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.

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.

Born under a hedge; of low birth.

Same as Haybote.

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

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.

Having no hedge.

A young hedgehog.

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

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

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

Pertaining to pleasure.

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

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

One who believes in hedonism.

Same as Hedonic, 2.

A genus of herbs of Northern temperate regions.

a loud laugh that sounds like a horse neighing.

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

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

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

Heedful.

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

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

A cock that strikes well with his heels or spurs.

Without a heel.

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

A piece of armor to protect the heels.

The post supporting the outer end of a propeller shaft.

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

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

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

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.

The hip of the dog-rose.

Hair.

To heave up; to raise aloft.

Moderately heavy.

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

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

Pertaining to Hegelianism. A follower of Hegel.

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

Leading; controlling; ruling; predominant.

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

A hedge.

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.

A young cow.

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

The condition of being high; elevated position.

To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.

One who, or that which, heightens.

a high place; the high part of a district; as, he doesn't like heights.

god of dawn and light; guardian of Asgard.

Same as Heimdal.

Same as Heimdal.

The buttocks; -- a word used with children.

Hateful; hatefully bad; flagrant; odious; atrocious; giving great offense; -- applied to deeds or to character.

the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane.

To inherit; to succeed to.

The state of an heir; succession by inheritance.

A female heir.

Any 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 generations.

The state, character, or privileges of an heir; right of inheriting.

See Hegira.

See Hectograph.

Same as Hectare, Hectogram, Hectoliter, and Hectometer.

See Jumping hare, under Hare.

The act or process of repairing lesions made by ulcers, especially by a plastic operation.

imp. p. p. of Hold.

To hide; to cover; to roof.

See St. Elmo's fire, under Saint.

A neutral organic substance found in the root of the elecampane (Inula helenium), and extracted as a white crystalline or oily material, with a slightly bitter taste.

A genus comprising the cactus wrens; one of several alternative classifications.

Heliacal.

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.

In a heliacal manner.

An artificial, orange dyestuff, analogous to tropaolin, and like it used as an indicator in alkalimetry; -- called also methyl orange.

Of or pertaining to the Helianthoidea.

An order of Anthozoa; the Actinaria.

any plant of the genus Helianthus having large flower heads with dark disk florets and showy yellow rays.

Of or pertaining to, or in the form of, a helix; spiral; as, a helical staircase; a helical spring.

A genus of composite plants, with shining, commonly white or yellow, or sometimes reddish, radiated involucres, which are often called /everlasting flowers./

Having the form of a helix; spiral.

A glucoside obtained as a white crystalline substance by partial oxidation of salicin, from a willow (Salix Helix of Linnaeus.)

Curled; spiral; helicoid; -- applied esp. to certain arteries of the penis.

An instrument for drawing spiral lines on a plane.

A warped surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner that every point of the line shall have a uniform motion in the direction of another fixed straight line, and at the same time a uniform angular motion about it.

Same as Helicoid.

A mountain in B/otia, in Greece, supposed by the Greeks to be the residence of Apollo and the Muses.

One of numerous species of Heliconius, a genus of tropical American butterflies. The wings are usually black, marked with green, crimson, and white.

Of or pertaining to Helicon.

to transport in a helicopter.

The opening by which the two scalae communicate at the top of the cochlea of the ear.

pertaining to the sun's center, or appearing to be seen from it; having, or relating to, the sun as a center; -- opposed to geocentrical.

A photograph in colors.

Pertaining to, or produced by, heliochromy.

The art of producing photographs in color.

A message transmitted by a heliograph.

To telegraph, or signal, with a heliograph.

Of or pertaining to a description of the sun.

The description of the sun.

The process of photographic engraving.

A worshiper of the sun.

Sun worship. See Sabianism.

A fossil coral of the genus Heliolites, having twelve-rayed cells. It is found in the Silurian rocks.

An instrument devised originally for measuring the diameter of the sun; now employed for delicate measurements of the distance and relative direction of two stars too far apart to be easily measured in the field of view of an ordinary telescope.

Of or pertaining to the heliometer, or to heliometry.

The apart or practice of measuring the diameters of heavenly bodies, their relative distances, etc. See Heliometer.

An East Indian stony coral now known to belong to the Alcyonaria; -- called also blue coral.

A telescope or instrument for viewing the sun without injury to the eyes, as through colored glasses, or with mirrors which reflect but a small portion of light.

An instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, by which a sunbeam is made apparently stationary, by being steadily directed to one spot during the whole of its diurnal period; also, a geodetic heliotrope.

An instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line.

The person at a geodetic station who has charge of the heliotrope.

Manifesting heliotropism; turning toward the sun.

The phenomenon of turning toward the light, seen in many leaves and flowers.

A picture obtained by the process of heliotypy.

Relating to, or obtained by, heliotypy.

A method of transferring pictures from photographic negatives to hardened gelatin plates from which impressions are produced on paper as by lithography.

An order of fresh-water rhizopods having a more or less globular form, with slender radiating pseudopodia; the sun animalcule.

an airport for helicopters.

genus of South African and Australian herbs or shrubs grown as everlastings; the various Helipterum species are currently in process of being assigned to other genera, especially Pteropogon and Hyalosperma.