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Hiation
() Act of gaping.
Hiatus
() of Hiatus
Hiatuses
() of Hiatus
Hiatus
() An opening; an aperture; a gap; a chasm; esp., a defect in a manuscript, where some part is lost or effaced; a space where something is wanting; a break.
Hiatus
() The concurrence of two vowels in two successive words or syllables.
Hibernacle
() That which serves for protection or shelter in winter; winter quarters; as, the hibernacle of an animal or a plant.
Hibernaculum
() A winter bud, in which the rudimentary foliage or flower, as of most trees and shrubs in the temperate zone, is protected by closely overlapping scales.
Hibernaculum
() A little case in which certain insects pass the winter.
Hibernaculum
() Winter home or abiding place.
Hibernal
() Belonging or relating to winter; wintry; winterish.
Hibernated
() of Hibernate
Hibernating
() of Hibernate
Hibernate
() To winter; to pass the season of winter in close quarters, in a torpid or lethargic state, as certain mammals, reptiles, and insects.
Hibernation
() The act or state of hibernating.
Hibernian
() Of or pertaining to Hibernia, now Ireland; Irish.
Hibernian
() A native or an inhabitant of Ireland.
Hibernicism
() Alt. of Hibernianism
Hibernianism
() An idiom or mode of speech peculiar to the Irish.
Hiberno-Celtic
() The native language of the Irish; that branch of the Celtic languages spoken by the natives of Ireland. Also adj.
Hibiscus
() A genus of plants (herbs, shrubs, or trees), some species of which have large, showy flowers. Some species are cultivated in India for their fiber, which is used as a substitute for hemp. See Althea, Hollyhock, and Manoe.
Hiccius doctius
() A juggler.
Hiccough
() A modified respiratory movement; a spasmodic inspiration, consisting of a sudden contraction of the diaphragm, accompanied with closure of the glottis, so that further entrance of air is prevented, while the impulse of the column of air entering and striking upon the closed glottis produces a sound, or hiccough.
Hiccoughed
() of Hiccough
Hiccoughing
() of Hiccough
Hiccough
() To have a hiccough or hiccoughs.
Hickory
() An American tree of the genus Carya, of which there are several species. The shagbark is the C. alba, and has a very rough bark; it affords the hickory nut of the markets. The pignut, or brown hickory, is the C. glabra. The swamp hickory is C. amara, having a nut whose shell is very thin and the kernel bitter.
Hicksite
() A member or follower of the \"liberal\" party, headed by Elias Hicks, which, because of a change of views respecting the divinity of Christ and the Atonement, seceded from the conservative portion of the Society of Friends in the United States, in 1827.
Hickup
() See Hiccough.
Hickwall
() Alt. of Hickway
Hickway
() The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor) of Europe.
Hid
() imp. & p. p. of Hide. See Hidden.
Hidage
() A tax formerly paid to the kings of England for every hide of land.
Hidalgo
() A title, denoting a Spanish nobleman of the lower class.
Hidden
() from Hide. Concealed; put out of view; secret; not known; mysterious.
Hiddenite
() An emerald-green variety of spodumene found in North Carolina; lithia emerald, -- used as a gem.
Hiddenly
() In a hidden manner.
Hid
() of Hide
Hidden
() of Hide
Hid
() of Hide
Hiding
() of Hide
Hide
() To conceal, or withdraw from sight; to put out of view; to secrete.
Hide
() To withhold from knowledge; to keep secret; to refrain from avowing or confessing.
Hide
() To remove from danger; to shelter.
Hide
() To lie concealed; to keep one's self out of view; to be withdrawn from sight or observation.
Hide
() An abode or dwelling.
Hide
() 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.
Hide
() The skin of an animal, either raw or dressed; -- generally applied to the undressed skins of the larger domestic animals, as oxen, horses, etc.
Hide
() The human skin; -- so called in contempt.
Hided
() of Hide
Hiding
() of Hide