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.

The act of hesitating, or pausing to consider; slowness in deciding; vacillation; also, the manner of one who hesitates.

Not prompt in deciding or acting; hesitating.

With hesitancy or doubt.

To utter with hesitation or to intimate by a reluctant manner.

one who hesitates.

holding back because of doubt or lack of confidence.

The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation.

Showing, or characterized by, hesitation.

Hesitating.

A measure of two hanks of linen thread.

The evening; Hesperus.

A white, crystalline substance having a sweetish taste, obtained by the decomposition of hesperidin, and regarded as a complex derivative of caffeic acid.

Of or pertaining to a family of butterflies called Hesperidae, or skippers. Any one of the numerous species of Hesperidae; a skipper.

Same as 3d Hesperian.

An isomeric variety of terpene from orange oil.

A glucoside found in ripe and unripe fruit (as the orange), and extracted as a white crystalline substance.

A large berry with a thick rind, as a lemon or an orange.

A genus of large, extinct, wingless birds from the Cretaceous deposits of Kansas, belonging to the Odontornithes. They had teeth, and were essentially carnivorous swimming ostriches. Several species are known. See Illust. in Append.

Venus when she is the evening star; Hesper.

A native or inhabitant of Hesse.

A lead-gray sectile mineral. It is a telluride of silver.

Command; precept; injunction.

Pertaining to yesterday.

One of a mystical sect of the Greek Church in the fourteenth century; a quietist.

A female paramour; a mistress, concubine, or harlot.

A supposed primitive state of society, in which all the women of a tribe were held in common.

Same as Hatchel.

Variant of Hote.

Having the spines of the dorsal fin unsymmetrical, or thickened alternately on the right and left sides.

The government of an alien.

Unequal growth of a cell, or of a part of a plant.

The power of producing two kinds of reproductive bodies, as in the hog peanut Amphicarpaea bracteata (photo by Daniel Reed (daniel@2bnthewild.com) from http://www.2bnthewild.com), in which besides the usual pods produced from flowers above ground, there are others underground. In the hog peanut the above-ground flowers are all creamy white or tinged with purple, as in the photo.

Characterized by heterocarpism.

Bearing two kinds of heads or capitula; -- said of certain composite plants.

A division of Lepidoptera, including the moths, and hawk moths, which have the antenn/ variable in form.

Having the vertebral column evidently continued into the upper lobe of the tail, which is usually longer than the lower one, as in sharks.

Unequal development of the tail lobes of fishes; the possession of a heterocercal tail.

Having the central florets of a flower head of a different color from those of the circumference.

In evolution, a deviation from the typical sequence in the formation of organs or parts.

A word which is irregular or anomalous either in declension or conjugation, or which deviates from ordinary forms of inflection in words of a like kind; especially, a noun which is irregular in declension.

Deviating from ordinary forms or rules; irregular; anomalous; abnormal.

Heteroclitic.

A cell larger than the others, and of different appearance, occurring in certain alg/ related to nostoc.

Heterodactylous. One of the Heterodactyl/.

A group of birds including the trogons.

Having the first and second toes turned backward, as in the trogons.

Any animal with heterodont dentition.

An opinion opposed to some accepted standard.

Not orthodox.

An opinion or doctrine, or a system of doctrines, contrary to some established standard of faith, as the Scriptures, the creed or standards of a church, etc.; heresy.

Having spirals of changing direction.

Passing through the different stages in its life history on an alternation of hosts, as the common wheat-rust fungus (Puccinia graminis), and certain other parasitic fungi; -- contrasted with aut/cious.

The condition of having two or more kinds of flowers which differ in regard to stamens and pistils, as in the aster. Characterized by heterogamy.

Having the ganglia of the nervous system unsymmetrically arranged; -- said of certain invertebrate animals.

Heterogenous.

Heterogeneous.

The state of being heterogeneous; contrariety.

Differing in kind; having unlike qualities; possessed of different characteristics; dissimilar; -- opposed to homogeneous, and said of two or more connected objects, or of a conglomerate mass, considered in respect to the parts of which it is made up.

Spontaneous generation, so called.

Relating to heterogenesis; as, heterogenetic transformations.

One who believes in the theory of spontaneous generation, or heterogenesis.

Of or pertaining to heterogenesis; heterogenetic.

Heterogenesis.

Characterized by heterogony.

The condition of having two or more kinds of flowers, different as to the length of their stamens and pistils.

Employing the same letters to represent different sounds in different words or syllables; -- said of methods of spelling; as, the ordinary English orthography is heterographic.