HOPE
First name HOPE's origin is English. HOPE means "hope". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with HOPE below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of hope.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with HOPE and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming HOPE
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES HOPE AS A WHOLE:
stanhopeNAMES RHYMING WITH HOPE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ope) - Names That Ends with ope:
antiope dryope kalliope merope penelope calliopeRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (pe) - Names That Ends with pe:
bupe anippe alcippe euterpe leucippe maipe nape xochipepe godalupe guadalupe lupe chepe felipe felippe kempe pepe philippe phillipe wilpe philipe thorpe kepe olympe guiseppeNAMES RHYMING WITH HOPE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (hop) - Names That Begins with hop:
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 home homer homeros homerus honani honaw honbria honbrie hondo honey hong honi honiahaka honon honor honora honoratas honorato honore honoria honovi honza hooda hooriya 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 HOPE:
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 harkahome 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 hume hurlee hurste hweolere hwistlere hyacinthe hyancinthe hyde hypate hypsipyleEnglish Words Rhyming HOPE
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES HOPE AS A WHOLE:
amphopeptone | noun (n.) A product of gastric digestion, a mixture of hemipeptone and antipeptone. |
hope | noun (n.) A sloping plain between mountain ridges. |
noun (n.) A small bay; an inlet; a haven. | |
noun (n.) A desire of some good, accompanied with an expectation of obtaining it, or a belief that it is obtainable; an expectation of something which is thought to be desirable; confidence; pleasing expectancy. | |
noun (n.) One who, or that which, gives hope, furnishes ground of expectation, or promises desired good. | |
noun (n.) That which is hoped for; an object of hope. | |
verb (v. i.) To entertain or indulge hope; to cherish a desire of good, or of something welcome, with expectation of obtaining it or belief that it is obtainable; to expect; -- usually followed by for. | |
verb (v. i.) To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; -- usually followed by in. | |
verb (v. t.) To desire with expectation or with belief in the possibility or prospect of obtaining; to look forward to as a thing desirable, with the expectation of obtaining it; to cherish hopes of. | |
verb (v. t.) To expect; to fear. |
hopeful | adjective (a.) Full of hope, or agreeable expectation; inclined to hope; expectant. |
adjective (a.) Having qualities which excite hope; affording promise of good or of success; as, a hopeful youth; a hopeful prospect. |
hopeite | noun (n.) A hydrous phosphate of zinc in transparent prismatic crystals. |
hopeless | adjective (a.) Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing. |
adjective (a.) Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate; as, a hopeless cause. | |
adjective (a.) Unhoped for; despaired of. |
hoper | noun (n.) One who hopes. |
orthopedic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Orthopedical |
orthopedical | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or employed in, orthopedy; relating to the prevention or cure of deformities of children, or, in general, of the human body at any age; as, orthopedic surgery; an orthopedic hospital. |
orthopedist | noun (n.) One who prevents, cures, or remedies deformities, esp. in children. |
orthopedy | noun (n.) The art or practice of curing the deformities of children, or, by extension, any deformities of the human body. |
stanhope | noun (n.) A light two-wheeled, or sometimes four-wheeled, carriage, without a top; -- so called from Lord Stanhope, for whom it was contrived. |
unhoped | adjective (a.) Not hoped or expected. |
wanhope | noun (n.) Want of hope; despair; also, faint or delusive hope; delusion. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH HOPE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ope) - English Words That Ends with ope:
aeroscope | noun (n.) An apparatus designed for collecting spores, germs, bacteria, etc., suspended in the air. |
aethrioscope | noun (n.) An instrument consisting in part of a differential thermometer. It is used for measuring changes of temperature produced by different conditions of the sky, as when clear or clouded. |
alethoscope | noun (n.) An instrument for viewing pictures by means of a lens, so as to present them in their natural proportions and relations. |
altiscope | noun (n.) An arrangement of lenses and mirrors which enables a person to see an object in spite of intervening objects. |
anemoscope | noun (n.) An instrument which shows the direction of the wind; a wind vane; a weathercock; -- usually applied to a contrivance consisting of a vane above, connected in the building with a dial or index with pointers to show the changes of the wind. |
angioscope | noun (n.) An instrument for examining the capillary vessels of animals and plants. |
anisotrope | adjective (a.) Alt. of Anisotropic |
anorthoscope | noun (n.) An optical toy for producing amusing figures or pictures by means of two revolving disks, on one of which distorted figures are painted. |
antelope | noun (n.) One of a group of ruminant quadrupeds, intermediate between the deer and the goat. The horns are usually annulated, or ringed. There are many species in Africa and Asia. |
antipope | noun (n.) One who is elected, or claims to be, pope in opposition to the pope canonically chosen; esp. applied to those popes who resided at Avignon during the Great Schism. |
apocope | noun (n.) The cutting off, or omission, of the last letter, syllable, or part of a word. |
noun (n.) A cutting off; abscission. |
astroscope | noun (n.) An old astronomical instrument, formed of two cones, on whose surface the constellations were delineated. |
auriscope | noun (n.) An instrument for examining the condition of the ear. |
anamorphoscope | noun (n.) An instrument for restoring a picture or image distorted by anamorphosis to its normal proportions. It usually consists of a cylindrical mirror. |
asterope | noun (n.) One of the Pleiades; -- called also Sterope. |
noun (n.) A double star in the Pleiades (21 k and 22 l Pleiadum, of the 5.8 and 6.4 magnitude respectively), appearing as a single star of the 5.3 magnitude to the naked eye. |
baroscope | noun (n.) Any instrument showing the changes in the weight of the atmosphere; also, less appropriately, any instrument that indicates -or foreshadows changes of the weather, as a deep vial of liquid holding in suspension some substance which rises and falls with atmospheric changes. |
boltrope | noun (n.) A rope stitched to the edges of a sail to strengthen the sail. |
breastrope | noun (n.) See Breastband. |
bioscope | noun (n.) A view of life; that which gives such a view. |
noun (n.) An animated picture machine for screen projection; a cinematograph (which see). |
calliope | noun (n.) The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses. |
noun (n.) One of the asteroids. See Solar. | |
noun (n.) A musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles, toned to the notes of the scale, and played by keys arranged like those of an organ. It is sometimes attached to steamboat boilers. | |
noun (n.) A beautiful species of humming bird (Stellula Calliope) of California and adjacent regions. |
ceraunoscope | noun (n.) An instrument or apparatus employed in the ancient mysteries to imitate thunder and lightning. |
chromascope | noun (n.) An instrument for showing the optical effects of color. |
chromatoscope | noun (n.) A reflecting telescope, part of which is made to rotate eccentrically, so as to produce a ringlike image of a star, instead of a point; -- used in studying the scintillation of the stars. |
chromatrope | noun (n.) An instrument for exhibiting certain chromatic effects of light (depending upon the persistence of vision and mixture of colors) by means of rapidly rotating disks variously colored. |
noun (n.) A device in a magic lantern or stereopticon to produce kaleidoscopic effects. |
chronoscope | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring minute intervals of time; used in determining the velocity of projectiles, the duration of short-lived luminous phenomena, etc. |
cope | noun (n.) A covering for the head. |
noun (n.) Anything regarded as extended over the head, as the arch or concave of the sky, the roof of a house, the arch over a door. | |
noun (n.) An ecclesiastical vestment or cloak, semicircular in form, reaching from the shoulders nearly to the feet, and open in front except at the top, where it is united by a band or clasp. It is worn in processions and on some other occasions. | |
noun (n.) An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England. | |
noun (n.) The top part of a flask or mold; the outer part of a loam mold. | |
verb (v. i.) To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow. | |
verb (v. t.) To pare the beak or talons of (a hawk). | |
verb (v. i.) To exchange or barter. | |
verb (v. i.) To encounter; to meet; to have to do with. | |
verb (v. i.) To enter into or maintain a hostile contest; to struggle; to combat; especially, to strive or contend on equal terms or with success; to match; to equal; -- usually followed by with. | |
verb (v. t.) To bargain for; to buy. | |
verb (v. t.) To make return for; to requite; to repay. | |
verb (v. t.) To match one's self against; to meet; to encounter. |
cycloscope | noun (n.) A machine for measuring at any moment velocity of rotation, as of a wheel of a steam engine. |
cyclonoscope | noun (n.) An apparatus to assist in locating the center of a cyclone. |
cymoscope | noun (n.) Any device for detecting the presence of electric waves. The influence of electric waves on the resistance of a particular kind of electric circuit, on the magnetization of steel, on the polarization of an electrolytic cell, or on the electric condition of a vacuum has been applied in the various cymoscopes. |
debuscope | noun (n.) A modification of the kaleidoscope; -- used to reflect images so as to form beautiful designs. |
diacope | noun (n.) Tmesis. |
diaphanoscope | noun (n.) A dark box constructed for viewing transparent pictures, with or without a lens. |
dichroiscope | noun (n.) Same as Dichroscope. |
dichroscope | noun (n.) An instrument for examining the dichroism of crystals. |
dipleidoscope | noun (n.) An instrument for determining the time of apparent noon. It consists of two mirrors and a plane glass disposed in the form of a prism, so that, by the reflections of the sun's rays from their surfaces, two images are presented to the eye, moving in opposite directions, and coinciding at the instant the sun's center is on the meridian. |
dope | noun (n.) Any thick liquid or pasty preparation, as of opium for medicinal purposes, of grease for a lubricant, etc. |
noun (n.) Any preparation, as of opium, used to stupefy or, in the case of a race horse, to stimulate. | |
noun (n.) An absorbent material; esp., in high explosives, the sawdust, infusorial earth, mica, etc., mixed with nitroglycerin to make a damp powder (dynamite, etc.) less dangerous to transport, and ordinarily explosive only by suitable fulminating caps. | |
noun (n.) Information concerning the previous performances of race horses, or other facts concerning them which may be of assistance in judging of their chances of winning future races; sometimes, similar information concerning other sports. | |
verb (v. t.) To treat or affect with dope; as, to dope nitroglycerin; | |
verb (v. t.) To give stupefying drugs to; to drug. | |
verb (v. t.) To administer a stimulant to (a horse) to increase his speed. It is a serious offense against the laws of racing. | |
verb (v. t.) To judge or guess; to predict the result of, as by the aid of dope. |
ebullioscope | noun (n.) An instrument for observing the boiling point of liquids, especially for determining the alcoholic strength of a mixture by the temperature at which it boils. |
echoscope | noun (n.) An instrument for intensifying sounds produced by percussion of the thorax. |
electroscope | noun (n.) An instrument for detecting the presence of electricity, or changes in the electric state of bodies, or the species of electricity present, as by means of pith balls, and the like. |
endoscope | noun (n.) An instrument for examining the interior of the rectum, the urethra, and the bladder. |
engiscope | noun (n.) A kind of reflecting microscope. |
enorthotrope | noun (n.) An optical toy; a card on which confused or imperfect figures are drawn, but which form to the eye regular figures when the card is rapidly revolved. See Thaumatrope. |
envelope | noun (n.) Alt. of Envelop |
epitrope | noun (n.) A figure by which permission is either seriously or ironically granted to some one, to do what he proposes to do; e. g., "He that is unjust, let him be unjust still." |
fluoroscope | noun (n.) An instrument for observing or exhibiting fluorescence. |
noun (n.) A fluorescent screen, with hood to protect the eyes, used for observing the shadows cast by objects placed in the path of the X rays. |
footrope | noun (n.) The rope rigged below a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling; -- formerly called a horse. |
noun (n.) That part of the boltrope to which the lower edge of a sail is sewed. |
galvanoscope | noun (n.) An instrument or apparatus for detecting the presence of electrical currents, especially such as are of feeble intensity. |
gantlope | noun (n.) See Gantlet. |
gasoscope | noun (n.) An apparatus for detecting the presence of any dangerous gas, from a gas leak in a coal mine or a dwelling house. |
gastroscope | noun (n.) An instrument for viewing or examining the interior of the stomach. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH HOPE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (hop) - Words That Begins with hop:
hopping | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hop |
noun (n.) The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing. | |
noun (n.) A gathering of hops. |
hop | noun (n.) A leap on one leg, as of a boy; a leap, as of a toad; a jump; a spring. |
noun (n.) A dance; esp., an informal dance of ball. | |
noun (n.) A climbing plant (Humulus Lupulus), having a long, twining, annual stalk. It is cultivated for its fruit (hops). | |
noun (n.) The catkin or strobilaceous fruit of the hop, much used in brewing to give a bitter taste. | |
noun (n.) The fruit of the dog-rose. See Hip. | |
verb (v. i.) To move by successive leaps, as toads do; to spring or jump on one foot; to skip, as birds do. | |
verb (v. i.) To walk lame; to limp; to halt. | |
verb (v. i.) To dance. | |
verb (v. t.) To impregnate with hops. | |
verb (v. i.) To gather hops. [Perhaps only in the form Hopping, vb. n.] |
hopbine | noun (n.) Alt. of Hopbind |
hopbind | noun (n.) The climbing stem of the hop. |
hoping | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hope |
hoplite | noun (n.) A heavy-armed infantry soldier. |
hopped | adjective (p. a.) Impregnated with hops. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Hop |
hopper | noun (n.) One who, or that which, hops. |
noun (n.) A chute, box, or receptacle, usually funnel-shaped with an opening at the lower part, for delivering or feeding any material, as to a machine; as, the wooden box with its trough through which grain passes into a mill by joining or shaking, or a funnel through which fuel passes into a furnace, or coal, etc., into a car. | |
noun (n.) See Grasshopper, 2. | |
noun (n.) A game. See Hopscotch. | |
noun (n.) See Grasshopper, and Frog hopper, Grape hopper, Leaf hopper, Tree hopper, under Frog, Grape, Leaf, and Tree. | |
noun (n.) The larva of a cheese fly. | |
noun (n.) A vessel for carrying waste, garbage, etc., out to sea, so constructed as to discharge its load by a mechanical contrivance; -- called also dumping scow. |
hopperings | noun (n.) Gravel retaining in the hopper of a cradle. |
hoppestere | adjective (a.) An unexplained epithet used by Chaucer in reference to ships. By some it is defined as "dancing (on the wave)"; by others as "opposing," "warlike." |
hoppet | noun (n.) A hand basket; also, a dish used by miners for measuring ore. |
noun (n.) An infant in arms. |
hoppling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hopple |
hopple | noun (n.) A fetter for horses, or cattle, when turned out to graze; -- chiefly used in the plural. |
verb (v. t.) To impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hamper; to hobble; as, to hopple an unruly or straying horse. | |
verb (v. t.) Fig.: To entangle; to hamper. |
hopplebush | noun (n.) Same as Hobblebush. |
hoppo | noun (n.) A collector of customs, as at Canton; an overseer of commerce. |
noun (n.) A tribunal or commission having charge of the revenue derived from trade and navigation. |
hopscotch | noun (n.) A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground; -- called also hoppers. |
hopyard | noun (n.) A field where hops are raised. |
hopperdozer | noun (n.) An appliance for the destruction of insects, consisting of a shallow iron box, containing kerosene or coated with tar or other sticky substance, which may be mounted on wheels. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH HOPE:
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. |