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; -- sometimes followed by out. [Troops] harassed with a long and wearisome march. Bacon. Nature oppressed and harass'd out with care. Addison. Vext with lawyers and harass'd with debt. Tennyson.

nfully or contemptuously proud; arrogant; overbearing. A woman of a haughty and imperious nature. Clarendon.

usually in a good sense, when no epithet is expressed; the better or lovelier part of our nature; the spring of all our actions and purposes; the seat of moral life and character; the moral affections and character itself; the individual disposition and character; as, a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish heart…

A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as manifested in fire, the sun's rays, mechanical action, chemical combination, etc., becomes directly known to us through the sense of feeling. In its nature heat is a mode if motion, being i…

Heathy; abounding in heather; of the nature of heath.

od is . . . a very present help in trouble. Ps. xlvi. 1. Virtue is a friend and a help to nature. South.

Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, hemorrhoids.

Of or pertaining to herbs; having the nature, texture, or characteristics, of an herb; as, herbaceous plants; an herbaceous stem.

Having the nature of, pertaining to, or covered with, herbs or herbage. "Herby valleys." Chapman.

Containing heresy; of the nature of, or characterized by, heresy.

gyptians, which treat of astrology. (b) Books which treat of universal principles, of the nature and orders of celestial beings, of medicine, and other topics.

Of or pertaining to, or like, a hero; of the nature of heroes; distinguished by the existence of heroes; as, the heroic age; an heroic people; heroic valor.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the herpes; partaking of the nature of herpes; as, herpetic eruptions.

Having different essential qualities; of a different nature.

oup of sugars containing six carbon atoms in the molecule. Some are widely distributed in nature, esp. in ripe fruits.

ctors and the action. -- Natural history, a description and classification of objects in nature, as minerals, plants, animals, etc., and the phenomena which they exhibit to the senses.

. My crown is absolute, and holds of none. Dryden. His imagination holds immediately from nature. Hazlitt. Hold on! Hold up! wait; stop; forbear. [Collog] -- To hold forth, to speak in public; to harangue; to preach. L'Estrange. -- To hold in, to restrain one's self; as, he wanted to laugh and could hardly hold in. -…

Of the nature of a holograph; pertaining to holographs.

Of the same kind of nature; consisting of similar parts, or of elements of the like nature; -- opposed to heterogeneous; as, homogeneous particles, elements, or principles; homogeneous bodies.

Sameness 9kind or nature; uniformity of structure or material.