Webster's Dictionary 1828

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HABITUATING

HABIT'UATING, participle present tense Accustoming; making easy and familiar by practice.

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HABITUDE

HAB'ITUDE, noun [Latin habitudo, from habitus.]1. Relation; respect; state with regard to something else. [Little used.]2. Frequent intercourse; familiarity. [Not usual.]To writ...

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HABNAB

HAB'NAB, adverb [hap ne hap, let it happen or not.]At random; by chance; without order or rule.

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HACK

HACK, verb transitive1. To cut irregularly and into small pieces; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument.2. To speak with stops or catches; to speak wit...

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HACKED

HACK'ED, participle passive Chopped; mangled.

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HACKING

HACK'ING, participle present tense Chopping into small pieces; mangling; mauling.

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HACKLE

HACK'LE, verb transitive1. To comb flax or hemp; to separate the coarse part of these substances from the fine, by drawing them through the teeth of a hatchel.2. To tear asunder...

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HACKLY

HACK'LY, adjective [from hack.] Rough; broken as if hacked.In mineralogy, having fine, short, and sharp points on the surface; as a hackly fracture.

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HACKMATACK

HACK'MATACK, noun The popular name of the red larch, the Pinus microcarpa.

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HACKNEY

HACK'NEY, noun1. A pad; a nag; a pony.2. A horse kept for hire; a horse much used.3. A coach or other carriage kept for hire, and often exposed in the streets of cities. The wor...

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HACKNEY-COACH

HACK'NEY-COACH. [See Hackney.]

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HACKNEY-COACHMAN

HACKNEY-COACHMAN, noun A man who drives a hackney-coach.

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HACKNEYED

HACK'NEYED, participle passive Used much or in common.1. Practiced; accustomed.He is long hackneyed in the ways of men.

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HACKNEYING

HACK'NEYING, participle present tense Using much; accustoming.

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HACKNEYMAN

HACK'NEYMAN, noun A man who lets horses and carriages for hire.

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HACKSTER

HACK'STER, noun A bully; a ruffian or assassin.

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HACQUETON

HAC'QUETON, noun A stuffed jacket formerly worn under armor, sometimes made of leather. [Not used.]

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HAD

HAD, preterit tense and participle passive of have; contracted from Sax.haefd, that is, haved; as, I had; I have had In the phrase, 'I had better go, ' it is supposed that had i...

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HADDER

HAD'DER, noun Heath. [Not in use. See Heath.]

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HADDOCK

HAD'DOCK, noun A fish of the genus Gadus or cod, and order of Jugulars. It has a long body, the upper part of a dusky brown color, and the belly of a silvery hue; the lateral li...

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HADE

HADE, noun Among miners, the steep descent of a shaft; also, the descent of a hill.In mining, the inclination or deviation from the vertical of a mineral vein.

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HAFT

H'AFT, noun [Latin capio.] A handle; that part of an instrument or vessel which is taken into the hand, and by which it is held and used. It is used chiefly for the part of a sw...

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HAFTER

H'AFTER, noun A caviller; a wrangler. [Not in use.]

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HAG

HAG, noun1. An ugly old woman; as an old hag of threescore.2. A witch; a sorceress; an enchantress.3. A fury; a she-monster.4. A cartilaginous fish, the Gastrobranchus, which en...

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HAGARD

HAG'ARD, adjective1. Literally, having a ragged look, as if hacked or gashed. Hence, lean; meager; rough; having eyes sunk in their orbits; ugly.2. Wild; fierce; intractable; as...

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HAGARDLY

HAG'ARDLY, adverb In a hagard or ugly manner; with deformity.

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HAGBORN

HAG'BORN, noun Born of a hag or witch.