Index of English words, starting with "ha"

(1) - Hail (n.) A wish of health; a salutation; a loud call.
(2) - Hail (v. t.) An exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting.
(3) - Hail (v. i.) To report as one's home or the place from whence one comes; to come; -- with from.
(4) - Hail (v. i.) To declare, by hailing, the port from which a vessel sails or where she is registered; hence, to sail; to come; -- used with from; as, the steamer hails from New York.
(5) - Hail (v. t.) To name; to designate; to call.
(6) - Hail (v. t.) To call loudly to, or after; to accost; to salute; to address.
(7) - Hail (a.) Healthy. See Hale (the preferable spelling).
(8) - Hail (v. t.) To pour forcibly down, as hail.
(9) - Hail (v. i.) To pour down particles of ice, or frozen vapors.
(10) - Hail (n.) Small roundish masses of ice precipitated from the clouds, where they are formed by the congelation of vapor. The separate masses or grains are called hailstones.

(1) - Hail-fellow (n.) An intimate companion.

(1) - Hair (n.) Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.
(2) - Hair (n.) A haircloth.
(3) - Hair (n.) A spring device used in a hair-trigger firearm.
(4) - Hair (n.) An outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated. Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily (Nuphar).
(5) - Hair (n.) A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth.
(6) - Hair (n.) Hair (human or animal) used for various purposes; as, hair for stuffing cushions.
(7) - Hair (n.) One the above-mentioned filaments, consisting, in invertebrate animals, of a long, tubular part which is free and flexible, and a bulbous root imbedded in the skin.
(8) - Hair (n.) The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole of the body.