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   Haber
         n 1: German chemist noted for the synthetic production of
               ammonia from the nitrogen in air (1868-1934) [syn: {Haber},
               {Fritz Haber}]

English Dictionary: Hoover by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
happy hour
n
  1. the time of day when a bar sells alcoholic drinks at a reduced price
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
heaver
n
  1. a bar used as a lever (as in twisting rope)
  2. a workman who heaves freight or bulk goods (especially at a dockyard)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Hebrew
adj
  1. of or relating to or characteristic of the Hebrews; "the old Hebrew prophets"
    Synonym(s): Hebraic, Hebraical, Hebrew
  2. of or relating to the language of the Hebrews; "Hebrew vowels"
    Synonym(s): Hebraic, Hebraical, Hebrew
n
  1. the ancient Canaanitic language of the Hebrews that has been revived as the official language of Israel
  2. a person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties
    Synonym(s): Jew, Hebrew, Israelite
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
heifer
n
  1. young cow
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hoofer
n
  1. a professional dancer
    Synonym(s): hoofer, stepper
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Hoover
n
  1. United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932)
    Synonym(s): Hoover, William Hoover, William Henry Hoover
  2. United States lawyer who was director of the FBI for 48 years (1895-1972)
    Synonym(s): Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover, John Edgar Hoover
  3. 31st President of the United States; in 1929 the stock market crashed and the economy collapsed and Hoover was defeated for reelection by Franklin Roosevelt (1874-1964)
    Synonym(s): Hoover, Herbert Hoover, Herbert Clark Hoover, President Hoover
  4. a kind of vacuum cleaner
v
  1. clean with a vacuum cleaner; "vacuum the carpets" [syn: vacuum, vacuum-clean, hoover]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hoper
n
  1. a person who hopes; "only an avid hoper could expect the team to win now"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hopper
n
  1. funnel-shaped receptacle; contents pass by gravity into a receptacle below
  2. someone who hops; "at hopscotch, the best hoppers are the children"
  3. a machine used for picking hops
    Synonym(s): hop-picker, hopper
  4. terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping
    Synonym(s): grasshopper, hopper
  5. (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground
    Synonym(s): grounder, ground ball, groundball, hopper
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hover
v
  1. be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action; "He oscillates between accepting the new position and retirement"
    Synonym(s): hover, vibrate, vacillate, oscillate
  2. move to and fro; "The shy student lingered in the corner"
    Synonym(s): hover, linger
  3. hang in the air; fly or be suspended above
  4. be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity; "The guru claimed that he could levitate"
    Synonym(s): levitate, hover
  5. hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing; "The terrible vision brooded over her all day long"
    Synonym(s): brood, hover, loom, bulk large
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
however
adv
  1. despite anything to the contrary (usually following a concession); "although I'm a little afraid, however I'd like to try it"; "while we disliked each other, nevertheless we agreed"; "he was a stern yet fair master"; "granted that it is dangerous, all the same I still want to go"
    Synonym(s): however, nevertheless, withal, still, yet, all the same, even so, nonetheless, notwithstanding
  2. by contrast; on the other hand; "the first part was easy; the second, however, took hours"
  3. to whatever degree or extent; "The results, however general, are important"; "they have begun, however reluctantly, to acknowledge the legitimacy of some of the opposition's concerns"
  4. in whatever way or manner; "Victory, however it was brought about, was sweet"; "however he did it, it was very clever"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Happy \Hap"py\, a. [Compar. {Happier}; superl. {Happiest}.]
      [From {Hap} chance.]
      1. Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate;
            successful; prosperous; satisfying desire; as, a happy
            expedient; a happy effort; a happy venture; a happy omen.
  
                     Chymists have been more happy in finding experiments
                     than the causes of them.                     --Boyle.
  
      2. Experiencing the effect of favorable fortune; having the
            feeling arising from the consciousness of well-being or of
            enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, as peace,
            tranquillity, comfort; contented; joyous; as, happy hours,
            happy thoughts.
  
                     Happy is that people, whose God is the Lord. --Ps.
                                                                              cxliv. 15.
  
                     The learned is happy Nature to explore, The fool is
                     happy that he knows no more.               --Pope.
  
      3. Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous.
  
                     One gentleman is happy at a reply, another excels in
                     a in a rejoinder.                              --Swift.
  
      {Happy family}, a collection of animals of different and
            hostile propensities living peaceably together in one
            cage. Used ironically of conventional alliances of persons
            who are in fact mutually repugnant.
  
      {Happy-go-lucky}, trusting to hap or luck; improvident;
            easy-going. [bd]Happy-go-lucky carelessness.[b8] --W.
            Black.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Haver \Hav"er\, n. [D. haver; akin to G. haber.]
      The oat; oats. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
  
      {Haver bread}, oaten bread.
  
      {Haver cake}, oaten cake. --Piers Plowman.
  
      {Haver grass}, the wild oat.
  
      {Haver meal}, oatmeal.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Haver \Ha"ver\, n.
      A possessor; a holder. --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Haver \Ha"ver\, v. i. [Etymol. uncertain.]
      To maunder; to talk foolishly; to chatter. [Scot.] --Sir W.
      Scott.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Havier \Hav"ier\, n. [Formerly haver, prob. fr. {Half}; cf. L.
      semimas emasculated, prop., half male.]
      A castrated deer.
  
               Haviers, or stags which have been gelded when young,
               have no horns.                                       --Encyc. of
                                                                              Sport.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Havior \Hav"ior\, n. [OE. havour, a corruption of OF. aveir,
      avoir, a having, of same origin as E. aver a work horse. The
      h is due to confusion with E. have.]
      Behavior; demeanor. [Obs.] --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hydrobromic \Hy`dro*bro"mic\, a. [Hydro-, 2 + bromic.] (Chem.)
      Composed of hydrogen and bromine; as, hydrobromic acid.
  
      {Hydrobromic acid} (Chem.), a colorless, pungent, corrosive
            gas, {HBr}, usually collected as a solution in water. It
            resembles hydrochloric acid, but is weaker and less
            stable. Called also {hydrogen bromide}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Perbromic \Per*bro"mic\, a. [Pref. per- + bromic.] (Chem.)
      Pertaining to, or designating, the highest oxygen acid,
      {HBrO4}, of bromine.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Heaper \Heap"er\, n.
      One who heaps, piles, or amasses.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Heaver \Heav"er\, n.
      1. One who, or that which, heaves or lifts; a laborer
            employed on docks in handling freight; as, a coal heaver.
  
      2. (Naut.) A bar used as a lever. --Totten.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Heavy \Heav"y\, a. [Compar. {Heavier}; superl. {Heaviest}.] [OE.
      hevi, AS. hefig, fr. hebban to lift, heave; akin to OHG.
      hebig, hevig, Icel. h[94]figr, h[94]fugr. See {Heave}.]
      1. Heaved or lifted with labor; not light; weighty;
            ponderous; as, a heavy stone; hence, sometimes, large in
            extent, quantity, or effects; as, a heavy fall of rain or
            snow; a heavy failure; heavy business transactions, etc.;
            often implying strength; as, a heavy barrier; also,
            difficult to move; as, a heavy draught.
  
      2. Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive; hard to endure
            or accomplish; hence, grievous, afflictive; as, heavy
            yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc.
  
                     The hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod.
                                                                              --1 Sam. v. 6.
  
                     The king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
                     Sent hither to impart the heavy news. --Wordsworth.
  
                     Trust him not in matter of heavy consequence.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      3. Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened;
            bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with care,
            grief, pain, disappointment.
  
                     The heavy [sorrowing] nobles all in council were.
                                                                              --Chapman.
  
                     A light wife doth make a heavy husband. --Shak.
  
      4. Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate,
            stupid; as, a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, and the
            like; a heavy writer or book.
  
                     Whilst the heavy plowman snores.         --Shak.
  
                     Of a heavy, dull, degenerate mind.      --Dryden.
  
                     Neither [is] his ear heavy, that it can not hear.
                                                                              --Is. lix. 1.
  
      5. Strong; violent; forcible; as, a heavy sea, storm,
            cannonade, and the like.
  
      6. Loud; deep; -- said of sound; as, heavy thunder.
  
                     But, hark! that heavy sound breaks in once more.
                                                                              --Byron.
  
      7. Dark with clouds, or ready to rain; gloomy; -- said of the
            sky.
  
      8. Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey; -- said of earth; as, a
            heavy road, soil, and the like.
  
      9. Not raised or made light; as, heavy bread.
  
      10. Not agreeable to, or suitable for, the stomach; not
            easily digested; -- said of food.
  
      11. Having much body or strength; -- said of wines, or other
            liquors.
  
      12. With child; pregnant. [R.]
  
      {Heavy artillery}. (Mil.)
            (a) Guns of great weight or large caliber, esp. siege,
                  garrison, and seacoast guns.
            (b) Troops which serve heavy guns.
  
      {Heavy cavalry}. See under {Cavalry}.
  
      {Heavy fire} (Mil.), a continuous or destructive cannonading,
            or discharge of small arms.
  
      {Heavy metal} (Mil.), large guns carrying balls of a large
            size; also, large balls for such guns.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hebrew \He"brew\, n. [F. H[82]breu, L. Hebraeus, Gr. [?], fr.
      Heb. 'ibhr[c6].]
      1. An appellative of Abraham or of one of his descendants,
            esp. in the line of Jacob; an Israelite; a Jew.
  
                     There came one that had escaped and told Abram the
                     Hebrew.                                             --Gen. xiv.
                                                                              13.
  
      2. The language of the Hebrews; -- one of the Semitic family
            of languages.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hebrew \He"brew\, a.
      Of or pertaining to the Hebrews; as, the Hebrew language or
      rites.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Heifer \Heif"er\, n. [OE. hayfare, AS. he[a0]hfore, he[a0]fore;
      the second part of this word seems akin to AS. fearr bull,
      ox; akin to OHG. farro, G. farre, D. vaars, heifer, G.
      f[84]rse, and perh. to Gr. [?], [?], calf, heifer.]
      (Zo[94]l.)
      A young cow.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hepper \Hep"per\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zo[94]l.)
      A young salmon; a parr.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hipe \Hipe\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Hiped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Hiping}.] (Wrestling)
      To throw by means of a hipe. -- {Hip"er}, n.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hiver \Hiv"er\, n.
      One who collects bees into a hive.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hooper \Hoop"er\, n. [See 1st {Hoop}.]
      One who hoops casks or tubs; a cooper.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hooper \Hoop"er\, n. (Zo[94]l.) [So called from its note.]
      The European whistling, or wild, swan ({Olor cygnus}); --
      called also {hooper swan}, {whooping swan}, and {elk}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hoper \Hop"er\, n.
      One who hopes. --Swift.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Jack \Jack\, n. [F. Jacques James, L. Jacobus, Gr. [?], Heb. Ya
      'aq[omac]b Jacob; prop., seizing by the heel; hence, a
      supplanter. Cf. {Jacobite}, {Jockey}.]
      1. A familiar nickname of, or substitute for, John.
  
                     You are John Rugby, and you are Jack Rugby. --Shak.
  
      2. An impertinent or silly fellow; a simpleton; a boor; a
            clown; also, a servant; a rustic. [bd]Jack fool.[b8]
            --Chaucer.
  
                     Since every Jack became a gentleman, There 's many a
                     gentle person made a Jack.                  --Shak.
  
      3. A popular colloquial name for a sailor; -- called also
            {Jack tar}, and {Jack afloat}.
  
      4. A mechanical contrivance, an auxiliary machine, or a
            subordinate part of a machine, rendering convenient
            service, and often supplying the place of a boy or
            attendant who was commonly called Jack; as:
            (a) A device to pull off boots.
            (b) A sawhorse or sawbuck.
            (c) A machine or contrivance for turning a spit; a smoke
                  jack, or kitchen jack.
            (b) (Mining) A wooden wedge for separating rocks rent by
                  blasting.
            (e) (Knitting Machine) A lever for depressing the sinkers
                  which push the loops down on the needles.
            (f) (Warping Machine) A grating to separate and guide the
                  threads; a heck box.
            (g) (Spinning) A machine for twisting the sliver as it
                  leaves the carding machine.
            (h) A compact, portable machine for planing metal.
            (i) A machine for slicking or pebbling leather.
            (k) A system of gearing driven by a horse power, for
                  multiplying speed.
            (l) A hood or other device placed over a chimney or vent
                  pipe, to prevent a back draught.
            (m) In the harpsichord, an intermediate piece
                  communicating the action of the key to the quill; --
                  called also {hopper}.
            (n) In hunting, the pan or frame holding the fuel of the
                  torch used to attract game at night; also, the light
                  itself. --C. Hallock.
  
      5. A portable machine variously constructed, for exerting
            great pressure, or lifting or moving a heavy body through
            a small distance. It consists of a lever, screw, rack and
            pinion, hydraulic press, or any simple combination of
            mechanical powers, working in a compact pedestal or
            support and operated by a lever, crank, capstan bar, etc.
            The name is often given to a jackscrew, which is a kind of
            jack.
  
      6. The small bowl used as a mark in the game of bowls.
            --Shak.
  
                     Like an uninstructed bowler who thinks to attain the
                     jack by delivering his bowl straight forward upon
                     it.                                                   --Sir W.
                                                                              Scott.
  
      7. The male of certain animals, as of the ass.
  
      8. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A young pike; a pickerel.
            (b) The jurel.
            (c) A large, California rock fish ({Sebastodes
                  paucispinus}); -- called also {boccaccio}, and
                  {m[82]rou}.
            (d) The wall-eyed pike.
  
      9. A drinking measure holding half a pint; also, one holding
            a quarter of a pint. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
  
      10. (Naut.)
            (a) A flag, containing only the union, without the fly,
                  usually hoisted on a jack staff at the bowsprit cap;
                  -- called also {union jack}. The American jack is a
                  small blue flag, with a star for each State.
            (b) A bar of iron athwart ships at a topgallant masthead,
                  to support a royal mast, and give spread to the royal
                  shrouds; -- called also {jack crosstree}. --R. H.
                  Dana, Jr.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      Note: The meadow or green grasshoppers belong to the
               {Locustid[91]}. They have long antenn[91], large
               ovipositors, and stridulating organs at the base of the
               wings in the male. The European great green grasshopper
               ({Locusta viridissima}) belongs to this family. The
               common American green species mostly belong to
               {Xiphidium}, {Orchelimum}, and {Conocephalus}.
  
      2. In ordinary square or upright pianos of London make, the
            escapement lever or jack, so made that it can be taken out
            and replaced with the key; -- called also the {hopper.}
            --Grove.
  
      {Grasshopper engine}, a steam engine having a working beam
            with its fulcrum at one end, the steam cylinder at the
            other end, and the connecting rod at an intermediate
            point.
  
      {Grasshopper lobster} (Zo[94]l.) a young lobster. [Local, U.
            S.]
  
      {Grasshopper warbler} (Zo[94]l.), cricket bird.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hopper \Hop"per\, n. [See 1st {Hop}.]
      1. One who, or that which, hops.
  
      2. A chute, box, or receptacle, usually funnel-shaped with an
            opening at the lower part, for delivering or feeding any
            material, as to a machine; as, the wooden box with its
            trough through which grain passes into a mill by joining
            or shaking, or a funnel through which fuel passes into a
            furnace, or coal, etc., into a car.
  
      3. (Mus.) See {Grasshopper}, 2.
  
      4. pl. A game. See {Hopscotch}. --Johnson.
  
      5. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) See {Grasshopper}, and {Frog hopper}, {Grape hopper},
                  {Leaf hopper}, {Tree hopper}, under {Frog}, {Grape},
                  {Leaf}, and {Tree}.
            (b) The larva of a cheese fly.
  
      6. (Naut.) A vessel for carrying waste, garbage, etc., out to
            sea, so constructed as to discharge its load by a
            mechanical contrivance; -- called also {dumping scow}.
  
      {Bell and hopper} (Metal.), the apparatus at the top of a
            blast furnace, through which the charge is introduced,
            while the gases are retained.
  
      {Hopper boy}, a rake in a mill, moving in a circle to spread
            meal for drying, and to draw it over an opening in the
            floor, through which it falls.
  
      {Hopper closet}, a water-closet, without a movable pan, in
            which the receptacle is a funnel standing on a draintrap.
           
  
      {Hopper cock}, a faucet or valve for flushing the hopper of a
            water-closet.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Jack \Jack\, n. [F. Jacques James, L. Jacobus, Gr. [?], Heb. Ya
      'aq[omac]b Jacob; prop., seizing by the heel; hence, a
      supplanter. Cf. {Jacobite}, {Jockey}.]
      1. A familiar nickname of, or substitute for, John.
  
                     You are John Rugby, and you are Jack Rugby. --Shak.
  
      2. An impertinent or silly fellow; a simpleton; a boor; a
            clown; also, a servant; a rustic. [bd]Jack fool.[b8]
            --Chaucer.
  
                     Since every Jack became a gentleman, There 's many a
                     gentle person made a Jack.                  --Shak.
  
      3. A popular colloquial name for a sailor; -- called also
            {Jack tar}, and {Jack afloat}.
  
      4. A mechanical contrivance, an auxiliary machine, or a
            subordinate part of a machine, rendering convenient
            service, and often supplying the place of a boy or
            attendant who was commonly called Jack; as:
            (a) A device to pull off boots.
            (b) A sawhorse or sawbuck.
            (c) A machine or contrivance for turning a spit; a smoke
                  jack, or kitchen jack.
            (b) (Mining) A wooden wedge for separating rocks rent by
                  blasting.
            (e) (Knitting Machine) A lever for depressing the sinkers
                  which push the loops down on the needles.
            (f) (Warping Machine) A grating to separate and guide the
                  threads; a heck box.
            (g) (Spinning) A machine for twisting the sliver as it
                  leaves the carding machine.
            (h) A compact, portable machine for planing metal.
            (i) A machine for slicking or pebbling leather.
            (k) A system of gearing driven by a horse power, for
                  multiplying speed.
            (l) A hood or other device placed over a chimney or vent
                  pipe, to prevent a back draught.
            (m) In the harpsichord, an intermediate piece
                  communicating the action of the key to the quill; --
                  called also {hopper}.
            (n) In hunting, the pan or frame holding the fuel of the
                  torch used to attract game at night; also, the light
                  itself. --C. Hallock.
  
      5. A portable machine variously constructed, for exerting
            great pressure, or lifting or moving a heavy body through
            a small distance. It consists of a lever, screw, rack and
            pinion, hydraulic press, or any simple combination of
            mechanical powers, working in a compact pedestal or
            support and operated by a lever, crank, capstan bar, etc.
            The name is often given to a jackscrew, which is a kind of
            jack.
  
      6. The small bowl used as a mark in the game of bowls.
            --Shak.
  
                     Like an uninstructed bowler who thinks to attain the
                     jack by delivering his bowl straight forward upon
                     it.                                                   --Sir W.
                                                                              Scott.
  
      7. The male of certain animals, as of the ass.
  
      8. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A young pike; a pickerel.
            (b) The jurel.
            (c) A large, California rock fish ({Sebastodes
                  paucispinus}); -- called also {boccaccio}, and
                  {m[82]rou}.
            (d) The wall-eyed pike.
  
      9. A drinking measure holding half a pint; also, one holding
            a quarter of a pint. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
  
      10. (Naut.)
            (a) A flag, containing only the union, without the fly,
                  usually hoisted on a jack staff at the bowsprit cap;
                  -- called also {union jack}. The American jack is a
                  small blue flag, with a star for each State.
            (b) A bar of iron athwart ships at a topgallant masthead,
                  to support a royal mast, and give spread to the royal
                  shrouds; -- called also {jack crosstree}. --R. H.
                  Dana, Jr.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      Note: The meadow or green grasshoppers belong to the
               {Locustid[91]}. They have long antenn[91], large
               ovipositors, and stridulating organs at the base of the
               wings in the male. The European great green grasshopper
               ({Locusta viridissima}) belongs to this family. The
               common American green species mostly belong to
               {Xiphidium}, {Orchelimum}, and {Conocephalus}.
  
      2. In ordinary square or upright pianos of London make, the
            escapement lever or jack, so made that it can be taken out
            and replaced with the key; -- called also the {hopper.}
            --Grove.
  
      {Grasshopper engine}, a steam engine having a working beam
            with its fulcrum at one end, the steam cylinder at the
            other end, and the connecting rod at an intermediate
            point.
  
      {Grasshopper lobster} (Zo[94]l.) a young lobster. [Local, U.
            S.]
  
      {Grasshopper warbler} (Zo[94]l.), cricket bird.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hopper \Hop"per\, n. [See 1st {Hop}.]
      1. One who, or that which, hops.
  
      2. A chute, box, or receptacle, usually funnel-shaped with an
            opening at the lower part, for delivering or feeding any
            material, as to a machine; as, the wooden box with its
            trough through which grain passes into a mill by joining
            or shaking, or a funnel through which fuel passes into a
            furnace, or coal, etc., into a car.
  
      3. (Mus.) See {Grasshopper}, 2.
  
      4. pl. A game. See {Hopscotch}. --Johnson.
  
      5. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) See {Grasshopper}, and {Frog hopper}, {Grape hopper},
                  {Leaf hopper}, {Tree hopper}, under {Frog}, {Grape},
                  {Leaf}, and {Tree}.
            (b) The larva of a cheese fly.
  
      6. (Naut.) A vessel for carrying waste, garbage, etc., out to
            sea, so constructed as to discharge its load by a
            mechanical contrivance; -- called also {dumping scow}.
  
      {Bell and hopper} (Metal.), the apparatus at the top of a
            blast furnace, through which the charge is introduced,
            while the gases are retained.
  
      {Hopper boy}, a rake in a mill, moving in a circle to spread
            meal for drying, and to draw it over an opening in the
            floor, through which it falls.
  
      {Hopper closet}, a water-closet, without a movable pan, in
            which the receptacle is a funnel standing on a draintrap.
           
  
      {Hopper cock}, a faucet or valve for flushing the hopper of a
            water-closet.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hover \Hov"er\, n. [Etymol. doubtful.]
      A cover; a shelter; a protection. [Archaic] --Carew. --C.
      Kingsley.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hover \Hov"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Hovered}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Hovering}.] [OE. hoveren, and hoven, prob. orig., to abide,
      linger, and fr. AS. hof house; cf. OFries. hovia to receive
      into one's house. See {Hovel}.]
      1. To hang fluttering in the air, or on the wing; to remain
            in flight or floating about or over a place or object; to
            be suspended in the air above something.
  
                     Great flights of birds are hovering about the
                     bridge, and settling on it.               --Addison.
  
                     A hovering mist came swimming o'er his sight.
                                                                              --Dryden.
  
      2. To hang about; to move to and fro near a place,
            threateningly, watchfully, or irresolutely.
  
                     Agricola having sent his navy to hover on the coast.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
                     Hovering o'er the paper with her quill. --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   However \How*ev"er\, adv. [Sometimes contracted into howe'er.]
      1. In whetever manner, way, or degree.
  
                     However yet they me despise and spite. --Spenser.
  
                     Howe'er the business goes, you have made fault.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      2. At all events; at least; in any case.
  
                     Our chief end is to be freed from all, if it may be,
                     however from the greatest evils.         --Tillotson.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   However \How*ev"er\, conj.
      Nevertheless; notwithstanding; yet; still; though; as, I
      shall not oppose your design; I can not, however, approve of
      it.
  
               In your excuse your love does little say; You might
               howe'er have took a better way.               --Dryden.
  
      Syn: {However}, {At least}, {Nevertheless}, {Yet}.
  
      Usage: These words, as here compared, have an adversative
                  sense in reference to something referred to in the
                  context. However is the most general, and leads to a
                  final conclusion or decision. Thus we say, the truth,
                  however, has not yet fully come out; i.e., such is the
                  speaker's conclusion in view of the whole case. So
                  also we say, however, you may rely on my assistance to
                  that amount; i. e., at all events, whatever may
                  happen, this is my final decision. At least is
                  adversative in another way. It points out the utmost
                  concession that can possibly be required, and still
                  marks the adversative conclusion; as, at least, this
                  must be done; whatever may be our love of peace, we
                  must at least maintain the rights of conscience.
                  Nevertheless denotes that though the concession be
                  fully made, it has no bearing of the question; as,
                  nevertheless, we must go forward. Yet signifies that
                  however extreme the supposition or fact comceded may
                  be, the consequence which might naturally be expected
                  does not and will not follow; as, though I should die
                  with thee, yet will I not deny thee; though he slay
                  me, yet will I trust in him. Cf. {But}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Huffer \Huff"er\, n.
      A bully; a blusterer. --Hudibras.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hyper- \Hy"per-\ [Gr. "ype`r over, above; akin to L. super, E.
      over. See {Over}, and cf. {Super-}.]
      1. A prefix signifying over, above; as, hyperphysical,
            hyperthyrion; also, above measure, abnormally great,
            excessive; as, hyper[91]mia, hyperbola, hypercritical,
            hypersecretion.
  
      2. (Chem.) A prefix equivalent to super- or per-; as
            hyperoxide, or peroxide. [Obs.] See {Per-}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Hypoarion \[d8]Hy`po*a"ri*on\, n.; pl. {Hypoaria}. [NL., fr.
      Gr. "ypo` beneath + [?] a little egg.] (Anat.)
      An oval lobe beneath each of the optic lobes in many fishes;
      one of the inferior lobes. --Owen.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Havre, MT (city, FIPS 35050)
      Location: 48.54382 N, 109.67910 W
      Population (1990): 10201 (4346 housing units)
      Area: 6.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 59501

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Heber, AZ
      Zip code(s): 85928
   Heber, CA (CDP, FIPS 33084)
      Location: 32.73414 N, 115.52012 W
      Population (1990): 2566 (600 housing units)
      Area: 3.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 92249
   Heber, UT (city, FIPS 34310)
      Location: 40.50684 N, 111.41152 W
      Population (1990): 4782 (1653 housing units)
      Area: 5.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Hooper, CO (town, FIPS 37380)
      Location: 37.74580 N, 105.87757 W
      Population (1990): 112 (48 housing units)
      Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 81136
   Hooper, NE (city, FIPS 23025)
      Location: 41.61223 N, 96.54804 W
      Population (1990): 850 (376 housing units)
      Area: 1.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 68031
   Hooper, UT (CDP, FIPS 36400)
      Location: 41.17297 N, 112.12448 W
      Population (1990): 3468 (929 housing units)
      Area: 29.0 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 84315

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Hoover, AL (city, FIPS 35896)
      Location: 33.37533 N, 86.81904 W
      Population (1990): 39788 (17038 housing units)
      Area: 61.8 sq km (land), 0.7 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 35244

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Huber, GA
      Zip code(s): 31201

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   HPR
  
      {High Performance Routing}
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Habor
      the united stream, or, according to others, with beautiful
      banks, the name of a river in Assyria, and also of the district
      through which it flowed (1 Chr. 5:26). There is a river called
      Khabur which rises in the central highlands of Kurdistan, and
      flows south-west till it falls into the Tigris, about 70 miles
      above Mosul. This was not, however, the Habor of Scripture.
     
         There is another river of the same name (the Chaboras) which,
      after a course of about 200 miles, flows into the Euphrates at
      Karkesia, the ancient Circesium. This was, there can be little
      doubt, the ancient Habor.
     

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Heber
      passing over. (1.) Son of Beriah and grandson of Asher (Gen.
      46:17; 1 Chr. 7:31, 32).
     
         (2.) The Kenite (Judg. 4:11, 17; 5:24), a descendant of Hobab.
      His wife Jael received Sisera (q.v.) into her tent and then
      killed him.
     
         (3.) 1 Chr. 4:18.
     
         (4.) A Benjamite (1 Chr. 8:17).
     
         (5.) A Gadite (5:13). (See {EBER}.)
     

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Hebrew
      a name applied to the Israelites in Scripture only by one who is
      a foreigner (Gen. 39:14, 17; 41:12, etc.), or by the Israelites
      when they speak of themselves to foreigners (40:15; Ex. 1:19),
      or when spoken of an contrasted with other peoples (Gen. 43:32;
      Ex. 1:3, 7, 15; Deut. 15:12). In the New Testament there is the
      same contrast between Hebrews and foreigners (Acts 6:1; Phil.
      3:5).
     
         Derivation. (1.) The name is derived, according to some, from
      Eber (Gen. 10:24), the ancestor of Abraham. The Hebrews are
      "sons of Eber" (10:21).
     
         (2.) Others trace the name of a Hebrew root-word signifying
      "to pass over," and hence regard it as meaning "the man who
      passed over," viz., the Euphrates; or to the Hebrew word meaning
      "the region" or "country beyond," viz., the land of Chaldea.
      This latter view is preferred. It is the more probable origin of
      the designation given to Abraham coming among the Canaanites as
      a man from beyond the Euphrates (Gen. 14:13).
     
         (3.) A third derivation of the word has been suggested, viz.,
      that it is from the Hebrew word _'abhar_, "to pass over," whence
      _'ebher_, in the sense of a "sojourner" or "passer through" as
      distinct from a "settler" in the land, and thus applies to the
      condition of Abraham (Heb. 11:13).
     

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Heifer
      Heb. 'eglah, (Deut. 21:4, 6; Jer. 46:20). Untrained to the yoke
      (Hos. 10:11); giving milk (Isa. 7:21); ploughing (Judg. 14:18);
      treading out grain (Jer. 50:11); unsubdued to the yoke an emblem
      of Judah (Isa. 15:5; Jer. 48:34).
     
         Heb. parah (Gen. 41:2; Num. 19:2). Bearing the yoke (Hos.
      4:16); "heifers of Bashan" (Amos 4:1), metaphorical for the
      voluptuous females of Samaria. The ordinance of sacrifice of the
      "red heifer" described in Num. 19:1-10; comp. Heb. 9:13.
     

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Hepher
      a well or stream. (1.) A royal city of the Canaanites taken by
      Joshua (12:17).
     
         (2.) The youngest son of Gilead (Num. 26:32; 27:1).
     
         (3.) The second son of Asher (1 Chr. 4:6).
     
         (4.) One of David's heroes (1 Chr. 11:36).
     

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Hophra
      i.e., PHARAOH-HOPHRA (called Apries by the Greek historian
      Herodotus) king of Egypt (B.C. 591-572) in the time of Zedekiah,
      king of Judah (Jer. 37:5 44:30; Ezek. 29:6, 7).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Habor, a partaker; a companion
  

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Heber, one that passes; anger
  

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Hepher, a digger
  
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