Of or pertaining to herbs; having the nature, texture, or characteristics, of an herb; as, herbaceous plants; an herbaceous stem.
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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.
To form the figures of plants in; -- said in reference to minerals. See Arborized.
A harbor.
Abounding with herbs.
Having the nature of, pertaining to, or covered with, herbs or herbage.
Not capable of self-fertilization; -- said of hermaphrodite flowers in which some structural obstacle forbids autogamy.
A hero, fabled to have been the son of Jupiter and Alcmena, and celebrated for great strength, esp. for the accomplishment of his twelve great tasks or /labors./
A densely spiny ornamental tree (Zanthoxylum clava-herculis) of the rue family, growing in southeast U. S. and West Indies.
Of or pertaining to an extensive forest in Germany, of which there are still portions in Swabia and the Hartz mountains.
To form or put into a herd.
A book containing the list and pedigrees of one or more herds of choice breeds of cattle; -- also called herd record, or herd register.
A herdsman.
A rare fluophosphate of glucina, in small white crystals.
A shepherdess; a female herder.
A herdsman.
A kind of low-hung cab.
The owner or keeper of a herd or of herds; one employed in tending a herd of cattle.
A woman who tends a herd.
In this place; in the place where the speaker is; -- opposed to there.
Of them; their.
At, or by reason of, this; as, he was offended hereat.
About this place; in this vicinity.
A future existence or state.
Hereafter.
By means of this.
State of being hereditable.
Capable of being inherited. See Inheritable.
By inheritance.
Any species of property that may be inherited; lands, tenements, anything corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, that may descend to an heir.
By inheritance; in an hereditary manner.
Descended, or capable of descending, from an ancestor to an heir at law; received or passing by inheritance, or that must pass by inheritance; as, an hereditary estate or crown.
Hereditary transmission of the physical and psychical qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants. See Pangenesis.
One of a breed of cattle originating in Herefordshire, England. The Herefords are good working animals, and their beef-producing quality is excellent.
From hence.
In this.
In the following part of this (writing, document, speech, and the like).
In the preceding part of this (writing, document, book, etc.).
Into this.
A hermit.
Of or pertaining to a hermit; solitary; secluded from society.
Made of hair.
Of this; concerning this; from this; hence.
On or upon this; hereupon.
Out of this.
A leader in heresy; the chief of a sect of heretics.
A chief or great heresy.
One who writes on heresies.
A treatise on heresy.
One who holds to a heresy; one who believes some doctrine contrary to the established faith or prevailing religion.
Containing heresy; of the nature of, or characterized by, heresy.
In an heretical manner.
To decide to be heresy or a heretic; to denounce as a heretic or heretical.
The act of hereticating or pronouncing heretical.
To this; hereunto.
Up to this time; hitherto; before; in time past.
The leader or commander of an army; also, a marshal.
Unto this; up to this time; hereto.
On this; hereon.
With this.
To praise; to worship.
Formerly, a payment or tribute of arms or military accouterments, or the best beast, or chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant; in modern use, a customary tribute of goods or chattels to the lord of the fee, paid on the decease of a tenant.
Subject to the payment of a heriot.
A beam or bar armed with iron spikes, and turning on a pivot; -- used to block up a passage.
The state of being heritable.
Capable of being inherited or of passing by inheritance; inheritable.
That which is inherited, or passes from heir to heir; inheritance.
Heritage; inheritance.
A proprietor or landholder in a parish.
Same as Harl, 2.
See Hermes, 2.
Hermaphrodism.
See Hermaphroditism.
Including, or being of, both sexes; as, an hermaphrodite animal or flower.
Partaking of the characteristics of both sexes; having male and female reproductive organs in the same plant or animal; characterized by hermaphroditism. Opposite of dioecious.
The union of the two sexes in the same individual, or the combination of some of their characteristics or organs in one individual.
Unfolding the signification; of or pertaining to interpretation; exegetical; explanatory; as, hermeneutic theology, or the art of expounding the Scriptures; a hermeneutic phrase.
According to the principles of interpretation; as, a verse of Scripture was examined hermeneutically.
The science of interpretation and explanation; exegesis; esp., that branch of theology which defines the laws whereby the meaning of the Scriptures is to be ascertained.
See Mercury.
Of, pertaining to, or taught by, Hermes Trismegistus; as, hermetic philosophy. Hence: Alchemical; chemic.
In an hermetical manner; chemically.
A person who retires from society and lives in solitude; a recluse; an anchoret; especially, one who so lives from religious motives.
The habitation of a hermit; a secluded residence.
A cell annexed to an abbey, for the use of a hermit.
A female hermit.
Pertaining to, or suited for, a hermit.
A heart-shaped bulbous root, about the size of a finger, brought from Turkey, formerly used as a cathartic.
A disciple of Hermogenes, an heretical teacher who lived in Africa near the close of the second century. He held matter to be the fountain of all evil, and that souls and spirits are formed of corrupt matter.
A heron; esp., the common European heron.
A thin silk or woolen goods, for women's dresses, woven in various styles and colors.
A corner.
A protrusion, consisting of an organ or part which has escaped from its natural cavity, and projects through some natural or accidental opening in the walls of the latter; as, hernia of the brain, of the lung, or of the bowels. Hernia of the abdominal viscera in most common. Called also rupture.
Of, or connected with, hernia.
A surgical procedure for the cure or relief of hernia; celotomy.
Heronshaw.
An illustrious man, supposed to be exalted, after death, to a place among the gods; a demigod, as Hercules.
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