Name Report For First Name HOH:
HOH
First name HOH's origin is German. HOH means "high". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with HOH below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of hoh.(Brown names are of the same origin (German) with HOH and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with HOH - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming HOH
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES HOH AS A WHOLE:
hohberht shohnNAMES RHYMING WITH HOH (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (oh) - Names That Ends with oh:
umairoh shiloh pleoh mahuizohNAMES RHYMING WITH HOH (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ho) - Names That Begins with ho:
hoa hobard hobart hobbard hoben hoc hod hodsone hoel hogan hoireabard hok'ee hola holbrook holcomb holda holde holden holdin holdyn holea holgar holger holic holle hollee hollie hollis holly holman holmes holt holter holwell home homer homeros homerus honani honaw honbria honbrie hondo honey hong honi honiahaka honon honor honora honoratas honorato honore honoria honovi honza hooda hooriya hope horado horae horatiu horemheb horia hortencia hortense horton horus hosanna hosea hoshi hoshiko hotah hototo houd houdain houdenc houerv houghton houston hovan hoven hovhaness hovsep how howahkan howard howe howel howell howi howie howlandNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH HOH:
First Names which starts with 'h' and ends with 'h':
habibah hadarah hadassah hadiyah hadiyyah hadleigh hafsah hafthah hagaleah hahkethomemah halah haleigh halfrith halimah hamidah hamzah hananiah hanifah haniyyah hannah haqikah hareleah harith harleigh havalah hayleigh healleah heallfrith heanleah heath heathleah heaven-leigh heh heinrich hephzibah hepzibeth hezekiah hibah hildireth hildreth hirsh hrocesburh hrychleah hrypanleah hudhayfah hugh huriyyah husniyah huynh hwaeteleah hyacinth hyunhEnglish Words Rhyming HOH
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES HOH AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH HOH (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (oh) - English Words That Ends with oh:
pharaoh | noun (n.) A title by which the sovereigns of ancient Egypt were designated. |
noun (n.) See Faro. |
shiloh | noun (n.) A word used by Jacob on his deathbed, and interpreted variously, as "the Messiah," or as the city "Shiloh," or as "Rest." |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH HOH (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (ho) - Words That Begins with ho:
hoar | noun (n.) Hoariness; antiquity. |
adjective (a.) White, or grayish white; as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs. | |
adjective (a.) Gray or white with age; hoary. | |
adjective (a.) Musty; moldy; stale. | |
verb (v. t.) To become moldy or musty. |
hoard | noun (n.) See Hoarding, 2. |
noun (n.) A store, stock, or quantity of anything accumulated or laid up; a hidden supply; a treasure; as, a hoard of provisions; a hoard of money. | |
verb (v. t.) To collect and lay up; to amass and deposit in secret; to store secretly, or for the sake of keeping and accumulating; as, to hoard grain. | |
verb (v. i.) To lay up a store or hoard, as of money. |
hoarding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hoard |
noun (n.) A screen of boards inclosing a house and materials while builders are at work. | |
noun (n.) A fence, barrier, or cover, inclosing, surrounding, or concealing something. |
hoarder | noun (n.) One who hoards. |
hoared | adjective (a.) Moldy; musty. |
hoarfrost | noun (n.) The white particles formed by the congelation of dew; white frost. |
hoarhound | noun (n.) Same as Horehound. |
hoariness | noun (n.) The state of being hoary. |
hoarsening | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hoarsen |
hoarseness | noun (n.) Harshness or roughness of voice or sound, due to mucus collected on the vocal cords, or to swelling or looseness of the cords. |
hoarstone | noun (n.) A stone designating the /ounds of an estate; a landmark. |
hoary | adjective (a.) White or whitish. |
adjective (a.) White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs. | |
adjective (a.) remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity. | |
adjective (a.) Moldy; mossy; musty. | |
adjective (a.) Of a pale silvery gray. | |
adjective (a.) Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent. |
hoatzin | noun (n.) Same as Hoazin. |
hoax | noun (n.) A deception for mockery or mischief; a deceptive trick or story; a practical joke. |
verb (v. t.) To deceive by a story or a trick, for sport or mischief; to impose upon sportively. |
hoaxing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hoax |
hoaxer | noun (n.) One who hoaxes. |
hoazin | noun (n.) A remarkable South American bird (Opisthocomus cristatus); the crested touraco. By some zoologists it is made the type of a distinct order (Opisthocomi). |
hob | noun (n.) The hub of a wheel. See Hub. |
noun (n.) The flat projection or iron shelf at the side of a fire grate, where things are put to be kept warm. | |
noun (n.) A threaded and fluted hardened steel cutter, resembling a tap, used in a lathe for forming the teeth of screw chasers, worm wheels, etc. | |
noun (n.) A fairy; a sprite; an elf. | |
noun (n.) A countryman; a rustic; a clown. | |
noun (n.) A peg, pin, or mark used as a target in some games, as an iron pin in quoits; also, a game in which such a target is used. | |
noun (n.) The male ferret. |
hobbism | noun (n.) The philosophical system of Thomas Hobbes, an English materialist (1588-1679); esp., his political theory that the most perfect form of civil government is an absolute monarchy with despotic control over everything relating to law, morals, and religion. |
hobbist | noun (n.) One who accepts the doctrines of Thomas Hobbes. |
hobbling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hobble |
hobble | noun (n. i.) To walk lame, bearing chiefly on one leg; to walk with a hitch or hop, or with crutches. |
noun (n. i.) To move roughly or irregularly; -- said of style in writing. | |
noun (n.) An unequal gait; a limp; a halt; as, he has a hobble in his gait. | |
noun (n.) Same as Hopple. | |
noun (n.) Difficulty; perplexity; embarrassment. | |
verb (v. t.) To fetter by tying the legs; to hopple; to clog. | |
verb (v. t.) To perplex; to embarrass. |
hobblebush | noun (n.) A low bush (Viburnum lantanoides) having long, straggling branches and handsome flowers. It is found in the Northern United States. Called also shinhopple. |
hobbledehoy | noun (n.) Alt. of Hobbletehoy |
hobbletehoy | noun (n.) A youth between boy and man; an awkward, gawky young fellow . |
hobbler | noun (n.) One who hobbles. |
noun (n.) One who by his tenure was to maintain a horse for military service; a kind of light horseman in the Middle Ages who was mounted on a hobby. |
hobbly | adjective (a.) Rough; uneven; causing one to hobble; as a hobbly road. |
hobby | noun (n.) A small, strong-winged European falcon (Falco subbuteo), formerly trained for hawking. |
noun (n.) Alt. of Hobbyhorse |
hobbyhorse | noun (n.) A strong, active horse, of a middle size, said to have been originally from Ireland; an ambling nag. |
noun (n.) A stick, often with the head or figure of a horse, on which boys make believe to ride. | |
noun (n.) A subject or plan upon which one is constantly setting off; a favorite and ever-recurring theme of discourse, thought, or effort; that which occupies one's attention unduly, or to the weariness of others; a ruling passion. |
hobbyhorsical | noun (n.) Pertaining to, or having, a hobby or whim; eccentric; whimsical. |
hobgoblin | noun (n.) A frightful goblin; an imp; a bugaboo; also, a name formerly given to the household spirit, Robin Goodfellow. |
hobiler | noun (n.) A light horseman. See 2d Hobbler. |
hobit | noun (n.) A small mortar on a gun carriage, in use before the howitzer. |
hobnail | noun (n.) A short, sharp-pointed, large-headed nail, -- used in shoeing houses and for studding the soles of heavy shoes. |
noun (n.) A clownish person; a rustic. | |
verb (v. t.) To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes. |
hobnailed | adjective (a.) See with hobnails, as a shoe. |
hornobbing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hobnob |
hobnob | noun (n.) Familiar, social intercourse. |
adverb (adv.) Have or have not; -- a familiar invitation to reciprocal drinking. | |
adverb (adv.) At random; hit or miss. (Obs.) | |
verb (v. i.) To drink familiarly (with another). | |
verb (v. i.) To associate familiarly; to be on intimate terms. |
hoboy | noun (n.) A hautboy or oboe. |
hocco | noun (n.) The crested curassow; -- called also royal pheasant. See Curassow. |
hochepot | noun (n.) Hotchpot. |
hock | noun (n.) A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still. The name is also given indiscriminately to all Rhenish wines. |
noun (n.) Alt. of Hough | |
verb (v. t.) To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough. |
hough | noun (n.) The joint in the hind limb of quadrupeds between the leg and shank, or tibia and tarsus, and corresponding to the ankle in man. |
noun (n.) A piece cut by butchers, esp. in pork, from either the front or hind leg, just above the foot. | |
noun (n.) The popliteal space; the ham. | |
noun (n.) Same as Hock, a joint. | |
noun (n.) An adz; a hoe. | |
verb (v. t.) Same as Hock, to hamstring. | |
verb (v. t.) To cut with a hoe. |
hockamore | noun (n.) A Rhenish wine. [Obs.] See Hock. |
hockday | noun (n.) A holiday commemorating the expulsion of the Danes, formerly observed on the second Tuesday after Easter; -- called also hocktide. |
hockey | noun (n.) A game in which two parties of players, armed with sticks curved or hooked at the end, attempt to drive any small object (as a ball or a bit of wood) toward opposite goals. |
noun (n.) The stick used by the players. |
hockherb | noun (n.) The mallow. |
hockling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hockle |
hocus | noun (n.) One who cheats or deceives. |
noun (n.) Drugged liquor. | |
verb (v. t.) To deceive or cheat. | |
verb (v. t.) To adulterate; to drug; as, liquor is said to be hocused for the purpose of stupefying the drinker. | |
verb (v. t.) To stupefy with drugged liquor. |
hocuspocus | noun (n.) A term used by jugglers in pretended incantations. |
noun (n.) A juggler or trickster. | |
noun (n.) A juggler's trick; a cheat; nonsense. | |
verb (v. t.) To cheat. |
hod | noun (n.) A kind of wooden tray with a handle, borne on the shoulder, for carrying mortar, brick, etc. |
noun (n.) A utensil for holding coal; a coal scuttle. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH HOH:
English Words which starts with 'h' and ends with 'h':
haemadromograph | noun (n.) An instrument for registering the velocity of the blood. |
haemodromograph | noun (n.) Same as Haemadromograph. |
haggish | adjective (a.) Like a hag; ugly; wrinkled. |
hairbreadth | adjective (a.) Having the breadth of a hair; very narrow; as, a hairbreadth escape. |
() Alt. of Hair'sbreadth |
hairbrush | noun (n.) A brush for cleansing and smoothing the hair. |
haircloth | noun (n.) Stuff or cloth made wholly or in part of hair. |
halleluiah | noun (n. & interj.) Alt. of Hallelujah |
hallelujah | noun (n. & interj.) Praise ye Jehovah; praise ye the Lord; -- an exclamation used chiefly in songs of praise or thanksgiving to God, and as an expression of gratitude or adoration. |
hammercloth | noun (n.) The cloth which covers a coach box. |
handbreadth | noun (n.) A space equal to the breadth of the hand; a palm. |
handcloth | noun (n.) A handkerchief. |
handfish | noun (n.) The frogfish. |
hardish | adjective (a.) Somewhat hard. |
harish | adjective (a.) Like a hare. |
harsh | adjective (a.) Rough; disagreeable; grating |
adjective (a.) disagreeable to the touch. | |
adjective (a.) disagreeable to the taste. | |
adjective (a.) disagreeable to the ear. | |
adjective (a.) Unpleasant and repulsive to the sensibilities; austere; crabbed; morose; abusive; abusive; severe; rough. | |
adjective (a.) Having violent contrasts of color, or of light and shade; lacking in harmony. |
hash | noun (n.) That which is hashed or chopped up; meat and vegetables, especially such as have been already cooked, chopped into small pieces and mixed. |
noun (n.) A new mixture of old matter; a second preparation or exhibition. | |
noun (n.) To /hop into small pieces; to mince and mix; as, to hash meat. |
hasheesh | noun (n.) Alt. of Hashish |
hashish | noun (n.) A slightly acrid gum resin produced by the common hemp (Cannabis saltiva), of the variety Indica, when cultivated in a warm climate; also, the tops of the plant, from which the resinous product is obtained. It is narcotic, and has long been used in the East for its intoxicating effect. See Bhang, and Ganja. |
hatch | noun (n.) The act of hatching. |
noun (n.) Development; disclosure; discovery. | |
noun (n.) The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood. | |
noun (n.) A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge. | |
noun (n.) A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish. | |
noun (n.) A flood gate; a a sluice gate. | |
noun (n.) A bedstead. | |
noun (n.) An opening in the deck of a vessel or floor of a warehouse which serves as a passageway or hoistway; a hatchway; also; a cover or door, or one of the covers used in closing such an opening. | |
noun (n.) An opening into, or in search of, a mine. | |
verb (v. t.) To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching. | |
verb (v. t.) To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep. | |
verb (v. t.) To produce, as young, from an egg or eggs by incubation, or by artificial heat; to produce young from (eggs); as, the young when hatched. | |
verb (v. t.) To contrive or plot; to form by meditation, and bring into being; to originate and produce; to concoct; as, to hatch mischief; to hatch heresy. | |
verb (v. i.) To produce young; -- said of eggs; to come forth from the egg; -- said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc. | |
verb (v. t.) To close with a hatch or hatches. |
haugh | noun (n.) A low-lying meadow by the side of a river. |
haunch | noun (n.) The hip; the projecting region of the lateral parts of the pelvis and the hip joint; the hind part. |
noun (n.) Of meats: The leg and loin taken together; as, a haunch of venison. |
hawfinch | noun (n.) The common European grosbeak (Coccothraustes vulgaris); -- called also cherry finch, and coble. |
headborough | noun (n.) Alt. of Headborrow |
headfish | noun (n.) The sunfish (Mola). |
health | noun (n.) The state of being hale, sound, or whole, in body, mind, or soul; especially, the state of being free from physical disease or pain. |
noun (n.) A wish of health and happiness, as in pledging a person in a toast. |
hearsecloth | noun (n.) A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. |
hearth | noun (n.) The pavement or floor of brick, stone, or metal in a chimney, on which a fire is made; the floor of a fireplace; also, a corresponding part of a stove. |
noun (n.) The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of hospitality to strangers; fireside. | |
noun (n.) The floor of a furnace, on which the material to be heated lies, or the lowest part of a melting furnace, into which the melted material settles. |
heath | noun (n.) A low shrub (Erica, / Calluna, vulgaris), with minute evergreen leaves, and handsome clusters of pink flowers. It is used in Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens. It is also called heather, and ling. |
noun (n.) Also, any species of the genus Erica, of which several are European, and many more are South African, some of great beauty. See Illust. of Heather. | |
noun (n.) A place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of country overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage. |
heathenish | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the heathen; resembling or characteristic of heathens. |
adjective (a.) Rude; uncivilized; savage; cruel. | |
adjective (a.) Irreligious; as, a heathenish way of living. |
hectograph | noun (n.) A contrivance for multiple copying, by means of a surface of gelatin softened with glycerin. |
hektograph | noun (n.) See Hectograph. |
helicograph | noun (n.) An instrument for drawing spiral lines on a plane. |
heliograph | noun (n.) A picture taken by heliography; a photograph. |
noun (n.) An instrument for taking photographs of the sun. | |
noun (n.) An apparatus for telegraphing by means of the sun's rays. See Heliotrope, 3. | |
verb (v. t.) To telegraph, or signal, with a heliograph. | |
verb (v. t.) To photograph by sunlight. |
hellbroth | noun (n.) A composition for infernal purposes; a magical preparation. |
hellish | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to hell; like hell; infernal; malignant; wicked; detestable; diabolical. |
helminth | noun (n.) An intestinal worm, or wormlike intestinal parasite; one of the Helminthes. |
hemiglyph | noun (n.) The half channel or groove in the edge of the triglyph in the Doric order. |
hemistich | noun (n.) Half a poetic verse or line, or a verse or line not completed. |
henfish | noun (n.) A marine fish; the sea bream. |
noun (n.) A young bib. See Bib, n., 2. |
heptarch | noun (n.) Same as Heptarchist. |
heptastich | noun (n.) A composition consisting of seven lines or verses. |
heptateuch | noun (n.) The first seven books of the Testament. |
herbergh | noun (n.) Alt. of Herberwe |
herborough | noun (n.) A harbor. |
heresiarch | noun (n.) A leader in heresy; the chief of a sect of heretics. |
heretoch | noun (n.) Alt. of Heretog |
heteracanth | adjective (a.) Having the spines of the dorsal fin unsymmetrical, or thickened alternately on the right and left sides. |
heugh | noun (n.) A crag; a cliff; a glen with overhanging sides. |
noun (n.) A shaft in a coal pit; a hollow in a quarry. |
hexastich | noun (n.) Alt. of Hexastichon |
hexateuch | noun (n.) The first six books of the Old Testament. |
heyh | adjective (a.) Alt. of Heygh |
heygh | adjective (a.) High. |
hiccough | noun (n.) A modified respiratory movement; a spasmodic inspiration, consisting of a sudden contraction of the diaphragm, accompanied with closure of the glottis, so that further entrance of air is prevented, while the impulse of the column of air entering and striking upon the closed glottis produces a sound, or hiccough. |
verb (v. i.) To have a hiccough or hiccoughs. |
hierarch | noun (n.) One who has high and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order; as, princely hierarchs. |
hieroglyph | adjective (a.) Alt. of Hieroglyphic |
high | noun (n.) An elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven. |
noun (n.) People of rank or high station; as, high and low. | |
noun (n.) The highest card dealt or drawn. | |
superlative (superl.) Elevated above any starting point of measurement, as a line, or surface; having altitude; lifted up; raised or extended in the direction of the zenith; lofty; tall; as, a high mountain, tower, tree; the sun is high. | |
superlative (superl.) Regarded as raised up or elevated; distinguished; remarkable; conspicuous; superior; -- used indefinitely or relatively, and often in figurative senses, which are understood from the connection | |
superlative (superl.) Elevated in character or quality, whether moral or intellectual; preeminent; honorable; as, high aims, or motives. | |
superlative (superl.) Exalted in social standing or general estimation, or in rank, reputation, office, and the like; dignified; as, she was welcomed in the highest circles. | |
superlative (superl.) Of noble birth; illustrious; as, of high family. | |
superlative (superl.) Of great strength, force, importance, and the like; strong; mighty; powerful; violent; sometimes, triumphant; victorious; majestic, etc.; as, a high wind; high passions. | |
superlative (superl.) Very abstract; difficult to comprehend or surmount; grand; noble. | |
superlative (superl.) Costly; dear in price; extravagant; as, to hold goods at a high price. | |
superlative (superl.) Arrogant; lofty; boastful; proud; ostentatious; -- used in a bad sense. | |
superlative (superl.) Possessing a characteristic quality in a supreme or superior degree; as, high (i. e., intense) heat; high (i. e., full or quite) noon; high (i. e., rich or spicy) seasoning; high (i. e., complete) pleasure; high (i. e., deep or vivid) color; high (i. e., extensive, thorough) scholarship, etc. | |
superlative (superl.) Strong-scented; slightly tainted; as, epicures do not cook game before it is high. | |
superlative (superl.) Acute or sharp; -- opposed to grave or low; as, a high note. | |
superlative (superl.) Made with a high position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate, as / (/ve), / (f/d). See Guide to Pronunciation, // 10, 11. | |
verb (v. i.) To hie. | |
adverb (adv.) In a high manner; in a high place; to a great altitude; to a great degree; largely; in a superior manner; eminently; powerfully. | |
verb (v. i.) To rise; as, the sun higheth. |
highth | noun (n.) Variant of Height. |
hippish | adjective (a.) Somewhat hypochondriac; melancholy. See Hyppish. |
hippolith | noun (n.) A concretion, or kind of bezoar, from the intestines of the horse. |
hitch | noun (n.) A catch; anything that holds, as a hook; an impediment; an obstacle; an entanglement. |
noun (n.) The act of catching, as on a hook, etc. | |
noun (n.) A stop or sudden halt; a stoppage; an impediment; a temporary obstruction; an obstacle; as, a hitch in one's progress or utterance; a hitch in the performance. | |
noun (n.) A sudden movement or pull; a pull up; as, the sailor gave his trousers a hitch. | |
noun (n.) A knot or noose in a rope which can be readily undone; -- intended for a temporary fastening; as, a half hitch; a clove hitch; a timber hitch, etc. | |
noun (n.) A small dislocation of a bed or vein. | |
verb (v. t.) To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling. | |
verb (v. t.) To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; -- said of something obstructed or impeded. | |
verb (v. t.) To hit the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere. | |
verb (v. t.) To hook; to catch or fasten as by a hook or a knot; to make fast, unite, or yoke; as, to hitch a horse, or a halter. | |
verb (v. t.) To move with hitches; as, he hitched his chair nearer. |
hodograph | noun (n.) A curve described by the moving extremity of a line the other end of which is fixed, this line being constantly parallel to the direction of motion of, and having its length constantly proportional to the velocity of, a point moving in any path; -used in investigations respecting central forces. |
hogfish | noun (n.) A large West Indian and Florida food fish (Lachnolaemus). |
noun (n.) The pigfish or sailor's choice. | |
noun (n.) An American fresh-water fish; the log perch. | |
noun (n.) A large, red, spiny-headed, European marine fish (Scorpaena scrofa). |
hoggish | adjective (a.) Swinish; gluttonous; filthy; selfish. |
hogh | noun (n.) A hill; a cliff. |
hogwash | noun (n.) Swill. |
hoidenish | adjective (a.) Like, or appropriate to, a hoiden. |
hollandish | adjective (a.) Relating to Holland; Dutch. |
holograph | noun (n.) A document, as a letter, deed, or will, wholly in the handwriting of the person from whom it proceeds and whose act it purports to be. |
homacanth | adjective (a.) Having the dorsal fin spines symmetrical, and in the same line; -- said of certain fishes. |
homeopath | noun (n.) A practitioner of homeopathy. |
homish | adjective (a.) Like a home or a home circle. |
homograph | noun (n.) One of two or more words identical in orthography, but having different derivations and meanings; as, fair, n., a market, and fair, a., beautiful. |
hookah | noun (n.) A pipe with a long, flexible stem, so arranged that the smoke is cooled by being made to pass through water. |
hopplebush | noun (n.) Same as Hobblebush. |
hopscotch | noun (n.) A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground; -- called also hoppers. |
hornfish | noun (n.) The garfish or sea needle. |
hornish | adjective (a.) Somewhat like horn; hard. |
horsefish | noun (n.) The moonfish (Selene setipinnis). |
noun (n.) The sauger. |
horseflesh | noun (n.) The flesh of horses. |
noun (n.) Horses, generally; the qualities of a horse; as, he is a judge of horseflesh. |
horselaugh | noun (n.) A loud, boisterous laugh; a guffaw. |
hotchpotch | noun (n.) A mingled mass; a confused mixture; a stew of various ingredients; a hodgepodge. |
noun (n.) A blending of property for equality of division, as when lands given in frank-marriage to one daughter were, after the death of the ancestor, blended with the lands descending to her and to her sisters from the same ancestor, and then divided in equal portions among all the daughters. In modern usage, a mixing together, or throwing into a common mass or stock, of the estate left by a person deceased and the amounts advanced to any particular child or children, for the purpose of a more equal division, or of equalizing the shares of all the children; the property advanced being accounted for at its value when given. |
houdah | noun (n.) See Howdah. |
houndfish | noun (n.) Any small shark of the genus Galeus or Mustelus, of which there are several species, as the smooth houndfish (G. canis), of Europe and America; -- called also houndshark, and dogfish. |
howdah | noun (n.) A seat or pavilion, generally covered, fastened on the back of an elephant, for the rider or riders. |
huch | noun (n.) Alt. of Huchen |
huffish | adjective (a.) Disposed to be blustering or arrogant; petulant. |
hulch | noun (n.) A hunch. |
hunch | noun (n.) A hump; a protuberance. |
noun (n.) A lump; a thick piece; as, a hunch of bread. | |
noun (n.) A push or thrust, as with the elbow. | |
noun (n.) A strong, intuitive impression that something will happen; -- said to be from the gambler's superstition that it brings luck to touch the hump of a hunchback. | |
verb (v. t.) To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust suddenly. | |
verb (v. t.) To thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back. |
hundredth | noun (n.) One of a hundred equal parts into which one whole is, or may be, divided; the quotient of a unit divided by a hundred. |
adjective (a.) Coming last of a hundred successive individuals or units. | |
adjective (a.) Forming one of a hundred equal parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a tenth. |
hurrah | noun (n.) A cheer; a shout of joy, etc. |
verb (v. i.) To utter hurrahs; to huzza. | |
verb (v. t.) To salute, or applaud, with hurrahs. | |
(interj.) Alt. of Hurra |
hush | noun (n.) Stillness; silence; quiet. |
adjective (a.) Silent; quiet. | |
verb (v. t.) To still; to silence; to calm; to make quiet; to repress the noise or clamor of. | |
verb (v. t.) To appease; to allay; to calm; to soothe. | |
verb (v. i.) To become or to keep still or quiet; to become silent; -- esp. used in the imperative, as an exclamation; be still; be silent or quiet; make no noise. |
hutch | noun (n.) A chest, box, coffer, bin, coop, or the like, in which things may be stored, or animals kept; as, a grain hutch; a rabbit hutch. |
noun (n.) A measure of two Winchester bushels. | |
noun (n.) The case of a flour bolt. | |
noun (n.) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit. | |
noun (n.) A jig for washing ore. | |
verb (v. t. & i.) To place in huts; to live in huts; as, to hut troops in winter quarters. | |
verb (v. t.) To hoard or lay up, in a chest. | |
verb (v. t.) To wash (ore) in a box or jig. |
hyacinth | noun (n.) A bulbous plant of the genus Hyacinthus, bearing beautiful spikes of fragrant flowers. H. orientalis is a common variety. |
noun (n.) A plant of the genus Camassia (C. Farseri), called also Eastern camass; wild hyacinth. | |
noun (n.) The name also given to Scilla Peruviana, a Mediterranean plant, one variety of which produces white, and another blue, flowers; -- called also, from a mistake as to its origin, Hyacinth of Peru. | |
noun (n.) A red variety of zircon, sometimes used as a gem. See Zircon. |
hyalograph | noun (n.) An instrument for tracing designs on glass. |
hydranth | noun (n.) One of the nutritive zooids of a hydroid colony. Also applied to the proboscis or manubrium of a hydroid medusa. See Illust. of Hydroidea. |
hydrometrograph | noun (n.) An instrument for determining and recording the quantity of water discharged from a pipe, orifice, etc., in a given time. |
hydropath | noun (n.) A hydropathist. |
hyetograph | noun (n.) A chart or graphic representation of the average distribution of rain over the surface of the earth. |
hygrograph | noun (n.) An instrument for recording automatically the variations of the humidity of the atmosphere. |
hyppish | adjective (a.) Affected with hypochondria; hypped. |