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The normal coloring matter of the red blood corpuscles of vertebrate animals. It is composed of hematin and globulin, and is also called hæmatoglobulin. In arterial blood, it is always combined with oxygen, and is then called oxyhemoglobin. It crystallizes under different forms from different animals, and when crystall…

Same as Hæmochromometer.

See Hematophilia.

The expectoration of blood, due usually to hemorrhage from the mucous membrane of the lungs.

Any discharge of blood from the blood vessels.

Pertaining or tending to a flux o

Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, hemorrhoids.

Livid and painful swellings formed by the dilation of the blood vessels around the margin of, or within, the anus, from which blood or mucus is occasionally discharged; piles; emerods. [The sing. hemorrhoid is rarely used.]

Of or relating to stagnation of the blood.

An effusion of blood into the cavity of the pleura.

A plant of the genus Cannabis (C. sativa), the fibrous skin or bark of which is used for making cloth and cordage. The name is also applied to various other plants yielding fiber.

Made of hemp; as, a hempen cord.

Like hemp. [R.] Howell.

Themselves; -- used reflexively. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To ornament at the head of a broad hem by drawing out a few parallel threads, and fastening the cross threads in successive small clusters; as, to hemstitch a handkerchief.

Having a broad hem separated from the body of the article by a line of open work; as, a hemistitched handkerchief.

The roebuck in its third year. [Prov. Eng.]

The female of the domestic fowl; also, the female of grouse, pheasants, or any kind of birds; as, the heath hen; the gray hen.

An umbelliferous plant (Caucalis daucoides).

Cowardly; timid; chicken-hearted. Udall.