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party among the Jews, composed of partisans of Herod of Galilee. They joined with the Pharisees against Christ.

Worthy of a hero; bold; daring; brave; illustrious; as, heroic action; heroic enterprises.

An exclamation of joy, surprise, or encouragement. Shak.

To rise; as, the sun higheth. [Obs.]

A stroke of success in an enterprise, as by a fortunate chance; as, he made a hit. What late he called a blessing, now was wit, And God's good providence, a lucky hit. Pope.

y-toity spirits, or to assume hoity-toity airs; used also as an exclamation, denoting surprise or disapprobation, with some degree of contempt. Hoity-toity! What have I to do with dreams Congreve.

ating a realm or region including the northern parts of the Old and the New World. It comprises the Palearctic and Nearctic regions or subregions.

Homogenous; -- applied to that class of homologies which arise from similarity of structure, and which are taken as evidences of common ancestry.

left ventricles of the heart in both are only in homoplasy with each other, these having arisen independently since the divergence of both groups from a univentricular ancestor.

To rise; to swell; to heave; to cause to swell. [Obs. or Scot.] Holland. Burns.

A rounded knoll or hillock; a rise of ground of no great extent, above a level surface.

An exclamation denoting surprise, or contempt, doubt, etc.

An aëroplane with a boatlike or other understructure that enables it to travel on, or to rise from the surface of, a body of water by its own motive power.

e boat, which by being elevated or depressed cause the boat, when going ahead, to sink or rise, after the manner of an aëroplane.

Hence, anything exceeding the ordinary standard. When a man rises beyond six foot, he is an hypermeter. Addison.

nd hence was considered sacred by the ancient Egyptians. The common species of India (H. griseus), known as the mongoose, has similar habits and is often domesticated. It is noted for killing the cobra.

th ignominy; in curring public disgrace; dishonorable; shameful. Then first with fear surprised and sense of pain, Fled ignominious. Milton.

scinating and charning; enchantment; witchery; glamour. Ye soft illusions, dear deceits, arise! Pope.

Tacitly comprised; fairly to be understood, though not expressed in words; implied; as, an implicit contract or agreement. South.

To refer, ascribe, or attribute. [Obs.] Whence might this distaste arise If [from] neither your perverse and peevish will. To which I most imply it. J. Webster.