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resses a great variety of emotions, determined by the tone or the context. When repeated, ha, ha, it is an expression of laughter, satisfaction, or triumph, sometimes of derisive laughter; or sometimes it is equivalent to "Well, it is so." Ha-has, and inarticulate hootings of satirical rebuke. Carlyle.…

A half-penny.

sunk fence; a fence, wall, or ditch, not visible till one is close upon it. [Written also haw-haw.]

The deepsea fishing for cod, ling, and tusk, off the Shetland Isles.

A sea fish. See Hake. Ash.

A fog; esp., a fog or mist with a chill wind. [Scot.] T. Chalmers.

A writ having for its object to bring a party before a court or judge; especially, one to inquire into the cause of a person's imprisonment or detention by another, with the view to protect the right to personal liberty; also, one to bring a prisoner into court to testify in a pending trial. Bouvier.…

That part of a deed which follows the part called the premises, and determines the extent of the interest or estate granted; -- so called because it begins with the word Habendum. Kent.

To deal in small wares. [R.] To haberdash in earth's base ware. Quarles.

A dealer in small wares, as tapes, pins, needles, and thread; also, a hatter. [Obs.] The haberdasher heapeth wealth by hats. Gascoigne.

The goods and wares sold by a haberdasher; also (Fig.), trifles. Burke.

A cod salted and dried. Ainsworth.

Properly, a short hauberk, but often used loosely for the hauberk. Chaucer.

Of or pertaining to clothing; wearing clothes. Ld. Lytton.

Fit; qualified; also, apt. [Obs.] Spenser.

Dress, in general. Shak.

Clothed. Taylor (1630).

Qualified or entitled. [Obs.] Bacon.

Equipment; qualification. [Obs.] Bacon.

Ability; aptitude. [Obs.] Robynson. (More's Utopia).