HOUD
First name HOUD's origin is Other. HOUD means "a prophet's name". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with HOUD below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of houd.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with HOUD and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming HOUD
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES HOUD AS A WHOLE:
houdenc houdainNAMES RHYMING WITH HOUD (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (oud) - Names That Ends with oud:
daoud isoud mahmoud mccloud stroud suoud masoudRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ud) - Names That Ends with ud:
khulud masud abbud abdul-wadud da'ud hud mahmud saud su'ud bladud knud lud archaimbaud arnaud ehud gertrud maud amaud archenhaud bud claud dawud drud jud thibaud audNAMES RHYMING WITH HOUD (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (hou) - Names That Begins with hou:
houerv houghton houstonRhyming 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 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 hovan hoven hovhaness hovsep how howahkan howard howe howel howell howi howie howlandNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH HOUD:
First Names which starts with 'h' and ends with 'd':
hadad haddad hagaward halford halfrid halifrid halstead hamid hammad hand hanford haraford harald harford harland harold harrod hartford hartwood hayward haywood heahweard heanford heardind hefeydd herald heywood hid hild hildbrand hildebrand hildegard hildehrand hind hlaford hrytherford hubbard hulbard huld humayd hunfrid hunfried huxeford huxford hwitfordEnglish Words Rhyming HOUD
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES HOUD AS A WHOLE:
houdah | noun (n.) See Howdah. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH HOUD (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (oud) - English Words That Ends with oud:
boud | noun (n.) A weevil; a worm that breeds in malt, biscuit, etc. |
cloud | noun (n.) A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the upper atmosphere. |
noun (n.) A mass or volume of smoke, or flying dust, resembling vapor. | |
noun (n.) A dark vein or spot on a lighter material, as in marble; hence, a blemish or defect; as, a cloud upon one's reputation; a cloud on a title. | |
noun (n.) That which has a dark, lowering, or threatening aspect; that which temporarily overshadows, obscures, or depresses; as, a cloud of sorrow; a cloud of war; a cloud upon the intellect. | |
noun (n.) A great crowd or multitude; a vast collection. | |
noun (n.) A large, loosely-knitted scarf, worn by women about the head. | |
verb (v. t.) To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds; as, the sky is clouded. | |
verb (v. t.) To darken or obscure, as if by hiding or enveloping with a cloud; hence, to render gloomy or sullen. | |
verb (v. t.) To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish; to damage; -- esp. used of reputation or character. | |
verb (v. t.) To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors; as, to cloud yarn. | |
verb (v. i.) To grow cloudy; to become obscure with clouds; -- often used with up. |
croud | noun (n.) See Crowd, a violin. |
goud | noun (n.) Woad. |
misproud | adjective (a.) Viciously proud. |
overloud | adjective (a.) Too loud; noisy. |
overproud | adjective (a.) Exceedingly or unduly proud. |
shroud | noun (n.) That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment. |
noun (n.) Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet. | |
noun (n.) That which covers or shelters like a shroud. | |
noun (n.) A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt. | |
noun (n.) The branching top of a tree; foliage. | |
noun (n.) A set of ropes serving as stays to support the masts. The lower shrouds are secured to the sides of vessels by heavy iron bolts and are passed around the head of the lower masts. | |
noun (n.) One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate. | |
noun (n.) To cover with a shroud; especially, to inclose in a winding sheet; to dress for the grave. | |
noun (n.) To cover, as with a shroud; to protect completely; to cover so as to conceal; to hide; to veil. | |
verb (v. i.) To take shelter or harbor. | |
verb (v. t.) To lop. See Shrood. |
stroud | noun (n.) A kind of coarse blanket or garment used by the North American Indians. |
thundercloud | noun (n.) A cloud charged with electricity, and producing lightning and thunder. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH HOUD (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (hou) - Words That Begins with hou:
hough | noun (n.) The joint in the hind limb of quadrupeds between the leg and shank, or tibia and tarsus, and corresponding to the ankle in man. |
noun (n.) A piece cut by butchers, esp. in pork, from either the front or hind leg, just above the foot. | |
noun (n.) The popliteal space; the ham. | |
noun (n.) Same as Hock, a joint. | |
noun (n.) An adz; a hoe. | |
verb (v. t.) Same as Hock, to hamstring. | |
verb (v. t.) To cut with a hoe. |
houghing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hough |
houlet | noun (n.) An owl. See Howlet. |
hoult | noun (n.) A piece of woodland; a small wood. [Obs.] See Holt. |
hound | noun (n.) A variety of the domestic dog, usually having large, drooping ears, esp. one which hunts game by scent, as the foxhound, bloodhound, deerhound, but also used for various breeds of fleet hunting dogs, as the greyhound, boarhound, etc. |
noun (n.) A despicable person. | |
noun (n.) A houndfish. | |
noun (n.) Projections at the masthead, serving as a support for the trestletrees and top to rest on. | |
noun (n.) A side bar used to strengthen portions of the running gear of a vehicle. | |
verb (v. t.) To set on the chase; to incite to pursuit; as, to hounda dog at a hare; to hound on pursuers. | |
verb (v. t.) To hunt or chase with hounds, or as with hounds. |
hounding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hound |
noun (n.) The act of one who hounds. | |
noun (n.) The part of a mast below the hounds and above the deck. |
houndfish | noun (n.) Any small shark of the genus Galeus or Mustelus, of which there are several species, as the smooth houndfish (G. canis), of Europe and America; -- called also houndshark, and dogfish. |
houp | noun (n.) See Hoopoe. |
hour | noun (n.) The twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes. |
noun (n.) The time of the day, as expressed in hours and minutes, and indicated by a timepiece; as, what is the hour? At what hour shall we meet? | |
noun (n.) Fixed or appointed time; conjuncture; a particular time or occasion; as, the hour of greatest peril; the man for the hour. | |
noun (n.) Certain prayers to be repeated at stated times of the day, as matins and vespers. | |
noun (n.) A measure of distance traveled. |
hourglass | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring time, especially the interval of an hour. It consists of a glass vessel having two compartments, from the uppermost of which a quantity of sand, water, or mercury occupies an hour in running through a small aperture unto the lower. |
houri | noun (n.) A nymph of paradise; -- so called by the Mohammedans. |
hourly | adjective (a.) Happening or done every hour; occurring hour by hour; frequent; often repeated; renewed hour by hour; continual. |
adverb (adv.) Every hour; frequently; continually. |
hours | noun (n. pl.) Goddess of the seasons, or of the hours of the day. |
housage | noun (n.) A fee for keeping goods in a house. |
house | noun (n.) A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind; but especially, a building or edifice for the habitation of man; a dwelling place, a mansion. |
noun (n.) Household affairs; domestic concerns; particularly in the phrase to keep house. See below. | |
noun (n.) Those who dwell in the same house; a household. | |
noun (n.) A family of ancestors, descendants, and kindred; a race of persons from the same stock; a tribe; especially, a noble family or an illustrious race; as, the house of Austria; the house of Hanover; the house of Israel. | |
noun (n.) One of the estates of a kingdom or other government assembled in parliament or legislature; a body of men united in a legislative capacity; as, the House of Lords; the House of Commons; the House of Representatives; also, a quorum of such a body. See Congress, and Parliament. | |
noun (n.) A firm, or commercial establishment. | |
noun (n.) A public house; an inn; a hotel. | |
noun (n.) A twelfth part of the heavens, as divided by six circles intersecting at the north and south points of the horizon, used by astrologers in noting the positions of the heavenly bodies, and casting horoscopes or nativities. The houses were regarded as fixed in respect to the horizon, and numbered from the one at the eastern horizon, called the ascendant, first house, or house of life, downward, or in the direction of the earth's revolution, the stars and planets passing through them in the reverse order every twenty-four hours. | |
noun (n.) A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece. | |
noun (n.) An audience; an assembly of hearers, as at a lecture, a theater, etc.; as, a thin or a full house. | |
noun (n.) The body, as the habitation of the soul. | |
noun (n.) The grave. | |
verb (v. t.) To take or put into a house; to shelter under a roof; to cover from the inclemencies of the weather; to protect by covering; as, to house one's family in a comfortable home; to house farming utensils; to house cattle. | |
verb (v. t.) To drive to a shelter. | |
verb (v. t.) To admit to residence; to harbor. | |
verb (v. t.) To deposit and cover, as in the grave. | |
verb (v. t.) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe; as, to house the upper spars. | |
verb (v. i.) To take shelter or lodging; to abide to dwell; to lodge. | |
verb (v. i.) To have a position in one of the houses. See House, n., 8. |
housing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of House |
noun (n.) The act of putting or receiving under shelter; the state of dwelling in a habitation. | |
noun (n.) That which shelters or covers; houses, taken collectively. | |
noun (n.) The space taken out of one solid, to admit the insertion of part of another, as the end of one timber in the side of another. | |
noun (n.) A niche for a statue. | |
noun (n.) A frame or support for holding something in place, as journal boxes, etc. | |
noun (n.) That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel. | |
noun (n.) A covering or protection, as an awning over the deck of a ship when laid up. | |
noun (n.) A houseline. See Houseline. | |
noun (n.) A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings. | |
noun (n.) An appendage to the hames or collar of a harness. |
housebote | noun (n.) Wood allowed to a tenant for repairing the house and for fuel. This latter is often called firebote. See Bote. |
housebreaker | noun (n.) One who is guilty of the crime of housebreaking. |
housebreaking | noun (n.) The act of breaking open and entering, with a felonious purpose, the dwelling house of another, whether done by day or night. See Burglary, and To break a house, under Break. |
housebuilder | noun (n.) One whose business is to build houses; a housewright. |
housecarl | noun (n.) A household servant; also, one of the bodyguard of King Canute. |
household | noun (n.) Those who dwell under the same roof and compose a family. |
noun (n.) A line of ancestory; a race or house. | |
adjective (a.) Belonging to the house and family; domestic; as, household furniture; household affairs. |
householder | noun (n.) The master or head of a family; one who occupies a house with his family. |
housekeeper | noun (n.) One who occupies a house with his family; a householder; the master or mistress of a family. |
noun (n.) One who does, or oversees, the work of keeping house; as, his wife is a good housekeeper; often, a woman hired to superintend the servants of a household and manage the ordinary domestic affairs. | |
noun (n.) One who exercises hospitality, or has a plentiful and hospitable household. | |
noun (n.) One who keeps or stays much at home. | |
noun (n.) A house dog. |
housekeeping | noun (n.) The state of occupying a dwelling house as a householder. |
noun (n.) Care of domestic concerns; management of a house and home affairs. | |
noun (n.) Hospitality; a liberal and hospitable table; a supply of provisions. | |
adjective (a.) Domestic; used in a family; as, housekeeping commodities. |
housel | noun (n.) The eucharist. |
verb (v. t.) To administer the eucharist to. |
houseleek | noun (n.) A succulent plant of the genus Sempervivum (S. tectorum), originally a native of subalpine Europe, but now found very generally on old walls and roofs. It is very tenacious of life under drought and heat; -- called also ayegreen. |
houseless | adjective (a.) Destitute of the shelter of a house; shelterless; homeless; as, a houseless wanderer. |
houselessness | noun (n.) The state of being houseless. |
houseline | noun (n.) A small line of three strands used for seizing; -- called also housing. |
houseling | adjective (a.) Same as Housling. |
housemaid | noun (n.) A female servant employed to do housework, esp. to take care of the rooms. |
housemate | noun (n.) One who dwells in the same house with another. |
houseroom | noun (n.) Room or place in a house; as, to give any one houseroom. |
housewarming | noun (n.) A feast or merry-making made by or for a family or business firm on taking possession of a new house or premises. |
housewife | noun (n.) The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household. |
noun (n.) A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for other articles of female work; -- called also hussy. | |
noun (n.) A hussy. | |
verb (v. t.) Alt. of Housewive |
housewifely | adjective (a.) Pertaining or appropriate to a housewife; domestic; economical; prudent. |
housewifery | noun (n.) The business of the mistress of a family; female management of domestic concerns. |
housework | noun (n.) The work belonging to housekeeping; especially, kitchen work, sweeping, scrubbing, bed making, and the like. |
housewright | noun (n.) A builder of houses. |
housling | adjective (a.) Sacramental; as, housling fire. |
houss | noun (n.) A saddlecloth; a housing. |
houtou | noun (n.) A beautiful South American motmot. |
houve | noun (n.) A head covering of various kinds; a hood; a coif; a cap. |
houyhnhnm | noun (n.) One of the race of horses described by Swift in his imaginary travels of Lemuel Gulliver. The Houyhnhnms were endowed with reason and noble qualities; subject to them were Yahoos, a race of brutes having the form and all the worst vices of men. |
houstonia | noun (n.) A genus of small rubiaceous herbs, having tetramerous salveform blue or white flower. There are about twenty species, natives of North America. Also, a plant of this genus. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH HOUD:
English Words which starts with 'h' and ends with 'd':
habilimented | adjective (a.) Clothed. Taylor (1630). |
habited | adjective (p. p. & a.) Clothed; arrayed; dressed; as, he was habited like a shepherd. |
adjective (p. p. & a.) Fixed by habit; accustomed. | |
adjective (p. p. & a.) Inhabited. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Habit |
haemapod | noun (n.) An haemapodous animal. |
haematoid | adjective (a.) Same as Hematoid. |
haggard | noun (n.) A stackyard. |
adjective (a.) Wild or intractable; disposed to break away from duty; untamed; as, a haggard or refractory hawk. | |
adjective (a.) Having the expression of one wasted by want or suffering; hollow-eyed; having the features distorted or wasted, or anxious in appearance; as, haggard features, eyes. | |
adjective (a.) A young or untrained hawk or falcon. | |
adjective (a.) A fierce, intractable creature. | |
adjective (a.) A hag. |
hagged | adjective (a.) Like a hag; lean; ugly. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Hag |
hagseed | noun (n.) The offspring of a hag. |
hairbird | noun (n.) The chipping sparrow. |
hairbrained | adjective (a.) See Harebrained. |
haired | adjective (a.) Having hair. |
adjective (a.) In composition: Having (such) hair; as, red-haired. |
halberd | noun (n.) An ancient long-handled weapon, of which the head had a point and several long, sharp edges, curved or straight, and sometimes additional points. The heads were sometimes of very elaborate form. |
halcyonold | noun (a. & n.) See Alcyonoid. |
half blood | noun (n.) A person so related to another. |
noun (n.) A person whose father and mother are of different races; a half-breed. | |
() The relation between persons born of the same father or of the same mother, but not of both; as, a brother or sister of the half blood. See Blood, n., 2 and 4. |
haliotoid | adjective (a.) Like or pertaining to the genus Haliotis; ear-shaped. |
halliard | noun (n.) See Halyard. |
haloed | adjective (a.) Surrounded with a halo; invested with an ideal glory; glorified. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Halo |
haloid | noun (n.) A haloid substance. |
adjective (a.) Resembling salt; -- said of certain binary compounds consisting of a metal united to a negative element or radical, and now chiefly applied to the chlorides, bromides, iodides, and sometimes also to the fluorides and cyanides. |
halved | adjective (a.) Appearing as if one side, or one half, were cut away; dimidiate. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Halve |
hamadryad | noun (n.) A tree nymph whose life ended with that of the particular tree, usually an oak, which had been her abode. |
noun (n.) A large venomous East Indian snake (Orhiophagus bungarus), allied to the cobras. |
hamated | adjective (a.) Hooked, or set with hooks; hamate. |
hamleted | adjective (p. a.) Confined to a hamlet. |
hammerhead | noun (n.) A shark of the genus Sphyrna or Zygaena, having the eyes set on projections from the sides of the head, which gives it a hammer shape. The Sphyrna zygaena is found in the North Atlantic. Called also hammer fish, and balance fish. |
noun (n.) A fresh-water fish; the stone-roller. | |
noun (n.) An African fruit bat (Hypsignathus monstrosus); -- so called from its large blunt nozzle. |
hand | noun (n.) That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in man and monkeys, and the corresponding part in many other animals; manus; paw. See Manus. |
noun (n.) That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand | |
noun (n.) A limb of certain animals, as the foot of a hawk, or any one of the four extremities of a monkey. | |
noun (n.) An index or pointer on a dial; as, the hour or minute hand of a clock. | |
noun (n.) A measure equal to a hand's breadth, -- four inches; a palm. Chiefly used in measuring the height of horses. | |
noun (n.) Side; part; direction, either right or left. | |
noun (n.) Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity. | |
noun (n.) Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance. | |
noun (n.) An agent; a servant, or laborer; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty; a performer more or less skillful; as, a deck hand; a farm hand; an old hand at speaking. | |
noun (n.) Handwriting; style of penmanship; as, a good, bad or running hand. Hence, a signature. | |
noun (n.) Personal possession; ownership; hence, control; direction; management; -- usually in the plural. | |
noun (n.) Agency in transmission from one person to another; as, to buy at first hand, that is, from the producer, or when new; at second hand, that is, when no longer in the producer's hand, or when not new. | |
noun (n.) Rate; price. | |
noun (n.) That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once | |
noun (n.) The quota of cards received from the dealer. | |
noun (n.) A bundle of tobacco leaves tied together. | |
noun (n.) The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim. | |
noun (n.) A gambling game played by American Indians, consisting of guessing the whereabouts of bits of ivory or the like, which are passed rapidly from hand to hand. | |
verb (v. t.) To give, pass, or transmit with the hand; as, he handed them the letter. | |
verb (v. t.) To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct; as, to hand a lady into a carriage. | |
verb (v. t.) To manage; as, I hand my oar. | |
verb (v. t.) To seize; to lay hands on. | |
verb (v. t.) To pledge by the hand; to handfast. | |
verb (v. t.) To furl; -- said of a sail. | |
verb (v. i.) To cooperate. |
handed | adjective (a.) With hands joined; hand in hand. |
adjective (a.) Having a peculiar or characteristic hand. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Hand |
handmaid | noun (n.) Alt. of Handmaiden |
hangbird | noun (n.) The Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula); -- so called because its nest is suspended from the limb of a tree. See Baltimore oriole. |
hansard | noun (n.) An official report of proceedings in the British Parliament; -- so called from the name of the publishers. |
noun (n.) A merchant of one of the Hanse towns. See the Note under 2d Hanse. |
haphazard | noun (n.) Extra hazard; chance; accident; random. |
happed | adjective (p. a.) Wrapped; covered; cloaked. |
hard | noun (n.) A ford or passage across a river or swamp. |
superlative (superl.) Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact; -- applied to material bodies, and opposed to soft; as, hard wood; hard flesh; a hard apple. | |
superlative (superl.) Difficult, mentally or judicially; not easily apprehended, decided, or resolved; as a hard problem. | |
superlative (superl.) Difficult to accomplish; full of obstacles; laborious; fatiguing; arduous; as, a hard task; a disease hard to cure. | |
superlative (superl.) Difficult to resist or control; powerful. | |
superlative (superl.) Difficult to bear or endure; not easy to put up with or consent to; hence, severe; rigorous; oppressive; distressing; unjust; grasping; as, a hard lot; hard times; hard fare; a hard winter; hard conditions or terms. | |
superlative (superl.) Difficult to please or influence; stern; unyielding; obdurate; unsympathetic; unfeeling; cruel; as, a hard master; a hard heart; hard words; a hard character. | |
superlative (superl.) Not easy or agreeable to the taste; stiff; rigid; ungraceful; repelling; as, a hard style. | |
superlative (superl.) Rough; acid; sour, as liquors; as, hard cider. | |
superlative (superl.) Abrupt or explosive in utterance; not aspirated, sibilated, or pronounced with a gradual change of the organs from one position to another; -- said of certain consonants, as c in came, and g in go, as distinguished from the same letters in center, general, etc. | |
superlative (superl.) Wanting softness or smoothness of utterance; harsh; as, a hard tone. | |
superlative (superl.) Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition. | |
superlative (superl.) Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in the coloring or light and shade. | |
adverb (adv.) With pressure; with urgency; hence, diligently; earnestly. | |
adverb (adv.) With difficulty; as, the vehicle moves hard. | |
adverb (adv.) Uneasily; vexatiously; slowly. | |
adverb (adv.) So as to raise difficulties. | |
adverb (adv.) With tension or strain of the powers; violently; with force; tempestuously; vehemently; vigorously; energetically; as, to press, to blow, to rain hard; hence, rapidly; as, to run hard. | |
adverb (adv.) Close or near. | |
verb (v. t.) To harden; to make hard. |
hardened | adjective (a.) Made hard, or compact; made unfeeling or callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or vice. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Harden |
hardhead | noun (n.) Clash or collision of heads in contest. |
noun (n.) The menhaden. See Menhaden. | |
noun (n.) Block's gurnard (Trigla gurnardus) of Europe. | |
noun (n.) A California salmon; the steelhead. | |
noun (n.) The gray whale. | |
noun (n.) A coarse American commercial sponge (Spongia dura). |
harddihead | noun (n.) Hardihood. |
harddihood | noun (n.) Boldness, united with firmness and constancy of mind; bravery; intrepidity; also, audaciousness; impudence. |
harehound | noun (n.) See Harrier. |
hareld | noun (n.) The long-tailed duck. |
harpsichord | noun (n.) A harp-shaped instrument of music set horizontally on legs, like the grand piano, with strings of wire, played by the fingers, by means of keys provided with quills, instead of hammers, for striking the strings. It is now superseded by the piano. |
hartford | noun (n.) The Hartford grape, a variety of grape first raised at Hartford, Connecticut, from the Northern fox grape. Its large dark-colored berries ripen earlier than those of most other kinds. |
hasard | noun (n.) Hazard. |
hastated | noun (n.) Shaped like the head of a halberd; triangular, with the basal angles or lobes spreading; as, a hastate leaf. |
hatband | noun (n.) A band round the crown of a hat; sometimes, a band of black cloth, crape, etc., worn as a badge of mourning. |
hatred | noun (n.) Strong aversion; intense dislike; hate; an affection of the mind awakened by something regarded as evil. |
hatstand | noun (n.) A stand of wood or iron, with hooks or pegs upon which to hang hats, etc. |
hatted | adjective (a.) Covered with a hat. |
haunched | adjective (a.) Having haunches. |
haunted | adjective (a.) Inhabited by, or subject to the visits of, apparitions; frequented by a ghost. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Haunt |
havened | adjective (p. a.) Sheltered in a haven. |
hawked | adjective (a.) Curved like a hawk's bill; crooked. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Hawk |
hawkweed | noun (n.) A plant of the genus Hieracium; -- so called from the ancient belief that birds of prey used its juice to strengthen their vision. |
noun (n.) A plant of the genus Senecio (S. hieracifolius). |
haybird | noun (n.) The European spotted flycatcher. |
noun (n.) The European blackcap. |
hayfield | noun (n.) A field where grass for hay has been cut; a meadow. |
hayward | noun (n.) An officer who is appointed to guard hedges, and to keep cattle from breaking or cropping them, and whose further duty it is to impound animals found running at large. |
hazard | noun (n.) A game of chance played with dice. |
noun (n.) The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty. | |
noun (n.) Risk; danger; peril; as, he encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life. | |
noun (n.) Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard). | |
noun (n.) Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming. | |
noun (n.) To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk. | |
noun (n.) To venture to incur, or bring on. | |
noun (n.) Any place into which the ball may not be safely played, such as bunkers, furze, water, sand, or other kind of bad ground. | |
verb (v. i.) To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger. |
head | noun (n.) The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the chief sensory organs; poll; cephalon. |
noun (n.) The uppermost, foremost, or most important part of an inanimate object; such a part as may be considered to resemble the head of an animal; often, also, the larger, thicker, or heavier part or extremity, in distinction from the smaller or thinner part, or from the point or edge; as, the head of a cane, a nail, a spear, an ax, a mast, a sail, a ship; that which covers and closes the top or the end of a hollow vessel; as, the head of a cask or a steam boiler. | |
noun (n.) The place where the head should go; as, the head of a bed, of a grave, etc.; the head of a carriage, that is, the hood which covers the head. | |
noun (n.) The most prominent or important member of any organized body; the chief; the leader; as, the head of a college, a school, a church, a state, and the like. | |
noun (n.) The place or honor, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front; as, the head of the table; the head of a column of soldiers. | |
noun (n.) Each one among many; an individual; -- often used in a plural sense; as, a thousand head of cattle. | |
noun (n.) The seat of the intellect; the brain; the understanding; the mental faculties; as, a good head, that is, a good mind; it never entered his head, it did not occur to him; of his own head, of his own thought or will. | |
noun (n.) The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of the source, or the height of the surface, as of water, above a given place, as above an orifice at which it issues, and the pressure resulting from the height or from motion; sometimes also, the quantity in reserve; as, a mill or reservoir has a good head of water, or ten feet head; also, that part of a gulf or bay most remote from the outlet or the sea. | |
noun (n.) A headland; a promontory; as, Gay Head. | |
noun (n.) A separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be expanded; a subdivision; as, the heads of a sermon. | |
noun (n.) Culminating point or crisis; hence, strength; force; height. | |
noun (n.) Power; armed force. | |
noun (n.) A headdress; a covering of the head; as, a laced head; a head of hair. | |
noun (n.) An ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small cereals. | |
noun (n.) A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies, thistles; a capitulum. | |
noun (n.) A dense, compact mass of leaves, as in a cabbage or a lettuce plant. | |
noun (n.) The antlers of a deer. | |
noun (n.) A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or other effervescing liquor. | |
noun (n.) Tiles laid at the eaves of a house. | |
adjective (a.) Principal; chief; leading; first; as, the head master of a school; the head man of a tribe; a head chorister; a head cook. | |
verb (v. t.) To be at the head of; to put one's self at the head of; to lead; to direct; to act as leader to; as, to head an army, an expedition, or a riot. | |
verb (v. t.) To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a nail. | |
verb (v. t.) To behead; to decapitate. | |
verb (v. t.) To cut off the top of; to lop off; as, to head trees. | |
verb (v. t.) To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain; as, to head a drove of cattle; to head a person; the wind heads a ship. | |
verb (v. t.) To set on the head; as, to head a cask. | |
verb (v. i.) To originate; to spring; to have its source, as a river. | |
verb (v. i.) To go or point in a certain direction; to tend; as, how does the ship head? | |
verb (v. i.) To form a head; as, this kind of cabbage heads early. |
headband | noun (n.) A fillet; a band for the head. |
noun (n.) The band at each end of the back of a book. |
headbeard | noun (n.) A board or boarding which marks or forms the head of anything; as, the headboard of a bed; the headboard of a grave. |
headed | adjective (a.) Furnished with a head (commonly as denoting intellectual faculties); -- used in composition; as, clear-headed, long-headed, thick-headed; a many-headed monster. |
adjective (a.) Formed into a head; as, a headed cabbage. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Head |
headland | noun (n.) A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting into the sea or other expanse of water. |
noun (n.) A ridge or strip of unplowed at the ends of furrows, or near a fence. |
heald | noun (n.) A heddle. |
heartburned | adjective (a.) Having heartburn. |
hearted | adjective (a.) Having a heart; having (such) a heart (regarded as the seat of the affections, disposition, or character). |
adjective (a.) Shaped like a heart; cordate. | |
adjective (a.) Seated or laid up in the heart. |
heartseed | noun (n.) A climbing plant of the genus Cardiospermum, having round seeds which are marked with a spot like a heart. |
heartshaped | adjective (a.) Having the shape of a heart; cordate. |
heartwood | noun (n.) The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum. |
heathclad | adjective (a.) Clad or crowned with heath. |
heavenlyminded | adjective (a.) Having the thoughts and affections placed on, or suitable for, heaven and heavenly objects; devout; godly; pious. |
hebdomad | noun (n.) A week; a period of seven days. |
hectocotylized | adjective (a.) Changed into a hectocotylus; having a hectocotylis. |
heed | noun (n.) Attention; notice; observation; regard; -- often with give or take. |
noun (n.) Careful consideration; obedient regard. | |
noun (n.) A look or expression of heading. | |
verb (v. t.) To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe. | |
verb (v. i.) To mind; to consider. |
helianthoid | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Helianthoidea. |
helicoid | noun (n.) A warped surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner that every point of the line shall have a uniform motion in the direction of another fixed straight line, and at the same time a uniform angular motion about it. |
adjective (a.) Spiral; curved, like the spire of a univalve shell. | |
adjective (a.) Shaped like a snail shell; pertaining to the Helicidae, or Snail family. |
hellbred | adjective (a.) Produced in hell. |
hellbrewed | adjective (a.) Prepared in hell. |
helldoomed | adjective (a.) Doomed to hell. |
hellhound | noun (n.) A dog of hell; an agent of hell. |
helmed | adjective (a.) Covered with a helmet. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Helm |
helmeted | adjective (a.) Wearing a helmet; furnished with or having a helmet or helmet-shaped part; galeate. |
helminthoid | adjective (a.) Wormlike; vermiform. |
helmwind | noun (n.) A wind attending or presaged by the cloud called helm. |
hematoid | adjective (a.) Resembling blood. |
hemerobid | adjective (a.) Of relating to the hemerobians. |
hemispheroid | noun (n.) A half of a spheroid. |
hemstitched | adjective (a.) Having a broad hem separated from the body of the article by a line of open work; as, a hemistitched handkerchief. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Hemstitch |
heptachord | noun (n.) A system of seven sounds. |
noun (n.) A lyre with seven chords. | |
noun (n.) A composition sung to the sound of seven chords or tones. |
heptad | noun (n.) An atom which has a valence of seven, and which can be theoretically combined with, substituted for, or replaced by, seven monad atoms or radicals; as, iodine is a heptad in iodic acid. Also used as an adjective. |
herald | noun (n.) An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character. |
noun (n.) In the Middle Ages, the officer charged with the above duties, and also with the care of genealogies, of the rights and privileges of noble families, and especially of armorial bearings. In modern times, some vestiges of this office remain, especially in England. See Heralds' College (below), and King-at-Arms. | |
noun (n.) A proclaimer; one who, or that which, publishes or announces; as, the herald of another's fame. | |
noun (n.) A forerunner; a a precursor; a harbinger. | |
noun (n.) Any messenger. | |
verb (v. t.) To introduce, or give tidings of, as by a herald; to proclaim; to announce; to foretell; to usher in. |
heraud | noun (n.) A herald. |
herbaged | adjective (a.) Covered with grass. |
herbid | adjective (a.) Covered with herbs. |
herd | noun (n.) A number of beasts assembled together; as, a herd of horses, oxen, cattle, camels, elephants, deer, or swine; a particular stock or family of cattle. |
noun (n.) A crowd of low people; a rabble. | |
noun (n.) One who herds or assembles domestic animals; a herdsman; -- much used in composition; as, a shepherd; a goatherd, and the like. | |
adjective (a.) Haired. | |
verb (v. i.) To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company; as, sheep herd on many hills. | |
verb (v. i.) To associate; to ally one's self with, or place one's self among, a group or company. | |
verb (v. i.) To act as a herdsman or a shepherd. | |
verb (v. t.) To form or put into a herd. |
hereford | noun (n.) One of a breed of cattle originating in Herefordshire, England. The Herefords are good working animals, and their beef-producing quality is excellent. |
hesperid | noun (a. & n.) Same as 3d Hesperian. |
heteropod | noun (n.) One of the Heteropoda. |
adjective (a.) Heteropodous. |
heterostyled | adjective (a.) Having styles of two or more distinct forms or lengths. |
heved | noun (n.) The head. |
hexachord | noun (n.) A series of six notes, with a semitone between the third and fourth, the other intervals being whole tones. |
hexacid | adjective (a.) Having six atoms or radicals capable of being replaced by acids; hexatomic; hexavalent; -- said of bases; as, mannite is a hexacid base. |
hexactinellid | adjective (a.) Having six-rayed spicules; belonging to the Hexactinellinae. |
hexad | noun (n.) An atom whose valence is six, and which can be theoretically combined with, substituted for, or replaced by, six monad atoms or radicals; as, sulphur is a hexad in sulphuric acid. Also used as an adjective. |
hexapod | noun (n.) An animal having six feet; one of the Hexapoda. |
adjective (a.) Having six feet. |