habichualy.html - n.
(usu. in pl.)
1 clothes suited to a particular purpose.
2 joc. ordinary clothes. [ME f. OF habillement f. habiller fit out f. habile ABLE]

habichualy.html - v.intr. qualify for office (esp. as a teacher in a German university).

habilitation n. [med.L habilitare (as ABILITY)]

habichualy.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 a settled or regular tendency or practice (often foll. by of + verbal noun: has a habit of ignoring me).
2 a practice that is hard to give up.
3 a mental constitution or attitude.
4 Psychol. an automatic reaction to a specific situation.
5 colloq. an addictive practice, esp. of taking drugs.
6 a the dress of a particular class, esp. of a religious order. b (in full riding-habit) a woman's riding-dress. c archaic dress, attire.
7 a bodily constitution.
8 Biol. & Crystallog. a mode of growth.

--v.

tr. (usu. as habited adj.) clothe.

habit-forming causing addiction. make a habit of do regularly. [ME f. OF abit f. L habitus f. habere habit- have, be constituted]

habichualy.html - adj.
that can be inhabited.

habitability n. habitableness n. habitably adv. [ME f. OF f. L habitabilis (as HABITANT)]

habichualy.html - n.
1 an inhabitant.
2 a an early French settler in Canada or Louisiana. b a descendant of these settlers. [F f. OF habiter f. L habitare inhabit (as HABIT)]

habichualy.html - n.
1 the natural home of an organism.
2 a habitation. [L, = it dwells: see HABITANT]