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A picrate compound, used as an explosive in blasting.

arings. In modern times, some vestiges of this office remain, especially in England. See Heralds' College (below), and King-at-Arms.

Of or pertaining to heralds or heraldry; as, heraldic blazoning; heraldic language. T. Warton.

In an heraldic manner; according to the rules of heraldry.

The art or office of a herald; the art, practice, or science of recording genealogies, and blazoning arms or ensigns armorial; also, of marshaling cavalcades, processions, and public ceremonies.

The office of a herald. Selden.

The sulphate of iodoquinine, a substance crystallizing in thin plates remarkable for their effects in polarizing light.

A herald. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A female paramour; a mistress, concubine, or harlot. -- He*tæ"ric, He*tai"ric (#), a.

Having the spines of the dorsal fin unsymmetrical, or thickened alternately on the right and left sides.

The government of an alien. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Unequal growth of a cell, or of a part of a plant.

A division of Lepidoptera, including the moths, and hawk moths, which have the antennæ variable in form.

A division of Coleoptera, having heteromerous tarsi.

A suborder of Hemiptera, in which the base of the anterior wings is thickened. See Hemiptera.

A warming cathartic medicine, made of aloes and canella bark. Dunglison.

h and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order; as, princely hierarchs. Milton.

Pertaining to a hierarch. "The great hierarchal standard." Milton.

Pertaining to a hierarchy. -- Hi`er*arch`ic*al*ly, adv.

The principles or authority of a hierarchy. The more dominant hierarchism of the West. Milman.