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To have a great aversion to, with a strong desire that evil should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed; to dislike intensely; to detest; as, to hate one's enemies; to hate hypocrisy. Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer. 1 John iii. 15.

Strong aversion; intense dislike; hate; an affection of the mind awakened by something regarded as evil.

Apt to affect the head; intoxicating; strong. The liquor is too heady. Dryden.

Strong; violent; forcible; as, a heavy sea, storm, cannonade, and the like.

A dependent and subservient hanger-on of a political patron. [Political Cant, U. S.] The army of hungry heelers who do their bidding. The Century.

eminence; grade; degree. Social duties are carried to greater heights, and enforced with stronger motives by the principles of our religion. Addison.

ebore, and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a bittersweet taste. It has a strong action on the heart, resembling digitalin.

, in consequence of which a person can see clearly or without pain only by daylight or a strong artificial light; day sight.

reddish brown, microscopic, prismatic crystals, formed from dried blood by the action of strong acetic acid and common salt; -- called also Teichmann's crystals. Chemically, it is a hydrochloride of hematin.

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Of great strength, force, importance, and the like; strong; mighty; powerful; violent; sometimes, triumphant; victorious; majestic, etc.; as, a high wind; high passions. "With rather a high manner." Thackeray. Strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand. Ps. lxxxix. 13. Can heavenly minds such high resentment show D…

Having a strong, deep, or glaring color; flushed. Shak.

Highly rectified; very strongly alcoholic; as, high-proof spirits.

Of a strong red color.

Of a strong goatish smell.

The histronic art; stageplaying. W. Black.

A small, strong-winged European falcon (Falco subbuteo), formerly trained for hawking.

A strong, active horse, of a middle size, said to have been originally from Ireland; an ambling nag. Johnson.

High flavor; strong scent. [Obs.] Halliwell.

Thoughtless; giddy; flighty; also, haughty; patronizing; as, to be in hoity-toity spirits, or to assume hoity-toity airs; used also as an exclamation, denoting surprise or disapprobation, with some degree of contempt. Hoity-toity! What have I to do with dreams Congreve.