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Changed into a hectocotylus; having a hectocotylis.

One of the arms of the male of most kinds of cephalopods, which is specially modified in various ways to effect the fertilization of the eggs. In a special sense, the greatly modified arm of Argonauta and allied genera, which, after receiving the spermatophores, becomes detached from the male, and attaches itself to th…

A measure of weight, containing a hundred grams, or about 3.527 ounces avoirdupois.

The same as Hectogram.

multiple copying, by means of a surface of gelatin softened with glycerin. [Written also hectograph.]

A measure of liquids, containing a hundred liters; equal to a tenth of a cubic meter, nearly 26

A measure of length, equal to a hundred meters. It is equivalent to 328.09 feet.

To treat with insolence; to threaten; to bully; hence, to torment by words; to tease; to taunt; to worry or irritate by bullying. Dryden.

The disposition or the practice of a hector; a bullying. [R.]

Resembling a hector; blustering; insolent; taunting. "Hectorly, ruffianlike swaggering or huffing." Barrow.

A measure of solidity, containing one hundred cubic meters, and equivalent to 3531.66 English or 3531.05 United States cubic feet.

One of the sets of parallel doubled threads which, with mounting, compose the harness employed to guide the warp threads to the lathe or batten in a loom.

The eye or loop formed in each heddle to receive a warp thread.

The act of drawing the warp threads through the heddle-eyes of a weaver's harness; the harness itself. Knight.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, ivy.

Of or pertaining to ivy.

Pertaining to, or derived from, the ivy (Hedera); as, hederic acid, an acid of the acetylene series.

Producing ivy; ivy-bearing.

Pertaining to, or of, ivy; full of ivy.

A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden. The rou…