Name Report For First Name HOLT:
HOLT
First name HOLT's origin is English. HOLT means "by the forest". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with HOLT below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of holt.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with HOLT and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with HOLT - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming HOLT
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES HOLT AS A WHOLE:
sholto holter morholtNAMES RHYMING WITH HOLT (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (olt) - Names That Ends with olt:
colt koltRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (lt) - Names That Ends with lt:
mahault jilt roosevelt vanderbilt tibalt gerwalt ranalt raoghnailt aralt archambault berowalt galahault geralt harailt roswalt sigwalt tibault tihalt tybalt walt galahalt yseult galtNAMES RHYMING WITH HOLT (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (hol) - Names That Begins with hol:
hola holbrook holcomb holda holde holden holdin holdyn holea holgar holger holic holle hollee hollie hollis holly holman holmes holwellRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ho) - Names That Begins with ho:
hoa hobard hobart hobbard hoben hoc hod hodsone hoel hogan hoh hohberht hoireabard hok'ee 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 HOLT:
First Names which starts with 'h' and ends with 't':
hacket hackett halbart halbert halburt halebeorht hamlet hamlett hamoelet harcourt harriet harriett hart haslet haslett hathor-sakmet hatshepsut hayat hehet helmut helmutt hengist heorot heort heqet herbert herlbert herlebeorht hewett hewitt hewlett hewlitt hiatt hipolit hubert hugiet hulbart hulbert huldiberaht hunt hurit huritt hurlbart hurlbert hurst hyattEnglish Words Rhyming HOLT
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES HOLT AS A WHOLE:
| choltry | noun (n.) A Hindoo caravansary. |
| eschscholtzia | noun (n.) A genus of papaveraceous plants, found in California and upon the west coast of North America, some species of which produce beautiful yellow, orange, rose-colored, or white flowers; the California poppy. |
| holt | noun (n.) A piece of woodland; especially, a woody hill. |
| noun (n.) A deep hole in a river where there is protection for fish; also, a cover, a hole, or hiding place. | |
| () 3d pers. sing. pres. of Hold, contr. from holdeth. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH HOLT (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (olt) - English Words That Ends with olt:
| archivolt | noun (n.) The architectural member surrounding the curved opening of an arch, corresponding to the architrave in the case of a square opening. |
| noun (n.) More commonly, the molding or other ornaments with which the wall face of the voussoirs of an arch is charged. |
| baybolt | noun (n.) A bolt with a barbed shank. |
| birdbolt | noun (n.) A short blunt arrow for killing birds without piercing them. |
| noun (n.) Anything which smites without penetrating. |
| bolt | noun (n.) A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resembles an arrow; a dart. |
| noun (n.) Lightning; a thunderbolt. | |
| noun (n.) A strong pin, of iron or other material, used to fasten or hold something in place, often having a head at one end and screw thread cut upon the other end. | |
| noun (n.) A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate; the portion of a lock which is shot or withdrawn by the action of the key. | |
| noun (n.) An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter. | |
| noun (n.) A compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas or silk, often containing about forty yards. | |
| noun (n.) A bundle, as of oziers. | |
| noun (n.) A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter. | |
| verb (v. t.) To shoot; to discharge or drive forth. | |
| verb (v. t.) To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out. | |
| verb (v. t.) To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food. | |
| verb (v. t.) To refuse to support, as a nomination made by a party to which one has belonged or by a caucus in which one has taken part. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge, as conies, rabbits, etc. | |
| verb (v. t.) To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain. | |
| verb (v. i.) To start forth like a bolt or arrow; to spring abruptly; to come or go suddenly; to dart; as, to bolt out of the room. | |
| verb (v. i.) To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt. | |
| verb (v. i.) To spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular path; as, the horse bolted. | |
| verb (v. i.) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or a caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party. | |
| adverb (adv.) In the manner of a bolt; suddenly; straight; unbendingly. | |
| verb (v. i.) A sudden spring or start; a sudden spring aside; as, the horse made a bolt. | |
| verb (v. i.) A sudden flight, as to escape creditors. | |
| verb (v. i.) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party. | |
| verb (v. t.) To sift or separate the coarser from the finer particles of, as bran from flour, by means of a bolter; to separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means. | |
| verb (v. t.) To separate, as if by sifting or bolting; -- with out. | |
| verb (v. t.) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law. |
| buolt | noun (n.) Corrupted form Bolt. |
| burbolt | noun (n.) A birdbolt. |
| colt | noun (n.) The young of the equine genus or horse kind of animals; -- sometimes distinctively applied to the male, filly being the female. Cf. Foal. |
| noun (n.) A young, foolish fellow. | |
| noun (n.) A short knotted rope formerly used as an instrument of punishment in the navy. | |
| verb (v. i.) To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly. | |
| verb (v. t.) To horse; to get with young. | |
| verb (v. t.) To befool. |
| demivolt | noun (n.) A half vault; one of the seven artificial motions of a horse, in which he raises his fore legs in a particular manner. |
| dogbolt | noun (n.) The bolt of the cap-square over the trunnion of a cannon. |
| dolt | noun (n.) A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; a numskull; an ignoramus; a dunce; a dullard. |
| verb (v. i.) To behave foolishly. |
| dragbolt | noun (n.) A coupling pin. See under Coupling. |
| drawbolt | noun (n.) A coupling pin. See under Coupling. |
| driftbolt | noun (n.) A bolt for driving out other bolts. |
| drivebolt | noun (n.) A drift; a tool for setting bolts home. |
| eyebolt | noun (n.) A bolt which a looped head, or an opening in the head. |
| hackbolt | noun (n.) The greater shearwater or hagdon. See Hagdon. |
| jolt | noun (n.) A sudden shock or jerk; a jolting motion, as in a carriage moving over rough ground. |
| verb (v. i.) To shake with short, abrupt risings and fallings, as a carriage moving on rough ground; as, the coach jolts. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to shake with a sudden up and down motion, as in a carriage going over rough ground, or on a high-trotting horse; as, the horse jolts the rider; fast driving jolts the carriage and the passengers. |
| kingbolt | noun (n.) A vertical iron bolt, by which the forward axle and wheels of a vehicle or the trucks of a railroad car are connected with the other parts. |
| kilovolt | noun (n.) A unit of electromotive force equal to one thousand volts. |
| lavolt | noun (n.) Alt. of Lavolta |
| megavolt | noun (n.) One of the larger measures of electro-motive force, amounting to one million volts. |
| microvolt | noun (n.) A measure of electro-motive force; the millionth part of one volt. |
| molt | noun (n.) Alt. of Moult |
| verb (v. t.) Alt. of Moult | |
| verb (v. t.) Alt. of Moult | |
| () imp. of Melt. |
| nolt | noun (n. sing. & pl.) Neat cattle. |
| polt | noun (n.) A blow or thump. |
| adjective (a.) Distorted. |
| rejolt | noun (n.) A reacting jolt or shock; a rebound or recoil. |
| verb (v. t.) To jolt or shake again. |
| revolt | noun (n.) To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence. |
| noun (n.) Hence, to be faithless; to desert one party or leader for another; especially, to renounce allegiance or subjection; to rise against a government; to rebel. | |
| noun (n.) To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; -- with at; as, the stomach revolts at such food; his nature revolts at cruelty. | |
| noun (n.) The act of revolting; an uprising against legitimate authority; especially, a renunciation of allegiance and subjection to a government; rebellion; as, the revolt of a province of the Roman empire. | |
| noun (n.) A revolter. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight. | |
| verb (v. t.) To do violence to; to cause to turn away or shrink with abhorrence; to shock; as, to revolt the feelings. |
| ringbolt | noun (n.) An eyebolt having a ring through the eye. |
| setbolt | noun (n.) An iron pin, or bolt, for fitting planks closely together. |
| noun (n.) A bolt used for forcing another bolt out of its hole. |
| smolt | noun (n.) A young salmon two or three years old, when it has acquired its silvery color. |
| thunderbolt | noun (n.) A shaft of lightning; a brilliant stream of electricity passing from one part of the heavens to another, or from the clouds to the earth. |
| noun (n.) Something resembling lightning in suddenness and effectiveness. | |
| noun (n.) Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination. | |
| noun (n.) A belemnite, or thunderstone. |
| tolt | noun (n.) A writ by which a cause pending in a court baron was removed into a country court. |
| volt | noun (n.) A circular tread; a gait by which a horse going sideways round a center makes two concentric tracks. |
| noun (n.) A sudden movement to avoid a thrust. | |
| noun (n.) The unit of electro-motive force; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by United States Statute as, that electro-motive force which steadily applied to a conductor whose resistance is one ohm will produce a current of one ampere. It is practically equivalent to / the electro-motive force of a standard Clark's cell at a temperature of 15¡ C. |
| wringbolt | noun (n.) A bolt used by shipwrights, to bend and secure the planks against the timbers till they are fastened by bolts, spikes, or treenails; -- not to be confounded with ringbolt. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH HOLT (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (hol) - Words That Begins with hol:
| hol | adjective (a.) Whole. |
| holaspidean | adjective (a.) Having a single series of large scutes on the posterior side of the tarsus; -- said of certain birds. |
| holcad | noun (n.) A large ship of burden, in ancient Greece. |
| hold | noun (n.) The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed. |
| noun (n. i.) In general, to keep one's self in a given position or condition; to remain fixed. Hence: | |
| noun (n. i.) Not to more; to halt; to stop;-mostly in the imperative. | |
| noun (n. i.) Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued. | |
| noun (n. i.) Not to fail or be found wanting; to continue; to last; to endure a test or trial; to abide; to persist. | |
| noun (n. i.) Not to fall away, desert, or prove recreant; to remain attached; to cleave;-often with with, to, or for. | |
| noun (n. i.) To restrain one's self; to refrain. | |
| noun (n. i.) To derive right or title; -- generally with of. | |
| noun (n.) The act of holding, as in or with the hands or arms; the manner of holding, whether firm or loose; seizure; grasp; clasp; gripe; possession; -- often used with the verbs take and lay. | |
| noun (n.) The authority or ground to take or keep; claim. | |
| noun (n.) Binding power and influence. | |
| noun (n.) Something that may be grasped; means of support. | |
| noun (n.) A place of confinement; a prison; confinement; custody; guard. | |
| noun (n.) A place of security; a fortified place; a fort; a castle; -- often called a stronghold. | |
| noun (n.) A character [thus /] placed over or under a note or rest, and indicating that it is to be prolonged; -- called also pause, and corona. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to remain in a given situation, position, or relation, within certain limits, or the like; to prevent from falling or escaping; to sustain; to restrain; to keep in the grasp; to retain. | |
| verb (v. t.) To retain in one's keeping; to maintain possession of, or authority over; not to give up or relinquish; to keep; to defend. | |
| verb (v. t.) To have; to possess; to be in possession of; to occupy; to derive title to; as, to hold office. | |
| verb (v. t.) To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain. | |
| verb (v. t.) To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain. | |
| verb (v. t.) To prosecute, have, take, or join in, as something which is the result of united action; as to, hold a meeting, a festival, a session, etc.; hence, to direct and bring about officially; to conduct or preside at; as, the general held a council of war; a judge holds a court; a clergyman holds a service. | |
| verb (v. t.) To receive and retain; to contain as a vessel; as, this pail holds milk; hence, to be able to receive and retain; to have capacity or containing power for. | |
| verb (v. t.) To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain. | |
| verb (v. t.) To consider; to regard; to esteem; to account; to think; to judge. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bear, carry, or manage; as he holds himself erect; he holds his head high. |
| holding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hold |
| noun (n.) The act or state of sustaining, grasping, or retaining. | |
| noun (n.) A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another. | |
| noun (n.) That which holds, binds, or influences. | |
| noun (n.) The burden or chorus of a song. |
| holdback | noun (n.) Check; hindrance; restraint; obstacle. |
| noun (n.) The projection or loop on the thill of a vehicle. to which a strap of the harness is attached, to hold back a carriage when going down hill, or in backing; also, the strap or part of the harness so used. |
| holder | noun (n.) One who is employed in the hold of a vessel. |
| noun (n.) One who, or that which, holds. | |
| noun (n.) One who holds land, etc., under another; a tenant. | |
| noun (n.) The payee of a bill of exchange or a promissory note, or the one who owns or holds it. |
| holdfast | noun (n.) Something used to secure and hold in place something else, as a long fiat-headed nail, a catch a hook, a clinch, a clamp, etc.; hence, a support. |
| noun (n.) A conical or branching body, by which a seaweed is attached to its support, and differing from a root in that it is not specially absorbent of moisture. |
| hole | noun (n.) A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure. |
| noun (n.) An excavation in the ground, made by an animal to live in, or a natural cavity inhabited by an animal; hence, a low, narrow, or dark lodging or place; a mean habitation. | |
| noun (n.) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in; as, to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars. | |
| noun (n.) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball. | |
| noun (n.) A small cavity used in some games, usually one into which a marble or ball is to be played or driven; hence, a score made by playing a marble or ball into such a hole, as in golf. | |
| noun (n.) At Eton College, England, that part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox. | |
| adjective (a.) Whole. | |
| verb (v. i.) To go or get into a hole. |
| holethnic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a holethnos or parent race. |
| holethnos | noun (n.) A parent stock or race of people, not yet divided into separate branches or tribes. |
| holibut | noun (n.) See Halibut. |
| holidam | noun (n.) See Halidom. |
| holiday | noun (n.) A consecrated day; religious anniversary; a day set apart in honor of some person, or in commemoration of some event. See Holyday. |
| noun (n.) A day of exemption from labor; a day of amusement and gayety; a festival day. | |
| noun (n.) A day fixed by law for suspension of business; a legal holiday. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a festival; cheerful; joyous; gay. | |
| adjective (a.) Occurring rarely; adapted for a special occasion. |
| holiness | noun (n.) The state or quality of being holy; perfect moral integrity or purity; freedom from sin; sanctity; innocence. |
| noun (n.) The state of being hallowed, or consecrated to God or to his worship; sacredness. |
| holing | noun (n.) Undercutting in a bed of coal, in order to bring down the upper mass. |
| hollaing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Holla |
| holland | noun (n.) A kind of linen first manufactured in Holland; a linen fabric used for window shades, children's garments, etc.; as, brown or unbleached hollands. |
| hollander | noun (n.) A native or one of the people of Holland; a Dutchman. |
| noun (n.) A very hard, semi-glazed, green or dark brown brick, which will not absorb water; -- called also, Dutch clinker. |
| hollandish | adjective (a.) Relating to Holland; Dutch. |
| hollands | noun (n.) Gin made in Holland. |
| noun (n.) See Holland. |
| hollo | noun (interj. & n.) Ho there; stop; attend; hence, a loud cry or a call to attract attention; a halloo. |
| (interj.) To call out or exclaim; to halloo. This form is now mostly replaced by hello. |
| holloing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hollo |
| holloa | noun (n. & v. i.) Same as Hollo. |
| hollow | noun (n.) A cavity, natural or artificial; an unfilled space within anything; a hole, a cavern; an excavation; as the hollow of the hand or of a tree. |
| noun (n.) A low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a surface; a concavity; a channel. | |
| adjective (a.) Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow sphere. | |
| adjective (a.) Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken. | |
| adjective (a.) Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound; deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar. | |
| adjective (a.) Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as, a hollow heart; a hollow friend. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate. | |
| adverb (adv.) Wholly; completely; utterly; -- chiefly after the verb to beat, and often with all; as, this story beats the other all hollow. See All, adv. | |
| verb (v. i.) To shout; to hollo. | |
| verb (v. t.) To urge or call by shouting. | |
| (interj.) Hollo. |
| hollowing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hollow |
| hollowness | noun (n.) State of being hollow. |
| noun (n.) Insincerity; unsoundness; treachery. |
| holly | noun (n.) A tree or shrub of the genus Ilex. The European species (Ilex Aguifolium) is best known, having glossy green leaves, with a spiny, waved edge, and bearing berries that turn red or yellow about Michaelmas. |
| noun (n.) The holm oak. See 1st Holm. | |
| adverb (adv.) Wholly. |
| hollyhock | noun (n.) A species of Althaea (A. rosea), bearing flowers of various colors; -- called also rose mallow. |
| holm | noun (n.) A common evergreen oak, of Europe (Quercus Ilex); -- called also ilex, and holly. |
| noun (n.) An islet in a river. | |
| noun (n.) Low, flat land. |
| holmia | noun (n.) An oxide of holmium. |
| holmium | noun (n.) A rare element said to be contained in gadolinite. |
| holmos | noun (n.) A name given to a vase having a rounded body |
| noun (n.) A closed vessel of nearly spherical form on a high stem or pedestal. | |
| noun (n.) A drinking cup having a foot and stem. |
| holoblast | noun (n.) an ovum composed entirely of germinal matter. See Meroblast. |
| holoblastic | adjective (a.) Undergoing complete segmentation; composed entirely of germinal matter, the whole of the yolk undergoing fission; -- opposed to meroblastic. |
| holocaust | noun (n.) A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations. |
| noun (n.) Sacrifice or loss of many lives, as by the burning of a theater or a ship. [An extended use not authorized by careful writers.] |
| holocephali | noun (n. pl.) An order of elasmobranch fishes, including, among living species, only the chimaeras; -- called also Holocephala. See Chimaera; also Illustration in Appendix. |
| holocryptic | adjective (a.) Wholly or completely concealing; incapable of being deciphered. |
| holocrystalline | adjective (a.) Completely crystalline; -- said of a rock like granite, all the constituents of which are crystalline. |
| 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. |
| holographic | adjective (a.) Of the nature of a holograph; pertaining to holographs. |
| holohedral | adjective (a.) Having all the planes required by complete symmetry, -- in opposition to hemihedral. |
| holohemihedral | adjective (a.) Presenting hemihedral forms, in which all the sectants have halt the whole number of planes. |
| holometabola | noun (n. pl.) Those insects which have a complete metamorphosis; metabola. |
| holometabolic | adjective (a.) Having a complete metamorphosis;-said of certain insects, as the butterflies and bees. |
| holometer | noun (n.) An instrument for making of angular measurements. |
| holophanerous | adjective (a.) Same as Holometabolic. |
| holophotal | adjective (a.) Causing no loss of light; -- applied to reflectors which throw back the rays of light without perceptible loss. |
| holophote | noun (n.) A lamp with lenses or reflectors to collect the rays of light and throw them in a given direction; -- used in lighthouses. |
| holophrastic | adjective (a.) Expressing a phrase or sentence in a single word, -- as is the case in the aboriginal languages of America. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH HOLT:
English Words which starts with 'h' and ends with 't':
| habiliment | noun (n.) A garment; an article of clothing. |
| noun (n.) Dress, in general. |
| habit | noun (n.) The usual condition or state of a person or thing, either natural or acquired, regarded as something had, possessed, and firmly retained; as, a religious habit; his habit is morose; elms have a spreading habit; esp., physical temperament or constitution; as, a full habit of body. |
| noun (n.) The general appearance and manner of life of a living organism. | |
| noun (n.) 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 their frequent repetition; as, habit is second nature; also, peculiar ways of acting; characteristic forms of behavior. | |
| noun (n.) Outward appearance; attire; dress; hence, a garment; esp., a closely fitting garment or dress worn by ladies; as, a riding habit. | |
| noun (n.) To inhabit. | |
| noun (n.) To dress; to clothe; to array. | |
| noun (n.) To accustom; to habituate. [Obs.] Chapman. |
| haematoblast | noun (n.) One of the very minute, disk-shaped bodies found in blood with the ordinary red corpuscles and white corpuscles; a third kind of blood corpuscle, supposed by some to be an early stage in the development of the red corpuscles; -- called also blood plaque, and blood plate. |
| haematoplast | noun (n.) Same as Haematoblast. |
| haft | noun (n.) A handle; that part of an instrument or vessel taken into the hand, and by which it is held and used; -- said chiefly of a knife, sword, or dagger; the hilt. |
| noun (n.) A dwelling. | |
| verb (v. t.) To set in, or furnish with, a haft; as, to haft a dagger. |
| hagbut | noun (n.) A harquebus, of which the but was bent down or hooked for convenience in taking aim. |
| hagiologist | noun (n.) One who treats of the sacred writings; a writer of the lives of the saints; a hagiographer. |
| haguebut | noun (n.) See Hagbut. |
| hailshot | noun (n. pl.) Small shot which scatter like hailstones. |
| halibut | noun (n.) A large, northern, marine flatfish (Hippoglossus vulgaris), of the family Pleuronectidae. It often grows very large, weighing more than three hundred pounds. It is an important food fish. |
| halt | noun (n.) A stop in marching or walking, or in any action; arrest of progress. |
| noun (n.) The act of limping; lameness. | |
| adjective (a.) Halting or stopping in walking; lame. | |
| adjective (a.) To walk lamely; to limp. | |
| adjective (a.) To have an irregular rhythm; to be defective. | |
| verb (v. i.) To hold one's self from proceeding; to hold up; to cease progress; to stop for a longer or shorter period; to come to a stop; to stand still. | |
| verb (v. i.) To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; to hesitate; to be uncertain. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to cease marching; to stop; as, the general halted his troops for refreshment. | |
| () 3d pers. sing. pres. of Hold, contraction for holdeth. |
| hamlet | noun (n.) A small village; a little cluster of houses in the country. |
| handcart | noun (n.) A cart drawn or pushed by hand. |
| handcraft | noun (n.) Same as Handicraft. |
| handfast | noun (n.) Hold; grasp; custody; power of confining or keeping. |
| noun (n.) Contract; specifically, espousal. | |
| noun (n.) Strong; steadfast. | |
| adjective (a.) Fast by contract; betrothed by joining hands. | |
| verb (v. t.) To pledge; to bind; to betroth by joining hands, in order to cohabitation, before the celebration of marriage. |
| handicraft | noun (n.) A trade requiring skill of hand; manual occupation; handcraft. |
| noun (n.) A man who earns his living by handicraft; a handicraftsman. |
| handyfight | noun (n.) A fight with the hands; boxing. |
| hangnest | noun (n.) A nest that hangs like a bag or pocket. |
| noun (n.) A bird which builds such a nest; a hangbird. |
| haquebut | noun (n.) See Hagbut. |
| harassment | noun (n.) The act of harassing, or state of being harassed; worry; annoyance; anxiety. |
| hardiment | noun (n.) Hardihood; boldness; courage; energetic action. |
| harefoot | noun (n.) A long, narrow foot, carried (that is, produced or extending) forward; -- said of dogs. |
| noun (n.) A tree (Ochroma Laqopus) of the West Indies, having the stamens united somewhat in the form of a hare's foot. |
| haricot | noun (n.) A ragout or stew of meat with beans and other vegetables. |
| noun (n.) The ripe seeds, or the unripe pod, of the common string bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), used as a vegetable. Other species of the same genus furnish different kinds of haricots. |
| harlot | noun (n.) A churl; a common man; a person, male or female, of low birth. |
| noun (n.) A person given to low conduct; a rogue; a cheat; a rascal. | |
| noun (n.) A woman who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a common woman; a strumpet. | |
| adjective (a.) Wanton; lewd; low; base. | |
| verb (v. i.) To play the harlot; to practice lewdness. |
| harmonist | noun (n.) One who shows the agreement or harmony of corresponding passages of different authors, as of the four evangelists. |
| noun (n.) One who understands the principles of harmony or is skillful in applying them in composition; a musical composer. | |
| noun (n.) Alt. of Harmonite |
| harmost | noun (n.) A governor or prefect appointed by the Spartans in the cities subjugated by them. |
| harpist | noun (n.) A player on the harp; a harper. |
| harslet | noun (n.) See Haslet. |
| hart | noun (n.) A stag; the male of the red deer. See the Note under Buck. |
| hartbeest | noun (n.) A large South African antelope (Alcelaphus caama), formerly much more abundant than it is now. The face and legs are marked with black, the rump with white. |
| hartwort | noun (n.) A coarse umbelliferous plant of Europe (Tordylium maximum). |
| harvest | noun (n.) The gathering of a crop of any kind; the ingathering of the crops; also, the season of gathering grain and fruits, late summer or early autumn. |
| noun (n.) That which is reaped or ready to be reaped or gath//ed; a crop, as of grain (wheat, maize, etc.), or fruit. | |
| noun (n.) The product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward. | |
| verb (v. t.) To reap or gather, as any crop. |
| haslet | noun (n.) The edible viscera, as the heart, liver, etc., of a beast, esp. of a hog. |
| hat | noun (n.) A covering for the head; esp., one with a crown and brim, made of various materials, and worn by men or women for protecting the head from the sun or weather, or for ornament. |
| adjective (a.) Hot. | |
| () sing. pres. of Hote to be called. Cf. | |
| () A cap or hat worn by officers or enlisted men when full-dress uniform, or dress uniform, is not worn. |
| hatchet | noun (n.) A small ax with a short handle, to be used with one hand. |
| noun (n.) Specifically, a tomahawk. |
| hatchment | noun (n.) A sort of panel, upon which the arms of a deceased person are temporarily displayed, -- usually on the walls of his dwelling. It is lozenge-shaped or square, but is hung cornerwise. It is used in England as a means of giving public notification of the death of the deceased, his or her rank, whether married, widower, widow, etc. Called also achievement. |
| noun (n.) A sword or other mark of the profession of arms; in general, a mark of dignity. |
| haught | adjective (a.) High; elevated; hence, haughty; proud. |
| hault | adjective (a.) Lofty; haughty. |
| haunt | noun (n.) A place to which one frequently resorts; as, drinking saloons are the haunts of tipplers; a den is the haunt of wild beasts. |
| noun (n.) The habit of resorting to a place. | |
| noun (n.) Practice; skill. | |
| verb (v. t.) To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon. | |
| verb (v. t.) To inhabit or frequent as a specter; to visit as a ghost or apparition. | |
| verb (v. t.) To practice; to devote one's self to. | |
| verb (v. t.) To accustom; to habituate. | |
| verb (v. i.) To persist in staying or visiting. |
| haurient | adjective (a.) In pale, with the head in chief; -- said of the figure of a fish, as if rising for air. |
| haut | adjective (a.) Haughty. |
| hautboyist | noun (n.) A player on the hautboy. |
| hautgout | noun (n.) High relish or flavor; high seasoning. |
| hawkbit | noun (n.) The fall dandelion (Leontodon autumnale). |
| hayloft | noun (n.) A loft or scaffold for hay. |
| hazelnut | noun (n.) The nut of the hazel. |
| hazelwort | noun (n.) The asarabacca. |
| headlight | noun (n.) A light, with a powerful reflector, placed at the head of a locomotive, or in front of it, to throw light on the track at night, or in going through a dark tunnel. |
| headmost | adjective (a.) Most advanced; most forward; as, the headmost ship in a fleet. |
| heart | noun (n.) A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood. |
| noun (n.) The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, and the like; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; -- usually in a good sense, when no epithet is expressed; the better or lovelier part of our nature; the spring of all our actions and purposes; the seat of moral life and character; the moral affections and character itself; the individual disposition and character; as, a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish heart. | |
| noun (n.) The nearest the middle or center; the part most hidden and within; the inmost or most essential part of any body or system; the source of life and motion in any organization; the chief or vital portion; the center of activity, or of energetic or efficient action; as, the heart of a country, of a tree, etc. | |
| noun (n.) Courage; courageous purpose; spirit. | |
| noun (n.) Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad. | |
| noun (n.) That which resembles a heart in shape; especially, a roundish or oval figure or object having an obtuse point at one end, and at the other a corresponding indentation, -- used as a symbol or representative of the heart. | |
| noun (n.) One of a series of playing cards, distinguished by the figure or figures of a heart; as, hearts are trumps. | |
| noun (n.) Vital part; secret meaning; real intention. | |
| noun (n.) A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address. | |
| verb (v. t.) To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage; to inspirit. | |
| verb (v. i.) To form a compact center or heart; as, a hearting cabbage. |
| heartfelt | adjective (a.) Hearty; sincere. |
| heartlet | noun (n.) A little heart. |
| heat | noun (n.) A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as manifested in fire, the sun's rays, mechanical action, chemical combination, etc., becomes directly known to us through the sense of feeling. In its nature heat is a mode if motion, being in general a form of molecular disturbance or vibration. It was formerly supposed to be a subtile, imponderable fluid, to which was given the name caloric. |
| noun (n.) The sensation caused by the force or influence of heat when excessive, or above that which is normal to the human body; the bodily feeling experienced on exposure to fire, the sun's rays, etc.; the reverse of cold. | |
| noun (n.) High temperature, as distinguished from low temperature, or cold; as, the heat of summer and the cold of winter; heat of the skin or body in fever, etc. | |
| noun (n.) Indication of high temperature; appearance, condition, or color of a body, as indicating its temperature; redness; high color; flush; degree of temperature to which something is heated, as indicated by appearance, condition, or otherwise. | |
| noun (n.) A single complete operation of heating, as at a forge or in a furnace; as, to make a horseshoe in a certain number of heats. | |
| noun (n.) A violent action unintermitted; a single effort; a single course in a race that consists of two or more courses; as, he won two heats out of three. | |
| noun (n.) Utmost violence; rage; vehemence; as, the heat of battle or party. | |
| noun (n.) Agitation of mind; inflammation or excitement; exasperation. | |
| noun (n.) Animation, as in discourse; ardor; fervency. | |
| noun (n.) Sexual excitement in animals. | |
| noun (n.) Fermentation. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make hot; to communicate heat to, or cause to grow warm; as, to heat an oven or furnace, an iron, or the like. | |
| verb (v. t.) To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish. | |
| verb (v. t.) To excite ardor in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions. | |
| verb (v. i.) 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. | |
| verb (v. i.) 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. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) Heated; as, the iron though heat red-hot. |
| hebraist | noun (n.) One versed in the Hebrew language and learning. |
| heelpost | noun (n.) The post supporting the outer end of a propeller shaft. |
| noun (n.) The post to which a gate or door is hinged. | |
| noun (n.) The quoin post of a lock gate. |
| heft | noun (n.) Same as Haft, n. |
| noun (n.) The act or effort of heaving/ violent strain or exertion. | |
| noun (n.) Weight; ponderousness. | |
| noun (n.) The greater part or bulk of anything; as, the heft of the crop was spoiled. | |
| noun (n.) A number of sheets of paper fastened together, as for a notebook; also, a part of a serial publication. | |
| verb (v. t.) To heave up; to raise aloft. | |
| verb (v. t.) To prove or try the weight of by raising. | |
| () of Heft |
| height | noun (n.) The condition of being high; elevated position. |
| noun (n.) The distance to which anything rises above its foot, above that on which in stands, above the earth, or above the level of the sea; altitude; the measure upward from a surface, as the floor or the ground, of animal, especially of a man; stature. | |
| noun (n.) Degree of latitude either north or south. | |
| noun (n.) That which is elevated; an eminence; a hill or mountain; as, Alpine heights. | |
| noun (n.) Elevation in excellence of any kind, as in power, learning, arts; also, an advanced degree of social rank; preeminence or distinction in society; prominence. | |
| noun (n.) Progress toward eminence; grade; degree. | |
| noun (n.) Utmost degree in extent; extreme limit of energy or condition; as, the height of a fever, of passion, of madness, of folly; the height of a tempest. |
| heliostat | noun (n.) An instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, by which a sunbeam is made apparently stationary, by being steadily directed to one spot during the whole of its diurnal period; also, a geodetic heliotrope. |
| hellenist | noun (n.) One who affiliates with Greeks, or imitates Greek manners; esp., a person of Jewish extraction who used the Greek language as his mother tongue, as did the Jews of Asia Minor, Greece, Syria, and Egypt; distinguished from the Hebraists, or native Jews (Acts vi. 1). |
| noun (n.) One skilled in the Greek language and literature; as, the critical Hellenist. |
| hellespont | noun (n.) A narrow strait between Europe and Asia, now called the Daradanelles. It connects the Aegean Sea and the sea of Marmora. |
| helmet | noun (n.) A defensive covering for the head. See Casque, Headpiece, Morion, Sallet, and Illust. of Beaver. |
| noun (n.) The representation of a helmet over shields or coats of arms, denoting gradations of rank by modifications of form. | |
| noun (n.) A helmet-shaped hat, made of cork, felt, metal, or other suitable material, worn as part of the uniform of soldiers, firemen, etc., also worn in hot countries as a protection from the heat of the sun. | |
| noun (n.) That which resembles a helmet in form, position, etc. | |
| noun (n.) The upper part of a retort. | |
| noun (n.) The hood-formed upper sepal or petal of some flowers, as of the monkshood or the snapdragon. | |
| noun (n.) A naked shield or protuberance on the top or fore part of the head of a bird. |
| helminthologist | noun (n.) One versed in helminthology. |
| helot | noun (n.) A slave in ancient Sparta; a Spartan serf; hence, a slave or serf. |
| helpmeet | noun (n.) A wife; a helpmate. |
| henbit | noun (n.) A weed of the genus Lamium (L. amplexicaule) with deeply crenate leaves. |
| henroost | noun (n.) A place where hens roost. |
| heptaglot | noun (n.) A book in seven languages. |
| heptarchist | noun (n.) A ruler of one division of a heptarchy. |
| heptavalent | adjective (a.) Having seven units of attractive force or affinity; -- said of heptad elements or radicals. |
| herbalist | noun (n.) One skilled in the knowledge of plants; a collector of, or dealer in, herbs, especially medicinal herbs. |
| herbarist | noun (n.) A herbalist. |
| herbescent | adjective (a.) Growing into herbs. |
| herbist | noun (n.) A herbalist. |
| herblet | noun (n.) A small herb. |
| herborist | noun (n.) A herbalist. |
| hereditament | noun (n.) Any species of property that may be inherited; lands, tenements, anything corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, that may descend to an heir. |
| heremit | noun (n.) Alt. of Heremite |
| heriot | noun (n.) Formerly, a payment or tribute of arms or military accouterments, or the best beast, or chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant; in modern use, a customary tribute of goods or chattels to the lord of the fee, paid on the decease of a tenant. |
| hermit | noun (n.) A person who retires from society and lives in solitude; a recluse; an anchoret; especially, one who so lives from religious motives. |
| noun (n.) A beadsman; one bound to pray for another. | |
| noun (n.) A spiced molasses cooky, often containing chopped raisins and nuts. |
| heroologist | noun (n.) One who treats of heroes. |
| herpetologist | noun (n.) One versed in herpetology, or the natural history of reptiles. |
| herpetotomist | noun (n.) One who dissects, or studies the anatomy of, reptiles. |
| hert | noun (n.) A hart. |
| hesitant | adjective (a.) Not prompt in deciding or acting; hesitating. |
| adjective (a.) Unready in speech. |
| hest | noun (n.) Command; precept; injunction. |
| hesychast | noun (n.) One of a mystical sect of the Greek Church in the fourteenth century; a quietist. |
| heterocyst | noun (n.) A cell larger than the others, and of different appearance, occurring in certain algae related to nostoc. |
| heterodont | noun (n.) Any animal with heterodont dentition. |
| adjective (a.) Having the teeth differentiated into incisors, canines, and molars, as in man; -- opposed to homodont. |
| heterogenist | noun (n.) One who believes in the theory of spontaneous generation, or heterogenesis. |
| heterophemist | noun (n.) One liable to the fault of heterophemy. |
| hexametrist | noun (n.) One who writes in hexameters. |
| hieroglyphist | noun (n.) One versed in hieroglyphics. |
| hierogrammatist | noun (n.) A writer of hierograms; also, one skilled in hieroglyphics. |
| hierologist | noun (n.) One versed in, or whostudies, hierology. |
| hierophant | noun (n.) The presiding priest who initiated candidates at the Eleusinian mysteries; hence, one who teaches the mysteries and duties of religion. |
| highmost | adjective (a.) Highest. |
| hight | noun (n.) A variant of Height. |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To be called or named. | |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To command; to direct; to impel. | |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To commit; to intrust. | |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To promise. | |
| (imp.) of Hight | |
| (p. p.) of Hight |
| hilt | noun (n.) A handle; especially, the handle of a sword, dagger, or the like. |
| hindermost | adjective (a.) Alt. of Hindmost |
| hindmost | adjective (a.) Furthest in or toward the rear; last. |
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