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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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59,147 words match “HE”

A shepherdess; a female herder. Sir P. Sidney. Chaucer.

A herdsman. [Obs.]

A kind of low-hung cab.

HERDMAN; HERDSMAN n.

The owner or keeper of a herd or of herds; one employed in tending a herd of cattle.

A woman who tends a herd. Sir W. Scott.

HERE pron. 7 definitions

See Her, their. [Obs.] Chaucer.

At, or by reason of, this; as, he was offended hereat. Hooker.

HEREA-BOUT; HEREABOUTS adv. 2 definitions

About this place; in this vicinity.

HEREAFTER adv. 2 definitions

In time to come; in some future time or state. Hereafter he from war shall come. Dryden.

HEREAFTERWARD adv.

Hereafter. [Obs.] Thou shalt hereafterward . . . come. Chaucer.

HEREBY adv. 2 definitions

By means of this. And hereby we do know that we know him. 1 John ii. 3.

HEREDITABILITY n.

State of being hereditable. Brydges.

HEREDITABLE a. 2 definitions

Capable of being inherited. See Inheritable. Locke.

HEREDITABLY adv.

By inheritance. W. Tooke.

HEREDITAMENT n.

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.

HEREDITARILY adv.

By inheritance; in an hereditary manner. Pope.

HEREDITARY a. 2 definitions

Descended, or capable of descending, from an ancestor to an heir at law; received or passing by inheritance, or that must pass by inheritance; as, an hereditary estate or crown.

Hereditary transmission of the physical and psychical qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants. See Pangenesis.

One of a breed of cattle originating in Herefordshire, England. The Herefords are good working animals, and their beef-producing quality is excellent.

From hence. [Obs.]