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A rank or order of holy beings. Standards and gonfalons . . . for distinction serve Of hierarchies, of orders, and degrees. Milton.

Consecrated to sacred uses; sacerdotal; pertaining to priests. Hieratic character, a mode of ancient Egyptian writing; a modified form of hieroglyphics, tending toward a cursive hand and formerly supposed to be the sacerdotal character, as the demotic was supposed to be that of the people. It was a false notion of the…

See Hegira.

Same as Hindrance.

A suborder of Hemiptera, in which both pairs of wings are similar in texture, and do not overlap when folded, as in the cicada. See Hemiptera.

An homopter.

A rake drawn by a horse.

The business of a huckster; small dealing; peddling. Ignoble huckster age of piddling tithes. Milton.

Of or pertaining to the humerus, or upper part of the arm; brachial. Humeral veil (R. C. Ch.), a long, narrow veil or scarf of the same material as the vestments, worn round the shoulders by the officiating priest or his attendant at Mass, and used to protect the sacred vessels from contact with the hands.…

A system of treating disease by baths and mineral waters.

See Hydropathy.

An extensive order of insects, including the bees, ants, ichneumons, sawflies, etc.

Like, or characteristic of, the Hymenoptera; pertaining to the Hymenoptera.

One of the Hymenoptera.

A superabundance or congestion of blood in an organ or part of the body. Active hyperæmia, cognestion d%ue to increased flow of blood to a part. -- Passive hyperæmia, interchange due to obstruction in the return of blood from a part. -- Hy`per*æ"mic, a.

A state of exalted or morbidly increased sensibility of the body, or of a part of it. -- Hy`per*æs*thet"ic, a.

A lateral and backward-projecting process on the dorsal side of a vertebra. -- Hy`per*ap`o*phys"i*al, a.

One who holds a shield over another; hence, a defender. [Obs.] Chillingworth.

Having the leaves expand after the flowers have opened. Henslow.

Not lacerable; incapable of being torn or rent. [Obs.]