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  • English Word Hangmanship Definition The office or character of a hangman.
  • English Word Hangmen Definition of Hangman
  • English Word Hangnail Definition A small piece or silver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail.
  • English Word Hangnest Definition A nest that hangs like a bag or pocket.
  • English Word Hangnest Definition A bird which builds such a nest; a hangbird.
  • English Word Hank Definition A parcel consisting of two or more skeins of yarn or thread tied together.
  • English Word Hank Definition A rope or withe for fastening a gate.
  • English Word Hank Definition Hold; influence.
  • English Word Hank Definition A ring or eye of rope, wood, or iron, attached to the edge of a sail and running on a stay.
  • English Word Hank Definition To fasten with a rope, as a gate.
  • English Word Hank Definition To form into hanks.
  • English Word Hanker Definition To long (for) with a keen appetite and uneasiness; to have a vehement desire; -- usually with for or after; as, to hanker after fruit; to hanker after the diversions of the town.
  • English Word Hanker Definition To linger in expectation or with desire.
  • English Word Hankered Definition of Hanker
  • English Word Hankering Definition of Hanker
  • English Word Hankeringly Definition In a hankering manner.
  • English Word Hankey-pankey Definition Professional cant; the chatter of conjurers to divert attention from their tricks; hence, jugglery.
  • English Word Hanoverian Definition Of or pertaining to Hanover or its people, or to the House of Hanover in England.
  • English Word Hanoverian Definition A native or naturalized inhabitant of Hanover; one of the House of Hanover.
  • English Word Hansard Definition An official report of proceedings in the British Parliament; -- so called from the name of the publishers.
  • English Word Hansard Definition A merchant of one of the Hanse towns. See the Note under 2d Hanse.
  • English Word Hanse Definition That part of an elliptical or many-centered arch which has the shorter radius and immediately adjoins the impost.
  • English Word Hanse Definition An association; a league or confederacy.
  • English Word Hanseatic Definition Pertaining to the Hanse towns, or to their confederacy.
  • English Word Hansel Definition See Handsel.
  • English Word Hanselines Definition A sort of breeches.
  • English Word Hansom Definition Alt. of Hansom cab
  • English Word Hansom cab Definition A light, low, two-wheeled covered carriage with the driver's seat elevated behind, the reins being passed over the top.
  • English Word Hanuman Definition See Hoonoomaun.
  • English Word Hap Definition To clothe; to wrap.