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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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10,947 words match “ERE”

Balancers; the rudimentary hind wings of Diptera.

One who works with a hammer.

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

HEMICEREBRUM n.

A lateral half of the cerebrum. Wilder.

HEMISPHERE n. 3 definitions

A half sphere; one half of a sphere or globe, when divided by a plane passing through its center.

HER; HERE pron.

Of them; their. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. On here bare knees adown they fall. Chaucer.

HERE adv. 7 definitions

In this place; in the place where the speaker is; -- opposed to Ant: there. He is not here, for he is risen. Matt. xxviii. 6.

At, or by reason of, this; as, he was offended hereat. Hooker.

HEREA-BOUT; HEREABOUTS adv. 2 definitions

About this place; in this vicinity.

HEREAFTER adv. 2 definitions

In time to come; in some future time or state. Hereafter he from war shall come. Dryden.

HEREAFTERWARD adv.

Hereafter. [Obs.] Thou shalt hereafterward . . . come. Chaucer.

HEREBY adv. 2 definitions

By means of this. And hereby we do know that we know him. 1 John ii. 3.

HEREDITABILITY n.

State of being hereditable. Brydges.

HEREDITABLE a. 2 definitions

Capable of being inherited. See Inheritable. Locke.

HEREDITABLY adv.

By inheritance. W. Tooke.

HEREDITAMENT n.

Any species of property that may be inherited; lands, tenements, anything corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, that may descend to an heir. Blackstone.

HEREDITARILY adv.

By inheritance; in an hereditary manner. Pope.

HEREDITARY a. 2 definitions

eir at law; received or passing by inheritance, or that must pass by inheritance; as, an hereditary estate or crown.

Hereditary transmission of the physical and psychical qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants. See Pangenesis.

One of a breed of cattle originating in Herefordshire, England. The Herefords are good working animals, and their beef-producing quality is excellent.