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The hall where a guild or corporation usually assembles; a townhall.

Toward the hæmal side; on the hæmal side of; -- opposed to neurad.

Having the limbs on, or directed toward, the ventral or hemal side, as in vertebrates; -- opposed to neuropodous.

of health; a salutation; a loud call. "Their puissant hail." M. Arnold. The angel hail bestowed. Milton.

s, hammock land. [Southern U. S.] Bartlett. Hammock nettings (Naut.), formerly, nets for stowing hammocks; now, more often, wooden boxes or a trough on the rail, used for that purpose.

ually with for or after; as, to hanker after fruit; to hanker after the diversions of the town. Addison. He was hankering to join his friend. J. A. Symonds.

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

An association; a league or confederacy. Hanse towns (Hist.), certain commercial cities in Germany which associated themselves for the protection and enlarging of their commerce. The confederacy, called also Hansa and Hanseatic league, held its first diet in 1260, and was maintained for nearly four hundred years. At on…

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

The refuse or coarse part of fiax; tow.

An instrument with long iron teeth set in a board, for cleansing flax or hemp from the tow, hards, or coarse part; a kind of large comb; -- called also hackle and heckle.

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.

haughtiness; as, a haughty carriage. Satan, with vast and haughty strides advanced, Came towering. Milton.

u wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house. Shak. Those cares that haunt the court and town. Swift.

To turn to the near side, or toward the driver; -- said of cattle or a team: a word used by teamsters in guiding their teams, and most frequently in the imperative. See Gee. To haw and gee, or To haw and gee about, to go from one thing to another without good reason; to have no settled purpose; to be irresolute or unst…

oar and strike like a hawk; -- generally with at; as, to hawk at flies. Dryden. A falcon, towering in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed. Shak.

Steep; precipitous. [Poetic] Like a tower upon a headlong rock. Byron.

Of a single and sincere heart. If he keeps heart-whole towards his Master. Bunyan.

To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound. And the huge columns heave into the sky. Pope. Where heaves the turf in many a moldering heap. Gray. The heaving sods of Bunker Hill. E. Everett.

Toward heaven.