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   Had crime
         n 1: (Islam) serious crimes committed by Muslims and punishable
               by punishments established in the Koran; "Had crimes
               include apostasy from Islam and murder and theft and
               adultery"

English Dictionary: head-shrinker by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hatchery
n
  1. a place where eggs are hatched under artificial conditions (especially fish eggs); "the park authorities operated a trout hatchery"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
head crash
n
  1. (computer science) a crash of a read/write head in a hard disk drive (usually caused by contact of the head with the surface of the magnetic disk)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
head teacher
n
  1. the educator who has executive authority for a school; "she sent unruly pupils to see the principal"
    Synonym(s): principal, school principal, head teacher, head
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
head-shrinker
n
  1. a physician who specializes in psychiatry [syn: psychiatrist, head-shrinker, shrink]
  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]:
headgear
n
  1. clothing for the head
    Synonym(s): headdress, headgear
  2. the hoist at the pithead of a mine
  3. stable gear consisting of any part of a harness that fits about the horse's head
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
headquarter
v
  1. provide with headquarters; "the compnay is headquartered in New Jersey"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
headquarters
n
  1. (usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise; "many companies have their headquarters in New York"
    Synonym(s): headquarters, central office, main office, home office, home base
  2. the military installation from which a commander performs the functions of command; "the general's headquarters were a couple of large tents"
    Synonym(s): headquarters, HQ, military headquarters
  3. (plural) a military unit consisting of a commander and the headquarters staff
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
headquarters staff
n
  1. military staff stationed at headquarters
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headscarf
n
  1. a kerchief worn over the head and tied under the chin
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hedger
n
  1. a respondent who avoids giving a clear direct answer [syn: hedger, equivocator, tergiversator]
  2. someone who counterbalances one transaction (as a bet) against another in order to protect against loss
  3. a gardener who takes care of and trims hedges
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hedgerow
n
  1. a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes
    Synonym(s): hedge, hedgerow
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Hedysarum
n
  1. genus of herbs of north temperate regions [syn: Hedysarum, genus Hedysarum]
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Hedysarum boreale
n
  1. perennial of western United States having racemes of pink to purple flowers followed by flat pods that separate into nearly orbicular joints
    Synonym(s): sweet vetch, Hedysarum boreale
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Hedysarum coronarium
n
  1. perennial of southern Europe cultivated for forage and for its nectar-rich pink flowers that make it an important honey crop
    Synonym(s): French honeysuckle, sulla, Hedysarum coronarium
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Heidegger
n
  1. German philosopher whose views on human existence in a world of objects and on Angst influenced the existential philosophers (1889-1976)
    Synonym(s): Heidegger, Martin Heidegger
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hiatus hernia
n
  1. hernia resulting from the protrusion of part of the stomach through the diaphragm
    Synonym(s): hiatus hernia, hiatal hernia, diaphragmatic hernia
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hitchrack
n
  1. a fixed horizontal rail to which a horse can be hitched to prevent it from straying
    Synonym(s): hitchrack, hitching bar
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hod carrier
n
  1. a laborer who carries supplies to masons or bricklayers
    Synonym(s): hod carrier, hodman
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hot cereal
n
  1. a cereal that is served hot
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hot cross bun
n
  1. moderately sweet raised roll containing spices and raisins and citron and decorated with a cross-shaped sugar glaze
    Synonym(s): cross bun, hot cross bun
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
howitzer
n
  1. a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range
    Synonym(s): mortar, howitzer, trench mortar
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hatcher \Hatch"er\, n.
      1. One who hatches, or that which hatches; a hatching
            apparatus; an incubator.
  
      2. One who contrives or originates; a plotter.
  
                     A great hatcher and breeder of business. --Swift.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hatchery \Hatch"er*y\, n.
      A house for hatching fish, etc.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hatchure \Hatch"ure\ (?; 135), n.
      Same as {Hachure}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Head gear \Head" gear`\, [or] Headgear \Head"gear`\, n.
      1. Headdress.
  
      2. Apparatus above ground at the mouth of a mine or deep
            well.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Head gear \Head" gear`\, [or] Headgear \Head"gear`\, n.
      1. Headdress.
  
      2. Apparatus above ground at the mouth of a mine or deep
            well.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Headquarters \Head"quar`ters\, n. pl. [but sometimes used as a
      n. sing.]
      The quarters or place of residence of any chief officer, as
      the general in command of an army, or the head of a police
      force; the place from which orders or instructions are
      issued; hence, the center of authority or order.
  
               The brain, which is the headquarters, or office, of
               intelligence.                                          --Collier.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Heath \Heath\, n. [OE. heth waste land, the plant heath, AS.
      h[?][?]; akin to D. & G. heide, Icel. hei[?]r waste land,
      Dan. hede, Sw. hed, Goth. haipi field, L. bucetum a cow
      pasture; cf. W. coed a wood, Skr. ksh[?]tra field. [root]20.]
      1. (Bot.)
            (a) A low shrub ({Erica, [or] Calluna, vulgaris}), with
                  minute evergreen leaves, and handsome clusters of pink
                  flowers. It is used in Great Britain for brooms,
                  thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens. It
                  is also called {heather}, and {ling}.
            (b) Also, any species of the genus {Erica}, of which
                  several are European, and many more are South African,
                  some of great beauty. See Illust. of {Heather}.
  
      2. A place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of
            country overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage.
  
                     Their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the
                     blasted heath.                                    --Milton
  
      {Heath cock} (Zo[94]l.), the blackcock. See {Heath grouse}
            (below).
  
      {Heath grass} (Bot.), a kind of perennial grass, of the genus
            {Triodia} ({T. decumbens}), growing on dry heaths.
  
      {Heath grouse}, [or] {Heath game} (Zo[94]l.), a European
            grouse ({Tetrao tetrix}), which inhabits heats; -- called
            also {black game}, {black grouse}, {heath poult}, {heath
            fowl}, {moor fowl}. The male is called, {heath cock}, and
            {blackcock}; the female, {heath hen}, and {gray hen}.
  
      {Heath hen}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Heath grouse} (above).
  
      {Heath pea} (bot.), a species of bitter vetch ({Lathyris
            macrorhizus}), the tubers of which are eaten, and in
            Scotland are used to flavor whisky.
  
      {Heath throstle} (Zo[94]l.), a European thrush which
            frequents heaths; the ring ouzel.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Heath \Heath\, n. [OE. heth waste land, the plant heath, AS.
      h[?][?]; akin to D. & G. heide, Icel. hei[?]r waste land,
      Dan. hede, Sw. hed, Goth. haipi field, L. bucetum a cow
      pasture; cf. W. coed a wood, Skr. ksh[?]tra field. [root]20.]
      1. (Bot.)
            (a) A low shrub ({Erica, [or] Calluna, vulgaris}), with
                  minute evergreen leaves, and handsome clusters of pink
                  flowers. It is used in Great Britain for brooms,
                  thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens. It
                  is also called {heather}, and {ling}.
            (b) Also, any species of the genus {Erica}, of which
                  several are European, and many more are South African,
                  some of great beauty. See Illust. of {Heather}.
  
      2. A place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of
            country overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage.
  
                     Their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the
                     blasted heath.                                    --Milton
  
      {Heath cock} (Zo[94]l.), the blackcock. See {Heath grouse}
            (below).
  
      {Heath grass} (Bot.), a kind of perennial grass, of the genus
            {Triodia} ({T. decumbens}), growing on dry heaths.
  
      {Heath grouse}, [or] {Heath game} (Zo[94]l.), a European
            grouse ({Tetrao tetrix}), which inhabits heats; -- called
            also {black game}, {black grouse}, {heath poult}, {heath
            fowl}, {moor fowl}. The male is called, {heath cock}, and
            {blackcock}; the female, {heath hen}, and {gray hen}.
  
      {Heath hen}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Heath grouse} (above).
  
      {Heath pea} (bot.), a species of bitter vetch ({Lathyris
            macrorhizus}), the tubers of which are eaten, and in
            Scotland are used to flavor whisky.
  
      {Heath throstle} (Zo[94]l.), a European thrush which
            frequents heaths; the ring ouzel.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hedge \Hedge\, n. [OE. hegge, AS. hecg; akin to haga an
      inclosure, E. haw, AS. hege hedge, E. haybote, D. hegge, OHG.
      hegga, G. hecke. [root]12. See {Haw} a hedge.]
      A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a
      thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land;
      and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a
      line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted
      round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts
      of a garden.
  
               The roughest berry on the rudest hedge.   --Shak.
  
               Through the verdant maze Of sweetbrier hedges I pursue
               my walk.                                                --Thomson.
  
      Note: Hedge, when used adjectively or in composition, often
               means rustic, outlandish, illiterate, poor, or mean;
               as, hedge priest; hedgeborn, etc.
  
      {Hedge bells}, {Hedge bindweed} (Bot.), a climbing plant
            related to the morning-glory ({Convolvulus sepium}).
  
      {Hedge bill}, a long-handled billhook.
  
      {Hedge garlic} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Alliaria}. See
            {Garlic mustard}, under {Garlic}.
  
      {Hedge hyssop} (Bot.), a bitter herb of the genus {Gratiola},
            the leaves of which are emetic and purgative.
  
      {Hedge marriage}, a secret or clandestine marriage,
            especially one performed by a hedge priest. [Eng.]
  
      {Hedge mustard} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Sisymbrium},
            belonging to the Mustard family.
  
      {Hedge nettle} (Bot.), an herb, or under shrub, of the genus
            {Stachys}, belonging to the Mint family. It has a
            nettlelike appearance, though quite harmless.
  
      {Hedge note}.
      (a) The note of a hedge bird.
      (b) Low, contemptible writing. [Obs.] --Dryden.
  
      {Hedge priest}, a poor, illiterate priest. --Shak.
  
      {Hedge school}, an open-air school in the shelter of a hedge,
            in Ireland; a school for rustics.
  
      {Hedge sparrow} (Zo[94]l.), a European warbler ({Accentor
            modularis}) which frequents hedges. Its color is reddish
            brown, and ash; the wing coverts are tipped with white.
            Called also {chanter}, {hedge warbler}, {dunnock}, and
            {doney}.
  
      {Hedge writer}, an insignificant writer, or a writer of low,
            scurrilous stuff. [Obs.] --Swift.
  
      {To breast up a hedge}. See under {Breast}.
  
      {To hang in the hedge}, to be at a standstill. [bd]While the
            business of money hangs in the hedge.[b8] --Pepys.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hedge \Hedge\, n. [OE. hegge, AS. hecg; akin to haga an
      inclosure, E. haw, AS. hege hedge, E. haybote, D. hegge, OHG.
      hegga, G. hecke. [root]12. See {Haw} a hedge.]
      A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a
      thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land;
      and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a
      line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted
      round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts
      of a garden.
  
               The roughest berry on the rudest hedge.   --Shak.
  
               Through the verdant maze Of sweetbrier hedges I pursue
               my walk.                                                --Thomson.
  
      Note: Hedge, when used adjectively or in composition, often
               means rustic, outlandish, illiterate, poor, or mean;
               as, hedge priest; hedgeborn, etc.
  
      {Hedge bells}, {Hedge bindweed} (Bot.), a climbing plant
            related to the morning-glory ({Convolvulus sepium}).
  
      {Hedge bill}, a long-handled billhook.
  
      {Hedge garlic} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Alliaria}. See
            {Garlic mustard}, under {Garlic}.
  
      {Hedge hyssop} (Bot.), a bitter herb of the genus {Gratiola},
            the leaves of which are emetic and purgative.
  
      {Hedge marriage}, a secret or clandestine marriage,
            especially one performed by a hedge priest. [Eng.]
  
      {Hedge mustard} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Sisymbrium},
            belonging to the Mustard family.
  
      {Hedge nettle} (Bot.), an herb, or under shrub, of the genus
            {Stachys}, belonging to the Mint family. It has a
            nettlelike appearance, though quite harmless.
  
      {Hedge note}.
      (a) The note of a hedge bird.
      (b) Low, contemptible writing. [Obs.] --Dryden.
  
      {Hedge priest}, a poor, illiterate priest. --Shak.
  
      {Hedge school}, an open-air school in the shelter of a hedge,
            in Ireland; a school for rustics.
  
      {Hedge sparrow} (Zo[94]l.), a European warbler ({Accentor
            modularis}) which frequents hedges. Its color is reddish
            brown, and ash; the wing coverts are tipped with white.
            Called also {chanter}, {hedge warbler}, {dunnock}, and
            {doney}.
  
      {Hedge writer}, an insignificant writer, or a writer of low,
            scurrilous stuff. [Obs.] --Swift.
  
      {To breast up a hedge}. See under {Breast}.
  
      {To hang in the hedge}, to be at a standstill. [bd]While the
            business of money hangs in the hedge.[b8] --Pepys.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hedger \Hedg"er\, n.
      One who makes or mends hedges; also, one who hedges, as, in
      betting.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hedgerow \Hedge"row`\, n.
      A row of shrubs, or trees, planted for inclosure or
      separation of fields.
  
               By hedgerow elms and hillocks green.      --Milton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hodograph \Hod"o*graph\, n. [Gr.[?] path + graph.] (Math.)
      A curve described by the moving extremity of a line the other
      end of which is fixed, this line being constantly parallel to
      the direction of motion of, and having its length constantly
      proportional to the velocity of, a point moving in any path;
      -used in investigations respecting central forces.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hot-short \Hot"-short`\, a. [Cf. {Cold-short}.] (Metal.)
      Brittle when heated, esp. beyond a red heat; as, hot-short
      iron.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hot-short \Hot"-short`\, a. (Metal.)
      More or less brittle when heated; as, hot-short iron.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Howitzer \How"itz*er\, n. [G. haubitze, formerly hauffnitz,
      Bohem. haufnice, orig., a sling.] (Mil.)
      (a) A gun so short that the projectile, which was hollow,
            could be put in its place by hand; a kind of mortar.
            [Obs.]
      (b) A short, light, largebore cannon, usually having a
            chamber of smaller diameter than the rest of the bore,
            and intended to throw large projectiles with
            comparatively small charges.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gun \Gun\, n. [OE. gonne, gunne; of uncertain origin; cf. Ir.,
      {Gael}.) A LL. gunna, W. gum; possibly (like cannon) fr. L.
      canna reed, tube; or abbreviated fr. OF. mangonnel, E.
      mangonel, a machine for hurling stones.]
      1. A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance;
            any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles by the
            explosion of gunpowder, consisting of a tube or barrel
            closed at one end, in which the projectile is placed, with
            an explosive charge behind, which is ignited by various
            means. Muskets, rifles, carbines, and fowling pieces are
            smaller guns, for hand use, and are called {small arms}.
            Larger guns are called {cannon}, {ordnance},
            {fieldpieces}, {carronades}, {howitzers}, etc. See these
            terms in the Vocabulary.
  
                     As swift as a pellet out of a gunne When fire is in
                     the powder runne.                              --Chaucer.
  
                     The word gun was in use in England for an engine to
                     cast a thing from a man long before there was any
                     gunpowder found out.                           --Selden.
  
      2. (Mil.) A piece of heavy ordnance; in a restricted sense, a
            cannon.
  
      3. pl. (Naut.) Violent blasts of wind.
  
      Note: Guns are classified, according to their construction or
               manner of loading as {rifled} or {smoothbore},
               {breech-loading} or {muzzle-loading}, {cast} or
               {built-up guns}; or according to their use, as {field},
               {mountain}, {prairie}, {seacoast}, and {siege guns}.
  
      {Armstrong gun}, a wrought iron breech-loading cannon named
            after its English inventor, Sir William Armstrong.
  
      {Great gun}, a piece of heavy ordnance; hence (Fig.), a
            person superior in any way.
  
      {Gun barrel}, the barrel or tube of a gun.
  
      {Gun carriage}, the carriage on which a gun is mounted or
            moved.
  
      {Gun cotton} (Chem.), a general name for a series of
            explosive nitric ethers of cellulose, obtained by steeping
            cotton in nitric and sulphuric acids. Although there are
            formed substances containing nitric acid radicals, yet the
            results exactly resemble ordinary cotton in appearance. It
            burns without ash, with explosion if confined, but quietly
            and harmlessly if free and open, and in small quantity.
            Specifically, the lower nitrates of cellulose which are
            insoluble in ether and alcohol in distinction from the
            highest (pyroxylin) which is soluble. See {Pyroxylin}, and
            cf. {Xyloidin}. The gun cottons are used for blasting and
            somewhat in gunnery: for making celluloid when compounded
            with camphor; and the soluble variety (pyroxylin) for
            making collodion. See {Celluloid}, and {Collodion}. Gun
            cotton is frequenty but improperly called nitrocellulose.
            It is not a nitro compound, but an ethereal salt of nitric
            acid.
  
      {Gun deck}. See under {Deck}.
  
      {Gun fire}, the time at which the morning or the evening gun
            is fired.
  
      {Gun metal}, a bronze, ordinarily composed of nine parts of
            copper and one of tin, used for cannon, etc. The name is
            also given to certain strong mixtures of cast iron.
  
      {Gun port} (Naut.), an opening in a ship through which a
            cannon's muzzle is run out for firing.
  
      {Gun tackle} (Naut.), the blocks and pulleys affixed to the
            side of a ship, by which a gun carriage is run to and from
            the gun port.
  
      {Gun tackle purchase} (Naut.), a tackle composed of two
            single blocks and a fall. --Totten.
  
      {Krupp gun}, a wrought steel breech-loading cannon, named
            after its German inventor, Herr Krupp.
  
      {Machine gun}, a breech-loading gun or a group of such guns,
            mounted on a carriage or other holder, and having a
            reservoir containing cartridges which are loaded into the
            gun or guns and fired in rapid succession, sometimes in
            volleys, by machinery operated by turning a crank. Several
            hundred shots can be fired in a minute with accurate aim.
            The {Gatling gun}, {Gardner gun}, {Hotchkiss gun}, and
            {Nordenfelt gun}, named for their inventors, and the
            French {mitrailleuse}, are machine guns.
  
      {To blow great guns} (Naut.), to blow a gale. See {Gun}, n.,
            3.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hyetograph \Hy"e*to*graph\, n. [Gr. [?] rain + -graph.]
      A chart or graphic representation of the average distribution
      of rain over the surface of the earth.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hyetographic \Hy`e*to*graph"ic\, a.
      Of or pertaining to to hyetography.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hyetography \Hy`e*tog"ra*phy\, n.
      The branch of physical science which treats of the
      geographical distribution of rain.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Hat Creek, CA
      Zip code(s): 96040

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Hayt Corners, NY
      Zip code(s): 14521
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