📖 H — The English dictionary · page 11

haughty — Everyday, meaning 1: Proud and unfriendly, acting as if you are better than other people.↗ Example: The haughty princess would not talk to the servants.↗ · She gave me a haughty look and walked away.↗ · The cat sat on the wall, haughty and proud.↗ · His haughty manner made him few friends.↗ · «I never eat cheap food,» she said in a haughty voice.↗ · The Bible says that a haughty spirit comes before a fall.↗ · Such is the fate of all haughty people.↗ · Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood; (Writings PRO.6.17, JPS 1917)↗ · Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.↗ (Writings PRO.16.18, JPS 1917)↗ · For Thou dost save the afflicted people; but the haughty eyes Thou dost humble.↗ (Writings PSA.18.28, JPS 1917)↗

haul — Everyday, meaning 1: To haul something means to pull or drag it with effort, because it is heavy.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun) A haul is an amount of something gained or caught, like fish in a net, stolen goods, or sweets at Halloween.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) A haul is a distance travelled: «a long haul».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb, informal) To be hauled up or hauled in front of someone means to be made to go there to be told off.↗ Example: We hauled the heavy bags up the stairs.↗ · The fishermen hauled in their nets.↗ · My Halloween haul was 40 sweets!↗ · Police found a big haul of stolen phones.↗ · Australia won a haul of gold medals.↗ · It's a long haul flight to New Zealand.↗ · He was hauled in front of the head teacher.↗ · Then he jerked away at the rope and his brothers began to haul it up.↗

hauling — Everyday, meaning 1: Pulling or dragging something heavy with effort.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Carrying goods by lorry or truck from place to place; hauling as a noun is this job.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) Taking someone somewhere they do not want to go: hauling them off to the dentist.↗ Example: The fishermen were hauling in their nets.↗ · We were hauling the heavy box up the stairs.↗ · The truck is hauling logs to the sawmill.↗ · Horses were used for hauling carts long ago.↗ · Mum is hauling us off to see Aunt Jean.↗ · Hauling a sledge uphill is hard work.↗ · One beautiful bright morning, as he was hauling his well-filled nets into the boat, he saw lying among the fishes a tiny little turtle.↗

haunch — Everyday, meaning 1: The hip, bottom and top of the leg of a person or animal.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A back leg and hip of an animal as meat, as in «a haunch of venison».↗ Example: The dog sat back on its haunches and begged.↗ · The hare sat up on its haunches and listened.↗ · He squatted on his haunches to look at the beetle.↗ · The cook roasted a haunch of venison for the feast.↗ · Badger sat on his haunches by the fire.↗ · The lion crouched on its haunches, ready to spring.↗ · A WOLF, passing by, saw some Shepherds in a hut eating a haunch of mutton for their dinner.↗

haunt — Everyday, meaning 1: In stories, a ghost haunts a place or person when it appears there again and again.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: If a memory or worry haunts you, you keep thinking about it and it upsets you.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To haunt a place means to go there very often.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (noun) A haunt is a place someone visits often, like a favourite café.↗ Example: They say a ghost haunts the old castle.↗ · We went to a haunted house at the fair.↗ · The sad song haunted me for days.↗ · That silly mistake came back to haunt him.↗ · The park is our favourite haunt after school.↗ · Pirates once haunted these seas.↗ · The memory of the storm still haunts her.↗ · and to them that were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men were wont to haunt.↗ (Prophets 1SA.30.31, JPS 1917)↗ · Go, I pray you, make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who hath seen him there; for it is told me that he dealeth very subtly.↗ (Prophets 1SA.23.22, JPS 1917)↗

haunted — Everyday, meaning 1: (adjective) Believed to be visited by ghosts: a haunted house.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) Looking worried or upset, as if troubled by something: a haunted look.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (past of haunt) Kept coming back to someone's mind.↗ e.g. The memory haunted him.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (past of haunt) Went often to a place.↗ e.g. He haunted the library.↗ Example: The old house on the hill is said to be haunted.↗ · We went on a haunted walk at night.↗ · Her face had a haunted look after the accident.↗ · He was haunted by the mistake for years.↗ · The school play was about a haunted castle.↗ · Ghosts are not real, but haunted stories are fun.↗ · That it was a ruinous old castle, haunted by spirits.↗

haunting — Everyday, meaning 1: Of a ghost: visiting a place again and again (in stories).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Of a memory or worry: staying in your mind and troubling you.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (adjective) Beautiful, sad or strange in a way you cannot forget: a haunting tune.↗ Example: A ghost is said to be haunting the old castle.↗ · The song has a haunting melody.↗ · The haunting cry of the owl echoed through the woods.↗ · That mistake kept haunting him for weeks.↗ · The film's last scene is haunting.↗ · People say a grey lady is haunting the library.↗ · But after a time a Baba Yaga took to haunting their hut and sucking the breasts of the merchant's daughter.↗

hausa — Everyday, meaning 1: (a name) The Hausa are a large people of West Africa, mainly in northern Nigeria and Niger.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The Hausa language, spoken by tens of millions of people in West Africa as a first or second language.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: It is not an English word; it is the name of a people and their language.↗ Example: Hausa is spoken by many millions of people in West Africa.↗ · The Hausa people live mainly in northern Nigeria and Niger.↗ · «Sannu» means «hello» in Hausa.↗ · Kano is a famous Hausa city with ancient dye pits.↗ · The BBC broadcasts news in Hausa.↗

have — Everyday, meaning 1: To have is to own or hold something.↗ e.g. I have a bike.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To have is to be made of or contain.↗ e.g. A week has 7 days.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To have is to eat, drink or take part in: have lunch, have a bath, have fun.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «Have to» means must.↗ e.g. I have to go.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Have helps make past tenses.↗ e.g. I have finished.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: To have can mean to get or be ill with: have a cold, have a baby.↗ Everyday, meaning 7: (casual) «Have got» or just «got» means have.↗ e.g. I've got 2; «hafta» and «gotta» mean have to; «I'll have a …» orders food.↗ Everyday, meaning 8: (rough) «You've had it!» means you are in big trouble; «I've had it with you» means I have lost patience; «have a go at» means attack with words; «been had» means been tricked.↗ Everyday, meaning 9: (formal) The exam voice says «possess», «be in possession of», «hold», «retain», «comprise», «contain», «be obliged to» (have to).↗ Example: Zoe had 8 books and lost 5.↗ How many books does Zoe have now?↗ · Each bag has 4 stamps.↗ · Tom has 3 more pens than Ali.↗ · A week has 7 days.↗ · A spider has 8 legs and an insect has 6.↗ · We have pasta for dinner on Fridays.↗ · I have to finish my homework.↗ · Have you ever seen snow?↗ · Have fun at the party!↗ · got 7 ants in the jar lol how many legs is that↗ · Break that again and you've had it!↗ · How many does Zoe retain, given that she was initially in possession of 8 volumes and subsequently mislaid 5?↗ · And Sarai was barren; she had no child.↗ (Torah GEN.11.30, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.↗ (Torah EXO.20.3, JPS 1917)↗ · And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.↗ (Torah GEN.25.5, JPS 1917)↗ · Shall windy words have an end?↗ (Writings JOB.16.3, JPS 1917)↗ · 'Who would have believed our report?↗ (Prophets ISA.53.1, JPS 1917)↗ · I the LORD have spoken it.'↗ (Prophets EZK.5.17, JPS 1917)↗

haven — Everyday, meaning 1: A haven is a safe, peaceful place where people or animals can rest or be protected.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old use) A harbour where ships can shelter.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A tax haven is a country where people put money to pay less tax (money).↗ Example: The garden pond is a haven for frogs.↗ · Our treehouse is a haven from my noisy brothers.↗ · The ship found a haven from the storm.↗ · The library is a quiet haven at lunchtime.↗ · The island is a haven for seabirds.↗ · Some rich people keep money in tax havens.↗ · Home should be a safe haven for every child.↗ · Then were they glad because they were quiet, and He led them unto their desired haven.↗ (Writings PSA.107.30, JPS 1917)↗

havoc — Everyday, meaning 1: Great damage, mess or destruction caused by something or someone.↗ Example: The cat caused havoc among the mice.↗ · The storm wrought havoc on the village.↗ · A pestilence made terrible havoc among the people.↗ · They said in their heart: 'Let us make havoc of them altogether'; they have burned up all the meeting-places of God in the land.↗ (Writings PSA.74.8, JPS 1917)↗

haw — Everyday, meaning 1: A haw is the small red berry of the hawthorn tree.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To hum and haw (US: hem and haw) means to take a long time to decide, making noises like «um» and «er».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (interjection) «Haw» is the sound of a loud laugh, often written «haw haw».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (farming, USA) «Haw!» is a call to a horse or ox to turn left (and «gee» means turn right).↗ Everyday, meaning 5: The braying sound a donkey makes is also "haw", often written "hee-haw".↗ Example: Birds were eating the red haws on the hawthorn.↗ · The haws ripen in autumn.↗ · Stop humming and hawing and choose a flavour!↗ · He hemmed and hawed before answering.↗ · «Haw haw!» laughed the pirate.↗ · The farmer shouted «Haw!» and the horse turned left.↗ · "Hee-haw, hee-haw!" roared the ass; "bow-wow!" barked the dog; "meaw-meaw!" cried the cat; "cock-a-doodle-doo!" crowed the cock.↗

hawaiian — Everyday, meaning 1: Hawaiian means from or about Hawaii, the group of islands in the Pacific Ocean that is a state of the USA.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A Hawaiian is a person from Hawaii, especially one of the Native Hawaiian people.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Hawaiian is the Polynesian language of the Native Hawaiian people.↗ Example: The Hawaiian islands were made by volcanoes.↗ · My uncle wore a bright Hawaiian shirt with flowers on it.↗ · Hawaiian pizza has ham and pineapple on it.↗ · «Aloha» is a Hawaiian word for hello and goodbye.↗ · We learned a Hawaiian dance called the hula.↗ · Native Hawaiians were the first people to live on the islands.↗

hawk — Everyday, meaning 1: A bird of prey with sharp eyes, a hooked beak and strong claws (talons), which hunts small animals.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To sell things by walking about and calling out, like at a market.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) To clear your throat noisily.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A person who prefers strong, warlike actions (opposite of a dove).↗ Example: A hawk was circling high above the field.↗ · The hawk swooped down and caught a mouse.↗ · Our teacher watches us like a hawk during tests.↗ · The hawk's sharp talons grip its prey.↗ · Street sellers hawked newspapers on the corner.↗ · Hawks can see a mouse from very high up.↗ · and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kinds; (Torah LEV.11.16, JPS 1917)↗ · Doth the hawk soar by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?↗ (Writings JOB.39.26, JPS 1917)↗

hawksbill — Everyday, meaning 1: A hawksbill (hawksbill turtle) is a sea turtle with a narrow beak curved like a hawk's, living on coral reefs in warm seas; it is critically endangered.↗ Example: The hawksbill turtle eats sponges on the coral reef.↗ · Hawksbills are critically endangered.↗ · People used to make tortoiseshell combs from hawksbill shells.↗ · We saw a hawksbill while snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef.↗ · The hawksbill gets its name from its pointed beak.↗ · It is illegal to buy products made from hawksbill shell.↗

hawthorn — Everyday, meaning 1: A thorny bush or small tree with white or pink flowers in spring and small red berries in autumn, often grown as a hedge.↗ Example: The garden had a tall hawthorn hedge.↗ · Be careful, the hawthorn has sharp thorns.↗ · In May the hawthorn is covered in white flowers.↗

hay — Everyday, meaning 1: Hay is long grass that has been cut and dried, used to feed animals like horses, cows, rabbits and guinea pigs.↗ Example: The horse is eating hay.↗ · Rabbits need fresh hay every day.↗ · Farmers make hay in summer.↗ · We sat on hay bales at the farm.↗ · Hay fever makes me sneeze in spring.↗ · Finding my earring in the garden was like finding a needle in a haystack.↗ · The barn is full of hay.↗ · Make hay while the sun shines.↗ · Then the man filled the manger with hay.↗ · When the hay is mown, and the tender grass showeth itself, and the herbs of the mountains are gathered in; (Writings PRO.27.25, JPS 1917)↗

hayloft — Everyday, meaning 1: An upper floor in a barn or stable where hay is stored.↗ Example: We hid the kittens in the hayloft.↗ · She climbed the ladder into the hayloft.↗ · The hay was piled high in the hayloft.↗

haymaking — Everyday, meaning 1: Cutting grass, drying it in the sun and gathering it as hay to feed animals in winter.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (sport, informal) A haymaker is a big wild punch; haymaking can mean throwing such punches.↗ Example: Haymaking starts in early summer.↗ · The whole village helped with the haymaking.↗ · Haymaking needs a few dry sunny days.↗ · In the old days, haymaking was done with scythes.↗ · Make hay while the sun shines, and do your homework while you have time!↗ · The farmer is busy with haymaking this week.↗