Dictionary
Found: 4,118 words.
The seventh degree in the diatonic scale, being used by the Germans for B natural. See B.
An exclamation denoting surprise, joy, or grief. Both as uttered and as written, it expresses a great variety of emotions, determined by the tone or the context. When repeated, ha,...
A sunk fence; a fence, wall, or ditch, not visible till one is close upon it.
The deepsea fishing for cod, ling, and tusk, off the Shetland Isles.
A sea fish. See Hake.
A fog; esp., a fog or mist with a chill wind.
A writ having for its object to bring a party before a court or judge; especially, one to inquire into the cause of a person's imprisonment or detention by another, with the view t...
That part of a deed which follows the part called the premises, and determines the extent of the interest or estate granted; -- so called because it begins with the word Habendum.
To deal in small wares.
Haberdasher
2 defs
A dealer in drapery goods of various descriptions, as laces, silks, trimmings, etc.
The goods and wares sold by a haberdasher; also (Fig.), trifles.
A cod salted and dried.
Properly, a short hauberk, but often used loosely for the hauberk.
Same as Inhabitancy.
Of or pertaining to clothing; wearing clothes.
Fit; qualified; also, apt.
Habiliment
2 defs
A garment; an article of clothing.
Clothed. Taylor (1630).
Habilitate
2 defs
Qualified or entitled.
Equipment; qualification.
Ability; aptitude.
Habit
7 defs
Fixed or established custom; ordinary course of conduct; practice; usage; hence, prominently, the involuntary tendency or aptitude to perform certain actions which is acquired by t...
Habitableness.
Capable of being inhabited; that may be inhabited or dwelt in; as, the habitable world.
A dwelling place.
Same as Habitant, 2.
Dwelling; abode; residence.
Habitant
2 defs
An inhabitant or resident; -- a name applied to and denoting farmers of French descent or origin in Canada, especially in the Province of Quebec; -- usually in plural.
Habitat
2 defs
Place where anything is commonly found.
Habitation
2 defs
Place of abode; settled dwelling; residence; house.
A dweller; an inhabitant.
Habited
4 defs
Clothed; arrayed; dressed; as, he was habited like a shepherd.
of Habit
Habitual
2 defs
According to habit; established by habit; customary; constant; as, the habiual practice of sin.
Habituate
3 defs
Firmly established by custom; formed by habit; habitual.
of Habituate
of Habituate
The act of habituating, or accustoming; the state of being habituated.
Habitude
3 defs
Habit of body or of action.
One who habitually frequents a place; as, an habitue of a theater.
Habitude.
Habitude; mode of life; general appearance.
See Habile.
By chance.
A short line used in drawing and engraving, especially in shading and denoting different surfaces, as in map drawing. See Hatching.
A large estate where work of any kind is done, as agriculture, manufacturing, mining, or raising of animals; a cultivated farm, with a good house, in distinction from a farming est...
Hack
18 defs
A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
A halter consisting of a long leather or rope strap and headstall, -- used for leading or tieing a pack animal.
A genus of trees (Celtis) related to the elm, but bearing drupes with scanty, but often edible, pulp. C. occidentalis is common in the Eastern United States.
The greater shearwater or hagdon. See Hagdon.