HAME
HAME, nounplural hames. A kind or collar for a draught horse, consisting of two bending pieces of wood or bows, and these placed on curving pads or stuffed leather, made to conf...
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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HAMITE
HAM'ITE, noun The fossil remains of a curved shell.
HAMLET
HAM'LET, noun A small village; a little cluster of houses in the country.This word seems originally to have signified the seat of a freeholder, comprehending the mansion house a...
HAMLETED
HAM'LETED, adjective Accustomed to a hamlet, or to a country life.
HAMMER
HAM'MER, noun An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like. It consists of an iron head, fixed crosswise to a handle. Hammers are of various sizes; a large hamm...
HAMMER-MAN
HAM'MER-MAN, noun One who beats or works with a hammer.
HAMMER-WORT
HAM'MER-WORT, noun An herb.
HAMMERABLE
HAM'MERABLE, adjective That may be shaped by a hammer.
HAMMERCLOTH
HAM'MERCLOTH, noun The cloth which covers a coach-box, so called from the old practice of carrying a hammer, nails, etc. in a little pocket hid by this cloth.
HAMMERED
HAM'MERED, participle passive Beaten with a hammer.
HAMMERER
HAM'MERER, noun One who works with a hammer.
HAMMERHARD
HAM'MERHARD, noun Iron or steel hardened by hammering.
HAMMERING
HAM'MERING, participle present tense Beating with a hammer; working; contriving.
HAMMITE
HAMMITE. [See Ammite.]
HAMMOC
HAM'MOC, noun A kind of hanging bed, suspended between trees or posts, or by hooks. It consists of a piece of hempen cloth about six feet long and three feet wide, gathered at t...
HAMOUS
HAM'OUS, [Latin hamus, a hook.] Hooked; having the end hooked or curved; a term of botany.
HAMPER
HAM'PER, noun [contracted form hanaper, or from hand pannier.]1. A large basket for conveying things to market, etc.2. Fetters, or some instrument that shackles.[This significat...
HAMPERED
HAM'PERED, participle passive Shackled; entangled; ensnared; perplexed.
HAMPERING
HAM'PERING, participle present tense Shackling; entangling; perplexing.
HAMSTER
HAM'STER, noun A species of rat, the Mus cricetus, or German marmot. This rat is of the size of the water rat, but is of a browner color, and its belly and legs of a dirty yello...
HAMSTRING
HAM'STRING, noun The tendons of the ham.HAM'STRING, verb transitivepreterit tense and participle passive hamstrung or hamstringed.To cut the tendons of the ham, and this to lame...
HAN
HAN, for have, in the plural.
HANAPER
HAN'APER, noun The hanaper was used in early days by the kings of England, for holding and carrying with them their money, as they journeyed from place to place. It was a kind o...
HANCE
HANCE, HAUNCE, for enhance. [See Enhance.]
HANCES
HAN'CES, nounplural [Latin ansa.] In architecture, the ends of elliptical arches, which are the arches of smaller circles than the scheme or middle part of the arch.1. In a ship...
HAND
HAND, noun [Latin hendo, in prehendo.]1. In man, the extremity of the arm, consisting of the palm and fingers, connected with the arm at the wrist; the part with which we hold a...
HAND-GRENADE
HAND-GRENA'DE, noun A grenade to be thrown by the hand.