From this time forward; henceforward.
From this time forward; from now into the indefinite future; henceforth.
A page; a servant.
An attendant; a servant; a follower. Now chiefly used as a political cant term.
A coop or cage for hens.
Skillful; dexterous; clever.
A plane figure of eleven sides and eleven angles.
A hydrocarbon, C11H24, of the paraffin series; -- so called because it has eleven atoms of carbon in each molecule. Called also endecane, undecane.
Pertaining to a line of eleven syllables.
A metrical line of eleven syllables.
Undecylic; pertaining to, or derived from, hendecane; as, hendecatoic acid.
A figure in which the idea is expressed by two nouns connected by and, instead of by a noun and limiting adjective; as, we drink from cups and gold, for golden cups.
See Hende.
Hence.
A marine fish; the sea bream. A young bib. See Bib, n., 2.
Hung.
A house or shelter for fowls.
A cotquean; a man who intermeddles with women's concerns.
See Jeniquen.
An inclosed place for keeping hens.
Hence.
Pertaining to, or designating, a brown resinous substance resembling tannin, and extracted from the henna plant; as, hennotannic acid.
Same as Ontogeny.
Primitive religion in which each of several divinities is regarded as independent, and is worshiped without reference to the rest.
Harmonizing; irenic.
A place where hens roost.
The unit of electric induction; the induction in a circuit when the electro-motive force induced in this circuit is one volt, while the inducing current varies at the rate of one amp/re a second.
To seize; to lay hold on; to catch; to get.
A coarse, blackish seaweed. See Badderlocks.
Henchman.
an enclosed yard for keeping poultry.
A call used by drill instructors to count cadence during marching; used identically to hut and hup.
Liver of sulphur; a substance of a liver-brown color, sometimes used in medicine. It is formed by fusing sulphur with carbonates of the alkalies (esp. potassium), and consists essentially of alkaline sulphides. Called also hepar sulphuris (/).
Of or pertaining to the liver; as, hepatic artery; hepatic diseases.
Hepatic.
A variety of barite emitting a fetid odor when rubbed or heated.
Inflammation of the liver.
Impregnating with sulphureted hydrogen gas.
To impregnate with sulphureted hydrogen gas, formerly called hepatic gas.
A digestive gland in Crustacea, Mollusca, etc., usually called the liver, but different from the liver of vertebrates.
Hernia of the liver.
Of or pertaining to the liver and gall bladder; as, the hepatocystic ducts.
See Gastrohepatic.
Arising from the liver; due to a condition of the liver; as, hepatogenic jaundice.
The science which treats of the liver; a treatise on the liver.
Of or pertaining to the liver and kidneys; as, the hepatorenal ligament.
Divination by inspecting the liver of animals.
One who performs jazz music.
Designating a light and elegant style developed in England under George III., chiefly by Messrs. A. Heppelwhite Co.
Neat; fit; comfortable.
A young salmon; a parr.
A system of seven sounds. A lyre with seven chords.
An atom which has a valence of seven, and which can be theoretically combined with, substituted for, or replaced by, seven monad atoms or radicals; as, iodine is a heptad in iodic acid. Also used as an adjective.
The sum or number of seven.
A book in seven languages.
A plane figure consisting of seven sides and having seven angles.
Having seven angles or sides.
A Linnaean order of plants having seven pistils.
Having seven pistils.
A solid figure with seven sides.
Consisting of seven parts, or having the parts in sets of sevens.
A Linnaean class of plants having seven stamens.
Having seven stamens.
Any one of several isometric hydrocarbons, C7H16, of the paraffin series (nine are possible, four are known); -- so called because the molecule has seven carbon atoms. Specifically, a colorless liquid, found as a constituent of petroleum, in the tar oil of cannel coal, etc.
Having seven angles.
Having seven leaves.
Same as Heptarchist.
Of or pertaining to a heptarchy; constituting or consisting of a heptarchy.
A ruler of one division of a heptarchy.
A government by seven persons; also, a country under seven rulers.
Having seven seeds.
A composition consisting of seven lines or verses.
The first seven books of the Testament.
Having seven units of attractive force or affinity; -- said of heptad elements or radicals.
Same as Heptylene.
Any one of a series of unsaturated metameric hydrocarbons, C7H12, of the acetylene series.
Pertaining to, or derived from, heptane; as, heptoic acid.
A liquid hydrocarbon, C7H10, of the valylene series.
A compound radical, C7H15, regarded as the essential radical of heptane and a related series of compounds.
A colorless liquid hydrocarbon, C7H14, of the ethylene series; also, any one of its isomers. Called also heptene.
Pertaining to, or derived from, heptyl or heptane; as, heptylic alcohol. Cf. /nanthylic.
The form of the objective and the possessive case of the personal pronoun she; as, I saw her with her purse out.
A follower of Heracleon of Alexandria, a Judaizing Gnostic, in the early history of the Christian church.
A picrate compound, used as an explosive in blasting.
To introduce, or give tidings of, as by a herald; to proclaim; to announce; to foretell; to usher in.
widely publicized; as, the royal couple's much heralded world tour.
Of or pertaining to heralds or heraldry; as, heraldic blazoning; heraldic language.
In an heraldic manner; according to the rules of heraldry.
of or pertaining to heraldry.
The art or office of a herald; the art, practice, or science of recording genealogies, and blazoning arms or ensigns armorial; also, of marshaling cavalcades, processions, and public ceremonies.
The office of a herald.
The sulphate of iodoquinine, a substance crystallizing in thin plates remarkable for their effects in polarizing light.
A herald.
A plant whose stem does not become woody and permanent, but dies, at least down to the ground, after flowering.
A woman that sells herbs.
Of or pertaining to herbs; having the nature, texture, or characteristics, of an herb; as, herbaceous plants; an herbaceous stem.
Covered with grass.
A book containing the names and descriptions of plants.
The knowledge of herbs.
One skilled in the knowledge of plants; a collector of, or dealer in, herbs, especially medicinal herbs.
An herb.
A herbalist.
A herbalist.
A collection of dried specimens of plants, systematically arranged.
See Herborize.
A garden of herbs; a cottage garden.
A garden; a pleasure garden.
Harborage; lodging; shelter; harbor.
A harbinger.
A harbor.
Growing into herbs.
Covered with herbs.
Bearing herbs or vegetation.
A herbalist.
An extensive division of Mammalia. It formerly included the Proboscidea, Hyracoidea, Perissodactyla, and Artiodactyla, but by later writers it is generally restricted to the two latter groups (Ungulata). They feed almost exclusively upon vegetation.
One of the Herbivora.
Eating plants; of or pertaining to the Herbivora.
Destitute of herbs or of vegetation.
A small herb.
A herbalist.
The act of herborizing.