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hither — Everyday, meaning 1: (old-fashioned) To here; to this place: «Come hither» means «come here».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In the phrase «hither and thither» (or «hither and yon»): here and there, in many directions.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: To this place.↗ Example: «Come hither, child,» said the old king.↗ · The ants ran hither and thither when we lifted the stone.↗ · Leaves blew hither and thither in the wind.↗ · The servants hurried hither and thither preparing the feast.↗ · «Bring the lantern hither!» called the captain.↗ · The puppy dashed hither and thither around the garden.↗ · And in the fourth generation they shall come back hither; for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.'↗ (Torah GEN.15.16, JPS 1917)↗ · Hereby ye shall be proved, as Pharaoh liveth, ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.↗ (Torah GEN.42.15, JPS 1917)↗ · And now be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither; for God did send me before you to preserve life.↗ (Torah GEN.45.5, JPS 1917)↗ · Therefore His people return hither; and waters of fullness are drained out by them.↗ (Writings PSA.73.10, JPS 1917)↗ · And Saul said: 'Bring hither to me the burnt-offering and the peace-offerings.'↗ And he offered the burnt-offering.↗ (Prophets 1SA.13.9, JPS 1917)↗ · But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the harlot.↗ (Prophets ISA.57.3, JPS 1917)↗ · And in the fourth generation they shall come back hither; for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.'↗ (Torah GEN.15.16, JPS 1917) · I know why you come hither.↗ (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) · Hereby ye shall be proved, as Pharaoh liveth, ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.↗ (Torah GEN.42.15, JPS 1917)

hitherto — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) Hitherto means until now or until the time being talked about; up to this point.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: Up to this point in time.↗ Example: The scientists found a hitherto unknown kind of beetle.↗ · Hitherto, the village had never had a flood.↗ · The letter showed a hitherto hidden side of the king.↗ · Hitherto, all the tests had come back clear.↗ · The explorers reached a hitherto unseen valley.↗ · The museum displays paintings hitherto kept in storage.↗ · Hitherto he had been a land crab; the land at last cast him adrift.↗ · And thou shalt say unto him: The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, hath sent me unto thee, saying: Let My people go, that they may serve Me in the wilderness; and, behold, hitherto thou hast not hearkened; (Torah EXO.7.16, JPS 1917)↗ · The Notes have been extended, and it is hoped that they explain and illustrate difficult passages, and render this abstruse treatise more comprehensible than it has been hitherto found.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · But every attempt to unfold this mystery has hitherto been unsuccessful".↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward; they were the porters for the camp of the children of Levi.↗ (Writings 1CH.9.18, JPS 1917)↗ · Count not thy handmaid for a wicked woman: for out of the abundance of my complaint and my vexation have I spoken hitherto.'↗ (Prophets 1SA.1.16, JPS 1917)↗ · Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called the name of it Eben-ezer, saying: 'Hitherto hath the LORD helped us.'↗ (Prophets 1SA.7.12, JPS 1917)↗ · And thou shalt say unto him: The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, hath sent me unto thee, saying: Let My people go, that they may serve Me in the wilderness; and, behold, hitherto thou hast not hearkened;↗ (Torah EXO.7.16, JPS 1917) · I have always progressed hitherto, as I know quite well."↗ (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) · The Notes have been extended, and it is hoped that they explain and illustrate difficult passages, and render this abstruse treatise more comprehensible than it has been hitherto found.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)

hitter — Everyday, meaning 1: A hitter is a person who hits, especially a batter in baseball or softball whose job is to hit the ball.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) A heavy hitter is a powerful or important person or organisation.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In cricket and other sports, a hitter is someone who hits the ball hard.↗ Example: She is the best hitter on our softball team.↗ · The hitter swung and sent the ball over the fence.↗ · He is a big hitter who scores lots of sixes.↗ · A power hitter can hit home runs.↗ · The heavy hitters of tech came to the meeting.↗ · The coach moved the left-handed hitter up the order.↗

hitting — Everyday, meaning 1: Hitting means touching something hard and fast, often with your hand or an object.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Hitting a ball means striking it with a bat, racket or hand.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Hitting can mean reaching something: hitting a target, hitting 100.↗ Example: Stop hitting your brother!↗ · She is good at hitting the ball.↗ · The rain was hitting the window.↗ · Hitting is not allowed at school.↗ · The car is hitting the brakes.↗ · They are hitting it off already.↗ · The price is hitting new highs.↗ · He kept hitting the target in archery.↗

hittite — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A person of the Hittites, an ancient people of Canaan and Anatolia.↗ Example: and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim, (Torah GEN.15.20, JPS 1917)↗ · And I will send the hornet before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.↗ (Torah EXO.23.28, JPS 1917)↗ · And when Esau was forty years old, he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.↗ (Torah GEN.26.34, JPS 1917)↗ · Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai; (Writings 1CH.11.41, JPS 1917)↗ · And one said: 'Is not this Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?'↗ (Prophets 2SA.11.3, JPS 1917)↗ · And David sent to Joab, saying: 'Send me Uriah the Hittite.'↗ And Joab sent Uriah to David.↗ (Prophets 2SA.11.6, JPS 1917)↗

hiv — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A Hebrew letter group, a form of the verb "to be," in Sefer Yetzirah.↗ Example: HVI is the imperative form of the verb to he, meaning he thou; HIV is the infinitive; and VIH is future.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

hive — Everyday, meaning 1: A hive is a home for bees, either a box made by people or a natural nest.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A hive can mean all the bees living in it.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A hive of activity is a very busy place full of people working.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (UK) To hive off part of something is to separate it to be run on its own.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Hives (plural) is an itchy red rash on the skin, often from an allergy.↗ Example: The beekeeper opened the hive to collect honey.↗ · A hive can hold thousands of bees.↗ · The kitchen was a hive of activity before the party.↗ · The bees flew back to the hive at sunset.↗ · She broke out in hives after eating nuts.↗ · The cells inside a hive are hexagons, with 6 sides each.↗ · The company hived off its toy business.↗ (UK, formal)↗ · Don't poke a hive — the bees will sting.↗ · He went on farther and saw a hive of bees in the forest.↗

hives — Everyday, meaning 1: Hives are itchy red or pink bumps or patches on the skin, often caused by an allergy to food, medicine, insect stings or plants.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Hives is also the plural of hive, a home for bees.↗ Example: After eating peanuts, Sam broke out in hives.↗ · Hives are itchy red bumps on the skin.↗ · The doctor gave her medicine to calm her hives.↗ · If hives come with a swollen face, get help straight away.↗ · The beekeeper has five hives in his garden.↗ · Bees fly back to their hives with nectar.↗ · When the Keeper returned and found the hives empty, he was very much upset and stood staring at them for some time.↗

hl — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A fragment of print, probably "He," meaning God.↗ Example: Hl' arranged them like a garden bed.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

hm — Everyday, meaning 1: A sound people make when they are thinking, not sure, or doubting something, as in «Hm, let me think».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A sound that shows you are not convinced or a bit suspicious, as in «Hmm, are you sure?».↗ Example: Hm, I'm not sure which answer is right.↗ · «Hmm,» said the detective, looking at the footprints.↗ · Hm, that's a good question.↗ · «I did my homework.»↗ «Hmm, did you really?»↗ · Hmm, maybe we should try a different way.↗ · She looked at the sum and said, «Hm, let me check.»↗

hmo — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A broken piece of letters from a scanned page, with no meaning of its own.↗

ho — Everyday, meaning 1: A shout to get attention or to show surprise: «Land ho!» means «land ahead!».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «Ho ho ho!» is the laugh of Father Christmas (Santa).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (rude, slang) A very rude, insulting word for a woman, taken from «whore»; never use it.↗ Example: «Land ho!» shouted the sailor from the mast.↗ · «Ho ho ho!↗ Merry Christmas!» laughed Santa.↗ · Westward Ho! is a village in Devon.↗ · «Ho there!» called the guard.↗ · That word in the song is a rude insult, so we don't say it.↗ · Ho, Zion, escape, thou that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon.'↗ (Prophets ZEC.2.11, JPS 1917)↗ · Ho, now, thy king, that he may save thee in all thy cities! and thy judges, of whom thou saidst: 'Give me a king and princes!'↗ (Prophets HOS.13.10, JPS 1917)↗ · Ho, ho, flee then from the land of the north, saith the LORD; for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the LORD.↗ (Prophets ZEC.2.10, JPS 1917)↗

hoar — Everyday, meaning 1: Hoar means white or grey, especially of frost, as in «hoar frost».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old use) Hoar means very old or ancient, as in «hoar antiquity».↗ Example: Trees were covered with hoar frost.↗ · The hoar grass sparkled in the morning sun.↗ · The tale comes from hoar antiquity.↗ · And when the layer of dew was gone up, behold upon the face of the wilderness a fine, scale-like thing, fine as the hoar-frost on the ground.↗ (Torah EXO.16.14, JPS 1917)↗ · And the hoar-frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?↗ (Writings JOB.38.29, JPS 1917)↗ · He giveth snow like wool; He scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes.↗ (Writings PSA.147.16, JPS 1917)↗ · Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace.↗ (Prophets 1KI.2.6, JPS 1917)↗

hoard — Everyday, meaning 1: A large store of money, food or valuable things, often kept secret.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To collect and keep a lot of something, often more than you need, and hide it away.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (history) A buried treasure of old coins or objects found by archaeologists.↗ Example: The dragon slept on a hoard of gold.↗ · Squirrels hoard nuts for the winter.↗ · A farmer found a hoard of Roman coins in his field.↗ · My brother has a hoard of sweets under his bed.↗ · People hoarded toilet paper when they were worried.↗ · Don't hoard the crayons; share them with the table.↗ · These pence the youth hoarded carefully till he had collected enough to buy a beautiful pair of pipes.↗ · And the stability of thy times shall be a hoard of salvation — wisdom and knowledge, and the fear of the LORD which is His treasure.↗ (Prophets ISA.33.6, JPS 1917)↗

hoarse — Everyday, meaning 1: A hoarse voice sounds rough, deep and croaky, often because you have a sore throat, a cold, or have been shouting a lot.↗ Example: I shouted myself hoarse at the football match.↗ · Her voice was hoarse because she had a cold.↗ · The teacher was hoarse by the end of the day.↗ · «Help,» he said in a hoarse whisper.↗ · After singing in the concert, the choir was hoarse.↗ · Drink warm water and rest if your voice is hoarse.↗ · Don’t you hear how hoarse I am?↗

hoary — Everyday, meaning 1: Grey or white-haired, as an old person is.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Old and well known, from long ago, as in «a hoary legend».↗ Example: The hoary old man smiled at us.↗ · The hoary legend tells of a piper.↗ · Hoary old jokes make the class groan.↗ · Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and thou shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD.↗ (Torah LEV.19.32, JPS 1917)↗ · He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.↗ (Writings JOB.41.24, JPS 1917)↗ · The hoary head is a crown of glory, it is found in the way of righteousness.↗ (Writings PRO.16.31, JPS 1917)↗ · The glory of young men is their strength; and the beauty of old men is the hoary head.↗ (Writings PRO.20.29, JPS 1917)↗

hoatzin — Everyday, meaning 1: The hoatzin is a strange bird of the Amazon rainforest in South America, with a spiky crest, blue face and red eyes; it eats leaves and smells bad, so it is also called the stinkbird.↗ Example: The hoatzin lives along rivers in the Amazon rainforest.↗ · Baby hoatzins have claws on their wings.↗ · The hoatzin is nicknamed the stinkbird.↗ · Hoatzin chicks drop into the water to escape snakes.↗ · The hoatzin eats leaves and digests them like a cow.↗ · The hoatzin is the national bird of Guyana.↗

hoax — Everyday, meaning 1: A hoax is a trick that makes many people believe something that is not true, such as a fake story, picture or warning.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To hoax people means to trick them in this way.↗ Example: The photo of the giant shark turned out to be a hoax.↗ · Making a hoax call to 999 or 911 is against the law.↗ · The message saying the school would close was a hoax.↗ · Before you share a story online, check it is not a hoax.↗ · The crop circles were a hoax made by two men with planks.↗ · They hoaxed the whole town with a fake monster sighting.↗ · The detective soon realised the ransom note was a hoax.↗ · April Fools' Day hoaxes are meant to be funny, not harmful.↗ · He did this more than once, and every time the villagers found they had been hoaxed, for there was no Wolf at all.↗