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Heavy
HEAV'Y, adjective hev'y.
1. Weighty; ponderous; having great weight; tending strongly to the center of attraction; contrary to light; applied to material bodies; as a heavy stone; a heavy load.
2. Sad; sorrowful; dejected; depressed in mind.
A light wife makes a heavy husband.
So is he that singeth songs to a heavy heart. .
3. Grievous; afflictive; depressing to the spirits; as heavy news; a heavy calamity.
4. Burdensome; oppressive; as heavy taxes.
Make thy father's heavy yoke--lighter. .
5. Wanting life and animation; dull.
My heavy eyes you say confess
A heart to love and grief inclined.
6. Drowsy; dull.
Their eyes were heavy . .
7. Wanting spirit or animation; destitute of life or rapidity of sentiment; dull; as a heavy writer; a heavy style.
8. Wanting activity or vivacity; indolent.
But of a heavy dull, degenerate mind.
9. Slow; sluggish.
He walks with a heavy gait.
10. Burdensome; tedious; as heavy hours.
Time lies heavy on him who has no employment.
11. Loaded; encumbered; burdened.
He found his men heavy and laden with booty.
12. Lying with weight on the stomach; not easily digested; as, oily food is heavy to the stomach.
13. Moist; deep; soft; miry; as heavy land; a heavy soil. We apply heavy to soft loamy or clayey land, which makes the draught of a plow or wagon difficult and laborious. So we say, a heavy road.
14. Difficult; laborious; as a heavy draught.
15. Weary; supported with pain or difficulty.
And the hands of Moses were heavy .
16. Inflicting severe evils, punishments or judgments.
The hand of the Lord was heavy on them of Ashdod.
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17. Burdensome; occasioning great care.
This thing is too heavy for thee. .
18. Dull; not hearing; inattentive.
Neither his ears heavy that he cannot hear. .
19. Large, as billows; swelling and rolling with great force; as a heavy sea.
20. Large in amount; as a heavy expense; a heavy debt.
21. Thick; dense; black; as a heavy cloud.
22. Violent; tempestuous; as a heavy wind or gale.
23. Large; abundant; as a heavy fall of snow or rain.
24. Great; violent; forcible; as a heavy fire of cannon or small arms.
25. Not raised by leaven or fermentation; not light; clammy; as heavy bread.
26. Requiring much labor or much expense; as a heavy undertaking.
27. Loud; as heavy thunder.
Heavy metal, in military affairs, signifies large guns, carrying balls of a large size, or it is applied to large balls themselves.
HEAVY, adverb hev'y. With great weight; used in composition.
HEAVY, verb transitive hev'y. To make heavy [Not in use.]
Heavy-Handed
HEAV'Y-HANDED, adjective Clumsy; not active or dexterous.
Heavy-Laden
HEAVY-LA'DEN, adjective Laden with a heavy burden.
HEAVY SPAR, noun [See Baryte.] A genus of minerals of four species, viz. rhomboidal, prismatic, di-prismatic and axifrangible.
Hebdomad
HEB'DOMAD, noun [Gr. seven days; Latin hebdomada.]
A week; a period of seven days. [Not used.]
Hebdomadal
HEBDOM'ADAL
HEBDOM'ADARY, adjective Weekly; consisting of seven days, or occurring every seven days.
HEBDOM'ADARY, noun A member of a chapter or convent, whose week it is to officiate in the choir, rehearse the anthems and prayers, and perform other services, which on extraordinary occasions are performed by the superiors.
Hebdomatical
HEBDOMAT'ICAL, adjective Weekly.
Heben
HEB'EN, noun Ebony.
Hebetate
HEB'ETATE, verb transitive [Latin hebeto, from hebes, dull, blunt, heavy.]
To dull; to blunt; to stupefy; as, to hebetate the intellectual faculties.
Hebetated
HEB'ETATED, participle present tense Made blunt, dull or stupid.
Hebetating
HEB'ETATING, participle passive Rendering blunt, dull or stupid.
Hebetation
HEBETA'TION, noun The act of making blunt, dull or stupid.
1. The state of being dulled.
Hebete
HEBE'TE, adjective Dull; stupid.
Hebetude
HEB'ETUDE, noun [Latin hebetudo.] Dullness; stupidity.
Hebraic
HEBRA'IC, adjective [from Hebrew.] Pertaining to the Hebrews; designating the language of the Hebrews.
Hebraically
HEBRA'ICALLY, adverb After the manner of the Hebrew language; from right to left.
Hebraism
HE'BRAISM, noun A Hebrew idiom; a peculiar expression or manner of speaking in the Hebrew language.
Hebraist
HE'BRAIST, noun One versed in the Hebrew language.
Hebraize
HE'BRAIZE, verb transitive To convert into the Hebrew idiom; to make Hebrew.
HE'BRAIZE, verb intransitive To speak Hebrew, or to conform to the Hebrews.
Hebrew
HE'BREW, noun [Heb. Eber, either a proper name, or a name denoting passage, pilgrimage, or coming from beyond the Euphrates.]
One of the descendants of Eber, or Heber; but particularly, a descendant of Jacob, who was a descendant of Eber; an Israelite; a Jew.
1. The hebrew language.
HE'BREW, adjective Pertaining to the Hebrews; as the hebrew language or rites.
Hebrewess
HE'BREWESS, noun An Israelitish woman.
Hebrician
HEBRI'CIAN, noun One skilled in the Hebrew language.
Hebridian
HEBRID'IAN, adjective Pertaining to the isles called Hebrides, west of Scotland.
Hecatomb
HEC'ATOMB, noun [Latin hecatombe; Gr. a hundred, and an ox.]
In antiquity, a sacrifice of a hundred altars, and by a hundred priests.
Heck
HECK, noun [See Hatch.] An engine or instrument for catching fish; as a salmon heck
1. A rack for holding fodder for cattle.
2. A bend in a stream.
3. A hatch or latch of a door.
Heckle
HECK'LE, verb transitive A different orthography of hackle, or hetchel.
Hectare
HEC'TARE, noun [Gr. a hundred, and Latin area.] A French measure containing a hundred ares, or ten thousand square meters.
Hectic
HEC'TIC
HEC'TICAL, adjective [Gr. habit of body, to have.] Habitual; denoting a slow, continual fever, marked by preternatural, though remitting heat, which precedes and accompanies the consumption or phthisis; as a hectic fever.
1. Affected with hectic fevers; as a hectic patient.
2. Troubled with a morbid heat.
No hectic student scares the gentle maid.
HEC'TIC, noun A hectic; or habitual fever.
Hectically
HEC'TICALLY, adverb Constitutionally.
Hectogram
HEC'TOGRAM, noun [Gr. a hundred; and a gram.] In the French system of weights and measures, a weight containing a hundred grams; equal to 3 ounces, 2 gros, and 12 grains, French.
Hectoliter
HEC'TOLITER, noun [Gr. a hundred, and a pound.] A French measure of capacity for liquids, containing a hundred liters; equal to a tenth of a cubic meter, or 107 Paris pints. As a dry measure, it is called a setier, and contains 10 decaliters or bushels [boisseaux.]
Hectometer
HECTOM'ETER, noun [Gr. a hundred, and measure.] A French measure equal to a hundred meters; the meter being the unit of lineal measure. It is equivalent nearly to 308 French feet.
Hector
HEC'TOR, noun [from hector the son of Priam, a brave Trojan warrior.]
1. A bully; a blustering, turbulent, noisy fellow.
2. One who teases or vexes.
HEC'TOR, verb transitive To threaten; to bully; to treat with insolence.
1. To tease; to vex; to torment by words.
HEC'TOR, verb intransitive To play the bully; to bluster; to be turbulent or insolent.
Hectored
HEC'TORED, participle passive Bullied; teased.
Hectoring
HEC'TORING, participle present tense Bullying; blustering; vexing.
Hectorism
HEC'TORISM, noun The disposition or practice of a hector; a bullying.
Hectorly
HEC'TORLY, adjective Blustering; insolent.
Hedenbergite
HEDENBERG'ITE, noun [from Hedenberg, who first analyzed it.]
A mineral, or ore of iron, in masses, composed of shining plates, which break into rhombic fragments; found at Tunaberg, in Sweden.
Hederaceous
HEDERA'CEOUS, adjective [Latin hederaceus, from hedera, ivy.]
1. Pertaining to ivy.
2. Producing ivy.
Hederal
HED'ERAL, adjective Composed of ivy; belonging to ivy.
Hederiferous
HEDERIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin hedera, ivy, and fero, to bear.]
Producing ivy.
Hedge
HEDGE, noun hej. [Eng. haw] Properly, a thicket of thorn-bushes or other shrubs or small trees; but appropriately, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows, to separate the parts of a garden.
HEDGE, prefixed to another word, or in composition, denotes something mean, as a hedge-priest, a hedge-press, a hedge-vicar, that is, born in or belonging to the hedges or woods, low, outlandish. [Not used in American.]
HEDGE, verb transitive hej. To inclose with a hedge; to fence with a thicket of shrubs or small trees; to separate by a hedge; as, to hedge a field or garden.
1. To obstruct with a hedge or to obstruct in any manner.
I will hedge up thy way with thorns.
2. To surround for defense; to fortify.
England hedged in with the main.
3. To inclose for preventing escape.
That is a law to hedge in the cuckow.
Dryden, Swift and Shakespeare have written hedge for edge, to edge in, but improperly.
HEDGE, verb intransitive hej. To hide, as in a hedge; to hide; to skulk.
Hedge-Bill
HEDGE-BILL
HEDGE-BORN, adjective Of low birth, as if born in the woods; outlandish; obscure.
Hedge-Bote
HEDGE-BOTE, noun Wood for repairing hedges.
Hedge-Creeper
HEDGE-CREEPER, noun One who skulks under hedges for bad purposes.
Hedge-Fumitory
HEDGE-FU'MITORY, noun A plant.
Hedge-Hyssop
HEDGE-HYSSOP, noun A plant, the Gratiola.
Hedge-Mustard
HEDGE-MUSTARD, noun A plant, the Erysimum.
Hedge-Nettle
HEDGE-NETTLE, noun A plant, the Galeopsis. The shrubby hedge-nettle is of the genus Prasium.
Hedge-Note
HEDGE-NOTE, adjective A term of contempt for low writing.
Hedge-Sparrow
HEDGE-SPARROW, noun A bird of the genus Motacilla, frequenting hedges; distinguished from the sparrow that builds in thatch.
Hedge-Writer
HEDGE-WRITER, noun A Grub-street writer or low author.
Hedgehog
HEDGEHOG, noun A quadruped, or genus of quadrupeds, the Erinaceus. The common hedgehog has round ears, and crested nostrils; his body is about nine inches long, and the upper part is covered with prickles or spines, and the under part with hair. When attacked, this animal erects his prickles and rolls himself into a round form, which presents the points of the prickles on all sides to an assailant.
1. A term of reproach.
2. A plant of the genus Medicago, or snail-trefoil. The seeds are shaped like a snail, downy, and armed with a few short spines.
3. The globe-fish, orbis echinatus.
This fish belongs to the genus Diodon. It is covered with long spines, and has the power of inflating its body, whence the name globe-fish.
The Sea-hedgehog, is the Echinus, a genus of Zoophytes, generally of a spheroidal or oval form, and covered with movable spines.
Hedgehog-Thistle
HEDGEHOG-THISTLE, noun A plant, the Cactus.
Hedgepig
HEDGEPIG, noun A young hedgehog.
Hedger
HEDG'ER, noun One who makes hedges.
Hedgerow
HEDGEROW, noun A row or series of shrubs or trees planted for inclosure, or separation of fields.
Hedging
HEDG'ING, participle present tense Inclosing with a hedge; obstructing; confining.
Hedging-Bill
HEDGING-BILL, noun A cutting hook used in dressing hedges.
Heed
HEED, verb transitive To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.
With pleasure Argus the musician heeds.
HEED, noun Care; attention.
With wanton heed and giddy cunning.
1. Caution; care; watch for danger; notice; circumspection; usually preceded by take.
Take heed of evil company. Take heed to your ways.
Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand. .
2. Notice; observation; regard; attention; often preceded by give.
The preacher gave good heed .
Neither give heed to fables. .
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed .
3. Seriousness; a steady look.
A heed
Was in his countenance. [Unusual.]
Heeded
HEE'DED, participle passive Noticed; observed; regarded.
HEE'DFUL, adjective Attentive; observing; giving heed; as heedful of advice.
1. Watchful; cautious; circumspect; wary.
Heedfully
HEE'DFULLY, adverb Attentively; carefully; cautiously. Listen heedfully to good advice.
1. Watchfully.
Heedfulness
HEE'DFULNESS, noun Attention; caution; vigilance; circumspection; care to guard against danger, or to perform duty.
Heedless
HEE'DLESS, adjective Inattentive; careless; negligent of the means of safety; thoughtless; regardless; unobserving. We say, heedless children; heedless of danger or surprise.
The heedless lover does not know,
Whose eyes they are that wound him so.
Heedlessly
HEE'DLESSLY, adverb Carelessly; negligently; inattentively; without care or circumspection.
Heedlessness
HEE'DLESSNESS, noun Inattention; carelessness; thoughtlessness; negligence.
Heel
HEEL, noun [Latin calx; Gr. a tumor.]
1. The hind part of the foot, particularly of man; but it is applied also to the corresponding part of the feet of quadrupeds.
2. The whole foot.
The stag recalls his strength, his speed,
His winged heels--
3. The hind part of a shoe, either for man or beast.
4. The part of a stocking intended for the heel
To be out at the heels, is to have on stockings that are worn out.
5. Something shaped like the human heel; a protuberance or knob.
6. The latter part; as, a bill was introduced into the legislature at the heel of the session.
7. A spur.
This horse understands the heel well.
8. The after end of a ship's keel; the lower end of the stern-post to which it is connected; also, the lower end of a mast.
To be at the heels, to pursue closely; to follow hard; also, to attend closely.
Hungry want is at my heels.
To show the heels, to flee; to run from.
To take to the heels, to flee; to betake to flight.
To lay by the heels, to fetter; to shackle; to confine.
To have the heels of, to outrun.
Neck and heels, the whole length of the body.
HEEL, verb intransitive To dance.
HEEL, verb transitive To arm a cock.
1. To add a heel to; as, to heel a shoe.
HEEL verb intransitive To incline; to lean; as a ship; as, the ship heels a-port, or a star-board.
Heel-Piece
HEE'L-PIECE, noun Armor for the heels.
1. A piece of leather on the heel of a shoe.
Heeler
HEE'LER, noun A cock that strikes well with his heels.
Heft
HEFT, noun
1. Heaving; effort.
He cracks his gorge, his sides.
With violent hefts. [Not used.]
2. Weight; ponderousness. [This use is common in popular language in America. And we sometimes hear it used as a verb, as, to heft to lift for the purpose of feeling or judging of the weight.]
3. A handle; a haft. [Not used.]
Hefted
HEFT'ED, adjective Heaved; expressing agitation.
Hegira
HEGI'RA, noun In chronology, an epoch among the Mohammedans, from which they compute time. The event which gave rise to it was the flight of Mohammed from Mecca; from which the magistrates, fearing his impostures might raise a sedition, expelled him, July 10, adjective D. 622, under the reign of the emperor Heraclius.
Heifer
HEIF'ER, noun hef'er. A young cow.
Heigh-Ho
HEIGH-HO. hi-ho. An exclamation expressing some degree of languor or uneasiness. Dryden has used it for the voice of exultation.
Height
HEIGHT
HEIGHTEN, verb transitive hitn. To raise higher; but not often used in this literal sense.
1. To advance in progress towards a better state; to improve; to meliorate; to increase in excellence or good qualities; as, to highten virtue; to highten the beauties of description, or of poetry.
2. To aggravate; to advance towards a worse state; to augment in violence.
3. To increase; as, to highten our relish for intellectual pleasure.
Heighten
HEIGHTEN, v.t. hitn. To raise higher; but not often used in this literal sense. 1. To advance in progress towards a better state; to improve; to meliorate; to increase in excellence or good qualities; as, to highten virtue; to highten the beauties of description, or of poetry.2. To aggravate; to advance towards a worse state; to augment in violence.3. To increase; as, to highten our relish for intellectual pleasure.
Heightened
HEIGHTENED, participle passive hitnd. Raised higher; elevated; exalted; advanced; improved; aggravated; increased.
Heightening
HEIGHTENING, participle present tense hitning. Raising; elevating; exalting; improving; increasing; aggravating.
HEIGHTENING, noun hitning. The act of elevating; increase of excellence; improvement.
1. Aggravation; augmentation.
Heinous
HEINOUS, adjective An incorrect orthography. [See Hainous.]
Heir
HEIR, noun are. [Latin haeres, haeredis.]
1. The man who succeeds, or is to succeed another in the possession of lands, tenements and hereditaments, by descent; the man on whom the law casts an estate of inheritance by the death of the ancestor or former possessor; or the man in whom the title to an estate of inheritance is vested by the operation of law, on the death of a former owner.
We give the title to a person who is to inherit after the death of an ancestor, and during his life, as well as to the person who has actually come into possession. A man's children are his heirs. In most monarchies, the king's eldest son is heir to the throne; and a nobleman's eldest son is heir to his title.
Lo, one born in my house is my heir .
2. One who inherits, or takes from an ancestor. The son is often heir to the disease, or to the miseries of the father.
3. One who succeeds to the estate of a former possessor. . .
4. One who is entitled to possess. In Scripture, saints are called heirs of the promise, heirs of righteousness, heirs of salvation, etc., by virtue of the death of Christ, or of God's gracious promises.
HEIR-presumptive, one who, if the ancestor should die immediately, would be heir but whose right of inheritance may be defeated by any contingency, as by the birth of a nearer relative.
HEIR, verb transitive are. To inherit; to take possession of an estate of inheritance, after the death of the ancestor.
Heir-Apparent
HEIR-APPA'RENT, noun The man who, during the life of his ancestor, is entitled to succeed to his estate or crown.
Heir-Loom
HEIR-LOOM, noun are-loom. Any furniture, movable, or personal chattel, which by law descends to the heir with the house or freehold; as tables, cupboards, bedsteads, etc.
Heirdom
HEIRDOM, noun aredom. Succession by inheritance.
Heiress
HEIRESS, noun aress. A female heir; a female that inherits, or is entitled to inherit an estate; an inheritrix.
Heirless
HEIRLESS, adjective areless. Destitute of an heir.
Heirship
HEIRSHIP, noun areship. The state, character or privileges of an heir; right of inheriting.
1. heirship movables, in Scotland, the best of certain kinds of movables which the heir is entitled to take, besides the heritable estate.
Held
HELD, preterit tense and participle passive of hold. A court was held in Westminster hall. At a council held on the first of January.
Hele
HELE, verb transitive [Latin celo.] To hide.
Heliacal
HELI'ACAL, adjective [Latin heliacus; Gr. the sun.]
Emerging from the light of the sun, or passing into it. The heliacal rising of a star, is when, after being in conjunction with it 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 so near as to render it invisible by its superior splendor.
Heliacally
HELI'ACALLY, adverb A star rises heliacally when it emerges from the sun's light, so as to be visible. [See the preceding word.]
Helical
HEL'ICAL, adjective [Gr. a scroll, or spiral body.]
Spiral; winding; moving round.
Helicite
HEL'ICITE, noun [See Helix.] Fossil remains of the helix, a shell.
Heling
HE'LING, noun [from hele, obsolete ; Latin celo.] The covering of the roof of a building; written also hilling. [Not used in the U.States.]
Heliocentric
HELIOCENT'RIC, adjective [Gr. the sun, and center.]
The heliocentric place of a planet, is the place of the ecliptic in which the planet would appear to a spectator at the center of the sun.
The heliocentric latitude of a planet, is the inclination of a line drawn between the center of the sun and the center of a planet to the plane of the ecliptic.
Helioid parabola, in mathematics, the parabolic spiral, a curve which arises from the supposition that the axis of the common Apollonian parabola is bent round into the periphery of a circle, and is a line then passing through the extremities of the ordinates, which now converge towards the center of the said circle.
Heliolater
HELIOL'ATER, noun [Gr. the sun, and to worship.]
A worship of the sun.
Heliolatry
HELIOL'ATRY, noun [Gr. the sun, and service, worship.]
The worship of the sun, a branch of Sabianism.
Heliometer
HELIOM'ETER, noun [Gr. the sun, and to measure.] An instrument for measuring with exactness the diameter of the heavenly bodies. It is called also astrometer.
Helioscope
HE'LIOSCOPE, noun [Gr. the sun, and to view.] A sort of telescope fitted for viewing the sun without pain or injury to the eyes, as when made with colored glasses, or glasses blackened with smoke.
Heliostate
HE'LIOSTATE, noun [Gr. the sun.] An instrument by which a sunbeam may be steadily directed to one spot.
Heliotrope
HE'LIOTROPE, noun [Gr. the sun, and to turn.]
1. Among the ancients, an instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and the equinoctial line.
2. A genus or plants, the turnsole.
3. A mineral, a subspecies of rhomboidal quartz, of a deep green color, peculiarly pleasant to the eye. It is usually variegated with blood red or yellowish dots, and is more or less translucent. Before the blowpipe, it loses its color. It is generally supposed to be chalcedony, colored by green earth or chlorite.
Helispheric
HELISPHER'IC
HELISPHER'ICAL, adjective [helix and sphere.] Spiral. The helispherical line is the rhomb line in navigation, so called because on the globe it winds round the pole spirally, coming nearer and nearer to it, but never terminating in it.
Helispherical
HELISPHER'ICAL, a. [helix and sphere.] Spiral. The helispherical line is the rhomb line in navigation, so called because on the globe it winds round the pole spirally, coming nearer and nearer to it, but never terminating in it.
Helix
HE'LIX, noun [Gr. a winding.] A spiral line; a winding; or something that is spiral; as a winding staircase in architecture, or a caulicule or little volute under the flowers of the Corinthian capital. In anatomy, the whole circuit or extent of the auricle, or external border of the ear.
1. In zoology, the snail-shell.
Hell
HELL, noun
1. The place or state of punishment for the wicked after death. . .
Sin is hell begun, as religion is heaven anticipated.
2. The place of the dead, or of souls after death; the lower regions, or the grave; called in Hebrew, sheol, and by the Greeks, hades. . .
3. The pains of hell temporal death, or agonies that dying persons feel, or which bring to the brink of the grave. .
4. The gates of hell the power and policy of Satan and his instruments. .
5. The infernal powers.
While Saul and hell cross'd his strong fate in vain.
6. The place at a running play to which are carried those who are caught.
7. A place into which a tailor throws his shreds.
8. A dungeon or prison.
Hell-Confounding
HELL-CONFOUND'ING, adjective Defeating the infernal powers.
Hellblack
HELL'BLACK, adjective Black as hell.
Hellebore
HEL'LEBORE, noun [Latin helleborus.] The name of several plants of different genera, the most important of which are the black hellebore Christmas rose, or Christmas flower, of the genus Helleborus, and the white hellebore of the genus Veratrum. Both are acrid and poisonous, and are used in medicine as evacuants and alternatives.
Helleborism
HEL'LEBORISM, noun A medicinal preparation of hellebore.
Hellenian
HELLE'NIAN
HELLEN'IC, adjective Pertaining to the Hellenes, or inhabitants of Greece, so called from Hellas in Greece, or form Hellen.
Hellenic
HELLEN'IC, a. Pertaining to the Hellenes, or inhabitants of Greece, so called from Hellas in Greece, or form Hellen.
Hellenism
HEL'LENISM, noun A phrase in the idiom, genius or construction of the Greek language.
Hellenist
HEL'LENIST, noun A Grecian Jew; a Jew who used the Greek language.
1. One skilled in the Greek language.
Hellenistic
HELLENIS'TIC, adjective Pertaining to the Hellenists. The hellenistic language was the Greek spoken or used by the Jews who lived in Egypt and other countries, where the Greek language prevailed.
Hellenistically
HELLENIS'TICALLY, adverb According to the Hellenistic dialect.
Hellenize
HEL'LENIZE, verb intransitive To use the Greek language.
Hellespont
HEL'LESPONT, noun A narrow strait between Europe and Asia, now called the Dardanelles; a part of the passage between the Euxine and the Egean sea.
Hellespontine
HELLESPONT'INE, adjective Pertaining to the Hellespont.
Hellier
HEL'LIER, noun A tiler or slater. [See Hele.] [Not in use.]
Hellish
HELL'ISH, adjective Pertaining to hell.
1. Like hell in qualities; infernal; malignant; wicked; detestable.
Hellishly
HELL'ISHLY, adverb Infernally; with extreme malignity; wickedly; detestably.
Hellishness
HELL'ISHNESS, noun The qualities of hell or of its inhabitants; extreme wickedness, malignity or impiety.
Hellward
HELL'WARD, adverb Towards hell.
Helly
HELL'Y, adjective Having the qualities of hell.
Helm
HELM, a termination, denotes defense; as in Sighelm, victorious defense. [See Helmet.]
HELM, noun
1. The instrument by which a ship is steered, consisting of a rudder, a tiller, and in large vessels, a wheel. [See Rudder.]
2. Station of government; the place of direction or management; as, to be at the helm in the administration.
HELM, verb transitive To steer; to guide; to direct. [Little used.]
1. To cover with a helmet.
HELM
Helmed
HELM'ED
HELM'ET, noun Defensive armor for the head; a head-piece; a morion. The helmet is worn by horsemen to defend the head against the broad sword.
1. The part of a coat of arms that bears the crest.
2. The upper part of a retort.
3. In botany, the upper lip of a ringent corol.
Helmet
HELM'ET, n. Defensive armor for the head; a head-piece; a morion. The helmet is worn by horsemen to defend the head against the broad sword. 1. The part of a coat of arms that bears the crest.2. The upper part of a retort.3. In botany, the upper lip of a ringent corol.
Helmeted
HELM'ETED, adjective Furnished with a helmet.
Helminthic
HELMIN'THIC, adjective [Gr. a worm.] Expelling worms.
HELMIN'THIC, noun A medicine for expelling worms.
Helminthologic
HELMINTHOLOG'IC
HELMINTHOLOG'ICAL, noun [See Helminthology.] Pertaining to worms or vermes, or to their history.
Helminthological
HELMINTHOLOG'ICAL, n. [See Helminthology.] Pertaining to worms or vermes, or to their history.
Helminthologist
HELMINTHOL'OGIST, noun One who is versed in the natural history of vermes.
Helminthology
HELMINTHOL'OGY, noun [Gr. a worm, and discourse.] The science or knowledge of vermes; the description and natural history of vermes.
Helmless
HELM'LESS, adjective Destitute of a helmet.
1. Without a helm.
Helmsman
HELMS'MAN, noun The man at the helm.
Helmwind
HELM'WIND, noun A wind in the mountainous parts of England, so called.
Helotism
HE'LOTISM, noun Slavery; the condition of the Helots, slaves in Sparta.
Help
HELP, verb transitive A regular verb; the old past tense and participle holp and holpen being obsolete.
1. To aid; to assist; to lend strength or means towards effecting a purpose; as, to help a man in his work; to help another in raising a building; to help one to pay his debts; to help the memory or the understanding.
2. To assist; to succor; to lend means of deliverance; as, to help one in distress; to help one out of prison.
3. To relieve; to cure, or to mitigate pain or disease.
HELP and ease them, but by no means bemoan them.
The true calamus helps a cough.
Sometimes with of; as, to help one of blindness.
4. To remedy; to change for the better.
Cease to lament for what thou cans't not help
5. To prevent; to hinder. The evil approached, and who can help it?
6. To forbear; to avoid.
I cannot help remarking the resemblance between him and our author--
To help forward, to advance by assistance.
To help on, to forward; to promote by aid.
To help out, to aid in delivering from difficulty, or to aid in completing a design.
The god of learning and of light,
Would want a god himself to help him out.
To help over, to enable to surmount; as, to help one over a difficulty.
To help off, to remove by help; as, to help off time. [Unusual.]
To help to, to supply with; to furnish with.
Whom they would help to a kingdom. 1 Maccabees.
Also, to present to at table; as, to help one to a glass of wine.
HELP, verb intransitive To lend aid; to contribute strength or means.
A generous present helps to persuade, as well as an agreeable person.
To help out, to lend aid; to bring a supply.
HELP, noun Aid; assistance; strength or means furnished towards promoting an object, or deliverance from difficulty or distress.
Give us help from trouble; for vain is the help of man. .
1. That which gives assistance; he or that which contributes to advance a purpose.
Virtue is a friend and a help to nature.
God is a very present help in time of trouble. .
2. Remedy; relief. The evil is done; there is no help for it. There is no help for the man; his disease is incurable.
3. A hired man or woman; a servant.
Helper
HELP'ER, noun One that helps, aids or assists; an assistant; an auxiliary.
1. One that furnishes or administers a remedy.
Compassion--is oftentimes a helper of evils.
2. One that supplies with any thing wanted; with to.
A helper to a husband.
3. A supernumerary servant.
Helpful
HELP'FUL, adjective That gives aid or assistance; that furnishes means of promoting an object; useful.
1. Wholesome; salutary; as helpful medicines.
Helpfulness
HELP'FULNESS, noun Assistance; usefulness.
Helpless
HELP'LESS, adjective Without help in one's self; destitute of the power or means to succor or relieve one's self. A person is rendered helpless by weakness, or want of means.
An infant is helpless
1. Destitute of support or assistance.
How shall I then your helpless fame defend?
2. Admitting no help; irremediable. [Not used.]
3. Unsupplied; destitute.
Helpless of all that human wants require. [Not used.]
Helplessly
HELP'LESSLY, adverb Without succor.
Helplessness
HELP'LESSNESS, noun Want of strength or ability; inability; want of means in one's self to obtain relief in trouble, or to accomplish one's purposes or desires.
It is the tendency of sickness to reduce our extravagant self-estimation, by exhibiting our solitary helplessness
Helter-Skelter
HELTER-SKELTER, cant words denoting hurry and confusion. [Latin hilariter and celeriter.]
Helve
HELVE, noun helv. The handle of an ax or hatchet.
HELVE, verb transitive helv. To furnish with a helve as an ax.
Helvetic
HELVET'IC, adjective Designating what pertains to the Helvetii, the inhabitants of the Alps, now Swisserland, or what pertains to the modern states and inhabitants of the Alpine regions; as the helvetic confederacy; helvetic states.
Helvin
HEL'VIN, noun [From Gr. the sun.] A mineral of a yellowish color, occurring in regular tetrahedrons, with truncated angles.
Hem
HEM, noun
1. The border of a garment, doubled and sewed to strengthen it and prevent the raveling of the threads.
2. Edge; border. .
3. A particular sound of the human voice, expressed by the word hem
HEM, verb transitive To form a hem or border; to fold and sew down the edge of cloth to strengthen it.
1. To border; to edge.
All the skirt about
Was hemm'd with golden fringe.
To hem in, to inclose and confine; to surround; to environ. The troops were hemmed in by the enemy. Sometimes perhaps to hem about or round, may be used in a like sense.
HEM, verb intransitive To make the sound expressed by the word hem
Hemachate
HEM'ACHATE, noun [Gr. blood, and agate.] A species of agate, of a blood color.
Hematin
HEM'ATIN, noun [Gr. blood.] The coloring principle of logwood, of a red color and bitterish taste.
Hematite
HEM'ATITE, noun [Gr. from blood.] The name of two ores of iron, the red hematite and the brown hematite They are both of a fibrous structure, and the fibers, though sometimes nearly parallel, usually diverge, or even radiate from a center. They rarely occur amorphous, but almost always in concretions, reniform, globular, botryoidal, stalactitic, etc. The red hematite is a variety of the red oxyd; its streak and powder are always nearly blood red. The brown hematite is a variety of the brown oxyd or hydrate of iron; its streak and powder are always of a brownish yellow. The red hematite is also called blood-stone.
Hematitic
HEMATIT'IC, adjective Pertaining to hematite, or resembling it.
Hematope
HEM'ATOPE, noun The sea-pye, a fowl of the grallic order, that feeds on shell-fish.
Hemerobaptist
HEMEROBAP'TIST, noun [Gr. day, and to wash.] One of a sect among the Jews who bathed every day.
Hemi
HEM'I, in composition, from Gr. which signifies half, like demi and semi.
Hemicrany
HEM'ICRANY, noun [Gr. half and the skull.] A pain that affects only one side of the head.
Hemicycle
HEM'ICYCLE, noun [Gr.] A half circle; more generally called a semicircle.
Hemiditone
HEMID'ITONE, noun In Greek music, the lesser third.
Hemina
HEM'INA, noun [Latin] In Roman antiquity, a measure containing half a sextary, and according to Arbuthnot, about half a pint English wine measure.
1. In medicine, a measure equal to about ten ounces.
Hemiplegy
HEM'IPLEGY, noun [Gr. half, and a stroke, to strike.] A palsy that affects one half of the body; a paralytic affection on one side of the human frame.
Hemipter
HEMIP'TER
HEMIP'TERA, noun [Gr. half, and a wing.] The hemipters form an order of insects with the upper wings usually half crustaceous, and half membranaceous, and incumbent on each other; as the cimex.
Hemiptera
HEMIP'TERA, n. [Gr. half, and a wing.] The hemipters form an order of insects with the upper wings usually half crustaceous, and half membranaceous, and incumbent on each other; as the cimex.
Hemipteral
HEMIP'TERAL, adjective Having the upper wings half crustaceous and half membranaceous.
Hemisphere
HEM'ISPHERE, noun [Gr.] A half sphere; one half of a sphere or globe, when divided by a plane passing through its center. In astronomy, one half the mundane sphere. The equator divides the sphere into two equal parts. That on the north is called the northern hemisphere; the other, the southern. So the horizon divides the sphere into the upper and lower hemispheres. hemisphere is also used for a map or projection of half the terrestrial or celestial sphere, and is then often called planisphere.
1. A map or projection of half the terrestrial globe.
Hemisphericical
HEMISPHER'IC'ICAL, adjective Containing half a sphere or globe; as a hemispheric figure or form; a hemispherical body.
Hemistich
HEM'ISTICH, noun [Gr.] Half a poetic verse, or a verse not completed.
Hemistichal
HEMIS'TICHAL, adjective Pertaining to a hemistich; denoting a division of the verse.
Hemitone
HEM'ITONE, noun [Gr.] A half tone in music; now called a semitone.
Hemitrope
HEM'ITROPE, adjective [Gr. half, and to turn.] Half-turned; a hemitrope crystal is one in which one segment is turned through half the circumference of a circle. The word is used also as a noun.
Hemlock
HEM'LOCK, noun
1. A plant of the genus Conium, whose leaves and root are poisonous. Also, the Cicuta maculata.
2. A tree of the genus Pinus, an evergreen.
3. A poison, an infusion or decoction of the poisonous plant.
Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next.
Hemoptoe
HEMOP'TOE, adjective [Gr. blood, and a spitting.] A spitting of blood.
Hemoptysis
HEMOP'TYSIS
HEM'ORRHAGE
HEM'ORRHAGIC, adjective Pertaining to a flux of blood; consisting in hemorrhage.
Hemorrhagy
HEMORRHAGY, noun [Gr. blood, and to burst.] A flux of blood, proceeding from the rupture of a blood-vessel, or some other cause. The ancients confined the word to a discharge of blood from the nose; but in modern use, it is applied to a flux from the nose, lungs, intestines, etc.
Hemorrhoidal
HEMORRHOID'AL, adjective Pertaining to the hemorrhoids; as the hemorrhoidal vessels.
1. Consisting in a flux of blood from the vessels of the anus.
Hemorrhoids
HEM'ORRHOIDS, noun [Gr. blood, and a flowing.] A discharge of blood from the vessels of the anus; the piles; in Scripture, emerods.
The term is also applied to tumors formed by a morbid dilatation of the hemorrhoidal veins. When they do not discharge blood, they are called blind piles; when they occasionally emit blood, bleeding or open piles.
Hemp
HEMP, noun [Latin cannabis.]
1. A fibrous plant constituting the genus Cannabis, whose skin or bark is used for cloth and cordage. Hence canvas, the coarse strong cloth used for sails.
2. The skin or rind of the plant, prepared for spinning. Large quantities of hemp are exported from Russia.
Hemp-Agrimony
HEMP-AG'RIMONY, noun A plant, a species of Eupatorium.
Hempen
HEMP'EN, adjective hemp'n. Made of hemp; as a hempen cord.
Hempy
HEMP'Y, adjective Like hemp. [Unusual.]
Hen
HEN, noun The female of any kind of fowl; but it is particularly applied to the female of the domestic fowl of the gallinaceous kind, or as sometimes called, the barn-door fowl.
Henbane
HEN'BANE, noun [hen and bane.] A plant, the Hyoscyamus, of several species. The roots, leaves and seeds are poisonous.
Henbit
HEN'BIT, noun A plant, the ivy-leaved speedwell.
HEN'-COOP, noun A coop or cage for fowls.
HEN'-DRIVER, noun A kind of hawk.
HEN'-HARM
HEN'-HARRIER, noun A species of kite, pygargus.
HEN'-HE'ARTED, adjective Cowardly; timid; dastardly.
Hence
HENCE, adverb hens.
1. From this place.
Arise, let us go hence .
I will send thee far hence to the Gentiles. .
2. From this time; in the future; as a week hence; a year hence
3. From this cause or reason, noting a consequence, inference or deduction from something just before stated.
HENCE perhaps it is, that Solomon calls the fear of the Lord, the beginning of wisdom.
It sometimes denotes an inference or consequence, resulting from something that follows.
Whence come wars and fightings among you?
Come they not hence even from your lusts--.
4. From this source or original.
All other faces borrowed hence--
HENCE signifies from this, and from before hence is not strictly correct. But from hence is so well established by custom, that it may not be practicable to correct the use of the phrase.
HENCE is used elliptically and imperatively, for go hence; depart hence; away; be gone.
HENCE, with your little ones.
HENCE, as a verb, to send off, as used by Sidney, is improper.
Henceforth
HENCEFORTH, adverb hens'forth. From this time forward.
I never from thy side henceforth will stray.
Henceforward
HENCEFORWARD, adverb hensfor'ward. From this time forward; henceforth.
Henchboy
HENCH'BOY, noun A page; a servant.
Henchman
HENCH'MAN
HEND
HENDEC'AGON, noun [Gr. eleven, and an angle.] In geometry, a figure of eleven sides, and as many angles.
Hend
HEND
Hendecasyllable
HENDECASYL'LABLE, noun [Gr.] A metrical line of eleven syllables.
Hendiadis
HENDI'ADIS, noun [Gr.] A figure, when two nouns are used instead of a noun and an adjective.
Henhouse
HEN'HOUSE, noun A house or shelter for fowls.
Henpecked
HEN'PECKED, adjective Governed by the wife.
Henroost
HEN'ROOST, noun A place where poultry rest at night.
Hensfeet
HENS'FEET, noun A plant, hedge-fumitory.
Hent
HENT, verb transitive To seize; to lay hold on.
1. To crowd; to press on.
HEND, or HENDY, adjective Gentle.
Hep-Tree
HEP'-TREE, noun The wild dog-rose, a species of Rosa.
Hepar
HE'PAR, noun [Latin hepar the liver.] A combination of sulphur with an alkali was formerly called by chimists hepar sulphuris, liver of sulphur, from its brown red color. The term has been applied to all combinations of alkali or earth with sulphur or phosphorus.
The hepars are by modern chimists called sulphurets.
Hepatic
HEPAT'IC
HEPAT'ICAL, adjective [Latin hepaticus; Gr. the liver.] Pertaining to the liver; as hepatic gall; hepatic pain; hepatic artery; hepatic flux.
Hepatic air or gas, is a fetid vapor or elastic fluid emitted from combinations of sulphur with alkalies, earths and metals.
This species of air is now called sulphurated hydrogen gas.
Hepatic mercurial ore, a mineral of a reddish, or reddish brown, or dark red color. Its streak is dark red, and has some luster. It occurs in compact masses, with an even or fine grained fracture.
Hepatic pyrite, hepatic sulphuret of iron. During the process of decomposition of this ore, by which the sulphur is more or less disengaged, the pyrite is converted, either wholly or in part, into a compact oxyd of iron of a liver brown color; hence its name.
Hepatite
HEP'ATITE, noun A gem or mineral that takes its name from the liver. Plin. Latin 37.11.
Hepatite is a name given to the fetid sulphate of baryte. It sometimes occurs in globular masses, and is either compact or of a foliated structure. By friction or the application of heat, it exhales a fetid odor, like that of sulphurated hydrogen.
Hepatize
HEP'ATIZE, verb transitive To impregnate with sulphurated hydrogen gas.
Hepatized
HEP'ATIZED, participle passive Impregnated or combined with sulphurated hydrogen gas.
On the right of the river were two wells of hepatized water.
Hepatoscopy
HEPATOS'COPY, noun [Gr. the liver, and to view.] The art or practice of divination by inspecting the liver of animals.
Heps
HEPS, noun The berries of the hep-tree, or wild dog-rose.
Heptacapsular
HEPTACAP'SULAR, adjective [Gr. seven, and Latin capsula, a cell.]
Having seven cells or cavities for seeds; a term in botany.
Heptachord
HEP'TACHORD, noun [Gr. seven, and chord.] A system of seven sounds. In ancient poetry, verses sung or played on seven chords or different notes. In this sense the word was applied to the lyre, when it had but seven strings. One of the intervals is also called a heptachord as containing the same number of degrees between the extremes.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828); edition by akaitsurugi (github.com/akaitsurugi/webster1828). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from the CrossWire Bible Society.