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handily

adverb · with no difficulty

Example: she beat him handily

handkerchief

noun · a square piece of cloth used for wiping the eyes or nose or as a costume accessory

handle with kid gloves

verb · handle with great care and sensitivity

Example: You have to handle the students with kid gloves

hands down

adverb · with no difficulty

Example: she beat him handily

handsomely

adverb · in a generously handsome manner

Example: India has responded handsomely by providing 3,000 men

handwrite

verb · write by hand

Example: You should handwrite the note to your guests

handy

adjective · easy to reach

Example: found a handy spot for the can opener

handyman

noun · a man skilled in various odd jobs and other small tasks

hang back

verb · to lag or linger behind

Example: But in so many other areas we still are dragging

hang by a hair

verb · depend on a small thing or be at risk

Example: His life now hangs by a thread

hang by a thread

verb · depend on a small thing or be at risk

Example: His life now hangs by a thread

hang out

verb · spend time in a certain location or with certain people

Example: She hangs out at the corner cafe

hang together

verb · be connected

Example: In my heart I can make the world hang together

hangnail

noun · a loose narrow strip of skin near the base of a fingernail; tearing it produces a painful sore that is easily infected

hanker

verb · desire strongly or persistently

haphazardly

adverb · in a random manner

Example: the houses were randomly scattered

haploid

adjective · of a cell or organism having a single set of chromosomes

haply

adverb · by accident

Example: betrayed by a word haply overheard

happen

verb · come to pass

Example: What is happening?

happen upon

verb · find unexpectedly

Example: the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb

happily

adverb · in an unexpectedly lucky way

Example: happily he was not injured

happy

adjective · well expressed and to the point

Example: a happy turn of phrase

haptically

adverb · by touch

Example: he perceives shapes tactually

harass

verb · exhaust by attacking repeatedly

Example: harass the enemy

hard put

adjective · facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty

Example: distressed companies need loans and technical advice

hard surface

verb · cover with asphalt or a similar surface

Example: hard-surface roads

hard-core

adjective · extremely explicit

Example: hard-core pornography

hard-line

adjective · firm and uncompromising

Example: a hard-line policy

hard-pressed

adjective · facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty

Example: distressed companies need loans and technical advice

hardcore

adjective · extremely explicit

Example: hard-core pornography

harden

verb · cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate

Example: He was inured to the cold

hardened

adjective · converted to solid form (as concrete)

hardheaded

adjective · guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory

Example: a hardheaded appraisal of our position

hardline

adjective · firm and uncompromising

Example: a hard-line policy

hardly

adverb · only a very short time before- W.B.Yeats

Example: they could barely hear the speaker

hark

verb · listen; used mostly in the imperative

harken

verb · listen; used mostly in the imperative

harmlessly

adverb · in a harmless manner

Example: this is a harmlessly childish game

harmonically

adverb · with respect to harmony

Example: harmonically interesting piece

harmoniously

adverb · in a harmonious manner

Example: the problem of absorbing immigrants harmoniously into British society is as important to the immigrants as to the British

harmonized

adjective · involving or characterized by harmony

harp seal

noun · common Arctic seal; the young are all white

harriman

noun · United States railway tycoon (1848-1909)

harry

verb · make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes

harsh on

verb · criticize harshly

Example: the teacher keeps harshing on the same kid

harshly

adverb · in a harsh and grating manner

Example: her voice fell gratingly on our ears

hart's-tongue fern

noun · common epiphytic or sometimes terrestrial fern having pale yellow-green strap-shaped leaves; Florida to West Indies and Mexico and south to Uruguay

harvestfish

noun · butterfish up to a foot long of Atlantic waters from Chesapeake Bay to Argentina

hasidic

adjective · of or relating to the Jewish Hasidim or its members or their beliefs and practices

hasten

verb · act or move at high speed

Example: We have to rush!

hastily

adverb · in a hurried or hasty manner

Example: the way they buried him so hurriedly was disgraceful

hasty defence

noun · a defense organized while in contact with the enemy or when time is limited

hatred

noun · the emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action

haughtily

adverb · in a haughty manner

Example: he peered haughtily down his nose

haul away

verb · take away by means of a vehicle

Example: They carted off the old furniture

haul off

verb · take away by means of a vehicle

Example: They carted off the old furniture

haunting

adjective · continually recurring to the mind- Claudia Cassidy

Example: haunting memories

have

noun · a person who possesses great material wealth