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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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HANOVERIAN a. 2 definitions

Of or pertaining to Hanover or its people, or to the House of Hanover in England.

HANSARD n. 2 definitions

A merchant of one of the Hanse towns. See the Note under 2d Hanse.

HANSE n. 2 definitions

That part of an elliptical or many-centered arch which has the shorter radius and immediately adjoins the impost.

Pertaining to the Hanse towns, or to their confederacy. Hanseatic league. See under 2d Hanse.

A sort of breeches. [Obs..] Chaucer.

HANSOM; HANSOM CAB n.

carriage with the driver's seat elevated behind, the reins being passed over the top. He hailed a cruising hansom . . . " 'Tis the gondola of London," said Lothair. Beaconsfield.

HANUKKA; HANUKKAH n.

ew altar set up at the purification of the temple of Jerusalem to replace the altar which had been polluted by Antiochus Epiphanes (1 Maccabees i. 58, iv. 59). The feast, which is mentioned in John x. 22, is held for eight days (beginning with the 25th day of Kislev, corresponding to December), and is celebrated everyw…

See Hoonoomaun.

HAP v. 4 definitions

To clothe; to wrap. The surgeon happed her up carefully. Dr. J. Brown.

Extra hazard; chance; accident; random. We take our principles at haphazard, upon trust. Locke.

One of the lessons from the Nebiim (or Prophets) read in the Jewish synagogue on Sabbaths, feast days, fasts, and the ninth of Ab, at the end of the service, after the parashoth, or lessons from the Law. Such a practice is evidenced in Luke iv.17 and Acts xiii.15.

Without hap or luck; luckless; unfortunate; unlucky; unhappy; as, hapless youth; hapless maid. Dryden.

In a hapless, unlucky manner.

An order of freshwater fishes, including the true pikes, cyprinodonts, and blindfishes.

HAPLOSTEMONOUS a.

Having but one series of stamens, and that equal in number to the proper number of petals; isostemonous.

By hap, chance, luck, or accident; perhaps; it may be. Lest haply ye be found even to fight against God. Acts v. 39.

Wrapped; covered; cloaked. [Scot.] All happed with flowers in the green wood were. Hogg.

HAPPEN v. 2 definitions

To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out. There shall no evil happen to the just. Prov. xii. 21.