Index of English words, starting with "he"

(1) - Hector (v. i.) To play the bully; to bluster; to be turbulent or insolent.
(2) - Hector (v. t.) To treat with insolence; to threaten; to bully; hence, to torment by words; to tease; to taunt; to worry or irritate by bullying.
(3) - Hector (n.) A bully; a blustering, turbulent, insolent, fellow; one who vexes or provokes.

(1) - Heddle (v. t.) To draw (the warp thread) through the heddle-eyes, in weaving.
(2) - Heddle (n.) One of the sets of parallel doubled threads which, with mounting, compose the harness employed to guide the warp threads to the lathe or batten in a loom.

(1) - Hedge (v. i.) To use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so as to avoid committing one's self to anything definite.
(2) - Hedge (v. i.) To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on.
(3) - Hedge (v. i.) To shelter one's self from danger, risk, duty, responsibility, etc., as if by hiding in or behind a hedge; to skulk; to slink; to shirk obligations.
(4) - Hedge (v. t.) To surround so as to prevent escape.
(5) - Hedge (v. t.) To surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem (in).
(6) - Hedge (v. t.) To obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to hinder from progress or success; -- sometimes with up and out.
(7) - Hedge (v. t.) To inclose or separate with a hedge; to fence with a thickly set line or thicket of shrubs or small trees; as, to hedge a field or garden.
(8) - Hedge (n.) A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden.

(1) - Hedgehog (n.) A form of dredging machine.
(2) - Hedgehog (n.) A species of Medicago (M. intertexta), the pods of which are armed with short spines; -- popularly so called.
(3) - Hedgehog (n.) The Canadian porcupine.
(4) - Hedgehog (n.) A small European insectivore (Erinaceus Europaeus), and other allied species of Asia and Africa, having the hair on the upper part of its body mixed with prickles or spines. It is able to roll itself into a ball so as to present the spines outwardly in every direction. It is nocturnal in its habits, feeding chiefly upon insects.