| Old English | sp | English |
| Hab | vb | Get or lose, hit or miss, anyhow have or have not. |
| Hack | vb | Cut with heavy blows irregularly or at random, 2. to cut notches or hicks in. 3. to mangle or mutilate by jagged cuts. 4. chop into pieces. 4. of frost, to chafe or crack the skin. 5. in football, kick the shins of an opponent. 6. to hoe or plough the soil into ridges. 7. to mangle words in utterance, to stammer. 8. to embarrass, annoy, disconcert, confuse. 8. to roughen on a grindstone. 9. to hack into a computer network. |
| Hack | phr | "Hack After" - to aim at, strive. |
| Hack | phr | "Hack At" - to imitate. |
| Hack | phr | "Hack Down" - cut to the ground with rough down blows, chop down, butcher. |
| Hack | phr | "Hack Into" - to hack into a computer network. 2. cut with heavy blows irregularly or at random |
| Hack | phr | "Hack Off" - to remove with rough chopping blows. |
| Hack | phr | "Hack Out" - to stammer. |
| Hacker | n | One who mangles words or sentences. 2. an implement for hacking wood or earth. 3. one who breaks into computer networks. |
| Hackerdom | n | The state or condition of being a computer hacker. |
| Hacking | n | The act of cutting with heavy blows. 2. the kicking of an opponents legs or shins in football. |
| Hackish | adj | Characterisitic of hacks or inferior writers. 2. using, or characterized by, hacks, poorly-designed workarounds. |
| Hackle | n. | Cloak; covering of any kinds: feathers, serpent's skin. |
| Hackle | n. | Cloak; covering of any kinds: feathers, serpent's skin |
| Had | n | OE: hood; a person. 2. sex, gender. (only in O.E.) 3. state, condition, quality, kind. 4. holy order. |
| Had | phr | "Had Best" - would find it prudent. |
| Had | phr | "Had Better" - to have experienced a better situation or fortune. |
| Had | phr | "Had Rather" - (archaic):would rather |
| Had | phr | "Have Had It" - a colloquial expression widely popularized during World War 11 and possibly of Australian origin. It is applied to that which 'finished with' or 'done for'. Thus a soldier critically wounded was said to 'have had it'. |
| Had | phr | "Never Had It So Good" - refers to the overall prosperity and general improvement of living standards. |
| Had | vb | To ordain (into a holy order). (variant spellings: hade, hode) |
| Had-been | n | That had been at a former time. |
| Hadbote | n | Compensation for violence or an affront done to a person in holy orders. |
| Hadiend | n | One in a holy order. |
| Hading | n | Ordination. |
| Had-i-wist | n | (If-I-Had-Known); expressing regret for something done in ignorance of circumstance now known. 2. a vain, regret, or the heedless or loss of opportunity which leads to it |
| Haffet | n | (OE: healfheadfod)= the fore part of the head; the siniciput. 2. the side of the head above and in front of the ear; the temple, the cheek. |
| Haft | vb. | To use shifts and dodges, deceit, haggle, cavil, hold off |
| Haft | vb | To establish in a situation or place or residence. 2. to locate. 3. set or plant firmly. 4. to supply with or set in a handle or haft. |
| Haft | n | Handle of a piercing instrument. 2. handle of an axe, dagger, knife. |
| Haft | n | A fixed or established place of abode. 3. settled or accustomed pasture. |
| Haft | phr | "Loose in the Haft" - unstable (fig. & lit.) |
| Haft | phr | "To Have Other Haft in Hand" - to have other business to do; other fish to fry. |
| Hafted | adj | Having or fitted with a haft. |
| Hafter | n | One who hafts, in various senses. |
| Hafting | n | Subtle dealing, dodging, caviling, trickery, holding off, hesitation, demur. |
| Hag | n. | Enclosure |
| Hag | n | Witch, hagster, female demon, ugly old-woman. 2. a white mist usu. accompanying frost |
| Haggish | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a hag. |
| Haggishly | adv | In a haggish manner. |
| Hag-ridden | adj | Distressed or worried. 2. troubled with nightmares or hallucinations. 3. tormented by a woman. |
| Hagship | n. | Personality of a hag |
| Hail | n. | Ice (frozen raindrops) in pellets or masses in a shower or hailstorm. 2. frozen rain or congealed vapor, often falling in pellets, during thunderstorms. 3. a small number of insults. 3. figuratively anything falling thickly or in violence, as a hail of blows; missiles. |
| Hail | n. | Hale, health, safety, welfare. |
| Hail | vb. | To pour down, hurl, send down with force. |
| Hail | n. | Exclamation of greeting or salutation, usu of reverence and respect. |
| Hail | vb | To salute with friendliness, welcome, well-wish, respect or reverence. |
| Hail | adj | Free from injury, infirmity or disease; hale. |
| Hail | phr | "Hail Be Thou" - salutation expressing well-wishing or reverence. |
| Hail | phr | "Hail fellow Well Meet" - one on easy or familiar terms; an intimate acquaintance. |
| Hail | phr | "Hail From" - of a person" to come from or originate from. |
| Hail | phr | "Wes Hal!" - (may you) be in whole (or good) health. |
| Hail-fellow | n. | On a most intimate footing; over-familiar; the state of most intimate friends |
| Hailing | n | The act of greeting, welcoming, well-wishing. |
| Hailing | n | The state of ice falling like rain. |
| Hail-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of hail or hailstones. |
| Hail-shower | n | A shower of hail. |
| Hailstone | n. | A pellet of hail. |
| Hail-storm | n | A storm with hailstones or in which hail falls. |
| Hail-stricken | adj | Struck by hail or a hail-storm. |
| Haily | adj. | Consisting of or characterized by hail |
| Hair | n. | Thread-like filaments growing from the skin. 2. threadlike growths collectively, esp. on the head. 3. aggregate of the hairs growing on skin. 3. A jot or tittle; a iota, slightest thing, or least degree. |
| Hair | vb | To edge with hair. 2. to depiliate, free from hair. 3. to produce or grow hair. |
| Hair | phr | "Against the Hair" - against the grain, inclination or sentiment. |
| Hair | phr | "A Hair in One's Neck" - cause or trouble or annoyance. |
| Hair | phr | "Don't Loose Your Hair Over It" - do over react. 2. do worry worry needlessly. |
| Hair | phr | "Get in Somebody's Hair" - annoy somebody by getting in their way. |
| Hair | phr | "Get One's Hair Off" - to lose one's temper. |
| Hair | phr | "Get Out of My Hair" - get out of my way; stop annoying me. |
| Hair | phr | "Hair by Hair You Will Pull Out the Horse's Tail" - slow and sure wins the race. |
| Hair | phr | "Hair Of the Dog that Bites You" - to consume further alcohol to help or remove the effects of one's drunkenness. |
| Hair | phr | "Harm a Hair on Somebody's Head" - harm somebody even slightly. |
| Hair | phr | "Have Somebody by the Short Hairs" - have somebody at a disadvantage. |
| Hair | phr | "Hide and Hair" - every part, entirely, wholly. |
| Hair | phr | "In One's Hair" - annoying. |
| Hair | phr | "Keep One's Hair On" - to maintain one temper or 'cool' |
| Hair | phr | "Let One's Hair Down" - behave in a free, informal and uninhibited manner. 2. relax and enjoy oneself. |
| Hair | phr | "Make One's Hair Stand on End' - cause deep fear and revulsion. |
| Hair | phr | "Neither Hide, Nor Hair" - no trace of. |
| Hair | phr | "Put Hair On Somebody's Chest" - make somebody manly or virile. |
| Hair | phr | "Put Up Her Hair" - said of a girl when she passes into womanhood. |
| Hair | phr | "Tear One's Hair Out" - to act with passion or grief. 2. be very worried or frustrated. |
| Hair | phr | "To a Hair" - to a nicety. |
| Hair | phr | "To a Hair Line" - with the utmost exactness; to a nicety. |
| Hair | phr | "Wear a Hair shirt" - be penitent. |
| Hairbow | n | A bow worn in one's hair. |
| Hairbreadth | n | The breadth of a diameter of hair. 2. an infinitesimally small piece or distance. 3. very narrow or close. 4. the tiniest amount. 5. extremely small distance or margin. |
| Haircare | n | The act, practice, or occupation of supervising and taking care of the hair of clients; haircraft. 2. the care of one's hair. |
| Haircloth | n | (Merge of OE & OF forms)- cloth or fabric made of hair, used for tents, towels, shirts of penitents or ascetics; also, in drying malt, hops, etc. 2. an article made from this fabric. 3. cloth made of the mane or tail of the horse. |
| Hair-craft | n | Profession or occupation of caring for the hair. 2. haircare. |
| Hair-do | n | A haircut, hairstyle 9informal). |
| Hair-dryer | n | A piece of electrical equipment used to dry one's hair |
| Haired | adj | Having hair, hairy, hairiness; as 'white-haired'. |
| Hairen | adj | Consisting of hair. |
| Hair goods | n | Products associated with care and styling of hair; hair-ware, hair-care. |
| Hair grass | n | Any of several grasses having slender wiry stems or leaves. 2. any of several grasses of the genera deschampsia, muhlenbergia, and aira. 3. any of several fine-leaved strictly aquatic spike rushes including some that are popular as aerators for the balanced aquarium. |
| Hair grip | n | A small, tightly bent metal pin. |
| Hairily | adv | With hair or hairiness. 2. hirsutely. |
| Hairiness | n | State or quality of being hairy or covered with hair; hirsuteness. |
| Hairish | adj | Slightly, partially or somewhat hairy. |
| Hairless | adj | Without, destitute or lacking hair. 2. glabrous, bald. |
| Hairlessness | n | State or quality of hairlessness. 2. glabrousness, baldness. |
| Hair-lightener | n | A preparation or substance used to bleach or lighten hair. |
| Hairlike | adj | Like or resembling hair. 2. finely drawn out like hair. |
| Hairline | n | A rope or line made of hair. 2. a very thin line, as an up-stroke of a written letter. 3. the growth line of hair growing on one's forehead; the edge of hair at the top of the forehead. |
| Hairline | adj | Very fine or narrow, as a 'hairline break of a bone'. |
| Hairlock | n | A lock or cutting of hair. 2. a lock of hair on the hair. |
| Hairy-looking | adj | Hirsute. |
| Hair-monger | n. | Womanizer. |
| Hair-net | n | A small, often elasticized, fine net worn over long hair to hold it up. |
| Hairpin | n | A U-shaped wire used to hold the hair in place. |
| Hairpin bend | n | A very sharp, u-shaped bend in the road. |
| Hair-pulling | n | The act of pulling someone's hair. 2. an obsessive compulsive disorder where one puls hair from various parts of their body. |
| Hair-raising | adj | Very frightening or exciting. 2. causing fright or shock. |
| Hair ring | n | A ring that hold a lock of hair on the head, |
| Hair seal | n | The eared seal or sealion, not valued for its fur. |
| Hair-shirt | n | A shirt made of horsehair or goat's hair worn by ascetics and penitents for penance and mortification. |
| Hair spring | n | A fine spring in a watch. |
| Hairstone | n. | Sagenite. |
| Hairstroke | n | A fine upward line in handwriting. |
| Hair wash | n | A liquid, such as shampoo used to wash and clean the hair. |
| Hair-washing | n | The cosmetic act of keeping hair clean by washing it with shampoo, conditioner or other detergent products and water. |
| Hair-ware | n | The goods, products and implements used to care for the hair. |
| Hair-weed | n. | Conferva |
| Hairworm | n | Any of various nematode worms which inhabit running water and whose larvae are parasitic in insects, sometimes called horse-hair snake. |
| Hairy | adj | Having much hair, covered with hair; consisting of hair, made of hair, or like hair, hirsute. 2. consisting of hair; hair-like. 3. made of hair. 4. covered with short weak thin pubescence. 5. slang: troublesome; difficult; dangerous, harrowing |
| Hairy-chested | adj | Having a lot of hair growing on one's chest. |
| Hake | n | A fish, (genus Merlucius). |
| Hale | n | Health, well-being, welfare, cure, remedy. 2. ill-hale: bad luck. 2. |
| Hale | n | A corner, nook, secret place. |
| Hale | adj. | Free from injury, safe, sound, hail, 2. free from disease, well, vigorous, robust, whole, wholesome, sound; nb: used mostly of the elderly. 3. (ill-hail) - unlucky, disastrously, unfortunately. 4. of things: immaterial, whole, entire, complete; in no part lacking. 5. the whole of, all of. |
| Hale | vb. | To make well or whole, to heal |
| Hale | phr | "Hale and Hearty" - in very good health. |
| Hale | phr | "Hale and Scratch" - free from injury, unlucky, unscratched. |
| Halely | adv | Wholly, entirely, completely. |
| Haleness | n | The state or quality of being hale; healthness, robustness. |
| Hale-well | n | An antidote, a healing water or potion. 2. a panacea. |
| Half | adj. | One of two equal parts or sides; as, better half: wife; husband. |
| Half | n. | Moiety, a partial, imperfection. |
| Half | phr | "By Half" - by a great deal; by too much. |
| Half | phr | "Do by Halves" - to the extent of halves only; incompletely, imperfectly in part; halfheartedly, with half zeal; slapdash. |
| Half | phr | "Go Halves" - incompletely. |
| Half | phr | "Half a Loaf is Better than None" - be grateful what one has, even if it us not everything that one wants. |
| Half | phr | "Half and Half" - half one thing and half the other. 2. two equal portions; an equal mixture of two ingredients. |
| Half | phr | "Half an Eye" - the slightest degree of perceptiveness. |
| Half | phr | "Half is More than a Whole" - to settle a dispute without litigation. |
| Half | phr | "Half of It" - the rest or more important part of something. |
| Half | phr | "Half Seas Over" - fairly drunk, but not helplessly violently so; half cut. |
| Half | phr | "Half the Time" - very, or too, often. |
| Half | phr | "Have Half a Mind to do (Something)" - to have decided to do something, have an inclination, esp.something unpleasant. |
| Half | phr | "He is Only Half-baked" - he is raw, soft or weak-minded. |
| Half | phr | "How the Other Half Lives" - how people less/more fortunate than oneself lives. |
| Half | phr | "In Half the Time" - in a much shorter time than expected. 2. a considerable, or too long a time. |
| Half | phr | "In Halves" - (divided) in two equal parts. |
| Half | phr | "Meet Somebody Half Way" - agree to a compromise. |
| Half | phr | "Not Half" - very definitely; very much. |
| Half | phr | "The Half of It" - (only) part. |
| Half | phr | "To Go Halves" - to share, divide. |
| Half-alive | adj | In an embryonic state, not fully developed, but alive and functioning. 2. zombie-like; languid; lacking energy or enthusiasm. |
| Half-and-half | adj. | Two equal parts; in equal proportion; half in and half not. 2. something that's half one thing and half another or half this and half that. 3. quite a bit drunk; not fully sober. 4. a finer shade of feeling or colour, chiaroscuro: lighter and darker 5. a person of a mixed race. 6. somewhat intoxicated. |
| Half-and-halfer | n | 'You are not an out-and-out liberal, you are a half-and-halfer: a fence sitter, mugwump, pragmatist. 2. a bi-sexual. 4. a person of mixed race origins. |
| Half-ape | n | Lemur. |
| Half-arsed | adj | Done with little effort or care; incompetent or inadequate. |
| Half-asleep | adj | Sleepy, unalert. |
| Half-awake | adj | Sleepy; unalert, lacking mental alertness. |
| Half-baked | adj. | Raw, crude, underdone, not thoroughly done, incomplete, 2. silly, half-witted, deficient in intellect; not properly thought out. |
| Half-bath | n | A bath half filled. 2. a bath half the size of a standard. |
| Half-beam | adv | Of motor vehicle headlights not on full-beam. |
| Half-believe | vb | Not convinced or believing that a matter or a fact is completely correct or true. |
| Half-bent | adj | Bent in half. |
| Half-birthday | n | A day approximately six moths after the anniversary of a person's birthday. |
| Half-bit | n | A coin of small value. |
| Half-blind | adj | Having poor or limited sight (about half); with full sight in one eye only. |
| Half-blood | n. | The relation between persons having only one parent in common. 2. a group of persons related in this way. 3. a half-breed. |
| Half-blood(ed) | adj | (Archaic and offensive) born of different races; specifically of 'superior' (sic) blood or race by one person only. 2. being of mixed racial origin |
| Half-boot | n | A boot extending slightly above the ankle. |
| Half-breadth | adj | Hair-breadth. |
| Half-bred | n. | Of mixed breed, mongrel, underbred |
| Half-breed | n | A person of mixed race or race. 2. coming from parents of two races. |
| Half-broken | adj | Not working or operating fully. |
| Half-brother | n | A brother by one parent only. |
| Half-buried | adj | Buried to a shallow depth; partly covered over by soil. |
| Half-cheek | adj | A face in profile; a profile. |
| Half-cracked | adj | Half-witted. |
| Half-dark | n | In a state or condition halfway between light and dark; semi-dark, dim, poorly lit. |
| Half-dark | adj | Of a state or condition halfway between light and dark; semi-dark, dim, poorly lit. |
| Half-day | n | A day when a person works only in the morning or only in the afternoon. |
| Half-dead | adj | In a state which seems death is likely. 2. in a state f extreme exhaustion from sickness or fatigue. |
| Half-deal | n | A half part; half. |
| Half-done | adj | Incomplete, partly-finished or poorly done. |
| Half-eaten | adj | Half-eaten or consumed. |
| Half-ebb | n | The reflux of tide water to a lower of half tide. |
| Halfendeal | n. | Moiety, half, a half, by half |
| Half-flood | n | The state or time of the flowing tide, halfway between low and high water. |
| Half-god | n | Demigod, hero; demimonde. |
| Half-grown | adj | Not fully grown. |
| Half-hardy | adj | Of a plant needing protection from a cold winter. |
| Half-headed | adj | Half intelligent, deficient in intellect; stupid. |
| Half-hear | vb | To hear incompletely or imperfectly. |
| Half-heard | adj | Heard incompletely. |
| Half-hearted | adj | Not having one's heart in the whole matter. 2. showing little interest or enthusiasm. 3. wanting in courage, zeal, earnestness. 3. illiberal, ungenerous, unkind. |
| Half-heartedly | adv | In a lukewarm, without or with little zeal or enthusiasm. 2. unkindly, ungenerous in manner. |
| Half-heartedness | n | The state or quality of being lukewarm, zeal-less or without courage. |
| Half-hidden | adj | Partly concealed or out of sight. |
| Half-horse | n. | Centaur |
| Half-high | adj | Somewhat or a bit or half-high, as a flag at half-height on a flag-pole; see 'half-mast'. |
| Half-inch | vb | Cockney slang for 'pinch' meaning steal, rob. |
| Half-island | n. | Peninsula |
| Half-know | n | Someone who one is only slightly acquainted with. |
| Half-know | vb | To know in part or imperfectly. |
| Half-knowing | adj | Having the truth or the facts in part or incomplete. |
| Half-laughing | adv | Semi-jocose, a bit funny or worth a laugh. |
| Half-learnedly | adv | Not fully versed or learned in a subject or matter. |
| Half-length | adj | Portrait of half the full length, one representing the upper part or half of a person's body. |
| Half-life | n | A life of half the expectancy. 2. an unsatisfactory way of life. 3. a half-sized portrait or painting. 3. time taking for half the atoms in radio active material to decay. |
| Half-light | n | Light of half the full intensity. 2. a dim, grayish, imperfect light, as at evening. |
| Half-light | phr | "By Half Lights" - indistinctly, vaguely, dimly. |
| Half-line | n | A straight extending from a point indefinitely in one direction only. |
| Halfling | n | One who is not fully grown; a stripling. |
| Halflings | adv | Half in extent; to the extent of a half; half in part; partially. |
| Half-lit | adj | Dimly or partly lit. |
| Halfly | adv | In half; in part. |
| Half-man | n | A eunuch. 2. one who is part human; or deficient in humanity. |
| Half-marrow | n | A husband, a wife; a spouse. |
| Half-mast | n | Half the height of a mast; the half of a mast. 2. the position of a flag lowered to half height on a flag pole as a mark of respect to the dead. |
| Half-month | n | A fortnight or two weeks. |
| Half-moon | n | The moon when only half its disk or 'face' appears illuminated; a crescent moon. 2. transfig. of things in the shape of a half or crescent moon. |
| Half-moon | vb | To surround like a half-moon. 2. to move in a half-moon formation. |
| Half-murder | vb | To render by beating or thrash in a half-dead state. |
| Half-naked | adj | Partly dressed or clothed. |
| Halfness | n | The quality or condition of being half or incomplete; or being half of one thing or another. 2. a hesitation between two opinion or causes. 3. halfhearted or lukewarm action; irresolution. |
| Half-opened | adj | Not fully opened. |
| Halfpenny | n | A copper coin with the value of half a penny. 2. a small fragment. 3. contemptible value. |
| Halfpenny | phr | "Halfpenny Under The Hat" - a game of chance. |
| Halfpennyworth | n | As much as a halfpenny will purchase. 2. a very small quantity. |
| Halfpennyworth | phr | "Lose The Ship, for a Halfpennyworth of Tar" - to lose an object by trying to save on detail. |
| Half raw | adj | Of food: not fully cooked. |
| Half-right | adj | Not completely right or accurate. |
| Half-ripe | adj | Not fully ripe or mature. |
| Half-seas-over | n. | Half through with a matter, halfway between one state and another. 2. intoxicated; drunk. |
| Half-shaved | adj | Drunk, sozzled. |
| Half-shell | n | Any half of a roughly spherical -like object. 2. any domed-shaped object. |
| Half-shot | adj | Drunk, intoxicated, shickered. 2. very tired or weary. |
| Half-shower | n | A bathroom shower approximately half the size of a 'standard' one. |
| Half-shut | adj | Not completely or fully opened or closed. |
| Half-sibling | n | A half-brother or sister. |
| Half-sister | n | A sister to whom one shares only one parent in common. |
| Half-sleep | n | A light sleep; doze, napping. |
| Half-started | adj | Slowly and hestitantly commenced. |
| Half-step | n | In music: a semitone. |
| Half-strain | n | The quality of being half of a good strain or stock and half of an inferior one; a half-breed. |
| Half-strained | adj | Of a good and inferior strain; as, 'half-strained shopkeepers begot between gentlemen and city wives'. |
| Half-strength | adj | Not of full or total strength. |
| Half-thick | adj | Of the half the normal thickness. |
| Half-tide | n | The state of the tide half way between flood (high) and ebb (low). |
| Half-tide | adj | Left dry or accessible at half-tide. |
| Half-time | n | A period of half a particular time. 2. half the usual time of full time, which the work is carried out. 3. in music, half the tempo of the performer. 4. in football: the time in which the match is completed. |
| Half-timer | n | One who spends half the full time at anything. |
| Half-true | adj | Not fully true or accurate. 2. that convening only half or part of the truth. |
| Half-truth | n | A proposition which is or conveys only half or part of the truth. 2. an assertion that is true as far as it goes, but that it omits or conceals part of the truth. |
| Half-wave | n | One half only of a cycle of alternating current, into a pulsating direct current. |
| Halfway | adv | At or to half the distance of. |
| Halfway | adj | Mid way or equidistant between two points. 2. partial, inadequate |
| Halfway | phr | "To Meet Halfway" - to forestall; to respond to friendly advances of; to make concession to a person in consideration of equal concessions on his/her part. 2. to come to a compromise on. 3. fig. midway between two stages or conditions. |
| Halfway-house | n. | A house, place, hotel situated halfway in distance between start (home or stages) and destination of journey; and therefore a convenient halting -place. 2. a house set up to provide temporary (often emergency) accommodation for vulnerable folk. 3. a convenient stopping place, midway between two stages or conditions. |
| Half-whisper | n | Talking in a very quiet voice, but still audible even in a very quiet environment; hush-whisper. 2. less than a whisper (lower than) or just a bit louder in order for someone else to hear. |
| Half-wild | adj | Not fully tamed (of an animal). 2. a somewhat wild bush or countryside area or region. |
| Half-wish | n | To want to do something but not quite enough to do it, in fact (usually due to some impediments). |
| Half-wit | n. | Simpleton, imbecile, a feeble-minded person; one who is only half a wit |
| Half-witted | adj | Lacking or deficient in common sense, simple, senseless. 2. not having all the wits, imbecilic, mentally defective, daft. |
| Half-wittedness | n | The state or quality of being half-witted. |
| Half-wittedly | adv | In an senseless, imbecilic or mentally defective manner. |
| Half-words | n | A word, words or speech which insinuates something, instead of fully asserting it; a hint or suggestion; imply. |
| Half-world | n | A hemisphere; as,'this or that half of the world'. 2. half-trendle. |
| Half-year | n | The half of a year; six months. |
| Half-yearly | adj | Occurring or happening every six months. |
| Half-yearly | adv | Each half year; twice yearly or every six months. |
| Halidom | n | Holiness; sanctity. 2. a holy place, chapel, sanctuary. 3. a holy thing; a holy relic regarded as sacred. |
| Halidom | phr | "By My Halidom" - asseveration: 'by my halidom, it should ever be known'. |
| Haliwerfolk | n | Person of the holy man (Saint (Cuthbert). 2. those who held their land by the service of defending the body, relics and territory of St Cuthbert. 3. also the county Durham wherein they dwelt. |
| Halke | n | A corner, recess, hiding-place. |
| Hall | n. | A large place covered by a roof. 2. a large room or building for public meetings, dance, etc. 4. a temple, palace, court, royal resident. 3. a large country house. 4. a temple, palace, court, royal resident.++++++++ |
| Hall | phr | "Hall of Shame" - collection of the worst, most hated, or poor quality entries in a particular subject, medium, field, etc. 2. a mythical place which utter failures or disgraced entities are recognized. |
| Hallful | adj | As many or much as a hall could hold. |
| Hall-house | n | A house or edifice which is a hall. 2. principal living-room in a farm house. 3. the farm-house, as distinguished from the cottages on the farm. |
| Hall-keeper | n | On who had the key to the village hall and was responsible for looking after the premises. 2. (modern) - one who is responsible for the management or maintenance of a hall. |
| Hallmark | n. | The name of the London assay office at Goldsmith hall. 2. official stamp or mark of the Goldsmiths' Company. 3. any mark or token of genuineness or excellence. 4. the official stamp used by statutory authorities for hallmarking or approval |
| Hallmark | vb | To stamp with a hallmark. |
| Hallmark | phr | "Have the Hallmark Of" - be charactristic of, have the outward sign of. |
| Hallmarked | adj | Stamped with a hallmark. |
| Hallmark holiday | n | A holiday, as Grandfathers Day or St Valentine's Day, that is perceived to exist primarily for commercial purpose, rather than to commemorate a traditionally or historically significant person or event. |
| Hallmarking | n | The action and process of hallmarking. |
| Hallmarkish | adj | Expressing sentiment in a way that seems overly sweet & smaltzy. |
| Hallmarky | adj | Hallmarkish. |
| Hall-tree | n | A clthes tree. |
| Hallow | vb | To make holy, hallow or consecrated. 2. to look upon as holy, or with reverence. |
| Hallow | adj. | Holy, to make holy; regarded as holy. |
| Hallow-day | n | All-Saints Day - on the first day of November. 2. a saint's day; a holy day; holiday. |
| Hallowed | adj | Sanctified, blessed, consecrated, dedicated. |
| Hallowedly | adv | In a sanctified, holy manner. |
| Hallowedness | n | The state or quality of being sanctified or holy. |
| Halloween | n | All-Hallows' even: eve of All-Hallows or All-saints day- the last night of October. |
| Halloweener | n | One who celebrates Halloween. |
| Halloweeny | adj | Halloween-like. 2. evocativing something halloweenish, spooky, creepy, scary. |
| Hallower | n | One who consecrates, sanctifies or makes holy. |
| Hallow-fire | n | A bonfire kindled on 'All-Hallows Evening' - originally an ancient Celtic observance. |
| Hallowing | n | Consecrating, sanctifying, dedicating. |
| Hallowing | adj | That hallows, sanctifies, sanctifying. |
| Hallowmass | n | The feast of 'All-Hallows' or 'All Saints'. |
| Hallows | n | Applied to the shrines and relics of saints. 2. the gods of the heathens and their shrines. |
| Hallow-tide | n. | The season of All Saints, the first week of November. |
| Hall-stand | n | A tall piece of furniture with a mirror,several pegs or arms for items of clothing, an umbrella, and a place for storage. |
| Hallway | n | A passage giving entrance to a building or communicating its various apartments. 2. a corridor or passageway. |
| Halmote | n | A court held by the lord of a more within his hall. |
| Halse | n. | The neck, the throat, gullet. 2. (transfig.) a narrow neck of land (promontory, mull, spit) or channel of water. |
| Halse | n. | Weal, well-being, healing. |
| Halse | vb. | To call upon in the name of something divine or holy; to exorcise, adjure, beseech. 2. OE only: to augur, divine, soothsay. 3. to hail, salute, greet. 4. to embrace (sense of neck). 5. to encompass by going round. |
| Halse | phr | "To Hold In Halse" - to flatter, beguile, to delude. |
| Halseman | n | An executive. |
| Halsewort | n. | Throatwort or halsewort, formerly considered a remedy for sore throats. |
| Halsefang | n | OE. law originally some punishment and afterwards a fine of commutation. |
| Halsing | n | Exorcism. 2.supplication, entreaty. 3. greeting, salutation. |
| Halt | n | A complete stop, or cessation of progress in any movement, as of marching troops. 2. a temporary stop or halting. 3. a minor train stop without a building. 4. the act of limping, lameness. |
| Halt | adj. | Lame, crippled, limping. |
| Halt | vb. | To cease haltingly from, to walk unsteady or hesitatingly. 2. to waver, to remain in doubt. 3. to proceed lamely. 4. to make a temporary stop. 5. too be imperfect; proceed lamely as verse or logic. 6. to be in doubt; waver. 7. to walk wit a limp, hobble. |
| Halter | n. | Primarily that by which anything is held; a rope, strap, cord with a strap or a head staff by which cattle or horses are led or fastened. 2. a noose for hanging and execution. |
| Halter | n | One who limps. |
| Halter | vb. | To fasten or entrap with a noose. 2. to put a halter on an animal. 3. to hang a person with a noose. 3. to put a restraint on. |
| Haltering | n | The practice of putting a halter on an animal as a part of domesticating or taming it. 2. the act of executing or hanging a person by halter. |
| Halterman | n | A hangman. |
| Halterneck | n | A woman's top or dress with a strap fastened at the back of the neck. |
| Halting | n | The action of limping or walking lately. |
| Halting | adj | Hesitating, uncertain. |
| Haltingly | adv | In a limping, lame manner or way. 2. hesitantly, waveringly |
| Haltingness | n | The state or condition of being halting, lacking rythmic flow, jerkiness. |
| Halve | vb. | To divide into two equal parts, to reduce to halves. 2. to share equally. 3. to lessen by half; take away by half. |
| Halver | n. | A half share. 2. someone who has a half-share |
| Halving | vb. | The act of the verb 'halve'. 2. to divide into two equal shares of parts; sharing equally. 3. to render a half share or give divided obedience. |
| Ham | n. | The part of the leg at the back of the knee; the back of the hough. 2. the thigh of the animal slaughtered and used for food. |
| Ham | n. | Town, village, manor found in place names, such as Wickham??????. 2. a plot of pasture, sometimes meadow land; an enclosed land or plot. |
| Hamble | vb | OE: hamelian, to mutilate, maim, dock, cu short(esp. balls of a dog's feet) 2. to walk lamely |
| Hamble-shanked | adj | Maimed or lame in the leg. |
| Ham-bone | n | One who plays the part of a black person in films. 2. an amateur actor; a mediocre musician. |
| Hame | n | A natural covering, integument. 2. one of two curved bars fitted to the collar that holds the traces of a draft harness. 3. slough or skin of a serpent. |
| Hamesucken | n. | (Ham: home & socn: seeking) Crime of assaulting a person in his own home; home-invasion. 2. penalty for offenders committing the offence of hamesucken. |
| Hamfare | n. | (Ham:home & fare:going): a passage, expedition, a going-from (or away). |
| Hammer | n. | A tool having a hard solid head, used for beating, breaking, driving nails. 2. "The Hammer" The Fylfot": a prehistoric instrument resembling a hammer. |
| Hammer | vb. | Strike beat or drive with a hammer; drive as a nail. 2. to strike blows as with a hammer. 3. to shape or fasten with a hammer. 4. to form or force as with a hammer. |
| Hammer | phr | "Give Somebody a Hammering" - beat somebody soundly. |
| Hammer | phr | "Go Hammer and Tongs" - do something with full vigor; do forcefully, vigorously, vehemently |
| Hammer | phr | "Go Under the Hammer" - put up for sale at auction. |
| Hammer | phr | "Hammer and Sickle" - the emblem of the former Soviet Union., symbolic of productive work in the factory and on the land. |
| Hammer | phr | "Hammer Away" - keep working until a result is reached or worked out. 2. hammer out. |
| Hammer | phr | "Hammer Down" - secure, fasten, something by striking it (or driving in nails). |
| Hammer | phr | "Hammer Home" - try very hard to make someone understand or realize something. |
| Hammer | phr | "Hammer Into" - hammer something in or into (as a nail into wood). 2. teach or indicate something to someone by constant, intense and tiresome repetition. |
| Hammer | phr | "Hammer On" - to hammer on something or someone. |
| Hammer | phr | "Hammer Onto" - fasten into position by beating or striking. |
| Hammer | phr | "Hammer Out" - settle differences with hard work, discussion and agrement. 2. make flat and smooth by beating. 2. remove an irregularity by beating. |
| Hammer | phr | "Hammer Something Home" - get somebody to realized; understand something through. |
| Hammer | phr | "Knight of the Hammer" - a blacksmith. |
| Hammer | phr | "Sell under the Hammer" - said of goods and property sent for sale by auction. |
| Hammer | phr | "Under the Hammer" - put up for auction and sale. |
| Hammer | phr | "Up To the Hammer" - excellent, up to the highest standard; first-rate. |
| Hammer and Sickle | n | A symbol conceived by the communist party of the Soviet Union during the revolution. |
| Hammer-beam | n | A wooden beam (often carved) projecting from a wall to support the principal rafter or the end of the beam. |
| Hammered | adj | Beaten repeatedly by or with a hammer. 2. lambasted, verbally lashed or harangued. 3. slang: drunk or intoxicated |
| Hammerer | n | A person who uses various types of hammers in his work. 2. one who deliver his argument or opinion with forcefulness. |
| Hammerharden | vb | To harden metals by beating with a hammer. |
| Hammerhead | n | A shark with a wide flattened head. |
| Hammer-headline | n | A larger headline above a smaller main headlines (it uses a few words in a larger font size). |
| Hammering | n | The action or sound or sound of hammering or using a hammer on something. |
| Hammerless | adj | Without or not having a hammer. |
| Hammerlike | adj | Resembling or having characteristic of a hammer. |
| Hammerlock | n | A wrestling hold or grip in which the arm is twisted behind the back and up. |
| Hammerman | n | A person who uses hammers in his work. |
| Hammerness | n | The state or condition of being hammered. |
| Hammersmith | n | A smith who works with a hammer. |
| Hammerstone | n. | A prehistoric stone instrument resembling and used as a hammer. |
| Hammer-throw | n | A sport in athletic track and field in which a hammer (a ball on the end of a chain) is hurled for a distance using two hands within a throwing circle. |
| Hammertoe | n | A deformity of the toe, usually the second, in which the joint nearest the foot is bent downwards. 2. broadly persistent angular flexion of a toe. |
| Hammerwort | n | Paritaria officinalis; wall-pellitory, perdiculis. |
| Hammerwrought | adj | Worked into a shpe with a hammer, as iron brass. |
| Hamshackle | vb | To hobble, as a horse by connecting the head and forelegs, with a short rope or strap, as to impede movement. 2. to impede movement. |
| Hamstring | n | Any of the three tendons contracted by three posterior thigh muscles. |
| Hamstring | vb | To make lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham. 2. to make lame, incapitate, disable; hinder, obstruct. |
| Hand | n | Terminal part of the arm, below the wrist. 2. style of writing. 3. a manual worker. 4. symbol of authority or power. 5. trunk of an elephant or the elephant itself. 6. share or part in doing something. 7. pledge in marriage. 8. a person's skill or ability. 9. turn, innings, performance. |
| Hand | vb | To give something to someone by holding it in your hand and offering it to them. |
| Hand | phr | "A Friend At Hand" - one who will always be there for you. |
| Hand | phr | "A Great Hand" - a person especially fond of or clever at. |
| Hand | phr | "All Hands" - collectively engaged in; a whole crew. |
| Hand | phr | "A Man Of His Hands" - a man of valour, skill, or practical ability. |
| Hand | phr | "Ask for the Hand Of" - ask or give one's hand in marriage. |
| Hand | phr | "At Any Hand" - in any case. |
| Hand | phr | "At Every Hand" - on all hands. |
| Hand | phr | "At First Hand" - at the source. 2. from somebody with personal knowledge. |
| Hand | phr | "At Hand" - near and available. 2. within reach, nearby, convenient. |
| Hand | phr | "At No Hand" - on no account, by no means. |
| Hand | phr | "At One's Own Hand" - at one's own disposal, by one's own action, usually suicide. |
| Hand | phr | "At the Best Hand" - most profitably or cheaply. |
| Hand | phr | "At the Hands Of" - the source of. 2. from the hand of. 3.by operation of. |
| Hand | phr | "Be an Old Hand at" - one who is experienced at something. |
| Hand | phr | "Bear a Hand" - to come and help. |
| Hand | phr | "Bird in the Hand" - possession is better than expectation. |
| Hand | phr | "Bite the Hand that Feeds You" - return kindness with hostility. |
| Hand | phr | "Blood on One's Hands" - be guilty of harming someone. |
| Hand | phr | "Bring On Hand" - to introduce, bring in. |
| Hand | phr | "By Hand" - manually or personally. |
| Hand | phr | "By the Hand Of" - as an agent of. 2. with the hands, not aided by machinery. |
| Hand | phr | "Come To Hand" - to present to, appear; arrive, to come within one's reach, obtain, receive. |
| Hand | phr | "Come to One's Hand" - to do or perform with ease. |
| Hand | phr | "Eat Out Of One's Hand" - into subjection, under control of another. |
| Hand | phr | "Fall Into the Hands Of" - to take in hand. |
| Hand | phr | "First-hand Knowledge" - knowledge received firs-hand and not through an intermediary. |
| Hand | phr | "For One's Own Hand" - for one's own interest, with benefit; on one's own account. |
| Hand | phr | "From Hand to Hand" - from one person to another. |
| Hand | phr | "Get One's Hand in" - familiarize oneself with the task; to begin to take over a task or duty. |
| Hand | phr | "Give a Hand" - to help. |
| Hand | phr | "Give One's Hand to" - accept an offer of marriage. |
| Hand | phr | "Give One's Hand Upon" - take one's oath on it; to pledge one's honor to keep the promise. |
| Hand | phr | "Give Somebody the Glad Hand" - welcome warmly. |
| Hand | phr | "Go Hand in Hand" - to keep in step with. 2. with hands mutually clasped; each holding the others or another's hand. 3. fig. in conjunction with, side by side, concurrently. 4. going side by side. 5. well-matched. |
| Hand | phr | "Go In Hand With" - with something engaged or dealt with. |
| Hand | phr | "Great Hand at Something" - adept, expert at something. |
| Hand | phr | "Hand and Foot" - completely, satisfying all demands. |
| Hand | phr | "Hand Back" - return or give back something to its owner. |
| Hand | phr | "Hand Down" - give knowledge or skill to someone who is younger when you and will live after you have die; transmit as to one's heirs or successors. 2. give clothes, items, toys etc to a younger child when an older child no longer requires them. 3. bequeath, pass on as an inheritance. 4. say officially (legally) that someone should receive a particular punishment. |
| Hand | phr | "Hand In" - to deliver or submit something to someone. 2. submit, tender, surrender (because completed, worn out or no longer required0 give in. |
| Hand | phr | "Hand in Glove" - in close, often conspiratorial association and co operation9with each other). |
| Hand | phr | "Hand in Hand" - of two people, side by side, with hands linked or joined, esp. as a mark of affection. 2. associated, united with, or holding hands. |
| Hand | phr | "Hand It To (Somebody)" - admire and acknowledge someone's achievement or admire a quality in someone, even if you don't admire everything about that person. 2. give praise or credit to. |
| Hand | phr | "Hand Off" -pass to another; give to another. 2. in all football codes pass the ball to a team mate. |
| Hand | phr | "Hand On" - to pass on; transmit. 2. pass something to the generation following one own. |
| Hand | phr | "Hand On Heart" - honestly, sincerely. |
| Hand | phr | "Hand Out" - to mete out; distribute, give out, circulate. 2. offer out charity to the unemployed, natural disaster victims, etc. 3. mete out a beating, dish out, punishment, thrashing, etc. |
| Hand | phr | "Hand Over" - to give up possession. 2. surrender a captor, enemy, assailant. 3. concede, pass on, surrender.4. tansfer a position of authority or power. |
| Hand | phr | "Hand Over Fist" - with rapid alternative movements with the hands, as when climbing a rope. 2. pulling or gatheingsomething towards oneself. |
| Hand | phr | "Hand Over Hand" - with each hand brough successively over the other, as, climbing up or down a rope, or rapidly hauling it in. 2. with continuous advances; said of a ship, etc., approaching or giving chase to another. 3. quickly or in quantity. |
| Hand | phr | "Hand Over Head" - precipitately, hasty, rashly, recklessly; without deliberation, indiscriminately. |
| Hand | phr | "Hand Over Heart" - sincerely; honestly. 2. declare, state, affirm something. |
| Hand | phr | "Hands Off" - characterized by non-intervention; deliberate non-intervention. 2. leave alone, or remotely. 3. (of a machine or device) without need of manual operation. 3. not take, touch, criticize, or interfere with something or somebody. |
| Hands | phr | "Hands Up " - used as an instruction to raise one 3.'s hands in surrender or to signify assent or participation. |
| Hand | phr | "Hand-to-Hand" - with close approach of hand(s); at close quarters, man-to-man, hand-to-hand fighting. |
| Hand | phr | "Hand to Mouth" - consuming food as soon as it is obtained; with attention to immediate wants only. 2. aiming at the satisfaction of present needs only, without provision or lack of proper provision, for the future; improvidently, thriftlessness. 3. lack of provision for the future. |
| Hand | phr | "Have a Hand in" - to bear a share. |
| Hand | phr | "Have Clean Hands" - be blameless. |
| Hand | phr | "Have Full Hands" - to be very busy. |
| Hand | phr | "Have On Hand" - to have with one; to be charged with; have the care or responsibility of, to have in order to deal with, or dispose of, to be about or engage in. |
| Hand | phr | "Have One's Hands Full " - to have or more one can do. 2. be very busy, fully occupied. |
| Hand | phr | "Have One's Hands Tied" - be restricted by rules regulations. |
| Hand | phr | "Have Something on One's Hands" - be in possession of something. |
| Hand | phr | "Have the Upper Hand" - to win or hold the advantage over. |
| Hand | phr | "He Is My Right Hand" - one's principal assistant, my best and trustworthy companion or helper. |
| Hand | phr | "Hold in Hand" - keep under control. |
| Hand | phr | "In Any Hand" - in any case. |
| Hand | phr | "In Good Hands" - well cared for. |
| Hand | phr | "In Hand" - held, carried, under control; occupied by. 2. delivered in advance; paid in hand. 3. in process of execution or under consideration. 4. under control, in possession, in progress; entirely under control. |
| Hand | phr | "In One's Own Hand" - in one's sole control, ownership, management, responsibility, etc. |
| Hand | phr | "In the Hands Of" - the responsibility of. 2. in the possession of. |
| Hand | phr | "In Hand With" - in company, together, cooperatively. |
| Hand | phr | "In the Hands Of Others" - under the control of, or acting on the direction of others. |
| Hand | phr | "Into One's Hand" - ready for one; without exertion on one's part. |
| Hand | phr | "It is Believed On All Hands" - it is generally or universally believed. |
| Hand | phr | "Keep in Hand" - creating a stock/store of. |
| Hand | phr | "Keep One's Hand In" - to maintain one's skill by practice. |
| Hand | phr | "Kings Have Long Hands" - do not quarrel with kings, as their power and authority reaches to the ends of their dominions. |
| Hand | phr | "Laying On Of Hands" - the act or ceremony of the laying the hands on the head of another for the purpose of consecrating to a special office, or of blessing or healing. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay One's Hands On (Something)" - to acquire or obtain something in order to make use as one's own property. 2. get one's hands on; find what one is looking for. 3. seize, arrest or apprehend, in order to do harm, punish or hurt. |
| Hand | phr | "Left Hand Doesn't Know What the Right Hand is Doing" - lack of communication between two parts of the same organization or group. |
| Hand | phr | "Left on One's Hands" - one has to take full responsibility. |
| Hand | phr | "Lend a Hand" - help, give assistance to aid. |
| Hand | phr | "Lift One's Hand Against" - threaten. |
| Hand | phr | "Like a Hand in a Glove" - tightly and smoothly fitting. |
| Hand | phr | "Live by Hand or Mouth" - improvidently, without thought for tomorrow. |
| Hand | phr | "Many Hands Make Light Work" - an old proverb enshrining the wisdom of collective and co-operative labor. |
| Hand | phr | "My Hands are Full" - I am fully occupied; I have as a much work as i can manage. |
| Hand | phr | "My Hands are Tied" - I am not free to act. |
| Hand | phr | "Nigh on Hand" - near, nearby, to draw |
| Hand | phr | "Off One's Hands" - out of one's care or control. 2. no longer one's concern, responsibility. |
| Hand | phr | "Of One's Hand" - in respect; of one's action. |
| Hand | phr | "On All Hands" - on all sides; in all directions; or for all quarters. 2. in every direction, surrounding. |
| Hand | phr | "One's Better Hand" - superiority, upper, precedence. |
| Hand | phr | "On Hand" - present; in place. 2. in one (rightful) possession. 3. in one's charge or keeping or at works or business one has to do. |
| Hand | phr | "On One Hand Or the Other" - indicating two contrasting sides; fluctuating points of view, alternatively. |
| Hand | phr | "On One's Hand" - in one's possession. |
| Hands | phr | "On One's Hands and Knees" - in a begging manner. |
| Hand | phr | "Out Of Hand" - at once, without delay, immediately; without premeditation, suddenly, ofthand, extempore. 2. unruly, lawless, out of control. |
| Hand | phr | "Out of Hand" - out of one's possession, responsibility. |
| Hand | phr | "Play Into Somebody's Hands" - do exactly what somebody else wants one to do. |
| Hand | phr | "Play One's Own Hand" - look after one's own interests. 2. act entirely for one's own advantage. |
| Hand | phr | "Play With Both Hands" - to act with duplicity. |
| Hand | phr | "Put By Hand" - done with, disposed of by hand. |
| Hand | phr | "Put One's Hands Up" - to raise one's hands into the air as a token of surrender. |
| Hand | phr | "Shake hands" - to greet by giving the hand clasped into your own a shake; to bid farewell. |
| Hand | phr | "Show One's Hand" - reveal one's hand or intentions. |
| Hand | phr | "Sit on One's hands" - be idle, unoccupied, or (deliberately take no action. |
| Hand | phr | "Stand One in Hand" - to concern, to be incumbent with; to be the duty or business of. |
| Hand | phr | "Stand One's Hands" - pay for a drink for one or more persons; to treat. |
| Hand | phr | "Strike Hands" - to make a contract, become a surety for another. |
| Hand | phr | "Take In Hand" - be involved in, take part in; undertake. |
| Hand | phr | "Take Something off One's Hand" - to relieve someone of something troublesome. |
| Hand | phr | "Throw One's Hand In" - give, resign. |
| Hand | phr | "Tied Hand and Foot" - totally helpless, restricted. |
| Hand | phr | "To Hand" - prepared. |
| Hand | phr | "To One's Hand" - at hand, close by, readily accessible |
| Hand | phr | "Under the Hand Of" - under the control or direction of. |
| Hand | phr | "Upon My Hand" - on any account, in any case. |
| Hand | phr | "Upon One's Hand" - one's burden or responsibility; thing one must attend to. |
| Hand | phr | "Wash One's Hands Off" - take no further responsibility in; dismiss from consideration; dissociate oneself from. |
| Hand | phr | "Win Hands Down" - to win easily. |
| Hand | phr | "With High Hand" - arrogantly, without regard the feelings of others. |
| Hand | phr | "With a Heavy Hands" - oppressively; without sparing. |
| Hand | phr | "Work Hand in Hand" - co-operate, work closely with. |
| Hand-axe | n | A smallish axe held in the hand. |
| Handbarrow | n | A flat rectangular frame with handles at both ends that is carried by two persons. |
| Handbell | n | A small bell with a handle or strap, esp. one of a set tuned to a range of notes and played by a musical group. |
| Handbell ringer | n | One who performs on a handbell. |
| Handbell ringing | n | The practice of ringing handbells as a musical performance. |
| Handbell-shaped | adj | Shaped like a handbell. |
| Hand-blow | n | A strike or blow with the hand. |
| Handblown | adj | (Of glassware) shaped by means of a handheld pipe. |
| Handbook | n. | A reference book on a subject. 2. a small book or treatise, manual, book containing concise information for tourist, such as may be held with the hand. |
| Hand-breadth | n. | A unit of lineal measurement, a palm; formerly taken as three inches, now as four (found on the width or breadth of the hand).. |
| Hand-bridge | n | In billiards, a player's front hand formed to position their cue while making a shot. |
| Hand-broad | adj | Of the width of the hand. |
| Hand-built | adj | Which is built by hand; handmade. |
| Handcare | n | The care of hands, such as manicure. |
| Hand-cart | n | A small cart pushed or drawn with the hands. |
| Handcloth | n | A handkerchief; wsashcloth. |
| Handcraft | n | Manual skill, power, or work, handicraft. |
| Handcraft | vb | One who engages in handcrafts. |
| Handcrafted | adj | Done manually. |
| Handcrafter | n | One who handicrafts or in engages in handicrafts. |
| Handcraftsman | n | Handicraftsman. |
| Handcraftsmanship | n | Handicraftsmanship. |
| Handcuffs | n | Fetter for the wrist, usu joined in a pair. 2. come-alongs (slang) |
| Hand-done | adj | Manually; done with or by the hands. |
| Handed | adj | Having hands, esp. of a specific kind. 2. acting or provided with hands.. 3. used in 'combinations' such as 'empty-handed'; 'open-handed'. |
| Handedness | n | The tendency of an individual for a preference, of 'right' or 'left-handed'. |
| Hander | n | One who hands, delivers or passes. 2. a blow or strike with a hand. |
| Hander-down | n | One or that which hands down. |
| Hand-dryer | n | An electrical device typically in a public toilet for drying a person's hands or blowing hot air on them. |
| Handed | adj | For or involving a specified number of hands. 2. chiefly using or designated for use by the hand specified. |
| Handed | sfx | For or involving a specified number of hands. 2. chiefly using a hand or hands, as in the combination two-handed. 2. having or involving a hand or hands, as in the combination, as right-handed. 3. having, requiring, or with the number of people, as in combination three-handed. 4. manned, staffed, as in combinations. |
| Handedly | adv | In adverbs corresponding to adjective ending in handed, as heavy-handed. |
| Handedness | n | The tendency to use either the right or the left-handed more naturally than the other. |
| Hander-in | n | One who hands in or returns something. |
| Hander-out | n | One who hands outs or distributes. |
| Handfast | n | A firm hold or grip with the hand. 2. a handle by which a thing is held. 3. a joining of hands in a deal. 4. a contact or consecration; spec. a bethrothal or marriage contract. |
| Handfast | vb. | To make a contract of marriage by joining hands in bethrothal; pledge, bind in wedlock, bethroth. 2. to bargain or contract. 3. to make fast, settle, 4. to give or engage with earnest or earnestly. to grasp, sieze the hand, to manacle. |
| Handfast | adj. | Bound, having a firm grip, manacled, tight-fisted, closed-hand (lit & fig.). 2. handfasting, handfastly |
| Handfast | phr | "In Handfast" - in hold, held fast. |
| Handfasted | adj | Bound, grasped, closed-handed. 2. bethrothed, pledged, married. 3. bargained, contracted. |
| Hand-fasting | n | Bethrothal, pledge, wedlocked. |
| Handfastly | adv | By solemn engagement, made by joining the hands firmly. |
| Handfast-maker | n | One who makes handles and handle-grips. |
| Hand-fastness | n | The condition of being fast, fixed, bound; firmly attached. 2. the condition of being bethrothed, pledged, married. |
| Hand-feed | vb | To feed a very young or newly-born animal by hand to ensure it's survival, usually when its mother has died or is unable to feed it. |
| Handful | n. | A quantity that fills the hand; as much as the hand hand can hold, grasps or contains. 2. a small company or number; a small quantity or amount. 3. lineal measure of four inches used in measuring the height of a warrior. 4. as much as one can manage. 5. (sl) - a five year prison sentence. |
| Handful | vb | To deal out with hands full. |
| Handglass | n. | Lens, a small mirror with handle. 2. magnifying glass held by the hand to help the eyesight. 3. a time glasss to measure a ship's log. |
| Handgrip | n. | A grip or grasp, seizing by or in the hand. 2. a close conflict or struggle. |
| Handgrip | phr | "Come To Handgrips" - to engage in close combat. |
| Handgripping | n | The action of grasping or siezing with the hand. |
| Hand grith | n | Peace, protection or security given by the king's hand. |
| Hand-habend | n. | Of a thief; having (the thing stolen) in hand. 2. applied as sb. to the office, and to the franchise of holding plea thereof. |
| Hand-hold | n. | A hold for the hand: that by which one hold on to in climbing, an instrument. 2. the portion of any implement, tool which is grasped by the hand. as a the instrument itself, such as a remote control |
| Hand-held | adj | Grasped by the hand. |
| Hand-holding | n | The provision of careful support or guidance to someone during a learning process or a period of change. 2. the interlocking of all one's fingers while holding the hand of another. |
| Handhole | n | A hand large enough only for the insetion of a hand (as for lifting) or of a hand and arm, as for cleaning out otherwise inaccessible places or giving access to an an enclosed place. |
| Hand-hot | adj | (especially of water)hot, but not to hot to put your hand into. |
| Handicap | n. | Disability, barrier, hindrance, disadvantage, impediment, impairment, 2. condition so imposed, penalty |
| Handicraft | n. | Manual skill; skilled with the hands. 2. manual, art or occupation |
| Handicraftship | n | Exercise of handicraft, workmanship. |
| Handicraftsman | n | A worker skilled in making objects by hand; an artisan. |
| Handicuff | n. | Blows with the hands. 2. fighting hand to hands |
| Handily | adv | In a handy manner or way; expertly, dexterously, manually. 2. conveniently. |
| Handiness | n | The quality of being handy, skilfully, or expert with the hands. 2. the quality of being easy or conveniently handled; easily, or able to be managed, convenience. |
| Hand-in-glove | adj | In close collaboration or intimacy. |
| Handing | n | The action of handling or handing over; passing something to another. |
| Hand-in-hand | adj | Keeping in step with. 2. fig. in conjunction with, side by side, concurrently. 3. going side by side. 4. well-matched. |
| Handiwork | n. | A thing or collection of things made by the of any one. 2. work done by direct personal agency; sometimes the work of, or done by, man's hands, as opp. to nature. 3. a thing or collection of things made by the hands of anyone. 4. work done by the hands, or direct operation or agency. 5. manual employment, work of any kind, performance, practical work, as opposed to headwork or brain work. |
| Hand-knit | adj | Knitted by hand; hand-knitted. |
| Handle | n. | Part of a thing made to hold something by. 2. a small basket with a handle in which fruit is packed. 3. a measure of beer, approximately one pint. 4. fig. that by which something maybe taken hold of. 5. one of two or more ways in which a thing maybe taken or apprehended. 6. that a fact that may be taken advantage of. 7. (sl) name, nickname. |
| Handle | vb. | Touch, feel, with the hands, manage, deal with, deal in. 2. to furnish, fix to, or provide with a handle. |
| Handle | adj | Of or resembling a handle. |
| Handle | phr | "A Handle To One's Name" - title, rank, honour attached to one's name. |
| Handle | phr | "Fly Off the Handle" - to become very angry and unreasonable suddenly. |
| Handle | phr | "Get a Handle On" - to gain control over something, such as a situation. 2. to acquire the means of understanding, or forming an opinion about. |
| Handle | phr | "Give a Handle to" - give grounds for suspicion. |
| Handle | phr | "Go Off the Handle" - to lose one's self-control or temper. |
| Handle | phr | "Have Two Handles" - a fact or circumstance that may be 'laid hold of, or taken or advantage of for some purpose; an occasion, opportunity, excuse, pretext. |
| Handle | phr | "Put a Handle To" - give a name to. |
| Handle | phr | "To the Handle" - thoroughly, completely, up to the hilt. |
| Handleless | n | Without a handle. |
| Handler | n | Something that has a specific feel when handled. 2. a police officer in charge of police dogs. 3. one who or that which, handles, especailly one who trains, breaks in, or manaes certain animals, dogs, horses, circus animals. 4. a person who trains prize-fighters. |
| Handlesome | adj | Capable of being handled. |
| Handless | adj | Without hands; deprived of hands. 2. not doing, or not able to do anything with the hands. 3. incapable or incompetent with the hands; awkward, clumsy. |
| Handlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a handle. |
| Handling | n | Feel or manipulate with the hand. 2. fig. manage a situation or problem. |
| Handlings | adv | Hand-to-hand; at close quarters. |
| Handlist | n. | A list of books in form ready for easy reference |
| Handlock | n | A shackle for the hands, manacles, handcuffs. |
| Handloom | n | A weaver's loom worked by hand. |
| Handly | adv | Used by the hands, manually, mechanically. |
| Handmade | adj | Made by hand or hand tool(formerly distinguished from the work of nature); artifical (now used from that of machine made). |
| Handmaid | n | A female personal attendant or servant; a handmaiden. 2. fig. as in 'God's handmaid': nature. |
| Handmaid | n | An old fashion term for a female servant or attendant. 2. a a subservient partner or element. |
| Handmaiden | n | A handmaid. |
| Hand-maidenly | adv | Befitting a handmaid. |
| Hand-maidenhood | n | The state or quality of being a handmaiden. 2. the role of a handmaiden. |
| Handmake | vb | To make something by hand, not by machine, and considered to be superior in quality. |
| Hand-me-down(s) | n | Used or second-hand items, such as clothes. 2. that which is handed down, as a 'heirloom'. |
| Handnet | n | A small net, often used to catch an individual fish or butterflies, that is equipped with a handle attached to the rim so that the net forms a pouch. |
| Hand-off | n | a pass made by handling the ball to a team mate. 2. fig. to give something to someone elseto do or complete. |
| Hand-out | n | That which is handed out or distributed. 2. food or money given to beggars; a gift of money. 3. matter handed out to or by a newspaper or press; more generally, matter handed over from any source to convey information or guidance. |
| Hand over Head | phr. | Precipitately, recklessly, without deliberation, indiscriminately, rash, reckless. |
| Hand-play | n | Interchange of blows in hand-to-hand encounters; as 'hard-hand play' in boxing, fighting and war. |
| Hand-raised | adj | Of a newborn animal to be brought and cared for by a human being. |
| Hand-reading | n | Used by Coverdale in his Bible translation for ministration or contribution; and from the German: 'handreiching'. 2. palmistry. |
| Handsaw | n | A saw managed by one hand. |
| Handsbreath | n | A short or small distance. |
| Hand-sale | n | A sale confirmed by the mutual shaking of hands. |
| Handsel | n | A gift g.iven at the beginning of the year, or to mark an acquisition, start an enterprise, supposedly to give good luck; ('Handsel Monday' formerly celebrated in Scotland and England) |
| Hand-seller | n | A street-dealer who carries his goods, in a basket, cart. |
| Handsewn | adj | Sewn by hand without the use of a sewing machine. |
| Hands-free | adj | A word describing equipment that can be used without the use of one's hands (or limited use of hands). |
| Hand-shackle | n | A restraint fit over the wrist of a person; a handcuff. |
| Handshake | n | Grasping of hands by two persons when greeting, leave-taking, or making an agreement. |
| Handshake | vb | To grasp of the hand by two persons when greeting, leave-taking, or making an agreement. |
| Hand-shaking | n | Shaking of hands in greeting or leave-taking. |
| Handshape | n | In sign-language the held position of the hand and fingers in producing a particular sign. 2. In sign languages, handshape, or dez, refers to the distinctive configurations that the hands take as they are used to form words. In Stokoe terminology it is known as the dez, an abbreviation of designator. Handshape is one of five components of a sign, along with location (tab), orientation (ori), movement (sig), and facial-body expression. Different sign languages make use of different handshapes. |
| Hand soap | n | A bar of soap or soap in liquid form used to wash one's hands. |
| Hand-smooth | adj | Smooth to the hand, level or flat as if smoothed by the hand. 2. (fig.) flat, plat, unqualified. |
| Hand-smoothly | adv | Flatly, downright, without check, or qualification. |
| Handsome | adj | Easy to use or handle in any way. 2. handy, ready at hand, suitable. 2. of speech, apt, dextrous, clever, happy. 3. proper, seemly, decent. 4. beautiful, fair, attractive, fetching, comely. 5. generous, magnanimous. |
| Handsome | phr | "Handsome Is, As Handsome Does" - a person's good actions, rather than his or outward aspect, or good looks defines his or her handsomeness in the eyes of others. |
| Handsome | vb | To make handsome; handsome up. 2. to fit, adapt, to make seemly or becomingly. 2. to bring to a proper condition. |
| Handsomely | adv | In a handsome manner; with a fine or pleasing or pleasantness of aspect. 2. conveniently, fitly, appropriately, aptly. 3. skilfully, dexterously, cleverly. 4. carefully, gradually, without haste. 5. in becoming or elegant action; in good shape, neat, elegantly. 6. ironically, in reference to reproof or punishment severely. 7. in accordance with what is becoming in conduct, courteously, graciously, decently. 9. in a stronger sense: generously, magnanimously. 10. (lit.): generously, usually in reference to a gift or payment. |
| Handsomeness | n | The quality of being handsome. 2. convenience, handiness 3. skill, dexterity, ability, cleverness, propriety, becomingness, decency. 4. seemliness or pleasantness of aspect or style. 5. elegance, neatness, comeliness, beauty; modern beauty of a somewhat stately kind. 6. graciousness, courtesy, magnanimity, liberality. |
| Handsom(e)ish | adj | Rather handsome. |
| Hands-on | adj | Involving directly and participation with an activity; practical rather theoretical or second-hand; as, of computers. |
| Handsel | n | OE: hand & selen (gift); a gift given to wish good luck for the year ahead. 2. a first installment of a payment or bond. 3. a gift given at the start of a new job or new life stage. 4. first use of something newly bought or acquired. 5. morning's earnings or takings. 6. first customer or sale made by a business after opening in the morning. |
| Handsel | phr | "For Good Handsel" - a superstitious practice done to ensure good fortune. |
| Hand span | n | The distance between outstretched tips of the little fingers and thumb when used a unit of measurement. |
| Hand-spring | n | A somersault made by the assistance of the hands placed on the ground. |
| Handspun | adj | Spun by hand. |
| Hand-stand | n | A movement or position in which a person is upside down, supported by their hands on the ground. |
| Hand-stroke | n | In bell-ringing the pull on the sally that swings the ball throuoh the full circle. |
| Handsy | adj | Tending to touch others; typically in a way that is inappropriate or unwanted. |
| Hands-upper | n | One who puts his or her hands in the air as a token of surrender. |
| Hand-tame | adj | Tame and submissive to the hand; domesticated (of an animal). 2. mild, gentle. |
| Hand-tamed | adj | Reduced to submission. |
| Hand-tameness | n | Submissiveness, gentleness, mansetude. |
| Hand-tight | adj | As tight as can be made by the the strength of one's hand wielding a standard tool, that is, without special treatment or leverage. |
| Hand-to-hand | adj | With close approach of hand; at close quarters, man-to-man, hand-to-hand fighting. |
| Hand-to-mouth | adj | Consuming food as soon as it is obtained; improvidently, thriftlessness. 2. lack of provision for the future |
| Hand tool | n | A tool in the hand. |
| Hand-warmer | n | A small ( mostly disposable) packets held in the hand and produces heat on demand to warm cold hands. |
| Handwash | n | Soap, liquid or other cleansing aid used to wash one's hands. |
| Handwash | vb | To was one's hands usimg soap or another handwash. |
| Handwashing | n | The act of cleaning one's hands without or without water or another liquids. 2. the use of soap for the purposes of removing dirt or micro-organisms. |
| Hand wave | n | A wave made by the hand. 2. a glib statement or explanation that glosses over important detail. |
| Hand wave | vb | To explain something superficially, skipping over the details, perhaps appealing to intuition instead. |
| Handwaving | n | A pejorative label for attempting to be seen as effective – in word, reasoning, or deed – while actually doing nothing effective or substantial. It is most often applied to debate techniques that involve fallacies, misdirection and the glossing over of details |
| Handwavy | n | Inclined to handwaving. |
| Handweaver | n | A maker of hand woven goods. |
| Handweaving | n | The manufacturing of handwoven goods. |
| Handwheel | n | Any wheel operated by hand. |
| Handwhile | n | A moment, an instance, a second, a short span in time. |
| Handwork | n. | Work or things done, or made, with the hands. 2. manual operation or labour, distinct from work done by machinery. |
| Hand-worked | adj | Worked or wrought by hand, not by machinery. |
| Handworker | n | One who wworks with their hands. |
| Handworking | n | The action of working with one's hands. |
| Handwoven | adj | Woven by hand, or with a hand-operated loom. |
| Handwright | n | A worker in his hands; an artisan, a mechanic. |
| Handwringer | n | A person who clasps and squeezes the hand in an excessive expression of anxiety and distress. |
| Handwringing | n | The act of clasping and squeezes the hand in an excessive expression of anxiety and distress. |
| Hand-wrist | n. | The joint of the hand; the wrist; the cuff.. |
| Hand-writ | n | Handwriting, an autograph, a signature. |
| Handwrite | vb | To write with the hand or with one's own hand. |
| Handwriting | n. | Writing with the hand. 2. that which is written by the hand. 3. written document or note. 4. a manuscript. |
| Handwriting | phr | "Handwriting on the Wall" - sign of impending calamity or disaster. |
| Handwritten | adj | A document, (parchment, page) written by hand. |
| Hand-wrought | adj | Worked or done with the hands. |
| Handy | adj. | Done by the hand; manual. 2. wielded by the hand. 3. ready to hand, near to the hand. 4. conveniently accessible, convenient or ready for use. 5. easy to handle or hold with the hand. 6. easy to manipulate, manage or direct by the hand. ready or clever with the hands; dexterous; able to turn the hand to anything. |
| Handy-man | n | An odd-job person, a person useful for all such jobs. |
| Hang | vb. | Fasten to an object above. 2. suspend 3. kill by suspending from gallows. 4. attach or set up. 5. Cling to. |
| Hang | n. | The action of hanging. 2. the mode in which something is hanged or poised. 3. crop of fruit. |
| Hang | phr | "As Well Hanged for a Sheep as a Lamb" - don't stop at half measures. |
| Hang | phr | "Be Hung Up" - be emotionally disturbed or confuse. |
| Hang | phr | "Be Hung up On" - (slang) psychological or emotional obsession or problem about something. |
| Hang | phr | "Get the Hang Of" - to understand, comprehend, become familiar with the drift of. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang About" - to stay, linger or loiter. 2. to spend time or be friends with. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang a Left" - to turn left, make a left turn. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang Back" - to resist advance; hesitate. 2. to show unwillingness to advance or come forward. 3. to be backward in coming forward. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang Back From" - hesitate from timidity or fear. 2. hold back from doing something. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang Behind" - to hang behind and retard progress. 2. linger in a place after others have left. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang By a Thread" - be in a precarious position. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang Fire" - to think before acting or taking action. 2. fail to fire, or delay in firing. 3. fig. fial to be carried out and completed as expected, or suffer delay in being carried. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang Five" - in surfing to stand towrds the front of one's surfboard and ahng the toes of one or both feet over the edge. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang Heavy" - pass slowly (of time). |
| Hang | phr | "Hang In" - to persist in spite of adversity (as a boxer). 2. to hold out, endure, persist. |
| Hang | phr | "Hanging is too Good For" - deserves a much worse fate than even too be hanged. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang It" - a mild expletive. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang Off" - to hang back: demur, hestitate. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang On" - to continue to adhere, hold tight, grip something firmly. 2. survive a crisis. 3. to remain clinging, to continue to adhere, usually implying expectation or unwillingness to sever one's connection. 3. wait, pause, hold fast; hold on. 4. require that some condition should first be met; hinge on or upon. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang On By the Eyelids" - to maintain one's position only with the greatest difficulty or by the slightest hold. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang One On" - to strike a blow. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang One's Hat On" - pin one's hope on. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang One's Head" - be ashamed. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang On Every Word" - listen to attentively. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang On Like Grim Death" - to cling tenaciously, literally or metaphorically; not to be shaken off , as death persists having once marked down its victim. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang On Somebody's Lips/Head" - listen attentively. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang Onto" - the keep something, not sell or give to someone else. 2. to cling and rely upon another for help. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang On to Something" - to retain. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang Out" - to protrude (with downward direction). 2. to associate with; to frequent. 3. live, reside, visit a place frequently. 4. spread damp washing on a line, so that it can dry. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang Out To Dry" - to defeat and punishment deliberate and slowly. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang Over" - envelop something, as cloud. 2. possess somebody as gloom, depression. 3. seem likely to occur soon, be imminent. 4. suspend something from a surface so that they may cover it. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang the Moon" - 'to place the moon in the sky' fig. attributed to someone with uncritical or excesive awe and reverence or infatuation. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang Tight" - to remain in one's current location. 2. to wait patiently |
| Hang | phr | "Hang Together" - to be coherent or consistent; (of a person): to keep body and soul together; to continue to exist. 2. to adhere together loosely or without rigid attachment. 3. to be coherent or consistent or a consistent whole or coherent. 4. to hold together; co-operate, support,to be associated or mutually dependent. 5. be complete, consistent, or share the responsibility. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang Tough" - to remain inflexible or firmly resolved. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang Upon" - depend upon. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang Up (on someone)" - to end a telephone call. |
| Hang | phr | "Hung Up On" - be obsessed with. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang Upon" - listen to devoted attention to. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang Up One's Boots" - to call it a day, retire. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang Up One's Hat" - make oneself at home in another person's house. |
| Hang | phr | "Have Something Hanging Over One's Head" - be under a threat (of unpleasantness). |
| Hang | phr | "I'll Be Hanged" - an expression of disbelief, surprize, or resoluteness. |
| Hang | phr | "Let It All Hang Out" - to be uninhibited or relaxed. 2. to be candidly truthful. 3. do as you like. |
| Hang | phr | "Not Give a Hang!" - to be regardless of the consequences. |
| Hang | phr | "One Might as Well be Hung for a Sheep as a Lamb" - if punishment is due, one might as well do something really bad and enjoy it while they can. |
| Hang | phr | "Thereby Hangs a Tale" - there is more to this matter, but it is better left unsaid. |
| Hang | phr | "To Hang With It" - a very mild oath. |
| Hang | phr | "Where Do You Hang Out?" - where are you living or lodging?. |
| Hang-back | n | A hestitation, unwillingness (to procede or go forward). 2. one who hestitates or wavers. |
| Hangbird | n | A clothes-drying rack, esp. popular owing to it space-saving capacity. |
| Hang-by | n. | Term for a hanger-on, a dependent. |
| Hang-dog | n. | Despicable, mean or degraded, abject character. 2. a skulking perso, a sneak. |
| Hang-dog | adj | Low, degraded, base, sneaky, as in a 'a hang-dog look'. |
| Hangdog | vb | To hang on a rope after falling off during a climb. |
| Hang-dog look | n | A guilty, shame-faced look. |
| Hanged | adj | Suspended, put to death by hanging. 2. furnished or decorated by hangings. |
| Hanger | n | A wood on the side of a steep hill or bank. 2. a hangman, executioner. 3. something that is suspends or overhangs. 4. a contrivance by which anything is hanged, rope, chain, hook. 5. a shaped frame on which clothes or garments are suspended or draped; a clothes hanger. 6. shoulder-shaped frame with a hook at the top, usually of wire, wood or plastic, for draping and hanging a garment when not in use. |
| Hanger-back | n | One who hangs back, hestitates or waver. |
| Hangerless | adj | Without or lacking ahanger. |
| Hanger-on | n | Opportunist, parasite, dependant or follower (disparagingly). |
| Hang-fire | n | A delay in an explosion of a propelling charge, igniter or similar device. |
| Hang-glide | vb | To fly a hang glider. 2. an uwithout-powered aircraft resembling a large kite from which a rider is suspended in aharness. 2. a rider of such a craft. |
| Hang-glider | n | An uwithout-powered aircraft resembling a large kite from which a rider is suspended in aharness. 2. a rider of such a craft. |
| Hanging | n | A method of execution whereby the person is dropped and suspended from a rope around the neck, resulting in death from severing of the spinal cord, strangulation, or other causes. 2. something, such as a tapestry, that is hung.
3. A descending slope or an inclination. |
| Hanging | adj | Situated, as on a steep slope, so as to appear to hang down: a hanging garden. 2. projecting downward or outward; overhanging: hanging vines; a hanging staircase. 3. suited for holding something that hangs: a hanging rack.
4. in baseball being a pitch that fails to break as intended. 5. deserving death by hanging: a hanging crime. 6. disposed to inflict severe sentences, such as death by hanging: a hanging judge. |
| Hanging | phr | "Hanging is too Good For" - deserves a much worse fate than even too be hanged. |
| Hangman | n | A public executioner. |
| Hangmanship | n | The office or function of a hangman. |
| Hang-nail | n | A small piece of skin partially detached by hanging one end, near to the nail. |
| Hang-off | adv | To show hesitation in coming to close quarters or to an agreement. 2. to han back, demur. |
| Hang-out | n | A habitual meeting place or resort. |
| Hang-over | n. | Something remaining or left over; a thing or person left over or behind; a survival, or remainder. 2. the after effects of over-drinking of alcohol or strong liquor |
| Hang-overish | adj | Hanging-on, hinting of survival, surviving or remaining. 2. somewhat affected by strong liquor. |
| Hang-time | n | The amount of time that athlete remains airborne while jumping. 2. the amount of time a football remains in the air after kicking. |
| Hang-up | n | Drawback, fault, difficulty, fixation. 2.an emotional or psychological |
| Hangwite | n | A penalty and offence mentioned in the Domesday Book. 2. a fine for the illegal hanging of a thief or allowing one to escape. |
| Hanse | n. | Fellowship, guild, company. 2. miltary troop, band. 3. league, as the 'Hanseatic League'. |
| Hap | n. | OE: haeplic - equal. fitting , convenient, orderly. |
| Harbinger | n. | Protection or shelter. 2. passenger or messenger. 3. one precedes a host and secure lodgings and shelter for troops. 4. an advanced company of an army sent to prepare a camping ground; a pioneer. 5. a forerunner; precursor. Originally, a harbinger was simply somebody who provided harbor - that is, shelter, lodgings. The word began life as a derivative of Old French 'herberge' - lodgings, a borrowing from heriberga, the Old Saxon equivalent of Old English 'herebeorg.' Its later meaning 'to somebody sent ahead to obtained lodging for an army' developed in the C14th, and from this came its noe figurative sense 'forerunner.' |
| Harborough | n | Harbour; harburrow. |
| Harbour | n. | Shelter, lodgings, entertainment, sojourn. 2. a place or shelter or sojourn. 3. lodgings, inn, asylum. 4. the 'house' of the sun or a planet in the zodiac. 5. place (harbor) of shelter for ships. |
| Harbour | vb. | To provide a lodging for. 2. to quarter soldiers or billet. 3. to encamp. 4. to give shelter. 5. to shelter in a haven. To trace a stag to its lair. |
| Harbourless | adj | Lacking or without a harbor. |
| Harbour-side | n | The area adjacent to a harbor. |
| Harborside | adj | located or near a harbor. |
| Hard | adj | Firm, steadfast, unyielding. 2. inured, hardened, obdurate. 3. difficult in doing; difficult to deal with, manage, control. 4. difficult to penetrate with understanding; not easy to understand or explain. 5.of character or nature: not easily impressed or moved, obdurate, unfeeling, callous, hardhearted; difficult to bear, endure or put up with. 6. of actions: severe, rigorous, oppressive, cruel, harsh, unfeeling. 7. of news, information: factual, real, objective, reliable, sustainable. 8. bold in battle, persistent and determined in contest or sport. 9. with money: stingy, niggardly, closed-fisted. 10. of weather: violent, rough, severe. 11. of pulse, when blood pressure is high. 12. undigested (in the stomach). 13. coins; money. 14. of hands; un-gloved. |
| Hard | vb | To be or become hard; to make hard or harden. 2. to deprive of feelings o emotions. 3. to render callous; obstinate or obdurate. |
| Hard | phr | "A Hard Day's Night" - staying up late all night possibly on special duty, but especially to drink. |
| Hard | phr | "A Hard Day's Work" - a day spent working hard. |
| Hard | phr | "A Hard Life" - a life made difficult by hard work, poor natural conditions, poverty, ill-health, persecution. |
| Hard | phr | "As Hard as Flint" - unforgiving, unsympathetic in temperament, character |
| Hard | phr | "As Hard as Iron" - very firm, strong, unyielding; as (hard) as (a) stone. |
| Hard | phr | "As Hards as Nails" - tough; with great physical stamina; (fig) selfish, ruthless in one's dealings with others. |
| Hard | phr | "As Hard as Steel" - physically strong and with mental or moral firmness (esp. in circumstances where such qualities are desirable. |
| Hard | phr | "As Hard as Stone" - very firm; as hard as stone/rock . 2. (fig) heratless, unfeeling. |
| Hard | phr | "At Hard Edge" - at close contact in battle. |
| Hard | phr | "Be Hard at It" - putting a lot of effort into what you are doing: busily occupied or working. |
| Hard | phr | "Be Hard On Somebody" - be overcritical or unfair to somebody. 2. having a harmful or damaging affect on somebody. |
| Hard | phr | "Be Hard Put to Do" - having difficulty , trouble in doing something. |
| Hard | phr | "Be Hard Up" - to be short of money, and usually facing other difficulties. |
| Hard | phr | "Be Hard With" - turn out to (a person's) disadvantage. |
| Hard | phr | "Do Something the Hard Way" - to do something by the most difficult method. 2. to achieve through bitter experience |
| Hard | phr | "Do the Hard Yards" - make a great effor, difficult, ardoruos or unglamorous. 2. put in the hard yards. |
| Hard | phr | "Go Hard With Somebody" - be to somebody's disadvantage. 2. fare ill with. 3. to result in danger, hardship. |
| Hard | phr | "Hard and Fast" - rigidly laid down and adhered to. 2. strongly binding, not to be set aside or violated. 3. stringently enforced. 4. invariably , not capable of change; firmly, and immovably.. 5. fixed; inflexible; precisely defined. 6. with energy, vigor, speed all attention. |
| Hard | phr | "Hard as Nails" - of a person) - very tough, completely callous or cruel. |
| Hard | phr | "Hard At It" - working busily or occupied. |
| Hard | phr | "Hard by" - in close proximity, close by, situated very near, close at hand. |
| Hard | phr | "Hard by" - close by, in close proximity; close by, close to; very near to. |
| Hard | phr | "Hard Day's Night" - staying up late all night possibly on special duty, but especially to drink. |
| Hard | phr | "Hard Day's Work" - a day spent working hard. |
| Hard | phr | "Hard Done By" - badly or unfairly treated. 2. receiving bad, or poor treatment. |
| Hard | phr | "Harden or Hardening On" - to bake on ceramic items, especially biscuitware. |
| Hard | phr | "Harden One's Heart" - feel little emotion, empathy. |
| Hard | phr | "Hardening (Something) Off" - inure a plant to cold by gradually increasing its exposure to cold. 2. inure; hardening by degree of exposure. |
| Hard | phr | "Hard Lines On (On Somebody)" - exclamation (or sympathetic) comment on an event, or state of affairs, which is unfortunate , undeserved or unjust. |
| Hard | phr | "Hard Nut to Crack" - a difficult person one who is likely to resist efforts to conciliate, influence or intimidate. 2. a problem difficult to find an answer to. 3. a situation difficult to deal with effectively. |
| Hard | phr | "Hard of Hearing" - having less than perfect, or partially or rather deaf. |
| Hard | phr | "Hard of Thinking" - finding clear thinking difficult |
| Hard | phr | "Hard on" - hard upon, close to; following. |
| Hard | phr | "Hard On Somebody" - be overcritical or unfair to somebody. 2. having a harmful or damaging affect on somebody. |
| Hard | phr | "Hard on the Heels Of" - close behind. |
| Hard | phr | "Hard Put (to it)" - in difficulty. 2. find it difficult to do something. |
| Hard | phr | "Hard to Say (Tell)" - difficult to make a firm statement about, esp. because too little is, or can be, known about it. |
| Hard | phr | "Hard to Take" - difficult to accept without bitterness or grief; difficult to believe, or accept, as being true. |
| Hard | phr | "Hard Up" - short of money and resources. 2. short of money. |
| Hard | phr | "Hard Up For" - sorely at a loss. |
| Hard | phr | "Have a Hard Tail" - be determined, obstinate, hard to move from a position or opinion. |
| Hard | phr | "Have Hard Feelings" - feel aggrieved or disappointed. |
| Hard | phr | "Have No Hard Feelings" - have no feelings of bitterness. |
| Hard | phr | "Play Hard To Get" - to pretend to remain aloof, 2. to act or behave as if unapproachable or uninterested. 3. try to make oneself one attractive , wanted by being difficult to contact. |
| Hard | phr | "Put in the Hard Yards" - in Australia and New Zealand (fig) great effort, arduous, or less than glamorous work. |
| Hard | phr | "Put the Hard Word On" - to ask a woman or man for sexual favours. 2. difficult to deal with, manage, control or resist. |
| Hard | phr | "Take a Hard Line" - be firm, uncomprising. |
| Hard | phr | "Take Something Hard" - be upset by something. |
| Hard | phr | "The Hard Way" - the most difficult, least convenient way of doing something, or achieving an an objective. |
| Hard | phr | "Too Hard For" - to much for; more than one can managed. |
| Hard-and-fast | adj | Absolutely binding; fixed and unalterable. |
| Hard-and-fastness | n | The condition of being hard and fast in rigidly adhering to a position or opinion etc. 2. a strongly binding condition, not to be set aside or violated. 3. situation stringently enforced. 3. state invariabe , not capable of being changed. |
| Hard-back | n | A hard cover; a hard-cover or hard-bound book. |
| Hard-backed | adj | Determined, tough, resolute, unyielding. 2. stiff or firm of thr back of a chair. |
| Hard-bitten | adj | Given to hard biting. 2. tough, unyielding, inflexible, and determined in life generally; tough in a fight or challenge. |
| Hard board | n | Thin stiff board made of compressed sawdust and wood chip. |
| Hard-bodied | adj | Well-toned, muscular. |
| Hard-bound | adj | Of a book: hard-covered. |
| Hard cheese | n | (Slang): bad luck. |
| Hard-coal | n | Anthracite. |
| Hard-doer | n | An amusing or eccentric reveller or character. |
| Hard-done-by | adj | Harshly or unfairly treated. |
| Hard-drinker | n | Somebody who drinks spirits habitually. |
| Hard-drive | n | A disk drive used to read from and write to a hard disk. |
| Hard drop | n | A strong alcoholic drink. |
| Hard-earned | adj | Earned or gained with difficulty. 2. gained through much effort. |
| Harden | vb | To make hard or more hard. 2. to strengthen; to confirm in wickedness or obstinacy. 2. to make less sympathetic; become unfeeling. |
| Harden | n | A close fabric made from the of flax or hemp. |
| Harden | phr | "Harden off" - inure(a plant) to cold by gradual increase by exposure. |
| Harden | phr | "Harden Somebody/One's Heart" - not allowed oneself to be misled by the love, sympathy, pity, etc. one does in fact feel. |
| Hardened | adj | Rendered hard, indurated. 2. rendered unfeeling or callous; hardhearted; settled or determined in a course. |
| Hardener | n | Something thta hardens or sets , such as metals. |
| Hardening | n | Any substance or material that hardens another; specifically any metal added to iron to amke steel. |
| Harden steel | n | Steel that has been hardened by exposure to very high temperature followed by quenching and tempering. |
| Hard-eyed | adj | Severe of countenance. |
| Hardfast | adj | Hand and fast: strongly binding, not to be set aside or violated. 2. stringently enforced. 3. invariably, not capable of change. 4. dense. |
| Hard-fastness | n | Density. |
| Hard-feelings | n | Feelings of resentment, ill-will, bitterness, rancour, anger, hostility. |
| Hard-fisted | adj | Stingy, tightfisted, mean, niggardly, hard-handed penurious. 2. of an avaricious or miserly disposition. 3. having hard, rough, or strong hands. |
| Hard-fistedness | n | The state or quality of being stingy, mean, uncharitable, niggardly, hard-handedness. |
| Hard-freeze | n | Implying a temperature that is sufficiently cold for a long enough period to seriously damaged or kill or seasonal vegetation. |
| Hard-gotten | adj | Obtained with labor or pains. |
| Hard-handed | adj | having hard or rough-textured hands. 2. governing with severity or cruelty, despotic, tyrannical. |
| Hard-hat | n | A hat made from a hard plastic and designed to protect the head from injury. 2. a construction worker. |
| Hardhead | n | A hard-headed person: one not easily moved or influenced. 2. a person dull of intellect. 3. a person not easy affected by the drinking of alcoholic beverages |
| Hardheaded | adj | Not easily turned as a horse; stubborn, obstinate. not easily influenced by sophistry or sentiment, matter of fact, practical. 2. posessing shrewdness, and a practical way of doing. 3. practical, sensible, unemotional. |
| Hardheadly | adv | In a hard-head manner. |
| Hardheadness | n | The state or quality or being hard-head. |
| Hardhearted | adj | Having a hard-heart; without sympathy. 2. incapable of being moved to pity, lacking pity, or tenderness; unfeeling, obdurate, unmerciful. |
| Hardheartedly | adv | In a hard-hearted manner. |
| Hardheartedness | n | The state or quality of being hardhearted. |
| Hardhewer | n | A stone or monumental mason. |
| Hard-hit | adj | Severely struck by misfortune, grief, disaster. 2. badly or adversely affected, especially by monetary loss. 3. deep in love; infatuated. |
| Hard-hitting | adj | Of great impact. 2. aggressively critical. |
| Hard-holding | adj | Tight-fisted, niggardly, penurious. |
| Hardhood | n | Hardness. |
| Hardihood | n | The quality or condition of being hardy. 2. boldness, extreme boldness, hardiness, audacity. 3. robustness (of a body). |
| Hardily | adv | Boldly, courageously, with hardihood. 2. robustly, not tenderly. 3. boldly said feeling, certainly, by all means, assuredly. |
| Hardiness | n | The quality or condition of being hardy. 2. capability of physical or mental endurance, now mostly physical robustness. |
| Hardish | adj | Somewhat hard. |
| Hard-landing | n | A rough or clumsy landing of an aircraft. 2. an uncontrolled landing in which a spacecraft is destroyed. 3. an unexpected and sudden economic or financial crash or downturn. |
| Hard-line | n | An unyielding position, as in negotiation. 2. an uncompromising stance or attitude. 3. set-in-stone dogma. |
| Hard-liner | n | One who has an unyielding position, as in negotiation. |
| Hard lines | n | An uncompromising adherence to a firm policy. 2. misfortune, bad luck, mishap. |
| Hard-looking | adj | Appearing hard; tough looking. |
| Hardly | adv | Scarcely, barely, not quite. 2. with difficulty or great pains. 3. improbably. 4. rigorously, harshly; severely. 5. energetically, forcefully, strenuously, or fiercely are now archaic, obsolete, or rare. |
| Hard man | n | A tough, aggressive or ruthless man. |
| Hard-mouthed | adj | Having a hard-mouth, said of a horse not easily controlled, but by a bit. 2. of person, self-willed, obstinate. |
| Hardness | n | The state or quality of being hard. 2. unyielding of spirit; insensitivity; callousness. 3. a property of water that contaains mineral salts. 4. tension; said of the pulse. 5. in art, harsh effect or treatment. 6. that quality of a mineral that resists scratching. 7. the toughnesss of metal or alloy. |
| Hard-nosed | adj | Hard-bitten, unyielding, or firmly business-like. 2. grim, tough, unsympathetic. |
| Hard-nut | n | A tough, aggressive, or insensitive person. |
| Hard-on | n | Slang: the erection of the penis. |
| Hard-pan | n | A firm sub-soil of clayey or gravelly detritus. 2. the lowest level of foundation, bottom, bedrock. |
| Hards | n | The refuse or coarse parts of flax, hemp, wool or tow |
| Hard-sell | n | Aggressive salemanship or advertising. 2. aggressive sales technique. 3. opposite: 'soft sell'. |
| Hard-sell | vb | To have an aggressive and over-assertive approach or technique to advertising and selling. |
| Hard-shell | n | Having a hard shell like some mollusc. 2. a person with a robust personality; esp. one not easy offended or rattled by the criticism of others; stubborn, unemotional, unempathetic. 2. fig. rigidly and uncomprimising in religious orthodoxy. |
| Hard-shelled | adj | Hardened, stubborn, rigid, obdurate of character. |
| Hardship | n | The quality of being hard to bear. 2. harshness, rigor, a severely, painful difficulty. 2. a condition which presses unduly hard upon one who has to endure it; hardness of fate or circumstance of suffering. 3. an infliction of severity of suffering; a piece or instance of harsh treatment. 4. extreme want or privation. 5. ill-luck. severe toil or suffering. |
| Hardship | vb | To treat (a person) badly; to subject to hardship. |
| Hard shoulder | n | he surfaced verge at the edge of a roadway for emergency stops. |
| Hard-spun | adj | Spun with fiine twist. |
| Hard stand | n | A paved hard-surfaced area adjacent to a runway, for the parking of aircraft and ground vehicles. |
| Hard-standing | n | An area covered with a hard surface like bitumen or asphalt and set aside for the parking of motor vehicles. |
| Hard start | n | A rocketry term meaning an over pressured condition during start of a rocket engine of ignition. In worst cases, this takes the form of an explosion. |
| Hard step | n | A type of electronic dance music, influenced by soul and reggae. |
| Handstone | n | Any type of precious or semi-precious stone. |
| Hard stop | n | A price level that, if reached, will trigger an order to sell an underlying security. Hard stops are set at a constant price and are inherently good until cancelled. A hard stop is used to protect the downside of holding an investment by always being active, and is only triggered once the price reaches the specified stop level. 2. a mechanical device that limits the travel of a mechanism. |
| Hard time | n | Time spent in prison, especially as part of a long sentence served for a serious crime. |
| Hard times | n | Difficult , worrying situation. |
| Hard-to-get | adj | Aloof, unapproachable. 2. difficult to get, buy, purchase. |
| Hard top | n | Describing an automobile with the body design of a convertible, but with a rigid top. |
| Hard-up | n | Hard put; in difficulties. 2. in need or want, as short of money. 3. having a meagre choice. |
| Hard-up-ish-ness | n | Somewhat hard put; or in some want or difficulty. |
| Hard-up-ness | n | The state or condition of being hard-up, or hardput, in want. |
| Hardware | n | A small ware or goods of metal; ironmongery. 2. weapons, guns, missiles. 3. mechanic, electronic or other devices or materials , as distinguis from people, planning, operational procedures. 4. in computing, the physical components of a system or device as opposed to procedures required for it's operation as opposed to software. 5. jewelry. |
| Hardware cloth | n | A kind of strong but flexible wire netting with q square mesh, typically made of galvanized steel. |
| Hardwareman | n | A person who sells small ware or goods of metal; ironmongery. |
| Hardware shop | n | An ironmongery. 2. a shop where metal hardware is sold. |
| Hardwater | n | Water that contain magnesium, calcium or iron salts and therefore forms a soft lather with difficulty. |
| Hard-wearing | adj | Resistant to extensive wear, durable. |
| Hard-winter | n | A winter with a deep frost or frozen state. |
| Hardwire | vb | To connect an electronic component, by electrical wires. |
| Hardwired | adj | Containing permanently connected circuits. 2. of the brain in reference to it's function. |
| Hardwiring | n | A fixed connection between electrical components and devices be means of wires primarily for accessing, internet-based application, as distinguished from a wireless connection.---- |
| Hard won | adj | A result achieved by only lots of effort. |
| Hardwood | n | The strong, dense wood from flowering deciduos trees, such as aoak or mahogany. |
| Hard words | n | Critical, scolding comments. 2. reproaches, criticisms, accusations made or exchanged. |
| Hardworking | adj | Of a person: tending to work with energy and commitment. |
| Hard-workingness | n | The state of being hard working. |
| Hardy | adj | Strong, durable, rigid or capable of resisting exposure, hardship, etc. 2. inured to hardship, robust. 3. showing hardihood; bold, audacious, strenuous. |
| Hardy | n | A square-shanked chisel or fuller for insertion in a hardy-hole. |
| Hard yards | n | Australia and New Zealand (fig) great effort, arduous, or unglamored work; put in the hard yards. |
| Hardy-hole | n | A hole in the blacksmith anvil in which a hardy or other tool may be placed. |
| Hare | n | An animal like a large rabbit with a cleft, upper lip, longer ears and stronger hind legs. 2. |
| Hare | vb | To harry, to worry, harass, frighten or scarce. |
| Hare | adj | Run with great speed; fleet-footed. |
| Hare | phr | "Kiss the Hare's Foot" - to be late for anything. |
| Hare | phr | "Run with the Hare, and Hunt with the Hounds" - to try and keep in with both sides. 2. keep in with and reamin friendly and cordially with two or more parties. |
| Hare | phr | "Start a Hare" - to introduce or raise an irrelevent issue in an argument or discussion. |
| Hare-brain | adj | A giddy, heedless or reckless person. |
| Hare-brained | adj | Heedless, reckles, rash, wild, mad, (of persons and their actions.) |
| Hare-brainedly | adv | In a heedless, rash, mad, crazy way. |
| Hare-brainness | n | The state or quality of being giddy or reckless, etc. |
| Hare-foot | n | A fleet-footed or speedy person. |
| Hare-liked | adj | Characteristic or resembling a hare. |
| Hare-lip | n | Having a fissure or split on the upper lip. |
| Hare-lipped | adj | Having an upper lip clefted like a hare. |
| Hare-sighted | adj | Short-sighted. |
| Hark | n | The act of harking or a call to listen attentively. 2. a whisper or privy communication. 3. a shout to the hounds to start the chase. 4. the cry 'hark' as used to urge on or guide hounds in the chase. |
| Hark | vb. | To give ear or listen, hearken. 2. used in hunting, as a call to attention and incitement. |
| Hark | phr | "Hark At" - just you listen (implying that something is untrue). |
| Hark | phr | "Hark Away - to proceed or go away; depart. |
| Hark | phr | "Hark Back" - to recall. 2. of hounds: to turn back to the course when the scent of the quarry has been lost till found again. 2. fig. to retrace one's steps, return to earlier point of discussion, argument. |
| Hark | phr | "Hark Forward" - go forward or urge to go forward with encouraging cries. |
| Hark | phr | "Hark Off" - to draw off. |
| Hark-back | n | Retracing one's steps (lit. & fig.). 2. a backward move. |
| Harken | vb | An old-fashioned word meaning 'listen'. 2. hear,listen, heed. |
| Harkening | vb | Harken back. |
| Harker | n | One who listens; a listener. |
| Harking | n | The act of harking. |
| Harm | n | Physical, mental or moral injury. 2. that which inflicts damage or loss. 3. the injury which inflicts damage, loss or hurt. 3. offense against right or morality; wrong. |
| Harm | vb | To do harm(to) or damage. 2. to injure physically, mentally or morally, etc. 3. to hurt, damage. 4. to be hurtful. 5. to do harm or injury; hurt, abuse. |
| Harm | phr | "Harm Set, Harm Get" - those who lay or put in place traps for others get caught themselves. |
| Harm | phr | "Make Harms" - to make lamentations. |
| Harm | phr | "Out of Harm's Way" - safe, in safety, secure from harm or injury. |
| Harman | n. | Soldier; constable. |
| Harm-doer | n | One who sets to harm, hurt or injure other (mentally and physically.) |
| Harm-doing | n | The action of harming, injuring, hurting; causing sorrow, or grief. |
| Harmed | adj | Injured, hurt. |
| Harmer | n | One who harms or injures. |
| Harmful | adj | Fraught with harm or injury. 2. having power to injure, noxious. 3. injurious, hurtful, pernicious. |
| Harmfully | adv | In a harmful manner, injurious, mischievous. |
| Harmfulness | n | The quality of being harmful, injurious. |
| Harmfulnessly | adv | In a harmful or injurious manner. |
| Harming | n | The action of harming, harmdoing, injuring, hurting; causing sorrow, or grief. |
| Harmless | adj | Free for harm or injury, unhurt, uninjured, unharmed; innoxious. 2. free from guilt, wrongdoing; innocent. |
| Harmless-looking | adj | Benign and non-thrreatening of mien or aspect. |
| Harmlessly | adv | In a harmless, non-threatening manner. 2. without causing or recieving injury. |
| Harmlessness | n | State or quality of being harmless, inoffensive. |
| Harn | n | Late OE: the brain; brains. |
| Harp | n | A large instrument with strings set in a triangular frame and plucked with the fingers. |
| Harp | vb | To play the harp. 2. to speak or write persistently; dwell tediously. |
| Harp | phr | "Harp for Every on the Same String" - to reiterate, to return continually on the same subject or point of argument. |
| Harp | phr | "Harp On (or Upon)" - to repeat a statement or dwell on a subject to a wearisome length. 2. dwell wearisomely or tediously in speech or writing. 3. talk about continuously and tiresomely. |
| Harper | n | One who plays a harp. |
| Harping | n | The act or action of playing a harp. 2. the sound of playing a harp. 3. fig. dwelling on a subject or matter. |
| Harping-glee | n | The music of the harp. |
| Harpish | adj | Somewhat dwelling wearisomely or tediously in speech or writing. |
| Harp seal | n | A Greenland seal, Phoca groenlandica, with a harp-shaped green mark on its back. |
| Harp shackle | n | A shackle shaped so that the opening is smaller than the circumference at the top. |
| Harrow | n | From Old English hearg = "(heathen) temple", which was probably at Hill of Harrow, Middlesex where St. Mary's Church stands today. |
| Harrow | n | Old Norse (herfl) - an agricultural implement, heavy wooden rake, c. 1300, haru, probably from an unrecorded Old English *hearwa, apparently related to Old Norse harfr "harrow," and perhaps connected with harvest (n.). Or possibly from hergian see harry. NB: Not an Anglish word, included here for information and clarification only. |
| Harrow | vb | To harry, rob, spoil, ravage, plunder; seize, capture. |
| Harrow | phr | "Harrow Hell" - said of Christ as the harrower (spoiler) of Hell. |
| Harrowed | adj | Ravaged, spoiled , plundered, harried, etc. |
| Harrower | n | A spoiler, harrier. 3. one who harrows souls, feelings. |
| Harrower | phr | "The Harrower Of Hell" - an appellation of Christ. |
| Harrowing | n | The spoiling of Hell (by Jesus). 2. in a general sense: plundering, pillaging of a country. 3. the harrowing on laceration of feelings. |
| Harrowingly | adv | In an acutely or painful manner. |
| Harrowingness | n | The tragic and sordid harrowingness. |
| Harry | n | The act of harrying, devastation, molestation, vexation. |
| Harry | vb | O.E. overrun, despoil, with an army making raids. - to make predatory raids or incursions; to commit ravage. 2. to over run (a place or territory) with an army. 3. to ravage by war or invasion; plunder, carry off in a marauding raid.. 4. to lay waste, sack, pillage, spoil, ravage, violate. 5. to spoil 'hell' as said of Jesus after his death. 6. to rob bird nests. 7. to strip a house, building of its goods. 8. to worry, goad, torment, harass, maltreat, ill-use, persecute, to worry mentally. |
| Harried | adj | Worried, goaded, harassed, tormented, vexed, |
| Harrying | n | A warlike incursion, devastation, laying waste, plundering, raiding. |
| Harrying | adj | Devastating, plundering, raiding, pillaging, ravaging etc. |
| Hart | n | An adult, male deer. |
| Hartshorn | n | The horn or antlers of the hart. |
| Hart's-tongue | n | Scolopendium vulgare. |
| Hartwort | n | Seseli aethiopicum. |
| Harvest | n | The act or process of gathering a crop. 2. the crop that ripens or is gathered in a season. 3. the amount or measure of the crop gathered in a season. 4. the time or season of such gathering. 5. the result or consequence of an action: stuck with the harvest of a predecessor's decisions. |
| Harvest | vb | To gather (a crop). 2. to take or kill (fish or deer, for example) for food, sport, or population control. 3. to extract from a culture or a living or recently deceased body, especially for transplantation: harvested bone marrow. 4.to gather a crop from (the field. 5. to receive or collect (energy): a turbine that harvests energy from tidal currents. 6. to receive (the benefits or consequences of an action) |
| Harvest | phr | "Make Long Harvest for a Little Corn" - to work hard for little return. |
| Harvester | n | One who harvests. 2. a reaping machine. |
| Harvest-field | n | A field in which the corn is reaped. |
| Harvest-home | n | An Old English festival held at the bringing home of the harvest. 2. the season at the beginning of the festival. 3. a song sung at the festival. |
| Harvesting | n | The reaping and storing of grain, etc. 2. gathering up of resources. 3. that reaps or gathers in and storing of grass. |
| Harvestless | adj | The moon which is full within a fortnight of the autumnal equinox (22nd or 23rd of September); and which rises for several nights nearly at the same hour, at points successively further north of the eastern horizon. |
| Harvest moon | n | The full moon which occurs nearest to the autumn equinox, when the moon rises at almost the same time for several nights. |
| Harvest-swain | n | A reaper in the harvest field. |
| Harvest-time | n | Autumn, the harvest time. |
| Harvest-to-home | n | The food chain, or at least a major part of. |
| Harwort | n | The sharewort, starwort, aster tripolium, used as a laxative. (OE. har:grey, hoary) |
| Hasard | n | A grey-haired man. |
| Hasard | adj | Grey-haired, hoary. |
| Has-been | n | One who has been successful, but is no longer. 2. a person or thing whose career, or efficiency belongs to the past or whose best days are over. |
| Hasbeens | n | Times past; as, 'I meet him, and just for old-times we went to the pub for lunch'. |
| Has-lock | n | O.E. halse (throat and lock) - the wool on the throat of a sheep. |
| Hasp | n | Clump of grass, coarse grass. 2. clasp that fits over a staple and is secured by a bolt or padlock, used as a fastening, |
| Hasp | vb | To fasten or shut with a hasp. |
| Hassock | n | A shock of hair. 2. a cushion for kneeling on in church. |
| Hassocky | n | Abounding in hassocks or clumps. 2. of the nature of clumps; consisting of calcareous hassock. |
| Haste | adj | OE: haeste: violent, vehement, impetuous. |
| Haswed | adj | Marked with grey or brown. |
| Hat | n. | Covering for the head, usu. with a brim, usu. worn to give protection from the weather. 2. any shaped covering for the head, worn for decoration and protection. 3. a person's occupation or capacity, especially one of several position held at one time. |
| Hat | vb | To cover one's head with a hat. 2. to furnish or provide with a hat. |
| Hat | phr | "As Black as Your Hat" quite black; black being the common color for a hat. |
| Hat | phr | 'At the Drop of a Hat" - without delay or hesitation. 2. on a signal, immediately, without delay |
| Hat | phr | "Eat One's Hat" - asservation, indicative of strong emphasis, and stating one's readiness to do this, if an event of which one is certain should not occur. |
| Hat | phr | "Hang One's Hat" - take up lodging in a certain place. |
| Hat | phr | "Hang Up One's Hat" - to retire, give up one usual occupation. |
| Hat | phr | "Hang Up One's Hat in a House" - to make oneself at home; to become one of the family. |
| Hat | phr | "Hat in Hand" - to approach someone for help or assistance with an attitude or respect and humility. |
| Hat | phr | "Hats Off" - an expression of praise for something successively done. |
| Hat | phr | "Keep Something Under One's Hat" - fig. keep something secret. 2. to keep something to oneself; do not divulge it; keep it under cover. |
| Hat | phr | "Make a Hat of It - to make a mess of. |
| Hat | phr | "Never Wear a Brown Hat in Friesland" - when in Rome do as the Romans do. In Friesland the inhabitants used to cover the head with a knitted cap, with a high skull-cap, and over all a huge flaunting bonnet. A woman once passed through the province with a common brown hat and was hustled and jeered by the locals, for her unusual attire |
| Hat | phr | "Take Off One's Hat to" - figuratively to express admiration for another. |
| Hat | phr | "That's Old Hat" - outworn or obsolete. |
| Hat | phr | "Throw One's Hat in the Ring" - to take up a challenge. |
| Hat | phr | "Under One's Hat" - secretive, secret, confidential, sub rosa. |
| Hat | phr | "With Hat in Hand" - with head uncovered as a mark of respect, reverence, courtesy, salutation. 2. with obsequiously servility removing the hat as a mark of respect. |
| Hat | phr | "You Are Talking Through One's Hat" - to make nonsense and unsupported or wild assertions. |
| Hat-band | n. | Golden hat-band: university cap of graduate |
| Hatch | n. | Lower half of a divided door, hatchway, trap-door over it. 2. an opening in the floor, wall, or ceiling. 3. a moveable planking forming a deck. 4.framework covering openings in a deck, floor, etc. 5.flood-gate, sluice. 6. half- door wicket. |
| Hatch | phr | "Down the Hatch" - a toasting or drinking phrase. |
| Hatch | phr | "Keep a Hatch Before the Door" - to keep or remain silence. |
| Hatch | phr | "Under Hatch" - below deck. |
| Hatchless | adj | Without a hatch or opening. |
| Hatchway | n. | Opening in a weir or sluice. 2. opening in the deck of a ship for the loading of cargo into the hold. 3. an opening in a floor , etc, which maybe closed with a hatch. |
| Hate | n. | Dislike strongly, bear malice to, opposite of love. 2. hatred: emotion of extreme dislike.(something). 3. intense dislike; extreme aversion or hostility. 4. detestation, intense dislike. 5. a person or thing that is hated (esp in the phrase pet hate). 6. expression or arousing feelings of hatred: hate mail. |
| Hate | vb | To dislike intensely or passionately; feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward; detest. 2. to be unwilling; dislike. 3. to be unwilling (to be or do something) 4. to feel hatred. |
| Love | phr | "My Only Love Was My Only Hate" - from Romeo and Juliet a parodox used most effectively to express Juliet's mixed feelings of the enormity of her act of her act that she has fallen in love with the son of the family she hates and was brought up to hate. |
| Hate | phr | "Hate Somebody's Guts" - feel an intense dislike and loathing for somebody. |
| Hate | phr | "Hate the Sight of Somebody" - dislike, loathe somebody very much. |
| Hate-bearing | adj | Having hate or hatred. |
| Hated | adj | Regarded with hate; greatly disliked. |
| Hate-filled | adj | Hostile, prone to verbal aggression and vituperation, conflict-ready, full of hate. |
| Hateful | adj | Full of hate, cherishing hate, and malignity. 2. inciting hate, odious. |
| Hateful | phr | "Hateful as a Toad" - the toad as an object of repulse, dislike, loathing and enmity. |
| Hatefully | adv | With hatred, malignantly, maliciously. 2. in a way that hates, odiously, abominanately. |
| Hatefulness | n | The quality of being hateful, full of hate, loathing. 3. th equality of deserving hate, odiousness, abominationness. |
| Hateless | adj | Without hate or malice; having no feelins of hate. |
| Hatelessness | n | The sate or quality of not hating. |
| Hatel | n | Anger, hatred, outburst of anger or hate. |
| Hatel | adj. | Full of hate, hostile, malignant, severe, cruel, fierce, bitter. |
| Hate-light | n | That hates or shuns light. |
| Hate-like | adj | Hateful, malignant, odious, anger-filled. |
| Hate-love | n | Love-hate: a conflicting emotion combining love and hate. |
| Hately | adv | Fiercely, bitterly, scornfully, hatefully. |
| Hatemonger | n | A person who kindles hatred enmity or prejudice in others. |
| Hate-mongering | n | The act or practice of stirring up hatred or enmity. |
| Hater | n | One who hates, an enemy. |
| Hatesome | adj | Hateful; loathing, detesting. |
| Hate-song | n | Songs or music that express hate and hatred. |
| Hate-speech | n | Speech that offends, threatens or insults groups, based on race, color, religion, national origins, sexual orientation, disability, or traits. |
| Hate-watch | n | Watching T.V programs for the sake of the enjoyment one gets in criticising it and its participants. |
| Hate-wite | n. | Fine or punishment for misbehavior towards others. |
| Hateworthy | adj | Worthy or deserving of hate. |
| Hatful | adj | As much as a hat will contain. 2. loosely, a cosiderable quantity. |
| Hathel | n | A noble man, man of worth, an athel. |
| Hat-hook | n | A hook used to hang one's hat on. |
| Hating | n | Hating, detestation, loathing, despising. |
| Hat-in-hand | n. | Head uncovered as a mark of respect, reverence, courtesy, salutation, servility. |
| Hatless | adj | Having or not wearing a hat. |
| Hatlessness | n | The state of being without a hat. |
| Hatlike | n | Resembling a hat. |
| Hatmaker | n | A maker or manufacturer of hats. |
| Hatmaking | n | The manufacture of hats. |
| Hatpin | n | A pin worn on the hat. |
| Hatred | n | Intense dislike, hate. 2. a hate or passionate dislike. 3. bitter; animosity, emnity. dislike or aversion. |
| Hatstand | n | A piece of furniture as a rack with pegs to hang one's hat. |
| Hatted | adj | Having a hat; having a hat. |
| Hatter | n | One who deals in, or makes hats; a hatmaker. 2. clothes, garments, clothing collectively. 3. a person who lies alone: formerly being a hatter and suffering mental problems due to mercury poisoning. |
| Hatter | phr | Very mad or strange, perhaps due to the use of mercury nitrate by hatters in making hats. |
| Hatter's shakes | n | Tremens suffered by makers of hats (hatters) caused by their over-exposure to mercury during the product's manufacturing. |
| Hatting | n | The lifting of a hat as a show of reverence or courtesy. |
| Hat-tree | n | A piece of furniture as a rack with pegs on which one may put their hat; a hatstand. |
| Hatty | adj | Wearing showy hats; interested in hats. |
| Haugh | n. | Nook, Corner, hearn, hurn, |
| Haughland | n. | A piece of flat alluvial land by the side of a river, forming part of the floor of the river |
| Haulm | n | Stems or stalks of straw etc.; reeds. |
| Haulm | vb | To lay straw or haulm straight for thatching. |
| Haulmy | adj | Having haulms; havin long or large haulms. |
| Have | n | A possession. 2. one who belongs to the wealthy class. |
| Have | vb | To be in possession of: already had a car. 2. to possess as a characteristic, quality, or function: has a beard; had a great deal of energy. 3. to possess or contain as a constituent part: a car that has air bags. 4. to occupy a particular relation to: had many disciples. 5. to possess knowledge of or facility in: has very little Spanish.
6. to hold in the mind; entertain: had doubts about their loyalty. 7. to use or exhibit in action: have compassion. 8. to come into possession of; acquire: have or own something. 9. to receive; get; as a letter in the mail. 10. to accept; take, as food. 11. to suffer from: have defective vision. 12. to be subject to the experience of: had a difficult time last winter. 13. to cause to do something, as by persuasion or compulsion: had my f-sider to carry out an audit. 13. to cause to be in a specified place or state: had the guests; had everyone fascinated. 14. to permit; allow: I won't have that kind of behavior in my house. 15. to carry on, perform, or execute: have an argument. 16. to place at a disadvantage: the card-sharp had you at every turn. 17.to get the better of, especially by trickery or deception: to be had. 18. to influence by dishonest means; bribe. 19. to procreate (offspring). 20. to partake of: have lunch. 21. To be obliged to; have to do. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Bearing Upon" - be related to affect, influence, bear on or upon. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Bellyful" - have as much as one can tolerate from of something or somebody's actions or behavior. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Black Mark Against" - have on record (officially or unofficially) something one has done wrong. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Brain-wave" - have a good idea or sudden inspiration. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Break" - a short rest period in one's work or other activities. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Care" - take care; be careful. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Chip on One's Shoulder" - |
| Have | phr | "Have a Cow" - get angry, very annoyed |
| Have | phr | "Have a Crack at" - to attempt something, do something. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Dog in this Fight" - have a personal stake in an issue. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Few" - drink enough alcohol to be slightly drunk. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Fit" - lit. suffer a convulsion or seizure. 2. fig. become wildly or excessively alarmed; dismayed, angered. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Flea in One's Ear" - be reprimanded. rejected or humiliated. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Frog in One's Throat" - have a temporary loss or roughening of the voice. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Go" - make an attempt, or try to attack someone physically or verbally. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Good Innings" - enjoy a long innings; a period of popularity, success, etc. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Good Mind to" - often as a threat: feel tempted to. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Good Time" - enjoy oneself generally or on a particular occasion, as at a party, celebration or on vacation. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Hand In" - be partly responsible for; be involved in, something which happens. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Handle On" - to understand or grasp. 2. to be in control of. 3. have pover over. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Hard Time" - have a situation in which others harass, obstruct, hinder or expect or demand too much. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Head for" - be good at something, as numbers, figures, puzzles. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Head of Steam" - show an increase in enthusiasm, energy, level of work, etc. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Head Start" - have an advantage over others, or above what is usual at the start of a race, study course, competition, etc. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Heart" - be more tolerant considerate, merciful, helpful. 2. antonym:('Not have a heart'). |
| Have | phr | "Have a Heart of Gold" - have a noble, kind, helpful, loyal, faithful nature. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Heart Of Stone" - having a callous, pitiless, unfeeling nature. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Heavy Heart" - be filled with feelings of despondency, grief, sorrow, sadness. |
| Have | phr | "Have a High Old Time" - enjoy oneself immensely and exuberantly. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Hold Over Somebody" - have somebody in one's power. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Laugh" - to joke, kid around, enjoy oneself, have fun. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Long Way to Go" - have still much to learn and do before something is completed.. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Look" - to examine, observe. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Look-see" - take a look; have a look. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Lot to be Thankful For" - fortunate or more fortunate than others in many respects. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Lot to Put Up With" - have much to endure in life or some aspect of life, as work or home life. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Mind (head) like a Sieve" - be (habitually) forgetful. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Mind of One's Own"" - be capable of independently forming one;s own opinions and decisions. 2. to be determined to act as one thinks is right and suitable for oneself. |
| Have | phr | "Have All Day (to Do)" - have all day to spend or waste. |
| Have | phr | "Have All the Marks Of" - likely to be somebody or something, because it, he/she shows the signs of being so. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Mind To do Something" - have a strong intention to do something. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Mouth to Feed" - personally responsible for the welfare and support of an other (usually an infant or child). |
| Have | phr | "Have an Axe to Grind" - hold or bear a grudge. 2. a point of view to advocate, esp. motivated by self-interest. |
| Have | phr | "Have and to Hold" - to have or recieve, and to keep or retain, indicating continuance of possession. |
| Have | phr | "Have an Ear/Eye/ Nose for" - be able to detect, appreciate something because one's sensses are alert or well trained. |
| Have | phr | "Have an Ear to the Ground" - remain alert for new information or news about. |
| Have | phr | "Have an Old Head On Young Shoulders" - have as a young person, wisdom, caution, tastes that are associated with more mature or adult persons. - |
| Have | phr | "Have a Right to Do Something" - entitled or fully justified in doing something |
| Have | phr | "Have a Ring Of Truth" - said or presented, or by what is being said seems to be true. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Roof Over One's Head" - have a place of one's own to live in. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Say" - be involved in deciding future events |
| Have | phr | "Have a Shot Left in One's Locker" - fig. have a remaining source of money, influence, information, argument, etc that one can use. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Sinking Feeling" - have a sensation of panic, helpless or fear. |
| Have | phr | "Have Somebody's (Bare) Words For (Something)" - have only what somebody says or promises without without also having (esp. written ) proof or supporting evidence. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Stake In" - have invested money, effort etc in something (and therefore stand to lose or gain). |
| Have | phr | "Have a Sting in the Tail" - have an unsuspected and unpleasant feature or result. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Sweet Tooth" - be fond of, greedy for, sweet food and drinks. |
| Have | phr | "Have At" - try to achieve or do something different and challenging. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Thick Head" - have a dull or stupid mind. 2. have a mind temporarily confused by alcohol or drugs. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Thick Skin" - have a high degree of sensitivity to criticism. (antonymous: 'Have a Thin Skin'). |
| Have | phr | "Have a Think About" - consider, ponder, reflect on. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Way of Doing Something" - be apt, likely, to do something or behave in a particular manner. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Way With" - have a natural flair for. 2. be able with charm or force of personality, to lead or captivate others. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Whale of a Time" - have a very enjoyable time. 2. enable somebody to have an enjoyable time. |
| Have | phr | "Have What It Takes" - have the necessary qualities of character, intelligence, special abilities to do something. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Wicked Tongue" - have the habit of speaking unkindly. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Will of Iron" have the firm determination to achieve what one wants or think s right. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Will of One's Own" - have sufficient independence, at least equal to that of somebody else, and of the opinion and determination to do what one wants. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Word in Someone's Ear" - speak or do something in private. 2,. have a quiet word of advice. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Word With" - speak to somebody, esp. to make inquiries, seek advice, or reprimand. |
| Have | phr | "Have Back" - have something returned which has been borrowed. 2. allow a spouse or lover from whom one is separated to return. |
| Have | phr | "Have Both Feet on the Ground" - have plenty of commonsense. 2. know what one is doing and why. 3. of one not likely to be led into into foolish actions or undertakings. |
| Have | phr | "Have By" - have a child by. |
| Have | phr | "Have Clean Hands" - have committed no crime, or done no wrong or harm. |
| Have | phr | "Have Done It this Time" - have done something serious that cannot be undone. 2. have made a serious, or foolish blunder in speech or conduct. |
| Have | phr | "Have Done With" - be finished with |
| Have | phr | "Have Down" - to have somebody stay at one home. |
| Have | phr | "Have Elbow Room" - have sufficient space beside, or all round, one to move one's elbows sideways, sit comfortably. 2. have freedom, within certain limits, to experiment, negotiate, manouever. |
| Have | phr | "Have Everything But" - have almost all the things that one needs for a task etc (perhaps) except for one, often vital, thing. |
| Have | phr | "Have Eyes For" - as 'only have eyes for' to be exclusively interested in. |
| Have | phr | "Have Eyes in One's Head" - be observant, be able to notice one's surroundings, and what somebody else is doing. |
| Have | phr | "Have Eyes In the Back of One's Head" - seem to have the ability to see in all directions at once, because of what is going on a round them. |
| Have | phr | "Have Feelings On" - be concerned with, or involved with. |
| Have | phr | "Have Feet of Clay" - have some fundamental weakness or fault that injury, challenge or attack will reveal. |
| Have | phr | "Have For" - be interesting (a book), attractive to (a woman). |
| Have | phr | "Have Got To" - must; have to. |
| Have | phr | "Have Green Fingers" - have greater than usual ability to grow plants. |
| Have | phr | "Have Had Enough" - be unable or unwilling to stand anymore of something, pain, disappointment, disloyalty. |
| Have | phr | ""Have Had It" - to have one's fate finally decided. 2. to be defeated, ruined, broken down, had enough. 3. have died, failed, lost or missed an opportunity; dead, killed. |
| Have | phr | "Have Had It Up to Here" - to be fed up or had enough of some unpleasant or unsatisfactory situation. 3. despite one efforts and striving it is time to give up. |
| Have | phr | "Have Had One's Day" - be too old, worn out, not be able to function as one used to. |
| Have | phr | "Have High Hopes" - be ambitious and optimistic in one's hopes. |
| Have | phr | "Have I News for You" - i have something important, scandalous, to tell you. |
| Have | phr | "Have In Hand" - be started or undertaking something, as a job, etc. |
| Have | phr | "Have In Mind" - be considering contemplating, propose, intend, remember. |
| Have | phr | "Have In One's Spell" - exert a magic power or control over. |
| Have | phr | "Have It" - to have a solution or answer to. 2. to be considered successful. |
| Have | phr | "Have It All" - to be highly successful in most things in life. |
| Have | phr | "Have It Away (with) - have sexual intercourse or make love, implying that the love-making is illicit or at least furtive. |
| Have | phr | "Have It Coming" - to deserve what has happened to oneself/another. |
| Have | phr | Have It In For (Somebody)" - to have something unpleasant or trouble in store for. 2. to have a grudge, ill-will or dislike for. |
| Have | phr | "Have It In One" - to have the ability to do something quickly and efficiently. |
| Have | phr | "Have It Made" - be sure of continued success. |
| Have | phr | "Have It Off With" - to be have it off with: to possess sexually. |
| Have | phr | Have It On" - to have an advantage over. 2. to be superior to. 3. to have the pull over. 4. to have it over. |
| Have | phr | "Have It One's Own Way" - get what one wants; ensure one wishes are met. |
| Have | phr | "Have It Out" - to bring a situation, conflict, grievance, problem to a head. 2. to continue a fight or discussion to a final solution. |
| Have | phr | "Have It (So) Good" - to have life and advantages as one who hope for. 2. enjoy prosperity, comfortable conditions of life. |
| Have | phr | "Have It Your Way" - It(something) will be done your way. 2. you will get your way. |
| Have | phr | "Have More Goodness in One's Finger than(Somebody)" - be very good, more virtuous, better kinder person than another, |
| Have | phr | "Have More than One's Fair Share" - have more than usual or expected, amount of something 9with almost the implication that others are entitled or deprived. |
| Have | phr | "Have No Business Doing" - do what is not one's duty or responsibilty. 2. be wring , foolish interfering in doing something. |
| Have | phr | "Have No Call to Do (Something)" - have no need, reason, or excuse to do something. |
| Have | phr | "Have No Fears For" - not alarmed or frighten. |
| Have | phr | "Have No Hard Feelings" - have or retain no bitter feelings of resentment. |
| Have | phr | "Have Nothing Better to Do" - have nothing worthwhile to do. |
| Have | phr | "Have Nothing Between One's Ears" - be stupid, frivolous, or superficial. |
| Have | phr | "Have Nothing On" - to have no advantage or superiority over; as opposed to 'having something over (often incriminating)somebody'. |
| Have | phr | "Have Nothing to Do with" - dissociate oneself from. |
| Have | phr | "Have Nothing to Hide" - be frank or honest in a particular action. |
| Have | phr | "Have Nothing to Speak Of" - have little or nothing to deserve mention or attract merit. |
| Have | phr | "Have No Time for" - dislike, not tolerate, have a low or poor opinion of. |
| Have | phr | "Have No Time to Lose" - need to hurry, act swiftly, in order to do something; prevent an incident, accident, or disaster. 2. make use of an opportunity while it is available. |
| Have | phr | "Have Nothing to Write Home Of" - have nothing that is fine or outstanding. |
| Have | phr | "Have On" - to be prepared to accept an other's proposition. 2. to confront someone. |
| Have | phr | "Have On" - to be wearing, clothed. |
| Have | phr | "Have One Eye On" - give part of one's attention to one thing, while the rest is engaged somewhere else. |
| Have | phr | "Have One Foot in the Grave" - be so old or ill that one is not likely to live much longer. |
| Have | phr | "Have One Over Eight" - be drunk. |
| Have | phr | "Have One's Ducks In a Row" - the organizing one's tasks and schedules so that you are ready for the next step. |
| Have | phr | "Have Oneself" - to indulge oneself. |
| Have | phr | "Have One's Eye On" - have chosen somebody or someone as a desirable conquest, acquisition,etc. |
| Have | phr | "Have One's Hands" - have goods that one does not need and would like to sell. 2. have a responsibility that one finds irksome. |
| Have | phr | "Have One's Hands Full" - be very busy or fully occupied. 2. have plenty of work to do. |
| Have | phr | "Have One's Hands Tied" - be restricted by rules and regulations. |
| Have | phr | "Have One's Name on It" - the addressing of an individual by a single name or mononym. |
| Have | phr | "Have One's Own Way" - |
| Have | phr | "Have One's Pound of Flesh" - have the amount of anything due to one legally or by previous agreement, though hardship, suffering and even death (of the other person) may result from obtaining it. |
| Have | phr | "Have One's Say" - be allowed to express one's opinion , have one's coomments advice,etc. listened to in full whether these are accepted or not. |
| Have | phr | "Have One's Tail Between One's Legs" - have a feeling of dejection, apprehension, humiliation or surrender. |
| Have | phr | "Have One's Way With" - have sexual intercourse with someone (typically implying it is against their better judgement). |
| Have | phr | "Have One's Wicked Way" - have sexual intercourse with someone (typically implying it is against their better judgement). |
| Have | phr | "Have One's Wits about Them" - able to think clearly and express ones thoughts in a diverting and often sharp observation and remarks. |
| Have | phr | "Have On One's Mind" - be thinking about, and worried or concerned by, some problem. |
| Have | phr | "Have On One's Self" -things one is carrying on one's person (in one's pocket or handbag). |
| Have | phr | "Have On the Brain" - be greatly preoccupied or obsessed, with something. |
| Have | phr | "Have Out" - caused to be removed by a surgeon or dentist. |
| Have | phr | "Have Out (With)" - discuss a matter frankly, and often angrily. |
| Have | phr | "Have Pins and Needles" - have a pricking sensation, esp in the limbs, when bood starts to flow freely again after being pressure or being in a cramped position.. |
| Have | phr | "Have Rather" - prefer. |
| Have | phr | Have Seen Better Days" - one's fortune has been much better in the past. |
| Have | phr | "Have Seen It All" - have a long and rich experience of life in general or something specific. |
| Have | phr | Have Seen One's Days" - to be beyond one's prime. 2 to be no longer useful, effective or functional. |
| Have | phr | "Have Someone's Back" - to be willing to support and defend somebody. |
| Have | phr | "Have Someone by the Short Hairs"- to have someone in a difficult situation in which he or she is without alternatives and can be controlled. |
| Have | phr | "Have Somebody's Ear" - have access to somebody especially on a higher social or administrative level than oneself. 2. be able to influence someone, and/or gain their help. |
| Have | phr | "Have Somebody to Thank For" - atribute to someone/ something the responsibility for something which has happen to one. |
| Have | phr | "Have Someone's Hide" - to punish and subdue someone. 2. to tan somebody's hide. |
| Have | phr | "Have Someone On" - trick, play with. |
| Have | phr | "Have Something In One's Blood" - have something as part of one's nature or character. |
| Have | phr | "Have Something On" - be ovcupied. 2. be wearing something. |
| Have | phr | "Have Something On the Go" - have something currently happening or being done. |
| Have | phr | "Have Something to Do With" - be concerned with; involved in. |
| Have | phr | "Have the Best Of" - profit best from something. |
| Have | phr | "Have the Blues" (OE Blae) - be down, dejected, depressed, gloomy. |
| Have | phr | "Have the Brains to Do" - be intelligent enough to do or achieve something. |
| Have | phr | "Have the Ear of" - have one's ideas listened to with interest. |
| Have | phr | "Have the Edge Over" - be in a position of advantage compared with someone else. |
| Have | phr | "Have the Feeling That" - think that something is the case, will happen, etc, though there is no reason to think so. |
| Have | phr | "Have the Floor" - a person who is speaking in a debate or discussion. |
| Have | phr | "Have the Guts" - have sufficient courage determination or defiance of opposition. |
| Have | phr | "Have their Tails Down" - be dispirited, depressed, desolate. |
| Have | phr | "Have their Tails Up" - be elated, confident. |
| Have | phr | "Have the Last Laugh" - in an alternation of fortune be the one the is finally successful over rivals. |
| Have | phr | "Have the Last Word - have the final or closing, and often decisive say, in an discussion or argument |
| Have | phr | "Have the Right to Do (something)" - be entitled to possess, enjoy or do something. |
| Have | phr | "Have the Run of" - have permission or freedom to move around throughout an area or to use something at will. |
| Have | phr | "Have the Time" - know the correct time of day. 2. have sufficient time to do something. |
| Have | phr | "Have the Time of One's Life"" - a period or moment of great or exceptional enjoyment. |
| Have | phr | "Have the Wind Up" - alarm or frighten, or be alarmed or frighten. |
| Have | phr | "Have the Wolf By the Ears" - be in a precarious position. |
| Have | phr | "Have Time On One's Hands" - have little work to do ; not be under pressure of work. |
| Have | phr | "Have to Do With' - affect, corn, about, be relevant. |
| Have | phr | "Have to be Seen to be Believed" - be impossible to be described properly. |
| Have | phr | "Have Up" - to cause to go before a court of law or justice; prosecute. |
| Have | phr | "Have Up for" - to appear in court charged with sn offence. |
| Have | phr | Have Up One's Sleeve" - keep concealed until needed. |
| Have | phr | "Have Well in Hand" - be easily able to control something. |
| Have | phr | "Have what it Takes" - possess what is needed to successfully do. |
| Have | phr | "Have Wind of" - hear a rumor of. |
| Have | phr | "Have Words With" - talk angrily with, esp. to reproach or reprimand. |
| Have | phr | "Let Someone Have It" - to give one a verbal or physical thrashing, attacking or drubbing. |
| Have | phr | "Only Have Eyes For" - as 'have eyes for' to be exclusively interested in. |
| Have | phr | "What Have You" - and so on, anything else. |
| Have-got | n | One has acquired considerable wealth; 'the haves'. |
| Have-less | adj | Without possessions, destitute, indigent, needy; have-nothings. 2. without rsources, shiftless, helpless, careless, slovenly. |
| Have-likeness | n | A likeness or resemblance. |
| Haven | n | Recess, inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, affording good anchorage and a safe station for ships; a harbour. 2. a refuge, an asylum. |
| Haven | vb | To shelter a vessel as in a haven. |
| Havener | n | A harbour-master. |
| Havening-stead | n | Place of security, safety, haven. |
| Havenless | adj | Without a haven; having no haven or place of safety. |
| Have-not | n | Someone who has very little, is quite poor or needy; 'the have and have-nots' - the poor, needy, indigent; a have-nothings. |
| Have-nothing | n | Someone who has nothing, is poor or needy; 'the have-nothings' - the poor, needy, indigent; a have-not. |
| Haven-town | n | A seaport town, harbour town. |
| Haver | n | A possessor, one who posseessor, owner. |
| Haves and Have-nots | n | The wealthy contrasted with the poor. 2. privileged contrasted with the under-privileged people(reference used being to income but also to wealth, intelligence, talent, etc) |
| Having | n | Action or condition expressed by possession. 2. that which one has or possesses; possession, property, wealth, belonging. 3. behaviour, manners, demeanour. |
| Having | adj | Possessing property; owning. 2. that has or possesses, possessing property. 3. desirous of having or possessing; greedy, covetous, grasping. 4. behaving. |
| Havingness | n. | Desiring of having or having, covetousness. |
| Haw | adj. | Blue, azure, bluish, a dull lead blue, greenish-blue. |
| Haw | n. | Fruit of the hawthorn. 2. hedge or encompassing tree fence; hence, a piece of enclosed ground; a messuage, a yard, enclosure, close. 3. an ear or head of grass. 4. a thing of no value, stras, galmatia, farrago |
| Hawbuck | n. | An unmanneredly lout, country bumpkin |
| Hawk | n | Any of various birds of prey, especially of the genera Accipiter and Buteo in the family Accipitridae, by characteristic having a short hooked bill and strong claws used for seizing. 2. any of various similar birds of prey. 3. a person who preys on others; a shark. 4. one who demonstrates an actively aggressive or combative attitude, as in an argument. 6. a person who favors military force or action in order to carry out foreign policy. 7. In politics, one who advocates a hard-line or war-like policy; militarily aggressive. |
| Hawk | vb | To hunt with trained hawks, as in falconry. 2. to pursue prey in flight. 3. to swoop and strike in the manner of a hawk |
| Hawk | phr | "Hawk After" - to hunt, endeavour to catch. |
| Hawk | phr | "Hawks and Doves" - politically, and generally , the Hawks are those who favor war and resolute military action; the Doves those who support peace or comprise or negotiation. |
| Hawk | phr | "Hawk At" - to fly or attack in flight. 2. fig. to let fly at. |
| Hawker | n | One who hunts with hawks, a falconer. |
| Hawk-eye | n | A person or animal who has extremely sharp vision or eyesight. |
| Hawk-eyed | adj | Sharp of vision or sight. 2. having keen or sharp eyesight; having very good eyesight. 3. watching carefully; vigilant. |
| Hawking | n | The sport or practice of chasing birds or small animals by means of trained hawks; falconry. |
| Hawkish | adj | Somewhat or the nature or appearance of a hawk. 2. inclined to follow hardline or warlike policies. 3. disposed to rely on military force to resolve a war. |
| Hawkishly | adv | In a somewhat hawkish, aggressive, attacking or combative manner. |
| Hawkishness | n | The inclination to follow a hardline or militaristic policies. |
| Hawk-like | adj | Like or resembling a hawk. |
| Hawknose | adj. | Acqualine; a nose curved like a hawk's beak. |
| Hawkweed | n | Common name for plants of the genus 'Hieracium'. |
| Hawky | ad | Of the nature of a hawk, greedy as a hawk. 2. pertaining to a hawk. 3. characterized by hawking. |
| Hawthorn | n | Coratagus oxyacantha |
| Hay | n. | Grass, clover, alfalfa, etc., cut and dried for use as forage. 2. grass mowed or intended for mowing. 3. a small sum of money. 4. a fence, a hedge. 5. an enclosure, park(sl). marijuana. 6. (sl) 'the hay' - bed. |
| Hay | vb. | To convert (plant material) into hay. 2. to furnish or supply (horses, cows, etc.) with hay. 3. to cut grass, clover, or the like, and store for use as forage. 4. to make hay; to make into hay. 5. to enclose, fence in or palisade by hedge; to hedge. |
| Hay | phr | 'Between Hay and Grass" - to late for one and too soon for others. |
| Hay | phr. | "Hit the Hay" - to go to bed; retire for the night. |
| Hay | phr | "In the Hay" - in the hay, in bed; retired, especially for the night. |
| Hay | phr | "Like Looking for a Needle in a Haystack" - look for something extremely small in a mass of other articles. |
| Hay | phr. | "Make Hay of" - to scatter in disorder; render ineffectual. |
| Hay | phr | "Make Hay While the Sun Shines" to seize an opportunity when it presents itself.. |
| Hay | phr | "Neither Hay Nor Grass" - the awkward stage when a youth is neither boy nor man. |
| Hay | phr | "That Ain't Hay" - that's a lot money. |
| Hay-barn | n | Haysted; hayhouse; a barn or building where hay is stored. |
| Haybote | n. | Hedgebote, the right of the tenant or commoner to take materials, such as wood, branches from the landlord's estate or common. 2. wood or thorny branch for the repair of fences. |
| Hayfield | n | A field in which hay-making is taking place, or which grass is standing to be cut for hay. |
| Hayfoot | n | One of the alternate marching steps im military drill, as in hayfoot, straw foot: for the alleged use of hay and straw to help recruits tell the difference between left and right. |
| Hayfork | n | A long-handled fork for turning or pitching hay by hand. 2. a large power-driven fork for moving hay. |
| Haying | n | The process of cutting, curing and storing hay. |
| Haylike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of hay. |
| Hayloft | n | A storage place for hay over a stable or barn. |
| Haymaker | n | A a forceful and wild swinging blow or punch; a knockout punch. 2. one who makes hays, especially one who spreads it to dry; haytedder. 3. a rustic dance; a barn dance. |
| Haymonger | n | Dealer in hay. |
| Haymow | n | A mass of hay; especially, one stored in a loft or bay. 2. a hayloft. |
| Hayrick | n | A large pile of hay stored in the open air, sometimes with a cover. 2. a haystack. |
| Hayride | n | A pleasure ride in a wagon half full of hay or straw. |
| Hayseed | n | Grain seed; also mingled seed, chaff, etc. that falls from hay, as on a barn floor. 2. a country person, an unsophisticated rustic. 3. the dialects of rustic, country folks. |
| Haysted | n | A building for storing hay; a haybarn; hayhouse. |
| Haysugge | n | The hedge sparrow. |
| Haywain | n | A cart used for the carrying or transporting hay. |
| Hayward | n | An officer of the manor, township or parish, having charge of fences and enclosures; esp. for keeping cattle from breaking through from the common into enclosed fields. 2. the herdsman of the cattle feeding on the common. |
| Haywire | n | Wire for binding bales of hay, straw. 2. poorly equipped, roughly constructed, esp by a haywire outfit, whose practice of using haywire for repairs frequently produced shoddy outcomes. 3. of persons, circumstances- disordered, crazy, in an emotional state, tangle-minded, confused. |
| Haywire | phr | "To Go Haywire" - to be excited, distracted, disordered, to be in an emotional or mentally unbalanced. |
| Hazel | n | A small, Eurpean evergreen tree or shrub which produces edible nuts. 2. any of several Australian shrubs unrelated to the European tree. 3. a reddish or light brown in color. |
| Hazelly | adj | Of a reddish or light brown in colour. |
| Hazel-nut | n | The edible nut or fruit of the hazel; also called 'filbert'. 2. the hazel shrub or tree. |
| Hazelnutty | adj | Resembling or characteristic of the hazel nut. |
| Hazel-tree | n | The Hazel (Corylis) a genus of deciduous trees and large shrubs native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere. |
| Hazelwood | n | The wood of the hazel tree. |
| Hazelwort | n. | Asarabaca |
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