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Hanseatic
- - Pertaining to the Hanse towns, or to their confederacy.
Haplessly
- - In a hapless, unlucky manner.
Happening
- verb - an event that happens
- 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)
Hardening
- verb -
- abnormal hardening or thickening of tissue
- become hard or harder; "The wax hardened"
- cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; "He was inured to the cold"
- make fit; "This trip will season even the hardiest traveller"
- make hard or harder; "The cold hardened the butter"
- the act of making something harder (firmer or tighter or more compact)
- the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization; "the hardening of concrete"; "he tested the set of the glue"
Harderian
- - A term applied to a lachrymal gland on the inner side of the orbit of many animals which have a third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. See Nictitating membrane, under Nictitate.
Harkening
- verb - listen; used mostly in the imperative
Harlequin
- noun - 3. A term applied to dogs with (particularly) black and white variegated coats.
- a clown or buffoon (after the Harlequin character in the commedia dell'arte)
- Rugby Union football club, based in
Twickenham, London.
- variegate with spots or marks; "His face was harlequined with patches"
Harnessed
- verb - brought under control and put to use; "electricity from the harnessed Colorado River"; "the harnessed power of the atom"
- control and direct with or as if by reins; "rein a horse"
- exploit the power of; "harness natural forces and resources"
- keep in check; "rule one's temper"
- put a harness; "harness the horse"