Height
Height, or Highthn.altitude, space upward, utmost degree, tallness
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A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1806.
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Heighten
Heightenv.t.to raise, increase, exalt
Heightening
Heighteningn.a raising higher, increase
Heinous
Heinousa.a false spelling, seeSee: hainous
Heir
Heir, [air]n.he who inherits by law
Heir (2)
Heirv.t.to inherit, take by descent
Heiress
Heiressn.a woman who inherits by law
Heirless
Heirlessa.having no heir, wanting an heir
Heirloom
Heirloomn.what descends with a freehold, to the heir
Heirship
Heirshipn.the state or right of an heir
Held
Heldpret.andpa.of to hold
Heliacal
Heliacala.relating or belonging to the sun
Helical
Helicala.spiral, twisted, winding
Heliconian
Heliconiana.pertaining to Helicon, a hill of the muses
Heliocentric
Heliocentrica.appearing or seen from the sun
Heliometer
Heliometern.an instrument to take the diameters of heavenly bodies
Heliotrope
Heliotropen.a green siliceous stone, the sunflower
Helispherical
Helisphericaln.spiral
Helix
Helixn.a shell fish always floating on the water, a spiral line
Hell
Helln.the place of the damned, the grave, prison
Hellblack
Hellblacka.extremely black, dismal, ob.
Helldoomed
Helldoomeda.consigned to hell, very wicked, vile
Hellespont
Hellespontn.the strait between Europe and Asia, by which the Euxine runs into the Mediterranean
Hellishly
Hellishlyad.in a hellish manner, very wickedly
Hellishness
Hellishnessn.abominable wickedness or behavior, great impiety, base or vile qualities
Hellward
Hellwardad.towards hell, in the way to hell
Helm
Helmn.the appratus by which a ship is steered, consisting of a rudder, and tiller, and a wheel