Name Report For First Name HEH:
HEH
First name HEH's origin is African. HEH means "myth name (god of the immeasurable)". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with HEH below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of heh.(Brown names are of the same origin (African) with HEH and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with HEH - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming HEH
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES HEH AS A WHOLE:
hehet hehewuti nochehuatl mosheh wohehivNAMES RHYMING WITH HEH (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (eh) - Names That Ends with eh:
shakeh mimiteh fateh lameh wajeeh saleh amineh neleh nevaeh nweh talayeh aryeh carmontieh gwernaeh safiyeh ben-aryeh sabeeh nazeeh nureh asfoureh rahimateh sameh sarsoureh shunnarehNAMES RHYMING WITH HEH (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (he) - Names That Begins with he:
he-lush-ka heahweard healhtun heall healleah heallfrith heallstede healum healy heammawihio heanford heanleah heardind heardwi heardwine hearne hearpere heath heathcliff heathclyf heathdene heather heathle heathleah heathley heaven heaven-leigh hebe heber hebron hecate hector hecuba hedda hedia hedvig hedvige hedwig hedy hedyla hefeydd hegarty heida heide heidi heikki heikkinen heilyn heinrich heinz heitor hekli hekuba hel helain helaine helaku helder helen helena helene helenus helga helia helice helike helios helki helle hellekin helli helma helmer helmut helmutt heloise helsa helsin helton hemera henbeddestr henderson hendrika hengist henley hennessy henning henri henrick henrietta henriette henrik henrika henriqua henry henson henwas heolstor heorot heortNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH HEH:
First Names which starts with 'h' and ends with 'h':
habibah hadarah hadassah hadiyah hadiyyah hadleigh hafsah hafthah hagaleah hahkethomemah halah haleigh halfrith halimah hamidah hamzah hananiah hanifah haniyyah hannah haqikah hareleah harith harleigh havalah hayleigh hephzibah hepzibeth hezekiah hibah hildireth hildreth hirsh hoh hotah hrocesburh hrychleah hrypanleah hudhayfah hugh huriyyah husniyah huynh hwaeteleah hyacinth hyunhEnglish Words Rhyming HEH
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES HEH AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH HEH (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (eh) - English Words That Ends with eh:
almeh | noun (n.) An Egyptian dancing girl; an Alma. |
cafeneh | noun (n.) A humble inn or house of rest for travelers, where coffee is sold. |
cafileh | noun (n.) A caravan of travelers; a military supply train or government caravan; a string of pack horses. |
lanseh | noun (n.) The small, whitish brown fruit of an East Indian tree (Lansium domesticum). It has a fleshy pulp, with an agreeable subacid taste. |
maneh | noun (n.) A Hebrew weight for gold or silver, being one hundred shekels of gold and sixty shekels of silver. |
medjidieh | noun (n.) A silver coin of Turkey formerly rated at twenty, but since 1880 at nineteen, piasters (about 83 cents). |
noun (n.) A gold coin of Turkey equal to one hundred piastres ($4.396 or 18s. /d.); a lira, or Turkish pound. | |
noun (n.) A Turkish honorary order established in 1851 by Abdul-Mejid, having as its badge a medallion surrounded by seven silver rays and crescents. It is often conferred on foreigners. |
nargileh | noun (n.) An apparatus for smoking tobacco. It has a long flexible tube, and the smoke is drawn through water. |
sakieh | noun (n.) Alt. of Sakiyeh |
sakiyeh | noun (n.) A kind of water wheel used in Egypt for raising water, from wells or pits, in buckets attached to its periphery or to an endless rope. |
tusseh | noun (n.) An undomesticated East Indian silkworn (Antheraea mylitta), that feeds on the leaves of the oak and other plants. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH HEH (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (he) - Words That Begins with he:
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. |
heading | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Head |
noun (n.) The act or state of one who, or that which, heads; formation of a head. | |
noun (n.) That which stands at the head; title; as, the heading of a paper. | |
noun (n.) Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc. | |
noun (n.) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift. | |
noun (n.) The extension of a line ruffling above the line of stitch. | |
noun (n.) That end of a stone or brick which is presented outward. |
headache | noun (n.) Pain in the head; cephalalgia. |
headachy | adjective (a.) Afflicted with headache. |
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. |
headborough | noun (n.) Alt. of Headborrow |
headborrow | noun (n.) The chief of a frankpledge, tithing, or decennary, consisting of ten families; -- called also borsholder, boroughhead, boroughholder, and sometimes tithingman. See Borsholder. |
noun (n.) A petty constable. |
headdress | noun (n.) A covering or ornament for the head; a headtire. |
noun (n.) A manner of dressing the hair or of adorning it, whether with or without a veil, ribbons, combs, etc. |
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 |
header | noun (n.) One who, or that which, heads nails, rivets, etc., esp. a machine for heading. |
noun (n.) One who heads a movement, a party, or a mob; head; chief; leader. | |
noun (n.) A brick or stone laid with its shorter face or head in the surface of the wall. | |
noun (n.) In framing, the piece of timber fitted between two trimmers, and supported by them, and carrying the ends of the tailpieces. | |
noun (n.) A reaper for wheat, that cuts off the heads only. | |
noun (n.) A fall or plunge headforemost, as while riding a bicycle, or in bathing; as, to take a header. |
headfish | noun (n.) The sunfish (Mola). |
head gear | noun (n.) Alt. of Headgear |
headgear | noun (n.) Headdress. |
noun (n.) Apparatus above ground at the mouth of a mine or deep well. |
headiness | noun (n.) The quality of being heady. |
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. |
headless | adjective (a.) Having no head; beheaded; as, a headless body, neck, or carcass. |
adjective (a.) Destitute of a chief or leader. | |
adjective (a.) Destitute of understanding or prudence; foolish; rash; obstinate. |
headlight | noun (n.) A light, with a powerful reflector, placed at the head of a locomotive, or in front of it, to throw light on the track at night, or in going through a dark tunnel. |
headline | noun (n.) The line at the head or top of a page. |
noun (n.) See Headrope. |
headlong | adjective (a.) Rash; precipitate; as, headlong folly. |
adjective (a.) Steep; precipitous. | |
adverb (a. & adv.) With the head foremost; as, to fall headlong. | |
adverb (a. & adv.) Rashly; precipitately; without deliberation. | |
adverb (a. & adv.) Hastily; without delay or respite. |
headman | noun (n.) A head or leading man, especially of a village community. |
headmost | adjective (a.) Most advanced; most forward; as, the headmost ship in a fleet. |
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. |
headpan | noun (n.) The brainpan. |
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. |
headquarters | noun (n. sing.) The quarters or place of residence of any chief officer, as the general in command of an army, or the head of a police force; the place from which orders or instructions are issued; hence, the center of authority or order. |
headrace | noun (n.) See Race, a water course. |
headroom | noun (n.) See Headway, 2. |
headrope | noun (n.) That part of a boltrope which is sewed to the upper edge or head of a sail. |
headsail | noun (n.) Any sail set forward of the foremast. |
headshake | noun (n.) A significant shake of the head, commonly as a signal of denial. |
headship | noun (n.) Authority or dignity; chief place. |
headsman | noun (n.) An executioner who cuts off heads. |
headspring | noun (n.) Fountain; source. |
headstall | noun (n.) That part of a bridle or halter which encompasses the head. |
headstock | noun (n.) A part (usually separate from the bed or frame) for supporting some of the principal working parts of a machine |
noun (n.) The part of a lathe that holds the revolving spindle and its attachments; -- also called poppet head, the opposite corresponding part being called a tailstock. | |
noun (n.) The part of a planing machine that supports the cutter, etc. |
headstone | noun (n.) The principal stone in a foundation; the chief or corner stone. |
noun (n.) The stone at the head of a grave. |
headstrong | adjective (a.) Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. |
adjective (a.) Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy. |
headstrongness | noun (n.) Obstinacy. |
headtire | noun (n.) A headdress. |
noun (n.) The manner of dressing the head, as at a particular time and place. |
headway | noun (n.) The progress made by a ship in motion; hence, progress or success of any kind. |
noun (n.) Clear space under an arch, girder, and the like, sufficient to allow of easy passing underneath. |
headwork | noun (n.) Mental labor. |
heady | adjective (a.) Willful; rash; precipitate; hurried on by will or passion; ungovernable. |
adjective (a.) Apt to affect the head; intoxicating; strong. | |
adjective (a.) Violent; impetuous. |
healing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Heal |
adjective (a.) Tending to cure; soothing; mollifying; as, the healing art; a healing salve; healing words. |
healable | adjective (a.) Capable of being healed. |
healall | noun (n.) A common herb of the Mint family (Brunela vulgaris), destitute of active properties, but anciently thought a panacea. |
heald | noun (n.) A heddle. |
healful | adjective (a.) Tending or serving to heal; healing. |
health | noun (n.) The state of being hale, sound, or whole, in body, mind, or soul; especially, the state of being free from physical disease or pain. |
noun (n.) A wish of health and happiness, as in pledging a person in a toast. |
healthful | adjective (a.) Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole; sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful plant. |
adjective (a.) Serving to promote health of body or mind; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthful air, diet. | |
adjective (a.) Indicating, characterized by, or resulting from, health or soundness; as, a healthful condition. | |
adjective (a.) Well-disposed; favorable. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH HEH:
English Words which starts with 'h' and ends with 'h':
haemadromograph | noun (n.) An instrument for registering the velocity of the blood. |
haemodromograph | noun (n.) Same as Haemadromograph. |
haggish | adjective (a.) Like a hag; ugly; wrinkled. |
hairbreadth | adjective (a.) Having the breadth of a hair; very narrow; as, a hairbreadth escape. |
() Alt. of Hair'sbreadth |
hairbrush | noun (n.) A brush for cleansing and smoothing the hair. |
haircloth | noun (n.) Stuff or cloth made wholly or in part of hair. |
halleluiah | noun (n. & interj.) Alt. of Hallelujah |
hallelujah | noun (n. & interj.) Praise ye Jehovah; praise ye the Lord; -- an exclamation used chiefly in songs of praise or thanksgiving to God, and as an expression of gratitude or adoration. |
hammercloth | noun (n.) The cloth which covers a coach box. |
handbreadth | noun (n.) A space equal to the breadth of the hand; a palm. |
handcloth | noun (n.) A handkerchief. |
handfish | noun (n.) The frogfish. |
hardish | adjective (a.) Somewhat hard. |
harish | adjective (a.) Like a hare. |
harsh | adjective (a.) Rough; disagreeable; grating |
adjective (a.) disagreeable to the touch. | |
adjective (a.) disagreeable to the taste. | |
adjective (a.) disagreeable to the ear. | |
adjective (a.) Unpleasant and repulsive to the sensibilities; austere; crabbed; morose; abusive; abusive; severe; rough. | |
adjective (a.) Having violent contrasts of color, or of light and shade; lacking in harmony. |
hash | noun (n.) That which is hashed or chopped up; meat and vegetables, especially such as have been already cooked, chopped into small pieces and mixed. |
noun (n.) A new mixture of old matter; a second preparation or exhibition. | |
noun (n.) To /hop into small pieces; to mince and mix; as, to hash meat. |
hasheesh | noun (n.) Alt. of Hashish |
hashish | noun (n.) A slightly acrid gum resin produced by the common hemp (Cannabis saltiva), of the variety Indica, when cultivated in a warm climate; also, the tops of the plant, from which the resinous product is obtained. It is narcotic, and has long been used in the East for its intoxicating effect. See Bhang, and Ganja. |
hatch | noun (n.) The act of hatching. |
noun (n.) Development; disclosure; discovery. | |
noun (n.) The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood. | |
noun (n.) A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge. | |
noun (n.) A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish. | |
noun (n.) A flood gate; a a sluice gate. | |
noun (n.) A bedstead. | |
noun (n.) An opening in the deck of a vessel or floor of a warehouse which serves as a passageway or hoistway; a hatchway; also; a cover or door, or one of the covers used in closing such an opening. | |
noun (n.) An opening into, or in search of, a mine. | |
verb (v. t.) To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching. | |
verb (v. t.) To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep. | |
verb (v. t.) To produce, as young, from an egg or eggs by incubation, or by artificial heat; to produce young from (eggs); as, the young when hatched. | |
verb (v. t.) To contrive or plot; to form by meditation, and bring into being; to originate and produce; to concoct; as, to hatch mischief; to hatch heresy. | |
verb (v. i.) To produce young; -- said of eggs; to come forth from the egg; -- said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc. | |
verb (v. t.) To close with a hatch or hatches. |
haugh | noun (n.) A low-lying meadow by the side of a river. |
haunch | noun (n.) The hip; the projecting region of the lateral parts of the pelvis and the hip joint; the hind part. |
noun (n.) Of meats: The leg and loin taken together; as, a haunch of venison. |
hawfinch | noun (n.) The common European grosbeak (Coccothraustes vulgaris); -- called also cherry finch, and coble. |
hearsecloth | noun (n.) A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. |
hearth | noun (n.) The pavement or floor of brick, stone, or metal in a chimney, on which a fire is made; the floor of a fireplace; also, a corresponding part of a stove. |
noun (n.) The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of hospitality to strangers; fireside. | |
noun (n.) The floor of a furnace, on which the material to be heated lies, or the lowest part of a melting furnace, into which the melted material settles. |
heath | noun (n.) A low shrub (Erica, / Calluna, vulgaris), with minute evergreen leaves, and handsome clusters of pink flowers. It is used in Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens. It is also called heather, and ling. |
noun (n.) Also, any species of the genus Erica, of which several are European, and many more are South African, some of great beauty. See Illust. of Heather. | |
noun (n.) A place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of country overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage. |
heathenish | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the heathen; resembling or characteristic of heathens. |
adjective (a.) Rude; uncivilized; savage; cruel. | |
adjective (a.) Irreligious; as, a heathenish way of living. |
hectograph | noun (n.) A contrivance for multiple copying, by means of a surface of gelatin softened with glycerin. |
hektograph | noun (n.) See Hectograph. |
helicograph | noun (n.) An instrument for drawing spiral lines on a plane. |
heliograph | noun (n.) A picture taken by heliography; a photograph. |
noun (n.) An instrument for taking photographs of the sun. | |
noun (n.) An apparatus for telegraphing by means of the sun's rays. See Heliotrope, 3. | |
verb (v. t.) To telegraph, or signal, with a heliograph. | |
verb (v. t.) To photograph by sunlight. |
hellbroth | noun (n.) A composition for infernal purposes; a magical preparation. |
hellish | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to hell; like hell; infernal; malignant; wicked; detestable; diabolical. |
helminth | noun (n.) An intestinal worm, or wormlike intestinal parasite; one of the Helminthes. |
hemiglyph | noun (n.) The half channel or groove in the edge of the triglyph in the Doric order. |
hemistich | noun (n.) Half a poetic verse or line, or a verse or line not completed. |
henfish | noun (n.) A marine fish; the sea bream. |
noun (n.) A young bib. See Bib, n., 2. |
heptarch | noun (n.) Same as Heptarchist. |
heptastich | noun (n.) A composition consisting of seven lines or verses. |
heptateuch | noun (n.) The first seven books of the Testament. |
herbergh | noun (n.) Alt. of Herberwe |
herborough | noun (n.) A harbor. |
heresiarch | noun (n.) A leader in heresy; the chief of a sect of heretics. |
heretoch | noun (n.) Alt. of Heretog |
heteracanth | adjective (a.) Having the spines of the dorsal fin unsymmetrical, or thickened alternately on the right and left sides. |
heugh | noun (n.) A crag; a cliff; a glen with overhanging sides. |
noun (n.) A shaft in a coal pit; a hollow in a quarry. |
hexastich | noun (n.) Alt. of Hexastichon |
hexateuch | noun (n.) The first six books of the Old Testament. |
heyh | adjective (a.) Alt. of Heygh |
heygh | adjective (a.) High. |
hiccough | noun (n.) A modified respiratory movement; a spasmodic inspiration, consisting of a sudden contraction of the diaphragm, accompanied with closure of the glottis, so that further entrance of air is prevented, while the impulse of the column of air entering and striking upon the closed glottis produces a sound, or hiccough. |
verb (v. i.) To have a hiccough or hiccoughs. |
hierarch | noun (n.) One who has high and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order; as, princely hierarchs. |
hieroglyph | adjective (a.) Alt. of Hieroglyphic |
high | noun (n.) An elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven. |
noun (n.) People of rank or high station; as, high and low. | |
noun (n.) The highest card dealt or drawn. | |
superlative (superl.) Elevated above any starting point of measurement, as a line, or surface; having altitude; lifted up; raised or extended in the direction of the zenith; lofty; tall; as, a high mountain, tower, tree; the sun is high. | |
superlative (superl.) Regarded as raised up or elevated; distinguished; remarkable; conspicuous; superior; -- used indefinitely or relatively, and often in figurative senses, which are understood from the connection | |
superlative (superl.) Elevated in character or quality, whether moral or intellectual; preeminent; honorable; as, high aims, or motives. | |
superlative (superl.) Exalted in social standing or general estimation, or in rank, reputation, office, and the like; dignified; as, she was welcomed in the highest circles. | |
superlative (superl.) Of noble birth; illustrious; as, of high family. | |
superlative (superl.) Of great strength, force, importance, and the like; strong; mighty; powerful; violent; sometimes, triumphant; victorious; majestic, etc.; as, a high wind; high passions. | |
superlative (superl.) Very abstract; difficult to comprehend or surmount; grand; noble. | |
superlative (superl.) Costly; dear in price; extravagant; as, to hold goods at a high price. | |
superlative (superl.) Arrogant; lofty; boastful; proud; ostentatious; -- used in a bad sense. | |
superlative (superl.) Possessing a characteristic quality in a supreme or superior degree; as, high (i. e., intense) heat; high (i. e., full or quite) noon; high (i. e., rich or spicy) seasoning; high (i. e., complete) pleasure; high (i. e., deep or vivid) color; high (i. e., extensive, thorough) scholarship, etc. | |
superlative (superl.) Strong-scented; slightly tainted; as, epicures do not cook game before it is high. | |
superlative (superl.) Acute or sharp; -- opposed to grave or low; as, a high note. | |
superlative (superl.) Made with a high position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate, as / (/ve), / (f/d). See Guide to Pronunciation, // 10, 11. | |
verb (v. i.) To hie. | |
adverb (adv.) In a high manner; in a high place; to a great altitude; to a great degree; largely; in a superior manner; eminently; powerfully. | |
verb (v. i.) To rise; as, the sun higheth. |
highth | noun (n.) Variant of Height. |
hippish | adjective (a.) Somewhat hypochondriac; melancholy. See Hyppish. |
hippolith | noun (n.) A concretion, or kind of bezoar, from the intestines of the horse. |
hitch | noun (n.) A catch; anything that holds, as a hook; an impediment; an obstacle; an entanglement. |
noun (n.) The act of catching, as on a hook, etc. | |
noun (n.) A stop or sudden halt; a stoppage; an impediment; a temporary obstruction; an obstacle; as, a hitch in one's progress or utterance; a hitch in the performance. | |
noun (n.) A sudden movement or pull; a pull up; as, the sailor gave his trousers a hitch. | |
noun (n.) A knot or noose in a rope which can be readily undone; -- intended for a temporary fastening; as, a half hitch; a clove hitch; a timber hitch, etc. | |
noun (n.) A small dislocation of a bed or vein. | |
verb (v. t.) To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling. | |
verb (v. t.) To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; -- said of something obstructed or impeded. | |
verb (v. t.) To hit the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere. | |
verb (v. t.) To hook; to catch or fasten as by a hook or a knot; to make fast, unite, or yoke; as, to hitch a horse, or a halter. | |
verb (v. t.) To move with hitches; as, he hitched his chair nearer. |
hobblebush | noun (n.) A low bush (Viburnum lantanoides) having long, straggling branches and handsome flowers. It is found in the Northern United States. Called also shinhopple. |
hough | noun (n.) The joint in the hind limb of quadrupeds between the leg and shank, or tibia and tarsus, and corresponding to the ankle in man. |
noun (n.) A piece cut by butchers, esp. in pork, from either the front or hind leg, just above the foot. | |
noun (n.) The popliteal space; the ham. | |
noun (n.) Same as Hock, a joint. | |
noun (n.) An adz; a hoe. | |
verb (v. t.) Same as Hock, to hamstring. | |
verb (v. t.) To cut with a hoe. |
hodograph | noun (n.) A curve described by the moving extremity of a line the other end of which is fixed, this line being constantly parallel to the direction of motion of, and having its length constantly proportional to the velocity of, a point moving in any path; -used in investigations respecting central forces. |
hogfish | noun (n.) A large West Indian and Florida food fish (Lachnolaemus). |
noun (n.) The pigfish or sailor's choice. | |
noun (n.) An American fresh-water fish; the log perch. | |
noun (n.) A large, red, spiny-headed, European marine fish (Scorpaena scrofa). |
hoggish | adjective (a.) Swinish; gluttonous; filthy; selfish. |
hogh | noun (n.) A hill; a cliff. |
hogwash | noun (n.) Swill. |
hoidenish | adjective (a.) Like, or appropriate to, a hoiden. |
hollandish | adjective (a.) Relating to Holland; Dutch. |
holograph | noun (n.) A document, as a letter, deed, or will, wholly in the handwriting of the person from whom it proceeds and whose act it purports to be. |
homacanth | adjective (a.) Having the dorsal fin spines symmetrical, and in the same line; -- said of certain fishes. |
homeopath | noun (n.) A practitioner of homeopathy. |
homish | adjective (a.) Like a home or a home circle. |
homograph | noun (n.) One of two or more words identical in orthography, but having different derivations and meanings; as, fair, n., a market, and fair, a., beautiful. |
hookah | noun (n.) A pipe with a long, flexible stem, so arranged that the smoke is cooled by being made to pass through water. |
hopplebush | noun (n.) Same as Hobblebush. |
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. |
hornfish | noun (n.) The garfish or sea needle. |
hornish | adjective (a.) Somewhat like horn; hard. |
horsefish | noun (n.) The moonfish (Selene setipinnis). |
noun (n.) The sauger. |
horseflesh | noun (n.) The flesh of horses. |
noun (n.) Horses, generally; the qualities of a horse; as, he is a judge of horseflesh. |
horselaugh | noun (n.) A loud, boisterous laugh; a guffaw. |
hotchpotch | noun (n.) A mingled mass; a confused mixture; a stew of various ingredients; a hodgepodge. |
noun (n.) A blending of property for equality of division, as when lands given in frank-marriage to one daughter were, after the death of the ancestor, blended with the lands descending to her and to her sisters from the same ancestor, and then divided in equal portions among all the daughters. In modern usage, a mixing together, or throwing into a common mass or stock, of the estate left by a person deceased and the amounts advanced to any particular child or children, for the purpose of a more equal division, or of equalizing the shares of all the children; the property advanced being accounted for at its value when given. |
houdah | noun (n.) See Howdah. |
houndfish | noun (n.) Any small shark of the genus Galeus or Mustelus, of which there are several species, as the smooth houndfish (G. canis), of Europe and America; -- called also houndshark, and dogfish. |
howdah | noun (n.) A seat or pavilion, generally covered, fastened on the back of an elephant, for the rider or riders. |
huch | noun (n.) Alt. of Huchen |
huffish | adjective (a.) Disposed to be blustering or arrogant; petulant. |
hulch | noun (n.) A hunch. |
hunch | noun (n.) A hump; a protuberance. |
noun (n.) A lump; a thick piece; as, a hunch of bread. | |
noun (n.) A push or thrust, as with the elbow. | |
noun (n.) A strong, intuitive impression that something will happen; -- said to be from the gambler's superstition that it brings luck to touch the hump of a hunchback. | |
verb (v. t.) To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust suddenly. | |
verb (v. t.) To thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back. |
hundredth | noun (n.) One of a hundred equal parts into which one whole is, or may be, divided; the quotient of a unit divided by a hundred. |
adjective (a.) Coming last of a hundred successive individuals or units. | |
adjective (a.) Forming one of a hundred equal parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a tenth. |
hurrah | noun (n.) A cheer; a shout of joy, etc. |
verb (v. i.) To utter hurrahs; to huzza. | |
verb (v. t.) To salute, or applaud, with hurrahs. | |
(interj.) Alt. of Hurra |
hush | noun (n.) Stillness; silence; quiet. |
adjective (a.) Silent; quiet. | |
verb (v. t.) To still; to silence; to calm; to make quiet; to repress the noise or clamor of. | |
verb (v. t.) To appease; to allay; to calm; to soothe. | |
verb (v. i.) To become or to keep still or quiet; to become silent; -- esp. used in the imperative, as an exclamation; be still; be silent or quiet; make no noise. |
hutch | noun (n.) A chest, box, coffer, bin, coop, or the like, in which things may be stored, or animals kept; as, a grain hutch; a rabbit hutch. |
noun (n.) A measure of two Winchester bushels. | |
noun (n.) The case of a flour bolt. | |
noun (n.) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit. | |
noun (n.) A jig for washing ore. | |
verb (v. t. & i.) To place in huts; to live in huts; as, to hut troops in winter quarters. | |
verb (v. t.) To hoard or lay up, in a chest. | |
verb (v. t.) To wash (ore) in a box or jig. |
hyacinth | noun (n.) A bulbous plant of the genus Hyacinthus, bearing beautiful spikes of fragrant flowers. H. orientalis is a common variety. |
noun (n.) A plant of the genus Camassia (C. Farseri), called also Eastern camass; wild hyacinth. | |
noun (n.) The name also given to Scilla Peruviana, a Mediterranean plant, one variety of which produces white, and another blue, flowers; -- called also, from a mistake as to its origin, Hyacinth of Peru. | |
noun (n.) A red variety of zircon, sometimes used as a gem. See Zircon. |
hyalograph | noun (n.) An instrument for tracing designs on glass. |
hydranth | noun (n.) One of the nutritive zooids of a hydroid colony. Also applied to the proboscis or manubrium of a hydroid medusa. See Illust. of Hydroidea. |
hydrometrograph | noun (n.) An instrument for determining and recording the quantity of water discharged from a pipe, orifice, etc., in a given time. |
hydropath | noun (n.) A hydropathist. |
hyetograph | noun (n.) A chart or graphic representation of the average distribution of rain over the surface of the earth. |
hygrograph | noun (n.) An instrument for recording automatically the variations of the humidity of the atmosphere. |
hyppish | adjective (a.) Affected with hypochondria; hypped. |
hanukkah | noun (n.) The Jewish Feast of the Dedication, instituted by Judas Maccabaeus, his brothers, and the whole congregation of Israel, in 165 b. c., to commemorate the dedication of the new altar set up at the purification of the temple of Jerusalem to replace the altar which had been polluted by Antiochus Epiphanes (1 Maccabees i. 58, iv. 59). The feast, which is mentioned in John x. 22, is held for eight days (beginning with the 25th day of Kislev, corresponding to December), and is celebrated everywhere, chiefly as a festival of lights, by the Jews. |