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longimanus) having very long legs and antennæ. The elytra are curiously marked with red, black, and gray. -- Harlequin cabbage bug. (Zoöl.) See Calicoback. -- Harlequin caterpillar. (Zoöl.), the larva of an American bombycid moth (Euchætes egle) which is covered with black, white, yellow, and orange tufts of hair.…

h (Arctia phalerata of Harris), having, on the fore wings, stripes and bands of buff on a black ground.

hoca Groenlandica). The adult males have a light-colored body, with a harp-shaped mark of black on each side, and the face and throat black. Called also saddler, and saddleback. The immature ones are called bluesides. -- Harp shell (Zoöl.), a beautiful marine gastropod shell of the genus Harpa, of several species, fou…

hus caama), formerly much more abundant than it is now. The face and legs are marked with black, the rump with white. [Written also hartebeest, and hartebest.]

A band round the crown of a hat; sometimes, a band of black cloth, crape, etc., worn as a badge of mourning.

Native sulphide of manganese a reddish brown or brownish black mineral.

A large sturgeon (Acipenser huso) from the region of the Black Sea. It is sometimes twelve feet long.

The European blackcap.

An allowance of wood to a tenant for repairing his hedges or fences; hedgebote. See Bote. Blackstone.

borsholder, boroughhead, boroughholder, and sometimes tithingman. See Borsholder. [Eng.] Blackstone.

of learned men. Chaucer. A heap of vassals and slaves. Bacon. He had heaps of friends. W.Black.

stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. Milton Heath cock (Zoöl.), the blackcock. See Heath grouse (below). -- Heath grass (Bot.), a kind of perennial grass, of the genus Triodia (T. decumbens), growing on dry heaths. -- Heath grouse, or Heath game (Zoöl.), a European grouse (Tetrao tetrix), which…

A composition of wax and lampblack, used by shoemakers for polishing, and by antiquaries in copying inscriptions.

us species of Heliconius, a genus of tropical American butterflies. The wings are usually black, marked with green, crimson, and white.

gambling house. "A convenient little gambling hell for those who had grown reckless." W. Black.

mostly having powerfully cathartic and even poisonous qualities. H. niger is the European black hellebore, or Christmas rose, blossoming in winter or earliest spring. H. officinalis was the officinal hellebore of the ancients.

A bluish black, amorphous substance containing iron and obtained from blood. It exists the red blood corpuscles united with globulin, and the form of hemoglobin or oxyhemoglobin gives to the blood its red color.

A coarse, blackish seaweed. See Badderlocks.

anything corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, that may descend to an heir. Blackstone.

al of Christianity, but of some its essential doctrines, publicly and obstinately avowed. Blackstone.