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.

With hesitation or doubt.

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.

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.

That method of spelling in which the same letters represent different sounds in different words, as in the ordinary English orthography; e. g., g in get and in ginger.

Having females very unlike the males in form and structure; -- as certain insects, the males of which are winged, and the females wingless.

Characterized by heterology; consisting of different elements, or of like elements in different proportions; different; -- opposed to homologous; as, heterologous organs.

The absence of correspondence, or relation, in type of structure; lack of analogy between parts, owing to their being composed of different elements, or of like elements in different proportions; variation in structure from the normal form; -- opposed to homology.

A division of Coleoptera, having heteromerous tarsi.

Unrelated in chemical composition, though similar or indentical in certain other respects; as, borax and augite are hom/morphous, but heteromerous.

Deviating from the normal, perfect, or mature form; having different forms at different stages of existence, or in different individuals of the same species; -- applied especially to insects in which there is a wide difference of form between the larva and the adult, and to plants having more than one form of flower.

Heteromorphic.

The state or quality of being heteromorphic.

A division of bivalve shells, including the marine mussels, in which the two adductor muscles are very unequal. See Dreissena, and Illust. under Byssus.

A free-swimming, dimorphic, sexual form of certain species of Nereis.

Subject to the law of another.

Subordination or subjection to the law of another; political subjection of a community or state; -- opposed to autonomy.

That which is heteronymous; a thing having a different name or designation from some other thing; -- opposed to homonym.

Having different names or designations; standing in opposite relations.

One of those Arians who held that the Son was of a different substance from the Father.

See Heteroousian.

Of or pertaining to the method of heteropathy; allopathic.

That mode of treating diseases, by which a morbid condition is removed by inducing an opposite morbid condition to supplant it; allopathy.

Having each of the two flexor tendons of the toes bifid, the branches of one going to the first and second toes; those of the other, to the third and fourth toes. See Illust. in Append.

Altrices.

One liable to the fault of heterophemy.

The unconscious saying, in speech or in writing, of that which one does not intend to say; -- frequently the very reverse of the thought which is present to consciousness.

An abnormal state of the voice.

Having leaves of more than one shape on the same plant.

An abnormal formation foreign to the economy, and composed of elements different from those are found in it in its normal condition.

Producing a different type of organism; developing into a different form of tissue, as cartilage which develops into bone.

One of the Heteropoda. Heteropodous.

An order of pelagic Gastropoda, having the foot developed into a median fin. Some of the species are naked; others, as Carinaria and Atlanta, have thin glassy shells.

Of or pertaining to the Heteropoda.

One of the Heteroptera.

A suborder of Hemiptera, in which the base of the anterior wings is thickened. See Hemiptera.

False optics.

One who lives either north or south of the tropics, as contrasted with one who lives on the other side of them; -- so called because at noon the shadows always fall in opposite directions (the one northward, the other southward).

A figure of speech by which one form of a noun, verb, or pronoun, and the like, is used for another, as in the sentence: /What is life to such as me?/

An order of fishes, comprising the flounders, halibut, sole, etc., having the body and head asymmetrical, with both eyes on one side. Called also Heterosomata, Heterosomi.

Producing two kinds of spores unlike each other.

Having styles of two or more distinct forms or lengths.

The condition of being heterostyled.

Relating to, or characterized by, heterotaxy.

Variation in arrangement from that existing in a normal form; heterogenous arrangement or structure, as, in botany, the deviation in position of the organs of a plant, from the ordinary or typical arrangement.

A deviation from the natural position; -- a term applied in the case of organs or growths which are abnormal in situation.

A division of ciliated Infusoria, having fine cilia all over the body, and a circle of larger ones around the anterior end.

Having the embryo or ovule oblique or transverse to the funiculus; amphitropous.

Contempt; scorn.

A Cossack headman or general. The title of chief hetman is now held by the heir to the throne of Russia.

A genus of North American herbs with basal cordate or orbicular leaves and small panicled flowers.

A crag; a cliff; a glen with overhanging sides.

Variant of Huke.

A mineral of the Zeolite family, often occurring in amygdaloid, in foliated masses, and also in monoclinic crystals with pearly luster on the cleavage face. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime.

A heuristic method; a specific heuristic procedure.

In a heuristic manner; by using a heuristic method; by serving as a heuristic method; as, a heuristically guided search technique; a heuristically valuable theory.

A small genus of South American trees yielding latex. It includes the rubber tree, Hevea brasiliensis, originally found in South America, but now used for production of rubber world-wide.

The head.

Hue; color.