Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HATCH'ING, ppr.

Producing young from eggs.

HATCH'ING, ppr.¹ [See ETCH.]

HATCH'MENT, n. [corrupted from achievement.]

An armorial escutcheon on a herse at funerals, or in a church. Shak.

HATCH'WAY, n.

In ships, a square or oblong opening in the deck, affording a passage from one deck to another, or into the hold or lower apartments. Mar. Dict.

HATE, n.

Great dislike or aversion; hatred. Dryden.

HATE, v.t. [Sax. hatian, to hate, and to heat; Goth. hatyan; G. hassen; D. haaten; Sw. hata; Dan. hader; L. odi, for hodi. In all the languages except the Saxon, hate and heat are distinguished in orthography; but the elements of the word are the same, and probably they are radically one word denoting to stir, to irritate, to rouse.]

1. To dislike greatly; to have a great aversion to. It expresses less than abhor, detest and abominate, unless pronounced with peculiar emphasis. How long will fools hate knowledge? Prov. i. Blessed are ye when men shall hate you. Luke vi. The Roman tyrant was contented to be hated, if he was but feared. Rambler.
2. In Scripture, it signifies to love less. If any man come to me, and hate not father and mother, &c. Luke xiv. He that spareth the rod, hateth his son. Prov. xiii.

HAT'ED, pp.

Greatly disliked.

HATE'FUL, a.

1. Odious; exciting great dislike, aversion or disgust. All sin is hateful in the sight of God and of good men.
2. That feels hatred; malignant; malevolent. And worse than death, to view with hateful eyes / His rival's conquest. Dryden.

HATE'FUL-LY, adv.

1. Odiously; with great dislike.
2. Malignantly; maliciously. Ezek. xxiii.

HATE'FUL-NESS, n.

Odiousness; the quality of being hateful, or of exciting aversion or disgust.

HAT'ER, n.

One that hates. An enemy to God, and a hater of all good. Brown.

HAT'ING, ppr.

Disliking extremely; entertaining a great aversion for.

HAT'LESS, a.

Having no hat.

HA'TRED, n.

Great dislike or aversion; hate; enmity. Hatred is an aversion to evil, and may spring from utter disapprobation, as the hatred of vice or meanness; or it may spring from offenses or injuries done by fellow men, or from envy or jealousy, in which case it is usually accompanied with malevolence or malignity. Extreme hatred is abhorrence or detestation.

HAT'TED, a. [from hat.]

Covered with a hat; wearing a hat.

HAT'TER, n. [from hat.]

A maker of hats.

HAT'TER, v.t.

To harass. [Not in use.] Dryden.

HAT'TLE, a.

Wild; skittish. [Local.]

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.