hayloft (n.) Look up hayloft at Dictionary.com
storing place for hay in a stable or barn, 1570s, from hay + loft (n.).
haymaker (n.) Look up haymaker at Dictionary.com
hayrick (n.) Look up hayrick at Dictionary.com
"haystack," late 14c., from hay + rick.
hayseed (n.) Look up hayseed at Dictionary.com
haystack (n.) Look up haystack at Dictionary.com
Hayward Look up Hayward at Dictionary.com
proper name, from Old English hege-weard "guardian of the fence/hedge" (see hedge (n.) + ward (n.)). His original duties seem to have been protecting the fences around the Lammas lands, when enclosed, to prevent cattle from breaking in while the crops grew.
haywire (n.) Look up haywire at Dictionary.com
hazard (v.) Look up hazard at Dictionary.com
"put something at stake in a game of chance," 1520s, from Middle French hasarder "to play at gambling, throw dice" (15c.), from hasard (see hazard (n.)). Related: Hazarded; hazarding.
hazard (n.) Look up hazard at Dictionary.com
hazardous (adj.) Look up hazardous at Dictionary.com
haze (n.) Look up haze at Dictionary.com
"opaqueness of the atmosphere," 1706, probably a back-formation of hazy (q.v.). Sense of "confusion, vagueness" is 1797. The differentiation of haze, mist, fog (and other dialectal words) is unmatched in other tongues, where the same word generally covers all three and often "cloud" as well; this may be an effect of the English climate on the English language.
haze (v.) Look up haze at Dictionary.com
"subject (someone) to cruel horseplay," 1850, American English student slang, from earlier nautical sense of "harass with work, punish by keeping at unpleasant and unnecessary hard labor" (1840), perhaps from hawze "terrify, frighten, confound" (1670s), from Middle French haser "irritate, annoy" (mid-15c.), which is of unknown origin. Related: Hazed; hazing.
hazel (n.) Look up hazel at Dictionary.com
hazelnut (n.) Look up hazelnut at Dictionary.com
hazing (n.) Look up hazing at Dictionary.com
"brutal initiation, act of abusing a newcomer," 1848, said to be a college word ("This word is used at Harvard College, to express the treatment which Freshmen sometimes receive from the higher classes, and especially from the Sophomores" -- "Collection of College Words and Customs," Boston, 1851), but perhaps originally nautical; see haze (v.).
hazmat Look up hazmat at Dictionary.com
also HAZMAT, 1977, telescoped from hazardous material(s).
hazy (adj.) Look up hazy at Dictionary.com
he (pron.) Look up he at Dictionary.com

- masc. neut. fem. (all genders)
nom. he hit heo, hio hie, hi
acc. hine hit hie, hi hie, hi
gen. his his hire hira, heora
dat. him him hire him, heom

he-he Look up he-he at Dictionary.com
imitative of laughter, Old English.
Ha ha and he he getacniað hlehter on leden and on englisc. [Ælfric, "Grammar," c. 1000]
he-man (n.) Look up he-man at Dictionary.com
head (v.) Look up head at Dictionary.com
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head over heels (adv.) Look up head over heels at Dictionary.com
1726, "a curious perversion" [Weekley] of Middle English heels over head (late 14c.) "somersault fashion," hence "recklessly." Head (n.) and heels long have been paired in alliterative phrases in English, and the whole image also was in classical Latin (per caput pedesque ire).
head shop (n.) Look up head shop at Dictionary.com
head-butt (n.) Look up head-butt at Dictionary.com
also headbutt, 1935, from head (n.) + noun from butt (v.). As a verb, by 1946. Related: Head-butting (1917 as a noun).
head-dress (n.) Look up head-dress at Dictionary.com
also headdress, 1703, from head (n.) + dress (n.) in the older, more general, sense.
head-gear (n.) Look up head-gear at Dictionary.com
1530s, from head (n.) + gear (n.).
head-hunter (n.) Look up head-hunter at Dictionary.com
1800, from head (n.) + hunter. Employment sense attested from 1961. Related: Head-hunting (1817).
head-on (adv.) Look up head-on at Dictionary.com
1840, from head (n.) + on.
head-piece (n.) Look up head-piece at Dictionary.com
1530s, from head (n.) + piece (n.).
head-rest (n.) Look up head-rest at Dictionary.com
1833, from head (n.) + rest (n.).
head-shrinker (n.) Look up head-shrinker at Dictionary.com
also headshrinker, 1926 in literal sense, from head (n.) + agent noun from shrink (v.); as U.S. slang for "psychologist," by 1950.
headache (n.) Look up headache at Dictionary.com
Old English heafodece; see head (n.) + ache (n.). Colloquial sense of "troublesome problem" is first recorded 1934. Related: Headachy (1705).
headband (n.) Look up headband at Dictionary.com
also Related: head-band, 1530s, from head (n.) + band (n.1).
headbanger (n.) Look up headbanger at Dictionary.com
"devotee of heavy metal music," 1984, from head (n.) + agent noun from bang (v.).
header (n.) Look up header at Dictionary.com
"head-first dive or plunge," 1849, from head (n.); as a type of pass or shot with the head in soccer, by 1906. Earlier it meant "executioner, headsman" (mid-15c.).
heading (n.) Look up heading at Dictionary.com
c. 1300, "a beheading," from present participle of head (v.). Meaning "an advancing in a certain direction" is from c. 1600. Meaning "title at the head of a portion of text" is from 1849.
headland (n.) Look up headland at Dictionary.com
Old English heafod lond "strip of land left unplowed at the edge of a field to leave room for the plow to turn," naturally identified with boundaries; see head (n.) + land (n.). Meaning "high cape, promontory" is from 1520s.
headless (adj.) Look up headless at Dictionary.com
late Old English, heafedleas; see head (n.) + -less. Late 14c. as "rulerless, lacking a leader." Related: Headlessly; headlessness. Similar construction in Dutch hoofdeloos, German hauptlos, Danish hovedlös.
headlight (n.) Look up headlight at Dictionary.com
large lamp and reflector carried in front to illuminate at night, 1861, originally of ships and locomotives, from head (n.) + light (n.). Related: Headlights, which, as slang for "a woman's breasts," is from 1940s.
headline (n.) Look up headline at Dictionary.com
1670s, from head (n.) in sense "heading of a book or chapter" (c. 1200) + line (n.). Originally a printers' term for the line at the top of a page containing the title and page number; used of the lines that form the title of a newspaper article from 1890, and transferred unthinkingly to broadcast media. Headlinese "language peculiar to headlines" is from 1927. Headlines "important news" is from 1908.
headliner (n.) Look up headliner at Dictionary.com
headlong (adv.) Look up headlong at Dictionary.com
late 14c., headling, also headlings, "headfirst (downward); headlong (forward); without thinking, hastily," from hed "head" (see head (n.)) + adverbial suffix -ling. Altered by c. 1400 to conform with sidelong, etc. Its true companions are now mostly obsolete: darkling, backling, flatling, etc.
headman (n.) Look up headman at Dictionary.com
also head-man, "chief man, leader," Old English heafodman; see head (adj.) + man (n.). Cognate with German Hauptmann "captain."
headmaster (n.) Look up headmaster at Dictionary.com
principal of a school or seminary, 1570s, from head (adj.) + master (n.).
headphone (n.) Look up headphone at Dictionary.com
1887, from head (n.) + second element extracted from telephone (n.). Related: Headphones.
headquarters (n.) Look up headquarters at Dictionary.com
"residence of a military commander," 1640s, from head (adj.) + quarters. Headquarter as a verb is recorded from 1838 (in Headquartered).
headroom (n.) Look up headroom at Dictionary.com