Emily Dickinson Lexicon

H,

Happen; take place; come to pass. 371/569 What Competitions ran – / When Plato – was a Certainty

H,

Phrase. “Red Sea”: (see entry below). red (-der), adv. [see red, n.] (webplay: bird, blossom, bright, cheeks, eyes, simple, summer, walk).

H,

Phrase: “remains to see” 1732/1773 remaining, adj. [see remain, v.] (webplay: childless, delay, grows, kept, night, proved, up). Still present; left behind; left over; still available. 858/1061 So turbulent it grows / I'm tempted half to stitch it up / With a remaining Breath remaining, n. [see remain, v.] (webplay: greater, time). The act of staying or continuing. 1762/1787 Enchanting by remaining, / And by departure more. remand (-ed), v. [Fr. or Late L. re-, again + mandāre, enjoin, command.] (webplay: call).

H,

Give back; pay again. 1464/1516 One thing of thee I borrow / And promise to return – / The Booty and the Sorrow returned, verbal adj. [see return, v.] Sent back; restored to place; [fig.] restored to life; raised from the dead. 160/132 as One returned, I feel, / Odd secrets of the line to tell! returning, verbal n. [see return, v.] (webplay: day, house, labor).

H,

See from the other side. 920/845 We go no further … Than to the Earthen Door – / And then the Panels are reversed reversed, verbal adj. [see reverse, v.] Prescient; out of order; ahead of time; [fig.] temporal. 800/855 Eternity – obtained – in Time – / Reversed Divinity revert (-ed), v. [OFr revertir < L. re- + vertěre, to turn.] (webplay: turned back). Come back; return in thought; pay attention again to. 734/719 I … Reverted to adjoining Lives review, n. [Fr. revue < re- + voir < L. vidēre, to see.] Publication containing analysis. [1496] 1353/1380 'Tis Ecstasy's revealed Review – / Enchantment's Syndicate review (-ed, -s), v. [Fr. revoir, see review, n.]

H, [Fig.]

Power of the king. 465/591 When the King / Be witnessed – in the Room – root, n. [Late OE rót < ON rót.]

H, [Fig.]

Blush; rush of blood to the face indicating intense emotion. 208/200 The Rose did caper on her cheek –

H,

is the eighth letter of the English Alphabet. It is properly the representative of the Chaldee, Syriac and Hebrew ח, which is the eighth letter in those alphabets. Its form is the same as the Greek Η eta. It is not strictly a vowel, nor an articulation; but the mark of a stronger breathing than that which precedes the utterance of any other letter. It is pronounced with an expiration of breath, which, preceding a vowel, is perceptible by the ear at a considerable distance. Thus harm and arm, hear and ear, heat and eat, are distinguished at almost any distance at which the voice can be beard. H is a letter sui generis, but as useful in forming and distinguishing words as any other. In our mother tongue, the Anglo-Saxon, and other Teutonic dialects, h sometimes represents the L. c, and the Gr. κ; as in horn, L. cornu, Gr. κερας; hide, G. haut, Sw. hud, D. huid, Dan. hud, L. cutis; Sax. hlinian, L. clino, Gr. κλινω, to lean; L. celo, to conceal, Sax. helan, G. hehlen, Dan. hæler. In Latin, h sometimes represents the Greek χ; as in halo, Gr. χαλαω; hio, χαω. In the modern European languages, it represents other guttural letters. In English, h is sometimes mute, as in honor, honest; also when united with g, as in right, fight, brought. In which, what, who, whom, and some other words in which it follows w, it is pronounced before it, hwich, hwat, &c. As a numeral in Latin, H denotes 200, and with a dash over it {H with super-macron} 200,000. As an abbreviation in Latin, H stands for homo, hæres, hora, &c.

HA,

an exclamation, denoting surprise, joy or grief. With the first or long sound of a, it is used as a question, and is equivalent to “What do you say?” When repeated, ha, ha, it is an expression of laughter, or sometimes it is equivalent to “Well! it is so.”

HAAF, n.

Shetland fishing ground.

HAAK, n.

A fish. Ainsworth.

HABEAS-CORPUS, n. [Habeas corpus; L. have the body.]

A writ for delivering a person from false imprisonment, or for removing a person from one court to another, &c. Cowel.

HAB'ER-DASH-ER, n. [perhaps from G. habe, D. have, goods, and G. tauschen, to barter, to truck. If not, I can give no account of its origin.]

A seller of small wares; a word little used or not at all in the United States.

HAB'ER-DASH-ER-Y, n.

The goods and wares sold by a haberdasher.

HAB'ER-DINE, n.

A dried salt cod. Ainsworth.

HAB'ER-GE-ON, n. [Fr. haubergeon; Norm. hauberiom; Arm. hobregon. It has been written also haberge, hauberk, &c., G. halsberge; hals, the neck, and bergen, to save or defend; It. usbergo.]

A coat of mail or armor to defend the neck and breast. It is formed of little iron rings united, and descended from the neck to the middle of the body. Encyc.

HAB'ILE, a.

Fit; proper. [Not in use.] Spenser.

HA-BIL'I-MENT, n. [Fr. habillement, from habiller, to clothe, from L. habeo, to have.]

A garment; clothing; usually in the plural, habiliments, denoting garments, clothing or dress in general.

HA-BIL'I-TATE, v.t. [Fr. habiliter.]

To qualify. [Not used.] Bacon.

HA-BIL-I-TA'TION, n.

Qualification. [Not in use.] Bacon.

HA-BIL'I-TY, n. [See ABILITY.]

HAB'IT, n. [Fr. habit; Sp. habito; It. abito; L. habitus, from habeo, to have, to hold. See Have.]

1. Garb; dress; clothes or garments in general. The scenes are old, the habits are the same / We wore last year. Dryden. There are among the statues, several of Venus, in different habits. Addison.
2. A coat worn by ladies over other garments.
3. State of any thing, implying some continuance or permanence; temperament or particular state of a body, formed by nature or induced by extraneous circumstances; as, a costive or lax habit of body; a sanguine habit.
4. A disposition or condition of the mind or body acquired by custom or a frequent repetition of the same act. Habit is that which is held or retained, the effect of custom or frequent repetition. Hence we speak of good habits and bad habits. Frequent drinking of spirits leads to a habit of intemperance. We should endeavor to correct evil habits by a change of practice. A great point in the education of children, is to prevent the formation of bad habits. Habit of plants, the general form or appearance, or the conformity of plants of the same kind in structure and growth. Martyn.

HAB'IT, v.t.

To dress; to clothe; to array. They habited themselves like rural deities. Dryden.

HAB'IT, v.t.

To dwell; to inhabit. [Obs.] Chaucer.

HAB-IT-A-BIL'I-TY, n.

Habitableness. Buckland.