hag-seed 
hag-seedt (hag'sed), n. The offspring of a hag : 
applied by Shakspere in "The Tempest" to 
Caliban, son of the witch Sycorax. 
Hay-seed, hence ! 
Fetch us in fuel ; and be quick, thou wert best, 
To answer other business. Shak., Tempest, i. 2. 
hagshipt (hag'ship), n. [< hag 1 + -ship.'] The 
condition of a hag or witch : used in the quo- 
tation as a title. 
What's this? Oh, 'tis the charm her hagship gave me. 
Muidlaton, The Witch. 
hag-staff (hag'staf), . The staff or rod by 
which the divisions or portions are marked in 
a wood assigned for foiling. See hag 3 , 3. 
hag's-tooth (hagz'toth), re. Naut., a part of a 
matting, pointing, etc., which is interwoven 
with the rest in an irregular manner so as to 
break the general uniformity of the work. 
hag-taper (hag'ta"per), n. [Also hedge-taper, 
and, corruptly, hig-taper, high-taper, formerly 
hyggis-taper ; < hag 2 or hedge + taper: so called 
because in former times a spike of the plant 
dipped in tallow was used as a taper.] The 
great mullen, Verbascum Thapsus. See mul- 
len. 
hag-tracks (hag'traks), n. pi. Fairy rings. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
haguebutt, Same as hackbut. 
hagweed (hag'wed), n. [< hag 1 + weed 1 : so 
called in allusion to the popular superstition 
that hags or witches rode through the air on 
broomsticks.] The common broom, Cytistis 
scoparius. 
For awful coveys of terrible things, . . . 
On hagweed broom-sticks, and leathern wings, 
Are hovering round the Hut ! Hood, The Forge. 
hag-wpnn (hag'w6rm), n. A viper or snake of 
any kind. [Prov. Eng.] 
hah (ha), interj. A-aother spelling of ha 1 , 
ha-ha 1 (ha'ha'), interj. [Reduplication of hal, 
q. v.] An imitation of the sound of laughter. 
See ha 1 . 
ha-ha 2 (hii-hii/), . [Origin uncertain: see quo- 
tation.] A fence formed by a f oss or ditch, sunk 
between slopes and not perceived till approach- 
ed; a sunk fence. Also written aha, haw-haw. 
The destruction of walls for boundaries, and the inven- 
tion of fosses, an attempt then deemed so astonishing, that 
the common people called them Ha / Ha's ! to express 
their surprise at finding a sudden and unperceived check 
to their walk. Walpole, Modern Gardening. 
Hahnemannian (ha-ne-man'i-an), a. [< Hah- 
nemann (see def.) + -Jan.] Relating to S. C. 
F. Hahnemann (1755-1843), the founder of the 
homeopathic system of medicine. Also writ- 
ten Hahncmanian. 
haidingerite (hl'ding-er-it), n. [After the Aus- 
trian mineralogist Wilhelmvonazdjgre>'(1795- 
1871).] 1. Hydrous arseniate of calcium, a rare 
mineral occurring in minute crystals which are 
white and transparent, with a vitreous luster. 
2. Same as berthierite, a sulphid of antimony 
and iron. 
Haidinger's brushes. See brush. 
Haiduk, Hayduk (hi'duk), . [Also Hayduck, 
Heyduc; = D. heiduk = G. heiduck = Dan. Sw. 
heidule = F. heiduque, < Hung, hajdnk, lit. dro- 
vers, pi. of /irt/r/M, a drover.] 1. Formerly, one of 
a class of mercenary foot-soldiers in Hungary of 
Magyar stock, distinguished for their gallantry 
in the field. For their fidelity to the Protestant cause 
throughout the religious insurrectionary war they were 
rewarded by Prince Bocskai in 1605 with the privileges of 
nobility, and with a territorial possession called the Haiduk 
district, which was enlarged as Eaiduk county in 1876. The 
Hungarian light infantry were called Haiduks in the eigh- 
teenth century, from a regiment constituted for a time by 
these people. Compare chasseur, 3. 
2. [cap. or I. c.] In Hungary, Austria, Ger- 
many, etc., an attendant in a judicial court, or 
in a palace or mansion, when dressed in the 
Hungarian serai-military costume. 
I was once one of the handsomest men in Europe, and 
would defy any heyilne of the court to measure a chest or 
a leg with me. Thackeray, Barry Lyndon, xi. 
haiet, n. 1. A Middle English form of hay*. 
2. [OF., = E. Aay 2 .] In her., a bearing repre- 
senting a weir or dam made of osier or the like, 
wattled on upright stakes, three or more stakes 
being visible. It is always in fesse. 
haifert, . An obsolete form of heifer. 
haihowt, A form of heighaw. 
haik 1 , '. and H. See hake*. 
haik 2 (Ink), n. [Repr. Ar. haik, < liayyik, weave.] 
A piece of stuff used as an outer garment by the 
peoples of the Levant, especially by the desert 
tribes of Arabs. Its most familiar form is an oblong 
piece of loosely woven woolen cloth, in stripes of two or 
three colors. Also spelled httick, hyke. 
Fig. .. 
Forms of Hail. 
Fig. r. a, hailstone which fell at Bonn in 
1822: diameter i% inches, weight 300 grains; 
b, c, sections of differently shaped hailstones 
which fell on the same occasion, showing the 
radiating nucleus and concentric layers. Fig. 
2. a, section of hailstone with minute pyra- 
mids on its surface ; b, c, d, e, fragments of 
same when burst asunder. 
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The haiks are often made of hand.woven wool, very thick 
and warm, others of silk, while the poorer classes wear a 
few yards of thin white cotton stuff. 
Harper's Mag., LXXVI. 663. 
hail 1 (ha), n. [< ME. hayle, hagel, < AS. hce- 
gel, hiegl, hagol, hagal = D. hagel = LG. hagel 
= OHG. hagal, MHG. G. hagel = Icel. hagl 
= Sw. Dan. hagel, hail. Cf . Gr. /cd^A^f, Ko^-Aaf, 
a pebble, gravel ; cf. hailstone.] Pellets of ice 
falling in showers. These pellets, called hailstones, 
frequently consist of a kernel of hard snow in the center, 
surrounded by al- 
ternate concen- 
tric layers of ice 
and snow ; in 
other cases they 
have aradial struc- 
ture. They assume 
various shapes, 
most commonly 
spheroidal, but 
some are pyrami- 
dal, others flat, 
and others irregu- 
larly oval. In size 
they are usually 
from a tenth to a 
quarter of an inch 
in diameter, but 
masses measuring 
from 12tol5inch.es 
in circumference 
and weighing over 
half a pound are 
of occasional oc- 
currence. The fall 
of hail occurs 
chiefly in spring and summer, and most commonly pre- 
cedes or accompanies a thunder-storm. The time of its 
continuance is always short, generally only a few minutes. 
The length of time requisite for the accretion of the larger 
hailstones is now believed to be obtained by the contin- 
ued retention and repeated elevation in the atmosphere 
of a pellet, initially small, which is several times drawn 
into a current of moist air having a rapid ascensional and 
gyratory motion ; in this way it is carried through succes- 
sive regions of rain and snow. In a ship's log-book, ab- 
breviated h. 
Instead of strength of reason, he answers with a multi- 
tude of words, thinking . . . that he may use hail when 
he hath no thunder. 
Bp. Wilking, Discovery of New World, i. 9. 
The island-valley of Avilion ; 
Where falls not Itail, or rain, or any snow, 
Nor ever wind blows loudly. 
Tennyson, Morte d'Arthur. 
The origin of hail is still obscure, but it is probably 
formed by an intensely cold current of air passing into a 
region of warm moist air, and reducing the temperature 
of the whole below the freezing-point. 
Huxley, Physiography, p. 65. 
In a hail-storm the ascending currents are so strong, and 
reach so high up into the upper strata of the atmosphere, 
that the rain-drops are carried up into the cold regions 
above, and into the central part within the isobaric and 
isothermic surface of the freezing-point, where they are 
frozen into hail. W. Ferret, Treatise on the Winds. 
hail 1 (ha), v. [E. dial, also haggle (see haggle*) ; 
< ME. hailen, < AS. hagalian = D. hagelen = G. 
hagcln = Icel. hagla, hegla = Sw. hagla = Dan. 
hagle, hail; from the noun.] I. intrans. To 
pour down hail. 
I wept and I wayled, 
The teares down hayled, 
But nothing it anailed. 
Skelton, Philip Sparow. 
My people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, . . . 
when It shall hail, coming down on the forest. 
Isa. xxxii. 18, 19. 
II. trans. To pour down or put forth like hail ; 
emit in rapid succession. 
For, ere Demetrius look'd on Hermia's eyne, 
He hail'd down oaths, that he was only mine. 
Shak., M. N. D., L 1. 
But Walter hail'd a score of names upon her. 
Tennyson, Princess, Prol. 
hail 2 , a. See hale*. 
hail 3 (hal), interj. [A particular use of hail*, 
a., = hale*, a., after Icel. heill in similar use, as 
Heill, Magnus ! hail, Magnus ! kom heill, wel- 
come ('come hale')! far heill, farewell ('go 
hale')! sit heill ('sit hale')! etc.; so in AS., hdl 
bed thu, or hdl n-es thu, hail! lit. 'be thou 
whole' (see wassail). The Icel. heill, E. hail*, 
hale* = AS. hdl, E. whole. The interj. hail is 
thus an abbreviated sentence expressing a 
wish, 'be whole,' i. e., be in good health, and 
equiv. to L. salve, plural sah-ete, or ave, plu- 
ral avete (see salve* and are).] Be whole ; be 
safe ; be happy: a term of salutation now used 
without thought of its literal meaning, and 
merely as an exclamatory expression of well- 
wishing: used absolutely, or followed by a 
noun with to. 
And they began to salute him, Haile Kynge of ye Jewes. 
Bible of 1551, Mark jcv. 18. 
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances ! 
Scott, L. of the L., ii. 19. 
Hail to thee, blithe spirit. Shelley, To a Skylark. 
hailsome 
[Used In the following passage as a quasl-noun : 
The angel Hail 
Bestow'd ; the holy salutation used 
Long after to blest Mary, second Eve. 
Milton, P. L, v. 885.] 
All hall ! a more emphatic form of hails. 
Ctesar, all hail ! Shak., J. C., U. 2. 
All hail the power of Jesus' name ! 
Let angels prostrate fall ! 
E. Perronet, Coronation Hymn. 
Hall Mary. See Ave Maria, under ave. 
hail 3 (hal), v. [< ME. hailen, heylen, heglen, 
salute, greet, < hail, heil, as a salutation: see 
hail 3 , interj. Cf. equiv. hailse, halse 3 .] 1. trans. 
1 . To salute ; welcome ; address. 
When we had hailed each other, and had spoken those 
common words that be customably spoke at the first meet- 
ing and acquaintance of strangers, we went thence to my 
house. Sir T. More, Utopia (tr. by Robinson), Prol., p. 30. 
They hail'd him father to a line of kings. 
Shak., Macbeth, ill. 1. 
The man that hails you Tom or Jack. 
Cowper, Friendship, L 169. 
Such hail the end of their existence as a port of refuge. 
Lamb, New Year's Eve. 
2. To call to, as a person, or, by metonymy, a 
place, house, ship, etc., at a distance ; cry out 
to in order to attract attention. 
Merham, intending to know what they were, hailed 
them. Capt. John Smith, True Travels, I. 62. 
The market boat is on the stream, 
And voices hail it from the brink. 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, cxxi. 
The huge Earl Doorm, . . . like one that hails a ship, 
Cried out with a big voice. Tennyson, Geraint. 
Ere the anchor had come home, a shout 
Rang from the strand, as though the ship were hailed. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, III. 6. 
II. intrans. To offer or exchange greeting or 
tidings; report or declare one's self. 
They [the ships] came all together, with friendly salu- 
tations and gratulations one to an other : which they 
terme by the name of Hayling: a ceremonie done sol- 
emnly, and in verie good order, with sound of Trumpets 
and noyse of cheereful voyces. Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 609. 
To hail for a trip, to state the quantity of the catch dur- 
ing a fishing- voyage : as, to hail for a trip of 60,000 pounds 
of halibut. [Colloq. ] To hail from, to come or profess 
to come from ; belong to, as one's birthplace or residence : 
used specifically and originally of a ship with reference to 
the port at which she is registered, or from which she sets 
out on a voyage. 
My companion hails from Little Athens. 
L. M. Alcott, Hospital Sketches, p. 16. 
hail 3 (hal), H. [< hail 3 , .] A salutation; greet- 
ing; call; summons; challenge of attention. 
His cheer sounded more like a view-hallo than a hail. 
Scott, St. Ronan's Well, xxi. 
To pass the hail, on a man-of-war, to call out the sta- 
tion, as the men on lookout at night are required to do 
ever}- half-hour, when the bell is struck, in order that the 
officer of the watch may know that the lookouts are vigi- 
lant. Within hail, within call ; within reach of the 
sound of the voice. 
hail-fellow (ha'fel"6), . [A compound word 
taken from the obs. phrase hail, fellow ! So the 
fuller expression, "hail, fellow! well met!" is 
sometimes used as a descriptive adjective, 
as, "He was hail-fellow-well-met with every- 
body."] An intimate companion; a pleasant 
or genial companion. 
Where diddest thou learne that, . . . being suffered to 
be familiar, thou shouldest waxe haile fellowe ? 
Lyly, Euphues and his England, p. S71. 
Now man, that erst hailc-fellow was with beast, 
Woxe on to weene himself a god at least. 
Bp. Hall, Satires, ill. 1. 
At hail-fellowt, very intimate ; on familiar terms. 
The master and servant are at hail-fellow. 
J. Goodman, Winter Evening's Conferences. 
hailset, f. t [< ME. hailsen, haylsen, < Icel. 
heilsa = Sw. helsa = Dan. hilse, greet (= AS. 
hdlsian, ME. halsen, greet: see halse 3 , of which 
hailse is thus a doublet), < Icel. heill, etc., = 
AS. hdl, whole, hale : see hail*, hale*, and cf . 
hail 3 , v. Cf. hail 3 , v. t., and halse 3 .'] To greet; 
salute. 
And therewith I turned me to Raphael!, and when we 
had hailsed the one the other, etc. 
Sir T. More, Utopia (tr. by Robinson), Prol. 
He hailsed me with mikel pride. 
Ali Yyod on ay Mounday (Child's Ballads, I. 274). 
hailshott (hal'shot), n. pi. Small shot which 
scatter like hailstones in firing ; grape-shot. 
For our admirall . . . had prouided all our muskets 
with haile-shot, which did so gaulc both the Indians and 
the Portugals that they made them presently retreat 
Hakluyfs Voyages, III. 711. 
You should, by the same rule, control his bullet, in a 
line, except it were hailshot, and spread. 
B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, 1. 4. 
hailsome (ha'sum), a. A dialectal (Scotch) 
variant of wholesome. 
