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   halliard
         n 1: a rope for raising or lowering a sail or flag [syn:
               {halyard}, {halliard}]

English Dictionary: hilarity by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
halyard
n
  1. a rope for raising or lowering a sail or flag [syn: halyard, halliard]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hilarity
n
  1. great merriment [syn: hilarity, mirth, mirthfulness, glee, gleefulness]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
holier-than-thou
adj
  1. excessively or hypocritically pious; "a sickening sanctimonious smile"
    Synonym(s): holier-than-thou, pietistic, pietistical, pharisaic, pharisaical, sanctimonious, self-righteous
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
holler out
v
  1. shout out; "He hollered out to surrender our weapons" [syn: holler, holler out]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Hollerith
n
  1. United States inventor who invented a system for recording alphanumeric information on punched cards (1860-1929)
    Synonym(s): Hollerith, Herman Hollerith
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Hollerith card
n
  1. a card on which data can be recorded in the form of punched holes
    Synonym(s): punched card, punch card, Hollerith card
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Holy Order
n
  1. (usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy; "theologians still disagree over whether `bishop' should or should not be a separate Order"
    Synonym(s): Holy Order, Order
  2. the sacrament of ordination
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Holy Writ
n
  1. the sacred writings of the Christian religions; "he went to carry the Word to the heathen"
    Synonym(s): Bible, Christian Bible, Book, Good Book, Holy Scripture, Holy Writ, Scripture, Word of God, Word
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hal'yard \Hal'yard\, n. [Hale, v. t. + yard.] (Naut.)
      A rope or tackle for hoisting or lowering yards, sails,
      flags, etc. [Written also {halliard}, {haulyard}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Halliard \Hal"liard\, n.
      See {Halyard}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hal'yard \Hal'yard\, n. [Hale, v. t. + yard.] (Naut.)
      A rope or tackle for hoisting or lowering yards, sails,
      flags, etc. [Written also {halliard}, {haulyard}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Halliard \Hal"liard\, n.
      See {Halyard}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hal'yard \Hal'yard\, n. [Hale, v. t. + yard.] (Naut.)
      A rope or tackle for hoisting or lowering yards, sails,
      flags, etc. [Written also {halliard}, {haulyard}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hal'yard \Hal'yard\, n. [Hale, v. t. + yard.] (Naut.)
      A rope or tackle for hoisting or lowering yards, sails,
      flags, etc. [Written also {halliard}, {haulyard}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hellward \Hell"ward\, adv.
      Toward hell. --Pope.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hilarity \Hi*lar"i*ty\ (?; 277), n. [L. hilaritas: cf. F.
      hilarit[82]. See {Hilarious}.]
      Boisterous mirth; merriment; jollity. --Goldsmith.
  
      Note: Hilarity differs from joy: the latter, excited by good
               news or prosperity, is an affection of the mind; the
               former, produced by social pleasure, drinking, etc.,
               which rouse the animal spirits, is more demonstrative.
  
      Syn: Glee; cheerfulness; mirth; merriment; gayety;
               joyousness; exhilaration; joviality; jollity.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hilary term \Hil"a*ry term`\
      Formerly, one of the four terms of the courts of common law
      in England, beginning on the eleventh of January and ending
      on the thirty-first of the same month, in each year; -- so
      called from the festival of St. Hilary, January 13th.
  
      Note: The Hilary term is superseded by the Hilary sittings,
               which commence on the eleventh of January and end on
               the Wednesday before Easter. --Mozley & W.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Moschatel \Mos"cha*tel`\, n. [Gr. [?] musk: cf. F. moscatelline.
      See {Muscadel}, {Musk}.] (Bot.)
      A plant of the genus {Adoxa} ({A. moschatellina}), the
      flowers of which are pale green, and have a faint musky
      smell. It is found in woods in all parts of Europe, and is
      called also {hollow root} and {musk crowfoot}. --Loudon.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hollow \Hol"low\, a. [OE. holow, holgh, holf, AS. holh a hollow,
      hole. Cf. {Hole}.]
      1. Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial,
            within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the
            interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow sphere.
  
                     Hollow with boards shalt thou make it. --Ex. xxvii.
                                                                              8.
  
      2. Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.
  
                     With hollow eye and wrinkled brow.      --Shak.
  
      3. Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound;
            deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar. --Dryden.
  
      4. Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as,
            a hollow heart; a hollow friend. --Milton.
  
      {Hollow newel} (Arch.), an opening in the center of a winding
            staircase in place of a newel post, the stairs being
            supported by the wall; an open newel; also, the
            stringpiece or rail winding around the well of such a
            staircase.
  
      {Hollow quoin} (Engin.), a pier of stone or brick made behind
            the lock gates of a canal, and containing a hollow or
            recess to receive the ends of the gates.
  
      {Hollow root}. (Bot.) See {Moschatel}.
  
      {Hollow square}. See {Square}.
  
      {Hollow ware}, hollow vessels; -- a trade name for cast-iron
            kitchen utensils, earthenware, etc.
  
      Syn: Syn.- Concave; sunken; low; vacant; empty; void; false;
               faithless; deceitful; treacherous.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Moschatel \Mos"cha*tel`\, n. [Gr. [?] musk: cf. F. moscatelline.
      See {Muscadel}, {Musk}.] (Bot.)
      A plant of the genus {Adoxa} ({A. moschatellina}), the
      flowers of which are pale green, and have a faint musky
      smell. It is found in woods in all parts of Europe, and is
      called also {hollow root} and {musk crowfoot}. --Loudon.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hollow \Hol"low\, a. [OE. holow, holgh, holf, AS. holh a hollow,
      hole. Cf. {Hole}.]
      1. Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial,
            within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the
            interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow sphere.
  
                     Hollow with boards shalt thou make it. --Ex. xxvii.
                                                                              8.
  
      2. Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.
  
                     With hollow eye and wrinkled brow.      --Shak.
  
      3. Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound;
            deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar. --Dryden.
  
      4. Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as,
            a hollow heart; a hollow friend. --Milton.
  
      {Hollow newel} (Arch.), an opening in the center of a winding
            staircase in place of a newel post, the stairs being
            supported by the wall; an open newel; also, the
            stringpiece or rail winding around the well of such a
            staircase.
  
      {Hollow quoin} (Engin.), a pier of stone or brick made behind
            the lock gates of a canal, and containing a hollow or
            recess to receive the ends of the gates.
  
      {Hollow root}. (Bot.) See {Moschatel}.
  
      {Hollow square}. See {Square}.
  
      {Hollow ware}, hollow vessels; -- a trade name for cast-iron
            kitchen utensils, earthenware, etc.
  
      Syn: Syn.- Concave; sunken; low; vacant; empty; void; false;
               faithless; deceitful; treacherous.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hollow-hearted \Hol"low-heart`ed\, a.
      Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or
      decayed spot within.
  
      Syn: Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      9. A body of persons having some common honorary distinction
            or rule of obligation; esp., a body of religious persons
            or aggregate of convents living under a common rule; as,
            the Order of the Bath; the Franciscan order.
  
                     Find a barefoot brother out, One of our order, to
                     associate me.                                    --Shak.
  
                     The venerable order of the Knights Templars. --Sir
                                                                              W. Scott.
  
      10. An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or
            bishop; the office of the Christian ministry; -- often
            used in the plural; as, to take orders, or to take holy
            orders, that is, to enter some grade of the ministry.
  
      11. (Arch.) The disposition of a column and its component
            parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in
            classical architecture; hence (as the column and
            entablature are the characteristic features of classical
            architecture) a style or manner of architectural
            designing.
  
      Note: The Greeks used three different orders, easy to
               distinguish, Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian. The Romans
               added the Tuscan, and changed the Doric so that it is
               hardly recognizable, and also used a modified
               Corinthian called Composite. The Renaissance writers on
               architecture recognized five orders as orthodox or
               classical, -- Doric (the Roman sort), Ionic, Tuscan,
               Corinthian, and Composite. See Illust. of {Capital}.
  
      12. (Nat. Hist.) An assemblage of genera having certain
            important characters in common; as, the Carnivora and
            Insectivora are orders of Mammalia.
  
      Note: The Linn[91]an artificial orders of plants rested
               mainly on identity in the numer of pistils, or
               agreement in some one character. Natural orders are
               groups of genera agreeing in the fundamental plan of
               their flowers and fruit. A natural order is usually (in
               botany) equivalent to a family, and may include several
               tribes.
  
      13. (Rhet.) The placing of words and members in a sentence in
            such a manner as to contribute to force and beauty or
            clearness of expression.
  
      14. (Math.) Rank; degree; thus, the order of a curve or
            surface is the same as the degree of its equation.
  
      {Artificial order} [or] {system}. See {Artificial
            classification}, under {Artificial}, and Note to def. 12
            above.
  
      {Close order} (Mil.), the arrangement of the ranks with a
            distance of about half a pace between them; with a
            distance of about three yards the ranks are in {open
            order}.
  
      {The four Orders}, {The Orders four}, the four orders of
            mendicant friars. See {Friar}. --Chaucer.
  
      {General orders} (Mil.), orders issued which concern the
            whole command, or the troops generally, in distinction
            from special orders.
  
      {Holy orders}.
            (a) (Eccl.) The different grades of the Christian
                  ministry; ordination to the ministry. See def. 10
                  above.
            (b) (R. C. Ch.) A sacrament for the purpose of conferring
                  a special grace on those ordained.
  
      {In order to}, for the purpose of; to the end; as means to.
  
                     The best knowledge is that which is of greatest use
                     in order to our eternal happiness.      --Tillotson.
  
      {Minor orders} (R. C. Ch.), orders beneath the diaconate in
            sacramental dignity, as acolyte, exorcist, reader,
            doorkeeper.
  
      {Money order}. See under {Money}.
  
      {Natural order}. (Bot.) See def. 12, Note.
  
      {Order book}.
            (a) A merchant's book in which orders are entered.
            (b) (Mil.) A book kept at headquarters, in which all
                  orders are recorded for the information of officers
                  and men.
            (c) A book in the House of Commons in which proposed
                  orders must be entered. [Eng.]
  
      {Order in Council}, a royal order issued with and by the
            advice of the Privy Council. [Great Britain]
  
      {Order of battle} (Mil.), the particular disposition given to
            the troops of an army on the field of battle.
  
      {Order of the day}, in legislative bodies, the special
            business appointed for a specified day.
  
      {Order of a differential equation} (Math.), the greatest
            index of differentiation in the equation.
  
      {Sailing orders} (Naut.), the final instructions given to the
            commander of a ship of war before a cruise.
  
      {Sealed orders}, orders sealed, and not to be opened until a
            certain time, or arrival at a certain place, as after a
            ship is at sea.
  
      {Standing order}.
            (a) A continuing regulation for the conduct of
                  parliamentary business.
            (b) (Mil.) An order not subject to change by an officer
                  temporarily in command.
  
      {To give order}, to give command or directions. --Shak.
  
      {To take order for}, to take charge of; to make arrangements
            concerning.
  
                     Whiles I take order for mine own affairs. --Shak.
  
      Syn: Arrangement; management. See {Direction}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Holy \Ho"ly\, a. [Compar. {Holier}; superl. {Holiest}.] [OE.
      holi, hali, AS. h[be]lig, fr. h[91]l health, salvation,
      happiness, fr. h[be]l whole, well; akin to OS. h[?]lag, D. &
      G. heilig, OHG. heilac, Dan. hellig, Sw. helig, Icel.
      heilagr. See {Whole}, and cf. {Halibut}, {Halidom}, {Hallow},
      {Hollyhock}.]
      1. Set apart to the service or worship of God; hallowed;
            sacred; reserved from profane or common use; holy vessels;
            a holy priesthood. [bd]Holy rites and solemn feasts.[b8]
            --Milton.
  
      2. Spiritually whole or sound; of unimpaired innocence and
            virtue; free from sinful affections; pure in heart; godly;
            pious; irreproachable; guiltless; acceptable to God.
  
                     Now through her round of holy thought The Church our
                     annual steps has brought.                  --Keble.
  
      {Holy Alliance} (Hist.), a league ostensibly for conserving
            religion, justice, and peace in Europe, but really for
            repressing popular tendencies toward constitutional
            government, entered into by Alexander I. of Russia,
            Francis I. of Austria, and Frederic William III. of
            Prussia, at Paris, on the 26th of September, 1815, and
            subsequently joined by all the sovereigns of Europe,
            except the pope and the king of England.
  
      {Holy bark}. See {Cascara sagrada}.
  
      {Holy Communion}. See {Eucharist}.
  
      {Holy family} (Art), a picture in which the infant Christ,
            his parents, and others of his family are represented.
  
      {Holy Father}, a title of the pope.
  
      {Holy Ghost} (Theol.),the third person of the Trinity; the
            Comforter; the Paraclete.
  
      {Holy Grail}. See {Grail}.
  
      {Holy grass} (Bot.), a sweet-scented grass ({Hierochloa
            borealis} and {H. alpina}). In the north of Europe it was
            formerly strewed before church doors on saints' days;
            whence the name. It is common in the northern and western
            parts of the United States. Called also {vanilla, [or]
            Seneca, grass}.
  
      {Holy Innocents' day}, Childermas day.
  
      {Holy Land}, Palestine, the birthplace of Christianity.
  
      {Holy office}, the Inquisition.
  
      {Holy of holies} (Script.), the innermost apartment of the
            Jewish tabernacle or temple, where the ark was kept, and
            where no person entered, except the high priest once a
            year.
  
      {Holy One}.
            (a) The Supreme Being; -- so called by way of emphasis.
                  [bd] The Holy One of Israel.[b8] --Is. xliii. 14.
            (b) One separated to the service of God.
  
      {Holy orders}. See {Order}.
  
      {Holy rood}, the cross or crucifix, particularly one placed,
            in churches. over the entrance to the chancel.
  
      {Holy rope}, a plant, the hemp agrimony.
  
      {Holy Saturday} (Eccl.), the Saturday immediately preceding
            the festival of Easter; the vigil of Easter.
  
      {Holy Spirit}, same as {Holy Ghost} (above).
  
      {Holy Spirit plant}. See {Dove plant}.
  
      {Holy thistle} (Bot.), the blessed thistle. See under
            {Thistle}.
  
      {Holy Thursday}. (Eccl.)
            (a) (Episcopal Ch.) Ascension day.
            (b) (R. C. Ch.) The Thursday in Holy Week; Maundy
                  Thursday.
  
      {Holy war}, a crusade; an expedition carried on by Christians
            against the Saracens in the Holy Land, in the eleventh,
            twelfth, and thirteenth centuries, for the possession of
            the holy places.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Holy \Ho"ly\, a. [Compar. {Holier}; superl. {Holiest}.] [OE.
      holi, hali, AS. h[be]lig, fr. h[91]l health, salvation,
      happiness, fr. h[be]l whole, well; akin to OS. h[?]lag, D. &
      G. heilig, OHG. heilac, Dan. hellig, Sw. helig, Icel.
      heilagr. See {Whole}, and cf. {Halibut}, {Halidom}, {Hallow},
      {Hollyhock}.]
      1. Set apart to the service or worship of God; hallowed;
            sacred; reserved from profane or common use; holy vessels;
            a holy priesthood. [bd]Holy rites and solemn feasts.[b8]
            --Milton.
  
      2. Spiritually whole or sound; of unimpaired innocence and
            virtue; free from sinful affections; pure in heart; godly;
            pious; irreproachable; guiltless; acceptable to God.
  
                     Now through her round of holy thought The Church our
                     annual steps has brought.                  --Keble.
  
      {Holy Alliance} (Hist.), a league ostensibly for conserving
            religion, justice, and peace in Europe, but really for
            repressing popular tendencies toward constitutional
            government, entered into by Alexander I. of Russia,
            Francis I. of Austria, and Frederic William III. of
            Prussia, at Paris, on the 26th of September, 1815, and
            subsequently joined by all the sovereigns of Europe,
            except the pope and the king of England.
  
      {Holy bark}. See {Cascara sagrada}.
  
      {Holy Communion}. See {Eucharist}.
  
      {Holy family} (Art), a picture in which the infant Christ,
            his parents, and others of his family are represented.
  
      {Holy Father}, a title of the pope.
  
      {Holy Ghost} (Theol.),the third person of the Trinity; the
            Comforter; the Paraclete.
  
      {Holy Grail}. See {Grail}.
  
      {Holy grass} (Bot.), a sweet-scented grass ({Hierochloa
            borealis} and {H. alpina}). In the north of Europe it was
            formerly strewed before church doors on saints' days;
            whence the name. It is common in the northern and western
            parts of the United States. Called also {vanilla, [or]
            Seneca, grass}.
  
      {Holy Innocents' day}, Childermas day.
  
      {Holy Land}, Palestine, the birthplace of Christianity.
  
      {Holy office}, the Inquisition.
  
      {Holy of holies} (Script.), the innermost apartment of the
            Jewish tabernacle or temple, where the ark was kept, and
            where no person entered, except the high priest once a
            year.
  
      {Holy One}.
            (a) The Supreme Being; -- so called by way of emphasis.
                  [bd] The Holy One of Israel.[b8] --Is. xliii. 14.
            (b) One separated to the service of God.
  
      {Holy orders}. See {Order}.
  
      {Holy rood}, the cross or crucifix, particularly one placed,
            in churches. over the entrance to the chancel.
  
      {Holy rope}, a plant, the hemp agrimony.
  
      {Holy Saturday} (Eccl.), the Saturday immediately preceding
            the festival of Easter; the vigil of Easter.
  
      {Holy Spirit}, same as {Holy Ghost} (above).
  
      {Holy Spirit plant}. See {Dove plant}.
  
      {Holy thistle} (Bot.), the blessed thistle. See under
            {Thistle}.
  
      {Holy Thursday}. (Eccl.)
            (a) (Episcopal Ch.) Ascension day.
            (b) (R. C. Ch.) The Thursday in Holy Week; Maundy
                  Thursday.
  
      {Holy war}, a crusade; an expedition carried on by Christians
            against the Saracens in the Holy Land, in the eleventh,
            twelfth, and thirteenth centuries, for the possession of
            the holy places.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {Holy water} (Gr. & R. C. Churches), water which has been
            blessed by the priest for sacred purposes.
  
      {Holy-water stoup}, the stone stoup or font placed near the
            entrance of a church, as a receptacle for holy water.
  
      {Holy Week} (Eccl.), the week before Easter, in which the
            passion of our Savior is commemorated.
  
      {Holy writ}, the sacred Scriptures. [bd] Word of holy
            writ.[b8] --Wordsworth.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Hellertown, PA (borough, FIPS 33744)
      Location: 40.58123 N, 75.33831 W
      Population (1990): 5662 (2476 housing units)
      Area: 3.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 18055

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Hilliard, FL (town, FIPS 30750)
      Location: 30.69489 N, 81.92266 W
      Population (1990): 1751 (727 housing units)
      Area: 8.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 32046
   Hilliard, OH (city, FIPS 35476)
      Location: 40.03798 N, 83.14258 W
      Population (1990): 11796 (4556 housing units)
      Area: 22.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 43026

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Hilliards, PA
      Zip code(s): 16040

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Holly Ridge, NC (town, FIPS 32180)
      Location: 34.49259 N, 77.55585 W
      Population (1990): 728 (372 housing units)
      Area: 3.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Holyrood, KS (city, FIPS 32850)
      Location: 38.58734 N, 98.41168 W
      Population (1990): 492 (283 housing units)
      Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 67450

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Hollerith, Herman
  
      {Herman Hollerith}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Hollerithabetical order
  
      Sorted into the order a standard {Hollerith} {card
      sorting machine} produces, with special characters interleaved
      within the alphabet.
  
      (1997-02-11)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Hollywired
  
      {Siliwood}
  
  
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