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- English Word Hectometer Definition Alt. of Hectometre
- English Word Hectometre Definition A measure of length, equal to a hundred meters. It is equivalent to 328.09 feet.
- English Word Hector Definition A bully; a blustering, turbulent, insolent, fellow; one who vexes or provokes.
- English Word Hector Definition To treat with insolence; to threaten; to bully; hence, to torment by words; to tease; to taunt; to worry or irritate by bullying.
- English Word Hector Definition To play the bully; to bluster; to be turbulent or insolent.
- English Word Hectored Definition of Hector
- English Word Hectoring Definition of Hector
- English Word Hectorism Definition The disposition or the practice of a hector; a bullying.
- English Word Hectorly Definition Resembling a hector; blustering; insolent; taunting.
- English Word Hectostere Definition A measure of solidity, containing one hundred cubic meters, and equivalent to 3531.66 English or 3531.05 United States cubic feet.
- English Word Heddle Definition One of the sets of parallel doubled threads which, with mounting, compose the harness employed to guide the warp threads to the lathe or batten in a loom.
- English Word Heddle Definition To draw (the warp thread) through the heddle-eyes, in weaving.
- English Word Heddle-eye Definition The eye or loop formed in each heddle to receive a warp thread.
- English Word Heddles Definition of Heddle
- English Word Heddling Definition The act of drawing the warp threads through the heddle-eyes of a weaver's harness; the harness itself.
- English Word Hederaceous Definition Of, pertaining to, or resembling, ivy.
- English Word Hederal Definition Of or pertaining to ivy.
- English Word Hederic Definition Pertaining to, or derived from, the ivy (Hedera); as, hederic acid, an acid of the acetylene series.
- English Word Hederiferous Definition Producing ivy; ivy-bearing.
- English Word Hederose Definition Pertaining to, or of, ivy; full of ivy.
- English Word Hedge Definition A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden.
- English Word Hedge Definition To inclose or separate with a hedge; to fence with a thickly set line or thicket of shrubs or small trees; as, to hedge a field or garden.
- English Word Hedge Definition To obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to hinder from progress or success; -- sometimes with up and out.
- English Word Hedge Definition To surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem (in).
- English Word Hedge Definition To surround so as to prevent escape.
- English Word Hedge Definition To shelter one's self from danger, risk, duty, responsibility, etc., as if by hiding in or behind a hedge; to skulk; to slink; to shirk obligations.
- English Word Hedge Definition To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on.
- English Word Hedge Definition To use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so as to avoid committing one's self to anything definite.
- English Word Hedgeborn Definition Born under a hedge; of low birth.
- English Word Hedgebote Definition Same as Haybote.