hiring hall
- n a union-operated placement office where jobs are allotted to applicants according to seniority or rotation
hirohito
- n emperor of Japan who renounced his divinity and became a constitutional monarch after Japan surrendered at the end of World War II (1901-1989)
hiroshima
- n a port city on the southwestern coast of Honshu in Japan; on August 6, 1945 Hiroshima was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb dropped on a populated area
hirschfeld
- n United States artist noted for his line-drawn caricatures (1904-2003)
hirschsprung's disease
- n congenital condition in which the colon does not have the normal network of nerves; there is little urge to defecate so the feces accumulate and cause megacolon
hirudinea
- n hermaphroditic aquatic or terrestrial or parasitic annelids
hirudinean
- n carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end
hirudo medicinalis
- n large European freshwater leech formerly used for bloodletting