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; a turn or revolution; a circuit. Quick and more quick he spins in giddy gyres. Dryden. Still expanding and ascending gyres. Mrs. Browning.

A sunk fence; a fence, wall, or ditch, not visible till one is close upon it. [Written also haw-haw.]

are first corrupted . . . and next they habituate themselves to their vicious practices. Tillotson.

; to cease progress; to stop for a longer or shorter period; to come to a stop; to stand still.

es." Blackmore. A lion hampered in a net. L'Estrange. They hamper and entangle our souls. Tillotson.

eighty-five cities. Its remnants, Lübeck, Hamburg, and Bremen, are free cities, and are still frequently called Hanse towns.

A very astringent shrub (Spiræa tomentosa), common in pastures. The Potentilla fruticosa in also called by this name.

f hartshorn (Chem.), an impure solid carbonate of ammonia, obtained by the destructive distillation of hartshorn, or any kind of bone; volatile salts. Brande & C.-- Spirits of hartshorn (Chem.), a solution of ammonia in water; -- so called because formerly obtained from hartshorn shavings by destructive distillation. S…

mixture of old matter; a second preparation or exhibition. I can not bear elections, and still less the hash of them over again in a first session. Walpole.

uently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon. You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house. Shak. Those cares that haunt the court and town. Swift.

princes and heads." Robynson (More's Utopia). The heads of the chief sects of philosophy. Tillotson. Your head I him appoint. Milton.

ths, and crowd upon our shores. Thomson. To heave a cable short (Naut.), to haul in cable till the ship is almost perpendicularly above the anchor. -- To heave a ship ahead (Naut.), to warp her ahead when not under sail, as by means of cables. -- To heave a ship down (Naut.), to throw or lay her down on one side; to…

With child; pregnant. [R.] Heavy artillery. (Mil.) (a) Guns of great weight or large caliber, esp. siege, garrison, and seacoast guns. (b) Troops which serve heavy guns. -- Heavy cavalry. See under Cavalry. -- Heavy fire (Mil.), a continuous or destructive cannonading, or discharge of small arms. -- Heavy metal (Mil…

The apparatus by which a ship is steered, comprising rudder, tiller, wheel, etc.; -- commonly used of the tiller or wheel alone.

. Hence, perhaps, it is, that Solomon calls the fear of the Lord the beginning of wisdom. Tillotson.

Of or pertaining to an extensive forest in Germany, of which there are still portions in Swabia and the Hartz mountains.

A leader in heresy; the chief of a sect of heretics. Bp. Stillingfleet.

uded people! that do not consider that the greatest heresy in the world is a wicked life. Tillotson.

The garden producing the golden apples. It not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides Shak.

A liquid hydrocarbon, C6H8, of the valylene series, obtained from distillation products of certain fats and gums.