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To form or round into a heap, as in measuring; to fill (a measure) more than even full.

An irreligious person. If it is no more than a moral discourse, he may preach it and they may hear it, and yet both continue unconverted heathens. V. Knox. The heathen, as the term is used in the Scriptures, all people except the Jews; now used of all people except Christians, Jews, and Mohammedans. Ask of me, and I sh…

Of or pertaining to the heathen; resembling or characteristic of heathens. "Worse than heathenish crimes." Milton.

er of any large number of victims. Slaughtered hecatombs around them bleed. Addison. More than a human hecatomb. Byron.

The Heroic Stanzas read much more like an elaborate attempt to hedge between the parties than . . . to gain favor from the Roundheads. Saintsbury.

he sword that was in Joab's hand. 2 Sam. xx. 10. Birds give more heed and mark words more than beasts. Bacon.

hat opinion he pleased, each several opinion was called a heresy; which signified no more than a private opinion, without reference to truth or falsehood. Hobbes.

Larger than life size, but smaller than colossal; -- said of the representation of a human figure. Heroic Age, the age when the heroes, or those called the children of the gods, are supposed to have lived. -- Heroic poetry, that which celebrates the deeds of a hero; epic poetry. -- Heroic treatment or remedies (Med.)…

A combining form signifying other, other than usual, different; as, heteroclite, heterodox, heterogamous.

ebral column evidently continued into the upper lobe of the tail, which is usually longer than the lower one, as in sharks.

A cell larger than the others, and of different appearance, occurring in certain algæ related to nostoc.

derivatives of the same substance, or of the analogous members of different series; as, ethane, ethyl alcohol, acetic aldehyde, and acetic acid are in heterology with each other, though each in at the same time a member of a distinct homologous series. Cf. Homology.

e is a wide difference of form between the larva and the adult, and to plants having more than one form of flower.

Having leaves of more than one shape on the same plant.

a sepulcher. Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn. Is. li. 1. Rather polishing old works than hewing out new. Pope.

The true, or six-legged, insects; insects other than myriapods and arachnids.

, pictures, or figures; as, hieroglyphic writing; a hieroglyphic obelisk. Pages no better than blanks to common minds, to his, hieroglyphical of wisest secrets. Prof. Wilson.

r a mass of earth rising above the common level of the surrounding land; an eminence less than a mountain. Every mountain and hill shall be made low. Is. xl. 4.

Having the hip dislocated; hence, having one hip lower than the other. L'Estrange.

A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts less than a gammon.