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An American Dictionary of the English Language
Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)
Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Heel'-pōst, n. p. 618(Naut.) The post which supports, at the outer end, the propelling screw of a steam vessel.Heel'-tāp, n. p. 618A small piece of leather for the heel of a shoe. 2. A small portion of liquor remaining at the bottom of a glass after drinking. Halliwell.Heel'-tăp, v. t. p. 618To add a piece of leather to the heel of, as of a shoe.Heel'-tōol, n. p. 618A kind of chisel used by turners, having an acute cutting edge and an angular base.Heer, n. p. 618The length of two cuts or leas of linen or woolen threads.Hēft, n. p. 618The act or effort of heaving or lifting; violent strain or exertion; effort. [Obs.] He cracks his gorge, his sides, With violent hefts. Shak. 2. Weight; ponderousness. [Prov. Eng. Colloq. U. S.] 3.…Hĕft, n. p. 618A handle; a haft. [Obs.] “Blade and heft.” Waller.Hĕft, v. t. p. 618To heave up; to lift. Inflamed with wrath, his raging blade he heft. Spencer. 2. To prove or try the weight of by raising. [Prov. Eng. Colloq. U. S.]Hĕft'ed, p. a. p. 618Raised; hence, excited; agitated; — used in composition. Shak.He-gē'li-an, a. p. 618Pertaining to the philosophy of Hegel.He-gē'li-an, n. p. 618One who holds to the philosophical system of Hegel.He-gē'li-an-ĭsm or Hē'gel-ĭsm, n. p. 618The philosophical system of Hegel.Hēg'e-mōn'ic or Hēg'e-mōn'ic-al, a. p. 618Principal; ruling; predominant. Fotherby.He-gĕm'o-ny, n. p. 618Leadership; preponderant influence or authority; — usually applied to the relation of a government or state to its neighbors or confederates. Lieber.He-gī'rā or Hē'gī-rā p. 618m. [Written also hejira.] [Ar. hidjrat, hidjrah, departure, from hadjara, to separate, to desert one's country or friends.] The flight of Mohammed from Mecca, July 16, A. D. 622; — from which date…Heif'er, n. p. 618A young cow.Heigh'-hō, interj. p. 618An exclamation expressing surprise, uneasiness, or weariness.Height or Hight, n. p. 618The condition of being high; elevated position; eminence. 2. The measure of the distance to which any thing rises above its foot, basis, or foundation; altitude. “A church that is in length one…Height'en or Hight'en, v. t. p. 618Hight'en 1. To make high; to raise higher; to elevate. 2. To carry forward; to make better in excellence or good qualities; to advance; to increase; as, to heighten virtue; to heighten the beauties…Height'en-er or Hight'en-er, n. p. 618One who heightens.Hei'nōus, a. p. 618Hateful; odious; hence, great; enormous; aggravated; as, a heinous sin or crime. How heinous had the fact been, how deserving Of blame! Milton. Syn.—Enormous; excessive; aggravated; great; monstrous…Hei'nōus-ly, adv. p. 618In a heinous manner; hatefully; abominably; enormously.Hei'nōus-ness, n. p. 618The state of being heinous; odiousness; enormity; as, the heinousness of theft, or robbery, or of any crime.Hēir, n. p. 618One who receives, inherits, or is entitled to succeed to the possession of any property after the death of its owner; one in whom the title to an estate vests on the death of the proprietor; one on…Hēir, v. t. p. 618To inherit; to succeed to. [Rare.] One only daughter heired the royal state. Dryden.Hēir'-ap-pâr'en-cy, n. p. 618The state of being heir-apparent. [Rare.]Hēir'dŏm, n. p. 618The state of an heir; succession by inheritance. Burke.Hēir'ess, n. p. 618A female heir.Hēir'less, a. p. 618Destitute of an heir.Hāir'-lōom, n. p. 618Any furniture, movable or personal chattel, which by law or special custom descends to the heir along with the inheritance; any piece of personal property that has been in a family for several…Hĕir'ship, n. p. 618The state, character, or privileges of an heir; right of inheriting. Heirship movables, certain kinds of movables which the heir is entitled to take, besides the heritable estate. [Scot.]He-jī'rā or Hēj'i-rā, n. p. 618See HEGIRA.Hēl'a-mȳs, n. p. 618(Zoöl.) A burrowing, rodent animal, of the genus Pedetes (P. capensis), found at the Cape of Good Hope, resembling in size and color a hare, but having a long tail;—called also jumping-rat or…Held, imp. & p. p. p. 618of hold. See HOLD.Hēle, v. t. p. 618To hide; to conceal; to cover; to roof. [Obs.] Gower.Hē′li-ae or He-li′ae-al, a. p. 618(Astron.) Emerging from the light of the sun, or passing into it; rising or setting at the same, or nearly the same, time as the sun. The heliacal rising of a star is when, after being in conjunction…He-lĭ'a-cal-ly, adv. p. 618In an heliacal manner. “Like a star rising heliacally, or hidden in the blaze of the sun.” De Quincy.Hē'li-ăn' the-mām, n. p. 618(Bot.) A genus of plants including the rock-rose and frost weed.Hē'li-ăn’thus, n. p. 618(Bot.) A genus of plants; sun-flower.Hēl'i-cal, a. p. 618Of, or pertaining to, a helix; having a spiral form; spiral.He-lĭx'i-fōrm, a. p. 618Having the form of a helix; helical.Hēl'i-coid, n. p. 618(Geom.) A warped surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner that every point of it shall have a uniform motion in the direction of a fixed straight line, and at the…Hēl'i-coid or Hēl'i-coid'al, a. p. 618Spiral; spirally curved, like the spire of a univalve shell. Helicoid parabola (Math.), the curve which would be formed, upon the supposition that the axis of the common parabola is bent round into…Hēl'i-cŏm'e-try, n. p. 618(Geom.) The art of measuring, or of drawing, spiral lines on a plane.Hēl'i-cōn, n. p. 618A mountain in Bœotia, in Greece, supposed by the Greeks to be the residence of Apollo and the Muses.Hĕl'i-cō'ni-an, a. p. 618Pertaining to Helicon.He-lĭc'ter-ēs, n. p. 618(Bot.) A genus of flowering shrubs in which the carpels are twisted in a screw-like manner.Hē'ling, n. p. 618That which covers; hence, the covering of a roof; a coverlet, and the like. [Written also hīling.] Halliwell.Hē'li-o-çen'trie or Hē'li-o-çen'trie-al, a. p. 618(Astron.) Pertaining to the sun's center, or appearing to be seen from it. Heliocentric parallax, the arc of a great circle included between the heliocentric and the geocentric places of a body. —…Hē'li-o-chrōme, n. p. 618A colored photograph. R. Hunt.Hē'li-o-chrōm'ic, a. p. 618Pertaining to heliocromy.Hē'li-ōch'ro-my, n. p. 618The art of producing colored photographs.Hē'li-o-grāph, n. p. 618A picture taken by heliography. R. Hunt.Hē'li-o-grāph'ic, a. p. 618Pertaining to heliography.Hē'li-ŏg'ra-phy, n. p. 618The art of taking pictures on any prepared material by means of the sun and a camera obscura; photography. R. Hunt.Hē'li-ŏl'a-ter, n. p. 618A worshiper of the sun. Drummond.Hē'li-ōl'a-try, n. p. 618The worship of the sun, a branch of Sabianism.Hē'li-ōm'e-ter, n. p. 618(Astron.) An instrument used originally for measuring the diameter of the sun, now employed for delicate measurements, as the distance between double stars. It is a divided object-glass micrometer…Hē'li-o-scōpe, n. p. 618(Astron.) A telescope fitted for viewing the sun without injury to the eyes, as when made with colored glasses, or with mirrors formed simply of surfaces of transparent glass, which reflect but a…Hē'li-o-stāt, n. p. 618An instrument by which a sunbeam may be introduced into a dark room, and, by means of clock-work, kept in a fixed position.