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- English Word Hamadryas Definition The sacred baboon of Egypt (Cynocephalus Hamadryas).
- English Word Hamamelis Definition A genus of plants which includes the witch-hazel (Hamamelis Virginica), a preparation of which is used medicinally.
- English Word Hamate Definition Hooked; bent at the end into a hook; hamous.
- English Word Hamated Definition Hooked, or set with hooks; hamate.
- English Word Hamatum Definition See Unciform.
- English Word Hamble Definition To hamstring.
- English Word Hamburg Definition A commercial city of Germany, near the mouth of the Elbe.
- English Word Hame Definition Home.
- English Word Hame Definition One of the two curved pieces of wood or metal, in the harness of a draught horse, to which the traces are fastened. They are fitted upon the collar, or have pads fitting the horse's neck attached to them.
- English Word Hamel Definition Same as Hamele.
- English Word Hamesecken Definition Alt. of Hamesucken
- English Word Hamesucken Definition The felonious seeking and invasion of a person in his dwelling house.
- English Word Hamiform Definition Hook-shaped.
- English Word Hamilton period Definition A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
- English Word Haminura Definition A large edible river fish (Erythrinus macrodon) of Guiana.
- English Word Hamite Definition A fossil cephalopod of the genus Hamites, related to the ammonites, but having the last whorl bent into a hooklike form.
- English Word Hamite Definition A descendant of Ham, Noah's second son. See Gen. x. 6-20.
- English Word Hamlet Definition A small village; a little cluster of houses in the country.
- English Word Hamleted Definition Confined to a hamlet.
- English Word Hammer Definition An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle.