3. Practice; skill. [Obs.]

Of clothmaking she hadde such an haunt.

Chaucer.

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.

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

Hau"ri*ent (h"r*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.

Hau"sen (h"sn), n. [G.] (Zoˆl.) A large sturgeon (Acipenser huso) from

the region of the Black Sea. It is sometimes twelve feet long.

Hausse (hs), n. [F.] (Gun.) A kind of graduated breech sight for a

small arm, or a cannon.

||Haus`tel*la"ta (hs`tl*l"t), n. pl. [NL., fr. haustellum, fr. L.

||haurire, haustum, to draw water, to swallow. See Exhaust.] (Zoˆl.) An

||artificial division of insects, including all those with a sucking

||proboscis.

Haus"tel*late (hs"tl*lt or hs*tl"lt), a. [See Haustellata.] (Zoˆl.)

Provided with a haustellum, or sucking proboscis. -- n. One of the

Haustellata.

||Haus*tel"lum (hs*tl"lm), n.; pl. Haustella (- l). [NL.] (Zoˆl.) The

||sucking proboscis of various insects. See Lepidoptera, and Diptera.

||Haus*to"ri*um (-t"r*m), n.; pl. Haustoria (- ). [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 (ht), a. [F. See Haughty.] Haughty. [Obs.] "Nations proud and

haut." Milton.

Haut"boy (h"boi), 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.

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