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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: haflinger - haiduk</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="haflinger"> Haflinger, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a sturdy breed of small reddish horses of the western Alps. Ex. This year, though, the British ponies have been temporarily knocked into second place as an attraction by a splendid display of Austrian Haflinger (Manchester Guardian Weekly). </DL> <A NAME="hafnium"> hafnium, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a silvery, metallic chemical element somewhat like zirconium and occurring mainly in zirconium ores. It is used to make filaments for incandescent lamps. </DL> <A NAME="haft"> haft, noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun a handle of a knife, sword, dagger, sickle, or some other cutting or piercing instrument. <DD>v.t. to furnish with a handle or hilt; set in a haft. Ex. The Indian farmers broke the ground and killed the weeds with flat limestone hoes hafted to short sticks (Scientific American). </DL> <A NAME="haftarah"> haftarah, noun. =haphtarah.</DL> <A NAME="haftorah"> haftorah, noun. =haphtarah.</DL> <A NAME="hag"> hag (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a very ugly old woman, especially one who is vicious or malicious. Ex. The old hag made a face to chase the children from her yard. (SYN) beldam. <DD> 2. a witch. Ex. the hags that ride on Halloween. <DD> 3. (Archaic.) a female evil spirit, demon, goblin, or ghost. <DD> 4. =hagfish. adj. haglike. </DL> <A NAME="hag"> hag (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) <DD> 1. a piece of soft bog, especially in a moor or morass. <DD> 2. one of the turfy or heathery spots of firmer ground that rise out of a peat bog. Ex. A small and shaggy nag, That through a bog, from hag to hag, Could bound (Scott). </DL> <A NAME="hag"> hag (3), noun. =hagden.</DL> <A NAME="hag"> Hag.,<DL COMPACT><DD> Haggai (a book of the Old Testament). </DL> <A NAME="haganah"> Haganah, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an underground Jewish military organization in Palestine founded in 1920 and active until 1948. Ex. The Haganah ... later formed the nucleus of the Israeli Army (Hannah Arendt). </DL> <A NAME="hagar"> Hagar, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an Egyptian slave of Abraham's wife Sarah. She and her son Ishmael were driven into the desert because of Sarah's jealousy (in the Bible, Genesis 16, 21:1-21). </DL> <A NAME="hagberry"> hagberry, noun, pl. -ries. =hackberry.</DL> <A NAME="hagbush"> hagbush, noun. =chinaberry tree.</DL> <A NAME="hagbut"> hagbut, noun. =hackbut.</DL> <A NAME="hagden"> hagden or hagdon, noun. =greater shearwater.</DL> <A NAME="hagen"> Hagen, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. (in the Nibelungenlied) the murderer of Siegfried. <DD> 2. (in Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungs) the one who tries to steal Siegfried's ring. </DL> <A NAME="hagfish"> hagfish, noun, pl. -fishes or (collectively) -fish.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of certain eel-shaped marine vertebrates related to the lampreys, with degenerate eyes and circular mouths surrounded by eight tentacles. The hagfish bores into fish and eats their flesh. </DL> <A NAME="haggadah"> Haggadah or Haggada, noun, pl. -doth.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1a. a story or legend in the Talmud that explains or interprets the law. <DD> b. the legendary, nonlegal part of the Talmud. <DD> 2a. the text of the Seder service read at the meal the first and second nights of Passover. It contains rabbinical exegesis of the Biblical story of the Exodus, prayers, psalms, and other matter, in ritual order. <DD> b. a book with this text. <DD> 3a. the free exposition or illustration, chiefly homiletic, of the Scripture. <DD> b. this literature collectively, with the Halakah constituting the Talmudic lore; Midrash. </DL> <A NAME="haggadic"> haggadic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or like the Haggadah. adv. haggadically. </DL> <A NAME="haggadical"> haggadical, adjective. =haggadic.</DL> <A NAME="haggadist"> haggadist, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a writer of haggadic legends, parables, and like matter. <DD> 2. a student of the Haggadah. adj. haggadistic. </DL> <A NAME="haggai"> Haggai, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a Hebrew prophet who wrote about 520 B.C. and who urged, with Zechariah, the rebuilding of the temple. <DD> 2. a book of the Old Testament attributed to him, placed among the Minor Prophets. (Abbr:) Hag. </DL> <A NAME="haggard"> haggard, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. 1. looking worn from pain, fatigue, worry, or hunger; worn by care; gaunt. Ex. The haggard faces of the rescued miners showed suffering. (SYN) lean, thin, wasted, emaciated, hollow-eyed. <DD> 2. of a hawk: <DD> a. caught after having assumed the adult plumage. <DD> b. wild; untamed. <DD>noun a haggard hawk. adv. haggardly. noun haggardness. </DL> <A NAME="hagged"> hagged, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. (British Dialect.) haggard. <DD> 2. haglike. </DL> <A NAME="haggis"> haggis, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a pudding eaten especially in Scotland, made from the heart, lungs, and liver of a sheep or calf, chopped up and mixed with suet, oatmeal, onions, and seasonings, and boiled in the stomach of the animal. </DL> <A NAME="haggish"> haggish, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or like a hag. Ex. On us both did haggish age steal on (Shakespeare). noun haggishness. </DL> <A NAME="haggle"> haggle, verb, -gled, -gling, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.i. to dispute, especially about a price or the terms of a bargain; stickle. Ex. He went marketing ... to haggle with tradesmen over fish ... tapioca and so on (Rudyard Kipling). The Big Four Foreign Ministers wasted fifteen sessions haggling over an Austrian state treaty (Newsweek). (SYN) bargain, higgle. <DD>v.t. 1. to mangle in cutting; hack. <DD> 2. to harass with wrangling or haggling. <DD>noun the act of haggling; wrangle or dispute about terms. noun haggler. </DL> <A NAME="hagiarchy"> hagiarchy, noun, pl. -chies.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. government by saints or priests. <DD> 2. the order of saints. </DL> <A NAME="hagiocracy"> hagiocracy, noun, pl. -cies.<DL COMPACT><DD> government by a group considered holy; sacred or sacerdotal government. </DL> <A NAME="hagiographa"> Hagiographa, noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> the third and last division of the Biblical canon recognized by the Jews, usually comprising Psalms, Proverbs, Job, the Song of Solomon, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, and 1 and 2 Chronicles; Kethubim. </DL> <A NAME="hagiographer"> hagiographer, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a writer of lives of the saints or on sacred subjects. <DD> 2. one of the writers of the Hagiographa. </DL> <A NAME="hagiographic"> hagiographic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with hagiography. adj. hagiografical. </DL> <A NAME="hagiography"> hagiography, noun, pl. -phies.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the writing of saints' lives. <DD> 2. a book about saints' lives. <DD> 3. (Figurative.) a biography that adulates or idolizes its subject. Ex. "Proconsul in Politics" is not yet another full-scale life but an argumentative attack on the official hagiography (Manchester Guardian). </DL> <A NAME="hagiologic"> hagiologic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with hagiology. adj. hagiological. </DL> <A NAME="hagiology"> hagiology, noun, pl. -gies.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the branch of literature that deals with the lives and legends of saints. <DD> 2. a book on this subject. <DD> 3. a list of saints. </DL> <A NAME="hagioscope"> hagioscope, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a smallopening, cut through a chancel arch or wall, to give a view of the main altar to worshipers in an aisle or side chapel. </DL> <A NAME="hagmoth"> hag moth,<DL COMPACT><DD> a North American moth whose larva has curious hairy appendages somewhat suggesting disheveled locks of hair. It feeds on a great variety of trees and plants. </DL> <A NAME="hagridden"> hagridden, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. worried or tormented as if by witches; harassed. <DD> 2. afflicted by a nightmare. </DL> <A NAME="hagride"> hagride, transitive verb, -rode, -ridden, -riding.<DL COMPACT><DD> to oppress with or as if with nightmare. </DL> <A NAME="hagseed"> hag-seed, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the child or descendant of a hag. Ex. Hag-seed, hence! (Shakespeare). </DL> <A NAME="hagtaper"> hagtaper, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the common mullein, a weed. </DL> <A NAME="hah"> hah, interjection. =ha.</DL> <A NAME="haha"> ha-ha (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a barrier consisting of a trench or ditch; sunk fence. </DL> <A NAME="haha"> ha-ha (2), interjection.<DL COMPACT><DD> an expression of laughter or derision. Ex. Of course there was no market, so I had, ha-ha, to feed them (Renata Adler). </DL> <A NAME="hahnemannian"> Hahnemannian, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with S. C. F. Hahnemann, 1755-1843, a German physician, founder of homeopathy. </DL> <A NAME="hahnemannism"> Hahnemannism, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the medical theories of S. C. F. Hahnemann, especially homeopathy. </DL> <A NAME="hahnium"> hahnium, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the American name for element 105. </DL> <A NAME="hai"> hai, adverb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Japanese.) yes. </DL> <A NAME="haiak"> haiak, noun. =haik.</DL> <A NAME="haida"> Haida, noun, pl. -da or -das.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a member of an Indian tribe of northern British Columbia and Alaska. <DD> 2. their Na-Dene language. </DL> <A NAME="haiduk"> Haiduk, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Historical.) <DD> 1. a former mercenary foot soldier of Magyar stock in Hungary. <DD> 2. Also, haiduk. (in Poland) one of the liveried personal followers or attendants of the nobles. <DD> 3. (in Balkan countries) a robber; marauder; brigand. Also, Heiduc, Heiduk, Heyduc, Heyduck, Heyduke. </DL> <A HREF="haik.dic">NEXT</A>