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The bank of a canal opposite, and corresponding to, that of the towpath; berm. [U. S.]

Progress toward eminence; grade; degree. Social duties are carried to greater heights, and enforced with stronger motives by the principles of our religion. Addison.

d to the possession of, any property after the death of its owner; one on whom the law bestows the title or property of another at the death of the latter. I am my father's heir and only son. Shak.

Manifesting heliotropism; turning toward the sun.

The phenomenon of turning toward the light, seen in many leaves and flowers.

Toward hell. Pope.

Strength or means furnished toward promoting an object, or deliverance from difficulty or distress; aid; ^; also, the person or thing furnishing the aid; as, he gave me a help of fifty dollars. Give us help from trouble, for vain is the help of man. Ps. lx. 11. God is . . . a very present help in trouble. Ps. xlvi. 1.…

ng a nut whose shell is very thin and the kernel bitter. Hickory shad. (Zoöl.) (a) The mattowacca, or fall herring. (b) The gizzard shad.

ths or octaves, not sounded, but suggested or implied in the parallel motion of two parts towards a fifth or an octave.

character, a mode of ancient Egyptian writing; a modified form of hieroglyphics, tending toward a cursive hand and formerly supposed to be the sacerdotal character, as the demotic was supposed to be that of the people. It was a false notion of the Greeks that of the three kinds of writing used by the Egyptians, two --…

up; raised or extended in the direction of the zenith; lofty; tall; as, a high mountain, tower, tree; the sun is high.

Furthest in or toward the rear; last. "Rachel and Joseph hindermost." Gen. xxxiii. 2.

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

To this place; -- used with verbs signifying motion, and implying motion toward the speaker; correlate of hence and thither; as, to come or bring hither.

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

rved or hooked at the end, attempt to drive any small object (as a ball or a bit of wood) toward opposite goals.

The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

ving religion, justice, and peace in Europe, but really for repressing popular tendencies toward constitutional government, entered into by Alexander I. of Russia, Francis I. of Austria, and Frederic William III. of Prussia, at Paris, on the 26th of September, 1815, and subsequently joined by all the sovereigns of Euro…

base; he started for home. At home.(a) At one's own house, or lodgings. (b) In one's own town or country; as, peace abroad and at home. (c) Prepared to receive callers. -- Home department, the department of executive administration, by which the internal affairs of a country are managed. [Eng.] To be at home on any s…

Toward home; in the direction of one's house, town, or country. Homeward bound, bound for home; going homeward; as, the homeward bound fleet.