Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter H - Page 6
Haloid (a.) (Chem.) Resembling salt; -- said of certain binary compounds consisting of a metal united to a negative element or radical, and now chiefly applied to the chlorides, bromides, iodides, and sometimes also to the fluorides and cyanides.
Haloid (n.) A haloid substance.
Halomancy (n.) See Alomancy.
Compare: Alomancy
Alomancy (n.) Divination by means of salt. [Spelt also halomancy.] -- Morin.
Halometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the forms and angles of salts and crystals; a goniometer.
Halones (n. pl.) (Biol.) Alternating transparent and opaque white rings which are seen outside the blastoderm, on the surface of the developing egg of the hen and other birds.
Halophyte (n.) (Bot.) A plant found growing in salt marshes, or in the sea.
Halophyte (n.) Plant growing naturally in very salty soil.
Haloscope (n.) An instrument for exhibition or illustration of the phenomena of halos, parhelia, and the like.
Halotrichite (n.) (Min.) An iron alum occurring in silky fibrous aggregates of a yellowish white color.
Haloxyline (n.) An explosive mixture, consisting of sawdust, charcoal, niter, and ferrocyanide of potassium, used as a substitute for gunpowder.
Halp (imp.) Helped.
Halpace (n.) See Haut pas.
Hals (n.) The neck or throat.
Halse (v. t.) To embrace about the neck; to salute; to greet.
Halse (v. t.) To adjure; to beseech; to entreat.
Halsed (imp. & p. p.) of Halse.
Halsing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Halse.
Halse (v. t.) To haul; to hoist.
Halsening (a.) Sounding harshly in the throat; inharmonious; rough.
Halser (n.) See Hawser.
Halt () 3d pers. sing. pres. of Hold, contraction for holdeth.
Halt (n.) A stop in marching or walking, or in any action; arrest of progress.
Halted (imp. & p. p.) of Halt.
Halting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Halt.
Halt (v. i.) To hold one's self from proceeding; to hold up; to cease progress; to stop for a longer or shorter period; to come to a stop; to stand still.
Halt (v. i.) To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; to hesitate; to be uncertain.
Halt (v. t.) To cause to cease marching; to stop; as, the general halted his troops for refreshment.
Halt (a.) Halting or stopping in walking; lame.
Halt (n.) The act of limping; lameness.
Halt (a.) To walk lamely; to limp.
Halt (a.) To have an irregular rhythm; to be defective.
Halter (n.) One who halts or limps; a cripple.
Halter (n.) A strong strap or cord.
Halter (n.) A rope or strap, with or without a headstall, for leading or tying a horse.
Halter (n.) A rope for hanging malefactors; a noose.
Haltered (imp. & p. p.) of Halter.
Haltering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Halter.
Halter (v. t.) To tie by the neck with a rope, strap, or halter; to put a halter on; to subject to a hangman's halter.
Halteres (n. pl.) Balancers; the rudimentary hind wings of Diptera.
Halter-sack (n.) A term of reproach, implying that one is fit to be hanged.
Haltingly (adv.) In a halting or limping manner.
Halvans (n. pl.) Impure ore; dirty ore.
Halve (n.) A half.
Halved (imp. & p. p.) of Halve.
Halving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Halve.
Halve (v. t.) To divide into two equal parts; as, to halve an apple; to be or form half of.
Halve (v. t.) To join, as two pieces of timber, by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.
Halved (a.) Appearing as if one side, or one half, were cut away; dimidiate.
Halves (n.) pl. of Half.
Halwe (n.) A saint.
Hal'yard (v. t.) A rope or tackle for hoisting or lowering yards, sails, flags, etc.
Halysites (n.) A genus of Silurian fossil corals; the chain corals. See Chain coral, under Chain.
Ham (n.) Home.
Ham (n.) The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.
Ham (n.) The thigh of any animal; especially, the thigh of a hog cured by salting and smoking.
Hamadryads (n. pl. ) of Hamadryad.
Hamadryades (n. pl. ) of Hamadryad.
Hamadryad (n.) A tree nymph whose life ended with that of the particular tree, usually an oak, which had been her abode.
Hamadryad (n.) A large venomous East Indian snake (Orhiophagus bungarus), allied to the cobras.
Hamadryas (n.) The sacred baboon of Egypt (Cynocephalus Hamadryas).
Hamamelis (n.) A genus of plants which includes the witch-hazel (Hamamelis Virginica), a preparation of which is used medicinally.
Hamartia (n.) 判斷錯誤；悲劇性的弱點 A fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine.
‘There's supposed to be an action that reveals the protagonist's hamartia.’
Hamartia (n.) A flaw in character that brings about the downfall of the hero of a tragedy : tragic flaw.
Hamartia (n.) [C or U] (Literary) A character fault or a mistake that causes someone to fail or be destroyed.
// Just like Greek tragedy, reality TV plays with hubris and hamartia, with faulty self-images and mistakes that prove catastrophic.
Compare: Tragedy
Tragedy (n.) 悲劇體裁 [U]；（一齣）悲劇 [C]；悲劇性事件；慘案；災難 [C] [U] An event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as a serious accident, crime, or natural catastrophe.
‘A tragedy that killed 95 people.’
[Mass noun] ‘His life had been plagued by tragedy.’
Tragedy (n.) A play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, especially one concerning the downfall of the main character.
‘Shakespeare's tragedies.’
Tragedy (n.) [Mass noun ] The dramatic genre represented by tragedies.
‘Greek tragedy.’
Compare: Comedy
Comedy (n.) [Mass noun] 喜劇 [C] [U]；喜劇性，喜劇成分 [U]；喜劇性事件 [C] Professional entertainment consisting of jokes and sketches, intended to make an audience laugh.
‘A cabaret with music, dancing, and comedy.’
‘The show combines theatre with the best of stand-up comedy.’
Comedy (n.) [Count noun ] A film, play, or broadcast programme intended to make an audience laugh.
[As modifier ]‘A comedy film.’
Comedy (n.) The style or genre represented by comedy films, plays, and broadcast programmes.
‘The conventions of romantic comedy have grown more appealing with the passage of time.’
Comedy (n.) The humorous or amusing aspects of something.
‘Advertising people see the comedy in their work.’
Comedy (n.) A play characterized by its humorous or satirical tone and its depiction of amusing people or incidents, in which the characters ultimately triumph over adversity.
‘Shakespeare's comedies.’
Comedy (n.) The dramatic genre represented by comedies.
‘Satiric comedy.’
Compare with Tragedy (sense 2)
Hamate (a.) Hooked; bent at the end into a hook; hamous.
Hamated (a.) Hooked, or set with hooks; hamate.
Hamatum (n.) See Unciform.
Hamble (v. t.) To hamstring.
Hame (n.) Home.
Hame (n.) One of the two curved pieces of wood or metal, in the harness of a draught horse, to which the traces are fastened. They are fitted upon the collar, or have pads fitting the horse's neck attached to them.
Hamel (v. t.) Same as Hamele.
Hamesecken (n.) Alt. of Hamesucken.
Hamesucken (n.) The felonious seeking and invasion of a person in his dwelling house.
Hamiform (n.) Hook-shaped.
Hamilton period () A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
Haminura (n.) A large edible river fish (Erythrinus macrodon) of Guiana.
Hamite (n.) A fossil cephalopod of the genus Hamites, related to the ammonites, but having the last whorl bent into a hooklike form.
Hamite (n.) A descendant of Ham, Noah's second son. See Gen. x. 6-20.
Haitic (a.) Pertaining to Ham or his descendants.
Hamlet (n.) A small village; a little cluster of houses in the country.
Hamleted (p. a.) Confined to a hamlet.
Hammer (n.) An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle.
With busy hammers closing rivets up. -- Shak.
Hammer (n.) Something which in firm or action resembles the common hammer; as:
Hammer (n.) That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour.
Hammer (n.) The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones.
Hammer (n.) (Anat.) The malleus. See under Ear.
Hammer (n.) (Gun.) That part of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, or firing pin; the cock; formerly, however, a piece of steel covering the pan of a flintlock musket and struck by the flint of the cock to ignite the priming.
Hammer
(n.) Also,
a person of thing that smites or shatters; as,
He met the stern legionaries [of Rome] who had been the "massive iron hammers" of the whole earth. -- J. H. Newman.
Hammer (n.) (Athletics) A spherical weight attached to a flexible handle and hurled from a mark or ring. The weight of head and handle is usually not less than 16 pounds.
Atmospheric hammer, A dead-stroke hammer in which the spring is formed by confined air.
Drop hammer, Face hammer, etc. See under Drop, Face, etc.
Hammer fish. See Hammerhead.
Hammer hardening, The process of hardening metal by hammering it when cold.
Hammer shell (Zool.), Any species of Malleus, a genus of marine bivalve shells, allied to the pearl oysters, having the wings narrow and elongated, so as to give them a hammer-shaped outline; -- called also hammer oyster.
To bring to the hammer, To put up at auction.
Hammered (imp. & p. p.) of Hammer.
Hammering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hammer.
Hammer (v. t.) To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to hammer iron.
Hammer (v. t.) To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating. "Hammered money." -- Dryden.
Hammer (v. t.) To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; -- usually with out.
Who was hammering out a penny dialogue. -- Jeffry.
Hammer (v. i.) To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer.
Whereon this month I have been hammering. -- Shak.
Hammer (v. i.) To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively.
Blood and revenge are hammering in my head. -- Shak.
Hammer (n.) The part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled [syn: hammer, cock].
Hammer (n.) A hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking.
Hammer (n.) The ossicle attached to the eardrum [syn: malleus, hammer].
Hammer (n.) A light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc. [syn: mallet, hammer].
Hammer (n.) A heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw.
Hammer (n.) A striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate.
Hammer (n.) A power tool for drilling rocks [syn: hammer, power hammer].
Hammer (n.) The act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows); "the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard"; "the pounding of feet on the hallway" [syn: hammer, pound, hammering, pounding].
Hammer (v.) Beat with or as if with a hammer; "hammer the metal flat"
Hammer (v.) Create by hammering; "hammer the silver into a bowl"; "forge a pair of tongues" [syn: forge, hammer].
Hammer (v. t.) Commonwealth hackish syn. for bang on.
Hammer, () Commonwealth hackish synonym for bang on. [{Jargon File] (1995-02-16)
Hammer, () Heb. pattish, used by gold-beaters (Isa. 41:7) and by quarry-men (Jer. 23:29). Metaphorically of Babylon (Jer. 50:23) or Nebuchadnezzar.
Hammer, () Heb. makabah, a stone-cutter's mallet (1 Kings 6:7), or of any workman (Judg. 4:21; Isa. 44:12).
Hammer, () Heb. halmuth, a poetical word for a workman's hammer, found only in Judg. 5:26, where it denotes the mallet with which the pins of the tent of the nomad are driven into the ground.
Hammer, () Heb. mappets, rendered "battle-axe" in Jer. 51:20. This was properly a "mace," which is thus described by Rawlinson: "The Assyrian mace was a short, thin weapon, and must either have been made of a very tough wood or (and this is more probable) of metal. It had an ornamented head, which was sometimes very beautifully modelled, and generally a strap or string at the lower end by which it could be grasped with greater firmness."
Hammerable (a.) Capable of being formed or shaped by a hammer.
Hammer-beam (n.) A member of one description of roof truss, called hammer-beam truss, which is so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer-beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam.
Hammercloth (n.) The cloth which covers a coach box.
Hammer-dressed (a.) Having the surface roughly shaped or faced with the stonecutter's hammer; -- said of building stone.
Hammerer (n.) One who works with a hammer.
Hammer-harden (v. t.) To harden, as a metal, by hammering it in the cold state.
Hammerhead (n.) (Zool.) A shark of the genus {Sphyrna} or {Zyg[ae]na}, having the eyes set on projections from the sides of the head, which gives it a hammer shape. The Sphyrna zygaena is found in the North Atlantic. Called also hammer fish, and balance fish.
Hammerhead (n.) (Zool.) A fresh-water fish; the stone-roller.