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A race, for horses or men, or any contest of agility, strength, or skill, in which there is an allowance of time, distance, weight, or other advantage, to equalize the chances of the competitors.

contested; as, a hard-fought battle.

Clash or collision of heads in contest. Dryden.

s; to vex. My aged muscles harrowed up with whips. Rowe. I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul. Shak.

A service of thanksgiving, at harvest time, in the Church of England and in the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States.

Capable of being, or deserving to be, hated; odious; detestable.

should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed; to dislike intensely; to detest; as, to hate one's enemies; to hate hypocrisy. Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer. 1 John iii. 15.

Hateful; detestable. [Obs.]

rsays of his life and conversation. Prof. Wilson. Hearsay evidence (Law), that species of testimony which consists in a a narration by one person of matters told him by another. It is, with a few exceptions, inadmissible as testimony. Abbott.

lime or exalted condition; as, a heaven of delight. "A heaven of beauty." Shak. "The brightest heaven of invention." Shak. O bed! bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head! Hood.

, in wrestling, boxing, etc., a term applied to the heaviest of the classes into which contestants are divided. Cf. Feather weight (c), under Feather.

In a Hebraistic sense or form. Which is Hebraistically used in the New Testament. Kitto.

t. -- Heir at law, one who, after his ancector's death, has a right to inherit all his intestate estate. Wharton (Law Dict.). -- Heir presumptive, one who, if the ancestor should die immediately, would be his heir, but whose right to the inheritance may be defeated by the birth of a nearer relative, or by some other…

Of or pertaining to hell; like hell; infernal; malignant; wicked; detestable; diabolical. "Hellish hate." Milton. -- Hell"ish*ly, adv. -- Hell"ish*ness, n.

An intestinal worm, or wormlike intestinal parasite; one of the Helminthes.

dition characterized by a tendency to profuse and uncontrollable hemorrhage from the slightest wounds.

The first seven books of the Testament.

teful heresies by God abhor'd. Spenser. Deluded people! that do not consider that the greatest heresy in the world is a wicked life. Tillotson.

n six languages or six versions in parallel columns; particularly, the edition of the Old Testament published by Origen, in the 3d century.

The first six books of the Old Testament.