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sleeveless. By old writers it is often used synonymously with habergeon. See Habergeon. [Written variously hauberg, hauberque, hawberk, etc.] Chaucer. Helm, nor hawberk's twisted mail. Gray.

to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.

A native of Hayti. [Written also Haitian.]

The European blue titmouse (Parus coeruleus). [Written also heckimel, hackeymal, hackmall, hagmall, and hickmall.]

ntrivance for multiple copying, by means of a surface of gelatin softened with glycerin. [Written also hectograph.]

One who heles or covers; hence, a tiler, slater, or thatcher. [Obs.] [Written also heler.] Usher.

Pertaining to, or written in, hemistichs; also, by, or according to, hemistichs; as, a hemistichal division of a verse.

A plane figure of eleven sides and eleven angles. [Written also endecagon.]

A ruler of one division of a heptarchy. [Written also heptarch.]

A heron. [Written variously hernshaw, harnsey, etc.]

A measure of two hanks of linen thread. [Scot.] [Written also hasp.] Knight.

resembling paraffine; -- so called because each molecule has twenty-six atoms of carbon. [Written also hexacosane.]

lumn of air entering and striking upon the closed glottis produces a sound, or hiccough. [Written also hickup or hiccup.]

A tax formerly paid to the kings of England for every hide of land. [Written also hydage.]

h is not well ascertained, but has been differently estimated at 80, 100, and 120 acres. [Written also hyde.]

Written in, or pertaining to, hierograms; expressive of sacred writing. Bp. Warburton.

High-flown, bombastic language. [Written also hifalutin.] [Jocular, U. S.] Lowell.

The European green woodpecker or yaffle. [Written also high- hoo.]

genus Gracula, and allied to the starlings. They are easily taught to speak many words. [Written also hill mynah.] See Myna. -- Hill partridge (Zoöl.), a partridge of the genus Aborophila, of which numerous species in habit Southern Asia and the East Indies. -- Hill tit (Zoöl.), one of numerous species of small Asia…

nce. This objection hinders not but that the heroic action of some commander . . . may be written. Dryden.