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One of the writers of the hagiographa; a writer of lives of the saints. Shipley.

One who treats of the sacred writings; a writer of the lives of the saints; a hagiographer. Tylor. Hagiologists have related it without scruple. Southey.

One who writes about or describes the sea.

purity. Also used figuratively; -- as, a word or phrase lacks the hall-mark of the best writers.

a woman and the body of a vulture, with long claws, and the face pale with hunger. Some writers mention two, others three. Both table and provisions vanished guite. With sound of harpies' wings and talons heard. Milton.

To hasten; to hurry. [Archaic] I 'll haste the writer. Shak. They were troubled and hasted away. Ps. xlviii. 5.

ges, as contrasted with the habergeon, which is shorter and sometimes sleeveless. By old writers it is often used synonymously with habergeon. See Habergeon. [Written variously hauberg, hauberque, hawberk, etc.] Chaucer. Helm, nor hawberk's twisted mail. Gray.

The religious system or rites of a heathen nation; idolatry; paganism.

dull, inanimate, stupid; as, a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, and the like; a heavy writer or book. Whilst the heavy plowman snores. Shak. Of a heavy, dull, degenerate mind. Dryden. Neither [is] his ear heavy, that it can not hear. Is. lix. 1.

Native barium sulphate or barite, -- so called because of its high specific gravity as compared with other non-metallic minerals.

Of or pertaining to the Hebrews; as, the Hebrew language or rites.

The system of logic and philosophy set forth by Hegel, a German writer (1770-1831).

The dialect, formed with slight variations from the Attic, which prevailed among Greek writers after the time of Alexander.

A variety of barite emitting a fetid odor when rubbed or heated.

b grace, or Herb of grace. (Bot.) See Rue. -- Herb Margaret (Bot.), the daisy. See Marguerite. -- Herb Paris (Bot.), an Old World plant related to the trillium (Paris quadrifolia), commonly reputed poisonous. -- Herb Robert (Bot.), a species of Geranium (G. Robertianum.)

rly included the Proboscidea, Hyracoidea, Perissodactyla, and Artiodactyla, but by later writers it is generally restricted to the two latter groups (Ungulata). They feed almost exclusively upon vegetation.

Capable of being inherited. See Inheritable. Locke.

Any species of property that may be inherited; lands, tenements, anything corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, that may descend to an heir. Blackstone.

One who writes on heresies.

Capable of being inherited or of passing by inheritance; inheritable.