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Ages, as contrasted with the habergeon, which is shorter and sometimes sleeveless. By old writers it is often used synonymously with habergeon. See Habergeon. [Written variously hauberg, hauberque, hawberk, etc.] Chaucer. Helm, nor hawberk's twisted mail. Gray.

, dull, inanimate, stupid; as, a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, and the like; a heavy writer or book. Whilst the heavy plowman snores. Shak. Of a heavy, dull, degenerate mind. Dryden. Neither [is] his ear heavy, that it can not hear. Is. lix. 1.

The system of logic and philosophy set forth by Hegel, a German writer (1770-1831).

The dialect, formed with slight variations from the Attic, which prevailed among Greek writers after the time of Alexander.

erly included the Proboscidea, Hyracoidea, Perissodactyla, and Artiodactyla, but by later writers it is generally restricted to the two latter groups (Ungulata). They feed almost exclusively upon vegetation.

One who writes on heresies.

One who writes in hexameters. "The Christian hexametrists." Milman.

A writer of hierograms; also, one skilled in hieroglyphics. Greenhill.

A famous Greek physician and medical writer, born in Cos, about 460 B. C. Hippocrates' sleeve, a conical strainer, made by stitching together two adjacent sides of a square piece of cloth, esp. flannel of linen.

A writer of history; a chronicler; an annalist. Even the historian takes great liberties with facts. Sir J. Reynolds.

An historian; a writer of history; especially, one appointed or designated to write a history; also, a title bestowed by some governments upon historians of distinction.

gs in heaven and earth do her [Law] homage. Hooker. I sought no homage from the race that write. Pope.

erinduced correspondence of position and structure in parts embryonically distinct (other writers using the term homoplasmy). Thus, there is homogeny between the fore limb of a mammal and the wing of a bird; but the right and left ventricles of the heart in both are only in homoplasy with each other, these having arise…

ffering from it in meaning and usually in spelling; as, all and awl; bare and bear; rite, write, right, and wright.

Urged on; hastened; going or working at speed; as, a hurried writer; a hurried life.

A writer of hymns.

One who writes on the subject of hymns.

to give the fleets to the winds. The hypallage, of which Virgil is fonder than any other writer, is much the gravest fault in language. Landor.

To speak or write with exaggeration. Bp. Montagu.

The nominative case of the pronoun of the first person; the word with which a speaker or writer denotes himself.