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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.

Height

The condition of being high; elevated position.

Heighten

To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.

heights

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

Heimdal

god of dawn and light; guardian of Asgard.

heinie

The buttocks; -- a word used with children.

Heinous

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

heinousness

the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane.

Heir

To inherit; to succeed to.

Heirdom

The state of an heir; succession by inheritance.

Heirloom

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.

Heirship

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

Helamys

See Jumping hare, under Hare.

Helcoplasty

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

Held

imp. p. p. of Hold.

Hele

To hide; to cover; to roof.

Helena

See St. Elmo's fire, under Saint.

Helenin

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.

Heleodytes

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.

Helianthin

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

helianthus

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

Helical

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

Helichrysum

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

Helicin

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

Helicine

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

Helicograph

An instrument for drawing spiral lines on a plane.

Helicoid

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.

Helicon

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

Heliconia

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

Helicotrema

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

Heliocentrical Heliocentric

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.

Heliogram

A message transmitted by a heliograph.

Heliograph

To telegraph, or signal, with a heliograph.

Heliolite

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

Heliometer

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.

Heliometry

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

Heliopora

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

Helioscope

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.

Heliostat

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.

Heliotrope

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

Heliotroper

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

Heliotropic

Manifesting heliotropism; turning toward the sun.

Heliotropism

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

Heliotype

A picture obtained by the process of heliotypy.

Heliotypy

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

Heliozoa

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

Helipterum

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.

Helium

An inert, monoatomic, gaseous element occurring in the atmosphere of the sun and stars, and in small quantities in the earth's atmosphere, in several minerals and in certain mineral waters. It is obtained from natural gas in industrial quantities. Symbol, He; atomic number 2; at. wt., 4.0026 (C=12.011). Helium was first detected spectroscopically in the sun by Lockyer in 1868; it was first prepared by Ramsay in 1895. Helium has a density of 1.98 compared with hydrogen, and is more difficult to liquefy than the latter. Chemically, it is an inert noble gas, belonging to the argon group, and cannot be made to form compounds. The helium nucleus is the charged particle which constitutes alpha rays, and helium is therefore formed as a decomposition product of certain radioactive substances such as radium. The normal helium nucleus has two protons and two neutrons, but an isotope with only one neutron is also observed in atmospheric helium at an abundance of 0.013 %. Liquid helium has a boiling point of -268.9/ C at atmospheric pressure, and is used for maintaining very low temperatures, both in laboratory experimentation and in commercial applications to maintain superconductivity in low-temperature superconducting devices. Gaseous helium at normal temperatures is used for buoyancy in blimps, dirigibles, and high-altitude balloons, and also for amusement in party balloons.

Helix

A nonplane curve whose tangents are all equally inclined to a given plane. The common helix is the curve formed by the thread of the ordinary screw. It is distinguished from the spiral, all the convolutions of which are in the plane.

hell-bent

recklessly determined; as, hell-bent on winning.

Hellbender

A large North American aquatic salamander (Protonopsis horrida or Menopoma Alleghaniensis). It is very voracious and very tenacious of life. Also called alligator, and water dog.

Hellbroth

A composition for infernal purposes; a magical preparation.

Helleborein

A poisonous glucoside accompanying helleborin in several species of hellebore, and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a bittersweet taste. It has a strong action on the heart, resembling digitalin.

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