HITHER
HITH'ER, adverb1. To this place; used with verbs signifying motion; as, to come hither; to proceed hither; to bring hither2.hither and thither, to this place and that.3. To this...
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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HITHERMOST
HITH'ERMOST, adjective Nearest on this side.
HITHERTO
HITH'ERTO, adverb To this time; yet.The Lord hath blessed me hitherto Joshua 17:14.1. In any time, or every time till now; in time preceding the present.2. To this place; to a p...
HITHERWARD
HITH'ERWARDHITH'ERWARDS, adverb This way; towards this place.A puissant and mighty power--Is marching hitherward in proud array.
HIVE
HIVE, noun1. A box, chest or kind of basket for the reception and habitation of a swarm of honey-bees. It is made of boards, straw or other materials.2. A swarm of bees; or the ...
HIVED
HI'VED, participle passive Lodged in a hive or shelter.
HIVER
HI'VER, noun One that collects bees into a hive.
HIVES
HIVES, noun A disease, the croup, or cynanche trachealis; rattles.
HO
HO, exclamation A word used by teamsters, to stop their teams. It has been used as a noun, for stop, moderation, bounds.There is no ho with them.word is pronounced also who, or ...
HOA
HOA, exclamation [Latin eho.] A call to excite attention, or to give notice of approach.What noise there, ho?HOA, who's within?
HOAR
HOAR, adjective1. White; as hoar frost; hoar cliffs.2. Gray; white with age; hoary; as a matron grave and hoarHOAR, noun Hoariness; antiquity.HOAR, verb intransitive To become m...
HOAR-FROST
HOAR-FROST, noun The white particles of ice formed by the congelation of dew or watery vapors.
HOARD
HOARD, noun A store, stock or large quantity of any thing accumulated or laid up; a hidden stock; a treasure; as a hoard of provisions for winter; a hoard of money.HOARD, verb t...
HOARDED
HOARDED, participle passive Collected and laid up in store.
HOARDER
HOARDER, noun One who lays up in store; one who accumulates and keeps in secret.
HOARDING
HOARDING, participle present tense Laying up in store.1. Instinctively collecting and laying up provisions for winter; as, the squirrel is a hoarding animal.
HOARED
HOARED, adjective Moldy; musty. [Not in use.]
HOARHOUND
HOARHOUND. [See Horehound.]
HOARINESS
HOARINESS, noun [from hoary.] The state of being white, whitish or gray; as the hoariness of the hair or head of old men.
HOARSE
HOARSE, adjective hors.1. Having a harsh, rough, grating voice, as when affected with a cold.2. Rough; grating; discordant; as the voice, or as any sound. We say, the hoarse rav...
HOARSELY
HOARSELY, adverb With a rough, harsh, grating voice or sound.
HOARSENESS
HOARSENESS, noun Harshness or roughness of voice or sound; preternatural asperity of voice.
HOARY
HOARY, noun [See Hoar.] White or whitish; as the hoary willows.1. White or gray with age; as hoary hairs; a hoary head.Reverence the hoary head.2. Moldy; mossy, or covered with ...
HOAX
HOAX, noun Something done for deception or mockery; a trick played off in sport.HOAX, verb transitive To deceive; to play a trick upon for sport, or without malice. [A colloquia...
HOB
HOBHOB'BISM, noun The principles of the sceptical Thomas Hobbes.
HOBBIST
HOB'BIST, noun A follower of Hobbes.
HOBBLE
HOB'BLE, verb intransitive1. To walk lamely, bearing chiefly on one leg; to limp; to walk with a hitch or hop, or with crutches.The friar was hobbling the same way too.2. To wal...