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hastings
  • n  United States architect who formed and important architectural firm with John Merven Carrere (1860-1929)
  • n  a town in East Sussex just to the south of the place where the battle of Hastings took place
  • n  the decisive battle in which William the Conqueror (duke of Normandy) defeated the Saxons under Harold II (1066) and thus left England open for the Norman Conquest
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hasty defence
  • n  a defense organized while in contact with the enemy or when time is limited
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hasty defense
  • n  a defense organized while in contact with the enemy or when time is limited
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hasty pudding
  • n  sweetened porridge made of tapioca or flour or oatmeal cooked quickly in milk or water
  • n  cornmeal mush served with sweetening (maple syrup or brown sugar)
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hat
  • n  headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim
  • n  an informal term for a person's role
    he took off his politician's hat and talked frankly
  • v  put on or wear a hat
    He was unsuitably hatted
  • v  furnish with a hat
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hat trick
  • n  (sports) three consecutive scores by one player or three scores in one game (as in cricket or ice hockey etc.)
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hatband
  • n  a band around the crown of a hat just above the brim
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hatiora
  • n  small genus of South American epiphytic or lithophytic cacti
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hatch
  • n  the production of young from an egg
  • n  shading consisting of multiple crossing lines
  • n  a movable barrier covering a hatchway
  • v  emerge from the eggs
    young birds, fish, and reptiles hatch
  • v  devise or invent
  • v  inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating
  • v  draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper
    hatch the sheet
  • v  sit on (eggs)
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hatchback
  • n  a car having a hatchback door
  • n  a sloping rear car door that is lifted to open
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