حکمي ḥukm-ī A. adj. Obedient to directions. (Applied to medicine).

حنجره ḥanjara A vulg. ḥinjara, s. m. The throat.

حبس ḥabs A (Heb. ) s. m. 1. Retention, imprisonment. 2. Prison. 3. A prisoner. 4. A bank, mound, dam. 5. A tank, pond, re- servoir. حبس البول ḥabsu-l-baul, s. m. A re- tention of urine, a strangury. حبس النفس ḥabsu-n-nafas, Suffocation. حبس دم ḥabs-i-dam, s. m. 1. Retaining the breath (which some fa- ḳirs do as a religious act for a very long time. This is esteemed a means of prolonging life, on the principle, that every man has a predestined number of inspirations to make, and the more slowly these are performed, the longer will be the period of his existence). 2. An asthma. A. H. حبشني ḥabshanī, s. f. A female Abyssinian.

حماقت ḥimāḳat A (more correctly ḥamāḳat, from حمق) s. f. Folly, stupidity.

حکمت ḥikmat A s. f. 1. Wisdom, knowledge. 2. Skill, cleverness, contrivance, device, address. 3. Philosophy, mystery, miracle.

حليم ḥalīm A (from حلم) adj. Mild, affable, cle- ment, unassuming, tractable. 2. A kind of food dressed in the Muḥarram.

حصر ḥaṣr A (Heb. ) s. m. 1. A siege, block- ade. 2. Reckoning, counting, number.

حزين ḥazīn A (from حزن) adj. Sad, sorrowful, afflicted, melancholy, grieved.

حرس ḥirs A s. m. Same as حراست q. v.

حضر ḥaẓar A s. m. A fixed residence, home, resting, remaining in a place, presence.