H NWAD H.0

H — HALFBLOOD NWAD H.1

H, is the eighth letter of the English Alphabet. It is properly the representative of the Chaldee, Syriac and Hebrew, which is the eighth letter in those alphabets. Its form is the same as the Greek H eta. It is not strictly a vowel, nor an articulation; but the mark of a stronger breathing, than that which precedes the utterance of any other letter. It is pronounced with an expiration of breath, which, preceding a vowel, is perceptible by the ear at a considerable distance. Thus, harm and arm, hear and ear, heat and eat, are distinguished at almost any distance at which the voice can be heard. H is a letter sui generis, but as useful in forming and distinguishing words as any other. NWAD H.1

In our mother tongue, the Anglo-Saxon, and other Teutonic dialects, h sometimes represents the L. c, and the Gr. x; as in horn, L. cornu, Gr. to hide; G. haut, Sw. hud, D. huid, Dan. hud, L. cutis; Sax. hlinian, L. clino, Gr. to lean; L. celo, to conceal, Sax. helan. G. hehlen, Dan. haeler. In Latin h sometimes represents the Greek x; as in halo, Gr. hio. In the modern European languages, it represents other guttural letters. NWAD H.2

In English, h is sometimes mute, as in honor, honest; also when united with g, as in right, fight, brought. In which, what, who, whom, and some other words in which it follows w, it is pronounced before it, hwich, hwat, etc. As a numeral in Latin, H denotes 200, and with a dash over it 200,000. As an abbreviation in Latin, H stands for homo, haeres, hora, etc. NWAD H.3

HA, an exclamation, denoting surprise, joy or grief. With the first or long sound of a, it is used as a question, and is equivalent to “What do you say?” When repeated, ha, ha, it is an expression of laughter, or sometimes it is equivalent to “Well! it is so.” NWAD HA.1

HAAK, n. A fish. NWAD HAAK.1

Habeas Corpus, [L. have the body.] A writ for delivering a person from false imprisonment, or for removing a person from one court to another, etc. NWAD HAAK.2

HABERDASHER, n. A seller of small wares; a word little used or not at all in the U. States. NWAD HABERDASHER.1

HABERDASHERY, n. The goods and wares sold by a haberdasher. NWAD HABERDASHERY.1

HABERDINE, n. A dried salt cod. NWAD HABERDINE.1

HABERGEON, n. A coat of mail or armor to defend the neck and breast. It was formed of little iron rings united, and descended from the neck to the middle of the body. NWAD HABERGEON.1

HABILE, a. Fit; proper. [Not in use.] NWAD HABILE.1

HABILIMENT, n. [L. habeo, to have.] A garment; clothing; usually in the plural, habiliments, denoting garments, clothing or dress in general. NWAD HABILIMENT.1

HABILITATE, v.t. To qualify. [Not used.] NWAD HABILITATE.1

HABILITATION, n. Qualification. [Not in use.] NWAD HABILITATION.1

HABILITY. [See Ability.] NWAD HABILITY.1

HABIT, n. [L. habitus, from habeo, to have to hold. See Have.] NWAD HABIT.1

1. Garb; dress; clothes or garments in general. NWAD HABIT.2

The scenes are old, the habits are the same, NWAD HABIT.3

We wore last year. NWAD HABIT.4

There are among the statues, several of Venus, in different habits. NWAD HABIT.5

2. A coat worn by ladies over other garments. NWAD HABIT.6

3. State of any thing; implying some continuance or permanence; temperament or particular state of a body, formed by nature or induced by extraneous circumstances; as a costive or lax habit of body; a sanguine habit. NWAD HABIT.7

4. A disposition or condition of the mind or body acquired by custom or a frequent repetition of the same act. Habit is that which is held or retained, the effect of custom or frequent repetition. Hence we speak of good habits and bad habits. NWAD HABIT.8

Frequent drinking of spirits leads to a habit of intemperance. We should endeavor to correct evil habits by a change of practice. A great point in the education of children, is to prevent the formation of bad habits. NWAD HABIT.9

Habit of plants, the general form or appearance, or the conformity of plants of the same kind in structure and growth. NWAD HABIT.10

HABIT, v.t. To dress; to clothe; to array. NWAD HABIT.11

They habited themselves like rural deities. NWAD HABIT.12

HABIT, v.t. To dwell; to inhabit. NWAD HABIT.13

HABITABLE, a. [L. habitabilis, from habito, to dwell.] NWAD HABITABLE.1

That may be inhabited or dwelt in; capable of sustaining human beings; as the habitable world. Some climates are scarcely habitable. NWAD HABITABLE.2

HABITABLENESS, n. Capacity of being inhabited. NWAD HABITABLENESS.1

HABITABLY, adv. In such a manner as to habitable. NWAD HABITABLY.1

HABITANCE, n. Dwelling; abode; residence. [Not now used.] NWAD HABITANCE.1

HABITANCY, n. Legal settlement or inhabitancy. [See Inhabitancy.] NWAD HABITANCY.1

HABITANT, n. [L. habitans.] An inhabitant; a dweller; a resident; one who has a permanent abode in a place. NWAD HABITANT.1

HABITAT, n. Habitation. NWAD HABITAT.1

HABITATION, n. [L. habitatio, from habito, to dwell, from habeo, to hold, or as we say in English, to keep.] NWAD HABITATION.1

1. Act of inhabiting; state of dwelling. NWAD HABITATION.2

2. Place of abode; a settled dwelling; a mansion; a house or other place in which man or any animal dwells. NWAD HABITATION.3

The stars may be the habitations of numerous races of beings. NWAD HABITATION.4

The Lord blesseth the habitation of the just. Proverbs 3:33. NWAD HABITATION.5

HABITATOR, n. [L.] A dweller; an inhabitant. [Not used.] NWAD HABITATOR.1

HABITED, a. Clothed; dressed. He was habited like a shepherd. NWAD HABITED.1

1. Accustomed. [Not usual.] NWAD HABITED.2

HABITUAL, a. Formed or acquired by habit, frequent use or custom. NWAD HABITUAL.1

Art is properly an habitual knowledge of certain rules and maxims. NWAD HABITUAL.2

1. Customary; according to habit; as the habitual practice of sin; the habitual exercise of holy affections. NWAD HABITUAL.3

It is the distinguishing mark of habitual piety to be grateful for the most common blessings. NWAD HABITUAL.4

2. Formed by repeated impressions; rendered permanent by continued causes; as an habitual color of the skin. NWAD HABITUAL.5

HABITUALLY, adv. By habit; customarily; by frequent practice or use; as habitually profane; habitually kind and benevolent. NWAD HABITUALLY.1

HABITUATE, v.t. NWAD HABITUATE.1

1. To accustom; to make familiar by frequent use or practice. Men may habituate themselves to the taste of oil or tobacco. They habituate themselves to vice. Let us habituate ourselves and our children to the exercise of charity. NWAD HABITUATE.2

2. To settle as an inhabitant in a place. NWAD HABITUATE.3

HABITUATE, a. Inveterate by custom. NWAD HABITUATE.4

1. Formed by habit. NWAD HABITUATE.5

HABITUATED, pp. Accustomed; made familiar by use. NWAD HABITUATED.1

HABITUATING, ppr. Accustoming; making easy and familiar by practice. NWAD HABITUATING.1

HABITUDE, n. [L. habitudo, from habitus.] NWAD HABITUDE.1

1. Relation; respect; state with regard to something else. [Little used.] NWAD HABITUDE.2

2. Frequent intercourse; familiarity. [Not usual.] NWAD HABITUDE.3

To write well, one must have frequent habitudes with the best company. NWAD HABITUDE.4

3. Customary manner or mode of life; repetition of the same acts; as the habitudes of fowls or insects. NWAD HABITUDE.5

4. Custom; habit. NWAD HABITUDE.6

HABNAB, adv. [hap ne hap, let it happen or not.] NWAD HABNAB.1

At random; by chance; without order or rule. NWAD HABNAB.2

HACK, v.t. NWAD HACK.1

1. To cut irregularly and into small pieces; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument. NWAD HACK.2

2. To speak with stops or catches; to speak with hesitation. NWAD HACK.3

HACK, n. A notch; a cut. NWAD HACK.4

HACK, n. A horse kept for hire; a horse much used in draught, or in hard service; any thing exposed to hire, or used in common. [from hackney.] NWAD HACK.5

1. A coach or other carriage kept for hire. [from hackney.] NWAD HACK.6

2. Hesitating or faltering speech. NWAD HACK.7

3. A rack for feeding cattle. NWAD HACK.8

HACK, a. Hired. NWAD HACK.9

HACK, v.i. To be exposed or offered to common use for hire; to turn prostitute. NWAD HACK.10

1. To make an effort to raise phlegm. [See Hawk.] NWAD HACK.11

HACKED, pp. Chopped; mangled. NWAD HACKED.1

HACKING, ppr. Chopping into small pieces; mangling; mauling. NWAD HACKING.1

HACKLE, v.t. NWAD HACKLE.1

1. To comb flax or hemp; to separate the coarse part of these substances from the fine, by drawing them through the teeth of a hatchel. NWAD HACKLE.2

2. To tear asunder. NWAD HACKLE.3

HACKLE, n. A hatchel. The latter word is used in the U. States. NWAD HACKLE.4

1. Raw silk; any flimsy substance unspun. NWAD HACKLE.5

2. A fly for angling, dressed with feathers or silk. NWAD HACKLE.6

HACKLY, a. [from hack.] Rough; broken as if hacked. NWAD HACKLY.1

In mineralogy, having fine, short, and sharp points on the surface; as a hackly fracture. NWAD HACKLY.2

HACKMATACK, n. The popular name of the red larch, the Pinus microcarpa. NWAD HACKMATACK.1

HACKNEY, n. NWAD HACKNEY.1

1. A pad; a nag; a pony. NWAD HACKNEY.2

2. A horse kept for hire; a horse much used. NWAD HACKNEY.3

3. A coach or other carriage kept for hire, and often exposed in the streets of cities. The word is sometimes contracted to hack. NWAD HACKNEY.4

4. Any thing much used or used in common; a hireling; a prostitute. NWAD HACKNEY.5

HACKNEY, a. Let out for hire; devoted to common use; as a hackney-coach. NWAD HACKNEY.6

1. Prostitute; vicious for hire. NWAD HACKNEY.7

2. Much used; common; trite; as a hackney author or remark. NWAD HACKNEY.8

HACKNEY, v.t. To use much; to practice in one thing; to make trite. NWAD HACKNEY.9

1. To carry in a hackney-coach. NWAD HACKNEY.10

HACKNEY-COACH. [See Hackney.] NWAD HACKNEY-COACH.1

HACKNEY-COACHMAN, n. A man who drives a hackney-coach. NWAD HACKNEY-COACHMAN.1

HACKNEYED, pp. Used much or in common. NWAD HACKNEYED.1

1. Practiced; accustomed. NWAD HACKNEYED.2

He is long hackneyed in the ways of men. NWAD HACKNEYED.3

HACKNEYING, ppr. Using much; accustoming. NWAD HACKNEYING.1

HACKNEYMAN, n. A man who lets horses and carriages for hire. NWAD HACKNEYMAN.1

HACKSTER, n. A bully; a ruffian or assassin. NWAD HACKSTER.1

HACQUETON, n. A stuffed jacket formerly worn under armor, sometimes made of leather. [Not used.] NWAD HACQUETON.1

HAD, pret. and pp. of have; contracted from Sax. haefd, that is, haved; as, I had; I have had. In the phrase, “I had better go,” it is supposed that had is used for would; “I’d better go.” The sense of the phrase is, “it would be better for me to go.” NWAD HAD.1

HADDER, n. Heath. [Not in use. See Heath.] NWAD HADDER.1

HADDOCK, n. A fish of the genus Gadus or cod, and order of Jugulars. It has a long body, the upper part of a dusky brown color, and the belly of a silvery hue; the lateral line is black. This fish breeds in immense numbers in the northern seas, and constitutes a considerable article of food. NWAD HADDOCK.1

HADE, n. Among miners, the steep descent of a shaft; also, the descent of a hill. NWAD HADE.1

In mining, the inclination or deviation from the vertical of a mineral vein. NWAD HADE.2

HAFT, n. [L. capio.] A handle; that part of an instrument or vessel which is taken into the hand, and by which it is held and used. It is used chiefly for the part of a sword or dagger by which it is held; the hilt. NWAD HAFT.1

H`AFT, v.t. To set in a haft; to furnish with a handle. NWAD HAFT.2

HAFTER, n. A caviller; a wrangler. [Not in use.] NWAD HAFTER.1

HAG, n. NWAD HAG.1

1. An ugly old woman; as an old hag of threescore. NWAD HAG.2

2. A witch; a sorceress; an enchantress. NWAD HAG.3

3. A fury; a she-monster. NWAD HAG.4

4. A cartilaginous fish, the Gastrobranchus, which enters other fishes and devours them. It is about five or six inches long, and resembles a small eel. It is allied to the lamprey. NWAD HAG.5

5. Appearances of light and fire on horses’ manes or men’s hair, were formerly called hags. NWAD HAG.6

HAG, v.t. To harass; to torment. NWAD HAG.7

1. To tire; to weary with vexation. NWAD HAG.8

HAGARD, a. NWAD HAGARD.1

1. Literally, having a ragged look, as if hacked or gashed. Hence, lean; meager; rough; having eyes sunk in their orbits; ugly. NWAD HAGARD.2

2. Wild; fierce; intractable; as a hagard hawk. NWAD HAGARD.3

HAGARD, n. NWAD HAGARD.4

1. Any thing wild and intractable. NWAD HAGARD.5

2. A species of hawk. NWAD HAGARD.6

3. A hag. NWAD HAGARD.7

HAGARDLY, adv. In a hagard or ugly manner; with deformity. NWAD HAGARDLY.1

HAGBORN, n. Born of a hag or witch. NWAD HAGBORN.1

HAGGARD, n. A stack-yard. NWAD HAGGARD.1

HAGGESS, n. [from hack.] A mess of meat, generally pork, chopped and inclosed in a membrane. NWAD HAGGESS.1

1. A sheep’s head and pluck minced. NWAD HAGGESS.2

HAGGLE, v.t. To cut into small pieces; to notch or cut in an unskillful manner; to make rough by cutting; to mangle; as, a boy haggles a stick of wood. NWAD HAGGLE.1

Suffolk first died, and York all haggled o’er, NWAD HAGGLE.2

Comes to him where in gore he lay insteep’d. NWAD HAGGLE.3

HAGGLE, v.i. To be difficult in bargaining; to hesitate and cavil. [See Higgle.] NWAD HAGGLE.4

HAGGLED, pp. Cut irregularly into notches; made rough by cutting; mangled. NWAD HAGGLED.1

HAGGLER, n. One who haggles. NWAD HAGGLER.1

1. One who cavils, hesitates and makes difficulty in bargaining. NWAD HAGGLER.2

HAGGLING, ppr. Hacking; mangling; caviling and hesitating in bargaining. NWAD HAGGLING.1

HAGIOGRAPHAL, n. Pertaining to hagiography, which see. NWAD HAGIOGRAPHAL.1

HAGIOGRAPHER, n. [See the next word.] A writer of holy or sacred books. NWAD HAGIOGRAPHER.1

HAGIOGRAPHY, n. [Gr. holy, and a writing.] NWAD HAGIOGRAPHY.1

Sacred writings. The Jews divide the books of the Scriptures into three parts; the Law, which is contained in the five first books of the Old Testament; the Prophets, or Nevim; and the Cetuvim, or writings, by way of eminence. The latter class is called by the Greeks Hagiographa, comprehending the books of Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, Ruth, Esther, Chronicles, Canticles, Lamentations, and Ecclesiastes. NWAD HAGIOGRAPHY.2

HAGISH, a. Of the nature of a hag; deformed; ugly; horrid. NWAD HAGISH.1

HAG-RIDDEN, a. Afflicted with the nightmare. NWAD HAG-RIDDEN.1

HAGSHIP, n. The state or title of a hag or witch. NWAD HAGSHIP.1

HAGUEBUT. [See Arquebuse.] NWAD HAGUEBUT.1

HAH, an exclamation expressing surprise or effort. NWAD HAH.1

HAIL, n. Masses of ice or frozen vapor, falling from the clouds in showers or storms. These masses consist of little spherules united, but not all of the same consistence; some being as hard and solid as perfect ice; others soft, like frozen snow. Hailstones assume various figures; some are round, others angular, others pyramidical, others flat, and sometimes they are stellated with six radii, like crystals of snow. NWAD HAIL.1

HAIL, v.i. To pour down masses of ice or frozen vapors. NWAD HAIL.2

HAIL, v.t. To pour. NWAD HAIL.3

HAIL, a. [Gr. whole.] Sound; whole; healthy; not impaired by disease; as a hail body; hail corn. [In this sense, it is usually written hale.] NWAD HAIL.4

HAIL, an exclamation, or rather a verb in the imperative mode, being the adjective hail, used as a verb. Hail, be well; be in health; health to you; a term of salutation, equivalent to L. salve, salvete. NWAD HAIL.5

Hail, hail, brave friend. NWAD HAIL.6

HAIL, n. A wish of health; a salutation. This word is sometimes used as a noun; as, the angel hail bestowed. NWAD HAIL.7

HAIL, v.t. [L. calo. See Call and Heal.] To call; to call to a person at a distance, to arrest his attention. It is properly used in any case where the person accosted is distant, but is appropriately used by seamen. Hoa or hoi, the ship ahoay, is the usual manner of hailing; to which the answer is holloa, or hollo. Then follow the usual questions, whence came ye? where are you bound? etc. NWAD HAIL.8

HAILED, pp. Called to from a distance; accosted. NWAD HAILED.1

HAILING, ppr. Saluting; calling to from a distance. NWAD HAILING.1

1. Pouring down hail. NWAD HAILING.2

HAILSHOT, n. Small shot which scatter like hailstones. [Not used.] NWAD HAILSHOT.1

HAILSTONE, n. A single mass of ice falling from a cloud. NWAD HAILSTONE.1

HAILY, a. Consisting of hail; as haily showers. NWAD HAILY.1

HAINOUS, a. Properly, hateful; odious. Hence, great, enormous, aggravated; as a hainous sin or crime. NWAD HAINOUS.1

HAINOUSLY, adv. Hatefully; abominably; enormously. NWAD HAINOUSLY.1

HAINOUSNESS, n. Odiousness; enormity; as the hainousness of theft or robbery of any crime. NWAD HAINOUSNESS.1

HAIR, n. NWAD HAIR.1

1. A small filament issuing from the skin of an animal, and from a bulbous root. Each filament contains a tube or hollow within, occupied by a pulp or pith, which is intended for its nutrition, and extends only to that part which is in a state of growth. NWAD HAIR.2

When hair means a single filament, it has a plural, hairs. NWAD HAIR.3

2. The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming an integument or covering; as the hair of the head. Hair is the common covering of many beasts. When the filaments are very fine and short, the collection of them is called fur. Wool, also, is a kind of hair. When hair signifies a collection of these animal filaments, it has no plural. NWAD HAIR.4

3. Any thing very small or fine; or a very small distance; the breadth of a hair. He judges to a hair, that is, very exactly. NWAD HAIR.5

4. A trifling value. It is not worth a hair. NWAD HAIR.6

5. Course; order; grain; the hair falling in a certain direction. [Not used.] NWAD HAIR.7

You go against the hair of your profession. NWAD HAIR.8

6. Long, straight and distinct filaments on the surface of plants; a species of down or pubescence. NWAD HAIR.9

HAIRBELL, n. A plant, a species of hyacinth. NWAD HAIRBELL.1

HAIR-BRAINED. [See Hare-brained.] NWAD HAIR-BRAINED.1

HAIR-BREADTH, n. [See Breadth.] The diameter or breadth of a hair; a very small distance. NWAD HAIR-BREADTH.1

--Seven hundred chosen men left-handed; every one could sling stones to a hair-breadth. Judges 20:16. NWAD HAIR-BREADTH.2

It is used as an adjective; as a hair-breadth escape. But in New England, it is generally hair’s breadth. NWAD HAIR-BREADTH.3

HAIRCLOTH, n. Stuff or cloth made of hair, or in part with hair. In military affairs, pieces of this cloth are used for covering the powder in wagons, or on batteries, or for covering charged bombs, etc. NWAD HAIRCLOTH.1

HAIRHUNG, a. Hanging by a hair. NWAD HAIRHUNG.1

HAIRLACE, n. A fillet for tying up the hair of the head. NWAD HAIRLACE.1

HAIRLESS, a. Destitute of hair; bald; as hairless scalps. NWAD HAIRLESS.1

HAIRINESS, n. [from hairy.] The state of abounding or being covered with hair. NWAD HAIRINESS.1

HAIRPIN, n. A pin used in dressing the hair. NWAD HAIRPIN.1

HAIRPOWDER, n. A fine powder of flour for sprinkling the hair of the head. NWAD HAIRPOWDER.1

HAIR-SALT, n. A mixture of the sulphates of magnesia and iron; its taste resembles that of alum. NWAD HAIR-SALT.1

HAIRWORM, n. A genus of worms [vermes,] called Gordius; a filiform animal found in fresh water or in the earth. There are several species. NWAD HAIRWORM.1

HAIRY, a. [from hair.] Overgrown with hair; covered with hair; abounding with hair. NWAD HAIRY.1

Esau, my brother, is a hairy man. Genesis 27:11. NWAD HAIRY.2

1. Consisting of hair; as hairy honors. NWAD HAIRY.3

2. Resembling hair; of the nature of hair. NWAD HAIRY.4

HAKE, n. A kind of fish, the Gadus merlucius; called by some authors lucius marinus. It was formerly salted and dried. NWAD HAKE.1

HAKOT, n. A fish. NWAD HAKOT.1

HAL, in some names, signifies hall. NWAD HAL.1

HALBERD, n. A military weapon, consisting of a pole or shaft of wood, with a head armed with a steel point, with a cross piece of steel, flat and pointed at both ends, or with a cutting edge at one end, and a bent point at the other. It is carried by sergeants of foot and dragoons. NWAD HALBERD.1

HALBERDIER, n. One who is armed with a halberd. NWAD HALBERDIER.1

HALCYON, n. hal’shon. [L. halcyon; Gr. a king-fisher.] NWAD HALCYON.1

The name anciently given to the king-fisher, otherwise called alcedo; a bird that was said to lay her eggs in nests, on rocks near the sea, during the calm weather about the winter solstice. Hence, NWAD HALCYON.2

HALCYON, a. Calm; quiet; peaceful; undisturbed; happy. Halcyon days were seven days before and as many after the winter solstice, when the weather was calm. Hence by halcyon days are now understood days of peace and tranquility. NWAD HALCYON.3

HALCYONIAN, a. Halcyon; calm. NWAD HALCYONIAN.1

HALE, a. Sound; entire; healthy; robust; not impaired; as a hale body. NWAD HALE.1

HALE, n. Welfare. [Not in use.] NWAD HALE.2

HALE, v.t. To pull or draw with force; to drag. This is now more generally written and pronounced haul, which see. It is always to be pronounced haul. NWAD HALE.3

HALF, n. haf. plu. halves, pron. h`avz. NWAD HALF.1

One equal part of a thing which is divided into two parts, either in fact or in contemplation; a moiety; as half a pound; half a tract of land; half an orange; half the miseries or pleasures of life. It is applied to quantity, number, length, and every thing susceptible of division. In practice, of is often or usually omitted after half. We say, half a pound; half a mile; half the number. NWAD HALF.2

Half the misery of life. NWAD HALF.3

H`ALF, v.t. To divide into halves. [See Halve.] NWAD HALF.4

H`ALF, adv. In part, or in an equal part of degree. NWAD HALF.5

Half loth, and half consenting. NWAD HALF.6

In composition, half denotes an equal part; or indefinitely, a part, and hence, imperfect. NWAD HALF.7

HALFBLOOD, n. Relation between persons born of the same father or of the same mother, but not of both; as a brother or sister of the halfblood. The word is sometimes used as an adjective. NWAD HALFBLOOD.1