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According to the principles of interpretation; as, a verse of Scripture was examined hermeneutically.

ed.), treatment or remedies of a severe character, suited to a desperate case. -- Heroic verse (Pros.), the verse of heroic or epic poetry, being in English, German, and Italian the iambic of ten syllables; in French the iambic of twelve syllables; and in classic poetry the hexameter.

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

speech or in writing, of that which one does not intend to say; -- frequently the very reverse of the thought which is present to consciousness. R. G. White.

Having the embryo or ovule oblique or transverse to the funiculus; amphitropous. Gray.

A verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly be a dactyl, and the sixth always a spondee. In this species of verse are composed the Iliad of Homer and the Æneid of Virgil. In English hexameters accent takes the place of quantity. Leaped like the | roe when he…

A poem consisting of six verses or lines.

One versed in hieroglyphics. Gliddon.

One versed in, or whostudies, hierology.

One versed in histology.

One versed or well informed in history. Great captains should be good historians. South.

One versed in the phenomena of history and the laws controlling them. And historionomers will have measured accurately the sidereal years of races. Lowell.

y or with halts, jerks, or steps; -- said of something obstructed or impeded. Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme. Pope. To ease themselves . . . by hitching into another place. Fuller.

taining to Homer, the most famous of Greek poets; resembling the poetry of Homer. Homeric verse, hexameter verse; -- so called because used by Homer in his epics.

The homology of parts arranged on transverse axes. Haeckel.

ended, as from the top of a wall. -- Hook motion (Steam Engin.), a valve gear which is reversed by V hooks. -- Hook squid, any squid which has the arms furnished with hooks, instead of suckers, as in the genera Enoploteuthis and Onychteuthis. -- Hook wrench, a wrench or spanner, having a hook at the end, instead of…

A collector of customs, as at Canton; an overseer of commerce.

One versed in horology.

One versed in horoscopy; an astrologer.

direction of the earth's revolution, the stars and planets passing through them in the reverse order every twenty- four hours.