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Princeton University - WordNet - a lexical database for the English language Category: General Date & country: 27/01/2008, USA Words: 85192

hardly a(a)
adjective very few; `hardly a man is now alive who remembers that famous date and year`

hardpan
noun crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions

hardscrabble
marginal adjective of a bare living gained by great labor; `the sharecropper`s hardscrabble life`; `a marginal existence`

hardship
noun something that causes or entails suffering; `I cannot think it a hardship that more indulgence is allowed to men than to women`- James Boswell; `the many hardships of frontier life`

hardship
rigor noun something hard to endure; `the asperity of northern winters`

hardtack
pilot biscuit noun very hard unsalted biscuit or bread; a former ship`s staple

hardtop
noun a car that resembles a convertible but has a fixed rigid top

hardware
noun instrumentalities (tools or implements) made of metal

hardware error
noun error resulting from a malfunction of some physical component of the computer

hardware store
ironmongery noun a store selling hardware; `in England they call a hardware store and ironmongery`

hardworking
industrious adjective characterized by hard work and perseverance

hardy
stalwart adjective having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships; `hardy explorers of northern Canada`; `proud of her tall stalwart son`; `stout seamen`; `sturdy young athletes`

Hardy
noun United States slapstick comedian who played the pompous and overbearing member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1892-1957)

hare
noun swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs; young born furred and with open eyes

Hare Krishna
International Society for Krishna Consciousness noun a religious sect founded in the United States in 1966; based on Vedic scriptures; groups engage in joyful chanting of `Hare Krishna` and other mantras based on the name of the Hindu god Krishna; devotees usually wear saffron robes and practice vegetarianism and celibacy

hare wallaby
kangaroo hare noun small Australian wallaby that resembles a hare and has persistent teeth

hare-like
adjective resembling a hare

harebell
noun perennial of northern hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers

harebrained
insane adjective very foolish; `harebrained ideas`; `took insane risks behind the wheel`; `a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains`

Haredi
noun any of several sects of Orthodox Judaism that reject modern secular culture and many of whom do not recognize the spiritual authority of the modern state of Israel

harem
hareem noun living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household

haricot vert
haricots verts noun very small and slender green bean

hark
harken verb listen; used mostly in the imperative

hark back
return verb go back to something earlier; `This harks back to a previous remark of his`

Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami
Harakat ul-Jihad-I-Islami noun an extremist militant group in Pakistan occupied Kashmir that seeks an Islamic government and that has had close links and fought with the Taliban in Afghanistan

Harkat-ul-Mujahidin
HUM noun an Islamic fundamentalist group in Pakistan that fought the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s; now operates as a terrorist organization primarily in Kashmir and seeks Kashmir`s accession by Pakistan

Harlan Fiske Stone
noun United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chief justice (1872-1946)

Harlan Stone
Harlan F. Stone noun United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946)

harlequin
verb variegate with spots or marks; `His face was harlequined with patches`

harlequin-snake
New World coral snake noun any of several venomous New World snakes brilliantly banded in red and black and either yellow or white; widely distributed in South America and Central America

Harley Street
noun a street in central London where the consulting rooms of many physicians and surgeons are located

harm
verb cause or do harm to; `These pills won`t harm your system`

harmed
adjective having had pain or loss or suffering inflicted

harmful
adjective able or likely to do harm

harmfulness
injuriousness noun destructiveness that causes harm or injury

harmfulness
noxiousness noun the quality of being noxious

harmless
innocuous adjective unlikely to harm or disturb anyone; `harmless old man`

harmlessly
adverb in a harmless manner; `this is a harmlessly childish game`

harmonic
adjective of or relating to harmony as distinct from melody and rhythm; `subtleties of harmonic change and tonality`- Ralph Hill

harmonic
adjective relating to vibrations that occur as a result of vibrations in a nearby body; `sympathetic vibration`

harmonic mean
noun the mean of n numbers expressed as the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocals of the numbers

harmonic motion
noun a periodic motion in which the displacement is either symmetrical about a point or is the sum of such motions

harmonic progression
noun (mathematics) a progression of terms whose reciprocals form an arithmetic progression

harmonica
mouth organ noun a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole

harmonically
adverb with respect to harmony; `harmonically interesting piece`

harmonics
noun the study of musical sound

harmonious
proportionate adjective exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities

harmoniously
adverb in a harmonious manner; `the problem of absorbing immigrants harmoniously into British society is as important to the immigrants as to the British`

harmoniousness
noun compatibility in opinion and action

harmonise
verb bring into consonance, harmony, or accord while making music or singing

harmonium
organ 2 reed organ noun a free-reed instrument in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows

harmonizable
adjective capable of being made harmonious or consistent

harmonization
harmonisation noun singing in harmony

harmonize
harmonise verb sing or play in harmony

harmonize
verb bring into consonance, harmony, or accord while making music or singing

harmony
concord noun agreement of opinions

harmony
noun the structure of music with respect to the composition and progression of chords

harness
noun stable gear consisting of an arrangement of leather straps fitted to a draft animal so that it can be attached to and pull a cart

harness horse
noun horse used for pulling vehicles

harness race
harness racing noun a horse race between people riding in sulkies behind horses that are trotting or pacing

harnessed
adjective brought under control and put to use; `electricity from the harnessed Colorado River`; `the harnessed power of the atom`

harnessed antelope
noun any of several antelopes of the genus Tragelaphus having striped markings resembling a harness

harp
noun a chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers

harp seal
Pagophilus groenlandicus noun common arctic seal; the young are all white

harp-shaped
adjective shaped in the form of a harp

Harpia
genus Harpia noun a genus of Accipitridae

harpoon
noun a spear with a shaft and barbed point for throwing; used for catching large fish or whales; a strong line is attached to it

harpoon gun
noun a cannon or similar gun that fires harpoons

harpoon line
noun a strong rope for making the catch fast to the harpooner`s boat

harpoon log
noun a cylindrical log with a device that registers distance

harpsichord
cembalo noun a clavier with strings that are plucked by plectra mounted on pivots

harpy
tube-nosed bat noun any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes

harpy bat
tube-nosed bat noun any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes

harpy eagle
Harpia harpyja noun large black-and-white crested eagle of tropical America

harrier
noun hawks that hunt over meadows and marshes and prey on small terrestrial animals

harrier eagle
short-toed eagle noun any of numerous large Old World hawks intermediate in some respects between typical hawks and typical eagles

Harriet Wilson
noun author of the first novel by an African American that was published in the United States (1808-1870)

Harris
Sir Arthur Travers Harris noun British marshal of the Royal Air Force; during World War II he directed mass bombing raids against German cities that resulted in heavy civilian casualties (1892-1984)

Harris Tweed
noun a loosely woven tweed made in the Outer Hebrides

Harrison
President Harrison 1 President William Henry Harrison noun 9th President of the United States; caught pneumonia during his inauguration and died shortly after (1773-1841)

Harrod
noun English merchant who expanded his father`s shop in London into a prestigious department store (1841-1905)

harrow
noun a cultivator that pulverizes or smooths the soil

harry
ravage verb make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes

Harry Lauder
Sir Harry MacLennan Lauder noun Scottish ballad singer and music hall comedian (1870-1950)

Harry Stack Sullivan
noun United States psychiatrist (1892-1949)

harsh
abrasive adjective sharply disagreeable; rigorous; `the harsh facts of court delays`; `an abrasive character`

harsh
adjective unpleasantly stern; `wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus`; `the nomad life is rough and hazardous`

harsh-voiced
adjective having an unusually harsh sound

harshen
verb make harsh or harsher; `Winter harshened the look of the city`

harshness
scratchiness noun the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions

hart
noun male red deer

Hart
noun United States playwright who collaborated with George S. Kaufman (1904-1961)

hart`s-tongue
Polybotrya cervina noun tropical American terrestrial fern with leathery lanceolate fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polybotrya

hart`s-tongue fern
Polybotrya cervina noun tropical American terrestrial fern with leathery lanceolate fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polybotrya

hartebeest
noun a large African antelope with lyre-shaped horns that curve backward

harum-scarum
pell-mell adverb in a wild or reckless manner; `dashing harum-scarum all over the place`; `running pell-mell up the stairs`

Harvard University
Harvard noun a university in Massachusetts

harvest
harvest time noun the season for gathering crops

harvest
harvest home noun the gathering of a ripened crop

harvest mite
chigger 1 jigger noun larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation