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1.One who sells thread,pins,needles,small ornament for clothes, hats,etc.=*haberdasher
2.An ugly old woman=*hag
3.One who cuts and curls hair=*hairdresser
4.Mohammedan doctor=*hakeem,hakim; (a Mohammedan judge or ruler)
5.(My) wife=*(my better) half; (half=one of the two equal parts of a thing/To do a thing by halves =to do it badly or incompletely)
6.(Relations) having the same mother but a different father (or same father but a different mother)=*half-blood (relation)
7.A person whose parents are of different races, (eg.of a white and a coloured race)= half-breed, half-caste
8.An experienced person=*(an old) hand; (hand =the end of the arm which has the power of seizing/the pointer of a clock/a worker)
9.A female servant=*handmaid
10.A man who can do any sort of work with his hands=*handy-man; (a man who does small repairs and other work in the house)
11.One who depends on another=*hanger-on; (who joins himself to another person in hope of gain)
12.The man who kills law-breakers by hanging them=*hangman; (hang=to support from some point above/to fix one end leaving the other end free to swing/to kill a law-breaker of a rope round his neck)
13.One who forces those under him to work too much=*(a)hard master; (hard=difficult/not soft/ unkind,cruel or unjust)
14.A person(female)who tries to get everything for herself=*harpy; (a woman of bad character/ a creature,half bird, half woman,told of in Greek fairy stories)
15.An old woman of bad character=*harridan
16.A wild thoughtless person=*harum-scarum
17.A man who gathers the crop=*harvester; (a machine for cutting and gathering grain[eg.corn, wheat,etc.]/a small biting insect)
18.A person having no true knowledge of God= *heathen; (Those children are young heathens= –––are wild and bad manner)
19.One who worries a candidate for election by interruption & awkward questions=*hackler; (hackle=to trouble,eg.a public speaker by asking many questions)
20.The person who will get certain money,land,or power when another person dies=*heir; (heirloom=any valuable thing which is passed on to an heir and may not be sold out of the family)
21.A slave in ancient Greece=*helot
22.Helper=*help-mate,help-meet; (wife)
23.A servant=*henchman
24.Husband(=one ruled by his wife)= *hen-pecked
25.An officer who declares important news to the public,eg.war,the death of the king,etc.=*herald; (any person who carries news/a person or thing which acts as a sign of some future event,eg. Birds are haralds of Spring)
26.One who teach heresy=*heretic; (heresy=any teaching which is not according to what has been settled as true by Church/teaching not in agreement with what is believed by most people)
27.One who retires from society to live a solitary life=*hermit; (a man who lives apart from all people in order to live a holy life/recluse)
28.A female hero=*heroine; (hero=1.a great man in the early history of any people/2.a very brave person;the chief character[=person]in a story-book,poem/adj.heroic=like a hero,very brave/heroics=loud and foolish talk,as when pretending to be very brave//heroin=medicine)
29.(German)Mr.=*Herr
30.A person of high rank in Spain=*hidalgo
31.One who put on an appearance of great learning=*highbrow(person);( [music,etc.] too difficult to be understood by the general public)
32.One who lives in the mountains–––especially in Scotland=*Highlander
33.Very good and honest person=*high-minded (person)
34.A thief who uses a gun and steals from travellers=*highwayman
35.(Am.)A thief who steals by force from other law-breakers=*hijacker
36.A servant on a farm=*hind; (a female deer// [legs]at the back of the animal/hinder(parts)= back parts/hinder=to prevent,to try to stop a person doing what he wants to/hindrance= anything which causes trouble or difficulty)
37.One who holds beliefs of Hinduism=*(a)Hindu
;(Hinduism=the beliefs in God held by many people of India)
38.(Am.)One who gets about the country by stopping strangers on the road and asking to be taken along in their motor-car=*hitch-hiker; (hitch=a simple knot;a difficulty or cause of delay
,eg.A hitch in one’s plans)
39.A young person of careless manners and unskillful movements=*hobbledehoy; (hobble= to walk putting more weight on one leg then on the other because of pain,damaged leg/to tie the legs of a horse so that he can only move very slowly)
40.(Am.Sl.)An unemployed person who wanders from place to place=*hobo
41.A rough mannered girl=*hoiden
42.(Sl.)A very unpleasant,bad mannered person =holy terror; (holy=having to do with God/ respected as being very good and pure)
43.(Am.)A rough,noisy,bad mannered fellow= *hoodlum
44.A rough person who fights and makes a noise in the streets=*hooligan
45.Servant in a hotel in America=*(a bell)-hop; (hop=to move by short jump;to jump on one leg
/a hop=a short jump;a small dance//hop=a tall climbing plant,the fruit of which is used for making beer)
46.A complete fool=*hopeless fool; (a hope=a feeling of hope,a thing for hope/hope=to desire and expect)
47.A man riding a horse=*horseman; (a horse soldier)
48.A man who receives guests=*host
49.A woman acting as host=*hostess; (the wife of one’s host//host=a great crowd;an army//host=holy bread in that ceremory of the Church which calls to memory the last supper of Jesus Christ)
50.A person held prisoner until some promise has been fulfilled=*hostage
51.An innkeeper=*hostler; (a man who looks after horses[more often written ostler] )
52.A beautiful woman=*houri; (Persian and Arabic word)
53.A thief who breaks in houses=*housebreaker; (a man employed to pull down useless houses/ [Am.house-wrecker] )
54.A family;all those living in one house=
*household; (A household word=something known and talked of by everybody)
55.The lady in charge of house=*housewife; (a small container for needles,thread,etc.)
56.A rough mannered girl=*hoyden;(see hoiden)
57.(Sl.)Husband=*hubby
59.A person who pretends to do more than he can=*humbug,(an act done for the purpose of deceiving/[of speech]dishonest or untrue;foolish, empty talk/to humbug=to deceive)
60.A man who hunts animals=*hunter; (a horse used in hunting[riding after]foxes/hunt=to go after wild animals and try to catch or kill them/ to look for that which is lost/To hunt up,To hunt out =to look for something which is difficult to find)
61.The man to whom a woman is married= *husband; (To husband one’s money=to save one’s money and use it very carefully)
62.A farmer=*husbandman; (husbandry=the work of farmer)
63.A horse soldier=*hussar
64.A troublesome girl=*hussy
65.One who pretends to be what he has not= *hypocrite; (hypocrisy=the act of pretending to have goodness and strength of character which one does not possess/hypocrite=one who does hypocrisy/impostor)

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