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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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HEBRAICALLY adv.
After the manner of the Hebrews or of the Hebrew language.
HEBRAISM n. 2 definitions
A Hebrew idiom or custom; a peculiar expression or manner of speaking in the Hebrew language. Addison.
HEBRAIST n.
One versed in the Hebrew language and learning.
HEBRAISTIC a.
Pertaining to, or resembling, the Hebrew language or idiom.
HEBRAISTICALLY adv.
In a Hebraistic sense or form. Which is Hebraistically used in the New Testament. Kitto.
HEBRAIZE v. 2 definitions
To convert into the Hebrew idiom; to make Hebrew or Hebraistic. J. R. Smith.
HEBREW n. 3 definitions
An appellative of Abraham or of one of his descendants, esp. in the line of Jacob; an Israelite; a Jew. There came one that had escaped and told Abram the Hebrew. Gen. xiv. 13.
HEBREW CALENDAR n.
= Jewish calendar.
HEBREWESS n.
An Israelitish woman.
HEBRICIAN n.
A Hebraist. [R.]
HEBRIDEAN; HEBRIDIAN a. 2 definitions
Of or pertaining to the islands called Hebrides, west of Scotland. -- n.
HECATOMB n.
A sacrifice of a hundred oxen or cattle at the same time; hence, the sacrifice or slaughter of any large number of victims. Slaughtered hecatombs around them bleed. Addison. More than a human hecatomb. Byron.
HECATOMPEDON n.
A name given to the old Parthenon at Athens, because measuring 100 Greek feet, probably in the width across the stylobate.
HECDECANE n.
A white, semisolid, spermaceti-like hydrocarbon, C16H34, of the paraffin series, found dissolved as an important ingredient of kerosene, and so called because each molecule has sixteen atoms of carbon; -- called also hexadecane.
HECK n. 6 definitions
The bolt or latch of a door. [Prov. Eng.]
HECKERISM n.
The teaching of Isaac Thomas Hecker (1819-88), which interprets Catholicism as promoting human aspirations after liberty and truth, and as the religion best suited to the character and institutions of the American people. (b) Improperly, certain views or principles erroneously ascribed to Father Hecker in a French tran…
HECKIMAL n.
The European blue titmouse (Parus coeruleus). [Written also heckimel, hackeymal, hackmall, hagmall, and hickmall.]
HECKLE n.
Same as Hackle.
HECTARE n.
A measure of area, or superficies, containing a hundred ares, or 10,000 square meters, and equivalent to 2.471 acres.
HECTIC a. 4 definitions
itutional; pertaining especially to slow waste of animal tissue, as in consumption; as, a hectic type in disease; a hectic flush.
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