Heptagon – Hierarch

Heptagon

HEP'TAGON, noun [Gr. seven, and an angle.]

In geometry, a figure consisting of seven sides and as many angles.

In fortification, a place that has seven bastions for defense.

Heptagonal

HEPTAG'ONAL, adjective Having seven angles or sides. heptagonal numbers, in arithmetic, a sort of polygonal numbers, wherein the difference of the terms of the corresponding arithmetical progression is 5. One of the properties of these numbers is, that if they are multiplied by 40, and 9 is added to the product, the sum will be a square number.

Heptagyn

HEP'TAGYN, noun [Gr. seven, and a female.] In botany, a plant that has seven pistils.

Heptagynian

HEPTAGYN'IAN, adjective Having seven pistils.

Heptahexahedral

HEPTAHEXAHE'DRAL, adjective [Gr. seven, and hexahedral.] Presenting seven ranges of faces one above another, each range containing six faces.

Heptamerede

HEPTAM'EREDE, noun [Gr. seven, and part.]

That which divides into seven parts.

Heptander

HEPTAND'ER, noun [Gr. seven, and a male.] In botany, a plant having seven stamens.

Heptandrian

HEPTAN'DRIAN, adjective Having seven stamens.

Heptangular

HEPTAN'GULAR, adjective [Gr. seven, and angular.] Having seven angles.

Heptaphyllous

HEPTAPH'YLLOUS, adjective [Gr. seven, and a leaf.] Having seven leaves.

Heptarchic

HEPTAR'CHIC, adjective Denoting a sevenfold government.

Heptarchist

HEP'TARCHIST, noun A ruler of one division of a heptarchy.

Heptarchy

HEP'TARCHY, noun [Gr. seven and rule.] A government by seven persons, or the country governed by seven persons. But the word is usually applied to England, when under the government of seven kings, or divided into seven kingdoms; as the Saxon heptarchy which comprehended the whole of England, when subject to seven independent princes. These petty kingdoms were those of Kent, the South Saxons [Sussex, ] West Saxons, East Saxons [Essex, ] the East Angles, Mercia, and Northumberland.

Heptateuch

HEP'TATEUCH, noun [Gr. seven, and book.] The first seven books of the Old Testament. [Little used.]

Her

HER, pronounced hur, an adjective, or pronominal adjective of the third person. [Latin suus.]

1. Belonging to a female; as her face; her head.

2. It is used before neuter nouns in personification.

Wisdom's ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. Proverbs 3:15.

HER is also used as a pronoun or substitute for a female in the objective case, after a verb or preposition.

She gave also to her husband with her and he did eat. Genesis 3:6.

HERs is primarily the objective or genitive case, denoting something that belongs to a female. But it stands as a substitute in the nominative or objective case.

And what his fortune wanted, hers could mend.

HERe hers stands for her fortune, but it must be considered as the nominative to could mend. I will take back my own book and give you hers. Here hers is the object after give.

Herald

HER'ALD, noun

1. 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. Hence,

2. A proclaimer; a publisher; as the herald of another's fame.

3. A forerunner; a precursor; a harbinger.

It was the lark, the herald of the morn.

4. An officer in Great Britain, whose business is to marshal, order and conduct royal cavalcades, ceremonies at coronations, royal marriages, installations, creations of dukes and other nobles, embassies, funeral processions, declarations of war, proclamations of peace, etc.; also, to record and blazon the arms of the nobility and gentry, and to regulate abuses therein.

5. Formerly applied by the French to a minstrel.

HER'ALD, verb transitive To introduce, as by a herald

Heraldic

HER'ALDIC, adjective Pertaining to heralds or heraldry; as heraldic delineations.

Heraldry

HER'ALDRY, noun The art or office of a herald. heraldry is the art, practice or science of recording genealogies, and blazoning arms or ensigns armorial. It also teaches whatever relates to the marshaling of cavalcades, processions and other public ceremonies.

Heraldship

HER'ALDSHIP, noun The office of a herald.

Herb

HERB, noun erb. [Latin herba.]

1. A plant or vegetable with a soft or succulent stalk or stem, which dies to the root every year, and is thus distinguished from a tree and a shrub, which have ligneous or hard woody stems.

2. In the Linnean botany, that part of a vegetable which springs from the root and is terminated by the fructification, including the stem or stalk, the leaves, the fulcra or props, and the hibernacle.

The word herb comprehends all the grasses, and numerous plants used for culinary purposes.

Herb-Christopher

HERB-CHRISTOPHER, noun A plant, of the genus Actaea.

Herb-Robert

HERB-ROBERT, noun A plant, a species of Geranium.

Herbaceous

HERBA'CEOUS, adjective [Latin herbaceus.] Pertaining to herbs. herbaceous plants are such as perish annually down to the root; soft, succulent vegetables. So, a herbaceous stem is one which is soft, not woody. herbaceous applied to animals by Derham, is not authorized. [See Herbivorous.]

Herbage

HERB'AGE, noun Herbs collectively; grass; pasture; green food for beasts.

The influence of true religion is mild, soft and noiseless, and constant, as the descent of the evening dew on the tender herbage

1. In law, the liberty or right of pasture in the forest or grounds of another man.

Herbaged

HERB'AGED, adjective Covered with grass.

Herbal

HERB'AL, noun A book that contains the names and descriptions of plants, or the classes, genera, species and qualities of vegetables.

1. A hortus siccus, or dry garden; a collection of specimens of plants, dried and preserved.

HERB'AL, adjective Pertaining to herbs.

Herbalist

HERB'ALIST, noun A person skilled in plants; one who makes collections of plants.

Herbar

HERB'AR, noun An herb.

Herbarist

HERB'ARIST, noun A herbalist. [Little used.]

Herbarium

HERBA'RIUM, noun A collection of dried plants.

Herbarize

HERB'ARIZE. [See Herborize.]

Herbary

HERB'ARY, noun A garden of plants.

Herbelet

HERB'ELET, noun A small herb.

Herbescent

HERBES'CENT, adjective [Latin herbescens.] Growing into herbs.

Herbid

HERB'ID, adjective [Latin herbidus.] Covered with herbs. [Little used.]

Herbivorous

HERBIV'OROUS, adjective [Latin herba and voro, to eat.] Eating herbs; subsisting on herbaceous plants; feeding on vegetables. The ox and the horse are herbivorous animals.

Herbless

HERB'LESS, adjective Destitute of herbs.

Herborist

HERB'ORIST. [See Herbalist.]

Herborization

HERBORIZA'TION, noun [from herborize.]

1. The act of seeking plants in the field; botanical research.

2. The figure of plants in mineral substances. [See Arborization.]

Herborize

HERB'ORIZE, verb intransitive To search for plants, or to seek new species of plants, with a view to ascertain their characters and to class them.

He herborized as he traveled, and enriched the Flora Suecica with new discoveries.

HERB'ORIZE, verb transitive To figure; to form the figures of plants in minerals. [See Arborize.]

Herborized

HERB'ORIZED, participle passive Figured; containing the figure of a plant; as a mineral body.

Daubenton has shown that herborized stones contain very fine mosses.

Herborizing

HERB'ORIZING, participle present tense Searching for plants.

1. Forming the figures of plants in minerals.

Herbous

HERB'OUS, adjective [Latin herbosus.] Abounding with herbs.

Herbwoman

HERB'WOMAN, noun erb'woman. A woman that sells herbs.

Herby

HERB'Y, adjective Having the nature of herbs. [Little used.]

Herculean

HERCU'LEAN, adjective [from Hercules.] Very great, difficult or dangerous; such as it would require the strength or courage of Hercules to encounter or accomplish; as herculean labor or task.

1. Having extraordinary strength and size; as herculean limbs.

2. Of extraordinary strength, force or power.

Hercules

HER'CULES, noun A constellation in the northern hemisphere, containing 113 stars.

Hercynian

HERCYN'IAN, adjective [from Hercynia.] Denoting an extensive forest in Germany, the remains of which are now in Swabia.

Herd

HERD, noun

1. A collection or assemblage; applied to beasts when feeding or driven together. We say, a herd of horses, oxen, cattle, camels, elephants, bucks, harts, and in Scripture, a herd of swine. But we say, a flock of sheep, goats, or birds. A number of cattle going to market is called a drove.

2. A company of men or people, in contempt or detestation; a crowd; a rabble; as a vulgar herd

HERD, noun A keeper of cattle; used by Spenser, and still used in Scotland, but in English now seldom or never used, except in composition, as a shepherd, a goatherd, a swineherd.

HERD, verb intransitive To unite or associate, as beasts; to feed or run in collections. Most kinds of beasts manifest a disposition to herd

1. To associate; to unite in companies customarily.

2. To associate; to become one of a number or party.

HERD, verb transitive To form or put into a herd

Herdgroom

HERD'GROOM, noun A keeper of a herd.

Herding

HERD'ING, participle present tense Associating in companies.

Herdless

HERD'LESS, noun A shepherdess.

Herdman

HERD'MAN

HERDS'MAN, noun A keeper of herds; one employed intending herds of cattle.

1. Formerly, the owner of a herd.

Here

HERE, adverb

1. In this place; in the place where the speaker is present; opposed to there. Behold, here am I. Lodge here this night. Build here seven altars.

2. In the present life or state.

Thus shall you be happy here and more happy hereafter.

3. It is used in making an offer or attempt.

Then here's for earnest.

4. In drinking health.

HERE's to thee, Dick.

It is neither here nor there, it is neither in this place nor in that; neither in one place nor in another.

HERE and there, in one place and another; in a dispersed manner or condition; thinly; or irregularly.

Hereaboutreabouts

HE'REABOUT'REABOUTS, adverb About this place.

Hereafter

HERE'AFTER, adverb In time to come; in some future time.

1. In a future state.

HERE'AFTER, noun A future state.

'Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter

Hereat

HEREAT', adverb At this. He was offended hereat that is, at this saying, that fact, etc.

Hereby

HEREBY', adverb By this.

HEREBY we became acquainted with the nature of things.

Hereditable

HERED'ITABLE, adjective [from the root of heir; Latin haereditas.]

That may be inherited. [Not much used. See Inheritable.]

Hereditably

HERED'ITABLY, adverb By inheritance; by right of descent.

The one-house-owners belong hereditably to no private person.

Hereditament

HEREDIT'AMENT, noun [Latin haeres, haeredium. See Heir.]

Any species of property that may be inherited; lands, tenements, any thing corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal or mixed, that may descend to an heir.

A corporeal hereditament is visible and tangible; an incorporeal hereditament is an ideal right, existing in contemplation of law, issuing out of substantial corporeal property.

Hereditarily

HERED'ITARILY, adverb By inheritance; by descent from an ancestor.

Hereditary

HERED'ITARY, adjective

1. That has descended from an ancestor. He is in possession of a large hereditary estate.

2. That may descend from an ancestor to an heir; descendible to an heir at law. The crown of Great Britain is hereditary

3. That is or may be transmitted from a parent to a child; as hereditary pride; hereditary bravery; hereditary disease.

Herein

HEREIN', adverb In this.

HEREIN is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit. John 15:8.

Hereinto

HEREIN'TO, adverb Into this.

Heremit

HER'EMIT, noun A hermit.

Heremitical

HEREMIT'ICAL, adjective [It should rather be written hermitical.]

Solitary; secluded from society.

Hereof

HEREOF', adverb Of this; from this.

HEREOF comes it that prince Harry is valiant.

Hereon

HEREON', adverb On this.

Hereout

HEREOUT', adverb Out of this place.

Heresiarch

HER'ESIARCH, noun s as z. [Gr. heresy, and chief.] A leader in heresy; the chief of a sect of heretics.

Heresiarchy

HER'ESIARCHY, noun Chief heresy.

Heresy

HER'ESY, noun [Gr. to take, to hold; Latin haeresis.]

1. A fundamental error in religion, or an error of opinion respecting some fundamental doctrine of religion. But in countries where there is an established church, an opinion is deemed heresy when it differs from that of the church. The Scriptures being the standard of faith, any opinion that is repugnant to its doctrines, is heresy; but as men differ in the interpretation of Scripture, an opinion deemed heretical by one body of christians, may be deemed orthodox by another. In Scripture and primitive usage, heresy meant merely sect, party, or the doctrines of a sect, as we now use denomination or persuasion, implying no reproach.

2. heresy in law, is an offense against christianity, consisting in a denial of some of its essential doctrines, publicly avowed and obstinately maintained.

3. An untenable or unsound opinion or doctrine in politics.

Heretic

HER'ETIC, noun

1. A person under any religion, but particularly the christian, who holds and teaches opinions repugnant to the established faith, or that which is made the standard of orthodoxy. In strictness, among christians, a person who holds and avows religious opinions contrary to the doctrines of Scripture, the only rule of faith and practice.

2. Any one who maintains erroneous opinions.

Heretical

HERET'ICAL, adjective Containing heresy; contrary to the established faith, or to the true faith.

Heretically

HERET'ICALLY, adverb In an heretical manner; with heresy.

Heretoch

HER'ETOCH, noun [Latin duco, dux; Eng. to tug.] Among our Saxon ancestors, the leader or commander of an army, or the commander of the militia in a county or district. This officer was elected by the people in folkmote.

Heretofore

HERETOFO'RE, adverb In times before the present; formerly.

Heretog

HER'ETOG, HEREUNTO

adverb To this.

Hereunto

HEREUNTO', adv. To this.

Hereupon

HEREUPON', adverb On this.

Herewith

HEREWITH', adverb With this.

Most of the compounds of here and a preposition, are obsolete or obsolescent, or at least are deemed inelegant. But hereafter and heretofore are in elegant use. Herein and hereby are frequently used in the present version of the Scriptures, and ought not perhaps to be discarded. Indeed some of these words seem to be almost indispensable in technical law language.

Heriot

HER'IOT, noun In English law, a tribute or fine payable to the lord of the fee on the decease of the owner, landholder, or vassal. Originally this tribute consisted of military furniture, or of horses and arms, as appears by the laws of Canute, C.69. But as defined by modern writers, a heriot is a customary tribute of goods and chattels, payable to the lord of the fee on the decease of the owner of the land; or a render of the best beast or other movables to the lord on the death of the tenant. Heriots were of two sorts; heriot service, which was due by reservation in a grant or lease of lands; and heriot custom, which depended solely on immemorial usage.

Heriotable

HER'IOTABLE, adjective Subject to the payment of a heriot.

Herisson

HER'ISSON, noun In fortification, a beam or bar armed with iron spikes pointing outwards, and a turning on a pivot; used to block up a passage.

Heritable

HER'ITABLE, adjective [from the root of heir, Latin haeres.]

1. Capable of inheriting, or taking by descent.

By the canon law this son shall be legitimate and heritable

2. That may be inherited. [This is the true sense.]

3. Annexed to estates of inheritance. In Scot's law, heritable rights are all rights that affect lands or other immovables.

Heritage

HER'ITAGE, noun

1. Inheritance; an estate that passes from an ancestor to an heir by descent or course of law; that which is inherited. In Scot's law, it sometimes signifies immovable estate, in distinction from movable.

2. In Scripture, the saints or people of God are called his heritage as being claimed by him, and the objects of his special care. 1 Peter 5:3.

Herl

HERL, noun The skin of flax; the filaments of flax or hemp.

1. A filamentous substance.

[In New England, I have heard this word pronounced herl ]

Hermaphrodeity

HERMAPHRODE'ITY, noun Hermaphrodism.

Hermaphrodism

HERMAPH'RODISM, noun [infra.] The union of the two sexes in the same individual.

Hermaphrodite

HERMAPH'RODITE, noun [Gr. Mercury, and Venus.]

1. A human being, having the parts of generation both of male and female. The term is applied also to other animals characterized by a similar formation.

2. In botany, a flower that contains both the anther and the stigma, or the supposed male and female organs of generation, within the same calyx or on the same receptacle.

3. A plant that has only hermaphrodite flowers.

HERMAPH'RODITE, adjective Designating both sexes in the same animal, flower or plant.

Hermaphroditic

HERMAPHRODIT'IC, adjective Partaking of both sexes.

Hermaphroditically

HERMAPHRODIT'ICALLY, adverb After the manner of hermaphrodites.

Hermeneutic

HERMENEU'TIC

HERMENEU'TICAL, adjective [Gr. an interpreter, from Mercury.]

Interpreting; explaining; unfolding the signification; as hermeneutic theology, the art of expounding the Scriptures.

Hermeneutical

HERMENEU'TICAL, a. [Gr. an interpreter, from Mercury.]

Interpreting; explaining; unfolding the signification; as hermeneutic theology, the art of expounding the Scriptures.

Hermeneutically

HERMENEU'TICALLY, adverb According to the true art of interpreting words.

Hermeneutics

HERMENEU'TICS, noun The art of finding the meaning of an author's words and phrases, and of explaining it to others.

Hermetic

HERMET'IC

HERMET'ICAL, adjective [Gr. Mercury, the fabled inventor of chimistry.]

1. Designating chimistry; chimical; as the hermetic art.

2. Designating that species of philosophy which pretends to solve and explain all the phenomena of nature from the three chimical principles, salt, sulphur and mercury; as the hermetic philosophy.

3. Designating the system which explains the causes of diseases and the operations of medicine, on the principles of the hermetical philosophy, and particularly on the system of an alkali and acid; as hermetical physic or medicine.

4. Perfectly close, so that no air, gas, or spirit can escape; as a hermetic seal. The hermetic seal is formed by heating the neck of a vessel till it is soft, and then twisting it, till the aperture or passage is accurately closed.

Hermetic books, books of the Egyptians which treat of astrology.

Books which treat of universal principles, of the nature and orders of celestial beings, of medicine and other topics.

Hermetical

HERMET'ICAL, a. [Gr. Mercury, the fabled inventor of chimistry.] 1. Designating chimistry; chimical; as the hermetic art.2. Designating that species of philosophy which pretends to solve and explain all the phenomena of nature from the three chimical principles, salt, sulphur and mercury; as the hermetic philosophy.3. Designating the system which explains the causes of diseases and the operations of medicine, on the principles of the hermetical philosophy, and particularly on the system of an alkali and acid; as hermetical physic or medicine.4. Perfectly close, so that no air, gas, or spirit can escape; as a hermetic seal. The hermetic seal is formed by heating the neck of a vessel till it is soft, and then twisting it, till the aperture or passage is accurately closed. Hermetic books, books of the Egyptians which treat of astrology.

Books which treat of universal principles, of the nature and orders of celestial beings, of medicine and other topics.

Hermetically

HERMET'ICALLY, adverb According to the hermetic art; chimically; closely; accurately; as a vessel hermetically sealed or closed.

Hermit

HER'MIT, noun [Gr. solitary, destitute.]

1. A person who retires from society and lives in solitude; a recluse; an anchoret. The word is usually applied to a person who lives in solitude, disengaged from the cares and interruptions of society, for the purpose of religious contemplation and devotion.

2. A beadsman; one bound to pray for another.

Hermitage

HER'MITAGE, noun The habitation of a hermit; a house or hut with its appendages, in a solidary place, where a hermit dwells.

1. A cell in a recluse place, but annexed to an abbey.

2. A kind of wine.

Hermitary

HER'MITARY, noun A cell for the religious annexed to some abbey.

Hermitess

HER'MITESS, noun A female hermit.

Hermitical

HERMIT'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to a hermit, or to retired life.

1. Suited to a hermit.

Hermodactyl

HERMODAC'TYL, noun [Gr. Mercury, and a finger; Mercury's finger.]

In the Materia Medic, a root brought from Turkey. It is in the shape of a heart flatted, of a white color, compact, but easy to be cut or pulverized, of a viscous sweetish taste, with a slight degree of acrimony. Some suppose it to be the root of the

Colchicum variegatum; others, the root of the Iris tuberosa. It was anciently in great repute as a cathartic; but that which is now furnished has little or no cathartic quality.

Hermogenians

HERMOGE'NIANS, noun A sect of ancient heretics, so called from their leader Hermogenes, who lived near the close of the second century. He held matter to be the fountain of all evil, and that souls are formed of corrupt matter.

Hern

HERN, noun A heron, which see.

Hernhill

HERN'HILL, noun A plant.

Hernia

HERN'IA, noun [Latin] In surgery, a rupture; a descent of the intestines or omentum from their natural place; an unnatural protrusion of the intestines. hernia is of various kinds.

Hernshaw

HERN'SHAW, noun A heron.

Hero

HE'RO, noun [Latin heros; Gr. a demigod.]

1. A man of distinguished valor, intrepidity or enterprise in danger; as a hero in arms.

2. A great, illustrious or extraordinary person; as a hero in learning. [Little used.]

3. In a poem, or romance, the principal personage, 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.

4. In pagan mythology, a hero was an illustrious person, mortal indeed, but supposed by the populace to partake of immortality, and after his death to be placed among the gods.

Herodians

HERO'DIANS, noun A sect among the Jews, which took this name from Herod; but authors are not agreed as to their peculiar notions.

Heroi-Comic

HEROI-COM'IC, adjective [See Hero and Comic.] Consisting of the heroic and the ludicrous; denoting the high burlesque; as a heroicomic poem.

Heroic

HERO'IC, adjective Pertaining to a hero or heroes; as heroic valor.

1. Becoming a hero; bold; daring; illustrious; as heroic action; heroic enterprises.

2. Brave; intrepid; magnanimous; enterprising; illustrious for valor; as Hector, the heroic son of Priam; a heroic race.

3. Productive of heroes; as a heroic line in pedigree.

4. Reciting the achievements of heroes; as a heroic poem.

5. Used in heroic poetry or hexameter; as heroic verse; a heroic foot.

Heroic age, the age when the heroes, or those called the children of the gods, are supposed to have lived.

Heroical

HERO'ICAL, adjective The same as heroic. [Little used.]

Heroically

HERO'ICALLY, adverb In the manner of a hero; with valor; bravely; courageously; intrepidly. The wall was heroically defended.

Heroine

HER'OINE, noun her'oin. A female hero; a woman of a brave spirit. [Heroess is not in use.]

Heroism

HER'OISM, noun The qualities of a hero; bravery; courage; intrepidity; particularly in war.

Heron

HER'ON, noun A large fowl of the genus Ardea, a great devourer of fish.

Heronry

HER'ONRY

HER'ONSHAW, noun A place where herons breed.

Heronshaw

HER'ONSHAW, n. A place where herons breed.

Heroship

HE'ROSHIP, noun The character of a hero.

Herpes

HER'PES, noun [Gr. to creep.] Tetters; an eruption on the skin; erysipelas; ringworm, etc. This disease takes various names according to its form or the part affected.

A term applied to several cutaneous eruptions, from their tendency to spread or creep from one part of the skin to another.

An eruption of vesicles in small distinct clusters, accompanied with itching or tingling; including the shingles, ringworm, etc.

Herpetic

HERPET'IC, adjective Pertaining to the herpes or cutaneous eruptions; resembling the herpes, or partaking of its nature; as herpetic eruptions.

Herpetologic

HERPETOLOG'IC

HERPETOLOG'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to herpetology.

Herpetological

HERPETOLOG'ICAL, a. Pertaining to herpetology.

Herpetologist

HERPETOL'OGIST, noun A person versed in herpetology, or the natural history of reptiles.

Herpetology

HERPETOL'OGY, noun [Gr. a reptile, and discourse.] A description of reptiles; the natural history of reptiles, including oviparous quadrupeds, as the crocodile, frog and tortoise, and serpents. The history of the latter is called ophiology.

Herring

HER'RING, noun A fish of the genus Clupea. Herrings, when they migrate, move in vast shoals, and it is said that the name is formed from the Teutonic here, heer, an army or multitude. They come from high northern latitudes in the spring, and visit the shores of Europe and America, where they are taken and salted in great quantities.

Herring-Fishery

HERRING-FISHERY, noun The fishing for herrings, which constitutes an important branch of business with the English, Dutch and Americans.

Hers

HERS, pronoun hurz, pronoun fem. possessive; as, this house is hers that is, this is the house of her. But perhaps it would be more correct to consider hers as a substitute for the noun and adjective, in the nominative case. Of the two houses, hers is the best, that is, her house is the best.

Herschel

HERSCHEL, noun her'shel. A planet discovered by Dr. herschel in 1781.

Herse

HERSE, noun hers.

1. In fortification, a lattice or portcullis in the form of a harrow, set with iron spikes. It is hung by a rope fastened to a moulinet, and when a gate is broken, it is let down to obstruct the passage. It is called also a sarrasin or cataract, and when it consists of straight stakes without cross-pieces, it is called orgues.

HERSE is also a harrow, used for a chevaux de frise, and laid in the way or in breaches, with the points up, to obstruct or incommode the march of an enemy.

1. A carriage for bearing corpses to the grave. It is a frame only, or a box, as in England, borne on wheels.

2. A temporary monument set over a grave. [Unusual and not legitimate.]

3. A funeral eulogy. [Not used.]

HERSE, verb transitive hers. To put on or in a herse

1. To carry to the grave.

Herself

HERSELF', pronoun [her and self.] This denotes a female, the subject of discourse before mentioned, and is either in the nominative or objective case. In the nominative it usually follows she, and is added for the sake of emphasis, or emphatical distinction; as, she herself will bear the blame.

The daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself Exodus 2:5.

1. Having the command of herself; mistress of her rational powers, judgment or temper. The woman was deranged, but she is now herself again. She has come to herself

2. In her true character; as, the woman acts like herself

Herselike

HERSELIKE, adjective hers'like. Funereal; suitable to funerals.

Hersillon

HERS'ILLON, noun [from herse.] In the military art, a plank or beam, whose sides are set with spikes or nails, to incommode and retard the march of an enemy.

Hery

HER'Y, verb transitive To regard as holy.

Hesitancy

HES'ITANCY, noun [See Hesitate.] A doubting; literally, a stopping of the mind; a pausing to consider; dubiousness; suspense.

The reason of my hesitancy about the air is--

Hesitant

HES'ITANT, adjective Hesitating; pausing; wanting volubility of speech.

Hesitate

HES'ITATE, verb intransitive s as z. [Latin haesito, haereo, to hang.]

1. To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be doubtful as to fact, principle or determination; to be in suspense or uncertainty; as, he hesitated whether to accept the offer or not. We often hesitate what judgment to form.

It is never transitive, unless by poetic license.

Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.

2. To stammer; to stop in speaking.

Hesitating

HES'ITATING, participle present tense Doubting; pausing; stammering.

Hesitatingly

HES'ITATINGLY, adverb With hesitation or doubt.

Hesitation

HESITA'TION, noun A pausing or delay in forming an opinion or commencing action; doubt; suspension of opinion or decision, from uncertainty what is proper to be decided. When evidence is clear, we may decide without hesitation

1. A stopping in speech; intermission between words; stammering.

Hesperian

HESPE'RIAN. [Latin hesperius, western, from hesperus, vesper, the evening star, Venus.]

Western; situated at the west.

HESPE'RIAN, noun An inhabitant of a western country.

Hest

HEST, noun Command; precept; injunction; order. [Now obsolete, but it is retained in the compound, behest.]

Heterarchy

HET'ERARCHY, noun [Gr. another, and rule.] The government of an alien.

Heteroclite

HET'EROCLITE, noun [Gr. another, or different, to incline, to lean.]

1. In grammar, a word which is irregular or anomalous either in declension or conjugation, or which deviates from the ordinary forms of inflection in words of a like kind. It is particularly applied to nouns irregular in declension.

2. Any thing or person deviating from common forms.

HET'EROCLITE

Heteroclitic

HETEROCLIT'IC

HETEROCLIT'ICAL, adjective Irregular; anomalous; deviating from ordinary forms or rules.

Heteroclitical

HETEROCLIT'ICAL, a. Irregular; anomalous; deviating from ordinary forms or rules.

Heteroclitous

HETEROC'LITOUS, adjective Heteroclitic. [Not in use.]

Heterodox

HET'ERODOX, adjective [Gr. another, different, and opinion.]

1. In theology, heretical; contrary to the faith and doctrines of the true church; or more precisely, contrary to the real doctrines of the Scriptures; as a heterodox opinion; opposed to orthodox.

2. Repugnant to the doctrines or tenets of any established church.

3. Holding opinions repugnant to the doctrines of the Scriptures, as a heterodox divine; or holding opinions contrary to those of an established church.

Heterodoxy

HET'ERODOXY, noun Heresy; an opinion or doctrine contrary to the doctrines of the Scriptures, or contrary to those of an established church.

Heterogene

HET'EROGENE, adjective [See the next word.]

Heterogeneal

HETEROGE'NEAL

HETEROGENE'ITY, noun Opposition of nature; contrariety or dissimilitude of qualities. [Ill formed.]

1. Dissimilar part; something of a different kind.

Heterogeneity

HETEROGENE'ITY, n. Opposition of nature; contrariety or dissimilitude of qualities. [Ill formed.] 1. Dissimilar part; something of a different kind.

Heterogeneous

HETEROGE'NEOUS, adjective [Gr. other, and kind.] Of a different kind or nature; unlike or dissimilar in kind; opposed to homogeneous.

The light whose rays are all alike refrangible, I call simple, homogeneal and similar; and that whose rays are some more refrangible than others, I call compound, heterogeneal and dissimilar.

Heterogeneous nouns, are such as are of different genders in the singular and plural numbers; as hic locus, of the masculine gender in the singular, and hi loci and haec loca, both masculine and neuter in the plural. Hoc coelum, neuter in the singular; hi coeli, masculine in the plural.

Heterogeneous quantities, are those which are of such different kind and consideration, that one of them, taken any number of times, never equals or exceeds the other.

Heterogeneous surds, are such as have different radical signs.

Heterogeneousness

HETEROGE'NEOUSNESS, noun Difference of nature and quality; dissimilitude or contrariety in kind, nature or qualities.

Heterophyllous

HETEROPH'YLLOUS, adjective [Gr. diverse, and leaf.]

Producing a diversity of leaves; as a heterophyllous violet.

Heteroptics

HETEROP'TICS, noun [See Optics.] False optics.

Heteroscian

HETEROS'CIAN, noun [Gr. other, and shadow.]

Those inhabitants of the earth are called Heteroscians, whose shadows fall one way only. Such are those who live between the tropics and the polar circles. The shadows of those who live north of the tropic of Cancer, fall northward; those of the inhabitants south of the tropic of Capricorn, fall southward; whereas the shadows of those who dwell between the tropics fall sometimes to the north and sometimes to the south.

HETEROS'CIAN, adjective Having the shadow fall one way only.

Heulandite

HEU'LANDITE, adjective [from M. Heuland.] A mineral, occurring massive, frequently globular, or crystallized in the form of a right oblique-angled prism. It has been ranked among the zeolites, but is now considered as distinct.

Hew

HEW, verb transitive preterit tense hewed; participle passive hewed or hewn.

1. To cut with an ax, or other like instrument, for the purpose of making an even surface or side; as, to hew timber.

2. To chop; to cut; to hack; as, to hew in pieces.

3. To cut with a chisel; to make smooth; as, to hew stone.

4. To form or shape with an edged instrument; with out; as, to hew out a sepulcher. Isaiah 22:16.

5. To form laboriously.

I now pass my days, not studious nor idle, rather polishing old works than hewing out new ones. [Unusual.]

To hew down, to cut down; to fell by cutting.

To hew off, to cut off; to separate by a cutting instrument.

Hewed

HEW'ED, participle passive Cut and made smooth or even; chopped; hacked; shaped by cutting or by a chisel.

Hewer

HEW'ER, noun One who hews wood or stone.

Hewing

HEW'ING, participle present tense Cutting and making smooth or even; chopping; hacking; forming by the chisel.

Hewn

HEWN, participle passive The same as hewed.

Hexachord

HEX'ACHORD, noun [Gr. six and a chord.] In ancient music, an imperfect chord called a sixth. Also, an instrument of six chords, or system of six sounds.

Hexadactylous

HEXADACTYLOUS, adjective [Gr.] Having six toes.

Hexade

HEX'ADE, noun [Gr. six.] A series of six numbers.

Hexagon

HEX'AGON, noun [Gr. six and an angle.] In geometry, a figure of six sides and six angles. If the sides and angles are equal, it is a regular hexagon The cells of honeycomb are hexagons, and it is remarkable that bees instinctively form their cells of this figure which fills any given space without any interstice or loss or room.

Hexagonal

HEXAG'ONAL, adjective Having six sides and six angles.

Hexagony

HEXAG'ONY, for hexagon, is not used.

Hexagyn

HEX'AGYN, noun [Gr. six, and a female.] In botany, a plant that has six pistils.

Hexagynian

HEXAGYN'IAN, adjective Having six pistils.

Hexahedral

HEXAHE'DRAL, adjective Of the figure of a hexahedron; having six equal sides.

Hexahedron

HEXAHE'DRON, noun [Gr. six, and a base or seat.] A regular solid body of six sides; a cube.

Hexahemeron

HEXAHEM'ERON, noun [Gr. six, and day.] The term of six days.

Hexameter

HEXAM'ETER, noun [Gr. six, and measure.] In ancient poetry, 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 Illiad of Homer and the Aeneid of Virgil.

HEXAM'ETER, adjective Having six metrical feet.

Hexametric

HEXAMET'RIC

HEXAMET'RICAL, adjective Consisting of six metrical feet.

Hexametrical

HEXAMET'RICAL, a. Consisting of six metrical feet.

Hexander

HEXAN'DER, noun [Gr. six and male.] In botany, a plant having six stamens.

Hexandrian

HEXAN'DRIAN, adjective Having six stamens.

Hexangular

HEXAN'GULAR, adjective [Gr. six, and angular.]

Having six angles or corners.

Hexaped

HEX'APED, adjective [Gr. six; Latin pes, pedis, the foot.]

Having six feet.

HEX'APED, noun An animal having six feet. [Ray, and Johnson after him write this hexapod; but it is better to pursue uniformity, as in quadruped, centiped.]

1. A fathom. [Not in use.]

Hexapetalous

HEXAPET'ALOUS, adjective [Gr. six, and a leaf, a petal.] Having six petals or flower-leaves.

Hexaphyllous

HEXAPH'YLLOUS, adjective [Gr. six, and a leaf.]

Having six leaves.

Hexaplar

HEX'APLAR, adjective [Gr. six, and to unfold.] Sextuple; containing six columns; from Hexapla, the work of Origen, or an edition of the Bible, containing the original Hebrew, and several Greek versions.

Hexastich

HEXAS'TICH, noun [Gr. six, and a verse.]

A poem consisting of six verses.

Hexastyle

HEX'ASTYLE, noun [Gr. six, and a column.]

A building with six columns in front.

Hey

HEY. An exclamation of joy or mutual exhortation, the contrary to the Latin hei.

Heyday

HEYDAY, exclamation An expression of frolick and exultation, and sometimes of wonder.

HEYDAY, noun A frolick; wildness.

Hiation

HIA'TION, noun [Latin hio, to gape.] The act of gaping. [Not used.]

Hiatus

HIA'TUS, noun [Latin from hio, to open or gape.]

1. An opening; an aperture; a gap; a chasm.

2. The opening of the mouth in reading or speaking, when a word ends with a vowel, and the following word begins with a vowel.

3. A defect; a chasm in a manuscript, where some part is lost or effaced.

Hibernacle

HI'BERNACLE, noun [Latin hibernacula, winter-quarters.]

1. In botany, the winter-quarters of a plant, that is, a bulb or a bud, in which the embryo of a future plant is inclosed by a scaly covering and protected from injuries during winter.

2. The winter-lodge of a wild animal.

Hibernal

HIBERN'AL, adjective [Latin hibernus.] Belonging or relating to winter.

Hibernate

HI'BERNATE, verb intransitive [Latin hiberno.] To winter; to pass the season of winter in close quarters or in seclusion, as birds or beasts.

Hibernation

HIBERNA'TION, noun The passing of winter in a close lodge, as beasts and fowls that retire in cold weather.

Hibernian

HIBER'NIAN, adjective Pertaining to Hibernia, now Ireland.

HIBER'NIAN, noun A native of Ireland.

Hibernicism

HIBERN'ICISM, noun An idiom or mode of speech peculiar to the Irish.

Hiberno-Celtic

HIBERNO-CELTIC, noun The native language of the Irish; the Gaelic.

Hiccius Doccius. A cant word for a juggler.

Hiccough

HIC'COUGH

HICK'ORY, noun A tree, a species of Juglans or walnut. Its nut is called hickory-nut.

Hickory

HICK'ORY, n. A tree, a species of Juglans or walnut. Its nut is called hickory-nut.

Hickup

HICK'UP, noun [The English is a compound of hic and cough; and hic may be allied to hitch, to catch. The word is generally pronounced hick-up.]

A spasmodic affection of the stomach, esophagus, and muscles subservient to deglutition.

Convulsive catch of the respiratory muscles, with sonorous inspiration; repeated at short intervals.

HIC'COUGH

HICK'UP, verb intransitive To have a spasmodic affection of the stomach from repletion or other cause.

Hickwall

HICK'WALL

HICK'WAY, noun A small species of woodpecker.

Hickway

HICK'WAY, n. A small species of woodpecker.

Hid

HID

HI'DAGE, noun [from hide, a quantity of land.] An extraordinary tax formerly paid to the kings of England for every hide of land.

Hidage

HI'DAGE, n. [from hide, a quantity of land.] An extraordinary tax formerly paid to the kings of England for every hide of land.

Hidalgo

HIDAL'GO, noun In Spain, a man of noble birth.

Hidden

HID'DEN, participle passive of hide. Concealed; placed in secrecy.

1. Secret; unseen.

2. Mysterious.

Hiddenly

HID'DENLY, adverb In a hidden or secret manner.

Hide

HIDE, verb transitive preterit tense hid; participle passive hid, hidden.

1. To conceal; to withhold or withdraw from sight; to place in any state or position in which the view is intercepted from the object. The intervention of the moon between the earth and the sun hides the latter from our sight. The people in Turkey hide their grain in the earth. No human being can hide his crimes or his neglect of duty from his Maker.

2. To conceal from knowledge; to keep secret.

Depart to the mountains; hide yourselves there three days. Joshua 2:16.

Tell me now what thou hast done--hide it not from me. Joshua 7:19.

3. In Scripture, not to confess or disclose; or to excuse and extenuate.

I acknowledged my sin to thee, and my iniquity have I not hid. Psalms 32:1.

4. To protect; to keep in safety.

In the time of trouble, he shall hide me in his pavilion. Psalms 27:5.

To hide the face from, to overlook; to pardon.

HIDE thy face from my sins. Psa 51.

To hide the face, to withdraw spiritual presence, support and consolation.

Thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled. Psa 30.

To hide one's self, to put one's self in a condition to be safe; to secure protection.

The prudent man foreseeth the evil and hideth himself. Proverbs 22:1.

HIDE, verb intransitive To lie concealed; to keep one's self out of view; to be withdrawn from sight.

Bred to disguise, in public 'tis you hide

HIDE and seek, a play of boys, in which some hide themselves and another seeks them.

HIDE, noun In the ancient laws of England, a certain portion of land, the quantity of which however is not well ascertained. Some authors consider it as the quantity that could be tilled with one plow; others, as much as would maintain a family. Some suppose it to be 60, some 80, and others 100 acres.

HIDE, noun [Latin cutis; Gr. either a peel, from stripping, separating, or a cover.]

1. The skin of an animal, either raw or dressed; more generally applied to the undressed skins of the larger domestic animals, as oxen, horses, etc.

2. The human skin; in contempt.

Hidebound

HI'DEBOUND, adjective A horse is hidebound when his skin sticks so closely to his ribs and back, as not to be easily loosened or raised.

Trees are said to be hidebound when the bark is so close or firm that it impedes the growth.

1. Harsh; untractable. [Not used.]

2. Niggardly; penurious. [Not used.]

Hideous

HID'EOUS, adjective

1. Frightful to the sight; dreadful; shocking to the eye; applied to deformity; as a hideous monster; a hideous spectacle; hideous looks.

2. Shocking to the ear; exciting terror; as a hideous noise.

3. Detestable.

Hideously

HID'EOUSLY, adverb In a manner to frighten; dreadfully; shockingly.

Hideousness

HID'EOUSNESS, noun Frightfulness to the eye; dreadfulness; horribleness.

Hider

HI'DER, noun [from hide.] One who hides or conceals.

Hiding

HI'DING, participle present tense Concealing; covering or withdrawing from view; keeping close or secret.

HI'DING, noun Concealment. Habakkuk 3:4.

1. Withdrawment; a withholding; as the hidings of God's face.

Hiding-Place

HI'DING-PLACE, noun A place of concealment.

Hie

HIE, verb intransitive

1. To hasten; to move or run with haste; to go in haste; a word chiefly used in poetry.

The youth, returning to his mistress, hies.

2. With the reciprocal pronoun; as, hie thee home.

HIE, noun Haste; diligence.

Hierarch

HI'ERARCH, noun [Gr. sacred, and a ruler or prince.]

The chief of a sacred order; particularly, the chief of an order of angels.