Index of English words, starting with "ha"

(1) - Havoc (n.) A cry in war as the signal for indiscriminate slaughter.
(2) - Havoc (v. t.) To devastate; to destroy; to lay waste.
(3) - Havoc (n.) Wide and general destruction; devastation; waste.

(1) - Haw (v. t.) To cause to turn, as a team, to the near side, or toward the driver; as, to haw a team of oxen.
(2) - Haw (v. i.) To turn to the near side, or toward the driver; -- said of cattle or a team: a word used by teamsters in guiding their teams, and most frequently in the imperative. See Gee.
(3) - Haw (v. i.) To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw; to speak with interruption and hesitation.
(4) - Haw (n.) An intermission or hesitation of speech, with a sound somewhat like haw! also, the sound so made.
(5) - Haw (n.) The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. See Nictitating membrane, under Nictitate.
(6) - Haw (n.) The fruit of the hawthorn.
(7) - Haw (n.) A hedge; an inclosed garden or yard.

(1) - Haw-haw (n.) See Ha-ha.

(1) - Hawaiian (n.) A native of Hawaii.
(2) - Hawaiian (a.) Belonging to Hawaii or the Sandwich Islands, or to the people of Hawaii.

(1) - Hawk (n.) A small board, with a handle on the under side, to hold mortar.
(2) - Hawk (v. t.) To offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle; as, to hawk goods or pamphlets.
(3) - Hawk (n.) An effort to force up phlegm from the throat, accompanied with noise.
(4) - Hawk (v. t.) To raise by hawking, as phlegm.
(5) - Hawk (v. i.) To clear the throat with an audible sound by forcing an expiratory current of air through the narrow passage between the depressed soft palate and the root of the tongue, thus aiding in the removal of foreign substances.
(6) - Hawk (v. i.) To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk; -- generally with at; as, to hawk at flies.
(7) - Hawk (v. i.) To catch, or attempt to catch, birds by means of hawks trained for the purpose, and let loose on the prey; to practice falconry.
(8) - Hawk (n.) One of numerous species and genera of rapacious birds of the family Falconidae. They differ from the true falcons in lacking the prominent tooth and notch of the bill, and in having shorter and less pointed wings. Many are of large size and grade into the eagles. Some, as the goshawk, were formerly trained like falcons. In a more general sense the word is not infrequently applied, also, to true falcons, as the sparrow hawk, pigeon hawk, duck hawk, and prairie hawk.