Word Meanings - HALS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The neck or throat. Do me hangen by the hals. Chaucer.

Related words: (words related to HALS)

• THROATLATCH
  A strap of a bridle, halter, or the like, passing under a horse's throat.
• THROATWORT
  A plant formerly considered a remedy for sore throats because of its throat-shaped corolla.
• THROATY
  Guttural; hoarse; having a guttural voice. "Hard, throaty words." Howell.
• THROATING
  A drip, or drip molding.
• THROATBAND
  See THROATLATCH
• THROAT
  The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue. Gwilt. The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail. That end of a gaff which is next the mast. The angle where
• THROATBOLL
  The Adam's apple in the neck. By the throatboll he caught Aleyn. Chaucer.
• BLUETHROAT
  A singing bird of northern Europe and Asia , related to the nightingales; -- called also blue-throated robin and blue-throated warbler.
• CUTTHROAT
  One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
• WHITETHROAT
  Any one of several species of Old World warblers, esp. the common European species , called also strawsmear, nettlebird, muff, and whitecap, the garden whitethroat, or golden warbler , and the lesser whitethroat .
• RUBYTHROAT
  Any one of numerous species of humming birds belonging to Trochilus, Calypte, Stellula, and allies, in which the male has on the throat a brilliant patch of red feathers having metallic reflections; esp., the common humming bird of the
• REDTHROAT
  A small Australian singing bird . The upper parts are brown, the center of the throat red.
• YELLOWTHROAT
  Any one of several species of American ground warblers of the genus Geothlypis, esp. the Maryland yellowthroat , which is a very common species.
• STARTHROAT
  Any humming bird of the genus Heliomaster. The feathers of the throat have a brilliant metallic luster.