HIND

Name Report For First Name HIND:

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

Rhymes with HIND - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming HIND

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES H�ND AS A WHOLE:

NAMES RHYMING WITH H�ND (According to last letters):

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

josalind lind rosalind cetewind govind heardind bofind

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

rozamond courtland garberend svend barend ryland armand garland desmond hildebrand raymond caitland diamond rozomund aldn'd arend arland behrend berend bernd bertrand brand caraidland cleveland clifland clyfland deagmund devland drummand drummond eadmund edmond edmund eorland eorlland erland esmund estmund fernand gariland garmund harland hildbrand hildehrand howland jaylend kirkland kyland lakeland lamond leeland leland lynd marchland marland moreland morland noland ordland ordmund orland ormemund ormond ormund osmund radmund raedmund rand redmond redmund rockland rygeland sigmund sutherland tedmund theomund thormund thurmond tolland wayland wegland weyland walmond normand thormond tedmond saund osmond grantland garmond esmond toland rosamund

NAMES RHYMING WITH H�ND (According to first letters):

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

hinto

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

hiamovi hiatt hibah hickey hid hida hide hien hieremias hiero hieronim hietamaki hieu higgins hilaeira hilaire hilal hilario hilary hild hilda hildagarde hilde hildegard hildemar hildemara hilderinc hildie hildimar hildireth hildreth hilel hillary hillel hillock hillocke hilma hilton hiolair hipolit hippocampus hippodamia hippogriff hippolyta hippolyte hippolytus hippolytusr hippomenes hiram hiroshi hirsh hisa hisham hisolda histion

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH H�ND:

First Names which starts with 'h' and ends with 'd':

hadad haddad hagaward halford halfrid halifrid halstead hamid hammad hand hanford haraford harald harford harold harrod hartford hartwood hayward haywood heahweard heanford hefeydd herald heywood hlaford hobard hobbard hod hoireabard houd howard hrytherford hubbard hud hulbard huld humayd hunfrid hunfried huxeford huxford hwitford

English Words Rhyming HIND

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES H�ND AS A WHOLE:

behind	noun (n.) The backside; the rump.
	adjective (a.) On the side opposite the front or nearest part; on the back side of; at the back of; on the other side of; as, behind a door; behind a hill.
	adjective (a.) Left after the departure of, whether this be by removing to a distance or by death.
	adjective (a.) Left a distance by, in progress of improvement Hence: Inferior to in dignity, rank, knowledge, or excellence, or in any achievement.
	adverb (adv.) At the back part; in the rear.
	adverb (adv.) Toward the back part or rear; backward; as, to look behind.
	adverb (adv.) Not yet brought forward, produced, or exhibited to view; out of sight; remaining.
	adverb (adv.) Backward in time or order of succession; past.
	adverb (adv.) After the departure of another; as, to stay behind.

hind	noun (n.) The female of the red deer, of which the male is the stag.
	noun (n.) A spotted food fish of the genus Epinephelus, as E. apua of Bermuda, and E. Drummond-hayi of Florida; -- called also coney, John Paw, spotted hind.
	noun (n.) A domestic; a servant.
	noun (n.) A peasant; a rustic; a farm servant.
	adjective (a.) In the rear; -- opposed to front; of or pertaining to the part or end which follows or is behind, in opposition to the part which leads or is before; as, the hind legs or hind feet of a quadruped; the hind man in a procession.

hindberry

noun (n.) The raspberry.

hindbrain

noun (n.) The posterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the epencephalon and metencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the epencephalon only.

hinder	adjective (a.) Of or belonging to that part or end which is in the rear, or which follows; as, the hinder part of a wagon; the hinder parts of a horse.
	adjective (a.) To keep back or behind; to prevent from starting or moving forward; to check; to retard; to obstruct; to bring to a full stop; -- often followed by from; as, an accident hindered the coach; drought hinders the growth of plants; to hinder me from going.
	adjective (a.) To prevent or embarrass; to debar; to shut out.
	verb (v. i.) To interpose obstacles or impediments; to be a hindrance.

hindering

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

hinderance

noun (n.) Same as Hindrance.

hinderer

noun (n.) One who, or that which, hinders.

hinderling

adjective (a.) A worthless, base, degenerate person or animal.

hindermost

adjective (a.) Alt. of Hindmost

hindmost

adjective (a.) Furthest in or toward the rear; last.

hindgut

noun (n.) The posterior part of the alimentary canal, including the rectum, and sometimes the large intestine also.

hindi

noun (n.) The name given by Europeans to that form of the Hindustani language which is chiefly spoken by native Hindoos. In employs the Devanagari character, in which Sanskrit is written.

hindoo	noun (n.) Alt. of Hindu
	() Alt. of Hindu, calendar

hindu	noun (n.) A native inhabitant of Hindostan. As an ethnical term it is confined to the Dravidian and Aryan races; as a religious name it is restricted to followers of the Veda.
	noun (n.) Same as Hindoo.

hindooism

noun (n.) Alt. of Hinduism

hinduism

noun (n.) The religious doctrines and rites of the Hindoos; Brahmanism.

hindoostanee

adjective (a.) Alt. of Hindustani

hindustani	noun (n.) The language of Hindostan; the name given by Europeans to the most generally spoken of the modern Aryan languages of India. It is Hindi with the addition of Persian and Arabic words.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Hindoos or their language.

schindylesis

noun (n.) A form of articulation in which one bone is received into a groove or slit in another.

shindle	noun (n.) A shingle; also, a slate for roofing.
	verb (v. t.) To cover or roof with shindles.

shindy	noun (n.) An uproar or disturbance; a spree; a row; a riot.
	noun (n.) Hockey; shinney.
	noun (n.) A fancy or liking.

sulphindigotic

adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a sulphonic acid obtained, as a blue solution, by dissolving indigo in sulphuric acid; -- formerly called also cerulic sulphuric acid, but properly called indigo-disulphonic acid.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH H�ND (According to last letters):

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

bearbind

noun (n.) The bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis).

bind	noun (n.) That which binds or ties.
	noun (n.) Any twining or climbing plant or stem, esp. a hop vine; a bine.
	noun (n.) Indurated clay, when much mixed with the oxide of iron.
	noun (n.) A ligature or tie for grouping notes.
	verb (v. t.) To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner.
	verb (v. t.) To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind; as, attraction binds the planets to the sun; frost binds the earth, or the streams.
	verb (v. t.) To cover, as with a bandage; to bandage or dress; -- sometimes with up; as, to bind up a wound.
	verb (v. t.) To make fast ( a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something; as, to bind a belt about one; to bind a compress upon a part.
	verb (v. t.) To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action; as, certain drugs bind the bowels.
	verb (v. t.) To protect or strengthen by a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.
	verb (v. t.) To sew or fasten together, and inclose in a cover; as, to bind a book.
	verb (v. t.) Fig.: To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other moral tie; as, to bind the conscience; to bind by kindness; bound by affection; commerce binds nations to each other.
	verb (v. t.) To bring (any one) under definite legal obligations; esp. under the obligation of a bond or covenant.
	verb (v. t.) To place under legal obligation to serve; to indenture; as, to bind an apprentice; -- sometimes with out; as, bound out to service.
	verb (v. i.) To tie; to confine by any ligature.
	verb (v. i.) To contract; to grow hard or stiff; to cohere or stick together in a mass; as, clay binds by heat.
	verb (v. i.) To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.
	verb (v. i.) To exert a binding or restraining influence.

blind	noun (n.) Something to hinder sight or keep out light; a screen; a cover; esp. a hinged screen or shutter for a window; a blinder for a horse.
	noun (n.) Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.
	noun (n.) A blindage. See Blindage.
	noun (n.) A halting place.
	noun (n.) Alt. of Blinde
	adjective (a.) Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight.
	adjective (a.) Not having the faculty of discernment; destitute of intellectual light; unable or unwilling to understand or judge; as, authors are blind to their own defects.
	adjective (a.) Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate.
	adjective (a.) Having such a state or condition as a thing would have to a person who is blind; not well marked or easily discernible; hidden; unseen; concealed; as, a blind path; a blind ditch.
	adjective (a.) Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced.
	adjective (a.) Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut.
	adjective (a.) Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing.
	adjective (a.) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind buds; blind flowers.
	verb (v. t.) To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment.
	verb (v. t.) To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle.
	verb (v. t.) To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive.
	verb (v. t.) To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.

cornbind

noun (n.) A weed that binds stalks of corn, as Convolvulus arvensis, Polygonum Convolvulus.

driftwind

noun (n.) A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps.

find	noun (n.) Anything found; a discovery of anything valuable; especially, a deposit, discovered by archaeologists, of objects of prehistoric or unknown origin.
	verb (v. t.) To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a person.
	verb (v. t.) To learn by experience or trial; to perceive; to experience; to discover by the intellect or the feelings; to detect; to feel.
	verb (v. t.) To come upon by seeking; as, to find something lost.
	verb (v. t.) To discover by sounding; as, to find bottom.
	verb (v. t.) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end; as, water is found to be a compound substance.
	verb (v. t.) To gain, as the object of desire or effort; as, to find leisure; to find means.
	verb (v. t.) To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
	verb (v. t.) To provide for; to supply; to furnish; as, to find food for workemen; he finds his nephew in money.
	verb (v. t.) To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish; as, to find a verdict; to find a true bill (of indictment) against an accused person.
	verb (v. i.) To determine an issue of fact, and to declare such a determination to a court; as, the jury find for the plaintiff.

gavelkind

noun (n.) A tenure by which land descended from the father to all his sons in equal portions, and the land of a brother, dying without issue, descended equally to his brothers. It still prevails in the county of Kent.

gerlind

noun (n.) A salmon returning from the sea the second time.

grind	noun (n.) The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
	noun (n.) Any severe continuous work or occupation; esp., hard and uninteresting study.
	noun (n.) A hard student; a dig.
	verb (v. t.) To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones.
	verb (v. t.) To wear down, polish, or sharpen, by friction; to make smooth, sharp, or pointed; to whet, as a knife or drill; to rub against one another, as teeth, etc.
	verb (v. t.) To oppress by severe exactions; to harass.
	verb (v. t.) To study hard for examination.
	verb (v. i.) To perform the operation of grinding something; to turn the millstones.
	verb (v. i.) To become ground or pulverized by friction; as, this corn grinds well.
	verb (v. i.) To become polished or sharpened by friction; as, glass grinds smooth; steel grinds to a sharp edge.
	verb (v. i.) To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
	verb (v. i.) To perform hard aud distasteful service; to drudge; to study hard, as for an examination.

helmwind

noun (n.) A wind attending or presaged by the cloud called helm.

hopbind

noun (n.) The climbing stem of the hop.

humankind

noun (n.) Mankind.

hurlwind

noun (n.) A whirlwind.

ind

noun (n.) India.

kind	adjective (a.) Nature; natural instinct or disposition.
	adjective (a.) Race; genus; species; generic class; as, in mankind or humankind.
	adjective (a.) Nature; style; character; sort; fashion; manner; variety; description; class; as, there are several kinds of eloquence, of style, and of music; many kinds of government; various kinds of soil, etc.
	superlative (superl.) Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.
	superlative (superl.) Having feelings befitting our common nature; congenial; sympathetic; as, a kind man; a kind heart.
	superlative (superl.) Showing tenderness or goodness; disposed to do good and confer happiness; averse to hurting or paining; benevolent; benignant; gracious.
	superlative (superl.) Proceeding from, or characterized by, goodness, gentleness, or benevolence; as, a kind act.
	superlative (superl.) Gentle; tractable; easily governed; as, a horse kind in harness.
	verb (v. t.) To beget.

lind

noun (n.) The linden. See Linden.

mankind	noun (n.) The human race; man, taken collectively.
	noun (n.) Men, as distinguished from women; the male portion of human race.
	noun (n.) Human feelings; humanity.
	adjective (a.) Manlike; not womanly; masculine; bold; cruel.

millrind

noun (n.) Alt. of Millrynd

mind	noun (n.) To fix the mind or thoughts on; to regard with attention; to treat as of consequence; to consider; to heed; to mark; to note.
	noun (n.) To occupy one's self with; to employ one's self about; to attend to; as, to mind one's business.
	noun (n.) To obey; as, to mind parents; the dog minds his master.
	noun (n.) To have in mind; to purpose.
	noun (n.) To put in mind; to remind.
	verb (v.) The intellectual or rational faculty in man; the understanding; the intellect; the power that conceives, judges, or reasons; also, the entire spiritual nature; the soul; -- often in distinction from the body.
	verb (v.) The state, at any given time, of the faculties of thinking, willing, choosing, and the like; psychical activity or state; as: (a) Opinion; judgment; belief.
	verb (v.) Choice; inclination; liking; intent; will.
	verb (v.) Courage; spirit.
	verb (v.) Memory; remembrance; recollection; as, to have or keep in mind, to call to mind, to put in mind, etc.
	verb (v. i.) To give attention or heed; to obey; as, the dog minds well.

moonblind

adjective (a.) Dim-sighted; purblind.

poreblind

adjective (a.) Nearsighted; shortsighted; purblind.

purblind	adjective (a.) Wholly blind.
	adjective (a.) Nearsighted, or dim-sighted; seeing obscurely; as, a purblind eye; a purblind mole.

rind	noun (n.) The external covering or coat, as of flesh, fruit, trees, etc.; skin; hide; bark; peel; shell.
	verb (v. t.) To remove the rind of; to bark.

stormwind

noun (n.) A heavy wind; a wind that brings a storm; the blast of a storm.

tamarind	noun (n.) A leguminous tree (Tamarindus Indica) cultivated both the Indies, and the other tropical countries, for the sake of its shade, and for its fruit. The trunk of the tree is lofty and large, with wide-spreading branches; the flowers are in racemes at the ends of the branches. The leaves are small and finely pinnated.
	noun (n.) One of the preserved seed pods of the tamarind, which contain an acid pulp, and are used medicinally and for preparing a pleasant drink.

teind

noun (n.) A tithe.

underkind

noun (n.) An inferior kind.

unkind	adjective (a.) Having no race or kindred; childless.
	adjective (a.) Not kind; contrary to nature, or the law of kind or kindred; unnatural.
	adjective (a.) Wanting in kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or the like; cruel; harsh; unjust; ungrateful.

whirlwind	noun (n.) A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion.
	noun (n.) Fig.: A body of objects sweeping violently onward.

wind	noun (n.) The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist; a winding.
	noun (n.) Air naturally in motion with any degree of velocity; a current of air.
	noun (n.) Air artificially put in motion by any force or action; as, the wind of a cannon ball; the wind of a bellows.
	noun (n.) Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
	noun (n.) Power of respiration; breath.
	noun (n.) Air or gas generated in the stomach or bowels; flatulence; as, to be troubled with wind.
	noun (n.) Air impregnated with an odor or scent.
	noun (n.) A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the four winds.
	noun (n.) A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
	noun (n.) Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
	noun (n.) The dotterel.
	noun (n.) The region of the pit of the stomach, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury; the mark.
	verb (v. t.) To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twine; to twist; to wreathe; as, to wind thread on a spool or into a ball.
	verb (v. t.) To entwist; to infold; to encircle.
	verb (v. t.) To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.
	verb (v. t.) To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
	verb (v. t.) To cover or surround with something coiled about; as, to wind a rope with twine.
	verb (v. i.) To turn completely or repeatedly; to become coiled about anything; to assume a convolved or spiral form; as, vines wind round a pole.
	verb (v. i.) To have a circular course or direction; to crook; to bend; to meander; as, to wind in and out among trees.
	verb (v. i.) To go to the one side or the other; to move this way and that; to double on one's course; as, a hare pursued turns and winds.
	verb (v. t.) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
	verb (v. t.) To perceive or follow by the scent; to scent; to nose; as, the hounds winded the game.
	verb (v. t.) To drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a horse, so as to render scant of wind; to put out of breath.
	verb (v. t.) To rest, as a horse, in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
	verb (v. t.) To blow; to sound by blowing; esp., to sound with prolonged and mutually involved notes.

withwind

noun (n.) A kind of bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis).

womankind

noun (n.) The females of the human race; women, collectively.

woodbind

noun (n.) Woodbine.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH H�ND (According to first letters):

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

hin

noun (n.) A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing three quarts, one pint, one gill, English measure.

hine

noun (n.) A servant; a farm laborer; a peasant; a hind.

hinge	noun (n.) The hook with its eye, or the joint, on which a door, gate, lid, etc., turns or swings; a flexible piece, as a strip of leather, which serves as a joint to turn on.
	noun (n.) That on which anything turns or depends; a governing principle; a cardinal point or rule; as, this argument was the hinge on which the question turned.
	noun (n.) One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
	verb (v. t.) To attach by, or furnish with, hinges.
	verb (v. t.) To bend.
	verb (v. i.) To stand, depend, hang, or turn, as on a hinge; to depend chiefly for a result or decision or for force and validity; -- usually with on or upon; as, the argument hinges on this point.

hinging

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

hinged	adjective (a.) Furnished with hinges.
	(imp. & p. p.) of Hinge

hingeless

adjective (a.) Without a hinge or joint.

hink

noun (n.) A reaping hook.

hinny	noun (n.) A hybrid between a stallion and an ass.
	noun (n.) A term of endearment; darling; -- corrupted from honey.
	verb (v. i.) To neigh; to whinny.

hinting

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

hint	noun (n.) A remote allusion; slight mention; intimation; insinuation; a suggestion or reminder, without a full declaration or explanation; also, an occasion or motive.
	verb (v. t.) To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner; as, to hint a suspicion.
	verb (v. i.) To make an indirect reference, suggestion, or allusion; to allude vaguely to something.

hinterland

noun (n.) The land or region lying behind the coast district. The term is used esp. with reference to the so-called doctrine of the hinterland, sometimes advanced, that occupation of the coast supports a claim to an exclusive right to occupy, from time to time, the territory lying inland of the coast.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH H�ND:

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.

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.

hidebound	adjective (a.) Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back as not to be easily loosened or raised; -- said of an animal.
	adjective (a.) Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth; -- said of trees.
	adjective (a.) Untractable; bigoted; obstinately and blindly or stupidly conservative.
	adjective (a.) Niggardly; penurious.

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