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Of or pertaining to the Hellenes, or Greeks.

Of or pertaining to the Hellenes, or inhabitants of Greece; Greek; Grecian. "The Hellenic forces." Jowett (Thucyd. ).

A phrase or form of speech in accordance with genius and construction or idioms of the Greek language; a Grecism. Addison.

One who affiliates with Greeks, or imitates Greek manners; esp., a person of Jewish extraction who used the Greek language as his mother tongue, as did the Jews of Asia Minor, Greece, Syria, and Egypt; distinguished from the Hebraists, or native Jews (Acts vi. 1).

Pertaining to the Hellenists. Hellenistic language, dialect, or idiom, the Greek spoken or used by the Jews who lived in countries where the Greek language prevailed; the Jewish-Greek dialect or idiom of the Septuagint.

To use the Greek language; to play the Greek; to Grecize.

Herbs collectively; green food beasts; grass; pasture. "Thin herbage in the plaims." Dryden.

A garden; a pleasure garden. [Obs.] "Into an herber green." Chaucer.

es, And, not reformed, may prove pernicious. Shak. After the study of philosophy began in Greece, and the philosophers, disagreeing amongst themselves, had started many questions . . . because every man took what opinion he pleased, each several opinion was called a heresy; which signified no more than a private opinio…

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

The European green woodpecker. See Yaffle.

An emerald-green variety of spodumene found in North Carolina; lithia emerald, -- used as a gem.

acter, as the demotic was supposed to be that of the people. It was a false notion of the Greeks that of the three kinds of writing used by the Egyptians, two -- for that reason called hieroglyphic and hieratic -- were employed only for sacred, while the third, the demotic, was employed for secular, purposes. No such d…

A writer of hierograms; also, one skilled in hieroglyphics. Greenhill.

The European green woodpecker or yaffle. [Written also high- hoo.]

A famous Greek physician and medical writer, born in Cos, about 460 B. C. Hippocrates' sleeve, a conical strainer, made by stitching together two adjacent sides of a square piece of cloth, esp. flannel of linen.

Hoggish character or manners; selfishness; greed; beastliness. Crime and shame And all their hoggery. Mrs. Browning.

A large ship of burden, in ancient Greece. Mitford.

ess unto the Lord. Jer.ii.3. His holiness, a title of the pope; -- formerly given also to Greek bishops and Greek emperors.

A very hard, semi-glazed, green or dark brown brick, which will not absorb water; -- called also, Dutch clinker. Wagner.