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A marine fish; the sea bream.

Hung. Chaucer.

A house or shelter for fowls.

A cotquean; a man who intermeddles with women's concerns.

See Jeniquen.

The leaves of the henna plant, or a preparation or dyestuff made from them.

An inclosed place for keeping hens. [U. S.]

Hence. [Obs.] Chaucer.

to, or designating, a brown resinous substance resembling tannin, and extracted from the henna plant; as, hennotannic acid.

Same as Ontogeny.

Primitive religion in which each of several divinities is regarded as independent, and is worshiped without reference to the rest. [R.]

Harmonizing; irenic. Gladstone.

To subject to petty authority; -- said of a wife who thus treats her husband. Commonly used in the past participle (often adjectively).

A fine wide wooled fabric much used for women's dresses.

A place where hens roost.

The unit of electric induction; the induction in a circuit when the electro-motive force induced in this circuit is one volt, while the inducing current varies at the rate of one ampère a second.

ize; to lay hold on; to catch; to get. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. Spenser. This cursed Jew him hente and held him fast. Chaucer. But all that he might of his friendes hente On bookes and on learning he it spente. Chaucer.

A coarse, blackish seaweed. See Badderlocks.

Henchman. [Obs.]

A crystalline ketone, CH3COC6H5, which may be obtained by the dry distillation of a mixture of the calcium salts of acetic and benzoic acids. It is used as a hypnotic under the name of hypnone.