Webster's Dictionary 1828

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HALLIARD

HAL'LIARD, noun [from hale, haul.] A rope or tackle for hoisting or lowering a sail.

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HALLIER

HAL'LIER, noun A particular kind of net for catching birds.

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HALLOO

HAL'LOO, verb intransitive To cry out; to exclaim with a loud voice; to call to by name, or by the word hallooCountry folks hallooed and hooted after me.HAL'LOO, verb transitive...

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HALLOOING

HAL'LOOING, participle present tense Crying out; as a noun, a loud outcry.

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HALLOW

HAL'LOW, verb transitive [Latin calleo, to be able.]1. To make holy; to consecrate; to set apart for holy or religious use. Exodus 28:38. 1 Kings 8:64.2. To devote to holy or re...

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HALLOWED

HAL'LOWED, participle passive Consecrated to a sacred use, or to religious exercises; treated as sacred; reverenced.

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HALLOWING

HAL'LOWING, participle present tense Setting apart for sacred purposes; consecrating; devoting to religious exercises; reverencing.

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HALLOWMAS

HAL'LOWMAS, noun [See Mass.] The feast of All Souls.

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HALLUCINATION

HALLUCINA'TION, noun [Latin hallucinatio, from hallucinor, to blunder.]1. Error; blunder; mistake. [Little used.]2. In medicine, faulty sense [dysaesthesia,] or erroneous imagin...

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HALM

HALM, noun haum. [Latin culmus.] Straw. [See Haum.]

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HALO

HA'LO, noun A circle appearing round the body of the sun, moon or stars, called also Corona, or crown. Halos are sometimes white and sometimes colored. Sometimes one only appear...

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HALSE

HALSE, noun The neck or throat.HALSE, verb intransitive hals. To embrace about the neck; to adjure; to greet.

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HALSENING

HAL'SENING, adjective Sounding harshly in the throat or tongue.

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HALSER

HALSER, noun hawz'er. A large rope of a size between the cable and the tow-line. [See Hawser.]

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HALT

HALT, verb intransitive1. To stop in walking; to hold. In military affairs, the true sense is retained, to stop in a march. The army halted at noon.2. To limp; that is, to stop ...

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HALTER

HALT'ER, noun One who halts or limps.HALT'ER, noun1. A rope or strap and head-stall for leading or confining a horse.2. A rope for hanging malefactors.3. A strong cord or string...

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HALTING

HALT'ING, participle present tense Stopping; limping.

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HALTINGLY

HALT'INGLY, adverb With limping; slowly.

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HALVE

H'ALVE, verb transitive h'av. [from half.] To divide into two equal parts; as, to halve an apple.

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HALVED

H'ALVED, adjective In botany, hemispherical; covering one side; placed on one side.

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HALVES

H'ALVES, nounplural of half. Two equal parts of a thing. To cry halves is to claim an equal share. To go halves is to have an equal share.

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HAM

HAM, Sax.ham, a house, is our modern word home, G.heim. It is used in hamlet, and in the names of places, as in Walt-ham, wood-house, walt, a wood, and ham a house, [not Wal-tha...

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HAMA

A'MA, or HA'MA, nounIn church affairs, a vessel to contain wine for the eucharist; also, a wine measure, as a cask, a pipe, etc.

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HAMADRYAD

HAM'ADRYAD, noun [Gr. together, and a tree.] A wood nymph, feigned to live and die with the tree to which it was attached.

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HAMATE

HAM'ATE, adjective [Latin hamatus.] Hooked; entangled.

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HAMATED

HAM'ATED, adjective [Latin hamatus, from hama, a hook.]Hooked or set with hooks.

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HAMBLE

HAM'BLE, verb transitive To hamstring. [Not used.]