Name Report For First Name HOME:
HOME
First name HOME's origin is Scottish. HOME means "from the cave". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with HOME below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of home.(Brown names are of the same origin (Scottish) with HOME and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with HOME - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming HOME
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES HOME AS A WHOLE:
homer hahkethomemah harkahome homeros homerusNAMES RHYMING WITH HOME (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ome) - Names That Ends with ome:
eurynome jerome bartolome calibome jakome tahkeome salome welcomeRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (me) - Names That Ends with me:
ayame kwame vromme ioachime came eskame esme mayme teme ygeme ame graeme grimme guillaume hume jaime jayme keme maxime storme tahmelapachme carme abame fayme bymeNAMES RHYMING WITH HOME (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (hom) - Names That Begins with hom:
Rhyming 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 hola holbrook holcomb holda holde holden holdin holdyn holea holgar holger holic holle hollee hollie hollis holly holman holmes holt holter holwell 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 HOME:
First Names which starts with 'h' and ends with 'e':
haele haethowine hahnee haidee hailie haille halcyone haldane hale halette halle hallie haloke halwende hannalee hanne hannele hannelore hanriette hantaywee hare harelache hargrove harimanne harlake harlie harlowe harmonee harmonie harriette harte hasione hattie hausisse haye hayle haylee hayley-jade haylie hazle heallstede heardwine hearne hearpere heathdene heathle hebe hecate hedvige heide helaine helene helice helike helle heloise henriette heortwode here hermandine hermione hermoine herne herve herzeloyde hesione hettie hide hilaire hildagarde hilde hildie hillocke hippolyte hline hue huette hugette hughette hulde hurlee hurste hweolere hwistlere hyacinthe hyancinthe hyde hypate hypsipyleEnglish Words Rhyming HOME
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES HOME AS A WHOLE:
| alcohometer | adjective (a.) Alt. of Alcohometric |
| alcohometric | adjective (a.) Same as Alcoholometer, Alcoholometric. |
| baphomet | noun (n.) An idol or symbolical figure which the Templars were accused of using in their mysterious rites. |
| bathometer | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring depths, esp. one for taking soundings without a sounding line. |
| conchometer | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring shells, or the angle of their spire. |
| conchometry | noun (n.) The art of measuring shells or their curves; conchyliometry. |
| echometer | noun (n.) A graduated scale for measuring the duration of sounds, and determining their different, and the relation of their intervals. |
| echometry | noun (n.) The art of measuring the duration of sounds or echoes. |
| noun (n.) The art of constructing vaults to produce echoes. |
| fathomer | noun (n.) One who fathoms. |
| haematachometer | noun (n.) A form of apparatus (somewhat different from the hemadrometer) for measuring the velocity of the blood. |
| haematachometry | noun (n.) The measurement of the velocity of the blood. |
| haemotachometer | noun (n.) Same as Haematachometer. |
| haemotachometry | noun (n.) Same as Haematachometry. |
| hematachometer | noun (n.) Same as Haematachometer. |
| home | noun (n.) See Homelyn. |
| noun (n.) One's own dwelling place; the house in which one lives; esp., the house in which one lives with his family; the habitual abode of one's family; also, one's birthplace. | |
| noun (n.) One's native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one's ancestors dwell or dwelt. | |
| noun (n.) The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections. | |
| noun (n.) The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat; as, the home of the pine. | |
| noun (n.) A place of refuge and rest; an asylum; as, a home for outcasts; a home for the blind; hence, esp., the grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul. | |
| noun (n.) The home base; he started for home. | |
| noun (n.) In various games, the ultimate point aimed at in a progress; goal | |
| noun (n.) The plate at which the batter stands. | |
| noun (n.) The place of a player in front of an opponent's goal; also, the player. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to one's dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts. | |
| adjective (a.) Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust. | |
| adverb (adv.) To one's home or country; as in the phrases, go home, come home, carry home. | |
| adverb (adv.) Close; closely. | |
| adverb (adv.) To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length; as, to drive a nail home; to ram a cartridge home. |
| homeborn | adjective (a.) Native; indigenous; not foreign. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the home or family. |
| homefield | noun (n.) A field adjacent to its owner's home. |
| homeless | adjective (a.) Destitute of a home. |
| homelike | adjective (a.) Like a home; comfortable; cheerful; cozy; friendly. |
| homeliness | noun (n.) Domesticity; care of home. |
| noun (n.) Familiarity; intimacy. | |
| noun (n.) Plainness; want of elegance or beauty. | |
| noun (n.) Coarseness; simplicity; want of refinement; as, the homeliness of manners, or language. |
| homeling | noun (n.) A person or thing belonging to a home or to a particular country; a native; as, a word which is a homeling. |
| homely | noun (n.) Belonging to, or having the characteristics of, home; domestic; familiar; intimate. |
| noun (n.) Plain; unpretending; rude in appearance; unpolished; as, a homely garment; a homely house; homely fare; homely manners. | |
| noun (n.) Of plain or coarse features; uncomely; -- contrary to handsome. | |
| adverb (adv.) Plainly; rudely; coarsely; as, homely dressed. |
| homelyn | noun (n.) The European sand ray (Raia maculata); -- called also home, mirror ray, and rough ray. |
| homemade | adjective (a.) Made at home; of domestic manufacture; made either in a private family or in one's own country. |
| homeopath | noun (n.) A practitioner of homeopathy. |
| homeopathic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to homeopathy; according to the principles of homeopathy. |
| homeopathist | noun (n.) A believer in, or practitioner of, homeopathy. |
| homeopathy | noun (n.) The art of curing, founded on resemblances; the theory and its practice that disease is cured (tuto, cito, et jucunde) by remedies which produce on a healthy person effects similar to the symptoms of the complaint under which the patient suffers, the remedies being usually administered in minute doses. This system was founded by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, and is opposed to allopathy, or heteropathy. |
| homer | noun (n.) A carrier pigeon remarkable for its ability to return home from a distance. |
| noun (n.) See Hoemother. | |
| noun (n.) A Hebrew measure containing, as a liquid measure, ten baths, equivalent to fifty-five gallons, two quarts, one pint; and, as a dry measure, ten ephahs, equivalent to six bushels, two pecks, four quarts. |
| homeric | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Homer, the most famous of Greek poets; resembling the poetry of Homer. |
| homesick | adjective (a.) Pining for home; in a nostalgic condition. |
| homespun | noun (n.) Cloth made at home; as, he was dressed in homespun. |
| noun (n.) An unpolished, rustic person. | |
| adjective (a.) Spun or wrought at home; of domestic manufacture; coarse; plain. | |
| adjective (a.) Plain in manner or style; not elegant; rude; coarse. |
| homestall | noun (n.) Place of a home; homestead. |
| homestead | noun (n.) The home place; a home and the inclosure or ground immediately connected with it. |
| noun (n.) The home or seat of a family; place of origin. | |
| noun (n.) The home and appurtenant land and buildings owned by the head of a family, and occupied by him and his family. |
| homesteader | noun (n.) One who has entered upon a portion of the public land with the purpose of acquiring ownership of it under provisions of the homestead law, so called; one who has acquired a homestead in this manner. |
| homeward | adjective (a.) Being in the direction of home; as, the homeward way. |
| adverb (adv.) Alt. of Homewards |
| mahomedan | noun (n.) Alt. of Mahometan |
| mahometan | noun (n.) See Mohammedan. |
| mahometanism | noun (n.) See Mohammedanism. |
| mahometanizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mahometanize |
| mahometism | noun (n.) See Mohammedanism. |
| mahometist | noun (n.) A Mohammedan. |
| mahometry | noun (n.) Mohammedanism. |
| mhometer | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring conductivity. |
| orthometric | adjective (a.) Having the axes at right angles to one another; -- said of crystals or crystalline forms. |
| orthometry | noun (n.) The art or practice of constructing verses correctly; the laws of correct versification. |
| pachometer | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring thickness, as of the glass of a mirror, or of paper; a pachymeter. |
| photographometer | noun (n.) An instrument for determining the sensibility of the plates employed in photographic processes to luminous rays. |
| psychometry | noun (n.) The art of measuring the duration of mental processes, or of determining the time relations of mental phenomena. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH HOME (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ome) - English Words That Ends with ome:
| actinosome | noun (n.) The entire body of a coelenterate. |
| actinostome | noun (n.) The mouth or anterior opening of a coelenterate animal. |
| adventuresome | adjective (a.) Full of risk; adventurous; venturesome. |
| amphicome | noun (n.) A kind of figured stone, rugged and beset with eminences, anciently used in divination. |
| ancome | noun (n.) A small ulcerous swelling, coming suddenly; also, a whitlow. |
| apotome | noun (n.) The difference between two quantities commensurable only in power, as between Ã2 and 1, or between the diagonal and side of a square. |
| noun (n.) The remaining part of a whole tone after a smaller semitone has been deducted from it; a major semitone. |
| awesome | adjective (a.) Causing awe; appalling; awful; as, an awesome sight. |
| adjective (a.) Expressive of awe or terror. |
| awsome | adjective (a.) Same as Awesome. |
| aerodrome | noun (n.) A shed for housing an airship or aeroplane. |
| noun (n.) A ground or field, esp. one equipped with housing and other facilities, used for flying purposes. |
| arthrotome | noun (n.) A strong scalpel used in the dissection of joints. |
| baenosome | noun (n.) The thorax of Arthropods. |
| blithesome | adjective (a.) Cheery; gay; merry. |
| bothersome | adjective (a.) Vexatious; causing bother; causing trouble or perplexity; troublesome. |
| brachydome | noun (n.) A dome parallel to the shorter lateral axis. See Dome. |
| brightsome | adjective (a.) Bright; clear; luminous; brilliant. |
| brome | noun (n.) See Bromine. |
| bronchotome | noun (n.) An instrument for cutting into the bronchial tubes. |
| burdensome | adjective (a.) Grievous to be borne; causing uneasiness or fatigue; oppressive. |
| catadrome | noun (n.) A race course. |
| noun (n.) A machine for raising or lowering heavy weights. |
| centrosome | noun (n.) A peculiar rounded body lying near the nucleus of a cell. It is regarded as the dynamic element by means of which the machinery of cell division is organized. |
| cephalosome | noun (n.) The anterior region or head of insects and other arthropods. |
| cephalotome | noun (n.) An instrument for cutting into the fetal head, to facilitate delivery. |
| cholochrome | noun (n.) See Bilirubin. |
| chrome | noun (n.) Same as Chromium. |
| noun (n.) To treat with a solution of potassium bichromate, as in dyeing. |
| chromosome | noun (n.) One of the minute bodies into which the chromatin of the nucleus is resolved during mitotic cell division; the idant of Weismann. |
| clinodome | noun (n.) See under Dome. |
| come | noun (n.) To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker, or some place or person indicated; -- opposed to go. |
| noun (n.) To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive. | |
| noun (n.) To approach or arrive, as if by a journey or from a distance. | |
| noun (n.) To approach or arrive, as the result of a cause, or of the act of another. | |
| noun (n.) To arrive in sight; to be manifest; to appear. | |
| noun (n.) To get to be, as the result of change or progress; -- with a predicate; as, to come untied. | |
| noun (n.) Coming. | |
| verb (v. t.) To carry through; to succeed in; as, you can't come any tricks here. | |
| (p. p.) of Come |
| condylome | noun (n.) A wartlike new growth on the outer skin or adjoining mucous membrane. |
| costotome | noun (n.) An instrument (chisel or shears) to cut the ribs and open the thoracic cavity, in post-mortem examinations and dissections. |
| cumbersome | adjective (a.) Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; embarrassing; vexatious; cumbrous. |
| adjective (a.) Not easily managed; as, a cumbersome contrivance or machine. |
| cyclostome | adjective (a.) Alt. of Cyclostomous |
| cystotome | noun (n.) A knife or instrument used in cystotomy. |
| caulome | noun (n.) A stem structure or stem axis of a plant, viewed as a whole. |
| darksome | adjective (a.) Dark; gloomy; obscure; shaded; cheerless. |
| delightsome | adjective (a.) Very pleasing; delightful. |
| dinsome | adjective (a.) Full of din. |
| dolesome | adjective (a.) Doleful; dismal; gloomy; sorrowful. |
| dome | noun (n.) A building; a house; an edifice; -- used chiefly in poetry. |
| noun (n.) A cupola formed on a large scale. | |
| noun (n.) Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building; as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form. | |
| noun (n.) Decision; judgment; opinion; a court decision. |
| downcome | noun (n.) Sudden fall; downfall; overthrow. |
| noun (n.) A pipe for leading combustible gases downward from the top of the blast furnace to the hot-blast stoves, boilers, etc., where they are burned. |
| drearisome | adjective (a.) Very dreary. |
| drome | noun (n.) The crab plover (Dromas ardeola), a peculiar North African bird, allied to the oyster catcher. |
| noun (n.) Short for A/rodrome. |
| dullsome | adjective (a.) Dull. |
| dystome | adjective (a.) Cleaving with difficulty. |
| eerisome | adjective (a.) Causing fear; eerie. |
| endochrome | noun (n.) The coloring matter within the cells of plants, whether green, red, yellow, or any other color. |
| endostome | noun (n.) The foramen or passage through the inner integument of an ovule. |
| noun (n.) And endostoma. |
| enterotome | noun (n.) A kind of scissors used for opening the intestinal canal, as in post-mortem examinations. |
| epistome | noun (n.) The region between the antennae and the mouth, in Crustacea. |
| noun (n.) A liplike organ that covers the mouth, in most Bryozoa. See Illust., under Entoprocta. |
| epitome | noun (n.) A work in which the contents of a former work are reduced within a smaller space by curtailment and condensation; a brief summary; an abridgement. |
| noun (n.) A compact or condensed representation of anything. |
| exostome | noun (n.) The small aperture or foremen in the outer coat of the ovule of a plant. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH HOME (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (hom) - Words That Begins with hom:
| homacanth | adjective (a.) Having the dorsal fin spines symmetrical, and in the same line; -- said of certain fishes. |
| homage | noun (n.) A symbolical acknowledgment made by a feudal tenant to, and in the presence of, his lord, on receiving investiture of fee, or coming to it by succession, that he was his man, or vassal; profession of fealty to a sovereign. |
| noun (n.) Respect or reverential regard; deference; especially, respect paid by external action; obeisance. | |
| noun (n.) Reverence directed to the Supreme Being; reverential worship; devout affection. | |
| verb (v. t.) To pay reverence to by external action. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to pay homage. |
| homaging | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Homage |
| homageable | adjective (a.) Subject to homage. |
| homager | noun (n.) One who does homage, or holds land of another by homage; a vassal. |
| homalographic | adjective (a.) Same as Homolographic. |
| homaloid | adjective (a.) Alt. of Homaloidal |
| homaloidal | adjective (a.) Flat; even; -- a term applied to surfaces and to spaces, whether real or imagined, in which the definitions, axioms, and postulates of Euclid respecting parallel straight lines are assumed to hold true. |
| homarus | noun (n.) A genus of decapod Crustacea, including the common lobsters. |
| homatropine | noun (n.) An alkaloid, prepared from atropine, and from other sources. It is chemically related to atropine, and is used for the same purpose. |
| homaxonial | adjective (a.) Relating to that kind of homology or symmetry, the mathematical conception of organic form, in which all axes are equal. See under Promorphology. |
| homicidal | adjective (a.) Pertaining to homicide; tending to homicide; murderous. |
| homiform | adjective (a.) In human form. |
| homilete | noun (n.) A homilist. |
| homiletic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Homiletical |
| homiletical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to familiar intercourse; social; affable; conversable; companionable. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to homiletics; hortatory. |
| homiletics | noun (n.) The art of preaching; that branch of theology which treats of homilies or sermons, and the best method of preparing and delivering them. |
| homilist | noun (n.) One who prepares homilies; one who preaches to a congregation. |
| homilite | noun (n.) A borosilicate of iron and lime, near datolite in form and composition. |
| homily | noun (n.) A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; a serious discourse. |
| noun (n.) A serious or tedious exhortation in private on some moral point, or on the conduct of life. |
| homing | adjective (a.) Home-returning; -- used specifically of carrier pigeons. |
| adjective (p.a.) Home-returning. |
| hominy | noun (n.) Maize hulled and broken, and prepared for food by being boiled in water. |
| homish | adjective (a.) Like a home or a home circle. |
| hommock | noun (n.) A small eminence of a conical form, of land or of ice; a knoll; a hillock. See Hummock. |
| hommocky | adjective (a.) Filled with hommocks; piled in the form of hommocks; -- said of ice. |
| homocategoric | adjective (a.) Belonging to the same category of individuality; -- a morphological term applied to organisms so related. |
| homocentric | adjective (a.) Having the same center. |
| homocercal | adjective (a.) Having the tail nearly or quite symmetrical, the vertebral column terminating near its base; -- opposed to heterocercal. |
| homocercy | noun (n.) The possession of a homocercal tail. |
| homocerebrin | noun (n.) A body similar to, or identical with, cerebrin. |
| homochromous | adjective (a.) Having all the florets in the same flower head of the same color. |
| homodemic | adjective (a.) A morphological term signifying development, in the case of multicellular organisms, from the same unit deme or unit of the inferior orders of individuality. |
| homodermic | adjective (a.) Relating to homodermy; originating from the same germ layer. |
| homodermy | noun (n.) Homology of the germinal layers. |
| homodont | adjective (a.) Having all the teeth similar in front, as in the porpoises; -- opposed to heterodont. |
| homodromal | adjective (a.) Alt. of Homodromous |
| homodromous | adjective (a.) Running in the same direction; -- said of stems twining round a support, or of the spiral succession of leaves on stems and their branches. |
| adjective (a.) Moving in the same direction; -- said of a lever or pulley in which the resistance and the actuating force are both on the same side of the fulcrum or axis. |
| homodynamic | adjective (a.) Homodynamous. |
| homodynamous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or involving, homodynamy; as, successive or homodynamous parts in plants and animals. |
| homodynamy | noun (n.) The homology of metameres. See Metamere. |
| homoeomeria | noun (n.) The state or quality of being homogeneous in elements or first principles; likeness or identity of parts. |
| homoeomeric | adjective (a.) Alt. of Homoeomerical |
| homoeomerical | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, sameness of parts; receiving or advocating the doctrine of homogeneity of elements or first principles. |
| homoeomerous | adjective (a.) Having the main artery of the leg parallel with the sciatic nerve; -- said of certain birds. |
| homoeomery | noun (n.) Same as Homoeomeria. |
| homoeomorphism | noun (n.) A near similarity of crystalline forms between unlike chemical compounds. See Isomorphism. |
| homoeomorphous | adjective (a.) Manifesting homoeomorphism. |
| homoeopathic | noun (n.) Alt. of Homoeopathy |
| homoeopathist | noun (n.) Alt. of Homoeopathy |
| homoeopathy | noun (n.) Same as Homeopathic, Homeopathist, Homeopathy. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH HOME:
English Words which starts with 'h' and ends with 'e':
| haberdine | noun (n.) A cod salted and dried. |
| habile | adjective (a.) Fit; qualified; also, apt. |
| habilitate | adjective (a.) Qualified or entitled. |
| verb (v. t.) To fit out; to equip; to qualify; to entitle. |
| habitable | adjective (a.) Capable of being inhabited; that may be inhabited or dwelt in; as, the habitable world. |
| habitance | noun (n.) Dwelling; abode; residence. |
| habituate | adjective (a.) Firmly established by custom; formed by habit; habitual. |
| verb (v. t.) To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize. | |
| verb (v. t.) To settle as an inhabitant. |
| habitude | noun (n.) Habitual attitude; usual or accustomed state with reference to something else; established or usual relations. |
| noun (n.) Habitual association, intercourse, or familiarity. | |
| noun (n.) Habit of body or of action. |
| habitue | noun (n.) One who habitually frequents a place; as, an habitue of a theater. |
| habiture | noun (n.) Habitude. |
| hable | adjective (a.) See Habile. |
| hachure | noun (n.) A short line used in drawing and engraving, especially in shading and denoting different surfaces, as in map drawing. See Hatching. |
| hackamore | noun (n.) A halter consisting of a long leather or rope strap and headstall, -- used for leading or tieing a pack animal. |
| hackee | noun (n.) The chipmunk; also, the chickaree or red squirrel. |
| hackle | noun (n.) A comb for dressing flax, raw silk, etc.; a hatchel. |
| noun (n.) Any flimsy substance unspun, as raw silk. | |
| noun (n.) One of the peculiar, long, narrow feathers on the neck of fowls, most noticeable on the cock, -- often used in making artificial flies; hence, any feather so used. | |
| noun (n.) An artificial fly for angling, made of feathers. | |
| verb (v. t.) To separate, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel. | |
| verb (v. t.) To tear asunder; to break in pieces. |
| haddie | noun (n.) The haddock. |
| hade | noun (n.) The descent of a hill. |
| noun (n.) The inclination or deviation from the vertical of any mineral vein. | |
| noun (n.) The deviation of a fault plane from the vertical. | |
| verb (v. i.) To deviate from the vertical; -- said of a vein, fault, or lode. |
| haemachrome | noun (n.) Hematin. |
| haematite | noun (n.) Same as Hematite. |
| haematoscope | noun (n.) A haemoscope. |
| haemochrome | noun (n.) Same as Haemachrome. |
| haemoscope | noun (n.) An instrument devised by Hermann, for regulating and measuring the thickness of a layer of blood for spectroscopic examination. |
| haggle | noun (n.) The act or process of haggling. |
| verb (v. t.) To cut roughly or hack; to cut into small pieces; to notch or cut in an unskillful manner; to make rough or mangle by cutting; as, a boy haggles a stick of wood. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be difficult in bargaining; to stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle. |
| hagioscope | noun (n.) An opening made in the interior walls of a cruciform church to afford a view of the altar to those in the transepts; -- called, in architecture, a squint. |
| haidingerite | noun (n.) A mineral consisting of the arseniate of lime; -- so named in honor of W. Haidinger, of Vienna. |
| hailstone | noun (n.) A single particle of ice falling from a cloud; a frozen raindrop; a pellet of hail. |
| haye | noun (n.) The Egyptian asp or cobra (Naja haje.) It is related to the cobra of India, and like the latter has the power of inflating its neck into a hood. Its bite is very venomous. It is supposed to be the snake by means of whose bite Cleopatra committed suicide, and hence is sometimes called Cleopatra's snake or asp. See Asp. |
| hake | noun (n.) A drying shed, as for unburned tile. |
| noun (n.) One of several species of marine gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis, Merlucius, and allies. The common European hake is M. vulgaris; the American silver hake or whiting is M. bilinearis. Two American species (Phycis chuss and P. tenius) are important food fishes, and are also valued for their oil and sounds. Called also squirrel hake, and codling. | |
| verb (v. t.) To loiter; to sneak. |
| hale | noun (n.) Welfare. |
| adjective (a.) Sound; entire; healthy; robust; not impaired; as, a hale body. | |
| verb (v. t.) To pull; to drag; to haul. |
| halfpace | noun (n.) A platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight. See Quarterpace. |
| halichondriae | noun (n. pl.) An order of sponges, having simple siliceous spicules and keratose fibers; -- called also Keratosilicoidea. |
| halicore | noun (n.) Same as Dugong. |
| halite | noun (n.) Native salt; sodium chloride. |
| hallage | noun (n.) A fee or toll paid for goods sold in a hall. |
| hallidome | noun (n.) Same as Halidom. |
| halloysite | noun (n.) A claylike mineral, occurring in soft, smooth, amorphous masses, of a whitish color. |
| halophyte | noun (n.) A plant found growing in salt marshes, or in the sea. |
| haloscope | noun (n.) An instrument for exhibition or illustration of the phenomena of halos, parhelia, and the like. |
| halotrichite | noun (n.) An iron alum occurring in silky fibrous aggregates of a yellowish white color. |
| haloxyline | noun (n.) An explosive mixture, consisting of sawdust, charcoal, niter, and ferrocyanide of potassium, used as a substitute for gunpowder. |
| halpace | noun (n.) See Haut pas. |
| halve | noun (n.) A half. |
| verb (v. t.) To divide into two equal parts; as, to halve an apple; to be or form half of. | |
| verb (v. t.) To join, as two pieces of timber, by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together. | |
| verb (v. t.) Of a hole, match, etc., to reach or play in the same number of strokes as an opponent. |
| halwe | noun (n.) A saint. |
| hamate | adjective (a.) Hooked; bent at the end into a hook; hamous. |
| hame | noun (n.) Home. |
| noun (n.) One of the two curved pieces of wood or metal, in the harness of a draught horse, to which the traces are fastened. They are fitted upon the collar, or have pads fitting the horse's neck attached to them. |
| hamite | noun (n.) A fossil cephalopod of the genus Hamites, related to the ammonites, but having the last whorl bent into a hooklike form. |
| noun (n.) A descendant of Ham, Noah's second son. See Gen. x. 6-20. |
| hammerable | adjective (a.) Capable of being formed or shaped by a hammer. |
| hamulate | adjective (a.) Furnished with a small hook; hook-shaped. |
| hamule | noun (n.) A little hook. |
| hamulose | adjective (a.) Bearing a small hook at the end. |
| handle | noun (n.) That part of vessels, instruments, etc., which is held in the hand when used or moved, as the haft of a sword, the knob of a door, the bail of a kettle, etc. |
| noun (n.) That of which use is made; the instrument for effecting a purpose; a tool. | |
| verb (v. t.) To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand. | |
| verb (v. t.) To manage in using, as a spade or a musket; to wield; often, to manage skillfully. | |
| verb (v. t.) To accustom to the hand; to work upon, or take care of, with the hands. | |
| verb (v. t.) To receive and transfer; to have pass through one's hands; hence, to buy and sell; as, a merchant handles a variety of goods, or a large stock. | |
| verb (v. t.) To deal with; to make a business of. | |
| verb (v. t.) To treat; to use, well or ill. | |
| verb (v. t.) To manage; to control; to practice skill upon. | |
| verb (v. t.) To use or manage in writing or speaking; to treat, as a theme, an argument, or an objection. | |
| verb (v. i.) To use the hands. |
| handleable | adjective (a.) Capable of being handled. |
| handmade | adjective (a.) Manufactured by hand; as, handmade shoes. |
| handspike | noun (n.) A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes. |
| handygripe | noun (n.) Seizure by, or grasp of, the hand; also, close quarters in fighting. |
| handystroke | noun (n.) A blow with the hand. |
| hanse | noun (n.) That part of an elliptical or many-centered arch which has the shorter radius and immediately adjoins the impost. |
| noun (n.) An association; a league or confederacy. |
| harangue | noun (n.) A speech addressed to a large public assembly; a popular oration; a loud address a multitude; in a bad sense, a noisy or pompous speech; declamation; ranting. |
| verb (v. i.) To make an harangue; to declaim. | |
| verb (v. t.) To address by an harangue. |
| harborage | noun (n.) Shelter; entertainment. |
| hardbake | noun (n.) A sweetmeat of boiled brown sugar or molasses made with almonds, and flavored with orange or lemon juice, etc. |
| hardware | noun (n.) Ware made of metal, as cutlery, kitchen utensils, and the like; ironmongery. |
| hare | noun (n.) A rodent of the genus Lepus, having long hind legs, a short tail, and a divided upper lip. It is a timid animal, moves swiftly by leaps, and is remarkable for its fecundity. |
| noun (n.) A small constellation situated south of and under the foot of Orion; Lepus. | |
| verb (v. t.) To excite; to tease, or worry; to harry. |
| harle | noun (n.) The red-breasted merganser. |
| harlequinade | noun (n.) A play or part of play in which the harlequin is conspicuous; the part of a harlequin. |
| harmaline | noun (n.) An alkaloid found in the plant Peganum harmala. It forms bitter, yellow salts. |
| harmine | noun (n.) An alkaloid accompanying harmaline (in the Peganum harmala), and obtained from it by oxidation. It is a white crystalline substance. |
| harmonite | noun (n.) One of a religious sect, founded in Wurtemburg in the last century, composed of followers of George Rapp, a weaver. They had all their property in common. In 1803, a portion of this sect settled in Pennsylvania and called the village thus established, Harmony. |
| harmotome | noun (n.) A hydrous silicate of alumina and baryta, occurring usually in white cruciform crystals; cross-stone. |
| harquebuse | noun (n.) A firearm with match holder, trigger, and tumbler, made in the second half of the 15th century. the barrel was about forty inches long. A form of the harquebus was subsequently called arquebus with matchlock. |
| harre | noun (n.) A hinge. |
| haruspice | noun (n.) A diviner of ancient Rome. Same as Aruspice. |
| hastate | noun (n.) Alt. of Hastated |
| haste | noun (n.) Celerity of motion; speed; swiftness; dispatch; expedition; -- applied only to voluntary beings, as men and other animals. |
| noun (n.) The state of being urged or pressed by business; hurry; urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence. | |
| noun (n.) To hasten; to hurry. |
| hastile | adjective (a.) Same as Hastate. |
| hastive | noun (n.) Forward; early; -- said of fruits. |
| hatable | adjective (a.) Capable of being, or deserving to be, hated; odious; detestable. |
| hatchettine | noun (n.) Alt. of Hatchettite |
| hatchettite | noun (n.) Mineral t/ low; a waxy or spermaceti-like substance, commonly of a greenish yellow color. |
| hatchure | noun (n.) Same as Hachure. |
| hate | noun (n.) To have a great aversion to, with a strong desire that evil should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed; to dislike intensely; to detest; as, to hate one's enemies; to hate hypocrisy. |
| noun (n.) To be very unwilling; followed by an infinitive, or a substantive clause with that; as, to hate to get into debt; to hate that anything should be wasted. | |
| noun (n.) To love less, relatively. | |
| verb (v.) Strong aversion coupled with desire that evil should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed; as exercised toward things, intense dislike; hatred; detestation; -- opposed to love. |
| hattree | noun (n.) A hatstand. |
| hauerite | noun (n.) Native sulphide of manganese a reddish brown or brownish black mineral. |
| haulage | noun (n.) Act of hauling; as, the haulage of cars by an engine; charge for hauling. |
| hausse | noun (n.) A kind of graduated breech sight for a small arm, or a cannon. |
| haustellate | noun (n.) One of the Haustellata. |
| adjective (a.) Provided with a haustellum, or sucking proboscis. |
| hauynite | noun (n.) A blue isometric mineral, characteristic of some volcani/ rocks. It is a silicate of alumina, lime, and soda, with sulphate of lime. |
| havanese | noun (n. sing. & pl.) A native or inhabitant, or the people, of Havana. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Havana, in Cuba. |
| havenage | noun (n.) Harbor dues; port dues. |
| hawebake | noun (n.) Probably, the baked berry of the hawthorn tree, that is, coarse fare. See 1st Haw, 2. |
| hawse | noun (n.) A hawse hole. |
| noun (n.) The situation of the cables when a vessel is moored with two anchors, one on the starboard, the other on the port bow. | |
| noun (n.) The distance ahead to which the cables usually extend; as, the ship has a clear or open hawse, or a foul hawse; to anchor in our hawse, or athwart hawse. | |
| noun (n.) That part of a vessel's bow in which are the hawse holes for the cables. |
| haybote | noun (n.) An allowance of wood to a tenant for repairing his hedges or fences; hedgebote. See Bote. |
| hayrake | noun (n.) A rake for collecting hay; especially, a large rake drawn by a horse or horses. |
| hazardable | adjective (a.) Liable to hazard or chance; uncertain; risky. |
| adjective (a.) Such as can be hazarded or risked. |
| hazardize | noun (n.) A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. |
| haze | noun (n.) Light vapor or smoke in the air which more or less impedes vision, with little or no dampness; a lack of transparency in the air; hence, figuratively, obscurity; dimness. |
| verb (v. i.) To be hazy, or tick with haze. | |
| verb (v. t.) To harass by exacting unnecessary, disagreeable, or difficult work. | |
| verb (v. t.) To harass or annoy by playing abusive or shameful tricks upon; to humiliate by practical jokes; -- used esp. of college students; as, the sophomores hazed a freshman. |
| headache | noun (n.) Pain in the head; cephalalgia. |
| headline | noun (n.) The line at the head or top of a page. |
| noun (n.) See Headrope. |
| headnote | noun (n.) A note at the head of a page or chapter; in law reports, an abstract of a case, showing the principles involved and the opinion of the court. |
| headpiece | noun (n.) Head. |
| noun (n.) A cap of defense; especially, an open one, as distinguished from the closed helmet of the Middle Ages. | |
| noun (n.) Understanding; mental faculty. | |
| noun (n.) An engraved ornament at the head of a chapter, or of a page. |
| headrace | noun (n.) See Race, a water course. |
| headrope | noun (n.) That part of a boltrope which is sewed to the upper edge or head of a sail. |
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