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   have a go at it
         v 1: have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with
               everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever
               intimate with this man?" [syn: {sleep together}, {roll in
               the hay}, {love}, {make out}, {make love}, {sleep with},
               {get laid}, {have sex}, {know}, {do it}, {be intimate},
               {have intercourse}, {have it away}, {have it off}, {screw},
               {fuck}, {jazz}, {eff}, {hump}, {lie with}, {bed}, {have a
               go at it}, {bang}, {get it on}, {bonk}]

English Dictionary: have a go at it by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
have a good time
v
  1. enjoy oneself greatly; "We had a ball at the party and didn't come home until 2 AM"
    Synonym(s): have a ball, have a good time
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
have got
v
  1. have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense; "She has $1,000 in the bank"; "He has got two beautiful daughters"; "She holds a Master's degree from Harvard"
    Synonym(s): have, have got, hold
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
have kittens
v
  1. get very angry and fly into a rage; "The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question"; "Spam makes me go ballistic"
    Synonym(s): flip one's lid, blow up, throw a fit, hit the roof, hit the ceiling, have kittens, have a fit, combust, blow one's stack, fly off the handle, flip one's wig, lose one's temper, blow a fuse, go ballistic
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Heaviside
n
  1. English physicist and electrical engineer who helped develop telegraphic and telephonic communications; in 1902 (independent of A. E. Kennelly) he suggested the existence of an atmospheric layer that reflects radio waves back to earth (1850-1925)
    Synonym(s): Heaviside, Oliver Heaviside
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Heaviside layer
n
  1. a region of the ionosphere (from 50 to 90 miles up) that reflects radio waves of medium length
    Synonym(s): Heaviside layer, Kennelly-Heaviside layer, E layer, E region
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
heavy-coated
adj
  1. wearing a heavy coat; "heavy-coated policemen astride noble horses"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
heavyset
adj
  1. having a short and solid form or stature; "a wrestler of compact build"; "he was tall and heavyset"; "stocky legs"; "a thickset young man"
    Synonym(s): compact, heavyset, stocky, thick, thickset
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
heavyweight
n
  1. an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 201 pounds
  2. a wrestler who weighs more than 214 pounds
  3. a professional boxer who weighs more than 190 pounds
  4. a very large person; impressive in size or qualities
    Synonym(s): giant, hulk, heavyweight, whale
  5. a person of exceptional importance and reputation
    Synonym(s): colossus, behemoth, giant, heavyweight, titan
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Hephaestus
n
  1. (Greek mythology) the lame god of fire and metalworking in ancient mythology; identified with Roman Vulcan
    Synonym(s): Hephaestus, Hephaistos
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Hephaistos
n
  1. (Greek mythology) the lame god of fire and metalworking in ancient mythology; identified with Roman Vulcan
    Synonym(s): Hephaestus, Hephaistos
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hip pocket
n
  1. a pocket in rear of trousers
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hippeastrum
n
  1. amaryllis of tropical America often cultivated as a houseplant for its showy white to red flowers
    Synonym(s): hippeastrum, Hippeastrum puniceum
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Hippeastrum puniceum
n
  1. amaryllis of tropical America often cultivated as a houseplant for its showy white to red flowers
    Synonym(s): hippeastrum, Hippeastrum puniceum
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Hipposideridae
n
  1. Old World leafnose bats [syn: Hipposideridae, {family Hipposideridae}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Hipposideros
n
  1. horseshoe bats
    Synonym(s): Hipposideros, genus Hipposideros
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hipster
n
  1. someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle
    Synonym(s): hippie, hippy, hipster, flower child
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hipsters
n
  1. a youth subculture (mostly from the middle class) originating in San Francisco in the 1960s; advocated universal love and peace and communes and long hair and soft drugs; favored acid rock and progressive rock music
    Synonym(s): flower people, hippies, hipsters
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hobbyist
n
  1. a person who pursues an activity in their spare time for pleasure
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hop-step-and-jump
n
  1. an athletic contest in which a competitor must perform successively a hop and a step and a jump in continuous movement
    Synonym(s): triple jump, hop-step-and-jump
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hopscotch
n
  1. a game in which a child tosses a stone into an area drawn on the ground and then hops through it and back to regain the stone
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hypesthesia
n
  1. impairment of tactile sensitivity; decrease of sensitivity
    Synonym(s): hypoesthesia, hypesthesia
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hypoactive
adj
  1. abnormally inactive
    Synonym(s): hypoactive, underactive
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hypoesthesia
n
  1. impairment of tactile sensitivity; decrease of sensitivity
    Synonym(s): hypoesthesia, hypesthesia
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hypostasis
n
  1. the suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene
    Synonym(s): hypostasis, epistasis
  2. the accumulation of blood in an organ
  3. any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united
    Synonym(s): hypostasis, hypostasis of Christ
  4. (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hypostasis of Christ
n
  1. any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united
    Synonym(s): hypostasis, hypostasis of Christ
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hypostatisation
n
  1. regarding something abstract as a material thing [syn: hypostatization, hypostatisation, reification]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hypostatise
v
  1. construe as a real existence, of a conceptual entity [syn: hypostatize, hypostatise]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hypostatization
n
  1. regarding something abstract as a material thing [syn: hypostatization, hypostatisation, reification]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hypostatize
v
  1. construe as a real existence, of a conceptual entity [syn: hypostatize, hypostatise]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Hypoxidaceae
n
  1. in some classification systems included in the Amaryllidaceae
    Synonym(s): Hypoxidaceae, family Hypoxidaceae
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hornyhead \Horn"y*head`\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      Any North American river chub of the genus {Hybopsis}, esp.
      {H. biguttatus}.

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]:
   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]:
   Weight \Weight\, n. [OE. weght, wight, AS. gewiht; akin to D.
      gewigt, G. gewicht, Icel. v[91]tt, Sw. vigt, Dan. v[91]gt.
      See {Weigh}, v. t.]
      1. The quality of being heavy; that property of bodies by
            which they tend toward the center of the earth; the effect
            of gravitative force, especially when expressed in certain
            units or standards, as pounds, grams, etc.
  
      Note: Weight differs from gravity in being the effect of
               gravity, or the downward pressure of a body under the
               influence of gravity; hence, it constitutes a measure
               of the force of gravity, and being the resultant of all
               the forces exerted by gravity upon the different
               particles of the body, it is proportional to the
               quantity of matter in the body.
  
      2. The quantity of heaviness; comparative tendency to the
            center of the earth; the quantity of matter as estimated
            by the balance, or expressed numerically with reference to
            some standard unit; as, a mass of stone having the weight
            of five hundred pounds.
  
                     For sorrow, like a heavy-hanging bell, Once set on
                     ringing, with his own weight goes.      --Shak.
  
      3. Hence, pressure; burden; as, the weight of care or
            business. [bd]The weight of this said time.[b8] --Shak.
  
                     For the public all this weight he bears. --Milton.
  
                     [He] who singly bore the world's sad weight.
                                                                              --Keble.
  
      4. Importance; power; influence; efficacy; consequence;
            moment; impressiveness; as, a consideration of vast
            weight.
  
                     In such a point of weight, so near mine honor.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      5. A scale, or graduated standard, of heaviness; a mode of
            estimating weight; as, avoirdupois weight; troy weight;
            apothecaries' weight.
  
      6. A ponderous mass; something heavy; as, a clock weight; a
            paper weight.
  
                     A man leapeth better with weights in his hands.
                                                                              --Bacon.
  
      7. A definite mass of iron, lead, brass, or other metal, to
            be used for ascertaining the weight of other bodies; as,
            an ounce weight.
  
      8. (Mech.) The resistance against which a machine acts, as
            opposed to the power which moves it. [Obs.]
  
      {Atomic weight}. (Chem.) See under {Atomic}, and cf.
            {Element}.
  
      {Dead weight}, {Feather weight}, {Heavy weight}, {Light
      weight}, etc. See under {Dead}, {Feather}, etc.
  
      {Weight of observation} (Astron. & Physics), a number
            expressing the most probable relative value of each
            observation in determining the result of a series of
            observations of the same kind.
  
      Syn: Ponderousness; gravity; heaviness; pressure; burden;
               load; importance; power; influence; efficacy;
               consequence; moment; impressiveness.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {Heavy metals}. (Chem.) See under {Metal}.
  
      {Heavy weight}, in wrestling, boxing, etc., a term applied to
            the heaviest of the classes into which contestants are
            divided. Cf. {Feather weight}
            (c), under {Feather}.
  
      Note: Heavy is used in composition to form many words which
               need no special explanation; as, heavy-built,
               heavy-browed, heavy-gaited, etc.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Caoutchouc \Caout"chouc\, n. [F. caoutchouc, from the South
      American name.]
      A tenacious, elastic, gummy substance obtained from the milky
      sap of several plants of tropical South America (esp. the
      euphorbiaceous tree {Siphonia elastica} or {Hevea
      caoutchouc}), Asia, and Africa. Being impermeable to liquids
      and gases, and not readly affected by exposure to air, acids,
      and alkalies, it is used, especially when vulcanized, for
      many purposes in the arts and in manufactures. Also called
      {India rubber} (because it was first brought from India, and
      was formerly used chiefly for erasing pencil marks) and {gum
      elastic}. See {Vulcanization}.
  
      {Mineral caoutchouc}. See under {Mineral}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hipshot \Hip"shot`\, a. [Hip + shot.]
      Having the hip dislocated; hence, having one hip lower than
      the other. --L'Estrange.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hobbist \Hob"bist\, n.
      One who accepts the doctrines of Thomas Hobbes.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hoppestere \Hop`pes*tere"\, a.
      An unexplained epithet used by Chaucer in reference to ships.
      By some it is defined as [bd]dancing (on the wave)[b8]; by
      others as [bd]opposing,[b8] [bd]warlike.[b8] --T. R.
      Lounsbury.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hopscotch \Hop"scotch`\, n.
      A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot,
      drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure
      traced or scotched on the ground; -- called also {hoppers}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hyopastron \Hy`o*pas"tron\, n. [Hyo- + plastron.] (Zo[94]l.)
      The second lateral plate in the plastron of turtles; --
      called also {hyosternum}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hypostasis \Hy*pos"ta*sis\, n.; pl. {Hypostases}. [L., fr. Gr.
      [?] subsistence, substance, fr. [?] to stand under; [?] under
      + [?] to stand, middle voice of [?] to cause to stand. See
      {Hypo-}, and {Stand}.]
      1. That which forms the basis of anything; underlying
            principle; a concept or mental entity conceived or treated
            as an existing being or thing.
  
      2. (Theol.) Substance; subsistence; essence; person;
            personality; -- used by the early theologians to denote
            any one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead, the
            Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
  
      Note: The Council of Alexandria (a. d. 362) defined
               hypostasis as synonymous with person. --Schaff-Herzog.
  
      3. Principle; an element; -- used by the alchemists in
            speaking of salt, sulphur, and mercury, which they
            considered as the three principles of all material bodies.
  
      4. (Med.) That which is deposited at the bottom of a fluid;
            sediment.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hypostasis \Hy*pos"ta*sis\, n.; pl. {Hypostases}. [L., fr. Gr.
      [?] subsistence, substance, fr. [?] to stand under; [?] under
      + [?] to stand, middle voice of [?] to cause to stand. See
      {Hypo-}, and {Stand}.]
      1. That which forms the basis of anything; underlying
            principle; a concept or mental entity conceived or treated
            as an existing being or thing.
  
      2. (Theol.) Substance; subsistence; essence; person;
            personality; -- used by the early theologians to denote
            any one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead, the
            Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
  
      Note: The Council of Alexandria (a. d. 362) defined
               hypostasis as synonymous with person. --Schaff-Herzog.
  
      3. Principle; an element; -- used by the alchemists in
            speaking of salt, sulphur, and mercury, which they
            considered as the three principles of all material bodies.
  
      4. (Med.) That which is deposited at the bottom of a fluid;
            sediment.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hypostasize \Hy*pos"ta*size\, v. t.
      To make into a distinct substance; to conceive or treat as an
      existing being; to hypostatize. [R.]
  
               The pressed Newtonians . . . refused to hypostasize the
               law of gravitation into an ether.            --Coleridge.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hypostatic \Hy`po*stat"ic\, Hypostatical \Hy`po*stat"ic*al\, a.
      [Gr. [?]: cf. F. hypostatique.]
      1. Relating to hypostasis, or substance; hence, constitutive,
            or elementary.
  
                     The grand doctrine of the chymists, touching their
                     three hypostatical principles.            --Boyle.
  
      2. Personal, or distinctly personal; relating to the divine
            hypostases, or substances. --Bp. Pearson.
  
      3. (Med.) Depending upon, or due to, deposition or setting;
            as, hypostatic cognestion, cognestion due to setting of
            blood by gravitation.
  
      {Hypostatic union} (Theol.), the union of the divine with the
            human nature of Christ. --Tillotson.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      7. (Mach.) A joint or other connection uniting parts of
            machinery, or the like, as the elastic pipe of a tender
            connecting it with the feed pipe of a locomotive engine;
            especially, a pipe fitting for connecting pipes, or pipes
            and fittings, in such a way as to facilitate
            disconnection.
  
      8. (Brewing) A cask suspended on trunnions, in which
            fermentation is carried on.
  
      {Hypostatic union} (Theol.) See under {Hypostatic}.
  
      {Latin union}. See under {Latin}.
  
      {Legislative Union} (Eng. Hist.), the union of Great Britain
            and Ireland, which took place Jan. 1, 1801.
  
      {Union}, [or] {Act of Union} (Eng. Hist.), the act by which
            Scotland was united to England, or by which the two
            kingdoms were incorporated into one, in 1707.
  
      {Union by the first}, [or] {second}, {intention}. (Surg.) See
            {To heal by the first, [or] second, intention}, under
            {Intention}.
  
      {Union down} (Naut.), a signal of distress at sea made by
            reversing the flag, or turning its union downward.
  
      {Union jack}. (Naut.) See {Jack}, n., 10.
  
      {Union joint}. (Mech.)
            (a) A joint formed by means of a union.
            (b) A piece of pipe made in the form of the letter T.
  
      Syn: Unity; junction; connection; concord; alliance;
               coalition; combination; confederacy.
  
      Usage: {Union}, {Unity}. Union is the act of bringing two or
                  more things together so as to make but one, or the
                  state of being united into one. Unity is a state of
                  simple oneness, either of essence, as the unity of
                  God, or of action, feeling, etc., as unity of design,
                  of affection, etc. Thus, we may speak of effecting a
                  union of interests which shall result in a unity of
                  labor and interest in securing a given object.
  
                           One kingdom, joy, and union without end.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
                           [Man] is to . . . beget Like of his like, his
                           image multiplied. In unity defective; which
                           requires Collateral love, and dearest amity.
                                                                              --Milton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hypostatic \Hy`po*stat"ic\, Hypostatical \Hy`po*stat"ic*al\, a.
      [Gr. [?]: cf. F. hypostatique.]
      1. Relating to hypostasis, or substance; hence, constitutive,
            or elementary.
  
                     The grand doctrine of the chymists, touching their
                     three hypostatical principles.            --Boyle.
  
      2. Personal, or distinctly personal; relating to the divine
            hypostases, or substances. --Bp. Pearson.
  
      3. (Med.) Depending upon, or due to, deposition or setting;
            as, hypostatic cognestion, cognestion due to setting of
            blood by gravitation.
  
      {Hypostatic union} (Theol.), the union of the divine with the
            human nature of Christ. --Tillotson.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hypostatic \Hy`po*stat"ic\, Hypostatical \Hy`po*stat"ic*al\, a.
      [Gr. [?]: cf. F. hypostatique.]
      1. Relating to hypostasis, or substance; hence, constitutive,
            or elementary.
  
                     The grand doctrine of the chymists, touching their
                     three hypostatical principles.            --Boyle.
  
      2. Personal, or distinctly personal; relating to the divine
            hypostases, or substances. --Bp. Pearson.
  
      3. (Med.) Depending upon, or due to, deposition or setting;
            as, hypostatic cognestion, cognestion due to setting of
            blood by gravitation.
  
      {Hypostatic union} (Theol.), the union of the divine with the
            human nature of Christ. --Tillotson.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hypostatically \Hy`po*stat"ic*al*ly\, adv.
      In a hypostatic manner.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hypostatize \Hy*pos"ta*tize\, v. t.
      1. To make into, or regarded as, a separate and distinct
            substance.
  
                     Looked upon both species and genera as hypostatized
                     universals.                                       --Pop. Sci.
                                                                              Monthly.
  
      2. To attribute actual or personal existence to. --Sir W.
            Hamilton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Hyposternum \[d8]Hy`po*ster"num\, n.; pl. L. {Hyposterna}, E.
      {Hyposternums}. [Pref. hypo- + sternum.] (Anat.)
      See {Hypoplastron}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hypoplastron \Hy`po*plas"tron\, n.; pl. {Hypoplastra}. [Pref.
      hypo- + plastron.] (Anat.)
      The third lateral plate in the plastron of turtles; -- called
      also {hyposternum}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Hyposternum \[d8]Hy`po*ster"num\, n.; pl. L. {Hyposterna}, E.
      {Hyposternums}. [Pref. hypo- + sternum.] (Anat.)
      See {Hypoplastron}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Manubrium \[d8]Ma*nu"bri*um\, n.; pl. L. {Manubria}, E.
      {Manubriums}. [L., handle, fr. manus hand.]
      1. (Anat.) A handlelike process or part; esp., the anterior
            segment of the sternum, or presternum, and the handlelike
            process of the malleus.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) The proboscis of a jellyfish; -- called also
            {hypostoma}. See Illust. of {Hydromedusa}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hypostome \Hy"po*stome\, d8Hypostoma \[d8]Hy*pos"to*ma\, n. [NL.
      hypostoma, fr. Gr. "ypo` beneath + [?] mouth.] (Zo[94]l.)
      The lower lip of trilobites, crustaceans, etc.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hypostrophe \Hy*pos"tro*phe\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?], fr. [?] to
      turn round or back; [?] under + [?] to turn.] (Med.)
      (a) The act of a patient turning himself.
      (b) A relapse, or return of a disease.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hypostyle \Hy"po*style\, a. [Gr. [?] resting on pillars; [?]
      under + [?] a pillar.] (Arch.)
      Resting upon columns; constructed by means of columns; --
      especially applied to the great hall at Karnak.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Haubstadt, IN (town, FIPS 32512)
      Location: 38.20311 N, 87.57484 W
      Population (1990): 1455 (567 housing units)
      Area: 1.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 47639

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Hi Vista, CA
      Zip code(s): 93535

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Hobgood, NC (town, FIPS 31860)
      Location: 36.02745 N, 77.39523 W
      Population (1990): 435 (186 housing units)
      Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 27843

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Hoopeston, IL (city, FIPS 36061)
      Location: 40.46518 N, 87.67088 W
      Population (1990): 5871 (2550 housing units)
      Area: 6.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 60942

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   heavyweight adj.   [common] High-overhead; {baroque};
   code-intensive; featureful, but costly.   Esp. used of communication
   protocols, language designs, and any sort of implementation in which
   maximum generality and/or ease of implementation has been pushed at
   the expense of mundane considerations such as speed, memory
   utilization, and startup time.   {EMACS} is a heavyweight editor; {X}
   is an _extremely_ heavyweight window system.   This term isn't
   pejorative, but one hacker's heavyweight is another's {elephantine}
   and a third's {monstrosity}.   Oppose `lightweight'.   Usage: now
   borders on techspeak, especially in the compound `heavyweight
   process'.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   heavyweight
  
      High-overhead; {baroque}; code-intensive; featureful, but
      costly.   Especially used of communication protocols, language
      designs, and any sort of implementation in which maximum
      generality and/or ease of implementation has been pushed at
      the expense of mundane considerations such as speed, memory
      use and startup time.   {Emacs} is a heavyweight editor; {X} is
      an *extremely* heavyweight window system.   This term isn't
      pejorative, but one hacker's heavyweight is another's
      {elephantine} and a third's monstrosity.
  
      Opposite: "lightweight".   Usage: now borders on technical
      especially in the compound "heavyweight process".
  
      (1994-12-22)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   HPcode
  
      Stack-based intermediate language used by {HP} in many of its
      compilers for {RISC} and stack-based architectures.   Supports
      {Fortran}, {Ada}, {Pascal}, {COBOL} and {C++}.   Descended from
      Stanford's {U-code}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   HPCode-Plus
  
      A descendant of {HPcode} with {data type}s, developed to be an
      {ANDF} language.
  
      ["ANDF: Finally an UNCOL After 30 Years", M.E. Benitez, Jack
      Davidson et al, CS TR-91-05 U Virginia (Mar
      1991)].
  
      (1995-03-16)
  
  
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