Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter H - Page 37
Hit (n.) A stroke of success in an enterprise, as by a fortunate chance; as, he made a hit; esp. A performance, as a musical recording, movie, or play, which achieved great popularity or acclaim; also used of books or objects of commerce which become big sellers; as, the new notebook computer was a big hit with business travellers.
What late he called a blessing, now was wit, And God's good providence, a lucky hit. -- Pope.
Hit (n.) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark; as, a happy hit.
Hit (n.) A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts less than a gammon.
Hit (n.) (Baseball) A striking of the ball; as, a safe hit; a foul hit; -- sometimes used specifically for a base hit.
Hit (n.) An act of murder performed for hire, esp. by a professional assassin.
Base hit, Safe hit, Sacrifice hit. (Baseball) See under Base, Safe, etc.
Hit. (a.) Having become very popular or acclaimed; -- said of entertainment performances; as, a hit record, a hit movie.
Hitch (v. t.) To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.
Atoms . . . which at length hitched together. -- South.
Hitch (v. t.) To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; -- said of something obstructed or impeded.
Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme. -- Pope.
To ease themselves . . . by hitching into another place. -- Fuller.
Hitch (v. t.) To hit the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere. [Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Hitched (imp. & p. p.) of Hitch.
Hitching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hitch.
Hitch (v. t.) 猛拉，繫住 To hook; to catch or fasten as by a hook or a knot; to make fast, unite, or yoke; as, to hitch a horse, or a halter.
Hitch (v. t.) To move with hitches; as, he hitched his chair nearer.
To hitch up. (a) To fasten up.
To hitch up. (b) To pull or raise with a jerk; as, a sailor hitches up his trousers.
To hitch up. (c) To attach, as a horse, to a vehicle; as, hitch up the gray mare. [Colloq.]
Hitch (v. i.) 蹣跚，被鉤住 To {hitchhike}; -- mostly used in the phrase to hitch a ride; as, he hitched his way home; he hitched a ride home.
Hitch (n.) 猛拉，急止，蹣跚，故障 A catch; anything that holds, as a hook; an impediment; an obstacle; an entanglement.
Hitch (n.) The act of catching, as on a hook, etc.
Hitch (n.) A stop or sudden halt; a stoppage; an impediment; a temporary obstruction; an obstacle; as, a hitch in one's progress or utterance; a hitch in the performance.
Hitch (n.) A sudden movement or pull; a pull up; as, the sailor gave his trousers a hitch.
Hitch (n.) (Naut.) A knot or noose in a rope which can be readily undone; -- intended for a temporary fastening; as, a half hitch; a clove hitch; a timber hitch, etc.
Hitch (n.) (Geol. A small dislocation of a bed or vein.
Hitch (n.) A period of time spent in military service [syn: enlistment, hitch, term of enlistment, tour of duty, duty tour, tour].
Hitch (n.) The state of inactivity following an interruption; "the negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check"; "during the halt he got some lunch"; "the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow"; "he spent the entire stop in his seat" [syn: arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage].
Hitch (n.) An unforeseen obstacle [syn: hang-up, hitch, rub, snag].
Hitch (n.) A connection between a vehicle and the load that it pulls.
Hitch (n.) A knot that can be undone by pulling against the strain that holds it; a temporary knot.
Hitch (n.) Any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome [syn: hindrance, hinderance, hitch, preventive, preventative, encumbrance, incumbrance, interference].
Hitch (n.) The uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg [syn: hitch, hobble, limp].
Hitch (v.) To hook or entangle; "One foot caught in the stirrup" [syn: hitch, catch] [ant: unhitch].
Hitch (v.) Walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury; "The old woman hobbles down to the store every day" [syn: limp, gimp, hobble, hitch].
Hitch (v.) Jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched; "the yung filly bucked" [syn: buck, jerk, hitch].
Hitch (v.) Travel by getting free rides from motorists [syn: hitchhike, hitch, thumb].
Hitch (v.) Connect to a vehicle: "hitch the trailer to the car."
Hitchel (n. & v. t.) See Hatchel.
Hithe (n.) A port or small haven; -- used in composition; as, Lambhithe, now Lambeth.
Hither (adv.) To this place; -- used with verbs signifying motion, and implying motion toward the speaker; correlate of hence and thither; as, to come or bring hither.
Hither (adv.) To this point, source, conclusion, design, etc.; -- in a sense not physical.
Hither (a.) Being on the side next or toward the person speaking; nearer; -- correlate of thither and farther; as, on the hither side of a hill.
Hither (a.) Applied to time: On the hither side of, younger than; of fewer years than.
Hithermost (a.) Nearest on this side.
Hitherto (adv.) To this place; to a prescribed limit.
Hitherto (adv.) Up to this time; as yet; until now.
Hitherward (adv.) Toward this place; hither.
Hitler (n.) 希特勒（1889-1945，納粹德國元首，頭號戰犯，發動第二次世界大戰） 阿道夫·希特勒（德語：Adolf Hitler，1889年4月20日－1945年4月30日），德國政治人物，納粹黨領袖，1933年至1945年擔任德國總理，1934年至1945年亦任納粹德國元首。作為納粹德國獨裁者，希特勒於1939年9月發動波蘭戰役，導致第二次世界大戰在歐洲爆發，並為納粹大屠殺的主要發動者之一。
Adolf Hitler "Hitler" redirects here. For other uses, see Hitler (Disambiguation).
Adolf Hitler (German: [ˈadɔlf ˈhɪtlɐ] (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) Was a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; NSDAP), Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and Führer ("Leader") of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. As dictator of the German Reich, he initiated World War II in Europe with the invasion of Poland in September 1939 and was central to the Holocaust.
Hitter (n.) One who hits or strikes; as, a hard hitter.
Compare: Disambiguation
Disambiguation (n.) [U] 解疑，消除模稜兩可情況 See Disambiguate.
Disambiguate (v.) [With object] 消除（字句等之）含糊意義；使意義清楚 Remove uncertainty of meaning from (an ambiguous sentence, phrase, or other linguistic unit)
‘Word senses can be disambiguated by examining the context.’
Hive (n.) A box, basket, or other structure, for the reception and habitation of a swarm of honeybees.
Hive (n.) The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.
Hive (n.) A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.
Hived (imp. & p. p.) of Hive.
Hiving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hive.
Hive (v. t.) To collect into a hive; to place in, or cause to enter, a hive; as, to hive a swarm of bees.
Hive (v. t.) To store up in a hive, as honey; hence, to gather and accumulate for future need; to lay up in store.
Hive (v. i.) To take shelter or lodgings together; to reside in a collective body.
Hiveless (a.) Destitute of a hive.
Hiver (n.) One who collects bees into a hive.
Hives (n.) The croup.
Hives (n.) An eruptive disease (Varicella globularis), allied to the chicken pox.
Hives (n.) (Also called: Urticaria) Hives are red and sometimes itchy bumps on your skin. An allergic reaction to a drug or food usually causes them. Allergic reactions cause your body to release chemicals that can make your skin swell up in hives. People who have other allergies are more likely to get hives than other people. Other causes include infections and stress.
Hizz (v. i.) To hiss.
Ho (pron.) Who.
Ho (interj.) Alt. of Hoa.
Hoa (interj.) A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace.
Ho (interj.) Alt. of Hoa.
Hoa (interj.) Halloo! attend! -- a call to excite attention, or to give notice of approach.
Hoa (interj.) Stop! stand still! hold! -- a word now used by teamsters, but formerly to order the cessation of anything.
Hoar (v. t.) To become moldy or musty. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Hoar (a.) White, or grayish white; as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs. "Hoar waters." -- Spenser.
Hoar (a.) Gray or white with age; hoary.
Whose beard with age is hoar. -- Coleridge.
Old trees with trunks all hoar. -- Byron.
Hoar (a.) Musty; moldy; stale. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Hoar (n.) Hoariness; antiquity. [R.]
Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages. -- Burke.
Hoar (a.) Showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge;
"nodded his hoary head" [syn: grey, gray, grey-haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired].
Hoar (n.) Ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside) [syn: frost, hoar, hoarfrost, rime].
Hoard (n.) 貯藏的錢財；貯藏物；密藏物 [C] [（+of）] See Hoarding, 2. -- Smart.
Hoard (n.) A store, stock, or quantity of anything accumulated or laid up; a hidden supply; a treasure; as, a hoard of provisions; a hoard of money.
Hoarded (imp. & p. p.) of Hoard.
Hoarding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hoard.
Hoard (v. t.) 貯藏，聚藏；隱藏 [（+up）] To collect and lay up; to amass and deposit in secret; to store secretly, or for the sake of keeping and accumulating; as, to hoard grain.
Hoard (v. i.) To lay up a store or hoard, as of money.
To hoard for those whom he did breed. -- Spenser.
Hoard (n.) A secret store of valuables or money [syn: hoard, cache, stash].
Hoard (v.) Save up as for future use [syn: hoard, stash, cache, lay away, hive up, squirrel away].
Hoard (v.) Get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune" [syn: roll up, collect, accumulate, pile up, amass, compile, hoard].
Hoarder (n.) One who hoards.
Hoarder (n.) A person who accumulates things and hides them away for future use.
Hoarding (n.) (Arch.) A screen of boards inclosing a house and materials while builders are at work. [Eng.]
Posted on every dead wall and hoarding. -- London Graphic.
Hoarding (n.) A fence, barrier, or cover, inclosing, surrounding, or concealing something.
The whole arrangement was surrounded by a hoarding, the space within which was divided into compartments by sheets of tin. -- Tyndall.
Hoarding (n.) Large outdoor signboard [syn: billboard, hoarding].
Hoarding (n.) See software hoarding.
Hoared (a.) Moldy; musty. [Obs.] -- Granmer.
Hoarfrost (n.) The white particles
formed by the congelation of dew; white frost. [Written also horefrost. See
Hoar, a.]
He scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. -- Ps. cxlvii. 16.
Hoarfrost (n.) Ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside) [syn: frost, hoar, hoarfrost, rime].
Hoarhound (n.) Same as Horehound.
Hoariness (n.) The state of being hoary.
Hoarse (a.) （嗓音）嘶啞的；粗啞的；嗓音嘶啞的；嗓子粗啞的 Having a harsh, rough, grating voice or sound, as when affected with a cold; making a rough, harsh cry or sound; as, the hoarse raven.
The hoarse resounding shore. -- Dryden.
Hoarse (a.) Harsh; grating; discordant; -- said of any sound.
Hoarse (a.) Deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion; "gruff voices"; "the dog's gruff barking"; "hoarse cries"; "makes all the instruments sound powerful but husky"- Virgil Thomson [syn: gruff, hoarse, husky].
Hoarsely (adv.) With a harsh, grating sound or voice.
Hoarsened (imp. & p. p.) of Hoarsen.
Hoarsening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hoarsen.
Hoarsen (v. t.) To make hoarse.
Hoarseness (n.) Harshness or roughness of voice or sound, due to mucus collected on the vocal cords, or to swelling or looseness of the cords.
Hoarstone (n.) A stone designating the bounds of an estate; a landmark. -- Halliwell.
Hoary (a.) White or whitish. "The hoary willows." -- Addison.
Hoary (a.) White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs.
Reverence the hoary head. -- Dr. T. Dwight.
Hoary (a.) Hence; remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity.
Hoary (a.) Moldy; mossy; musty. [Obs.] -- Knolles.
Hoary (a.) (Zool.) Of a pale silvery gray.
Hoary (a.) (Bot.) Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent.
Hoary bat (Zool.), An American bat ({Atalapha cinerea"> Hoary bat (Zool.), an American bat ({Atalapha cinerea), having the hair yellowish, or brown, tipped with white.
Hoary (a.) Showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar" -- Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head" [syn: grey, gray, grey-haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired].
Hoary (a.) Ancient; "hoary jokes" [syn: hoary, rusty].
Hoary (a.) Covered with fine whitish hairs or down [syn: canescent, hoary].
Hoatzin (n.) (Zool.) Same as Hoazin.
Hoatzin (n.) Crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings [syn: hoatzin, hoactzin, stinkbird, Opisthocomus hoazin].
Hoax (n.) 騙局；玩笑；惡作劇 A deception for mockery or mischief; a deceptive trick or story; a practical joke. -- Macaulay.
Hoaxed (imp. & p. p.) of Hoax.
Hoaxing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hoax.
Hoax (v. t.) 欺騙；愚弄 To deceive by a story or a trick, for sport or mischief; to impose upon sportively. -- Lamb.
Hoax (n.) Something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage [syn: {fraud}, {fraudulence}, {dupery}, {hoax}, {humbug}, {put-on}].
Hoax (v. t.) Subject to a playful hoax or joke [syn: {hoax}, {pull someone's leg}, {play a joke on}].
Hoaxer (n.) One who hoaxes.
Hoaxer (n.) Someone who plays practical jokes on others [syn: prankster, cut-up, trickster, tricker, hoaxer, practical joker].
Hoazin (n.) (Zool) A remarkable South American bird ({Opisthocomus cristatus); the crested touraco. By some zoologists it is made the type of a distinct order ({Opisthocomi).
Hob (n.) The hub of a wheel. See Hub. -- Washington.
Hob (n.) The flat projection or iron shelf at the side of a fire grate, where things are put to be kept warm. -- Smart.
Hob (n.) (Mech.) A threaded and fluted hardened steel cutter, resembling a tap, used in a lathe for forming the teeth of screw chasers, worm wheels, etc.
Hob (n.) A peg, pin, or mark used as a target in some games, as an iron pin in quoits; also, a game in which such a target is used.
Hob (n.) A fairy; a sprite; an elf. [Obs.]
From elves, hobs, and fairies, . . . Defend us, good Heaven ! -- Beau. & FL.
Hob (n.) A countryman; a rustic; a clown. [Obs.] -- Nares.
Hob (n.) (Zool.) The male ferret. Hobanob
Compare: Nave
Nave (n.) The block in the center of a wheel, from which the spokes radiate, and through which the axle passes; -- called also hub or hob.
Nave (n.) The navel. [Obs.] -- hak.
Hob (n.) (Folklore) A small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings [syn: goblin, hob, hobgoblin].
Hob (n.) (Folklore) Fairies that are somewhat mischievous [syn: elf, hob, gremlin, pixie, pixy, brownie, imp].
Hob (n.) A hard steel edge tool used to cut gears.
Hob (n.) A shelf beside an open fire where something can be kept warm.
Hob (v.) Cut with a hob.
Hobanob (v. i.) Alt. of Hobandnob. -- Tennyson.
Compare: Hobnob
Hobnob (v. i.) [imp. & p. p. Hornobbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Hornobbing.] To drink familiarly (with another). [ Written also hob-a-nob.]
Hobnob (v. i.) To associate familiarly; to be on intimate terms; as, to hobnob with the political elite.
Hobandnob (v. i.) Same as Hobnob. -- Tennyson.
Hobbism (n.) The philosophical system of Thomas Hobbes, an English materialist (1588-1679); esp., his political theory that the most perfect form of civil government is an absolute monarchy with despotic control over everything relating to law, morals, and religion.
Hobbist (n.) One who accepts the doctrines of Thomas Hobbes.
Hobbled (imp. & p. p.) of Hobble.
Hobbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hobble.
Hobble (v. i.) 蹣跚，跛行 To walk lame, bearing chiefly on one leg; to walk with a hitch or hop, or with crutches.
The friar was hobbling the same way too. -- Dryden.
Hobble (v. i.) To move roughly or irregularly; -- said of style in writing. -- Prior.
The hobbling versification, the mean diction. -- Jeffreys.