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The Helots, collectively; slaves; bondsmen. "The Helotry of Mammon." Macaulay.

A semicircular place, as a semicircular arena, or room, or part of a room. The collections will be displayed in the hemicycle of the central pavilion. London Academy.

Herbs collectively; green food beasts; grass; pasture. "Thin herbage in the plaims." Dryden.

A collection of specimens of plants, dried and preserved; a hortus siccus; an herbarium. Steele.

One skilled in the knowledge of plants; a collector of, or dealer in, herbs, especially medicinal herbs.

A collection of dried specimens of plants, systematically arranged. Gray.

A collection of the Holy Scriptures in six languages or six versions in parallel columns; particularly, the edition of the Old Testament published by Origen, in the 3d century.

Highlanders, collectively.

To collect into a hive; to place in, or cause to enter, a hive; as, to hive a swarm of bees.

One who collects bees into a hive.

To collect and lay up; to amass and deposit in secret; to store secretly, or for the sake of keeping and accumulating; as, to hoard grain.

Harshness or roughness of voice or sound, due to mucus collected on the vocal cords, or to swelling or looseness of the cords.

Of or pert. to the arctic regions collectively; specif. (Zoögeography),

A lamp with lenses or reflectors to collect the rays of light and throw them in a given direction; -- used in lighthouses.

life. As I have heard my father Deal out in his long homilies. Byron. Book of Homilies. A collection of authorized, printed sermons, to be read by ministers in churches, esp. one issued in the time of Edward VI., and a second, issued in the reign of Elizabeth; -- both books being certified to contain a "godly and whole…

A sweet viscid fluid, esp. that collected by bees from flowers of plants, and deposited in the cells of the honeycomb.

Any bee of the genus Apis, which lives in communities and collects honey, esp. the common domesticated hive bee (Apis mellifica), the Italian bee (A. ligustica), and the Arabiab bee (A. fasciata). The two latter are by many entomologists considered only varieties of the common hive bee. Each swarm of bees consists of a…

A collector of customs, as at Canton; an overseer of commerce.

air of a horse, especially one from the mane or tail; the hairs of the mane or tail taken collectively; a fabric or tuft made of such hairs. Horsehair worm (Zoöl.), the hair worm or gordius.

A collection of specimens of plants, dried and preserved, and arranged systematically; an herbarium.