Words Containing: H,A,N,S,E,S

• a support consisting of an arrangement of straps for holding something to the body (especially one supporting a person suspended from a parachute)

• stable gear consisting of an arrangement of leather straps fitted to a draft animal so that it can be attached to and pull a cart

• put a harness

• exploit the power of

• control and direct with or as if by reins

• keep in check

• (19th century) a man's high tasseled boot

• act at high speed

• move hurridly

• speed up the progress of; facilitate

• cause to occur rapidly

• valuable source of caviar and isinglass; found in Black and Caspian seas

• A lucky omen.

• A gift given at New Year, or at the start of some enterprise or new situation, meant to ensure good luck.

• Price, payment; especially the first installment of a series.

• A merchant guild, particularly the Fellowship of London Merchants (the "Old Hanse") given a monopoly on London's foreign trade by the Normans or its successor, the Company of Merchant Adventurers (the "New Hanse"), incorporated in 1497 and chartered under Henry VII and Elizabeth I.

• The rights and privileges of such guilds, particularly their trade monopolies.

• A commercial association of Scottish free burghs in the Middle Ages.

• The Hanseatic League: a commercial association of German towns in the Middle Ages.

• The guildhall of a Hanse.

• A fee payable to the Hanse, particularly its entrance fee and the impost levied on non-members trading in its area.

• That part of an elliptical or many-centred arch which has the shorter radius and immediately adjoins the impost.