HAGGARD
HAG'GARD, noun A stack-yard.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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HAGGESS
HAG'GESS, noun [from hack.] A mess of meat, generally pork, chopped and inclosed in a membrane.1. A sheep's head and pluck minced.
HAGGLE
HAG'GLE, verb transitive To cut into small pieces; to notch or cut in an unskillful manner; to make rough by cutting; to mangle; as, a boy haggles a stick of wood.Suffolk first ...
HAGGLED
HAG'GLED, participle passive Cut irregularly into notches; made rough by cutting; mangled.
HAGGLER
HAG'GLER, noun One who haggles.1. One who cavils, hesitates and makes difficulty in bargaining.
HAGGLING
HAG'GLING, participle present tense Hacking; mangling; caviling and hesitating in bargaining.
HAGIOGRAPHAL
HAGIOG'RAPHAL, noun Pertaining to hagiography, which see.
HAGIOGRAPHER
HAGIOG'RAPHER, noun [See the next word.] A writer of holy or sacred books.
HAGIOGRAPHY
HAGIOG'RAPHY, noun [Gr. holy, and a writing.]Sacred writings. The Jews divide the books of the Scriptures into three parts; the Law, which is contained in the five first books o...
HAGISH
HAG'ISH, adjective Of the nature of a hag; deformed; ugly; horrid.HAG'-RIDDEN, adjective Afflicted with the nightmare.
HAGSHIP
HAG'SHIP, noun The state or title of a hag or witch.
HAGUEBUT
HAGUEBUT. [See Arquebuse.]
HAH
HAH, an exclamation expressing surprise or effort.
HAIL
HAIL, noun Masses of ice or frozen vapor, falling from the clouds in showers or storms. These masses consist of little spherules united, but not all of the same consistence; som...
HAILED
HA'ILED, participle passive Called to from a distance; accosted.
HAILING
HA'ILING, participle present tense Saluting; calling to from a distance.1. Pouring down hail.
HAILSHOT
HA'ILSHOT, noun Small shot which scatter like hailstones. [Not used.]
HAILSTONE
HA'ILSTONE, noun A single mass of ice falling from a cloud.
HAILY
HA'ILY, adjective Consisting of hail; as haily showers.
HAINOUS
HA'INOUS, adjective Properly, hateful; odious. Hence, great, enormous, aggravated; as a hainous sin or crime.
HAINOUSLY
HA'INOUSLY, adverb Hatefully; abominably; enormously.
HAINOUSNESS
HA'INOUSNESS, noun Odiousness; enormity; as the hainousness of theft or robbery of any crime.
HAIR
HAIR, noun1. A small filament issuing from the skin of an animal, and from a bulbous root. Each filament contains a tube or hollow within, occupied by a pulp or pith, which is i...
HAIR-BRAINED
HA'IR-BRAINED. [See Hare-brained.]
HAIR-BREADTH
HA'IR-BREADTH, noun [See Breadth.] The diameter or breadth of a hair; a very small distance.--Seven hundred chosen men left-handed; every one couldsling stones to a hair-breadth...
HAIR-SALT
HA'IR-SALT, noun A mixture of the sulphates of magnesia and iron; its taste resembles that of alum.
HAIRBELL
HA'IRBELL, noun A plant, a species of hyacinth.