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To form a hem or border to; to fold and sew down the edge of. Wordsworth.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the plants called Hepaticæ, or scale mosses and liverworts. Hepatic duct (Anat.), any biliary duct; esp., the duct, or one of the ducts, which carries the bile from the liver to the cystic and common bile ducts. See Illust., under Digestive. -- Hepatic gas (Old Chem.), sulphureted hydroge…

bent and mosslike, of the cryptogamous class Hepaticæ; -- called also scale moss and liverwort. See Hepaticæ, in the Supplement.

Worthy of a hero; bold; daring; brave; illustrious; as, heroic action; heroic enterprises.

hear and answer such high things. Shak. Plain living and high thinking are no more. Wordsworth.

A worthless, base, degenerate person or animal. [Obs.] Callander.

by native Hindoos. In employs the Devanagari character, in which Sanskrit is written. Whitworth.

. What various hindrances we meet. Cowper. Something between a hindrance and a help. Wordsworth.

a thing or a place, for personal service, or for labor; wages; rent; pay. The laborer is worthy of his hire. Luke x. 7.

as, the arrow hissed as it flew. Shod with steel, We hissed along the polished ice. Wordsworth.

Low, flat land. Wordsworth. The soft wind blowing over meadowy holms. Tennyson. Holm thrush (Zoöl.), the missel thrush.

Savior is commemorated. -- Holy writ, the sacred Scriptures. " Word of holy writ." Wordsworth.

domestic; not foreign. " Home-bred mischief." Milton. Benignity and home-bred sense. Wordsworth.

In human form. [Obs.] Cudworth.

Same as Homoeomeria. [Obs.] Cudworth.

ng partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also lunary and moonwort. Lunaria biennis is common honesty; L. rediva is perennial honesty.

Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of respect or reverence. A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country. Matt. xiii. 57.

Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak.

That which causes horror. [R.] Miss Edgeworth.

t praising God. Luke ii. 13. All at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils. Wordsworth.