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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. Hĕt'er-o-môr'phie, a.p. 625(Entom.) Having a wide difference of form between the larvæ and the adult.
  2. Hĕt'er-o-môr'phous, a.p. 625Of an irregular or unusual form; of two or more shapes.
  3. Hĕt'er-o-ou'si-an, a.p. 625Having different essential qualities; of a different nature.
  4. Hĕt'er-o-ou'si-oŭs, a.p. 625Same as HETEROOUSIAN.
  5. Hĕt'er-o-păth'ic, a.p. 625The same as ALLOPATHIC.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.]
  8. Hĕt'er-ŏp'o-doüs, a.p. 625Of, or pertaining to, the heteropods.
  9. 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.
  10. Hĕt'er-ŏp'ter-ā, n. pl.p. 625See HETEROPTER.
  11. Hēt'er-ŏp'tics, n. sing.p. 625False optics. [See Note under MATHEMATICS.] Spectator.
  12. 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…
  13. 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…
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. Hĕt'man, n.p. 625A Cossack commander-in-chief.
  19. Heü'land-ite, n.p. 625(Min.) A mineral of the zeolite family, occurring in amygdaloid, in pearly, foliated masses, and also crystallized in rhomboidal prisms, with the basal plane pearly. It consists of silica, alumina…
  20. Hew, v. t.p. 625To cut with an ax; to fell with a sharp instrument; — often with down, or off. And many strokes, though with a little ax, Hew down and fell the hardest oak. Shak. 2. To form or shape with a sharp…
  21. Hew, n.p. 625Destruction by cutting down. [Obs.] “Of whom he makes such havoc and such hew.” Spenser. 2. The same as HUE. [Obs.]
  22. Hew'er, n.p. 625One who hews wood or stone.
  23. Hĕx'a-cāp'su-lar, a.p. 625(Bot.) Having six capsules or seed-vessels.
  24. Hēx'a-chōrd, n.p. 625(Mus.) A series of notes, consisting of four tones and one semitone. Moore.
  25. Hĕx'a-dăc'tyl-ōŭs, a.p. 625Having six fingers or toes.
  26. Hēx'ade, n.p. 625A series of six numbers.
  27. Hĕx'a-gŏn, n.p. 625(Geom.) A plane figure of six sides and six angles. Regular hexagon, a hexagon in which the angles are all equal, and likewise the sides all equal.
  28. Hex-ăg'o-nal, a.p. 625Having six sides and six angles.
  29. Hex-ăg'o-nal-ly, adv.p. 625In an hexagonal manner.
  30. Hex-ăg'o-ny, n.p. 625A hexagon. [Obs.] Bramhall.
  31. Hĕx'a-gÿn'ĭ-ă, n.p. 625(Bot.) An order of plants having six pistils. Linnæus.
  32. Hĕx'a-gyn'i-an or Hex-ag'y-nous, a.p. 625(Bot.) Having six pistils.
  33. Hĕx'a-hē'dral, a.p. 625Of the figure of a hexahedron; having six equal sides or faces; cubic.
  34. Hĕx'a-hē'dron, n.p. 625A regular solid body of six equal sides or faces; a cube.
  35. Hēx'a-hēm'er-ŏn, n.p. 625The term of six days. Good. 2. The history of the six days’ work of creation, as contained in the first chapter of Genesis.
  36. Hex-ăm′er-ōus, a.p. 625(Bot.) In six parts; in sixes.
  37. Hex-ăm'e-ter, n.p. 625(Gr. & Lat. Pros.) 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…
  38. Hex-ăm'e-ter, a.p. 625Having six metrical feet, especially dactyls and spondees.
  39. Hēx'a-mĕt'rie or Hēx'a-mĕt'rie-al, a.p. 625Consisting of six metrical feet. Warton.
  40. Hex-ăm'e-trĭst, n.p. 625One who writes in hexameters. Claudian, and even the few lines of Merobaudes, stand higher in purity, as in the life of poetry, than all the Christian hexametrists. Milman.
  41. Hex-ăn'dri-ā, n.p. 625(Bot.) A class of plants having six stamens. Linnæus.
  42. Hex-ăn'dri-an or Hex-ăn'droōs, a.p. 625(Bot.) Having six stamens.
  43. Hex-ăn'gu-lar, a.p. 625Having six angles or corners.
  44. Hĕx'a-pĕt'al-ōus, a.p. 625(Bot.) Having six petals or flower-leaves.
  45. Hex-ăph'yl-loūs or Hĕx'a-phŷl-loūs, a.p. 625(Bot.) Having six leaves or leaflets.
  46. Hĕx'a-plā, n.p. 625A collection of the Holy Scriptures in six languages;—sometimes applied particularly to the collection published by Origen, in the third century.
  47. Hēx'a-plar, a.p. 625Sextuple; containing six columns.
  48. Hĕx'a-pōd, a.p. 625Having six feet.
  49. Hēx'a-pŏd, n.p. 625An animal having six feet, as the true insects.
  50. Hex-āp'ter-ōus, a.p. 625Having six wing-like processes. Gray.
  51. Hĕx'a-stĭch (-stĭk) or Hex-ās'ti-chōn, n.p. 625A poem consisting of six verses.
  52. Hēx'a-stȳle, n.p. 625(Arch.) A building with six columns in front.
  53. Hex-ōc'ta-hē'dron, n.p. 625(Geom.) A solid contained under forty-eight equal, triangular faces.
  54. Hey, interj.p. 625An expression of joy or mutual exhortation, the contrary to the Lat. hei.
  55. Hey'dāy, interj.p. 625An expression of frolic and exultation, and sometimes of wonder. Shak.
  56. Hey'dāy, n.p. 625A frolic; wildness. Shak.
  57. Hey'de-guy, n.p. 625A kind of dance; a country dance or round. [Obs.] And light-foot nymphs can chase the night With heydeguyes. Spenser.
  58. Hi-ā'tion, n.p. 625Act of gaping. [Obs.]
  59. Hī-ā'tus, n.p. 625An opening; an aperture; a gap; a chasm. 2. A defect; a chasm in a manuscript, where some part is lost or effaced. 3. (Gram.) The concurrence of two vowels in two successive syllables or words…
  60. Hī-bēr'na-cle, n.p. 625That which serves for protection or shelter in winter; winter-quarters; as, the hibernacle of an animal or plant. [R.] Martyn.