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Resembling, or approximating to, a hemisphere in form.

A half spherule.

y of the contents, literary character, date, authorship, etc., of any writing; as, the higher criticism of the Pentateuch. Called also historical criticism.

See New thought, below.

A superior officer or official; -- used chiefly in pl. [Slang]

Rising higher; ascending. In ever highering eagle circles. Tennyson.

One who describes organic tissues; an histologist.

An historian; a writer of history; especially, one appointed or designated to write a history; also, a title bestowed by some governments upon historians of distinction.

The office of an historiographer. Saintsbury.

rbs signifying motion, and implying motion toward the speaker; correlate of hence and thither; as, to come or bring hither.

Nearest on this side. Sir M. Hale.

To this place; to a prescribed limit. Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further. Job xxxviii. 11.

Toward this place; hither. Marching hitherward in proud array. Shak.

The mallow.

The basking or liver shark; -- called also homer. See Liver shark, under Liver.

A swineherd. W. Browne.

See Homoiothermal.

Maintaining a uniform temperature; hæmatothermal; homothermic; -- applied to warm-bodied animals, because they maintain a nearly uniform temperature in spite of the great variations in the surrounding air; in distinct from the cold-blooded (poikilothermal) animals, whose body temperature follows the variations in tempe…

Warm-blooded; homoiothermal; hæmatothermal.

A maker of clocks, watches, or dials.