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.
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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.
A domestic servant; a retainer.
One who hews.
The European green woodpecker. See Yaffle.
Felled, cut, or shaped as with an ax; roughly squared; as, a house built of hewn logs.
Having six stamens.
Having six hydrogen atoms or six radicals capable of being replaced or saturated by bases; -- said of acids; as, mellitic acid is hexabasic.
Having six capsules or seed vessels.
A series of six notes, with a semitone between the third and fourth, the other intervals being whole tones.
Having six atoms or radicals capable of being replaced by acids; hexatomic; hexavalent; -- said of bases; as, mannite is a hexacid base.
Having six-rayed spicules; belonging to the Hexactinellin/.
Belonging to the Hexactinellin/, a group of sponges, having six-rayed siliceous spicules.
The Anthozoa.
An atom whose valence is six, and which can be theoretically combined with, substituted for, or replaced by, six monad atoms or radicals; as, sulphur is a hexad in sulphuric acid. Also used as an adjective.
Having six fingers or toes.
A series of six numbers.
See Hecdecane.
A plane figure of six angles.
Having six sides and six angles; six-sided.
In an hexagonal manner.
A hexagon.
A figure of six lines A figure composed of two equal triangles intersecting so that each side of one triangle is parallel to a side of the other, and the six points coincide with those of a hexagon. In Chinese literature, one of the sixty-four figures formed of six parallel lines (continuous or broken), forming the basis of the I Ching (Yih King), or /Book of Changes./
A Linn/an order of plants having six pistils.
Having six pistils.
In the form of a hexahedron; having six sides or faces.
A solid body of six sides or faces.
In six parts; in sixes.
Having six metrical feet, especially dactyls and spondees.
Consisting of six metrical feet.
One who writes in hexameters.
A Linn/an class of plants having six stamens.
Any one of five hydrocarbons, C6H14, of the paraffin series. They are colorless, volatile liquids, and are so called because the molecule has six carbon atoms.
Having six angles or corners.
Having six petals.
Having six leaves or leaflets.
A collection of the Holy Scriptures in six languages or six versions in parallel columns; particularly, the edition of the Old Testament published by Origen, in the 3d century.
Having six feet. An animal having six feet; one of the Hexapoda.
The true, or six-legged, insects; insects other than myriapods and arachnids.
Having six feet; belonging to the Hexapoda.
Having six processes.
A poem consisting of six verses or lines.
Having six columns in front; -- said of a portico or temple. A hexastyle portico or temple.
The first six books of the Old Testament.
Having six atoms in the molecule. Having six replaceable radicals.
Having a valence of six; -- said of hexads.
The essential radical, C16H33, of hecdecane.
Pertaining to, or derived from, hexdecyl or hecdecane; as, hexdecylic alcohol.
A hydrocarbon, C26H54, resembling paraffine; -- so called because each molecule has twenty-six atoms of carbon.
Same as Hexylene.
The science which treats of the complex relations of living creatures to other organisms, and to their surrounding conditions generally.
A hydrocarbon, C6H10, of the acetylene series, obtained artificially as a colorless, volatile, pungent liquid; -- called also hexoylene.
A solid having forty-eight equal triangular faces.
Pertaining to, or derived from, hexane; as, hexoic acid.
an enzyme catalyzing the transfer of a phosphate residue from ATP to a hexose, as in the formation of glucose-6-phosphate from glucose.
A liquid hydrocarbon, C6H8, of the valylene series, obtained from distillation products of certain fats and gums.
Any member of a group of sugars containing six carbon atoms in the molecule. Some are widely distributed in nature, esp. in ripe fruits.
A univalent organic radical, C6H13-, regarded as the essential residue of hexane, and a related series of compounds.
A colorless, liquid hydrocarbon, C6H12, of the ethylene series, produced artificially, and found as a natural product of distillation of certain coals; also, any one several isomers of hexylene proper. Called also hexene.
Pertaining to, or derived from, hexyl or hexane; as, hexylic alcohol.
An exclamation of joy, surprise, or encouragement.
The time of triumph and exultation; hence, joy, high spirits, frolicsomeness; wildness.
A kind of country-dance or round.
High.
A wretch; a rascal.
Hence.
An electronic device that plays phonograph records, reproducing the original sound with a high degree of fidelity. It superseded the older phonographs, and itself is being displaced in popularity by CD players.
Act of gaping.
An opening; an aperture; a gap; a chasm; esp., a defect in a manuscript, where some part is lost or effaced; a space where something is wanting; a break.
A genus of evergreen heathlike or scandent shrubs of Madagascar, Australasia, and Polynesia.
That which serves for protection or shelter in winter; winter quarters; as, the hibernacle of an animal or a plant.
A winter bud, in which the rudimentary foliage or flower, as of most trees and shrubs in the temperate zone, is protected by closely overlapping scales.
Belonging or relating to winter; wintry; winterish.
To winter; to pass the season of winter in close quarters, in a torpid or lethargic state, as certain mammals, reptiles, and insects.
in a state of suspended animation; -- of animals that sleep most of the winter.
The act or state of hibernating.
Of or pertaining to Hibernia, now Ireland; Irish. A native or an inhabitant of Ireland.
An idiom or mode of speech peculiar to the Irish.
The native language of the Irish; that branch of the Celtic languages spoken by the natives of Ireland. Also adj.
A genus of plants (herbs, shrubs, or trees), some species of which have large, showy flowers. Some species are cultivated in India for their fiber, which is used as a substitute for hemp. See Althea, Hollyhock, and Manoe.
To have a hiccough or hiccoughs.
rural. Opposite of urban.
A device used to adapt a lighting fixture for mounting in an outlet box, or on a pipe.
An American tree of the genus Carya, of which there are several species. The shagbark is the Carya alba, and has a very rough bark; it affords the hickory nut of the markets. The pignut, or brown hickory, is the Carya glabra. The swamp hickory is Carya amara, having a nut whose shell is very thin and the kernel bitter.
A member or follower of the /liberal/ party, headed by Elias Hicks, which, because of a change of views respecting the divinity of Christ and the Atonement, seceded from the conservative portion of the Society of Friends in the United States, in 1827.
See Hiccough.
The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor) of Europe.
imp. p. p. of Hide. See Hidden.
A tax formerly paid to the kings of England for every hide of land.
A title, denoting a Spanish nobleman of the lower class.
from Hide. Concealed; put out of view; secret; not known; mysterious.
An emerald-green variety of spodumene found in North Carolina; lithia emerald, -- used as a gem.
In a hidden manner.
To flog; to whip.
A game played by children, in which one child (who is /it/) covers his eyes for a short time while the other players hide, and then the one who is /it/ tries to find the others.
a hiding place; usually a remote place used by outlaws.
Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back as not to be easily loosened or raised; -- said of an animal.
Frightful, shocking, or offensive to the eyes; dreadful to behold; as, a hideous monster; hideous looks.
a hiding place; usually a remote place used by outlaws.
One who hides or conceals.
A flogging.
Excretion of sweat; perspiration.
A medicine that causes perspiration; a diaphoretic or a sudorific.
Haste; diligence.
Winter.
A warming cathartic medicine, made of aloes and canella bark.
One who has high and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order; as, princely hierarchs.
Pertaining to a hierarch.
Of or pertaining to a hierarchy; ordered in a hierarchy.
The principles or authority of a hierarchy.
Dominion or authority in sacred things.
Consecrated to sacred uses; sacerdotal; pertaining to priests.
Government by ecclesiastics; a hierarchy.
In hieroglyphics.
One versed in hieroglyphics.
A form of sacred or hieratic writing.
Written in, or pertaining to, hierograms; expressive of sacred writing.
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