Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter H - Page 9

Hanger (n.) A steep, wooded declivity. [Eng.] -- Gilbert White.

Bridle iron (Arch.) A strong flat bar of iron, so bent as to support, as in a stirrup, one end of a floor timber, etc., where no sufficient bearing can be had; -- called also stirrup and hanger.

Hanger (n.) A worker who hangs something

Hanger (n.) Anything from which something can be hung.

Hangers-on (n. pl. ) of Hanger-on.

Hanger-on (n.) One who hangs on, or sticks to, a person, place, or service; a dependent; one who adheres to others' society longer than he is wanted.

Hanging (a.) Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter.

Hanging (a.) Suspended from above; pendent; as, hanging shelves.

Hanging (a.) Adapted for sustaining a hanging object; as, the hanging post of a gate, the post which holds the hinges.

Hanging (n.) The act of suspending anything; the state of being suspended.

Hanging (n.) Death by suspension; execution by a halter.

Hanging (n.) That which is hung as lining or drapery for the walls of a room, as tapestry, paper, etc., or to cover or drape a door or window; -- used chiefly in the plural.

Hangmen (n. pl. ) of Hangman.

Hangman (n.) One who hangs another; esp., one who makes a business of hanging; a public executioner; -- sometimes used as a term of reproach, without reference to office.

Hangmanship (n.) The office or character of a hangman.

Hangnail (n.) A small piece or silver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail.

Hangnest (n.) A nest that hangs like a bag or pocket.

Hangnest (n.) A bird which builds such a nest; a hangbird.

Hank (n.) A parcel consisting of two or more skeins of yarn or thread tied together.

Hank (n.) A rope or withe for fastening a gate. [Prov. Eng.]

Hank (n.) Hold; influence.

When the devil hath got such a hank over him. -- Bp. Sanderson.

Hank (n.) (Naut.)  A ring or eye of rope, wood, or iron, attached to the edge of a sail and running on a stay.

Hank (n.) (Wrestling) A throw in which a wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, twines his left leg about his opponent's right leg from the inside, and throws him backward.

Hank (v. t.) [OE. hanken.] To fasten with a rope, as a gate. [Prov. Eng.] -- Wright.

Hank (v. t.) To form into hanks.

Hank (n.) A coil of rope or wool or yarn.

Hankered (imp. & p. p.) of Hanker.

Hankering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hanker.

Hanker (v. i.) To long (for) with a keen appetite and uneasiness; to have a vehement desire; -- usually with for or after; as, to hanker after fruit; to hanker after the diversions of the town. -- Addison.

He was hankering to join his friend. -- J. A. Symonds.

Hanker (v. i.) To linger in expectation or with desire. -- Thackeray.

Hanker (v.) Desire strongly or persistently [syn: hanker, long, yearn].

Hankeringly (adv.) In a hankering manner. Hankey-pankey

Hankey-pankey (n.) Professional cant; the chatter of conjurers to divert attention from their tricks; hence, jugglery.

Hanoverian (a.) Of or pertaining to Hanover or its people, or to the House of Hanover in England.

Hanoverian (n.) A native or naturalized inhabitant of Hanover; one of the House of Hanover.

Han sa (n.) See 2d Hanse.

Hansard (n.) An official report of proceedings in the British Parliament; -- so called from the name of the publishers.

Hansard (n.) A merchant of one of the Hanse towns. See the Note under 2d Hanse.

Hanse (n.) That part of an elliptical or many-centered arch which has the shorter radius and immediately adjoins the impost.

Hanse (n.) An association; a league or confederacy.

Hanseatic (a.) Pertaining to the Hanse towns, or to their confederacy.

Hansel (n. & v.) See Handsel.

Hanselines (n.) A sort of breeches.

Hansom () Alt. of Hansom cab.

Hansom cab () A light, low, two-wheeled covered carriage with the driver's seat elevated behind, the reins being passed over the top.

Han't () A contraction of have not, or has not, used in illiterate speech. In the United States the commoner spelling is hain't.

Hanuman (n.) See Hoonoomaun.

Hap (v. t.) To clothe; to wrap.

Hap (n.) A cloak or plaid.

Hap (n.) That which happens or comes suddenly or unexpectedly; also, the manner of occurrence or taking place; chance; fortune; accident; casual event; fate; luck; lot.

Hap (v. i.) To happen; to befall; to chance.

Hap'penny (n.) A half-penny.

Half-penny (n.) [C] Hap'penny or Ha'penny. (英國的)半便士銅幣;半便士 A copper coin of the value of half a penny; also, the value of half a penny. It is used in the plural.

// He cheats for half-pence.

[This coin is not current in America.]

Half-penny (a.) 半便士的;微不足道的 Of the price or value of half a penny; as a half-penny loaf.

Haphazard (n.) 偶然,偶然事件 Extra hazard; chance; accident; random.

Haphazard (a.) (Disapproving) 無秩序的;無計劃的;隨意的 Not having an obvious order or plan.

// He tackled the problem in a typically haphazard manner.

Hapless (a.) Without hap or luck; luckless; unfortunate; unlucky; unhappy; as, hapless youth; hapless maid.

Haplessly (adv.) In a hapless, unlucky manner.

Haplomi (n. pl.) An order of freshwater fishes, including the true pikes, cyprinodonts, and blindfishes.

Haplostemonous (a.) Having but one series of stamens, and that equal in number to the proper number of petals; isostemonous.

Haply (adv.) By hap, chance, luck, or accident; perhaps; it may be.

Happed (p. a.) Wrapped; covered; cloaked.

Happened (imp. & p. p.) of Happen.

Happening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Happen.

Happening (n.) [ C usually plural ] 發生的事 Something that has happened.

// Recent happenings on the stock market can be interpreted in various ways.

Happening (n.) [ C usually plural ] 即興演出 A performance or similar event that happens without preparation.

Happening (a.) (Informal) (指場所)極爲時髦的,極刺激的 A happening place is extremely fashionable and exciting.

// Ask Caroline - she knows all the happening clubs in town.

Happen (v. i.) To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out.

Happen (v. i.) To take place; to occur.

Happily (adv.) By chance; peradventure; haply.

Happily (adv.) By good fortune; fortunately; luckily.

Happily (adv.) In a happy manner or state; in happy circumstances; as, he lived happily with his wife.

Happily (adv.) With address or dexterity; gracefully; felicitously; in a manner to success; with success.

Happiness (n.) Good luck; good fortune; prosperity.

Happiness (n.) An agreeable feeling or condition of the soul arising from good fortune or propitious happening of any kind; the possession of those circumstances or that state of being which is attended enjoyment; the state of being happy; contentment; joyful satisfaction; felicity; blessedness.

Happiness (n.) Fortuitous elegance; unstudied grace; -- used especially of language.

Happy <Tool> A dyslexic acronym for "A Yacc-like Haskell Parser generator".

An LALR1 grammar parser generator for Haskell.  Happy is written in Haskell, uses a parser generated by itself, and can be compiled using ghc, hbc or gofer.  Happy uses an implementation of monadic IO built on top of stream IO, but this should change when the Haskell 1.3 standard has been implemented.

Version: 0.9 (1996-02-28).

Happy is covered by the General Public License. (1996-03-21)

Happy (a.) (感到)高興的;樂意的 [F] [+at/ about] [+to-v] [+that];滿足的;滿意的 [F] [+about/ with] Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate; successful; prosperous; satisfying desire; as, a happy expedient; a happy effort; a happy venture; a happy omen.

Chymists have been more happy in finding experiments than the causes of them. -- Boyle.

Happy (a.) Experiencing the effect of favorable fortune; having the feeling arising from the consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, as peace, tranquillity, comfort; contented; joyous; as, happy hours, happy thoughts.

Happy is that people, whose God is the Lord. -- Ps. cxliv. 15.

The learned is happy Nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more. -- Pope.

Happy (a.) Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous.

One gentleman is happy at a reply, another excels in a in a rejoinder. -- Swift.

{Happy family}, A collection of animals of different and hostile propensities living peaceably together in one cage. Used ironically of conventional alliances of persons who are in fact mutually repugnant.

{Happy-go-lucky}, Trusting to hap or luck; improvident; easy-going. "Happy-go-lucky carelessness." -- W. Black.

Happy (a.) Enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure; "a happy smile"; "spent many happy days on the beach"; "a happy marriage" [ant: {unhappy}].

Happy (a.) Marked by good fortune; "a felicitous life"; "a happy outcome" [syn: {felicitous}, {happy}].

Happy (a.) Eagerly disposed to act or to be of service; "glad to help" [syn: {glad}, {happy}].

Happy (a.) Well expressed and to the point; "a happy turn of phrase"; "a few well-chosen words" [syn: {happy}, {well-chosen}].

Hapuku (n.) A large and valuable food fish (Polyprion prognathus) of New Zealand. It sometimes weighs one hundred pounds or more.

Haquebut (n.) See Hagbut.

Hara-kiri (n.) Suicide, by slashing the abdomen, formerly practiced in Japan, and commanded by the government in the cases of disgraced officials; disembowelment; -- also written, but incorrectly, hari-kari.

Harangue (n.) 高談闊論,熱烈的演說 [C] A speech addressed to a large public assembly; a popular oration; a loud address a multitude; in a bad sense, a noisy or pompous speech; declamation; ranting.

Gray-headed men and grave, with warriors mixed, Assemble, and harangues are heard. -- Milton.

Syn: {Harangue}, {Speech}, {Oration}.

Usage: Speech is generic; an oration is an elaborate and rhetorical speech; an harangue is a vehement appeal to the passions, or a noisy, disputatious address. A general makes an harangue to his troops on the eve of a battle; a demagogue harangues the populace on the subject of their wrongs.

Harangue (n.) A forceful or angry speech.

Harangue (n.) A speech addressed to a public assembly.

Harangue (n.) A ranting speech or writing.

Harangue (n.) Lecture.

Harangued (imp. & p. p.) of Harangue.

Haranguing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Harangue.

Harangue (v. i.) (v. i. & v. t.) (向……)滔滔不絕地演講 To make an harangue; to declaim.

Harangue (v. t.) To address by an harangue.

Harangue (n.) A loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion [syn: {harangue}, {rant}, {ranting}].

Harangue (v.) Deliver a harangue to; address forcefully.

Harangue (n.) A speech by an opponent, who is known as an harrangue-outang.

Harangue (v.) [ T ] (Disapproving) 長篇大論地演說;斥責 To speak to someone or a group of people, often for a long time, in a forceful and sometimes angry way, especially to persuade them.

// A drunk in the station was haranguing passers-by.

Harangueful (a.) Full of harangue.

Haranguer (n.) One who harangues, or is fond of haranguing; a declaimer.

Harassed (imp. & p. p.) of Harass.

Harassing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Harass.

Harass (v. t.) 使煩惱,煩擾;不斷騷擾 To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out.

[Troops] harassed with a long and wearisome march. -- Bacon.

Nature oppressed and harass'd out with care. -- Addison.

Vext with lawyers and harass'd with debt. -- Tennyson.

Syn: To weary; jade; tire; perplex; distress; tease; worry; disquiet; chafe; gall; annoy; irritate; plague; vex; molest; trouble; disturb; torment.

Harass (n.) Devastation; waste. [Obs.] -- Milton.

Harass (n.) Worry; harassment. [R.] -- Byron.

Harass (v.) Annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers" [syn: {harass}, {hassle}, {harry}, {chivy}, {chivvy}, {chevy}, {chevvy}, {beset}, {plague}, {molest}, {provoke}].

Harass (v.) Exhaust by attacking repeatedly; "harass the enemy".

Compare: Vexatious

Vexatious (a.) 引起煩惱的;令人生氣的;使人困惑的 Causing or tending to cause annoyance, frustration, or worry.

The vexatious questions posed by software copyrights.

Vexatious (a.) (Law)  Denoting an action or the bringer of an action that is brought without sufficient grounds for winning, purely to cause annoyance to the defendant.

A frivolous or vexatious litigant.

Compare: Frustration

Frustration (n.) [Mass noun] 挫折,失敗,挫敗 [U] [C] The feeling of being upset or annoyed as a result of being unable to change or achieve something.

Tears of frustration rolled down her cheeks.

Frustration (n.) [Count noun] An event or circumstance that causes one to feel frustrated.

The inherent frustrations of assembly line work.

Frustration (n.) The prevention of the progress, success, or fulfilment of something.

The frustration of their wishes.

Harasser (n.) 騷擾者,侵擾者 One who harasses.

Harasser (n.) A persistent tormentor.

Harasser (n.) A persistent attacker; "the harassers were not members of the regular army" [syn: {harasser}, {harrier}].

Compare: Persistent

Persistent (a.) 堅持不懈的;固執的;持續的,持久的 Continuing firmly or obstinately in an opinion or course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition.

One of the government's most persistent critics.

An attempt to stop persistent drink-drivers.

Persistent (a.) Continuing to exist or occur over a prolonged period.

Persistent rain will affect many areas.

Persistent reports of human rights abuses by the military.

Persistent (a.) (Of chemicals or radioactivity) Remaining within the environment for a long time after introduction.

PCBs are persistent environmental contaminants.

Persistent (a.) (Botany) (Zoology)  (Of a part of an animal or plant, such as a horn, leaf, etc.) Remaining attached instead of falling off in the normal manner.

Compare: Tormentor

Tormentor (n.) 使苦痛的人(或事物);【海】長肉叉 A person who inflicts severe mental or physical suffering on someone.

They help victims of domestic violence escape their tormentors.

Compare: Inflict

Inflict (v. t.) [(+on/ upon)] 給予(打擊);使遭受(損傷等);強加;加以(處罰或判刑) Cause (something unpleasant or painful) to be suffered by someone or something.

They inflicted serious injuries on three other men.

Inflict (v. t.) (Inflict something on) Impose something unwelcome on.

She is wrong to inflict her beliefs on everyone else.

Harassment (n.) 煩惱;煩擾;騷擾 [U] The act of harassing, or state of being harassed; worry; annoyance; anxiety.

Little harassments which I am led to suspect do occasionally molest the most fortunate. -- Ld. Lytton.

Harassment (n.) A feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented; "so great was his harassment that he wanted to destroy his tormentors" [syn: {harassment}, {torment}].

Harassment (n.) The act of tormenting by continued persistent attacks and criticism [syn: {harassment}, {molestation}].

Harassment (n.) [ U ] (C1) 騷擾行爲 Behaviour that annoys or upsets someone.

// Sexual harassment.

// Sexual  harassment  of women at work .

Harberous (a.) Harborous.

Harbinger (n.) One who provides lodgings; especially, the officer of the English royal household who formerly preceded the court when traveling, to provide and prepare lodgings.

Harbinger (n.) A forerunner; a precursor; a messenger.

Harbingered (imp. & p. p.) of Harbinger.

Harbingering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Harbinger.

Harbinger (v. t.) To usher in; to be a harbinger of.

Harbor (n.) [C, U] 港灣,海港;避難所,躲藏處,避風港A station for rest and entertainment; a place of security and comfort; a refuge; a shelter.

[A grove] fair harbour that them seems. -- Spenser.

For harbor at a thousand doors they knocked. -- Dryden.

Harbor (n.) Specif.: A lodging place; an inn. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.

Harbor (n.) (Astrol.) The mansion of a heavenly body. [Obs.]

Harbor (n.) A portion of a sea, a lake, or other large body of water, either landlocked or artificially protected so as to be a place of safety for vessels in stormy weather; a port or haven.

Harbor (n.) (Glass Works) A mixing box materials.

Harbor dues (Naut.), Fees paid for the use of a harbor.

Harbor seal (Zool.), The common seal.

Harbor watch, A watch set when a vessel is in port; an anchor watch.

Harbored (imp. & p. p.) of Harbor.

Harboring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Harbor.

Harbor (v. t.) 庇護;藏匿;收養(動物等);心懷,懷有 To afford lodging to; to entertain as a guest; to shelter; to receive; to give a refuge to; to indulge or cherish (a thought or feeling, esp. an ill thought); as, to harbor a grudge.

Any place that harbors men. -- Shak.

The bare suspicion made it treason to harbor the person suspected. -- Bp. Burnet.

Let not your gentle breast harbor one thought of outrage. -- Rowe.

Harbor (v. i.) (船)入港停泊;避入安全地;躲藏;居住;生存 To lodge, or abide for a time; to take shelter, as in a harbor.

For this night let's harbor here in York. -- Shak.

Harbor (n.) A sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo [syn: seaport, haven, harbor, harbour].

Harbor (n.) A place of refuge and comfort and security [syn: harbor, harbour].

Harbor (v.) Maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings); "bear a grudge"; "entertain interesting notions"; "harbor a resentment" [syn: harbor, harbour, hold, entertain, nurse].

Harbor (v.) Secretly shelter (as of fugitives or criminals) [syn: harbor, harbour].

Harbor (v.) Keep in one's possession; of animals [syn: harbor, harbour].

Harbor (v.) Hold back a thought or feeling about; "She is harboring a grudge against him" [syn: harbor, harbour, shield].

Harbor. () A place where ships may ride with safety; any navigable water protected by the surrounding country; a haven. (q.v.) It is public property. 1. Bouv. Inst. n. 435.

Harbor, (n.)  A place where ships taking shelter from stores are exposed to the fury of the customs.

Harbor, OR -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Oregon

Population (2000): 2622

Housing Units (2000): 1691

Land area (2000): 1.873427 sq. miles (4.852154 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.439748 sq. miles (1.138943 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 2.313175 sq. miles (5.991097 sq. km)

FIPS code: 32100

Located within: Oregon (OR), FIPS 41

Location: 42.040812 N, 124.253639 W

ZIP Codes (1990): 97415

Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

Headwords:

Harbor, OR

Harbor

Harbor (n.) [ C ] (Cdn Br harbour) (Water) A protected area of water next to the land where ships and boats can be safely kept.

Harbor (v.) [ T ] (Cdn Br harbour) (Have in mind) To have in mind a thought or feeling, usually over a long period.

// He harbored the suspicion that someone in the agency was spying for the enemy.

Harbor (v.) [ T ] (Hide) To protect someone by providing a place to hide.

// They were accused of harboring a fugitive.

Harborage (n.) Shelter; entertainment.           

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