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Hame
  • (n.) Home.

    Han
  • (inf. & plural pres.) To have
  • (v. t.) To inclose for mowing

    Hand
  • (n.) A bundle of tobacco leaves tied together.
  • (v. i.) To cooperate.
  • (v. t.) To furl

    Hang
  • (n.) A sharp or steep declivity or slope.
  • (v. i.) Of a ball: To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of ground
  • (v. t.) To prevent from reaching a decision, esp. by refusing to join in a verdict that must be unanimous

    Happen
  • (v. i.) To come by chance

    Happily
  • (adv.) By chance

    Happiness
  • (n.) An agreeable feeling or condition of the soul arising from good fortune or propitious happening of any kind

    Hard
  • (adv.) Close or near.
  • (n.) A ford or passage across a river or swamp.
  • (superl.) Abrupt or explosive in utterance
  • (v. t.) To harden

    Harm
  • (n.) Injury

    Harness
  • (n.) Originally, the complete dress, especially in a military sense, of a man or a horse

    Harvest
  • (n.) That which is reaped or ready to be reaped or gath//ed
  • (v. t.) To reap or gather, as any crop.

    Hat
  • (a.) Hot.
  • (n.) A covering for the head

    Hatch
  • (n.) A bedstead.
  • (v. i.) To produce young
  • (v. t.) To close with a hatch or hatches.

    Hate
  • (n.) To be very unwilling
  • (v.) Strong aversion coupled with desire that evil should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed

    have
  • (Indic. present) of Have
  • (v. t.) To accept possession of

    Having
  • (n.) Possession

    Hay
  • (n.) A hedge.
  • (v. i.) To cut and cure grass for hay.

    He
  • (obj.) Any one

    Head
  • (a.) Principal
  • (n.) A dense, compact mass of leaves, as in a cabbage or a lettuce plant.
  • (v. i.) To form a head
  • (v. t.) To be at the head of

    Heap
  • (n.) A crowd
  • (v. t.) To collect in great quantity

    Hear
  • (v. i.) To be informed by oral communication
  • (v. t.) To accede to the demand or wishes of

    Heat
  • (imp. & p. p.) Heated
  • (n.) A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as manifested in fire, the sun's rays, mechanical action, chemical combination, etc
  • (v. i.) To grow warm or hot by fermentation, or the development of heat by chemical action
  • (v. t.) To excite ardor in

    Heaven
  • (n.) Any place of supreme happiness or great comfort
  • (v. t.) To place in happiness or bliss, as if in heaven

    Heavily
  • (adv.) As if burdened with a great weight

    Heavy
  • (a.) Having the heaves.
  • (adv.) Heavily
  • (superl.) Dark with clouds, or ready to rain
  • (v. t.) To make heavy.

    Height
  • (n.) Degree of latitude either north or south.

    Held
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Hold

    Hell
  • (v. t.) A dungeon or prison

    Help
  • (v. i.) To lend aid or assistance
  • (v. t.) A helper

    Hen
  • (n.) The female of the domestic fowl

    Her
  • (pron. & a.) The form of the objective and the possessive case of the personal pronoun she

    Herd
  • (a.) Haired.
  • (n.) A crowd of low people
  • (v. i.) To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.
  • (v. t.) To form or put into a herd.

    Here
  • (adv.) At this point of time, or of an argument
  • (n.) Hair.
  • (pron.) Her
  • (pron. pl.) Of them

    Heron
  • (n.) Any wading bird of the genus Ardea and allied genera, of the family Ardeidae. The herons have a long, sharp bill, and long legs and toes, with the claw of the middle toe toothed

    Hid
  • (imp.) of Hide

    Hide
  • (n.) A measure of land, common in Domesday Book and old English charters, the quantity of which is not well ascertained, but has been differently estimated at 80, 100, and 120 acres
  • (v. i.) To lie concealed
  • (v. t.) To conceal, or withdraw from sight

    High
  • (adv.) In a high manner
  • (n.) An elevated place
  • (superl.) Acute or sharp
  • (v. i.) To hie.

    Hill
  • (n.) A natural elevation of land, or a mass of earth rising above the common level of the surrounding land
  • (v. t.) A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them

    Him
  • (pron.) Them.

    Himself
  • (pron.) An emphasized form of the third person masculine pronoun

    Hip
  • (interj.) Used to excite attention or as a signal
  • (v. t.) To dislocate or sprain the hip of, to fracture or injure the hip bone of (a quadruped) in such a manner as to produce a permanent depression of that side

    His
  • (pron.) Belonging or pertaining to him

    Hit
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Hit
  • (n.) A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts less than a gammon
  • (pron.) It.
  • (v. i.) To meet or come in contact
  • (v. t.) To guess

    Hoarse
  • (superl.) Harsh

    Hoe
  • (n.) A tool chiefly for digging up weeds, and arranging the earth about plants in fields and gardens
  • (v. i.) To use a hoe
  • (v. t.) To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with a hoe

    Hold
  • (n.) A character
  • (n. i.) In general, to keep one's self in a given position or condition
  • (v. t.) To accept, as an opinion

    Hollow
  • (a.) Depressed
  • (adv.) Wholly
  • (interj.) Hollo.
  • (n.) A cavity, natural or artificial
  • (v. i.) To shout
  • (v. t.) To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving

    Home
  • (a.) Close
  • (adv.) Close
  • (n.) A place of refuge and rest

    Honest
  • (a.) Characterized by integrity or fairness and straight/forwardness in conduct, thought, speech, etc

    Hoof
  • (n.) A hoofed animal
  • (v. i.) To be on a tramp

    Hooked
  • (a.) Having the form of a hook

    Hoop
  • (n.) A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses
  • (v. i.) To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit
  • (v. t.) To bind or fasten with hoops

    Hoot
  • (n.) A derisive cry or shout.
  • (v. i.) To cry out or shout in contempt.
  • (v. t.) To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts

    Hope
  • (n.) A desire of some good, accompanied with an expectation of obtaining it, or a belief that it is obtainable
  • (v. i.) To entertain or indulge hope
  • (v. t.) To desire with expectation or with belief in the possibility or prospect of obtaining

    Horizontal
  • (a.) Measured or contained in a plane of the horizon

    Horror
  • (n.) A bristling up

    Horse
  • (a.) A breastband for a leadsman.
  • (n.) A frame of timber, shaped like a horse, on which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
  • (v. i.) To get on horseback.
  • (v. t.) To cover, as a mare

    Hot
  • (superl.) Acrid

    Hotel
  • (n.) A house for entertaining strangers or travelers

    Hour
  • (n.) A measure of distance traveled.

    House
  • (n.) A family of ancestors, descendants, and kindred
  • (v. i.) To have a position in one of the houses.
  • (v. t.) To admit to residence

    How
  • (adv.) At what price

    Huge
  • (superl.) Very large

    Humming
  • (a.) Emitting a murmuring sound
  • (n.) A sound like that made by bees

    Hundred
  • (a.) Ten times ten
  • (n.) A division of a country in England, supposed to have originally contained a hundred families, or freemen

    Hungry
  • (superl.) Feeling hunger

    Hurried
  • (a.) Done in a hurry

    Hurt
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Hurt
  • (n.) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
  • (v. t.) To cause physical pain to

    Hutch
  • (n.) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.
  • (v. t.) To hoard or lay up, in a chest.
  • (v. t. & i.) To place in huts

    I
  • (object.) The nominative case of the pronoun of the first person

    Idea
  • (n.) A belief, option, or doctrine

    If
  • (conj.) In case that

    Immediately
  • (adv.) As soon as. Cf. Directly, 8, Note.

    In
  • (adv.) Not out
  • (n.) A reentrant angle
  • (prep.) The specific signification of in is situation or place with respect to surrounding, environment, encompassment, etc
  • (v. t.) To inclose

    Indicated
  • (a.) Shown

    Indignation
  • (n.) The effect of anger

    Inside
  • (a.) Adapted to the interior.
  • (adv.) Within the sides of
  • (n.) An inside passenger of a coach or carriage, as distinguished from one upon the outside.

    Instantly
  • (adv.) Without the least delay or interval

    Instruction
  • (n.) Direction

    Intensity
  • (n.) The amount or degree of energy with which a force operates or a cause acts

    Intently
  • (adv.) In an intent manner

    Interest
  • (n.) Advantage, personal or general

    Interrupted
  • (a.) Broken

    Into
  • (prep.) Denoting inclusion

    Introduction
  • (n.) A formal and elaborate preliminary treatise

    Invisible
  • (a.) Incapable of being seen
  • (n.) An invisible person or thing

    Invitation
  • (n.) A document written or printed, or spoken words, /onveying the message by which one is invited

    Iron
  • (n.) An instrument or utensil made of iron
  • (v. t.) To furnish or arm with iron

    Irrigation
  • (n.) The act or process of irrigating, or the state of being irrigated

    Irritably
  • (adv.) In an irritable manner.

    Is
  • (v. i.) The third person singular of the substantive verb be, in the indicative mood, present tense

    It
  • (pron.) As a demonstrative, especially at the beginning of a sentence, pointing to that which is about to be stated, named, or mentioned, or referring to that which apparent or well known

    Itself
  • (pron.) The neuter reciprocal pronoun of It

    Jack
  • (n.) A bar of iron athwart ships at a topgallant masthead, to support a royal mast, and give spread to the royal shrouds
  • (v. i.) To hunt game at night by means of a jack.
  • (v. t.) To move or lift, as a house, by means of a jack or jacks.

    Jail
  • (n.) A kind of prison
  • (v. t.) To imprison.

    Jean
  • (n.) A twilled cotton cloth.

    Jeering
  • (a.) Mocking
  • (n.) A mocking utterance.

    Jesus
  • (n.) The Savior

    Jingle
  • (n.) A correspondence of sound in rhymes, especially when the verse has little merit
  • (v. i.) To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.
  • (v. t.) To cause to give a sharp metallic sound as a little bell, or as coins shaken together

    Jingling
  • (n.) The act or process of producing a jingle

    Job
  • (n.) Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
  • (v. i.) To carry on the business of a jobber in merchandise or stocks.
  • (v. t.) To buy and sell, as a broker

    John
  • (n.) A proper name of a man.

    Joint
  • (a.) Involving the united activity of two or more
  • (n.) A joining of two things or parts so as to admit of motion
  • (v. i.) To fit as if by joints
  • (v. t.) To join

    Joke
  • (n.) Something not said seriously, or not actually meant
  • (v. i.) To do something for sport, or as a joke
  • (v. t.) To make merry with

    Joy
  • (n.) That which causes joy or happiness.
  • (v. t.) To enjoy.

    Jump
  • (a.) Nice
  • (adv.) Exactly
  • (n.) A bodice worn instead of stays by women in the 18th century.
  • (v. i.) To coincide
  • (v. t.) To bore with a jumper.

    Just
  • (a.) Conforming or conformable to rectitude or justice
  • (adv.) Barely
  • (n.) A joust.
  • (v. i.) To joust.

    Keep
  • (n.) A cap for retaining anything, as a journal box, in place.
  • (v. i.) To be in session
  • (v. t.) To attend upon

    Keg
  • (n.) A small cask or barrel.

    Kept
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Keep

    Ketchup
  • (n.) A sauce.

    Kick
  • (n.) A blow with the foot or feet
  • (v. i.) To recoil
  • (v. t.) To strike, thrust, or hit violently with the foot

    Kid
  • (n.) A fagot
  • (p. p.) of Kythe.
  • (v. i.) To bring forth a young goat.

    Kill
  • (n.) A channel or arm of the sea
  • (v. t.) To cause to cease

    Kin
  • (a.) Of the same nature or kind
  • (n.) A primitive Chinese instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings

    Kind
  • (a.) Nature
  • (superl.) Characteristic of the species
  • (v. t.) To beget.

    Kitchen
  • (n.) A cookroom
  • (v. t.) To furnish food to

    Knee
  • (n.) A bending of the knee, as in respect or courtesy.
  • (v. t.) To supplicate by kneeling.

    Knelt
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Kneel

    Knew
  • (imp.) of Know

    Knife
  • (n.) An instrument consisting of a thin blade, usually of steel and having a sharp edge for cutting, fastened to a handle, but of many different forms and names for different uses

    Knives
  • (n. pl.) of Knife.

    Know
  • (n.) Knee.
  • (v. i.) To be acquainted with

    L
  • (a.) Elevated
  • (n.) An elevated road

    Label
  • (n.) A barrulet, or, rarely, a bendlet, with pendants, or points, usually three, especially used as a mark of cadency to distinguish an eldest or only son while his father is still living
  • (v. t.) To affix a label to

    Labored
  • (a.) Bearing marks of labor and effort

    Laboring
  • (a.) Suffering pain or grief.

    Lack
  • (interj.) Exclamation of regret or surprise.
  • (n.) Blame
  • (v. i.) To be in want.
  • (v. t.) To be without or destitute of

    Lady
  • (a.) Belonging or becoming to a lady
  • (n.) A wife

    Laid
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Lay

    Lamely
  • (adv.) An a lame, crippled, disabled, or imperfect manner

    Lamp
  • (n.) A device or mechanism for producing light by electricity.

    Land
  • (n.) Any ground, soil, or earth whatsoever, as meadows, pastures, woods, etc., and everything annexed to it, whether by nature, as trees, water, etc
  • (v. i.) To go on shore from a ship or boat
  • (v. t.) To catch and bring to shore

    Lap
  • (n.) An edge
  • (v. i.) To be turned or folded
  • (v. t.) To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.

    Larch
  • (n.) A genus of coniferous trees, having deciduous leaves, in fascicles (see Illust. of Fascicle)

    Large
  • (adv.) Freely
  • (n.) A musical note, formerly in use, equal to two longs, four breves, or eight semibreves.
  • (superl.) Abundant

    Las
  • (a. & adv.) Less.
  • (n.) A lace.

    Last
  • (3d pers. sing. pres.) of Last, to endure, contracted from lasteth.
  • (a.) At a time next preceding the present time.
  • (n.) A load
  • (v. i.) A wooden block shaped like the human foot, on which boots and shoes are formed.
  • (v. t.) To shape with a last

    Latch
  • (n.) A crossbow.
  • (v. t.) To smear

    Late
  • (a.) After the usual or proper time, or the time appointed
  • (v.) Coming after the time when due, or after the usual or proper time

    Laugh
  • (n.) An expression of mirth peculiar to the human species
  • (v. t.) To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.

    Law
  • (interj.) An exclamation of mild surprise.
  • (n.) An oath, as in the presence of a court.

    Lay
  • (a.) A melody
  • (imp.) of Lie
  • (n.) A law.
  • (v. i.) To lay a wager
  • (v. t.) A job, price, or profit.

    Lazy
  • (superl.) Disinclined to action or exertion

    Lead
  • (n.) A conductor conveying electricity, as from a dynamo.
  • (v. i.) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc
  • (v. t.) To begin a game, round, or trick, with

    Leaf
  • (n.) A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the influence of light
  • (v. i.) To shoot out leaves

    Lean
  • (n.) That part of flesh which consist principally of muscle without the fat.
  • (v. i.) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages
  • (v. t.) To conceal.

    Learned
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to learning

    Leash
  • (n.) A brace and a half
  • (v. t.) To tie together, or hold, with a leash.

    Least
  • (a.) Smallest, either in size or degree
  • (adv.) In the smallest or lowest degree

    Leather
  • (n.) The skin.
  • (v. t.) To beat, as with a thong of leather.

    Leave
  • (n.) Liberty granted by which restraint or illegality is removed
  • (v.) To cease from
  • (v. i.) To cease
  • (v. t.) To raise

    Lee
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the part or side opposite to that against which the wind blows
  • (n.) A sheltered place
  • (v. i.) To lie

    Left
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to that side of the body in man on which the muscular action of the limbs is usually weaker than on the other side
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Leave
  • (n.) That part of surrounding space toward which the left side of one's body is turned

    Lend
  • (v. t.) To afford

    Length
  • (a.) A portion of space or of time considered as measured by its length
  • (v. t.) To lengthen.

    Les
  • (n.) A leash.

    Let
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Let
  • (n.) A retarding
  • (v. i.) To be let or leased
  • (v. t.) To allow to be used or occupied for a compensation

    Letter
  • (n.) A letter
  • (v. t.) To impress with letters

    Level
  • (a.) Coinciding or parallel with the plane of the horizon
  • (n.) A horizontal line or plane
  • (v. i.) To aim a gun, spear, etc., horizontally
  • (v. t.) Figuratively, to bring to a common level or plane, in respect of rank, condition, character, privilege, etc

    Li
  • (n.) A Chinese copper coin

    Lice
  • (n.) pl. of Louse.

    Lick
  • (n.) A slap
  • (v.) A place where salt is found on the surface of the earth, to which wild animals resort to lick it up
  • (v. t.) To draw or pass the tongue over

    Lie
  • (adj.) To abide
  • (n.) A falsehood uttered or acted for the purpose of deception
  • (v. i.) To utter falsehood with an intention to deceive

    Life
  • (n.) A certain way or manner of living with respect to conditions, circumstances, character, conduct, occupation, etc

    Lifting
  • (a.) Used in, or for, or by, lifting.

    Light
  • (adv.) Lightly
  • (n.) A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or colored flame
  • (superl) Having light
  • (superl.) Easily bestowed
  • (v. i.) To become ignited
  • (v. t.) To lighten

    Like
  • (a.) In a like or similar manner.
  • (n.) A liking
  • (superl.) Equal, or nearly equal
  • (v. i.) To be pleased

    Limb
  • (n.) A border or edge, in certain special uses.
  • (v. t.) To dismember

    Limp
  • (a.) Flaccid
  • (n.) A halt
  • (v. i.) To halt

    Line
  • (n.) A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map.
  • (v. t.) To cover the inner surface of

    Liniment
  • (n.) A liquid or semiliquid preparation of a consistence thinner than an ointment, applied to the skin by friction, esp

    Lip
  • (n.) An edge of an opening
  • (v. t.) To clip

    Listen
  • (v. i.) To give close attention with the purpose of hearing
  • (v. t.) To attend to.

    Litter
  • (n.) A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it
  • (v. i.) To be supplied with litter as bedding
  • (v. t.) To give birth to

    Little
  • (a.) Short in duration
  • (adv.) In a small quantity or degree
  • (n.) A small degree or scale

    Live
  • (a.) Being in a state of ignition
  • (n.) Life.
  • (v. i.) To be alive
  • (v. t.) To act habitually in conformity with

    Lizard
  • (n.) Any one of the numerous species of reptiles belonging to the order Lacertilia

    Lock
  • (n.) A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
  • (v. i.) To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing
  • (v. t.) To fasten in or out, or to make secure by means of, or as with, locks

    Loneliness
  • (n.) A feeling of depression resulting from being alone.

    Lonely
  • (superl.) Alone, or in want of company

    Long
  • (a.) Having a supply of stocks or goods
  • (adv.) At a point of duration far distant, either prior or posterior
  • (n.) A long sound, syllable, or vowel.
  • (prep.) By means of
  • (superl.) Drawn out in a line, or in the direction of length

    Look
  • (n.) Expression of the eyes and face
  • (v. i.) In the imperative: see
  • (v. t.) To expect.

    Loose
  • (a.) To relax
  • (n.) A letting go
  • (superl.) Containing or consisting of obscene or unchaste language
  • (v. i.) To set sail.

    Loot
  • (n.) Plunder
  • (v. t. & i.) To plunder

    Los
  • (n.) Praise.

    Lose
  • (v. i.) To suffer loss, disadvantage, or defeat
  • (v. t.) Not to employ

    Lost
  • (v. t.) Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery

    Lot
  • (n.) A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field
  • (v. t.) To allot

    Loud
  • (adv.) With loudness
  • (superl.) Clamorous

    Lousy
  • (a.) Infested with lice.

    Love
  • (n.) A climbing species of Clematis (C. Vitalba).
  • (v. i.) To have the feeling of love

    Low
  • (adv.) In a low mean condition
  • (n.) A hill
  • (superl.) Beneath the usual or remunerative rate or amount, or the ordinary value
  • (v. i.) To burn
  • (v. t.) To depress

    Lower
  • (a.) Compar. of Low, a.
  • (n.) A frowning
  • (v. i.) To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds


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