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heatstroke

A physiological disturbance caused by exposure to excessive heat, resulting in rapid pulse, hot dry skin, and fever, leading to loss of consciousness.

heaume

a large medieval helmet supported on the shoulders; called also helm.

Heave

An effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy.

Heaven

To place in happiness or bliss, as if in heaven; to beatify.

Heavenize

To render like heaven or fit for heaven.

Heavenly

In a manner resembling that of heaven.

Heavenly-minded

Having the thoughts and affections placed on, or suitable for, heaven and heavenly objects; devout; godly; pious.

Heaver

One who, or that which, heaves or lifts; a laborer employed on docks in handling freight; as, a coal heaver.

Heaves

A disease of horses, characterized by difficult breathing, with heaving of the flank, wheezing, flatulency, and a peculiar cough; broken wind.

Heavily

In a heavy manner; with great weight; as, to bear heavily on a thing; to be heavily loaded.

Heaviness

The state or quality of being heavy in its various senses; weight; sadness; sluggishness; oppression; thickness.

Heaving

A lifting or rising; a swell; a panting or deep sighing.

Heavy-armed

Wearing heavy or complete armor; carrying heavy arms.

Hebdomadary

A member of a chapter or convent, whose week it is to officiate in the choir, and perform other services, which, on extraordinary occasions, are performed by the superiors.

Hebetation

The act of making blunt, dull, or stupid.

Hebraic

Of or pertaining to the Hebrews, or to the language of the Hebrews.

Hebraically

After the manner of the Hebrews or of the Hebrew language.

Hebraist

One versed in the Hebrew language and learning.

Hebraistic

Pertaining to, or resembling, the Hebrew language or idiom.

Hebraize

To speak Hebrew, or to conform to the Hebrew idiom, or to Hebrew customs.

Hebrew

Of or pertaining to the Hebrews; as, the Hebrew language or rites.

Hebridian Hebridean

Of or pertaining to the islands called Hebrides, west of Scotland. A native or inhabitant of the Hebrides.

Hecatomb

A sacrifice of a hundred oxen or cattle at the same time; hence, the sacrifice or slaughter of any large number of victims.

Hecatompedon

A name given to the old Parthenon at Athens, because measuring 100 Greek feet, probably in the width across the stylobate.

Hecdecane

A white, semisolid, spermaceti-like hydrocarbon, C16H34, of the paraffin series, found dissolved as an important ingredient of kerosene, and so called because each molecule has sixteen atoms of carbon; -- called also hexadecane.

Heck

hell; -- a euphemism. Used commonly in the phrase /What the heck/.

Heckerism

The teaching of Isaac Thomas Hecker (1819-88), which interprets Catholicism as promoting human aspirations after liberty and truth, and as the religion best suited to the character and institutions of the American people. Improperly, certain views or principles erroneously ascribed to Father Hecker in a French translation of Elliott's Life of Hecker. They were condemned as /Americanism/ by the Pope, in a letter to Cardinal Gibbons, January 22, 1899.

Heckimal

The European blue titmouse (Parus c/ruleus).

Heckle

To interrogate, or ply with questions, esp. with severity or antagonism, as a candidate for the ministry.

heckling

Shouting in order to interrupt a speech with which the shouter disagrees.

Hectare

A measure of area, or superficies, containing a hundred ares, or 10,000 square meters, and equivalent to 2.471 acres.

Hectocotylus

One of the arms of the male of most kinds of cephalopods, which is specially modified in various ways to effect the fertilization of the eggs. In a special sense, the greatly modified arm of Argonauta and allied genera, which, after receiving the spermatophores, becomes detached from the male, and attaches itself to the female for reproductive purposes.

hectogram

A measure of mass or weight, containing a hundred grams, or about 3.527 ounces avoirdupois. See 3rd gram.

Hectograph

A contrivance for multiple copying, by means of a surface of gelatin softened with glycerin.

Hectolitre Hectoliter

A measure of liquids, containing a hundred liters; equal to a tenth of a cubic meter, nearly 26/ gallons of wine measure, or 22.0097 imperial gallons. As a dry measure, it contains ten decaliters, or about 2/ Winchester bushels.

Hector

To play the bully; to bluster; to be turbulent or insolent.

Hectorism

The disposition or the practice of a hector; a bullying.

Hectorly

Resembling a hector; blustering; insolent; taunting.

Hectostere

A measure of solidity, containing one hundred cubic meters, and equivalent to 3531.66 English or 3531.05 United States cubic feet.

Heddle

To draw (the warp thread) through the heddle-eyes, in weaving.

Heddle-eye

The eye or loop formed in each heddle to receive a warp thread.

Heddling

The act of drawing the warp threads through the heddle-eyes of a weaver's harness; the harness itself.

Hederic

Pertaining to, or derived from, the ivy (Hedera); as, hederic acid, an acid of the acetylene series.

Hederose

Pertaining to, or of, ivy; full of ivy.

Hedge

To shelter one's self from danger, risk, duty, responsibility, etc., as if by hiding in or behind a hedge; to skulk; to slink; to shirk obligations.

Hedge fund

a mutual fund or partnership of investors who pool large sums of money to speculate in securities, increasing the risk of such activity by using borrowed money to leverage the investments, or by selling short.

hedged

qualified; limited or restricted; as, a hedged promise.

Hedgehog

A small European insectivore (Erinaceus Europaeus), and other allied species of Asia and Africa, having the hair on the upper part of its body mixed with prickles or spines. It is able to roll itself into a ball so as to present the spines outwardly in every direction. It is nocturnal in its habits, feeding chiefly upon insects.

Hedger

One who makes or mends hedges; also, one who hedges, as, in betting.

Hedgerow

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

hediondilla

A desert shrub (Larrea tridentata) of the Southwestern U.S. and Northern Mexico having persistent resinous aromatic foliage and small yellow flowers.

Hedonics

That branch of moral philosophy which treats of the relation of duty to pleasure; the science of practical, positive enjoyment or pleasure.

Hedonism

The doctrine of the Hedonic sect; the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle.

Hedysarum

A genus of herbs of Northern temperate regions.

hee-haw

a loud laugh that sounds like a horse neighing.

Heed

Attention; notice; observation; regard; -- often with give or take.

Heedful

Full of heed; regarding with care; cautious; circumspect; attentive; vigilant.

Heedless

Without heed or care; inattentive; careless; thoughtless; unobservant.

Heel

To perform by the use of the heels, as in dancing, running, and the like.

Heelball

A composition of wax and lampblack, used by shoemakers for polishing, and by antiquaries in copying inscriptions.

Heeler

A cock that strikes well with his heels or spurs.

Heelpath

The bank of a canal opposite, and corresponding to, that of the towpath; berm.

Heelpiece

A piece of armor to protect the heels.

Heelpost

The post supporting the outer end of a propeller shaft.

Heelspur

A slender bony or cartilaginous process developed from the heel bone of bats. It helps to support the wing membranes. See Illust. of Cheiropter.

Heeltap

To add a piece of leather to the heel of (a shoe, boot, etc.)

Heeltool

A tool used by turners in metal, having a bend forming a heel near the cutting end.

Heemraad

In Holland, and, until the 19th century, also in Cape Colony, a council to assist a local magistrate in the government of rural districts; hence, also, a member of such a council.

Heep

The hip of the dog-rose.

Heft

To heave up; to raise aloft.

hegari

Sudanese sorghums having white seeds; one variety is grown in Southwestern U.S.

Hegel

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, a German writer (1770-1831).

Hegelian

Pertaining to Hegelianism. A follower of Hegel.

Hegelism Hegelianism

The system of logic and philosophy set forth by Hegel, a German writer (1770-1831).

Hegemony

Leadership; preponderant influence or authority; -- usually applied to the relation of a government or state to its neighbors or confederates.

Hegira

The flight of Mohammed from Mecca, September 13, a. d. 622 (subsequently established as the first year of the Moslem era); hence, any flight or exodus regarded as like that of Mohammed.

Heigh-ho

An exclamation of surprise, joy, dejection, uneasiness, weariness, etc.

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