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- English Word Hallucal Definition Of or pertaining to the hallux.
- English Word Hallucinate Definition To wander; to go astray; to err; to blunder; -- used of mental processes.
- English Word Hallucination Definition The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; error; mistake; a blunder.
- English Word Hallucination Definition The perception of objects which have no reality, or of sensations which have no corresponding external cause, arising from disorder or the nervous system, as in delirium tremens; delusion.
- English Word Hallucinator Definition One whose judgment and acts are affected by hallucinations; one who errs on account of his hallucinations.
- English Word Hallucinatory Definition Partaking of, or tending to produce, hallucination.
- English Word Hallux Definition The first, or preaxial, digit of the hind limb, corresponding to the pollux in the fore limb; the great toe; the hind toe of birds.
- English Word Halm Definition Same as Haulm.
- English Word Halma Definition The long jump, with weights in the hands, -- the most important of the exercises of the Pentathlon.
- English Word Halmas Definition The feast of All Saints; Hallowmas.
- English Word Halo Definition A luminous circle, usually prismatically colored, round the sun or moon, and supposed to be caused by the refraction of light through crystals of ice in the atmosphere. Connected with halos there are often white bands, crosses, or arches, resulting from the same atmospheric conditions.
- English Word Halo Definition A circle of light; especially, the bright ring represented in painting as surrounding the heads of saints and other holy persons; a glory; a nimbus.
- English Word Halo Definition An ideal glory investing, or affecting one's perception of, an object.
- English Word Halo Definition A colored circle around a nipple; an areola.
- English Word Halo Definition To form, or surround with, a halo; to encircle with, or as with, a halo.
- English Word Haloed Definition of Halo
- English Word Haloed Definition Surrounded with a halo; invested with an ideal glory; glorified.
- English Word Halogen Definition An electro-negative element or radical, which, by combination with a metal, forms a haloid salt; especially, chlorine, bromine, and iodine; sometimes, also, fluorine and cyanogen. See Chlorine family, under Chlorine.
- English Word Halogenous Definition Of the nature of a halogen.
- English Word Haloid Definition Resembling salt; -- said of certain binary compounds consisting of a metal united to a negative element or radical, and now chiefly applied to the chlorides, bromides, iodides, and sometimes also to the fluorides and cyanides.
- English Word Haloid Definition A haloid substance.
- English Word Haloing Definition of Halo
- English Word Halomancy Definition See Alomancy.
- English Word Halometer Definition An instrument for measuring the forms and angles of salts and crystals; a goniometer.
- English Word Halones Definition Alternating transparent and opaque white rings which are seen outside the blastoderm, on the surface of the developing egg of the hen and other birds.
- English Word Halophyte Definition A plant found growing in salt marshes, or in the sea.
- English Word Halos Definition of Halo
- English Word Haloscope Definition An instrument for exhibition or illustration of the phenomena of halos, parhelia, and the like.
- English Word Halotrichite Definition An iron alum occurring in silky fibrous aggregates of a yellowish white color.
- English Word Haloxyline Definition An explosive mixture, consisting of sawdust, charcoal, niter, and ferrocyanide of potassium, used as a substitute for gunpowder.