Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HAT'TOC, n. [Erse, attock.]

A shock of corn. [Not in use.]

HAU'BERK, n.

A coat of mail without sleeves, formed of steel rings interwoven. [Obs.] [See Habergeon.] Gray.

HAUD-PASSIBUS-AEQUIS, adv. [Haud passibus æquis; L.]

Not with equal pace or rapidity.

HAUGH, n. [haw.]

A little low meadow.

HAUGHT, a. [haut; Qu. Fr. haut, or the root of the English high. If it is from the French haut, the orthography is corrupt, for haut is from the Latin altus, that is, haltus, changed to haut.]

High; elevated; hence, proud; insolent. [Obs.] Spenser. Shak.

HAUGHT'I-ER, a.

More haughty or disdainful.

HAUGHT'I-EST, a.

Most haughty. Borrow.

HAUGHT'I-LY, adv. [hau'tily. See Haught and Haughty.]

Proudly; arrogantly; with contempt or disdain; as, to speak or behave haughtily. Her heavenly form too haughtily she prized. Dryden.

HAUGHT'I-NESS, n. [hauti'ness.]

The quality of being haughty; pride mingled with some degree of contempt for others; arrogance. I will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. Is. xiii.

HAUGH'TY, a. [hau'ty; from haught, Fr. haut.]

1. Proud and disdainful; having a high opinion of one's self, with some contempt for others; lofty and arrogant; supercilious. His wife was a woman of a haughty and imperious nature. Clarendon. A haughty spirit goeth before a fall. Prov. xvi.
2. Proceeding from excessive pride, or pride mingled with contempt; manifesting pride and disdain; as, a haughty air or walk.
3. Proud and imperious; as, a haughty nation.
4. Lofty; bold; of high hazard; as, a haughty enterprise. [Obs.] Spenser.

HAUL, n.

1. A pulling with force; a violent pull. Thomson.
2. A draft of a net; as, to catch a hundred fish at a haul.

HAUL, v.t. [Fr. haler; Arm. hala; Sp. halar; D. haalen. It is sometimes written hale, but haul is preferable, as au represents the broad sound of a.]

1. To pull or draw with force; to drag; as, to haul a heavy body along on the ground; to haul a boat on shore. Haul is equivalent to drag, and differs sometimes from pull and draw, in expressing more force and labor. It is much used by seamen; as, to haul down the sails; haul in the boom; haul aft, &c.
2. To drag; to compel to go. Lest he haul thee to the judge. Luke xii. When applied to persons, haul implies compulsion or rudeness, or both. To haul the wind, in seamanship, is to turn the head of the ship nearer to the point from which the wind blows, by arranging the sails more obliquely, bracing the yards more forward, hauling the sheets more aft, &c. Mar. Dict.

HAUL'ED, pp.

Pulled with force; dragged; compelled to move.

HAUL'ING, ppr.

Drawing by force or violence; dragging.

HAULM, or HAUM, n. [Sax. healm G. D. Sw. and Dan. halm; Fr. chaume; L. culmus, the stalk of corn. The sense is probably that which is set, or a shoot. It seems to be the W. colov, a stem or stalk, whence columna, a column.]

1. The stem or stalk of grain, of all kinds, or of pease, beans, hops, &c.
2. Straw; the dry stalks of corn, &c. in general.

HAUNCH, or HANCH, n. [Fr. hanche; Arm. hoinch; Sp. It. and Port. anca.]

1. The hip; that part of the body of man and of quadrupeds, which lies between the last ribs and the thigh. Encyc.
2. The rear; the hind part. [Not used.] Shak.

HAUNT, n.

1. A place to which one frequently resorts. Taverns are often the haunts of tipplers. A den is the haunt of wild beasts.
2. The habit or custom of resorting to a place. [Not used.] Arbuthnot.
3. Custom; practice. [Obs.] Chaucer.

HAUNT, v.i.

To be much about; to visit or be present often. I've charged thee not to haunt about my door. Shak.

HAUNT, v.t. [Fr. hanter; Arm. hantein or henti.]

1. To frequent; to resort to much or often, or to be much about; to visit customarily. Celestial Venus haunts Idalia's groves. Pope.
2. To come to frequently; to intrude on; to trouble with frequent visits; to follow importunately. You wrong me, Sir, thus still to haunt my house. Shak. Those cares that haunt the court and town. Swift.
3. It is particularly applied to specters or apparitions, which are represented by fear and credulity as frequenting or inhabiting old, decayed, and deserted houses. Foul spirits haunt my resting place. Fairfax.

HAUNT'ED, pp.

1. Frequently visited or resorted to, especially by apparitions.
2. Troubled by frequent visits.

HAUNT'ER, n.

One who frequents a particular place, or is often about it.

HAUNT'ING, ppr.

Frequenting; visiting often; troubling with frequent visits.

HAUST, n. [Sax. hwasta.]

A dry cough. [Obs.] Ray.

HAUS'TEL-LATE, a.

Provided with a haustellum or sucker, as certain insects.

HAUT'BOY, n. [ho'boy; Fr. haut, high, and bois, wood, or a shoot.]

1. A sort of strawberry. [The name belongs to the strawberry.]
2. A wind instrument, somewhat resembling a flute, but widening toward the bottom, and sounded through a reed. The treble is two feet long. The tenor goes a fifth lower, when blown open. It has only eight holes; but the base, which is five feet long, has eleven. Encyc.