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Hangings
- noun - a form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead; "in those days the hanging of criminals was a public entertainment"
- decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window; "the cold castle walls were covered with hangings"
- the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely); "there was a small ceremony for the hanging of the portrait"
Happened
- verb - chance to be or do something, without intention or causation; "I happen to have just what you need!"
- come into being; become reality; "Her dream really materialized"
- come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place without incident"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important"
- come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"
- happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance; "It happens that today is my birthday"; "These things befell" (Santayana)
Hardened
- verb -
- become hard or harder; "The wax hardened"
- cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; "He was inured to the cold"
- converted to solid form (as concrete)
- made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment; "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"
- made tough by habitual exposure; "hardened fishermen"; "a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured"- Robert Lynd; "our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men"- V.S.Pritchett
- make fit; "This trip will season even the hardiest traveller"
- make hard or harder; "The cold hardened the butter"
- protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons); "hardened missile silos"
- used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a case-hardened judge"
Hardener
- - One who, or that which, hardens; specif., one who tempers tools.
Harkened
- verb - listen; used mostly in the imperative
Harmonia
- noun - a free-reed instrument in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows
Harmonic
- adjective - a tone that is a component of a complex sound
- any of a series of musical tones whose frequencies are integral multiples of the frequency of a fundamental
- involving or characterized by harmony
- of or relating to harmonics
- of or relating to harmony as distinct from melody and rhythm; "subtleties of harmonic change and tonality"- Ralph Hill
- of or relating to the branch of acoustics that studies the composition of musical sounds; "the sound of the resonating cavity cannot be the only determinant of the harmonic response"
- relating to vibrations that occur as a result of vibrations in a nearby body; "sympathetic vibration"
Harpings
- - The fore parts of the wales, which encompass the bow of a vessel, and are fastened to the stem.
Hastened
- verb - act or move at high speed; "We have to rush!"; "hurry--it's late!"
- cause to occur rapidly; "the infection precipitated a high fever and allergic reactions"
- move fast; "He rushed down the hall to receive his guests"; "The cars raced down the street"
- speed up the progress of; facilitate; "This should expedite the process"