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Gentile; pagan; as, a heathen author. "The heathen philosopher." "All in gold, like heathen gods." Shak.

One who heles or covers; hence, a tiler, slater, or thatcher. [Obs.] [Written also heler.] Usher.

d." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles. Acts xxii. 21.

One versed in herpetology, or the natural history of reptiles.

The natural history of reptiles; that branch of zoölogy which relates to reptiles, including their structure, classification, and habits.

One who dissects, or studies the anatomy of, reptiles.

The anatomy or dissection of reptiles.

A lead-gray sectile mineral. It is a telluride of silver.

Any one of five hydrocarbons, C6H14, of the paraffin series. They are colorless, volatile liquids, and are so called because the molecule has six carbon atoms.

A hydrocarbon, C6H10, of the acetylene series, obtained artificially as a colorless, volatile, pungent liquid; -- called also hexoylene.

eason of winter in close quarters, in a torpid or lethargic state, as certain mammals, reptiles, and insects. Inclination would lead me to hibernate, during half the year, in this uncomfortable climate of Great Britain. Southey.

a roof having sloping ends and sloping sides. See Hip, n., 2., and Hip, v. t., 3. -- Hip tile, a tile made to cover the hip of a roof. -- To catch upon the hip, or To have on the hip, to have or get the advantage of; -- a figure probably derived from wresting. Shak. -- To smite hip and thigh, to overthrow completely…

stament which were acknowledged as canonical by the early church; -- distinguished from antilegomena.

consists of a large number of workers (barren females), with, ordinarily, one queen or fertile female, but in the swarming season several young queens, and a number of males or drones, are produced.

A mercantile establishment or factory for foreign trade in China, as formerly at Canton; a succession of offices connected by a common passage and used for business or storage. Hong merchant, one of the few Chinese merchants who, previous to the treaty of 1842, formed a guild which had the exclusive privilege of tradin…

tal range (Gunnery), the distance in a horizontal plane to which a gun will throw a projectile. -- Horizontal water wheel, a water wheel in which the axis is vertical, the buckets or floats revolving in a horizontal plane, as in most turbines.

owl. (c) A hornlike projection from the head or thorax of an insect, or the head of a reptile, or fish. (d) A sharp spine in front of the fins of a fish, as in the horned pout.

State of being hostile; public or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity. Hostility being thus suspended with France. Hayward.

To make hostile; to cause to become an enemy. [Obs.] A. Seward.

A gun so short that the projectile, which was hollow, could be put in its place by hand; a kind of mortar. [Obs.]