HUNT

Name Report For First Name HUNT:

First name HUNT's origin is English. HUNT means "pursuer. surname". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with HUNT below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of hunt.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with HUNT and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with HUNT - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming HUNT

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES HUNT AS A WHOLE:

chunta hunter huntingden huntington huntir huntly huntley huntingtun huntingdon

NAMES RHYMING WITH HUNT (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (unt) - Names That Ends with unt:

moraunt frimunt waldmunt

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (nt) - Names That Ends with nt:

yervant escorant gallehant rhongomyant kent bent agramant sacripant toussaint lorant creissant devent advent anant arnt bliant brant brent briant bryant calogrenant clint conant derwent diamont dumont flint flynt fremont graent grant lamont laurent oliphant osmont pierrepont toussnint trent vincent pierpont avent rhodant jacint millicent crescent geraint innocent valiant sargent clarissant meleagant pant trevrizent delmont durant durrant quent quint

NAMES RHYMING WITH HUNT (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (hun) - Names That Begins with hun:

hunfri hunfrid hunfried hung hungas hunig

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (hu) - Names That Begins with hu:

huarwar huata hub hubbard hubert huberta hud huda hudak hudhayfah hudson hue hueil huemac huetta huette huetts huey hugette hugh hughes hughetta hughette hughston hugi hugiberahta hugiet hugiherahta hugo huguetta huitzilihuitl huitzilli hulbard hulbart hulbert huld hulda hulde huldiberaht huma humam humayd humberto hume humility humita humphrey huon huong hurit huritt huriyyah hurlbart hurlbert hurlee hurley hurly hurst hurste husain husam husani husayn husn husnain husniyah hussain hussein husto hutton huu huxeford huxford huxley huxly huy huyana huyen huynh

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH HUNT:

First Names which starts with 'h' and ends with 't':

hacket hackett halbart halbert halburt halebeorht hamlet hamlett hamoelet harailt 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 hobart hohberht holt hyatt

English Words Rhyming HUNT

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES HUNT AS A WHOLE:

hunting	noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hunt
	noun (n.) The pursuit of game or of wild animals.

hunt	noun (n.) The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search.
	noun (n.) The game secured in the hunt.
	noun (n.) A pack of hounds.
	noun (n.) An association of huntsmen.
	noun (n.) A district of country hunted over.
	verb (v. t.) To search for or follow after, as game or wild animals; to chase; to pursue for the purpose of catching or killing; to follow with dogs or guns for sport or exercise; as, to hunt a deer.
	verb (v. t.) To search diligently after; to seek; to pursue; to follow; -- often with out or up; as, to hunt up the facts; to hunt out evidence.
	verb (v. t.) To drive; to chase; -- with down, from, away, etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish.
	verb (v. t.) To use or manage in the chase, as hounds.
	verb (v. t.) To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country.
	verb (v. i.) To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds.
	verb (v. i.) To seek; to pursue; to search; -- with for or after.
	verb (v. i.) To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, or the like; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.
	verb (v. i.) To shift up and down in order regularly.
	verb (v. t.) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.

hunte

noun (n.) A hunter.

hunter	noun (n.) One who hunts wild animals either for sport or for food; a huntsman.
	noun (n.) A dog that scents game, or is trained to the chase; a hunting dog.
	noun (n.) A horse used in the chase; especially, a thoroughbred, bred and trained for hunting.
	noun (n.) One who hunts or seeks after anything, as if for game; as, a fortune hunter a place hunter.
	noun (n.) A kind of spider. See Hunting spider, under Hunting.
	noun (n.) A hunting watch, or one of which the crystal is protected by a metallic cover.

hunterian

adjective (a.) Discovered or described by John Hunter, an English surgeon; as, the Hunterian chancre. See Chancre.

huntress

noun (n.) A woman who hunts or follows the chase; as, the huntress Diana.

huntsman	noun (n.) One who hunts, or who practices hunting.
	noun (n.) The person whose office it is to manage the chase or to look after the hounds.

huntsmanship

noun (n.) The art or practice of hunting, or the qualification of a hunter.

shunting	noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shunt
	noun (vb. n.) Switching; as, shunting engine, yard, etc.
	noun (vb. n.) Arbitrage conducted between certain local markets without the necessity of the exchange involved in foreign arbitrage.

shunter

noun (n.) A person employed to shunt cars from one track to another.

tufthunter

noun (n.) A hanger-on to noblemen, or persons of quality, especially in English universities; a toady. See 1st Tuft, 3.

tufthunting

noun (n.) The practice of seeking after, and hanging on, noblemen, or persons of quality, especially in English universities.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH HUNT (According to last letters):

Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (unt) - English Words That Ends with unt:

account	noun (n.) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.
	noun (n.) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank.
	noun (n.) A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts.
	noun (n.) A statement of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle.
	noun (n.) A statement and explanation or vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgment thereon.
	noun (n.) An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
	noun (n.) Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit.
	verb (v. t.) To reckon; to compute; to count.
	verb (v. t.) To place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to assign; -- with to.
	verb (v. t.) To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem.
	verb (v. t.) To recount; to relate.
	verb (v. i.) To render or receive an account or relation of particulars; as, an officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.
	verb (v. i.) To render an account; to answer in judgment; -- with for; as, we must account for the use of our opportunities.
	verb (v. i.) To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain; -- with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty.

alaunt

noun (n.) See Alan.

amount	noun (n.) To go up; to ascend.
	noun (n.) To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come (to) in the aggregate or whole; -- with to or unto.
	noun (n.) To rise, reach, or extend in effect, substance, or influence; to be equivalent; to come practically (to); as, the testimony amounts to very little.
	noun (n.) The sum total of two or more sums or quantities; the aggregate; the whole quantity; a totality; as, the amount of 7 and 9 is 16; the amount of a bill; the amount of this year's revenue.
	noun (n.) The effect, substance, value, significance, or result; the sum; as, the amount of the testimony is this.
	verb (v. t.) To signify; to amount to.

armgaunt

adjective (a.) With gaunt or slender legs. (?)

athamaunt

noun (n.) Adamant.

aunt	noun (n.) The sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife.
	noun (n.) An old woman; and old gossip.
	noun (n.) A bawd, or a prostitute.

avaunt	noun (n.) A vaunt; to boast.
	verb (v. t. & i.) To advance; to move forward; to elevate.
	verb (v. t. & i.) To depart; to move away.
	verb (v. t. & i.) To vaunt; to boast.
	(interj.) Begone; depart; -- a word of contempt or abhorrence, equivalent to the phrase "Get thee gone."

blunt	noun (n.) A fencer's foil.
	noun (n.) A short needle with a strong point. See Needle.
	noun (n.) Money.
	adjective (a.) Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp.
	adjective (a.) Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; stupid; -- opposed to acute.
	adjective (a.) Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
	adjective (a.) Hard to impress or penetrate.
	verb (v. t.) To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
	verb (v. t.) To repress or weaken, as any appetite, desire, or power of the mind; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of; as, to blunt the feelings.

bunt	noun (n.) A fungus (Ustilago foetida) which affects the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a fetid dust; -- also called pepperbrand.
	noun (n.) The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
	noun (n.) A push or shove; a butt;
	noun (n.) the act of bunting the ball.
	verb (v. i.) To swell out; as, the sail bunts.
	verb (v. t. & i.) To strike or push with the horns or head; to butt; as, the ram bunted the boy.
	verb (v. t. & i.) To bat or tap (the ball) slowly within the infield by meeting it with the bat without swinging at it.

catamount

noun (n.) The cougar. Applied also, in some parts of the United States, to the lynx.

chaunt

noun (n. & v.) See Chant.

count	noun (n.) A nobleman on the continent of Europe, equal in rank to an English earl.
	verb (v. t.) To tell or name one by one, or by groups, for the purpose of ascertaining the whole number of units in a collection; to number; to enumerate; to compute; to reckon.
	verb (v. t.) To place to an account; to ascribe or impute; to consider or esteem as belonging.
	verb (v. t.) To esteem; to account; to reckon; to think, judge, or consider.
	verb (v. i.) To number or be counted; to possess value or carry weight; hence, to increase or add to the strength or influence of some party or interest; as, every vote counts; accidents count for nothing.
	verb (v. i.) To reckon; to rely; to depend; -- with on or upon.
	verb (v. i.) To take account or note; -- with
	verb (v. i.) To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.
	verb (v. t.) The act of numbering; reckoning; also, the number ascertained by counting.
	verb (v. t.) An object of interest or account; value; estimation.
	verb (v. t.) A formal statement of the plaintiff's case in court; in a more technical and correct sense, a particular allegation or charge in a declaration or indictment, separately setting forth the cause of action or prosecution.

dunt

noun (n.) A blow.

fiaunt

noun (n.) Commission; fiat; order; decree.

flaunt	noun (n.) Anything displayed for show.
	verb (v. i.) To throw or spread out; to flutter; to move ostentatiously; as, a flaunting show.
	verb (v. t.) To display ostentatiously; to make an impudent show of.

fount	noun (n.) A font.
	noun (n.) A fountain.

gaunt

adjective (a.) Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim.

grandaunt

noun (n.) The aunt of one's father or mother.

graunt

noun (v. & n.) See Grant.

grunt	noun (n.) A deep, guttural sound, as of a hog.
	noun (n.) Any one of several species of American food fishes, of the genus Haemulon, allied to the snappers, as, the black grunt (A. Plumieri), and the redmouth grunt (H. aurolineatus), of the Southern United States; -- also applied to allied species of the genera Pomadasys, Orthopristis, and Pristopoma. Called also pigfish, squirrel fish, and grunter; -- so called from the noise it makes when taken.
	verb (v. t.) To make a deep, short noise, as a hog; to utter a short groan or a deep guttural sound.

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.

jaunt	noun (n.) A wearisome journey.
	noun (n.) A short excursion for pleasure or refreshment; a ramble; a short journey.
	verb (v. i.) To ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion.
	verb (v. i.) To ride on a jaunting car.
	verb (v. t.) To jolt; to jounce.

lunt	noun (n.) The match cord formerly used in firing cannon.
	noun (n.) A puff of smoke.

miscount	noun (n.) An erroneous counting.
	verb (v. t. & i.) To count erroneously.

mount	noun (n.) To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; -- often with up.
	noun (n.) To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold; especially, to seat one's self on a horse for riding.
	noun (n.) To attain in value; to amount.
	noun (n.) Any one of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand which are taken as significant of the influence of "planets," and called the mounts of Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, the Moon, Saturn, the Sun or Apollo, and Venus.
	verb (v.) A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; -- used always instead of mountain, when put before a proper name; as, Mount Washington; otherwise, chiefly in poetry.
	verb (v.) A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound.
	verb (v.) A bank; a fund.
	verb (v. t.) To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
	verb (v. t.) To place one's self on, as a horse or other animal, or anything that one sits upon; to bestride.
	verb (v. t.) To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding; to furnish with horses.
	verb (v. t.) Hence: To put upon anything that sustains and fits for use, as a gun on a carriage, a map or picture on cloth or paper; to prepare for being worn or otherwise used, as a diamond by setting, or a sword blade by adding the hilt, scabbard, etc.
	verb (v. t.) To raise aloft; to lift on high.
	verb (v.) That upon which a person or thing is mounted
	verb (v.) A horse.
	verb (v.) The cardboard or cloth on which a drawing, photograph, or the like is mounted; a mounting.

paramount	noun (n.) The highest or chief.
	adjective (a.) Having the highest rank or jurisdiction; superior to all others; chief; supreme; preeminent; as, a paramount duty.

penaunt

noun (n.) A penitent.

punt	noun (n.) Act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc.
	noun (n.) A flat-bottomed boat with square ends. It is adapted for use in shallow waters.
	noun (n.) The act of punting the ball.
	verb (v. i.) To play at basset, baccara, faro. or omber; to gamble.
	verb (v. t.) To propel, as a boat in shallow water, by pushing with a pole against the bottom; to push or propel (anything) with exertion.
	verb (v. t.) To kick (the ball) before it touches the ground, when let fall from the hands.
	verb (v. i.) To boat or hunt in a punt.
	verb (v. i.) To punt a football.

recount	noun (n.) A counting again, as of votes.
	verb (v. t.) To count or reckon again.
	verb (v.) To tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars of; to rehearse; to enumerate; as, to recount one's blessings.

remount	noun (n.) The opportunity of, or things necessary for, remounting; specifically, a fresh horse, with his equipments; as, to give one a remount.
	verb (v. t. & i.) To mount again.

romaunt

noun (n.) A romantic story in verse; as, the "Romaunt of the Rose."

runt	adjective (a.) Any animal which is unusually small, as compared with others of its kind; -- applied particularly to domestic animals.
	adjective (a.) A variety of domestic pigeon, related to the barb and carrier.
	adjective (a.) A dwarf; also, a mean, despicable, boorish person; -- used opprobriously.
	adjective (a.) The dead stump of a tree; also, the stem of a plant.

sederunt

noun (n.) A sitting, as of a court or other body.

sprunt	noun (n.) Anything short and stiff.
	noun (n.) A leap; a spring.
	noun (n.) A steep ascent in a road.
	adjective (a.) Active; lively; vigorous.
	verb (v. i.) To spring up; to germinate; to spring forward or outward.

strunt

noun (n.) Spirituous liquor.

stunt	noun (n.) A check in growth; also, that which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing.
	noun (n.) Specifically: A whale two years old, which, having been weaned, is lean, and yields but little blubber.
	noun (n.) A feat hard to perform; an act which is striking for the skill, strength, or the like, required to do it; a feat.
	verb (v. t.) To hinder from growing to the natural size; to prevent the growth of; to stint, to dwarf; as, to stunt a child; to stunt a plant.

tantamount	adjective (a.) Equivalent in value, signification, or effect.
	verb (v. i.) To be tantamount or equivalent; to amount.

taunt	noun (n.) Upbraiding language; bitter or sarcastic reproach; insulting invective.
	adjective (a.) Very high or tall; as, a ship with taunt masts.
	verb (v. t.) To reproach with severe or insulting words; to revile; to upbraid; to jeer at; to flout.

vaunt	noun (n.) A vain display of what one is, or has, or has done; ostentation from vanity; a boast; a brag.
	noun (n.) The first part.
	verb (v. i.) To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments, decorations, or the like; to talk ostentatiously; to brag.
	verb (v. t.) To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.
	verb (v. t.) To put forward; to display.

vicount

noun (n.) See Viscount.

viscount	adjective (a.) An officer who formerly supplied the place of the count, or earl; the sheriff of the county.
	adjective (a.) A nobleman of the fourth rank, next in order below an earl and next above a baron; also, his degree or title of nobility. See Peer, n., 3.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH HUNT (According to first letters):

Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (hun) - Words That Begins with hun:

hun

noun (n.) One of a warlike nomadic people of Northern Asia who, in the 5th century, under Atilla, invaded and conquered a great part of Europe.

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.

hunching

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hunch

hunchback

noun (n.) A back with a hunch or hump; also, a hunchbacked person.

hunchbacked

adjective (a.) Having a humped back.

hundred	noun (n.) The product of ten mulitplied by ten, or the number of ten times ten; a collection or sum, consisting of ten times ten units or objects; five score. Also, a symbol representing one hundred units, as 100 or C.
	noun (n.) A division of a country in England, supposed to have originally contained a hundred families, or freemen.
	adjective (a.) Ten times ten; five score; as, a hundred dollars.

hundreder	noun (n.) An inhabitant or freeholder of a hundred.
	noun (n.) A person competent to serve on a jury, in an action for land in the hundred to which he belongs.
	noun (n.) One who has the jurisdiction of a hundred; and sometimes, a bailiff of a hundred.

hundredfold

noun (n.) A hundred times as much or as many.

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.

hundredweight

noun (n.) A denomination of weight, containing 100, 112, or 120 pounds avoirdupois, according to differing laws or customs. By the legal standard of England it is 112 pounds. In most of the United States, both in practice and by law, it is 100 pounds avoirdupois, the corresponding ton of 2,000 pounds, sometimes called the short ton, being the legal ton.

hungarian	noun (n.) A native or one of the people of Hungary.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Hungary or to the people of Hungary.

hungary

noun (n.) A country in Central Europe, now a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

hunger	noun (n.) An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food.
	noun (n.) Any strong eager desire.
	noun (n.) To feel the craving or uneasiness occasioned by want of food; to be oppressed by hunger.
	noun (n.) To have an eager desire; to long.
	verb (v. t.) To make hungry; to famish.

hungering

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hunger

hungered	adjective (a.) Hungry; pinched for food.
	(imp. & p. p.) of Hunger

hungerer

noun (n.) One who hungers; one who longs.

hungerly	adjective (a.) Wanting food; starved.
	adverb (adv.) With keen appetite.

hungred

adjective (a.) Hungered; hungry.

hunk

noun (n.) A large lump or piece; a hunch; as, a hunk of bread.

hunker

noun (n.) Originally, a nickname for a member of the conservative section of the Democratic party in New York; hence, one opposed to progress in general; a fogy.

hunkerism

noun (n.) Excessive conservatism; hostility to progress.

hunks

noun (n.) A covetous, sordid man; a miser; a niggard.

hunkers

noun (n. pl.) In the phrase on one's hunkers, in a squatting or crouching position.

hunky

adjective (a.) All right; in a good condition; also, even; square.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH HUNT:

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.

hackbolt

noun (n.) The greater shearwater or hagdon. See Hagdon.

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.

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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