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kes a business of hanging; a public executioner; -- sometimes used as a term of reproach, without reference to office. Shak.

Without hap or luck; luckless; unfortunate; unlucky; unhappy; as, hapless youth; hapless maid. Dryden.

To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out. There shall no evil happen to the just. Prov. xii. 21.

Without a harbor; shelterless.

ard run for time, money, etc. [Colloq.] -- Hard up, closely pressed by want or necessity; without money or resources; as, hard up for amusements. [Slang]

A buffoon, dressed in party-colored clothes, who plays tricks, often without speaking, to divert the bystanders or an audience; a merry-andrew; originally, a droll rogue of Italian comedy. Percy Smith. As dumb harlequin is exhibited in our theaters. Johnson. Harlequin bat (Zoöl.), an Indian bat (Scotophilus ornatus), c…

to each other; symmetrical. God hath made the intellectual world harmonious and beautiful without us. Locke.

Without harvest; lacking in crops; barren. "Harvestless autumns." Tennyson.

Without due reflection; precipitately; rashly. We hastily engaged in the war. Swift.

Moving or acting with haste or in a hurry; hurrying; hence, acting without deliberation; precipitate; rash; easily excited; eager.

rative. 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 unstable. [Colloq.]

A manner of dressing the hair or of adorning it, whether with or without a veil, ribbons, combs, etc.

Rashly; precipitately; without deliberation.

se or pain. There is no health in us. Book of Common Prayer. Though health may be enjoyed without gratitude, it can not be sported with without loss, or regained by courage. Buckminster.

Without health, whether of body or mind; in firm. "A healthless or old age." Jer. Taylor.

Without a heart. You have left me heartess; mine is in your bosom. J. Webster.

Without heed or care; inattentive; careless; thoughtless; unobservant. O, negligent and heedless discipline! Shak. The heedless lover does not know Whose eyes they are that wound him so. Waller. -- Heed"less*ly, adv. -- Heed"less*ness, n.

Without a heel.

A telescope or instrument for viewing the sun without injury to the eyes, as through colored glasses, or with mirrors which reflect but a small portion of light. -- He`li*o*scop`ic, a.

Without a helm or rudder. Carlyle.