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A cotquean; a man who intermeddles with women's concerns.

See Jeniquen.

A thorny tree or shrub of the genus Lawsonia (L. alba). The fragrant white blossoms are used by the Buddhists in religious ceremonies. The powdered leaves furnish a red coloring matter used in the East to stain the hails and fingers, the manes of horses, etc.

An inclosed place for keeping hens. [U. S.]

Hence. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ing to, or designating, a brown resinous substance resembling tannin, and extracted from the henna plant; as, hennotannic acid.

Same as Ontogeny.

of several divinities is regarded as independent, and is worshiped without reference to the rest. [R.]

Harmonizing; irenic. Gladstone.

To subject to petty authority; -- said of a wife who thus treats her husband. Commonly used in the past participle (often adjectively).

A fine wide wooled fabric much used for women's dresses.

A place where hens roost.

The unit of electric induction; the induction in a circuit when the electro-motive force induced in this circuit is one volt, while the inducing current varies at the rate of one ampère a second.

ize; to lay hold on; to catch; to get. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. Spenser. This cursed Jew him hente and held him fast. Chaucer. But all that he might of his friendes hente On bookes and on learning he it spente. Chaucer.

A coarse, blackish seaweed. See Badderlocks.

Henchman. [Obs.]

See Hip, the fruit of the dog-rose.

The wild dog-rose.

own color, sometimes used in medicine. It is formed by fusing sulphur with carbonates of the alkalies (esp. potassium), and consists essentially of alkaline sulphides. Called also hepar sulphuris (.

Of or pertaining to the liver; as, hepatic artery; hepatic diseases.