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  • English Word Hire Definition To procure (any chattel or estate) from another person, for temporary use, for a compensation or equivalent; to purchase the use or enjoyment of for a limited time; as, to hire a farm for a year; to hire money.
  • English Word Hire Definition To engage or purchase the service, labor, or interest of (any one) for a specific purpose, by payment of wages; as, to hire a servant, an agent, or an advocate.
  • English Word Hire Definition To grant the temporary use of, for compensation; to engage to give the service of, for a price; to let; to lease; -- now usually with out, and often reflexively; as, he has hired out his horse, or his time.
  • English Word Hired Definition of Hire
  • English Word Hireless Definition Without hire.
  • English Word Hireling Definition One who is hired, or who serves for wages; esp., one whose motive and interest in serving another are wholly gainful; a mercenary.
  • English Word Hireling Definition Serving for hire or wages; venal; mercenary.
  • English Word Hirer Definition One who hires.
  • English Word Hires Definition Alt. of Hirs
  • English Word Hiring Definition of Hire
  • English Word Hirling Definition The young of the sea trout.
  • English Word Hirs Definition Hers; theirs. See Here, pron.
  • English Word Hirsute Definition Rough with hair; set with bristles; shaggy.
  • English Word Hirsute Definition Rough and coarse; boorish.
  • English Word Hirsute Definition Pubescent with coarse or stiff hairs.
  • English Word Hirsute Definition Covered with hairlike feathers, as the feet of certain birds.
  • English Word Hirsuteness Definition Hairiness.
  • English Word Hirtellous Definition Pubescent with minute and somewhat rigid hairs.
  • English Word Hirudine Definition Of or pertaining to the leeches.
  • English Word Hirudinea Definition An order of Annelida, including the leeches; -- called also Hirudinei.
  • English Word Hirudo Definition A genus of leeches, including the common medicinal leech. See Leech.
  • English Word Hirundine Definition Like or pertaining to the swallows.
  • English Word Hirundo Definition A genus of birds including the swallows and martins.
  • English Word His Definition Belonging or pertaining to him; -- used as a pronominal adjective or adjective pronoun; as, tell John his papers are ready; formerly used also for its, but this use is now obsolete.
  • English Word His Definition The possessive of he; as, the book is his.
  • English Word Hisingerite Definition A soft black, iron ore, nearly earthy, a hydrous silicate of iron.
  • English Word Hispanic Definition Of or pertaining to Spain or its language; as, Hispanic words.
  • English Word Hispanicism Definition A Spanish idiom or mode of speech.
  • English Word Hispanicize Definition To give a Spanish form or character to; as, to Hispanicize Latin words.
  • English Word Hispid Definition Rough with bristles or minute spines.