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- English Word Hammerhead Definition A fresh-water fish; the stone-roller.
- English Word Hammerhead Definition An African fruit bat (Hypsignathus monstrosus); -- so called from its large blunt nozzle.
- English Word Hammering Definition of Hammer
- English Word Hammerkop Definition A bird of the Heron family; the umber.
- English Word Hammerman Definition A hammerer; a forgeman.
- English Word Hammermen Definition of Hammerman
- English Word Hammochrysos Definition A stone with spangles of gold color in it.
- English Word Hammock Definition A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends.
- English Word Hammock Definition A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines. Used also adjectively; as, hammock land.
- English Word Hamose Definition Alt. of Hamous
- English Word Hamous Definition Having the end hooked or curved.
- English Word Hamper Definition A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles; as, a hamper of wine; a clothes hamper; an oyster hamper, which contains two bushels.
- English Word Hamper Definition To put in a hamper.
- English Word Hamper Definition To put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle; to insnare; to inveigle; hence, to impede in motion or progress; to embarrass; to encumber.
- English Word Hamper Definition A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.
- English Word Hamper Definition Articles ordinarily indispensable, but in the way at certain times.
- English Word Hampered Definition of Hamper
- English Word Hampering Definition of Hamper
- English Word Hamshackle Definition To fasten (an animal) by a rope binding the head to one of the fore legs; as, to hamshackle a horse or cow; hence, to bind or restrain; to curb.
- English Word Hamster Definition A small European rodent (Cricetus frumentarius). It is remarkable for having a pouch on each side of the jaw, under the skin, and for its migrations.
- English Word Hamstring Definition One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh.
- English Word Hamstring Definition To lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee; to hough; hence, to cripple; to incapacitate; to disable.
- English Word Hamstringing Definition of Hamstring
- English Word Hamstrung Definition of Hamstring
- English Word Hamular Definition Hooked; hooklike; hamate; as, the hamular process of the sphenoid bone.
- English Word Hamulate Definition Furnished with a small hook; hook-shaped.
- English Word Hamule Definition A little hook.
- English Word Hamuli Definition of Hamulus
- English Word Hamulose Definition Bearing a small hook at the end.
- English Word Hamulus Definition A hook, or hooklike process.