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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cattle \Cat"tle\ (k[acr]t"t'l), n. pl. [OE. calet, chatel, goods, property, OF. catel, chatel, LL. captale, capitale, goods, property, esp. cattle, fr. L. capitals relating to the head, chief; because in early ages beasts constituted the chief part of a man's property. See {Capital}, and cf. {Chattel}.] Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also, including all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules, asses, and swine. {Belted cattle}, {Black cattle}. See under {Belted}, {Black}. {Cattle guard}, a trench under a railroad track and alongside a crossing (as of a public highway). It is intended to prevent cattle from getting upon the track. {cattle louse} (Zo[94]l.), any species of louse infecting cattle. There are several species. The {H[91]matatopinus eurysternus} and {H. vituli} are common species which suck blood; {Trichodectes scalaris} eats the hair. {Cattle plague}, the rinderpest; called also {Russian cattle plague}. {Cattle range}, or {Cattle run}, an open space through which cattle may run or range. [U. S.] --Bartlett. {Cattle show}, an exhibition of domestic animals with prizes for the encouragement of stock breeding; -- usually accompanied with the exhibition of other agricultural and domestic products and of implements. | |
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H91matite \H[91]m"a*tite\, n. Same as {Hematite}. | |
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H91matitic \H[91]m`a*tit"ic\, a. (Zo[94]l.) Of a blood-red color; crimson; (Bot.) brownish red. | |
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H91matodynamometer \H[91]`ma*to*dy`na*mom"e*ter\ (? or ?), n. Same as {Hemadynamometer}. | |
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H91matoid \H[91]m"a*toid\, a. Same as {Hematoid}. | |
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H91matoidin \H[91]m`a*toid"in\, n. Same as {Hematoidin}. | |
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H91matothermal \H[91]m`a*to*ther"mal\, a. Warm-blooded; homoiothermal. | |
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H91matothorax \H[91]m`a*to*tho"rax\, n. Same as {Hemothorax}. | |
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Hamated \Ha"ma*ted\, a. Hooked, or set with hooks; hamate. --Swift. | |
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Hand \Hand\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Handed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Handing}.] 1. To give, pass, or transmit with the hand; as, he handed them the letter. 2. To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct; as, to hand a lady into a carriage. 3. To manage; as, I hand my oar. [Obs.] --Prior. 4. To seize; to lay hands on. [Obs.] --Shak. 5. To pledge by the hand; to handfast. [R.] 6. (Naut.) To furl; -- said of a sail. --Totten. {To hand down}, to transmit in succession, as from father to son, or from predecessor to successor; as, fables are handed down from age to age; to forward to the proper officer (the decision of a higher court); as, the Clerk of the Court of Appeals handed down its decision. {To hand over}, to yield control of; to surrender; to deliver up. | |
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Handed \Hand"ed\, a. 1. With hands joined; hand in hand. Into their inmost bower, Handed they went. --Milton. 2. Having a peculiar or characteristic hand. As poisonous tongued as handed. --Shak. Note: Handed is used in composition in the sense of having (such or so many) hands; as, bloody-handed; free-handed; heavy-handed; left-handed; single-handed. | |
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Handyy-dandy \Handy"y-dan`dy\, n. A child's play, one child guessing in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and forfeiting an equivalent if wrong; hence, forfeit. --Piers Plowman. | |
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Haunt \Haunt\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Haunted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Haunting}.] [F. hanter; of uncertain origin, perh. from an assumed LL. ambitare to go about, fr. L. ambire (see {Ambition}); or cf. Icel. heimta to demand, regain, akin to heim home (see {Home}). [root]36.] 1. To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon. You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house. --Shak. Those cares that haunt the court and town. --Swift. 2. To inhabit or frequent as a specter; to visit as a ghost or apparition. Foul spirits haunt my resting place. --Fairfax. 3. To practice; to devote one's self to. [Obs.] That other merchandise that men haunt with fraud . . . is cursed. --Chaucer. Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime. --Ascham. 4. To accustom; to habituate. [Obs.] Haunt thyself to pity. --Wyclif. | |
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Haunted \Haunt"ed\, a. Inhabited by, or subject to the visits of, apparitions; frequented by a ghost. All houses wherein men have lived and died Are haunted houses. --Longfellow. | |
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Hematite \Hem"a*tite\, n. [L. haematites, Gr. [?] bloodlike, fr. a"i^ma, a"i`matos, blood.] (Min.) An important ore of iron, the sesquioxide, so called because of the red color of the powder. It occurs in splendent rhombohedral crystals, and in massive and earthy forms; -- the last called red ocher. Called also {specular iron}, {oligist iron}, {rhombohedral iron ore}, and {bloodstone}. See {Brown hematite}, under {Brown}. | |
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Hematitic \Hem`a*tit"ic\, a. Of or pertaining to hematite, or resembling it. | |
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Hematoid \Hem"a*toid\, a. [Hemato- + -oid.] (Physiol.) Resembling blood. | |
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Hematoidin \Hem`a*toid"in\, n. (Physiol. Chem.) A crystalline or amorphous pigment, free from iron, formed from hematin in old blood stains, and in old hemorrhages in the body. It resembles bilirubin. When present in the corpora lutea it is called {h[91]molutein}. | |
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Hematothermal \Hem"a*to*ther"mal\, a. Warm-blooded. | |
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Hemiditone \Hem`i*di"tone\, n. [Hemi- + ditone.] (Gr. Mus.) The lesser third. --Busby. | |
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Hendiadys \Hen*di"a*dys\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] [?] [?] one by two.] (Gram.) A figure in which the idea is expressed by two nouns connected by and, instead of by a noun and limiting adjective; as, we drink from cups and gold, for golden cups. | |
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Triad \Tri"ad\, n. [L. trias, -adis, Gr. [?], [?], fr.[?], [?], three: cf. F. triade. See {Three}, and cf. {Trias}, {Trio}.] 1. A union of three; three objects treated as one; a ternary; a trinity; as, a triad of deities. 2. (Mus.) (a) A chord of three notes. (b) The common chord, consisting of a tone with its third and fifth, with or without the octave. 3. (Chem.) An element or radical whose valence is three. {Triads of the Welsh bards}, poetical histories, in which the facts recorded are grouped by threes, three things or circumstances of a kind being mentioned together. {Hindu triad}. See {Trimurti}. | |
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Hint \Hint\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hinted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Hinting}.] [OE. henten, hinten, to seize, to catch, AS. hentan to pursue, take, seize; or Icel. ymta to mutter, ymtr a muttering, Dan. ymte to whisper. [root]36. Cf. {Hent}.] To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner; as, to hint a suspicion. Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike. --Pope. Syn: To suggest; intimate; insinuate; imply. | |
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Homd2othermal \Ho`m[d2]*o*ther"mal\, a. See {Homoiothermal}. | |
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Hound \Hound\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hounded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Hounding}.] 1. To set on the chase; to incite to pursuit; as, to hounda dog at a hare; to hound on pursuers. --Abp. Bramhall. 2. To hunt or chase with hounds, or as with hounds. --L'Estrange. | |
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Humidity \Hu*mid"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. humidit[82].] Moisture; dampness; a moderate degree of wetness, which is perceptible to the eye or touch; -- used especially of the atmosphere, or of anything which has absorbed moisture from the atmosphere, as clothing. Note: In hygrometrical reports (as of the United States Signal Service) complete saturation of the air is designated by Humidity 100, and its partial saturation by smaller numbers. | |
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Hunt \Hunt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hunted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Hunting}.] [AS. huntian to hunt; cf. hentan to follow, pursue, Goth. hin[?]an (in comp.) to seize. [root]36. Cf. {Hent}.] 1. To search for or follow after, as game or wild animals; to chase; to pursue for the purpose of catching or killing; to follow with dogs or guns for sport or exercise; as, to hunt a deer. Like a dog, he hunts in dreams. --Tennyson. 2. To search diligently after; to seek; to pursue; to follow; -- often with out or up; as, to hunt up the facts; to hunt out evidence. Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him. --Ps. cxl. 11. 3. To drive; to chase; -- with down, from, away, etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish. 4. To use or manage in the chase, as hounds. He hunts a pack of dogs. --Addison. 5. To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Hammedatha father of Haman, designated usually "the Agagite" (Esther 3:1, 10; 8:5). | |
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Hammoth-dor warm springs, a Levitical city of Naphtali (Josh. 21:32); probably Hammath in 19:35. | |
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Henadad favour of Hadad, the name of a Levite after the Captivity (Ezra 3:9). | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Hammedatha, he that troubles the law | |
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Henadad, grace of the beloved |