Index of English words, starting with "ha"

(1) - Hamite (n.) A descendant of Ham, Noah's second son. See Gen. x. 6-20.
(2) - Hamite (n.) A fossil cephalopod of the genus Hamites, related to the ammonites, but having the last whorl bent into a hooklike form.

(1) - Hamlet (n.) A small village; a little cluster of houses in the country.

(1) - Hammer (v. i.) To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively.
(2) - Hammer (v. i.) To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer.
(3) - Hammer (v. t.) To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; -- usually with out.
(4) - Hammer (v. t.) To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
(5) - Hammer (v. t.) To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to hammer iron.
(6) - Hammer (n.) Also, a person of thing that smites or shatters; as, St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.
(7) - Hammer (n.) That part of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, or firing pin; the cock; formerly, however, a piece of steel covering the pan of a flintlock musket and struck by the flint of the cock to ignite the priming.
(8) - Hammer (n.) The malleus.
(9) - Hammer (n.) The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones.
(10) - Hammer (n.) That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour.
(11) - Hammer (n.) Something which in firm or action resembles the common hammer
(12) - Hammer (n.) An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle.