📖 H — The English dictionary · page 9

harridan — Everyday, meaning 1: A harridan is a fierce, bad-tempered old woman who scolds and frightens people.↗ Example: The harridan frowned at the brave men.↗ · Nobody dared to argue with the harridan.↗

harried — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Attacked again and again; troubled and worn down.↗ Example: Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and harried them while they were building, (Writings EZR.4.4, JPS 1917)↗

harrow — Everyday, meaning 1: A harrow is a heavy frame with metal spikes or teeth, pulled over ploughed ground to break up the soil and make it ready for seed.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To harrow is to go over the soil with a harrow.↗ Example: The peasant left his plough and his harrow in the field.↗ · Dad pulled the harrow behind the tractor.↗ · The farmer harrowed the field before sowing the seed.↗ · Or will he harrow the valleys after thee?↗ (Writings JOB.39.10, JPS 1917)↗ · Is the plowman never done with plowing to sow, with the opening and harrowing of his ground?↗ (Prophets ISA.28.24, JPS 1917)↗ · And he brought forth the people that were therein, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes.↗ (Writings 1CH.20.3, JPS 1917)↗

harry — Everyday, meaning 1: (proper noun, Harry) A boy's or man's name, short for Henry or Harold, as in Harry Potter or Prince Harry.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To keep attacking or annoying someone again and again: «The dogs harried the sheep».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (harried, adjective) Stressed and rushed because of too much to do.↗ Example: Harry is my best friend's name.↗ · Harry Potter goes to Hogwarts School.↗ · Small birds harried the hawk until it flew away.↗ · The Vikings harried the coast for years.↗ · The harried waiter rushed between the tables.↗ · Stop harrying me — I'll be ready in a minute!↗

harsh — Everyday, meaning 1: Cruel, unkind or too strict: «a harsh punishment», «harsh words».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Very difficult to live in: «a harsh winter», «a harsh desert».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Unpleasant to the senses: too loud, bright or rough: «harsh light», «a harsh voice».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (slang) Unfair or a bit mean: «That's harsh, mate!».↗ Example: The punishment was too harsh for such a small mistake.↗ · Polar bears live in a harsh climate.↗ · The harsh light hurt my eyes.↗ · Don't be so harsh on your little brother.↗ · «You got detention for that?↗ Harsh!»↗ · The coach's harsh words made him cry.↗ · Camels can survive harsh desert conditions.↗ · Fionn’s brother, Cairell Whiteskin, broke into the conversation with a harsh laugh.↗ · Good understanding giveth grace; but the way of the faithless is harsh.↗ (Writings PRO.13.15, JPS 1917)↗

harshly — Everyday, meaning 1: In a cruel, unkind or too strict way: treated harshly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In a rough, unpleasant way to the senses: a light shining harshly, a voice sounding harshly.↗ Example: The cruel king treated his servants harshly.↗ · Don't judge yourself too harshly, everyone makes mistakes.↗ · The coach spoke harshly to the team after the loss.↗ · The light shone harshly in my eyes.↗ · The thief was punished harshly.↗ · The wind blew harshly across the moor.↗ · She, however, treated him so harshly that he dared not live there altogether.↗ · But Abram said unto Sarai: 'Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her that which is good in thine eyes.'↗ And Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.↗ (Torah GEN.16.6, JPS 1917)↗ · These ten times have ye reproached me; ye are not ashamed that ye deal harshly with me.↗ (Writings JOB.19.3, JPS 1917)↗

harshness — Everyday, meaning 1: Being unkind, strict or cruel: the harshness of the punishment.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Being rough and unpleasant to the senses: the harshness of a sound, a light or a taste.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Being very difficult to live in: the harshness of the desert or the Arctic winter.↗ Example: The harshness of the Arctic winter makes life hard for animals.↗ · We were shocked by the harshness of the punishment.↗ · The harshness in his voice made the little boy cry.↗ · Camels are adapted to the harshness of the desert.↗ · The bright light's harshness hurt my eyes.↗ · She said sorry for the harshness of her words.↗

hart — Everyday, meaning 1: An old word for a male deer, a stag, especially a full-grown red deer with large antlers.↗ Example: The hart ran through the forest.↗ · We saw a hart and a hind in the meadow.↗ · The hunters chased the hart all day.↗ · the hart, and the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the antelope, and the mountain-sheep.↗ (Torah DEU.14.5, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou shalt eat it within thy gates; the unclean and the clean may eat it alike, as the gazelle, and as the hart.↗ (Torah DEU.15.22, JPS 1917)↗ · Howbeit as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat thereof; the unclean and the clean may eat thereof alike.↗ (Torah DEU.12.22, JPS 1917)↗ · As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after Thee, O God.↗ (Writings PSA.42.2, JPS 1917)↗ · Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a gazelle or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.↗ (Writings SNG.8.14, JPS 1917)↗ · ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, beside harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fatted fowl.↗ (Prophets 1KI.5.3, JPS 1917)↗

hartebeest — Everyday, meaning 1: A large African antelope with a long face, a sloping back and curved horns, living on grassy plains.↗ Example: The hartebeest grazed on the dry plain.↗ · A lion crept towards a herd of hartebeest.↗ · Hartebeest have long faces and curved horns.↗ · In the Just So Story, the Leopard hunted on the High Veldt.↗ · Hartebeest can run very fast to escape.↗ · We saw a hartebeest at the safari park.↗

harvest — Everyday, meaning 1: To harvest is to gather crops like corn, apples or wheat when they are ripe.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The harvest is the time when crops are gathered, at the end of summer or in autumn.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A harvest is the amount of crops gathered: «a good harvest».↗ Example: They harvest 28 sacks of oranges each day.↗ · How many sacks will they have after 5 days?↗ · The farmer harvested 400 potatoes.↗ · Each acre gives a harvest of 30 bushels.↗ · Farmers harvest wheat at the end of summer.↗ · Rain ruined the harvest this year.↗ · We brought food to the harvest festival.↗ · Bees harvest nectar from flowers.↗ · Good harvests, or bad, the farmer was always poor, the money-lender rich.↗ · Thou shalt not delay to offer of the fulness of thy harvest, and of the outflow of thy presses.↗ (Torah EXO.22.29, JPS 1917)↗ · While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.'↗ (Torah GEN.8.22, JPS 1917)↗ · And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah.↗ (Torah GEN.30.14, JPS 1917)↗ · Is it not wheat harvest to-day?↗ (Prophets 1SA.12.17, JPS 1917)↗ · Also, O Judah, there is a harvest appointed for thee!↗ (Prophets HOS.6.11, JPS 1917)↗ · Provideth her bread in the summer, and gatherest her food in the harvest.↗ (Writings PRO.6.8, JPS 1917)↗

harvested — Everyday, meaning 1: (literal) gathered crops such as wheat, apples or potatoes when they are ripe.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (euphemism, hunting, US) killed by hunters: «deer were harvested».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (euphemism, industry) cut down (trees) or caught (fish).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: collected: «harvested data», «harvested rainwater»; (medicine) organs or cells taken from a donor.↗ Example: The farmers harvested the wheat in late summer.↗ · Over two hundred deer were harvested in the county this season.↗ · The forest was harvested for timber.↗ · Our class harvested the potatoes we planted in spring.↗ · Fishermen harvested tonnes of cod.↗ · The app harvested users' data without asking.↗ · We harvested rainwater in a barrel for the garden.↗ · If each tree gives 30 apples and we harvested 12 trees, we harvested 360 apples.↗ · "If this wheat is not harvested at once," said the Farmer, "we shall lose half the crop.↗

harvester — Everyday, meaning 1: A machine that gathers crops, such as a combine harvester.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A person who gathers crops.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: An animal that collects food, such as a harvester ant.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (Harvester) A daddy-long-legs-like creature (harvestman).↗ Example: The combine harvester worked in the field all night.↗ · Harvesters picked the grapes by hand.↗ · Harvester ants store seeds underground.↗ · The harvester cuts 5 hectares an hour.↗ · We watched the harvester from the gate.↗ · Keep away from the harvester — it is dangerous.↗

harvestman — Everyday, meaning 1: A small creature with a round body and eight very long, thin legs, related to spiders but not a true spider; also called «daddy longlegs» in North America.↗ Example: We found a harvestman under a log.↗ · A harvestman has eight long legs but no silk.↗ · Harvestmen are related to spiders.↗ · The harvestman walked slowly across the garden wall.↗ · In Canada, people call a harvestman a daddy longlegs.↗ · Harvestmen are harmless to people.↗ · Speak: Thus saith the LORD — And the carcasses of men fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, which none gathereth.'↗ (Prophets JER.9.21, JPS 1917)↗ · And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the standing corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; yea, it shall be as when one gleaneth ears in the valley of Rephaim.↗ (Prophets ISA.17.5, JPS 1917)↗

hash — Everyday, meaning 1: The symbol # (also called hash sign, pound sign in the US, or number sign), used in hashtags and on phones.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A dish of chopped cooked meat and potatoes fried together: corned beef hash.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) «Make a hash of something» means do it very badly.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (computing) A code made from data by a fixed rule, used to check files and passwords.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (slang) Short for hashish, an illegal drug made from cannabis.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: (verb) «Hash out» means to discuss something until you agree.↗ Everyday, meaning 7: To make hash of something can mean to wreck or destroy it completely.↗ Example: Type your PIN and then press hash.↗ · We had corned beef hash for tea.↗ · I made a total hash of my spelling test.↗ · Hash browns are my favourite breakfast.↗ · Websites store a hash of your password, not the password itself.↗ · The two captains hashed out the rules before the game.↗ · The # symbol is called hash in the UK and pound sign in the US.↗ · The police found hash, an illegal drug, in the car.↗

hashtag — Everyday, meaning 1: A word or phrase with the # sign in front, used on social media so that posts on the same topic can be found together: #worldbookday.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (UK) The # symbol itself is sometimes called a hashtag; it is also called hash, pound sign (US) or number sign.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal, joke) Said out loud before a phrase to sound trendy: hashtag winning.↗ Example: The school posted photos with the hashtag #sportsday.↗ · That hashtag is trending all over the world.↗ · Type a hashtag to find posts about the match.↗ · Hashtags have no spaces between the words.↗ · My sister said hashtag best day ever as a joke.↗ · Press the hashtag key at the end of the phone number.↗

hassle — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal) Something annoying and difficult that takes effort: getting the bus is such a hassle.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) Trouble or arguing.↗ e.g. I don't want any hassle.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb, informal) To keep annoying someone or asking them to do something: stop hassling me about my homework.↗ Example: Packing for the trip was a real hassle.↗ · It's no hassle, I'll drive you to school.↗ · Stop hassling your sister!↗ · The older kids were hassling us for our sweets.↗ · Online shopping is meant to be hassle-free.↗ · Mum hassled me to tidy my room all weekend.↗ · I don't want any hassle, I just want to play.↗

hast — Early Modern English, meaning 1: you have.↗ Example: And they said: 'Thou hast saved our lives.↗ (Torah GEN.47.25, JPS 1917) · What hast thou come here for?"↗ (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) · And Balak said unto Balaam: 'What hast thou done unto me?↗ (Torah NUM.23.11, JPS 1917)

haste — Everyday, meaning 1: Great speed, often too much speed, when you hurry.↗ e.g. In her haste she forgot her bag.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «make haste» (old-fashioned) = hurry up.↗ Example: In my haste I spilt the milk.↗ · «Make haste!» cried the king.↗ · He left in haste without saying goodbye.↗ · More haste, less speed — check your answers carefully.↗ · The letter was written in haste and full of mistakes.↗ · There is no need for haste; we have plenty of time.↗ · Hi! comrades, make haste! make haste!’↗ · And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.↗ (Torah EXO.34.8, JPS 1917)↗ · And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said: Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also.↗ (Torah GEN.24.46, JPS 1917)↗ · Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said: 'I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you.↗ (Torah EXO.10.16, JPS 1917)↗ · Make haste to help me, O LORD, my salvation.↗ (Writings PSA.38.23, JPS 1917)↗ · I said in my haste: 'All men are liars.'↗ (Writings PSA.116.11, JPS 1917)↗ · I made haste, and delayed not, to observe Thy commandments.↗ (Writings PSA.119.60, JPS 1917)↗