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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

98,828 entries. Headwords are matched first, then definition text.

59,147 words match “HE”

A hart. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A heart. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Hearty; heartily. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Of or pert. to the German physicist Heinrich Hertz.

To worship; to glorify; to praise. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

A member of the highest rank of nobility in Germany and Austria, corresponding to the British duke.

HESITANCY n. 2 definitions

The act of hesitating, or pausing to consider; slowness in deciding; vacillation; also, the manner of one who hesitates.

HESITANT a. 2 definitions

Not prompt in deciding or acting; hesitating.

HESITANTLY adv.

With hesitancy or doubt.

HESITATE v. 3 definitions

especting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination; as, he hesitated whether to accept the offer or not; men often hesitate in forming a judgment. Pope.

HESITATINGLY adv.

With hesitation or doubt.

HESITATION n. 2 definitions

The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation.

Showing, or characterized by, hesitation. [He said] in his mild, hesitative way. R. D. Blackmore.

Hesitating. R. North.

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

The evening; Hesperus.

A white, crystalline substance having a sweetish taste, obtained by the decomposition of hesperidin, and regarded as a complex derivative of caffeic acid.

HESPERIAN a. 4 definitions

Western; being in the west; occidental. [Poetic] Milton.

Same as 3d Hesperian.

An isomeric variety of terpene from orange oil.