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.

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.

One of a party among the Jews, composed of partisans of Herod of Galilee. They joined with the Pharisees against Christ.

A division of wading birds, including the herons, storks, and allied forms. Called also Herodii.

A heroine.

Of or pertaining to, or like, a hero; of the nature of heroes; distinguished by the existence of heroes; as, the heroic age; an heroic people; heroic valor.

Heroic.

Heroism.

Combining the heroic and the ludicrous; denoting high burlesque; as, a heroicomic poem.

a morphine derivative, diacetyl morphine, used to relieve severe pain and as a sedative. It is highly addictive, and its use is strictly controlled in the U.S. by federal law. It is a popular strong narcotic drug of abuse, in part because it is more soluble than morphine. It is sometimes included as one of the components of Brompton's mixture, used to control pain in terminallly ill patients.

A woman of an heroic spirit.

The qualities characteristic of a hero, as courage, bravery, fortitude, unselfishness, etc.; the display of such qualities.

Any wading bird of the genus Ardea and allied genera, of the family Ardeidae. The herons have a long, sharp bill, and long legs and toes, with the claw of the middle toe toothed. The common European heron (Ardea cinerea) is remarkable for its directly ascending flight, and was formerly hunted with the larger falcons.

A hawk used in hunting the heron.

A place where herons breed.

A heronshaw.

A heron.

One who treats of heroes.

The character or personality of a hero.

An eruption of the skin, taking various names, according to its form, or the part affected, caused by a herpesvirus infection; especially, an eruption of vesicles in small distinct clusters, accompanied with itching or tingling, including shingles, ringworm, and the like; -- so called from its tendency to creep or spread from one part of the skin to another.

either of two forms of herpesvirus infection, distinguished as being caused by herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), which causes mostly sores and eruptions around the mouth (cold sores and fever blisters) and at other points above the waist, and herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2), causing genital herpes. HSV-1 is also known in some cases to cause genital herpes infections.

same as shingles; -- a form of herpes caused by the varicella-zoster virus.

same as varicella-zoster virus.

A genus of carnivores including the mongooses.

any of several dozen DNA-containing virus of the family Herpetoviridae, including among them such human-disease-causing agents as Herpes simplex virus causing oral and genital herpes, varicella-zoster virus (Herpes zoster virus) causing shingles and chickenpox (varicella), Epstein-Barr virus (EB virus) causing infectious mononucleosis, and Cytomegalovirus.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the herpes; partaking of the nature of herpes; as, herpetic eruptions.

See Dartrous diathesis, under Dartrous.

Pertaining to herpetology.

One versed in herpetology, or the natural history of reptiles.

The natural history of reptiles; that branch of Zoology which relates to reptiles, including their structure, classification, and habits.

One who dissects, or studies the anatomy of, reptiles.

The anatomy or dissection of reptiles.

A title of respect given to gentlemen in Germany, equivalent to the English Mister.

See Legislature, Austria, Prussia.

a race that considers itself superior to all others and fitted to rule the others; -- referred to especially in NAZI racial theories.

One of various species of fishes of the genus Clupea, and allied genera, esp. the common round or English herring (Clupea harengus) of the North Atlantic. Herrings move in vast schools, coming in spring to the shores of Europe and America, where they are salted and smoked in great quantities.

Pertaining to, or like, the spine of a herring; especially, characterized by an arrangement of work in rows of parallel lines, which in the alternate rows slope in different directions.

One of the Moravians; -- so called from the settlement of Herrnhut (the Lord's watch) made, about 1722, by the Moravians at the invitation of Nicholas Lewis, count of Zinzendorf, upon his estate in the circle of Bautzen.

See the Note under Her, pron.

Rehearsal.

See Uranus.

Of or relating to Sir William Herschel; as, the Herschelian telescope.

Same as Hearse, v. t.

An emphasized form of the third person feminine pronoun; -- used as a subject with she; as, she herself will bear the blame; also used alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, it is herself; she blames herself.

A beam with projecting spikes, used to make a breach impassable.

A hart.

A heart.

Hearty; heartily.

a unit of frequency equal to one cycle per second; it is abbreviated Hz. It is commonly used to specify the frequency of radio waves, and also the clock frequencies in digital computers. For these applications, kilohertz and megahertz are the most commonly used units, derived from hertz.

Of or pert. to the German physicist Heinrich Hertz.

To worship; to glorify; to praise.

A member of the highest rank of nobility in Germany and Austria, corresponding to the British duke.