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  • English Word Habitude Definition Habit of body or of action.
  • English Word Habitue Definition One who habitually frequents a place; as, an habitue of a theater.
  • English Word Habiture Definition Habitude.
  • English Word Habitus Definition Habitude; mode of life; general appearance.
  • English Word Hable Definition See Habile.
  • English Word Habnab Definition By chance.
  • English Word Hachure Definition A short line used in drawing and engraving, especially in shading and denoting different surfaces, as in map drawing. See Hatching.
  • English Word Hacienda Definition A large estate where work of any kind is done, as agriculture, manufacturing, mining, or raising of animals; a cultivated farm, with a good house, in distinction from a farming establishment with rude huts for herdsmen, etc.; -- a word used in Spanish-American regions.
  • English Word Hack Definition A frame or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a mill race, etc.
  • English Word Hack Definition Unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying.
  • English Word Hack Definition To cut irregulary, without skill or definite purpose; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument; as, to hack a post.
  • English Word Hack Definition Fig.: To mangle in speaking.
  • English Word Hack Definition To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking cough.
  • English Word Hack Definition A notch; a cut.
  • English Word Hack Definition An implement for cutting a notch; a large pick used in breaking stone.
  • English Word Hack Definition A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
  • English Word Hack Definition A kick on the shins.
  • English Word Hack Definition A horse, hackneyed or let out for common hire; also, a horse used in all kinds of work, or a saddle horse, as distinguished from hunting and carriage horses.
  • English Word Hack Definition A coach or carriage let for hire; particularly, a a coach with two seats inside facing each other; a hackney coach.
  • English Word Hack Definition A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
  • English Word Hack Definition A procuress.
  • English Word Hack Definition Hackneyed; hired; mercenary.
  • English Word Hack Definition To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
  • English Word Hack Definition To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
  • English Word Hack Definition To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.
  • English Word Hack Definition To live the life of a drudge or hack.
  • English Word Hackamore Definition A halter consisting of a long leather or rope strap and headstall, -- used for leading or tieing a pack animal.
  • English Word Hackberry Definition A genus of trees (Celtis) related to the elm, but bearing drupes with scanty, but often edible, pulp. C. occidentalis is common in the Eastern United States.
  • English Word Hackbolt Definition The greater shearwater or hagdon. See Hagdon.
  • English Word Hackbuss Definition Same as Hagbut.