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   Hadean aeon
         n 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); no evidence of life [syn: {Hadean},
               {Hadean time}, {Hadean eon}, {Hadean aeon}, {Priscoan},
               {Priscoan eon}, {Priscoan aeon}]

English Dictionary: Hadean eon by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Hadean eon
n
  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); no evidence of life
    Synonym(s): Hadean, Hadean time, Hadean eon, Hadean aeon, Priscoan, Priscoan eon, Priscoan aeon
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Haitian monetary unit
n
  1. the monetary unit in Haiti
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hatemonger
n
  1. one who arouses hatred for others
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
headman
n
  1. an executioner who beheads the condemned person [syn: headsman, headman]
  2. the head of a tribe or clan
    Synonym(s): headman, tribal chief, chieftain, chief
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hit man
n
  1. a professional killer who uses a gun [syn: gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, gun, gun for hire, triggerman, hit man, hitman, torpedo, shooter]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hitman
n
  1. a professional killer who uses a gun [syn: gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, gun, gun for hire, triggerman, hit man, hitman, torpedo, shooter]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hodman
n
  1. a laborer who carries supplies to masons or bricklayers
    Synonym(s): hod carrier, hodman
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Hottonia inflata
n
  1. a featherfoil of the eastern United States with submerged spongy inflated flower stalks and white flowers
    Synonym(s): water gillyflower, American featherfoil, Hottonia inflata
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hutment
n
  1. an encampment of huts (chiefly military)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Hydnum
n
  1. type genus of Hydnaceae
    Synonym(s): Hydnum, genus Hydnum
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Primage \Pri"mage\ (?; 48), n. [F.] (Com.)
      A charge in addition to the freight; originally, a gratuity
      to the captain for his particular care of the goods
      (sometimes called {hat money}), but now belonging to the
      owners or freighters of the vessel, unless by special
      agreement the whole or part is assigned to the captain.
      --Homans.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Head \Head\, n. [OE. hed, heved, heaved, AS. he[a0]fod; akin to
      D. hoofd, OHG. houbit, G. haupt, Icel. h[94]fu[?], Sw.
      hufvud, Dan. hoved, Goth. haubip. The word does not
      corresponds regularly to L. caput head (cf. E. {Chief},
      {Cadet}, {Capital}), and its origin is unknown.]
      1. 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.
  
      2. 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.
  
      3. 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.
  
      4. 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. [bd]Their princes
            and heads.[b8] --Robynson (More's Utopia).
  
                     The heads of the chief sects of philosophy.
                                                                              --Tillotson.
  
                     Your head I him appoint.                     --Milton.
  
      5. 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.
  
                     An army of fourscore thousand troops, with the duke
                     Marlborough at the head of them.         --Addison.
  
      6. Each one among many; an individual; -- often used in a
            plural sense; as, a thousand head of cattle.
  
                     It there be six millions of people, there are about
                     four acres for every head.                  --Graunt.
  
      7. 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.
  
                     Men who had lost both head and heart. --Macaulay.
  
      8. 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.
  
      9. A headland; a promontory; as, Gay Head. --Shak.
  
      10. A separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be
            expanded; a subdivision; as, the heads of a sermon.
  
      11. Culminating point or crisis; hence, strength; force;
            height.
  
                     Ere foul sin, gathering head, shall break into
                     corruption.                                       --Shak.
  
                     The indisposition which has long hung upon me, is
                     at last grown to such a head, that it must quickly
                     make an end of me or of itself.         --Addison.
  
      12. Power; armed force.
  
                     My lord, my lord, the French have gathered head.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      13. A headdress; a covering of the head; as, a laced head; a
            head of hair. --Swift.
  
      14. An ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small
            cereals.
  
      15. (Bot.)
            (a) A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies,
                  thistles; a capitulum.
            (b) A dense, compact mass of leaves, as in a cabbage or a
                  lettuce plant.
  
      16. The antlers of a deer.
  
      17. A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or
            other effervescing liquor. --Mortimer.
  
      18. pl. Tiles laid at the eaves of a house. --Knight.
  
      Note: Head is often used adjectively or in self-explaining
               combinations; as, head gear or headgear, head rest. Cf.
               {Head}, a.
  
      {A buck of the first head}, a male fallow deer in its fifth
            year, when it attains its complete set of antlers. --Shak.
  
      {By the head}. (Naut.) See under {By}.
  
      {Elevator head}, {Feed head}, etc. See under {Elevator},
            {Feed}, etc.
  
      {From head to foot}, through the whole length of a man;
            completely; throughout. [bd]Arm me, audacity, from head to
            foot.[b8] --Shak.
  
      {Head and ears}, with the whole person; deeply; completely;
            as, he was head and ears in debt or in trouble. [Colloq.]
           
  
      {Head fast}. (Naut.) See 5th {Fast}.
  
      {Head kidney} (Anat.), the most anterior of the three pairs
            of embryonic renal organs developed in most vertebrates;
            the pronephros.
  
      {Head money}, a capitation tax; a poll tax. --Milton.
  
      {Head pence}, a poll tax. [Obs.]
  
      {Head sea}, a sea that meets the head of a vessel or rolls
            against her course.
  
      {Head and shoulders}.
            (a) By force; violently; as, to drag one, head and
                  shoulders. [bd]They bring in every figure of speech,
                  head and shoulders.[b8] --Felton.
            (b) By the height of the head and shoulders; hence, by a
                  great degree or space; by far; much; as, he is head
                  and shoulders above them.
  
      {Head or tail}, this side or that side; this thing or that;
            -- a phrase used in throwing a coin to decide a choice,
            guestion, or stake, head being the side of the coin
            bearing the effigy or principal figure (or, in case there
            is no head or face on either side, that side which has the
            date on it), and tail the other side.
  
      {Neither head nor tail}, neither beginning nor end; neither
            this thing nor that; nothing distinct or definite; -- a
            phrase used in speaking of what is indefinite or confused;
            as, they made neither head nor tail of the matter.
            [Colloq.]
  
      {Head wind}, a wind that blows in a direction opposite the
            vessel's course.
  
      {Out one's own head}, according to one's own idea; without
            advice or co[94]peration of another.
  
      {Over the head of}, beyond the comprehension of. --M. Arnold.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Headman \Head"man`\, n.; pl. {Headmen}. [AS. he[a0]fodman.]
      A head or leading man, especially of a village community.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Headman \Head"man`\, n.; pl. {Headmen}. [AS. he[a0]fodman.]
      A head or leading man, especially of a village community.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hetman \Het"man\, n.; pl. {Hetmans}. [Pol. hetman. Cf.
      {Ataman}.]
      A Cossack headman or general. The title of chief hetman is
      now held by the heir to the throne of Russia.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hetman \Het"man\, n.; pl. {Hetmans}. [Pol. hetman. Cf.
      {Ataman}.]
      A Cossack headman or general. The title of chief hetman is
      now held by the heir to the throne of Russia.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hodman \Hod"man\, n.; pl. {Hodmen}([?]).
      A man who carries a hod; a mason's tender.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hodmandod \Hod"man*dod\, n. [Obs.]
      See {Dodman}. --Bacon.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hodman \Hod"man\, n.; pl. {Hodmen}([?]).
      A man who carries a hod; a mason's tender.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hoodman \Hood"man\, n.
      The person blindfolded in the game called hoodman-blind.
      [Obs.] --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hoodman-blind \Hood"man-blind`\, n.
      An old term for blindman's buff. --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Huttonian \Hut*to"ni*an\, a.
      Relating to what is now called the Plutonic theory of the
      earth, first advanced by Dr. James Hutton. --Lyell.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Huttoning \Hut"ton*ing\, n. [So named after two English
      bonesetters, Richard and Robert Hutton, who made it a part of
      their method.] (Med.)
      Forcible manipulation of a dislocated, stiff, or painful
      joint.
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