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honour, pay homage or respect or honour to, exalt: We must
observe the hallowed traditions of the university.
hallucination
n. fantasy, mirage, day-dream, illusion, delusion, vision,
dream, aberration, chimera, phantasm, phantom, figment of the
imagination, apparition, spectre, ghost; par‘sthesia: Alone at
sea for a fortnight, I began having hallucinations.
halo n. nimbus, aura, aureole or aureola, corona, radiance, Painting
vesica, mandorla; ring, disc, circle, annulation, annulus: The
saints can be identified by the golden halos round their heads.
halt n. 1 stop, standstill, end, termination, close, stoppage,
cessation: We must call a halt to absenteeism in the factory.
--v. 2 stop, quit, end, terminate, cease, check, curb, stem,
discontinue, desist, bring or come or draw to an end or close,
put an end or stop to, conclude, shut or close down or up: We
halted when we came to the river. The guerrillas halted the
armoured column at the pass.
halting adj. hesitant, hesitating, wavering, shifting, uneven,
faltering, stumbling, faulty, unsteady, awkward, stammering,
stuttering: He told her in halting English that there was no
news of her friend.
hamper° v. slow, balk or baulk, delay, hold up, retard, inhibit,
encumber, hinder, obstruct, block, impede, prevent, interfere
with, frustrate, restrict, curb, limit, handicap, restrain,
trammel, bar, barricade, shackle, clog, curtail, lessen, reduce,
diminish: Ice floes hampered their further progress.
hamperý n. basket, pannier, creel, Brit punnet; hanaper, Dialectal
skep: A hamper arrived from Fortnum's, packed full of
delicacies such as foie gras and peaches in brandy.
hand n. 1 Slang mitt, paw, US lunch-hook: Keep your hands off me,
you oaf! 2 help, aid, assistance, helping hand, relief, boost;
leg up: Please give me a hand with this trunk. 3 influence,
agency, participation, involvement, part, share: Did you have a
hand in my getting the appointment? 4 (manual) labourer,
worker, workman, man, help, employee: It's getting harder to