HEAD, noun hed.

1. The uppermost part of the human body, or the foremost part of the body of prone and creeping animals. This part of the human body contains the organs of hearing, seeing, tasting and smelling; it contains also the brain, which is supposed to be the seat of the intellectual powers, and of sensation. Hence the head is the chief or more important part, and is used for the whole person, in the phrase, let the evil fall on my head

2. An animal; an individual; as, the tax was raised by a certain rate per head And we use the singular number to express many. The herd contains twenty head of oxen.

Thirty thousand head of swine.

3. A chief; a principal person; a leader; a commander; one who has the first rank or place, and to whom others are subordinate; as the head of an army; the head of a sect or party. Ephesians 5:23.

4. The first place; the place of honor, or of command. The lord mayor sat at the head of the table. The general marched at the head of his troops.

5. Countenance; presence; in the phrases, to hide the head to show the head

6. Understanding; faculties of the mind; sometimes in a ludicrous sense; as, a man has a good head or a strong head These men laid their heads together to form the scheme. Never trouble your head about this affair. So we say, to beat the head; to break the head; that is, to study hard, to exercise the understanding or mental faculties.

7. Face; front; forepart.

The ravishers turn head the fight renews. [Unusual.]

8. Resistance; successful opposition; in the phrase, to make head against, that is, to advance, or resist with success.

9. Spontaneous will or resolution; in the phrases, of his own head on their own head But of is more usual than on.

10. State of a deer's horns by which his age is known. The buck is called, the fifth year, a buck of the first head

11. The top of a thing, especially when larger than the rest of the thing; as the head of a spear; the head of a cabbage; the head of a nail; the head of a mast.

12. The forepart of a thing, as the head of a ship, which includes the bows on both sides; also, the ornamental figure or image erected on or before the stem of a ship.

13. The blade or cutting part of an ax, distinct from the helve.

14. That which rises on the top; as the head or yeast of beer.

15. The upper part of a bed, or bed-stead.

16. The brain.

They turn their heads to imitate the sun.

17. The dress of the head; as a laced head [Unusual.]

18. The principal source of a stream; as the head of the Nile.

19. Altitude of water in ponds, as applicable to the driving of mill-wheels. The mill has a good head of water.

20. Topic of discourse; chief point or subject; a summary; as the heads of a discourse or treatise.

21. Crisis; pitch; highth. The disease has grown to such a head as to threaten life.

22. Influence; force; strength; pitch. The sedition got to such a head as not to be easily quelled.

23. Body; conflux.

24. Power; armed force.

My lord, my lord, the French have gathered head

25. Liberty; freedom from restrain; as, to give a horse the head Hence,

26. License; freedom from check, control or restraint.

Children should not have their heads.

He has too long given his unruly passions the head

27. The hair of the head; as a head of hair.

28. The top of corn or other plant; the part on which the seed grows.

29. The end, or the boards that form the end; as the head of a cask.

30. The part most remote from the mouth or opening into the sea; as the head of a bay, gulf or creek.

31. The maturated part of an ulcer or boil; hence, to come to a head is to suppurate.

HEAD and ears, a phrase denoting the whole person, especially when referring to immersion. He plunged head and ears into the water. He was head and ears in debt, that is, completely overwhelmed.

HEAD and shoulders, by force; violently; as, to drag one head and shoulders.

They bring in every figure of speech, head and shoulders.

HEAD or tail, or head nor tail, uncertain; not reducible to certainty.

HEAD, as an adj. or in composition, chief; principal; as a head workman.

By the head in seamen's language, denotes the state of a ship laden too deeply at the fore-end.

HEAD, verb transitive hed. To lead; to direct; to act as leader to; as, to head an army; to head an expedition; to head a riot.

1. To behead; to decapitate. [Unusual.]

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

3. To lop; as, to head trees.

4. To go in front of; to get into the front; as, to head a drove of cattle.

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

6. To oppose; to veer round and blow in opposition to the course of a ship; as, the wind heads us.

HEAD, verb intransitive hed. To originate; to spring; to have its source, as a river.

A broad river that heads in the great Blue Ridge of mountains.

HEADACH, noun hed'ake. Pain in the head.

HEADBAND, noun hed'band. A fillet; a band for the head; also, the band at each end of a book. Isaiah 3:20.

HEADBOROUGH, noun hed'burro. In England, formerly, the chief of a frank-pledge, tithing or decennary, consisting of ten families; called in some counties, borsholder, that is, borough; s elder, and sometimes tithing man.

HEAD'DRESS, noun hed'dress. The dress of the head; the covering or ornaments of a woman's head.

1. The crest, or tuft of feathers on a fowl's head.

HEADED, participle passive hed'ed. Led; directed; furnished with a head; having a top. This is used in composition, as clear-headed, long-headed, thick-headed, etc.

HEADER, noun hed'er. One who heads nails or pins.

1. One who leads a mob or party.

2. The first brick in the angle of a wall.

HEADFAST, noun hed'fast. A rope at the head of a ship to fasten it to a wharf or other object.

HEADFIRST, adverb hedfurst. With the head foremost.

HEADGARGLE, noun hed'gargle. A disease of cattle.

HEADGEAR, noun hed'gear. The dress of a woman's head.

HEADINESS, noun hed'iness. [See Heady.] Rashness; precipitation; a disposition to rush forward without due deliberation or prudence.

1. Stubbornness; obstinacy.

HEADING, noun hed'ing. Timber for the heads of casks.

HEADLAND, noun hed'land. A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting from the shore into the sea, or other expanse of water.

1. A ridge or strip of unplowed land at the ends of furrows, or near a fence.

HEADLESS, adjective hed'less. Having no head; beheaded; as a headless body, neck or carcass.

1. Destitute of a chief or leader.

2. Destitute of understanding or prudence; rash; obstinate.

HEADLONG, adverb hed'long. With the head foremost; as, to fall headlong

1. Rashly; precipitately; without deliberation.

--He hurries headlong to his fate.

2. Hastily; without delay or respite.

HEADLONG, adjective hed'long. Steep; precipitous.

1. Rash; precipitate; as headlong folly.

HEADMAN, noun hed'man. A chief; a leader.

HEAD'MONEY, noun hed'munny. A capitation-tax.

HEADMOST, adjective hed'most. Most advanced; most forward; first in a line or order of progression; as the headmost ship in a fleet.

HEADQUART'ERS, noun plural The quarters or place of residence of the commander-in-chief of an army.

1. The residence of any chief, or place from which orders are issued.

HEADSHAKE, noun hed'shake. A significant shake of the head.

HEADSHIP, noun hed'ship. Authority; chief place.

HEADSMAN, noun hed'sman. One that cuts off heads; an executioner. [Unusual.]

HEADSPRING, noun hed'spring. Fountain; source; origin.

HEADSTALL, noun hed'stall. That part of a bridle which encompasses the head.

HEADSTONE, noun hed'stone. The principal stone in a foundation; the chief or corner stone.

1. The stone at the head of a grave.

HEADSTRONG, adjective hed'strong. Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; resolute to run his own way; bent on pursuing his own will; not easily restrained.

Now let the headstrong boy my will control.

1. Directed by ungovernable will or proceeding from obstinacy; as a headstrong course.

HEAD'STRONGNESS, noun Obstinacy. [Not in use.]

HEADTIRE, noun hed'tire. Dress or attire for the head. 1 Esdra 3.

HEADWAY, noun hed'way. The motion of an advancing ship. A ship makes headway when she advances, as from a state of rest.

HEADY, adjective hed'y. [See Head.] Rash; hasty; precipitate; violent; disposed to rush forward in an enterprise without thought or deliberation; hurried on by will or passion; ungovernable.

All the talent required, is to be heady to be violent on one side or the other.

1. Apt to affect the head; inflaming; intoxicating; strong; as spirituous liquors.

Champagne is a heady wine.

2. Violent; ; impetuous; as a heady current. [Not usual.]

HEAL, verb transitive [Latin celo; Heb. to be whole or entire, all.]

1. To cure of a disease or wound and restore to soundness, or to that state of body in which the natural functions are regularly performed; as, to heal the sick.

Speak, and my servant shall be healed. Matthew 8:7.

2. To cure; to remove or subdue; as, to heal a disease.

3. To cause to cicatrize; as, to heal a sore or wound.

4. To restore to soundness; as, to heal a wounded limb.

5. To restore purity to; to remove feculence or foreign matter.

Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters. 2 Kings 2:21.

6. To remove, as differences or dissension; to reconcile, as parties at variance; as, to heal a breach or difference.

7. In Scripture, to forgive; to cure moral disease and restore soundness.

I will heal their backsliding. Hosea 14.

8. To purify from corruptions, redress grievances and restore to prosperity. Jeremiah 14:1.

9. To cover, as a roof with tiles, slate, lead, etc.

HEAL, verb intransitive To grow sound; to return to a sound state; as, the limb heals, or the wound heals; sometimes with up or over; it will heal up or over.

HE'ALABLE, adjective That may be healed.

HE'ALED, participle passive Restored to a sound state.

HE'ALER, noun He or that which cures, or restores to soundness.

HE'ALING, participle present tense Curing; restoring to a sound state.

1. Tending to cure; mild; mollifying.

HE'ALING, noun The act of curing.

1. The act of covering.

HEALTH, noun helth. [from heal.] That state of an animal or living body, in which the parts are sound, well organized and disposed, and in which they all perform freely their natural functions. In this state the animal feels no pain. This word is applied also to plants.

1. Sound state of the mind; natural vigor of faculties.

2. Sound state of the mind, in a moral sense; purity; goodness.

There is no health in us.

3. Salvation or divine favor, or grace which cheers God's people. Psalms 43:5,

4. Wish of health and happiness; used in drinking. Come, love and health to all; an elliptical phrase, for, I wish health to you.

HEALTH'FULLY, adverb In health; wholesomely.

HEALTH'FULNESS, noun A state of being well; a state in which the parts of a living body are sound, and regularly perform their functions.

1. Wholesomeness; salubrity; state or qualities that promote health; as the healthfulness of the air, or of climate, or of diet, or of exercises.

HEALTH'ILY, adjective [See Health.] Without disease.

HEALTH'INESS, noun The state of health; soundness; freedom from disease; as the healthiness of an animal or plant.

HEALTH'LESS, adjective Infirm; sickly.

1. Not conducive to health. [Little used.]

HEALTH'SOME, adjective Wholesome. [Not used.]

HEALTH'Y, adjective Being in a sound state; enjoying health; hale; sound; as a healthy body or constitution.

1. Conducive to health; wholesome; salubrious; as a healthy exercise; a healthy climate; healthy recreations.

HEAM, noun In beasts, the same as afterbirth in women.

HEAP, noun

1. A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body so as to form an elevation; as a heap of earth or stones.

Huge heaps of slain around the body rise.

2. A crowd; a throng; a cluster; applied to living persons.

[Inelegant and not in use.]

3. A mass of ruins.

Thou hast made of a city a heap Isaiah 25:2.

HEAP, verb transitive

1. To throw or lay in a heap; to pile; as, to heap stones; often with up; as, to heap up earth; or with on; as, to heap on wood or coal.

2. To amass; to accumulate; to lay up; to collect in great quantity; with up; as, to heap up treasures.

Though the wicked heap up silver as the dust--Job 27:16.

3. To add something else, in large quantities.

4. To pile; to add till the mass takes a roundish form, or till it rises above the measure; as, to heap any thing in measuring.

HE'APED, participle passive Piled; amassed; accumulated.

HE'APER, noun One who heaps, piles or amasses.

HE'APING, participle present tense Piling; collecting into a mass.

HE'APY, adjective Lying in heaps; as heapy rubbish.

HEAR, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive heard, but more correctly heared.

[Latin audio; auris.]

1. To perceive by the ear; to feel an impression of sound by the proper organs; as, to hear sound; to hear a voice; to hear words.

2. To give audience or allowance to speak.

He sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ. Acts 24:4.

3. To attend; to listen; to obey.

Today, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your heart. Psalms 95:7.

4. To attend favorably; to regard.

They think they shall be heard for their much speaking. Matthew 6:7.

5. To grant an answer to prayer.

I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice. Psalms 116:1.

6. To attend to the facts, evidence, and arguments in a cause between parties; to try in a court of law or equity. The cause was heard and determined at the last term; or, it was heard at the last term, and will be determined at the next. Song of Solomon 2:14Sam.15.

7. To acknowledge a title; a Latin phrase.

HEAR'st thou submissive, but a lowly birth.

8. To be a hearer of; to sit under the preaching of; as, what minister do you hear? [A colloquial use of the word.]

9. To learn.

I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him. John 8:43.

10. To approve and embrace.

They speak of the world, and the world heareth them. l John 4:1.

To hear a bird sing, to receive private communication.

HEAR, verb intransitive To enjoy the sense or faculty of perceiving sound. He is deaf, he cannot hear

1. To listen; to hearken; to attend.

He hears with solicitude.

2. To be told; to receive by report.

I hear there are divisions among you, and I partly believe it. 1 Corinthians 11:18.

HEARD

HEARED, participle passive Perceived by the ear. [In pronunciation, this word should not be confounded with herd.]

HEARED, pp. Perceived by the ear. [In pronunciation, this word should not be confounded with herd.]

HE'ARER, noun One who hears; one who attends to what is orally delivered by another; an auditor; one of an audience.

HE'ARING, participle present tense Perceiving by the ear, as sound.

1. Listening to; attending to; obeying; observing what is commanded.

2. Attending to witnesses or advocates in a judicial trial; trying.

HE'ARING, noun The faculty or sense by which sound is perceived.

1. Audience; attention to what is delivered; opportunity to be heard. I waited on the minister, but could not obtain a hearing

2. Judicial trial; attention to the facts, testimony and arguments in a cause between parties, with a view to a just decision.

3. The act of perceiving sounds; sensation or perception of sound.

I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear. Job 42:5.

And to the others he said in my hearing Ezekiel 9:5.

4. Reach of the ear; extent within which sound may be heard. He was not within hearing

HE'ARKEN, verb intransitive h'arken.

1. To listen; to lend the ear; to attend to what is uttered, with eagerness or curiosity.

The furies hearken and their snakes uncurl.

2. To attend; to regard; to give heed to what is uttered; to observe or obey.

Hearken, O Israel, to the statutes and the judgments which I teach you. Deuteronomy 4:1.

3. To listen; ; to attend; to grant or comply with.

Hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant. I Kings 8:30.

HE'ARKEN, verb transitive h'arken. To hear by listening. [Little used.]

HE'ARKENER, noun h'arkener. A listener; one who hearkens.

HE'ARKENING, participle present tense h'arkening. Listening; attending; observing.

HEARSAL, for Rehearsal. [Not in use.]

HE'ARSAY, noun [hear and say.] Report; rumor; fame; common talk. He affirms without any authority except hearsay The account we have depends on hearsay It is sometimes used as an adjective; as hearsay evidence.

HEARSE, noun hers. [See Herse.] A temporary monument set over a grave.

1. The case or place in which a corpse is deposited.

2. A carriage for conveying the dead to the grave. [See Herse.]

3. A hind in the second year of her age.

HEARSE, verb transitive hers. To inclose in a hearse

HEARSECLOTH, noun hers'cloth. A pall; a cloth to cover a hearse.

HEARSELIKE, adjective hers'like. Suitable to a funeral.

HEART, noun [Latin cor, cordis, and allied to Eng.core, or named from motion, pulsation.]

1. A muscular viscus, which is the primary organ of the blood's motion in an animal body, situated in the thorax. From this organ all the arteries arise, and in it all the veins terminate. By its alternate dilatation and contraction, the blood is received from the veins, and returned through the arteries, by which means the circulation is carried on and life preserved.

2. The inner part of any thing; the middle part or interior; as the heart of a country, kingdom or empire; the heart of a town; the heart of a tree.

3. The chief part; the vital part; the vigorous or efficacious part.

4. The seat of the affections and passions, as of love, joy, grief, enmity, courage, pleasure etc.

The heart is deceitful above all things. Every imagination of the thoughts of the heart is evil continually. We read of an honest and good heart and an evil heart of unbelief, a willing heart a heavy heart sorrow of heart a hard heart a proud heart a pure heart The heart faints in adversity, or under discouragement, that is, courage fails; the heart is deceived, enlarged, reproved, lifted up, fixed, established, moved, etc.

5. By a metonymy, heart is used for an affection or passion, and particularly for love.

The king's heart was towards Absalom. 2 Samuel 14:1.

6. The seat of the understanding; as an understanding heart

We read of men wise in heart and slow of heart

7. The seat of the will; hence, secret purposes, intentions or designs. There are many devices in a man's heart The heart of kings is unsearchable. The Lord tries and searches the heart David had it in his heart to build a house of rest for the ark.

Sometimes heart is used for the will, or determined purpose.

The heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. Ecclesiastes 8:5.

8. Person; character; used with respect to courage or kindess.

Cheerly, my hearts.

9. Courage; spirit; as, to take heart; to give heart; to recover heart

10. Secret thoughts; recesses of the mind.

Michal saw king David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart 2 Samuel 6:16.

11. Disposition of mind.

He had a heart to do well.

12. Secret meaning; real intention.

And then show you the heart of my message.

13. Conscience, or sense of good or ill.

Every man's heart and conscience--doth either like or disallow it.

14. Strength; power of producing; vigor; fertility. Keep the land in heart

That the spent earth may gather heart again.

15. The utmost degree.

This gay charm--hath beguiled me

To the very heart of loss.

To get or learn by heart to commit to memory; to learn so perfectly as to be able to repeat without a copy.

To take to heart to be much affected; also, to be zealous, ardent or solicitous about a thing; to have concern.

To lay to heart is used nearly in the sense of the foregoing.

To set the heart on, to fix the desires on; to be very desirous of obtaining or keeping; to be very fond of.

To set the heart at rest, to make one's self quiet; to be tranquil or easy in mind.

To find in the heart to be willing or disposed.

I find it in my heart to ask your pardon.

For my heart for tenderness or affection.

I could not for my heart refuse his request.

Or, this phrase may signify, for my life; if my life was at stake.

I could not get him for my heart to do it.

To speak to one's heart in Scripture, to speak kindly to; to comfort; to encourage.

To have in the heart to purpose; to have design or intention.

A hard heart cruelty; want of sensibility.

HE'ART, verb intransitive To encourage. [Not much used.]

HE'ARTED, adjective Taken to heart. [Not used.]

1. Composed of hearts. [Not used.]

2. Laid up in the heart.

This word is chiefly used in composition, as hard-hearted, faint-hearted, stout-hearted, etc.

HE'ARTEN, verb transitive h'artn. To encourage; to animate; to incite or stimulate courage.

1. To restore fertility or strength to; as, to hearten land. [Little used.]

HE'ARTENER, noun He or that which gives courage or animation.

HE'ARTH, noun harth. A pavement or floor of brick or stone in a chimney, on which a fire is made to warm a room, and from which there is a passage for the smoke to ascend.

HE'ARTILY, adverb [from hearty.] From the heart; with all the heart; with sincerity; really.

I heartily forgive them.

1. With zeal; actively; vigorously. He heartily assisted the prince.

2. Eagerly; freely; largely; as, to eat heartily

HE'ARTINESS, noun Sincerity; zeal; ardor; earnestness.

1. Eagerness of appetite.

HE'ARTLESS, adjective Without courage; spiritless; faint-hearted.

Heartless they fought, and quitted soon their ground.

HE'ARTLESSLY, adverb Without courage or spirit; faintly; timidly; feebly.

HE'ARTLESSNESS, noun Want of courage or spirit; dejection of mind; feebleness.

HE'ARTY, adjective Having the heart engaged in any thing; sincere; warm; zealous; as, to be hearty in support of government.

1. Proceeding from the heart; sincere; warm; as a hearty welcome.

2. Being full of health; sound; strong; healthy; as a hearty man.

3. Strong; durable; as hearty timber. [Not used in America.]

4. Having a keen appetite; eating much; as a hearty eater.

5. Strong; nourishing; as hearty food.

HEAT, noun [Latin aestus, for haestus, or caestus.]

1. heat as a cause of sensation, that is, the matter of heat is considered to be a subtil fluid, contained in a greater or less degree in all bodies. In modern chimistry, it is called caloric. It expands all bodies in different proportions, and is the cause of fluidity and evaporation. A certain degree of it is also essential to animal and vegetable life. heat is latent, when so combined with other matter as not to be perceptible. It is sensible, when it is evolved and perceptible.

2. heat as a sensation, is the effect produced on the sentient organs of animals, by the passage of caloric, disengaged from surrounding bodies, to the organs. When we touch or approach a hot body, the caloric or heat passes from that body to our organs of feeling, and gives the sensation of heat On the contrary, when we touch a cold body, the caloric passes from the hand to that body, and causes a sensation of cold.

Note. This theory of heat seems not to be fully settled.

3. Hot air; hot weather; as the heat of the tropical climates.

4. Any accumulation or concentration of the matter of heat or caloric; as the heat of the body; the heat of a furnace; a red heat; a white heat; a welding heat

5. The state of being once heated or hot.

Give the iron another heat

6. A violent action unintermitted; a single effort.

Many causes are required for refreshment between the heats.

7. A single effort in running; a course at a race. Hector won at the first heat

8. Redness of the face; flush.

9. Animal excitement; violent action or agitation of the system. The body is all in a heat

10. Utmost violence; rage; vehemence; as the heat of battle.

11. Violence; ardor; as the heat of party.

12. Agitation of mind; inflammation or excitement; exasperation; as the heat of passion.

13. Ardor; fervency; animation in thought or discourse.

With all the strength and heat of eloquence.

14. Fermentation.

HEAT, verb transitive [Latin odi, osus, for hodi, hosus; L aestus, for haestus, heat tide; Gr. to burn, and the English haste and hoist are probably of the same family.]

1. To make hot; to communicate heat to, or cause to be hot; as, to heat an oven or a furnace; to heat iron.

2. To make feverish; as, to heat the blood.

3. To warm with passion or desire; to excite; to rouse into action.

A noble emulation heats your breast.

4. To agitate the blood and spirits with action; to excite animal action.

HEAT, verb intransitive To grow warm or hot by fermentation, or extrication of latent heat

Green hay heats in a mow, and green corn in a bin.

1. To grow warm or hot. The iron or the water heats slowly.

HEAT, for heated, is in popular use and pronounced het; but it is not elegant.

HE'ATED, participle passive Made hot; inflamed; exasperated.

HE'ATER, noun He or that which eats.

1. A triangular mass of iron, which is heated and put into a box-iron to heat it and keep it hot, for ironing or smoothing clothes. [This utensil is going into disuse.]

HEATH, noun

1. A plant of the genus Erica, of many species. It is a shrub which is used in Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens. Its leaves are small and continue green all the year. It is called also ling.

2. A place overgrown with heath

3. A place overgrown with shrubs of any kind.

HE'ATHCOCK, noun A large fowl which frequents heaths, a species of grouse.

HE'ATHEN, noun [Gr. from heath, that is, one who lives in the country or woods, as pagan from pagus, a village.]

1. A pagan; a Gentile; one who worships idols, or is unacquainted with the true God. In the Scriptures, the word seems to comprehend all nations except the Jews or Israelites, as they were all strangers to the true religion, and all addicted to idolatry. The word may now be applied perhaps to all nations, except to Christians and Mohammedans.

Heathen, without the plural termination, is used plurally or collectively, for Gentiles or heathen nations.

Ask of me, and I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance. Psalms 2:8.

Heathen, however, has a plural, expressing two or more individuals.

If men have reason to be heathens in Japan--

The precepts and examples of the ancient heathens.

2. A rude, illiterate, barbarous person.

HE'ATHEN, adjective Gentile, pagan; as a heathen author.

HE'ATHENISH, adjective Belonging to Gentiles or pagans; as heathenish rites.

1. Rude; illiterate; wild; uncivilized.

2. Barbarous; savage; cruel; rapacious.

HE'ATHENISHLY, adverb After the manner of heathens.

HE'ATHENISM, noun Gentilism; paganism; ignorance of the true God; idolatry; the rites or system of religion of a pagan nation.

1. Rudeness; barbarism; ignorance.

HE'ATHENIZE, verb transitive To render heathen or heathenish.

HE'ATHER, noun Heath.

HEATH'FUL, adjective helth'ful. Being in a sound state, as a living or organized being; having the parts or organs entire, and their functions in a free, active and undisturbed operation; free from disease. We speak of a healthful body, a healthful person, a healthful plant.

1. Serving to promote health; wholesome; salubrious; as a healthful air or climate; a healthful diet.

2. Indicating health or soundness; as a healthful condition.

3. Salutary; promoting spiritual health.

4. Well disposed; favorable.

A healthful ear to hear. [Unusual.]

HE'ATHPEA, , noun A species of bitter vetch, Orobus.

HE'ATHPOUT, noun A bird, the same as the heath-cock.

HE'ATHROSE, noun A plant.

HE'ATHY, adjective [from heath.] Full of heath; abounding with heath; as heathy land.

HE'ATING, participle present tense Making warm or hot; inflaming; rousing the passions; exasperating.

1. Tending to impart heat to; promoting warmth or heat; exciting action; stimulating; as heating medicines or applications.

HEAT'LESS, adjective Destitute of heat; cold.

HEAVE, verb transitive heev. preterit tense heaved, or hove; participle passive heaved, hove, formerly hoven. [Gr. to breathe.]

1. To lift; to raise; to move upward.

So stretch'd out huge in length the arch fiend lay,

Chain'd on the burning lake, nor ever hence

Had ris'n, or heaved his head.

2. To cause to swell.

The glittering finny swarms

That heave our friths and crowd upon our shores.

3. To raise or force from the breast; as, to heave a sigh or groan, which is accompanied with a swelling or expansion of the thorax.

4. To raise; to elevate; with high.

One heaved on high.

5. To puff; to elate.

6. To throw; to cast; to send; as, to heave a stone. This is a common use of the word in popular language, and among seamen; as, to heave the lead.

7. To raise by turning a windlass; with up; as, to heave up the anchor. Hence,

8. To turn a windlass or capstern with bars or levers. Hence the order, to heave away.

To heave ahead, to draw ship forwards.

To heave astern, to cause to recede; to draw back.

To heave down, to throw or lay down on one side; to careen.

To heave out, to throw out. With seamen, to loose or unfurl a sail, particularly the stay-sails.

To heave in stays, in tacking, to bring a ship's head to the wind.

To heave short, to draw so much of a cable into the ship, as that she is almost perpendicularly above the anchor.

To heave a strain, to work at the windlass with unusual exertion.

To heave taught, to turn a capstern, etc. till the rope becomes straight. [See Taught and Tight.]

To heave to, to bring the ship's head to the wind, and stop her motion.

To heave up, to relinquish; [so to throw up; ] as, to heave up a design. [Vulgar.]

HEAVE, verb intransitive heev. To swell, distend or dilate; as, a horse heaves in panting. Hence,

1. To pant; to breathe with labor or pain; as, he heaves for breath.

2. To keck; to make an effort to vomit.

3. To rise in billows, as the sea; to swell.

4. To rise; to be lifted; as, a ship heaves.

5. To rise or swell, as the earth at the breaking up of frost.

To heave in sight, to appear; to make its first appearance; as a ship at sea, or as a distant object approaching or being approached.

We observe that this verb has often the sense of raising or rising in an arch or circular form, as in throwing and in distention, and from this sense is derived its application to the apparent arch over our heads, heaven.

HEAVE, noun heev. A rising or swell; an exertion or effort upward.

None could guess whether the next heave of the earthquake would settle or swallow them.

1. A rising swell, or distention, as of the breast.

These profound heaves.

2. An effort to vomit.

3. An effort to rise.

HEAVEN, noun hev'n.

1. The region or expanse which surrounds the earth, and which appears above and around us, like an immense arch or vault, in which are seen the sun, moon and stars.

2. Among christians, the part of space in which the omnipresent Jehovah is supposed to afford more sensible manifestations of his glory. Hence this is called the habitation of God, and is represented as the residence of angels and blessed spirits. Deuteronomy 26:15.

The sanctified heart loves heaven for its purity, and God for his goodness.

3. Among pagans, the residence of the celestial gods.

4. The sky or air; the region of the atmosphere; or an elevated place; in a very indefinite sense. Thus we speak of a mountain reaching to heaven; the fowls of heaven; the clouds of heaven; hail or rain from heaven Jeremiah 9:10. Job 35:11.

Their cities are walled to heaven Deuteronomy 1:10.

5. The Hebrews acknowledged three heavens; the air or aerial heavens; the firmament in which the stars are supposed to be placed; and the heaven of heavens, or third heaven the residence of Jehovah.

6. Modern philosophers divide the expanse above and around the earth into two parts, the atmosphere or aerial heaven and the etherial heaven beyond the region of the air, in which there is supposed to be a thin, unresisting medium called ether.

7. The Supreme Power; the Sovereign of heaven; god; as prophets sent by heaven

I have sinned against heaven Luke 15:7.

Shun the impious profaneness which scoffs at the

institution of heaven

8. The pagan deities; celestials.

And show the heavens more just.

9. Elevation; sublimity.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend

The brightest heaven of invention.

10. Supreme felicity; great happiness.

HEAVENIZE, verb transitive hev'nize. To render like heaven. [Unauthorized.]

HEAV'ENLINESS, noun [from heavenly.] Supreme excellence.

HEAV'ENLY, adjective Pertaining to heaven; celestial; as heavenly regions; heavenly bliss.

1. Resembling heaven; supremely excellent; as a heavenly lyre; a heavenly temper.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly

2. Inhabiting heaven; as a heavenly race; the heavenly throng.

HEAV'ENWARD, adverb Toward heaven.

HE'AVER, noun One who heaves or lifts.

Among seamen, a staff for a lever.

HEAVES, noun heevz. A disease of horses, characterized by difficult and laborious respiration.

HEAV'ILY, adverb hev'ily. [from heavy.] With great weight; as, to bear heavily on a thing; to be heavily loaded.

1. With great weight of grief; grievously; afflictively. When calamities fall heavily on the christian, he finds consolation in Christ.

2. Sorrowfully; with grief.

I came hither to transport the tidings,

Which I have heavily borne.

3. With an air of sorrow or dejection.

Why looks your Grace so heavily to day?

4. With weight; oppressively. Taxes sometimes bear heavily on the people.

5. Slowly and laboriously; with difficulty; as, to move heavily

So they drove them heavily Exodus 14:25.

HEAV'INESS, noun hev'iness. Weight; ponderousness; gravity; the quality of being heavy; as the heaviness of a body.

1. Sadness; sorrow; dejection of mind; depression of spirits.

Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop. Proverbs 12:25.

Ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations. 1 Peter 1:6.

2. Sluggishness; torpidness; dullness of spirit; languidness; languor; lassitude.

What means this heaviness that hangs upon me?

3. Weight; burden; oppression; as, the heaviness of taxes.

4. That which it requires great strength to move or overcome; that which creates labor and difficulty; as the heaviness of a draught.

5. Thickness; moistness; deepness; as the heaviness of ground or soil.

6. Thickness; moistness; as of air.

HE'AVING, participle present tense Lifting; swelling; throwing; panting; making an effort to vomit.

HE'AVING, noun A rising or swell; a panting.

HEAV'NELY, adverb In a manner resembling that of heaven.

Where heavenly pensive contemplation dwells.

1. By the influence or agency of heaven.

Our heavenly guided soul shall climb.

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. Proverbs 25:20.

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. 1 Kings 12:4.

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 Matthew 26:37. Luke 9:32.

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 Exodus 17:12.

16. Inflicting severe evils, punishments or judgments.

The hand of the Lord was heavy on them of Ashdod.

l Sam.5.

17. Burdensome; occasioning great care.

This thing is too heavy for thee. Exodus 18:18.

18. Dull; not hearing; inattentive.

Neither his ears heavy that he cannot hear. Isaiah 59:1.

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.]

HEB'DOMAD, noun [Gr. seven days; Latin hebdomada.]

A week; a period of seven days. [Not used.]

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.

HEBDOMAT'ICAL, adjective Weekly.

HEB'EN, noun Ebony.

HEB'ETATE, verb transitive [Latin hebeto, from hebes, dull, blunt, heavy.]

To dull; to blunt; to stupefy; as, to hebetate the intellectual faculties.

HEB'ETATED, participle present tense Made blunt, dull or stupid.

HEB'ETATING, participle passive Rendering blunt, dull or stupid.

HEBETA'TION, noun The act of making blunt, dull or stupid.

1. The state of being dulled.

HEBE'TE, adjective Dull; stupid.

HEB'ETUDE, noun [Latin hebetudo.] Dullness; stupidity.

HEBRA'IC, adjective [from Hebrew.] Pertaining to the Hebrews; designating the language of the Hebrews.

HEBRA'ICALLY, adverb After the manner of the Hebrew language; from right to left.

HE'BRAISM, noun A Hebrew idiom; a peculiar expression or manner of speaking in the Hebrew language.

HE'BRAIST, noun One versed in the Hebrew language.

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.

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.

HE'BREWESS, noun An Israelitish woman.

HEBRI'CIAN, noun One skilled in the Hebrew language.

HEBRID'IAN, adjective Pertaining to the isles called Hebrides, west of Scotland.

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, 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.

HECK'LE, verb transitive A different orthography of hackle, or hetchel.

HEC'TARE, noun [Gr. a hundred, and Latin area.] A French measure containing a hundred ares, or ten thousand square meters.

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.

HEC'TICALLY, adverb Constitutionally.

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.

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.]

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.

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.

HEC'TORED, participle passive Bullied; teased.

HEC'TORING, participle present tense Bullying; blustering; vexing.

HEC'TORISM, noun The disposition or practice of a hector; a bullying.

HEC'TORLY, adjective Blustering; insolent.

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.

HEDERA'CEOUS, adjective [Latin hederaceus, from hedera, ivy.]

1. Pertaining to ivy.

2. Producing ivy.

HED'ERAL, adjective Composed of ivy; belonging to ivy.

HEDERIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin hedera, ivy, and fero, to bear.]

Producing ivy.

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. Hosea 2.

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.

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.

HEDGEPIG, noun A young hedgehog.

HEDG'ER, noun One who makes hedges.

HEDGEROW, noun A row or series of shrubs or trees planted for inclosure, or separation of fields.

HEDG'ING, participle present tense Inclosing with a hedge; obstructing; confining.

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 Samuel 20:10.

2. Notice; observation; regard; attention; often preceded by give.

The preacher gave good heed Ecclesiastes 12:9.

Neither give heed to fables. 1 Timothy 1:4.

Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed Hebrews 2:1.

3. Seriousness; a steady look.

A heed

Was in his countenance. [Unusual.]

HEE'DED, participle passive Noticed; observed; regarded.

HEE'DFUL, adjective Attentive; observing; giving heed; as heedful of advice.

1. Watchful; cautious; circumspect; wary.

HEE'DFULLY, adverb Attentively; carefully; cautiously. Listen heedfully to good advice.

1. Watchfully.

HEE'DFULNESS, noun Attention; caution; vigilance; circumspection; care to guard against danger, or to perform duty.

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.

HEE'DLESSLY, adverb Carelessly; negligently; inattentively; without care or circumspection.

HEE'DLESSNESS, noun Inattention; carelessness; thoughtlessness; negligence.

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.

HEE'LER, noun A cock that strikes well with his heels.

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.]

HEFT'ED, adjective Heaved; expressing agitation.

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.

HEIF'ER, noun hef'er. A young cow.

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, v.t. hitn. To raise higher; but not often used in this literal sense.

HEIGHTENED, participle passive hitnd. Raised higher; elevated; exalted; advanced; improved; aggravated; increased.

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, adjective An incorrect orthography. [See Hainous.]

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 Genesis 15:3.

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. Jeremiah 49:1. Micah 1:15.

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.

HEIRDOM, noun aredom. Succession by inheritance.

HEIRESS, noun aress. A female heir; a female that inherits, or is entitled to inherit an estate; an inheritrix.

HEIRLESS, adjective areless. Destitute of an heir.

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, preterit tense and participle passive of hold. A court was held in Westminster hall. At a council held on the first of January.

HELE, verb transitive [Latin celo.] To hide.

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.

HELI'ACALLY, adverb A star rises heliacally when it emerges from the sun's light, so as to be visible. [See the preceding word.]

HEL'ICAL, adjective [Gr. a scroll, or spiral body.]

Spiral; winding; moving round.

HEL'ICITE, noun [See Helix.] Fossil remains of the helix, a shell.

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.]

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.

HELIOL'ATER, noun [Gr. the sun, and to worship.]

A worship of the sun.

HELIOL'ATRY, noun [Gr. the sun, and service, worship.]

The worship of the sun, a branch of Sabianism.

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.

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.

HE'LIOSTATE, noun [Gr. the sun.] An instrument by which a sunbeam may be steadily directed to one spot.

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.

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.

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.

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, noun

1. The place or state of punishment for the wicked after death. Matthew 10:28. Luke 12:5.

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. Psalms 16:10. Jonah 2:2.

3. The pains of hell temporal death, or agonies that dying persons feel, or which bring to the brink of the grave. Psalms 18:5.

4. The gates of hell the power and policy of Satan and his instruments. Matthew 16:18.

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'BLACK, adjective Black as hell.

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.

HEL'LEBORISM, noun A medicinal preparation of hellebore.

HELLE'NIAN

HELLEN'IC, adjective Pertaining to the Hellenes, or inhabitants of Greece, so called from Hellas in Greece, or form Hellen.

HELLEN'IC, a. Pertaining to the Hellenes, or inhabitants of Greece, so called from Hellas in Greece, or form Hellen.

HEL'LENISM, noun A phrase in the idiom, genius or construction of the Greek language.

HEL'LENIST, noun A Grecian Jew; a Jew who used the Greek language.

1. One skilled in the Greek language.

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.

HELLENIS'TICALLY, adverb According to the Hellenistic dialect.

HEL'LENIZE, verb intransitive To use the Greek language.

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.

HELLESPONT'INE, adjective Pertaining to the Hellespont.

HEL'LIER, noun A tiler or slater. [See Hele.] [Not in use.]

HELL'ISH, adjective Pertaining to hell.

1. Like hell in qualities; infernal; malignant; wicked; detestable.

HELL'ISHLY, adverb Infernally; with extreme malignity; wickedly; detestably.

HELL'ISHNESS, noun The qualities of hell or of its inhabitants; extreme wickedness, malignity or impiety.

HELL'WARD, adverb Towards hell.

HELL'Y, adjective Having the qualities of hell.

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

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.

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.

HELM'ETED, adjective Furnished with a helmet.

HELMIN'THIC, adjective [Gr. a worm.] Expelling worms.

HELMIN'THIC, noun A medicine for expelling worms.

HELMINTHOLOG'IC

HELMINTHOLOG'ICAL, noun [See Helminthology.] Pertaining to worms or vermes, or to their history.

HELMINTHOLOG'ICAL, n. [See Helminthology.] Pertaining to worms or vermes, or to their history.

HELMINTHOL'OGIST, noun One who is versed in the natural history of vermes.

HELMINTHOL'OGY, noun [Gr. a worm, and discourse.] The science or knowledge of vermes; the description and natural history of vermes.

HELM'LESS, adjective Destitute of a helmet.

1. Without a helm.

HELMS'MAN, noun The man at the helm.

HELM'WIND, noun A wind in the mountainous parts of England, so called.

HE'LOTISM, noun Slavery; the condition of the Helots, slaves in Sparta.

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. Psalms 60:11.

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. Psalms 46:1.

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.

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.

HELP'FUL, adjective That gives aid or assistance; that furnishes means of promoting an object; useful.

1. Wholesome; salutary; as helpful medicines.

HELP'FULNESS, noun Assistance; usefulness.

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.]

HELP'LESSLY, adverb Without succor.

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

HELVE, noun helv. The handle of an ax or hatchet.

HELVE, verb transitive helv. To furnish with a helve as an ax.

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.

HEL'VIN, noun [From Gr. the sun.] A mineral of a yellowish color, occurring in regular tetrahedrons, with truncated angles.

HEM, noun

1. The border of a garment, doubled and sewed to strengthen it and prevent the raveling of the threads.

2. Edge; border. Matthew 9:20.

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

HEM'ACHATE, noun [Gr. blood, and agate.] A species of agate, of a blood color.

HEM'ATIN, noun [Gr. blood.] The coloring principle of logwood, of a red color and bitterish taste.

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.

HEMATIT'IC, adjective Pertaining to hematite, or resembling it.

HEM'ATOPE, noun The sea-pye, a fowl of the grallic order, that feeds on shell-fish.

HEMEROBAP'TIST, noun [Gr. day, and to wash.] One of a sect among the Jews who bathed every day.

HEM'I, in composition, from Gr. which signifies half, like demi and semi.

HEM'ICRANY, noun [Gr. half and the skull.] A pain that affects only one side of the head.

HEM'ICYCLE, noun [Gr.] A half circle; more generally called a semicircle.

HEMID'ITONE, noun In Greek music, the lesser third.

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.

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.

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.

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.

HEMIP'TERAL, adjective Having the upper wings half crustaceous and half membranaceous.

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.

HEMISPHER'IC'ICAL, adjective Containing half a sphere or globe; as a hemispheric figure or form; a hemispherical body.

HEM'ISTICH, noun [Gr.] Half a poetic verse, or a verse not completed.

HEMIS'TICHAL, adjective Pertaining to a hemistich; denoting a division of the verse.

HEM'ITONE, noun [Gr.] A half tone in music; now called a semitone.

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.

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.

HEMOP'TOE, adjective [Gr. blood, and a spitting.] A spitting of blood.

HEMOP'TYSIS

HEM'ORRHAGE

HEM'ORRHAGIC, adjective Pertaining to a flux of blood; consisting in hemorrhage.

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.

HEMORRHOID'AL, adjective Pertaining to the hemorrhoids; as the hemorrhoidal vessels.

1. Consisting in a flux of blood from the vessels of the anus.

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, 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'EN, adjective hemp'n. Made of hemp; as a hempen cord.

HEMP'Y, adjective Like hemp. [Unusual.]

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.

HEN'BANE, noun [hen and bane.] A plant, the Hyoscyamus, of several species. The roots, leaves and seeds are poisonous.

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, adverb hens.

1. From this place.

Arise, let us go hence John 14:31.

I will send thee far hence to the Gentiles. Acts 22:21.

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--James 4:1.

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, adverb hens'forth. From this time forward.

I never from thy side henceforth will stray.

HENCEFORWARD, adverb hensfor'ward. From this time forward; henceforth.

HENCH'BOY, noun A page; a servant.

HENCH'MAN

HEND

HENDEC'AGON, noun [Gr. eleven, and an angle.] In geometry, a figure of eleven sides, and as many angles.

HEND

HENDECASYL'LABLE, noun [Gr.] A metrical line of eleven syllables.

HENDI'ADIS, noun [Gr.] A figure, when two nouns are used instead of a noun and an adjective.

HEN'HOUSE, noun A house or shelter for fowls.

HEN'PECKED, adjective Governed by the wife.

HEN'ROOST, noun A place where poultry rest at night.

HENS'FEET, noun A plant, hedge-fumitory.

HENT, verb transitive To seize; to lay hold on.

1. To crowd; to press on.

HEND, or HENDY, adjective Gentle.

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.

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.

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.

HEP'ATIZE, verb transitive To impregnate with sulphurated hydrogen gas.

HEP'ATIZED, participle passive Impregnated or combined with sulphurated hydrogen gas.

On the right of the river were two wells of hepatized water.

HEPATOS'COPY, noun [Gr. the liver, and to view.] The art or practice of divination by inspecting the liver of animals.

HEPS, noun The berries of the hep-tree, or wild dog-rose.

HEPTACAP'SULAR, adjective [Gr. seven, and Latin capsula, a cell.]

Having seven cells or cavities for seeds; a term in botany.

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.

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.

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.

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

HEPTAGYN'IAN, adjective Having seven pistils.

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

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

That which divides into seven parts.

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

HEPTAN'DRIAN, adjective Having seven stamens.

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

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

HEPTAR'CHIC, adjective Denoting a sevenfold government.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

HER'ALDSHIP, noun The office of a herald.

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.

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.]

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.

HERB'AGED, adjective Covered with grass.

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.

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

HERB'AR, noun An herb.

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

HERBA'RIUM, noun A collection of dried plants.

HERB'ARIZE. [See Herborize.]

HERB'ARY, noun A garden of plants.

HERB'ELET, noun A small herb.

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

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

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.

HERB'LESS, adjective Destitute of herbs.

HERB'ORIST. [See Herbalist.]

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.]

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.]

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.

HERB'ORIZING, participle present tense Searching for plants.

1. Forming the figures of plants in minerals.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

HERD'GROOM, noun A keeper of a herd.

HERD'ING, participle present tense Associating in companies.

HERD'LESS, noun A shepherdess.

HERD'MAN

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

1. Formerly, the owner of a herd.

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.

HE'REABOUT'REABOUTS, adverb About this place.

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

HEREBY', adverb By this.

HEREBY we became acquainted with the nature of things.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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', adverb In this.

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

HEREIN'TO, adverb Into this.

HER'EMIT, noun A hermit.

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

Solitary; secluded from society.

HEREOF', adverb Of this; from this.

HEREOF comes it that prince Harry is valiant.

HEREON', adverb On this.

HEREOUT', adverb Out of this place.

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

HER'ESIARCHY, noun Chief 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

HER'ETOG, HEREUNTO

adverb To this.

HEREUNTO', adv. To this.

HEREUPON', adverb On this.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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, 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 ]

HERMAPHRODE'ITY, noun Hermaphrodism.

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

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.

HERMAPHRODIT'IC, adjective Partaking of both sexes.

HERMAPHRODIT'ICALLY, adverb After the manner of hermaphrodites.

HERMENEU'TIC

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

HER'MITESS, noun A female hermit.

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

1. Suited to a hermit.

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.

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, noun A heron, which see.

HERN'HILL, noun A plant.

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.

HERN'SHAW, noun A heron.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

HER'ONRY

HER'ONSHAW, noun A place where herons breed.

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

HE'ROSHIP, noun The character of a hero.

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.

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

HERPETOLOG'IC

HERPETOLOG'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to herpetology.

HERPETOLOG'ICAL, a. Pertaining to herpetology.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

HER'Y, verb transitive To regard as holy.

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--

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

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.

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

HES'ITATINGLY, adverb With hesitation or doubt.

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.

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

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

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

HETEROCLIT'IC

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

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

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

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.

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

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

HETEROGE'NEAL

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

1. Dissimilar part; something of a different kind.

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

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.

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

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

Producing a diversity of leaves; as a heterophyllous violet.

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

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.

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, 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.

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

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

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

HEWN, participle passive The same as hewed.

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, adjective [Gr.] Having six toes.

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

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.

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

HEXAG'ONY, for hexagon, is not used.

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

HEXAGYN'IAN, adjective Having six pistils.

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

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

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

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.

HEXAMET'RIC

HEXAMET'RICAL, adjective Consisting of six metrical feet.

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

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

HEXAN'DRIAN, adjective Having six stamens.

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

Having six angles or corners.

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.]

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

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

Having six leaves.

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.

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

A poem consisting of six verses.

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

A building with six columns in front.

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

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

HEYDAY, noun A frolick; wildness.