HIGH-SOUNDING
HIGH-SOUNDING, adjective Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as high-sounding words or titles.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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HIGH-SPIRITED
HIGH-SPIRITED, adjective Full of spirit or natural fire; easily irritated; irascible.1. Full of spirit; bold; daring.
HIGH-STOMACHED
HIGH-STOMACHED, adjective Having a lofty spirit; proud; obstinate.
HIGH-SWELLING
HIGH-SWELLING, adjective Swelling greatly; inflated; boastful.
HIGH-SWOLN
HIGH-SWOLN, adjective Greatly swelled.
HIGH-TAPER
HIGH-TAPER, noun A plant of the genus Verbascum.
HIGH-TASTED
HIGH-TASTED, adjective Having a strong relish; piquant.
HIGH-TOWERED
HIGH-TOWERED, adjective Having lofty towers.
HIGH-VICED
HIGH-VICED, adjective Enormously wicked.
HIGH-WROUGHT
HIGH-WROUGHT, adjective Wrought with exquisite art or skill; accurately finished.1. Inflamed to a high degree; as high-wrought passion.
HIGHLAND
HIGHLAND, noun Elevated land; a mountainous region.HIGHLANDs of Scotland, mountainous regions inhabited by the descendants of the ancient Celts, who retain their primitive langu...
HIGHLANDER
HIGHLANDER, noun An inhabitant of the mountains; as the Highlanders of Scotland.
HIGHLANDISH
HIGHLANDISH, adjective Denoting high or mountainous land.
HIGHLY
HIGHLY, adverb hi'ly. With elevation in place.1. In a great degree.We are highly favored.Exercise is highly requisite to health.2. Proudly; arrogantly; ambitiously.3. With eleva...
HIGHMOST
HIGHMOST, adjective Highest. [Not used.]
HIGHNESS
HIGHNESS, noun hi'ness. Elevation above the surface; loftiness; altitude; highth.1. Dignity; elevation in rank, character or power.2. Excellence; value.3. Violence; as the highn...
HIGHT
HIGHT, noun hite, or hith.1. Elevation above the ground; any indefinite distance above the earth. The eagle flies at a great hight or highth.2. The altitude of an object; the di...
HIGHTH
HIGHTHHIGHWATER, noun The utmost flow or greatest elevation of the tide;also, the time of such elevation.
HIGHWATER
HIGHWATER, n. The utmost flow or greatest elevation of the tide;also, the time of such elevation.
HIGHWATER-MARK
HIGHWATER-MARK, noun The line made on the shore by the tide at its utmost highth.
HIGHWAY
HIGHWA'Y, noun A public road; a way open to all passengers; so called, either because it is a great or public road, or because the earth was raised to form a dry path. Highways ...
HIGHWAYMAN
HIGHWA'YMAN, noun One who robs on the public road, or lurks in the highway for the purpose of robbing.
HILARATE
HILARATE, is not in use. [See Exhilarate.]
HILARITY
HILAR'ITY, noun [Latin hilaritas; Gr. joyful, merry.]Mirth; merriment; gayety. hilarity differs from joy; the latter, excited by good news or prosperity, is an affection of the ...
HILARY-TERM
HIL'ARY-TERM, noun The term of courts, etc., which begins January 23.
HILD
HILD, G. and D. held, Dan.heldt, a hero, is retained in names, as Hildebert, a bright hero; Mathild, Matilda, a heroic lady.
HILDING
HILD'ING, noun A mean, sorry, paltry man or woman.