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   Hadean time
         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 time by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
head and shoulders above
adv
  1. outstandingly superior to; "in intelligence he was head and shoulders above the others in his class"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
head-in-the-clouds
adj
  1. guided by whim and fancy; "flighty young girls" [syn: flighty, flyaway, head-in-the-clouds, scatterbrained]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
headhunter
n
  1. a recruiter of personnel (especially for corporations)
  2. a savage who cuts off and preserves the heads of enemies as trophies
    Synonym(s): headhunter, head-shrinker
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
headwind
n
  1. wind blowing opposite to the path of a ship or aircraft
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
heat unit
n
  1. a unit of measurement for work [syn: work unit, {heat unit}, energy unit]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hediondilla
n
  1. desert shrub of southwestern United States and New Mexico having persistent resinous aromatic foliage and small yellow flowers
    Synonym(s): creosote bush, coville, hediondilla, Larrea tridentata
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hidden tax
n
  1. a tax paid unwittingly by the consumer (such as ad valorem taxes)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hiddenite
n
  1. a green transparent form of the mineral spodumene used as a gemstone
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hide and go seek
n
  1. a game in which a child covers his eyes while the other players hide then tries to find them
    Synonym(s): hide-and-seek, hide and go seek
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hide-and-seek
n
  1. a game in which a child covers his eyes while the other players hide then tries to find them
    Synonym(s): hide-and-seek, hide and go seek
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hit-and-run
adj
  1. designed for or consisting of a brief attack followed by a quick escape; "hit-and-run units"; "tip-and-run assaults"
    Synonym(s): hit-and-run, tip-and-run
  2. involving a driver of a motor vehicle who leaves the scene of an accident
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hodometer
n
  1. a meter that shows mileage traversed [syn: odometer, hodometer, mileometer, milometer]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hot and bothered
adj
  1. thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (`rattled' is an informal term)
    Synonym(s): flustered, hot and bothered(p), perturbed, rattled
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hot under the collar
adj
  1. very angry
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Hottentot
n
  1. any of the Khoisan languages spoken by the pastoral people of Namibia and South Africa
    Synonym(s): Khoikhoin, Khoikhoi, Hottentot
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Hottentot bread
n
  1. thick edible rootstock of elephant's-foot [syn: {Hottentot bread}, Hottentot's bread]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Hottentot bread vine
n
  1. South African vine having a massive rootstock covered with deeply fissured bark
    Synonym(s): elephant's-foot, tortoise plant, Hottentot bread vine, Hottentot's bread vine, Dioscorea elephantipes
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Hottentot fig
n
  1. low-growing South African succulent plant having a capsular fruit containing edible pulp
    Synonym(s): Hottentot fig, Hottentot's fig, sour fig, Carpobrotus edulis, Mesembryanthemum edule
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Hottentot's bread
n
  1. thick edible rootstock of elephant's-foot [syn: {Hottentot bread}, Hottentot's bread]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Hottentot's bread vine
n
  1. South African vine having a massive rootstock covered with deeply fissured bark
    Synonym(s): elephant's-foot, tortoise plant, Hottentot bread vine, Hottentot's bread vine, Dioscorea elephantipes
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Hottentot's fig
n
  1. low-growing South African succulent plant having a capsular fruit containing edible pulp
    Synonym(s): Hottentot fig, Hottentot's fig, sour fig, Carpobrotus edulis, Mesembryanthemum edule
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hydantoin
n
  1. any of a group of anticonvulsant drugs used in treating epilepsy
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]:
   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]:
   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]:
   Head-hunter \Head"-hunt`er\, n.
      A member of any tribe or race of savages who have the custom
      of decapitating human beings and preserving their heads as
      trophies. The Dyaks of Borneo are the most noted
      head-hunters.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   -- {Head"-hunt`ing}, n.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Headnote \Head"note`\, 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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Heathendom \Hea"then*dom\, n. [AS. h[aemac][edh]end[omac]m.]
      1. That part of the world where heathenism prevails; the
            heathen nations, considered collectively.
  
      2. Heathenism. --C. Kingsley.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hiddenite \Hid"den*ite\, n. [After W. E. Hidden.] (Min.)
      An emerald-green variety of spodumene found in North
      Carolina; lithia emerald, -- used as a gem.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hide \Hide\, v. i.
      To lie concealed; to keep one's self out of view; to be
      withdrawn from sight or observation.
  
               Bred to disguise, in public 'tis you hide. --Pope.
  
      {Hide and seek}, a play of children, in which some hide
            themselves, and others seek them. --Swift.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hodometer \Ho*dom"e*ter\, n.
      See {Odometer}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hoidenhood \Hoi"den*hood\, n.
      State of being a hoiden.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hot-mouthed \Hot"-mouthed`\, a.
      Headstrong.
  
               That hot-mouthed beast that bears against the curb.
                                                                              --Dryden.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hottentot \Hot"ten*tot\, n. [D. Hottentot; -- so called from hot
      and tot, two syllables of frequent occurrence in their
      language. --Wedgwood.]
      1. (Ethnol.) One of a degraded

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {Hottentot cherry} (Bot.), a South African plant of the genus
            {Cassine} ({C. maurocenia}), having handsome foliage, with
            generally inconspicuous white or green flowers. --Loudon.
  
      {Hottentot's bread}. (Bot.) See {Elephant's foot}
            (a), under {Elephant}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hottentotism \Hot"ten*tot*ism\, n.
      A term employed to describe one of the varieties of
      stammering. --Tylor.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {Elephant apple} (Bot.), an East Indian fruit with a rough,
            hard rind, and edible pulp, borne by {Feronia elephantum},
            a large tree related to the orange.
  
      {Elephant bed} (Geol.), at Brighton, England, abounding in
            fossil remains of elephants. --Mantell.
  
      {Elephant beetle} (Zo[94]l.), any very large beetle of the
            genus {Goliathus} (esp. {G. giganteus}), of the family
            {Scarab[91]id[91]}. They inhabit West Africa.
  
      {Elephant fish} (Zo[94]l.), a chim[91]roid fish
            ({Callorhynchus antarcticus}), with a proboscis-like
            projection of the snout.
  
      {Elephant paper}, paper of large size, 23 [times] 28 inches.
           
  
      {Double elephant paper}, paper measuring 26[frac34] [times]
            40 inches. See Note under {Paper}.
  
      {Elephant seal} (Zo[94]l.), an African jumping shrew
            ({Macroscelides typicus}), having a long nose like a
            proboscis.
  
      {Elephant's ear} (Bot.), a name given to certain species of
            the genus Begonia, which have immense one-sided leaves.
  
      {Elephant's foot} (Bot.)
            (a) A South African plant ({Testudinaria Elephantipes}),
                  which has a massive rootstock covered with a kind of
                  bark cracked with deep fissures; -- called also
                  {tortoise plant}. The interior part is barely edible,
                  whence the plant is also called {Hottentot's bread}.
            (b) A genus ({Elephantopus}) of coarse, composite weeds.
                 
  
      {Elephant's tusk} (Zo[94]l.), the tooth shell. See
            {Dentalium}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {Hottentot cherry} (Bot.), a South African plant of the genus
            {Cassine} ({C. maurocenia}), having handsome foliage, with
            generally inconspicuous white or green flowers. --Loudon.
  
      {Hottentot's bread}. (Bot.) See {Elephant's foot}
            (a), under {Elephant}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hydantoic \Hy`dan*to"ic\, a. (Chem.)
      Pertaining to, or derived from, hydantoin. See {Glycoluric}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hydantoin \Hy*dan"to*in\, n. [Hydrogen + allantion.] (Chem.)
      A derivative of urea, {C3H4N2O2}, obtained from allantion, as
      a white, crystalline substance, with a sweetish taste; --
      called also {glycolyl urea}.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Hidden Meadows, CA (CDP, FIPS 33532)
      Location: 33.22515 N, 117.11170 W
      Population (1990): 2371 (1007 housing units)
      Area: 16.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Hiddenite, NC
      Zip code(s): 28636
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