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An instrument for exhibition or illustration of the phenomena of halos, parhelia, and the like.

A small village; a little cluster of houses in the country. The country wasted, and the hamlets burned. Dryden.

r in shape to the clarinet, but with a thinner tone. Now more commonly called oboe. See Illust. of Oboe.

Made in the manner of a hawser. Cf. Cable-laid, and see Illust. of Cordage.

A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies, thistles; a capitulum.

A low shrub (Erica, or Calluna, vulgaris), with minute evergreen leaves, and handsome clusters of pink flowers. It is used in Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens. It is also called heather, and ling.

A bully; a blustering, turbulent, insolent, fellow; one who vexes or provokes.

Resembling a hector; blustering; insolent; taunting. "Hectorly, ruffianlike swaggering or huffing." Barrow.

ocess developed from the heel bone of bats. It helps to support the wing membranes. See Illust. of Cheiropter.

The incurved margin or rim of the external ear. See Illust. of Ear.

A defensive covering for the head. See Casque, Headpiece, Morion, Sallet, and Illust. of Beaver.

Shaped like a helmet; galeate. See Illust. of Galeate.

laced together, a cavity from which the air can be withdrawn by an air pump; -- used to illustrate the pressure of the air. So called because invented by Otto von Guericke at Magdeburg.

drawing out a few parallel threads, and fastening the cross threads in successive small clusters; as, to hemstitch a handkerchief.

ace. Suckling. Whence come wars and fightings among you Come they not hence, even of your lusts James. iv. 1.

e ducts, which carries the bile from the liver to the cystic and common bile ducts. See Illust., under Digestive. -- Hepatic gas (Old Chem.), sulphureted hydrogen gas. -- Hepatic mercurial ore, or Hepatic cinnabar. See under Cinnabar.

. In the animal kingdom true hermaphrodites are found only among the invertebrates. See Illust. in Appendix, under Helminths.

crab. The hermit crabs usually occupy the dead shells of various univalve mollusks. See Illust. of Commensal. -- Hermit thrush (Zoöl.), an American thrush (Turdus Pallasii), with retiring habits, but having a sweet song. -- Hermit warbler (Zoöl.), a California wood warbler (Dendroica occidentalis), having the head ye…

An illustrious man, supposed to be exalted, after death, to a place among the gods; a demigod, as Hercules.

Worthy of a hero; bold; daring; brave; illustrious; as, heroic action; heroic enterprises.