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Having seven units of attractive force or affinity; -- said of heptad elements or radicals.

Same as Heptylene.

Any one of a series of unsaturated metameric hydrocarbons, C7H12, of the acetylene series.

Pertaining to, or derived from, heptane; as, heptoic acid.

A liquid hydrocarbon, C7H10, of the valylene series.

A compound radical, C7H15, regarded as the essential radical of heptane and a related series of compounds.

A colorless liquid hydrocarbon, C7H14, of the ethylene series; also, any one of its isomers. Called also heptene.

Pertaining to, or derived from, heptyl or heptane; as, heptylic alcohol. Cf. .

The form of the objective and the possessive case of the personal pronoun she; as, I saw her with her purse out.

Of them; their. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. On here bare knees adown they fall. Chaucer.

A follower of Heracleon of Alexandria, a Judaizing Gnostic, in the early history of the Christian church.

A picrate compound, used as an explosive in blasting.

ce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character.

Of or pertaining to heralds or heraldry; as, heraldic blazoning; heraldic language. T. Warton.

In an heraldic manner; according to the rules of heraldry.

The art or office of a herald; the art, practice, or science of recording genealogies, and blazoning arms or ensigns armorial; also, of marshaling cavalcades, processions, and public ceremonies.

The office of a herald. Selden.

The sulphate of iodoquinine, a substance crystallizing in thin plates remarkable for their effects in polarizing light.

A herald. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A plant whose stem does not become woody and permanent, but dies, at least down to the ground, after flowering.