habitue
1: a regular patron; "an habitue of the racetrack"; "a bum who is a Central Park fixture" [syn: {regular}, {fixture}]
habitus
1: person's predisposition to be affected by something (as a disease); "the consumptive habitus" 2: constitution of the human body [syn: {physique}, {build}, {body-build}]
Hablot Knight Browne
1: English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882) [syn: {Browne}, {Phiz}]
Habsburg
1: a royal German family that provided rulers for several European states and wore the crown of the Holy Roman Empire from 1440 to 1806 [syn: {Hapsburg}]
hacek
1: a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as c) to indicate pronunciation [syn: {wedge}]
hachure
1: shading consisting of multiple crossing lines [syn: {hatch}, {hatching}, {crosshatch}]
hacienda
1: a large estate in Spanish-speaking countries 2: the main house on a ranch or large estate
hack
1: one who works hard at boring tasks [syn: {drudge}, {hacker}] 2: a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends [syn: {machine politic...
hack driver
1: someone who drives a taxi for a living [syn: {taxidriver}, {taximan}, {cabdriver}, {cabman}, {cabby}, {hack-driver}, {livery driver}]
hack on
1: fix a computer program piecemeal until it works; "I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best" [syn: {hack}]
hack writer
1: a mediocre and disdained writer [syn: {hack}, {literary hack}]
hack-driver
1: someone who drives a taxi for a living [syn: {taxidriver}, {taximan}, {cabdriver}, {cabman}, {cabby}, {hack driver}, {livery driver}]
hackamore
1: rope or canvas headgear for a horse, with a rope for leading [syn: {halter}]
hackberry
1: any of various trees of the genus Celtis having inconspicuous flowers and small berrylike fruits [syn: {nettle tree}] 2: small edible dark purple to black berry with large pits; southern United Sta...
hackbut
1: an obsolete firearm with a long barrel [syn: {arquebus}, {harquebus}, {hagbut}]
hackee
1: small striped semiterrestrial eastern American squirrel with cheek pouches [syn: {eastern chipmunk}, {striped squirrel}, {ground squirrel}, {Tamias striatus}]
Hackelia
1: stickweed; beggar's lice [syn: {genus Hackelia}, {Lappula}, {genus Lappula}]
hacker
1: someone who plays golf poorly 2: a programmer who breaks into computer systems in order to steal or change or destroy information as a form of cyber-terrorism [syn: {cyber-terrorist}, {cyberpunk}] ...
hackle
1: long slender feather on the necks of e.g. turkeys and pheasants v : comb with a heckle; "heckle hemp or flax" [syn: {heckle}, {hatchel}]
hackles
1: a feeling of anger and animosity; "having one's hackles or dander up" [syn: {dander}]
hackmatack
1: poplar of northeastern North America with broad heart-shaped leaves [syn: {balsam poplar}, {tacamahac}, {Populus balsamifera}]
hackney
1: a carriage for hire [syn: {hackney carriage}, {hackney coach}] 2: a compact breed of harness horse
hackney coach
1: a carriage for hire [syn: {hackney}, {hackney carriage}]
hackneyed
1: repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some ...
hacksaw
1: saw used with one hand for cutting metal [syn: {metal saw}] [also: {hacksawn}]
hackwork
1: professional work done according to formula
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had best
1: act in one's own or everybody's best interest; "You will do well to arrive on time tomorrow!" [syn: {do well}]
Had crime
1: (Islam) serious crimes committed by Muslims and punishable by pre-established punishments found in the Koran; "Had crimes include apostasy from Islam and murder and theft and adultery"
hadal
1: relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters)
haddock
1: lean white flesh of fish similar to but smaller than cod; usually baked or poached or as fillets sauteed or fried 2: important food fish on both sides of the Atlantic; related to cod but usually sm...
Hadean
1: of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus [syn: {Plutonian}, {Tartarean}] n : the earliest eon in the history of the Earth from the first accretion of planetary material (around 4,60...
Hadean aeon
1: the earliest eon in the history of the Earth from the first accretion of planetary material (around 4,600 million years ago) until the date of the oldest known rocks (about 3,800 million years ago)...
Hadean eon
1: the earliest eon in the history of the Earth from the first accretion of planetary material (around 4,600 million years ago) until the date of the oldest known rocks (about 3,800 million years ago)...
Hadean time
1: the earliest eon in the history of the Earth from the first accretion of planetary material (around 4,600 million years ago) until the date of the oldest known rocks (about 3,800 million years ago)...
Hades
1: (Greek mythology) the god of the underworld in ancient mythology; brother of Zeus and husband of Persephone [syn: {Pluto}, {Aides}, {Aidoneus}] 2: (religion) the world of the dead; "he didn't want ...
Hadith
1: (Islam) a tradition based on reports of the sayings and activities of Muhammad and his companions 2: (Islam) the way of life prescribed as normative for Muslims on the basis of the teachings and pr...
hadj
1: the fifth pillar of Islam is a pilgrimage to Mecca during the month of Dhu al-Qadah; at least once in a lifetime a Muslim is expected to make a religious journey to Mecca and the Kaaba; "for a Musl...
hadji
1: a pilgrim who journeys to Mecca [syn: {hajji}, {haji}]
Hadrian
1: Roman Emperor who was the adoptive son of Trajan; travelled throughout his empire to strengthen its frontiers and encourage learning and architecture; on a visit to Britain in 122 he ordered the co...
Hadrian's Wall
1: an ancient Roman wall built by Hadrian in the 2nd century; marked the northern boundary of the Roman Empire in Britain
hadron
1: any elementary particle that interacts strongly with other particles
hadrosaur
1: any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet; may have been partly aquatic [syn: {hadrosaurus}, {duck-billed dinosaur}]
Hadrosauridae
1: duck-billed dinosaurs; upper Cretaceous [syn: {family Hadrosauridae}]
hadrosaurus
1: any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet; may have been partly aquatic [syn: {hadrosaur}, {duck-billed dinosaur}]
haecceity
1: the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other [syn: {quiddity}]
Haeckel
1: German biologist and philosopher; advocated Darwinism and formulated the theory of recapitulation; was an exponent of materialistic monism (1834-1919) [syn: {Ernst Heinrich Haeckel}]
haem
1: a complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds [syn: {heme}, {hematin}, {haemitin}, {protoheme}]
haemagglutinate
1: cause the clumping together (of red blood cells) [syn: {hemagglutinate}]
haemal
1: relating to the blood vessels or blood [syn: {hemal}, {hematal}, {haematal}]
haemal arch
1: a structure arising ventrally from a vertebral centrum and enclosing the caudal blood vessels [syn: {hemal arch}]
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