Old English | sp | English |
He | prn. | The Third person singular used to indicate a male person or animal. 2. sometimes used to represent any person whose sex is not specified. 3. used in combination to indicate a male, as 'she-goat'. |
He | phr | "He Said, She Said" - conflicting reports from two or more parties on an issue, often typically involving a situation between a man and a woman with no other witnesses |
He | phr | "He Shoots, She Scores" - said as someone accomplishes something through the actions or misdeeds of others. |
He | phr | "He who Laughs Last Laughs Loudest" - the one who is the winner. |
He | n. | Male He-man adj, particularly strong, virile, masterful man. |
Head | n. | Upper part of a man's or animal's body or anatomy, containing mouth, sense organs and brain; upper part of anything; chief part. 2. something which has the shape function of a head. 3. the leader, commander, chief executive. 4. a way or classifier for counting cattle; by caterers undertaking the organization of a party etc; |
Head | vb | To take off the head, behead. 2. behead, decapitate. 3. to top off the branches of a tree. 4. to put a head on, to furnish or fit with a head, as an arrow head. 5. to enclose something a barrel or cask. 6. to furnish a headline; place a title. 7. to grow to a head. 9. of a stream - to have a head or source; to take rise; to collect water so as to head or format a headwater. 11. to the lead of head of. 12. to advance, face. 13. to have an upward inclination. 14. to point towards the front. 15. to move forward or advance. |
Head | sfx | From Middle English -hed, -hede, attested from the 12th century, continuing a hypothetical Old English *-hǣde (“-hood”), Originally restricted to adjectives, the suffix began to be attached to nouns as well from at least the 15th century, leading to confusion with the -hood suffix (Old English -hād), and finally to the wide replacement of -head by -hood even in adjectives. Used to create nouns indicating a state, similar to the suffix -hood; such as 'godhead,' 'maidenhead,' 2. used to form (usually derogatory) words for people who regularly use a specified drug or other substance, or who are addicted in some way. 3. used to form words to describe people who are fans of something, especially music. |
Head | phr | "Above One's Head" - beyond one's ability to understand; over one's head. |
Head | phr | "A Head For Heights" - not fazed or frightened by heights. 2. a feeling of security when high above the ground. |
Head | phr | "Beat Each Other Over the Head" - to be always fighting. |
Head | phr | "Be a Hot Head" - an impetuous person. |
Head | phr | "Belt Someone Over the Head" - to over ride someone's views or arguments. |
Head | phr | "Better the Head of an Ass, than the Tail of a Horse" - better the foremost amongst the working class, than the lowest among the aristocracy. |
Head | phr | "Bite Someone's Head Off" - to reply or answer curt, irritable, scathing or angrily. |
Head | phr | "Bring To a Head" - to bring an issue, result, conclusion, summing up, culmination, crisis, maturity, pitch, height, strength etc. 2. to gather to a head; draw to a head. |
Head | phr | "Build Up a Head of Steam" - to gain momentum |
Head | phr | "Bury One's Head in the Sand" - to refuse to face up to some unpleasant truth (refers to the reputed habit of the ostrich in danger) |
Head | phr | "By a Short Head" - by a very short margin. |
Head | phr | "By Head and Shoulders" - by force, violently; with thrust, push. 2. fig. of something violently and irrelevantly introduced into a speech of writing. |
Head | phr | "By the Head and Ears" - roughly, violently, as one fig. drags a heart. |
Head | phr | "Can't Make Head Or Tail Of" - either one or the other. 2. anything indefinite or intelligible. |
Head | phr | "Come Into One's Head" - remember; bring to mind, occur to one. |
Head | phr | "Come to or Reach a Head" - to come to a crisis or a climax. 2. reach a critical stage; culmination. 3. suppurate. |
Head | phr | "Do It (Standing)On One's Head" - to do it with ease. |
Head | phr | "Drag Someone by the Head and Ears" - to force a person to reveal the true facts. |
Head | phr | "Eat One's Head Off" - gormandize, over eat or eat excessively. |
Head | phr | "Fall Head or Heels in Love" - to fall very much in love. |
Head | phr | "From Head to Foot/Toe" - all over the person, fig. completely thoroughly, allover. |
Head | phr | "Get a Head Up On" - to gain ascendancy, or power to attain vigor, speed. |
Head | phr | "Get Into One's Head" - come, or cause, to realize or understand. |
Head | phr | "Get It Into One's Head" - form or definite idea or plan, esp. mistakenly or impetuously. |
Head | phr | "Get One's Head Blown Off" - to be very soundly abused. |
Head | phr | "Get One's Head Down" - go to bed (and sleep). 2. concentrate on the task at hand. |
Head | phr | "Get Something Into One's Head" - grasp an idea, or learn, memorize something. 2. decide (often foolishly) to do something. |
Head | phr | "Give a Horse His Head" - make no attempt to curb a horse's speed. 2. not to check or hold him, let him go or run freely and unrestrained. |
Head | phr | "Give Somebody His Head" - allow a person to act freely. |
Head | phr | "Go by the Head" - plunge or sink head foremost. |
Head | phr | "Go Off One's Head" - lose control of one's temper and reason. |
Head | phr | "Go Out Of One's Head" - go mad. |
Head | phr | "Go Over One's Head" - contact somebody's superior or manager. |
Head | phr | "Go To One's Head" - something that makes one arrogant and conceited. 2. something that makes one vain or over-proud. 2. to become a little intoxicated drunk and/or dizzy. |
Head | phr | "Hang One's Head (In Shame)" - be ashamed of oneself. |
Head | phr | "Have a Cloud Hanging Over One's Head" - there's a doubt over one's future. |
Head | phr | "Have a Good Head On One's Shoulders" - to be sensible, able, clever, proficient. 2. to have a good head for; to be adept. |
Head | phr | "Have a Good Head For" - have the ability, flair for. |
Head | phr | "Have a Good Head For Heights" - be untroubled by heights. |
Head | phr | "Have a Head Start" - have an advantage over others. |
Head | phr | "Have an Old Head on Young Shoulders" - experience, knowledge and maturity in a young person. |
Head | phr | "Have a Roof Over One's Head" - to have shelter; own or rent a dwelling. |
Head | phr | "Have a Swollen Head" - be conceited. |
Head | phr | "Have A Threat Hanging Over One's Head' - to fear some intimidated unpleasant action. |
Have | phr | "Have a Tongue in One's Head" - One able to speak, and thus one who can do their own speaking without the help of any other person. |
Have | phr | "Have Eyes in the Back of One's Head" - to know more of what's going on than is generally realised. |
Head | phr | "Have One's Heads In the Clouds" - be daydreaming or unrealistic. |
Head | phr | "Head and Shoulder (Above Others)" - very much better than. |
Head | phr | "Head Back" - get ahead of so as to intercept and turn back. |
Head | phr | "Head First" - with the head foremost; hence, precipitately, headlong, hastily. |
Head | phr | "Head For" - move towards; be on the course that leads to. |
Head | phr | "Head for the Hills" - to seek to escape one's commitments. |
Head | phr | "Heads I Win, Tails you Lose" - which side of the coin will show when tossed. |
Head | phr | "Head in the Clouds" - dream like or not paying attention. |
Head | phr | "Head Off" - to intercept or divert the course of. 2. reach an important place before someone else; thus giving him important news, preventing him from escaping. 3. prevent somebody from moving to a topic that is boring, or embarrassing. |
Head | phr | "Head of Hair" the growth of hair on the head. |
Head | phr | "Head on" - a meeting or confrontation head to head (in person, face to face). |
Head | phr | "Head or Tails" - a call made before tossing a coin to guess which side will fall. |
Head | phr | "Head Over Heels" - originally meant being upside down. 2. to be in love with someone very much. 3. somersaulting or tumbling heels over head. 4. rashly, impetuously in love. |
Head | phr | "Head to Head" - a conversation, confrontation, or contest between two parties. 2. involving two parties confronting one another. |
Head | phr | ""Head to Tail" - place, or following each other in a continuous line and all facing in one direction. 2. placed in rows or stacks with the head of one alongside, or on the top of, the tail of the next. |
Head | phr | "Head Up" - to be the leader or manager of; command. |
Head | phr | "Heap Coals of Fire on the Head of Another" - cause people remorse by returning good for evil. |
Head | phr | "He/She Has a Head on his Shoulders" - he/she is clever; has brains. |
Head | phr | "Hit One's Head Against a Stonewall" - to make fruitless attempts against insuperable difficulties. |
Head | phr | "Hit the Nail on the Head" - to arrive at the exact conclusion. 2. to guess right. |
Head | phr | "Hold One's Head High" - -be proud, confident or unashamed. |
Head | phr | "I Can Make neither Head nor Tail of" - I cannot understand it at all. 2. i can make nothing or it. |
Head | phr | "In the Head Of" - in the mind and thoughts of. |
Head | phr | "Keep a Cool Head" - to stay calm and rational in a crisis. |
Head | phr | "Keep One's Head" - to remain or keep calm; to be cool and collected at a critical. 2. to keep one's wits about one, retain self-control; keep calm; 'opposite to lose one's head'. |
Head | phr | "Keep One's Head Above the Ground" - to cope, manage, get by, |
Head | phr | "Keep One's Head Above Water" - lit; and fig. to keep out of debt and insolvency. |
Head | phr | "Keep One's Head Down" - remain inconspicuous, or keep working busily. 2. to work very diligently. |
Head | phr | "Knock Two Heads Together" - threat to put an end to a dispute. |
Head | phr | "Laugh One's Head Off" - to greatly enjoy something. |
Head | phr | "Let One's Go/Have His/Her Head" - allow somebody to act as he/she wishes. |
Head | phr | "Lose One's Head" - to lose control of one's temper; become confused. 2. to lose control of one's life, finance etc. 3. to panic. |
Head | phr | "Make Head Against" - to withstand; make progress. |
Head | phr | "Make Headway" - to advance, to advance in spite of, press forward, esp. in opposition to some person or thing. 2. to resist successfully, rise up in insurrection, revolt against. |
Head | phr | "Make Neither Head Nor Tail of" - not understand something. |
Head | phr | "Make One's Head Spin" - confuse one. |
Head | phr | "Need Something Like a Hole in the Head" - to be landed with an undesirable problem. |
Head | phr | "Need to Have One's Head Read" - to be foolish. 2. you should reconsider this matter. |
Head | phr | "Not Know Whether One Is on One's Hand's Or Heels" - be completely confused. |
Head | phr | "Not Right in the Head" - crazy, mad, a little insane. |
Head | phr | "Of One's Own Head" - out of one's own thought, device, will, of one's own accord, spontaneous. |
Head | phr | "Off One"s Head" - out of one's mind, wits, mad, silly. 2. out of one's head. 3. to be crazy. |
Head | phr | "Off the Top of One's Head" - without reflection, without memory. 2. based on experience but without a detailed consideration. |
Head | phr | "One's Head Swells" - one thinks very highly of themselves. |
Head | phr | "On One's Own Head" - said of evil, vengeance etc., or of blessing, etc.; figured, as 'falling on descending on a person'; also of guilt, responsibility of any kind figured as resting on one. |
Head | phr | "Out Of One's Head" - from one's own head or imagination or invention. 2. crazy, off one's head; unhinged. |
Head | phr | "Over One's Head" - too complex for one's understanding, comprehension, or intellectual capacity. 2. beyond one's level of understanding. |
Head | phr | "Pull One's Head In" - do not interfere in this! |
Head | phr | "Put One's Head Down" - to take a sleep. |
Head | phr | "Put One's Heads Together" - to consult and work together. |
Head | phr | "Put Out Of One's Head" - to cause to forget. |
Head | phr | "Put Something Into One's Head" - to suggest to one's mind; make one think of it; to remind one of it; suggest the idea of it to. 2. to remind or put in the mind of. |
Head | phr | "Put Something Out of One's Head" - deliberating forget. |
Head | phr | "Run One's Head against a Stonewall" - to make fruitless attempts against insuperable difficulties. |
Head | phr | "Shake One's Head" - to indicate disbelief or wonder or disapproval |
Head | phr | "Shout One's Head Off" - to shout or scream loudly. |
Head | phr | "Show One's Head" - to show oneself publicly |
Head | phr | "Soft In the Head" - foolish, slightly mad. |
Head | phr | "Standing on One's Head" - do something with ease, or effortlessly. |
Head | phr | "Take it Into One's Head" - to conceive a notion. |
Head | phr | "Talk One's Head Off" - to talk until someone is too bored or weary to reply. |
Head | phr | "Talk One's Head Off" - talk excessively. |
Head | phr | "That is on Your Head" - you will have to accept responsibility for that. |
Head | phr | "Turn Somebody Head" - to cause a person to get an exaggerated idea ofhis abilities or status. |
Head | phr | "Turn Something on Its Head" - to reverse something. |
Head | phr | "Two Heads are Better than One" - joint effort and co-operation, and sharing of ideas produce better result than individual contribution. 2. two people co-operating have a better chance of solving a problem than one person by himself or herself. |
Head | phr | "Win By a Head" - to win by the length of a horse's head. |
Head | phr | "With One's Head in the Clouds" - daydreaming; unrealistic. |
Headache | n. | Continuous pain in the head. 2. a troublesome or annoying problem. |
Headache | phr | "Be a Headache" - cause difficulty or problems. |
Headaching | n | The aching of the head. |
Headachingly | adv | In an headaching manner. |
Headacheness | n | state or condition of suffering from or subject to a headache. |
Headachy | n | Inclined to a headache; somewhat headachy. |
Headband | n | A band worn around the head to hold the hair back. |
Headboard | n | A board at the upper end of anything, such as a bedstead, grave. |
Headbone | n. | The skull |
Headborough | n | A parish officer identical in function with a constable; originally, the head of tithing or franking-pledge. |
Head-breaker | n | A complex problem or difficulty that causing some mental anguish, mind-stretcher. |
Head-breaking | n | Mental anguish; mental stretching. |
Head-cloth | n | A cloth for covering the head. |
Headed | adj | Having a head of a specified kind. 2. furnished with a head or tip, as an arrow. 3. that has come to a head or matured. 4. furnished with a headline, written or printed. 4. combining form, as in 'two-heads' |
Headedness | n | The state or quality of having a head of a specified kind. |
Head-end | n | A control center in a cable television system where various signals are brought together and monitored before being introduced into the cable network |
Header | n. | That or who leads. 2. title at top of a page, as opp. to footer. 3. a piece of text, such as as a page, number or title, that appears at the top of every page about in a document or book. 4. a phrase that is placed at the beginning of what you want to say about the subject. 5. a plunge headfirst into water. 6. to strike ball with head. 7. an executioner. |
Headers and tailers | n | Headers and tailers are common in speaking, but very uncommon in writing. We use headers when the place information at the foot of what we say. This can help to understand easily what we referring to. The headers is followed by a pronoun which refers back to the header. |
Head-felt | adj | Disturbing to the head (mind0; as 'heart-felt and head-felt difficulty'. |
Head first | adv | With the head foremost; hence, precipitately, headlong, hastily. |
Headfold | adj | A ventral fold formed by growth of the embryonic head. |
Headforemost | adv | With the head first; headfirst; headlong. |
Headful | adj | As much as the head will hold or contain. |
Head-games | n | An attempt tp psychologically intimidate someone. 2. psychologically intimidation. |
Head gate | n | The upstream gate of a canal lock. 2. a watergate or floodgate of any race or sluice. |
Head-hell | n. | Insanity, madness, depression, mental turmoil, craziness, lunacy. |
Head-high | adj | Proud; somewhat arrogant. |
Headhood | n | Headship. |
Headhouse | n | A structure in which the headframe of a mine is housed. 2. a part of a railroad passenger terminal providing accommodations for persons waiting for trains. 3. a service area or building attached to a greenhouse usually for housing the central temperature-control equipment and providing working and storage room |
Head-hung | adj | Despondent. |
Head-hunter | n | A head-hunter who preserves and shrinks human heads. |
Head-hunting | n | The practice of a head-hunter, who preserves human heads. |
Headily | adv | In a heady manner, headlong, precipitately. self-will, unruly, self-willed. |
Headiness | n | The condition of heady or intoxicated. 2. the quality or condition of being self-will, obstinate, headstrong etc. 3. rashness, obstinacy. |
Heading | n. | A title or inscription at the head of a page or chapter. 2. homespun cloth. 2. beheading, decapitation, the topping or lopping of tree tops. 4. the action of fitting or furnishing with a heading. 5. culmination, coming to a head; forming a head. 6. the highest point, top, zenith. 7. the compass direction in which the bow or nose of a moving vessel or aircraft is pointed. This is not necessarily the same direction in which the vessel is actually traveling, known as its course; any difference between heading and course is due to the motion of the medium (the air or water) through which the vessel is moving, or other aerodynamic effects such as skidding or slipping. See also bearing. |
Headish | adj | Heady. |
Headland | n. | A promontory. 2. a strip of land in a plowed field, left for convenience in turning the plow at the end of the furrows, or near the border, in old times used as a boundary. |
Headless | adj | Without a head, decapitated. 2. lacking a leader or leadership. |
Headlessly | adv | In a headless way. |
Headlessness | n | The state of being headless. |
Headlight | n. | Front light of a vehicle |
Head-light(s) | n | A powerful light, as at the front of a locomotive, motor car, ship, or a rail vehicle. |
Head-like | adj | In the form of a head or skull. |
Headline(s) | n | The line at the top of newspaper; a caption. |
Headlines | phr | "Hit the Headlines" - make headlines. |
Headliner | n | The main attraction at a theatrical performance. 2. the actor or performer whose name appears in large letters. |
Headling | n. | Fellow, mate, equal. 2. chieftain, prime minister, leader. |
Headlock | n | A wrestling grip in which the head is held between the opponent's arm and body. |
Headlong | adj | Precipitous, rushing, rash, impetuous, quick (without thought). 2. steep, precipitous, rash, reckless. |
Headlong | adv. | Head foremost in a rush; without thought or regard, precipitately, impetuously. 2. with the head foremost, rashy, hastily, precipitately. |
Headlongingly | adv | In a headlong manners. |
Headlongness | n | Headlong quality or speed; rashness, precipitation. |
Headlouse | n | A louse of the variety which infests the hair of the human head. |
Headly | adv | In a heady manner, impetuously, precipitately, headily. |
Headman | n. | A chief, leader, executive. 2. a leader or person of authority in a community. |
Headmark | n | The peculiarity of head, face, and features which distinguishes each individual of a species. 2. a headland marking the limits of a field. |
Headmark | phr | "To Know By Headmark" - to know or recognize by personal appearance or face. |
Headmaster | n | The principal teacher in a school. |
Headmasterly | adj | In the manner of the headmaster: authoritative and scholarly. |
Headmost | adj | Most advanced; foremost. |
Headness | n | The state or position of being a head, leader, director or manager. |
Head-on | adj | Collision met directly head-to-head. 2. front end to front end. |
Headmost | adj. | Foremost. 2. most forward or advanced in order of progression; esp. said of the foremost ship of a line. 3. foremost of any advanced series, topmost. |
Head-on | adj | A head-to-head collision of two vehicles. |
Head on | adv | With the head pointed directly towards running full against or towards something. 2. of a collision involving the direct meeting of the front of two vehicles. |
Head-pan | n | Skull, brain pan; brain box. |
Head-race | n | The channel by which water is led to a waterwheel, or to any machinery. |
Headrest | n | Any device to support the head. |
Headroom | n | In an enclosed place , e.g. in a motor car, the amount of space between the occupant and the roof. |
Head-sea | n | Waves meeting a ship especially at its bow. |
Head-shake | n | A shake of the head. |
Head-shake | vb | To shake the head in agreement or disapproval. |
Head-shaking | n | The act of shaking one's head, in agreement or disapproval. |
Head-shaving | n | The practice of shaving the hair from a person's head. At different times and places people have shaved all or part of their heads for very diverse reasons including practicality, convenience, low maintenance, fashion, style, religion, culture, and aesthetics. |
Head shell | n | A headpiece designed to be attached to the end of a turntable or record player's 'tone arm' and the cartridges bolted to it. |
Headship | n. | Office of chief, principal, supremo, governor; leader. 2. the first place or position, supremacy, primacy. |
Head shot | n | A photograph of someone'shead. 2. a gunshot to the head. |
Head-shrinker | n | A head-hunter who preserves and shrinks human heads. 2. a psychiatrist, psychologist, etc. |
Head-shrinking | n | The practice of preserving human heads. |
Headskin | n. | The scalp |
Head-silver | n. | A subsidy |
Headsman | n | A public executioner |
Headspring | n | The fountain-head or main source of a stream. 2. the chief source of anything. 3. the cornerstone of a building. 4. an upright stone of the head of a grave; gravestone. |
Head stall | n | The part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head. |
Head stand | n | The act of holding one body upside-down in a vertical position, with one weight resting on one's head and, usually, on one's hands or arms. |
Headstart | n | An advantage at the beginning of a race or, in general, any type of contest or competition. |
Head stock | n | One of the various devices supporting the end or head of a part or member, as the live spindle of the lathe. |
Headstone | n. | Tombstone: the stone at the head of a grave. 2. the cornerstone or keystone of a structure. |
Headstops | n | A stopping with the head falling downward or headlong. |
Headstream | n | The headwaters of a stream, river or waterway. |
Headstrong | adj. | Of persons: self-willed, determined to have one's own way to pursue one's own course. 2. wilful, obstinate, violently self-willed. 2. of things, actions, etc, characterized by or proceeding from wilfulness of obstiancy. |
Headstrongly | adv | In a headstrong manner. |
Head-strongness | n | The quality of being strong-willed, obstinate, stubborn. 2. the quality of 'going to the head' or affecting the senses as intoxicating liquor. |
Head teacher | n | The teacher in charge of a school. |
Heads-up | adj | A warning or call to pay attention. 2. an advisory notice; a notice of what is to happen; a holler. |
Headswoman | n | A midwife. |
Head-to-head | adj | A conversation, confrontation, or contest between two parties. 2. involving two parties confronting one another. |
Head-to-head | adv | Confronting another party. |
Headwall | n | In civil engineering a small retaining wall placed at the outlet of storm water pipe or culvert. |
Headward | n | The guarding or protection of the Lord's (of the manor) 'head' (life). 2. attendance as a guard upon the lord or king. |
Headward | adj | Being in the region or in direction of the head. |
Headward(s) | adv | Towards or in the direction of the head. |
Headward | phr | "To the Headward" - towaqrds the head; in the direction of the head. 2. of a ship: in advance, ahead. |
Headwark | n | A pain in the head, headache ('bellywark' -bellyache). |
Head-washing | n | An old dialect expression for drinking to the health of a newborn. |
Headwater-mark | n | A mark showing the highest water-level reached. 2. a mark showing the highest watermark allowed above a weir. |
Headwater(s) | n | A stream from the source of a river. 2. the waters near or at the source of any stream, river or the like. |
Headway | n. | Of a ship: motion ahead or forward; rate of progress. 2. fig. advance, progress (in general). 3. the room over one's head. 4. the clear height of a doorway, arch, tunnel or the like. 5. the internal of time or distance between two consecutive trains, trams, buses etc., running on the same route and same direction. |
Headway | phr | "Make Headway" - to progress, go forward; get on. 2. to struggle effectually against something. |
Headwear | n | Clothing, coverings worn on the head. |
Headwell | n. | Fountain-head, headspring, watershed. |
Headwind | n | A wind from ahead, blowing directly opposite to the course of a ship, airplane, etc. |
Headwise | adv | Towards or in the direction of the head. |
Headwise | adj | Relating or concerning the head. |
Headword | n. | Word forming a heading, headline, keyword. 2. a word written or printed at the top or beginning of a chapter, paragraph, etc. 3. a word or expression that introduces or begins, as a chapter. |
Headwork | n | Mental work, or labor, brain work, work using the mind. |
Headworker | n | One who works with the mind or intellect. 2. one who works with the head or mind, etc. |
Headwrong | adj | Mistaken or in error. |
Heady | adj | Headlong, precipitous, impetuous, violent, headstrong, wilful, hurried in passion. 2. of a person: domineering, overbearing, passionately, desirous of something. 3. of a stream, waterway, current : impetuous, strong, raging. 4. apt to affect the head (senses) - or intoxicate with a stupefying quality. 5. turning the head, giddy. |
Heady brew | n | Strong alcoholic liquor. 2. of a novel or film a complex story line. |
Heady-minded | adj | Rash or impetuous. 2. exhilarating. |
Heal | n | Health. |
Heal | vb | To welfare fortunately. to heal spiritually, spiritual well being; soul -heal; salvation. 2. to grow sound; to return to a sound state; as, the limb heals, or the wound heals. 3. to make hale, sound, or whole; to cure of a disease, wound, or other derangement; to restore to soundness or health. 4. to remove or subdue; to cause to pass away; to cure. 5. to restore to original purity or integrity. 6. to reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt; as, to heal dissensions. |
Heal | vb | Cover, hell, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like. |
Heal | phr | "Evil Heal" - disaster, harm; to turn out disastrously, unfortunately. |
Heal | phr | "Good Heal" - welfare, fortune. 2. fare well or fortunately. |
Heal | phr | "Heal Over" - (cause to) or be sealed (with the growth of tissue). 2. of quarrels: cause to end, be mended. |
Heal | phr | "Heal Up" - get, make, completely better. |
Heal | phr | "Heal Wounds" - to bring about reconciliation. |
Heal-all | n | A panacea. |
Heald | n | An O.E. word appears to be applied to the threads of the warp or woofs themselves. 2. in weaving, a device for holding and guiding the heddles in a loom. |
Healed | adj | Restored to health; cured, return to well-being; sanified. |
Healend | n. | One that saves or heals; 'The Saviour'. In OE, regularly used instead of the proper name: Jesus Christ. |
Healer | n | A healing substance, medicine or medication. 2. one who heals others; a doctor. |
Healful | adj | Fraught with health; well-being, wholesome, salubrious, saved. |
Healing | n | The act or process of making or being whole, sound or weel. 2. a cure |
Healing | adj | Tending to cure or restore to health. 2. soothing, mollifying, as the healing art. 3. the means of making healthy; curing. |
Healingly | adv | So as to heal or cure. |
Heal-less | adj | Deprived of health or well-being; incurable. |
Healness | n | Welfare, salvation. |
Healsfang | n | In Saxon law, a kind of pillory, by which the head of the culprit was caught between two boards, as feet as caught in a pair of stocking. 2. a fine prescribed in substitution for capital and other punishment. |
Healsome | adj | Wholesome, salutary, healthful. |
Heal-someness | n | Wholesomeness, healthfulness, well-beingness. |
Health | n | A healthy state of wellbeing free from disease. 2. the general condition of body and mind; hale, sound, whole. 2. the state of being hale, sound, or whole, in body, mind, or soul; especially, the state of being free from physical disease or pain. 3. . a wish of health and happiness, as in pledging a person in a toast. "Come, love and health to all." |
Healthcare | n | The prevention, treatment, and management of illness or the preservation of mental and physical well-being through the services offered by medical, nursing and allied health professions. |
Health-food | n | Any food tha is especially beneficial to health. |
Healthful | adj | Promoting or conducive to bodily health;health-giving, salubrious, wholesome. |
Healthfully | adv | In a healthful or wholesome manner |
Health-fullness | n | The condition or quality being healthful; wholesome, salubrity, |
Health-giver | n | One who provides care to the elderly and those chronically ill. 2. any thing that promotes good health. |
Health-giving | adj | Of food, and other properties, like water, etc. promoting good health and physical well-being |
Healthily | adv | In a healthy manner. |
Healthiness | n | Healthy quality or condition, salubrously . |
Healthing | n | The furthering or improving on health. 2. the drinking to the of; (toasts/toasting) |
Healthless | adj | Without health; out of health. 2. destitute of bodily, mental or spiritual health; unhealthy. |
Health-lessness | n | Unwholesome, unhealthiness. |
Healthsome | adj | Full of health, possessing good health, healthy. 2. bestowing health, (bodily, mental, or spiritual); wholesome, salutary. |
Health-someness | n | Wellspring of all healthsomeness. |
Health span | n | A person's health span is the length of time that the person is healthy—not just alive. |
Healthward | adj | Tending in the direction of good health. |
Health-warning | n | An official edict that a particular substance or activity is dangerous. 2. an indication or admission that an opinion may be biased (colloquial). |
Healthwise | adv | With regard to health. |
Healthy | adj | hale, salubrious, wholesome. 2. being in a state of health; enjoying health. 3. free from disease. 4. conducive to or promoting health. 5. financially secure. 6. exercising sound or good judgement. 7. healthy in amount, extent, degree. |
Healthy-looking | adj | Appearing in good physical condition. 2. smooth, radiant, beaming. |
Healthy-minded | adj | Wholesome of mind and emotion: optimistic, happy and hopeful. |
Healthy-mindness | n | The sate or condition of being sound of mind, optimistic, happy and hopeful. |
Heam | n | The afterbirth of an animal. (Compare Old English: cildhamma - womb) |
Hean | adj. | Mean, abject, poor, humble, lousy. |
Hean | vb. | To beat with contumity. 2. to insult, humilate, debase lower. |
Heanling | n | A base, abject, mean person. |
Heap | n | An old car or automobile. 2. a collection of things or objects placed or thrown on top of each other. 3. a multitude, a great number of persons or animals. |
Heap | vb | Arrange in heaps. 2. give to in large amounts, amass, pile or accumulate |
Heap | phr | "Be at the Bottom of the Heap" - be in the lowest position of a hierarchy. |
Heap | phr | "Fall in a Heap' - (of a proposal) to collapse utterly. |
Heap | phr | "Heap Coals of Fire on the Head of Another" - cause people remorse by returning good for evil. |
Heap | phr | "Heap Together" - put together in one mass. |
Heap | phr | "Heap Up" - pile up, accumulate, gather in a mass. 2. place heaps on. |
Heap | phr | "Heap Upon" - place in heaps on. 2. award to, address to, in abundance. |
Heap | phr | "Heap With" - heap on, or upon. |
Heap | phr | "In a Heap" - (of a body) - in a mass, state of collapse, shapeless, inert lump. |
Heap | phr | "In Heaps" - in large quantity, numbers. |
Heap | phr | "On a Heap" - on a large prostate mass. |
Heap | phr | "On Heap" - massed together. |
Heap | phr | "Struck All Of a Heap" - struck with astonishment. |
Heap-cloud | n | Cumulus. |
Heaped | adj | Gathered or thrown into a heap. 2. having the contents piled up above the brim instead of being levelled. 3. accumulated, stored. |
Heaper | n | One who accumulates in heaps or heaps up. |
Heapful | adj | Full and heaped up. |
Heapily | adv | In a manner or way of accumulation or heaping. |
Heapiness | n | The state or condition of being heaped, piled up or accumulated. |
Heaping | n | The action of making up heap, accumulation. |
Heaping | adj | A mounting up; piling up. |
Heaply | adv | In an accumulating or heaping-up manner. |
Heap-meal | adv | In heaps, in large quantities or numbers. |
Heaps | n | A lot of, a great mass, a pile of. |
Heap-sea | n | Heavy seas. |
Heapy | adj | Full or consisting of heaps. 2. gathered, lying in heaps. |
Hear | vb | To perceive sounds through the ear. 2. to perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way. 3. to exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to. 4. to listen favourably to; to grant (a request etc.). 5. to receive information about; to come to learn of. 6. to listen to (a person, case) in a court of law; to try. 7. to sympathize with; to share the feeling or opinion of. |
Hear-hearer | n | One who leads the hear-hearing. |
Hear | phr | "Hear a Whisper" - learn of a rumor . |
Hear | phr | "Hear From" - receive a communication or letter from. |
Hear | phr | "Hear! Hear!" Exclamation to call attention to the speaker's
words; hence, a general expression of approbation or cheering. |
Hear | phr | "Hear Of /Have Heard Of" - to have become or been made aware of (fact, information, news, reports)in the case of one's experience. 2. be informed of (negative " Never to have heard of it" & "Not Heard of" : extraordinary, unique. |
Hear | phr | "Hear Out" - listen sympathetically to. 2. listen to someone until they have finished their remarks. |
Hear | phr | "Hear the Last Of" - be finished with somebody or something as a subject of discussion or argument. 2. be finished with, have to cope with, or be affected by. |
Hear | phr | "Hear To" - to listen to; to hear of. |
Hear | phr | "Hear Ye" - listen, hearken!" |
Hear | phr | "I Never Heard Such a Thing" - how extraordinary, unusual. |
Hear | phr | "I Never Heard That One Before" - I do not believe you. |
Hear | phr | "Its Unheard of" - extraordinary, unique. |
Hear | phr | "I Will not Hear Of It" - I wont accept it or endorse it. |
Hear | phr | "Like To Hear Oneself Talking" - to be very fond of talking. |
Hear | phr | "Lose One's Hearing" - become deaf |
Hear | phr | "Never Hear the End" - be constantly reminded of something. |
Hear | phr | "Not Heard of" - refuse or consider to allow any such thing, or such a thing. |
Hear | phr | "Not To Hear Day or Door" - not hear distinctly; deaf. |
Hear | phr | "Not To Hear Oneself" - not to be able to think because of the noise; or goings-on. |
Heard | adj | Perceived by the ear. |
Hearer | n | One who hears. 2. an auditor, listener. 3. one who hears cases; judge. 4. one who receives oral instructions or attends lectures or sermons. 5. a disciple. 6. one admitted to hear the scriptures read and receive instructions. |
Hearing | n | The perception by the ear of auditory sense. 2. the faculty or sense by which sound is perceived; audition. |
Hearing | adj | That hears. |
Hearing | phr | "Be Hearing Things" - hear something that was not said. |
Hearing | phr | "Come To One's Hearing - - knowledge gained by hearing or becoming informed. |
Hearing | phr | "Get a Fair Hearing" - receive an impartial assessment. |
Hearing | phr | "Hard Of Hearing" - partially deaf. |
Hearing | phr | "In One's Hearing" - in such a position to be heard. |
Hearing | phr | "Lose One's Hearing" - become deaf. |
Hearing | phr | "Out of One's Hearing" - not within one's hearing; not to be heard. |
Hearing | phr | "Within One's Hearing" - at such a distance as to be heard. |
Hearing | phr | "You Must be Hearing Things" - hear something that was not meant or not said. |
Hearing-dog | n | A dog that assists persons suffering hearing loss and deafness. |
Hearingless | n | Destitute of the faculty of hearing; deaf. |
Hearing loss | n | A medical problem caused by noise, aging, disease, heredity etc. involving both the ear's ability to detect sounds and the brain's ability to interpret those sounds, including the sounds of speech. |
Hearingly | adv | In a listening and hearing manner. |
Hearken | vb | Harken; to apply the ears to hear; listen, give ear to. 2. to listen privily to. 2. to eaves-drop; play the eaves-dropper. ++++++ |
Hearkener | n | One who listens or gives ear to. 2. a listener. 3. an eavesdropper; a scout. |
Hearkening | n | The giving of ear to; hearing with attention. 2. listening, the givingof attention to. |
Hearsay | n. | Rumor, information not based on personal knowledge, but heard indirectly. 2. to tell what one has heard; to repeat rumours or information second-hand. |
Hearsay-knowing | n | Known by hearsay or report. |
Hearsay-man | n | A book-philospher; dilettante. |
Hearsay-witness | n | One (a witness)- who has no personal or first-hand knowledge of a matter before a court. |
Hear-so | n. | One who hears so. 2. a fact, based on personal knowledge through hearing. |
Hear-so | phr | "One Eyewitness Is Better than Two Hear-so's" - seeing is believing or proof. |
Hearsome | adj | Ready to hear; obedient , compliant, dutiful, devout. |
Hearsomeness | n | Obedience; submission to authority. |
Hearsum | adj | Ready to hear; obedient, compliant, devout. |
Hearsum | vb | To obedient, to obey, to revere. |
Heart | n. | Hollow organ which makes the blood circulate. 2. seat of the emotions and affections. 3. mind, soul, courage. 4. the middle or centre of anything |
Heart | vb | Of plants: to form a dense compact head. |
Heart | phr | "After One's Own Heart" - suiting one perfectly; conforming to one's ideas; to one's own taste. 2. of the kind one likes. |
Heart | phr | "At Heart" - at the center or bottom ; essentially substantially; in fact or character. 2. mainly, really. |
Heart | phr | "At the Heart Of" - to have as an object at the centre of welfare of. |
Heart | phr | "Be Hardhearted" - be unsympathetic. |
Heart | phr | "Be In Good Heart" - to be cheerful, in adversity. |
Heart | phr | "Be of Good Heart" - to be brave in adversity. |
Heart | phr | "Break One's Heart" - to waste away or die of disappointment. |
Heart | phr | "Break the Heart Of (Someone)" - to overwhelm or crush with sorrow. 2. cause (one) sorrow. |
Heart | phr | "By Heart" - in one's inmost thoughts or 'feelings'. 2. in one's actual character or disposition. 3. inwardly, secretly, at the bottom of, in reality. 4. in the memory of; for memory by rote. |
Heart | phr | "Dear to One's Heart" - near or dear to one's affection. |
Heart | phr | "Do One's Heart Good" - make one glad, happy or rejoicing at this. |
Heart | phr | "Eat One's Heart Out" - to suffer or pine away with vexation or longing. 2. to suffer bitterly. |
Heart | phr | "Find in One's Heart" - be hardhearted enough. 2. to feel inclined or willing. 3. to prevail upon oneself (to do something). |
Heart | phr | "For One's Heart" - in one's life. 2. to save one's life. |
Heart | phr | "From One's Heart" - out of the depth of one's soul. 2. with all sincerity of one's deepest feeling. |
Heart | phr | "From the Bottom of One's Heart" - most or very sincerely. |
Heart | phr | "Give Someone Heart" - to inspire confidence; embolden, encourage, cheer up, in spirit, animate, cheer up. 2. to supply with physical strength or stimulus. |
Heart | phr | "Have a Heart!" - be reasonable. 2. have compassion. |
Heart | phr | "Have a Heart of Oak " - loyal, trustwothy. |
Heart | phr | "Have a Heart of Glass" - have a heart that breaks easily. |
Heart | phr | "Have a Heart of Gold" - be very kind and considerate. |
Heart | phr | "Have a Heart of Stone" - be totally unfeeling. |
Have | phr | "Have a Heart to Heart Talk" - have a confidential discussion on a highly personal matter. |
Heart | phr | "Have at Heart" - to have an object in which one is deeply interested, |
Heart | phr | "Have No Heart" - be insensitive or unsympathetic. |
Heart | phr | "Have No Heart For" - be unenthusiastic. |
Heart | phr | "Have One's Heart in One's Boots" - be in a state of despair. 2. to be terrified.??????? |
Heart | phr | "Have One's Heart at Tongue's End" - to be always ready to speak what on one's mind. |
Heart | phr | "Have One's Heart in One's Mouth" - be very apprehensive or frightened. |
Heart | phr | "Have One's Heart In Something" - be enthusiastic about and committed to a cause. |
Heart | phr | "Have the Heart (to)" - to be courageous enough to do something different. 2. be merciful, show pity. |
Heart | phr | "Have Two Hearts" - indicating duplicity or insincerity. |
Heart | phr | "Heart and Soul" - the whole of one's affection and energies; with one's whole being. |
Heart | phr | "Heart of Hearts" - the centre or depth of one's inmost feelings. |
Heart | phr | "Heart to Heart" - an intimate conversation, candid, frank, sincere. |
Heart | phr | "If It Were Not for Hope, the Heart Would Break" - hope wards off complee despair. |
Heart | phr | "In Good Heart" - cheerful, happy. |
Heart | phr | "In Heart" - in good spirits. |
Heart | phr | "In One's Heart of Hearts" - in the innermost, most secure recesses of one's heart. |
Heart | phr | "Know by Heart" - know from memory, memorize. 2.to remember well facts and details about something. |
Heart | phr | "Know in One's Heart of Hearts" - to know something while reluctant to admit it, even to oneself. |
Heart | phr | "Learn by Heart" - learn by rote or by memorizing. |
Heart | phr | 'Lose (One's) Heart" - fig. to lose courage or confidence, become discouraged; less enthusiastic. 2. to stop believing that you can succeed. |
Heart | phr | "My Heart Smote Me" - to have a conscience; a moral sense about things. |
Heart | phr | "Near to One's Heart" - among things that most affect or concern one. |
Heart | phr | "Not Have the Heart to" - be unwilling to. |
Heart | phr | 'Not Have One's Heart in It" - be unenthusiastic. |
Heart | phr | "One's Heart and Soul" - all, or a great deal of, of one's energy, enthusiasm, devotion, sincerity of feeling. |
Heart | phr | "One's Heart Bleeds for (Somebody)" - one feels great sympathy, pity, sorry for the fate of others. |
Heart | phr | "One's Heart Goes Out to (Somebody) - one feels great sympathy for somebody (usually meant sincerely). |
Heart | phr | "One's Heart Is at One's Heels" - extreme fear or dejection. |
Heart | phr | "One's Heart Misses a Bet" - a sudden surge of fear, hope or other emotion, causes a break or catch, real or imagined, in one's heartbeat or breathing. |
Heart | phr | "One's Heart Stands Still" - one is very afraid. |
Heart | phr | "Out Of Heart" - in low spirits, discouraged, disheartened. 2. without sanguine hope. |
Heart | phr | "Pluck or 'Gather Up' One's Heart" - be courageous, brave. (the heart as the seat of |
Heart | phr | "Pull at One's Heart Strings" - stimulate feeling of pathos, sympathy. 2. affect one emotionally. |
Heart | phr | "Put One's (fresh)Heart Into Something" - be energetic, enthusiastic, passionate, zealous. |
Heart | phr | "Put Into One's Heart" - to restore to good spirits. |
Heart | phr | 'Set One's Heart at Rest" - be quite easy about the matter. |
Heart | phr | "Sick at Heart" - thoroughly dejected and dispirited. |
Heart | phr | "Steal Someone's Heart" - acquire the love and affection of. |
Heart | phr | "Steel Someone's Heart Against" - suppress one's natural emotions. |
Heart | phr | "Take Heart (from something)" - be encouraged by something. |
Heart | phr | "Take Someone to One's Heart" - receive encouragement; moral support. |
Heart | phr | "Take Something to Heart" - take seriously, or be upset or offended by. |
Heart | phr | "Take to Heart" - be much affected or distressed by. |
Heart | phr | "The Heart is the Seat Of the Soul" - mental or intellectual faculties; often, understanding, intellect, mind; less so: memory???? |
Heart | phr | "This Does My Heart Good" - I rejoice at this. |
Heart | phr | "Warm the Cockles of One's Heart" - to delight a person. |
Heart | phr | "Wear One's Heart on One's Sleeve" - to expose one's feelings, wishes, intentions to everyone. |
Heart | phr | "Win the Heart Of" - gain the love or admiration of. |
Heart | phr | "Win the Heart and Minds (of)" - a concept of war, conflict, disputation etc in which one one side seeks to prevail not by use of superior force or influence, but by making of soft power, emotional or intellectual appeals to sway supporters of the other side. |
Heart | phr | "With a Heart and a Heart" - with great pleasure, willingly. |
Heart | phr | "With a Heavy (Sinking) Heart" - with a feeling of despondency and sadness. |
Heart | phr | "With a Light Heart" - with a feeling of happiness. |
Heart | phr | "With All My Heart and Soul" - with great sincerity, intensity, earnestness or devotion; now chiefly in a weakened sense. 2. with the utmost goodwill or pleasure. 3. sincerely; with all goodwill. |
Heart | phr | "With Half a Heart" - halfheartedly; with divided affection or enthusiasm. |
Heart | phr | "With Heart and Hand" - with will, enthusiasm and execution; ready and willingly; with alacrity. |
Heart | phr | "With One's Whole Heart" = with enthusiasm; without reservation, doubt, whole-hearted. |
Heart | phr | "Young at Heart" - with a young person's outlook, although no loner young. |
Heartache | n | Pain and anguish of the mind. |
Heartaching | n | Causing heartache, distressing. |
Heartachingly | adv | In a distressing, anguished manner. |
Heart-beat | phr | "In a Heart-beat" - in a second, moment, a brief space in or of time. |
Heart-beat | n | A beat or pulsation of the heart; fig. an emotion. 2. extremely brief space of time; a second. |
Heart-blood | n | Life-blood; hence, vital energy, life. |
Heart-break | n | An overpowering sorrow. 2. overwhelming sorrow or distress of the mind. |
Heart-breaker | n | One who causes other(s) great emotional distress, sorrow and sadness. |
Heart-breaking | adj | Causing great emotional distress and sorrow. |
Heart-breakingly | adv | In an overwhelming distressing and sorrowful manner. |
Heart-broken | adj | Overwhelmed with anguish, despairing, crushing grief. |
Heart-brokenly | adv | In an overwhelming distressing and sorrowful manner. |
Heart-brokenness | n | State or condition of being overwhelmed with anguish, despairing, crushing grief. |
Heartburn | n | A fire of passion. 2. a burning sensation due to the putrefactive fermentation of the food in the stomach; cardialgy. 2. rankling, jealousy, discontent, or emnity. |
Heart-burn | vb | To affect with heartburn. 2. to render jealously or grudgingly. 3. to heal or regard to jealous enmity. |
Heart-burning | n | A heated, embittered state of mind (or feeling), which is experienced but not openly expressed; jealousy or discontent, rankling in the heart, a grudge, |
Heart-burning | adj | That inflames, distresses, kindles or consumes or gnaws the heart |
Heartcare | n | The care of the health of the heart. |
Heart-clot | n | Blood clot. |
Heartdeep | adj | Very or profoundly deep. |
Hearted | adj | Having a heart of a specific kind. 2. sagacious, wise, prudent. 2. cordate or heart-shaped. 3. fixed or established in the heart. |
Heartedly | adv | In a hearted or of a hearted, sagacious, sincere way or manner. |
Heartedness | n | Earnestness, sincerity, heartness. 2. the state o having a heart. |
Heartell | adv | To tell what one has heard; to repeat rumours or information second-hand. |
Hearten | vb | To give encouragement to. 2. to animate, incite, stimulate the nerve, embolden. 3. to restore fertility or strength to. |
Hearten | phr | "Hearten On" - to encourage, inspirit, incite, stimulate. |
Hearten | phr | "To Hearten Up" - to animate, cheer up. |
Heartener | n | One who encourages, heartens others. |
Heartening | n | Encouragement, stimulus, renewal of a strength or spirits. |
Heartenly | adv | In an encouragin mannger. |
Heart-felt | adj | Felt in the heart; appealing to or proceeding from the innermost self; hence, thoroughly sincere, genuine, real. 2. deeply felt. |
Heart-feltness | n | The state or quality of the heart, innermost self, sincerity. |
Heart-free | adj | Having the affections disengaged. |
Heartful | adj | Full of heart; characterized by deep emotion, or sincere affection, hearty. 3. with the whole heart; with entire affection, enthusiastic or devotion, heartily, earnestly. |
Heartfulness | n | Heartful quality; sincerity of affection, cordiality. |
Hearth | n | The floor or the furnace on which the material to be heated lies; the fireplace. 2. the house itself as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of hospitality to strangers. 3. the source area of any innovation. 4. the source area from which an idea, crop, artifact, or good is diffused to other areas |
Hearth | phr | "Hearth and Home" - home, esp. family house (an implication being home comforts and surroundings). |
Heart-hardness | n | Callous, mean-spirited, hard-hearted. |
Heart-hatred | n | Deep hatred in one's heart. |
Heart-heaviness | n | Sorrow and heaviness of heart. |
Hearthless | adj | Without or lacking a hearth, hence also in extended use: without a settled home. |
Hearthlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a hearth, in various ways. |
Heartily | adv | With gusto and free of reservation. 2. in a hearty manner. |
Hearth-fellows | n | A fireside companion. |
Hearth-less | adj | Without a hearth. |
Hearth-penny | n | So called because it was on every dwelling house; also called Rome-scot anciently made to the Pope. |
Hearthside | adj | Beside or near a hearth. |
Hearth-stead | n | Place of the hearth, fireside; hence, homestead. |
Hearthstone | n | The flat stone forming the hearth; fig. a fireplace. 2. a soft stone used for scouring floors. |
Hearthwards | adv | Towards or in direction of the hearth. |
Heartily | adv | With gusto and free of reservation. 2. in a hearty manner. |
Heartiness | n | The quality of genuine sincerity of feeling; earnestness, enthusiasm, zeal, cordiality, friendliness of manner, goodness of appetite, strength, healthiness, vigour. |
Hearting | n | The imparting of courage, encouragement, animation, cheer. 2. the growing to a heart; as 'the heart of a lettuce'. |
Heartland | n | The central part of a country. 2. the part of a country that is most important for a particular activity or where a political party has the most support. |
Heart-leaf | n | A leaf having the shape of a heart. |
Heartless | adj | Without a heart,specifically without feeling, emotion or concern for others, uncaring. |
Heartlessly | adv | In a heartless or uncaring manner. |
Heartlessness | n | The characteristic of being healing or without feeling or emotion. |
Heart-lifting | adj | Inspiring, encouraging, bringing gladness. |
Heart-like | adj | Having the form of heart. 2. resembling or characteristic of a heart. |
Heart-line | n | A line on the plan supposed to reflect a person's emotional state. |
Heartliness | adj | Cordiality, sincerity, heartness. |
Heart-quake | n | Palpitation of the heart; fig. sudden and violent emotion, as of terror; delight. |
Heart-quaking | n | The state or condition of heart palpitation; harrowing, delighting, emotional feelings. |
Heart-qualm | n | Palpitation, with faintness. |
Heart-rending | adj | Distressing. |
Heart root | n | The depth of bottom of the heart. 2. the seat of the deepest emotion or most genuine feeling. |
Heart-shaped | adj | Shaped like a heart; oval, with one end obtusely pointed, and other notched. |
Heart-sick | adj | Very despondent, deeply disappointed, heartsore or sorrowful. |
Heart-sickness | n | State of extreme despondency or despair. |
Heart-sink | n | A recurring patient who can not be definitively cured, such as one whose condition is unable to be diagnosed or is not treatable or one who presents with nebulous symptoms. (from the idea that the patient's approach makes the doctor's sink in dread.) |
Heartsome | adj | Pleasant, delightful. |
Heartsomely | adv | In a heartfilled, pleasant or delightful manner. 2. cheerful or animated. 2. lively, merry, gay. |
Heart-sore | adj | Grieved of heart; characterized by grief. |
Heart-stirring | adj | Inspiring, thrilling. |
Heart-stricken | adj | Overwhelmed with grief or fear. |
Heart-strike | vb | To make a deep impression upon the feelings of. |
Heart-strings | n | The strongest feelings or affections. |
Heart-stopper | n | Something highly exciting. |
Heart-stopping | adj | Exciting or shocking as though to cause one's heart to skip a beat. |
Heart-stoppingly | adv | In a heart-stopping way. |
Heart-strings | n | The tendons once thought to brace the heart. 2. one's deepest emotion or inner feelings. 3. cord-like tendons in the heart. |
Heart-struck | adj | Deeply impressed upon the feelings of; heart-stricken. |
Heart-to-heart | n | A frank, candid, intimate (usually, in private) conversation, or talk. |
Heart-to-heart | adj | Candid, frank, intimate, sincere, earnest. |
Heartwards | adv | Towards or directed towards the heart. |
Heartwarming | adj | Eliciting cosy feelings of tenderness and sympathy. |
Heartwarmingly | adv | In a heart-warming manner. |
Heart-whole | adj | Having the affections free, not in love or affected by love . 2. cheerfully buoyant, loyal, whole or sound in heart. 3. undaunted, sincere. 4. of good courage. |
Heart-wholeness | n | The state or quality of being heartwhole. |
Heart-wise | adv | Inclined in the direction of the heart; way, manner of being hearty. 2 of promoting a healthy mode of lifestyle conducive to a healthy heart. |
Heartwood | n | The hard older wood at the central part of an exogenuous stem; duramen. |
Heartworm | n | A parasitic worm in the heart and blood stream of dogs, occasionally of cats and other animals. |
Heartworn | adj | Worn with care and trouble. |
Heart-wort | n | Radix cordialis. |
Heart-wound | n | A wound or injury of the heart. 2. fig. emotional pain or suffering. |
Heart-wrenching | adj | Having a painful emotional impact, causing great distress. |
Hearty | adj | Pertaining to, or proceeding from the heart; warm, cordial, bold, zealous, sincere, willing, energetic, eager. 2. exhibiting, strength, sound, healthy, firm not weak. 3. promoting strength, nourishing, rich, abundant. 4. a term of familar address and fellowship among sailors. |
Heascen | vb | OE: hiscan, hyscan - to mock, deride,taunt. |
Heat | n | Thermal energy. 2. condition or quality of being hot. 3. attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth. 4. period of intensity, particularly of emotion. 5. undesirable amount of attention. 6. (slang): the police. 7. (slang): one or more firearms. 8. fastball. 9. condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile. 10. preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race. 11. one cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work furthe. 12.hot spell of weather. |
Heat | vb | To grow warm or hot by the action of fire or friction etc., or the communication of heat; as, the iron or the water heats slowly. 2. to grow warm or hot by fermentation, or the development of heat by chemical action; as, green hay heats in a mow, and manure in the dunghill. 3. to make hot; to communicate heat to, or cause to grow warm; as, to heat an oven or furnace, an iron, or the like. 4. to excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish. 5. to excite ardor in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions. |
Heat | phr | "Dead Heat" - If a race (horse or between men or women) ends in a dead heat, two or more of the contestants finish in the same position or with exactly the same result. |
Heat | phr | Heat Up" - warm up, make hot. 2. reheat for serving food which has been cooked and allow to go cold. |
Heat | phr | "If Can't Stand the Heat, Get Out of the Kitchen" - if you can't take the pressure, the you should remove yourself from the situation. |
Heat | phr | "More Heat Than Light" - situation when a discussion doesn't produce the answers, but results in anger (heat)between the participants. |
Heat | phr | "Take the Heat off Somebody" - to divert attention away from a person. |
Heat | phr | "The Heat of the Day" - the hottest part of the day. |
Heat | phr | "Turn the Heat On/Up" - to subject to a close examination, questions; to grill. 2. to increase the pressure on somebody. |
Heat-cloud | n | See 'cloud-heat' and 'cloud-heating'. |
Heat-death | n | The state of a universe, when the universe has reached a state of maximum entropy. This happens when all available energy (such as a hot source) has moved to places of less energy (such as a colder source). 2. hypothermia, illness up to and including death from excessive heat. 3. death by burning, as a form of capital punishment. 4. drought: causing the death of crops. 5. thermal shock: the destruction of equipment by overheating. |
Heat-drop | n | A few drops of rain at the commencement of the day. |
Heated | adj | Very agitated, angry or impassioned. 2. made warm or hot by some means. |
Heatedly | adv | with warmth of temper. |
Heater | n | A device that produces and radiates heat, typically to raise the temperature of a room or buildings. 2. an extended winning streak. 3. a gun. |
Heatful | adj | Full of heat, warmth, producing heat. |
Heath | n | In Britain, an area of open uncultivated land, usually on acid, sandy, soil, with heather, coarse grasses, etc. 2. an area dominated by dwarf ericaceous shrubs. 3. plants growing on a heath. |
Heath-hen | n | The female heath-cock. |
Heathen | n | Not adhering to an abrahamic religion; pagan. 2. pertaining or adhering to the germanic, neo-pagan |
Heathen | adj | Unskilled, uncivilized, savage, philistinic. 3. pertaining or adhering to the germanic, neo-pagan heathenism. |
Heathendom | n | Beliefs and practices of the heathen. 2. condition of being unenlightened and untouched by Christian influences. 3. the domain or realm of the heathen; heathen people collectively; the heathen world; heathenism. |
Heathenish | adj | Somewhat heathen or pagan. |
Heathenishly | adv | In a heathenism manner. |
Heathenish-ness | n | Barbarous, uncivilized, unchristian, offensive of belief, manner and conduct. |
Heathen-like | adj | Characteristic or resembling a heathen. |
Heathenly | adv | After the manner of the heathen: barbarous, uncivilized, unchristian-like. |
Heathen-minded | adj | Of a heathen philosophy. 2. having and affection on things pagan. |
Heathenness | n | The quality or condition of being a heathen. 2. the belief and practices of the heathen. 2. uncivilized, barbarous. 3. colloq. - abominable, disgusting, offensive. |
Heathen-ship | n | Heathenism, heathendom, gentilism. |
Heatheny | adj | Of or pertaining to a heathen. |
Heathland | n | Landd covered by, or abounding in heath. |
Heathless | adj | Devoid or not cover by heath. |
Heathlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of heath. |
Heathwort | n | Ericaceae |
Heathy | adj | Pertaining to heath, or resembling heath. 2. covered by or abounding in heath. |
Heat-laden | adj | Heavily containing heat and warmth. |
Heatless | adj | Without or devoid of heat or warmth. |
Heatlessly | adv | In a manner lacking or without. |
Heatlessness | n | The sate or condition of being without heat or warmth. |
Heat-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of heat in some way or manner. |
Heat-lightning | n | A fitful play of lightning unattended by thunder, usually seen near the horizon at the close of a hot day, due to the reflecion from distant clouds or far-off flashes, causing a diffused glow. |
Heat-seeker | n | A device, missile able to detect infrared radiation to guide it to its target. |
Heat-seeking | adj | Of a device or missile ableto detect infrared radiation to guide it to its target. |
Heat shield | n | A device for protection from excessive heat, esp. fitted to a spacecraft. |
Heat sink | n | A device or substance for absorbing excessive or unwanted heat. |
Heat stroke | n | The state of exhaustion and collapse caused by prolonged exposure to heat, as in furnace rooms, foundries or from the sun's rays. |
Heatwave | n | A prolonged period of exceptionally hot weather. |
Heat-weary | adj | Feeling tired and sleepy after being out by a prolonged period of hot weather. |
Heave | vb | To lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forward. 2. to lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing). 3. to be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound. 4. in mining, geology: to displace (a vein, stratum). 5. to cause to swell or rise, especially in repeated exertions. 6. to rise and fall. 7. to utter with effort. 8. to throw, cast. 9. to pull up with a rope or cable. 9. nautical: to move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation. 10. to heave the ship ahead. 11. to retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit. 11. to make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult. |
Heave | n | An effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy. 2. an upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, and the like. 3. horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode. 4. the measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time. |
Heave | phr | "Heave Into Sight" - to appear at a distance, as a ship. 2. to emerge in the field of vision. 2. loom on the horizon. |
Heave | phr | "Heave Up One's Heart" - be violently sick. |
Heave | phr | "Heave to" - to come to a halt of a ship or vessel. 2. to bring a ship to a standstill (while anchoring or mooring). |
Heaven | n | The sky, specifically: ( usually plural) The distant sky in which the sun, moon, and stars appear or move; the firmament; the celestial spheres. 2. the near sky in which weather, flying animals, etc. appear; (obsolete) the atmosphere; the climate. 3. model displaying the movement of the celestial bodies, an orrery. 4. (religion) the abode of God or the gods, traditionally conceived as beyond the sky. 5. especiallyin Christianity, usu. capitalized) the abode of God and of the angels and saints in His presence. 6. (religion, by extension,) the abode of the Abrahamic God; similar abodes of the gods in other religions and traditions, such as Mount Olympus. 7. (by extension,) Providence, the will of God or the council of the gods; fate. 8. (religion) the afterlife of the blessed dead, traditionally conceived as opposed to an afterlife of the wicked and unjust in hell). 9. (Islam,(Christianity) the afterlife of the souls who are not sent to a place of punishment or purification such as hell, purgatory, or limbo; the state or condition of being in the presence of God after death. 10. (religion, by extension, often capitalized) the afterlife of the blessed dead in other religions and traditions, such as the Pure Land or Elysium. 11. (by extension) Any paradise; any blissful place or experience. 12. (by extension) A state of bliss; a peaceful ecstasy. 13. (informal, with a modifier) similarly blissful afterlives, places, or states for particular people, animals, or objects. |
Heaven | vb | To make heaven in character. 2. to transform into heaven. 3. to blessed with heavenly beauty. 4. to render supremely happy. |
Heaven | phr | "Be in Seventh Heaven" - be very happy. |
Heaven | phr | "For Heaven's Sake" - - exclamation of mild annoyance. |
Heaven | phr | "Good Heavens" - eclamation of surprise. |
Heaven | phr | Heavens Above" - exclamation of surprize . |
Heaven | phr | "Heaven and Earth"- the universe. |
Heaven | phr | "Heaven Forbid" - may it not be so. 2. heaven forfend. |
Heaven | phr | "Heaven Helps Those Who Help Themselves" - you must plot your own destiny in life. |
Heaven | phr | "Heaven Help You!" - you are in trouble. |
Heaven | phr | "Heaven Only Knows" - I do not know, nobody knows; it's not known.. |
Heaven | phr | "In Heaven's Name" - exclamation of surprise, annoyance (in a question) |
Heaven | phr | "Like Heaven on Earth" - a physical location, a place where one works, a set of personal circumstances or relationships, where conditions are ideal and lead to great happiness; idyllic, perfect. |
Heaven | phr | "Make Heavy Weather of" - to encounter dificulties. |
Heaven | phr | "Reek to High Heaven" - to be patently unethical. |
Heaven | phr | "Stink to High Heaven" - have an offensive smell. |
Heaven | phr | "Thank Heaven"" - expressionh of gratitude, relief. |
Heaven | phr | "The Heavens Opened" - it teemed with rain. 2. rain falls in torrents. |
Heaven-begot | adj | Heaven or heavenly born or produced; divine, celestial, angelic. |
Heaven-blessed | adj | Blessed with al the benefits of life. |
Heaven-born | adj | Of divine origin. 2. of origin or ability as to seem specially prepared or designed by 'heaven's hand'. |
Heaven-bow | n | A rainbow. |
Heaven-bright | adj | Extremely sunny; very bright. |
Heaven-falling | adj | That falling from heaven. 2. fig. fallen from grace. |
Heaven-forsaken | adj | Abandoned by heaven or God. 2. doomed. |
Heavenful | adj | As many or as many as would fill heaven. |
Heaven-high | adj | As high as heaven; lofty, or reaching the clouds. 2. an immense height. |
Heavenhood | n | Heavenly quality or character, fitness for heaven; sanctification. 2. heavenlines. |
Heavenish | adj | Pertaining to, or characteristic of the sidereal heaven. |
Heaven kissing | adj | Touching as it were the sky. |
Heaven's King | n | The King of Heaven: God. |
Heavenless | adj | Having no portion in heaven. |
Heavenlike | adj | Characteristic or resembling heaven. 2. divine, heavenly. |
Heavenliness | n | State or quality of being heavenly in origin; nature or characteristic. 2. celestial, highness, divinity. |
Heavenly | adj | Of or belonging to heaven, as the abode of God, divine, celestial. |
Heavenly | adv | In a heavenly, celestial, divine manner. |
Heavenly body | n | A natural object in outer space ; eg. the sun, the stars, a planet, etc.; a celestial one. |
Heavenly Father | n | God. |
Heavenly-minded | adj | Having the thoughts and affections placed on, or suitable for, heaven and heavenly objects; holy, devout; godly; pious. |
Heavenly-mindedness | n | The state or quality of having thoughts and affection set on things above, holy, devout. |
Heaven-rike | n | The kingdom of heaven as the place of the blessed. |
Heaven-sent | adj | Sent for heaven; divine or providential intervention. |
Heaven's King | n | The King of Heaven: God |
Heaven's Queen | n | The Virgin Mary. |
Heaven-threatening | n | The threatening wrath of God upon sinners. |
Heaven-threatening | adj | Storm-threatening clouds or sky. |
Heavenwards | adj | Directed towards heaven. |
Heaven-ware | n | The inhabitants of heaven. |
Heaven-wide | adj | As wide or broad as heaven or the heavens. |
Heaven-wide | adv | By the width of the heavens. |
Heaver | n | A dockyard worker; one who heaves or lifts. |
Heave-to | adv | To come to a halt of a ship or vessel. 2. to bring a ship to a standstill. |
Heavily | adv | In a heavy manner. 2. with a great weight. 3. to a considerable extent. 4. in a manner designed for heavy duty. 5. so as to be thick or heavy. 6. in a laboured manner. |
Heaviness | n | The state or condition of being heavy. |
Heaving | n | That heaves. |
Heavisome | adj | Of a heavy mood, doleful, sad, full, gloomy. |
Heavy | vb | To make heavy, burdensome or oppressive. 2. to grow heavy or weighty. 3. to become heavy through weariness or grief. 4. to be overbearing, oppressive of manner. |
Heavy | adj | |
Heavy | adv | In a heavy manner; with weight. 2. fig. ponderously, massively, burdensomely, oppressively. 2. with laborious movement, slowly, sluggishly, laboriously. 3. with displeasure or anger. |
Heavy | phr | "As Heavy as Lead" - very heavy; oppressive in weight or color. |
Heavy | phr | "Bear Heavy" - to take with anger, seriously. |
Heavy | phr | "Do the Heavy" - to swagger, to make a fine show. |
Heavy | phr | "Heavy On" - usually a lot; a 'heavy on smoking.' |
Heavy | phr | "Lie Heavy On" - be a burden, worry to. |
Heavy | phr | "Make Heavy Weather of" - have (unneccesary) difficulty with. |
Heavy | phr | "Run Into Heavy Weather" - to encounter heavy difficulties. |
Heavy | phr | 'Time Hangs Heavy" - time passes slowly. |
Heavy | phr | "With a Heavy Hand" - in an oppressive fashion. |
Heavy | phr | "With a Heavy Heart" - with a feeling of sadness. |
Heavy-breathing | n | Breathing that is audible through deep or laboured, especially as a result of exertion. |
Heavy drinker | n | One who consumes too much alcohol. |
Heavy drinking | n | The consumption of too much alcohol. |
Heavy-earth | n | Baryta. |
Heavy-eyed | adj | Sleepy; heavy-lidded; drowsy, bored to wearisome. |
Heavy-father | n | A sternly paternal member of one's family. 2. the idea, or practical example of a father as astern disciplinarian, who controls the activities of his family as he thinks good for them. |
Heavy-footed | adj | Not light-footed or softly treading. |
Heavy-friend | n | A troublesome or evil friend, a false friend, enemy. |
Heavy-going | adj | Difficult movement or work, eg. over rough or steep ground, against currents, when carrying weights, etc. 2. fig. laborious or boring work or activity. |
Heavy-handed | adj | Handy heavy from physical incapacity or weariness. 2. having hands heavy-laden. 3. clumsy, lacking dexterity. |
Heavy-handedness | n | State or quality of bearing heavy from physical incapacity or weariness. 2. the fact of having hands heavy-laden. 3. clumsy, lacking dexterity, skill of hand. |
Heavy-head | n | A dull, stupid, doltish person. |
Heavy-headed | adj | Dull, stupid, stultish, doltish, foolish. 2. drowsy, sleepy, inclined to doze off. 2. having a large head. |
Heavy-hearted | adj | Having a heavy-heart: grieved and melancholy. 2. proceeding from or caused by a heavy heart. 2. sad, doleful, distressed. |
Heavy-heartedness | n | The state or condition of being sad, melancholy, distressed. |
Heavy-heeled | adj | Heavy-stepping, footed, clumsy, cloddish. |
Heavingly | adv | Heavily, severely. |
Heavyish | adj | Somewhat heavy. |
Heavy-lidded | adj | Sleepy, heavy-eyed, dozing off, wearisome. |
Heavy-laden | adj | Laden or loaded heavily. 2. bearing a heavy burden. 3. weighed down with trouble, weariness etc., oppressed. |
Heavy-looking | adj | Having a heavy appearance, weighty, stout. |
Heavy-necking | n | Caressing and fondling taht are more intimate than kissing or cuddling, but short of sexual intercourse. |
Heavy- sleeper | n | A person who sleeps deeply. |
Heavy-sleeping | n | The action of sleeping deeply. |
Heavy-swell | n | A man of impressive or showy appearance; esp., one dressed in the lastest fashion. 2. the heavy swell or swells of the waves and the sea. |
Heavy-tailed | adj | A big, heavy tail; fat-tailed. |
Heavy-timber | n | Dense, unbroken forest; thick woods. 2. big trees. 3. heavy logs. |
Heavy-timbered | adj | Thickly treed or bushy. |
Heavy water | n | Water containing deuterium oxide, the compound of oxygen and heavy isotope of hydrogen. |
Heavy-weight | n | A person or animal more than the average weight. 2. a professional boxer over the weight of 90kg. 3. a person of importance (weight); one of much influence. |
Heck | n | The lower half of a door; also, an inner door. 2. a grating in a river to obstruct the passage of fish, or other solid bodies without obstructing the flow of water. 3. a rack made with parallel spars to hold fodder. 4. a shuttle or sluice in a drain. |
Heddle | n | One of the small set of cords or wires between which the warp is passed in a loom before going through the reed. |
Hede | n | Rank, order, condition, quality; see: "hade'. |
Hedge | n | A fence of bushes; a projecting barrier. 2. |
Hedge | n | A fishing weir of wattle-work. |
Hedge | vb | To enclose with a hedge. 2. to fence, as fields, to obstruct; to hem. 3. to make or trim hedges. 4. a securing or limiting the loss incurred in a bet; to hedge a bet. 5. shuffling, dodging. |
Hedge | phr | "Be On the Hedge" - to sit on thhe fence- be non-committal. |
Hedge | phr | "Be On the Right Side or Wrong Side of the Hedge" - to be in the wrong or right position. |
Hedge | phr | "Be the Only Stick Left in One's Hedge" - one's only resource. |
Hedge | phr | "Hang Out On the Hedge" - to be put on one's side; to be on the shelf. |
Hedge | phr | "Hedge In" - put a hedge around; fence in. 2. restrict one's frredom of action. |
Hedge-apple | n | The Osage orange. |
Hedgeberry | n | Hagberry: a speciesof cherry. |
Hedge-born | adj | Of low or uncertain parentage. |
Hedgebote | n | An allowance of wood for repairing hedges or fences, which a tenantor lesee has a right to take off the land let or demised to him. |
Hedge-creeper | n | One who skulks under hedges for bad purpose. 2. a sneaky rogue. |
Hedge-creeping | adj | Sneaky, clandestine, base. |
Hedged | adj | Enclosed with a hedge. |
Hedgehog | n | A small nocturnal mammal of the family, Erinaceidae having a pig-like snout and a coat of spines, eating small invertebrates, and rolling itself up into a ball for defence. |
Hedge-hop | vb | To fly at a very low altitude. |
Hedge-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a hedge in some way. |
Hedge-less | adj | Not hedged or having hedges. |
Hedge-long | adv | Extended alongside a hedge. |
Hedge-pig | n | The hedge-pig. |
Hedger | n | One who cuts and maintains hedges. |
Hedgerow | n | A row of bushes forming a hedge, etc., growing in a hedgerow; a line of hedge. |
Hedge-rowed | adj | Traversed by rows. |
Hedge-school | n | An open-air school once common in Ireland; hence, a school for the poor. |
Hedge-side | n | The side of a hedge. |
Hedge-sparrow | n | A small bird of the sparrow family. |
Hedge-wise | adv | In the position of a hedge. |
Hedge woundwort | n | Stachys sylvatica. |
Hedging | n | The act of planting hedges. 2. the making into hedges. 3. a securing or limiting the loss incurred in a bet; to hedge a bet. 4. shuffling, dodging. |
Hedgy | adj | Characterized by the abundance of hedges; hedgey. |
Heed | n | Careful attention or consideration. |
Heed | vb | To take notice of; pay attention to. 2. |
Heed | phr | "To Nim Heed" - to give heed or advice to. |
Heedful | adj | Full of heed, careful, attentive, watchful, mindful. |
Heedfully | adv | In a heedful manner, attentively, carefully. |
Heedfulness | n | The quality of being heedful, attentive, carefullness. |
Heed-giving | n | Offering care, attention, attentiveness. |
Heediness | n | Heedfulness, attentiveness, caution. |
Heeding | n | The action of paying attention to. |
Heedless | adj | Without heed, paying no heed or attention to; giving no heed or attention. 2. careless, regardless, inattentive. |
Heed-lesshood | n | Heedlessness |
Heedlessly | adv | In a heedless manner; carelessly; inattention, disregard. |
Heedy | adj | Heedful, attentive, careful, cautious. |
Heel | n | The hinder part of the foot, or of a shoe, boot, or stocking. 2. the hinder part of anything. 3. the foot of an animal; a spur. 4. (slang) a hanger-on; an undesirable person. 5. of a ship, the angle between her masts and the vertical to the earth's surface when she leans to one side; a list. |
Heel | vb | To use the heels in, as in dancing, running. 2. to add a heel to, as in knitting. 3. to touch, or a ball, with the heel. 3. to put a spur on a fighting cock. 5. to follow, of a dog. 6. of a ship, to lean to one side; to incline. 2. to cause a ship to heel or incline. 7. |
Heel | vb | Set or plant in the ground and cover its roots. |
Heel | phr | "At the Heel Of" - be at heel; to follow closely. |
Heel | phr | "Be Well-heeled" - have everything you need. |
Heel | phr | "Bless the World With One's Heels" - to be hanged; execute by hanging. |
Heel | phr | "Bring Somebody to Heel" - make somebody obedience. |
Heel | phr | "Come to Heel" - of a do, in obedience to an order. 2. to follow behind its master; hence, docilely to obey instructions. |
Heel | phr | 'Cool One's Heels" - be kept waiting. |
Heel | phr | "Dig In One's Heel" - be resolute or stubborn. |
Heel | phr | "Down at Heel" - lit. heels worn down on shoe-wear, taken fig., as a symptom of destitution. |
Heel | phr | "Fall Head Over Heels in Love" - to fall very much in love. |
Heel | phr | "Hand on the Heels" - be immediately behind. |
Head | phr | "Head Over Heels" - completely, totally enthusiastic about something. |
Heel | phr | "Heel and Toe" - with proper walking as opposed to running. |
Heel | phr | "Heel Over" - lean to one side of a ship. |
Heel | phr | "Heel Over Head" - head over heel; with heels in the air and head downmost; upside down. |
Heel | phr | "Hot On the Heels of Somebody or Something" - to closely follow something/somebody. |
Heel | phr | "Hunt By the Heels" - to track. |
Heel | phr | "Lay By the Heels" - to put in irons, fetter, confine; fig. overthrow, disgrace. 2. to render helpless. |
Heel | phr | "Take to One's Heels" - run off; flee, vamoose. |
Heel | phr | "To Heel" - a position close behind a master; said of dogs." - |
Heel | phr | "Turn on One's Heel" - turn sharply around. |
Heel | phr | "Tread On Somebody's Heel" - compete with somebody for his /her job, position, etc. |
Heel | phr | "Upon One's Heel" - following close behind. |
Heel | phr | "With the Heels Foremost" - dead; as a corpse is carried. |
Heel | adj | "Down-at-heel" - destitute, poor, needy, strugglingfig., as a symptom of destitution. |
Heel-bone | n | The calcaneum. |
Heeled | adj | Furnished, fitted or having heels. 2. slang: supplied with money. 3. having a gun. |
Heeler | n | A worker one puts heels on shoes. 2. a runner, esp. a fast runner. 3. a breed of australian dog, as a 'blue-heeler' or a 'red-heeler'. 2. a political hanger-on or sycophant. |
Heeling | n | (Sailing) When a ship or boat leans over to one side. 2. behavior in herdinng dogs. 3. a dog obedient training task. 4. a dog obedient trial exercise. |
Heeling-over | adj | Leaning over very far as if it is about to fall over. |
Heelish | adj | Used to describe behaviour that is specifically designed to enrage; provoking, enraging. 2. in professional wrestling of, or describing, a wrestler that plays the bad guy or villain. |
Heelless | adj | Having no heels on one's shoes or footwear. |
Heelside | adv | (Board sports)The side of the board nearest the heel. |
Heel-stick | n | A simple procedure in which a newborn baby's heel is pricked and then a small amount of the blood is collected, usually with a narrow-gauge glass tube or a filter paper. The heel stick is now the most common way to draw newborn's blood. It is used to do the newborn screening tests and usually done before the baby leaves the hospital. |
Heel stone | n | A stone at the bottom of a gate pier; used to mount the bottom hinge pin for the gate. N.B. The Heel Stone is a single large block of sarsen stone standing within the Avenue outside the entrance of the Stonehenge earthwork, close to the main road. In section it is sub-rectangular, with a minimum thickness of 2.4 metres, rising to a tapered top about 4.7 metres high. |
Heel strike | n | The hitting of the the ground with your heel first when running. Although we usually switch to a forefoot (tiptoe) or midfoot strike when sprinting, most runners settle into a heel strike for slower and longer distance running. |
Heel-striker | n | At the end of each running stride, your foot inevitably strikes the ground. A heel striker is one who first impacts the ground with the outside of their heel. |
Heel-turn | n | Chiefly in skating, snowboarding, etc.: any of various turns or manoeuvres executed by shifting the weight on to the heel or heels. 2. in ballroom dancing: a movement in which a dancer steps backwards, transferring his or her weight to the back heel, on which he or she then pivots. 3. the action or an instance of turning round sharply, especially so as to face in the opposite direction. 4. also figuratively, a complete change of attitude or opinion. 5. in Wrestling, an instance of a wrestler who has been cast as a hero undergoing a character shift and adopting the persona of a villain, typically in a sudden, shocking move. Later, in extended use: any instance of a sudden shift from hero to villain. |
Heelwork | n | In dancing: the manner in which a person uses or moves the heels; this considered as an art or skill, especially the tapping or stamping of the heels to create a rhythmic sound (as in flamenco). 2. the action or practice of walking with one's dog close to one's heel. Now frequently in heelwork to music: such steps or movement choreographed to music, with the dog and its handler in close synchronization; this as a competitive sport. |
He-friend | n | A male friend. |
He-goat | n | A male goat; a buck |
Heft | n | The gist of a thing; a major part. |
Heft | vb | Late variant of 'Heave' 2. to test the weight by lifting. 3. to lift up, heave. 4. to weigh. |
Heftily | adv | In a hefty manner. |
Heftiness | n | The property of being hefty. |
Hefty | adj | Heavy, weighty, important. 2. big, powerful, muscular. 3. vigorous, of a person, stalwart. |
Heifer | n | A young cow. |
Heiferhood | n | The state and age of heifer. |
Height | n | Distance above a base to the top; altitude; highness. 2. an eminence, acme; culmination. 3. the vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the case of a horse). 4. the highest point or maximum degree, in a career etc. 5. a mountain, especially a very high one. 6. (Sussex) an area of land at the top of a cliff. |
Heighten | vb | Make or become higher or more intense. |
Heightening | n | The raising or increasing the quantity or degree of intensity. |
Heightening | vb | To raise or increase. 2. make higher, raise. 3. to become high or higher. 4. to rise or increase in quantity or degree; intensify. |
Heightlesss | adj | Without height; short. 2. (poetic, archaic) - boundless, infinite. |
Height of land | n | A watershed. |
Heightwise | adv | In terms of height, vertical. 2. in a heightwise manner. |
Heildom | n | Health. |
Heild | vb | To cover, shield, take shelter, protect, hide (variant of 'hill'). |
Heilding | n | Covering. |
Hele | n | A hiding place. |
Hele | vb | To hide, conceal, keep secret. 2. to practise concealment; keep secret, keep silent. 3. to cover, cover in, cover roots with earth. 4. to cover with slate or tiles. |
Heleand | n. | One that saves or heals; 'The Saviour'. In OE, regularly used instead of the proper name: Jesus Christ. |
Hele | vb | To hide, to cover, to roof. 2. to set a plant in the ground & cover. Heal. |
Heler | n | One who covers or conceals. 2. a tiler, roofer, hellier. |
Heleth | n | A warrior, hero, man. |
Heling | n | (Healing)- the action of covering, covering up; concealing in the house. 2. roofing with slate, tiles or the like. 3. covering, clothing. |
Hell | n | In various religions, the place where some or all spirits are believed to go after death. 2. the place where devils live and where sinners are tortured after death. 3. (euphemisms for Christian place for damned souls after death): Hades, heck, infernal region, inferno, netherworld, underworld. 4. a place or situation of great suffering in life. 5. an extremely hot place. 6. used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun. 7. (obsolete) a place into which a tailor throws his shreds, or a printer his broken type. 8. (impolite, sometimes considered vulgar) used to express discontent, unhappiness, or anger; 'Oh, hell! I forgot my phone'. 9. (impolite, sometimes considered vulgar) used to emphasize. |
Hell | vb | To give a person hell or an extremely bad or difficult. 2. loosely, to scald or reprimand severely. 2. of sinners: to place in 'hell'; to cause to have their hell. |
Hell | phr | "A Hell Of ..." - an infernal, exceedingly bad situation, great, loud. 2. a devil of ...time, etc. |
Hell | phr | "All Hell Broke Lose" - great confusion, disruption and riot erupted. |
Hell | phr | "Be Hellbent on (Something)" - be very determined to achieve something, regard of the advers consequences.. |
Hell | phr | "Between Hell and Highwater" - facing a great difficulty or obstacles. |
Hell | phr | "Come Hell or High Water" - what ever happens, at whatever cost. |
Hell | phr | "For the Hell Of It" - out of the pure devilry; just for the fun of it. |
Hell | phr | "Frighten the Hell Out Of" - terrify, alarm someone. |
Hell | phr | "Give Somebody Hell" - make life very unpleasant for; punish somebody. 2.to be reprimanded or dressed down. 3. to be given a bad time. |
Hell | phr | "Go to Hell' - go away. |
Hell | phr | "Go Hell for Leather" - to travel at a high speed; to take on matters full bore. 2. with the greatest possible energy and speed. |
Hell | phr | "Go/Ride Like Hell" - to do things recklessly, desperately, extremely; very much. 2. use as an intensitive; and also ironically to indicate contradiction, not at all contrary. 2. ride at full gallop. |
Hell | phr | "Hell Bent On Doing Something" - recklessly or blindly determined on doing something |
Hell | phr | "Hell No!" - exclamation of surprize. |
Hell | phr | "Hell of a Long Time" - considerable, remarkable, impressive, etc. something or somebody. |
Hell | phr | "Hell on Earth" - unpleasant situation; torment, particularly when widespread. |
Hell | phr | "Hell on Wheels" - tough, aggressive, lawless, wild (first used in the US to refer to towns at the end of a railroad line when under construction. 2. someone or something reagrded as resemblinhg hell |
Hell | phr | "Like Memory Hell": - do with enthusiasm, vigorously, emphatically. |
Hell | phr | "Not a Hope in Hell" - no possibility or no hope at all.. |
Hell | phr | "On a Cold Day in Hell" - never. |
Hell | phr | "Play Hell with" - to upset, confuse, alter for the worse; 'to make a fuss about'. 2. to make a fuss about. |
Hell | phr | "Raise (Merry)Hell" - create tumult, great noise and fuss. |
Hell | phr | "Until Hell Freezes Over" - indicating a date in the impossiblely distant future; for ever. |
Hell | phr | "To Hell with" - I don't give a damn. 2. it doesn't matter, it's not going to be considered or bothered about. |
Hell | phr | "What the Hell" - what does it matter, who cares. |
Hell | phr | "When the Hell" -whenever. |
Hell | phr | "Where the Hell" - wherever. |
Hell | phr | "Who the hell" - whoever. |
Hell-begotten | adj | Born, or created in hell: diabolical, +++++ |
Hell-bender | n | A protracted and reckless debauch; a drunken frolic. |
Hell-bent | adj | Fiendishly dogged, or recklessly determined upon a certain course of behaviour. |
Hell-bent | adv | Determinedly, recklessly. |
Hell-born | adj | Born of, or in hell; of infernal anger. |
Hell-bred | adj | Bred or engendered in hell. |
Hell-broth | n | A decoction of infernal character or prepared for infernal or wicked purposes, as methane-laced drnks sold at some bars in parts of Asia. |
Hell-busters | n | "They are real good, but the last two are hell-busters" : people who will not let the world get away with abuse and denial of respect to all peoples. |
Hellcat | n | A vixen, witch, virago, hell-hag; a spiteful women. 2. a chartist; trade unionist, worker's friend. |
Hell-dark | adj | As dark as hell, very dark. |
Hell-deep | adj | Deep as the deepest part of a ocean or sea; profoundly deep; abysmally deep. |
Hell-devil | n | Satan; or a diabolical person or thing. |
Hell-diver | n | The grebe. |
Hell-door | n | The door or gate of hell; hell-gate; hell's gate, opposed to 'Heaven's Door'. 2. an opening or way to hellish situation. |
Hell-driver | n | Formerly a coachman; nowadays, one drives at highly dangerous speed. |
Hellen | adj | Of or belonging to hell, hellish, infernal; hades-like. |
Hell-fire | n | One of the torments of the damned; the flames of hell. |
Hellfire | adv | Damned, |
Hell-fired | adj | In profane use: damned; damned to the the fire of hell; 2. reckless, abandoned, profligate. |
Hell-gate | n | The door or gate of hell; hell-gate; hell's gate, opposed to 'Heaven's Door'. 2. an opening or way to hellish situation. |
Hell-god | n | Satan; god of hell. |
Hell-hatched | adj | Something objectionable created or plotted in a figurative hell. |
Hell-hated | adj | So objectionable he or she wouldn't be welcome even in hell. |
Hell-hole | n | An oppressive or unbearable; a ghetto, slum; wretchstead. |
Hellhood | n | The state or personality of an infernal being; usu used in irony. |
Hell-hound | n | Cerberus, the dog of hell. 2. an extremely vicious and dangerous dog. 3. a fiend, diabolical person. |
Hellhouse | n | A dwelling of sorts where diabolical or hellish plans are plotted. |
Hell-hued | adj | Of the deepest black hue or colour. |
Hellick | adj | Hell-like, hellish, infernal. |
Hellier | n | A tiler, roofer, slater |
Hellish | adj | Belonging or pertaining to Hell or Hades. 2. pertaining to hell or the infernal regions, infernal. 3. infernally, execrably, sometimes coarse, intensive devilish. |
Hellishing | adj | Terrible, very terrible. |
Hellishing | adv | Terribly. |
Hellishly | adv | In a hellish manner; infernally, devilishly. |
Hellishness | n | The quality or state of being hellish, infernal, damnable nature or disposition. |
Hell-keepers | n | The guardians of hell. |
Hell-kettle | n | A deep black gulf or abyss, a name locally applied to holes or pools, popularly supposed to be bottomless. |
Hell-kindled | adj | Raised, created in hell. |
Hell-knight | n | The devil, soul-bane, grima. |
Hell-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of hell in some aspects. |
Hell-moth | n | A prostitute, ho, skanky-ho, street-walker, sex-worker. |
Hell-mouthed | adj | Of language threatening, devious and diabolical. |
Hellness | n | A title for a person of diabolical nature; as 'His Hellness" . 2. hell-hound |
Hell-raisers | n | a person who causes trouble or creates chaos. |
Hell's Angel | n | A member of a motorcycle enthusiasts notorious for their outrageous behavior. |
Hell's Kitchen | n | Any neighborhood with a reputation for poverty and crime. 2. a New York city neighborhood, that was historically known for poor living condition. |
Hell-spun | adj | Spun or wrought in hell; of fiendish or diabolical making; of Hades like in nature. |
Hell's teeth | n | An exclamation of surprise. |
Hell-wain | n | A phantom wagon seen in the sky at night. |
Hellward(s) | adv | Towards hell, downwards; towards the centre of the earth. 2. towards the place of one's final punishment. 3. directed or conducting to hell. |
Hell-weed | n | A name given to certain plants, noxious as weeds, and difficult to eradicate. |
Hell week | n | The week during which new members are required to undergo undignified rites of initiation or grueling discipline in order to be accepted into a fraternity, sorority, secret society, military group, etc. |
Hell-ware | n | The inhabitants of hell. |
Helly | adj | Of or belonging to hell. 2. of the nature of hell; hellish, infernal, devilish. |
Helly | adv | Hellishly, devilishly, infernally, diabolically. |
Helm | n | In OE: the top of anything, a covering; part of the armour which covers the head, a helmet. 2. transfig. a man in armour. 3. the crown, or summit, top of anything; zenith. 4. a head or cap of an alembic. 5. christ's crown of thorns. 6. a roofed shelter of anything. 7. that by which affairs or matters are guided. |
Helm | n | Stalk of corn, stalks collectively (variant of 'haulm'. |
Helm | n | The handle or tiller in a large ship. |
Helm | vb | To furnish or cover with a helm. 2. to guide with or steer with a helm. 3. to lay straw (in order) for thatching. |
Helm | phr | 'At the Helm" - in charge, in control. |
Helm | phr | "Down With the Helm" - to bring the rudder to windward. |
Helm | phr | "Take the Helm" - take charge or control. |
Helmbote | n | The right of cutting helm in a common field for thatching. |
Helm-cloud | n | A cloud which forms over the top of a mountain, usually just before or during a storm. |
Helmed | adj | Wearing a helm or helmet. |
Helmlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a helm, top or cover. |
Helm-less | adj | Without a helm or steering rudder. |
Helmsman | n | The man at the helm who steers ships; a steersman. |
Helmsman-ship | n | The office and office of a helsmanship. |
Helm-wind | n | A violent storm rushes down the side of a mountain when a helm-cloud is over the summit. |
Help | vb | Make something easier , better, quicker or less painful (for someone or something). 2. improve a situation. 3. refrain from doing something. |
Help | n | Help, support, assistance. 2. person who gives assistance. 3. the act of helping or relieving. |
Help | phr | "Give a Helping Hand" - offer and give aid and assistance to others. |
Help | phr | "God Help Him" - exclamation in pity in a helpless condition of the person spoken of. |
Help | phr | "Heaven Help You" - you are in trouble. |
Help | phr | "To Help a Lame Dog Over The Stile" - give help to someone in trouble or difficulty |
Help | phr | "Help Along" - assist the progress of; assist in moving forward in some endeavour or pursuit. |
Help | phr | "Help off With" - help somebody to remove something, as an article of clothing.. |
Help | phr | "Help Oneself/Yourself" - especially at a restaurant or an eating place, where one serves oneself or of the meal available there. |
Help | phr | "Help On With" - help somebody to put on an article of clothing. |
Help | phr | "Help Out"(to help through) - to afford completing something; to eke out; supplement. 2. to help somebody face a difficulty or problem. |
Help | phr | "Help Oneself/Yourself" - especially at a restaurant or an eating place, where one serves oneself or of the meal avaialable there. |
Help | phr | "Help Oneself to" - freely take, steal. |
Help | phr | "Help To" - assist, aid, support. |
Help | phr | "Help Wanted" - aid and assistance is welcomed. |
Help | phr | "Not If I Can Help It" - only with my agreement. |
Help | phr | "Not lift a Finger to Help" - to refuse to aid or assist. |
Help | phr | "So Help Me God" - a solemn oath. |
Helped | adj | That has been helped; added or assisted or helped out. |
Helped-out | adj | Aided and assisted. |
Help-fellow | n | A helpmate, a companion who renders assistance. |
Helpend | n | Helper. |
Helper | n | One who helps or assists. |
Helpership | n | Office or position of a helper. |
Helpful | adj | Full of help; having the quality of giving help; useful, servicable, profitable. |
Helpfully | adv | In a helpful manner; so as to help him. |
Helpfulness | n | The quality or state of being helpful. |
Help-giver | n | One who gives help and assistance to others. |
Helping | n | The action of giving help, ad, assistance, succour. 2. a means of help an aid. 3. the action of serving food of a meal. 4. a single portion of food served at a meal. |
Helping-hand | n | Assistance. |
Helping-hand | phr | "Give a Helping Hand To" - give assistance and aid to someone in trouble ordifficulty. |
Helpless | adj | Destitute of help. 2. of persons: having no assistance from others, needy, needy. 3. having no resources in oneself; unable to help oneself; weak, or incapable.. 4. affording no help; unavailing, unprofitable. 5. admitting no remedy; that cannot be helped. |
Helplessly | adv | In a helpless manner; without help or remedy; without being able to help. |
Helplessness | n | The state or condition of being helpless. 2. want of aid or resource. 3. inability to help oneself. |
Helpline | n | A telephone line set aside for callers to contact an organization for help with a problem. |
Helply | adv | Afording help, helpful, serviceable. |
Helpship | n | The function or position of a helper. |
Helpsome | adj | Marked by a readiness or a willingness to help; characteristically helpful. |
Help-work | n | Assistance. |
Helpworthy | adv | Worthy or deserving help. |
Helpy | adj | Helpful. |
Helve | n | A handle of a weapon or tool, as an axe, chisel, hammer. |
Helve | vb | To furnish with a helve. |
Helve | phr | "To Throw the Helve After the Hammer" - after loosing or risking so much, to risk all that is left. 2. to go the whole length regardless of loss or damage. |
Hem | n | The edge, rim, border, margin of anything.2. a finished edge made on a fabric by turning over the raw edge (usually twice) and sewing down the first fold.; done to prevent raveling or as an ornament. |
Hem | vb | To edge a border, etc. 2. with confine or bound by an environment of any kind; to enclose, shut in limit, restrain, imprison. |
Hem | phr | "Hem In" - enclose, restrain, shut in, confined, enclosed; imprisoned. 2. be limited in the choices available. 3. confine, restrict the movement of. |
He-man | n | A particularly strong, virile or masterful man; perhaps, a alpha-man. |
He-mannish | adj | Strongish, virile, masterful. |
Heme | n | OE derivative of home: householder, man. |
Hemline | n | The line or level of the lower of the edge of a shirt, dress or coat. |
Hemlock | n | An evergreen tree (Tsuga) of North America and Asia. 2. the wood of the the hemlock tree. 3. a poison made from the unripe dried fruit of the hemlock herb. |
Hemlock | vb | To poison with hemlock. |
Hemmed | adj | Furnished with a border. |
Hemming | n | A border, edge, fringe, margin, rim. |
Hemp | n | A tall, annual herb, originally from Asia but now widely cultivated . 2. the stem fibres of this plant used to make canvas rope, etc. 3. a narcotic drug obtained from hemp. |
Hempen | adj | Made of hemp; or pertaining to hemp. 2. resembling hemp. 3. a humorous reference to the hangman's noose. |
Hempenly | adv | Related or connected with hemp. |
Hemp-smoker | n | Marijuana, cannabis smoker. |
Hempwort | n | Any plant of the hemp family, Cannabis sativa. |
Hempy | adj | Made of, like or of hemp. 2. hempen, producing. 3. worthy of the hangman's halter. 4. affected by cannabis. |
Hen | n | A female domestic fowl. 2. any female bird. 3. the female of the lobster and certain fishes. |
Hen | vb | To plot, plan clandestinely, scheme; also 'hen on' |
Hen | adv | Henne; an obsolete form of 'hence' surviving of place, time, or inference (note: obsolete forms 'henne forth'; 'henforward.; 'hen(en)sith (departure), etc. |
Hen | phr | "A Whistling Maid(en) and a Crowing Hen is Neither Good for God or Men" - a whistling maid (a witch), who whistles or calls up the winds and was supposed to be in league with the Devil. The crowing of a hen was supposed to forbode a death. The usual interpretation is that masculinity in woman is undesirable |
Hen | phr | "Like a Hen With One Chicken" - overprotective of an only child. 2. indicating extreme solicitude or fussiness about a small matter. |
Hen | phr | "Like a Mother Hen" - a womwn who constantly fusses over her children. |
Hen-and-Chicken | n | A name for the Pleiades. |
Henbane | n | A unpleasant smelling poisonous plant with sticky, hairy, yellow leaves (Hyosycamus niger) from which the narcotic drug hyoscine is drawn. |
Hence | n | The other or next world; the future. |
Hence | adv | Away from this place. 2. in the future. 3. from this cause or source; consequently; therefore. |
Hence | vb | To order hence, or away. 2. |
Hence | phr | "Go Hence" - depart, leave. |
Hence | phr | "Hence With" - go away with; take away. |
Hence-along | adv | Along of, or because of this; for this reason. |
Hence-bought | adj | Since bought or purchased afterwards. |
Henceforth | adv | From this time on or forward; from now onwards. |
Henceforward | adv | From this time forward; henceforth, from now onwards. |
Hence-from | adv | From this place or time. |
Hence-going | adj | Going from this place, from now or this time. |
Hence-meant | adj | Intended, purposed, of planned from this point on. |
Hence-while | adv | Some time afterwards. |
Hench | n | (Of a man): strong, fit, and having a muscular physique. |
Henchman | n | A mercenary, adherent, a venal follower; one who holds at the bidding of others. 2. a servile assistant. 3. a faithful follower. 4. a male servant. 5. a standover man. |
Henchwench | n | A henchwoman |
Hend | vb | To Lay hold out, sieze, grasp, hold. |
Hend | adj | Near at hand. 2. ready at hand, covenient, handy. 3. ready or skilful, dextrous, expert, clever. 4. of persons: pleasant at dealing with others; courteous, grateful, gracious, skilful, kind, nice. 4. plasing to the sight, comely, fair, fetching, bright. 5. |
Hend | adv | Near at hand; courteously, kindly, gently. |
Hendly | adv | In a gracious, kind, gentle, maanner. 2. courteously, kindly, gently, graciously. 3. finely, neatly, gracefully, nicely. |
Hendness | n | Courteous, gentleness. |
Hendship | n | Courtesy, kindiness, kindness. |
Hendwale | n | Henbane, (hyoscyamus niger). |
Hendy | adj | Skilfully, handy, clever. |
Hene | vb | To stone. |
Hen-feather | n | A feather from a hen, especially used for stuffing bedding; or to ornament clothing or as a lure for fly-fishing. |
Hengest | n | A male horse; the horse generally. 2. a stallion, gelding, |
Hengist and Horsa | n | The semi-legendary leaders who led the first Saxon warbands to settle in England. |
Hen-hearted | adj | Timorous or faint-hearted; pusillanimous. 2. cowardly, meek; chicken-hearted. |
Hen-hood | n | The state or condition of being a hen. |
Hen-house | n | A small house or shed in which poultry are shut up for the night. 2. fig. a house or establishmeninhabited chiefly by women; slang for a brothel. |
Hen-hussy | n | A man who meddles in women's affairs. |
Henless | adj | Without or lacking hens. |
Henlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic a hen in various ways. |
Hen-night | n | A social occasion restricted to, or attended by, women. |
Hen-of-the wood | n | Grifola frondosa, native to China, is a mushroom that grows in clusters at the base of trees, particularly oaks. The mushroom is commonly known among English speakers as hen of the woods, hen-of-the-woods, ram's head and sheep's head. It is typically found in late summer to early autumn. In the United States the mushroom is known by its Japanese name maitake ( "dancing mushroom"). |
Hennish | adj | Of or pertaining to a hen. |
Henny | adj | Of or pertaining to a hen; hen-like. 2. having the plumage of a hen. |
Hen-roost | n | A place where domestic fowls roost or are housed at night; hen-house, hencote. 2. a source of plunder, in allusion to a political speech referring to the robbing of the roosts (by wily foxes). |
Hen run | n | an enclosure for hens. |
Hen-skin | n | Of an item of clothing or footwear. |
Hen-skin | adj | Made of flimsy material. |
Hen's teeth | n | Something very rare. |
Hent | n | The act of seizing, grasping, clutching; fig. that which is a grasped, clutched, conceived by the mind. 2. design, conception, intention. |
Hent | vb | To lay hold of, sieze, grasp, catch; to take or hold in one's hand. 2. to lay hold of or take away; lift or move in some way,snatch, carry off. 3. to pluck up heart, or courage. 4. to hit at with a blow, strike, hit. 5. to get by, arrive at, reach, occupy. 6. to sieze, affect, as an influence on conditions. 7. to take, recieve, obtain, gain, meet with. 8. to experience, suffer, catch, take courage, apprehend, perceive. |
Hent | prp | Till, until. |
Hent | phr | "To Hent Upon" - to take in hand. |
Henter | n | One who grasps, clutches, takes hold of, siezes etc. |
Henting | n | The action of laying hold of, grasping, seizing. |
Henting furrow | n | A furrow which is ploughed last on a ridge, and in the opposite direction to previous furrows. |
Henware | n | Edible seaweed, Alaria esculente.????? |
Henwife | n | A woam who is in charge of the fowls; something applied with contempt to a man. 2. a bawd. |
Hen-witted | adj | Foolish, stupid, dull-witted. |
Heo | prn | He |
Her | prn | The objective case of the pronoun. |
Herd | n | A number of animals feeding or traveling together. 2. a large crowd,; especially, the common rabble. |
Herd | vb | To bring or group together , in or as in a herd. 2. to care for or drive sheep. |
Herd | n | "The Herd" - the multitude, the common people, the rabble, the vulgar. |
Herd | phr | "Follow the Herd" - do what most other people are doing. |
Herd | phr | "Herd and Flock' - a doublet meaning a company of domestic animals. |
Herd | phr | "Herd Together" - gather together as, or like, a herd of animals. |
Herd | phr | "Ride Herd on" - keep watch over. |
Herdbook | n | A record of pedigrees of cattle in important herd |
Herder | n | One who herds animals; a herdsman; a shepherd; herdman, herds-groom. 2. one who looks after a herd of cattle or sheep. |
Herdfolk | n | A company of shepherds. |
Herdless | adj | Without a herd or shepherd. |
Herd-like | adj | Similar or resembling a herd, multitude, the throng, the common people, the rabble. |
Herdman | n | One who herds cattle, sheep or other animals; herdsman. 2. a spiritual pastor. |
Herdness | n | A collective firm or herds or flocks; stock. 2. guarding, keeping, custody. |
Herd's-grass | n | Timothy grass, valued for its hay-making qualities. |
Herdship | n | The office or charge of a keeper of cattle. 2. the herd or beasts under the control of a keeper. |
Herdsman | n | One who herds cattle, sheep or other animals; herdsman. 2. a spiritual pastor. |
Herdsmanship | n | The performance or occupation of a herdsman. |
Herdwick | n | The tract of land under the charge of a 'herd' or shepherd employed by the owner or lord of the manor. 2. a pasture ground; sheep farm. |
Herdwise | adj | Herdlike (in the way of the herd). |
Here | n | Army |
Here | adj | Gentle, mild, pleasant. |
Here | adv | In or at this place. 2. to this place, hither. 3. at this point of time or stage of proceedings ; now. 4. at a place indicated. 5. in the present life. |
Here | phr | "Be Up to Here" - hhave more than one can to or tolerate. |
Here | phr | "Here After" - at some future time. 2. from this time forth. 3. in the state of life after death; after the present life. 4. |
Here | phr | "Here Again" - gainst this, in opposition; in contradistinction or contrast to this; in comparison with this. |
Here | phr | "Here Among" - here together, amid, amidst, in the midst of. |
Here | phr | "Here and Now" - at this place; at the present, at present time or life. |
Here | phr | "Here and There" - in this place and that place. 2. in various places in a scattered sense of places. 3. now and then in time. |
Here | phr | "Here Below" - in this life (contrasted to heaven 'above') |
Here | phr | "Here Goes" - an exclamation declaring one's resolution or resignation to perform some difficult or risky act, usually of a bold or rash character. |
Here | phr | "Here in Before" - formed in a previous part of a document; hereinbefore. |
Here | phr | "Here's To You" - a common form of toast in drinking to one's health. |
Here | phr | "Here's Where" - this is the point at which. |
Here | phr | "Here Lies" - written on gravestone followed by the buried person's name |
Here | phr | "Here Nor There" - foreign to the subject under discussion. 2. unimportant, irrelevant. |
Here | phr | "Here On" - in this place. 2. to this place. 3. hereupon. 4. on this subject or basis. |
Here | phr | "Here Over" - over here. |
Here | phr | "Here, There and Everywhere" - of one account either one way or the other; of no matter or consequences unimportant. |
Here | phr | "Here To" - to this time, place or end. |
Here | phr | "Here Today and Gone Tomorrow" - a philosophical comment on the transitory nature of man, his works, or any form of life. 2. said of somebody always on the move. and with whom one only has a brief or temporary contact |
Here | phr | "Here Today and Gone Tomorrow" - a catch-phrase indicating a constant change of events (or something) remaining in place for a short time. |
Here | phr | "Here-to's Hoping" - here's how. 2. here's to your health(a drinking to one's health). |
Here | phr | Here We Are" - said on arrival at one's destination. |
Here | phr | "Here We Go (Again)" - we are heading down the same undesirable course, project, etc as before. 2. of something (usually with negative connotation) about to be repeated. |
Here | phr | "Here You Are" - said on handing something to someone. |
Here | phr | "Neither Here Nor There" - irrelevant; trivial. |
Hereabove | adv | In that place above (heaven). |
Here-a-days | adv | Nowadays. |
Hereafter | n | A future state of existence. |
Herafter | adv | At some future time. 2. from this time forth. 3. in the state of life after death; after the present life. |
Hereafterwards | adv | In the future. |
Here-and-nowness | n | The present state or condition; the present. |
Here-anent | adv | Concerning this; re. |
Hereat | adv | At this place; here. 2. at this, as a reason, because of or as result of this. 3. at this time. |
Hereaway | adv | Away in this direction; in this quarter of herehood; hereabouts. 2. in this present life; now. 3. to this quarter or neighorhood. (Hither hereaway) - to and fro in every direction. |
Herebefore | adv | Earlier set down in this document or text; herein before. 2. before this time before now; in time past. |
Herebelow | adv | In this world, in life, or earth below; here-beneath. |
Herebeneath | adv | In this world. |
Here beside | adv | Immediately next to. |
Here-burne | n | Mall. |
Hereby | adv | By means or virtue of this. 2. near this. |
Here-dring | n | A warrior. |
Here-fang | n | Booty. |
Here-fare | n | A military invasion; here-going. |
Herefore | adv | For this, instead or in consideration of this: in a view of this. 2. for this reason, on this account, therefore. |
Hereforth | adv | In this direction or this way. |
Herefrom | adv | For this place, hence from this state or consideration. 2. for this thing, fact or circumstance, from this source. |
Here-geld | n | The year 1012 saw the introduction of the geld or heregeld (literally "army tax"), an annual tax first assessed by King Æthelred the Unready to pay for mercenaries in the army and navy. 2. heriot. |
Here-going | n | An invasion by an an army; here-fare. |
Here-gume | n | A warrior. |
Here-hence | adv | From this source; from this fact or circumstance, as a result of this. 2. from this point forward; from hence forth. 3. away from here, hence. |
Here-in | adv | In this, in this place, circumstance. |
Here-in-after | adv | In a subsequent part of this (document). |
Here-in-above | adv | Before mentioned in this document, text, etc. |
Here-in-before | adv | A preceding part of this document. |
Hereinto | adv | Into this. |
Heretofore | av | Up to the present, formerly. |
Hereinunder | adv | In and under this. |
Hereunto | adv | Up to this point. |
Hereish | adj | Somewhat near or at a position or place. |
Here-kemp | n | OE - warrior. |
Herely | adv | Nobely, gloriously, splendidly. |
Here-mark | n | An ensign. |
Hereness | n | The fact or condition of being here. |
Here-next | adv | Next with this; immediately after this. |
Hereof | adv | Of this, concerning this, about this, because of this. |
Here-on | adv | Herein. 2. of position: of this place of motion. 3. on this subject, matter, etc., on this basis. 4. on this occurrence |
Here out | adv | Out of this place (of motion and position). 2. from this source; hence. |
Hereover | adv | In addition to this. |
Here-right | adv | Here on the spot; straightaway, immediately. |
Here through | adv | Through this, by this means, hereby. |
Here-till | adv | Herein; hereto. |
Here-to | adv | To this place, hither. 2. to this matter; subject, etc., with reference to; regarding to this point. 2. annexed to this document. 3. in addition to this. 4. up to this time, hitherto. |
Here-to-fore | n | The past; time past. |
Here-to-fore | adj | Former, previous, hitherto. |
Here-to-fore | adv | Before this time, before now, in time past; formerly, erstwhile. |
Heretoga | n | The leader of the army. 2. the commander of the militia of a shire, county, heretochy (herzog). |
Here-under | adv | Subsequently mentioned or set down in this document, book, etc. 2. under or beneath this surface or appearance. 3. under this title, heading etc. 4. under the authority of this statute. |
Here-unto | adv | Unto or to this place; in this thing, matter, etc; to this document. |
Here-upon | adv | Upon this thing, point, subject, matter. 2. immediately following upon (in this time or consequence) |
Here-weeds | n | Armour, martial acoutrement. |
Herewith | adj | Along with this. |
Herewith | adv | With this; along with or together with this. |
Herewith | adj | Accompanying. |
Herewithal | adv | Here with. 2. an alternative form of wherewithal. |
Here-within | adv | In this place or point within. 2. at the same time with this; upon this; with these words. 3. by means of this, hereby. |
Here-without | adv | Without this. |
Hereword | n | OE. word of praise, renown, glory. |
Hereworthy | adj | Worthy of praise; praised, to be praised. |
Hereyeld | n | The render or yielding of the superior of the best living beasts of a deceased vassal to the lord of the manor; at an earlier date commuted for a fixed money payment. |
Here'yesterday | n | The day before yesterday. |
Heriot | n | Military equipment. 2. feudal service, originally consisting of weapons, horses, and other military equipment, restored to a lord on the death of his tenant. afterwards the render of the best live beast (hereyeld) or chattel of a deceased tenant due by legal custom to the lord. |
Hern | n | The heron. |
Herring | n | A type of small, oily fish of the genus Clupea, often used as food. 2. fish in the family Clupeidae. 3. fish similar to those in genus Clupea, many of those in the order Clupeiformes. |
Herring | vb | To manure with herring. |
Herring | phr | "Be a Red Herring" - deliberately misleading fact. |
Herring | phr | "Every Herring Should Hang By His Own Head" - every one should stand by his own merits. |
Herring | phr | "Neither Fish, Flesh or Good, Red Herring" - unclassiffiable by virtue of being neither one thing nor the other. |
Herring-bone | n | The bone of the herring. 2. small cirorcumulus clouds, as herring bone clouds. |
Herring-bone | vb | To work with herring-bone stitch. 2. to make with herring-bone patterns. |
Herring-boned | adj | Resembling in appearance the bones of a herring. 2. made with herring-bone work. |
Herring-bone line | n | Hatching used to represent mountains on a map. |
Herring-bone-work | n | Masonry in which the stone are laid slanting inn opposite directions alternately. 2. a cross-stitch made of rows of diagonal stitches. |
Herring-cob | n | The head of a herring; fig. a stupid person. |
Herring-monger | n | A dealer in herrings. |
Herring-pond | n | The ocean or dividing seas, especially the Atlantic which separates America from the British Isles. |
Hers | prn | The absolute possessive case. |
Hers | phr | "Of Hers" - belonging to her. |
Herse | vb | To glorify, extol, hail, see halse: to hail |
Herself | prn | Belonging or pertaining to her; the form of the possessive case of 'she' when used in predicative position, without a following noun, or after 'of'. 2. the things or persons belonging to or relating to her. |
Herself | phr | "Be Herself" - to be in her normal condition of mind and body; to be in full possession of her faculties. |
Herself | phr | "By Herself" - do by oneself (herself). |
Hership | n | Harrying, pillage, devastation. 2. a warlike incursion, insurgency, invasion or foray. 3. a harried condition; hence, ruin, distresss, famine caused by robbery with violence. 3. booty, plunder, esp. the driving of, rustling of cattle. |
Heried | adj | Praised, glorified, exalted. |
Hersoun | vb | To glorify, do honour to; hery. |
Herward | adv | Towards her. |
Hery | vb | To glorify, praise, exalt, honor, worship. |
Heryer | n | Worshipper. |
Heryful | adj | Praiseworthy. |
Herying | n | Praise, glorification, song of praise. |
He-she | n | An effeminate man. 2. a hermaphrodite. |
Hest | n | OE: haes; bidding, command, injunction, behest, vow, promise. 2. will, purpose, determination. |
Hest | vb | To promise, to bid, command, to grant a wish. |
Het | adj | Hot, heated. |
Het | phr | "Het Up" - become angry, heated or annoyed |
Hete | n | Command, promise, hight. |
Hetefast | adv | Firmly, securely, fast. |
Heterly | adj | Rough, fierce, violent, cruel, stern. |
Heterly | adv | Roughly, fiercely, violently, cruelly, sternly. |
Hetful | adj | Passionate. |
Heugh | n | A precipitious or hanging descent, a rugged, steep precipice, cliff or scaur; most commonly one overhanging a river of the sea. |
Heven | vb | To raise up, lift up, exalt, (see: heaven and heave). |
Hew | vb | To strike, or deal blows with a cutting weapon. 2. to strike forcibly with aa cutting tool. 3. to cut with swinging strokes of a sharp instrument, as an axe or sword. 4. to cut or chop into pieces. 5. to chop, hack, gash. 6. of horse or man: to strike leg against the other?. |
Hew | phr | "Hew Asunder" - cut into pieces. |
Hew | phr | "Hew Away" - to sever by a cutting blow. |
Hew | phr | "Hew Down" - cut down from above. 2. cut down with rough chopsping blows; hack down. |
Hew | phr | "Hew One's Way" - make a way for oneself by hewing. |
Hew | phr | "Hew Out" - cut or hollow ou. |
Hew | phr | "Hew Up" - cut up from the roots. |
Hewe | n | OE. hiwa(n); members of a household; domestics, a servant. |
Hewed | adj | Cut or hacked down. |
Hewen | n | OE: hiwen; a family, a household. |
Hewer | n | One who cuts wood or stone; specifically, one who shapes and prepares stone for buildings. 2. a hewster. |
Hewer | phr | "Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water" - folk or classes whose lot is to labor, at necessary, if often menial or unskilled,jobs for others. 2. drudges or laborers of the lowest kind; drudge. |
Hewing | n | The action or act of cutting or hewing. 2. the act of a swinging stroke with an axe or other sharp instrument. 3. hacking, slaughter., a cut, gash or injury produced by hewing |
Hewing | adj | That hewed or cut. |
Hewn | adj | Cut, hacked, shaped from wood or stone. |
He-wolf | n | The male wolf. |
Hewt | n | OE. hiewe; hewing, cutting. 2. a copse, grove. |
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