Word Meanings - HELL-HAUNTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Haunted by devils; hellish. Dryden.

HAUNTED
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.
HELLISH
Of or pertaining to hell; like hell; infernal; malignant; wicked; detestable; diabolical. "Hellish hate." Milton. -- Hell"ish*ly, adv. -- Hell"ish*ness, n.
HAUNTER
One who, or that which, haunts.
HAUNT
to go about, fr. L. ambire ; or cf. Icel. heimta to 1. To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon. You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house. Shak. Those cares that haunt the court and town.
DEVILSHIP
The character or person of a devil or the devil. Cowley.
CHAUNTERIE
See CHAUCER
DISHAUNT
To leave; to quit; to cease to haunt. Halliwell.
CHAUNTER
1. A street seller of ballads and other broadsides. 2. A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey. He was a horse chaunter; he's a leg now. Dickens. 3. The flute of a bagpipe. See Chanter, n., 3.
CHAUNT
See CHANT
HELL-HAUNTED
Haunted by devils; hellish. Dryden.