HISPID
HIS'PID, adjective [Latin hispidus.] Rough.1. In botany, having strong hairs or bristles; beset with stiff bristles.
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HISS
HISS, verb intransitive1. To make a sound by driving the breath between the tongue and the upper teeth; to give a strong aspiration, resembling the noise made by a serpent and s...
HISSING
HISS'ING, participle present tense Making the noise of serpents.HISS'ING, noun A hissing sound; an expression of scorn or contempt.1. The occasion of contempt; the object of sco...
HISSINGLY
HISS'INGLY, adverb With a whistling sound.
HIST
HIST, exclamation A word commanding silence; equivalent to hush, be silent.
HISTORIAL
HISTO'RIAL, adjective Historical.
HISTORIAN
HISTO'RIAN, noun [Latin historicus.] A writer or compiler of history; one who collects and relates facts and events in writing, particularly respecting nations.Hume is called an...
HISTORIC
HISTOR'ICHISTOR'ICAL, adjective [Latin historicus.] Containing history, or the relation of facts; as a historical poem; the historic page; historic brass.1. Pertaining to histor...
HISTORICALLY
HISTOR'ICALLY, adverb In the manner of history; by way of narration.The Gospels declare historically something which our Lord Jesus Christ did, spoke or suffered.
HISTORIED
HIS'TORIED, adjective Recorded in history. [Not much in use.]
HISTORIER
HISTO'RIER, noun A historian.
HISTORIFY
HIS'TORIFY, verb transitive To relate; to record in history. [Not used.]
HISTORIOGRAPHER
HISTORIOG'RAPHER, noun [Gr. history, and to write.] A historian; a writer of history; particularly, a professed historian; an officer employed to write the history of a prince o...
HISTORIOGRAPHY
HISTORIOG'RAPHY, noun The art or employment of a historian.
HISTORIOLOGY
HISTORIOL'OGY, noun A discourse on history, or the knowledge of history. [Not in use.]
HISTORY
HIS'TORY, noun [Latin historia; Gr. knowing, learned, and to inquire, to explore, to learn by inspection or inquiry.]1. An account of facts, particularly of facts respecting nat...
HISTORY-PIECE
HIS'TORY-PIECE, noun A representative of any remarkable event in painting, which exhibits the actors, their actions, and the attending events to the eye, by figures drawn to the...
HISTRION
HIS'TRION, noun A player. [Not in use.]
HISTRIONIC
HISTRION'ICHISTRION'ICAL, adjective [Latin histrionicus, from histrio, a buffoon, an actor, or stage player.]Pertaining to a buffoon or comedian, or to a pantomime, who represen...
HISTRIONICAL
HISTRION'ICAL, a. [L. histrionicus, from histrio, a buffoon, an actor, or stage player.]Pertaining to a buffoon or comedian, or to a pantomime, who represents events or characte...
HISTRIONICALLY
HISTRION'ICALLY, adverb In the manner of a buffoon or pantomime; theatrically.
HISTRIONISM
HIS'TRIONISM, noun The acts or practice of buffoons or pantomimes; stage-playing.
HIT
HIT, verb transitivepreterit tense and participle passivehit1. To strike or touch, either with or without force. We hit a thing with the finger, or with the head; a cannon ball ...
HITCH
HITCH, verb transitive To hook; to catch by a hook; as, to hitch a bridle.1. To fasten by hitching; as, to hitch a horse by a bridle, or to hitch him to a post.HITCH, noun A cat...
HITCHED
HITCH'ED, participle passive Caught; hooked; fastened.
HITCHEL
HITCH'EL, verb transitive To hatchel. [Not used. See Hatchel.]
HITHE
HITHE, noun A port or small haven; as in Queenhithe, and Lambhithe, now Lambeth.