Name Report For First Name HANA:

HANA

First name HANA's origin is Arabic. HANA means "happiness". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with HANA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of hana.(Brown names are of the same origin (Arabic) with HANA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with HANA - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming HANA

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES HANA AS A WHOLE:

hanan rihana thana' athanasia stephana dhana pithasthana athanasios thanatos kohana ahana alhana chana farhana shahana shanaye shoshana buchanan hananiah johanan nathanael pahana shanahan wahanassatta thanasis chanah chanan elhanan hananel

NAMES RHYMING WITH HANA (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ana) - Names That Ends with ana:

ayana fana hasana tarana sana' aitana agana jana jaana durandana luana philana iolana kaimana malana mana moana oliana ivana zigana drisana rana andreana fabiana liliana sebastiana chu'mana huyana lenmana nahimana adriana ileana ioana loredana mariana oana roxana stefana tatiana bohdana bwana hakizimana mukhwana kana abriana adana aileana aiyana alana aliyana allana ana andeana ariana arlana arleana aryana assana audreana audriana aureliana aviana ayiana bibiana blyana bradana braiana breana bree-ana brezziana briana caliana caroliana cavana chiana christana christiana cipriana corazana daiana damiana dana daviana deana deeana diana duana dyana edana elana eliana eramana estebana estefana etana eviana floriana gaetana galiana gana

NAMES RHYMING WITH HANA (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (han) - Names That Begins with han:

han hanbal hand haneefa hanford hang hani hania hanif hanifa hanifah hanisi haniyyah hank hanley hanlon hanly hann hanna hannah hannalee hanne hannela hannele hannelora hannelore hanno hanomtano hanraoi hanri hanrietta hanriette hans hansel hanson hantaywee hanz

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ha) - Names That Begins with ha:

ha'ani habib habiba habibah hacket hackett hadad hadar hadara hadarah hadassah haddad hadden haddon hadeel haden hadi hadiya hadiyah hadiyyah hadleigh hadley hadon hadrian hadu haduwig hadwin hadwyn hadya haefen haele haemon haesel haestingas haethowin haethowine hafgan hafsah hafthah hagaleah hagalean hagan hagar hagaward hagley hagly hagop hagos hahkethomemah hahnee hai haidee haifa haig hailey hailie haille haimati haisley haji hajjaj hajna hakan

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH HANA:

First Names which starts with 'h' and ends with 'a':

hakidonmuya haleema halfrida halfryta halia haligwiella halima halimeda hallfrita halona hameeda hamia hamza harelea harimanna harimilla harmonia harrietta hartma hasina hasna havanna hawa haya he-lush-ka hecuba hedda hedia hedyla heida hekuba helena helga helia helma helsa hemera hendrika henrietta henrika henriqua heortwiella hepsiba hera heretoga hermosa herta hertha hesperia hessa hestia hida hilaeira hilda hildemara hilma hippodamia hippolyta hisa hisolda hlinka hlisa hoa hola holda holea honbria honiahaka honora honoria honza hooda hooriya horia hortencia hosanna hosea hraefnscaga hrothbeorhta hrothberta hrothbertina hrothnerta hrypa huata huberta huda huetta hughetta hugiberahta hugiherahta huguetta hulda huma humita hydra hygeia hygieia hylda hypatia hypermnestra

English Words Rhyming HANA

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES HANA AS A WHOLE:

athanasianadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria in the 4th century.

athanasianoun (n.) Alt. of Athanasy

athanasynoun (n.) The quality of being deathless; immortality.

bacchanalnoun (n.) A devotee of Bacchus; one who indulges in drunken revels; one who is noisy and riotous when intoxicated; a carouser.
 noun (n.) The festival of Bacchus; the bacchanalia.
 noun (n.) Drunken revelry; an orgy.
 noun (n.) A song or dance in honor of Bacchus.
 adjective (a.) Relating to Bacchus or his festival.
 adjective (a.) Engaged in drunken revels; drunken and riotous or noisy.

bacchanalianoun (n. pl.) A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus.
 noun (n. pl.) Hence: A drunken feast; drunken reveler.

bacchanaliannoun (n.) A bacchanal; a drunken reveler.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness.

bacchanalianismnoun (n.) The practice of bacchanalians; bacchanals; drunken revelry.

euthanasianoun (n.) An easy death; a mode of dying to be desired.

euthanasynoun (n.) Same as Euthanasia.

hanapnoun (n.) A rich goblet, esp. one used on state occasions.

hanapernoun (n.) A kind of basket, usually of wickerwork, and adapted for the packing and carrying of articles; a hamper.

khanatenoun (n.) Dominion or jurisdiction of a khan.

orphanagenoun (n.) The state of being an orphan; orphanhood; orphans, collectively.
 noun (n.) An institution or asylum for the care of orphans.

phanarnoun (n.) A quarter of Constantinople which, after the Turkish conquest of the city, became the chief Greek quarter; hence, the Greek officials of Turkey, or phanariots, as a class.

psychanalysisnoun (n.) A method or process of psychotherapeutic analysis based on the work of Dr. Sigmund Freud (1856- --) of Vienna. The method rests upon the theory that hysteria is characteristically due to repression of desires consciously rejected but subconsciously persistent; it consists in a close analysis of the patient's mental history, stress being laid upon the dream life, and of treatment by means of suggestion.

sathanasnoun (n.) Satan.

thanagenoun (n.) The district in which a thane anciently had jurisdiction; thanedom.

thanatoidadjective (a.) Deathlike; resembling death.

thanatologynoun (n.) A description, or the doctrine, of death.

thanatopsisnoun (n.) A view of death; a meditation on the subject of death.

thananoun (n.) A police station.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH HANA (According to last letters):


Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ana) - English Words That Ends with ana:


banananoun (n.) A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size (Musa sapientum); also, its edible fruit. See Musa.

bandananoun (n.) A species of silk or cotton handkerchief, having a uniformly dyed ground, usually of red or blue, with white or yellow figures of a circular, lozenge, or other simple form.
 noun (n.) A style of calico printing, in which white or bright spots are produced upon cloth previously dyed of a uniform red or dark color, by discharging portions of the color by chemical means, while the rest of the cloth is under pressure.

bimananoun (n. pl.) Animals having two hands; -- a term applied by Cuvier to man as a special order of Mammalia.

campananoun (n.) A church bell.
 noun (n.) The pasque flower.
 noun (n.) Same as Gutta.

curtananoun (n.) The pointless sword carried before English monarchs at their coronation, and emblematically considered as the sword of mercy; -- also called the sword of Edward the Confessor.

damiananoun (n.) A Mexican drug, used as an aphrodisiac.

diananoun (n.) The daughter of Jupiter and Latona; a virgin goddess who presided over hunting, chastity, and marriage; -- identified with the Greek goddess Artemis.

dulciananoun (n.) A sweet-toned stop of an organ.

guananoun (n.) See Iguana.

guarananoun (n.) A preparation from the seeds of Paullinia sorbilis, a woody climber of Brazil, used in making an astringent drink, and also in the cure of headache.

gitananoun (n. masc.) Alt. of Gitano

havananoun (n.) An Havana cigar.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar

iguananoun (n.) Any species of the genus Iguana, a genus of large American lizards of the family Iguanidae. They are arboreal in their habits, usually green in color, and feed chiefly upon fruits.

jacananoun (n.) Any of several wading birds belonging to the genus Jacana and several allied genera, all of which have spurs on the wings. They are able to run about over floating water weeds by means of their very long, spreading toes. Called also surgeon bird.

jambolananoun (n.) A myrtaceous tree of the West Indies and tropical America (Calyptranthes Jambolana), with astringent bark, used for dyeing. It bears an edible fruit.

kerananoun (n.) A kind of long trumpet, used among the Persians.

levananoun (n.) A goddess who protected newborn infants.

liananoun (n.) A luxuriant woody plant, climbing high trees and having ropelike stems. The grapevine often has the habit of a liane. Lianes are abundant in the forests of the Amazon region.

nicotiananoun (n.) A genus of American and Asiatic solanaceous herbs, with viscid foliage and funnel-shaped blossoms. Several species yield tobacco. See Tobacco.

nirvananoun (n.) In the Buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of wordly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine. See Buddhism.

nagananoun (n.) The disease caused by the tsetse fly.

quadrumananoun (n. pl.) A division of the Primates comprising the apes and monkeys; -- so called because the hind foot is usually prehensile, and the great toe opposable somewhat like a thumb. Formerly the Quadrumana were considered an order distinct from the Bimana, which last included man alone.
 noun (n. pl.) A division of the Primates comprising the apes and monkeys; -- so called because the hind foot is usually prehensile, and the great toe opposable somewhat like a thumb. Formerly the Quadrumana were considered an order distinct from the Bimana, which last included man alone.

pedimananoun (n. pl.) A division of marsupials, including the opossums.

poinciananoun (n.) A prickly tropical shrub (Caesalpinia, formerly Poinciana, pulcherrima), with bipinnate leaves, and racemes of showy orange-red flowers with long crimson filaments.

pozzuolananoun (n.) Alt. of Pozzolana

pozzolananoun (n.) Volcanic ashes from Pozzuoli, in Italy, used in the manufacture of a kind of mortar which hardens under water.

purananoun (n.) One of a class of sacred Hindoo poetical works in the Sanskrit language which treat of the creation, destruction, and renovation of worlds, the genealogy and achievements of gods and heroes, the reigns of the Manus, and the transactions of their descendants. The principal Puranas are eighteen in number, and there are the same number of supplementary books called Upa Puranas.

puzzolananoun (n.) See Pozzuolana.

ramayananoun (n.) The more ancient of the two great epic poems in Sanskrit. The hero and heroine are Rama and his wife Sita.

rananoun (n.) A genus of anurous batrachians, including the common frogs.

salangananoun (n.) The salagane.

sultananoun (n.) The wife of a sultan; a sultaness.
 noun (n.) A kind of seedless raisin produced near Smyrna in Asiatic Turkey.

tananoun (n.) Same as Banxring.

torananoun (n.) A gateway, commonly of wood, but sometimes of stone, consisting of two upright pillars carrying one to three transverse lintels. It is often minutely carved with symbolic sculpture, and serves as a monumental approach to a Buddhist temple.

tramontananoun (n.) A dry, cold, violent, northerly wind of the Adriatic.

zenananoun (n.) The part of a dwelling appropriated to women.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH HANA (According to first letters):


Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (han) - Words That Begins with han:


handnoun (n.) That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in man and monkeys, and the corresponding part in many other animals; manus; paw. See Manus.
 noun (n.) That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand
 noun (n.) A limb of certain animals, as the foot of a hawk, or any one of the four extremities of a monkey.
 noun (n.) An index or pointer on a dial; as, the hour or minute hand of a clock.
 noun (n.) A measure equal to a hand's breadth, -- four inches; a palm. Chiefly used in measuring the height of horses.
 noun (n.) Side; part; direction, either right or left.
 noun (n.) Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity.
 noun (n.) Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance.
 noun (n.) An agent; a servant, or laborer; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty; a performer more or less skillful; as, a deck hand; a farm hand; an old hand at speaking.
 noun (n.) Handwriting; style of penmanship; as, a good, bad or running hand. Hence, a signature.
 noun (n.) Personal possession; ownership; hence, control; direction; management; -- usually in the plural.
 noun (n.) Agency in transmission from one person to another; as, to buy at first hand, that is, from the producer, or when new; at second hand, that is, when no longer in the producer's hand, or when not new.
 noun (n.) Rate; price.
 noun (n.) That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once
 noun (n.) The quota of cards received from the dealer.
 noun (n.) A bundle of tobacco leaves tied together.
 noun (n.) The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.
 noun (n.) A gambling game played by American Indians, consisting of guessing the whereabouts of bits of ivory or the like, which are passed rapidly from hand to hand.
 verb (v. t.) To give, pass, or transmit with the hand; as, he handed them the letter.
 verb (v. t.) To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct; as, to hand a lady into a carriage.
 verb (v. t.) To manage; as, I hand my oar.
 verb (v. t.) To seize; to lay hands on.
 verb (v. t.) To pledge by the hand; to handfast.
 verb (v. t.) To furl; -- said of a sail.
 verb (v. i.) To cooperate.

handingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hand

handbarrownoun (n.) A frame or barrow, without a wheel, carried by hand.

handbillnoun (n.) A loose, printed sheet, to be distributed by hand.
 noun (n.) A pruning hook.

handbooknoun (n.) A book of reference, to be carried in the hand; a manual; a guidebook.

handbreadthnoun (n.) A space equal to the breadth of the hand; a palm.

handcartnoun (n.) A cart drawn or pushed by hand.

handclothnoun (n.) A handkerchief.

handcraftnoun (n.) Same as Handicraft.

handcraftsmannoun (n.) A handicraftsman.

handcuffnoun (n.) A fastening, consisting of an iron ring around the wrist, usually connected by a chain with one on the other wrist; a manacle; -- usually in the plural.
 verb (v. t.) To apply handcuffs to; to manacle.

handcuffingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Handcuff

handedadjective (a.) With hands joined; hand in hand.
 adjective (a.) Having a peculiar or characteristic hand.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Hand

handernoun (n.) One who hands over or transmits; a conveyer in succession.

handfastnoun (n.) Hold; grasp; custody; power of confining or keeping.
 noun (n.) Contract; specifically, espousal.
 noun (n.) Strong; steadfast.
 adjective (a.) Fast by contract; betrothed by joining hands.
 verb (v. t.) To pledge; to bind; to betroth by joining hands, in order to cohabitation, before the celebration of marriage.

handfastingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Handfast

handfishnoun (n.) The frogfish.

handfulnoun (n.) As much as the hand will grasp or contain.
 noun (n.) A hand's breadth; four inches.
 noun (n.) A small quantity.

handicapnoun (n.) An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race to the competitor possessing inferior advantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing superior advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success; as, the handicap was five seconds, or ten pounds, and the like.
 noun (n.) A race, for horses or men, or any contest of agility, strength, or skill, in which there is an allowance of time, distance, weight, or other advantage, to equalize the chances of the competitors.
 noun (n.) An old game at cards.
 verb (v. t.) To encumber with a handicap in any contest; hence, in general, to place at disadvantage; as, the candidate was heavily handicapped.

handicappingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Handicap

handicappernoun (n.) One who determines the conditions of a handicap.

handicraftnoun (n.) A trade requiring skill of hand; manual occupation; handcraft.
 noun (n.) A man who earns his living by handicraft; a handicraftsman.

handinessnoun (n.) The quality or state of being handy.

handironnoun (n.) See Andrion.

handiworknoun (n.) Work done by the hands; hence, any work done personally.

handkerchernoun (n.) A handkerchief.

handkerchiefnoun (n.) A piece of cloth, usually square and often fine and elegant, carried for wiping the face or hands.
 noun (n.) A piece of cloth shaped like a handkerchief to be worn about the neck; a neckerchief; a neckcloth.

handlingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Handle
 noun (n.) A touching, controlling, managing, using, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands. See Handle, v. t.
 verb (v. t.) The mode of using the pencil or brush, etc.; style of touch.

handlenoun (n.) That part of vessels, instruments, etc., which is held in the hand when used or moved, as the haft of a sword, the knob of a door, the bail of a kettle, etc.
 noun (n.) That of which use is made; the instrument for effecting a purpose; a tool.
 verb (v. t.) To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.
 verb (v. t.) To manage in using, as a spade or a musket; to wield; often, to manage skillfully.
 verb (v. t.) To accustom to the hand; to work upon, or take care of, with the hands.
 verb (v. t.) To receive and transfer; to have pass through one's hands; hence, to buy and sell; as, a merchant handles a variety of goods, or a large stock.
 verb (v. t.) To deal with; to make a business of.
 verb (v. t.) To treat; to use, well or ill.
 verb (v. t.) To manage; to control; to practice skill upon.
 verb (v. t.) To use or manage in writing or speaking; to treat, as a theme, an argument, or an objection.
 verb (v. i.) To use the hands.

handleableadjective (a.) Capable of being handled.

handlessadjective (a.) Without a hand.

handmadeadjective (a.) Manufactured by hand; as, handmade shoes.

handmaidnoun (n.) Alt. of Handmaiden

handmaidennoun (n.) A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.

handsawnoun (n.) A saw used with one hand.

handselnoun (n.) A sale, gift, or delivery into the hand of another; especially, a sale, gift, delivery, or using which is the first of a series, and regarded as on omen for the rest; a first installment; an earnest; as the first money received for the sale of goods in the morning, the first money taken at a shop newly opened, the first present sent to a young woman on her wedding day, etc.
 noun (n.) Price; payment.
 noun (n.) To give a handsel to.
 noun (n.) To use or do for the first time, esp. so as to make fortunate or unfortunate; to try experimentally.

handselingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Handsel

handsomenessnoun (n.) The quality of being handsome.

handspikenoun (n.) A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes.

handspringnoun (n.) A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground.

handwheelnoun (n.) Any wheel worked by hand; esp., one the rim of which serves as the handle by which a valve, car brake, or other part is adjusted.

handwritingnoun (n.) The cast or form of writing peculiar to each hand or person; chirography.
 noun (n.) That which is written by hand; manuscript.

handyfightnoun (n.) A fight with the hands; boxing.

handygripenoun (n.) Seizure by, or grasp of, the hand; also, close quarters in fighting.

handystrokenoun (n.) A blow with the hand.

hangingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hang
 noun (n.) The act of suspending anything; the state of being suspended.
 noun (n.) Death by suspension; execution by a halter.
 noun (n.) That which is hung as lining or drapery for the walls of a room, as tapestry, paper, etc., or to cover or drape a door or window; -- used chiefly in the plural.
 adjective (a.) Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter.
 adjective (a.) Suspended from above; pendent; as, hanging shelves.
 adjective (a.) Adapted for sustaining a hanging object; as, the hanging post of a gate, the post which holds the hinges.

hangnoun (n.) The manner in which one part or thing hangs upon, or is connected with, another; as, the hang of a scythe.
 noun (n.) Connection; arrangement; plan; as, the hang of a discourse.
 noun (n.) A sharp or steep declivity or slope.
 verb (v. i.) To suspend; to fasten to some elevated point without support from below; -- often used with up or out; as, to hang a coat on a hook; to hang up a sign; to hang out a banner.
 verb (v. i.) To fasten in a manner which will allow of free motion upon the point or points of suspension; -- said of a pendulum, a swing, a door, gate, etc.
 verb (v. i.) To fit properly, as at a proper angle (a part of an implement that is swung in using), as a scythe to its snath, or an ax to its helve.
 verb (v. i.) To put to death by suspending by the neck; -- a form of capital punishment; as, to hang a murderer.
 verb (v. i.) To cover, decorate, or furnish by hanging pictures trophies, drapery, and the like, or by covering with paper hangings; -- said of a wall, a room, etc.
 verb (v. i.) To paste, as paper hangings, on the walls of a room.
 verb (v. i.) To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect; to droop; as, he hung his head in shame.
 verb (v. i.) To be suspended or fastened to some elevated point without support from below; to dangle; to float; to rest; to remain; to stay.
 verb (v. i.) To be fastened in such a manner as to allow of free motion on the point or points of suspension.
 verb (v. i.) To die or be put to death by suspension from the neck.
 verb (v. i.) To hold for support; to depend; to cling; -- usually with on or upon; as, this question hangs on a single point.
 verb (v. i.) To be, or be like, a suspended weight.
 verb (v. i.) To hover; to impend; to appear threateningly; -- usually with over; as, evils hang over the country.
 verb (v. i.) To lean or incline; to incline downward.
 verb (v. i.) To slope down; as, hanging grounds.
 verb (v. i.) To be undetermined or uncertain; to be in suspense; to linger; to be delayed.
 verb (v. i.) Of a ball: To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of ground.
 verb (v. t.) To prevent from reaching a decision, esp. by refusing to join in a verdict that must be unanimous; as, one obstinate juror can hang a jury.

hangbirdnoun (n.) The Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula); -- so called because its nest is suspended from the limb of a tree. See Baltimore oriole.

hangdognoun (n.) A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird.
 adjective (a.) Low; sneaking; ashamed.

hangernoun (n.) One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman.
 noun (n.) That by which a thing is suspended.
 noun (n.) A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended.
 noun (n.) A part that suspends a journal box in which shafting runs. See Illust. of Countershaft.
 noun (n.) A bridle iron.
 noun (n.) That which hangs or is suspended, as a sword worn at the side; especially, in the 18th century, a short, curved sword.
 noun (n.) A steep, wooded declivity.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH HANA:

English Words which starts with 'h' and ends with 'a':

haciendanoun (n.) A large estate where work of any kind is done, as agriculture, manufacturing, mining, or raising of animals; a cultivated farm, with a good house, in distinction from a farming establishment with rude huts for herdsmen, etc.; -- a word used in Spanish-American regions.

haematocryanoun (n. pl.) The cold-blooded vertebrates. Same as Hematocrya.

haematophlinanoun (n. pl.) A division of Cheiroptera, including the bloodsucking bats. See Vampire.

haematothermanoun (n. pl.) Same as Hematotherma.

haggadanoun (n.) A story, anecdote, or legend in the Talmud, to explain or illustrate the text of the Old Testament.

hagiographanoun (n. pl.) The last of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament, or that portion not contained in the Law and the Prophets. It comprises Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Canticles, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Chronicles.
 noun (n. pl.) The lives of the saints.

halachanoun (n.) The general term for the Hebrew oral or traditional law; one of two branches of exposition in the Midrash. See Midrash.

halesianoun (n.) A genus of American shrubs containing several species, called snowdrop trees, or silver-bell trees. They have showy, white flowers, drooping on slender pedicels.

halisaurianoun (n. pl.) The Enaliosauria.

halmanoun (n.) The long jump, with weights in the hands, -- the most important of the exercises of the Pentathlon.
 noun (n.) A game played on a board having 256 squares, by two persons with 19 men each, or by four with 13 men each, starting from different corners and striving to place each his own set of men in a corresponding position in the opposite corner by moving them or by jumping them over those met in progress.

haminuranoun (n.) A large edible river fish (Erythrinus macrodon) of Guiana.

han sanoun (n.) See 2d Hanse.

harmonicanoun (n.) A musical instrument, consisting of a series of hemispherical glasses which, by touching the edges with the dampened finger, give forth the tones.
 noun (n.) A toy instrument of strips of glass or metal hung on two tapes, and struck with hammers.

harpanoun (n.) A genus of marine univalve shells; the harp shells; -- so called from the form of the shells, and their ornamental ribs.

hatterianoun (n.) A New Zealand lizard, which, in anatomical character, differs widely from all other existing lizards. It is the only living representative of the order Rhynchocephala, of which many Mesozoic fossil species are known; -- called also Sphenodon, and Tuatera.

haustellatanoun (n. pl.) An artificial division of insects, including all those with a sucking proboscis.

heartpeanoun (n.) Same as Heartseed.

hegiranoun (n.) The flight of Mohammed from Mecca, September 13, A. D. 622 (subsequently established as the first year of the Moslem era); hence, any flight or exodus regarded as like that of Mohammed.

hejiranoun (n.) See Hegira.

helenanoun (n.) See St. Elmo's fire, under Saint.

helianthoideanoun (n. pl.) An order of Anthozoa; the Actinaria.

heliconianoun (n.) One of numerous species of Heliconius, a genus of tropical American butterflies. The wings are usually black, marked with green, crimson, and white.

helicotremanoun (n.) The opening by which the two scalae communicate at the top of the cochlea of the ear.

helioporanoun (n.) An East Indian stony coral now known to belong to the Alcyonaria; -- called also blue coral.

heliozoanoun (n. pl.) An order of fresh-water rhizopods having a more or less globular form, with slender radiating pseudopodia; the sun animalcule.

hematocryanoun (n. pl.) The cold-blooded vertebrates, that is, all but the mammals and birds; -- the antithesis to Hematotherma.

hematomanoun (n.) A circumscribed swelling produced by an effusion of blood beneath the skin.

hematophilianoun (n.) A condition characterized by a tendency to profuse and uncontrollable hemorrhage from the slightest wounds.

hematothermanoun (n. pl.) The warm-blooded vertebrates, comprising the mammals and birds; -- the antithesis to hematocrya.

hematurianoun (n.) Passage of urine mingled with blood.

hemeralopianoun (n.) A disease of the eyes, in consequence of which a person can see clearly or without pain only by daylight or a strong artificial light; day sight.

hemianaesthesianoun (n.) Anaesthesia upon one side of the body.

hemicardianoun (n.) A lateral half of the heart, either the right or left.

hemicranianoun (n.) A pain that affects only one side of the head.

hemimetabolanoun (n. pl.) Those insects which have an incomplete metamorphosis.

heminanoun (n.) A measure of half a sextary.
 noun (n.) A measure equal to about ten fluid ounces.

hemiopianoun (n.) Alt. of Hemiopsia

hemiopsianoun (n.) A defect of vision in consequence of which a person sees but half of an object looked at.

hemiplegianoun (n.) A palsy that affects one side only of the body.

hemipteranoun (n. pl.) An order of hexapod insects having a jointed proboscis, including four sharp stylets (mandibles and maxillae), for piercing. In many of the species (Heteroptera) the front wings are partially coriaceous, and different from the others.

hemophilianoun (n.) See Hematophilia.

hennanoun (n.) A thorny tree or shrub of the genus Lawsonia (L. alba). The fragrant white blossoms are used by the Buddhists in religious ceremonies. The powdered leaves furnish a red coloring matter used in the East to stain the hails and fingers, the manes of horses, etc.
 noun (n.) The leaves of the henna plant, or a preparation or dyestuff made from them.

hepaticanoun (n.) A genus of pretty spring flowers closely related to Anemone; squirrel cup.
 noun (n.) Any plant, usually procumbent and mosslike, of the cryptogamous class Hepaticae; -- called also scale moss and liverwort. See Hepaticae, in the Supplement.

heptagynianoun (n. pl.) A Linnaean order of plants having seven pistils.

heptandrianoun (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants having seven stamens.

herbivoranoun (n. pl.) An extensive division of Mammalia. It formerly included the Proboscidea, Hyracoidea, Perissodactyla, and Artiodactyla, but by later writers it is generally restricted to the two latter groups (Ungulata). They feed almost exclusively upon vegetation.

hermanoun (n.) See Hermes, 2.

hernianoun (n.) A protrusion, consisting of an organ or part which has escaped from its natural cavity, and projects through some natural or accidental opening in the walls of the latter; as, hernia of the brain, of the lung, or of the bowels. Hernia of the abdominal viscera in most common. Called also rupture.

heteroceranoun (n. pl.) A division of Lepidoptera, including the moths, and hawk moths, which have the antennae variable in form.

heteromeranoun (n. pl.) A division of Coleoptera, having heteromerous tarsi.

heteromyarianoun (n. pl.) A division of bivalve shells, including the marine mussels, in which the two adductor muscles are very unequal. See Dreissena, and Illust. under Byssus.

heteropodanoun (n. pl.) An order of pelagic Gastropoda, having the foot developed into a median fin. Some of the species are naked; others, as Carinaria and Atlanta, have thin glassy shells.

heteropteranoun (n. pl.) A suborder of Hemiptera, in which the base of the anterior wings is thickened. See Hemiptera.

heterotrichanoun (n. pl.) A division of ciliated Infusoria, having fine cilia all over the body, and a circle of larger ones around the anterior end.

hexactinianoun (n. pl.) The Anthozoa.

hexagynianoun (n. pl.) A Linnaean order of plants having six pistils.

hexandrianoun (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants having six stamens.

hexapodanoun (n. pl.) The true, or six-legged, insects; insects other than myriapods and arachnids.

hierapicranoun (n.) A warming cathartic medicine, made of aloes and canella bark.

hierothecanoun (n.) A receptacle for sacred objects.

hijeranoun (n.) Alt. of Hijra

hijranoun (n.) See Hegira.

hippanoun (n.) Alt. of Hippe

hippoboscanoun (n.) A genus of dipterous insects including the horsefly or horse tick.

hirudineanoun (n. pl.) An order of Annelida, including the leeches; -- called also Hirudinei.

holloanoun (n. & v. i.) Same as Hollo.

holmianoun (n.) An oxide of holmium.

holometabolanoun (n. pl.) Those insects which have a complete metamorphosis; metabola.

holostomatanoun (n. pl.) An artificial division of gastropods, including those that have an entire aperture.

holostracanoun (n. pl.) A division of phyllopod Crustacea, including those that are entirely covered by a bivalve shell.

holothurioideanoun (n. pl.) One of the classes of echinoderms.

holotrichanoun (n. pl.) A group of ciliated Infusoria, having cilia all over the body.

homoeomerianoun (n.) The state or quality of being homogeneous in elements or first principles; likeness or identity of parts.

homologoumenanoun (n. pl.) Those books of the New Testament which were acknowledged as canonical by the early church; -- distinguished from antilegomena.

homopteranoun (n. pl.) A suborder of Hemiptera, in which both pairs of wings are similar in texture, and do not overlap when folded, as in the cicada. See Hemiptera.

homotaxianoun (n.) Same as Homotaxis.

hosannanoun (n.) A Hebrew exclamation of praise to the Lord, or an invocation of blessings.

huzzanoun (n.) A shout of huzza; a cheer; a hurrah.
 verb (v. i.) To shout huzza; to cheer.
 verb (v. t.) To receive or attend with huzzas.
  (interj.) A word used as a shout of joy, exultation, approbation, or encouragement.

hyaenanoun (n.) Same as Hyena.

hyaleanoun (n.) A pteroid of the genus Cavolina. See Pteropoda, and Illustration in Appendix.

hyalonemanoun (n.) A genus of hexactinelline sponges, having a long stem composed of very long, slender, transparent, siliceous fibres twisted together like the strands of a color. The stem of the Japanese species (H. Sieboldii), called glass-rope, has long been in use as an ornament. See Glass-rope.

hyalospongianoun (n. pl.) An order of vitreous sponges, having glassy six-rayed, siliceous spicules; -- called also Hexactinellinae.

hydranoun (n.) A serpent or monster in the lake or marsh of Lerna, in the Peloponnesus, represented as having many heads, one of which, when cut off, was immediately succeeded by two others, unless the wound was cauterized. It was slain by Hercules. Hence, a terrible monster.
 noun (n.) Hence: A multifarious evil, or an evil having many sources; not to be overcome by a single effort.
 noun (n.) Any small fresh-water hydroid of the genus Hydra, usually found attached to sticks, stones, etc., by a basal sucker.
 noun (n.) A southern constellation of great length lying southerly from Cancer, Leo, and Virgo.

hydraemianoun (n.) An abnormally watery state of the blood; anaemia.

hydrangeanoun (n.) A genus of shrubby plants bearing opposite leaves and large heads of showy flowers, white, or of various colors. H. hortensis, the common garden species, is a native of China or Japan.

hydrianoun (n.) A water jar; esp., one with a large rounded body, a small neck, and three handles. Some of the most beautiful Greek vases are of this form.

hydrinanoun (n. pl.) The group of hydroids to which the fresh-water hydras belong.

hydrobranchiatanoun (n. pl.) An extensive artificial division of gastropod mollusks, including those that breathe by gills, as contrasted with the Pulmonifera.

hydrocorallianoun (n. pl.) A division of Hydroidea, including those genera that secrete a stony coral, as Millepora and Stylaster. Two forms of zooids in life project from small pores in the coral and resemble those of other hydroids. See Millepora.

hydroideanoun (n. pl.) An extensive order of Hydrozoa or Acalephae.

hydromedusanoun (n.) Any medusa or jellyfish which is produced by budding from a hydroid. They are called also Craspedota, and naked-eyed medusae.

hydromicanoun (n.) A variety of potash mica containing water. It is less elastic than ordinary muscovite.

hydrophobianoun (n.) An abnormal dread of water, said to be a symptom of canine madness; hence:
 noun (n.) The disease caused by a bite form, or inoculation with the saliva of, a rabid creature, of which the chief symptoms are, a sense of dryness and construction in the throat, causing difficulty in deglutition, and a marked heightening of reflex excitability, producing convulsions whenever the patient attempts to swallow, or is disturbed in any way, as by the sight or sound of water; rabies; canine madness.

hydrophoranoun (n. pl.) The Hydroidea.

hydrorhizanoun (n.) The rootstock or decumbent stem by which a hydroid is attached to other objects. See Illust. under Hydroidea.

hydrosomanoun (n.) All the zooids of a hydroid colony collectively, including the nutritive and reproductive zooids, and often other kinds.

hydrothecanoun (n.) One of the calicles which, in some Hydroidea (Thecaphora), protect the hydrants. See Illust. of Hydroidea, and Campanularian.

hydrozoanoun (n. pl.) The Acalephae; one of the classes of coelenterates, including the Hydroidea, Discophora, and Siphonophora.
  (pl. ) of Hydrozoon

hyenanoun (n.) Any carnivorous mammal of the family Hyaenidae, of which three living species are known. They are large and strong, but cowardly. They feed chiefly on carrion, and are nocturnal in their habits.

hygeianoun (n.) The goddess of health, daughter of Esculapius.