harpullia | (noun) any of various tree of the genus Harpullia | - |
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harpy | (noun) large black-and-white crested eagle of tropical America | Synonyms: Harpia harpyja, harpy eagle |
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(noun) any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes | Synonyms: harpy bat, tube-nosed bat, tube-nosed fruit bat |
(noun) a malicious woman with a fierce temper | Synonyms: hellcat, vixen |
harquebus | (noun) an obsolete firearm with a long barrel | Synonyms: arquebus, hackbut, hagbut |
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harridan | (noun) a scolding (even vicious) old woman | - |
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harried | (adjective) troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances | Synonyms: annoyed, harassed, pestered, vexed |
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harrier | (noun) hawks that hunt over meadows and marshes and prey on small terrestrial animals | - |
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(noun) a hound that resembles a foxhound but is smaller; used to hunt rabbits | - |
(noun) a persistent attacker | Synonyms: harasser |
harrow | (noun) a cultivator that pulverizes or smooths the soil | - |
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(verb) draw a harrow over (land) | Synonyms: disk |
harrowing | (adjective) extremely painful | Synonyms: agonising, agonizing, excruciating, torturesome, torturing, torturous |
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harry | (verb) make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes | Synonyms: ravage |
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(verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, hassle, molest, plague, provoke |
harsh | (adjective) of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles | Synonyms: coarse |
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(adjective) sharply disagreeable; rigorous | Synonyms: abrasive |
(adjective) severe | - |
(adjective) unkind or cruel or uncivil | Synonyms: rough |
(adjective) unpleasantly stern | Synonyms: rough |
(adjective) unpleasantly rough or jarring to the senses | - |
harshen | (verb) make harsh or harsher | - |
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harshly | (adverb) in a harsh and grating manner | Synonyms: gratingly, raspingly |
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(adverb) in a harsh or unkind manner | - |
harshness | (noun) the quality of being harsh or rough or grating to the senses | Synonyms: roughness |
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(noun) excessive sternness | Synonyms: hardness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, stiffness |
(noun) the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions | Synonyms: abrasiveness, scratchiness |
(noun) the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance | Synonyms: cruelness, cruelty |
hart | (noun) a male deer, especially an adult male red deer | Synonyms: stag |
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hartebeest | (noun) a large African antelope with lyre-shaped horns that curve backward | - |
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hartley | (noun) a logarithmic unit which measures information or entropy, based on base 10 logarithms and powers of 10. | Synonyms: ban, dit, Hart |
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harvest | (noun) the season for gathering crops | Synonyms: harvest time |
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(noun) the gathering of a ripened crop | Synonyms: harvest home, harvesting |
(noun) the consequence of an effort or activity | - |
(noun) the yield from plants in a single growing season | Synonyms: crop |
(verb) remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation | - |
(verb) gather, as of natural products | Synonyms: glean, reap |
harvester | (noun) farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields | Synonyms: reaper |
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(noun) someone who helps to gather the harvest | Synonyms: reaper |
harvestfish | (noun) butterfish up to a foot long of Atlantic waters from Chesapeake Bay to Argentina | Synonyms: Paprilus alepidotus |
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harvesting | (noun) the gathering of a ripened crop | Synonyms: harvest, harvest home |
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harvestman | (noun) spiderlike arachnid with a small rounded body and very long thin legs | Synonyms: daddy longlegs, Phalangium opilio |
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