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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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HABERDASHERY n.
The goods and wares sold by a haberdasher; also (Fig.), trifles. Burke.
HAEMATOTHERMA n.
Same as Hematotherma.
HAEMATOTHERMAL a.
Warm-blooded; homoiothermal.
HAGIOGRAPHER n.
One of the writers of the hagiographa; a writer of lives of the saints. Shipley.
HALF-BROTHER n.
A brother by one parent, but not by both.
HALIOGRAPHER n.
One who writes about or describes the sea.
HANDKERCHER n.
A handkerchief. [Obs. or Colloq.] Chapman (1654). Shak.
HATCHER n. 2 definitions
One who contrives or originates; a plotter. A great hatcher and breeder of business. Swift.
HATCHERY n.
A house for hatching fish, etc.
HATTI-SHERIF n.
A irrevocable Turkish decree countersigned by the sultan.
HEATHER n.
Heath. [Scot.] Gorse and grass And heather, where his footsteps pass, The brighter seem. Longfellow. Heather bell (Bot.), one of the pretty subglobose flowers of two European kinds of heather (Erica Tetralix, and E. cinerea).
HEATHERY a.
Heathy; abounding in heather; of the nature of heath.
HELISPHERIC; HELISPHERICAL a.
Spiral. Helispherical line (Math.). the rhomb line in navigation. [R.]
HEMATHERM n.
A warm-blooded animal. [R.]
HEMATHERMAL a.
Warm-blooded; hematothermal. [R]
HEMATOTHERMA n.
The warm-blooded vertebrates, comprising the mammals and birds; -- the antithesis to hematocrya.
HEMATOTHERMAL a.
Warm-blooded.
HEMISPHERE n. 3 definitions
A half sphere; one half of a sphere or globe, when divided by a plane passing through its center.
HEMISPHERIC; HEMISPHERICAL a.
Containing, or pertaining to, a hemisphere; as, a hemispheric figure or form; a hemispherical body.
HEMISPHEROID n.
A half of a spheroid.
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