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rough the different stages in its life history on an alternation of hosts, as the common wheat-rust fungus (Puccinia graminis), and certain other parasitic fungi; -- contrasted with autocious. -- Het`er*o"cism (#), n.

ssing a characteristic quality in a supreme or superior degree; as, high (i. e., intense) heat; high (i. e., full or quite) noon; high (i. e., rich or spicy) seasoning; high (i. e., complete) pleasure; high (i. e., deep or vivid) color; high (i. e., extensive, thorough) scholarship, etc. High time it is this war now en…

Of or relating to the stage or a stageplayer; befitting a theatre; theatrical; -- sometimes in a bad sense. -- His`tri*on"ic*al*ly, adv. Tainted with false and histrionic feeling. De Quincey.

Theatrical representation; acting; affectation. Sir T. Browne.

To act; to represent on the stage, or theatrically. Urquhart.

To deceive or cheat. Halliwell.

A juggler's trick; a cheat; nonsense. Hudibras.

; to sustain. Hold not thy peace, and be not still. Ps. lxxxiii. 1. Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost, Shall hold their course. Milton.

Sacrifice or loss of many lives, as by the burning of a theater or a ship.

A piece of woodland; especially, a woody hill. "Every holt and heath." Chaucer. She sent her voice though all the holt Before her, and the park. Tennyson.

To approve; to allow; to confirm; as, the court homologates a proceeding. Wheaton.

ries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts. Partridge and his clan may hoot me for a cheat. Swift.

Having much sensible heat; exciting the feeling of warmth in a great degree; very warm; -- opposed to cold, and exceeding warm in degree; as, a hot stove; hot water or air. "A hotvenison pasty." Shak.

More or less brittle when heated; as, hot-short iron.

A bed of earth heated by fermenting manure or other substances, and covered with glass, intended for raising early plants, or for nourishing exotics.

A heated room for drying green ware.

Heat or excitement of mind or manner; violence; vehemence; impetuousity; ardor; fury. M. Arnold.

Pressed while heat is applied. See Hotpress, v. t.

An audience; an assembly of hearers, as at a lecture, a theater, etc.; as, a thin or a full house.

und very generally on old walls and roofs. It is very tenacious of life under drought and heat; -- called also ayegreen.