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f of the similar parts of a crystals, instead of all; consisting of half the planes which full symmetry would require, as when a cube has planes only on half of its eight solid angles, or one plane out of a pair on each of its edges; or as in the case of a tetrahedron, which is hemihedral to an octahedron, it being con…

Presenting hemihedral forms, in which half the sectants have the full number of planes.

Let him that yields obey the victor's hest. Fairfax. Yet I thy hest will all perform, at full. Tennyson.

tic 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 ended were. Spenser.…

Full of courage or nobleness; high-souled. -- High"-heart`ed*ness, n.

Having abundance of mettle; ardent; full of fire; as, a high- mettled steed.

Having high antlers; bearing full-grown antlers aloft.

Full of spirit or natural fire; haughty; courageous; impetuous; not brooking restraint or opposition.

prevent from starting or moving forward; to check; to retard; to obstruct; to bring to a full stop; - - often followed by from; as, an accident hindered the coach; drought hinders the growth of plants; to hinder me from going. Them that were entering in ye hindered. Luke xi. 52. I hinder you too long. Shak.…

te allusion; slight mention; intimation; insinuation; a suggestion or reminder, without a full declaration or explanation; also, an occasion or motive. Our hint of woe Is common. Shak. The hint malevolent, the look oblique. Hannah M

A contract (more fully called contract of hire with an option of purchase) in which a person hires goods for a specified period and at a fixed rent, with the added condition that if he shall retain the goods for the full period and pay all the installments of rent as they become due the contract shall determine and the…

e, and hitches in a rhyme. Pope. To ease themselves . . . by hitching into another place. Fuller.

erforation; a rent; a fissure. The holes where eyes should be. Shak. The blind walls Were full of chinks and holes. Tennyson. The priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid. 2 Kings xii. 9.

To shout; to hollo. Whisperings and hollowings are alike to a deaf ear. Fuller.

e to six years old; -- called also bachelor, because prevented from breeding by the older full-grown males.

To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length; as, to drive a nail home; to ram a cartridge home. Wear thy good rapier bare and put it home. Shak.

ignation; identity in relations. Holland. Homonymy may be as well in place as in persons. Fuller.

Full of hooks; pertaining to hooks.

Full of hope, or agreeable expectation; inclined to hope; expectant. Men of their own natural inclination hopeful and strongly conceited. Hooker.

A student in a hostel, or small unendowed collede in Oxford or Cambridge. [Obs.] Fuller.