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- English Word Haliographer Definition One who writes about or describes the sea.
- English Word Haliography Definition Description of the sea; the science that treats of the sea.
- English Word Haliotis Definition A genus of marine shells; the ear-shells. See Abalone.
- English Word Haliotoid Definition Like or pertaining to the genus Haliotis; ear-shaped.
- English Word Halisauria Definition The Enaliosauria.
- English Word Halite Definition Native salt; sodium chloride.
- English Word Halituous Definition Produced by, or like, breath; vaporous.
- English Word Halk Definition A nook; a corner.
- English Word Hall Definition A building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London.
- English Word Hall Definition The chief room in a castle or manor house, and in early times the only public room, serving as the place of gathering for the lord's family with the retainers and servants, also for cooking and eating. It was often contrasted with the bower, which was the private or sleeping apartment.
- English Word Hall Definition A vestibule, entrance room, etc., in the more elaborated buildings of later times.
- English Word Hall Definition Any corridor or passage in a building.
- English Word Hall Definition A name given to many manor houses because the magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion house.
- English Word Hall Definition A college in an English university (at Oxford, an unendowed college).
- English Word Hall Definition The apartment in which English university students dine in common; hence, the dinner itself; as, hall is at six o'clock.
- English Word Hall Definition Cleared passageway in a crowd; -- formerly an exclamation.
- English Word Hall-mark Definition The official stamp of the Goldsmiths' Company and other assay offices, in the United Kingdom, on gold and silver articles, attesting their purity. Also used figuratively; -- as, a word or phrase lacks the hall-mark of the best writers.
- English Word Hallage Definition A fee or toll paid for goods sold in a hall.
- English Word Halled Definition of Hail
- English Word Halleluiah Definition Alt. of Hallelujah