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A native, or one of the people, of Greece; a Grecian; also, the language of Greece.

A native of Greenland.

Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation.

and having a shelly covering. They are strung like beads, and made into necklaces by the natives. -- Ground pig (Zoöl.), a large, burrowing, African rodent (Aulacodus Swinderianus) about two feet long, allied to the porcupines but with harsh, bristly hair, and no spines; -- called also ground rat. -- Ground pigeon (…

The fruit of the Arachis hypogæa (native country uncertain); the peanut; the earthnut.

andra palmarum), which lives in the pith of palm trees and sugar cane. It is eaten by the natives, and esteemed a delicacy.

A tussock moth (Ocneria dispar) native of the Old World, but accidentally introduced into eastern Massachusetts about 1869, where its caterpillars have done great damage to fruit, shade, and forest trees of many kinds. The male gypsy moth is yellowish brown, the female white, and larger than the male. In both sexes the…

See Have. Had as lief, Had rather, Had better, Had as soon, etc., with a nominative and followed by the infinitive without to, are well established idiomatic forms. The original construction was that of the dative with forms of be, followed by the infinitive. See Had better, under Better. And lever me is be pore and tr…

f leguminous plants containing but a single species, the H. Campechianum or logwood tree, native in Yucatan.

A variety of native Epsom salt occurring in silky fibers.

Native salt; sodium chloride.

ality of being handsome. Handsomeness is the mere animal excellence, beauty the mere imaginative. Hare.

A native or naturalized inhabitant of Hanover; one of the House of Hanover.

coin or specie, as distinguished from paper money. -- Hard oyster (Zoöl.), the northern native oyster. [Local, U. S.] - - Hard pan, the hard stratum of earth lying beneath the soil; hence, figuratively, the firm, substantial, fundamental part or quality of anything; as, the hard pan of character, of a matter in dispu…

Native sulphide of manganese a reddish brown or brownish black mineral.

A native or inhabitant, or the people, of Havana.

In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant. Havildar major, a native sergeant major in the East Indian army.

A native of Hawaii.

A native of Hayti. [Written also Haitian.]

Native barium sulphate or barite, -- so called because of its high specific gravity as compared with other non-metallic minerals.