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An American Dictionary of the English Language

by Noah Webster

Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)

Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865

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  1. Hē's'i-tan-cy, n.p. 624The act of hesitating or doubting; slowness in forming decisions; doubt. 2. The action or manner of one who hesitates; indecisive deliberation; vacillation.
  2. Hĕs'i-tant, a.p. 624Not ready in deciding or acting; hesitating. 2. Lacking readiness of speech.
  3. Hē'si-tant-ly, adv.p. 624With hesitancy or doubt.
  4. Hĕs'i-tāte, v. i.p. 624To 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; men…
  5. Hĕs'i-tāte, v. t.p. 624To be uncertain about; to be undecided in reference to; also, to utter with hesitation; to stammer out. [Obs. and rare.] “Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.” Pope.
  6. Hĕs'i-tā'ting-ly, adv.p. 624With hesitation or doubt.
  7. Hē'si-tā'tion, n.p. 624The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation. 2. A stopping in speech; intermission between words; stammering.
  8. Hēs'per, n.p. 624The evening star; Hesperus.
  9. Hes-pē'ri-an, a.p. 624Western; situated at the west; occidental.
  10. Hes-pē'rī-an, n.p. 624An inhabitant of a western country. J. Barlow.
  11. Hĕs-pĕr'ĭ-dēs, n. pl.p. 624(Myth.) The daughters of Hesperus, brother of Atlas, who had orchards in Africa producing golden fruit, which was carried away by Hercules, who slew the watchful dragon which guarded it.
  12. Hĕs'pe-rĭs, n.p. 624(Bot.) A genus of plants; rocket:—so called from the increased fragrance of the flowers toward evening.
  13. Hĕs'pe-rŭs, n.p. 624The evening star, especially Venus; Hesper.
  14. Hĕs'sian, a.p. 624(Geog.) Of, or relating to, Hesse, in Germany. Hessian fly (Entom.), a small, two-winged fly, or midge, nearly black, very destructive to young wheat;—so called from the opinion that it was brought…
  15. Hĕs'sian, n.p. 624(Geog.) A native or inhabitant of Hesse.
  16. Hĕst, n.p. 624Command; precept; injunction; order. Let him that yields obey the victor’s hest. Fairfax. [Obsolete, but retained in the compound behest.]
  17. Hĕs'tern or Hes-tẽr'nal, a.p. 624Pertaining to yesterday. [Obs.]
  18. Hĕs'y-chăst, n.p. 624A Quietist. Bib. Repository.
  19. Hĕtch'el, v. t.p. 624Same as HATCHEL, q. v.
  20. Hĕt'er-ärch'y, n.p. 624The government of an alien. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
  21. Hĕt'er-o-cär'poŭs, a.p. 624(Bot.) Bearing fruit of two kinds or forms, as in the genus Amphicarpæa. Gray.
  22. Hĕt'er-o-çẽr'cal, a.p. 624(Compar. Anat.) Having the vertebral column continued into the upper lobe of the tail, which, on this account, is larger than the lower;—said of certain species of fish. Agassiz.
  23. Hĕt'er-ŏch'ro-moŭs, a.p. 624(Bot.) Having the central florets of a flower-head of a different color from those of the circumference.
  24. Hĕt'er-o-clīte, n.p. 624(Gram.) A word which is irregular or anomalous either in declension or conjugation, or which deviates from ordinary forms of inflection in words of a like kind; especially, a noun which is irregular…
  25. Hĕt'er-o-clīte or Hĕt'er-o-clĭt'ic or Hĕt'er-o-clĭt'ic-al, a.p. 624Deviating from ordinary forms or rules; irregular; anomalous; abnormal.
  26. Hĕt'er-ŏc'li-toŭs, a.p. 624Heteroclitic. [Obs.]
  27. Hĕt'er-o-dŏx, a.p. 624Contrary to some acknowledged standard, as the Bible, the creed of a church, the decree of a council, and the like; not orthodox;—said of opinions, especially upon theological subjects. 2. Holding…
  28. Hĕt'er-o-dŏx, n.p. 624A peculiar opinion, or one opposed to some acknowledged standard. [Obs.] Browne.
  29. Hĕt'er-o-dŏx'ly, adv.p. 624In a heterodox manner.
  30. Hĕt'er-o-dŏx'ness, n.p. 624State of being heterodox.
  31. Hĕt'er-o-dŏx'y, n.p. 624Heresy; an opinion or doctrine contrary to some established standard of faith, as the Scriptures, &c., or contrary to those of an established church.
  32. Hĕt'er-ŏg'a-moŭs, a.p. 624(Bot.) Bearing two or more sorts of flowers, as to their stamens or pistils, as in the aster, daisy, &c. Gray.
  33. Hĕt'er-o-găn'gli-ate, a.p. 624(Physiol.) Having the ganglions of the nervous system unsymmetrically arranged;—said of certain invertebrate animals.
  34. Hĕt'er-o-ġēne, a.p. 624The same as HETEROGENEOUS.
  35. Hĕt'er-o-ġē'ne-al or Hĕt'er-o-ġē'ne-oŭs, a.p. 624Differing in kind; having unlike qualities; possessed of different characteristics; dissimilar;—opposed to homogeneous, and said of two or more connected objects, or of a conglomerate mass…
  36. Hĕt'er-o-gĕ'ne-oŭs-ly, adv.p. 625In a heterogeneous manner.
  37. Hĕt'er-o-gē-nē'i-ty or Hĕt'er-o-gē'ne-ous-ness, n.p. 625The state of being heterogeneous; dissimilarity. The difference, indeed the heterogeneity, of the two may be felt. Coleridge.
  38. Hĕt'er-ŏg'e-ny, n.p. 625The production of different kinds of young.
  39. Hĕt'er-o-grāph'ic, a.p. 625Employing the same letters to represent different sounds in different words; — said of methods of spelling; as, the ordinary English orthography is heterographic.
  40. Hĕt'er-ŏg'ra-phy, n.p. 625That method of spelling in which the same letters represent different sounds in different words, as in the ordinary English orthography.
  41. Hĕt'er-ŏl'o-gōüs, a.p. 625Constituted of different elements and in different proportions; different; — opposed to homologous.
  42. Hĕt'er-ŏm'er-oŭs, a.p. 625(Chem.) Unrelated as to chemical composition, as in cases of heteromerous isomorphism.
  43. Hĕt'er-o-môr'phie, a.p. 625(Entom.) Having a wide difference of form between the larvæ and the adult.
  44. Hĕt'er-o-môr'phous, a.p. 625Of an irregular or unusual form; of two or more shapes.
  45. Hĕt'er-o-ou'si-an, a.p. 625Having different essential qualities; of a different nature.
  46. Hĕt'er-o-ou'si-oŭs, a.p. 625Same as HETEROOUSIAN.
  47. Hĕt'er-o-păth'ic, a.p. 625The same as ALLOPATHIC.
  48. Hĕt'er-ŏph'yl-loŭs or Hĕt'er-o-phy̆l'loŭs, a.p. 625(Bot.) Having leaves different from the regular form; as, an heterophyllous violet is one which has leaves not analogous to the leaves of other violets.
  49. Hĕt'er-o-pōd, n.p. 625(Zoöl.) One of an order of molluscous animals whose foot is compressed into a vertical, muscular lamina, serving for a fin. [Obs.]
  50. Hĕt'er-ŏp'o-doüs, a.p. 625Of, or pertaining to, the heteropods.
  51. Hĕt'er-ŏp'ter, n.p. 625(Entom.) One of an order of insects which have four partly membranaceous wings, of which the two posterior are smaller, and overlap at the tip. See INSECT.
  52. Hĕt'er-ŏp'ter-ā, n. pl.p. 625See HETEROPTER.
  53. Hēt'er-ŏp'tics, n. sing.p. 625False optics. [See Note under MATHEMATICS.] Spectator.
  54. Hĕt'er-ŏs'cian, n.p. 625(Geog.) An inhabitant of either of the two zones lying between the tropics and the polar circles, as contrasted with an inhabitant of the other in respect to the circumstance that their shadows at…
  55. Hĕt'er-ŏs'cian, a.p. 625(Geog.) Of, or pertaining to, any portion of the earth's surface considered relatively to a certain other portion, so situated that the shadows of two objects, one being in the former and the other…
  56. Hēt'e-rō'sis, n.p. 625(Rhet.) A figure of speech by which one form of a noun, verb, or pronoun, and the like, is used for another. “What is life to such as me?” Prof. Aytoun.
  57. Hĕt'er-o-sīte, n.p. 625(Min.) A mineral of a greenish-gray or brownish-violet color, consisting of phosphoric acid and the oxides of iron and manganese. Dana.
  58. Hēt'er-ŏt'o-mōüs, a.p. 625Having a different cleavage; — applied to a species of the feldspar family in which the cleavage differs from that of common feldspar. Dana.
  59. Hĕt'er-ŏt'ro-pal or Hĕt'er-ŏt'ro-poūs, a.p. 625(Bot.) Having the embryo or ovule oblique or transverse to the axis of the seed; amphitropous. Gray.
  60. Hĕt'man, n.p. 625A Cossack commander-in-chief.