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To fasten (an animal) by a rope binding the head to one of the fore legs; as, to hamshackle a horse or cow; hence, to bind or restrain; to curb.

A small European rodent (Cricetus frumentarius). It is remarkable for having a pouch on each side of the jaw, under the skin, and for its migrations.

One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh.

Hooked; hooklike; hamate; as, the hamular process of the sphenoid bone.

Furnished with a small hook; hook-shaped. Gray.

A little hook.

Bearing a small hook at the end. Gray.

A hook, or hooklike process.

To have; have. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. Him thanken all, and thus they han an end. Chaucer.

A contraction of have not, or has not, used in illiterate speech. In the United States the commoner spelling is hain't.

A rich goblet, esp. one used on state occasions. [Obs.]

of basket, usually of wickerwork, and adapted for the packing and carrying of articles; a hamper. Hanaper office, an office of the English court of chancery in which writs relating to the business of the public, and the returns to them, were anciently kept in a hanaper or hamper. Blackstone.

To raise; to elevate. [Obs.] Lydgate.

See Hanse.

That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in man and monkeys, and the corresponding part in many other animals; manus; paw. See Manus.

A small hole in a boiler for the insertion of the hand in cleaning, etc. Hand-hole plate, the cover of a hand-hole.

As tight as can be made by the hand. Totten.

Having wings that are like hands in the structure and arrangement of their bones; -- said of bats. See Cheiroptera.

A ball for throwing or using with the hand.

A frame or barrow, without a wheel, carried by hand.