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Having, abounding in, or decked with, daisies. [Scot.] Sweeter than gowany glens or new-mown hay. Ramsay.

Resembling grains; granular.

A grandmother; a grandam; familiarly, an old woman. Granny's bend, or Granny's knot (Naut.), a kind of insecure knot or hitch; a reef knot crossed the wrong way.

us and C. capsularis), of India. The fiber is also used in the manufacture of cordage. Gunny bag, a sack made of gunny, used for coarse commodities.

Covered with gyrons, or divided so as to form several gyrons; - - said of an escutcheon.

A half-penny.

A plant described by Milton as "of sovereign use against all enchantments."

An English coin of the value of half a penny; also, the value of half a penny.

The just adaptation of parts to each other, in any system or combination of things, or in things, or things intended to form a connected whole; such an agreement between the different parts of a design or composition as to produce unity of effect; as, the harmony of the universe.

Leadership; preponderant influence or authority; -- usually applied to the relation of a government or state to its neighbors or confederates. Lieber.

Hemicranis.

Same as Ontogeny.

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

Heterogenesis.

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

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. J. Le Conte. -- Het"er*on"y*mous*ly, adv.

An abnormal state of the voice. Mayne.

A hexagon. [Obs.] Bramhall.

See Jeronymite.