2. The habit of resorting to a place. [Obs.]

The haunt you have got about the courts.
Arbuthnot.

3. Practice; skill. [Obs.]

Of clothmaking she hadde such an haunt.
Chaucer.

Haunted
(Haunt"ed), a. Inhabited by, or subject to the visits of, apparitions; frequented by a ghost.

All houses wherein men have lived and died
Are haunted houses.
Longfellow.

Haunter
(Haunt"er) n. One who, or that which, haunts.

Haurient
(Hau"ri*ent) a. [L. hauriens, p. pr. of haurire to breathe.] (Her.) In pale, with the head in chief; — said of the figure of a fish, as if rising for air.

Hausen
(Hau"sen) n. [G.] (Zoöl.) A large sturgeon (Acipenser huso) from the region of the Black Sea. It is sometimes twelve feet long.

Hausse
(Hausse) n. [F.] (Gun.) A kind of graduated breech sight for a small arm, or a cannon.

Haustellata
(||Haus`tel*la"ta) n. pl. [NL., fr. haustellum, fr. L. haurire, haustum, to draw water, to swallow. See Exhaust.] (Zoöl.) An artificial division of insects, including all those with a sucking proboscis.

Haustellate
(Haus"tel*late) (h&adds"tel*lat or h&adds*tel"lat), a. [See Haustellata.] (Zoöl.) Provided with a haustellum, or sucking proboscis.n. One of the Haustellata.

Haustellum
(||Haus*tel"lum) n.; pl. Haustella (- la). [NL.] (Zoöl.) The sucking proboscis of various insects. See Lepidoptera, and Diptera.

Haustorium
(||Haus*to"ri*um) n.; pl. Haustoria (- a). [LL., a well, fr. L. haurire, haustum, to drink.] (Bot.) One of the suckerlike rootlets of such plants as the dodder and ivy. R. Brown.

Haut
(Haut) a. [F. See Haughty.] Haughty. [Obs.] "Nations proud and haut." Milton.

Hautboy
(Haut"boy) n. [F. hautbois, lit., high wood; haut high + bois wood. So called on account of its high tone. See Haughty, Bush; and cf. Oboe.]

1. (Mus.) A wind instrument, sounded through a reed, and similar in shape to the clarinet, but with a thinner tone. Now more commonly called oboe. See Illust. of Oboe.

2. (Bot.) A sort of strawberry

Hautboyist
(Haut"boy*ist) n. [Cf. F. hautboïste.] A player on the hautboy.

Hautein
(Hau"tein) a. [See Haughty.]

1. Haughty; proud. [Obs.] Chaucer.

2. High; — said of the voice or flight of birds. [Obs.]

Hauteur
(||Hau`teur") n. [F., fr. haut high. See Haughty.] Haughty manner or spirit; haughtiness; pride; arrogance.

Hautgoût
(||Haut`goût") n. [F.] High relish or flavor; high seasoning.


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