Name Report For First Name HUD:

HUD

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

Rhymes with HUD - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming HUD

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES HUD AS A WHOLE:

huda hudhayfah hudak ehud ahuda yuhudit yehudi yehuda hudson bhudevi yehudit

NAMES RHYMING WITH HUD (According to last letters):

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

khulud masud daoud abbud abdul-wadud da'ud mahmud saud su'ud bladud knud lud archaimbaud arnaud gertrud isoud maud amaud archenhaud bud claud dawud drud jud mahmoud mccloud thibaud stroud suoud houd masoud aud

NAMES RHYMING WITH HUD (According to first letters):

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

huarwar huata hub hubbard hubert huberta hue hueil huemac huetta huette huetts huey hugette hugh hughes hughetta hughette hughston hugi hugiberahta hugiet hugiherahta hugo huguetta huitzilihuitl huitzilli hulbard hulbart hulbert huld hulda hulde huldiberaht huma humam humayd humberto hume humility humita humphrey hunfri hunfrid hunfried hung hungas hunig hunt hunter huntingden huntingdon huntington huntingtun huntir huntley huntly huon huong hurit huritt huriyyah hurlbart hurlbert hurlee hurley hurly hurst hurste husain husam husani husayn husn husnain husniyah hussain hussein husto hutton huu huxeford huxford huxley huxly huy huyana huyen huynh

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH HUD:

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 hobard hobbard hod hoireabard howard howland hrytherford hwitford

English Words Rhyming HUD

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES HUD AS A WHOLE:

hudnoun (n.) A huck or hull, as of a nut.

huddlingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Huddle

huddlenoun (n.) A crowd; a number of persons or things crowded together in a confused manner; tumult; confusion.
 verb (v. i.) To press together promiscuously, from confusion, apprehension, or the like; to crowd together confusedly; to press or hurry in disorder; to crowd.
 verb (v. t.) To crowd (things) together to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system.
 verb (v. t.) To do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly; -- usually with a following preposition or adverb; as, to huddle on; to huddle up; to huddle together.

huddlernoun (n.) One who huddles things together.

hudgenoun (n.) An iron bucket for hoisting coal or ore.

hudibrasticadjective (a.) Similar to, or in the style of, the poem "Hudibras," by Samuel Butler; in the style of doggerel verse.

hudsonianadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Hudson's Bay or to the Hudson River; as, the Hudsonian curlew.

shudderingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shudder

shuddernoun (n.) The act of shuddering, as with fear.
 verb (v. i.) To tremble or shake with fear, horrer, or aversion; to shiver with cold; to quake.

shudenoun (n.) The husks and other refuse of rice mills, used to adulterate oil cake, or linseed cake.

thudnoun (n.) A dull sound without resonance, like that produced by striking with, or striking against, some comparatively soft substance; also, the stroke or blow producing such sound; as, the thrud of a cannon ball striking the earth.
 verb (v. i. & t.) To make, or strike so as to make, a dull sound, or thud.

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


Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (ud) - English Words That Ends with ud:


boudnoun (n.) A weevil; a worm that breeds in malt, biscuit, etc.

budnoun (n.) A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an undeveloped branch or flower.
 noun (n.) A small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached. See Hydra.
 verb (v. i.) To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot.
 verb (v. i.) To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
 verb (v. i.) To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin.
 verb (v. t.) To graft, as a plant with another or into another, by inserting a bud from the one into an opening in the bark of the other, in order to raise, upon the budded stock, fruit different from that which it would naturally bear.

badaudnoun (n.) A person given to idle observation of everything, with wonder or astonishment; a credulous or gossipy idler.

cloudnoun (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.

croudnoun (n.) See Crowd, a violin.

crudnoun (n.) See Curd.

cuckoobudnoun (n.) A species of Ranunculus (R. bulbosus); -- called also butterflower, buttercup, kingcup, goldcup.

cudnoun (n.) That portion of food which is brought up into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach, to be chewed a second time.
 noun (n.) A portion of tobacco held in the mouth and chewed; a quid.
 noun (n.) The first stomach of ruminating beasts.

crapaudnoun (n.) A toad.
 noun (n.) As a proper name, Johnny Crapaud, or Crapaud, a nickname for a Frenchman.

emeraudnoun (n.) An emerald.

feudnoun (n.) A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.
 noun (n.) A contention or quarrel; especially, an inveterate strife between families, clans, or parties; deadly hatred; contention satisfied only by bloodshed.
 noun (n.) A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soil always remaining in the lord or superior; a fief; a fee.

fraudnoun (n.) Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick.
 noun (n.) An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another.
 noun (n.) A trap or snare.

fudnoun (n.) The tail of a hare, coney, etc.
 noun (n.) Woolen waste, for mixing with mungo and shoddy.

gaudnoun (n.) Trick; jest; sport.
 noun (n.) Deceit; fraud; artifice; device.
 noun (n.) An ornament; a piece of worthless finery; a trinket.
 noun (n.) To sport or keep festival.
 verb (v. t.) To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colors; to paint.

goudnoun (n.) Woad.

heraudnoun (n.) A herald.

maraudnoun (n.) An excursion for plundering.
 verb (v. i.) To rove in quest of plunder; to make an excursion for booty; to plunder.

maudnoun (n.) A gray plaid; -- used by shepherds in Scotland.

misproudadjective (a.) Viciously proud.

mudnoun (n.) Earth and water mixed so as to be soft and adhesive.
 verb (v. t.) To bury in mud.
 verb (v. t.) To make muddy or turbid.

overloudadjective (a.) Too loud; noisy.

overproudadjective (a.) Exceedingly or unduly proud.

pudnoun (n.) Same as Pood.
 noun (n.) The hand; the first.

redbudnoun (n.) A small ornamental leguminous tree of the American species of the genus Cercis. See Judas tree, under Judas.

ribaudnoun (n.) A ribald.

rosebudnoun (n.) The flower of a rose before it opens, or when but partially open.

rudnoun (n.) Redness; blush.
 noun (n.) Ruddle; red ocher.
 noun (n.) The rudd.
 verb (v. t.) To make red.

scudnoun (n.) The act of scudding; a driving along; a rushing with precipitation.
 noun (n.) Loose, vapory clouds driven swiftly by the wind.
 noun (n.) A slight, sudden shower.
 noun (n.) A small flight of larks, or other birds, less than a flock.
 noun (n.) Any swimming amphipod crustacean.
 verb (v. i.) To move swiftly; especially, to move as if driven forward by something.
 verb (v. i.) To be driven swiftly, or to run, before a gale, with little or no sail spread.
 verb (v. t.) To pass over quickly.

shroudnoun (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.

spudnoun (n.) A sharp, narrow spade, usually with a long handle, used by farmers for digging up large-rooted weeds; a similarly shaped implement used for various purposes.
 noun (n.) A dagger.
 noun (n.) Anything short and thick; specifically, a piece of dough boiled in fat.
 noun (n.) A potato.

stroudnoun (n.) A kind of coarse blanket or garment used by the North American Indians.

studnoun (n.) A collection of breeding horses and mares, or the place where they are kept; also, a number of horses kept for a racing, riding, etc.
 noun (n.) A stem; a trunk.
 noun (n.) An upright scanting, esp. one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed.
 noun (n.) A kind of nail with a large head, used chiefly for ornament; an ornamental knob; a boss.
 noun (n.) An ornamental button of various forms, worn in a shirt front, collar, wristband, or the like, not sewed in place, but inserted through a buttonhole or eyelet, and transferable.
 noun (n.) A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal.
 noun (n.) A stud bolt.
 noun (n.) An iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable.
 verb (v. t.) To adorn with shining studs, or knobs.
 verb (v. t.) To set with detached ornaments or prominent objects; to set thickly, as with studs.

sunnudnoun (n.) A charter or warrant; also, a deed of gift.

tacaudnoun (n.) The bib, or whiting pout.

talmudnoun (n.) The body of the Jewish civil and canonical law not comprised in the Pentateuch.

thundercloudnoun (n.) A cloud charged with electricity, and producing lightning and thunder.

yaudnoun (n.) See Yawd.

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


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


huanaconoun (n.) See Guanaco.

hubnoun (n.) The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave. See Illust. of Axle box.
 noun (n.) The hilt of a weapon.
 noun (n.) A rough protuberance or projecting obstruction; as, a hub in the road. [U.S.] See Hubby.
 noun (n.) A goal or mark at which quoits, etc., are cast.
 noun (n.) A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc.
 noun (n.) A screw hob. See Hob, 3.
 noun (n.) A block for scotching a wheel.

hubbyadjective (a.) Full of hubs or protuberances; as, a road that has been frozen while muddy is hubby.

hubnernoun (n.) A mineral of brownish black color, occurring in columnar or foliated masses. It is native manganese tungstate.

huchnoun (n.) Alt. of Huchen

huchennoun (n.) A large salmon (Salmo, / Salvelinus, hucho) inhabiting the Danube; -- called also huso, and bull trout.

huckabacknoun (n.) A kind of linen cloth with raised figures, used for towelings.

hucklenoun (n.) The hip; the haunch.
 noun (n.) A bunch or part projecting like the hip.

huckleberrynoun (n.) The edible black or dark blue fruit of several species of the American genus Gaylussacia, shrubs nearly related to the blueberries (Vaccinium), and formerly confused with them. The commonest huckelberry comes from G. resinosa.
 noun (n.) The shrub that bears the berries. Called also whortleberry.

hucksternoun (n.) A retailer of small articles, of provisions, and the like; a peddler; a hawker.
 noun (n.) A mean, trickish fellow.
 verb (v. i.) To deal in small articles, or in petty bargains.

hucksteringnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Huckster

hucksteragenoun (n.) The business of a huckster; small dealing; peddling.

hucksterernoun (n.) A huckster.

huckstressnoun (n.) A female huckster.

huenoun (n.) Color or shade of color; tint; dye.
 noun (n.) A predominant shade in a composition of primary colors; a primary color modified by combination with others.
 noun (n.) A shouting or vociferation.

huedadjective (a.) Having color; -- usually in composition; as, bright-hued; many-hued.

huelessadjective (a.) Destitute of color.

huernoun (n.) One who cries out or gives an alarm; specifically, a balker; a conder. See Balker.

huffingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Huff

huffnoun (n.) A swell of sudden anger or arrogance; a fit of disappointment and petulance or anger; a rage.
 noun (n.) A boaster; one swelled with a false opinion of his own value or importance.
 verb (v. t.) To swell; to enlarge; to puff up; as, huffed up with air.
 verb (v. t.) To treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke with insolence; to hector; to bully.
 verb (v. t.) To remove from the board (the piece which could have captured an opposing piece). See Huff, v. i., 3.
 verb (v. i.) To enlarge; to swell up; as, bread huffs.
 verb (v. i.) To bluster or swell with anger, pride, or arrogance; to storm; to take offense.
 verb (v. i.) To remove from the board a man which could have captured a piece but has not done so; -- so called because it was the habit to blow upon the piece.

huffcapnoun (n.) A blusterer; a bully.
 adjective (a.) Blustering; swaggering.

huffernoun (n.) A bully; a blusterer.

huffinessnoun (n.) The state of being huffish; petulance; bad temper.

huffishadjective (a.) Disposed to be blustering or arrogant; petulant.

huffyadjective (a.) Puffed up; as, huffy bread.
 adjective (a.) Characterized by arrogance or petulance; easily offended.

huggingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hug

hugnoun (n.) A close embrace or clasping with the arms, as in affection or in wrestling.
 verb (v. i.) To cower; to crouch; to curl up.
 verb (v. i.) To crowd together; to cuddle.
 verb (v. t.) To press closely within the arms; to clasp to the bosom; to embrace.
 verb (v. t.) To hold fast; to cling to; to cherish.
 verb (v. t.) To keep close to; as, to hug the land; to hug the wind.

huggernoun (n.) One who hugs or embraces.
 verb (v. t. & i.) To conceal; to lurk ambush.

huguenotnoun (n.) A French Protestant of the period of the religious wars in France in the 16th century.

huguenotismnoun (n.) The religion of the Huguenots in France.

hugyadjective (a.) Vast.

huishernoun (n.) See Usher.
 verb (v. t.) To usher.

hukenoun (n.) An outer garment worn in Europe in the Middle Ages.

hulannoun (n.) See Uhlan.

hulchnoun (n.) A hunch.

hulchyadjective (a.) Swollen; gibbous.

hulknoun (n.) The body of a ship or decked vessel of any kind; esp., the body of an old vessel laid by as unfit for service.
 noun (n.) A heavy ship of clumsy build.
 noun (n.) Anything bulky or unwieldly.
 verb (v. t.) To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; as, to hulk a hare.

hulkingadjective (a.) Alt. of Hulky

hulkyadjective (a.) Bulky; unwiedly.

hullingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hull

hullabaloonoun (n.) A confused noise; uproar; tumult.

hulledadjective (a.) Deprived of the hulls.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Hull

hullernoun (n.) One who, or that which, hulls; especially, an agricultural machine for removing the hulls from grain; a hulling machine.

hullyadjective (a.) Having or containing hulls.

huloistnoun (n.) See Hyloist.

hulotheismnoun (n.) See Hylotheism.

hulvernoun (n.) Holly, an evergreen shrub or tree.

hummingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hum
 noun (n.) A sound like that made by bees; a low, murmuring sound; a hum.
 adjective (a.) Emitting a murmuring sound; droning; murmuring; buzzing.

humnoun (n.) A low monotonous noise, as of bees in flight, of a swiftly revolving top, of a wheel, or the like; a drone; a buzz.
 noun (n.) Any inarticulate and buzzing sound
 noun (n.) The confused noise of a crowd or of machinery, etc., heard at a distance; as, the hum of industry.
 noun (n.) A buzz or murmur, as of approbation.
 noun (n.) An imposition or hoax.
 verb (v. i.) To make a low, prolonged sound, like that of a bee in flight; to drone; to murmur; to buzz; as, a top hums.
 verb (v. i.) To make a nasal sound, like that of the letter m prolonged, without opening the mouth, or articulating; to mumble in monotonous undertone; to drone.
 verb (v. i.) To make an inarticulate sound, like h'm, through the nose in the process of speaking, from embarrassment or a affectation; to hem.
 verb (v. i.) To express satisfaction by a humming noise.
 verb (v. i.) To have the sensation of a humming noise; as, my head hums, -- a pathological condition.
 verb (v. t.) To sing with shut mouth; to murmur without articulation; to mumble; as, to hum a tune.
 verb (v. t.) To express satisfaction with by humming.
 verb (v. t.) To flatter by approving; to cajole; to impose on; to humbug.
  (interj.) An inarticulate nasal sound or murmur, like h'm, uttered by a speaker in pause from embarrassment, affectation, etc.
  (interj.) A kind of strong drink formerly used.
  (interj.) Ahem; hem; an inarticulate sound uttered in a pause of speech implying doubt and deliberation.

humannoun (n.) A human being.
 adjective (a.) Belonging to man or mankind; having the qualities or attributes of a man; of or pertaining to man or to the race of man; as, a human voice; human shape; human nature; human sacrifices.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH HUD:

English Words which starts with 'h' and ends with 'd':

habilimentedadjective (a.) Clothed. Taylor (1630).

habitedadjective (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

haemapodnoun (n.) An haemapodous animal.

haematoidadjective (a.) Same as Hematoid.

haggardnoun (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.

haggedadjective (a.) Like a hag; lean; ugly.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Hag

hagseednoun (n.) The offspring of a hag.

hairbirdnoun (n.) The chipping sparrow.

hairbrainedadjective (a.) See Harebrained.

hairedadjective (a.) Having hair.
 adjective (a.) In composition: Having (such) hair; as, red-haired.

halberdnoun (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.

halcyonoldnoun (a. & n.) See Alcyonoid.

half bloodnoun (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.

haliotoidadjective (a.) Like or pertaining to the genus Haliotis; ear-shaped.

halliardnoun (n.) See Halyard.

haloedadjective (a.) Surrounded with a halo; invested with an ideal glory; glorified.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Halo

haloidnoun (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.

halvedadjective (a.) Appearing as if one side, or one half, were cut away; dimidiate.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Halve

hamadryadnoun (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.

hamatedadjective (a.) Hooked, or set with hooks; hamate.

hamletedadjective (p. a.) Confined to a hamlet.

hammerheadnoun (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.

handnoun (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.

handedadjective (a.) With hands joined; hand in hand.
 adjective (a.) Having a peculiar or characteristic hand.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Hand

handmaidnoun (n.) Alt. of Handmaiden

hangbirdnoun (n.) The Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula); -- so called because its nest is suspended from the limb of a tree. See Baltimore oriole.

hansardnoun (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.

haphazardnoun (n.) Extra hazard; chance; accident; random.

happedadjective (p. a.) Wrapped; covered; cloaked.

hardnoun (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.

hardenedadjective (a.) Made hard, or compact; made unfeeling or callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or vice.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Harden

hardheadnoun (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).

harddiheadnoun (n.) Hardihood.

harddihoodnoun (n.) Boldness, united with firmness and constancy of mind; bravery; intrepidity; also, audaciousness; impudence.

harehoundnoun (n.) See Harrier.

hareldnoun (n.) The long-tailed duck.

harpsichordnoun (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.

hartfordnoun (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.

hasardnoun (n.) Hazard.

hastatednoun (n.) Shaped like the head of a halberd; triangular, with the basal angles or lobes spreading; as, a hastate leaf.

hatbandnoun (n.) A band round the crown of a hat; sometimes, a band of black cloth, crape, etc., worn as a badge of mourning.

hatrednoun (n.) Strong aversion; intense dislike; hate; an affection of the mind awakened by something regarded as evil.

hatstandnoun (n.) A stand of wood or iron, with hooks or pegs upon which to hang hats, etc.

hattedadjective (a.) Covered with a hat.

haunchedadjective (a.) Having haunches.

hauntedadjective (a.) Inhabited by, or subject to the visits of, apparitions; frequented by a ghost.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Haunt

havenedadjective (p. a.) Sheltered in a haven.

hawkedadjective (a.) Curved like a hawk's bill; crooked.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Hawk

hawkweednoun (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).

haybirdnoun (n.) The European spotted flycatcher.
 noun (n.) The European blackcap.

hayfieldnoun (n.) A field where grass for hay has been cut; a meadow.

haywardnoun (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.

hazardnoun (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.

headnoun (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.

headbandnoun (n.) A fillet; a band for the head.
 noun (n.) The band at each end of the back of a book.

headbeardnoun (n.) A board or boarding which marks or forms the head of anything; as, the headboard of a bed; the headboard of a grave.

headedadjective (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

headlandnoun (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.

healdnoun (n.) A heddle.

heartburnedadjective (a.) Having heartburn.

heartedadjective (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.

heartseednoun (n.) A climbing plant of the genus Cardiospermum, having round seeds which are marked with a spot like a heart.

heartshapedadjective (a.) Having the shape of a heart; cordate.

heartwoodnoun (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.

heathcladadjective (a.) Clad or crowned with heath.

heavenlymindedadjective (a.) Having the thoughts and affections placed on, or suitable for, heaven and heavenly objects; devout; godly; pious.

hebdomadnoun (n.) A week; a period of seven days.

hectocotylizedadjective (a.) Changed into a hectocotylus; having a hectocotylis.

heednoun (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.

helianthoidadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Helianthoidea.

helicoidnoun (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.

hellbredadjective (a.) Produced in hell.

hellbrewedadjective (a.) Prepared in hell.

helldoomedadjective (a.) Doomed to hell.

hellhoundnoun (n.) A dog of hell; an agent of hell.

helmedadjective (a.) Covered with a helmet.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Helm

helmetedadjective (a.) Wearing a helmet; furnished with or having a helmet or helmet-shaped part; galeate.

helminthoidadjective (a.) Wormlike; vermiform.

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

hematoidadjective (a.) Resembling blood.

hemerobidadjective (a.) Of relating to the hemerobians.

hemispheroidnoun (n.) A half of a spheroid.

hemstitchedadjective (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

heptachordnoun (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.

heptadnoun (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.

heraldnoun (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.

herbagedadjective (a.) Covered with grass.

herbidadjective (a.) Covered with herbs.

herdnoun (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.

herefordnoun (n.) One of a breed of cattle originating in Herefordshire, England. The Herefords are good working animals, and their beef-producing quality is excellent.

hesperidnoun (a. & n.) Same as 3d Hesperian.

heteropodnoun (n.) One of the Heteropoda.
 adjective (a.) Heteropodous.

heterostyledadjective (a.) Having styles of two or more distinct forms or lengths.

hevednoun (n.) The head.

hexachordnoun (n.) A series of six notes, with a semitone between the third and fourth, the other intervals being whole tones.

hexacidadjective (a.) Having six atoms or radicals capable of being replaced by acids; hexatomic; hexavalent; -- said of bases; as, mannite is a hexacid base.

hexactinellidadjective (a.) Having six-rayed spicules; belonging to the Hexactinellinae.

hexadnoun (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.

hexapodnoun (n.) An animal having six feet; one of the Hexapoda.
 adjective (a.) Having six feet.

hideboundadjective (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.