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To this; hereunto. Hooker.

The leader or commander of an army; also, a marshal. Blackstone.

Up to this time; hitherto; before; in time past. Shak.

Unto this; up to this time; hereto.

On this; hereon.

With this.

To praise; to worship. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Formerly, a payment or tribute of arms or military accouterments, or the best beast, or chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant; in modern use, a customary tribute of goods or chattels to the lord of the fee, paid on the decease of a tenant. Blackstone. Bouvier. Heriot custom, a heriot depending on usage. --…

Subject to the payment of a heriot. Burn.

A beam or bar armed with iron spikes, and turning on a pivot; - - used to block up a passage.

The state of being heritable.

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

That which is inherited, or passes from heir to heir; inheritance. Part of my heritage, Which my dead father did bequeath to me. Shak.

Heritage; inheritance. [R.] Robbing their children of the heritance Their fathers handed down Southey.

A proprietor or landholder in a parish. [Scot.]

Same as Harl, 2.

The young of the sea trout. [Prov. Eng.]

See Hermes,

Hermaphrodism. B. Jonson.

See Hermaphroditism.