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<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Hazelwort</h1> <Xpage=676>

<hw>Ha"zel*wort`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>The asarabacca.</def>

<h1>Hazily</h1> <Xpage=676>

<hw>Ha"zi*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a hazy manner; mistily; obscurely; confusedly.</def>

<h1>Haziness</h1> <Xpage=676>

<hw>Ha"zi*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality or state of being hazy.</def>

<h1>Hazle</h1> <Xpage=676>

<hw>Ha"zle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To make dry; to dry.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Hazy</h1> <Xpage=676>

<hw>Ha"zy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Haze</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Thick with haze; somewhat obscured with haze; not clear or transparent.</def> "A tender, <i>hazy</i> brightness."

<i>Wordsworth.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Obscure; confused; not clear; <as>as, a <ex>hazy</ex> argument; a <ex>hazy</ex> intellect.</as></def>

<i>Mrs. Gore.</i>

<h1>He</h1> <Xpage=676>

<hw>He</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>pron.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>nom.</tt> <er>He</er>; <tt>poss.</tt> <er>His</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>obj.</tt> <er>Him</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>pl. nom.</tt> <er>They</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>poss.</tt> <er>Their</er> or <er>Theirs</er> <tt>(<?/)</tt>; <tt>obj.</tt> <er>Them</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[AS. <ets>h<?/</ets>, masc., <ets>he\'a2</ets>, fem., <ets>hit</ets>, neut.; pl. <ets>h\'c6</ets>, or <ets>hie</ets>, <ets>hig</ets>; akin to Ofries. <ets>hi</ets>, D. <ets>hij</ets>, OS. <ets>he</ets>, <ets>hi</ets>, G. <ets>heute</ets> to-day, Goth. <ets>himma</ets>, dat. masc., this, <ets>hina</ets>, accus. masc., and <ets>hita</ets>, accus. neut., and prob. to L. <ets>his</ets> this. &root;183. Cf. <er>It</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The man or male being (or object personified to which the masculine gender is assigned), previously designated; a pronoun of the masculine gender, usually referring to a specified subject already indicated.</def>

<blockquote>Thy desire shall be to thy husband, and <b>he</b> shall rule over thee. <i>Gen. iii. 16.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God; <b>him</b> shalt thou serve. <i>Deut. x. 20.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Any one; the man or person; -- used indefinitely, and usually followed by a relative pronoun.</def>

<blockquote><b>He</b> that walketh with wise men shall be wise. <i>Prov. xiii. 20.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Man; a male; any male person; -- in this sense used substantively.</def>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<blockquote>I stand to answer thee, Or any <b>he</b>, the proudest of thy sort. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<note>&hand; When a collective noun or a class is referred to, <i>he</i> is of common gender. In early English, <i>he</i> referred to a feminine or neuter noun, or to one in the plural, as well as to noun in the masculine singular. In composition, <i>he</i> denotes a male animal; as, a <i>he</i>-goat.</note>

<h1>-head</h1> <Xpage=676>

<hw>-head</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>suffix.</tt> <def>A variant of <er>-hood</er>.</def>

<h1>Head</h1> <Xpage=676>

<hw>Head</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>hed</ets>, <ets>heved</ets>, <ets>heaved</ets>, AS. <ets>he\'a0fod</ets>; akin to D. <ets>hoofd</ets>, OHG. <ets>houbit</ets>, G. <ets>haupt</ets>, Icel. <ets>h\'94fu<?/</ets>, Sw. <ets>hufvud</ets>, Dan. <ets>hoved</ets>, Goth. <ets>haubip</ets>. The word does not corresponds regularly to L. <ets>caput</ets> head (cf. E. <er>Chief</er>, <er>Cadet</er>, <er>Capital</er>), and its origin is unknown.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the chief sensory organs; poll; cephalon.</def>

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