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| hemdloving | n | a body's selfhood linked to the kind of body form they find winsome; sexual orientation [hemd (<OE hæmed)
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| hairline | adj | 1. thin 2. made or done with extreme care and accuracy 3. meeting the highest standard of accuracy an ultrasensitive telescope that requires hairline placement of the lenses; [CED]
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| handsill | n | banister; [hand + sill]
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| hap | adj | convenient; [OE hæp]
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| har | n | army, host, militant force; legion, troop [O.E. "here", source of verb "harry": to make war, lay waste, ravage, plunder, attack. Cognate with German "Heer", Danish "hær", Icelandic "her"; Old Norse "herr" meaning "crowd, great number, army". Ultimately from P.I.E. "*korio" meaning "war" and secondarily the physical force comprising it, "army". *korio is also the source of Lithuanian "karas" meaning "war, quarrel", karias "host, army", Old Church Slavonic "kara" meaning "strife", Middle Irish "cuire" meaning "troop", Old Persian "kara" meaning "host, people, army" Greek "koiranos" meaning ruler, leader, commander". As is usual with Germanic, the "k" sound at the beginning of the word was softened to an "h", see etymology of "hound".]
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| harry | v | to make war and attack with an army (literal). In Anglo Saxon times with the added implied sense of ravaging, laying waste, and plundering.; fight, overrun with an army [O.E. "hergian", used in the AngloSaxon Chronicle for what the Vikings did in and to England. From ProtoGermanic *harjon (which is the source also of Frisian "urheria", Old Norse "herja" meaning "to make a raid, plunder", Old Saxon and Old High German "herion").]
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| Harvestmonth | n | the ninth month of the year (so called because harvest begins at this time); September [Anglo-Saxon, from Hærfest-Mōnath]
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| haske | n | wicker fish-basket; [from OE hassock (plant)]
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| haugh | n | a piece of flat alluvial land by the side of river, forming part of the floor of the river valley; riverflat [rare geographical term, sometimes found in combination in place-names: greenhalgh; OE healh, halh: nook, corner]
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| haven | n | place of safety; [OE hæfen]
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| headborough | n | the seat of government of a nation or state, or other political entity; a chief city; capital [OE héafodburh]
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| headhertow | n | archduke; [head + hertow (<ME heretowa)]
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| headishaft | n | element; [Calque of Icelandic "höfuðskepna"; literally meaning "head creation"]
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| Headstead | n | the seat of government of a nation or state, or other political entity; capital, headtown [from NHG hauptstadt, haupt "head" + stadt "stead, town, city"; English "stead" also meaning "place"]
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| headtown | n | the seat of government of a nation or state, or other political entity; capital [neologism, from head "foremost, main" + town "city, village"]
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| healand | n | saviour; [OE hælend]
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| Health After Sickness is Sweet Evermore" | pvb | health is not valued till sickness comes.; [OE]
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| "Health is Better than Wealth" | pvb | health and strength is better than gold.; [OE]
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| "Heart Has It's Summer and It's Summer ("A") | pvb | the heart knows happiness and disappointment.; [OE]
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| "Heart Has It's Own Ache ("Every") | pvb | the heart knows it's own bitterness and disappointment.; [OE]
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| hearthfast | adj | having a stable, settled home; [OE heorþfæst]
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| Hearth: One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul yet no one comes to sit by it. | phr | an expression of a lovelorn and lonely Vincent Van Gogh.; [O.E]
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| heart share | n | the percentage of consumers who identified the competitor when responding to a question asking them to name a company from whom they would prefer to buy a product; [O.E. heart and share]
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| heathwort | n | the genus Erica, of the family Ericaceae, or plants belonging to the genus Erica.; Erica [from heath "open shrubland with sandy soil" + wort "plant, herb"]
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| heave | vb | lift up; [OE hebban]
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| hedge, huy | vb | consider; [OE hycgan]
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| heed | vb | pay attention, take notice; [CED]
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| heen | vb | humiliate; [OE híenen]
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| heldly | adj | safe, secure; [OE]
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| heleth | n | hero; [OE hæleð]
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| hempmonger | n | maker of coarse cloth, ropes.; [OE hemp & monger]
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| herder-wanderer | n | Mongolian nomad; sandfarer : nomad of the desert (dry-land): a bedouin; fourth worlder. [compound of herder & wanderer.]
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| hende | adj | gracious, courteous 2: handy; [O.E.]
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| hern | n | angle, corner; [OE hyrne]
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| hethel | n | castle; hather []
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| hew | n | marriage; wedding [OE hīw]
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| hewen | adj | having the color of sky; blue [ME & OE]
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| hewengreen | adj. | blue-green; cyan ['hewen' + 'green']
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| hewth | n | family unit, household; [hew + -th; cognate-in-self with Latin civitas]
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| hiddle | n | secret; [OE hydels]
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| hidesack/hydesack | n | leather bag; {{{synonyms}}} [Anglo-Saxon, from hȳdesacc]
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| high-bliss | n | exultation; [OE high & bliss]
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| high-burg | n | a capital city.; headtown, mickleborough, motherborough. [OE high & burg/borough]
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| high-hearted | adj | proud.; [OE high &heart]
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| high-sea | n | ocean; [OE high & burg/sea]
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| highthaning | n | important function; [OE héahþegnung]
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| high-threat | adj | panic; [OE high & threat]
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| highwithouse | n | college, university; lorestead, seat-of-learning ['high' + 'wit' (knowledge) + 'house']
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| hild | n | war, combat; [OE hild]
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| hiler | vb | to weigh, ponder; [OE heolorian]
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| hill-sheltered | adj | to be shielded by hills, mountains and their altitude from extreme or uncomfortable weather, as cities like Bandung (Indonesia) Baguio (Philippines)etc.; [O.E. hill & side]
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| hirler | n | trumpet; [see Sw. hörlur]
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| hitherto | adv | until now or until a particular time; [CED]
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| hitherward | adv | toward this place; [OED]
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| hokerspeaksome | adj | sarcastic; [from Old English hocor "derision" and Old English sprecan "to speak"]
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| holdand | n | guardian, keeper, protector; [OE healdend]
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| holemonger | n | womaniser; [OE: hole & monger]
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| holisain | n | legend,; [from OE halig "holy" and OE Segn "story"]
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| homestuck | n | confined to home for much of the time because a epidemic or pandemic; [from OE "home" and OE : "stuck"]
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| hopelost | adj | without hope; despaired [compound:'hope'+'lost']
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| horn-thumb | n | a sliver of sharpened horn attached to the thumb, employed by thieves, during the C18th who cut the strings fastening the purse to the owner's /victim's belly.; [compound:'horn'+'thumb']
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| horsemanship | n | the skill of riding and controlling a horse; equestrianism, equitation [uncommon, from horseman + -SHIP]
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| hossie | n | charge; [hoss + -ie]
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| hossien | vb | charge; [hoss + -ie + -en (wordlore 6)]
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| hote | Vb | to be called, to be named; [OE hatan]
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| Hothontland | n | Egypt; Black land [OE hoðma + -t + land / Kemet]
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| hothouse word | n | neologism, protologism, sniglet,; new word [OE hot, house & word]
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| huecouþ | vb | to make known; [OE gehiwcuðlician]
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| hueledge | vb | to form, shape, fashion; [OE gehiwlæcan]
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| Hundredyear | n | hundred years; century [from NHG jahrhundert "year" and "hundred"]
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| hure | adj, adv | certainly, especially; [OE huru]
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