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ontract or duty, of another, in case of the failure of such other to pay or perform; a guarantee; a warranty; a security.

A thin quadrant, made of brass, wood, etc., showing a stereographic projection on the plane of the equator. By it are found the hour of the day, the sun's azimuth, the altitude of objects in degrees, etc. See Gunter's scale.

Gyrating. [R.]

tion; a loud address a multitude; in a bad sense, a noisy or pompous speech; declamation; ranting. Gray-headed men and grave, with warriors mixed, Assemble, and harangues are heard. Milton.

Full of harangue.

One who harangues, or is fond of haranguing; a declaimer. With them join'd all th' harangues of the throng, That thought to get preferment by the tongue. Dryden.

An order of fishes having an incomplete or reduced branchial apparatus. It includes the sticklebacks, the flutemouths, and Fistularia.

A pain that affects only one side of the head.

Hemicranis.

One of the Hemiptera; an hemipter.

Same as Hindrance.

That which hinders; an impediment. What various hindrances we meet. Cowper. Something between a hindrance and a help. Wordsworth.

An homopter.

A genus of shrubby plants bearing opposite leaves and large heads of showy flowers, white, or of various colors. H. hortensis, the common garden species, is a native of China or Japan.

A discharge pipe with a valve and spout at which water may be drawn from the mains of waterworks; a water plug.

One of the nutritive zooids of a hydroid colony. Also applied to the proboscis or manubrium of a hydroid medusa. See Illust. of Hydroidea.

s, including those that breathe by gills, as contrasted with the Pulmonifera. -- Hy`dro*bran"chi*ate, a.

One of the Hymenoptera.

Pertaining to the segment between the basibranchial and the ceratobranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.

Having the leaves expand after the flowers have opened. Henslow.