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With the head foremost.

Most advanced; most forward; as, the headmost ship in a fleet.

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

The post to which a gate or door is hinged.

An instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, by which a sunbeam is made apparently stationary, by being steadily directed to one spot during the whole of its diurnal period; also, a geodetic heliotrope.

Of or relating to stagnation of the blood.

A place where hens roost.

Having styles of two or more distinct forms or lengths. Darwin.

The condition of being heterostyled.

Highest. [Obs.] Shak.

Furthest in or toward the rear; last. "Rachel and Joseph hindermost." Gen. xxxiii. 2.

The language of Hindostan; the name given by Europeans to the most generally spoken of the modern Aryan languages of India. It is Hindi with the addition of Persian and Arabic words.

Nearest on this side. Sir M. Hale.

The white particles formed by the congelation of dew; white frost. [Written also horefrost. See Hoar, a.] He scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. Ps. cxlvii. 16.

Pertaining to the Holostei.

An extensive division of ganoids, including the gar pike, bowfin, etc.; the bony ganoids. See Illustration in Appendix.

Wholly solid; -- said of a barometer constructed of solid materials to show the variations of atmospheric pressure without the use of liquids, as the aneroid.

An artificial division of gastropods, including those that have an entire aperture.

Same as Holostomatous.

Having an entire aperture; -- said of many univalve shells.