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HENBANE n.
A plant of the genus Hyoscyamus (H. niger). All parts of the plant are poisonous, and the leaves are used for the same purposes as belladonna. It is poisonous to domestic fowls; whence the name. Called also, stinking nightshade, from the fetid odor of the plant. See Hyoscyamus.
HENBIT n.
A weed of the genus Lamium (L. amplexicaule) with deeply crenate leaves.
HENCE adv. 5 definitions
From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles. Acts xxii. 21.
HENCEFORTH adv.
From this time forward; henceforward. I never from thy side henceforth to stray. Milton.
HENCEFORWARD adv.
From this time forward; henceforth.
HENCHBOY n.
A page; a servant. [Obs.]
HENCHMAN n.
An attendant; a servant; a follower. Now chiefly used as a political cant term.
HENCOOP n.
A coop or cage for hens.
HENDE a. 2 definitions
Skillful; dexterous; clever. [Obs.] Chaucer.
HENDECAGON n.
A plane figure of eleven sides and eleven angles. [Written also endecagon.]
HENDECANE n.
A hydrocarbon, C11H24, of the paraffin series; -- so called because it has eleven atoms of carbon in each molecule. Called also endecane, undecane.
HENDECASYLLABIC a.
Pertaining to a line of eleven syllables.
HENDECASYLLABLE n.
A metrical line of eleven syllables. J. Warton.
HENDECATOIC a.
Undecylic; pertaining to, or derived from, hendecane; as, hendecatoic acid.
HENDIADYS n.
A figure in which the idea is expressed by two nouns connected by and, instead of by a noun and limiting adjective; as, we drink from cups and gold, for golden cups.
HENDY a.
See Hende.
HENEN adv.
Hence. [Obs.] Chaucer.
HENFISH n. 2 definitions
A marine fish; the sea bream.
HENG n.
Hung. Chaucer.
HENHOUSE n.
A house or shelter for fowls.
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