habit /habˈit/

1. Ordinary course of behaviour
2. Tendency to perform certain actions
3. Custom
4. Accustomedness
5. Familiarity
6. Bodily constitution
7. Characteristic mode of development
8. The geometric form taken by a crystal (crystallography)
9. Outward appearance
10. Official or customary dress, esp the costume of a nun or monk
11. A garment, esp a riding habit
12. An addiction to a drug, etc
13. A learned behavioural response to particular circumstances (psychology)

1. To dress
2. To inhabit (archaic)

habˈitaunce noun (Spenser)

Dwelling-place

habˈited adjective

Clothed

habitˈūal adjective

1. Customary
2. Usual
3. Confirmed by habit

1. Someone who has a habit
2. A habitual drunkard, drug-taker, frequenter, etc

habitˈūally adverb

habitˈūalness noun

habitˈūāte transitive verb

1. To accustom
2. To settle (in), or to frequent (archaic)

habitūāˈtion noun

1. The act of accustoming
2. The process of becoming accustomed
3. Acquired tolerance for a drug, which thereby loses its effect
4. Development of psychological, without physical, dependence on a drug

habˈitūde noun

1. Constitution
2. Characteristic condition
3. Habit
4. Relation (obsolete)
5. Familiar acquaintance (obsolete)

habitūˈdinal adjective

habitué /hab-itˈū-ā or (French) a-bē-tü-ā/ noun

A habitual frequenter

habˈitus noun

1. Physical type, esp as predisposing to disease (medicine)
2. Characteristic appearance, manner of growth, etc of a plant or animal

habˈit-cloth noun

A light broadcloth

habˈit-forming adjective

(of a drug) such as a taker will find it difficult or impossible to give up using

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• poor-John
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• poor law
• poor-law
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• poorlier
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• poor man's weather glass
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