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To play on, as a harp; to play (a tune) on the harp; to develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon. Thou 'harped my fear aright. Shak.

A common British fern (Scolopendrium vulgare), rare in America.

A large South African antelope (Alcelaphus 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.]

The lower group of the Wealden formation; -- so called from its development around Hastings, in Sussex, England.

Development; disclosure; discovery. Shak.

Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals (Anat.), the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.

To cut off the top of; to lop off; as, to head trees.

To grow warm or hot by fermentation, or the development of heat by chemical action; as, green hay heats in a mow, and manure in the dunghill.

One of the arms of the male of most kinds of cephalopods, which is specially modified in various ways to effect the fertilization of the eggs. In a special sense, the greatly modified arm of Argonauta and allied genera, which, after receiving the spermatophores, becomes detached from the male, and attaches itself to th…

remaining part of anything; the closing or concluding part. "The heel of a hunt." A. Trollope. "The heel of the white loaf." Sir W. Scott.

A slender bony or cartilaginous process developed from the heel bone of bats. It helps to support the wing membranes. See Illust. of Cheiropter.

Designating a light and elegant style developed in England under George III., chiefly by Messrs. A.Heppelwhite & Co.

terized by an arrangement of work in rows of parallel lines, which in the alternate rows slope in different directions. Herringbone stitch, a kind of cross-stitch in needlework, chiefly used in flannel. Simmonds.

Unequal development of the tail lobes of fishes; the possession of a heterocercal tail.

Having the femoral artery developed as the principal artery of the leg; -- said of certain birds, as the cotingas and pipras.

Of or pertaining to the method of heteropathy; allopathic.

a morbid condition is removed by inducing an opposite morbid condition to supplant it; allopathy.

Producing a different type of organism; developing into a different form of tissue, as cartilage which develops into bone. Haeckel.

An order of pelagic Gastropoda, having the foot developed into a median fin. Some of the species are naked; others, as Carinaria and Atlanta, have thin glassy shells.

The external angle formed by the meeting of two sloping sides or skirts of a roof, which have their wall plates running in different directions.