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haere [Maori], go; also, come. —haere atu, go away. —haere e hoki,
go back again. —haere mai, come here: all New Zealand.
haerent infixi pectore vultus [L], (his) looks are deep imprinted in
(her) breast; (his) face is graven on (her) heart: Virgil, writing of
Dido and Aeneas.
hafiz [Pers], one who knows the Koran by heart; a Muslim title.
haiduk or heyduck [Ger Heiduck, fr. Hung hajdu], orig., a brigand
mountaineer; Hung, hist., one of a class of mercenaries who received
the rank of nobles in 1605; Hungarian foot soldier; formerly, in
France and Germany, an outrider or footman in Hungarian costume.
haik [Ar], a strip of woolen or cotton cloth worn over the head and
body by Arabs.
haiku [Jap], a three-line poem of seventeen syllables.
haji [Ar]. See HADJI.
hakeem or hakim [Ar hakim], lit., wise one; Muslim physician.
haki-dame ni tsuru [Jap], a stork on a dust heap; a jewel in a dunghill.
hakim [Ar hakim], Muslim judge or governor.
halachah [Heb], lit., the way; the body of Jewish law supplementing
scriptural law.
Hälfte [Ger; pi Hälften], half; moiety.
Hals über Kopf [Ger], lit., neck over head; head over heels; headlong.
halte-là! [Fr], halt!: mil.
hamal or hammal [Turk, Ar, & Hind], Oriental porter; palanquin bearer.
ha matseel nefesh achat mee Israel, ke eeloo heetseel et ha olam koolo
[Heb], whoever saves one soul of Israel has done the equivalent of
saving the entire world.
hammam [Turk & Ar], Turkish bath.
Handbuch [Ger; pi. Handbücher], handbook; manual.
Hände hoch! [Ger], hands up!
Handelsblatt [Ger; pi Handelsblätter], trade journal.
Handelshochschule [Ger; pi. -schulen], commercial high school; commercial
college.
Händler [Ger; sing. &f pi], dealer.
Handschrift [Ger; pi. Handschriften], manuscript: abbr. Hs., pi. Hss.
Handwörterbuch [Ger; pi. -bûcher], handy dictionary.
Hannibal ad portas [L], Hannibal is at the gates; the enemy is close at
hand: Cicero (adapted).
haole [Hawa], white man; foreigner to the Hawaiian Islands.
hapax legomenon [Gr άπαξ λεγόμενον], said only once; a word or
phrase used but once in a book; a rare word or form.
hara-kiri [Jap], lit., belly cutting; Japanese method of suicide by piercing
the abdomen; disembowelment; happy dispatch {a euphemism). Called
also seppuku.
hardi comme un coq sur son fumier [Fr], bold as a rooster on his own
dunghill.