Definition of h

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H () the eighth letter of the English alphabet, is classed among the consonants, and is formed with the mouth organs in the same position as that of the succeeding vowel. It is used with certain consonants to form digraphs representing sounds which are not found in the alphabet, as sh, th, /, as in shall, thing, /ine (for zh see /274); also, to modify the sounds of some other letters, as when placed after c and p, with the former of which it represents a compound sound like that of tsh, as in ch

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Overboard :: Overboard (adv.) Over the side of a ship; hence, from on board of a ship, into the water; as, to fall overboard..
Phoca :: Phoca (n.) A genus of seals. It includes the common harbor seal and allied species. See Seal.
Trefoil :: Trefoil (n.) An ornamental foliation consisting of three divisions, or foils..
Pegmatite :: Pegmatite (n.) Graphic granite. See under Granite.
Housling :: Housling (a.) Sacramental; as, housling fire..
Love-sick :: Love-sick (a.) Languishing with love or amorous desire; as, a love-sick maid..
Discharge :: Discharge (v. t.) To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled; as, to discharge a cargo..
Nest :: Nest (n.) A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively..
Renneted :: Renneted (a.) Provided or treated with rennet.
Psyche :: Psyche (n.) A lovely maiden, daughter of a king and mistress of Eros, or Cupid. She is regarded as the personification of the soul..
Misrule :: Misrule (n.) The act, or the result, of misruling..
Nodosarine :: Nodosarine (a.) Resembling in form or structure a foraminiferous shell of the genus Nodosaria.
Butter :: Butter (n.) One who, or that which, butts..
Gaytre :: Gaytre (n.) The dogwood tree.
Barkeeper :: Barkeeper (n.) One who keeps or tends a bar for the sale of liquors.
Swedenborgian :: Swedenborgian (n.) One who holds the doctrines of the New Jerusalem church, as taught by Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish philosopher and religious writer, who was born a. d. 1688 and died 1772. Swedenborg claimed to have intercourse with the spiritual world, through the opening of his spiritual senses in 1745. He taught that the Lord Jesus Christ, as comprehending in himself all the fullness of the Godhead, is the one only God, and that there is a spiritual sense to the Scriptures, which he (Swede
Improvise :: Improvise (v. t.) To invent, or provide, offhand, or on the spur of the moment; as, he improvised a hammer out of a stone..
Spiroylic :: Spiroscope (n.) A wet meter used to determine the breathing capacity of the lungs.
Mortuary :: Mortuary (a.) Of or pertaining to the dead; as, mortuary monuments..
Slater :: Slater (n.) Any terrestrial isopod crustacean of the genus Porcellio and allied genera; a sow bug.
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