. p.) of Hint.
Hinting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hint.
Hint (v. t.) 暗示，示意 [Y] [+（that）] To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner; as, to hint a suspicion.
Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike. -- Pope.
Syn: To suggest; intimate; insinuate; imply.
Hint (v. i.) 作暗示，示意 [（+at）] To make an indirect reference, suggestion, or allusion; to allude vaguely to something.
We whisper, and hint, and chuckle. -- Tennyson.
To hint at, To allude to lightly, indirectly, or cautiously.
Syn: To allude; refer; glance; touch.
Hint (n.) 暗示 [C] [+that]；少許，微量 [S] [（+of）] A remote allusion; slight mention; intimation; insinuation; a suggestion or reminder, without a full declaration or explanation; also, an occasion or motive.
Our hint of woe Is common. -- Shak.
The hint malevolent, the look oblique. -- Hannah More.
Syn: Suggestion; allusion. See Suggestion.
Hint (n.) An indirect suggestion; "not a breath of scandal ever touched her" [syn: hint, intimation, breath].
Hint (n.) A slight indication [syn: hint, clue].
Hint (n.) A slight but appreciable amount; "this dish could use a touch of garlic" [syn: touch, hint, tinge, mite, pinch, jot, speck, soupcon].
Hint (n.) A just detectable amount; "he speaks French with a trace of an accent" [syn: trace, hint, suggestion].
Hint (n.) An indication of potential opportunity; "he got a tip on the stock market"; "a good lead for a job" [syn: tip, lead, steer, confidential information, wind, hint].
Hint (v.) Drop a hint; intimate by a hint [syn: hint, suggest].
HINT, () Hierarchical INTegration [benchmark]
HINT, () Hierarchical Information NeTs.
A language for the CDC 3600.
["HINT: A Graph Processing Language", R.D. Hart, Michigan State U, Apr 1970].
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Hintingly (adv.) 暗示地；提示地 In a hinting manner.
Hinterland (n.) 內地；海岸、河岸等的後方地區 A remote and undeveloped area; originally, the land or region lying behind the coast district. The term is used esp. with reference to the so-called.
Doctrine of the hinterland, Sometimes advanced, that occupation of the coast supports a claim to an exclusive right to occupy, from time to time, the territory lying inland of the coast.
Syn: backwoods, back country, boondocks.
Hinterland (n.) A remote and undeveloped area [syn: backwoods, back country, boondocks, hinterland].
Hip (n.) 臀部，屁股；髖部；髖關節 [C] The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle.
Hip (n.) (Arch.) The external angle formed by the meeting of two sloping sides or skirts of a roof, which have their wall plates running in different directions.
Hip (n.) (Engin) In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord. -- Waddell.
Hip bone (Anat.), The innominate bone; -- called also haunch bone and huckle bone.
Hip girdle (Anat.), The pelvic girdle.
Hip joint (Anat.), The articulation between the thigh bone and hip bone.
Hip knob (Arch.), A finial, ball, or other ornament at the intersection of the hip rafters and the ridge.
Hip molding (Arch.), A molding on the hip of a roof, covering the hip joint of the slating or other roofing.
Hip rafter (Arch.), The rafter extending from the wall plate to the ridge in the angle of a hip roof.
Hip roof, Hipped roof (Arch.), A roof having sloping ends and sloping sides. See Hip, n., 2., and Hip, v. t., 3.
Hip tile, A tile made to cover the hip of a roof.
To catch upon the hip, or To have on the hip, To have or get the advantage of; -- a figure probably derived from wresting. -- Shak.
To smite hip and thigh, To overthrow completely; to defeat utterly. -- Judg. xv. 8.
Hipped (imp. & p. p.) of Hip.
Hipping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hip.
Hip (v. t.) 給（屋頂）造屋脊；使（家畜等）的股關節脫臼 To dislocate or sprain the hip of, to fracture or injure the hip bone of (a quadruped) in such a manner as to produce a permanent depression of that side.
Hip (v. t.) To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock).
Hip (v. t.) To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.
Hip (n.) The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose (Rosa canina).
Hip (interj.) Used to excite attention or as a signal; as, hip, hip, hurra! Hip
Hip (n.) Alt. of Hipps
Hipps (n.) See Hyp, n. [Colloq.]
Hip (a.) Aware of the latest ideas, trends, fashions, and developments in popular music and entertainment culture; not square; -- same as hep.
Syn: tuned in.
Hip (a.) Aware of the latest fashions and behaving as expected socially, especially in clothing style and musical taste; exhibiting an air of casual sophistication; cool; with it; -- used mostly among young people in the teens to twenties.
Hip (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Hipped; p. pr. & vb. n. Hipping.] To dislocate or sprain the hip of, to fracture or injure the hip bone of (a quadruped) in such a manner as to produce a permanent depression of that side.
Hip (v. t.) To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock).
Hip (v. t.) To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.
Hipped roof. See Hip roof, under Hip.
Hip (n.) (Bot.) The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose ({Rosa canina); called also rose hip. [Written also hop, hep.]
Hip tree (Bot.), The dog-rose.
Hip (a.) Informed about the latest trends [syn: hep, hip, hip to(p)].
Hip (n.) Either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh.
Hip (n.) The structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates [syn: pelvis, pelvic girdle, pelvic arch, hip].
Hip (n.) The ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum [syn: hip, hip joint, coxa, articulatio coxae].
Hip (n.) (Architecture) The exterior angle formed by the junction of a sloping side and a sloping end of a roof.
Hip (n.) The fruit of a rose plant [syn: hip, rose hip, rosehip].
Hiphalt (a.) Lame in the hip.
Hippa (n.) Alt. of Hippe
Hippe (n.) A genus of marine decapod crustaceans, which burrow rapidly in the sand by pushing themselves backward; -- called also bait bug. See Illust. under Anomura.
Hipparion (n.) An extinct genus of Tertiary mammals allied to the horse, but three-toed, having on each foot a small lateral hoof on each side of the main central one. It is believed to be one of the ancestral genera of the Horse family.
Hipped (a.) Alt. of Hippish.
Hippish (a.) Somewhat hypochondriac; melancholy. See Hyppish.
Hippobosca (n.) A genus of dipterous insects including the horsefly or horse tick.
Hippocamp (n.) See Hippocampus.
Hippocampal (a.) Of or pertaining to the hippocampus.
Hippocampus (n.) (Class. Myth.) A fabulous monster, with the head and fore quarters of a horse joined to the tail of a dolphin or other fish ({Hippocampus brevirostris), -- seen in Pompeian paintings, attached to the chariot of Neptune. -- Fairholt.
Hippocampus (n.) (Zool.) A genus of lophobranch fishes of several species in which the head and neck have some resemblance to those of a horse; -- called also sea horse.
Note: They swim slowly, in an erect position, and often cling to seaweeds by means of the incurved prehensile tail. The male has a ventral pouch, in which it carries the eggs till hatched.
Hippocampus (n.) (Zool.) A name applied to either of two ridges of white matter in each lateral ventricle of the brain. The larger is called hippocampus major or simply hippocampus. The smaller, hippocampus minor, is called also ergot and calcar.
Hippocentaur (n.) (Myth.) Same as Centaur.
Hippocras (n.) A cordial made of spiced wine, etc.
Hippocrates (n.) A famous Greek physician and medical writer, born in Cos, about 460 B. C.
Hippocrates' sleeve, A conical strainer, made by stitching together two adjacent sides of a square piece of cloth, esp. flannel of linen.
Hippocratic (a.) Of or pertaining to Hippocrates, or to his teachings.
Hippocratic face [L. facies Hippocratica], The change produced in the countenance by death, or long sickness, excessive evacuations, excessive hunger, and the like. The nose is pinched, the eyes are sunk, the temples hollow, the ears cold and retracted, the skin of the forehead tense and dry, the complexion livid, the lips pendent, relaxed, and cold; -- so called, as having been described by Hippocrates. -- Dunglison.
Hippocratism (n.) The medical philosophy or system of Hippocrates.
Hippocrene (n.) A fountain on Mount Helicon in Boeotia, fabled to have burst forth when the ground was struck by the hoof of Pegasus. Also, its waters, which were supposed to impart poetic inspiration. -- Keats.
Nor maddening draughts of Hippocrene. -- Longfellow.
Hippocrepian (n.) (Zool.) One of an order of fresh-water Bryozoa, in which the tentacles are on a lophophore, shaped like a horseshoe. See Phylactolaema.
Hippocrepiform (a.) (Bot.) Shaped like a horseshoe.
Hippodame (n.) A fabulous sea monster. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Hippodrome (n.) (Gr. Antiq.) A place set apart for equestrian and chariot races.
Hippodrome (n.) An arena for equestrian performances; a circus.
Hippodrome (n.) (Sports) A fraudulent contest with a predetermined winner. [Slang, U. S.]
Hippodrome (v. i.) [imp. & p. p. Hippodromed; p. pr. & vb. n. Hippodroming.] (Sports) To arrange contests with predetermined winners. [Slang, U. S.]
Hippogriff (n.) (Myth.) A fabulous winged animal, half horse and half griffin. -- Milton.
Hippolith (n.) A concretion, or kind of bezoar, from the intestines of the horse.
Hippopathology (n.) The science of veterinary medicine; the pathology of the horse.
Hippophagi (n. pl.) Eaters of horseflesh.
Hippophagism (n.) Hippophagy. -- Lowell.
Hippophagist (n.) One who eats horseflesh.
Hippophagous (a.) Feeding on horseflesh; -- said of certain nomadic tribes, as the Tartars.
Hippophagy (n.) The act or practice of feeding on horseflesh.
Hippophile (n.) One who loves horses. -- Holmes.
Hippopotamuses (n. pl. ) of Hippopotamus.
Hippopotami (n. pl. ) of Hippopotamus.
Hippopotamus (n.) (Zool.) 河馬 A large, amphibious, herbivorous mammal ({Hippopotamus amphibius), common in the rivers of tropical Africa. It is allied to the hogs, and has a very thick, naked skin, a thick and square head, a very large muzzle, small eyes and ears, thick and heavy body, and short legs. It is supposed to be the behemoth of the Bible. Called also zeekoe, and river horse. A smaller species ({Hippopotamus Liberiencis}) inhabits Western Africa.
Compare: Pachyderm
Pachyderm (n.) (Zool.) 【動】厚皮動物；厚臉皮的人；遲鈍的人 Any of various nonruminant hoofed mammals having very thick skin, including the elephant, rhinoceros, and hippopotamus, one of the Pachydermata.
Hippopotamus (n.) Massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa [syn: hippopotamus, hippo, river horse, Hippopotamus amphibius].
Hippopotamus (n.) [ C ] (pl. Hippopotamuses or Hippopotami informal Hippo) 河馬 A very large animal with short legs and thick, dark grey skin that lives near water in Africa.
Hippotomy (n.) Anatomy of the horse.
Hippuric (a.) Obtained from the urine of horses; as, hippuric acid.
Hippurite (n.) A fossil bivalve mollusk of the genus Hippurites, of many species, having a conical, cup-shaped under valve, with a flattish upper valve or lid. Hippurites are found only in the Cretaceous rocks.
Hip-roofed (a.) Having a hip roof.
Hipshot (a.) Having the hip dislocated; hence, having one hip lower than the other.
Hip tree () The dog-rose.
Hir (pron.) See Here, pron.
Hircic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, mutton suet; -- applied by Chevreul to an oily acid which was obtained from mutton suet, and to which he attributed the peculiar taste and smell of that substance. The substance has also been called hircin.
Hircin (n.) Hircic acid. See Hircic.
Hircine (a.) Alt. of Hircinous.
Hircinous (a.) Goatlike; of or pertaining to a goat or the goats.
Hircinous (a.) Of a strong goatish smell.
Hire (pron.) [Obs.] See Here, pron. -- Chaucer.
Hire (n.) The price, reward, or compensation paid, or contracted to be paid, for the temporary use of a thing or a place, for personal service, or for labor; wages; rent; pay.
The laborer is worthy of his hire. -- Luke x. 7.
Hire (n.) (Law) A bailment by which the use of a thing, or the services and labor of a person, are contracted for at a certain price or reward. -- Story.
Syn: Wages; salary; stipend; allowance; pay.
Hired (imp. & p. p.) of Hire.
Hiring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hire.
Hire (v. t.) To procure (any chattel or estate) from another person, for temporary use, for a compensation or equivalent; to purchase the use or enjoyment of for a limited time; as, to hire a farm for a year; to hire money.
Hire (v. t.) To engage or purchase the service, labor, or interest of (any one) for a specific purpose, by payment of wages; as, to hire a servant, an agent, or an advocate.