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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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GUNTER'S CHAIN n.

The chain ordinarily used in measuring land. See Chain, n., 4, and Gunter's scale.

GUTTA-PERCHA n.

A concrete juice produced by various trees found in the Malayan archipelago, especially by the Isonandra, or Dichopsis, Gutta. It becomes soft, and unpressible at the tamperature of boiling water, and, on cooling, retains its new shape. It dissolves in oils and ethers, but not in water. In many of its properties it res…

The general term for the Hebrew oral or traditional law; one of two branches of exposition in the Midrash. See Midrash.

A species of agate, sprinkled with spots of red jasper.

aining to, or written in, hemistichs; also, by, or according to, hemistichs; as, a hemistichal division of a verse.

One of a mystical sect of the Greek Church in the fourteenth century; a quietist. Brande & C.

HETEROTRICHA n.

A division of ciliated Infusoria, having fine cilia all over the body, and a circle of larger ones around the anterior end.

HIERARCHAL; HIERARCHIC a.

Pertaining to a hierarch. "The great hierarchal standard." Milton.

HIRE PURCHASE; HIRE PURCHASE AGREEMENT; HIRE AND PURCHASE AGREEMENT n.

A contract (more fully called contract of hire with an option of purchase) in which a person hires goods for a specified period and at a fixed rent, with the added condition that if he shall retain the goods for the full period and pay all the installments of rent as they become due the contract shall determine and the…

A chain or tie rod, in a boat or barge, to prevent the vessel from hogging.

A group of ciliated Infusoria, having cilia all over the body.

HYDROMECHANICS n.

That branch of physics which treats of the mechanics of liquids, or of their laws of equilibrium and of motion.

A division of ciliated Infusoria in which the cilia cover only the under side of the body.

Matchless; peerless. [Obs.] Holland.

IMMECHANICAL a.

Not mechanical. [Obs.] Cheyne. -- Im"me*chan"ic*al*ly, adv. [Obs.]

That may be impeached; liable to impeachment; chargeable with a crime. Owners of lands in fee simple are not impeachable for waste. Z. Swift.

INAPPROACHABLE a.

Not approachable; unapproachable; inaccessible; unequaled. -- In`ap*proach"a*bly, adv.

To lodge in a chamber. [R.] Sherwood.

INCHANGEABILITY n.

Unchangeableness. [Obs.] Kenrick.