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of the simple vowels a, i, e, by prefixing an a element. The term is sometimes used to denote the same vowel change in other languages.

Pertaining to a natural order of trees and shrubs (Guttiferæ) noted for their abounding in a resinous sap.

, short stockings; socks. -- Half measure, an imperfect or weak line of action. -- Half note (Mus.), a minim, one half of a semibreve. -- Half pay, half of the wages or salary; reduced pay; as, an officer on half pay. -- Half price, half the ordinary price; or a price much reduced. -- Half round. (a) (Arch.) A mol…

A merchant of one of the Hanse towns. See the Note under 2d Hanse.

A musical note produced by a number of vibrations which is a multiple of the number producing some other; an overtone. See Harmonics.

points, lines. motions, and the like. Harmonic interval (Mus.), the distance between two notes of a chord, or two consonant notes. -- Harmonical mean (Arith. & Alg.), certain relations of numbers and quantities, which bear an analogy to musical consonances. -- Harmonic motion, the motion of the point A, of the foot…

A small, flat, wind instrument of music, in which the notes are produced by the vibration of free metallic reeds.

A stag; the male of the red deer. See the Note under Buck. Goodliest of all the forest, hart and hind. Milton.

ing human beings and preserving their heads as trophies. The Dyaks of Borneo are the most noted head-hunters. -- Head"-hunt`ing, n.

A short note, equal to one fourth of a semiquaver, or the sixty-fourth part of a whole note.

-tight by fusion, so that no gas or spirit can enter or escape; as, an hermetic seal. See Note under Hermetically. Hermetic art, alchemy. -- Hermetic books. (a) Books of the Egyptians, which treat of astrology. (b) Books which treat of universal principles, of the nature and orders of celestial beings, of medicine, an…

See the Note under Her, pr.

A prefix or combining form, used to denote six, sixth, etc.; as, hexatomic, hexabasic.

A series of six notes, with a semitone between the third and fourth, the other intervals being whole tones.

Acute or sharp; -- opposed to grave or low; as, a high note.

The note of a goose when irritated.

with; to be conformable to; to suit. Birds learning tunes, and their endeavors to hit the notes right. Locke. There you hit him; . . . that argument never fails with him. Dryden. Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight. Milton. He scarcely hit my humor. Tennyson.

The payee of a bill of exchange or a promissory note, or the one who owns or holds it.

The burden or chorus of a song. [Obs.] Shak. Holding note (Mus.), a note sustained in one part, while the other parts move.

descent; -- a term used to supersede homology by Lankester, who also used homoplasy to denote any superinduced 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 ri…