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An American Dictionary of the English Language

by Noah Webster

Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)

Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865

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  1. Hăl'li-er, n.p. 603A kind of net for catching birds.
  2. Hall'-märk, n.p. 603The official stamp of the Goldsmiths' Company and other assay offices affixed to gold and silver articles, as showing their purity. [Eng.] Simmonds.
  3. Hal-loo', v. i.p. 603To cry out; to exclaim with a loud voice; to call to by name, or by the word halloo. Country folks hallooed and hooted after me. Sidney.
  4. Hal-lōō', v. t.p. 603To encourage with shouts. Old John halloos his hounds again. Prior. 2. To chase with shouts. “If I fly . . . halloo me like a hare.” Shak. 3. To call or shout to; to hail. Shak.
  5. Hal-lōō', n.p. 603An exclamation, used as a call to invite attention; a shout; a call. Some far off halloo breaks the silent air. Milton.
  6. Hal-lōō', interj.p. 603Ho, there! ho! — an exclamation to call attention or to encourage one.
  7. Hăl'lōw, v. t.p. 603To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat as sacred; to reverence. “His secret altar touched with hallowed fire.” Milton. Hallowed be thy name. Matt. vi. 9.
  8. Hăl'/lōw-een', n.p. 603The evening preceding All Hallows or All Saints' day. [Scot.] Jamieson.
  9. Hăl'lōw-mās, n.p. 603The feast of All Souls, All Saints, or All Hallows. “To speak puling, like a beggar at hallowmas.” Shak.
  10. Hal-lū'çi-nāte, v. i.p. 603To stumble or blunder. [Obs.] Byrom.
  11. Hal-lū'çi-nā'tion, n.p. 603The act of hallucinating; error; delusion; mistake. Addison. 2. An error or illusion of sensible perception, occasioned by some bodily or organic disorder or affection, as distinguished from a…
  12. Hal-lū'çi-nā'tor, n.p. 603One who acts from mistaken impressions or hallucinations; a blunderer.
  13. Hal-lū'çi-na-to-ry, a.p. 603Partaking of, or tending to produce, hallucination.
  14. Hā'lux, n.p. 603(Anat.) The great toe. Dunglison.
  15. Halm, n.p. 603Straw; haulm. See HAULM.
  16. Hā'lō, n.p. 603A circle of light; especially, the bright ring represented in painting as surrounding the heads of saints and other holy persons; a glory. 2. A luminous circle, usually prismatically colored, round…
  17. Hā'lō, v. t. or i.p. 603To form, or surround with, a halo. The fire That haloed round his saintly brow. Southey.
  18. Hăl'o-ġĕn, n.p. 603(Chem.) A substance which, by combination with a metal, forms a haloid salt.
  19. Ha-lŏg'e-noŭs, a.p. 603(Chem.) Having the nature of a halogen.
  20. Hā'loid, a.p. 603(Chem.) Resembling a salt;—applied to binary compounds, such as chloride of sodium, or common salt, containing chlorine, iodine, and the allied elements.
  21. Hā'lo-scōpe, n.p. 603An instrument for exhibition, illustration, or explanation of the phenomena of halos, parhelia, and the like.
  22. Halse, n.p. 603The neck or throat. [Obs.] Spenser.
  23. Halse, v. t.p. 603To embrace about the neck; to salute; to greet. [Obs.] Spenser. 2. To beseech; to adjure. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  24. Halse, v. t.p. 603To raise or draw; to hoist. [Obs.] Sir T. More.
  25. Hăl'sen-ing, a.p. 603Sounding harshly in the throat; inharmonious. [Obs.] Carew.
  26. Hals'er, n.p. 603A large rope of a size between the cable and the tow-line; a hawser. See HAWSEB.
  27. Halt, v. i.p. 603To hold one's self from proceeding; to hold up; to stop in walking or marching; to stop for a longer or shorter period on a march. 2. To stop with lameness; to be lame; to limp. 3. To stand in doubt…
  28. Hălt, v. t.p. 603(Mil.) To cause to cease marching; to stop; as, the general halted his troops for refreshment. Washington.
  29. Halt, a.p. 603Halting or stopping in walking; lame. Bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind. Luke xiv. 21.
  30. Halt, n.p. 603A stop in marching; a stopping; as, the troops made a halt at the bridge. 2. The act of limping; lameness.
  31. Halt'er, n.p. 603One who halts or limps.
  32. Hal'ter, n.p. 603A strong strap or cord; especially, (a.) A rope or strap and head-stall for leading or confining a horse. (b.) A rope for hanging malefactors. I shall as soon be strangled with a halter as another.…
  33. Hăl'ter, v. t.p. 603To catch and hold, or to bind with a rope, cord, or halter; to put a halter on. “A haltered neck which does the hangman thank.” Shak.
  34. Häl'te-rēs, n. pl.p. 603(Entom.) Two movable appendages placed one on each side of the thorax, just back of the wings of two-winged insects, as flies, and the like.
  35. Hăl'ter-säck, n.p. 603One doomed to hang upon a halter like a sack. Beau. & Fl.
  36. Halt'ing-ly, adv.p. 603In a halting manner.
  37. Hālve, v. t.p. 603To divide into two equal parts; as, to halve an apple. 2. To join, as timbers, by letting into each other.
  38. Hälved, a.p. 603(Bot.) Appearing as if one side, or one half, were cut away; dimidiate.
  39. Hälves, n.p. 603pl. of half.
  40. Hăl'yard, n.p. 603(Naut.) A rope or tackle for hoisting or lowering yards or sails. [Written also halliard.]
  41. Hăm, n.p. 603The inner or hind part of the knee; the inner angle of the joint which unites the thigh and the leg of an animal. 2. The thigh of any animal; as, a man's ham, a beef, mutton, or venison ham…
  42. Hăm'a-drȳ'ad, n.p. 603(Antiq.) A wood-nymph, feigned to live and die with the tree to which it was attached.
  43. Hā'mate, a.p. 603Hooked; bent at the end into a hook; hamous; entangled. Berkeley.
  44. Hā'mā-ted, a.p. 603Hooked, or set with hooks. Swift.
  45. Hām'ble, v. t.p. 603To hamstring. [Obs.] Johnson.
  46. Hām'burg Whitep. 603A pigment composed of two parts of barytes and one of white lead.
  47. Hāme, n.p. 603Hōme.
  48. Hāme, n.p. 603One of the two curved pieces of wood or metal in the harness of a draught-horse to which the traces are fastened, and which lie upon the collar, or have pads attached to them fitting the horse’s…
  49. Hāme'-sēck'en or Hāme'-sŭck'en, n.p. 603(Scots Law.) The felonious seeking and invasion of a person in his dwelling-house. Bouvier.
  50. Hā'mi-fōrm, a.p. 603(Zoöl.) Having the extremity curved so as to resemble a hook.
  51. Hām'ī-lō'mī-ā, n.p. 603(Bot.) A genus of plants having very fragrant flowers.
  52. Hā'mite, n.p. 603(Paleon.) A fossil shell allied to the ammonite, but generally shaped like a hook, instead of being spiral. Mantell.
  53. Ham-īt'ic, a.p. 603Pertaining to Ham or his descendants.
  54. Hām'let, n.p. 604A small village; a little cluster of houses in the country. “The country wasted, and the hamlets burned.” Dryden. Syn.—Village; neighborhood. See VILLAGE.
  55. Hăm'let-ed, a.p. 604Accustomed to a hamlet, or to a country life. Feltham.
  56. Hām'mer, n.p. 604An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually metallic, fixed crosswise to a handle. The armorers With busy hammers closing rivets up. Shak. 2.…
  57. Hăm'mer, v. t.p. 604To beat with a hammer; as, to hammer iron or steel. 2. To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating. “Hammered money.” Dryden. 3. To work in the mind: to contrive by intellectual…
  58. Hām'mer, v. i.p. 604To be busy; to labor in contrivance. “Who but to-day hammered of this design.” Shak. 2. To be working or in agitation. Blood and revenge are hammering in my head. Shak.
  59. Hăm'mer-a-ble, a.p. 604Capable of being formed or shaped by a hammer. Sherwood.
  60. Hām'mer-bēam, n.p. 604(Gothic Arch.) A beam acting as a tie at the feet of a pair of principal rafters, but not extending so as to connect the opposite sides. It is generally supported by a rib springing from a corbel…