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The condition of being high; elevated position. Behold the height of the stars, how high they are! Job xxii. 12.

To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.

One who, or that which, heightens.

atrocious; giving great great offense; -- applied to deeds or to character. It were most heinous and accursed sacrilege. Hooker. How heinous had the fact been, how deserving Contempt! Milton.

One who inherits, or is entitled to succeed to the possession of, any property after the death of its owner; one on whom the law bestows the title or property of another at the death of the latter. I am my father's heir and only son. Shak.

The state of an heir; succession by inheritance. Burke.

, A female heir.

Destitute of an heir. Shak.

Any furniture, movable, or personal chattel, which by law or special custom descends to the heir along with the inheritance; any piece of personal property that has been in a family for several generations. Woe to him whose daring hand profanes The honored heirlooms of his ancestors. Moir.

The state, character, or privileges of an heir; right of inheriting. Heirship movables, certain kinds of movables which the heir is entitled to take, besides the heritable estate. [Scot.]

See Hegira.

Same as Hectare, Hectogram, Hectoliter, and Hectometer.

See Hectograph.

See Jumping hare, under Hare.

The act or process of repairing lesions made by ulcers, especially by a plastic operation.

imp. & p. p. of Hold.

Health; welfare. [Obs.] "In joy and perfyt hele." Chaucer.

See St. Elmo's fire, under Saint.

A neutral organic substance found in the root of the elecampane (Inula helenium), and extracted as a white crystalline or oily material, with a slightly bitter taste.

Heliacal.