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word: Hanker
definition:
Hanker

Han"ker
(hă&nsmacr_;"kẽr)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Hankered (-kẽrd); p. pr. & vb. n. Hankering.]
[Prob. fr. hang; cf. D. hunkeren, hengelen.]
1.
To long (for) with a keen appetite and uneasiness; to have a vehement desire; -- usually with for or after; as, to hanker after fruit; to hanker after the diversions of the town.
Addison.

He was hankering to join his friend.
J. A. Symonds.

2.
To linger in expectation or with desire.
Thackeray.


word: Hankey-pank
definition:
Hankey-pank

Hankey-pankey

Han"key-pan"key, Han"key-pank`
(hă&nsmacr_;"k&ybreve_;*pă&nsmacr_;"k&ybreve_;)
n.
[Cf. Hocus-pocus.]
[Also spelled hanky-panky.]
1.
Professional cant; the chatter of conjurers to divert attention from their tricks; hence, jugglery.
[Colloq.]

2.
Illegal or unethical behavior, usually surreptitious; as, the boss got suspicious when profits seemed lower than expected, and hired an investigator to see if any hankey-pankey was going on.
[Informal]

3.
Extramarital sexual relations, especially adultery.
[Colloq.]


word: Hanoverian
definition:
Hanoverian

Han`o*ve"ri*an
(hăn`o̝*vē"rĭ*an)
a.
Of or pertaining to Hanover or its people, or to the House of Hanover in England.


word: Hanoverian₂
definition:
Hanoverian

Han`o*ve"ri*an
n.
A native or naturalized inhabitant of Hanover; one of the House of Hanover.


word: Hansard
definition:
Hansard

Han"sard
(-sẽrd)
n.
An official report of proceedings in the British Parliament; -- so called from the name of the publishers.


word: Hanse
definition:
Hanse

Hanse
(hăns)
n.
[Cf. F. anse handle, anse de panier surbased arch, flat arch, vault, and E. haunch hip.]
(Arch.)
That part of an elliptical or many-centered arch which has the shorter radius and immediately adjoins the impost.


word: Hanse₂
definition:
Hanse

Hanse
n.
[G. hanse, or F. hanse (from German), OHG. & Goth. hansa; akin to AS. h&omacrs band, troop.]
An association; a league or confederacy.

Hanse towns (Hist.), certain commercial cities in Germany which associated themselves for the protection and enlarging of their commerce. The confederacy, called also Hansa and Hanseatic league, held its first diet in 1260, and was maintained for nearly four hundred years. At one time the league comprised eighty-five cities. Its remnants, Lübeck, Hamburg, and Bremen, are free cities, and are still frequently called Hanse towns.


word: Hanseatic
definition:
Hanseatic

Han`se*at"ic
(hăn`se̝*ăt"ĭk)
a.
Pertaining to the Hanse towns, or to their confederacy.

Hanseatic league. See under 2d Hanse.


word: Hansom cab
definition:
Hansom cab

Hansom

Han"som (hăn"sŭm), n., Han"som cab` (kăb`)
[From the name of the inventor.]
A light, low, two-wheeled covered carriage with the driver's seat elevated behind, the reins being passed over the top.

He hailed a cruising hansom . . . “ 'Tis the gondola of London,” said Lothair.
Beaconsfield.


word: Han't
definition:
Han't

Han't
(hānt; in England, hänt)
A contraction of have not, or has not, used in illiterate speech. In the United States the commoner spelling is hain't.


word: Hanukkah
definition:
Hanukkah

Hanukka

{ Ha"nuk*ka, or Ha"nuk*kah (?) }
n.
[Heb. khanukkāh.]
The Jewish Feast of the Dedication, instituted by Judas Maccabaeus, his brothers, and the whole congregation of Israel, in 165 b. c., to commemorate the dedication of the new altar set up at the purification of the temple of Jerusalem to replace the altar which had been polluted by Antiochus Epiphanes of Syria (1 Maccabees i. 58, iv. 59). The feast, which is mentioned in John x. 22, is held for eight days (beginning with the 25th day of Kislev, corresponding to December), and is celebrated everywhere, chiefly as a festival of lights, by the Jews.
[Also spelled Chanuka.]

Syn. -- Chanukah, Festival of Lights, Feast of Dedication, Feast of the Dedication.


word: haoma
definition:
haoma

haoma
n.
A leafless East Indian vine (Sarcostemma acidum); its sour milky juice was formerly used to make an intoxicating drink.

Syn. -- soma, Sarcostemma acidum.


word: Hap
definition:
Hap

Hap
(hăp)
v. t.
[OE. happen.]
To clothe; to wrap.

The surgeon happed her up carefully.
Dr. J. Brown.


word: Hap₃
definition:
Hap

Hap
n.
[Icel. happ unexpected good luck. √39.]
That which happens or comes suddenly or unexpectedly; also, the manner of occurrence or taking place; chance; fortune; accident; casual event; fate; luck; lot.
Chaucer.

Whether art it was or heedless hap.
Spenser.

Cursed be good haps, and cursed be they that build
Their hopes on haps.
Sir P. Sidney.

Loving goes by haps:
Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
Shak.


word: Hap₄
definition:
Hap

Hap
v. i.
[OE. happen. See Hap chance, and cf. Happen.]
To happen; to befall; to chance.
Chaucer.

Sends word of all that haps in Tyre.
Shak.


word: Haphazard
definition:
Haphazard

Hap"haz`ard
(hăp"hăz`ẽrd or hăp`hăz"ẽrd)
n.
[Hap + hazard.]
Extra hazard; chance; accident; random.

We take our principles at haphazard, upon trust.
Locke.


word: haphazard
definition:
haphazard

hap"haz`ard
(hăp"hăz`ẽrd or hăp`hăz"ẽrd)
a.
Determined by chance, whimsy, or guesswork; unplanned; aimless; random; -- used mostly of human actions.


word: Haphtarah
definition:
Haphtarah

Haph*ta"rah
(?)
n.
pl. -taroth (#)
[Heb. haphtārāh, prop., valedictory, fr. pātar to depart.]
One of the lessons from the Nebiim (or Prophets) read in the Jewish synagogue on Sabbaths, feast days, fasts, and the ninth of Ab, at the end of the service, after the parashoth, or lessons from the Law. Such a practice is evidenced in Luke iv.17 and Acts xiii.15.


word: Hapless
definition:
Hapless

Hap"less
(hăp"lĕs)
a.
Without hap or luck; luckless; unfortunate; unlucky; unhappy; as, hapless youth; hapless maid.
Dryden.


word: Haploid
definition:
Haploid

Hap"loid
(hăp"loid)
a.
[NL., fr. Gr. "aplo`os simple.]
(Biol.)
having half the number of chromosomes normally present in somatic cells; having only one chromosome of each type, and therefore having only one complete set of genes; Contrasted with diploid and polyploid.  See also diploid.
The germ cells of animals, the ovum and sperm cells, are haploid, whereas the somatic cells are diploid.  Haploid variants of somatic cells may also be generated under certain conditions in the laboratory.


word: Haplomi
definition:
Haplomi

Ha*plo"mi
(hȧ*pl&omacr"mī)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. "aplo`os simple + 'w^mos shoulder.]
(Zool.)
An order of freshwater fishes, including the true pikes, cyprinodonts, and blindfishes.


word: haplosporidian
definition:
haplosporidian

haplosporidian
n.
A parasite in invertebrates and lower vertebrates of no known economic importance.


word: Haplostemonous
definition:
Haplostemonous

Hap`lo*stem"o*nous
(hăp`lo̝*stĕm"o̝*nŭs)
a.
[Gr. "aplo`os simple + sth`mwn a thread.]
(Bot.)
Having but one series of stamens, and that equal in number to the proper number of petals; isostemonous.


word: Haply
definition:
Haply

Hap"ly
(hăp"l&ybreve_;)
adv.
By hap, chance, luck, or accident; perhaps; it may be.

Lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
Acts v. 39.


word: Happed
definition:
Happed

Happed
(hăpt)
p. a.
[From 1st Hap.]
Wrapped; covered; cloaked.
[Scot.]

All happed with flowers in the green wood were.
Hogg.


word: Happen
definition:
Happen

Hap"pen
(hăp"p'n)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Happened (-p'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Happening.]
[OE. happenen, hapnen. See Hap to happen.]
1.
To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out.

There shall no evil happen to the just.
Prov. xii. 21.

2.
To take place; to occur.

All these things which had happened.
Luke xxiv. 14.

To happen on, to meet with; to fall or light upon. “I have happened on some other accounts.” Graunt. -- To happen in, to make a casual call. [Colloq.]


word: happening
definition:
happening

happening
n.
1.
something that happens; an occurrence; an event.

Syn. -- occurrence, natural event.

2.
Specifically:
An event that is particularly interesting, noteworthy, or important.

3.
An artistic or entertainment event that is unconventional, sometimes discontinuous, designed to evoke strong emotions, and sometimes involving participation by the audience.


word: Happily
definition:
Happily

Hap"pi*ly
(hăp"pĭ*l&ybreve_;)
adv.
[From Happy.]
1.
By chance; peradventure; haply.
[Obs.]
Piers Plowman.

2.
By good fortune; fortunately; luckily.

Preferred by conquest, happily o'erthrown.
Waller.

3.
In a happy manner or state; in happy circumstances; as, he lived happily with his wife.

4.
With address or dexterity; gracefully; felicitously; in a manner to insure success; with success.

Formed by thy converse, happily to steer
From grave to gay, from lively to severe.
Pope.


word: Happiness
definition:
Happiness

Hap"pi*ness
n.
[From Happy.]
1.
Good luck; good fortune; prosperity.

All happiness bechance to thee in Milan!
Shak.

2.
An agreeable feeling or condition of the soul arising from good fortune or propitious happening of any kind; the possession of those circumstances or that state of being which is attended with enjoyment; the state of being happy; contentment; joyful satisfaction; felicity; blessedness.

3.
Fortuitous elegance; unstudied grace; -- used especially of language.

Some beauties yet no precepts can declare,
For there's a happiness, as well as care.
Pope.
O happiness! our being's end and aim!
Pope.

Others in virtue place felicity,
But virtue joined with riches and long life;
In corporal pleasures he, and careless ease.
Milton.

His overthrow heaped happiness upon him;
For then, and not till then, he felt himself,
And found the blessedness of being little.
Shak.


word: Happy
definition:
Happy

Hap"py
(hăp"p&ybreve_;)
a.
[Compar. Happier (-pĭ*ẽr); superl. Happiest.]
[From Hap chance.]
1.
Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate; successful; prosperous; satisfying desire; as, a happy expedient; a happy effort; a happy venture; a happy omen.

Chymists have been more happy in finding experiments than the causes of them.
Boyle.

2.
Experiencing the effect of favorable fortune; having the feeling arising from the consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, as peace, tranquillity, comfort; contented; joyous; as, happy hours, happy thoughts.

Happy is that people, whose God is the Lord.
Ps. cxliv. 15.

The learned is happy Nature to explore,
The fool is happy that he knows no more.
Pope.

3.
Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous.

One gentleman is happy at a reply, another excels in a in a rejoinder.
Swift.

Happy family, a collection of animals of different and hostile propensities living peaceably together in one cage. Used ironically of conventional alliances of persons who are in fact mutually repugnant. -- Happy-go-lucky, trusting to hap or luck; improvident; easy-going. “Happy-go-lucky carelessness.”  W. Black.


word: Hapuku
definition:
Hapuku

Ha*pu"ku
(hȧ*pō"kō)
n.
(Zool.)
A large and valuable food fish (Polyprion prognathus) of New Zealand. It sometimes weighs one hundred pounds or more.


word: Haquebut
definition:
Haquebut

Haque"but
(hăk"bŭt)
n.
See Hagbut.

n.
1.
(Japan)  suicide by self-disembowlment on a sword.

Syn. -- harikari.


word: hara-kiri
definition:
hara-kiri

harakiri

ha"ra*ki`ri, ha"ra-ki`ri
(h&asuml_;"r&asuml_;*kē`rĭ)
n.
[Jap., stomach cutting.]
A ritual form of suicide, by slashing the abdomen, formerly practiced in Japan, and commanded by the government in the cases of disgraced officials; disembowelment; -- also written, but incorrectly, hari-kari.
W. E. Griffis.


word: Harangue
definition:
Harangue

Ha*rangue"
(hȧ*răng")
n.
[F. harangue: cf. Sp. arenga, It. aringa; lit., a speech before a multitude or on the hustings, It. aringo arena, hustings, pulpit; all fr. OHG. hring ring, anything round, ring of people, G. ring. See Ring.]
A speech addressed to a large public assembly; a popular oration; a loud address to a multitude; in a bad sense, a noisy or pompous speech; declamation; ranting.

Gray-headed men and grave, with warriors mixed,
Assemble, and harangues are heard.
Milton.


word: Harangue₂
definition:
Harangue

Ha*rangue"
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Harangued (hȧ*răngd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Haranguing.]
[Cf. F. haranguer, It. aringare.]
To make an harangue; to declaim.


word: Haranguer
definition:
Haranguer

Ha*rang"uer
(hȧ*răng"ẽr)
n.
One who harangues, or is fond of haranguing; a declaimer.

With them join'd all th' haranguers of the throng,
That thought to get preferment by the tongue.
Dryden.


word: Harass
definition:
Harass

Har"ass
(hăr"as or hȧ*răs")
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Harassed (hăr"ast or hȧ*răst"); p. pr. & vb. n. Harassing.]
[F. harasser; cf. OF. harace a basket made of cords, harace, harasse,a very heavy and large shield; or harer to set (a dog) on.]
To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out.

[Troops] harassed with a long and wearisome march.
Bacon.

Nature oppressed and harass'd out with care.
Addison.

Vext with lawyers and harass'd with debt.
Tennyson.


word: harassed
definition:
harassed

harassed
(hăr"ast or hȧ*răst")
adj.
troubled persistently, especially with petty annoyances; as, harassed working mothers.

Syn. -- annoyed, harried, pestered.


word: Harassment
definition:
Harassment

Har"ass*ment
(-ment)
n.
The act of harassing, or state of being harassed; worry; annoyance; anxiety.

Little harassments which I am led to suspect do occasionally molest the most fortunate.
Ld. Lytton.


word: Harberous
definition:
Harberous

Har"ber*ous
(h&asuml_;r"bẽr*ŭs)
a.
Harborous.
[Obs.]

A bishop must be faultless, the husband of one wife, honestly appareled, harberous.
Tyndale (1 Tim. iii. 2).


word: Harbinger
definition:
Harbinger

Har"bin*ger
(h&asuml_;r"bĭn*jẽr)
n.
[OE. herbergeour, OF. herbergeor one who provides lodging, fr. herbergier to provide lodging, F. héberger, OF. herberge lodging, inn, F. auberge; of German origin. See Harbor.]
1.
One who provides lodgings; especially, the officer of the English royal household who formerly preceded the court when traveling, to provide and prepare lodgings.
Fuller.

2.
A forerunner; a precursor; a messenger.

I knew by these harbingers who were coming.
Landor.


word: Harbinger₂
definition:
Harbinger

Har"bin*ger
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Harbingered (h&asuml_;r"bĭn*jẽrd); p. pr. & vb. n. Harbingering.]
To usher in; to be a harbinger of.
harbinger
Bancroft.


word: Harbor
definition:
Harbor

Har"bor
(här"bẽr)
n.
[Written also harbour.]
[OE. herbor, herberwe, herberge, Icel. herbergi (cf. OHG. heriberga), orig., a shelter for soldiers; herr army + bjarga to save, help, defend; akin to AS. here army, G. heer, OHG. heri, Goth. harjis, and AS. beorgan to save, shelter, defend, G. bergen. See Harry, 2d Bury, and cf. Harbinger.]
1.
A station for rest and entertainment; a place of security and comfort; a refuge; a shelter.

[A grove] fair harbour that them seems.
Spenser.

For harbor at a thousand doors they knocked.
Dryden.

2.
Specif.: A lodging place; an inn.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

3.
(Astrol.)
The mansion of a heavenly body.
[Obs.]

4.
A portion of a sea, a lake, or other large body of water, either landlocked or artificially protected so as to be a place of safety for vessels in stormy weather; a port or haven.

5.
(Glass Works)
A mixing box for materials.

Harbor dues (Naut.), fees paid for the use of a harbor. -- Harbor seal (Zool.), the common seal. -- Harbor watch, a watch set when a vessel is in port; an anchor watch.


word: Harbor₂
definition:
Harbor

Har"bor
(här"bẽr)
v. t.
[Written also harbour.]
[imp. & p. p. Harbored (-bẽrd); p. pr. & vb. n. Harboring.]
[OE. herberen, herberwen, herbergen; cf. Icel. herbergja. See Harbor, n.]
To afford lodging to; to entertain as a guest; to shelter; to receive; to give a refuge to; to indulge or cherish (a thought or feeling, esp. an ill thought); as, to harbor a grudge.

Any place that harbors men.
Shak.

The bare suspicion made it treason to harbor the person suspected.
Bp. Burnet.

Let not your gentle breast harbor one thought of outrage.
Rowe.


word: Harbor₃
definition:
Harbor

Har"bor
v. i.
To lodge, or abide for a time; to take shelter, as in a harbor.

For this night let's harbor here in York.
Shak.


word: Harborage
definition:
Harborage

Har"bor*age
(-a̝j)
n.
Shelter; entertainment.
[R.]

Where can I get me harborage for the night?
Tennyson.


word: Harborer
definition:
Harborer

Har"bor*er
(-ẽr)
n.
One who, or that which, harbors.

Geneva was . . . a harborer of exiles for religion.
Strype.


word: Harbor master
definition:
Harbor master

Har"bor mas`ter
(mȧs`tẽr)
An officer charged with the duty of executing the regulations respecting the use of a harbor.


word: Harbrough
definition:
Harbrough

Harborough

{ Har"bor*ough (-o̝), Har"brough (-bro̝), }
n.
[See Harbor.]
A shelter.
[Obs.]
Spenser.


word: Hard
definition:
Hard

Hard
(härd)
a.
[Compar. Harder (-ẽr); superl. Hardest.]
[OE. hard, heard, AS. heard; akin to OS. & D. hard, G. hart, OHG. herti, harti, Icel. harðr, Dan. haard, Sw. hård, Goth. hardus, Gr. kraty`s strong, ka`rtos, kra`tos, strength, and also to E. -ard, as in coward, drunkard, -crat, -cracy in autocrat, democracy; cf. Skr. kratu strength, k&rsdot_; to do, make.  Cf. Hardy.]
1.
Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact; -- applied to material bodies, and opposed to soft; as, hard wood; hard flesh; a hard apple.

2.
Difficult, mentally or judicially; not easily apprehended, decided, or resolved; as a hard problem.

The hard causes they brought unto Moses.
Ex. xviii. 26.

In which are some things hard to be understood.
2 Peter iii. 16.

3.
Difficult to accomplish; full of obstacles; laborious; fatiguing; arduous; as, a hard task; a disease hard to cure.

4.
Difficult to resist or control; powerful.

The stag was too hard for the horse.
L'Estrange.

 A power which will be always too hard for them.
Addison.

5.
Difficult to bear or endure; not easy to put up with or consent to; hence, severe; rigorous; oppressive; distressing; unjust; grasping; as, a hard lot; hard times; hard fare; a hard winter; hard conditions or terms.

I never could drive a hard bargain.
Burke.

6.
Difficult to please or influence; stern; unyielding; obdurate; unsympathetic; unfeeling; cruel; as, a hard master; a hard heart; hard words; a hard character.

7.
Not easy or agreeable to the taste; harsh; stiff; rigid; ungraceful; repelling; as, a hard style.

Figures harder than even the marble itself.
Dryden.

8.
Rough; acid; sour, as liquors; as, hard cider.

9.
(Pron.)
Abrupt or explosive in utterance; not aspirated, sibilated, or pronounced with a gradual change of the organs from one position to another; -- said of certain consonants, as c in came, and g in go, as distinguished from the same letters in center, general, etc.

10.
Wanting softness or smoothness of utterance; harsh; as, a hard tone.

11.
(Painting)
(a)
Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.
(b)
Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in the coloring or light and shade.

Hard cancer, Hard case, etc. See under Cancer, Case, etc. -- Hard clam, or Hard-shelled clam (Zool.), the quahog. -- Hard coal, anthracite, as distinguished from bituminous coal (soft coal). -- Hard and fast. (Naut.) See under Fast. -- Hard finish (Arch.), a smooth finishing coat of hard fine plaster applied to the surface of rough plastering. -- Hard lines, hardship; difficult conditions. -- Hard money, coin or specie, as distinguished from paper money. -- Hard oyster (Zool.), the northern native oyster. [Local, U. S.] -- Hard pan, the hard stratum of earth lying beneath the soil; hence, figuratively, the firm, substantial, fundamental part or quality of anything; as, the hard pan of character, of a matter in dispute, etc. See Pan. -- Hard rubber. See under Rubber. -- Hard solder. See under Solder. -- Hard water, water, which contains lime or some mineral substance rendering it unfit for washing. See Hardness, 3. -- Hard wood, wood of a solid or hard texture; as walnut, oak, ash, box, and the like, in distinction from pine, poplar, hemlock, etc. -- In hard condition, in excellent condition for racing; having firm muscles; -- said of race horses.


word: Hard₂
definition:
Hard

Hard
adv.
[OE. harde, AS. hearde.]
1.
With pressure; with urgency; hence, diligently; earnestly.

And prayed so hard for mercy from the prince.
Dryden.

My father
Is hard at study; pray now, rest yourself.
Shak.

2.
With difficulty; as, the vehicle moves hard.

3.
Uneasily; vexatiously; slowly.
Shak.

4.
So as to raise difficulties.
hard
Sir T. Browne.

5.
With tension or strain of the powers; violently; with force; tempestuously; vehemently; vigorously; energetically; as, to press, to blow, to rain hard; hence, rapidly; nimbly; as, to run hard.

6.
Close or near.

Whose house joined hard to the synagogue.
Acts xviii. 7.

Hard by, near by; close at hand; not far off. “Hard by a cottage chimney smokes.” Milton. -- Hard pushed, Hard run, greatly pressed; as, he was hard pushed or hard run for time, money, etc. [Colloq.] -- Hard up, closely pressed by want or necessity; without money or resources; as, hard up for amusements. [Slang]

&hand_;  Hard in nautical language is often joined to words of command to the helmsman, denoting that the order should be carried out with the utmost energy, or that the helm should be put, in the direction indicated, to the extreme limit, as, Hard aport! Hard astarboard! Hard alee! Hard aweather! Hard up!
Hard is also often used in composition with a participle; as, hard-baked; hard-earned; hard-featured; hard-working; hard-won.


word: hard-and-fast
definition:
hard-and-fast

hard-and-fast
adj.
invariable; firmly established; as, hard-and-fast regulations.

Syn. -- strict.


word: hard-bound
definition:
hard-bound

hardcover

hardbacked

hardback

hard"back`, hard"backed`, hard"cov*er hard"-bound`
adj.
Having rigid front and back covers, usually boards covered with paper, cloth, or leather; -- of books.  Contrasted with softcover and paperback.


word: hardback
definition:
hardback

hard"back`
n.
A book with cardboard or cloth or leather covers; a hardcover book.  Compare paperback.

Syn. -- hardcover.


word: Hardbake
definition:
Hardbake

Hard"bake`
(-bāk`)
n.
A sweetmeat of boiled brown sugar or molasses made with almonds, and flavored with orange or lemon juice, etc.
Thackeray.


word: Hardbeam
definition:
Hardbeam

Hard"beam`
(-bēm`)
n.
(Bot.)
A tree of the genus Carpinus, of compact, horny texture; hornbeam.


word: hard-boiled
definition:
hard-boiled

hard-bitten

hard-bitten hard-boiled
adj.
not given to sentimentality or gentleness; -- of people; as, a hard-bitten character.

Syn. -- pugnacious, tough.


word: hardboard
definition:
hardboard

hard"board`
n.
a cheap hard material made from wood chips that are pressed together and bound with synthetic resin to form sheets, used in construction and various other purposes; -- called also particle board and chipboard.

Syn. -- chipboard.


word: hard-boiled₂
definition:
hard-boiled

hard-boiled
adj.
1.
same as hard-bitten.

Syn. -- hard-bitten, pugnacious.

2.
emotionally hardened; -- used of persons.

Syn. -- callous, case-hardened, hardened.

3.
cooked until the yolk is solid; -- used of eggs; as, a breakfast of pancakes and hard-boiled eggs.


word: Harden
definition:
Harden

Hard"en
(härd"'n)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Hardened (-'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Hardening (-'n*ĭng).]
[OE. hardnen, hardenen.]
1.
To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.

2.
To accustom by labor or suffering to endure with constancy; to strengthen; to stiffen; to inure; also, to confirm in wickedness or shame; to make unimpressionable.
Harden
Ps. xcv. 8.

I would harden myself in sorrow.
Job vi. 10.


word: Harden₂
definition:
Harden

Hard"en
v. i.
1.
To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying.

The deliberate judgment of those who knew him [A. Lincoln] has hardened into tradition.
The Century.

2.
To become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a bad sense.

They, hardened more by what might most reclaim.
Milton.


word: Hardenbergia
definition:
Hardenbergia

Hardenbergia
prop. n.
A small genus of Australian woody vines with small violet flowers; closely related to genus Kennedia.

Syn. -- genus Hardenbergia.


word: Hardened
definition:
Hardened

Hard"ened
(-'nd)
a.
1.
Made hard, or harder, or compact; made unfeeling or callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or vice.
2.
Rendered resistant to the effects of nearby explosions; as, a hardened missile silo; hardened warhead electronics.

3.
Experienced and inured to hardship; as, hardened combat troops.

4.
Strongly habituated to a certain type of behavior, and unlikely to change; as, a hardened criminal.  Usually used only of behavior perceived negatively.


word: Hardening
definition:
Hardening

Hard"en*ing
n.
1.
Making hard or harder.

2.
That which hardens, as a material used for converting the surface of iron into steel.


word: Harderian
definition:
Harderian

Har*de"ri*an
(här*dē"rĭ*an)
a.
(Anat.)
A term applied to a lachrymal gland on the inner side of the orbit of many animals which have a third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. See Nictitating membrane, under Nictitate.


word: Hard-favored
definition:
Hard-favored

Hard"-fa`vored
(härd"fā`vẽrd)
a.
Hard-featured; ill-looking; as, Vulcan was hard-favored.
Dryden.


word: Hard-featured
definition:
Hard-featured

Hard"-fea`tured
(-fē`t&uuptack_;rd; 135)
a.
Having coarse, unattractive or stern features.
Smollett.


word: Hardfern
definition:
Hardfern

Hard"fern`
(-fẽrn`)
n.
(Bot.)
A species of fern (Lomaria borealis), growing in Europe and Northwestern America.


word: Hard-fisted
definition:
Hard-fisted

Hard"-fist`ed
(-fĭst`ĕd)
a.
1.
Having hard or strong hands; as, a hard-fisted laborer.

2.
Close-fisted; covetous; niggardly.
Bp. Hall.


word: hard-fought
definition:
hard-fought

hard"-fought`
(-f&asuml_;t`)
a.
Vigorously contested by both opponents; -- of contests; as, a hard-fought battle; a hard-fought primary election.


word: Hard grass
definition:
Hard grass

Hard" grass`
(grȧs`)
(Bot.)
A name given to several different grasses, especially to the Roltböllia incurvata, and to the species of Aegilops, from one of which it is contended that wheat has been derived.


word: Hardhack
definition:
Hardhack

Hard"hack`
(-hăk`)
n.
(Bot.)
A very astringent shrub (Spiraea tomentosa), common in pastures.  The Potentilla fruticosa is also called by this name.


word: Hard-handed
definition:
Hard-handed

Hard"-hand`ed
(-hănd`ĕd)
a.
Having hard hands, as a manual laborer.

Hard-handed men that work in Athens here.
Shak.


word: Hardhead
definition:
Hardhead

Hard"head`
(-hĕd`)
n.
1.
Clash or collision of heads in contest.
Dryden.

2.
(Zool.)
(a)
The menhaden. See Menhaden.
[Local, U. S.]
(b)
Block's gurnard (Trigla gurnardus) of Europe.
(c)
A California salmon; the steelhead.
(d)
The gray whale.
Gray whale
Gray
(e)
A coarse American commercial sponge (Spongia dura).


word: hard-headed
definition:
hard-headed

hardheaded

hard"head`ed, hard"-head`ed
a.
Having sound judgment; sagacious; shrewd; practical and pragmatic.
Hard"-head`ed*ness, n.


word: Hard-hearted
definition:
Hard-hearted

Hard"-heart`ed
(-härt`ĕd)
a.
Unsympathetic; inexorable; cruel; pitiless.
Hard"-heart`ed*ness, n.


word: hard-hitting
definition:
hard-hitting

hard-hitting
adj.
1.
characterized by or full of force and vigor; forceful; as, a hard-hitting expose.

Syn. -- trenchant, vigorous.

2.
aggressive; as, a hard-hitting advertising campaign.  Opposite of unaggressive.

Syn. -- high-pressure.


word: Hardihood
definition:
Hardihood

Har"di*hood
(här"dĭ*hŏd)
n.
[Hardy + -hood.]
Boldness, united with firmness and constancy of mind; bravery; intrepidity; also, audaciousness; impudence.

A bound of graceful hardihood.
Wordsworth.

It is the society of numbers which gives hardihood to iniquity.
Buckminster.


word: Hardily
definition:
Hardily

Har"di*ly
adv.
1.
Same as Hardly.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

2.
Boldly; stoutly; resolutely.
Wyclif.


word: Hardiment
definition:
Hardiment

Har"di*ment
(-ment)
n.
[OF. hardement. See Hardy.]
Hardihood; boldness; courage; energetic action.
[Obs.]

Changing hardiment with great Glendower.
Shak.


word: Hardiness
definition:
Hardiness

Har"di*ness
(-dĭ*nĕs)
n.
1.
Capability of endurance.

2.
Hardihood; boldness; firmness; assurance.
Spenser.

Plenty and peace breeds cowards; Hardness ever
Of hardiness is mother.
Shak.

They who were not yet grown to the hardiness of avowing the contempt of the king.
Clarendon.

3.
Hardship; fatigue.
[Obs.]
Spenser.


word: Hard-labored
definition:
Hard-labored

Hard"-la`bored
(härd"lā`bẽrd)
a.
Wrought with severe labor; elaborate; studied.
Swift.


word: Hardly
definition:
Hardly

Hard"ly
(härd"l&ybreve_;)
adv.
[AS. heardlice.  See Hard.]

1.
In a hard or difficult manner; with difficulty.

Recovering hardly what he lost before.
Dryden.

2.
Unwillingly; grudgingly.

The House of Peers gave so hardly their consent.
Milton.

3.
Scarcely; barely; not quite; not wholly.

Hardly shall you find any one so bad, but he desires the credit of being thought good.
South.

4.
Severely; harshly; roughly.

He has in many things been hardly used.
Swift.

5.
Confidently; hardily.
[Obs.]
Holland.

6.
Certainly; surely; indeed.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Hard-mouthed
definition:
Hard-mouthed

Hard"-mouthed`
(-mou&thlig_;d`)
a.
Not sensible to the bit; not easily governed; as, a hard-mouthed horse.


word: Hardness
definition:
Hardness

Hard"ness
n.
[AS. heardness.]
1.
The quality or state of being hard, literally or figuratively.

The habit of authority also had given his manners some peremptory hardness.
Sir W. Scott.

2.
(Min.)
The cohesion of the particles on the surface of a body, determined by its capacity to scratch another, or be itself scratched; -- measured among minerals on a scale of which diamond and talc form the extremes.

3.
(Chem.)
The peculiar quality exhibited by water which has mineral salts dissolved in it.  Such water forms an insoluble compound with soap, and is hence unfit for washing purposes.

&hand_; This quality is caused by the presence of calcium carbonate, causing temporary hardness which can be removed by boiling, or by calcium sulphate, causing permanent hardness which can not be so removed, but may be improved by the addition of sodium carbonate.


word: hardnose
definition:
hardnose

hard"nose
n.
A hard-nosed person; one who is realistic and pragmatic and is impatient with those who are not.
[slang]


word: hard-nosed
definition:
hard-nosed

hard-nosed
adj.
facing reality squarely; guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory; tough and pragmatic; as, a hard-nosed businessman.

Syn. -- down-to-earth, hardheaded, practical, pragmatic.


word: hard-of-hearing
definition:
hard-of-hearing

hard-of-hearing
adj.
having a reduced ability to hear, but not fully deaf; partly deaf.

Syn. -- hearing-impaired.


word: hard-pressed
definition:
hard-pressed

hard-pressed
adj.
facing or experiencing trouble or difficulty; as, financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices; they were hard-pressed to find a substitute on short notice; -- see distressed{1}.

Syn. -- distressed, hard put, in a bad way(predicate), in trouble(predicate).


word: Hards
definition:
Hards

Hards
(härdz)
n. pl.
[OE. herdes, AS. heordan; akin to G. hede.]
The refuse or coarse part of flax; tow.


word: Hard-shell
definition:
Hard-shell

Hard"-shell`
(härd"shĕl`)
a.
Unyielding; insensible to argument; uncompromising; strict.
[Colloq., U.S.]


word: Hardship
definition:
Hardship

Hard"ship
(härd"shĭp)
n.
That which is hard to bear, as toil, privation, injury, injustice, etc.
Swift.


word: Hard steel
definition:
Hard steel

Hard steel
Steel hardened by the addition of other elements, as manganese, phosphorus, or (usually) carbon.


word: Hard-tack
definition:
Hard-tack

Hardtack

Hard"tack` or Hard"-tack`
(härd"tăk`)
n.
1.
A name given by soldiers and sailors to a kind of unleavened hard biscuit or sea bread.  Called also pilot biscuit, pilot bread, ship biscuit and ship bread

2.
Any of several mahogany trees, esp. the Cercocarpus betuloides.
MW10


word: hard-to-please
definition:
hard-to-please

hard-to-please
adj.
Requiring great patience and effort and skill; demanding; -- of persons.  Opposite of undemanding.

Syn. -- harsh, demanding.


word: Hard-visaged
definition:
Hard-visaged

Hard"-vis`aged
(härd"vĭz`a̝jd; 48)
a.
Of a harsh or stern countenance; hard-featured.
Burke.


word: Hardware
definition:
Hardware

Hard"ware`
(härd"wâr`)
n.
1.
Ware made of metal, as cutlery, kitchen utensils, and the like; ironmongery.

2.
Any of the physical objects used in carrying out an activity, in contrast to the knowledge, skill, or theory required to perform the activity; mostly used collectively.

3.
Specifically:
(Computers)
The sum of all the physical objects, such as the electrical, mechanical, and electronic devices which comprise a computer system; as, the typical PC hardware suite consists of a mainboard and a number of peripherals such as hard drives and speakers, connected by adapter cards, but the input and output from users occurs mostly through the keyboard and monitor; contrasted with software, the programs executed by the computer.

4.
Specifically:
(Military)
The weapons, transport, and other physical objects used in conducting a war.

5.
(Slang)
Weapons, especially handguns, carried on the person; as, check your hardware at the door before entering.


word: hardwareman
definition:
hardwareman

hard"ware`man
(härd"wâr`măn)
n.
pl. Hardwaremen (härd"wâr`mĕn).
One who makes, or deals in, hardware.


word: hard wired
definition:
hard wired

hard-wired

hard"-wired", hard" wired"
(härd"wīrd")
a.
1.
(Computers)
Contained within the circuitry of a computer or computer peripheral device, and not changeable by programming; -- of functions; as, error correction is hard-wired into the circuit of the disk drive, so it proceeds very rapidly.

2.
Connected by a continuous electrical wire, rather than through a switch; as, the air-conditioner was hard-wired into the wall circuit, so moving it would require an electrician.

3.
(Metaph.)
Performed by an inborn pattern of neural circuits; instinctive; not learned; as, many bird songs are hard-wired, but some are learned.

People, as the cybernetic metaphor now has it, are “hard wired” to do good in order to enhance their own happiness.
Andrew Delbanco (New York Times Magazine, May 7, 2000; p. 46).


word: hardwood
definition:
hardwood

hard"wood`
n.
The wood of broad-leaved dicotyledonous trees (as distinguished from the wood of conifers); also items made from such wood; as, decorative hardwood.


word: hardwood₂
definition:
hardwood

hard"wood`
adj.
Made of the hard-to-cut wood of a broad-leaved tree, as e.g. oak; consisting of a hardwood; as, hardwood floors; -- of wood and wooden objects.


word: hardworking
definition:
hardworking

hard"work`ing
adj.
1.
habitually working diligently and for long hours.

Syn. -- industrious, tireless, untiring.


word: Hardy
definition:
Hardy

Har"dy
(här"d&ybreve_;)
a.
[Compar. Hardier (-dĭ*ẽr); superl. Hardiest.]
[F. hardi, p. p. fr. OF. hardir to make bold; of German origin, cf. OHG. hertan to harden, G. härten. See Hard, a.]
1.
Bold; brave; stout; daring; resolute; intrepid.

Hap helpeth hardy man alway.
Chaucer.

2.
Confident; full of assurance; in a bad sense, morally hardened; shameless.

3.
Strong; firm; compact.

[A] blast may shake in pieces his hardy fabric.
South.

4.
Inured to fatigue or hardships; strong; capable of endurance; as, a hardy veteran; a hardy mariner.

5.
Able to withstand the cold of winter.

&hand_; Plants which are hardy in Virginia may perish in New England. Half-hardy plants are those which are able to withstand mild winters or moderate frosts.


word: Hardy₂
definition:
Hardy

Har"dy
n.
A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole.


word: Hare
definition:
Hare

Hare
(hâr)
v. t.
[Cf. Harry, Harass.]
To excite; to tease, harass, or worry; to harry.
[Obs.]
Locke.


word: Hare₂
definition:
Hare

Hare
n.
[AS. hara; akin to D. haas, G. hase, OHG. haso, Dan. & Sw. hare, Icel. hēri, Skr. çaça. √226.]

1.
(Zool.)
A rodent of the genus Lepus, having long hind legs, a short tail, and a divided upper lip.  It is a timid animal, moves swiftly by leaps, and is remarkable for its fecundity.

&hand_; The species of hares are numerous. The common European hare is Lepus timidus.  The northern or varying hare of America (Lepus Americanus), and the prairie hare (Lepus campestris), turn white in winter.  In America, the various species of hares are commonly called rabbits.

2.
(Astron.)
A small constellation situated south of and under the foot of Orion; Lepus.

Hare and hounds, a game played by men and boys, two, called hares, having a few minutes' start, and scattering bits of paper to indicate their course, being chased by the others, called the hounds, through a wide circuit. -- Hare kangaroo (Zool.), a small Australian kangaroo (Lagorchestes Leporoides), resembling the hare in size and color, -- Hare's lettuce (Bot.), a plant of the genus Sonchus, or sow thistle; -- so called because hares are said to eat it when fainting with heat. Dr. Prior. -- Jumping hare. (Zool.) See under Jumping. -- Little chief hare, or Crying hare. (Zool.) See Chief hare. -- Sea hare. (Zool.) See Aplysia.


word: Harebell
definition:
Harebell

Hare"bell`
(hâr"bĕl`)
n.
(Bot.)
A small, slender, branching plant (Campanula rotundifolia), having blue bell-shaped flowers; also, Scilla nutans, which has similar flowers; -- called also bluebell.
[Written also hairbell.]

E'en the light harebell raised its head.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Harebrained
definition:
Harebrained

Hare"brained`
(hâr"brānd`)
a.
Wild; giddy; volatile; heedless.
hare-brained
North (Plutarch).
[Written also hairbrained.]


word: Harefoot
definition:
Harefoot

Hare"foot`
(-fŏt`)
n.
1.
(Zool.)
A long, narrow foot, carried (that is, produced or extending) forward; -- said of dogs.

2.
(Bot.)
A tree (Ochroma Lagopus) of the West Indies, having the stamens united somewhat in the form of a hare's foot.

Harefoot clover (Bot.), a species of clover (Trifolium arvense) with soft and silky heads.


word: Harelip
definition:
Harelip

Hare"lip`
(hâr"lĭp`)
n.
A lip, commonly the upper one, having a fissure of perpendicular division like that of a hare.
Hare"lipped` (-lĭpt`), a.


word: Harem
definition:
Harem

Ha"rem
(hā"rĕm; 277)
n.
[Ar. haram, orig., anything forbidden or sacred, fr. harama to forbid, prohibit.]
[Written also haram and hareem.]
1.
The apartments or portion of the house allotted to females in Muslim families.

2.
The family of wives and concubines belonging to one man, in Muslim countries; a seraglio.


word: Harengiform
definition:
Harengiform

Ha*ren"gi*form
(hȧ*rĕn"jĭ*fôrm)
a.
[F. hareng herring (LL. harengus) + -form.]
Herring-shaped.


word: Hare's-ear
definition:
Hare's-ear

Hare's"-ear`
(hârz"ēr`)
n.
(Bot.)
An umbelliferous plant (Bupleurum rotundifolium); -- so named from the shape of its leaves.
Dr. Prior.


word: Hare's-foot fern
definition:
Hare's-foot fern

Hare's"-foot` fern`
(-fŏt` fẽrn`)
(Bot.)
A species of fern (Davallia Canariensis) with a soft, gray, hairy rootstock; -- whence the name.


word: Hare's-tail
definition:
Hare's-tail

Hare's"-tail`
(-tāl`)
n.
(Bot.)
A kind of grass (Eriophorum vaginatum). See Cotton grass, under Cotton.

Hare's-tail grass (Bot.), a species of grass (Lagurus ovatus) whose head resembles a hare's tail.


word: Hariali grass
definition:
Hariali grass

Ha`ri*a"li grass`
(hä`rĭ*ä"lĭ grȧs`)
(Bot.)
The East Indian name of the Cynodon Dactylon; dog's-grass.


word: Haricot
definition:
Haricot

Har"i*cot
(hăr"e̝*ko̝; F. ȧ`re̝`ko̝")
n.
[F.]
1.
A ragout or stew of meat with beans and other vegetables.

2.
The ripe seeds, or the unripe pod, of the common string bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), used as a vegetable. Other species of the same genus furnish different kinds of haricots.


word: Hariolation
definition:
Hariolation

Har`i*o*la"tion
(hăr`ĭ*o̝*lā"shŭn)
n.
[See Ariolation.]
Prognostication; soothsaying.
[Obs.]
Cockeram.


word: Hark
definition:
Hark

Hark
(härk)
v. i.
[OE. herken. See Hearken.]
To listen; to hearken.
[Now rare, except in the imperative form used as an interjection, Hark! listen.]
Hudibras.

Hark away! Hark back! Hark forward! (Sporting), cries used to incite and guide hounds in hunting. -- To hark back, to go back for a fresh start, as when one has wandered from his direct course, or made a digression.
[1913 Webster]
He must have overshot the mark, and must hark back. Haggard.
[1913 Webster]
He harked back to the subject. W. E. Norris.


word: Harl
definition:
Harl

Harl
(härl)
n.
[Cf. OHG. harluf noose, rope; E. hards refuse of flax.]
1.
A filamentous substance; especially, the filaments of flax or hemp.

2.
A barb, or barbs, of a fine large feather, as of a peacock or ostrich, -- used in dressing artificial flies.
[Written also herl.]


word: Harlech group
definition:
Harlech group

Har"lech group`
(här"lĕk grōp`)
[So called from Harlech in Wales.]
(Geol.)
A minor subdivision at the base of the Cambrian system in Wales.


word: Harlequin
definition:
Harlequin

Har"le*quin
(här"le̝*kĭn or här"le̝*kwĭn)
n.
[F. arlequin, formerly written also harlequin (cf. It, arlecchino), prob. fr. OF. hierlekin, hellequin, goblin, elf, which is prob. of German or Dutch origin; cf. D. hel hell.  Cf. Hell, Kin.]
A buffoon, dressed in parti-colored clothes, who plays tricks, often without speaking, to divert the bystanders or an audience; a merry-andrew; originally, a droll rogue of Italian comedy.
Percy Smith.

As dumb harlequin is exhibited in our theaters.
Johnson.

Harlequin bat (Zool.), an Indian bat (Scotophilus ornatus), curiously variegated with white spots. -- Harlequin beetle (Zool.), a very large South American beetle (Acrocinus longimanus) having very long legs and antennae. The elytra are curiously marked with red, black, and gray. -- Harlequin cabbage bug. (Zool.) See Calicoback. -- Harlequin caterpillar. (Zool.), the larva of an American bombycid moth (Euchaetes egle) which is covered with black, white, yellow, and orange tufts of hair. -- Harlequin duck (Zool.), a North American duck (Histrionicus histrionicus). The male is dark ash, curiously streaked with white. -- Harlequin moth. (Zool.) See Magpie Moth. -- Harlequin opal. See Opal. -- Harlequin snake (Zool.), See harlequin snake in the vocabulary.


word: Harlequin₂
definition:
Harlequin

Har"le*quin
(här"le̝*kĭn or -kwĭn)
v. i.
To play the droll; to make sport by playing ludicrous tricks.


word: Harlequin₃
definition:
Harlequin

Har"le*quin
v. t.
To remove or conjure away, as by a harlequin's trick.

And kitten, if the humor hit
Has harlequined away the fit.
M. Green.


word: Harlequinade
definition:
Harlequinade

Har"le*quin*ade`
(-ād`)
n.
[F. arleguinade.]
A play or part of a play in which the harlequin is conspicuous; the part of a harlequin.
Macaulay.


word: harlequin snake
definition:
harlequin snake

har"le*quin snake`
n.
any of several venomous New World snakes brilliantly banded in red and black and either yellow or white, especially the eastern coral snake, a small poisonous snake (Micrurus fulvius or Elaps fulvius), ringed with red and black, found in the Southeastern United States.  They are widely distributed in Southern and Central America;

Syn. -- coral snake, New World coral snake.


word: Harlock
definition:
Harlock

Har"lock
(här"l&obreve_;k)
n.
Probably a corruption either of charlock or hardock.
Drayton.


word: Harlot
definition:
Harlot

Har"lot
(-l&obreve_;t)
n.
[OE. harlot, herlot, a vagabond, OF. harlot, herlot, arlot; cf. Pr. arlot, Sp. arlote, It. arlotto; of uncertain origin.]
1.
A churl; a common man; a person, male or female, of low birth.
[Obs.]

He was a gentle harlot and a kind.
Chaucer.

2.
A person given to low conduct; a rogue; a cheat; a rascal.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

3.
A woman who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a common woman; a strumpet.


word: Harlotry
definition:
Harlotry

Har"lot*ry
(-r&ybreve_;)
n.
1.
Ribaldry; buffoonery; a ribald story.
[Obs.]
Piers Plowman. Chaucer.

2.
The trade or practice of prostitution; habitual or customary lewdness.
Dryden.

3.
Anything meretricious; as, harlotry in art.

4.
A harlot; a strumpet; a baggage.
[Obs.]

He sups to-night with a harlotry.
Shak.


word: Harm
definition:
Harm

Harm
(härm)
n.
[OE. harm, hearm, AS. hearm; akin to OS. harm, G. harm grief, Icel. harmr, Dan. harme, Sw. harm; cf. OSlav. & Russ. sram' shame, Skr. çrama toil, fatigue.]
1.
Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.

2.
That which causes injury, damage, or loss.

We, ignorant of ourselves,
Beg often our own harms.
Shak.


word: Harm₂
definition:
Harm

Harm
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Harmed (härmd); p. pr. & vb. n. Harming.]
[OE. harmen, AS. hearmian. See Harm, n.]
To hurt; to injure; to damage; to wrong.

Though yet he never harmed me.
Shak.

No ground of enmity between us known
Why he should mean me ill or seek to harm.
Milton.


word: Harmaline
definition:
Harmaline

Har"ma*line
(här"mȧ*lĭn or -lēn)
n.
[Cf. F. harmaline See Harmel.]
(Chem.)
An alkaloid found in the plant Peganum harmala. It forms bitter, yellow salts.


word: Harmattan
definition:
Harmattan

Har*mat"tan
(här*măt"tan)
n.
[F. harmattan, prob. of Arabic origin.]
A dry, hot wind, prevailing on the Atlantic coast of Africa, in December, January, and February, blowing from the interior or Sahara. It is usually accompanied by a haze which obscures the sun.


word: Harmel
definition:
Harmel

Har"mel
(här"mĕl)
n.
[Ar. harmal.]
(Bot.)
A kind of rue (Ruta sylvestris) growing in India. At Lahore the seeds are used medicinally and for fumigation.


word: Harmful
definition:
Harmful

Harm"ful
(härm"f&usdot_;l)
a.
Full of harm; injurious; hurtful; mischievous.
harmful
Strype.


word: Harmine
definition:
Harmine

Har"mine
(här"mĭn or -mēn)
n.
[See Harmaline.]
(Chem.)
An alkaloid accompanying harmaline (in the Peganum harmala), and obtained from it by oxidation. It is a white crystalline substance.


word: Harmless
definition:
Harmless

Harm"less
(härm"lĕs)
a.
1.
Free from harm; unhurt; as, to give bond to save another harmless.

2.
Free from power or disposition to harm; innocent; inoffensive.
harmless
Drayton


word: Harmonical
definition:
Harmonical

Harmonic

Har*mon"ic (här*m&obreve_;n"ĭk), Har*mon"ic*al (-ĭ*kal)
a.
[L. harmonicus, Gr. "armoniko`s; cf. F. harmonique. See Harmony.]
1.
Concordant; musical; consonant; as, harmonic sounds.

Harmonic twang! of leather, horn, and brass.
Pope.

2.
(Mus.)
Relating to harmony, -- as melodic relates to melody; harmonious; esp., relating to the accessory sounds or overtones which accompany the predominant and apparent single tone of any string or sonorous body.

3.
(Math.)
Having relations or properties bearing some resemblance to those of musical consonances; -- said of certain numbers, ratios, proportions, points, lines, motions, and the like.

Harmonic interval (Mus.), the distance between two notes of a chord, or two consonant notes. -- Harmonical mean (Arith. & Alg.), certain relations of numbers and quantities, which bear an analogy to musical consonances. -- Harmonic motion,  the motion of the point A, of the foot of the perpendicular PA, when P moves uniformly in the circumference of a circle, and PA is drawn perpendicularly upon a fixed diameter of the circle. This is simple harmonic motion. The combinations, in any way, of two or more simple harmonic motions, make other kinds of harmonic motion.  The motion of the pendulum bob of a clock is approximately simple harmonic motion. --  Harmonic proportion. See under Proportion. -- Harmonic series or Harmonic progression. See under Progression. -- Spherical harmonic analysis, a mathematical method, sometimes referred to as that of Laplace's Coefficients, which has for its object the expression of an arbitrary, periodic function of two independent variables, in the proper form for a large class of physical problems, involving arbitrary data, over a spherical surface, and the deduction of solutions for every point of space. The functions employed in this method are called spherical harmonic functions. Thomson & Tait. -- Harmonic suture (Anat.), an articulation by simple apposition of comparatively smooth surfaces or edges, as between the two superior maxillary bones in man; -- called also harmonia, and harmony. -- Harmonic triad (Mus.), the chord of a note with its third and fifth; the common chord.


word: Harmonic
definition:
Harmonic

Har*mon"ic
(här*m&obreve_;n"ĭk)
n.
(Mus.)
A musical note produced by a number of vibrations which is a multiple of the number producing some other; an overtone. See Harmonics.


word: Harmonica
definition:
Harmonica

Har*mon"i*ca
(-ĭ*kȧ)
n.
[Fem. fr. L. harmonicus harmonic. See Harmonic, n. ]
1.
A musical instrument, consisting of a series of hemispherical glasses which, by touching the edges with the dampened finger, give forth the tones; it is now called the glass harmonica, to distinguish it from the common harmonica, formerly called the harmonicon.

2.
A toy instrument of strips of glass or metal hung on two tapes, and struck with hammers.

3.
A small wind musical instrument shaped like a flat bar with holes along the thin edges, held in the hand and producing notes from multiple vibrating reeds arranged inside along its length; it was formerly called the harmonicon.  See harmonicon.


word: Harmonically
definition:
Harmonically

Har*mon"ic*al*ly
(-ĭ*kal*l&ybreve_;)
adv.
1.
In an harmonical manner; harmoniously.

2.
In respect to harmony, as distinguished from melody; as, a passage harmonically correct.

3.
(Math.)
In harmonical progression.


word: Harmonicon
definition:
Harmonicon

Har*mon"i*con
(-ĭ*k&obreve_;n)
n.
A small, flat, wind instrument of music, in which the notes are produced by the vibration of free metallic reeds; it is now called the harmonica.


word: Harmonics
definition:
Harmonics

Har*mon"ics
(-ĭks)
n.
1.
The doctrine or science of musical sounds.

2.
pl.
(Mus.)
Secondary and less distinct tones which accompany any principal, and apparently simple, tone, as the octave, the twelfth, the fifteenth, and the seventeenth. The name is also applied to the artificial tones produced by a string or column of air, when the impulse given to it suffices only to make a part of the string or column vibrate; overtones.


word: Harmonious
definition:
Harmonious

Har*mo"ni*ous
(här*m&omacr"nĭ*ŭs)
a.
[Cf. F. harmonieux. See Harmony.]
1.
Adapted to each other; having parts proportioned to each other; symmetrical.

God hath made the intellectual world harmonious and beautiful without us.
Locke.

2.
Acting together to a common end; agreeing in action or feeling; living in peace and friendship; as, an harmonious family.

3.
Vocally or musically concordant; agreeably consonant; symphonious.


word: Harmoniphon
definition:
Harmoniphon

Har*mon"i*phon
(här*m&obreve_;n"ĭ*f&obreve_;n)
n.
[Gr. "armoni`a harmony + fwnh` sound.]
(Mus.)
An obsolete wind instrument with a keyboard, in which the sound, which resembled the oboe, was produced by the vibration of thin metallic plates, acted upon by blowing through a tube.


word: Harmonist
definition:
Harmonist

Har"mo*nist
(här"mo̝*nĭst)
n.
[Cf. F. harmoniste.]
1.
One who shows the agreement or harmony of corresponding passages of different authors, as of the four evangelists.

2.
(Mus.)
One who understands the principles of harmony or is skillful in applying them in composition; a musical composer.


word: Harmonite
definition:
Harmonite

Harmonist

{ Har"mo*nist, Har"mo*nite (-nīt), }
n.
(Eccl. Hist.)
One of a religious sect, founded in Würtemburg in the last century, composed of followers of George Rapp, a weaver. They had all their property in common. In 1803, a portion of this sect settled in Pennsylvania and called the village thus established, Harmony.


word: Harmonium
definition:
Harmonium

Har*mo"ni*um
(här*m&omacr"nĭ*ŭm)
n.
[NL. See Harmony. ]
A musical instrument, resembling a small organ and especially designed for church music, in which the tones are produced by forcing air by means of a bellows so as to cause the vibration of free metallic reeds. It is now made with one or two keyboards, and has pedals and stops.


word: Harmonize
definition:
Harmonize

Har"mo*nize
(här"mo̝*nīz)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Harmonized (-nīzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Harmonizing (-nī"zĭng).]
[Cf. F. harmoniser. ]
1.
To agree in action, adaptation, or effect on the mind; to agree in sense or purport; as, the parts of a mechanism harmonize.

2.
To be in peace and friendship, as individuals, families, or public organizations.

3.
To agree in vocal or musical effect; to form a concord; as, the tones harmonize perfectly.


word: Harmonize₂
definition:
Harmonize

Har"mo*nize
v. t.
1.
To adjust in fit proportions; to cause to agree; to show the agreement of; to reconcile the apparent contradiction of.

2.
(Mus.)
To accompany with harmony; to provide with parts, as an air, or melody.


word: Harmonometer
definition:
Harmonometer

Har`mo*nom"e*ter
(-n&obreve_;m"e̝*tẽr)
n.
[Gr. "armoni`a harmony + meter: cf. F. harmonometre.]
An instrument for measuring the harmonic relations of sounds. It is often a monochord furnished with movable bridges.


word: Harmony
definition:
Harmony

Har"mo*ny
(här"mo̝*n&ybreve_;)
n.
pl. Harmonies (-nĭz).
[F. harmonie, L. harmonia, Gr. "armoni`a joint, proportion, concord, fr. "armo`s a fitting or joining. See Article.]
1.
The just adaptation of parts to each other, in any system or combination of things, or in things intended to form a connected whole; such an agreement between the different parts of a design or composition as to produce unity of effect; as, the harmony of the universe.

2.
Concord or agreement in facts, opinions, manners, interests, etc.; good correspondence; peace and friendship; as, good citizens live in harmony.

3.
A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency; as, a harmony of the Gospels.

4.
(Mus.)
(a)
A succession of chords according to the rules of progression and modulation.
(b)
The science which treats of their construction and progression.

Ten thousand harps, that tuned
Angelic harmonies.
Milton.

5.
(Anat.)
See Harmonic suture, under Harmonic.

Close harmony, Dispersed harmony, etc. See under Close, Dispersed, etc. -- Harmony of the spheres. See Music of the spheres, under Music.


word: Harmost
definition:
Harmost

Har"most
(här"m&obreve_;st)
n.
[Gr. "armosth`s, fr. "armo`zein to join, arrange, command: cf. F. harmoste.  See Harmony.]
(Gr. Antiq.)
A city governor or prefect appointed by the Spartans in the cities subjugated by them.


word: Harmotome
definition:
Harmotome

Har"mo*tome
(-mo̝*t&omacrm)
n.
[Gr. "armo`s a joint + te`mnein to cut: cf. F. harmotome.]
(Min.)
A hydrous silicate of alumina and baryta, occurring usually in white cruciform crystals; cross-stone.

&hand_; A related mineral, called lime harmotome, and Phillipsite, contains lime in place of baryta.
Dana.


word: Harness
definition:
Harness

Har"ness
(-nĕs)
n.
[OE. harneis, harnes, OF. harneis, F. harnais, harnois; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor. harnez old iron, armor, W. haiarn iron, Armor. houarn, Ir. iarann, Gael. iarunn.  Cf. Iron.]
1.
Originally, the complete dress, especially in a military sense, of a man or a horse; hence, in general, armor.

At least we'll die with harness on our back.
Shak.

2.
The equipment of a draught or carriage horse, for drawing a wagon, coach, chaise, etc.; gear; tackling.

3.
The part of a loom comprising the heddles, with their means of support and motion, by which the threads of the warp are alternately raised and depressed for the passage of the shuttle.

To die in harness, to die with armor on; hence, colloquially, to die while actively engaged in work or duty.


word: Harness₂
definition:
Harness

Har"ness
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Harnessed (-nĕst); p. pr. & vb. n. Harnessing.]
[OE. harneisen; cf. F. harnacher, OF. harneschier.]
1.
To dress in armor; to equip with armor for war, as a horseman; to array.

Harnessed in rugged steel.
Rowe.

A gay dagger,
Harnessed well and sharp as point of spear.
Chaucer.

2.
Fig.: To equip or furnish for defense.
Dr. H. More.

3.
To make ready for draught; to equip with harness, as a horse. Also used figuratively.

Harnessed to some regular profession.
J. C. Shairp.

Harnessed antelope. (Zool.) See Guib. -- Harnessed moth (Zool.), an American bombycid moth (Arctia phalerata of Harris), having, on the fore wings, stripes and bands of buff on a black ground.


word: Harness cask
definition:
Harness cask

Har"ness cask`
(kȧsk`)
(Naut.)
A tub lashed to a vessel's deck and containing salted provisions for daily use; -- called also harness tub.
W. C. Russell.


word: Harp
definition:
Harp

Harp
(härp)
n.
[OE. harpe, AS. hearpe; akin to D. harp, G. harfe, OHG. harpha, Dan. harpe, Icel. & Sw. harpa.]
1.
A musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame furnished with strings and sometimes with pedals, held upright, and played with the fingers.

2.
(Astron.)
A constellation; Lyra, or the Lyre.

3.
A grain sieve.
[Scot.]

Aeolian harp. See under Aeolian.

Harp seal (Zool.), an arctic seal (Phoca Grœnlandica). The adult males have a light-colored body, with a harp-shaped mark of black on each side, and the face and throat black.  Called also saddler, and saddleback.  The immature ones are called bluesides; their fur is white, and they are killed and skinned to harvest the fur. -- Harp shell (Zool.), a beautiful marine gastropod shell of the genus Harpa, of several species, found in tropical seas. See Harpa.


word: Harp₂
definition:
Harp

Harp
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Harped (härpt) p. pr. & vb. n. Harping.]
[AS. hearpian. See Harp, n.]
1.
To play on the harp.

I heard the voice of harpers, harping with their harps.
Rev. xiv. 2.

2.
To dwell on or recur to a subject tediously or monotonously in speaking or in writing; to refer to something repeatedly or continually; -- usually with on or upon.
Harpings
W. Irving.

Harping on what I am,
Not what he knew I was.
Shak.

To harp on one string, to dwell upon one subject with disagreeable or wearisome persistence. [Colloq.]


word: Harp₃
definition:
Harp

Harp
v. t.
To play on, as a harp; to play (a tune) on the harp; to develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon.

Thou 'st harped my fear aright.
Shak.


word: Harpa
definition:
Harpa

Har"pa
(här"pȧ)
n.
[L., harp.]
(Zool.)
A genus of marine univalve shells; the harp shells; -- so called from the form of the shells, and their ornamental ribs.


word: Harpagon
definition:
Harpagon

Har"pa*gon
(-g&obreve_;n)
n.
[L. harpago, Gr. "arpa`gh hook, rake.]
A grappling iron.
[Obs.]


word: Harper
definition:
Harper

Harp"er
(härp"ẽr)
n.
[AS. hearpere.]
1.
A player on the harp; a minstrel.

The murmuring pines and the hemlocks . . . 
Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.
Longfellow.

2.
A brass coin bearing the emblem of a harp, -- formerly current in Ireland.
B. Jonson.


word: Harping iron
definition:
Harping iron

Harp"ing i`ron
(ī`ŭrn)
[F. harper to grasp strongly. See Harpoon.]
A harpoon.
Evelyn.


word: Harpings
definition:
Harpings

Harp"ings
(-ĭngz)
n. pl.
(Naut.)
The fore parts of the wales, which encompass the bow of a vessel, and are fastened to the stem.
[Written also harpins.]
Totten.


word: Harpoon
definition:
Harpoon

Har*poon"
(här*pōn")
n.
[F. harpon, LL. harpo, perh. of Ger. origin, fr. the harp; cf. F. harper to take and grasp strongly, harpe a dog's claw, harpin boathook (the sense of hook coming from the shape of the harp); but cf. also Gr. "a`rph the kite, sickle, and E. harpy.  Cf. Harp.]
A spear or javelin used to strike and kill large fish, as whales; a harping iron.  It consists of a long shank, with a broad, flat, triangular head, sharpened at both edges, and is thrown by hand, or discharged from a gun.

Harpoon fork, a kind of hayfork, consisting of a bar with hinged barbs at one end and a loop for a rope at the other end, used for lifting hay from the load by horse power. -- Harpoon gun, a gun used in the whale fishery for shooting the harpoon into a whale.


word: Harpoon₂
definition:
Harpoon

Har*poon"
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Harpooned (-pōnd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Harpooning.]
To strike, catch, or kill with a harpoon.


word: Harpsichord
definition:
Harpsichord

Harp"si*chord
(-kôrd)
n.
[OF. harpechorde, in which the harpe is of German origin. See Harp, and Chord.]
(Mus.)
A harp-shaped instrument of music set horizontally on legs, like the grand piano, with strings of wire, played by the fingers, by means of keys provided with quills, instead of hammers, for striking the strings. It is now superseded by the piano.


word: harpulla
definition:
harpulla

harpulla
n.
A fast-growing tree of India and East Indies (Harpullia cupanioides) yielding a wood used especially for building.

Syn. -- Harpullia cupanioides.


word: Harpy
definition:
Harpy

Har"py
(här"p&ybreve_;)
n.
pl. Harpies (-pĭz).
[F. harpie, L. harpyia, Gr. "a`rpyia, from the root of "arpa`zein to snatch, to seize.  Cf. Rapacious.]
1.
(Gr. Myth.)
A fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture, with long claws, and the face pale with hunger.  Some writers mention two, others three.

Both table and provisions vanished quite.
With sound of harpies' wings and talons heard.
Milton.

2.
One who is rapacious or ravenous; an extortioner.

The harpies about all pocket the pool.
Goldsmith.

3.
(Zool.)
(a)
The European moor buzzard or marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus).
(b)
A large and powerful, double-crested, short-winged American eagle (Thrasaëtus harpyia). It ranges from Texas to Brazil.

Harpy bat (Zool.) (a) An East Indian fruit bat of the genus Harpyia (esp. Harpyia cephalotes), having prominent, tubular nostrils. (b) A small, insectivorous Indian bat (Harpiocephalus harpia). -- Harpy fly (Zool.), the house fly.


word: Harquebuse
definition:
Harquebuse

Harquebus

{ Har"que*bus Har"que*buse  }
(här"kwe̝*bŭs)
n.
[See Arquebus.]
A firearm with match holder, trigger, and tumbler, made in the second half of the 15th century.  The barrel was about forty inches long.  A form of the harquebus was subsequently called arquebus with matchlock.


word: Harridan
definition:
Harridan

Har"ri*dan
(hăr"rĭ*dan)
n.
[F. haridelle a worn-out horse, jade.]
A worn-out strumpet; a vixenish woman; a hag.

Such a weak, watery, wicked old harridan, substituted for the pretty creature I had been used to see.
De Quincey.


word: Harrier
definition:
Harrier

Har"ri*er
(-ẽr)
n.
[From Hare, n.]
(Zool.)
One of a small breed of hounds, used for hunting hares.
[Written also harier.]


word: Harrier₂
definition:
Harrier

Har"ri*er
n.
[From Harry.]
1.
One who harries.

2.
(Zool.)
One of several species of hawks or buzzards of the genus Circus which fly low and harry small animals or birds, -- as the European marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus), and the hen harrier (Circus cyaneus).

Harrier hawk (Zool.), one of several species of American hawks of the genus Micrastur.


word: Harrisia
definition:
Harrisia

Harrisia
prop. n.
(Bot.)
A genus of slender often treelike spiny cacti with solitary showy nocturnal white or pink flowers; Florida and Caribbean to South America.

Syn. -- genus Harrisia.


word: Harrow
definition:
Harrow

Har"row
(hăr"ro̝)
n.
[OE. harowe, harwe, AS. hearge; cf. D. hark rake, G. harke, Icel. herfi harrow, Dan. harve, Sw. harf.  √16.]
1.
An implement of agriculture, usually formed of pieces of timber or metal crossing each other, and set with iron or wooden teeth. It is drawn over plowed land to level it and break the clods, to stir the soil and make it fine, or to cover seed when sown.

2.
(Mil.)
An obstacle formed by turning an ordinary harrow upside down, the frame being buried.

Bush harrow, a kind of light harrow made of bushes, for harrowing grass lands and covering seeds, or to finish the work of a toothed harrow. -- Drill harrow. See under 6th Drill. -- Under the harrow, subjected to actual torture with a toothed instrument, or to great affliction or oppression.


word: Harrow₂
definition:
Harrow

Har"row
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Harrowed (hăr"ro̝d); p. pr. & vb. n. Harrowing.]
[OE. harowen, harwen; cf. Dan. harve. See Harrow, n.]
1.
To draw a harrow over, as for the purpose of breaking clods and leveling the surface, or for covering seed; as, to harrow land.

Will he harrow the valleys after thee?
Job xxxix. 10.

2.
To break or tear, as with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate; to torment or distress; to vex.

My aged muscles harrowed up with whips.
Rowe.

I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word
Would harrow up thy soul.
Shak.


word: Harrow₃
definition:
Harrow

Har"row
interj.
[OF. harau, haro; fr. OHG. hara, hera, herot, or fr. OS. herod hither, akin to E. here.]
Help! Halloo! An exclamation of distress; a call for succor; -- the ancient Norman hue and cry.
Harrow
Spenser.

Harrow! alas! here lies my fellow slain.
Chaucer.


word: Harrow₄
definition:
Harrow

Har"row
v. t.
[See Harry.]
To pillage; to harry; to oppress.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

Meaning thereby to harrow his people.
Bacon


word: Harry
definition:
Harry

Har"ry
(-r&ybreve_;)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Harried (-rĭd); p. pr. & vb. n. Harrying.]
[OE. harwen, herien, her&yogh_;ien, AS. hergian to act as an army, to ravage, plunder, fr. here army; akin to G. heer, Icel. herr, Goth. harjis, and Lith. karas war.  Cf. Harbor, Herald, Heriot.]

1.
To strip; to pillage; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came several times and harried the land.

To harry this beautiful region.
W. Irving.

A red squirrel had harried the nest of a wood thrush.
J. Burroughs.

2.
To agitate; to worry; to harrow; to harass.
Shak.


word: Harsh
definition:
Harsh

Harsh
(härsh)
a.
[Compar. Harsher (härsh"ẽr); superl. Harshest.]
[OE. harsk; akin to G. harsch, Dan. harsk rancid, Sw. härsk; from the same source as E. hard. See Hard, a.]
1.
Rough; disagreeable; grating
esp.:
(a)
disagreeable to the touch.
Harsh
Boyle.
(b)
disagreeable to the taste.
harsh
Milton.
(c)
disagreeable to the ear.
Harsh
Milton.

2.
Unpleasant and repulsive to the sensibilities; austere; crabbed; morose; abusive; abusive; severe; rough.

Clarence is so harsh, so blunt.
Shak.

Though harsh the precept, yet the preacher charmed.
Dryden.

3.
(Painting, Drawing, etc.)
Having violent contrasts of color, or of light and shade; lacking in harmony.


word: Harshly
definition:
Harshly

Harsh"ly
adv.
In a harsh manner; gratingly; roughly; rudely.

'T will sound harshly in her ears.
Shak.


word: Harshness
definition:
Harshness

Harsh"ness
n.
The quality or state of being harsh.

O, she is
Ten times more gentle than her father's crabbed,
And he's composed of harshness.
Shak.

'Tis not enough no harshness gives offense,
The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
Pope.


word: Hart
definition:
Hart

Hart
(härt)
n.
[OE. hart, hert, heort, AS. heort, heorot; akin to D. hert, OHG. hiruz, hirz, G. hirsch, Icel. hjörtr, Dan. & Sw. hjort, L. cervus, and prob. to Gr. kerao`s horned, ke`ras horn.  √230. See Horn.]
(Zool.)
A stag; the male of the red deer. See the Note under Buck.

Goodliest of all the forest, hart and hind.
Milton.


word: Hartebeest
definition:
Hartebeest

Hartbeest

Hart"beest`, Har"te*beest`
(-bēst`)
n.
[D. hertebeest. See Hart, and Beast.]
1.
(Zool.)
A large South African antelope (Alcelaphus caama), formerly much more abundant than it is now. The face and legs are marked with black, the rump with white.
[Written also hartebeest, and hartebest.]

2.
Any anteleope of the genus Alcelaphus and certain species of Darnaliscus.


word: Hartford
definition:
Hartford

Hart"ford
(härt"fẽrd)
n.
The Hartford grape, a variety of grape first raised at Hartford, Connecticut, from the Northern fox grape. Its large dark-colored berries ripen earlier than those of most other kinds.


word: Hart's-ear
definition:
Hart's-ear

Hart's"-ear`
(-ēr`)
n.
(Bot.)
An Asiatic species of Cacalia (Cacalia Kleinia), used medicinally in India.


word: Hartshorn
definition:
Hartshorn

Harts"horn`
(-hôrn`)
n.
1.
The horn or antler of the hart, or male red deer.

2.
Spirits of hartshorn (see below); volatile salts.

Hartshorn plantain (Bot.), an annual species of plantain (Plantago Coronopus); -- called also buck's-horn. Booth. -- Hartshorn shavings, originally taken from the horns of harts, are now obtained chiefly by planing down the bones of calves. They afford a kind of jelly. Hebert. -- Salt of hartshorn (Chem.), an impure solid carbonate of ammonia, obtained by the destructive distillation of hartshorn, or any kind of bone; volatile salts. Brande & C.-- Spirits of hartshorn (Chem.), a solution of ammonia in water; -- so called because formerly obtained from hartshorn shavings by destructive distillation. Similar ammoniacal solutions from other sources have received the same name.


word: Hart's-tongue
definition:
Hart's-tongue

Hart's"-tongue`
(härts"tŭng`)
n.
(Bot.)
(a)
A common British fern (Scolopendrium vulgare), rare in America.
(b)
A West Indian fern, the Polypodium Phyllitidis of Linnaeus. It is also found in Florida.


word: Hartwort
definition:
Hartwort

Hart"wort`
(härt"wûrt`)
n.
(Bot.)
A coarse umbelliferous plant of Europe (Tordylium maximum).

&hand_; The name is often vaguely given to other plants of the same order, as species of Seseli and Bupleurum.


word: Harum-scarum
definition:
Harum-scarum

Har"um-scar"um
(hâr"ŭm*skâr"ŭm)
a.
[Cf. hare,v. t., and scare, v. t.]
Wild; giddy; flighty; rash; thoughtless.
[Colloq.]

They had a quarrel with Sir Thomas Newcome's own son, a harum-scarum lad.
Thackeray.


word: Haruspice
definition:
Haruspice

Ha*rus"pice
(hȧ*rŭs"pĭs)
n.
[F., fr. L. haruspex.]
A diviner of ancient Rome.  Same as Aruspice.


word: Harvest
definition:
Harvest

Har"vest
(här"vĕst)
n.
[OE. harvest, hervest, AS. hærfest autumn; akin to LG. harfst, D. herfst, OHG. herbist, G. herbst, and prob. to L. carpere to pluck, Gr. karpo`s fruit.  Cf. Carpet.]
1.
The gathering of a crop of any kind; the ingathering of the crops; also, the season of gathering grain and fruits, late summer or early autumn.

Seedtime and harvest . . . shall not cease.
Gen. viii. 22.

At harvest, when corn is ripe.
Tyndale.

2.
That which is reaped or ready to be reaped or gathered; a crop, as of grain (wheat, maize, etc.), or fruit.

Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe.
Joel iii. 13.

To glean the broken ears after the man
That the main harvest reaps.
Shak.

3.
The product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward.

The pope's principal harvest was in the jubilee.
Fuller.

The harvest of a quiet eye.
Wordsworth.

Harvest fish (Zool.), a marine fish of the Southern United States (Stromateus alepidotus); -- called whiting in Virginia. Also applied to the dollar fish. -- Harvest fly (Zool.), an hemipterous insect of the genus Cicada, often called locust. See Cicada. -- Harvest lord, the head reaper at a harvest. [Obs.] Tusser. -- Harvest mite (Zool.), a minute European mite (Leptus autumnalis), of a bright crimson color, which is troublesome by penetrating the skin of man and domestic animals; -- called also harvest louse, and harvest bug. -- Harvest moon, the moon near the full at the time of harvest in England, or about the autumnal equinox, when, by reason of the small angle that is made by the moon's orbit with the horizon, it rises nearly at the same hour for several days. -- Harvest mouse (Zool.), a very small European field mouse (Mus minutus). It builds a globular nest on the stems of wheat and other plants. -- Harvest queen, an image representing Ceres, formerly carried about on the last day of harvest. Milton. -- Harvest spider. (Zool.) See Daddy longlegs.


word: Harvest₂
definition:
Harvest

Har"vest
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Harvested; p. pr. & vb. n. Harvesting.]
To reap or gather, as any crop.


word: Harvester
definition:
Harvester

Har"vest*er
(-ẽr)
n.
1.
One who harvests; a machine for cutting and gathering grain; a reaper.

2.
(Zool.)
A harvesting ant.


word: Harvest-home
definition:
Harvest-home

Har"vest-home"
(-h&omacrm)
n.
1.
The gathering and bringing home of the harvest; the time of harvest.

Showed like a stubble land at harvest-home.
Shak.

2.
The song sung by reapers at the feast made at the close of the harvest; the feast itself.
Dryden.

3.
A service of thanksgiving, at harvest time, in the Church of England and in the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States.

4.
The opportunity of gathering treasure.
Shak.


word: Harvesting
definition:
Harvesting

Har"vest*ing
a. & n., from Harvest, v. t.

Harvesting ant (Zool.), any species of ant which gathers and stores up seeds for food. Many species are known.

&hand_; The species found in Southern Europe and Palestine are Aphenogaster structor and Aphenogaster barbara; that of Texas, called agricultural ant, is Pogonomyrmex barbatus or Myrmica molifaciens; that of Florida is Pogonomyrmex crudelis.  See Agricultural ant, under Agricultural.


word: harvest-lice
definition:
harvest-lice

harvest-lice
n.
An erect perennial Old World herb (Agrimonia eupatoria) of dry grassy habitats.

Syn. -- Agrimonia eupatoria.


word: Harvestman
definition:
Harvestman

Har"vest*man
(-man)
n.
pl. Harvestmen (-men).
1.
A man engaged in harvesting.
Shak.

2.
(Zool.)
See Daddy longlegs, 1.


word: Harvestry
definition:
Harvestry

Har"vest*ry
(-r&ybreve_;)
n.
The act of harvesting; also, that which is harvested.
Swinburne.


word: Harvey process
definition:
Harvey process

Har"vey proc"ess
(?)
(Metal.)
A process of hardening the face of steel, as armor plates, invented by Hayward A. Harvey of New Jersey, consisting in the additional carburizing of the face of a piece of low carbon steel by subjecting it to the action of carbon under long-continued pressure at a very high heat, and then to a violent chilling, as by a spray of cold water. This process gives an armor plate a thick surface of extreme hardness supported by material gradually decreasing in hardness to the unaltered soft steel at the back.


word: Hary
definition:
Hary

Har"y
(hăr"&ybreve_;)
v. t.
[Cf. OF. harier to harass, or E. harry, v. t.]
To draw; to drag; to carry off by violence.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Hash
definition:
Hash

Hash
(hăsh)
n.
[Formerly hachey, hachee, F. hachis, fr.  hacher to hash; of German origin; cf. G. hippe sickle, OHG. hippa, for happia.  Cf. Hatchet.]
1.
That which is hashed or chopped up; meat and vegetables, especially such as have been already cooked, chopped into small pieces and mixed.

2.
A new mixture of old matter; a second preparation or exhibition.

I can not bear elections, and still less the hash of them over again in a first session.
Walpole.

3.
Hashish.
[slang]


word: Hash₂
definition:
Hash

Hash
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Hashed (hăsht); p. pr. & vb. n. Hashing.]
[From Hash, n.: cf. F. hacher to hash.]
To chop into small pieces; to mince and mix; as, to hash meat.
Hudibras.


word: Hashish
definition:
Hashish

Hasheesh

{ Hash"eesh Hash"ish  }
(hăsh"ēsh)
n.
[Ar. hashīsh.]
A slightly acrid gum resin produced by the common hemp (Cannabis sativa), of the variety Indica, when cultivated in a warm climate; also, the tops of the plant, from which the resinous product is obtained.  It is narcotic, and has long been used in the East for its intoxicating effect.  The active psychoactive principle has been identified as tetrahydrocannabinol.   See Bhang, and Ganja.

Syn. -- hash.


word: hashmark
definition:
hashmark

hash"mark`
n.
(Mil.)
an insignia worn on the uniform to indicate years of service.

Syn. -- service stripe, hash mark.


word: Hask
definition:
Hask

Hask
(hăsk)
n.
[See Hassock.]
A basket made of rushes or flags, as for carrying fish.
[Obs.]
Spenser.


word: Haslet
definition:
Haslet

Has"let
(hăs"lĕt)
n.
[F. hâtelettes broil, for hastelettes, fr. F. haste spit; cf. L. hasta spear, and also OHG. harst gridiron.]
The edible viscera, as the heart, liver, etc., of a beast, esp. of a hog.
[Written also harslet.]


word: Hasp
definition:
Hasp

Hasp
(hȧsp)
n.
[OE. hasp, hesp, AS. hæpse; akin to G. haspe, häspe, Sw. & Dan. haspe, Icel. hespa.]

1.
A clasp, especially a metal strap permanently fast at one end to a staple or pin, while the other passes over a staple, and is fastened by a padlock or a pin; also, a metallic hook for fastening a door.

2.
A spindle to wind yarn, thread, or silk on.

3.
An instrument for cutting the surface of grass land; a scarifier.


word: Hasp₂
definition:
Hasp

Hasp
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Hasped (hȧspt); p. pr. & vb. n. Hasping.]
[AS. hæpsian.]
To shut or fasten with a hasp.


word: hassle
definition:
hassle

hassle
n.
1.
An inconvenience caused by difficulties encountered trying to accomplish a task; as, finding a parking place in midtown is always a hassle.

Syn. -- fuss, trouble, bother.

2.
disorderly fighting; an angry dispute or disturbance.
[wns=2]

Syn. -- hassle, scuffle, tussle, rough-and-tumble.


word: hassle₂
definition:
hassle

hassle
v. i.
1.
to dispute or quarrel, often over petty disagreements.

2.
To expend excessive time and energy trying to accomplish a task.


word: hassle₃
definition:
hassle

hassle
v. t.
to repeatedly annoy; as, He is known to hassle his staff when he is overworked.

Syn. -- harass, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke.


word: Hassock
definition:
Hassock

Has"sock
(hăs"sŭk)
n.
[Scot. hassock, hassik, a besom, anything bushy, a large, round turf used as a seat, OE. hassok sedgy ground, W. hesgog sedgy, hesg sedge, rushes; cf. Ir. seisg, and E. sedge.]
1.
A rank tuft of bog grass; a tussock.
Forby.

2.
A small stuffed cushion or footstool, for kneeling on in church, or for home use.

And knees and hassocks are well nigh divorced.
Cowper.


word: Hastated
definition:
Hastated

Hastate

{ Has"tate (hăs"ta̝t), Has"ta*ted (hās"ta̝*tĕd), }
a.
[L. hastatus, fr. hasta spear.  Cf. Gad, n.]
Shaped like the head of a halberd; triangular, with the basal angles or lobes spreading; as, a hastate leaf.


word: Haste
definition:
Haste

Haste
(hāst)
n.
[OE. hast; akin to D. haast, G., Dan., Sw., & OFries. hast, cf. OF. haste, F. hâte (of German origin); all perh. fr. the root of E. hate in a earlier sense of, to pursue. See Hate.]
1.
Celerity of motion; speed; swiftness; dispatch; expedition; -- applied only to voluntary beings, as men and other animals.

The king's business required haste.
1 Sam. xxi. 8.

2.
The state of being urged or pressed by business; hurry; urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.

I said in my haste, All men are liars.
Ps. cxvi. 11.

To make haste, to hasten.


word: Haste₂
definition:
Haste

Haste
v. t. & i.
[imp. & p. p. Hasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Hasting.]
[OE. hasten; akin to G. hasten, D. haasten, Dan. haste, Sw. hasta, OF. haster, F. hâter. See Haste, n.]
To hasten; to hurry.
[Archaic]

I 'll haste the writer.
Shak.

They were troubled and hasted away.
Ps. xlviii. 5.


word: Hasten
definition:
Hasten

Has"ten
(hās"'n)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Hastened (hās"'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Hastening (hās"'n*ĭng).]
To press; to drive or urge forward; to push on; to precipitate; to accelerate the movement of; to expedite; to hurry.

I would hasten my escape from the windy storm.
Ps. lv. 8.


word: Hasten₂
definition:
Hasten

Has"ten
v. i.
To move with celerity; to be rapid in motion; to act speedily or quickly; to go quickly.

I hastened to the spot whence the noise came.
De Foe.


word: Hastener
definition:
Hastener

Has"ten*er
(-ẽr)
n.
1.
One who hastens.

2.
That which hastens; especially, a stand or reflector used for confining the heat of the fire to meat while roasting before it.


word: Hastily
definition:
Hastily

Has"ti*ly
(hās"tĭ*l&ybreve_;)
adv.
[From Hasty.]
1.
In haste; with speed or quickness; speedily; nimbly.

2.
Without due reflection; precipitately; rashly.

We hastily engaged in the war.
Swift.

3.
Passionately; impatiently.
Shak.


word: Hastiness
definition:
Hastiness

Has"ti*ness
n.
The quality or state of being hasty; haste; precipitation; rashness; quickness of temper.


word: Hastings
definition:
Hastings

Has"tings
(-tĭngz)
n. pl.
[From Haste, v.]
Early fruit or vegetables; especially, early pease.
Mortimer.


word: Hastings sands
definition:
Hastings sands

Has"tings sands`
(săndz`)
(Geol.)
The lower group of the Wealden formation; -- so called from its development around Hastings, in Sussex, England.


word: Hastive
definition:
Hastive

Has"tive
(-tĭv)
a.
[OF. hastif. See Haste, n., and cf. Hastif.]
Forward; early; -- said of fruits.
[Obs.]


word: Hasty
definition:
Hasty

Has"ty
(hās"t&ybreve_;)
a.
[Compar. Hastier (-tĭ*ẽr); superl. Hastiest.]
[Akin to D. haastig, G., Sw., & Dan. hastig. See Haste, n.]
1.
Involving haste; done, made, etc., in haste; as, a hasty retreat; a hasty sketch.

2.
Demanding haste or immediate action.
[R.]
Chaucer.
Hasty
Shak.

3.
Moving or acting with haste or in a hurry; hurrying; hence, acting without deliberation; precipitate; rash; easily excited; eager.

Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words?  There is more hope of a fool than of him.
Prov. xxix. 20.

The hasty multitude
Admiring entered.
Milton.

Be not hasty to go out of his sight.
Eccl. viii. 3.

4.
Made or reached without deliberation or due caution; as, a hasty conjecture, inference, conclusion, etc., a hasty resolution.

5.
Proceeding from, or indicating, a quick temper.

Take no unkindness of his hasty words.
Shak.

6.
Forward; early; first ripe.
[Obs.]
hasty
Is. xxviii. 4.


word: Hasty pudding
definition:
Hasty pudding

Has"ty pud"ding
(hās"t&ybreve_; p&usdot_;d"dĭng)
1.
A thick batter pudding made of Indian meal stirred into boiling water; mush.
[U. S.]

2.
A batter or pudding made of flour or oatmeal, stirred into boiling water or milk.
[Eng.]


word: Hat₃
definition:
Hat

Hat
(hăt)
n.
[AS. hæt, hætt; akin to Dan. hat, Sw. hatt, Icel. hattr a hat, höttr hood, D. hoed hat, G. hut, OHG. huot, and prob. to L. cassis helmet.  √13.  Cf. Hood.]
A covering for the head; esp., one with a crown and brim, made of various materials, and worn by men or women for protecting the head from the sun or weather, or for ornament.

Hat block, a block on which hats are formed or dressed. -- To pass around the hat, to take up a collection of voluntary contributions, which are often received in a hat. [Colloq.] Lowell.


word: Hatable
definition:
Hatable

Hat"a*ble
(hāt"ȧ*b'l)
a.
[From Hate.]
Capable of being, or deserving to be, hated; odious; detestable.


word: Hatband
definition:
Hatband

Hat"band`
(hăt"bănd`)
n.
A band round the crown of a hat; sometimes, a band of black cloth, crape, etc., worn as a badge of mourning.


word: Hatch
definition:
Hatch

Hatch
(hăch)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Hatched (hăcht); p. pr. & vb. n. Hatching.]
[F. hacher to chop, hack. See Hash.]
1.
To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.

Shall win this sword, silvered and hatched.
Chapman.

Those hatching strokes of the pencil.
Dryden.

2.
To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.
[Obs.]

His weapon hatched in blood.
Beau. & Fl.


word: Hatch₂
definition:
Hatch

Hatch
v. t.
[OE. hacchen, hetchen; akin to G. hecken, Dan. hekke; cf. MHG. hagen bull; perh. akin to E. hatch a half door, and originally meaning, to produce under a hatch.  √12.]
1.
To produce, as young, from an egg or eggs by incubation, or by artificial heat; to produce young from (eggs); as, the young when hatched.
Paley.

As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not.
Jer. xvii. 11.

For the hens do not sit upon the eggs; but by keeping them in a certain equal heat they [the husbandmen] bring life into them and hatch them.
Robynson (More's Utopia).

2.
To contrive or plot; to form by meditation, and bring into being; to originate and produce; to concoct; as, to hatch mischief; to hatch heresy.
Hooker.

Fancies hatched
In silken-folded idleness.
Tennyson.


word: Hatch₃
definition:
Hatch

Hatch
v. i.
To produce young; -- said of eggs; to come forth from the egg; -- said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc.


word: Hatch₄
definition:
Hatch

Hatch
n.
1.
The act of hatching.

2.
Development; disclosure; discovery.
Shak.

3.
The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.


word: Hatch₅
definition:
Hatch

Hatch
n.
[OE. hacche, AS. hæc, cf. haca the bar of a door, D. hek gate, Sw. häck coop, rack, Dan. hekke manger, rack. Prob. akin to E. hook, and first used of something made of pieces fastened together.  Cf. Heck, Hack a frame.]
1.
A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge.

In at the window, or else o'er the hatch.
Shak.

2.
A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.

3.
A flood gate; a sluice gate.
Ainsworth.

4.
A bedstead.
[Scot.]
Sir W. Scott.

5.
An opening in the deck of a vessel or floor of a warehouse which serves as a passageway or hoistway; a hatchway; also; a cover or door, or one of the covers used in closing such an opening.

6.
(Mining)
An opening into, or in search of, a mine.

Booby hatch, Buttery hatch, Companion hatch, etc. See under Booby, Buttery, etc. -- To batten down the hatches (Naut.), to lay tarpaulins over them, and secure them with battens. -- To be under hatches, to be confined below in a vessel; to be under arrest, or in slavery, distress, etc.


word: Hatch₆
definition:
Hatch

Hatch
v. t.
To close with a hatch or hatches.

'T were not amiss to keep our door hatched.
Shak.


word: Hatch-boat
definition:
Hatch-boat

Hatch"-boat`
(hăch"b&omacrt`)
n.
(Naut.)
A vessel whose deck consists almost wholly of movable hatches; -- used mostly in the fisheries.


word: Hatchel
definition:
Hatchel

Hatch"el
(-ĕl; 277)
n.
[OE. hechele, hekele; akin to D. hekel, G. hechel, Dan. hegle, Sw. häkla, and prob. to E. hook. See Hook, and cf. Hackle, Heckle.]
An instrument with long iron teeth set in a board, for cleansing flax or hemp from the tow, hards, or coarse part; a kind of large comb; -- called also hackle and heckle.


word: Hatchel₂
definition:
Hatchel

Hatch"el
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Hatcheled or Hatchelled (-ĕld); p. pr. & vb. n. Hatcheling or Hatchelling.]
[OE. hechelen, hekelen; akin to D. hekelen, G. hecheln, Dan. hegle, Sw. häkla. See Hatchel, n.]
1.
To draw through the teeth of a hatchel, as flax or hemp, so as to separate the coarse and refuse parts from the fine, fibrous parts.

2.
To tease; to worry; to torment.
[Colloq.]


word: Hatcher
definition:
Hatcher

Hatch"er
(-ẽr)
n.
1.
One who hatches, or that which hatches; a hatching apparatus; an incubator.

2.
One who contrives or originates; a plotter.

A great hatcher and breeder of business.
Swift.


word: Hatchet
definition:
Hatchet

Hatch"et
(-ĕt)
n.
[F. hachette, dim. of hache ax.  See 1st Hatch, Hash.]
1.
A small ax with a short handle, to be used with one hand.

2.
Specifically, a tomahawk.

Buried was the bloody hatchet.
Longfellow.

hatchet face, a thin, sharp face, like the edge of a hatchet; hence: hatchet-faced, sharp-visaged. Dryden. -- To bury the hatchet, to make peace or become reconciled. -- To take up the hatchet, to make or declare war. The last two phrases are derived from the practice of the American Indians.


word: hatchet man
definition:
hatchet man

hatchet man
n.
1.
A person hired to murder or physically attack another; a hit man.

2.
A person who deliberately tries to ruin the reputation of another, often unscrupulously, by slander or other malicious communication, often with a political motive, and sometimes for pay.


word: Hatchettite
definition:
Hatchettite

Hatchettine

{ Hatch"et*tine (hăch"ĕt*tĭn), Hatch"et*tite (-tĭt), }
n.
[Named after the discoverer, Charles Hatchett.]
(Min.)
Mineral tallow; a waxy or spermaceti-like substance, commonly of a greenish yellow color.


word: Hatching
definition:
Hatching

Hatch"ing
n.
[See 1st Hatch.]
A mode of execution in engraving, drawing, and miniature painting, in which shading is produced by lines crossing each other at angles more or less acute; -- called also crosshatching.


word: Hatchment
definition:
Hatchment

Hatch"ment
(-ment)
n.
[Corrupt. fr. achievement.]

1.
(Her.)
A sort of panel, upon which the arms of a deceased person are temporarily displayed, -- usually on the walls of his dwelling. It is lozenge-shaped or square, but is hung cornerwise. It is used in England as a means of giving public notification of the death of the deceased, his or her rank, whether married, widower, widow, etc. Called also achievement.

His obscure funeral;
No trophy, sword, or hatchment o'er his bones.
Shak.

2.
A sword or other mark of the profession of arms; in general, a mark of dignity.

Let there be deducted, out of our main potation,
Five marks in hatchments to adorn this thigh.
Beau. & Fl.


word: Hatchway
definition:
Hatchway

Hatch"way`
(-wā`)
n.
A square or oblong opening in a deck or floor, affording passage from one deck or story to another; the entrance to a cellar.


word: Hate
definition:
Hate

Hate
(hāt)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Hated; p. pr. & vb. n. Hating.]
[OE. haten, hatien, AS. hatian; akin to OS. hatan, hat&omacrn to be hostile to, D. haten to hate, OHG. hazzēn, hazz&omacrn, G. hassen, Icel. & Sw. hata, Dan. hade, Goth. hatan, hatjan.  √36.  Cf. Hate, n., Heinous.]

1.
To have a great aversion to, with a strong desire that evil should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed; to dislike intensely; to detest; as, to hate one's enemies; to hate hypocrisy.

Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer.
1 John iii. 15.

2.
To be very unwilling; followed by an infinitive, or a substantive clause with that; as, to hate to get into debt; to hate that anything should be wasted.

I hate that he should linger here.
Tennyson.

3.
(Script.)
To love less, relatively.
Luke xiv. 26.


word: Hate₂
definition:
Hate

Hate
n.
[OE. hate, hete, AS. hete; akin to D. haat, G. hass, Icel. hatr, SW. hat, Dan. had, Goth. hatis.  Cf. Hate, v.]
Strong aversion coupled with desire that evil should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed; as exercised toward things, intense dislike; hatred; detestation; -- opposed to love.

For in a wink the false love turns to hate.
Tennyson.


word: Hateful
definition:
Hateful

Hate"ful
(-f&usdot_;l)
a.
1.
Manifesting hate or hatred; malignant; malevolent.
[Archaic or R.]

And worse than death, to view with hateful eyes
His rival's conquest.
Dryden.

2.
Exciting or deserving great dislike, aversion, or disgust; odious.

Unhappy, wretched, hateful day!
Shak.


word: Hath
definition:
Hath

Hath
(hăth)
v., 3d pers. sing. pres.
of Have, contracted from haveth
Has.
[Archaic.]

What hath God wrought?
Samuel F. B. Morse [The first message sent by telegraph, from Mr. Morse, at the chamber of the Supreme Court (then in the United States Capitol) to his assistant Albert Vail at the Mount Clair Depot in Baltimore in 1844.  Mr. Morse allowed Annie Ellsworth, the daughter of a friend, to choose the words, which she took from Numbers xxiii. 23.]


word: Hatiora
definition:
Hatiora

Hatiora
n.
A small genus of South American epiphytic or lithophytic cacti.

Syn. -- genus Hatiora.


word: Hatred
definition:
Hatred

Ha"tred
(hā"trĕd)
n.
[OE. hatred, hatreden. See Hate, and cf. Kindred.]
Strong aversion; intense dislike; hate; an affection of the mind awakened by something regarded as evil.


word: Hatstand
definition:
Hatstand

Hat"stand`
(hăt"stănd`)
n.
A stand of wood or iron, with hooks or pegs upon which to hang hats, etc.


word: Hatte
definition:
Hatte

Hat"te
(hät"te)
pres. & imp. sing. & pl. of Hote, to be called. See Hote.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

A full perilous place, purgatory it hatte.
Piers Plowman.


word: Hatter
definition:
Hatter

Hat"ter
(-tẽr)
v. t.
[Prov. E., to entangle; cf. LG. verhaddern, verheddern, verhiddern.]
To tire or worry; -- with out.
[Obs.]
Dryden.


word: Hatteria
definition:
Hatteria

Hat*te"ri*a
(hăt*tē"rĭ*ȧ)
n.
[NL.]
(Zool.)
A New Zealand lizard, which, in anatomical character, differs widely from all other existing lizards.  It is the only living representative of the order Rhynchocephala, of which many Mesozoic fossil species are known; -- called also Sphenodon, tuatara, and Tuatera.


word: Hatti-sherif
definition:
Hatti-sherif

Hat"ti-sher`if
(hăt"tĭ*shĕr`ĭf or hät"tē*sha̝*rēf")
n.
[Turk., fr. Ar. khatt a writing + sherīf noble.]
A irrevocable Turkish decree countersigned by the sultan.


word: Hauberk
definition:
Hauberk

Hau"berk
(h&asuml_;"bẽrk)
n.
[OF. hauberc, halberc, F. haubert, OHG. halsberc; hals neck + bergan to protect, G. bergen; akin to AS. healsbeorg, Icel. hālsbjörg. See Collar, and Bury, v. t.]
A coat of mail; especially, the long coat of mail of the European Middle Ages, as contrasted with the habergeon, which is shorter and sometimes sleeveless. By old writers it is often used synonymously with habergeon. See Habergeon.
[Written variously hauberg, hauberque, hawberk, etc.]
Chaucer.

Helm, nor hawberk's twisted mail.
Gray.


word: Hauerite
definition:
Hauerite

Hau"er*ite
(h&asuml_;"ẽr*īt)
n.
[Named after Von Hauer, of Vienna.]
(Min.)
Native sulphide of manganese, a reddish brown or brownish black mineral.


word: Haugh
definition:
Haugh

Haugh
(h&asuml_;)
n.
[See Haw a hedge.]
A low-lying meadow by the side of a river.
[Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

On a haugh or level plain, near to a royal borough.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Haughtily
definition:
Haughtily

Haugh"ti*ly
(h&asuml_;"tĭ*l&ybreve_;)
adv.
[From Haughty.]
In a haughty manner; arrogantly.


word: Haughtiness
definition:
Haughtiness

Haugh"ti*ness
n.
[For hauteinness. See Haughty.]
The quality of being haughty; disdain; arrogance.


word: Haughty
definition:
Haughty

Haugh"ty
(h&asuml_;"t&ybreve_;)
a.
[Compar. Haughtier (h&asuml_;"tĭ*ẽr); superl. Haughtiest.]
[OE. hautein, F. hautain, fr. haut high, OF. also halt, fr. L. altus. See Altitude.]

1.
High; lofty; bold.
[Obs. or Archaic]

To measure the most haughty mountain's height.
Spenser.

Equal unto this haughty enterprise.
Spenser.

2.
Disdainfully or contemptuously proud; arrogant; overbearing.

A woman of a haughty and imperious nature.
Clarendon.

3.
Indicating haughtiness; as, a haughty carriage.

Satan, with vast and haughty strides advanced,
Came towering.
Milton.


word: Haul
definition:
Haul

Haul
(h&asuml_;l)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Hauled (h&asuml_;ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Hauling.]
[OE. halen, halien, F. haler, of German or Scand. origin; akin to AS. geholian to acquire, get, D. halen to fetch, pull, draw, OHG. hol&omacrn, hal&omacrn, G. holen, Dan. hale to haul, Sw. hala, and to L. calare to call, summon, Gr. kalei^n to call.  Cf. Hale, v. t., Claim. Class, Council, Ecclesiastic.]
1.
To pull or draw with force; to drag.

Some dance, some haul the rope.
Denham.

Thither they bent, and hauled their ships to land.
Pope.

Romp-loving miss
Is hauled about in gallantry robust.
Thomson.

2.
To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen; as, to haul logs to a sawmill.

When I was seven or eight years of age, I began hauling all the wood used in the house and shops.
U. S. Grant.

To haul over the coals. See under Coal. -- To haul the wind (Naut.), to turn the head of the ship nearer to the point from which the wind blows.


word: Haul₂
definition:
Haul

Haul
v. i.
1.
(Naut.)
To change the direction of a ship by hauling the wind. See under Haul, v. t.

I . . . hauled up for it, and found it to be an island.
Cook.

2.
To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.

To haul around (Naut.), to shift to any point of the compass; -- said of the wind. -- To haul off (Naut.), to sail closer to the wind, in order to get farther away from anything; hence, to withdraw; to draw back.


word: Haul₃
definition:
Haul

Haul
n.
1.
A pulling with force; a violent pull.

2.
A single draught of a net; as, to catch a hundred fish at a haul.

3.
That which is caught, taken, or gained at once, as by hauling a net.

4.
Transportation by hauling; the distance through which anything is hauled, as freight in a railroad car; as, a long haul or short haul.

5.
(Rope Making)
A bundle of about four hundred threads, to be tarred.


word: Haulabout
definition:
Haulabout

Haul"a*bout`
(h&asuml_;l"ȧ*bout`)
n.
A bargelike vessel with steel hull, large hatchways, and coal transporters, for coaling war vessels from its own hold or from other colliers.


word: Haulage
definition:
Haulage

Haul"age
(-a̝j)
n.
Act of hauling; as, the haulage of cars by an engine; charge for hauling.


word: Hauler
definition:
Hauler

Haul"er
(-ẽr)
n.
1.
One who hauls.

2.
A trucking company; a freight transporter using trucks.


word: Haulm
definition:
Haulm

Haulm
(h&asuml_;m)
n.
[OE. halm, AS. healm; akin to D., G., Dan., & Sw. halm, Icel. hālmr, L. calamus reed, cane, stalk, Gr. kalamo`s.  Cf. Excel, Culminate, Culm, Shawm, Calamus.]
The denuded stems or stalks of such crops as buckwheat and the cereal grains, beans, etc.; straw.


word: Hault
definition:
Hault

Hault
(h&asuml_;lt)
a.
[OF. hault, F. haut. See Haughty.]
Lofty; haughty.
[Obs.]

Through support of countenance proud and hault.
Spenser.


word: Haunch
definition:
Haunch

Haunch
(hänch; 277)
n.
[F. hanche, of German origin; cf. OD. hancke, hencke, and also OHG. ancha; prob. not akin to E. ankle.]
1.
The hip; the projecting region of the lateral parts of the pelvis and the hip joint; the hind part.

2.
Of meats: The leg and loin taken together; as, a haunch of venison.

Haunch bone. See Innominate bone, under Innominate. -- Haunches of an arch (Arch.), the parts on each side of the crown of an arch. (See Crown, n., 11.) Each haunch may be considered as from one half to two thirds of the half arch.


word: Haunt
definition:
Haunt

Haunt
(hänt; 277)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Haunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Haunting.]
[F. hanter; of uncertain origin, perh. from an assumed LL. ambitare to go about, fr. L. ambire (see Ambition); or cf. Icel. heimta to demand, regain, akin to heim home (see Home). √36.]
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.
Swift.

2.
To inhabit or frequent as a specter; to visit as a ghost or apparition; -- said of spirits or ghosts, especially of dead people; as, the murdered man haunts the house where he died.

Foul spirits haunt my resting place.
Fairfax.

3.
To practice; to devote one's self to.
[Obs.]

That other merchandise that men haunt with fraud . . . is cursed.
Chaucer.

Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime.
Ascham.

4.
To accustom; to habituate.
[Obs.]

Haunt thyself to pity.
Wyclif.


word: Haunt₂
definition:
Haunt

Haunt
v. i.
To persist in staying or visiting.

I've charged thee not to haunt about my doors.
Shak.


word: Haunt₃
definition:
Haunt

Haunt
n.
1.
A place to which one frequently resorts; as, drinking saloons are the haunts of tipplers; a den is the haunt of wild beasts.

&hand_; In Old English the place occupied by any one as a dwelling or in his business was called a haunt.

Often used figuratively.
[1913 Webster]
The household nook,
The haunt of all affections pure. Keble.
[1913 Webster]
The feeble soul, a haunt of fears. Tennyson.

2.
The habit of resorting to a place.
[Obs.]

The haunt you have got about the courts.
Arbuthnot.

3.
Practice; skill.
[Obs.]

Of clothmaking she hadde such an haunt.
Chaucer.


word: Haunted
definition:
Haunted

Haunt"ed
a.
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.


word: Haurient
definition:
Haurient

Hau"ri*ent
(h&asuml_;"rĭ*ent)
a.
[L. hauriens, p. pr. of haurire to breathe.]
(Her.)
In pale, with the head in chief; -- said of the figure of a fish, as if rising for air.


word: Hausen
definition:
Hausen

Hau"sen
(h&asuml_;"sĕn)
n.
[G.]
(Zool.)
A large sturgeon (Acipenser huso syn. Huso huso) from the region of the Black Sea; also called Beluga.  It is sometimes twelve feet long, and provides the highest quality caviar.


word: Hausse
definition:
Hausse

Hausse
(h&asuml_;s)
n.
[F.]
(Gun.)
A kind of graduated breech sight for a small arm, or a cannon.


word: Haustellata
definition:
Haustellata

Haus`tel*la"ta
(h&asuml_;s`tĕl*lā"tȧ)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. haustellum, fr. L. haurire, haustum, to draw water, to swallow. See Exhaust.]
(Zool.)
An artificial division of insects, including all those with a sucking proboscis.


word: Haustellate
definition:
Haustellate

Haus"tel*late
(h&asuml_;s"tĕl*la̝t or h&asuml_;s*tĕl"la̝t)
a.
[See Haustellata.]
(Zool.)
Provided with a haustellum, or sucking proboscis.
n. One of the Haustellata.


word: Haustellum
definition:
Haustellum

Haus*tel"lum
(h&asuml_;s*tĕl"lŭm)
n.
pl. Haustella (-lȧ).
[NL.]
(Zool.)
The sucking proboscis of various insects. See Lepidoptera, and Diptera.


word: Haustorium
definition:
Haustorium

Haus*to"ri*um
(h&asuml_;s*t&omacr"rĭ*ŭm)
n.
pl. Haustoria (h&asuml_;s*t&omacr"rĭ*ȧ).
[LL., a well, fr. L. haurire, haustum, to drink.]
(Bot.)
One of the suckerlike rootlets of such plants as the dodder and ivy.
R. Brown.


word: Hautboy
definition:
Hautboy

Haut"boy
(h&omacr"boi)
n.
[F. hautbois, lit., high wood; haut high + bois wood. So called on account of its high tone. See Haughty, Bush; and cf. Oboe.]
1.
(Mus.)
A wind instrument, sounded through a reed, and similar in shape to the clarinet, but with a thinner tone. Now more commonly called oboe. See Illust. of Oboe.

2.
(Bot.)
A sort of strawberry (Fragaria elatior).


word: Hautein
definition:
Hautein

Hau"tein
(h&omacr"ta̝n)
a.
[See Haughty.]
1.
Haughty; proud.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

2.
High; -- said of the voice or flight of birds.
[Obs.]


word: Hauteur
definition:
Hauteur

Hau`teur"
(h&omacr`tẽr")
n.
[F., fr. haut high. See Haughty.]
Haughty manner or spirit; haughtiness; pride; arrogance.


word: Hautpas
definition:
Hautpas

Haut`pas"
(h&omacr`pä")
n.
[F. haut high + pas step.]
A raised part of the floor of a large room; a platform for a raised table or throne. See Dais.


word: Hauynite
definition:
Hauynite

Ha"üy*nite
(ä"we̝*nīt)
n.
[From the French mineralogist Haüy.]
(Min.)
A blue isometric mineral, characteristic of some volcanic rocks.  It is a silicate of alumina, lime, and soda, with sulphate of lime.


word: Havana
definition:
Havana

Ha*van"a
(hȧ*văn"ȧ)
prop. a.
Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar
formerly sometimes written Havannah.
n. An Havana cigar.

Young Frank Clavering stole his father's Havannahs, and . . . smoked them in the stable.
Thackeray.


word: Havanese
definition:
Havanese

Hav`an*ese"
(hăv`ăn*ēz" or -ēs")
a.
Of or pertaining to Havana, in Cuba.
n. sing. & pl. A native or inhabitant, or the people, of Havana.


word: Have
definition:
Have

Have
(hăv)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Had (hăd); p. pr. & vb. n. Having. Indic. present, I have, thou hast, he has; we, ye, they have.]
[OE. haven, habben, AS. habben (imperf. hæfde, p. p. gehæfd); akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries. hebba, OHG. habēn, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. avoir.  Cf. Able, Avoirdupois, Binnacle, Habit.]
1.
To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm.

2.
To possess, as something which appertains to, is connected with, or affects, one.

The earth hath bubbles, as the water has.
Shak.

He had a fever late.
Keats.

3.
To accept possession of; to take or accept.

Break thy mind to me in broken English; wilt thou have me?
Shak.

4.
To get possession of; to obtain; to get.
Shak.

5.
To cause or procure to be; to effect; to exact; to desire; to require.

I had the church accurately described to me.
Sir W. Scott.

Wouldst thou have me turn traitor also?
Ld. Lytton.

6.
To bear, as young; as, she has just had a child.

7.
To hold, regard, or esteem.

Of them shall I be had in honor.
2 Sam. vi. 22.

8.
To cause or force to go; to take.
have
Herbert.
Have
2 Sam. xiii. 9.

9.
To take or hold (one's self); to proceed promptly; -- used reflexively, often with ellipsis of the pronoun; as, to have after one; to have at one or at a thing, i. e., to aim at one or at a thing; to attack; to have with a companion.
Shak.

10.
To be under necessity or obligation; to be compelled; followed by an infinitive.

Science has, and will long have, to be a divider and a separatist.
M. Arnold.

The laws of philology have to be established by external comparison and induction.
Earle.

11.
To understand.

You have me, have you not?
Shak.

12.
To put in an awkward position; to have the advantage of; as, that is where he had him.
[Slang]

&hand_; Have, as an auxiliary verb, is used with the past participle to form preterit tenses; as, I have loved; I shall have eaten. Originally it was used only with the participle of transitive verbs, and denoted the possession of the object in the state indicated by the participle; as, I have conquered him, I have or hold him in a conquered state; but it has long since lost this independent significance, and is used with the participles both of transitive and intransitive verbs as a device for expressing past time. Had is used, especially in poetry, for would have or should have.

Myself for such a face had boldly died.
Tennyson.

To have a care, to take care; to be on one's guard. -- To have (a man) out, to engage (one) in a duel. -- To have done (with). See under Do, v. i. -- To have it out, to speak freely; to bring an affair to a conclusion. -- To have on, to wear. -- To have to do with. See under Do, v. t.


word: Havelock
definition:
Havelock

Hav"e*lock
(hăv"e̝*l&obreve_;k)
n.
[From Havelock, an English general distinguished in India in the rebellion of 1857.]
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.


word: Haven
definition:
Haven

Ha"ven
(hā"v'n)
n.
[AS. hæfene; akin to D. & LG. haven, G. hafen, MHG. habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave (see Heave); or akin to AS. hæf sea, Icel. & Sw. haf, Dan. hav, which is perh. akin to E. heave.]
1.
A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor; a port.

What shipping and what lading 's in our haven.
Shak.

Their haven under the hill.
Tennyson.

2.
A place of safety; a shelter; an asylum.
Shak.

The haven, or the rock of love.
Waller.


word: Havened
definition:
Havened

Ha"vened
(hā"v'nd)
p. a.
Sheltered in a haven.

Blissful havened both from joy and pain.
Keats.


word: Haver₂
definition:
Haver

Hav"er
n.
[D. haver; akin to G. haber.]
The oat; oats.
[Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Haver bread, oaten bread. -- Haver cake, oaten cake. Piers Plowman. -- Haver grass, the wild oat. -- Haver meal, oatmeal.


word: Haver₃
definition:
Haver

Ha"ver
(hā"vẽr)
v. i.
[Etymol. uncertain.]
To maunder; to talk foolishly; to chatter.
[Scot.]
Sir W. Scott.


word: Haversack
definition:
Haversack

Hav"er*sack
(hăv"ẽr*săk)
n.
[F. havresac, G. habersack, sack for oats. See 2d Haver, and Sack a bag.]

1.
A bag for oats or oatmeal.
[Prov. Eng.]

2.
A bag or case, usually of stout cloth, in which a soldier carries his rations when on a march; -- distinguished from knapsack.

3.
A gunner's case or bag used to carry cartridges from the ammunition chest to the piece in loading.


word: Haversian
definition:
Haversian

Ha*ver"sian
(hȧ*vẽr"shan)
a.
Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century.

Haversian canals (Anat.), the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.


word: Havier
definition:
Havier

Hav"ier
(hā"yẽr)
n.
[Formerly haver, prob. fr. Half; cf. L. semimas emasculated, prop., half male.]
A castrated deer.

Haviers, or stags which have been gelded when young, have no horns.
Encyc. of Sport.


word: Havildar
definition:
Havildar

Hav`il*dar"
(hăv`ĭl*där")
n.
In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant.

Havildar major, a native sergeant major in the East Indian army.


word: Having
definition:
Having

Hav"ing
(hăv"ĭng)
n.
Possession; goods; estate.

I 'll lend you something; my having is not much.
Shak.


word: Havior
definition:
Havior

Hav"ior
(hāv"yẽr)
n.
[OE. havour, a corruption of OF. aveir, avoir, a having, of same origin as E. aver a work horse. The h is due to confusion with E. have.]
Behavior; demeanor.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: Havoc
definition:
Havoc

Hav"oc
(hăv"&obreve_;k)
n.
[W. hafog devastation, havoc; or, if this be itself fr. E. havoc, cf. OE. havot, or AS. hafoc hawk, which is a cruel or rapacious bird, or F. hai, voux! a cry to hounds.]
Wide and general destruction; devastation; waste.

As for Saul, he made havoc of the church.
Acts viii. 3.

Ye gods, what havoc does ambition make
Among your works!
Addison.


word: Havoc₂
definition:
Havoc

Hav"oc
v. t.
To devastate; to destroy; to lay waste.

To waste and havoc yonder world.
Milton.


word: Havoc₃
definition:
Havoc

Hav"oc
interj.
[See Havoc, n.]
A cry in war as the signal for indiscriminate slaughter.
Toone.

Do not cry havoc, where you should but hunt
With modest warrant.
Shak.

Cry 'havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war!
Shak.


word: Haw
definition:
Haw

Haw
(h&asuml_;)
n.
[OE. hawe, AS. haga; akin to D. haag headge, G. hag, hecke, Icel. hagi pasture, Sw. hage, Dan. have garden.  √12.  Cf. Haggard, Ha-ha, Haugh, Hedge.]

1.
A hedge; an inclosed garden or yard.

And eke there was a polecat in his haw.
Chaucer.

2.
The fruit of the hawthorn.
Bacon.


word: Haw₂
definition:
Haw

Haw
n.
[Etymol. uncertain.]
(Anat.)
The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. See Nictitating membrane, under Nictitate.


word: Haw₃
definition:
Haw

Haw
n.
[Cf. ha an interjection of wonder, surprise, or hesitation.]
An intermission or hesitation of speech, with a sound somewhat like haw! also, the sound so made.
haws
Congreve.


word: Haw₄
definition:
Haw

Haw
v. i.
To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw; to speak with interruption and hesitation.

Cut it short; don't prose -- don't hum and haw.
Chesterfield.

hemming and hawing speaking hesitantly and inarticulately, with numerous pauses and interjections.


word: Haw₅
definition:
Haw

Haw
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Hawed (h&asuml_;d); p. pr. & vb. n. Hawing.]
[Written also hoi.]
[Perhaps connected with here, hither; cf., however, F. huhau, hurhau, hue, interj. used in turning a horse to the right, G. hott, hü, interj. used in calling to a horse.]
To turn to the near side, or toward the driver; -- said of cattle or a team: a word used by teamsters in guiding their teams, and most frequently in the imperative. See Gee.

To haw and gee, or To haw and gee about, to go from one thing to another without good reason; to have no settled purpose; to be irresolute or unstable. [Colloq.]


word: Haw₆
definition:
Haw

Haw
v. t.
To cause to turn, as a team, to the near side, or toward the driver; as, to haw a team of oxen.

To haw and gee, or To haw and gee about, to lead this way and that at will; to lead by the nose; to master or control. [Colloq.]


word: Hawaiian
definition:
Hawaiian

Ha*wai"ian
(hȧ*wī"yan)
prop. a.
Belonging to Hawaii or the Sandwich Islands, or to the people of Hawaii.
n. A native of Hawaii.


word: Hawebake
definition:
Hawebake

Hawe"bake`
(h&asuml_;"bāk`)
n.
Probably, the baked berry of the hawthorn tree, that is, coarse fare. See 1st Haw, 2.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Hawfinch
definition:
Hawfinch

Haw"finch`
(h&asuml_;"fĭnch`)
n.
(Zool.)
The common European grosbeak (Coccothraustes vulgaris); -- called also cherry finch, and coble.


word: Haw-haw
definition:
Haw-haw

Haw-haw"
(h&asuml_;*h&asuml_;)
n.
[Duplication of haw a hedge.]
1.
See Ha-ha.

2.
a loud laugh that sounds like a horse neighing.
[wns=1]

Syn. -- hee-haw, horselaugh, ha-ha.

3.
a sunken fence (so as not to interfere with the view).
[wns=3]

Syn. -- haha.


word: Hawhaw
definition:
Hawhaw

Haw*haw"
v. i.
[Of imitative origin.]
To laugh boisterously.
[Colloq. U. S.]

We haw-haw'd, I tell you, for more than half an hour.
Major Jack Downing.


word: Hawk
definition:
Hawk

Hawk
(h&asuml_;k)
n.
[OE. hauk (prob. fr. Icel.), havek, AS. hafoc, heafoc; akin to D. havik, OHG. habuh, G. habicht, Icel. haukr, Sw. hök, Dan. hög, prob. from the root of E. heave.]
(Zool.)
One of numerous species and genera of rapacious birds of the family Falconidae.  They differ from the true falcons in lacking the prominent tooth and notch of the bill, and in having shorter and less pointed wings.  Many are of large size and grade into the eagles. Some, as the goshawk, were formerly trained like falcons.  In a more general sense the word is not infrequently applied, also, to true falcons, as the sparrow hawk, pigeon hawk, duck hawk, and prairie hawk.

&hand_; Among the common American species are the red-tailed hawk (Buteo borealis); the red-shouldered (Buteo lineatus); the broad-winged (Buteo Pennsylvanicus); the rough-legged (Archibuteo lagopus); the sharp-shinned (Accipiter fuscus). See Fishhawk, Goshawk, Marsh hawk, under Marsh, Night hawk, under Night.

Bee hawk (Zool.), the honey buzzard. -- Eagle hawk. See under Eagle. -- Hawk eagle (Zool.), an Asiatic bird of the genus Spizaetus, or Limnaetus, intermediate between the hawks and eagles. There are several species. -- Hawk fly (Zool.), a voracious fly of the family Asilidae. See Hornet fly, under Hornet. -- Hawk moth. (Zool.) See Hawk moth, in the Vocabulary. -- Hawk owl. (Zool.) (a) A northern owl (Surnia ulula) of Europe and America. It flies by day, and in some respects resembles the hawks. (b) An owl of India (Ninox scutellatus). -- Hawk's bill (Horology), the pawl for the rack, in the striking mechanism of a clock.


word: Hawk₂
definition:
Hawk

Hawk
(h&asuml_;k)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Hawked (h&asuml_;kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Hawking.]
1.
To catch, or attempt to catch, birds by means of hawks trained for the purpose, and let loose on the prey; to practice falconry.

A falconer Henry is, when Emma hawks.
Prior.

2.
To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk; -- generally with at; as, to hawk at flies.
Dryden.

A falcon, towering in her pride of place,
Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed.
Shak.


word: Hawk₃
definition:
Hawk

Hawk
v. i.
[W. hochi.]
To clear the throat with an audible sound by forcing an expiratory current of air through the narrow passage between the depressed soft palate and the root of the tongue, thus aiding in the removal of foreign substances.


word: Hawk₆
definition:
Hawk

Hawk
v. t.
[Akin to D. hauker a hawker, G. höken, höcken, to higgle, to retail, höke, höker, a higgler, huckster. See Huckster.]
To offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle; as, to hawk goods or pamphlets.

His works were hawked in every street.
Swift.


word: Hawk₇
definition:
Hawk

Hawk
n.
(Masonry)
A small board, with a handle on the under side, to hold mortar.

Hawk boy, an attendant on a plasterer to supply him with mortar.


word: hawksbill
definition:
hawksbill

hawkbill

hawk"bill`, hawks"bill`
(-bĭl`)
n.
(Zool.)
A sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), which yields the best quality of tortoise shell; -- called also caret.

Syn. -- hawksbill turtle, hawkbill, tortoiseshell turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata.


word: Hawker
definition:
Hawker

Hawk"er
(h&asuml_;k"ẽr)
n.
One who sells wares by crying them in the street; hence, a peddler or a packman.
Swift.


word: Hawk-eyed
definition:
Hawk-eyed

Hawk"-eyed`
(-īd`)
a.
Having very keen vision; sharp-sighted; discerning.
[wns=1]

Syn. -- keen-sighted, lynx-eyed, quick-sighted, sharp-eyed, sharp-sighted.

2.
alert to possible danger.
[wns=2]

Syn. -- argus-eyed, open-eyed, unsleeping, vigilant, wary, watchful.


word: Hawk moth
definition:
Hawk moth

Hawk" moth`
(m&obreve_;th`; 115)
(Zool.)
Any moth of the family Sphingidae, of which there are numerous genera and species.  They are large, handsome moths with long narrow forewings capable of powerful flight and hovering over flowers to feed.  They fly mostly at twilight and hover about flowers like a humming bird, sucking the honey by means of a long, slender proboscis.  The larvae are large, hairless caterpillars ornamented with green and other bright colors, and often with a caudal spine. See Sphinx, also Tobacco worm, and Tomato worm.

Syn. -- hawk moth, sphingid, sphinx moth, hummingbird moth.

&hand_; The larvae of several species of hawk moths feed on grapevines.  The elm-tree hawk moth is Ceratomia Amyntor.


word: hawk's-beard
definition:
hawk's-beard

hawk's-beard
n.
Any of various plants of the genus Crepis having loose heads of yellow flowers on top of a long branched leafy stem; found in the Northern hemisphere.

Syn. -- hawk's-beards.


word: hawksbill₂
definition:
hawksbill

hawks"bill
n.
See hawkbill.

Syn. -- hawksbill turtle, hawkbill, tortoiseshell turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata.


word: Hawkweed
definition:
Hawkweed

Hawk"weed`
(-wēd`)
n.
(Bot.)
(a)
A plant of the genus Hieracium; -- so called from the ancient belief that birds of prey used its juice to strengthen their vision.
(b)
A plant of the genus Senecio (Senecio hieracifolius).
Loudon.


word: Hawse
definition:
Hawse

Hawse
(h&asuml_;z or h&asuml_;s; 277)
n.
[Orig. a hawse hole, or hole in the bow of the ship; cf. Icel. hals, hāls, neck, part of the bows of a ship, AS. heals neck. See Collar, and cf. Halse to embrace.]
1.
A hawse hole.
Harris.

2.
(Naut.)
(a)
The situation of the cables when a vessel is moored with two anchors, one on the starboard, the other on the port bow.
(b)
The distance ahead to which the cables usually extend; as, the ship has a clear or open hawse, or a foul hawse; to anchor in our hawse, or athwart hawse.
(c)
That part of a vessel's bow in which are the hawse holes for the cables.

Athwart hawse. See under Athwart. -- Foul hawse, a hawse in which the cables cross each other, or are twisted together. -- Hawse block, a block used to stop up a hawse hole at sea; -- called also hawse plug. -- Hawse piece, one of the foremost timbers of a ship, through which the hawse hole is cut. -- Hawse plug. Same as Hawse block (above). -- To come in at the hawse holes, to enter the naval service at the lowest grade. [Cant] -- To freshen the hawse, to veer out a little more cable and bring the chafe and strain on another part.


word: hawsepipe
definition:
hawsepipe

hawsehole

hawse"hole`, hawse"pipe`
n.
a hole in the bow of a ship, through which the anchor rope or cable passes.

Syn. -- hawse, hawsepipe.


word: Hawser
definition:
Hawser

Haws"er
(h&asuml_;z"ẽr or h&asuml_;s"ẽr)
n.
[From F. hausser to lift, raise (cf. OF. hausserée towpath, towing, F. haussière hawser), LL. altiare, fr. L. altus high. See Haughty.]
A large rope made of three strands each containing many yarns.

&hand_; Three hawsers twisted together make a cable; but it nautical usage the distinction between cable and hawser is often one of size rather than of manufacture.

Hawser iron, a calking iron.


word: Hawser-laid
definition:
Hawser-laid

Haws"er-laid`
(-lād`)
a.
Made in the manner of a hawser.  Cf. Cable-laid, and see Illust. of Cordage.


word: Hawthorn
definition:
Hawthorn

Haw"thorn`
(h&asuml_;"thôrn`)
n.
[AS. hagaþorn, hægþorn. See Haw a hedge, and Thorn.]
(Bot.)
A thorny shrub or tree (the Crataegus oxyacantha), having deeply lobed, shining leaves, small, roselike, fragrant flowers, and a fruit called haw.  It is much used in Europe for hedges, and for standards in gardens.  The American hawthorn is Crataegus cordata, which has the leaves but little lobed.

Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade
To shepherds?
Shak.


word: Hay
definition:
Hay

Hay
(hā)
n.
[AS. hege: cf. F. haie, of German origin. See Haw a hedge, Hedge.]
1.
A hedge.
[Obs.]

2.
A net set around the haunt of an animal, especially of a rabbit.
Rowe.

To dance the hay, to dance in a ring. Shak.


word: Hay₃
definition:
Hay

Hay
n.
[OE. hei, AS. hēg; akin to D. hooi, OHG. hewi, houwi, G. heu, Dan. & Sw. hö, Icel. hey, ha, Goth. hawi grass, fr. the root of E. hew. See Hew to cut.]
Grass cut and cured for fodder.

Make hay while the sun shines.
Camden.

Hay may be dried too much as well as too little.
C. L. Flint.

Hay cap, a canvas covering for a haycock. -- Hay fever (Med.), nasal catarrh accompanied with fever, and sometimes with paroxysms of dyspnœa, to which some persons are subject in the spring and summer seasons.  It has been attributed to the effluvium from hay, and to the pollen of certain plants.  It is also called hay asthma, hay cold, rose cold, and rose fever. -- Hay knife, a sharp instrument used in cutting hay out of a stack or mow. -- Hay press, a press for baling loose hay. -- Hay tea, the juice of hay extracted by boiling, used as food for cattle, etc. -- Hay tedder, a machine for spreading and turning new-mown hay. See Tedder.


word: Haybird
definition:
Haybird

Hay"bird`
(hā"bẽrd`)
n.
(Zool.)
(a)
The European spotted flycatcher.
(b)
The European blackcap.


word: Haybote
definition:
Haybote

Hay"bote`
(hā"b&omacrt`)
n.
[See Hay hedge, and Bote, and cf. Hedgebote.]
(Eng. Law.)
An allowance of wood to a tenant for repairing his hedges or fences; hedgebote. See Bote.
Blackstone.


word: Haycock
definition:
Haycock

Hay"cock`
(hā"k&obreve_;k`)
n.
A conical pile or heap of hay in the field.

The tanned haycock in the mead.
Milton.


word: Hay-cutter
definition:
Hay-cutter

Hay"-cut`ter
(hā"kŭt`tẽr)
n.
A machine in which hay is chopped short, as fodder for cattle.


word: Hayfork
definition:
Hayfork

Hay"fork`
(hā"fôrk`)
n.
A fork for pitching and tedding hay.

Horse hayfork, a contrivance for unloading hay from the cart and depositing it in the loft, or on a mow, by horse power.


word: Haymaker
definition:
Haymaker

Hay"mak`er
(hā"māk`ẽr)
n.
1.
One who cuts and cures hay.

2.
A machine for curing hay in rainy weather.

3.
A forceful punch that results in someone being knocked down or knocked out; as, he delivered a haymaker to his opponent's jaw.
[slang]


word: Haymow
definition:
Haymow

Hay"mow`
(hā"mou`)
n.
1.
A mow or mass of hay laid up in a barn for preservation.

2.
The place in a barn where hay is deposited.


word: Hayrack
definition:
Hayrack

Hay"rack`
(hā"răk`)
n.
A frame mounted on the running gear of a wagon, and used in hauling hay, straw, sheaves, etc.; -- called also hay rigging and hay rig.


word: Hayrake
definition:
Hayrake

Hay"rake`
(hā"rāk`)
n.
A rake for collecting hay; especially, a large rake drawn by a horse or horses.


word: Hayrick
definition:
Hayrick

Hay"rick`
(-rĭk`)
n.
A heap or pile of hay, usually covered with thatch for preservation in the open air.


word: hayrig
definition:
hayrig

hay"rig
n.
a frame attached to a wagon to increase the amount of hay it can carry.

Syn. -- hayrack, hay rigging.


word: hayseed
definition:
hayseed

hay"seed
n.
1.
a rural, unsophisticated person; also used in an extended sense for one who is not very intelligent or uninterested in culture.

Syn. -- yokel, rube, hick, yahoo, bumpkin, chawbacon.

2.
Seed from grass, especially that which falls out of hay.


word: Haytian
definition:
Haytian

Hay"ti*an
(hā"tĭ*an)
a.
Of or pertaining to Haiti; now usually written Haitian.
n. A native of Haiti.
[Written also Haitian.]


word: Hayward
definition:
Hayward

Hay"ward
(hā"wẽrd)
n.
[Hay a hedge + ward.]
An officer who is appointed to guard hedges, and to keep cattle from breaking or cropping them, and whose further duty it is to impound animals found running at large.


word: Hazard
definition:
Hazard

Haz"ard
(hăz"ẽrd)
n.
[F. hasard, Sp. azar an unforeseen disaster or accident, an unfortunate card or throw at dice, prob. fr. Ar. zahr, zār, a die, which, with the article al the, would give azzahr, azzār.]
1.
A game of chance played with dice.
Chaucer.

2.
The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty.

I will stand the hazard of the die.
Shak.

3.
Risk; danger; peril; as, he encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.

Men are led on from one stage of life to another in a condition of the utmost hazard.
Rogers.

4.
(Billiards)
Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).

5.
Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming.
hazard
Shak.

6.
(Golf)
Any place into which the ball may not be safely played, such as bunkers, furze, water, sand, or other kind of bad ground.

Hazard table, a table on which hazard is played, or any game of chance for stakes. -- To run the hazard, to take the chance or risk.  -- to hazard, at risk; liable to suffer damage or loss.


word: Hazard₂
definition:
Hazard

Haz"ard
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Hazarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Hazarding.]
[Cf. F. hasarder. See Hazard, n.]

1.
To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk.

Men hazard nothing by a course of evangelical obedience.
John Clarke.

He hazards his neck to the halter.
Fuller.

2.
To venture to incur, or bring on.

I hazarded the loss of whom I loved.
Shak.

They hazard to cut their feet.
Landor.


word: Hazardable
definition:
Hazardable

Haz"ard*a*ble
(-ȧ*b'l)
a.
1.
Liable to hazard or chance; uncertain; risky.
Sir T. Browne.

2.
Such as can be hazarded or risked.


word: Hazarder
definition:
Hazarder

Haz"ard*er
(-ẽr)
n.
1.
A player at the game of hazard; a gamester.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

2.
One who hazards or ventures.


word: Hazardize
definition:
Hazardize

Haz"ard*ize
(-īz)
n.
A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard.
[Obs.]

Herself had run into that hazardize.
Spenser.


word: Hazardous
definition:
Hazardous

Haz"ard*ous
(-ŭs)
a.
[Cf. F. hasardeux.]
Exposed to hazard; dangerous; risky.

To enterprise so hazardous and high!
Milton.


word: hazardousness
definition:
hazardousness

haz"ard*ous*ness
n.
the state of being dangerous.

Syn. -- perilousness, precariousness, danger.


word: Hazardry
definition:
Hazardry

Haz"ard*ry
(-r&ybreve_;)
n.
1.
Playing at hazard; gaming; gambling.
[R.]
Chaucer.

2.
Rashness; temerity.
[R.]
Spenser.


word: Haze
definition:
Haze

Haze
(hāz)
n.
[Cf. Icel. höss gray; akin to AS. hasu, heasu, gray; or Armor. aézen, ézen, warm vapor, exhalation, zephyr.]
1.
Light vapor or smoke in the air which more or less impedes vision, with little or no dampness; a lack of transparency in the air; hence, figuratively, obscurity; dimness.

O'er the sky
The silvery haze of summer drawn.
Tennyson.

Above the world's uncertain haze.
Keble.

2.
A state of confusion, uncertainty, or vagueness of thought or perception; as, after the explosion, people were wandering around in a haze.


word: Haze₃
definition:
Haze

Haze
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Hazed (hāzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Hazing.]
[Also hase.]
[Cf. Sw. haza to hamstring, fr. has hough, OD. hæssen ham.]
1.
To harass by exacting unnecessary, disagreeable, or difficult work.

2.
To harass or annoy by playing abusive or shameful tricks upon; to humiliate by practical jokes; -- used esp. of college students, as an initiation rite into a fraternity or other group; as, the sophomores hazed a freshman.


word: Hazel
definition:
Hazel

Ha"zel
(hā"z'l)
n.
[OE. hasel, AS. hæsel; akin to D. hazelaar, G. hazel, OHG. hasal, hasala, Icel. hasl, Dan & Sw. hassel, L. corylus, for cosylus.]
1.
(Bot.)
A shrub or small tree of the genus Corylus, as the Corylus avellana, bearing a nut containing a kernel of a mild, farinaceous taste; the filbert.  The American species are Corylus Americana, which produces the common hazelnut, and Corylus rostrata.  See Filbert.
Gray.

2.
A miner's name for freestone.
Raymond.

Hazel earth, soil suitable for the hazel; a fertile loam. -- Hazel grouse (Zool.), a European grouse (Bonasa betulina), allied to the American ruffed grouse. -- Hazel hoe, a kind of grub hoe. -- Witch hazel. See Witch-hazel, and Hamamelis.


word: Hazel₂
definition:
Hazel

Ha"zel
a.
1.
Consisting of hazels, or of the wood of the hazel; pertaining to, or derived from, the hazel; as, a hazel wand.

I sit me down beside the hazel grove.
Keble.

2.
Of a light brown color, like the hazelnut.
hazel
Shak.


word: Hazelly
definition:
Hazelly

Ha"zel*ly
(hā"z'l*l&ybreve_;)
a.
Of the color of the hazelnut; of a light brown.
Mortimer.


word: hazelwood
definition:
hazelwood

hazelwood
n.
A reddish-brown wood and lumber from the heartwood of the sweet gum tree.

Syn. -- sweet gum, satin walnut, red gum.


word: Hazy
definition:
Hazy

Ha"zy
(hā"z&ybreve_;)
a.
[From Haze, n.]
1.
Thick with haze; somewhat obscured with haze; not clear or transparent.
hazy
Wordsworth.

2.
Obscure; confused; not clear; as, a hazy argument; a hazy intellect.
Mrs. Gore.


word: H-bomb
definition:
H-bomb

H"-bomb`
(āch"b&obreve_;mb`)
n.
The hydrogen bomb, a thermonuclear weapon that releases atomic energy by union of hydrogen nuclei at high temperatures to form helium.  The force of its explosion may range from one to hundreds of megatons of TNT equivalent.

Syn. -- hydrogen bomb, fusion bomb, thermonuclear bomb.


word: HDL
definition:
HDL

HDL
(āch`dē*ĕl")
n.
High density lipoprotein, a lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood; high levels are thought to be associated with decreased risk of coronary heart disease and atherosclerosis; sometimes called good cholesterol.  Contrasted with LDL.

Syn. -- high-density lipoprotein.


word: He
definition:
He

He
(hē)
pron.
[nom. He; poss. His (hĭz); obj. Him (hĭm); pl. nom. They (&thlig_;ā); poss. Their or Theirs (&thlig_;ârz or &thlig_;ārz); obj. Them (&thlig_;ĕm).]
[AS. hē, masc., heó, fem., hit, neut.; pl. hī, or hie, hig; akin to OFries. hi, D. hij, OS. he, hi, G. heute to-day, Goth. himma, dat. masc., this, hina, accus. masc., and hita, accus. neut., and prob. to L. his this.  √183.  Cf. It.]
1.
The man or male being (or object personified to which the masculine gender is assigned), previously designated; a pronoun of the masculine gender, usually referring to a specified subject already indicated.

Thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Gen. iii. 16.

Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God; him shalt thou serve.
Deut. x. 20.

2.
Any one; the man or person; -- used indefinitely, and usually followed by a relative pronoun.

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.
Prov. xiii. 20.

3.
Man; a male; any male person; -- in this sense used substantively.
Chaucer.

I stand to answer thee,
Or any he, the proudest of thy sort.
Shak.

&hand_; When a collective noun or a class is referred to, he is of common gender. In early English, he referred to a feminine or neuter noun, or to one in the plural, as well as to noun in the masculine singular. In composition, he denotes a male animal; as, a he-goat.


word: Head
definition:
Head

Head
(hĕd)
n.
[OE. hed, heved, heaved, AS. heáfod; akin to D. hoofd, OHG. houbit, G. haupt, Icel. höfuð, Sw. hufvud, Dan. hoved, Goth. haubiþ.  The word does not correspond regularly to L. caput head (cf. E. Chief, Cadet, Capital), and its origin is unknown.]
1.
The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the chief sensory organs; poll; cephalon.

2.
The uppermost, foremost, or most important part of an inanimate object; such a part as may be considered to resemble the head of an animal; often, also, the larger, thicker, or heavier part or extremity, in distinction from the smaller or thinner part, or from the point or edge; as, the head of a cane, a nail, a spear, an ax, a mast, a sail, a ship; that which covers and closes the top or the end of a hollow vessel; as, the head of a cask or a steam boiler.

3.
The place where the head should go; as, the head of a bed, of a grave, etc.; the head of a carriage, that is, the hood which covers the head.

4.
The most prominent or important member of any organized body; the chief; the leader; as, the head of a college, a school, a church, a state, and the like.
heads
Robynson (More's Utopia).

The heads of the chief sects of philosophy.
Tillotson.

Your head I him appoint.
Milton.

5.
The place or honor, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front; as, the head of the table; the head of a column of soldiers.

An army of fourscore thousand troops, with the duke of Marlborough at the head of them.
Addison.

6.
Each one among many; an individual; -- often used in a plural sense; as, a thousand head of cattle.

It there be six millions of people, there are about four acres for every head.
Graunt.

7.
The seat of the intellect; the brain; the understanding; the mental faculties; as, a good head, that is, a good mind; it never entered his head, it did not occur to him; of his own head, of his own thought or will.

Men who had lost both head and heart.
Macaulay.

8.
The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of the source, or the height of the surface, as of water, above a given place, as above an orifice at which it issues, and the pressure resulting from the height or from motion; sometimes also, the quantity in reserve; as, a mill or reservoir has a good head of water, or ten feet head; also, that part of a gulf or bay most remote from the outlet or the sea.

9.
A headland; a promontory; as, Gay Head.
Shak.

10.
A separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be expanded; a subdivision; as, the heads of a sermon.

11.
Culminating point or crisis; hence, strength; force; height.

Ere foul sin, gathering head, shall break into corruption.
Shak.

The indisposition which has long hung upon me, is at last grown to such a head, that it must quickly make an end of me or of itself.
Addison.

12.
Power; armed force.

My lord, my lord, the French have gathered head.
Shak.

13.
A headdress; a covering of the head; as, a laced head; a head of hair.
Swift.

14.
An ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small cereals.

15.
(Bot.)
(a)
A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies, thistles; a capitulum.
(b)
A dense, compact mass of leaves, as in a cabbage or a lettuce plant.

16.
The antlers of a deer.

17.
A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or other effervescing liquor.
Mortimer.

18.
pl.
Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
Knight.

&hand_; Head is often used adjectively or in self-explaining combinations; as, head gear or headgear, head rest.  Cf. Head, a.

A buck of the first head, a male fallow deer in its fifth year, when it attains its complete set of antlers. Shak. -- By the head. (Naut.) See under By. -- Elevator head, Feed head, etc. See under Elevator, Feed, etc. -- From head to foot, through the whole length of a man; completely; throughout. “Arm me, audacity, from head to foot.” Shak. -- Head and ears, with the whole person; deeply; completely; as, he was head and ears in debt or in trouble. [Colloq.] -- Head fast. (Naut.) See 5th Fast. -- Head kidney (Anat.), the most anterior of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in most vertebrates; the pronephros. -- Head money, a capitation tax; a poll tax. Milton. -- Head pence, a poll tax. [Obs.] -- Head sea, a sea that meets the head of a vessel or rolls against her course. -- Head and shoulders. (a) By force; violently; as, to drag one, head and shoulders. “They bring in every figure of speech, head and shoulders.” Felton. (b) By the height of the head and shoulders; hence, by a great degree or space; by far; much; as, he is head and shoulders above them. -- Heads or tails or Head or tail, this side or that side; this thing or that; -- a phrase used in throwing a coin to decide a choice, question, or stake, head being the side of the coin bearing the effigy or principal figure (or, in case there is no head or face on either side, that side which has the date on it), and tail the other side. -- Neither head nor tail, neither beginning nor end; neither this thing nor that; nothing distinct or definite; -- a phrase used in speaking of what is indefinite or confused; as, they made neither head nor tail of the matter. [Colloq.] -- Head wind, a wind that blows in a direction opposite the vessel's course. -- off the top of my head, from quick recollection, or as an approximation; without research or calculation; -- a phrase used when giving quick and approximate answers to questions, to indicate that a response is not necessarily accurate. -- Out of one's own head, according to one's own idea; without advice or coöperation of another. -- Over the head of, beyond the comprehension of. M. Arnold. -- to go over the head of (a person), to appeal to a person superior to (a person) in line of command. -- To be out of one's head, to be temporarily insane. -- To come or draw to a head. See under Come, Draw. -- To give (one) the head, or To give head, to let go, or to give up, control; to free from restraint; to give license. “He gave his able horse the head.” Shak. “He has so long given his unruly passions their head.” South. -- To his head, before his face. “An uncivil answer from a son to a father, from an obliged person to a benefactor, is a greater indecency than if an enemy should storm his house or revile him to his head.” Jer. Taylor. -- To lay heads together, to consult; to conspire. -- To lose one's head, to lose presence of mind. -- To make head, or To make head against, to resist with success; to advance. -- To show one's head, to appear. Shak. -- To turn head, to turn the face or front. “The ravishers turn head, the fight renews.” Dryden.


word: Head₂
definition:
Head

Head
(hĕd)
a.
Principal; chief; leading; first; as, the head master of a school; the head man of a tribe; a head chorister; a head cook.


word: Head₃
definition:
Head

Head
(hĕd)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Headed; p. pr. & vb. n. Heading.]
1.
To be at the head of; to put one's self at the head of; to lead; to direct; to act as leader to; as, to head an army, an expedition, or a riot.
Dryden.

2.
To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a nail.
Spenser.

3.
To behead; to decapitate.
[Obs.]
Shak.

4.
To cut off the top of; to lop off; as, to head trees.

5.
To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain; as, to head a drove of cattle; to head a person; the wind heads a ship.

6.
To set on the head; as, to head a cask.

To head off, to intercept; to get before; as, an officer heads off a thief who is escaping. “We'll head them off at the  pass.” -- To head up, (a) to close, as a cask or barrel, by fitting a head to. (b) To serve as the leader of; as, to head up a team of investigators.


word: Head₄
definition:
Head

Head
v. i.
1.
To originate; to spring; to have its source, as a river.

A broad river, that heads in the great Blue Ridge.
Adair.

2.
To go or point in a certain direction; to tend; as, how does the ship head?

3.
To form a head; as, this kind of cabbage heads early.


word: Headband
definition:
Headband

Head"band`
(hĕd"bănd`)
n.
1.
A fillet; a band for the head.
headbands
Is. iii. 20.

2.
The band at each end of the back of a book.


word: Headboard
definition:
Headboard

Head"board`
(hĕd"b&omacrrd`)
n.
A board or boarding which marks or forms the head of anything; as, the headboard of a bed; the headboard of a grave.


word: Headborrow
definition:
Headborrow

Headborough

{ Head"bor*ough Head"bor*row }
(hĕd"bŭr*o̝)
n.
1.
The chief of a frankpledge, tithing, or decennary, consisting of ten families; -- called also borsholder, boroughhead, boroughholder, and sometimes tithingman. See Borsholder.
[Eng.]
Blackstone.

2.
(Modern Law)
A petty constable.
[Eng.]


word: Head-cheese
definition:
Head-cheese

Head"-cheese`
(hĕd"chēz`)
n.
A dish made of portions of the head, or head and feet, of swine, cut up fine, seasoned, and pressed into a cheeselike mass.


word: Headdress
definition:
Headdress

Head"dress`
(hĕd"drĕs`)
n.
1.
A covering or ornament for the head; a headtire; as, chiefs among the plains Indians had elaborate long headdresses with many feathers.

Among birds the males very often appear in a most beautiful headdress, whether it be a crest, a comb, a tuft of feathers, or a natural little plume.
Addison.

2.
A manner of dressing the hair or of adorning it, whether with or without a veil, ribbons, combs, etc.


word: Headed
definition:
Headed

Head"ed
a.
1.
Furnished with a head (commonly as denoting intellectual faculties); -- used in composition; as, clear-headed, long-headed, thick-headed; a many-headed monster.

2.
Formed into a head; as, a headed cabbage.


word: Header
definition:
Header

Head"er
(hĕd"ẽr)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, heads nails, rivets, etc., esp. a machine for heading.

2.
One who heads a movement, a party, or a mob; head; chief; leader.
[R.]

3.
(Arch.)
(a)
A brick or stone laid with its shorter face or head in the surface of the wall.
(b)
In framing, the piece of timber fitted between two trimmers, and supported by them, and carrying the ends of the tailpieces.

4.
A reaper for wheat, that cuts off the heads only.

5.
A fall or plunge head first, as while riding a bicycle, or a skateboard, or in bathing; -- sometimes, implying the striking of the head on the ground; as, to take a header.
[Colloq.]


word: Headforemost
definition:
Headforemost

Headfirst

{ Head`first" (hĕd"fẽrst`), Head`fore"most` (hĕd`f&omacrr"m&omacrst`), }
adv.
With the head foremost; -- of motion.


word: Headgear
definition:
Headgear

Head gear

Head" gear`, or Head"gear` (hĕd"gēr`)
n.
1.
Headdress.

2.
Apparatus above ground at the mouth of a mine or deep well.


word: Head-hunter
definition:
Head-hunter

Head"-hunt`er
(hĕd"hŭnt`ẽr)
n.
A member of any tribe or race of savages who have the custom of decapitating human beings and preserving their heads as trophies.  The Dyaks of Borneo are the most noted head-hunters.

2.
A person whose profession is to find executives to fill open positions in corporations; an executive personnel recruiter; also, a company that performs a similar service.


word: Headily
definition:
Headily

Head"i*ly
(hĕd"ĭ*l&ybreve_;)
adv.
In a heady or rash manner; hastily; rashly; obstinately.


word: Heading
definition:
Heading

Head"ing
n.
1.
The act or state of one who, or that which, heads; formation of a head.

2.
That which stands at the head; title; as, the heading of a paper.

3.
Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc.

4.
(Mining, tunneling)
(a)
A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine;  the vein above a drift.
(b)
The end of a drift or gallery; also, the working face at the end of a tunnel, gallery, drift, or adit from which the work is advanced.

5.
(Sewing)
The extension of a line ruffling above the line of stitch.

6.
(Masonry)
That end of a stone or brick which is presented outward.
Knight.

Heading course (Arch.), a course consisting only of headers. See Header, n. 3 (a). -- Heading joint. (a) (Carp.) A joint, as of two or more boards, etc., at right angles to the grain of the wood. (b) (Masonry) A joint between two roussoirs in the same course.


word: head-in-the-clouds
definition:
head-in-the-clouds

head-in-the-clouds
adj.
unable to concentrate on matters at hand; flighty[2].

Syn. -- flighty, scatterbrained.


word: headlamp
definition:
headlamp

head"lamp`
(hĕd"lămp`)
n.
A powerful light with a reflector, attached to the front of an automobile, locomotive, or other vehicle; called also headlight.

Syn. -- headlight.


word: Headland
definition:
Headland

Head"land
(hĕd"lănd)
n.
1.
A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting into the sea or other expanse of water.
headland
Shak.

2.
A ridge or strip of unplowed at the ends of furrows, or near a fence.
Tusser.


word: Headless
definition:
Headless

Head"less
a.
[AS. heáfodleás.]
1.
Having no head; beheaded; as, a headless body, neck, or carcass.

2.
Destitute of a chief or leader.
Sir W. Raleigh.

3.
Destitute of understanding or prudence; foolish; rash; obstinate; mindless.
[Obs.]

Witless headiness in judging or headless hardiness in condemning.
Spenser.


word: Headlight
definition:
Headlight

Head"light`
(hĕd"līt`)
n.
(Engin.)
A light, with a powerful reflector, placed at the front of a vehicle such as an automobile, truck, locomotive etc., to throw light on the road or track ahead of the vehicle at night, or in going through a dark tunnel; a headlamp.


word: Headline
definition:
Headline

Head"line`
(-līn`)
n.
1.
(Print.)
The line at the head or top of a page.

2.
(Naut.)
See Headrope.

3.
(Journalism)
A title for an article in a newspaper, sometimes one line, sometimes more, set in larger and bolder type than the body of the article and indicating the subject matter or content of the article.

4.
A similar title at the top of the newspaper indicating the most important story of the day; also, a title for an illustration or picture.


word: headline
definition:
headline

head"line`
(-līn`)
v. t.
1.
To mention in a headline.

2.
To furnish with a headline (senses 1, 3, or 4).

3.
To publicise prominently in an advertisement.


word: headlock
definition:
headlock

head"lock`
(Sport)
n.
A wrestling hold in which the opponent's head is locked between the crook of your elbow and the side of your body.


word: Headlong
definition:
Headlong

Head"long`
(-l&obreve_;ng`; 115)
adv.
[OE. hedling, hevedlynge; prob. confused with E. long, a. & adv.]

1.
With the head foremost; headforemost; head first; as, to fall headlong.
Acts i. 18.

2.
Rashly; precipitately; without deliberation.

3.
Hastily; without delay or respite.


word: Headlong₂
definition:
Headlong

Head"long
a.
1.
Rash; precipitate; as, headlong folly.

2.
Steep; precipitous.
[Poetic]

Like a tower upon a headlong rock.
Byron.


word: Headman
definition:
Headman

Head"man`
(hĕd"măn`)
n.
pl. Headmen (-mĕn`).
[AS. heáfodman.]
A head or leading man, especially of a village community.


word: Headmould shot
definition:
Headmould shot

Headmold shot

{ Head"mold` shot", Head"mould` shot"  }
(-m&omacrld` sh&obreve_;t`)
(Med.)
An old name for the condition of the skull, in which the bones ride, or are shot, over each other at the sutures.
Dunglison.


word: Headmost
definition:
Headmost

Head"most`
(-m&omacrst`)
a.
Most advanced; most forward; as, the headmost ship in a fleet.


word: Headnote
definition:
Headnote

Head"note`
(-n&omacrt`)
n.
A note at the head of a page or chapter; in law reports, an abstract of a case, showing the principles involved and the opinion of the court.


word: head-on
definition:
head-on

head-on
adj.
1.
characterized by direct opposition; as, a head-on confrontation.

Syn. -- head-to-head.

2.
Without evasion or compromise; as, his usual head-on fashion; to meet a problem head-on.

Syn. -- downright, flat-footed, forthright, foursquare, straightforward.

3.
Meeting front to front; used mostly of collisions between vehicles; as, a head-on automobile collision.

Syn. -- frontal.


word: Headpiece
definition:
Headpiece

Head"piece`
(-pēs`)
n.
1.
Head.

In his headpiece he felt a sore pain.
Spenser.

2.
A cap of defense; especially, an open one, as distinguished from the closed helmet of the Middle Ages.

3.
Understanding; mental faculty.

Eumenes had the best headpiece of all Alexander's captains.
Prideaux.

4.
An engraved ornament at the head of a chapter, or of a page.


word: headpin
definition:
headpin

head"pin`
(Bowling)
n.
The front pin in the triangular arrangement of ten pins.

Syn. -- kingpin.


word: Headquarters
definition:
Headquarters

Head"quar`ters
(-kw&asuml_;r`tẽrz)
n. pl.
[but sometimes used as a n. sing.]
1.
The quarters or place of residence of any chief officer, as the general in command of an army, or the head of a police force; the place from which orders or instructions are issued; hence, the center of authority or order.

The brain, which is the headquarters, or office, of intelligence.
Collier.

2.
The main office from which an organization such as a commercial enterprise is managed; -- usually where the chief executive officer works.


word: Headrope
definition:
Headrope

Head"rope`
(-r&omacrp`)
n.
(Naut.)
That part of a boltrope which is sewed to the upper edge or head of a sail.


word: Headshake
definition:
Headshake

Head`shake`
(-shāk`)
n.
A significant shake of the head, commonly as a signal of denial.
Shak.


word: Headspring
definition:
Headspring

Head"spring`
(hĕd"sprĭng`)
n.
Fountain; source.

The headspring of our belief.
Stapleton.


word: Headstall
definition:
Headstall

Head"stall`
(-st&asuml_;l`)
n.
That part of a bridle or halter which encompasses the head.
Shak.


word: Headstock
definition:
Headstock

Head"stock`
(-st&obreve_;k`)
n.
(Mach.)
A part (usually separate from the bed or frame) for supporting some of the principal working parts of a machine
(a)
The part of a lathe that holds the revolving spindle and its attachments; -- also called poppet head, the opposite corresponding part being called a tailstock.
(b)
The part of a planing machine that supports the cutter, etc.


word: Headstone
definition:
Headstone

Head"stone`
(-st&omacrn`)
n.
1.
The principal stone in a foundation; the chief or corner stone.
Ps. cxviii. 22.

2.
The stone at the head of a grave.


word: Headstrong
definition:
Headstrong

Head"strong`
(-str&obreve_;ng`; 115)
a.
1.
Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn.

Now let the headstrong boy my will control.
Dryden.

2.
Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy; as, a headstrong course.
Dryden.


word: heads-up
definition:
heads-up

heads-up
adj.
maintaining presence of mind; alert and attentive; able to recognize and take quick advantage of opportunities; resourceful; as, he played good heads-up baseball.

Syn. -- wide-awake.


word: heads-up₂
definition:
heads-up

heads-up
n.
[From its use as an interjection to warn of impending danger.]
a warning to be prepared for an imminent event.


word: Headtire
definition:
Headtire

Head"tire`
(-tīr`)
n.
1.
A headdress.
headtire
1 Esdras iii. 6.

2.
The manner of dressing the head, as at a particular time and place.


word: Headwater
definition:
Headwater

Head"wa`ter
(-wā`)
n.
The source and upper part of a stream; -- commonly used in the plural; as, the headwaters of the Missouri.


word: Headway
definition:
Headway

Head"way`
(-wûrk`)
n.
1.
The progress made by a ship in motion; hence, progress or success of any kind.

2.
(Arch.)
Clear space under an arch, girder, and the like, sufficient to allow of easy passing underneath; clearance; headroom.


word: headword
definition:
headword

headword
n.
1.
a word that is qualified by a modifier.

2.
a word placed at the beginning of a line, paragraph, or short article (as in a dictionary or encyclopedia entry); the word which forms the title of an entry in a dictionary.


word: Heady
definition:
Heady

Head"y
(hĕd"&ybreve_;)
a.
[From Head.]
1.
Willful; rash; precipitate; hurried on by will or passion; ungovernable.

All the talent required is to be hot, to be heady, -- to be violent on one side or the other.
Sir W. Temple.

2.
Apt to affect the head; intoxicating; strong.

The liquor is too heady.
Dryden.

3.
Violent; impetuous.
heady
Shak.


word: Heal
definition:
Heal

Heal
(hēl)
v. t.
[See Hele.]
To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like.
[Obs.]


word: Heal₂
definition:
Heal

Heal
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Healed (hēld); p. pr. & vb. n. Healing.]
[OE. helen, hælen, AS. h&aemacr_;lan, fr. hāl hale, sound, whole; akin to OS. hēlian, D. heelen, G. heilen, Goth. hailjan. See Whole.]
1.
To make hale, sound, or whole; to cure of a disease, wound, or other derangement; to restore to soundness or health.

Speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.
Matt. viii. 8.

2.
To remove or subdue; to cause to pass away; to cure; -- said of a disease or a wound.

I will heal their backsliding.
Hos. xiv. 4.

3.
To restore to original purity or integrity.

Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters.
2 Kings ii. 21.

4.
To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt; as, to heal dissensions.


word: Heal₃
definition:
Heal

Heal
(hēl)
v. i.
To grow sound; to return to a sound state; as, the limb heals, or the wound heals; -- sometimes with up or over; as, it will heal up, or over.

Those wounds heal ill that men do give themselves.
Shak.


word: Healall
definition:
Healall

Heal"all`
(-&asuml_;l`)
n.
(Bot.)
A common herb of the Mint family (Brunella vulgaris), destitute of active properties, but anciently thought to be a panacea.


word: Healing
definition:
Healing

Heal"ing
a.
Tending to cure; soothing; mollifying; as, the healing art; a healing salve; healing words.

Here healing dews and balms abound.
Keble.


word: Health
definition:
Health

Health
(hĕlth)
n.
[OE. helthe, AS. h&aemacr_;lþ, fr. hāl hale, sound, whole. See Whole.]
1.
The state of being hale, sound, or whole, in body, mind, or soul; especially, the state of being free from physical disease or pain.

There is no health in us.
Book of Common Prayer.

Though health may be enjoyed without gratitude, it can not be sported with without loss, or regained by courage.
Buckminster.

2.
A wish of health and happiness, as in pledging a person in a toast.
health
Shak.

Bill of health. See under Bill. -- Health lift, a machine for exercise, so arranged that a person lifts an increasing weight, or moves a spring of increasing tension, in such a manner that most of the muscles of the body are brought into gradual action; -- also called lifting machine. -- Health officer, one charged with the enforcement of the sanitary laws of a port or other place. -- To drink a health. See under Drink.


word: Healthful
definition:
Healthful

Health"ful
(-f&usdot_;l)
a.
1.
Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole; sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful plant.

2.
Serving to promote health of body or mind; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthful air, diet.

The healthful Spirit of thy grace.
Book of Common Prayer.

3.
Indicating, characterized by, or resulting from, health or soundness; as, a healthful condition.

A mind . . . healthful and so well-proportioned.
Macaulay.

4.
Well-disposed; favorable.
[R.]

Gave healthful welcome to their shipwrecked guests.
Shak.


word: Healthless
definition:
Healthless

Health"less
a.
1.
Without health, whether of body or mind; infirm.
healthless
Jer. Taylor.

2.
Not conducive to health; unwholesome.
[R.]


word: Healthy
definition:
Healthy

Health"y
(-&ybreve_;)
a.
[Compar. Healthier (-ĭ*ẽr); superl. Healthiest.]
1.
Being in a state of health; enjoying health; hale; sound; free from disease; as, a healthy child; a healthy plant.

His mind was now in a firm and healthy state.
Macaulay.

2.
Evincing health; as, a healthy pulse; a healthy complexion.

3.
Conducive to health; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthy exercise; a healthy climate.


word: Heam
definition:
Heam

Heam
(hēm)
n.
[Cf. AS. cildhamma womb, OD. hamme afterbirth, LG. hamen.]
The afterbirth or secundines of a beast.


word: Heap
definition:
Heap

Heap
(hēp)
n.
[OE. heep, heap, heap, multitude, AS. heáp; akin to OS. h&omacrp, D. hoop, OHG. houf, hūfo, G. haufe, haufen, Sw. hop, Dan. hob, Icel. h&omacrpr troop, flock, Russ. kupa heap, crowd, Lith. kaupas.  Cf. Hope, in Forlorn hope.]
1.
A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of persons.
[Now Low or Humorous]

The wisdom of a heap of learned men.
Chaucer.

A heap of vassals and slaves.
Bacon.

He had heaps of friends.
W. Black.

2.
A great number or large quantity of things not placed in a pile; as, a heap of trouble.
[Now Low or Humorous]

A vast heap, both of places of scripture and quotations.
Bp. Burnet.

I have noticed a heap of things in my life.
R. L. Stevenson.

3.
A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation; as, a heap of earth or stones.

Huge heaps of slain around the body rise.
Dryden.


word: Heap₂
definition:
Heap

Heap
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Heaped (hēpt); p. pr. & vb. n. Heaping.]
[AS. heápian.]
1.
To collect in great quantity; to amass; to lay up; to accumulate; -- usually with up; as, to heap up treasures.

Though he heap up silver as the dust.
Job. xxvii. 16.

2.
To throw or lay in a heap; to make a heap of; to pile; as, to heap stones; -- often with up; as, to heap up earth; or with on; as, to heap on wood or coal.

3.
To form or round into a heap, as in measuring; to fill (a measure) more than even full.


word: heaps
definition:
heaps

heaps
n.
a large quantity.  See heap, senses 2 and 3; as, he made heaps of money in the stock market.

Syn. -- tons, dozens, lots, piles, scores, stacks, loads, rafts, slews, wads, oodles, gobs, scads, lashings.


word: Hear
definition:
Hear

Hear
(hēr)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Heard (hẽrd); p. pr. & vb. n. Hearing.]
[OE. heren, AS,. hiéran, h&ymacr_;ran, hēran; akin to OS. h&omacrrian, OFries. hera, hora, D. hooren, OHG. h&omacrren, G. hören, Icel. heyra, Sw. höra, Dan. hore, Goth. hausjan, and perh. to Gr. 'akoy`ein, E. acoustic.  Cf. Hark, Hearken.]
1.
To perceive by the ear; to apprehend or take cognizance of by the ear; as, to hear sounds; to hear a voice; to hear one call.

Lay thine ear close to the ground, and list if thou canst hear the tread of travelers.
Shak.

He had been heard to utter an ominous growl.
Macaulay.

2.
To give audience or attention to; to listen to; to heed; to accept the doctrines or advice of; to obey; to examine; to try in a judicial court; as, to hear a recitation; to hear a class; the case will be heard to-morrow.

3.
To attend, or be present at, as hearer or worshiper; as, to hear a concert; to hear Mass.

4.
To give attention to as a teacher or judge.

Thy matters are good and right, but there is no man deputed of the king to hear thee.
2 Sam. xv. 3.

I beseech your honor to hear me one single word.
Shak.

5.
To accede to the demand or wishes of; to listen to and answer favorably; to favor.

I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice.
Ps. cxvi. 1.

They think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Matt. vi. 7.

Hear him. See Remark, under Hear, v. i. -- To hear a bird sing, to receive private communication. [Colloq.] Shak. -- To hear say, to hear one say; to learn by common report; to receive by rumor. [Colloq.]


word: Hear₂
definition:
Hear

Hear
v. i.
1.
To have the sense or faculty of perceiving sound.
hearing
Prov. xx. 12.

2.
To use the power of perceiving sound; to perceive or apprehend by the ear; to attend; to listen.

So spake our mother Eve, and Adam heard,
Well pleased, but answered not.
Milton.

3.
To be informed by oral communication; to be told; to receive information by report or by letter.

I have heard, sir, of such a man.
Shak.

I must hear from thee every day in the hour.
Shak.

To hear ill, to be blamed. [Obs.]

Not only within his own camp, but also now at Rome, he heard ill for his temporizing and slow proceedings. Holland.

 -- To hear well, to be praised. [Obs.]

&hand_; Hear, or Hear him, is often used in the imperative, especially in the course of a speech in English assemblies, to call attention to the words of the speaker.

Hear him, . . . a cry indicative, according to the tone, of admiration, acquiescence, indignation, or derision.
Macaulay.


word: hearable
definition:
hearable

hearable
adj.
perceptible by the ear.  Opposite of inaudible.
Also See: loud, perceptible.

Syn. -- audible.


word: Hearing
definition:
Hearing

Hear"ing
n.
1.
The act or power of perceiving sound; perception of sound; the faculty or sense by which sound is perceived; as, my hearing is good.

I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear.
Job xlii. 5.

&hand_; Hearing in a special sensation, produced by stimulation of the auditory nerve; the stimulus (waves of sound) acting not directly on the nerve, but through the medium of the endolymph on the delicate epithelium cells, constituting the peripheral terminations of the nerve. See Ear.

2.
Attention to what is delivered; opportunity to be heard; audience; as, I could not obtain a hearing.

3.
A listening to facts and evidence, for the sake of adjudication; a session of a court for considering proofs and determining issues.

His last offenses to us
Shall have judicious hearing.
Shak.

Another hearing before some other court.
Dryden.

&hand_; Hearing, as applied to equity cases, means the same thing that the word trial does at law.
Abbot.

4.
Extent within which sound may be heard; sound; earshot.
hearing
Shak.

They laid him by the pleasant shore,
And in the hearing of the wave.
Tennyson.


word: hearing-impaired
definition:
hearing-impaired

hearing-impaired
adj.
having a hearing impairment making hearing difficult; having a defective but functioning sense of hearing.

Syn. -- hard-of-hearing.


word: Hearken
definition:
Hearken

Heark"en
(härk"'n)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Hearkened (-'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Hearkening.]
[OE. hercnen, hercnien, AS. hercnian, heorcnian, fr. hiéran, h&ymacr_;ran, to hear; akin to OD. harcken, horcken, LG. harken, horken, G. horchen. See Hear, and cf. Hark.]
1.
To listen; to lend the ear; to attend to what is uttered; to give heed; to hear, in order to obey or comply.

The Furies hearken, and their snakes uncurl.
Dryden.

Hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you.
Deut. iv. 1.

2.
To inquire; to seek information.
[Obs.]
Hearken
Shak.


word: Hearken₂
definition:
Hearken

Heark"en
v. t.
1.
To hear by listening.
[Archaic]

[She] hearkened now and then
Some little whispering and soft groaning sound.
Spenser.

2.
To give heed to; to hear attentively.
[Archaic]

The King of Naples . . . hearkens my brother's suit.
Shak.

To hearken out, to search out. [Obs.]

If you find none, you must hearken out a vein and buy.
B. Johnson.


word: Hearsay
definition:
Hearsay

Hear"say`
(hēr"sā`)
n.
Report; rumor; fame; common talk; something heard from another.

Much of the obloquy that has so long rested on the memory of our great national poet originated in frivolous hearsays of his life and conversation.
Prof. Wilson.

Hearsay evidence (Law), that species of testimony which consists in a narration by one person of matters told him by another.  It is, with a few exceptions, inadmissible as testimony. Abbott.


word: Hearse₂
definition:
Hearse

Hearse
(hẽrs)
n.
[See Herse.]
1.
A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies.
[Obs.]
Oxf. Gloss.

2.
A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.
[Archaic]
hearse
B. Johnson.

Beside the hearse a fruitful palm tree grows.
Fairfax

Who lies beneath this sculptured hearse.
Longfellow.

3.
A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.
[Obs.]

Set down, set down your honorable load,
It honor may be shrouded in a hearse.
Shak.

4.
A carriage or motor vehicle specially adapted or used for conveying the dead to the grave in a coffin.


word: Hearsecloth
definition:
Hearsecloth

Hearse"cloth`
(-kl&obreve_;th`; 115)
n.
A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall.
Bp. Sanderson.


word: Hearselike
definition:
Hearselike

Hearse"like`
(-līk`)
a.
Suitable to a funeral.

If you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols.
Bacon.


word: Heart
definition:
Heart

Heart
(härt)
n.
[OE. harte, herte, heorte, AS. heorte; akin to OS. herta, OFies. hirte, D. hart, OHG. herza, G. herz, Icel. hjarta, Sw. hjerta, Goth. haírt&omacr, Lith. szirdis, Russ. serdtse, Ir. cridhe, L. cor, Gr. kardi`a, kh^r.  √277.  Cf. Accord, Discord, Cordial, 4th Core, Courage.]
1.
(Anat.)
A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood.

Why does my blood thus muster to my heart!
Shak.

&hand_; In adult mammals and birds, the heart is four-chambered, the right auricle and ventricle being completely separated from the left auricle and ventricle; and the blood flows from the systemic veins to the right auricle, thence to the right ventricle, from which it is forced to the lungs, then returned to the left auricle, thence passes to the left ventricle, from which it is driven into the systemic arteries.  See Illust. under Aorta.  In fishes there are but one auricle and one ventricle, the blood being pumped from the ventricle through the gills to the system, and thence returned to the auricle. In most amphibians and reptiles, the separation of the auricles is partial or complete, and in reptiles the ventricles also are separated more or less completely.
   The so-called lymph hearts, found in many amphibians, reptiles, and birds, are contractile sacs, which pump the lymph into the veins.

2.
The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, and the like; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; -- usually in a good sense, when no epithet is expressed; the better or lovelier part of our nature; the spring of all our actions and purposes; the seat of moral life and character; the moral affections and character itself; the individual disposition and character; as, a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish heart.

Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain.
Emerson.

3.
The nearest the middle or center; the part most hidden and within; the inmost or most essential part of any body or system; the source of life and motion in any organization; the chief or vital portion; the center of activity, or of energetic or efficient action; as, the heart of a country, of a tree, etc.

Exploits done in the heart of France.
Shak.

Peace subsisting at the heart
Of endless agitation.
Wordsworth.

4.
Courage; courageous purpose; spirit.

Eve, recovering heart, replied.
Milton.

The expelled nations take heart, and when they fly from one country invade another.
Sir W. Temple.

5.
Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.

That the spent earth may gather heart again.
Dryden.

6.
That which resembles a heart in shape; especially, a roundish or oval figure or object having an obtuse point at one end, and at the other a corresponding indentation, -- used as a symbol or representative of the heart.

7.
One of the suits of playing cards, distinguished by the figure or figures of a heart; as, hearts are trumps.

8.
Vital part; secret meaning; real intention.

And then show you the heart of my message.
Shak.

9.
A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address.
heart
Shak.

&hand_; Heart is used in many compounds, the most of which need no special explanation; as, heart-appalling, heart-breaking, heart-cheering, heart-chilled, heart-expanding, heart-free, heart-hardened, heart-heavy, heart-purifying, heart-searching, heart-sickening, heart-sinking, heart-sore, heart-stirring, heart-touching, heart-wearing, heart-whole, heart-wounding, heart-wringing, etc.

After one's own heart, conforming with one's inmost approval and desire; as, a friend after my own heart.

The Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart. 1 Sam. xiii. 14.

  -- At heart, in the inmost character or disposition; at bottom; really; as, he is at heart a good man. -- By heart, in the closest or most thorough manner; as, to know or learn by heart. “Composing songs, for fools to get by heart” (that is, to commit to memory, or to learn thoroughly). Pope. -- to learn by heart, to memorize. -- For my heart, for my life; if my life were at stake. [Obs.] “I could not get him for my heart to do it.” Shak. -- Heart bond (Masonry), a bond in which no header stone stretches across the wall, but two headers meet in the middle, and their joint is covered by another stone laid header fashion. Knight. -- Heart and hand, with enthusiastic coöperation. -- Heart hardness, hardness of heart; callousness of feeling; moral insensibility. Shak. -- Heart heaviness, depression of spirits. Shak. -- Heart point (Her.), the fess point. See Escutcheon. -- Heart rising, a rising of the heart, as in opposition. -- Heart shell (Zool.), any marine, bivalve shell of the genus Cardium and allied genera, having a heart-shaped shell; esp., the European Isocardia cor; -- called also heart cockle. -- Heart sickness, extreme depression of spirits. -- Heart and soul, with the utmost earnestness. -- Heart urchin (Zool.), any heartshaped, spatangoid sea urchin. See Spatangoid. -- Heart wheel, a form of cam, shaped like a heart. See Cam. -- In good heart, in good courage; in good hope. -- Out of heart, discouraged. -- Poor heart, an exclamation of pity. -- To break the heart of. (a) To bring to despair or hopeless grief; to cause to be utterly cast down by sorrow. (b) To bring almost to completion; to finish very nearly; -- said of anything undertaken; as, he has broken the heart of the task. -- To find in the heart, to be willing or disposed. “I could find in my heart to ask your pardon.” Sir P. Sidney. -- To have at heart, to desire (anything) earnestly. -- To have in the heart, to purpose; to design or intend to do. -- To have the heart in the mouth, to be much frightened. -- To lose heart, to become discouraged. -- To lose one's heart, to fall in love. -- To set the heart at rest, to put one's self at ease. -- To set the heart upon, to fix the desires on; to long for earnestly; to be very fond of. -- To take heart of grace, to take courage. -- To take to heart, to grieve over. -- To wear one's heart upon one's sleeve, to expose one's feelings or intentions; to be frank or impulsive. -- With all one's heart, With one's whole heart, very earnestly; fully; completely; devotedly.


word: Heart₂
definition:
Heart

Heart
(härt)
v. t.
To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage; to inspirit.
[Obs.]

My cause is hearted; thine hath no less reason.
Shak.


word: heartbeat
definition:
heartbeat

heartbeat
n.
the audible and palpable rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; as, he listened to her heartbeat with a stethoscope.

Syn. -- pulse, pulsation, beat.

in a heartbeat immediately.


word: Heartburn
definition:
Heartburn

Heart"burn`
(-bûrn`)
n.
(Med.)
An uneasy, burning sensation in the stomach, often attended with an inclination to vomit.  It is sometimes idiopathic, but is often a symptom of other complaints.


word: Heartburning₂
definition:
Heartburning

Heart"burn`ing
n.
1.
(Med.)
Same as Heartburn.

2.
Discontent; secret enmity.
Swift.

The transaction did not fail to leave heartburnings.
Palfrey.


word: Hearted
definition:
Hearted

Heart"ed
a.
1.
Having a heart; having (such) a heart (regarded as the seat of the affections, disposition, or character).

2.
Shaped like a heart; cordate.
[R.]
Landor.

3.
Seated or laid up in the heart.

I hate the Moor: my cause is hearted.
Shak.

&hand_; This word is chiefly used in composition; as, hard-hearted, faint-hearted, kind-hearted, lion-hearted, stout-hearted, etc. Hence the nouns hard-heartedness, faint-heartedness, etc.


word: Heartedness
definition:
Heartedness

Heart"ed*ness
n.
Earnestness; sincerity; heartiness.
[R.]
Clarendon.

&hand_; See also the Note under Hearted. The analysis of the compounds gives hard-hearted + -ness, rather than hard + heartedness, etc.


word: Hearten
definition:
Hearten

Heart"en
(härt"'n)
v. t.
[From Heart.]
1.
To encourage; to animate; to incite or stimulate the courage of; to embolden.

Hearten those that fight in your defense.
Shak.

2.
To restore fertility or strength to, as to land.


word: Heartener
definition:
Heartener

Heart"en*er
(-ẽr)
n.
One who, or that which, heartens, animates, or stirs up.
W. Browne.


word: Hearth
definition:
Hearth

Hearth
(härth)
n.
[OE. harthe, herth, herthe, AS. heorð; akin to D. haard, heerd, Sw. härd, G. herd; cf. Goth. haúri a coal, Icel. hyrr embers, and L. cremare to burn.]
1.
The pavement or floor of brick, stone, or metal in a chimney, on which a fire is made; the floor of a fireplace; also, a corresponding part of a stove.

There was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
Jer. xxxvi. 22.

Where fires thou find'st unraked and hearths unswept.
There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry.
Shak.

2.
The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of hospitality to strangers; fireside.

Household talk and phrases of the hearth.
Tennyson.
3.
(Metal. & Manuf.)
The floor of a furnace, on which the material to be heated lies, or the lowest part of a melting furnace, into which the melted material settles; as, an open-hearth smelting furnace.

Hearth ends (Metal.), fragments of lead ore ejected from the furnace by the blast. -- Hearth money, Hearth penny [AS. heorðpening], a tax formerly laid in England on hearths, each hearth (in all houses paying the church and poor rates) being taxed at two shillings; -- called also chimney money, etc.

He had been importuned by the common people to relieve them from the . . . burden of the hearth money.
Macaulay.


word: Hearthstone
definition:
Hearthstone

Hearth"stone`
(-st&omacrn`)
n.
Stone forming the hearth; hence, the fireside; home.

Chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone.
A. Lincoln.


word: Heartily
definition:
Heartily

Heart"i*ly
(härt"ĭ*l&ybreve_;)
adv.
[From Hearty.]
1.
From the heart; with all the heart; with sincerity.

I heartily forgive them.
Shak.

2.
With zeal; actively; vigorously; willingly; cordially; as, he heartily assisted the prince.

To eat heartily, to eat freely and with relish. Addison.


word: Heartiness
definition:
Heartiness

Heart"i*ness
(härt"ĭ*nĕs)
n.
The quality of being hearty; as, the heartiness of a greeting.


word: heartleaf
definition:
heartleaf

heartleaf
n.
(Bot.)
1.
wild ginger (Asarum shuttleworthii) having persistent heart-shaped pungent leaves, growing from Western Virginia to Alabama.

Syn. -- Asarum shuttleworthii.

2.
(Bot.)
An evergreen low-growing perennial (Asarum virginicum) having mottled green and silvery-gray heart-shaped pungent leaves, growing from Virginia to South Carolina.

Syn. -- Asarum virginicum.


word: Heartless
definition:
Heartless

Heart"less
a.
1.
Without a heart.

You have left me heartless; mine is in your bosom.
J. Webster.

2.
Destitute of courage; spiritless; despondent.

Heartless they fought, and quitted soon their ground.
Dryden.

Heartless and melancholy.
W. Irwing.

3.
Destitute of feeling or affection; unsympathetic; cruel.
heartless
Byron.


word: Heartlings
definition:
Heartlings

Heart"lings
(-lĭngz)
interj.
An exclamation used in addressing a familiar acquaintance.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: Heartquake
definition:
Heartquake

Heart"quake`
(-kwāk`)
n.
Trembling of the heart; trepidation; fear.

In many an hour of danger and heartquake.
Hawthorne.


word: Heartrending
definition:
Heartrending

Heart"rend`ing
(-rĕnd`ĭng)
a.
Causing intense grief; overpowering with anguish; very distressing.


word: Heart-robbing
definition:
Heart-robbing

Heart"-rob`bing
(-r&obreve_;b`bĭng)
a.
1.
Depriving of thought; ecstatic.
Heart-robbing
Spenser.

2.
Stealing the heart or affections; winning.


word: Heart's-ease
definition:
Heart's-ease

Heart's"-ease`
(härts"ēz`)
n.
1.
Ease of heart; peace or tranquillity of mind or feeling.
Shak.

2.
(Bot.)
A species of violet (Viola tricolor), a common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived; -- called also pansy.
[wns=1]

Syn. -- wild pansy, Johnny-jump-up, heartsease, love-in-idleness, pink of my John, Viola tricolor.

3.
(Bot.)
A violet of the Pacific coast of North America (Viola ocellata) having white petals tinged with yellow and deep violet.
[wns=2]

Syn. -- two-eyed violet, heartsease, Viola ocellata.

4.
(Bot.)
A common Old World viola (Viola arvensis) with creamy often violet-tinged flowers.
[wns=3]

Syn. -- field pansy, heartsease, Viola arvensis.


word: Heartseed
definition:
Heartseed

Heart"seed`
(härt"sēd`)
n.
(Bot.)
A climbing plant of the genus Cardiospermum, having round seeds which are marked with a spot like a heart.
Loudon.


word: heart-shaped
definition:
heart-shaped

heartshaped

heart"shaped`, heart"-shaped`
(härt"shāpt`)
a.
Having the shape of a heart; cordate; -- of a leaf shape.


word: Heartsick
definition:
Heartsick

Heart"sick`
(härt"sĭk`)
a.
[AS. heortiseóc.]
Sick at heart; extremely depressed in spirits; very despondent.


word: Heart-spoon
definition:
Heart-spoon

Heart"-spoon`
(härt"spōn`)
n.
A part of the breastbone.
[Obs.]

He feeleth through the herte-spon the pricke.
Chaucer.


word: Heartstrike
definition:
Heartstrike

Heart"strike`
(härt"strīk`)
v. t.
To affect at heart; to shock.
[R.]
heartstrike
B. Jonson.


word: Heartstring
definition:
Heartstring

Heart"string`
(härt"strĭng`)
n.
A nerve or tendon, supposed to brace and sustain the heart.
Shak.

Sobbing, as if a heartstring broke.
Moore.


word: Heartstruck
definition:
Heartstruck

Heart"struck`
(härt"strŭk`)
a.
1.
Driven to the heart; infixed in the mind.
heartstruck
Shak.

2.
Shocked with pain, fear, or remorse; dismayed; heartstricken.
Milton.


word: Heartswelling
definition:
Heartswelling

Heart"swell`ing
(härt"swĕl`ĭng)
a.
Rankling in, or swelling, the heart.
Heartswelling
Spenser.


word: heart-warming
definition:
heart-warming

heartwarming

heart"warm`ing, heart"-warm`ing
adj.
causing gladness and pleasure; -- used mostly of the actions of people, and sometimes of animals; as, Is there a sight more heart-warming than a family reunion?.


word: Heart-whole
definition:
Heart-whole

Heart"-whole`
(härt"h&omacrl`)
a.
[See Whole.]
1.
Having the heart or affections free; not in love.
Shak.

2.
With unbroken courage; undismayed.

3.
Of a single and sincere heart; with unconditional commitment or unstinting devotion; as, heart-whole friendship.
[wns=1]

Syn. -- wholehearted.

If he keeps heart-whole towards his Master.
Bunyan.


word: Heartwood
definition:
Heartwood

Heart"wood`
(härt"wŏd`)
n.
The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum.


word: Heart-wounded
definition:
Heart-wounded

Heart"-wound`ed
(härt"wōnd`ĕd or -wound`ĕd)
a.
Wounded to the heart with love or grief.
Pope.


word: Hearty
definition:
Hearty

Heart"y
(härt"&ybreve_;)
a.
[Compar. Heartier (härt"ĭ*ẽr); superl. Heartiest.]
1.
Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the heart; warm; cordial; bold; zealous; sincere; willing; also, energetic; active; eager; as, a hearty welcome; hearty in supporting the government.

Full of hearty tears
For our good father's loss.
Marston.

2.
Exhibiting strength; sound; healthy; firm; not weak; as, a hearty man; hearty timber.

3.
Promoting strength; nourishing; rich; abundant; as, hearty food; a hearty meal.


word: Hearty₂
definition:
Hearty

Heart"y
n.
pl. Hearties (härt"ĭz).
Comrade; boon companion; good fellow; -- a term of familiar address and fellowship among sailors.
Dickens.


word: Heat
definition:
Heat

Heat
(hēt)
n.
[OE. hete, hæte, AS. h&aemacr_;tu, h&aemacr_;to, fr. hāt hot; akin to OHG. heizi heat, Dan. hede, Sw. hetta. See Hot.]
1.
A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as manifested in fire, the sun's rays, mechanical action, chemical combination, etc., becomes directly known to us through the sense of feeling.  In its nature heat is a mode of motion, being in general a form of molecular disturbance or vibration.  It was formerly supposed to be a subtile, imponderable fluid, to which was given the name caloric.

&hand_; As affecting the human body, heat produces different sensations, which are called by different names, as heat or sensible heat, warmth, cold, etc., according to its degree or amount relatively to the normal temperature of the body.

2.
The sensation caused by the force or influence of heat when excessive, or above that which is normal to the human body; the bodily feeling experienced on exposure to fire, the sun's rays, etc.; the reverse of cold.

3.
High temperature, as distinguished from low temperature, or cold; as, the heat of summer and the cold of winter; heat of the skin or body in fever, etc.

Else how had the world . . . 
Avoided pinching cold and scorching heat!
Milton.

4.
Indication of high temperature; appearance, condition, or color of a body, as indicating its temperature; redness; high color; flush; degree of temperature to which something is heated, as indicated by appearance, condition, or otherwise.

It has raised . . . heats in their faces.
Addison.

The heats smiths take of their iron are a blood-red heat, a white-flame heat, and a sparkling or welding heat.
Moxon.

5.
A single complete operation of heating, as at a forge or in a furnace; as, to make a horseshoe in a certain number of heats.

6.
A violent action unintermitted; a single effort; a single course in a race that consists of two or more courses; as, he won two heats out of three.

Many causes . . . for refreshment betwixt the heats.
Dryden.

[He] struck off at one heat the matchless tale of “Tam o' Shanter.”
J. C. Shairp.

7.
Utmost violence; rage; vehemence; as, the heat of battle or party.
heat
Shak.

8.
Agitation of mind; inflammation or excitement; exasperation.
heat
South.

9.
Animation, as in discourse; ardor; fervency; as, in the heat of argument.

With all the strength and heat of eloquence.
Addison.

10.
(Zool.)
Sexual excitement in animals; readiness for sexual activity; estrus or rut.

11.
Fermentation.

12.
Strong psychological pressure, as in a police investigation; as, when they turned up the heat, he took it on the lam.
[slang]

Animal heat, Blood heat, Capacity for heat, etc. See under Animal, Blood, etc. -- Atomic heat (Chem.), the product obtained by multiplying the atomic weight of any element by its specific heat.  The atomic heat of all solid elements is nearly a constant, the mean value being 6.4. -- Dynamical theory of heat, that theory of heat which assumes it to be, not a peculiar kind of matter, but a peculiar motion of the ultimate particles of matter. Heat engine, any apparatus by which a heated substance, as a heated fluid, is made to perform work by giving motion to mechanism, as a hot-air engine, or a steam engine. -- Heat producers. (Physiol.) See under Food. -- Heat rays, a term formerly applied to the rays near the red end of the spectrum, whether within or beyond the visible spectrum. -- Heat weight (Mech.), the product of any quantity of heat by the mechanical equivalent of heat divided by the absolute temperature; -- called also thermodynamic function, and entropy. -- Mechanical equivalent of heat. See under Equivalent. -- Specific heat of a substance (at any temperature), the number of units of heat required to raise the temperature of a unit mass of the substance at that temperature one degree. -- Unit of heat, the quantity of heat required to raise, by one degree, the temperature of a unit mass of water, initially at a certain standard temperature. The temperature usually employed is that of 0° Centigrade, or 32° Fahrenheit.


word: Heat₂
definition:
Heat

Heat
(hēt)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Heated; p. pr. & vb. n. Heating.]
[OE. heten, AS. h&aemacr_;tan, fr. hāt hot. See Hot.]
1.
To make hot; to communicate heat to, or cause to grow warm; as, to heat an oven or furnace, an iron, or the like.

Heat me these irons hot.
Shak.

2.
To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.

Pray, walk softly; do not heat your blood.
Shak.

3.
To excite ardor in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.

A noble emulation heats your breast.
Dryden.


word: Heat₃
definition:
Heat

Heat
v. i.
1.
To grow warm or hot by the action of fire or friction, etc., or the communication of heat; as, the iron or the water heats slowly.

2.
To grow warm or hot by fermentation, or the development of heat by chemical action; as, green hay heats in a mow, and manure in the dunghill.


word: Heat₄
definition:
Heat

Heat
(hĕt)
imp. & p. p. of Heat.
Heated; as, the iron though heat red-hot.
[Obs. or Archaic]
Shak.


word: heated
definition:
heated

heated
adj.
1.
characterized by great warmth and intensity of feeling; as, a heated argument.  Opposite of dispassionate, passionless.
[wns=1]

Syn. -- ardent, fervent, fervid, fiery, hot, impassioned, perfervid, torrid.

2.
supplied with a mechanism for heating; -- of structures or devices; as, a heated fishing cabin.  Opposite of unheated.
[wns=2]


word: Heater
definition:
Heater

Heat"er
(hēt"ẽr)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, heats.

2.
Any contrivance or implement, as a furnace, stove, or other heated body or vessel, etc., used to impart heat to something, or to contain something to be heated.

3.
A pistol or other carryable firearm; as, gunmen with their heaters bulging in their pockets.
[slang]

Feed heater. See under Feed.


word: Heath
definition:
Heath

Heath
(hēth)
n.
[OE. heth waste land, the plant heath, AS. h&aemacr_;ð; akin to D. & G. heide, Icel. heiðr waste land, Dan. hede, Sw. hed, Goth. haiþi field, L. bucetum a cow pasture; cf. W. coed a wood, Skr. kshētra field.  √20.]
1.
(Bot.)
(a)
A low shrub (Erica vulgaris or Calluna vulgaris), with minute evergreen leaves, and handsome clusters of pink flowers.  It is used in Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens.  It is also called heather, and ling.
(b)
Also, any species of the genus Erica, of which several are European, and many more are South African, some of great beauty. See Illust. of Heather.

2.
A place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of country overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage.

Their stately growth, though bare,
Stands on the blasted heath.
Milton

Heath cock (Zool.), the blackcock. See Heath grouse (below). -- Heath grass (Bot.), a kind of perennial grass, of the genus Triodia (Triodia decumbens), growing on dry heaths. -- Heath grouse, or Heath game (Zool.), a European grouse (Tetrao tetrix), which inhabits heaths; -- called also black game, black grouse, heath poult, heath fowl, moor fowl.  The male is called heath cock, and blackcock; the female, heath hen, and gray hen. -- Heath hen. (Zool.) See Heath grouse (above). -- Heath pea (Bot.), a species of bitter vetch (Lathyrus macrorhizus), the tubers of which are eaten, and in Scotland are used to flavor whisky. -- Heath throstle (Zool.), a European thrush which frequents heaths; the ring ouzel.


word: Heathen
definition:
Heathen

Hea"then
(hē"&thlig_;'n; 277)
n.
pl. Heathens (-&thlig_;'nz) or collectively Heathen.
[OE. hethen, AS. h&aemacr_;ðen, prop. an adj. fr. h&aemacr_;ð heath, and orig., therefore, one who lives in the country or on the heaths and in the woods (cf. pagan, fr. pagus village); akin to OS. hēðin, adj., D. heiden a heathen, G. heide, OHG. heidan, Icel. heiðinn, adj., Sw. heden, Goth. haiþn&omacr, n. fem. See Heath, and cf. Hoiden.]
1.
An individual of the pagan or unbelieving nations, or those which worship idols and do not acknowledge the true God; a pagan; an idolater.

2.
An irreligious person.

If it is no more than a moral discourse, he may preach it and they may hear it, and yet both continue unconverted heathens.
V. Knox.

The heathen, as the term is used in the Scriptures, all people except the Jews; now used of all people except Christians, Jews, and Muslims.

Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance.
Ps. ii. 8.


word: Heathen₂
definition:
Heathen

Hea"then
(hē"&thlig_;'n)
a.
1.
Gentile; pagan; as, a heathen author.
heathen
heathen
Shak.

2.
Barbarous; unenlightened; heathenish.

3.
Irreligious; scoffing.


word: Heathendom
definition:
Heathendom

Hea"then*dom
(-dŭm)
n.
[AS. h&aemacr_;ðend&omacrm.]
1.
That part of the world where heathenism prevails; the heathen nations, considered collectively.

2.
Heathenism.
C. Kingsley.


word: Heathenesse
definition:
Heathenesse

Hea"then*esse
(-ĕs)
n.
[AS. h&aemacr_;ðennes, i. e., heathenness.]
Heathendom.
[Obs.]
Chaucer. Sir W. Scott.


word: Heathenish
definition:
Heathenish

Hea"then*ish
a.
[AS. h&aemacr_;ðenisc.]
1.
Of or pertaining to the heathen; resembling or characteristic of heathens.
heathenish
Milton.

2.
Rude; uncivilized; savage; cruel.
South.

3.
Irreligious; as, a heathenish way of living.


word: Heathenishness
definition:
Heathenishness

Hea"then*ish*ness
n.
The state or quality of being heathenish.
heathenishness
Prynne.


word: Heathenism
definition:
Heathenism

Hea"then*ism
(-ĭz'm)
n.
1.
The religious system or rites of a heathen nation; idolatry; paganism.

2.
The manners or morals usually prevalent in a heathen country; ignorance; rudeness; barbarism.


word: Heathenize
definition:
Heathenize

Hea"then*ize
(-īz)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Heathenized (-īzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Heathenizing (-ī`zĭng).]
To render heathen or heathenish.
Firmin.


word: Heathenry
definition:
Heathenry

Hea"then*ry
(-r&ybreve_;)
n.
1.
The state, quality, or character of the heathen.

Your heathenry and your laziness.
C. Kingsley.

2.
Heathendom; heathen nations.


word: Heather
definition:
Heather

Heath"er
(hĕ&thlig_;"ẽr; 277. This is the only pronunciation in Scotland)
n.
[See Heath.]
Heath.
[Scot.]

Gorse and grass
And heather, where his footsteps pass,
The brighter seem.
Longfellow.

Heather bell (Bot.), one of the pretty subglobose flowers of two European kinds of heather (Erica Tetralix, and Erica cinerea).


word: heath fowl
definition:
heath fowl

heathfowl

heathfowl, heath fowl
n.
A large Northern European black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix formerly Tetrao tetrix) with a lyre-shaped tail; it is also called heath grouse, black game, black grouse, heath poult, heath fowl, and moor fowl.  See heath grouse under heath, above.

Syn. -- European black grouse, Lyrurus tetrix.


word: Heathy
definition:
Heathy

Heath"y
(hēth"&ybreve_;)
a.
Full of heath; abounding with heath; as, heathy land; heathy hills.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Heating
definition:
Heating

Heat"ing
(hēt"ĭng)
a.
That heats or imparts heat; promoting warmth or heat; exciting action; stimulating; as, heating medicines or applications.

Heating surface (Steam Boilers), the aggregate surface exposed to fire or to the heated products of combustion, esp. of all the plates or sheets that are exposed to water on their opposite surfaces; -- called also fire surface.


word: heatstroke
definition:
heatstroke

heatstroke
n.
A physiological disturbance caused by exposure to excessive heat, resulting in rapid pulse, hot dry skin, and fever, leading to loss of consciousness.


word: Heave
definition:
Heave

Heave
(hēv)
v. t.
[imp. Heaved (hēvd), or Hove (h&omacrv); p. p. Heaved, Hove, formerly Hoven (h&omacr"v'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Heaving.]
[OE. heven, hebben, AS. hebban; akin to OS. hebbian, D. heffen, OHG. heffan, hevan, G. heben, Icel. hefja, Sw. häfva, Dan. hæve, Goth. hafjan, L. capere to take, seize; cf. Gr. kw`ph handle.  Cf. Accept, Behoof, Capacious, Forceps, Haft, Receipt.]
1.
To cause to move upward or onward by a lifting effort; to lift; to raise; to hoist; -- often with up; as, the wave heaved the boat on land.

One heaved ahigh, to be hurled down below.
Shak.

&hand_; Heave, as now used, implies that the thing raised is heavy or hard to move; but formerly it was used in a less restricted sense.

Here a little child I stand,
Heaving up my either hand.
Herrick.

2.
To throw; to cast; -- obsolete, provincial, or colloquial, except in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the lead; to heave the log.

3.
To force from, or into, any position; to cause to move; also, to throw off; -- mostly used in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the ship ahead.

4.
To raise or force from the breast; to utter with effort; as, to heave a sigh.

The wretched animal heaved forth such groans.
Shak.

5.
To cause to swell or rise, as the breast or bosom.

The glittering, finny swarms
That heave our friths, and crowd upon our shores.
Thomson.

To heave a cable short (Naut.), to haul in cable till the ship is almost perpendicularly above the anchor. -- To heave a ship ahead (Naut.), to warp her ahead when not under sail, as by means of cables. -- To heave a ship down (Naut.), to throw or lay her down on one side; to careen her. -- To heave a ship to (Naut.), to bring the ship's head to the wind, and stop her motion. -- To heave about (Naut.), to put about suddenly. -- To heave in (Naut.), to shorten (cable). -- To heave in stays (Naut.), to put a vessel on the other tack. -- To heave out a sail (Naut.), to unfurl it. -- To heave taut (Naut.), to turn a capstan, etc., till the rope becomes strained. See Taut, and Tight. -- To heave the lead (Naut.), to take soundings with lead and line. -- To heave the log. (Naut.) See Log. -- To heave up anchor (Naut.), to raise it from the bottom of the sea or elsewhere.


word: Heave₂
definition:
Heave

Heave
(hēv)
v. i.
1.
To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.

And the huge columns heave into the sky.
Pope.

Where heaves the turf in many a moldering heap.
Gray.

The heaving sods of Bunker Hill.
E. Everett.

2.
To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the lungs in heavy breathing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the billows, as the earth when broken up by frost, etc.; to swell; to dilate; to expand; to distend; hence, to labor; to struggle.

Frequent for breath his panting bosom heaves.
Prior.

The heaving plain of ocean.
Byron.

3.
To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.

The Church of England had struggled and heaved at a reformation ever since Wyclif's days.
Atterbury.

4.
To make an effort to vomit; to retch; to vomit.

To heave at. (a) To make an effort at. (b) To attack, to oppose. [Obs.] Fuller. -- To heave in sight (as a ship at sea), to come in sight; to appear. -- To heave up, to vomit. [Low]


word: Heave₃
definition:
Heave

Heave
n.
1.
An effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy.

After many strains and heaves
He got up to his saddle eaves.
Hudibras.

2.
An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, and the like.

There's matter in these sighs, these profound heaves,
You must translate.
Shak.

None could guess whether the next heave of the earthquake would settle . . . or swallow them.
Dryden.

3.
(Geol.)
A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.


word: Heaven
definition:
Heaven

Heav"en
(hĕv"'n)
n.
[OE. heven, hefen, heofen, AS. heofon; akin to OS. hevan, LG. heben, heven, Icel. hifinn; of uncertain origin, cf. D. hemel, G. himmel, Icel. himmin, Goth. himins; perh. akin to, or influenced by, the root of E. heave, or from a root signifying to cover, cf. Goth. gaham&omacrn to put on, clothe one's self, G. hemd shirt, and perh. E. chemise.]
1.
The expanse of space surrounding the earth; esp., that which seems to be over the earth like a great arch or dome; the firmament; the sky; the place where the sun, moon, and stars appear; -- often used in the plural in this sense.

I never saw the heavens so dim by day.
Shak.

When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven.
D. Webster.

2.
The dwelling place of the Deity; the abode of bliss; the place or state of the blessed after death.

Unto the God of love, high heaven's King.
Spenser.

It is a knell
That summons thee to heaven or to hell.
Shak.

New thoughts of God, new hopes of Heaven.
Keble.

&hand_; In this general sense heaven and its corresponding words in other languages have as various definite interpretations as there are phases of religious belief.

3.
The sovereign of heaven; God; also, the assembly of the blessed, collectively; -- used variously in this sense, as in No. 2.; as, heaven helps those who help themselves.

Her prayers, whom Heaven delights to hear.
Shak.

The will
And high permission of all-ruling Heaven.
Milton.

4.
Any place of supreme happiness or great comfort; perfect felicity; bliss; a sublime or exalted condition; as, a heaven of delight.
heaven
Shak.
heaven
Shak.

O bed! bed! delicious bed!
That heaven upon earth to the weary head!
Hood.

&hand_; Heaven is very often used, esp. with participles, in forming compound words, most of which need no special explanation; as, heaven-appeasing, heaven-aspiring, heaven-begot, heaven-born, heaven-bred, heaven-conducted, heaven-descended, heaven-directed, heaven-exalted, heaven-given, heaven-guided, heaven-inflicted, heaven-inspired, heaven-instructed, heaven-kissing, heaven-loved, heaven-moving, heaven-protected, heaven-taught, heaven-warring, and the like.


word: Heaven₂
definition:
Heaven

Heav"en
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Heavened (hĕv"'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Heavening.]
To place in happiness or bliss, as if in heaven; to beatify.
[R.]

We are happy as the bird whose nest
Is heavened in the hush of purple hills.
G. Massey.


word: heavenliness
definition:
heavenliness

heav"en*li*ness
(hĕv"'n*lĭ*nĕs)
n.
[From Heavenly.]
The state or quality of being heavenly.
Sir J. Davies.


word: Heavenly
definition:
Heavenly

Heav"en*ly
(hĕv"'n*l&ybreve_;)
a.
[AS. heofonic.]
1.
Pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting heaven; celestial; not earthly; as, heavenly regions; heavenly music.

As is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
1 Cor. xv. 48.

2.
Appropriate to heaven in character or happiness; perfect; pure; supremely blessed; as, a heavenly race; the heavenly, throng.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
Sir P. Sidney.


word: Heavenly₂
definition:
Heavenly

Heav"en*ly
adv.
1.
In a manner resembling that of heaven.
heavenly
Shak.

2.
By the influence or agency of heaven.

Out heavenly guided soul shall climb.
Milton.


word: Heavenly-minded
definition:
Heavenly-minded

Heav"en*ly-mind`ed
(hĕv"'n*lĭ*mīnd`ĕd)
a.
Having the thoughts and affections placed on, or suitable for, heaven and heavenly objects; devout; godly; pious.
Milner.
Heav"en*ly-mind`ed*ness, n.


word: Heave offering
definition:
Heave offering

Heave" of`fer*ing
(?)
(Jewish Antiq.)
An offering or oblation heaved up or elevated before the altar, as the shoulder of the peace offering. See Wave offering.
Ex. xxix. 27.


word: Heaver
definition:
Heaver

Heav"er
(hēv"ẽr)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, heaves or lifts; a laborer employed on docks in handling freight; as, a coal heaver.

2.
(Naut.)
A bar used as a lever.
Totten.


word: Heaves
definition:
Heaves

Heaves
(?)
n.
A disease of horses, characterized by difficult breathing, with heaving of the flank, wheezing, flatulency, and a peculiar cough; broken wind.


word: Heavily
definition:
Heavily

Heav"i*ly
(?)
adv.
[From 2d Heavy.]
1.
In a heavy manner; with great weight; as, to bear heavily on a thing; to be heavily loaded.

Heavily interested in those schemes of emigration.
The Century.

2.
As if burdened with a great weight; slowly and laboriously; with difficulty; hence, in a slow, difficult, or suffering manner; sorrowfully.

And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily.
Ex. xiv. 25.

Why looks your grace so heavily to-day?
Shak.

3.
Greatly; intensely; as, heavily involved in a plot; heavily invested in real estate.

4.
In large quantity; as, it rained heavily.


word: Heaviness
definition:
Heaviness

Heav"i*ness
n.
The state or quality of being heavy in its various senses; weight; sadness; sluggishness; oppression; thickness.


word: Heavy₂
definition:
Heavy

Heav"y
(?)
a.
[Compar. Heavier (?); superl. Heaviest.]
[OE. hevi, AS. hefig, fr. hebban to lift, heave; akin to OHG. hebig, hevig, Icel. höfigr, höfugr. See Heave.]
1.
Heaved or lifted with labor; not light; weighty; ponderous; as, a heavy stone; hence, sometimes, large in extent, quantity, or effects; as, a heavy fall of rain or snow; a heavy failure; heavy business transactions, etc.; often implying strength; as, a heavy barrier; also, difficult to move; as, a heavy draught.

2.
Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive; hard to endure or accomplish; hence, grievous, afflictive; as, heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc.

The hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod.
1 Sam. v. 6.

The king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make.
Shak.

Sent hither to impart the heavy news.
Wordsworth.

Trust him not in matter of heavy consequence.
Shak.

3.
Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with care, grief, pain, disappointment.

The heavy [sorrowing] nobles all in council were.
Chapman.

A light wife doth make a heavy husband.
Shak.

4.
Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid; as, a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, and the like; a heavy writer or book.

Whilst the heavy plowman snores.
Shak.

Of a heavy, dull, degenerate mind.
Dryden.

Neither [is] his ear heavy, that it can not hear.
Is. lix. 1.

5.
Strong; violent; forcible; as, a heavy sea, storm, cannonade, and the like.

6.
Loud; deep; -- said of sound; as, heavy thunder.

But, hark! that heavy sound breaks in once more.
Byron.

7.
Dark with clouds, or ready to rain; gloomy; -- said of the sky.

8.
Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey; -- said of earth; as, a heavy road, soil, and the like.

9.
Not raised or made light; as, heavy bread.

10.
Not agreeable to, or suitable for, the stomach; not easily digested; -- said of food.

11.
Having much body or strength; -- said of wines, or other liquors.

12.
With child; pregnant.
[R.]

Heavy artillery. (Mil.) (a) Guns of great weight or large caliber, esp. siege, garrison, and seacoast guns. (b) Troops which serve heavy guns. -- Heavy cavalry. See under Cavalry. -- Heavy fire (Mil.), a continuous or destructive cannonading, or discharge of small arms. -- Heavy metal (Mil.), large guns carrying balls of a large size; also, large balls for such guns. -- Heavy metals. (Chem.) See under Metal. -- Heavy weight, in wrestling, boxing, etc., a term applied to the heaviest of the classes into which contestants are divided.  Cf. Feather weight (c), under Feather.

&hand_; Heavy is used in composition to form many words which need no special explanation; as, heavy-built, heavy-browed, heavy-gaited, etc.


word: heavy-handed
definition:
heavy-handed

heavy-handed
adj.
1.
same as ham-fisted.

Syn. -- bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, left-handed.

2.
unjustly harsh or domineering; as, incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies.

Syn. -- harsh, roughshod.


word: heavy-hearted
definition:
heavy-hearted

heavyhearted

heavyhearted, heavy-hearted
adj.
feeling or affected by sorrow or unhappiness.

Syn. -- blue, sad.


word: heavy-laden
definition:
heavy-laden

heavy-laden
adj.
1.
burdened by cares.

Syn. -- care-laden.

2.
bearing a heavy load; as, the heavy-laden trucks wore deep ruts in the unpaved road.

Syn. -- burdened, laden, weighed down.


word: heavyset
definition:
heavyset

heavyset
adj.
1.
obese.
usually men are portly and women are stout

Syn. -- portly, stout.

2.
heavy and compact in form or build or stature.

Syn. -- compact, stocky, thick, thickset.


word: Heavy spar
definition:
Heavy spar

Heav"y spar`
(?)
(Min.)
Native barium sulphate or barite, -- so called because of its high specific gravity as compared with other non-metallic minerals.


word: heavyweight₂
definition:
heavyweight

heavyweight
n.
1.
a wrestler who weighs more than 214 pounds.

2.
a boxer who weighs more than 195 pounds.

3.
a very large person.

Syn. -- giant, hulk.

4.
a person of exceptional importance and reputation.

Syn. -- colossus, behemoth, giant, titan.


word: Hebdomad
definition:
Hebdomad

Heb"do*mad
(?)
n.
[L. hebdomas, -adis, Gr. "ebdoma`s the number seven days, fr. _; seventh, _; seven. See Seven.]
A week; a period of seven days.
[R.]
Sir T. Browne.


word: Hebdomadary
definition:
Hebdomadary

Hebdomadal

{ Heb*dom"a*dal (?), Heb*dom"a*da*ry (?), }
a.
[L. hebdomadalis, LL. hebdomadarius: cf. F. hebdomadaire.]
Consisting of seven days, or occurring at intervals of seven days; weekly.


word: Hebdomadary₂
definition:
Hebdomadary

Heb*dom"a*da*ry
(?)
n.
[LL. hebdomadarius: cf. F. hebdomadier.]
(R. C. Ch.)
A member of a chapter or convent, whose week it is to officiate in the choir, and perform other services, which, on extraordinary occasions, are performed by the superiors.


word: Hebe
definition:
Hebe

He"be
(?)
n.
[L., fr. Gr. "h`bh youth, "H`bh Hebe.]

1.
(Class. Myth.)
The goddess of youth, daughter of Jupiter and Juno. She was believed to have the power of restoring youth and beauty to those who had lost them.

2.
(Zool.)
An African ape; the hamadryas.


word: Hebetate
definition:
Hebetate

Heb"e*tate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Hebetated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hebetating.]
[L. hebetatus, p. p. of hebetare to dull. See Hebete.]
To render obtuse; to dull; to blunt; to stupefy; as, to hebetate the intellectual faculties.
Southey


word: Hebetate₂
definition:
Hebetate

Heb"e*tate
(?)
a.
1.
Obtuse; dull.

2.
(Bot.)
Having a dull or blunt and soft point.
Gray.


word: Hebetation
definition:
Hebetation

Heb`e*ta"tion
(?)
n.
[L. hebetatio: cf. F. hébétation.]
1.
The act of making blunt, dull, or stupid.

2.
The state of being blunted or dulled.


word: Hebete
definition:
Hebete

He*bete"
(?)
a.
[L. hebes, hebetis, dull, stupid, fr. hebere to be dull.]
Dull; stupid.
[Obs.]


word: Hebraic
definition:
Hebraic

He"bra"ic
(?)
a.
[L. Hebraicus, Gr. _;: cf. F. hebraïque. See Hebrew.]
Of or pertaining to the Hebrews, or to the language of the Hebrews.


word: Hebraism
definition:
Hebraism

He"bra*ism
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. hébraïsme.]

1.
A Hebrew idiom or custom; a peculiar expression or manner of speaking in the Hebrew language.
Addison.

2.
The type of character of the Hebrews.

The governing idea of Hebraism is strictness of conscience.
M. Arnold.


word: Hebraistically
definition:
Hebraistically

He`bra*is"tic*al*ly
(?)
adv.
In a Hebraistic sense or form.

Which is Hebraistically used in the New Testament.
Kitto.


word: Hebraize
definition:
Hebraize

He"bra*ize
(?)
v. t.
[Gr. _; to speak Hebrew: cf. F. hébraïser.]
To convert into the Hebrew idiom; to make Hebrew or Hebraistic.
J. R. Smith.


word: Hebraize₂
definition:
Hebraize

He"bra*ize
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Hebraized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hebraizing.]
To speak Hebrew, or to conform to the Hebrew idiom, or to Hebrew customs.


word: Hebrew
definition:
Hebrew

He"brew
(?)
n.
[F. Hébreu, L. Hebraeus, Gr. _;, fr. Heb. 'ibhrī.]
1.
An appellative of Abraham or of one of his descendants, esp. in the line of Jacob; an Israelite; a Jew.

There came one that had escaped and told Abram the Hebrew.
Gen. xiv. 13.

2.
The language of the Hebrews; -- one of the Semitic family of languages.


word: Hebridian
definition:
Hebridian

Hebridean

{ He*brid"e*an (?), He*brid"i*an (?), }
a.
Of or pertaining to the islands called Hebrides, west of Scotland.
n. A native or inhabitant of the Hebrides.


word: Hecatomb
definition:
Hecatomb

Hec"a*tomb
(?)
n.
[L. hecatombe, Gr. _;; _; hundred + _; ox: cf. F. hécatombe.]
(Antiq.)
A sacrifice of a hundred oxen or cattle at the same time; hence, the sacrifice or slaughter of any large number of victims.

Slaughtered hecatombs around them bleed.
Addison.

More than a human hecatomb.
Byron.


word: Hecatompedon
definition:
Hecatompedon

Hec`a*tom"pe*don
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; hundred feet long, _; _; the Parthenon; _; hundred + _; foot.]
(Arch.)
A name given to the old Parthenon at Athens, because measuring 100 Greek feet, probably in the width across the stylobate.


word: Hecdecane
definition:
Hecdecane

Hec"de*cane
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; six + _; ten.]
(Chem.)
A white, semisolid, spermaceti-like hydrocarbon, C16H34, of the paraffin series, found dissolved as an important ingredient of kerosene, and so called because each molecule has sixteen atoms of carbon; -- called also hexadecane.


word: Heck
definition:
Heck

Heck
(?)
n.
[See Hatch a half door.]
[Written also hack.]
1.
The bolt or latch of a door.
[Prov. Eng.]

2.
A rack for cattle to feed at.
[Prov. Eng.]

3.
A door, especially one partly of latticework; -- called also heck door.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.

4.
A latticework contrivance for catching fish.

5.
(Weaving)
An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.

6.
A bend or winding of a stream.
[Prov. Eng.]

Half heck, the lower half of a door. -- Heck board, the loose board at the bottom or back of a cart. -- Heck box or Heck frame, that which carries the heck in warping.


word: Heckerism
definition:
Heckerism

Heck"er*ism
(?)
n.
(R. C. Ch.)
(a)
The teaching of Isaac Thomas Hecker (1819-88), which interprets Catholicism as promoting human aspirations after liberty and truth, and as the religion best suited to the character and institutions of the American people.
(b)
Improperly, certain views or principles erroneously ascribed to Father Hecker in a French translation of Elliott's Life of Hecker. They were condemned as “Americanism” by the Pope, in a letter to Cardinal Gibbons, January 22, 1899.


word: Heckimal
definition:
Heckimal

Heck"i*mal
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
The European blue titmouse (Parus cœruleus).
[Written also heckimel, hackeymal, hackmall, hagmall, and hickmall.]


word: Heckle₂
definition:
Heckle

Hec"kle
v. t.
1.
To interrogate, or ply with questions, esp. with severity or antagonism, as a candidate for the ministry.
Robert bore heckling, however, with great patience and adroitness.
Mrs. Humphry Ward.

2.
To shout questions or jibes at (a public speaker), so as to disconcert him or render his talk ineffective.


word: heckling
definition:
heckling

heckling
n.
[vb. n. from heckle{2}.]
Shouting in order to interrupt a speech with which the shouter disagrees.

Syn. -- barracking.


word: Hectare
definition:
Hectare

Hec"tare`
(?)
n.
[F., fr. Gr. _; hundred + F. are an are.]
A measure of area, or superficies, containing a hundred ares, or 10,000 square meters, and equivalent to 2.471 acres.


word: Hectic
definition:
Hectic

Hec"tic
(?)
a.
[F. hectique, Gr. _; habitual, consumptive, fr. _; habit, a habit of body or mind, fr. _; to have; akin to Skr. sah to overpower, endure; cf. AS. sige, sigor, victory, G. sieg, Goth. sigis.  Cf. Scheme.]
1.
Habitual; constitutional; pertaining especially to slow waste of animal tissue, as in consumption; as, a hectic type in disease; a hectic flush.

2.
In a hectic condition; having hectic fever; consumptive; as, a hectic patient.

Hectic fever (Med.), a fever of irritation and debility, occurring usually at a advanced stage of exhausting disease, as a in pulmonary consumption.


word: Hectic₂
definition:
Hectic

Hec"tic
n.
1.
(Med.)
Hectic fever.

2.
A hectic flush.

It is no living hue, but a strange hectic.
Byron.


word: Hectocotylized
definition:
Hectocotylized

Hec`to*cot"y*lized
(?)
a.
(Zool.)
Changed into a hectocotylus; having a hectocotylis.


word: Hectocotylus
definition:
Hectocotylus

Hec`to*cot"y*lus
(?)
n.
pl. Hectocotyli (#).
[NL., fr. Gr. _; a hundred + _; a hollow vessel.]
(Zool.)
One of the arms of the male of most kinds of cephalopods, which is specially modified in various ways to effect the fertilization of the eggs. In a special sense, the greatly modified arm of Argonauta and allied genera, which, after receiving the spermatophores, becomes detached from the male, and attaches itself to the female for reproductive purposes.


word: hectogram
definition:
hectogram

hec"to*gram
(hĕk"to̝*grăm)
n.
[F. hectogramme, fr. Gr. 'ekato`n hundred + F. gramme a gram.]
A measure of mass or weight, containing a hundred grams, or about 3.527 ounces avoirdupois.  See 3rd gram.


word: Hectograph
definition:
Hectograph

Hec"to*graph
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; hundred + -graph.]
A contrivance for multiple copying, by means of a surface of gelatin softened with glycerin.
[Written also hectograph.]


word: Hectolitre
definition:
Hectolitre

Hectoliter

{ Hec"to*li`ter, Hec"to*li`tre  }
(?)
n.
[F. hectolitre, fr. Gr. _; hundred + F. litre a liter.]
A measure of liquids, containing a hundred liters; equal to a tenth of a cubic meter, nearly 261/2 gallons of wine measure, or 22.0097 imperial gallons. As a dry measure, it contains ten decaliters, or about 25/6 Winchester bushels.


word: Hectometre
definition:
Hectometre

Hectometer

{ Hec"to*me`ter, Hec"to*me`tre  }
(?)
n.
[F. _; hectomètre, fr. Gr. _; hundred + F. mètre a meter.]
A measure of length, equal to a hundred meters. It is equivalent to 328.09 feet.


word: Hector
definition:
Hector

Hec"tor
(?)
n.
[From the Trojan warrior Hector, the son of Priam.]
A bully; a blustering, turbulent, insolent, fellow; one who vexes or provokes.


word: Hector₂
definition:
Hector

Hec"tor
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Hectored (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hectoring.]
To treat with insolence; to threaten; to bully; hence, to torment by words; to tease; to taunt; to worry or irritate by bullying.
Dryden.


word: Hectostere
definition:
Hectostere

Hec"to*stere
(?)
n.
[F. hectostère; Gr. _; hundred + F. stère.]
A measure of solidity, containing one hundred cubic meters, and equivalent to 3531.66 English or 3531.05 United States cubic feet.


word: Heddle
definition:
Heddle

Hed"dle
(?)
n.
pl. Heddles (#).
[Cf. Heald.]
(Weaving)
One of the sets of parallel doubled threads which, with mounting, compose the harness employed to guide the warp threads to the lathe or batten in a loom.


word: Heddle-eye
definition:
Heddle-eye

Hed"dle-eye`
(?)
n.
(Weaving)
The eye or loop formed in each heddle to receive a warp thread.


word: Heddling
definition:
Heddling

Hed"dling
(?)
vb. n.
The act of drawing the warp threads through the heddle-eyes of a weaver's harness; the harness itself.
Knight.


word: Hederaceous
definition:
Hederaceous

Hed`er*a"ceous
(?)
a.
[L. hederaceus, fr. hedera ivy.]
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, ivy.


word: Hederic
definition:
Hederic

He*der"ic
(?)
a.
Pertaining to, or derived from, the ivy (Hedera); as, hederic acid, an acid of the acetylene series.


word: Hederose
definition:
Hederose

Hed"er*ose`
(?)
a.
[L. hederosus, fr. hedera ivy.]
Pertaining to, or of, ivy; full of ivy.


word: Hedge
definition:
Hedge

Hedge
(?)
n.
[OE. hegge, AS. hecg; akin to haga an inclosure, E. haw, AS. hege hedge, E. haybote, D. hegge, OHG. hegga, G. hecke. √12. See Haw a hedge.]
A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden.

The roughest berry on the rudest hedge.
Shak.

Through the verdant maze
Of sweetbrier hedges I pursue my walk.
Thomson.

&hand_; Hedge, when used adjectively or in composition, often means rustic, outlandish, illiterate, poor, or mean; as, hedge priest; hedgeborn, etc.

Hedge bells, Hedge bindweed (Bot.), a climbing plant related to the morning-glory (Convolvulus sepium). -- Hedge bill, a long-handled billhook. -- Hedge garlic (Bot.), a plant of the genus Alliaria. See Garlic mustard, under Garlic. -- Hedge hyssop (Bot.), a bitter herb of the genus Gratiola, the leaves of which are emetic and purgative. -- Hedge marriage, a secret or clandestine marriage, especially one performed by a hedge priest. [Eng.] -- Hedge mustard (Bot.), a plant of the genus Sisymbrium, belonging to the Mustard family. -- Hedge nettle (Bot.), an herb, or under shrub, of the genus Stachys, belonging to the Mint family. It has a nettlelike appearance, though quite harmless. -- Hedge note. (a) The note of a hedge bird. (b) Low, contemptible writing. [Obs.] Dryden. -- Hedge priest, a poor, illiterate priest. Shak. -- Hedge school, an open-air school in the shelter of a hedge, in Ireland; a school for rustics. -- Hedge sparrow (Zool.), a European warbler (Accentor modularis) which frequents hedges. Its color is reddish brown, and ash; the wing coverts are tipped with white. Called also chanter, hedge warbler, dunnock, and doney. -- Hedge writer, an insignificant writer, or a writer of low, scurrilous stuff. [Obs.] Swift. -- To breast up a hedge. See under Breast. -- To hang in the hedge, to be at a standstill. “While the business of money hangs in the hedge.”  Pepys.


word: Hedge₂
definition:
Hedge

Hedge
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Hedged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hedging.]
1.
To inclose or separate with a hedge; to fence with a thickly set line or thicket of shrubs or small trees; as, to hedge a field or garden.

2.
To obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to hinder from progress or success; -- sometimes with up and out.

I will hedge up thy way with thorns.
Hos. ii. 6.

Lollius Urbius . . . drew another wall . . . to hedge out incursions from the north.
Milton.

3.
To surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem (in).
hedged
Shak.

4.
To surround so as to prevent escape.

That is a law to hedge in the cuckoo.
Locke.

5.
To protect oneself against excessive loss in an activity by taking a countervailing action; as, to hedge an investment denominated in a foreign currency by buying or selling futures in that currency; to hedge a donation to one political party by also donating to the opposed political party.

To hedge a bet, to bet upon both sides; that is, after having bet on one side, to bet also on the other, thus guarding against loss.  See hedge{5}.


word: Hedge₃
definition:
Hedge

Hedge
v. i.
1.
To shelter one's self from danger, risk, duty, responsibility, etc., as if by hiding in or behind a hedge; to skulk; to slink; to shirk obligations.

I myself sometimes, leaving the fear of God on the left hand and hiding mine honor in my necessity, am fain to shuffle, to hedge and to lurch.
Shak.

2.
(Betting)
To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on.

3.
To use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so as to avoid committing one's self to anything definite.

The Heroic Stanzas read much more like an elaborate attempt to hedge between the parties than . . . to gain favor from the Roundheads.
Saintsbury.


word: hedged
definition:
hedged

hedged
adj.
[p. p. from hedge, v. i. {3}.]
qualified; limited or restricted; as, a hedged promise.

Syn. -- weasel-worded.


word: Hedge fund
definition:
Hedge fund

Hedge" fund`
(?)
n.
(Finance)
a mutual fund or partnership of investors who pool large sums of money to speculate in securities, increasing the risk of such activity by using borrowed money to leverage the investments, or by selling short.


word: Hedgehog
definition:
Hedgehog

Hedge"hog`
(?)
n.
1.
(Zool.)
A small European insectivore (Erinaceus Europaeus), and other allied species of Asia and Africa, having the hair on the upper part of its body mixed with prickles or spines. It is able to roll itself into a ball so as to present the spines outwardly in every direction. It is nocturnal in its habits, feeding chiefly upon insects.

2.
(Zool.)
The Canadian porcupine.
[U.S]

3.
(Bot.)
A species of Medicago (Medicago intertexta), the pods of which are armed with short spines; -- popularly so called.
Loudon.

4.
A form of dredging machine.
Knight.

5.
(Elec.)
A variety of transformer with open magnetic circuit, the ends of the iron wire core being turned outward and presenting a bristling appearance, whence the name.

6.
(Mil.)
a defensive obstacle having pointed barbs extending outward, such as one composed of crossed logs with barbed wire wound around them, or a tangle of steel beams embedded in concrete used to impede or damage landing craft on a beach; also, a position well-fortified with such defensive obstacles.

Hedgehog caterpillar (Zool.), the hairy larvae of several species of bombycid moths, as of the Isabella moth. It curls up like a hedgehog when disturbed. See Woolly bear, and Isabella moth. -- Hedgehog fish (Zool.), any spinose plectognath fish, esp. of the genus Diodon; the porcupine fish. -- Hedgehog grass (Bot.), a grass with spiny involucres, growing on sandy shores; burgrass (Cenchrus tribuloides). -- Hedgehog rat (Zool.), one of several West Indian rodents, allied to the porcupines, but with ratlike tails, and few quills, or only stiff bristles. The hedgehog rats belong to Capromys, Plagiodon, and allied genera. -- Hedgehog shell (Zool.), any spinose, marine, univalve shell of the genus Murex. -- Hedgehog thistle (Bot.), a plant of the Cactus family, globular in form, and covered with spines (Echinocactus). -- Sea hedgehog. See Diodon.


word: Hedgerow
definition:
Hedgerow

Hedge"row`
(?)
n.
A row of shrubs, or trees, planted for inclosure or separation of fields.

By hedgerow elms and hillocks green.
Milton.


word: hediondilla
definition:
hediondilla

hediondilla
n.
A desert shrub (Larrea tridentata) of the Southwestern U.S. and Northern Mexico having persistent resinous aromatic foliage and small yellow flowers.

Syn. -- creosote bush, coville, Larrea tridentata.


word: Hedonic
definition:
Hedonic

He*don"ic
(?)
a.
[Gr. _;, fr. _; pleasure, _; sweet, pleasant.]
1.
Pertaining to pleasure.

2.
Of or relating to Hedonism or the Hedonic sect.

Hedonic sect a sect that placed the highest good in the gratification of the senses, -- called also Cyrenaic sect, (which see), and School of Aristippus.


word: Hedonics
definition:
Hedonics

He*don"ics
(?)
n.
(Philos.)
That branch of moral philosophy which treats of the relation of duty to pleasure; the science of practical, positive enjoyment or pleasure.
J. Grote.


word: Hedonism
definition:
Hedonism

Hed"on*ism
(?)
n.
1.
The doctrine of the Hedonic sect; the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle.
[wns=1]

2.
The ethical theory which finds the explanation and authority of duty in its tendency to give pleasure.


word: Heed
definition:
Heed

Heed
(hēd)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Heeded; p. pr. & vb. n. Heeding.]
[OE. heden, AS. hēdan; akin to OS. h&omacrdian, D. hoeden, Fries. hoda, OHG. huoten, G. hüten, Dan. hytte. √13.  Cf. Hood.]
To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.

With pleasure Argus the musician heeds.
Dryden.


word: Heed₃
definition:
Heed

Heed
n.
1.
Attention; notice; observation; regard; -- often with give or take.

With wanton heed and giddy cunning.
Milton.

Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand.
2 Sam. xx. 10.

Birds give more heed and mark words more than beasts.
Bacon.

2.
Careful consideration; obedient regard.

Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard.
Heb. ii. 1.

3.
A look or expression of heading.
[R.]

He did it with a serious mind; a heed
Was in his countenance.
Shak.


word: Heedful
definition:
Heedful

Heed"ful
(?)
a.
Full of heed; regarding with care; cautious; circumspect; attentive; vigilant.
Shak.


word: Heedless
definition:
Heedless

Heed"less
a.
Without heed or care; inattentive; careless; thoughtless; unobservant.

O, negligent and heedless discipline!
Shak.

The heedless lover does not know
Whose eyes they are that wound him so.
Waller.


word: Heedy
definition:
Heedy

Heed"y
(?)
a.
Heedful.
[Obs.]
Heedy
Spenser.
Heed"i*ly (#), adv. [Obs.] -- Heed"i*ness, n. [Obs.] Spenser.


word: hee-haw₂
definition:
hee-haw

hee-haw
n.
a loud laugh that sounds like a horse neighing.

Syn. -- horselaugh, ha-ha, haw-haw.


word: Heel
definition:
Heel

Heel
(hēl)
v. i.
[OE. helden to lean, incline, AS. heldan, hyldan; akin to Icel. halla, Dan. helde, Sw. hälla to tilt, pour, and perh. to E. hill.]
(Naut.)
To lean or tip to one side, as a ship; as, the ship heels aport; the boat heeled over when the squall struck it.

Heeling error (Naut.), a deviation of the compass caused by the heeling of an iron vessel to one side or the other.


word: Heel₂
definition:
Heel

Heel
n.
[OE. hele, heele, AS. hēla, perh. for h&omacrhila, fr. AS. h&omacrh heel (cf. Hough); but cf. D. hiel, OFries. heila, hēla, Icel. hæll, Dan. hæl, Sw. häl, and L. calx. √12.  Cf. Inculcate.]
1.
The hinder part of the foot; sometimes, the whole foot; -- in man or quadrupeds.

He [the stag] calls to mind his strength and then his speed,
His winged heels and then his armed head.
Denham.

2.
The hinder part of any covering for the foot, as of a shoe, sock, etc.; specif., a solid part projecting downward from the hinder part of the sole of a boot or shoe.

3.
The latter or remaining part of anything; the closing or concluding part.
heel
A. Trollope.
heel
Sir W. Scott.

4.
Anything regarded as like a human heel in shape; a protuberance; a knob.

5.
The part of a thing corresponding in position to the human heel; the lower part, or part on which a thing rests
(a)
(Naut.)
The after end of a ship's keel.
(b)
(Naut.)
The lower end of a mast, a boom, the bowsprit, the sternpost, etc.
(c)
(Mil.)
In a small arm, the corner of the but which is upwards in the firing position.
(d)
(Mil.)
The uppermost part of the blade of a sword, next to the hilt.
(e)
The part of any tool next the tang or handle; as, the heel of a scythe.

6.
(Man.)
Management by the heel, especially the spurred heel; as, the horse understands the heel well.

7.
(Arch.)
(a)
The lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or rafter. In the United States, specif., the obtuse angle of the lower end of a rafter set sloping.
(b)
A cyma reversa; -- so called by workmen.
Gwilt.

8.
(Golf)
The part of the face of the club head nearest the shaft.

9.
In a carding machine, the part of a flat nearest the cylinder.

Heel chain (Naut.), a chain passing from the bowsprit cap around the heel of the jib boom. -- Heel plate, the butt plate of a gun. -- Heel of a rafter. (Arch.) See Heel, n., 7. -- Heel ring, a ring for fastening a scythe blade to the snath. -- Neck and heels, the whole body. (Colloq.) -- To be at the heels of, to pursue closely; to follow hard; as, hungry want is at my heels. Otway. -- To be down at the heel, to be slovenly or in a poor plight. -- To be out at the heels, to have on stockings that are worn out; hence, to be shabby, or in a poor plight. Shak. -- To cool the heels. See under Cool. -- To go heels over head, to turn over so as to bring the heels uppermost; hence, to move in a inconsiderate, or rash, manner. -- To have the heels of, to outrun. -- To lay by the heels, to fetter; to shackle; to imprison. Shak. Addison. -- To show the heels, to flee; to run from. -- To take to the heels, to flee; to betake to flight. -- To throw up another's heels, to trip him. Bunyan. -- To tread upon one's heels, to follow closely. Shak.


word: Heel₃
definition:
Heel

Heel
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Heeled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Heeling.]
1.
To perform by the use of the heels, as in dancing, running, and the like.
[R.]

I cannot sing,
Nor heel the high lavolt.
Shak.

2.
To add a heel to; as, to heel a shoe.

3.
To arm with a gaff, as a cock for fighting.

4.
(Golf)
To hit (the ball) with the heel of the club.

5.
(Football)
To make (a fair catch) standing with one foot advanced, the heel on the ground and the toe up.


word: Heelball
definition:
Heelball

Heel"ball`
(?)
n.
A composition of wax and lampblack, used by shoemakers for polishing, and by antiquaries in copying inscriptions.


word: Heeler
definition:
Heeler

Heel"er
(?)
n.
1.
A cock that strikes well with his heels or spurs.

2.
A dependent and subservient hanger-on of a political patron.
[Political Cant, U. S.]

The army of hungry heelers who do their bidding.
The Century.


word: Heelpath
definition:
Heelpath

Heel"path`
(?)
n.
[So called with a play upon the words tow and toe.]
The bank of a canal opposite, and corresponding to, that of the towpath; berm.
[U. S.]
The Cowles found convenient spiles sunk in the heelpath.
The Century.


word: Heelpiece
definition:
Heelpiece

Heel"piece`
(?)
n.
1.
A piece of armor to protect the heels.
Chesterfield.

2.
A piece of leather fixed on the heel of a shoe.

3.
The end.
heelpiece
Lloyd.


word: Heelpost
definition:
Heelpost

Heel"post`
(?)
n.
1.
(Naut.)
The post supporting the outer end of a propeller shaft.

2.
(Carp.)
The post to which a gate or door is hinged.

3.
(Engineering)
The quoin post of a lock gate.


word: Heelspur
definition:
Heelspur

Heel"spur`
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
A slender bony or cartilaginous process developed from the heel bone of bats. It helps to support the wing membranes. See Illust. of Cheiropter.


word: Heeltap
definition:
Heeltap

Heel"tap`
(?)
n.
1.
One of the segments of leather in the heel of a shoe.

2.
A small portion of liquor left in a glass after drinking.
heeltaps
Sheridan.


word: Heeltap₂
definition:
Heeltap

Heel"tap`
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Heeltapped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Heeltapping.]
To add a piece of leather to the heel of (a shoe, boot, etc.)


word: Heeltool
definition:
Heeltool

Heel"tool`
(?)
n.
A tool used by turners in metal, having a bend forming a heel near the cutting end.


word: Heemraad
definition:
Heemraad

Heem"raad`
(?)
n.
pl. -raaden (#)
[Sometimes, incorrectly, Heemraat or even Heemrad.]
[D. heem village + raad council, councilor.]
In Holland, and, until the 19th century, also in Cape Colony, a council to assist a local magistrate in the government of rural districts; hence, also, a member of such a council.


word: Heer
definition:
Heer

Heer
(?)
n.
[Etymol. uncertain.]
A yarn measure of six hundred yards or 1/24 of a spindle. See Spindle.


word: Heft₂
definition:
Heft

Heft
n.
[From Heave: cf. hefe weight.  Cf. Haft.]
1.
The act or effort of heaving; violent strain or exertion.
[Obs.]

He craks his gorge, his sides,
With violent hefts.
Shak.

2.
Weight; ponderousness.
[Colloq.]

A man of his age and heft.
T. Hughes.

3.
The greater part or bulk of anything; as, the heft of the crop was spoiled.
[Colloq. U. S.]
J. Pickering.


word: Heft₃
definition:
Heft

Heft
(?)
n.
G. pl. Hefte (#)
[G.]
A number of sheets of paper fastened together, as for a notebook; also, a part of a serial publication.
The size of “hefts” will depend on the material requiring attention, and the annual volume is to cost  about 15 marks.
The Nation.


word: Heft₄
definition:
Heft

Heft
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Hefted (Heft, obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. Hefting.]
1.
To heave up; to raise aloft.

Inflamed with wrath, his raging blade he heft.
Spenser.

2.
To prove or try the weight of by raising.
[Colloq.]


word: Hefty
definition:
Hefty

Heft"y
a.
1.
Moderately heavy.
[Colloq. U. S.]

2.
Strong; muscular; -- of people.

3.
Substantial; large; as, a hefty increase in annual profits.


word: Hegelism
definition:
Hegelism

Hegelianism

{ He*ge"li*an*ism (?), He"gel*ism (?), }
prop. n.
The system of logic and philosophy set forth by Hegel, a German writer (1770-1831).


word: Hegemonical
definition:
Hegemonical

Hegemonic

{ Heg`e*mon"ic (?), Heg`e*mon"ic*al (?), }
a.
[Gr. _;. See Hegemony.]
Leading; controlling; ruling; predominant.
hegemonical
Fotherby.


word: Hegemony
definition:
Hegemony

He*gem`o*ny
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;, fr. _; guide, leader, fr. _; to go before.]
Leadership; preponderant influence or authority; -- usually applied to the relation of a government or state to its neighbors or confederates.
Lieber.


word: Hegira
definition:
Hegira

He*gi"ra
(?; 277)
n.
[Written also hejira.]
[Ar. hijrah flight.]
The flight of Mohammed from Mecca, September 13, a. d. 622 (subsequently established as the first year of the Moslem era); hence, any flight or exodus regarded as like that of Mohammed.

&hand_; The starting point of the Era was made to begin, not from the date of the flight, but from the first day of the Arabic year, which corresponds to July 16, a. d. 622.


word: he-huckleberry
definition:
he-huckleberry

he-huckleberry
n.
A deciduous much-branched shrub (Lyonia ligustrina) with dense downy panicles of small bell-shaped white flowers.

Syn. -- maleberry, male berry, privet andromeda, Lyonia ligustrina.


word: Heifer
definition:
Heifer

Heif"er
(?)
n.
[OE. hayfare, AS. heáhfore, heáfore; the second part of this word seems akin to AS. fearr bull, ox; akin to OHG. farro, G. farre, D. vaars, heifer, G. färse, and perh. to Gr. _;, _;, calf, heifer.]
(Zool.)
A young cow.


word: Heigh-ho
definition:
Heigh-ho

Heigh"-ho
(hī"-h&omacr)
interj.
An exclamation of surprise, joy, dejection, uneasiness, weariness, etc.
Shak.


word: Height
definition:
Height

Height
(hīt)
n.
[Written also hight.]
[OE. heighte, heght, heighthe, AS. heáhðu, hēhðu fr. heah high; akin to D. hoogte, Sw. höjd, Dan. höide, Icel. hæð, Goth. hauhiþa. See High.]
1.
The condition of being high; elevated position.

Behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
Job xxii. 12.

2.
The distance to which anything rises above its foot, above that on which in stands, above the earth, or above the level of the sea; altitude; the measure upward from a surface, as the floor or the ground, of an animal, especially of a man; stature.
Bacon.

[Goliath's] height was six cubits and a span.
1 Sam. xvii. 4.

3.
Degree of latitude either north or south.
[Obs.]

Guinea lieth to the north sea, in the same height as Peru to the south.
Abp. Abbot.

4.
That which is elevated; an eminence; a hill or mountain; as, Alpine heights.
Dryden.

5.
Elevation in excellence of any kind, as in power, learning, arts; also, an advanced degree of social rank; preëminence or distinction in society; prominence.

Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.
R. Browning.

All would in his power hold, all make his subjects.
Chapman.

6.
Progress toward eminence; grade; degree.

Social duties are carried to greater heights, and enforced with stronger motives by the principles of our religion.
Addison.

7.
Utmost degree in extent; extreme limit of energy or condition; as, the height of a fever, of passion, of madness, of folly; the height of a tempest.

My grief was at the height before thou camest.
Shak.

On height, aloud. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]
[He] spake these same words, all on hight. Chaucer.


word: Heighten
definition:
Heighten

Height"en
(hīt"'n)
v. t.
[Written also highten.]
[imp. & p. p. Heightened (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Heightening.]
1.
To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.

2.
To carry forward; to advance; to increase; to augment; to aggravate; to intensify; to render more conspicuous; -- used of things, good or bad; as, to heighten beauty; to heighten a flavor or a tint.
heighten
Addison.

An aspect of mystery which was easily heightened to the miraculous.
Hawthorne.


word: heinie
definition:
heinie

hei"nie
(hī"nē)
n.
The buttocks; -- a word used with children.
[slang]

Syn. -- ass, butt, buttocks, rear end, derriere, rump, behind.


word: Heinous
definition:
Heinous

Hei"nous
(hā"nŭs)
a.
[OF. haïnos hateful, F. haineux, fr. OF. haïne hate, F. haine, fr. haïr to hate; of German origin. See Hate.]
Hateful; hatefully bad; flagrant; odious; atrocious; giving great offense; -- applied to deeds or to character.

It were most heinous and accursed sacrilege.
Hooker.

How heinous had the fact been, how deserving
Contempt!
Milton.


word: heinousness
definition:
heinousness

heinousness
n.
the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane.

Syn. -- atrocity, atrociousness, barbarity, barbarousness.


word: Heir
definition:
Heir

Heir
(âr)
n.
[OE. heir, eir, hair, OF. heir, eir, F. hoir, L. heres; of uncertain origin.  Cf. Hereditary, Heritage.]
1.
One who inherits, or is entitled to succeed to the possession of, any property after the death of its owner; one on whom the law bestows the title or property of another at the death of the latter.

I am my father's heir and only son.
Shak.

2.
One who receives any endowment from an ancestor or relation; as, the heir of one's reputation or virtues.

And I his heir in misery alone.
Pope.

Heir apparent. (Law.) See under Apparent. -- Heir at law, one who, after his ancector's death, has a right to inherit all his intestate estate. Wharton (Law Dict.). -- Heir presumptive, one who, if the ancestor should die immediately, would be his heir, but whose right to the inheritance may be defeated by the birth of a nearer relative, or by some other contingency.


word: Heir₂
definition:
Heir

Heir
(?)
v. t.
To inherit; to succeed to.
[R.]

One only daughter heired the royal state.
Dryden.


word: Heirloom
definition:
Heirloom

Heir"loom`
(?)
n.
[Heir + loom, in its earlier sense of implement, tool. See Loom the frame.]
Any furniture, movable, or personal chattel, which by law or special custom descends to the heir along with the inheritance; any piece of personal property that has been in a family for several generations.

Woe to him whose daring hand profanes
The honored heirlooms of his ancestors.
Moir.


word: Heirship
definition:
Heirship

Heir"ship
(?)
n.
The state, character, or privileges of an heir; right of inheriting.

Heirship movables, certain kinds of movables which the heir is entitled to take, besides the heritable estate. [Scot.]


word: Hektometer
definition:
Hektometer

Hektoliter

Hektogram

Hektare

Hek"tare`, Hek"to*gram, Hek"to*li`ter, and Hek"to*me`ter
n.
Same as Hectare, Hectogram, Hectoliter, and Hectometer.


word: Helcoplasty
definition:
Helcoplasty

Hel"co*plas`ty
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; a wound + -plasty.]
(Med.)
The act or process of repairing lesions made by ulcers, especially by a plastic operation.


word: Hele₂
definition:
Hele

Hele
v. t.
[AS. helan, akin to D. helen, OHG. helan, G. hehlen, L. celare. √17. See Hell, and cf. Conceal.]
To hide; to cover; to roof.
[Obs.]

Hide and hele things.
Chaucer.


word: Helenin
definition:
Helenin

Hel"e*nin
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A neutral organic substance found in the root of the elecampane (Inula helenium), and extracted as a white crystalline or oily material, with a slightly bitter taste.


word: Heleodytes
definition:
Heleodytes

Heleodytes
prop. n.
A genus comprising the cactus wrens; one of several alternative classifications.

Syn. -- Campylorhynchus, genus Campylorhynchus, genus Heleodytes.


word: Heliacal
definition:
Heliacal

He*li"a*cal
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; belonging to the sun, fr. _; the sun: cf. F. héliaque.]
(Astron.)
Emerging from the light of the sun, or passing into it; rising or setting at the same, or nearly the same, time as the sun.
Sir T. Browne.

&hand_; The heliacal rising of a star is when, after being in conjunction with the sun, and invisible, it emerges from the light so as to be visible in the morning before sunrising. On the contrary, the heliacal setting of a star is when the sun approaches conjunction so near as to render the star invisible.


word: Helianthin
definition:
Helianthin

He`li*an"thin
(?)
n.
[Prob. fr. L. helianthes, or NL. helianthus, sunflower, in allusion to its color.]
(Chem.)
An artificial, orange dyestuff, analogous to tropaolin, and like it used as an indicator in alkalimetry; -- called also methyl orange.


word: Helianthoidea
definition:
Helianthoidea

He`li*an"thoi"de*a
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. L. helianthes sunflower + -oid.]
(Zool.)
An order of Anthozoa; the Actinaria.


word: helianthus
definition:
helianthus

helianthus
n.
any plant of the genus Helianthus having large flower heads with dark disk florets and showy yellow rays.

Syn. -- sunflower.


word: Helical
definition:
Helical

Hel"i*cal
(?)
a.
[From Helix.]
Of or pertaining to, or in the form of, a helix; spiral; as, a helical staircase; a helical spring.
Hel"i*cal*ly, adv.


word: Helichrysum
definition:
Helichrysum

Hel`i*chry"sum
(_;)
n.
[L., the marigold, fr. Gr. _; a kind of plant.]
(Bot.)
A genus of composite plants, with shining, commonly white or yellow, or sometimes reddish, radiated involucres, which are often called “everlasting flowers.”


word: Helicin
definition:
Helicin

Hel"i*cin
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A glucoside obtained as a white crystalline substance by partial oxidation of salicin, from a willow (Salix Helix of Linnaeus.)


word: Helicine
definition:
Helicine

Hel"i*cine
(?)
a.
(Anat.)
Curled; spiral; helicoid; -- applied esp. to certain arteries of the penis.


word: Helicograph
definition:
Helicograph

Hel"i*co*graph`
(?)
n.
[Helix + -graph.]
An instrument for drawing spiral lines on a plane.


word: Helicoid
definition:
Helicoid

Hel"i*coid
(?)
a.
[Gr. _;; _;, _;, spiral + _; shape: cf. F. hélicoïde. See Helix.]

1.
Spiral; curved, like the spire of a univalve shell.

2.
(Zool.)
Shaped like a snail shell; pertaining to the Helicidae, or Snail family.

Helicoid parabola (Math.), the parabolic spiral.


word: Helicoid₂
definition:
Helicoid

Hel"i*coid
n.
(Geom.)
A warped surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner that every point of the line shall have a uniform motion in the direction of another fixed straight line, and at the same time a uniform angular motion about it.


word: Helicon
definition:
Helicon

Hel"i*con
(hĕl"ĭ*k&obreve_;n)
prop. n.
[L., fr. Gr. "Elikw`n.]
A mountain in Bœotia, in Greece, supposed by the Greeks to be the residence of Apollo and the Muses.

From Helicon's harmonious springs
A thousand rills their mazy progress take.
Gray.


word: Heliconia
definition:
Heliconia

Hel`i*co"ni*a
(?)
n.
[NL. See Helicon.]
(Zool.)
One of numerous species of Heliconius, a genus of tropical American butterflies.  The wings are usually black, marked with green, crimson, and white.


word: Heliconian
definition:
Heliconian

Hel`i*co"ni*an
(?)
a.
[L. Heliconius.]
1.
Of or pertaining to Helicon.
Heliconian
Tennyson.

2.
(Zool.)
Like or pertaining to the butterflies of the genus Heliconius.


word: Helicopter
definition:
Helicopter

Hel"i*cop`ter
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. "e`lix, "e`likos, a spiral + ptero`n a wing.]
a heavier-than-air aircraft whose lift is provided by the aerodynamic forces on rotating blades rather than on fixed wings.  Contrasted with fixed-wing aircraft.


word: Helicotrema
definition:
Helicotrema

Hel`i*co"tre"ma
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. "e`lix, "e`likos, a helix + _; a hole.]
(Anat.)
The opening by which the two scalae communicate at the top of the cochlea of the ear.


word: Heliocentrical
definition:
Heliocentrical

Heliocentric

{ He`li*o*cen"tric (hē`lĭ*o̝*sĕn"trĭk), He`li*o*cen"tric"al (hē`lĭ*o̝*sĕn"trĭ*kal), }
a.
[Helio- + centric, centrical: cf. F. héliocentrique.]
(Astron.)
pertaining to the sun's center, or appearing to be seen from it; having, or relating to, the sun as a center; -- opposed to geocentrical.

Heliocentric parallax. See under Parallax. -- Heliocentric place, latitude, longitude, etc. (of a heavenly body), the direction, latitude, longitude, etc., of the body as viewed from the sun.


word: Heliochrome
definition:
Heliochrome

He"li*o*chrome
(hē"lĭ*o̝*kr&omacrm)
n.
[Helio- + Gr. chrw^ma color.]
A photograph in colors.
R. Hunt.


word: Heliochromic
definition:
Heliochromic

He`li*o*chro"mic
(hē`lĭ*o̝*kr&omacr"mĭk or hē`lĭ*o̝*kr&obreve_;m"ĭk)
a.
Pertaining to, or produced by, heliochromy.


word: Heliochromy
definition:
Heliochromy

He"li*o*chro`my
(hē"lĭ*o̝*kr&omacr`m&ybreve_; or hē`lĭ*&obreve_;k"ro̝`m&ybreve_;)
n.
The art of producing photographs in color.


word: Heliogram
definition:
Heliogram

He"li*o*gram
(hē"lĭ*o̝*grȧm)
n.
[Helio- + -gram.]
A message transmitted by a heliograph.


word: Heliograph
definition:
Heliograph

He"li*o*graph
(hē"lĭ*o̝*grȧf)
n.
[Helio- + -graph.]

1.
A picture taken by heliography; a photograph.

2.
An instrument for taking photographs of the sun.

3.
An apparatus for telegraphing by means of the sun's rays. See Heliotrope, 3.


word: Heliograph₂
definition:
Heliograph

He"li*o*graph
(hē"lĭ*o̝*grȧf)
v. t.
1.
To telegraph, or signal, with a heliograph.

2.
To photograph by sunlight.


word: Heliographic
definition:
Heliographic

He`li*o*graph"ic
(hē`lĭ*o̝*grăf"ĭk)
a.
(Astron.)
1.
Of or pertaining to a description of the sun.

&hand_; Heliographic longitudes and latitudes of spots on the sun's surface are analogous to geographic longitudes and latitudes of places on the earth.

2.
Of or pertaining to heliography or a heliograph; made by heliography.

Heliographic chart. See under Chart.


word: Heliography
definition:
Heliography

He`li*og"ra*phy
n.
1.
[Helio- + -graphy.]
The description of the sun.

2.
The system, art, or practice of telegraphing, or signaling, with the heliograph.

3.
An early photographic process invented by Nicéphore Niepce, and still used in photo-engraving. It consists essentially in exposing under a design or in a camera a polished metal plate coated with a preparation of asphalt, and subsequently treating the plate with a suitable solvent. The light renders insoluble those parts of the film which is strikes, and so a permanent image is formed, which can be etched upon the plate by the use of acid.

4.
Photography.
[Archaic.]
R. Hunt.


word: Heliogravure
definition:
Heliogravure

He`li*o*grav"ure
(?)
n.
[F. héliogravure.]
1.
The process of photographic engraving.

2.
A plate or picture made by the process of heliogravure.


word: Heliolite
definition:
Heliolite

He"li*o*lite
(?)
n.
[Helio- + -lite.]
(Paleon.)
A fossil coral of the genus Heliolites, having twelve-rayed cells. It is found in the Silurian rocks.


word: Heliometer
definition:
Heliometer

He`li*om"e*ter
(?)
n.
[Helio- + -meter: cf. F. héliomètre.]
(Astron.)
An instrument devised originally for measuring the diameter of the sun; now employed for delicate measurements of the distance and relative direction of two stars too far apart to be easily measured in the field of view of an ordinary telescope.


word: Heliometrical
definition:
Heliometrical

Heliometric

{ He`li*o*met"ric (?), He`li*o*met"ric*al (?), }
a.
Of or pertaining to the heliometer, or to heliometry.


word: Heliometry
definition:
Heliometry

He`li*om"e*try
(?)
n.
The apart or practice of measuring the diameters of heavenly bodies, their relative distances, etc. See Heliometer.


word: Heliopora
definition:
Heliopora

He`li*op"o*ra
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; the sun + _; a passage, pore.]
(Zool.)
An East Indian stony coral now known to belong to the Alcyonaria; -- called also blue coral.


word: Helioscope
definition:
Helioscope

He"li*o*scope
(?)
n.
[Helio- + -scope: cf. F. hélioscope.]
(Astron.)
A telescope or instrument for viewing the sun without injury to the eyes, as through colored glasses, or with mirrors which reflect but a small portion of light.
He`li*o*scop`ic (#), a.


word: Heliostat
definition:
Heliostat

He"li*o*stat
(?)
n.
[Helio- + Gr. _; placed, standing, fr. _; to place, stand: cf. F. héliostate.]
An instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, by which a sunbeam is made apparently stationary, by being steadily directed to one spot during the whole of its diurnal period; also, a geodetic heliotrope.


word: Heliotrope
definition:
Heliotrope

He"li*o*trope
(?)
n.
[F. héliotrope, L. heliotropium, Gr. _;; _; the sun + _; to turn, _; turn. See Heliacal, Trope.]
1.
(Anc. Astron.)
An instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line.

2.
(Bot.)
A plant of the genus Heliotropium; -- called also turnsole and girasole.  Heliotropium Peruvianum is the commonly cultivated species with fragrant flowers.

3.
(Geodesy & Signal Service)
An instrument for making signals to an observer at a distance, by means of the sun's rays thrown from a mirror.

4.
(Min.)
See Bloodstone (a).

Heliotrope purple, a grayish purple color.


word: Heliotroper
definition:
Heliotroper

He"li*o*tro`per
(?)
n.
The person at a geodetic station who has charge of the heliotrope.


word: Heliotropism
definition:
Heliotropism

He`li*ot"ro*pism
(?)
n.
[Helio- + Gr. _; to turn.]
(Bot.)
The phenomenon of turning toward the light, seen in many leaves and flowers.


word: Heliotypy
definition:
Heliotypy

He"li*o*ty`py
(?)
n.
A method of transferring pictures from photographic negatives to hardened gelatin plates from which impressions are produced on paper as by lithography.


word: Heliozoa
definition:
Heliozoa

He`li*o*zo"a
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; the sun + zw^,on an animal.]
(Zool.)
An order of fresh-water rhizopods having a more or less globular form, with slender radiating pseudopodia; the sun animalcule.


word: Helipterum
definition:
Helipterum

Helipterum
n.
genus of South African and Australian herbs or shrubs grown as everlastings; the various Helipterum species are currently in process of being assigned to other genera, especially Pteropogon and Hyalosperma.

Syn. -- genus Helipterum.


word: Helispherical
definition:
Helispherical

Helispheric

Hel`i*spher"ic (?), Hel`i*spher"ic*al (_;)
a.
[Helix + spheric, spherical.]
Spiral.

Helispherical line (Math.). the rhomb line in navigation. [R.]


word: Helium
definition:
Helium

He"li*um
(hē"lĭ*ŭm)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. "h`lios the sun.]
(Chem.)
An inert, monoatomic, gaseous element occurring in the atmosphere of the sun and stars, and in small quantities in the earth's atmosphere, in several minerals and in certain mineral waters. It is obtained from natural gas in industrial quantities.  Symbol, He; atomic number 2; at. wt., 4.0026 (C=12.011). Helium was first detected spectroscopically in the sun by Lockyer in 1868; it was first prepared by Ramsay in 1895. Helium has a density of 1.98 compared with hydrogen, and is more difficult to liquefy than the latter. Chemically, it is an inert noble gas, belonging to the argon group, and cannot be made to form compounds. The helium nucleus is the charged particle which constitutes alpha rays, and helium is therefore formed as a decomposition product of certain radioactive substances such as radium.  The normal helium nucleus has two protons and two neutrons, but an isotope with only one neutron is also observed in atmospheric helium at an abundance of 0.013 %.  Liquid helium has a boiling point of -268.9° C at atmospheric pressure, and is used for maintaining very low temperatures, both in laboratory experimentation and in commercial applications to maintain superconductivity in low-temperature superconducting devices.  Gaseous helium at normal temperatures is used for buoyancy in blimps, dirigibles, and high-altitude balloons, and also for amusement in party balloons.


word: Helix
definition:
Helix

He"lix
(?)
n.
pl. L. Helices (#), E. Helixes (#).
[L. helix, Gr. _;, _;, fr. _; to turn round; cf. L. volvere, and E. volute, voluble.]
1.
(Geom.)
A nonplane curve whose tangents are all equally inclined to a given plane. The common helix is the curve formed by the thread of the ordinary screw. It is distinguished from the spiral, all the convolutions of which are in the plane.

2.
(Arch.)
A caulicule or little volute under the abacus of the Corinthian capital.

3.
(Anat.)
The incurved margin or rim of the external ear. See Illust. of Ear.

4.
(Zool.)
A genus of land snails, including a large number of species.

&hand_; The genus originally included nearly all shells, but is now greatly restricted. See Snail, Pulmonifera.


word: Hell
definition:
Hell

Hell
(?)
n.
[AS. hell; akin to D. hel, OHG. hella, G. hölle, Icel. hal, Sw. helfvete, Dan. helvede, Goth. halja, and to AS. helan to conceal. _;_;_;.  Cf. Hele, v. t., Conceal, Cell, Helmet, Hole, Occult.]

1.
The place of the dead, or of souls after death; the grave; -- called in Hebrew sheol, and by the Greeks hades.

He descended into hell.
Book of Common Prayer.

Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell.
Ps. xvi. 10.

2.
The place or state of punishment for the wicked after death; the abode of evil spirits. Hence, any mental torment; anguish.
hell
Milton.

It is a knell
That summons thee to heaven or to hell.
Shak.

3.
A place where outcast persons or things are gathered
(a)
A dungeon or prison; also, in certain running games, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.
(b)
A gambling house.
hell
W. Black.
(c)
A place into which a tailor throws his shreds, or a printer his broken type.
Hudibras.

Gates of hell. (Script.) See Gate, n., 4.


word: Hellanodic
definition:
Hellanodic

Hel`la*nod"ic
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;; _;, _;, a Greek + _; right, judgment.]
(Gr. Antiq.)
A judge or umpire in games or combats.


word: Hellbender
definition:
Hellbender

Hell"bend`er
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
A large North American aquatic salamander (Protonopsis horrida or Menopoma Alleghaniensis). It is very voracious and very tenacious of life. Also called alligator, and water dog.


word: Hellebore
definition:
Hellebore

Hel"le*bore
(?)
n.
[L. helleborus, elleborus, Gr. _;, _;; cf. F. hellébore, ellébore.]

1.
(Bot.)
A genus of perennial herbs (Helleborus) of the Crowfoot family, mostly having powerfully cathartic and even poisonous qualities.  Helleborus niger is the European black hellebore, or Christmas rose, blossoming in winter or earliest spring. Helleborus officinalis was the officinal hellebore of the ancients.

2.
(Bot.)
Any plant of several species of the poisonous liliaceous genus Veratrum, especially Veratrum album and Veratrum viride, both called white hellebore.


word: Helleborein
definition:
Helleborein

Hel`le*bo"re*in
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A poisonous glucoside accompanying helleborin in several species of hellebore, and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a bittersweet taste. It has a strong action on the heart, resembling digitalin.


word: Helleborin
definition:
Helleborin

Hel*leb"o*rin
(? or ?)
n.
(Chem.)
A poisonous glucoside found in several species of hellebore, and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a sharp tingling taste. It possesses the essential virtues of the plant; -- called also elleborin.


word: Hellenic
definition:
Hellenic

Hel*len"ic
(?; 277)
a.
[Gr. _;, _;, fr. _; the Greeks.]
Of or pertaining to the Hellenes, or inhabitants of Greece; Greek; Grecian.
Hellenic
Jowett (Thucyd. ).


word: Hellenic₂
definition:
Hellenic

Hel*len"ic
n.
The dialect, formed with slight variations from the Attic, which prevailed among Greek writers after the time of Alexander.


word: Hellenism
definition:
Hellenism

Hel"len*ism
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;: cf. F. Hellénisme.]
1.
A phrase or form of speech in accordance with genius and construction or idioms of the Greek language; a Grecism.
Addison.

2.
The type of character of the ancient Greeks, who aimed at culture, grace, and amenity, as the chief elements in human well-being and perfection.


word: Hellenist
definition:
Hellenist

Hel"len*ist
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;: cf. F. Helléniste.]
1.
One who affiliates with Greeks, or imitates Greek manners; esp., a person of Jewish extraction who used the Greek language as his mother tongue, as did the Jews of Asia Minor, Greece, Syria, and Egypt; distinguished from the Hebraists, or native Jews (Acts vi. 1).

2.
One skilled in the Greek language and literature; as, the critical Hellenist.


word: Hellenistical
definition:
Hellenistical

Hellenistic

{ Hel`le*nis"tic (?), Hel`le*nis"tic*al (?), }
a.
[Cf. F. Hellénistique.]
Pertaining to the Hellenists.

Hellenistic language, Hellenistic dialect, or Hellenistic idiom, the Greek spoken or used by the Jews who lived in countries where the Greek language prevailed; the Jewish-Greek dialect or idiom of the Septuagint.


word: Hellenistically
definition:
Hellenistically

Hel`le*nis"tic*al*ly
adv.
According to the Hellenistic manner or dialect.
J. Gregory.


word: Hellenize
definition:
Hellenize

Hel"len*ize
(?)
v. i.
[Gr. _;.]
To use the Greek language; to play the Greek; to Grecize.


word: Hellenize₂
definition:
Hellenize

Hel"len*ize
(?)
v. t.
[Gr. _;.]
To give a Greek form or character to; to Grecize; as, to Hellenize a word.


word: Hellespont
definition:
Hellespont

Hel"les*pont
(?)
n.
[L. Hellespontus, Gr. _;; _; the mythological Helle, daughter of Athamas + _; sea.]
A narrow strait between Europe and Asia, now called the Daradanelles.  It connects the Aegean Sea and the sea of Marmora.


word: Hellgramite
definition:
Hellgramite

Hellgamite

{ Hell"ga*mite (?), Hell"gra*mite (?), }
n.
(Zool.)
The aquatic larva of a large American winged insect (Corydalus cornutus), much used a fish bait by anglers; the dobson. It belongs to the Neuroptera.


word: Hellhound
definition:
Hellhound

Hell"hound`
(?)
n.
[AS. hellehund.]
A dog of hell; an agent of hell.

A hellhound, that doth hunt us all to death.
Shak.


word: Hellier
definition:
Hellier

Hel"li*er
(?)
n.
[See Hele, v. t.]
One who heles or covers; hence, a tiler, slater, or thatcher.
[Obs.]
[Written also heler.]
Usher.


word: Hellish
definition:
Hellish

Hell"ish
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to hell; like hell; infernal; malignant; wicked; detestable; diabolical.
Hellish
Milton.
Hell"ish*ly, adv. -- Hell"ish*ness, n.


word: Hello
definition:
Hello

Hel*lo"
(?)
interj. & n.
An exclamation used as a greeting, to call attention, as an exclamation of surprise, or to encourage one.  This variant of Halloo and Holloo has become the dominant form.  In the United States, it is the most common greeting used in answering a telephone.


word: Helm₂
definition:
Helm

Helm
(?)
n.
[OE. helme, AS. helma rudder; akin to D. & G. helm, Icel. hjālm, and perh. to E. helve.]

1.
(Naut.)
The apparatus by which a ship is steered, comprising rudder, tiller, wheel, etc.; -- commonly used of the tiller or wheel alone.

2.
The place or office of direction or administration.
helm
Melmoth.

3.
One at the place of direction or control; a steersman; hence, a guide; a director.

The helms o' the State, who care for you like fathers.
Shak.

4.
[Cf. Helve.]
A helve.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

Helm amidships, when the tiller, rudder, and keel are in the same plane. -- Helm aport, when the tiller is borne over to the port side of the ship. -- Helm astarboard, when the tiller is borne to the starboard side. -- Helm alee, Helm aweather, when the tiller is borne over to the lee or to the weather side. -- Helm hard alee, Helm hard aport, Helm hard astarboard, etc., when the tiller is borne over to the extreme limit. -- Helm port, the round hole in a vessel's counter through which the rudderstock passes. -- Helm down, helm alee. -- Helm up, helm aweather. -- To ease the helm, to let the tiller come more amidships, so as to lessen the strain on the rudder. -- To feel the helm, to obey it. -- To right the helm, to put it amidships. -- To shift the helm, to bear the tiller over to the corresponding position on the opposite side of the vessel. Ham. Nav. Encyc.


word: Helm₃
definition:
Helm

Helm
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Helmed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Helming.]
To steer; to guide; to direct.
[R.]

The business he hath helmed.
Shak.

A wild wave . . . overbears the bark,
And him that helms it.
Tennyson.


word: Helm₄
definition:
Helm

Helm
n.
[AS. See Helmet.]
1.
A helmet.
[Poetic]

2.
A heavy cloud lying on the brow of a mountain.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.


word: Helm₅
definition:
Helm

Helm
v. t.
To cover or furnish with a helm or helmet.
[Perh. used only as a past part. or part. adj.]

She that helmed was in starke stours.
Chaucer.


word: Helmed
definition:
Helmed

Helm"ed
(?)
a.
Covered with a helmet.

The helmed cherubim
Are seen in glittering ranks.
Milton.


word: Helmet
definition:
Helmet

Hel"met
(?)
n.
[OF. helmet, a dim of helme, F. heaume; of Teutonic origin; cf. G. helm, akin to AS. & OS. helm, D. helm, helmet, Icel. hjālmr, Sw. hjelm, Dan. hielm, Goth. hilms; and prob. from the root of AS. helan to hide, to hele; cf. also Lith. szalmas, Russ. shleme, Skr. çarman protection. √17.  Cf. Hele, Hell, Helm a helmet.]
1.
(Armor)
A defensive covering for the head. See Casque, Headpiece, Morion, Sallet, and Illust. of Beaver.

2.
(Her.)
The representation of a helmet over shields or coats of arms, denoting gradations of rank by modifications of form.

3.
A helmet-shaped hat, made of cork, felt, metal, or other suitable material, worn as part of the uniform of soldiers, firemen, etc., also worn in hot countries as a protection from the heat of the sun.

4.
That which resembles a helmet in form, position, etc.
(a)
(Chem.)
The upper part of a retort.
Boyle.
(b)
(Bot.)
The hood-formed upper sepal or petal of some flowers, as of the monkshood or the snapdragon.
(c)
(Zool.)
A naked shield or protuberance on the top or fore part of the head of a bird.

Helmet beetle (Zool.), a leaf-eating beetle of the family Chrysomelidae, having a short, broad, and flattened body. Many species are known. -- Helmet shell (Zool.), one of many species of tropical marine univalve shells belonging to Cassis and allied genera. Many of them are large and handsome; several are used for cutting as cameos, and hence are called cameo shells. See King conch. -- Helmet shrike (Zool.), an African wood shrike of the genus Prionodon, having a large crest.


word: Helmeted
definition:
Helmeted

Hel`met*ed
(?)
a.
Wearing a helmet; furnished with or having a helmet or helmet-shaped part; galeate.


word: Helminth
definition:
Helminth

Hel"minth
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;, _;, a worm.]
(Zool.)
An intestinal worm, or wormlike intestinal parasite; one of the Helminthes.


word: Helminthes
definition:
Helminthes

Hel*min"thes
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _;, _;, a worm.]
(Zool.)
One of the grand divisions or branches of the animal kingdom. It is a large group including a vast number of species, most of which are parasitic. Called also Enthelminthes, Enthelmintha.

&hand_; The following classes are included, with others of less importance: Cestoidea (tapeworms), Trematodea (flukes, etc.), Turbellaria (planarians), Acanthocephala (thornheads), Nematoidea (roundworms, trichina, gordius), Nemertina (nemerteans). See Plathelminthes, and Nemathelminthes.


word: Helminthiasis
definition:
Helminthiasis

Hel`min*thi"a*sis
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; to suffer from worms, fr. _;, _;, a worm.]
(Med.)
A disease in which worms are present in some part of the body.


word: Helminthic
definition:
Helminthic

Hel*min"thic
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. helminthique.]
Of or relating to worms, or Helminthes; expelling worms.
n. A vermifuge; an anthelmintic.


word: Helminthite
definition:
Helminthite

Hel*min"thite
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;, _;, a worm.]
(Geol.)
One of the sinuous tracks on the surfaces of many stones, and popularly considered as worm trails.


word: Helminthological
definition:
Helminthological

Helminthologic

{ Hel*min`tho*log"ic (?), Hel*min`tho*log"ic*al, }
a.
[Cf. F. helminthologique.]
Of or pertaining to helminthology.


word: Helminthologist
definition:
Helminthologist

Hel`min*thol"o*gist
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. helminthologiste.]
One versed in helminthology.


word: Helminthology
definition:
Helminthology

Hel`min*thol"o*gy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;, _;, a worm + -logy: cf. F. helminthologie.]
The natural history, or study, of worms, esp. parasitic worms.


word: Helodermatidae
definition:
Helodermatidae

Helodermatidae
prop. n.
A natural family of lizards, including the only known venomous lizards.

Syn. -- family Helodermatidae.


word: Helot
definition:
Helot

He"lot
(?; 277)
n.
[L. Helotes, Hilotae, pl., fr. Gr. E'e`lws and E'elw`ths a bondman or serf of the Spartans; so named from 'Elos, a town of Laconia, whose inhabitants were enslaved; or perh. akin to e`lei^n to take, conquer, used as 2d aor. of _;.]
A slave in ancient Sparta; a Spartan serf; hence, a slave or serf.

Those unfortunates, the Helots of mankind, more or less numerous in every community.
I. Taylor.


word: Help
definition:
Help

Help
(hĕlp)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Helped (hĕlpt) (Obs. imp. Holp (h&omacrlp), p. p. Holpen (h&omacrl"p'n)); p. pr. & vb. n. Helping.]
[AS. helpan; akin to OS. helpan, D. helpen, G. helfen, OHG. helfan, Icel. hjālpa, Sw. hjelpa, Dan. hielpe, Goth. hilpan; cf. Lith. szelpti, and Skr. klp to be fitting.]
1.
To furnish with strength or means for the successful performance of any action or the attainment of any object; to aid; to assist; as, to help a man in his work; to help one to remember; -- the following infinitive is commonly used without to; as, “Help me scale yon balcony.”
Longfellow.

2.
To furnish with the means of deliverance from trouble; as, to help one in distress; to help one out of prison.
help
Shak.

3.
To furnish with relief, as in pain or disease; to be of avail against; -- sometimes with of before a word designating the pain or disease, and sometimes having such a word for the direct object.
help
Shak.

The true calamus helps coughs.
Gerarde.

4.
To change for the better; to remedy.

Cease to lament for what thou canst not help.
Shak.

5.
To prevent; to hinder; as, the evil approaches, and who can help it?
Swift.

6.
To forbear; to avoid.

I can not help remarking the resemblance betwixt him and our author.
Pope.
7.
To wait upon, as the guests at table, by carving and passing food.

To help forward, to assist in advancing. -- To help off, to help to go or pass away, as time; to assist in removing. Locke. -- To help on, to forward; to promote by aid. -- To help out, to aid, as in delivering from a difficulty, or to aid in completing a design or task.
[1913 Webster]
The god of learning and of light
Would want a god himself to help him out. Swift.
-- To help over, to enable to surmount; as, to help one over an obstacle. -- To help to, to supply with; to furnish with; as, to help one to soup. -- To help up, to help (one) to get up; to assist in rising, as after a fall, and the like. “A man is well holp up that trusts to you.” Shak.


word: Help₂
definition:
Help

Help
(?)
v. i.
To lend aid or assistance; to contribute strength or means; to avail or be of use; to assist.

A generous present helps to persuade, as well as an agreeable person.
Garth.

To help out, to lend aid; to bring a supply.


word: Help₃
definition:
Help

Help
n.
[AS. help; akin to D. hulp, G. hülfe, hilfe, Icel. hjālp, Sw. hjelp, Dan. hielp. See Help, v. t.]

1.
Strength or means furnished toward promoting an object, or deliverance from difficulty or distress; aid; ^; also, the person or thing furnishing the aid; as, he gave me a help of fifty dollars.

Give us help from trouble, for vain is the help of man.
Ps. lx. 11.

God is . . . a very present help in trouble.
Ps. xlvi. 1.

Virtue is a friend and a help to nature.
South.

2.
Remedy; relief; as, there is no help for it.

3.
A helper; one hired to help another; also, thew hole force of hired helpers in any business.

4.
Specifically, a domestic servant, man or woman.
[Local, U. S.]


word: Helper
definition:
Helper

Help"er
(?)
n.
One who, or that which, helps, aids, assists, or relieves; as, a lay helper in a parish.

Thou art the helper of the fatherless.
Ps. x. 14.

Compassion . . . oftentimes a helper of evils.
Dr. H. More.


word: Helpful
definition:
Helpful

Help"ful
(?)
a.
Furnishing help; giving aid; assistant; useful; salutary.

Heavens make our presence and our practices
Pleasant and helpful to him!
Shak.


word: helping
definition:
helping

helping
n.
1.
a quantity of food served as part of a meal.

Syn. -- portion, serving.

2.
the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose.

Syn. -- aid, assistance, help.


word: Helpless
definition:
Helpless

Help"less
a.
1.
Destitute of help or strength; unable to help or defend one's self; needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless infant.

How shall I then your helpless fame defend?
Pope.

2.
Beyond help; irremediable.

Some helpless disagreement or dislike, either of mind or body.
Milton.

3.
Bringing no help; unaiding.
[Obs.]

Yet since the gods have been
Helpless foreseers of my plagues.
Chapman.

4.
Unsupplied; destitute; -- with of.
[R.]

Helpless of all that human wants require.
Dryden.


word: Helpmate
definition:
Helpmate

Help"mate`
(?)
n.
[A corruption of the “help meet for him” of Genesis ii. 18.Fitzedward Hall.]
A helper; a companion; specifically, a wife.

In Minorca the ass and the hog are common helpmates, and are yoked together in order to turn up the land.
Pennant.

A waiting woman was generally considered as the most suitable helpmate for a parson.
Macaulay.


word: Helpmeet
definition:
Helpmeet

Help"meet`
(?)
n.
[See Helpmate.]
A wife; a helpmate.

The Lord God created Adam, . . . and afterwards, on his finding the want of a helpmeet, caused him to sleep, and took one of his ribs and thence made woman.
J. H. Newman.


word: Helter-skelter
definition:
Helter-skelter

Hel"ter-skel"ter
(?)
adv.
[An onomat_;poetic word.  Cf. G. holter-polter, D. holder de bolder.]
In hurry and confusion; without definite purpose; irregularly.
[Colloq.]

Helter-skelter have I rode to thee.
Shak.

A wistaria vine running helter-skelter across the roof.
J. C. Harris.


word: Helve
definition:
Helve

Helve
(?)
n.
[OE. helve, helfe, AS. hielf, helf, hylf, cf. OHG. halb; and also E. halter, helm of a rudder.]
1.
The handle of an ax, hatchet, or adze.

2.
(Iron Working)
(a)
The lever at the end of which is the hammer head, in a forge hammer.
(b)
A forge hammer which is lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head.


word: Helve₂
definition:
Helve

Helve
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Helved (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Helving.]
To furnish with a helve, as an ax.


word: Helvetic
definition:
Helvetic

Hel*ve"tic
(?)
a.
[L. Helveticus, fr. Helvetii the Helvetii.]
Of or pertaining to the Helvetii, the ancient inhabitant of the Alps, now Switzerland, or to the modern states and inhabitant of the Alpine regions; as, the Helvetic confederacy; Helvetic states.


word: Helvite
definition:
Helvite

Helvine

{ Hel"vine (?), Hel"vite (?), }
n.
[L. helvus of a light bay color.]
(Min.)
A mineral of a yellowish color, consisting chiefly of silica, glucina, manganese, and iron, with a little sulphur.


word: Helxine
definition:
Helxine

Helxine
n.
(Bot.)
A genus of plants consisting of one species; a dwarf creeping mat-forming evergreen herb.

Syn. -- genus Helxine, Soleirolia, genus Soleirolia.


word: Hem
definition:
Hem

Hem
(hĕm)
pron.
[OE., fr. AS. him, heom, dative pl. of. hē he. See He, They.]
Them
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Hem₂
definition:
Hem

Hem
interj.
An onomatopoetic word used as an expression of hesitation, doubt, etc. It is often a sort of voluntary half cough, loud or subdued, and would perhaps be better expressed by hm.

Cough or cry hem, if anybody come.
Shak.


word: Hem₃
definition:
Hem

Hem
n.
An utterance or sound of the voice, hem or hm, often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention.
hems
Spectator.


word: Hem₄
definition:
Hem

Hem
v. i.
[√15.  See Hem, interj.]
To make the sound expressed by the word hem; hence, to hesitate in speaking.
Hem
Shak.


word: Hem₅
definition:
Hem

Hem
n.
[AS. hem, border, margin; cf. Fries. hämel, Prov. G. hammel hem of mire or dirt.]
1.
The edge or border of a garment or cloth, doubled over and sewed, to strengthen it and prevent raveling.

2.
Border; edge; margin.
Hem
Shak.

3.
A border made on sheet-metal ware by doubling over the edge of the sheet, to stiffen it and remove the sharp edge.


word: Hem₆
definition:
Hem

Hem
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Hemmed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hemming.]
1.
To form a hem or border to; to fold and sew down the edge of.
Wordsworth.

2.
To border; to edge

All the skirt about
Was hemmed with golden fringe.
Spenser.

To hem about, To hem around, or To hem in, to inclose and confine; to surround; to environ.  “With valiant squadrons round about to hem.” Fairfax. “Hemmed in to be a spoil to tyranny.” Daniel. -- To hem out, to shut out.  “You can not hem me out of London.”  J. Webster.


word: Hemachate
definition:
Hemachate

Hem"a*chate
(?)
n.
[L. haemachates; Gr. a"i^ma blood + 'acha`ths agate.]
(Min.)
A species of agate, sprinkled with spots of red jasper.


word: Hemacite
definition:
Hemacite

Hem"a*cite
(?)
n.
[Gr. a"i^ma blood.]
A composition made from blood, mixed with mineral or vegetable substances, used for making buttons, door knobs, etc.


word: Hemadromometer
definition:
Hemadromometer

Hemadrometer

{ Hem`a*drom"e*ter (?), Hem`a*dro*mom"e*ter (?), }
n.
[Hema- + Gr. _; course + -meter.]
(Physiol.)
An instrument for measuring the velocity with which the blood moves in the arteries.


word: Hemadromometry
definition:
Hemadromometry

Hemadrometry

{ Hem`a*drom`e*try (?), Hem`a*dro*mom"e*try (?), }
n.
(Physiol.)
The act of measuring the velocity with which the blood circulates in the arteries; haemotachometry.


word: Hemadynamics
definition:
Hemadynamics

He`ma*dy*nam"ics
(?)
n.
[Hema- + dynamics.]
(Physiol.)
The principles of dynamics in their application to the blood; that part of science which treats of the motion of the blood.


word: Hemadynamometer
definition:
Hemadynamometer

He`ma*dy"na*mom"e*ter
(?)
n.
[Hema- + dynamometr.]
(Physiol.)
An instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury; -- called also a haemomanometer.


word: Hemal
definition:
Hemal

He"mal
(?)
a.
[Gr. a"i^ma blood.]
Relating to the blood or blood vessels; pertaining to, situated in the region of, or on the side with, the heart and great blood vessels; -- opposed to neural.

&hand_; As applied to vertebrates, hemal is the same as ventral, the heart and great blood vessels being on the ventral, and the central nervous system on the dorsal, side of the vertebral column.

Hemal arch (Anat.), the ventral arch in a segment of the spinal skeleton, formed by vertebral processes or ribs.


word: Hemapophysis
definition:
Hemapophysis

Hem`a*poph"y*sis
(?)
n.
pl. Hemapophyses .
[NL. See Haema-, and Apophysis.]
(Anat.)
The second element in each half of a hemal arch, corresponding to the sternal part of a rib.
Owen.
Hem`a*po*phys"i*al (#), a.


word: Hemastatics
definition:
Hemastatics

Hem`a*stat"ics
(?)
n.
(Physiol.)
Laws relating to the equilibrium of the blood in the blood vessels.


word: Hematein
definition:
Hematein

Hem`a*te"in
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;, _;, blood.]
(Chem.)
A reddish brown or violet crystalline substance, C16H12O6, got from hematoxylin by partial oxidation, and regarded as analogous to the phthaleins.


word: Hematemesis
definition:
Hematemesis

Hem`a*tem"e*sis
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. a"i^ma, a"i`matos, blood + _; a vomiting, fr. _; to vomit.]
(Med.)
A vomiting of blood.


word: Hematin
definition:
Hematin

Hem"a*tin
(?)
n.
[Gr. a"i^ma, a"i`matos, blood.]
1.
Hematoxylin.

2.
(Physiol. Chem.)
A bluish black, amorphous substance containing iron and obtained from blood. It exists the red blood corpuscles united with globulin, and the form of hemoglobin or oxyhemoglobin gives to the blood its red color.


word: Hematinic
definition:
Hematinic

He`ma*tin"ic
(?)
n.
[From Hematin.]
(Med.)
Any substance, such as an iron salt or organic compound containing iron, which when ingested tends to increase the hemoglobin contents of the blood.


word: Hematinometer
definition:
Hematinometer

Hem`a*ti*nom"e*ter
(?)
n.
[Hematin + -meter.]
(Physiol. Chem.)
A form of hemoglobinometer.


word: Hematinometric
definition:
Hematinometric

Hem`a*tin`o*met"ric
(?)
a.
(Physiol.)
Relating to the measurement of the amount of hematin or hemoglobin contained in blood, or other fluids.


word: Hematinon
definition:
Hematinon

He*mat"i*non
(?)
n.
[Gr. a"i^ma, a"i`matos, blood.]
A red consisting of silica, borax, and soda, fused with oxide of copper and iron, and used in enamels, mosaics, etc.


word: Hematite
definition:
Hematite

Hem"a*tite
(?)
n.
[L. haematites, Gr. _; bloodlike, fr. a"i^ma, a"i`matos, blood.]
(Min.)
An important ore of iron, the sesquioxide, so called because of the red color of the powder. It occurs in splendent rhombohedral crystals, and in massive and earthy forms; -- the last called red ocher. Called also specular iron, oligist iron, rhombohedral iron ore, and bloodstone. See Brown hematite, under Brown.


word: Hematocele
definition:
Hematocele

He*mat"o*cele
(?)
n.
[Hemato- + Gr. _; tumor: cf. F. hématocèle.]
(Med.)
A tumor filled with blood.


word: Hematocrya
definition:
Hematocrya

Hem`a*toc"ry*a
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. a"i^ma, a"i`matos, blood + kry`os cold.]
(Zool.)
The cold-blooded vertebrates, that is, all but the mammals and birds; -- the antithesis to Hematotherma.


word: Hematoidin
definition:
Hematoidin

Hem`a*toid"in
(?)
n.
(Physiol. Chem.)
A crystalline or amorphous pigment, free from iron, formed from hematin in old blood stains, and in old hemorrhages in the body. It resembles bilirubin. When present in the corpora lutea it is called haemolutein.


word: hematolysis
definition:
hematolysis

hematolysis
n.
The lysis of erythrocytes in the blood with the release of hemoglobin.

Syn. -- hemolysis, haemolysis, haematolysis.


word: Hematoma
definition:
Hematoma

Hem`a*to"ma
(hē`mȧ*t&omacr"mȧ or hĕm`ȧ*t&omacr"mȧ)
n.
[NL. See Hema-, and -oma.]
(Med.)
A localised leakage of blood from the blood vessels into nearby tissues, usually confined within a tissue or organ; especially, a local swelling produced by an effusion of blood beneath the skin, which may clot and discolor the affected area.


word: Hematophilia
definition:
Hematophilia

Hem`a*to*phil"i*a
(hē`mȧ*to̝*fĭl"ĭ*ȧ)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. a"i^ma, a"i`matos, blood + filei^n to love.]
(Med.)
Same as hemophilia; -- an obsolete term.
[Obs.]


word: Hematosis
definition:
Hematosis

Hem`a*to"sis
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. a"ima`twsis.]
(Physiol.)
(a)
Sanguification; the conversion of chyle into blood.
(b)
The arterialization of the blood in the lungs; the formation of blood in general; haematogenesis.


word: Hematotherma
definition:
Hematotherma

Hem`a*to*ther"ma
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., from Gr. a"i^ma, a"i`matos, blood + thermo`s warm.]
(Zool.)
The warm-blooded vertebrates, comprising the mammals and birds; -- the antithesis to hematocrya.


word: Hematuria
definition:
Hematuria

Hem`a*tu"ri*a
(?)
n.
[NL. See Hema-, and Urine.]
(Med.)
Passage of urine mingled with blood; blood in the urine.


word: Hemautography
definition:
Hemautography

Hem`au*tog"ra*phy
(?)
n.
(Physiol.)
The obtaining of a curve similar to a pulse curve or sphygmogram by allowing the blood from a divided artery to strike against a piece of paper.


word: Hemelytrum
definition:
Hemelytrum

Hemelytron

{ &VerbarHem*el"y*tron (? or ?), &VerbarHem*el"y*trum (-trŭm cf. Elytron, 277), }
n.
pl. Hemelytra (_;).
[NL. See Hemi, and Elytron.]
(Zool.)
One of the partially thickened anterior wings of certain insects, as of many Hemiptera, the earwigs, etc.


word: Hemeralopia
definition:
Hemeralopia

Hem`e*ra*lo"pi*a
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _;, the opposite of _;; _; day + _; of _;. See Nyctalopia.]
(Med.)
A disease of the eyes, in consequence of which a person can see clearly or without pain only by daylight or a strong artificial light; day sight.

&hand_; Some writers (as Quain) use the word in the opposite sense, i. e., day blindness. See Nyctalopia.


word: Hemerobian
definition:
Hemerobian

Hem`er*o"bi*an
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; day + _; life.]
(Zool.)
A neuropterous insect of the genus Hemerobius, and allied genera.


word: Hemerobiidae
definition:
Hemerobiidae

Hemerobiidae
prop. n.
A natural family of insects including the brown lacewings.

Syn. -- family Hemerobiidae.


word: Hemerocallidaceae
definition:
Hemerocallidaceae

Hemerocallidaceae
n.
one of many subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Lily family Liliaceae, but not widely accepted; it includes the genus Hemerocallis.

Syn. -- family Hemerocallidaceae.


word: Hemerocallis
definition:
Hemerocallis

Hem`e*ro*cal"lis
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _;; _; day + ka`llos beauty.]
(Bot.)
A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily.


word: Hemialbumose
definition:
Hemialbumose

Hem`i*al"bu"mose`
(?)
n.
[Hemi- + albumose.]
(Physiol. Chem.)
An albuminous substance formed in gastric digestion, and by the action of boiling dilute acids on albumin. It is readily convertible into hemipeptone. Called also hemialbumin.


word: Hemianaesthesia
definition:
Hemianaesthesia

Hem`i*an`aes*the"si*a
(?)
n.
[Hemi- + anaesthesia.]
(Med.)
Anaesthesia upon one side of the body.


word: Hemibranchi
definition:
Hemibranchi

Hem`i*bran"chi
(?)
n. pl.
[NL. See Hemi-, and Branchia.]
(Zool.)
An order of fishes having an incomplete or reduced branchial apparatus. It includes the sticklebacks, the flutemouths, and Fistularia.


word: Hemicardia
definition:
Hemicardia

Hem`i*car"di*a
(?)
n.
[NL. See Hemi-, and Cardia.]
(Anat.)
A lateral half of the heart, either the right or left.
B. G. Wilder.


word: Hemicarp
definition:
Hemicarp

Hem`i*carp
(?)
n.
[Hemi- + Gr. _; fruit.]
(Bot.)
One portion of a fruit that spontaneously divides into halves.


word: Hemicerebrum
definition:
Hemicerebrum

Hem`i*cer"e*brum
(?)
n.
[Hemi- + cerebrum.]
(Anat.)
A lateral half of the cerebrum.
Wilder.


word: Hemicrania
definition:
Hemicrania

Hem`i*cra"ni*a
(?)
n.
[L.: cf. F. hémicrânie. See Cranium, and Megrim.]
(Med.)
A pain that affects only one side of the head.


word: Hemicycle
definition:
Hemicycle

Hem"i*cy`cle
(?)
n.
[L. hemicyclus, Gr. _;; _; + ky`klos.]
1.
A half circle; a semicircle.

2.
A semicircular place, as a semicircular arena, or room, or part of a room.

The collections will be displayed in the hemicycle of the central pavilion.
London Academy.


word: Hemidactyl
definition:
Hemidactyl

Hem`i*dac"tyl
(?)
n.
[See Hemi-, and Dactyl.]
(Zool.)
Any species of Old World geckoes of the genus Hemidactylus. The hemidactyls have dilated toes, with two rows of plates beneath.


word: Hemi-demi-semiquaver
definition:
Hemi-demi-semiquaver

Hem`i-dem`i-sem"i*quaver
(?)
n.
[Hemi- + demi-semiquaver.]
(Mus.)
A short note, equal to one fourth of a semiquaver, or the sixty-fourth part of a whole note.


word: Hemigamous
definition:
Hemigamous

He*mig"a*mous
(?)
a.
[Hemi- + Gr. _; marriage.]
(Bot.)
Having one of the two florets in the same spikelet neuter, and the other unisexual, whether male or female; -- said of grasses.


word: Hemiglyph
definition:
Hemiglyph

Hem"i*glyph
(?)
n.
[Hemi- + Gr. _; a carving.]
(Arch.)
The half channel or groove in the edge of the triglyph in the Doric order.


word: Hemihedral
definition:
Hemihedral

Hem`i*he"dral
(?)
a.
[Hemi- + Gr. _; seat, base, fr. _; to sit.]
(Crystallog.)
Having half of the similar parts of a crystals, instead of all; consisting of half the planes which full symmetry would require, as when a cube has planes only on half of its eight solid angles, or one plane out of a pair on each of its edges; or as in the case of a tetrahedron, which is hemihedral to an octahedron, it being contained under four of the planes of an octahedron.
Hem`i*he"dral*ly, adv.


word: Hemihedron
definition:
Hemihedron

Hem`i*he"dron
(?)
n.
(Crystallog.)
A solid hemihedrally derived. The tetrahedron is a hemihedron.


word: Hemiholohedral
definition:
Hemiholohedral

Hem`i*hol`o*he"dral
(?)
a.
[Hemi- + holohedral.]
(Crystallog.)
Presenting hemihedral forms, in which half the sectants have the full number of planes.


word: Hemimellitic
definition:
Hemimellitic

Hem`i*mel*lit"ic
(?)
a.
[Hemi- + mellitic.]
(Chem.)
Having half as many (three) carboxyl radicals as mellitic acid; -- said of an organic acid.


word: Hemimetabola
definition:
Hemimetabola

Hem`i*me*tab"o*la
(?)
n. pl.
[NL. See Hemi-, and Metabola.]
(Zool.)
Those insects which have an incomplete metamorphosis.


word: Hemimetabolic
definition:
Hemimetabolic

Hem`i*met`a*bol"ic
(?)
a.
(Zool.)
Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larvae differing from the adults chiefly in laking wings, as in the grasshoppers and cockroaches.


word: Hemimorphic
definition:
Hemimorphic

Hem`i*mor"phic
(?)
a.
[Hemi- + Gr. morfh` form.]
(Crystallog.)
Having the two ends modified with unlike planes; -- said of a crystal.


word: Hemin
definition:
Hemin

He"min
(?)
n.
[Gr. a"i^ma blood.]
(Physiol. Chem.)
A substance, in the form of reddish brown, microscopic, prismatic crystals, formed from dried blood by the action of strong acetic acid and common salt; -- called also Teichmann's crystals. Chemically, it is a hydrochloride of hematin.

&hand_; The obtaining of these small crystals, from old blood clots or suspected blood stains, constitutes one of the best evidences of the presence of blood.


word: Hemina
definition:
Hemina

He*mi"na
(?)
n.
pl. Heminae (#).
[L., fr. Gr. _;.]
1.
(Rom. Antiq.)
A measure of half a sextary.
Arbuthnot.

2.
(Med.)
A measure equal to about ten fluid ounces.


word: Hemionus
definition:
Hemionus

He*mi"o*nus
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; a half ass, a mule.]
(Zool.)
A wild ass found in Tibet; the kiang.
Darwin.


word: Hemiopsia
definition:
Hemiopsia

Hemiopia

{ &VerbarHem`i*o"pi*a (?), Hem`i*op"si*a (?), }
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; half + Gr. _; sight.]
(Med.)
A defect of vision in consequence of which a person sees but half of an object looked at.


word: Hemipeptone
definition:
Hemipeptone

Hem`i*pep"tone
(?)
n.
[Hemi- + peptone.]
(Physiol. Chem.)
A product of the gastric and pancreatic digestion of albuminous matter.

&hand_; Unlike antipeptone it is convertible into leucin and tyrosin, by the continued action of pancreatic juice. See Peptone. It is also formed from hemialbumose and albumin by the action of boiling dilute sulphuric acid.


word: Hemiplegia
definition:
Hemiplegia

Hem`i*ple"gi*a
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _;; _; half + _; a stroke; cf. F. hémiplagie.]
(Med.)
A palsy that affects one side only of the body.
Hem`i"pleg"ic (#), a.


word: Hemipode
definition:
Hemipode

Hem"i*pode
(?)
n.
[Hemi- + Gr. _;, _;, foot.]
(Zool.)
Any bird of the genus Turnix. Various species inhabit Asia, Africa, and Australia.


word: Hemiprotein
definition:
Hemiprotein

Hem`i*pro"te*in
(?)
n.
[Hemi- + protein.]
(Physiol. Chem.)
An insoluble, proteid substance, described by Schützenberger, formed when albumin is heated for some time with dilute sulphuric acid. It is apparently identical with antialbumid and dyspeptone.


word: Hemiptera
definition:
Hemiptera

He*mip"te*ra
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; half + _; wing, fr. _; to fly.]
(Zool.)
An order of hexapod insects having a jointed proboscis, including four sharp stylets (mandibles and maxillae), for piercing. In many of the species (Heteroptera) the front wings are partially coriaceous, and different from the others.

&hand_; They are divided into the Heteroptera, including the squash bug, soldier bug, bedbug, etc.; the Homoptera, including the cicadas, cuckoo spits, plant lice, scale insects, etc.; the Thysanoptera, including the thrips, and, according to most recent writers, the Pediculina or true lice.


word: Hemipterous
definition:
Hemipterous

Hemipteral

{ He*mip"ter*al (?), He*mip"ter*ous (?), }
a.
(Zool.)
Of or pertaining to the Hemiptera.


word: Hemiramphidae
definition:
Hemiramphidae

Hemiramphidae
prop. n.
A natural family of fish including the halfbeaks, marine and freshwater fishes closely related to the flying fishes but not able to glide.

Syn. -- family Hemiramphidae.


word: Hemisect
definition:
Hemisect

Hem`i*sect"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Hemisected; p. pr. & vb. n. Hemisecting.]
[Hemi- + L. secare to cut.]
(Anat.)
To divide along the mesial plane.


word: Hemisection
definition:
Hemisection

Hem`i*sec"tion
(?)
n.
(Anat.)
A division along the mesial plane; also, one of the parts so divided.


word: Hemisphere
definition:
Hemisphere

Hem"i*sphere
(?)
n.
[L. hemisphaerium, Gr. _;; _; half = _; sphere: cf. F. hémisphère. See Hemi-, and Sphere.]
1.
A half sphere; one half of a sphere or globe, when divided by a plane passing through its center.

2.
Half of the terrestrial globe, or a projection of the same in a map or picture.

3.
The people who inhabit a hemisphere.

He died . . . mourned by a hemisphere.
J. P. Peters.

Cerebral hemispheres. (Anat.) See Brain. -- Magdeburg hemispheres (Physics), two hemispherical cups forming, when placed together, a cavity from which the air can be withdrawn by an air pump; -- used to illustrate the pressure of the air. So called because invented by Otto von Guericke at Magdeburg.


word: Hemispherical
definition:
Hemispherical

Hemispheric

{ Hem`i*spher"ic (?), Hem`i*spher"ic*al (?), }
a.
[Cf. F. hémisphérique.]
Containing, or pertaining to, a hemisphere; as, a hemispheric figure or form; a hemispherical body.


word: Hemistich
definition:
Hemistich

Hem"i*stich
(?; 277)
n.
[L. hemistichium, Gr. "hmisti`chion; "hmi- half + sti`chos row, line, verse: cf. F. hémistiche.]
Half a poetic verse or line, or a verse or line not completed.


word: Hemistichal
definition:
Hemistichal

He*mis"ti*chal
(?)
a.
Pertaining to, or written in, hemistichs; also, by, or according to, hemistichs; as, a hemistichal division of a verse.


word: Hemisystole
definition:
Hemisystole

Hem`i*sys"to*le
(?)
n.
(Physiol.)
Contraction of only one ventricle of the heart.

&hand_; Hemisystole is noticed in rare cases of insufficiency of the mitral valve, in which both ventricles at times contract simultaneously, as in a normal heart, this condition alternating with contraction of the right ventricle alone; hence, intermittent hemisystole.


word: Hemitropous
definition:
Hemitropous

Hemitropal

{ He*mit"ro*pal (?), He*mit"ro*pous (?), }
a.
[See Hemitrope.]
1.
Turned half round; half inverted.

2.
(Bot.)
Having the raphe terminating about half way between the chalaza and the orifice; amphitropous; -- said of an ovule.
Gray.


word: Hemitrope
definition:
Hemitrope

Hem"i*trope
(?)
a.
[Hemi- + Gr. _; to turn: cf. F. hémitrope.]
Half turned round; half inverted; (Crystallog.) having a twinned structure.


word: Hemitrope₂
definition:
Hemitrope

Hem"i*trope
n.
That which is hemitropal in construction; (Crystallog.) a twin crystal having a hemitropal structure.


word: Hemlock
definition:
Hemlock

Hem"lock
(?)
n.
[OE. hemeluc, humloc, AS. hemlic, hymlic.]
1.
(Bot.)
The name of several poisonous umbelliferous herbs having finely cut leaves and small white flowers, as the Cicuta maculata, Cicuta bulbifera, and Cicuta virosa, and the Conium maculatum. See Conium.

&hand_; The potion of hemlock administered to Socrates is by some thought to have been a decoction of Cicuta virosa, or water hemlock, by others, of Conium maculatum.

2.
(Bot.)
An evergreen tree common in North America (Abies Canadensis or Tsuga Canadensis); hemlock spruce.

The murmuring pines and the hemlocks.
Longfellow.

3.
The wood or timber of the hemlock tree.

Ground hemlock, or Dwarf hemlock. See under Ground.


word: Hemmel
definition:
Hemmel

Hem"mel
(?)
n.
[Scot. hemmel, hammel, Prov. E. hemble hovel, stable, shed, perh. allied to D. hemel heaven, canopy, G. himmel; cf. E. heaven. √14.]
A shed or hovel for cattle.
[Prov. Eng.]
Wright.


word: Hemmer
definition:
Hemmer

Hem"mer
(?)
n.
One who, or that which, hems with a needle.
Specifically:
(a)
An attachment to a sewing machine, for turning under the edge of a piece of fabric, preparatory to stitching it down.
(b)
A tool for turning over the edge of sheet metal to make a hem.


word: Hemoglobin
definition:
Hemoglobin

Hem"o*glo"bin
(?)
n.
[Hemo- + globe.]
(Physiol.)
The normal coloring matter of the red blood corpuscles of vertebrate animals. It is composed of hematin and globulin, and is also called haematoglobulin. In arterial blood, it is always combined with oxygen, and is then called oxyhemoglobin. It crystallizes under different forms from different animals, and when crystallized, is called haematocrystallin. See Blood crystal, under Blood.


word: hemolysis
definition:
hemolysis

hemolysis
n.
The lysis of erythrocytes with the release of hemoglobin; the breaking apart of red blood cells in the blood.

Syn. -- haemolysis, hematolysis, haematolysis.


word: Hemophilia
definition:
Hemophilia

Hem`o*phil"i*a
(hē`mȧ*fĭl"ĭ*ȧ or  hĕm`ȧ*fĭl"ĭ*ȧ)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. a"i^ma, blood + filei^n to love.]
(Med.)
A condition characterized by a tendency to profuse and uncontrollable hemorrhage from the slightest wounds; it is caused by an absence or abnormality of a clotting factor in the blood, and is a recessive genetic disease linked to the X-chromosome, and therefore usually occurs only in males; there are several specific forms.  It may be treated by administering purified clotting factor.  It was formerly termed Hematophilia.


word: hemophiliac
definition:
hemophiliac

hem`o*phil"i*ac
(hē`mȧ*fĭl"ĭ*ăk)
n.
A person afflicted with hemophilia; called also hemophile.


word: hemophiliac₂
definition:
hemophiliac

hem`o*phil"i*ac
(hē`mȧ*fĭl"ĭ*ăk)
a.
of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or afflicted with hemophilia; hemophilic.


word: hemophilic
definition:
hemophilic

hem`o*phil"ic
adj.
1.
of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or afflicted with hemophilia; hemophiliac.

Syn. -- haemophilic, hemophiliac.

2.
(Microbiology)
Growing best in a medium containing blood, or in blood; -- of bacteria.


word: Hemoptysis
definition:
Hemoptysis

He*mop"ty*sis
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. a"i^ma blood + _; to spit: cf. F. hémoptysie.]
(Med.)
The expectoration of blood, due usually to hemorrhage from the mucous membrane of the lungs.


word: Hemorrhage
definition:
Hemorrhage

Hem"or*rhage
(?)
n.
[L. haemorrhagia, Gr. a"imorragi`a; a"i^ma blood + "rhgny`nai to break, burst: cf. F. hémorragie, hémorrhagie.]
(Med.)
Any discharge of blood from the blood vessels.

&hand_; The blood circulates in a system of closed tubes, the rupture of which gives rise to hemorrhage.


word: Hemorrhagic
definition:
Hemorrhagic

Hem`or*rhag"ic
(?)
a.
[Gr. a"imorragiko`s: cf. F. hémorrhagique.]
Pertaining or tending to a flux of blood; consisting in, or accompanied by, hemorrhage.


word: Hemorrhoidal
definition:
Hemorrhoidal

Hem`or*rhoid"al
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. hémorroïdal, hémorrhoïdal.]
1.
Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, hemorrhoids.

2.
(Anat.)
Of or pertaining to the rectum; rectal; as, the hemorrhoidal arteries, veins, and nerves.


word: Hemorrhoids
definition:
Hemorrhoids

Hem"or*rhoids
(?)
n. pl.
[L. haemorrhoidae, pl., Gr. _;, sing., _; (sc. _;), pl., veins liable to discharge blood, hemorrhoids, fr. _; flowing with blood; a"i^ma blood + _; to flow: cf. F. hémorroïdes, hémorrhoïdes. See Rheum.]
(Med.)
Livid and painful swellings formed by the dilation of the blood vessels around the margin of, or within, the anus, from which blood or mucus is occasionally discharged; piles; emerods.
[The sing. hemorrhoid is rarely used.]


word: hemosiderin
definition:
hemosiderin

hemosiderin
n.
(Med.)
a granular yellowish-brown substance composed of protein and ferric oxide, resulting from the breakdown of hemoglobin; it has a higher iron content than ferritin, and its presence in body tissues or phagocytes can be a symptom of disturbed iron metabolism.


word: hemosiderosis
definition:
hemosiderosis

hemosiderosis
n.
(Med.)
The accumulation of abnormal amounts of hemosiderin in the tisssues.  Several causes have been recognized.
Stedman.


word: hemostat
definition:
hemostat

hemostat
n.
a surgical instrument that stops bleeding by clamping the blood vessel.

Syn. -- haemostat.


word: Hemostatic
definition:
Hemostatic

Hem`o*stat"ic
(?)
a.
[Hemo- + Gr. statiko`s causing to stand, fr. _; to stand.]
1.
(Med.)
Of or relating to stagnation of the blood.

2.
Serving to arrest hemorrhage; styptic.


word: Hemothorax
definition:
Hemothorax

Hem`o*tho"rax
(?)
n.
[NL. See Hemo-, and Thorax.]
(Med.)
An effusion of blood into the cavity of the pleura.


word: Hemp
definition:
Hemp

Hemp
(hĕmp)
n.
[OE. hemp, AS. henep, hænep; akin to D. hennep, OHG. hanaf, G. hanf, Icel. hampr, Dan. hamp, Sw. hampa, L. cannabis, cannabum, Gr. ka`nnabis, ka`nnabos; cf. Russ. konoplia, Skr. ça&nsdot_;a; all prob. borrowed from some other language at an early time.  Cf. Cannabine, Canvas.]
1.
(Bot.)
A plant of the genus Cannabis (Cannabis sativa), the fibrous skin or bark of which is used for making cloth and cordage.  The name is also applied to various other plants yielding fiber.

2.
The fiber of the skin or rind of the plant, prepared for spinning. The name has also been extended to various fibers resembling the true hemp.

African hemp, Bowstring hemp. See under African, and Bowstring. -- Bastard hemp, the Asiatic herb Datisca cannabina. -- Canada hemp, a species of dogbane (Apocynum cannabinum), the fiber of which was used by the Indians. -- Hemp agrimony, a coarse, composite herb of Europe (Eupatorium cannabinum), much like the American boneset. -- Hemp nettle, a plant of the genus Galeopsis (Galeopsis Tetrahit), belonging to the Mint family. -- Indian hemp. See under Indian, a. -- Manila hemp, the fiber of Musa textilis. -- Sisal hemp, the fiber of Agave sisalana, of Mexico and Yucatan. -- Sunn hemp, a fiber obtained from a leguminous plant (Crotalaria juncea). -- Water hemp, an annual American weed (Acnida cannabina), related to the amaranth.


word: Hemselven
definition:
Hemselven

Hemselve

Hemself

Hem*self" (?), Hem*selve" (_;)
Hem*selv"en
(_;)
pron. pl.
[See Hem, pron.]
Themselves; -- used reflexively.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Hemstitch
definition:
Hemstitch

Hem"stitch
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Hemstitched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hemstitching.]
[Hem + stitch.]
To ornament at the head of a broad hem by drawing out a few parallel threads, and fastening the cross threads in successive small clusters; as, to hemstitch a handkerchief.


word: Hemstitched
definition:
Hemstitched

Hem"stitched
(?)
a.
Having a broad hem separated from the body of the article by a line of open work; as, a hemistitched handkerchief.


word: Hen
definition:
Hen

Hen
(?)
n.
[AS. henn, hen, hæn; akin to D. hen, OHG.  henna, G. henne, Icel. h_;na, Dan. höna; the fem. corresponding to AS. hana cock, D. haan, OHG. hano, G. hahn, Icel. hani, Dan. & Sw. hane. Prob. akin to L. canere to sing, and orig. meaning, a singer.  Cf. Chanticleer.]
(Zool.)
The female of the domestic fowl; also, the female of grouse, pheasants, or any kind of birds; as, the heath hen; the gray hen.

&hand_; Used adjectively or in combination to indicate the female; as, hen canary, hen eagle, hen turkey, peahen.

Hen clam. (Zool.) (a) A clam of the Mactra, and allied genera; the sea clam or surf clam. See Surf clam. (b) A California clam of the genus Pachydesma. -- Hen driver. See Hen harrier (below). -- Hen harrier (Zool.), a hawk (Circus cyaneus), found in Europe and America; -- called also dove hawk, henharm, henharrow, hen driver, and usually, in America, marsh hawk. See Marsh hawk. -- Hen hawk (Zool.), one of several species of large hawks which capture hens; esp., the American red-tailed hawk (Buteo borealis), the red-shouldered hawk (Buteo lineatus), and the goshawk.


word: Henbane
definition:
Henbane

Hen"bane`
(?)
n.
[Hen + bane.]
(Bot.)
A plant of the genus Hyoscyamus (Hyoscyamus niger). All parts of the plant are poisonous, and the leaves are used for the same purposes as belladonna. It is poisonous to domestic fowls; whence the name. Called also, stinking nightshade, from the fetid odor of the plant. See Hyoscyamus.


word: Henbit
definition:
Henbit

Hen"bit`
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
A weed of the genus Lamium (Lamium amplexicaule) with deeply crenate leaves.


word: Hence
definition:
Hence

Hence
(hĕns)
adv.
[OE. hennes, hens (the s is prop. a genitive ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnān, G. hinnen, OHG. hina, G. hin; all from the root of E. he. See He.]
1.
From this place; away.
hence
Chaucer.

Arise, let us go hence.
John xiv. 31.

I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles.
Acts xxii. 21.

2.
From this time; in the future; as, a week hence.
hence
Shak.

3.
From this reason; therefore; -- as an inference or deduction.

Hence, perhaps, it is, that Solomon calls the fear of the Lord the beginning of wisdom.
Tillotson.

4.
From this source or origin.

All other faces borrowed hence
Their light and grace.
Suckling.

Whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence, even of your lusts?
James. iv. 1.

&hand_; Hence is used, elliptically and imperatively, for go hence; depart hence; away; be gone. “Hence with your little ones.” Shak. -- From hence, though a pleonasm, is fully authorized by the usage of good writers.

An ancient author prophesied from hence.
Dryden.

Expelled from hence into a world
Of woe and sorrow.
Milton.


word: Henceforth
definition:
Henceforth

Hence`forth"
(?)
adv.
From this time forward; henceforward.

I never from thy side henceforth to stray.
Milton.


word: Henceforward
definition:
Henceforward

Hence`for"ward
(?)
adv.
From this time forward; from now into the indefinite future; henceforth.


word: Henchman
definition:
Henchman

Hench"man
(hĕnch"man)
n.
pl. -men (-men).
[OE. hencheman, henxman; prob. fr. OE. & AS. hengest horse + E. man, and meaning, a groom. AS. hengest is akin to D. & G. hengst stallion, OHG. hengist horse, gelding.]
An attendant; a servant; a follower. Now chiefly used as a political cant term.


word: Hende
definition:
Hende

Hende
(?)
a.
[OE., near, handy, kind, fr. AS. gehende near, fr. hand hand. See Handy.]
1.
Skillful; dexterous; clever.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

2.
Friendly; civil; gentle; kind.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Hendecagon
definition:
Hendecagon

Hen*dec"a*gon
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; eleven + _; angle: cf. F. hendécagone.]
(Geom.)
A plane figure of eleven sides and eleven angles.
[Written also endecagon.]


word: Hendecane
definition:
Hendecane

Hen"de*cane
(?)
n.
[Gr. "e`ndeka eleven.]
(Chem.)
A hydrocarbon, C11H24, of the paraffin series; -- so called because it has eleven atoms of carbon in each molecule. Called also endecane, undecane.


word: Hendecasyllable
definition:
Hendecasyllable

Hen*dec"a*syl`la*ble
(?)
n.
[L. hendecasyllabus, Gr. _; eleven-syllabled; _; eleven + _; syllable: cf. F. hendécasyllabe.]
A metrical line of eleven syllables.
J. Warton.


word: Hendecatoic
definition:
Hendecatoic

Hen*dec`a*to"ic
(?)
a.
[See Hendecane.]
(Chem.)
Undecylic; pertaining to, or derived from, hendecane; as, hendecatoic acid.


word: Hendiadys
definition:
Hendiadys

Hen*di"a*dys
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; _; _; one by two.]
(Gram.)
A figure in which the idea is expressed by two nouns connected by and, instead of by a noun and limiting adjective; as, we drink from cups and gold, for golden cups.


word: Henfish
definition:
Henfish

Hen"fish`
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
(a)
A marine fish; the sea bream.
(b)
A young bib. See Bib, n., 2.


word: Henna
definition:
Henna

Hen"na
(?)
n.
[Ar. hinnā alcanna (Lawsonia inermis syn. Lawsonia alba).  Cf. Alcanna, Alkanet, Orchanet.]

1.
(Bot.)
A thorny tree or shrub of the genus Lawsonia (Lawsonia alba).  The fragrant white blossoms are used by the Buddhists in religious ceremonies.  The powdered leaves furnish a red coloring matter used in the East to stain the nails and fingers, the manes of horses, etc.

2.
(Com.)
The leaves of the henna plant, or a preparation or dyestuff made from them.


word: Hennotannic
definition:
Hennotannic

Hen`no*tan"nic
(?)
a.
[Henna + tannic.]
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or designating, a brown resinous substance resembling tannin, and extracted from the henna plant; as, hennotannic acid.


word: Henogenesis
definition:
Henogenesis

Henoge ny

{ He*nog"e* ny (?), Hen`o*gen"e*sis (?), }
n.
[Gr. e"i^s, masc., "e`n, neut., one + root of gi`gnesqai to be born.]
(Biol.)
Same as Ontogeny.


word: Henotheism
definition:
Henotheism

Hen"o*the*ism
(?)
n.
[Gr. e"i`s, "eno`s, one + E. theism.]
Primitive religion in which each of several divinities is regarded as independent, and is worshiped without reference to the rest.
[R.]


word: Henotic
definition:
Henotic

He*not"ic
(?)
a.
[Gr. "enwtiko`s, fr. "enou^n to unite, fr. e"i^s one.]
Harmonizing; irenic.
Gladstone.


word: hen-peck
definition:
hen-peck

henpeck

hen"peck`, hen"-peck`
(hĕn"pĕk`)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Henpecked (hĕn"pĕkt`); p. pr. & vb. n. Henpecking.]
To bother persistently with trivial complaints; to subject to petty authority; -- said of a woman who thus treats her male companion, especially of wives who thus dominate their husbands. Commonly used in the past participle (often adjectively); as, henpecked for years, he finally left her.


word: hen-of-the-woods
definition:
hen-of-the-woods

hen-of-the-woods
n.
A large grayish-brown edible fungus (Polyporus frondosus) forming a mass of overlapping caps at the base of trees that somewhat resembles a hen.

Syn. -- hen of the woods, Polyporus frondosus.


word: Henry
definition:
Henry

Hen"ry
(?)
n.
pl. Henrys.
[From Joseph Henry, an American physicist.]
The unit of electric induction; the induction in a circuit when the electro-motive force induced in this circuit is one volt, while the inducing current varies at the rate of one ampère a second.


word: Hent
definition:
Hent

Hent
(hĕnt)
v. t.
[imp. Hente; p. p. Hent.]
[OE. hente, henten, fr. AS. hentan, gehentan, to pursue, take, seize; cf. Icel. henda, Goth. hinpan (in compos.), and E. hunt.]
To seize; to lay hold on; to catch; to get.
[Obs.]
Piers Plowman. Spenser.

This cursed Jew him hente and held him fast.
Chaucer.

But all that he might of his friendes hente
On bookes and on learning he it spente.
Chaucer.


word: henyard
definition:
henyard

henyard
n.
an enclosed yard for keeping poultry.

Syn. -- chicken yard, chicken run, fowl run.


word: hep₃
definition:
hep

hep
(hĕp)
interj.
A call used by drill instructors to count cadence during marching; used identically to hut and hup.


word: hepcat
definition:
hepcat

hep"cat`
(hĕp"kăt`)
n.
1.
One who performs jazz music.
[slang]

2.
A person who is hep or hip; same as hipster; -- an older term becoming dated and less used.
[slang]


word: Hepar
definition:
Hepar

He"par
(?)
n.
[L. hepar, hepatis, the liver, Gr. _;.]
1.
(Old Chem.)
Liver of sulphur; a substance of a liver-brown color, sometimes used in medicine. It is formed by fusing sulphur with carbonates of the alkalies (esp. potassium), and consists essentially of alkaline sulphides. Called also hepar sulphuris (_;).

2.
Any substance resembling hepar proper, in appearance; specifically, in homeopathy, calcium sulphide, called also hepar sulphuris calcareum (_;).

Hepar antimonii (_;) (Old Chem.), a substance, of a liver-brown color, obtained by fusing together antimony sulphide with alkaline sulphides, and consisting of sulphantimonites of the alkalies; -- called also liver of antimony.


word: Hepatic
definition:
Hepatic

He*pat"ic
(?)
a.
[L. hepaticus, Gr. _;, fr. _; the liver; akin to L. jecur, Skr. yak_;t: cf. F. hépatique.]
1.
Of or pertaining to the liver; as, hepatic artery; hepatic diseases.

2.
Resembling the liver in color or in form; as, hepatic cinnabar.

3.
(Bot.)
Pertaining to, or resembling, the plants called Hepaticae, or scale mosses and liverworts.

Hepatic duct (Anat.), any biliary duct; esp., the duct, or one of the ducts, which carries the bile from the liver to the cystic and common bile ducts. See Illust., under Digestive. -- Hepatic gas (Old Chem.), sulphureted hydrogen gas. -- Hepatic mercurial ore, or Hepatic cinnabar. See under Cinnabar.


word: Hepatica
definition:
Hepatica

He*pat"i*ca
(?)
n.
pl. Hepaticae (#).
[NL. See Hepatic. So called in allusion to the shape of the lobed leaves or fronds.]

1.
(Bot.)
A genus of pretty spring flowers closely related to Anemone; squirrel cup.

2.
(bot.)
Any plant, usually procumbent and mosslike, of the cryptogamous class Hepaticae; -- called also scale moss and liverwort. See Hepaticae, in the Supplement.


word: Hepatite
definition:
Hepatite

Hep"a*tite
(?; 277)
n.
[L. hepatitis an unknown precious stone, Gr. _;, fr. _;, _;, the liver: cf. F. hépatite.]
(Min.)
A variety of barite emitting a fetid odor when rubbed or heated.


word: Hepatitis
definition:
Hepatitis

Hep`a*ti"tis
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _;, _;, liver + -itis.]
(Med.)
Inflammation of the liver.


word: Hepatization
definition:
Hepatization

Hep`a*ti*za"tion
(?)
n.
1.
(Chem.)
Impregnating with sulphureted hydrogen gas.
[Obs.]

2.
[Cf. F. hépatisation.]
(Med.)
Conversion into a substance resembling the liver; a state of the lungs when gorged with effused matter, so that they are no longer pervious to the air.


word: Hepatize
definition:
Hepatize

Hep"a*tize
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Hepatized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hepatizing (?).]
[Gr. _; to be like the liver, to be liver-colored, fr. _;, _;, the liver: cf. E. hepatite, and (for sense 2) F. hépatiser.]
1.
To impregnate with sulphureted hydrogen gas, formerly called hepatic gas.

On the right . . . were two wells of hepatized water.
Barrow.

2.
To gorge with effused matter, as the lungs.


word: Hepatocystic
definition:
Hepatocystic

Hep`a*to*cys"tic
(?)
a.
[Hepatic + cystic.]
(Anat.)
Of or pertaining to the liver and gall bladder; as, the hepatocystic ducts.


word: Hepatogenous
definition:
Hepatogenous

Hepatogenic

{ Hep`a*to*gen"ic (?), Hep`a*tog"e*nous (?), }
a.
[Gr. "h^par, "h`patos, the liver + root of gi`gnesqai to be born]
(Med.)
Arising from the liver; due to a condition of the liver; as, hepatogenic jaundice.


word: Hepatology
definition:
Hepatology

Hep`a*tol"o*gy
(?)
n.
[Gr. "h^par, "h`patos, the liver + -logy.]
The science which treats of the liver; a treatise on the liver.


word: Hepato-pancreas
definition:
Hepato-pancreas

Hep"a*to-pan"cre*as
(?)
n.
[Gr. "h^par, "h`patos, the liver + E. pancreas.]
(Zool.)
A digestive gland in Crustacea, Mollusca, etc., usually called the liver, but different from the liver of vertebrates.


word: Hepatorenal
definition:
Hepatorenal

Hep`a*to*re"nal
(?)
a.
[Hepatic + renal.]
(Anat.)
Of or pertaining to the liver and kidneys; as, the hepatorenal ligament.


word: Hepatoscopy
definition:
Hepatoscopy

Hep`a*tos"co*py
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;; fr. "h^par, "h`patos, the liver + _; to view: cf. F. hépatoscopie.]
Divination by inspecting the liver of animals.


word: Heppen
definition:
Heppen

Hep"pen
(?)
a.
[Cf. AS. gehæp fit, Icel. heppinn lucky, E. happy.]
Neat; fit; comfortable.
[Obs.]


word: Heppelwhite
definition:
Heppelwhite

Hep"pel*white
(?)
a.
(Furniture)
Designating a light and elegant style developed in England under George III., chiefly by Messrs. A. Heppelwhite & Co.


word: Heptachord
definition:
Heptachord

Hep"ta*chord
(?)
n.
[Gr. "epta`chordos seven-stringed; "epta` seven + chordh` chord: cf. F. heptacorde. See Seven, and Chord.]
1.
(Anc. Mus.)
(a)
A system of seven sounds.
(b)
A lyre with seven chords.

2.
(Anc. Poet.)
A composition sung to the sound of seven chords or tones.
Moore (Encyc. of Music).


word: Heptad
definition:
Heptad

Hep"tad
(?)
n.
[L. heptas the number seven. Gr. _;, _;, fr. "epta` seven.]
(Chem.)
An atom which has a valence of seven, and which can be theoretically combined with, substituted for, or replaced by, seven monad atoms or radicals; as, iodine is a heptad in iodic acid. Also used as an adjective.


word: Heptaglot
definition:
Heptaglot

Hep"ta*glot
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;; "epta` seven + 3, _;, tongue, language.]
A book in seven languages.


word: Heptagon
definition:
Heptagon

Hep"ta*gon
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; sevencornered; "epta` seven + _; angle: cf. F. heptagone.]
(Geom.)
A plane figure consisting of seven sides and having seven angles.


word: Heptagonal
definition:
Heptagonal

Hep*tag"o*nal
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. heptagonal.]
Having seven angles or sides.

Heptagonal numbers (Arith.), the numbers of the series 1, 7, 18, 34, 55, etc., being figurate numbers formed by adding successively the terms of the arithmetical series 1, 6, 11, 16, 21, etc.


word: Heptagynia
definition:
Heptagynia

Hep`ta*gyn"i*a
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. "epta` seven + _; woman, female: cf. F. heptagunie.]
(Bot.)
A Linnaean order of plants having seven pistils.


word: Heptagynous
definition:
Heptagynous

Heptagynian

{ Hep`ta*gyn"i*an (?), Hep*tag"y*nous (?), }
a.
[Cf. F. heptagyne.]
(Bot.)
Having seven pistils.


word: Heptahedron
definition:
Heptahedron

Hep`ta*he"dron
(?)
n.
[Hepta- + Gr. _; seat, base, fr. _; to sit: cf. F. heptaèdre.]
(Geom.)
A solid figure with seven sides.


word: Heptamerous
definition:
Heptamerous

Hep*tam"er*ous
(?)
a.
[Hepta- + Gr. _; part.]
(Bot.)
Consisting of seven parts, or having the parts in sets of sevens.
Gray.


word: Heptandria
definition:
Heptandria

Hep*tan"dri*a
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. "epta` seven + _;, _;, man, male: cf. F. heptandrie.]
(Bot.)
A Linnaean class of plants having seven stamens.


word: Heptandrous
definition:
Heptandrous

Heptandrian

{ Hep*tan"dri*an (?), Hep*tan"drous (?), }
a.
[Cf. F. heptandre.]
(Bot.)
Having seven stamens.


word: Heptane
definition:
Heptane

Hep"tane
(?)
n.
[Gr. "epta` seven.]
(Chem.)
Any one of several isometric hydrocarbons, C7H16, of the paraffin series (nine are possible, four are known); -- so called because the molecule has seven carbon atoms. Specifically, a colorless liquid, found as a constituent of petroleum, in the tar oil of cannel coal, etc.


word: Heptangular
definition:
Heptangular

Hep*tan"gu*lar
(?)
a.
[Hepta- + angular: cf. F. heptangulaire.  Cf. Septangular.]
Having seven angles.


word: Heptaphyllous
definition:
Heptaphyllous

Hep*taph"yl*lous
(?)
a.
[Hepta- + Gr. _; leaf: cf. F. heptaphylle.]
(Bot.)
Having seven leaves.


word: Heptarchic
definition:
Heptarchic

Hep*tar"chic
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. heptarchique.]
Of or pertaining to a heptarchy; constituting or consisting of a heptarchy.
T. Warton.


word: Heptarchy
definition:
Heptarchy

Hep"tarch*y
(?)
n.
[Hepta- + -archy: cf. F. heptarchie.]
A government by seven persons; also, a country under seven rulers.

&hand_; The word is most commonly applied to England, when it was divided into seven kingdoms; as, the Saxon heptachy, which consisted of Kent, the South Saxons (Sussex), West Saxons (Wessex), East Saxons (Essex), the East Angles, Mercia, and Northumberland.


word: Heptastich
definition:
Heptastich

Hep"ta*stich
(?)
n.
[Hepta- + Gr. sti`chos line, verse.]
(Pros.)
A composition consisting of seven lines or verses.


word: Heptateuch
definition:
Heptateuch

Hep"ta*teuch
(?)
n.
[L. heptateuchos, Gr. "epta` seven + _; tool, book; _; to prepare, make, work: cf. F. heptateuque.]
The first seven books of the Testament.


word: Heptavalent
definition:
Heptavalent

Hep*tav"a*lent
(?)
a.
[Hepta- + L. valens, p. pr. See Valence.]
(Chem.)
Having seven units of attractive force or affinity; -- said of heptad elements or radicals.


word: Heptine
definition:
Heptine

Hep"tine
(?)
n.
[Heptane + -ine.]
(Chem.)
Any one of a series of unsaturated metameric hydrocarbons, C7H12, of the acetylene series.


word: Heptone
definition:
Heptone

Hep"tone
(?)
n.
[Gr. "epta` seven.]
(Chem.)
A liquid hydrocarbon, C7H10, of the valylene series.


word: Heptyl
definition:
Heptyl

Hep"tyl
(?)
n.
[Hepta- + -yl.]
(Chem.)
A compound radical, C7H15, regarded as the essential radical of heptane and a related series of compounds.


word: Heptylene
definition:
Heptylene

Hep"tyl*ene
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A colorless liquid hydrocarbon, C7H14, of the ethylene series; also, any one of its isomers. Called also heptene.


word: Heptylic
definition:
Heptylic

Hep*tyl"ic
(?)
a.
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or derived from, heptyl or heptane; as, heptylic alcohol.  Cf. Œnanthylic.


word: Her
definition:
Her

Her
(?)
pron. & a.
[OE. hire, here, hir, hure, gen. and dat. sing., AS. hire, gen. and dat. sing. of héo she. from the same root as E. he. See He.]
The form of the objective and the possessive case of the personal pronoun she; as, I saw her with her purse out.

&hand_; The possessive her takes the form hers when the noun with which in agrees is not given, but implied. “And what his fortune wanted, hers could mend.”
Dryden.


word: Here
definition:
Here

Her

Her, Here (_;)
pron. pl.
[OE. here, hire, AS. heora, hyra, gen. pl. of hē. See He.]
Of them; their.
[Obs.]
Piers Plowman.

On here bare knees adown they fall.
Chaucer.


word: Heracleonite
definition:
Heracleonite

He*rac"le*on*ite
(?)
n.
(Eccl. Hist.)
A follower of Heracleon of Alexandria, a Judaizing Gnostic, in the early history of the Christian church.


word: Herakline
definition:
Herakline

He*rak"line
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; Hercules.]
A picrate compound, used as an explosive in blasting.


word: Herald
definition:
Herald

Her"ald
(?)
n.
[OE. herald, heraud, OF. heralt, heraut, herault, F. héraut, LL. heraldus, haraldus, fr. (assumed) OHG. heriwalto, hariwaldo, a (civil) officer who serves the army; hari, heri, army + waltan to manage, govern, G. walten; akin to E. wield. See Harry, Wield.]
1.
(Antiq.)
An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character.

2.
In the Middle Ages, the officer charged with the above duties, and also with the care of genealogies, of the rights and privileges of noble families, and especially of armorial bearings. In modern times, some vestiges of this office remain, especially in England. See Heralds' College (below), and King-at-Arms.

3.
A proclaimer; one who, or that which, publishes or announces; as, the herald of another's fame.
Shak.

4.
A forerunner; a a precursor; a harbinger.

It was the lark, the herald of the morn.
Shak.

5.
Any messenger.
herald
Shak.

Heralds' College, in England, an ancient corporation, dependent upon the crown, instituted or perhaps recognized by Richard III. in 1483, consisting of the three Kings-at-Arms and the Chester, Lancaster, Richmond, Somerset, Windsor, and York Heralds, together with the Earl Marshal. This retains from the Middle Ages the charge of the armorial bearings of persons privileged to bear them, as well as of genealogies and kindred subjects; -- called also College of Arms.


word: Herald₂
definition:
Herald

Her"ald
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Heralded; p. pr. & vb. n. Heralding.]
[Cf. OF. herauder, heraulder.]
To introduce, or give tidings of, as by a herald; to proclaim; to announce; to foretell; to usher in.
Shak.


word: Heraldic
definition:
Heraldic

He*ral"dic
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. héraldique.]
Of or pertaining to heralds or heraldry; as, heraldic blazoning; heraldic language.
T. Warton.


word: Heraldry
definition:
Heraldry

Her"ald*ry
(?)
n.
1.
The art or office of a herald; the art, practice, or science of recording genealogies, and blazoning arms or ensigns armorial; also, of marshaling cavalcades, processions, and public ceremonies.

2.
A coat of arms or some other heraldic device or collection of heraldic symbols.


word: Herapathite
definition:
Herapathite

Her"a*path*ite
(?)
n.
[Named after Dr. Herapath, the discoverer.]
(Chem.)
The sulphate of iodoquinine, a substance crystallizing in thin plates remarkable for their effects in polarizing light.


word: Herb
definition:
Herb

Herb
(ẽrb or hẽrb; 277)
n.
[OE. herbe, erbe, OF. herbe, erbe, F. herbe, L. herba; perh. akin to Gr. forbh` food, pasture, fe`rbein to feed.]
1.
A plant whose stem does not become woody and permanent, but dies, at least down to the ground, after flowering.

&hand_; Annual herbs live but one season; biennial herbs flower the second season, and then die; perennial herbs produce new stems year after year.

2.
Grass; herbage.

And flocks
Grazing the tender herb.
Milton.

Herb bennet. (Bot.) See Bennet. -- Herb Christopher (Bot.), an herb (Actaea spicata), whose root is used in nervous diseases; the baneberry. The name is occasionally given to other plants, as the royal fern, the wood betony, etc. -- Herb Gerard (Bot.), the goutweed; -- so called in honor of St. Gerard, who used to be invoked against the gout. Dr. Prior. -- Herb grace, or Herb of grace. (Bot.) See Rue. -- Herb Margaret (Bot.), the daisy. See Marguerite. -- Herb Paris (Bot.), an Old World plant related to the trillium (Paris quadrifolia), commonly reputed poisonous. -- Herb Robert (Bot.), a species of Geranium (Geranium Robertianum.)


word: Herbaceous
definition:
Herbaceous

Her*ba"ceous
(?)
a.
[L. herbaceus grassy. See Herb.]
Of or pertaining to herbs; having the nature, texture, or characteristics, of an herb; as, herbaceous plants; an herbaceous stem.


word: Herbage
definition:
Herbage

Herb"age
(?; 48)
n.
[F. See Herb.]

1.
Herbs collectively; green food beasts; grass; pasture.
herbage
Dryden.

2.
(Law.)
The liberty or right of pasture in the forest or in the grounds of another man.
Blount.


word: Herbal₂
definition:
Herbal

Herb"al
(?)
n.
1.
A book containing the names and descriptions of plants.
Bacon.

2.
A collection of specimens of plants, dried and preserved; a hortus siccus; an herbarium.
Steele.


word: Herbalist
definition:
Herbalist

Herb"al*ist
n.
One skilled in the knowledge of plants; a collector of, or dealer in, herbs, especially medicinal herbs.


word: Herbarium
definition:
Herbarium

Her*ba"ri*um
(?)
n.
pl. E. Herbariums (#), L. Herbaria (#).
[LL., fr. L. herba. See Herb, and cf. Arbor, Herbary.]
1.
A collection of dried specimens of plants, systematically arranged.
Gray.

2.
A book or case for preserving dried plants.


word: Herber
definition:
Herber

Herb"er
(?)
n.
[OF. herbier, LL. herbarium. See Herbarium.]
A garden; a pleasure garden.
[Obs.]
herber
Chaucer.


word: Herbergage
definition:
Herbergage

Her"berg*age
(?)
n.
[See Harborage.]
Harborage; lodging; shelter; harbor.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Herbiferous
definition:
Herbiferous

Her*bif"er*ous
(?)
a.
[Herb + -ferous: cf. F. herbifére.]
Bearing herbs or vegetation.


word: Herbivora
definition:
Herbivora

Her*biv"o*ra
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. L. herba herb + vorare to devour.]
(Zool.)
An extensive division of Mammalia. It formerly included the Proboscidea, Hyracoidea, Perissodactyla, and Artiodactyla, but by later writers it is generally restricted to the two latter groups (Ungulata). They feed almost exclusively upon vegetation.


word: Herborization
definition:
Herborization

Her`bo*ri*za"tion
(?)
n.
[F. herborisation.]
1.
The act of herborizing.

2.
The figure of plants in minerals or fossils.


word: Herborize
definition:
Herborize

Her"bo*rize
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Herborized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Herborizing (?).]
[F. herboriser, for herbariser, fr. L. herbarium. See Hebrarium.]
To search for plants, or new species of plants, with a view to classifying them.

He herborized as he traveled.
W. Tooke.


word: Herborize₂
definition:
Herborize

Her"bo*rize
v. t.
To form the figures of plants in; -- said in reference to minerals. See Arborized.

Herborized stones contain fine mosses.
Fourcroy (Trans.)


word: Herbous
definition:
Herbous

Herbose

{ Her*bose" (?), Herb"ous (?), }
a.
[L. herbosus: cf. F. herbeux.]
Abounding with herbs.
herbose
Byrom.


word: Herby
definition:
Herby

Herb"y
(?)
a.
Having the nature of, pertaining to, or covered with, herbs or herbage.
Herby
Chapman.


word: Hercogamous
definition:
Hercogamous

Her*cog"a*mous
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; a fence + _; marriage.]
(Bot.)
Not capable of self-fertilization; -- said of hermaphrodite flowers in which some structural obstacle forbids autogamy.


word: Herculean
definition:
Herculean

Her*cu"le*an
(?)
a.
[L. herculeus, fr. Hercules: cf. F. herculéen. See Hercules.]

1.
Requiring the strength of Hercules; hence, very great, difficult, or dangerous; as, an Herculean task.

2.
Having extraordinary strength or size; as, Herculean limbs.
Herculean
Milton.


word: Hercules
definition:
Hercules

Her"cu*les
(?)
n.
1.
(Gr. Myth.)
A hero, fabled to have been the son of Jupiter and Alcmena, and celebrated for great strength, esp. for the accomplishment of his twelve great tasks or “labors.”

2.
(Astron.)
A constellation in the northern hemisphere, near Lyra.

Hercules' beetle (Zool.), any species of Dynastes, an American genus of very large lamellicorn beetles, esp. Dynastes hercules of South America, which grows to a length of six inches. -- Hercules powder, an explosive containing nitroglycerin; -- used for blasting.


word: Hercules-club
definition:
Hercules-club

Hercules'-club

Hercules'-club

Hercules'-club, Hercules'-club, Hercules-club
prop. n.
1.
(Bot.)
A densely spiny ornamental tree (Zanthoxylum clava-herculis) of the rue family, growing in southeast U. S. and West Indies.
[wns=1]
It belongs to the same genus as one of the trees (Zanthoxylum Americanum) called prickly ash.

Syn. -- Hercules'-clubs, Hercules-club, Zanthoxylum clava-herculis.

2.
A small, prickly, deciduous clump-forming tree or shrub (Aralia spinosa) of eastern U.S.; also called Angelica tree and prickly ash.
[wns=2]

Syn. -- American angelica tree, devil's walking stick, Aralia spinosa.

3.
A variety of the common gourd (Lagenaria vulgaris). Its fruit sometimes exceeds five feet in length.


word: Hercynian
definition:
Hercynian

Her*cyn"i*an
(?)
a.
[L. Hercynia silva, Hercynius saltus, the Hercynian forest; cf. Gr. _; _;.]
Of or pertaining to an extensive forest in Germany, of which there are still portions in Swabia and the Hartz mountains.


word: Herd₂
definition:
Herd

Herd
(hẽrd)
n.
[OE. herd, heord, AS. heord; akin to OHG. herta, G. herde, Icel. hjörð, Sw. hjord, Dan. hiord, Goth. haírda; cf. Skr. çardha troop, host.]

1.
A number of beasts assembled together; as, a herd of horses, oxen, cattle, camels, elephants, deer, or swine; a particular stock or family of cattle.

The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea.
Gray.

&hand_; Herd is distinguished from flock, as being chiefly applied to the larger animals. A number of cattle, when driven to market, is called a drove.

2.
A crowd of low people; a rabble.

But far more numerous was the herd of such
Who think too little and who talk too much.
Dryden.

You can never interest the common herd in the abstract question.
Coleridge.

Herd's grass (Bot.), one of several species of grass, highly esteemed for hay. See under Grass.


word: Herd₃
definition:
Herd

Herd
n.
[OE. hirde, herde, heorde, AS. hirde, hyrde, heorde; akin to G. hirt, hirte, OHG. hirti, Icel. hir_;ir, Sw. herde, Dan. hyrde, Goth. haírdeis. See 2d Herd.]
One who herds or assembles domestic animals; a herdsman; -- much used in composition; as, a shepherd; a goatherd, and the like.
Chaucer.


word: Herd₄
definition:
Herd

Herd
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Herded; p. pr. & vb. n. Herding.]
[See 2d Herd.]
1.
To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company; as, sheep herd on many hills.

2.
To associate; to ally one's self with, or place one's self among, a group or company.

I'll herd among his friends, and seem
One of the number.
Addison.

3.
To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.
[Scot.]


word: Herdbook
definition:
Herdbook

Herd"book`
(?)
n.
A book containing the list and pedigrees of one or more herds of choice breeds of cattle; -- also called herd record, or herd register.


word: Herderite
definition:
Herderite

Her"der*ite
(?)
n.
[Named after Baron von Herder, who discovered it.]
(Min.)
A rare fluophosphate of glucina, in small white crystals.


word: Herdsman
definition:
Herdsman

Herdman

{ Herd"man (?), Herds"man (?), }
n.
pl. -men (_;).
The owner or keeper of a herd or of herds; one employed in tending a herd of cattle.


word: Here₄
definition:
Here

Here
(hēr)
adv.
[OE. her, AS. hēr; akin to OS. hēr, D. hier, OHG. hiar, G. hier, Icel. & Goth. hēr, Dan. her, Sw. här; fr. root of E. he. See He.]
1.
In this place; in the place where the speaker is; -- opposed to there.

He is not here, for he is risen.
Matt. xxviii. 6.

2.
In the present life or state.

Happy here, and more happy hereafter.
Bacon.

3.
To or into this place; hither. [Colloq.] See Thither.

Here comes Virgil.
B. Jonson.

Thou led'st me here.
Byron.

4.
At this point of time, or of an argument; now.

The prisoner here made violent efforts to rise.
Warren.

&hand_; Here, in the last sense, is sometimes used before a verb without subject; as, Here goes, for Now (something or somebody) goes; -- especially occurring thus in drinking healths. “Here's [a health] to thee, Dick.”
Cowley.

Here and there, in one place and another; in a dispersed manner; irregularly. “Footsteps here and there.” Longfellow. -- It is neither, here nor there, it is neither in this place nor in that, neither in one place nor in another; hence, it is to no purpose, irrelevant, nonsense. Shak.


word: Hereabouts
definition:
Hereabouts

Herea-bout

{ Here"a-bout` (?), Here"a*bouts` (?), }
adv.
1.
About this place; in this vicinity.

2.
Concerning this.
[Obs.]


word: Hereafter
definition:
Hereafter

Here*aft"er
(?)
adv.
[AS. hēræfter.]
In time to come; in some future time or state.

Hereafter he from war shall come.
Dryden.


word: Hereafter₂
definition:
Hereafter

Here*aft"er
n.
A future existence or state.

'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter.
Addison.


word: Hereafterward
definition:
Hereafterward

Here*aft"er*ward
(?)
adv.
Hereafter.
[Obs.]

Thou shalt hereafterward . . . come.
Chaucer.


word: Hereby
definition:
Hereby

Here*by"
(?)
adv.
1.
By means of this.

And hereby we do know that we know him.
1 John ii. 3.

2.
Close by; very near.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: Hereditable
definition:
Hereditable

He*red"i*ta*ble
(?)
a.
[LL. hereditabilis, fr. hereditare to inherit, fr. L. hereditas heirship inheritance, heres heir: cf. OF. hereditable. See Heir, and cf. Heritable.]
1.
Capable of being inherited. See Inheritable.
Locke.

2.
Qualified to inherit; capable of inheriting.


word: Hereditament
definition:
Hereditament

Her`e*dit"a*ment
(?)
n.
[LL. hereditamentum. See Hereditable.]
(Law)
Any species of property that may be inherited; lands, tenements, anything corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, that may descend to an heir.
Blackstone.

&hand_; A corporeal hereditament is visible and tangible; an incorporeal hereditament is not in itself visible or tangible, being an hereditary right, interest, or obligation, as duty to pay rent, or a right of way.


word: Hereditary
definition:
Hereditary

He*red"i*ta*ry
(?)
a.
[L. hereditarius, fr. hereditas heirship, inheritance, fr. heres heir: cf. F. héréditaire. See Heir.]
1.
Descended, or capable of descending, from an ancestor to an heir at law; received or passing by inheritance, or that must pass by inheritance; as, an hereditary estate or crown.

2.
Transmitted, or capable of being transmitted, as a constitutional quality or condition from a parent to a child; as, hereditary pride, bravery, disease.


word: Heredity
definition:
Heredity

He*red"i*ty
(?)
n.
[L. hereditas heirship.]
(Biol.)
Hereditary transmission of the physical and psychical qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants. See Pangenesis.


word: Hereford
definition:
Hereford

Her"e*ford
(?)
n.
One of a breed of cattle originating in Herefordshire, England. The Herefords are good working animals, and their beef-producing quality is excellent.


word: Herein
definition:
Herein

Here*in"
(?)
adv.
[AS. h_;rinne.]
In this.

Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit.
John xv. 8.


word: Hereinafter
definition:
Hereinafter

Here`in*aft"er
(?)
adv.
In the following part of this (writing, document, speech, and the like).


word: Heremitical
definition:
Heremitical

Her`e*mit"ic*al
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to a hermit; solitary; secluded from society.
Pope.


word: Hereof
definition:
Hereof

Here*of"
(?)
adv.
Of this; concerning this; from this; hence.

Hereof comes it that Prince Harry is valiant.
Shak.


word: Heresiarch
definition:
Heresiarch

Her"e*si*arch
(?; 277)
n.
[L. haeresiarcha, Gr. _;; _; heresy + _; leader, _; to lead: cf. F. hérésiarque.]
A leader in heresy; the chief of a sect of heretics.
Bp. Stillingfleet.


word: Heresiarchy
definition:
Heresiarchy

Her"e*si*arch`y
(?)
n.
A chief or great heresy.
[R.]

The book itself [the Alcoran] consists of heresiarchies against our blessed Savior.
Sir T. Herbert.


word: Heresiography
definition:
Heresiography

Her`e*si*og"ra*phy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; heresy + -graphy: cf. F. hérésiographie.]
A treatise on heresy.


word: Heresy
definition:
Heresy

Her"e*sy
(?)
n.
pl. Heresies (#).
[OE. heresie, eresie, OF. heresie, iresie, F. hérésie, L. haeresis, Gr. _; a taking, a taking for one's self, choosing, a choice, a sect, a heresy, fr. _; to take, choose.]

1.
An opinion held in opposition to the established or commonly received doctrine, and tending to promote a division or party, as in politics, literature, philosophy, etc.; -- usually, but not necessarily, said in reproach.

New opinions
Divers and dangerous, which are heresies,
And, not reformed, may prove pernicious.
Shak.

After the study of philosophy began in Greece, and the philosophers, disagreeing amongst themselves, had started many questions . . . because every man took what opinion he pleased, each several opinion was called a heresy; which signified no more than a private opinion, without reference to truth or falsehood.
Hobbes.

2.
(Theol.)
Religious opinion opposed to the authorized doctrinal standards of any particular church, especially when tending to promote schism or separation; lack of orthodox or sound belief; rejection of, or erroneous belief in regard to, some fundamental religious doctrine or truth; heterodoxy.

Doubts 'mongst divines, and difference of texts,
From whence arise diversity of sects,
And hateful heresies by God abhor'd.
Spenser.

Deluded people! that do not consider that the greatest heresy in the world is a wicked life.
Tillotson.

3.
(Law)
An offense against Christianity, consisting in a denial of some essential doctrine, which denial is publicly avowed, and obstinately maintained.

A second offense is that of heresy, which consists not in a total denial of Christianity, but of some its essential doctrines, publicly and obstinately avowed.
Blackstone.

&hand_; “When I call dueling, and similar aberrations of honor, a moral heresy, I refer to the force of the Greek _;, as signifying a principle or opinion taken up by the will for the will's sake, as a proof or pledge to itself of its own power of self-determination, independent of all other motives.”
Coleridge.


word: Heretic
definition:
Heretic

Her"e*tic
(?)
n.
[L. haereticus, Gr. _; able to choose, heretical, fr. _; to take, choose: cf. F. hérétique. See Heresy.]
1.
One who holds to a heresy; one who believes some doctrine contrary to the established faith or prevailing religion.

A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject.
Titus iii. 10.

2.
(R. C. Ch.)
One who having made a profession of Christian belief, deliberately and pertinaciously refuses to believe one or more of the articles of faith “determined by the authority of the universal church.”
Addis & Arnold.


word: Hereticate
definition:
Hereticate

He*ret"i*cate
(?)
v. t.
[LL. haereticatus, p. p. of haereticare.]
To decide to be heresy or a heretic; to denounce as a heretic or heretical.
Bp. Hall.

And let no one be minded, on the score of my neoterism, to hereticate me.
Fitzed. Hall.


word: Heretification
definition:
Heretification

He*ret`i*fi*ca"tion
(?)
n.
The act of hereticating or pronouncing heretical.
London Times.


word: Heretog
definition:
Heretog

Heretoch

{ Her"e*toch (?), Her"e*tog (?), }
n.
[AS. heretoga, heretoha; here army +  teón to draw, lead; akin to OS. heritogo, OHG. herizogo, G. herzog duke.]
(AS. Antiq.)
The leader or commander of an army; also, a marshal.
Blackstone.


word: Heriot
definition:
Heriot

Her"i*ot
(?)
n.
[AS. heregeatu military equipment, heriot; here army + geatwe, pl., arms, equipments.]
(Eng. Law)
Formerly, a payment or tribute of arms or military accouterments, or the best beast, or chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant; in modern use, a customary tribute of goods or chattels to the lord of the fee, paid on the decease of a tenant.
Blackstone. Bouvier.

Heriot custom, a heriot depending on usage. -- Heriot service (Law), a heriot due by reservation in a grant or lease of lands. Spelman. Blackstone.


word: Herisson
definition:
Herisson

Her"is*son
(?)
n.
[F. hérisson, prop., hedgehog.]
(fort.)
A beam or bar armed with iron spikes, and turning on a pivot; -- used to block up a passage.


word: Heritable
definition:
Heritable

Her"it*a*ble
(?)
a.
[OF. héritable. See Heritage, Hereditable.]
1.
Capable of being inherited or of passing by inheritance; inheritable.

2.
Capable of inheriting or receiving by inheritance.

This son shall be legitimate and heritable.
Sir M. Hale.

Heritable rights (Scots Law), rights of the heir; rights to land or whatever may be intimately connected with land; realty. Jacob (Law Dict.).


word: Heritage
definition:
Heritage

Her"it*age
(?)
a.
[OE. heritage, eritage, OF. heritage, eritage, F. héritage, fr. hériter to inherit, LL. heriditare. See Hereditable.]
1.
That which is inherited, or passes from heir to heir; inheritance.

Part of my heritage,
Which my dead father did bequeath to me.
Shak.

2.
(Script.)
A possession; the Israelites, as God's chosen people; also, a flock under pastoral charge.
Joel iii. 2. 1 Peter v. 3.


word: Heritance
definition:
Heritance

Her"it*ance
(?)
n.
[OF. heritance.]
Heritage; inheritance.
[R.]

Robbing their children of the heritance
Their fathers handed down
Southey.


word: Heritor
definition:
Heritor

Her"it*or
(?)
n.
[Cf. LL. her_;ator, fr. L. heres an heir.]
A proprietor or landholder in a parish.
[Scot.]


word: Hirling
definition:
Hirling

Herling

Her"ling, Hir"ling (_;)
n.
[Etymol. uncertain.]
(Zool.)
The young of the sea trout.
[Prov. Eng.]


word: Hermaphrodite
definition:
Hermaphrodite

Her*maph"ro*dite
(?)
n.
[L. hermaphroditus, Gr. _;, so called from the mythical story that Hermaphroditus, son of Hermes and Aphrodite, when bathing, became joined in one body with Salmacis, the nymph of a fountain in Caria: cf. F. hermaphrodite.]
(Biol.)
An individual which has the attributes of both male and female, or which unites in itself the two sexes; an animal or plant having the parts of generation of both sexes, as when a flower contains both the stamens and pistil within the same calyx, or on the same receptacle. In some cases reproduction may take place without the union of the distinct individuals. In the animal kingdom true hermaphrodites are found only among the invertebrates. See Illust. in Appendix, under Helminths.


word: Hermaphrodite₂
definition:
Hermaphrodite

Her*maph"ro*dite
a.
Including, or being of, both sexes; as, an hermaphrodite animal or flower.

Hermaphrodite brig. (Naut.) See under Brig. Totten.


word: Hermaphroditical
definition:
Hermaphroditical

Hermaphroditic

{ Her*maph`ro*dit"ic (?), Her*maph`ro*dit"ic*al (?), }
a.
1.
(Biol.)
Partaking of the characteristics of both sexes; having male and female reproductive organs in the same plant or animal; characterized by hermaphroditism.  Opposite of dioecious.
[wns=1]
Her*maph`ro*dit"ic*al*ly, adv.

Syn. -- monoecious, monecious, hermaphrodite.

2.
Specifically:
(Botany)
having pistils and stamens in the same flower.  Opposite of diclinous.
[wns=2]

Syn. -- monoclinous.


word: Hermaphroditism
definition:
Hermaphroditism

Her*maph"ro*dit*ism
(?)
n.
(Biol.)
The union of the two sexes in the same individual, or the combination of some of their characteristics or organs in one individual.


word: Hermeneutical
definition:
Hermeneutical

Hermeneutic

{ Her`me*neu"tic (?), Her`me*neu"tic*al (?), }
a.
[Gr. _;, fr. _; to interpret: cf. F. herméneutique.]
Unfolding the signification; of or pertaining to interpretation; exegetical; explanatory; as, hermeneutic theology, or the art of expounding the Scriptures; a hermeneutic phrase.


word: Hermeneutically
definition:
Hermeneutically

Her`me*neu"tic*al*ly
adv.
According to the principles of interpretation; as, a verse of Scripture was examined hermeneutically.


word: Hermeneutics
definition:
Hermeneutics

Her`me*neu"tics
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; (sc. _;).]
The science of interpretation and explanation; exegesis; esp., that branch of theology which defines the laws whereby the meaning of the Scriptures is to be ascertained.
Schaff-Herzog Encyc.


word: Hermes
definition:
Hermes

Her"mes
(?)
n.
[L., fr. Gr. _;.]
1.
(Myth.)
See Mercury.

&hand_; Hermes Trismegistus [Gr. 'Ermh^s trisme`gistos, lit., Hermes thrice greatest] was a late name of Hermes, especially as identified with the Egyptian god Thoth. He was the fabled inventor of astrology and alchemy.

2.
(Archaeology)
Originally, a boundary stone dedicated to Hermes as the god of boundaries, and therefore bearing in some cases a head, or head and shoulders, placed upon a quadrangular pillar whose height is that of the body belonging to the head, sometimes having feet or other parts of the body sculptured upon it. These figures, though often representing Hermes, were used for other divinities, and even, in later times, for portraits of human beings. Called also herma. See Terminal statue, under Terminal.


word: Hermetical
definition:
Hermetical

Hermetic

{ Her*met"ic (?), Her*met"ic*al (?), }
a.
[F. hermétique. See Note under Hermes, 1.]
1.
Of, pertaining to, or taught by, Hermes Trismegistus; as, hermetic philosophy. Hence: Alchemical; chemic.
hermetic
Burke.

The alchemists, as the people were called who tried to make gold, considered themselves followers of Hermes, and often called themselves Hermetic philosophers.
A. B. Buckley.

2.
Of or pertaining to the system which explains the causes of diseases and the operations of medicine on the principles of the hermetic philosophy, and which made much use, as a remedy, of an alkali and an acid; as, hermetic medicine.

3.
Made perfectly close or air-tight by fusion, so that no gas or spirit can enter or escape; as, an hermetic seal. See Note under Hermetically.

Hermetic art, alchemy. -- Hermetic books. (a) Books of the Egyptians, which treat of astrology. (b) Books which treat of universal principles, of the nature and orders of celestial beings, of medicine, and other topics.


word: Hermetically
definition:
Hermetically

Her*met"ic*al*ly
adv.
1.
In an hermetical manner; chemically.
Boyle.

2.
By fusion, so as to form an air-tight closure.

&hand_; A vessel or tube is hermetically sealed when it is closed completely against the passage of air or other fluid by fusing the extremity; -- sometimes less properly applied to any air-tight closure.


word: Hermit
definition:
Hermit

Her"mit
(?)
n.
[OE. ermite, eremite, heremit, heremite, F. hermite, ermite, L. eremita, Gr. _;, fr. _; lonely, solitary.  Cf. Eremite.]
1.
A person who retires from society and lives in solitude; a recluse; an anchoret; especially, one who so lives from religious motives.

He had been Duke of Savoy, and after a very glorious reign, took on him the habit of a hermit, and retired into this solitary spot.
Addison.

2.
A beadsman; one bound to pray for another.
[Obs.]
hermits
Shak.

3.
(Cookery)
A spiced molasses cookie, often containing chopped raisins and nuts.

Hermit crab (Zool.), a marine decapod crustacean of the family Paguridae. The species are numerous, and belong to many genera. Called also soldier crab. The hermit crabs usually occupy the dead shells of various univalve mollusks. See Illust. of Commensal. -- Hermit thrush (Zool.), an American thrush (Turdus Pallasii), with retiring habits, but having a sweet song. -- Hermit warbler (Zool.), a California wood warbler (Dendroica occidentalis), having the head yellow, the throat black, and the back gray, with black streaks.


word: Hermitage
definition:
Hermitage

Her"mit*age
(?; 48)
n.
[OE. hermitage, ermitage, F. hermitage, ermitage. See Hermit.]
1.
The habitation of a hermit; a secluded residence.

Some forlorn and naked hermitage,
Remote from all the pleasures of the world.
Shak.

2.
[F. Vin de l'Hermitage.]
A celebrated French wine, both white and red, of the Department of Drôme.


word: Hermitary
definition:
Hermitary

Her"mit*a*ry
(?)
n.
[Cf. LL. hermitorium, eremitorium.]
A cell annexed to an abbey, for the use of a hermit.
Howell.


word: Hermodactyl
definition:
Hermodactyl

Her`mo*dac"tyl
(?)
n.
[NL. hermodactylus, lit., Hermes' finger; fr. Gr. _; Hermes + _; finger.]
(med.)
A heart-shaped bulbous root, about the size of a finger, brought from Turkey, formerly used as a cathartic.


word: Hermogenian
definition:
Hermogenian

Her`mo*ge"ni*an
(?)
n.
(Eccl. Hist.)
A disciple of Hermogenes, an heretical teacher who lived in Africa near the close of the second century. He held matter to be the fountain of all evil, and that souls and spirits are formed of corrupt matter.


word: Hernani
definition:
Hernani

Her*na"ni
(?)
n.
A thin silk or woolen goods, for women's dresses, woven in various styles and colors.


word: Hernia
definition:
Hernia

Her"ni*a
(?)
n.
pl. E. Hernias (#), L. Herniae (#).
[L.]
(Med.)
A protrusion, consisting of an organ or part which has escaped from its natural cavity, and projects through some natural or accidental opening in the walls of the latter; as, hernia of the brain, of the lung, or of the bowels. Hernia of the abdominal viscera in most common. Called also rupture.

Strangulated hernia, a hernia so tightly compressed in some part of the channel through which it has been protruded as to arrest its circulation, and produce swelling of the protruded part. It may occur in recent or chronic hernia, but is more common in the latter.


word: Herniotomy
definition:
Herniotomy

Her`ni*ot"o*my
(?)
n.
[Hernia + Gr. _; to cut.]
(Med.)
A surgical procedure for the cure or relief of hernia; celotomy.


word: Hero
definition:
Hero

He"ro
(hē"ro̝)
n.
pl. Heroes (hē"r&omacrz).
[F. héros, L. heros, Gr. "h`rws.]
1.
(Myth.)
An illustrious man, supposed to be exalted, after death, to a place among the gods; a demigod, as Hercules.

2.
A man of distinguished valor or enterprise in danger, or fortitude in suffering; a prominent or central personage in any remarkable action or event; hence, a great or illustrious person.

Each man is a hero and oracle to somebody.
Emerson.

3.
The principal personage in a poem, story, and the like, or the person who has the principal share in the transactions related; as Achilles in the Iliad, Ulysses in the Odyssey, and Aeneas in the Aeneid.

The shining quality of an epic hero.
Dryden.

Hero worship, extravagant admiration for great men, likened to the ancient worship of heroes.

Hero worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among mankind.
Carlyle.


word: Herodian
definition:
Herodian

He*ro"di*an
(he̝*r&omacr"dĭ*an)
prop. n.
(Jewish Hist.)
One of a party among the Jews, composed of partisans of Herod of Galilee.  They joined with the Pharisees against Christ.


word: Herodiones
definition:
Herodiones

He*ro`di*o"nes
(he̝*r&omacr`dĭ*&omacr"nēz)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. 'erwdio`s a heron.]
(Zool.)
A division of wading birds, including the herons, storks, and allied forms.  Called also Herodii.
He*ro`di*o"nine (#), a.


word: Heroic
definition:
Heroic

He*ro"ic
(?)
a.
[F. héroïque, L. heroïcus, Gr. "hrwi:ko`s.]
1.
Of or pertaining to, or like, a hero; of the nature of heroes; distinguished by the existence of heroes; as, the heroic age; an heroic people; heroic valor.

2.
Worthy of a hero; bold; daring; brave; illustrious; as, heroic action; heroic enterprises.

3.
(Sculpture & Painting)
Larger than life size, but smaller than colossal; -- said of the representation of a human figure.

Heroic Age, the age when the heroes, or those called the children of the gods, are supposed to have lived. -- Heroic poetry, that which celebrates the deeds of a hero; epic poetry. -- Heroic treatment or Heroic remedies (Med.), treatment or remedies of a severe character, suited to a desperate case. -- Heroic verse (Pros.), the verse of heroic or epic poetry, being in English, German, and Italian the iambic of ten syllables; in French the iambic of twelve syllables; and in classic poetry the hexameter.


word: Heroicomical
definition:
Heroicomical

Heroicomic

{ He`ro*i*com"ic (?), He`ro*i*com"ic*al (?), }
a.
[Cf. F. héroïcomigue. See Heroic, and Comic.]
Combining the heroic and the ludicrous; denoting high burlesque; as, a heroicomic poem.


word: heroin
definition:
heroin

her"o*in
(hẽr"o̝*ĭn)
n.
(Chem.)
a morphine derivative, diacetyl morphine, used to relieve severe pain and as a sedative.  It is highly addictive, and its use is strictly controlled in the U.S. by federal law.  It is a popular strong narcotic drug of abuse, in part because it is more soluble than morphine.  It is sometimes included as one of the components of Brompton's mixture, used to control pain in terminallly ill patients.

Syn. -- diacetyl morphine, H, horse, junk, scag, shit, smack.


word: Heroine
definition:
Heroine

Her"o*ine
(?)
n.
[F. héroïne, L. heroina, Gr. _;, fem. of _;. See Hero.]
1.
A woman of an heroic spirit.

The heroine assumed the woman's place.
Dryden.

2.
The principal female person who figures in a remarkable action, or as the subject of a poem or story.


word: Heroism
definition:
Heroism

Her"o*ism
(?; 277)
n.
[F. héroïsme.]
The qualities characteristic of a hero, as courage, bravery, fortitude, unselfishness, etc.; the display of such qualities.

Heroism is the self-devotion of genius manifesting itself in action.
Hare.


word: Heron
definition:
Heron

Her"on
(?)
n.
[OE. heiroun, heroun, heron, hern, OF. hairon, F. héron, OHG. heigir; cf. Icel. hegri, Dan. heire, Sw. häger, and also G. häher jay, jackdaw, OHG. hehara, higere, woodpecker, magpie, D. reiger heron, G. reiher, AS. hrāgra.  Cf. Aigret, Egret.]
(Zool.)
Any wading bird of the genus Ardea and allied genera, of the family Ardeidae. The herons have a long, sharp bill, and long legs and toes, with the claw of the middle toe toothed. The common European heron (Ardea cinerea) is remarkable for its directly ascending flight, and was formerly hunted with the larger falcons.

&hand_; There are several common American species; as, the great blue heron (Ardea herodias); the little blue (Ardea cœrulea); the green (Ardea virescens); the snowy (Ardea candidissima); the night heron or qua-bird (Nycticorax nycticorax). The plumed herons are called egrets.

Heron's bill (Bot.), a plant of the genus Erodium; -- so called from the fancied resemblance of the fruit to the head and beak of the heron.


word: Heronshaw
definition:
Heronshaw

Her"on*shaw
(?)
n.
[OF. heroncel, dim. of héron. See Heron.]
(Zool.)
A heron.
[Written variously hernshaw, harnsey, etc.]


word: Heroologist
definition:
Heroologist

He`ro*öl"o*gist
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; + _; discourse.]
One who treats of heroes.
[R.]
T. Warton.


word: Herpes
definition:
Herpes

Her"pes
(?)
n.
[L., fr. Gr. "e`rphs, fr. "e`rpein to creep.]
(Med.)
An eruption of the skin, taking various names, according to its form, or the part affected, caused by a herpesvirus infection; especially, an eruption of vesicles in small distinct clusters, accompanied with itching or tingling, including shingles, ringworm, and the like; -- so called from its tendency to creep or spread from one part of the skin to another.


word: Herpes simplex
definition:
Herpes simplex

Her"pes simp`lex
(?)
n.
(Med.)
either of two forms of herpesvirus infection, distinguished as being caused by herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), which causes mostly sores and eruptions around the mouth (cold sores and fever blisters) and at other points above the waist, and herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2), causing genital herpes.  HSV-1 is also known in some cases to cause genital herpes infections.


word: Herpesvirus
definition:
Herpesvirus

Her"pes*vir`us
(?)
n.
(Med.)
any of several dozen DNA-containing virus of the family Herpetoviridae, including among them such human-disease-causing agents as Herpes simplex virus causing oral and genital herpes, varicella-zoster virus (Herpes zoster virus) causing shingles and chickenpox (varicella), Epstein-Barr virus (EB virus) causing infectious mononucleosis, and Cytomegalovirus.


word: Herpes zoster
definition:
Herpes zoster

Her"pes zos`ter
(?)
n.
(Med.)
same as shingles; -- a form of herpes caused by the varicella-zoster virus.


word: Herpetic
definition:
Herpetic

Her*pet"ic
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. herpétique.]
Pertaining to, or resembling, the herpes; partaking of the nature of herpes; as, herpetic eruptions.


word: Herpetological
definition:
Herpetological

Herpetologic

{ Her*pet`o*log"ic (?), Her*pet`o*log"ic*al (?), }
a.
Pertaining to herpetology.


word: Herpetologist
definition:
Herpetologist

Her`pe*tol"o*gist
(?)
n.
One versed in herpetology, or the natural history of reptiles.


word: Herpetology
definition:
Herpetology

Her`pe*tol"o*gy
(?)
n.
[Written also, but less properly, erpetology.]
[Gr. _; a creeping thing, reptile (fr. _; to creep) + -logy: cf. F. herpétologie.]
The natural history of reptiles; that branch of Zoology which relates to reptiles, including their structure, classification, and habits.


word: Herpetotomy
definition:
Herpetotomy

Her`pe*tot"o*my
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; a reptile + _; to cut.]
The anatomy or dissection of reptiles.


word: Herr
definition:
Herr

Herr
(?)
n.
A title of respect given to gentlemen in Germany, equivalent to the English Mister.


word: Herrenvolk
definition:
Herrenvolk

Her"ren*volk
(hĕr"ren*f&omacrlk`)
n.
[German.]
a race that considers itself superior to all others and fitted to rule the others; -- referred to especially in NAZI racial theories.

Syn. -- master race.


word: Herrenhaus
definition:
Herrenhaus

Her"ren*haus`
(hĕr"ren*hous`)
n.
[G., House of Lords.]
See Legislature, Austria, Prussia.


word: Herring
definition:
Herring

Her"ring
(hĕr"rĭng)
n.
[OE. hering, AS. hæring; akin to D. haring, G. häring, hering, OHG. haring, hering, and prob. to AS. here army, and so called because they commonly move in large numbers.  Cf. Harry.]
(Zool.)
One of various species of fishes of the genus Clupea, and allied genera, esp. the common round or English herring (Clupea harengus) of the North Atlantic.  Herrings move in vast schools, coming in spring to the shores of Europe and America, where they are salted and smoked in great quantities.

Herring gull (Zool.), a large gull which feeds in part upon herrings; esp., Larus argentatus in America, and Larus cachinnans in England. See Gull. -- Herring hog (Zool.), the common porpoise. -- King of the herrings. (Zool.) (a) The chimaera (Chimaera monstrosa) which follows the schools of herring.  Called also rabbit fish in the U. K.  See Chimaera. (b) The opah.


word: Herringbone
definition:
Herringbone

Her"ring*bone`
(hĕr"rĭng*b&omacrn`)
a.
Pertaining to, or like, the spine of a herring; especially, characterized by an arrangement of work in rows of parallel lines, which in the alternate rows slope in different directions.

Herringbone stitch, a kind of cross-stitch in needlework, chiefly used in flannel. Simmonds.


word: Herrnhuter
definition:
Herrnhuter

Herrn"hut*er
(hẽrn"hŭ*ẽr; G. hĕrn"hō*ẽr)
n.
(Eccl. Hist.)
One of the Moravians; -- so called from the settlement of Herrnhut (the Lord's watch) made, about 1722, by the Moravians at the invitation of Nicholas Lewis, count of Zinzendorf, upon his estate in the circle of Bautzen.


word: Herschelian
definition:
Herschelian

Her*sche"li*an
(?)
a.
Of or relating to Sir William Herschel; as, the Herschelian telescope.


word: Herse
definition:
Herse

Herse
(hẽrs)
n.
[F. herse harrow, portcullis, OF. herce, LL. hercia, L. hirpex, gen. hirpicis, and irpex, gen. irpicis, harrow. The LL. hercia signifies also a kind of candlestick in the form of a harrow, having branches filled with lights, and placed at the head of graves or cenotaphs; whence herse came to be used for the grave, coffin, or chest containing the dead.  Cf. Hearse.]
1.
(Fort.)
A kind of gate or portcullis, having iron bars, like a harrow, studded with iron spikes. It is hung above gateways so that it may be quickly lowered, to impede the advance of an enemy.
Farrow.

2.
See Hearse, a carriage for the dead.

3.
A funeral ceremonial.
[Obs.]
Spenser.


word: Herself
definition:
Herself

Her*self"
(?)
pron.
1.
An emphasized form of the third person feminine pronoun; -- used as a subject with she; as, she herself will bear the blame; also used alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, it is herself; she blames herself.

2.
Her own proper, true, or real character; hence, her right, or sane, mind; as, the woman was deranged, but she is now herself again; she has come to herself.

By herself, alone; apart; unaccompanied.


word: Hersillon
definition:
Hersillon

Her"sil*lon
(?)
n.
[F., fr. herse a harrow. See Herse, n.]
(Fort.)
A beam with projecting spikes, used to make a breach impassable.


word: Hertz
definition:
Hertz

Hertz
(?)
n.
[from the German physicist Heinrich Hertz.]
a unit of frequency equal to one cycle per second; it is abbreviated Hz.  It is commonly used to specify the frequency of radio waves, and also the clock frequencies in digital computers.  For these applications, kilohertz and megahertz are the most commonly used units, derived from hertz.


word: Hertzian
definition:
Hertzian

Hertz"i*an
(?)
a.
Of or pert. to the German physicist Heinrich Hertz.

Hertzian telegraphy, telegraphy by means of the Hertzian waves; wireless telegraphy. -- H. waves, electric waves; -- so called because Hertz was the first to investigate them systematically. His apparatus consisted essentially in an oscillator for producing the waves, and a resonator for detecting them. The waves were found to have the same velocity as light, and to undergo reflection, refraction, and polarization.


word: Herzog
definition:
Herzog

Her"zog
(?)
n.
[G., akin to AS. heretoga, lit., army leader. See Harry, and Duke.]
A member of the highest rank of nobility in Germany and Austria, corresponding to the British duke.


word: Hesitancy
definition:
Hesitancy

Hes"i*tan*cy
(?)
n.
[L. haesitantia a stammering.]
1.
The act of hesitating, or pausing to consider; slowness in deciding; vacillation; also, the manner of one who hesitates.

2.
A stammering; a faltering in speech.


word: Hesitant
definition:
Hesitant

Hes"i*tant
(?)
a.
[L. haesitans, p. pr. of haesitare: cf. F. hésitant. See Hesitate.]
1.
Not prompt in deciding or acting; hesitating.

2.
Unready in speech.
Baxter.


word: Hesitate
definition:
Hesitate

Hes"i*tate
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Hesitated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hesitating.]
[L. haesitatus, p. p. of haesitare, intens. fr. haerere to hesitate, stick fast; to hang or hold fast.  Cf. Aghast, Gaze, Adhere.]

1.
To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination; as, he hesitated whether to accept the offer or not; men often hesitate in forming a judgment.
Pope.

2.
To stammer; to falter in speaking.


word: Hesitate₂
definition:
Hesitate

Hes"i*tate
v. t.
To utter with hesitation or to intimate by a reluctant manner.
[Poetic & R.]

Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.
Pope.


word: hesitating
definition:
hesitating

hesitating
adj.
holding back because of doubt or lack of confidence.

Syn. -- hesitant, indecisive.


word: Hesitation
definition:
Hesitation

Hes`i*ta"tion
(?)
n.
[L. haesitatio: cf. F. hésitation.]
1.
The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation.

2.
A faltering in speech; stammering.
Swift.


word: Hesitative
definition:
Hesitative

Hes"i*ta*tive
(?)
a.
Showing, or characterized by, hesitation.

[He said] in his mild, hesitative way.
R. D. Blackmore.


word: Hesp
definition:
Hesp

Hesp
(?)
n.
[Cf. Icel. hespa a hasp, a wisp or skein. See Hasp.]
A measure of two hanks of linen thread.
[Scot.]
[Written also hasp.]
Knight.


word: Hesperetin
definition:
Hesperetin

Hes*per"e*tin
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A white, crystalline substance having a sweetish taste, obtained by the decomposition of hesperidin, and regarded as a complex derivative of caffeic acid.


word: Hesperian
definition:
Hesperian

Hes*pe"ri*an
(?)
a.
[L. hesperius, fr. hesperus the evening star, Gr. _; evening, _; _; the evening star.  Cf. Vesper.]
Western; being in the west; occidental.
[Poetic]
Milton.


word: Hesperian₃
definition:
Hesperian

Hes*pe"ri*an
a.
(Zool.)
Of or pertaining to a family of butterflies called Hesperidae, or skippers.
n. Any one of the numerous species of Hesperidae; a skipper.


word: Hesperidene
definition:
Hesperidene

Hes*per"i*dene
(?)
n.
[See Hesperidium.]
(Chem.)
An isomeric variety of terpene from orange oil.


word: Hesperides
definition:
Hesperides

Hes*per"i*des
(?)
n. pl.
[L., fr. Gr. _;.]

1.
(Class. Myth.)
The daughters of Hesperus, or Night (brother of Atlas), and fabled possessors of a garden producing golden apples, in Africa, at the western extremity of the known world. To slay the guarding dragon and get some of these apples was one of the labors of Hercules. Called also Atlantides.

2.
The garden producing the golden apples.

It not love a Hercules,
Still climbing trees in the Hesperides?
Shak.


word: Hesperidin
definition:
Hesperidin

Hes*per"i*din
(?)
n.
[See Hesperidium.]
(Chem.)
A glucoside found in ripe and unripe fruit (as the orange), and extracted as a white crystalline substance.


word: Hesperidium
definition:
Hesperidium

Hes`pe*rid"i*um
(?)
n.
[NL. So called in allusion to the golden apples of the Hesperides. See Hesperides.]
(Bot.)
A large berry with a thick rind, as a lemon or an orange.


word: Hesperornis
definition:
Hesperornis

Hes`pe*ror"nis
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; western + _;, _;, a bird.]
(Paleon.)
A genus of large, extinct, wingless birds from the Cretaceous deposits of Kansas, belonging to the Odontornithes. They had teeth, and were essentially carnivorous swimming ostriches. Several species are known. See Illust. in Append.


word: Hesperus
definition:
Hesperus

Hes"pe*rus
(?)
n.
[L. See Hesper.]
1.
Venus when she is the evening star; Hesper.

2.
Evening.
[Poetic]

The Sun was sunk, and after him the Star
Of Hesperus.
Milton.


word: Hessian
definition:
Hessian

Hes"sian
(?)
a.
Of or relating to Hesse, in Germany, or to the Hessians.

Hessian boots, or Hessians, boot of a kind worn in England, in the early part of the nineteenth century, tasseled in front. Thackeray. -- Hessian cloth, or Hessians, a coarse hempen cloth for sacking. -- Hessian crucible. See under Crucible. -- Hessian fly (Zool.), a small dipterous fly or midge (Cecidomyia destructor). Its larvae live between the base of the lower leaves and the stalk of wheat, and are very destructive to young wheat; -- so called from the erroneous idea that it was brought into America by the Hessian troops, during the Revolution.


word: Hessian₂
definition:
Hessian

Hes"sian
n.
1.
A native or inhabitant of Hesse.

2.
A mercenary or venal person.
[U. S.]

&hand_; This use is a relic of the patriot hatred of the Hessian mercenaries who served with the British troops in the Revolutionary War.

3.
pl.
See Hessian boots and cloth, under Hessian, a.


word: Hessite
definition:
Hessite

Hess"ite
(?)
n.
[After H. Hess.]
(Min.)
A lead-gray sectile mineral. It is a telluride of silver.


word: Hest
definition:
Hest

Hest
(hĕst)
n.
[AS. h&aemacr_;s, fr. hātan to call, bid. See Hight, and cf. Behest.]
Command; precept; injunction.
[Archaic]
See Behest.
hest
Shak.

Let him that yields obey the victor's hest.
Fairfax.

Yet I thy hest will all perform, at full.
Tennyson.


word: Hesternal
definition:
Hesternal

Hestern

{ Hes"tern (?), Hes*ter"nal (?), }
a.
[L. hesternus; akin to heri yesterday.]
Pertaining to yesterday.
[Obs.]
See Yester, a.
Ld. Lytton.


word: Hesychast
definition:
Hesychast

Hes"y*chast
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; hermit, fr. _; to be still or quiet, fr. _; still, calm.]
One of a mystical sect of the Greek Church in the fourteenth century; a quietist.
Brande & C.


word: Hetaira
definition:
Hetaira

Hetaera

{ &VerbarHe*tae"ra (?), &VerbarHe*tai"ra (?) }
n.
pl. -rae (#)
[NL. See Hetairism.]
(Gr. Antiq.)
A female paramour; a mistress, concubine, or harlot.
He*tae"ric, He*tai"ric (#), a.


word: Hetarism
definition:
Hetarism

Hetairism

{ He*tair"ism (?), Het"a*rism (?), }
n.
[Gr. _; a companion, a concubine, fem. of _; a comrade.]
A supposed primitive state of society, in which all the women of a tribe were held in common.
H. Spencer.
Het`a*ris"tic (#), a.


word: Hete
definition:
Hete

Hete
(?)
v. t. & i.
[imp. & p. p. Hete, later Het.]
Variant of Hote.
[Obs.]

But one avow to greate God I hete.
Chaucer.


word: Heteracanth
definition:
Heteracanth

Het"er*a*canth
(?)
a.
[Hetero- + Gr. _; a spine.]
(Zool.)
Having the spines of the dorsal fin unsymmetrical, or thickened alternately on the right and left sides.


word: Heterauxesis
definition:
Heterauxesis

Het`e*raux*e"sis
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; the other + _; growth.]
(Bot.)
Unequal growth of a cell, or of a part of a plant.


word: Hetero-
definition:
Hetero-

Het"er*o-
(?)
[Gr. "e`teros other.]
A combining form signifying other, other than usual, different; as, heteroclite, heterodox, heterogamous.


word: Heterocarpism
definition:
Heterocarpism

Het`er*o*car"pism
(?)
n.
[Hetero- + Gr. _; fruit.]
(Bot.)
The power of producing two kinds of reproductive bodies, as in the hog peanut Amphicarpaea bracteata (photo by Daniel Reed (daniel@2bnthewild.com) from  http://www.2bnthewild.com), in which besides the usual pods produced from flowers above ground, there are others underground.  In the hog peanut the above-ground flowers are all creamy white or tinged with purple, as in the photo.


word: Heterocephalous
definition:
Heterocephalous

Het`er*o*ceph"a*lous
(?)
a.
[Hetero- + Gr._; head.]
(Bot.)
Bearing two kinds of heads or capitula; -- said of certain composite plants.


word: Heterocera
definition:
Heterocera

Het`e*roc"e*ra
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; other + _; horn.]
(Zool.)
A division of Lepidoptera, including the moths, and hawk moths, which have the antennæ variable in form.


word: Heterocercal
definition:
Heterocercal

Het`er*o*cer"cal
(?)
a.
[Hetero- + Gr. _; tail.]
(Anat.)
Having the vertebral column evidently continued into the upper lobe of the tail, which is usually longer than the lower one, as in sharks.


word: Heterocercy
definition:
Heterocercy

Het"er*o*cer`cy
(?)
n.
[Hetero- + Gr. _; a tail.]
(Anat.)
Unequal development of the tail lobes of fishes; the possession of a heterocercal tail.


word: Heterochromous
definition:
Heterochromous

Het`er*o*chro"mous
(?; 277)
a.
[Hetero- + Gr. _; color.]
(Bot.)
Having the central florets of a flower head of a different color from those of the circumference.


word: Heterochrony
definition:
Heterochrony

Heterochronism

{ Het`er*och"ro*nism (?), Het`er*och"ro*ny (?), }
n.
[Gr. _; of different times; _; other + _; time.]
(Biol.)
In evolution, a deviation from the typical sequence in the formation of organs or parts.


word: Heteroclite
definition:
Heteroclite

Het"er*o*clite
a.
[L. heteroclitus, Gr. _;; _; other + _; to lean, incline, inflect: cf. F. hétéroclite.]
Deviating from ordinary forms or rules; irregular; anomalous; abnormal.


word: Heteroclite₂
definition:
Heteroclite

Het"er*o*clite
n.
1.
(Gram.)
A word which is irregular or anomalous either in declension or conjugation, or which deviates from ordinary forms of inflection in words of a like kind; especially, a noun which is irregular in declension.

2.
Any thing or person deviating from the common rule, or from common forms.
Howell.


word: Heteroclitical
definition:
Heteroclitical

Heteroclitic

{ Het`er*o*clit"ic (?), Het`er*o*clit"ic*al (?), }
a.
[See Heteroclite.]
Deviating from ordinary forms or rules; irregular; anomalous; abnormal.


word: Heterocyst
definition:
Heterocyst

Het"er*o*cyst
(?)
n.
[Hetero- + cyst.]
(Bot.)
A cell larger than the others, and of different appearance, occurring in certain algæ related to nostoc.


word: Heterodactylae
definition:
Heterodactylae

Het`e*ro*dac"ty*læ
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; other + _; a finger.]
(Zool.)
A group of birds including the trogons.


word: Heterodactylous
definition:
Heterodactylous

Het`er*o*dac"tyl*ous
(?)
a.
[Hetero- + Gr. _; a toe.]
(Zool.)
Having the first and second toes turned backward, as in the trogons.


word: Heterodont
definition:
Heterodont

Het"er*o*dont
(?)
a.
[Hetero- + Gr. _;, _; a tooth.]
(Anat.)
Having the teeth differentiated into incisors, canines, and molars, as in man; -- opposed to homodont.


word: Heterodox
definition:
Heterodox

Het"er*o*dox
(?)
a.
[Gr. _;; _; other + _; opinion; cf. F. hétérodoxe.]
1.
Contrary to, or differing from, some acknowledged standard, as the Bible, the creed of a church, the decree of a council, and the like; not orthodox; heretical; -- said of opinions, doctrines, books, etc., esp. upon theological subjects.

Raw and indigested, heterodox, preaching.
Strype.

2.
Holding heterodox opinions, or doctrines not orthodox; heretical; -- said of persons.
Macaulay.


word: Heterodoxy
definition:
Heterodoxy

Het"er*o*dox`y
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;: cf. F. hétérodoxie.]
An opinion or doctrine, or a system of doctrines, contrary to some established standard of faith, as the Scriptures, the creed or standards of a church, etc.; heresy.
Bp. Bull.


word: Heterodromous
definition:
Heterodromous

Het`er*od"ro*mous
(?)
a.
[Hetero- + Gr. _; to run.]
1.
(Bot.)
Having spirals of changing direction.
Gray.

2.
(Mech.)
Moving in opposite directions; -- said of a lever, pulley, etc., in which the resistance and the actuating force are on opposite sides of the fulcrum or axis.


word: Heteroecious
definition:
Heteroecious

Het`er*œ"cious
(?)
a.
[Hetero- + Gr. _; house.]
(Bot.)
Passing through the different stages in its life history on an alternation of hosts, as the common wheat-rust fungus (Puccinia graminis), and certain other parasitic fungi; -- contrasted with autœcious.
Het`er*œ"cism (#), n.


word: Heterogamous
definition:
Heterogamous

Het`er*og"a*mous
(?)
a.
[Hetero- + Gr. ga`mos marriage: cf. F. hétérogame.]
(Bot. & Biol.)
(a)
The condition of having two or more kinds of flowers which differ in regard to stamens and pistils, as in the aster.
(b)
Characterized by heterogamy.


word: Heterogamy
definition:
Heterogamy

Het`er*og"a*my
(?)
n.
[See Heterogamous.]

1.
(Bot.)
The process of fertilization in plants by an indirect or circuitous method; -- opposed to orthogamy.

2.
(Biol.)
That form of alternate generation in which two kinds of sexual generation, or a sexual and a parthenogenetic generation, alternate; -- in distinction from metagenesis, where sexual and asexual generations alternate.
Claus & Sedgwick.


word: Heterogangliate
definition:
Heterogangliate

Het`er*o*gan"gli*ate
(?)
a.
[Hetero- +  gangliate.]
(Physiol.)
Having the ganglia of the nervous system unsymmetrically arranged; -- said of certain invertebrate animals.


word: Heterogeneity
definition:
Heterogeneity

Het`er*o*ge*ne"i*ty
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. hétérogénéité.]
The state of being heterogeneous; contrariety.

The difference, indeed the heterogeneity, of the two may be felt.
Coleridge.


word: Heterogeneous
definition:
Heterogeneous

Het`er*o*ge"ne*ous
(?)
a.
[Gr. _;; _; + _; race, kind; akin to E. kin: cf. F. hétérogène.]
Differing in kind; having unlike qualities; possessed of different characteristics; dissimilar; -- opposed to homogeneous, and said of two or more connected objects, or of a conglomerate mass, considered in respect to the parts of which it is made up.
Het`er*o*ge"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Het`er*o*ge"ne*ous*ness, n.

Heterogeneous nouns (Gram.), nouns having different genders in the singular and plural numbers; as, hic locus, of the masculine gender in the singular, and hi loci and hæc loca, both masculine and neuter in the plural; hoc cælum, neuter in the singular; hi cæli, masculine in the plural. -- Heterogeneous quantities (Math.), such quantities as are incapable of being compared together in respect to magnitude, and surfaces and solids. -- Heterogeneous surds (Math.), surds having different radical signs.


word: Heterogenesis
definition:
Heterogenesis

Het`er*o*gen"e*sis
(?)
n.
[Hetero- + genesis.]
1.
(Biol.)
Spontaneous generation, so called.

2.
(Biol.)
That method of reproduction in which the successive generations differ from each other, the parent organism producing offspring different in habit and structure from itself, the original form, however, reappearing after one or more generations; -- opposed to homogenesis, or gamogenesis.


word: Heterogenetic
definition:
Heterogenetic

Het`er*o*ge*net"ic
(?)
a.
(Biol.)
Relating to heterogenesis; as, heterogenetic transformations.


word: Heterogenist
definition:
Heterogenist

Het`er*og"e*nist
(?)
n.
(Biol.)
One who believes in the theory of spontaneous generation, or heterogenesis.
Bastian.


word: Heterogonous
definition:
Heterogonous

Het`er*og"o*nous
(?)
a.
(Bot.)
Characterized by heterogony.
Het`er*og"o*nous*ly, adv.


word: Heterogony
definition:
Heterogony

Het`er*og"o*ny
(?)
n.
[Hetero- + Gr. _; offspring.]
(Bot.)
The condition of having two or more kinds of flowers, different as to the length of their stamens and pistils.


word: Heterographic
definition:
Heterographic

Het`er*o*graph"ic
(?)
a.
[See Heterography.]
Employing the same letters to represent different sounds in different words or syllables; -- said of methods of spelling; as, the ordinary English orthography is heterographic.


word: Heterography
definition:
Heterography

Het`er*og"ra*phy
(?)
n.
[Hetero- + -graphy.]
That method of spelling in which the same letters represent different sounds in different words, as in the ordinary English orthography; e. g., g in get and in ginger.


word: Heterogynous
definition:
Heterogynous

Het`er*og"y*nous
(?)
a.
[Hetero- + Gr. _; a woman, female.]
(Zool.)
Having females very unlike the males in form and structure; -- as certain insects, the males of which are winged, and the females wingless.


word: Heterologous
definition:
Heterologous

Het`er*ol"o*gous
(?)
a.
[Hetero- + Gr. _; proportion.]
Characterized by heterology; consisting of different elements, or of like elements in different proportions; different; -- opposed to homologous; as, heterologous organs.

Heterologous stimulus. (Physiol.) See under Stimulus. -- Heterologous tumor (Med.), a tumor differing in structure from the normal tissues of the body.


word: Heterology
definition:
Heterology

Het`er*ol"o*gy
(?)
n.
[Hetero- + -logy.]
1.
(Biol.)
The absence of correspondence, or relation, in type of structure; lack of analogy between parts, owing to their being composed of different elements, or of like elements in different proportions; variation in structure from the normal form; -- opposed to homology.

2.
(Chem.)
The connection or relation of bodies which have partial identity of composition, but different characteristics and properties; the relation existing between derivatives of the same substance, or of the analogous members of different series; as, ethane, ethyl alcohol, acetic aldehyde, and acetic acid are in heterology with each other, though each in at the same time a member of a distinct homologous series.  Cf. Homology.


word: Heteromera
definition:
Heteromera

Het`e*rom"e*ra
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; other + _; part.]
(Zool.)
A division of Coleoptera, having heteromerous tarsi.


word: Heteromerous
definition:
Heteromerous

Het`er*om"er*ous
(?)
a.
[See Heteromera.]
1.
(Chem & Crystallog.)
Unrelated in chemical composition, though similar or indentical in certain other respects; as, borax and augite are homœmorphous, but heteromerous.

2.
(Bot.)
With the parts not corresponding in number.

3.
(Zool.)
(a)
Having the femoral artery developed as the principal artery of the leg; -- said of certain birds, as the cotingas and pipras.
(b)
Having five tarsal joints in the anterior and middle legs, but only four in the posterior pair, as the blister beetles and oil beetles.


word: Heteromorphic
definition:
Heteromorphic

Het`er*o*mor"phic
(?)
a.
[Hetero- + Gr. morfh` form.]
(Biol.)
Deviating from the normal, perfect, or mature form; having different forms at different stages of existence, or in different individuals of the same species; -- applied especially to insects in which there is a wide difference of form between the larva and the adult, and to plants having more than one form of flower.


word: Heteromorphy
definition:
Heteromorphy

Heteromorphism

{ Het`er*o*mor"phism (?), Het`er*o*mor"phy (?), }
n.
(Biol.)
The state or quality of being heteromorphic.


word: Heteromyaria
definition:
Heteromyaria

Het`e*ro*my*a"ri*a
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; other + _; a muscle.]
(Zool.)
A division of bivalve shells, including the marine mussels, in which the two adductor muscles are very unequal. See Dreissena, and Illust. under Byssus.


word: Heteronereis
definition:
Heteronereis

Het`e*ro*ne*re"is
(?)
n.
[NL. See Hetero-, and Nereis.]
(Zool.)
A free-swimming, dimorphic, sexual form of certain species of Nereis.

&hand_; In this state the head and its appendages are changed in form, the eyes become very large; more or less of the parapodia are highly modified by the development of finlike lobes, and branchial lamellæ, and their setæ become longer and bladelike.


word: Heteronomous
definition:
Heteronomous

Het`er*on"o*mous
(?)
a.
[Hetero- + Gr. no`mos law.]
Subject to the law of another.
Krauth-Fleming.


word: Heteronomy
definition:
Heteronomy

Het`er*on"o*my
(?)
n.
1.
Subordination or subjection to the law of another; political subjection of a community or state; -- opposed to autonomy.

2.
(Metaph.)
A term applied by Kant to those laws which are imposed on us from without, or the violence done to us by our passions, wants, or desires.
Krauth-Fleming.


word: Heteronym
definition:
Heteronym

Het"er*o*nym
(?)
n.
That which is heteronymous; a thing having a different name or designation from some other thing; -- opposed to homonym.


word: Heteronymous
definition:
Heteronymous

Het`er*on"y*mous
(?)
a.
[Hetero- + Gr. "o`nyma, for "o`noma a name.]
Having different names or designations; standing in opposite relations.
J. Le Conte.


word: Heteroousian
definition:
Heteroousian

Het`er*o*ou`si*an
(?)
a.
[Hetero- + Gr. _; being, essence.]
Having different essential qualities; of a different nature.


word: Heteroousian₂
definition:
Heteroousian

Het`er*o*ou"si*an
(?)
n.
(Eccl. Hist.)
One of those Arians who held that the Son was of a different substance from the Father.


word: Heteropathic
definition:
Heteropathic

Het`er*o*path"ic
(?)
a.
[Hetero- + Gr. _; suffering, fr. _;, _;, to suffer.]
Of or pertaining to the method of heteropathy; allopathic.


word: Heteropathy
definition:
Heteropathy

Het`er*op"a*thy
(?)
n.
[See Heteropathic.]
(Med.)
That mode of treating diseases, by which a morbid condition is removed by inducing an opposite morbid condition to supplant it; allopathy.


word: Heteropelmous
definition:
Heteropelmous

Het`er*o*pel"mous
(?)
a.
[Hetero- + Gr. _; the sole of the foot.]
(Anat.)
Having each of the two flexor tendons of the toes bifid, the branches of one going to the first and second toes; those of the other, to the third and fourth toes. See Illust. in Append.


word: Heterophemy
definition:
Heterophemy

Het`er*oph"e*my
(?)
n.
[Hetero- + Gr. _; voice, speech, fr. _; to speak.]
The unconscious saying, in speech or in writing, of that which one does not intend to say; -- frequently the very reverse of the thought which is present to consciousness.
R. G. White.


word: Heterophony
definition:
Heterophony

Het`er*oph"o*ny
(?)
n.
[Hetero- + Gr. _; voice.]
(Med.)
An abnormal state of the voice.
Mayne.


word: Heterophyllous
definition:
Heterophyllous

Het`er*oph"yl*lous
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; other + _; leaf: cf. F. hétérophylle.]
(Bot.)
Having leaves of more than one shape on the same plant.


word: Heteroplasm
definition:
Heteroplasm

Het"er*o*plasm
(?)
n.
[Hetero- + Gr. _; anything formed or molded.]
An abnormal formation foreign to the economy, and composed of elements different from those are found in it in its normal condition.
Dunglison.


word: Heteroplastic
definition:
Heteroplastic

Het`er*o*plas"tic
(?)
a.
[Hetero- + -plastic.]
(Biol.)
Producing a different type of organism; developing into a different form of tissue, as cartilage which develops into bone.
Haeckel.


word: Heteropod
definition:
Heteropod

Het`er*o*pod
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. hétéropode.]
(Zool.)
One of the Heteropoda.
a. Heteropodous.


word: Heteropoda
definition:
Heteropoda

Het`e*rop"o*da
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; other + -poda.]
(Zool.)
An order of pelagic Gastropoda, having the foot developed into a median fin. Some of the species are naked; others, as Carinaria and Atlanta, have thin glassy shells.


word: Heteroptera
definition:
Heteroptera

Het`e*rop"te*ra
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., from Gr. _; other + _; a wing.]
(Zool.)
A suborder of Hemiptera, in which the base of the anterior wings is thickened. See Hemiptera.


word: Heteroscian
definition:
Heteroscian

Het`er*os"cian
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;; _; other + _; shadow: cf. F. hétéroscien.]
One who lives either north or south of the tropics, as contrasted with one who lives on the other side of them; -- so called because at noon the shadows always fall in opposite directions (the one northward, the other southward).


word: Heterosis
definition:
Heterosis

Het`e*ro"sis
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; alteration, fr. _; other, different.]
(Rhet.)
A figure of speech by which one form of a noun, verb, or pronoun, and the like, is used for another, as in the sentence: “What is life to such as me?”
Aytoun.


word: Heterosomati
definition:
Heterosomati

Het`e*ro*so"ma*ti
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; other + _;, _;, body.]
(Zool.)
An order of fishes, comprising the flounders, halibut, sole, etc., having the body and head asymmetrical, with both eyes on one side. Called also Heterosomata, Heterosomi.


word: Heterosporous
definition:
Heterosporous

Heterosporic

{ Het`er*o*spor"ic (?), Het`er*o*spor"ous (?), }
a.
[Hetero- + spore.]
(Bot.)
Producing two kinds of spores unlike each other.


word: Heterostyled
definition:
Heterostyled

Het"er*o*styled
(?)
a.
(Bot.)
Having styles of two or more distinct forms or lengths.
Darwin.


word: Heterotaxy
definition:
Heterotaxy

Het"er*o*tax`y
(?)
n.
[Hetero- + Gr. _; an arrangement, fr. _; to arrange.]
(Biol.)
Variation in arrangement from that existing in a normal form; heterogenous arrangement or structure, as, in botany, the deviation in position of the organs of a plant, from the ordinary or typical arrangement.


word: Heterotopy
definition:
Heterotopy

Heterotopism

{ Het`er*ot"o*pism (?), Het`er*ot"o*py (?), }
n.
[Hetero- + Gr. _; place: cf. F. hétérotopie.]
1.
(Med.)
A deviation from the natural position; -- a term applied in the case of organs or growths which are abnormal in situation.

2.
(Biol.)
A deviation from the natural position of parts, supposed to be effected in thousands of years, by the gradual displacement of germ cells.


word: Heterotricha
definition:
Heterotricha

Het`e*rot"ri*cha
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; other + _;, gen. _;, a hair.]
(Zool.)
A division of ciliated Infusoria, having fine cilia all over the body, and a circle of larger ones around the anterior end.


word: Heterotropous
definition:
Heterotropous

Heterotropal

Het`er*ot"ro*pal (?), Het`er*ot"ro*pous (_;)
a.
[Gr. "etero`tropos turning another way; _; other + _; to turn: cf. F. hétérotrope.]
(Bot.)
Having the embryo or ovule oblique or transverse to the funiculus; amphitropous.
Gray.


word: Hetman
definition:
Hetman

Het"man
(?)
n.
pl. Hetmans (#).
[Pol. hetman.  Cf. Ataman.]
A Cossack headman or general. The title of chief hetman is now held by the heir to the throne of Russia.


word: Heuchera
definition:
Heuchera

Heuchera
n.
A genus of North American herbs with basal cordate or orbicular leaves and small panicled flowers.

Syn. -- genus Heuchera.


word: Heugh
definition:
Heugh

Heugh
(?)
n.
[Cf. Hogh.]
1.
A crag; a cliff; a glen with overhanging sides.
[Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

2.
A shaft in a coal pit; a hollow in a quarry.
[Scot.]


word: Heulandite
definition:
Heulandite

Heu"land*ite
(?)
n.
[After Heuland, an English mineralogist.]
(Min.)
A mineral of the Zeolite family, often occurring in amygdaloid, in foliated masses, and also in monoclinic crystals with pearly luster on the cleavage face. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime.


word: Heuristic
definition:
Heuristic

Heu*ris"tic
(h&uuptack_;*rĭs"tĭk)
a.
[Gr. e"yri`skein to discover.]
1.
Serving to promote discovery or learning; -- used especially of thories or paradigms which stimulate new ideas for discovering facts in experimental sciences.

2.
Serving to stimulate people to learn and discover on their own, especially by encouraging experimental and trial-and-error methods for solving problems.

3.
Pertaining to or based on trial-and-error and experimental methods of learning and evaluation.

4.
(Computers)
Based on the use of an efficient trial-and error method to search a space of possible solutions to a problem, or to find an acceptable approximate solution, when an exact algorithmic method is unavailable or too time-consuming.


word: Heuristic₂
definition:
Heuristic

Heu*ris"tic
(h&uuptack_;*rĭs"tĭk)
n.
1.
A heuristic method; a specific heuristic procedure.

2.
A theory or approach which serves to promote discovery or learning by encouraging experimentation.


word: heuristically
definition:
heuristically

heu*ris"ti*cal*ly
(h&uuptack_;*rĭs"tĭ*kal*l&ybreve_;)
n.
In a heuristic manner; by using a heuristic method; by serving as a heuristic method; as, a heuristically guided search technique; a heuristically valuable theory.


word: Hevea
definition:
Hevea

Hevea
prop. n.
A small genus of South American trees yielding latex.  It includes the rubber tree, Hevea brasiliensis, originally found in South America, but now used for production of rubber world-wide.

Syn. -- genus Hevea.


word: Hew
definition:
Hew

Hew
(hū)
v. t.
[imp. Hewed (hūd); p. p. Hewed or Hewn (hūn); p. pr. & vb. n. Hewing.]
[AS. heáwan; akin to D. houwen, OHG. houwan, G. hauen, Icel. höggva, Sw. hugga, Dan. hugge, Lith. kova battle, Russ. kovate to hammer, forge.  Cf. Hay cut grass, Hoe.]
1.
To cut with an ax; to fell with a sharp instrument; -- often with down, or off.
Shak.

2.
To form or shape with a sharp instrument; to cut; hence, to form laboriously; -- often with out; as, to hew out a sepulcher.

Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn.
Is. li. 1.

Rather polishing old works than hewing out new.
Pope.

3.
To cut in pieces; to chop; to hack.

Hew them to pieces; hack their bones asunder.
Shak.


word: Hew₂
definition:
Hew

Hew
n.
Destruction by cutting down.
[Obs.]

Of whom he makes such havoc and such hew.
Spenser.


word: Hewn
definition:
Hewn

Hewn
(?)
a.
1.
Felled, cut, or shaped as with an ax; roughly squared; as, a house built of hewn logs.

2.
Roughly dressed as with a hammer; as, hewn stone.


word: Hexa
definition:
Hexa

Hex-

Hex- (?), Hex"a (#)
[Gr. "e`x six. See Six.]
A prefix or combining form, used to denote six, sixth, etc.; as, hexatomic, hexabasic.


word: Hexabasic
definition:
Hexabasic

Hex`a*ba"sic
(?)
a.
[Hexa- + basic.]
(Chem.)
Having six hydrogen atoms or six radicals capable of being replaced or saturated by bases; -- said of acids; as, mellitic acid is hexabasic.


word: Hexacapsular
definition:
Hexacapsular

Hex`a*cap"su*lar
(?)
a.
[Hexa- + capsular.]
(Bot.)
Having six capsules or seed vessels.


word: Hexachord
definition:
Hexachord

Hex"a*chord
(?)
n.
[Hexa- + Gr. _; string, chord: cf. F. hexacorde.]
(Mus.)
A series of six notes, with a semitone between the third and fourth, the other intervals being whole tones.


word: Hexacid
definition:
Hexacid

Hex`ac"id
(?)
a.
[Hex- + acid.]
(Chem.)
Having six atoms or radicals capable of being replaced by acids; hexatomic; hexavalent; -- said of bases; as, mannite is a hexacid base.


word: Hexactinellid
definition:
Hexactinellid

Hex*ac`ti*nel"lid
(?)
a.
(Zool.)
Having six-rayed spicules; belonging to the Hexactinellinæ.


word: Hexactinelline
definition:
Hexactinelline

Hex*ac`ti*nel"line
(?)
a.
[From NL. Hexactinellinæ, fr. Gr. "e`x six + a dim. of _;, _;, a ray.]
(Zool.)
Belonging to the Hexactinellinæ, a group of sponges, having six-rayed siliceous spicules.


word: Hexad
definition:
Hexad

Hex"ad
(?)
n.
[L. hexas, hexadis, the number six, Gr. _;, _;, fr. "e`x six.]
(chem.)
An atom whose valence is six, and which can be theoretically combined with, substituted for, or replaced by, six monad atoms or radicals; as, sulphur is a hexad in sulphuric acid. Also used as an adjective.


word: Hexadactylous
definition:
Hexadactylous

Hex`a*dac"tyl*ous
(?)
a.
[Gr. _;; "e`x six + _; finger: cf. F. hexadactyle.]
(Zool.)
Having six fingers or toes.


word: Hexagon
definition:
Hexagon

Hex"a*gon
(?)
n.
[L. hexagonum, Gr. _; six-cornered; "e`x six (akin to E. six) + _; angle.]
(Geom.)
A plane figure of six angles.

Regular hexagon, a hexagon in which the angles are all equal, and the sides are also all equal.


word: Hexagonal
definition:
Hexagonal

Hex*ag"o*nal
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. hexagonal.]
Having six sides and six angles; six-sided.

Hexagonal system. (Crystal.) See under Crystallization.


word: Hexagram
definition:
Hexagram

Hex"a*gram
(?)
n.
[Hexa- + -gram.]
A figure of six lines
(a)
A figure composed of two equal triangles intersecting so that each side of one triangle is parallel to a side of the other, and the six points coincide with those of a hexagon.
(b)
In Chinese literature, one of the sixty-four figures formed of six parallel lines (continuous or broken), forming the basis of the I Ching (Yih King), or “Book of Changes.”
S. W. Williams.


word: Hexagynia
definition:
Hexagynia

Hex`a*gyn"i*a
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. "e`x six + gynh^ a woman, female: cf. F. hexagynie.]
(Bot.)
A Linnæan order of plants having six pistils.


word: Hexagynous
definition:
Hexagynous

Hexagynian

Hex`a*gyn"i*an (?), Hex*ag"y*nous (_;)
a.
[Cf. F. hexagyne.]
(Bot.)
Having six pistils.


word: Hexahedron
definition:
Hexahedron

Hex`a*he"dron
(?)
n.
pl. E. Hexahedrons (#), L. Hexahedra (#).
[Hexa- + Gr. _; seat, base, fr. _; to sit: cf. F. hexaèdre.]
(Geom.)
A solid body of six sides or faces.

Regular hexahedron, a hexagon having six equal squares for its sides; a cube.


word: Hexahemeron
definition:
Hexahemeron

Hex`a*hem"er*on
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. "e`x six + _; day; cf. L. hexaëmeron, Gr. _;.]

1.
A term of six days.
Good.

2.
The history of the six day's work of creation, as contained in the first chapter of Genesis.


word: Hexameter
definition:
Hexameter

Hex*am"e*ter
(?)
n.
[L., fr. Gr. _; of six meters; (sc. _;) hexameter verse; "e`x six + _; measure: cf. F. hexamètre. See Six, and Meter.]
(Gr. & Lat. Pros.)
A verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly be a dactyl, and the sixth always a spondee. In this species of verse are composed the Iliad of Homer and the Aeneid of Virgil. In English hexameters accent takes the place of quantity.

Leaped like the | roe when he | hears in the | woodland the | voice of the | huntsman.
Longfellow.

Strongly it | bears us a- | long on | swelling and | limitless | billows,
Nothing be- | fore and | nothing be- | hind but the | sky and the | ocean.
Coleridge.


word: Hexametrical
definition:
Hexametrical

Hexametric

{ Hex`a*met"ric (?), Hex`a*met"ric*al (?), }
a.
Consisting of six metrical feet.


word: Hexandria
definition:
Hexandria

Hex*an"dri*a
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. "e`x six + _;, _;, a man, male: cf. F. hexandrie.]
(Bot.)
A Linnæan class of plants having six stamens.


word: Hex-androus
definition:
Hex-androus

Hexandrian

{ Hex*an"dri*an (?), Hex-an"drous (?), }
a.
[Cf. F. hexandre.]
(Bot.)
Having six stamens.


word: Hexane
definition:
Hexane

Hex"ane
(?)
n.
[Gr. "e`x six.]
(Chem.)
Any one of five hydrocarbons, C6H14, of the paraffin series. They are colorless, volatile liquids, and are so called because the molecule has six carbon atoms.


word: Hexapetalous
definition:
Hexapetalous

Hex`a*pet"al*ous
(?)
a.
[Hexa- + petal: cf. F. hexapétale.]
(Bot.)
Having six petals.


word: Hexaphyllous
definition:
Hexaphyllous

Hex*aph"yl*lous
(?)
a.
[Hexa- + Gr. _; a leaf: cf. F. hexaphylle.]
(Bot.)
Having six leaves or leaflets.


word: Hexapla
definition:
Hexapla

Hex"a*pla
(?)
n.
Etym. pl., but syntactically sing.
[NL., fr. Gr. _;, fr. _;, contr. _;, sixfold.]
A collection of the Holy Scriptures in six languages or six versions in parallel columns; particularly, the edition of the Old Testament published by Origen, in the 3d century.


word: Hexapod
definition:
Hexapod

Hex"a*pod
(?)
a.
[Gr. _;, _;, sixfooted; "e`x six + _;, _;, foot: cf. F. hexapode.]
Having six feet.
n. (Zool.) An animal having six feet; one of the Hexapoda.


word: Hexapoda
definition:
Hexapoda

Hex*ap"o*da
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. "e`x six + -poda.]
(Zool.)
The true, or six-legged, insects; insects other than myriapods and arachnids.

&hand_; The Hexapoda have the head, thorax, and abdomen differentiated, and are mostly winged. They have three pairs of mouth organs, viz., mandibles, maxillæ, and the second maxillæ or labial palpi; three pairs of thoracic legs; and abdominal legs, which are present only in some of the lowest forms, and in the larval state of some of the higher ones. Many (the Metabola) undergo a complete metamorphosis, having larvæ (known as maggots, grubs, caterpillars) very unlike the adult, and pass through a quiescent pupa state in which no food is taken; others (the Hemimetabola) have larvæ much like the adult, expert in lacking wings, and an active pupa, in which rudimentary wings appear. See Insecta.
   The Hexapoda are divided into several orders.


word: Hexastichon
definition:
Hexastichon

Hexastich

{ Hex"a*stich (?), &VerbarHex*as"ti*chon (?), }
n.
[L. hexastichus of six rows, lines, or verses, Gr. _;; "e`x six + sti`chos row, line, verse.]
A poem consisting of six verses or lines.


word: Hexastyle
definition:
Hexastyle

Hex"a*style
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; with six columns; "e`x six +  column: cf. F. hexastyle.]
(Arch.)
Having six columns in front; -- said of a portico or temple.
n. A hexastyle portico or temple.


word: Hexateuch
definition:
Hexateuch

Hex"a*teuch`
(?)
n.
[Hexa- + _; a tool, a book.]
The first six books of the Old Testament.


word: Hexatomic
definition:
Hexatomic

Hex`a*tom"ic
(?)
a.
[Hex- + atomic.]
(Chem.)
(a)
Having six atoms in the molecule.
[R.]
(b)
Having six replaceable radicals.


word: Hexavalent
definition:
Hexavalent

Hex*av"a*lent
(?)
a.
[Hexa- + L. valens, -entis, p. pr. See Valence.]
(Chem.)
Having a valence of six; -- said of hexads.


word: Hexdecylic
definition:
Hexdecylic

Hex`de*cyl"ic
(?)
a.
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or derived from, hexdecyl or hecdecane; as, hexdecylic alcohol.


word: Hexeikosane
definition:
Hexeikosane

Hex*ei"ko*sane
(?)
n.
[Hex- + eikosane.]
(chem.)
A hydrocarbon, C26H54, resembling paraffine; -- so called because each molecule has twenty-six atoms of carbon.
[Written also hexacosane.]


word: Hexicology
definition:
Hexicology

Hex`i*col"ogy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; state or habit + -logy.]
The science which treats of the complex relations of living creatures to other organisms, and to their surrounding conditions generally.
St. George Mivart.


word: Hexine
definition:
Hexine

Hex"ine
(?)
n.
[Gr. "e`x six.]
(Chem.)
A hydrocarbon, C6H10, of the acetylene series, obtained artificially as a colorless, volatile, pungent liquid; -- called also hexoylene.


word: Hexoctahedron
definition:
Hexoctahedron

Hex*oc`ta*he"dron
(?)
n.
[Hex- + octahedron.]
(Geom.)
A solid having forty-eight equal triangular faces.


word: Hexokinase
definition:
Hexokinase

Hex"o*kin"ase
(?)
n.
[Hexose + -kinase.]
(Biochem.)
an enzyme catalyzing the transfer of a phosphate residue from ATP to a hexose, as in the formation of glucose-6-phosphate from glucose.


word: Hexone
definition:
Hexone

Hex"one
(?)
n.
[Hex- + -one.]
(Chem.)
A liquid hydrocarbon, C6H8, of the valylene series, obtained from distillation products of certain fats and gums.


word: Hexose
definition:
Hexose

Hex"ose
(?)
n.
[Hexa- + -ose.]
(Chem.)
Any member of a group of sugars containing six carbon atoms in the molecule. Some are widely distributed in nature, esp. in ripe fruits.


word: Hexyl
definition:
Hexyl

Hex"yl
(?)
n.
[Hex- + -yl.]
(chem.)
A univalent organic radical, C6H13-, regarded as the essential residue of hexane, and a related series of compounds.


word: Hexylene
definition:
Hexylene

Hex"yl*ene
(?)
n.
[Hex- + -yl + ethlene.]
(Chem.)
A colorless, liquid hydrocarbon, C6H12, of the ethylene series, produced artificially, and found as a natural product of distillation of certain coals; also, any one several isomers of hexylene proper. Called also hexene.


word: Hexylic
definition:
Hexylic

Hex*yl"ic
(?)
a.
(chem.)
Pertaining to, or derived from, hexyl or hexane; as, hexylic alcohol.


word: Hey₂
definition:
Hey

Hey
(?)
interj.
[OE. hei; cf. D. & G. hei.]
1.
An exclamation of joy, surprise, or encouragement.
Shak.

2.
A cry to set dogs on.
Shak.


word: Heyday
definition:
Heyday

Hey"day`
(?)
interj.
[Cf. G. heida, or hei da, D. hei daar.  Cf. Hey, and There.]
An expression of frolic and exultation, and sometimes of wonder.
B. Jonson.


word: Heyday₂
definition:
Heyday

Hey"day`
(?)
n.
[Prob. for. high day. See High, and Day.]
The time of triumph and exultation; hence, joy, high spirits, frolicsomeness; wildness.

The heyday in the blood is tame.
Shak.

In the heyday of their victories.
J. H. Newman.


word: Heydeguy
definition:
Heydeguy

Hey"de*guy
(?)
n.
[Perh. fr. heyday + guise.]
A kind of country-dance or round.
[Obs.]
Spenser.


word: Hiatus
definition:
Hiatus

Hi*a"tus
(?)
n.
pl. L. Hiatus, E. Hiatuses (#).
[L., fr. hiare, hiatum, to gape; akin to E. yawn. See Yawn.]
1.
An opening; an aperture; a gap; a chasm; esp., a defect in a manuscript, where some part is lost or effaced; a space where something is wanting; a break.

2.
(Gram.)
The concurrence of two vowels in two successive words or syllables.
Pope.


word: Hibbertia
definition:
Hibbertia

Hibbertia
n.
A genus of evergreen heathlike or scandent shrubs of Madagascar, Australasia, and Polynesia.

Syn. -- genus Hibbertia.


word: Hibernacle
definition:
Hibernacle

Hi*ber"na*cle
(?)
n.
[L. hibernaculum a winter residence, pl. hibernacula winter quarters: cf. F. hibernacle. See Hibernate.]
That which serves for protection or shelter in winter; winter quarters; as, the hibernacle of an animal or a plant.
Martyn.


word: Hibernaculum
definition:
Hibernaculum

Hi`ber*nac"u*lum
(?)
n.
[See Hibernacle.]
1.
(Bot.)
A winter bud, in which the rudimentary foliage or flower, as of most trees and shrubs in the temperate zone, is protected by closely overlapping scales.

2.
(Zool.)
A little case in which certain insects pass the winter.

3.
Winter home or abiding place.
J. Burroughs.


word: Hibernal
definition:
Hibernal

Hi*ber"nal
(?)
a.
[L. hibernalis, from the root of hiems winter; akin to Gr. _; snow, Skr. hima cold, winter, snow: cf. F. hibernal.]
Belonging or relating to winter; wintry; winterish.
Sir T. Browne.


word: Hibernate
definition:
Hibernate

Hi"ber*nate
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Hibernated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hibernating (?).]
[L. hibernare, hibernatum, fr. hibernus wintry. See Hibernal.]
To winter; to pass the season of winter in close quarters, in a torpid or lethargic state, as certain mammals, reptiles, and insects.

Inclination would lead me to hibernate, during half the year, in this uncomfortable climate of Great Britain.
Southey.


word: hibernating
definition:
hibernating

hibernating
adj.
in a state of suspended animation; -- of animals that sleep most of the winter.
[prenominal]

Syn. -- dormant, torpid.


word: Hibernian
definition:
Hibernian

Hi*ber"ni*an
(?)
a.
[L. Hibernia, Ireland.]
Of or pertaining to Hibernia, now Ireland; Irish.
n. A native or an inhabitant of Ireland.


word: Hibernianism
definition:
Hibernianism

Hibernicism

{ Hi*ber"ni*cism (?), Hi*ber"ni*an*ism (?), }
n.
An idiom or mode of speech peculiar to the Irish.
Todd.


word: Hiberno-Celtic
definition:
Hiberno-Celtic

Hi*ber"no-Celt"ic
(?)
n.
The native language of the Irish; that branch of the Celtic languages spoken by the natives of Ireland. Also adj.


