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them not. Jer. xvii. 11. For the hens do not sit upon the eggs; but by keeping them in a certain equal heat they [the husbandmen] bring life into them and hatch them. Robynson (More's Utopia).

nd summer seasons. It has been attributed to the effluvium from hay, and to the pollen of certain plants. It is also called hay asthma, hay cold, and rose fever. -- Hay knife, a sharp instrument used in cutting hay out of a stack or mow. -- Hay press, a press for baling loose hay. -- Hay tea, the juice of hay extrac…

To go or point in a certain direction; to tend; as, how does the ship head

omplete operation of heating, as at a forge or in a furnace; as, to make a horseshoe in a certain number of heats.

To throw; to cast; -- obsolete, provincial, or colloquial, except in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the lead; to heave the log.

ion best suited to the character and institutions of the American people. (b) Improperly, certain views or principles erroneously ascribed to Father Hecker in a French translation of Elliott's Life of Hecker. They were condemned as "Americanism" by the Pope, in a letter to Cardinal Gibbons, January 22, 1899.…

The state, character, or privileges of an heir; right of inheriting. Heirship movables, certain kinds of movables which the heir is entitled to take, besides the heritable estate. [Scot.]

Curled; spiral; helicoid; -- applied esp. to certain arteries of the penis.

A dungeon or prison; also, in certain running games, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.

One of the partially thickened anterior wings of certain insects, as of many Hemiptera, the earwigs, etc.

Bearing two kinds of heads or capitula; -- said of certain composite plants.

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

tory 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.

Having the ganglia of the nervous system unsymmetrically arranged; -- said of certain invertebrate animals.

Having females very unlike the males in form and structure; -- as certain insects, the males of which are winged, and the females wingless.

Unrelated in chemical composition, though similar or indentical in certain other respects; as, borax and augite are homoemorphous, but heteromerous.

A free-swimming, dimorphic, sexual form of certain species of Nereis.

liquid hydrocarbon, C6H8, of the valylene series, obtained from distillation products of certain fats and gums.

ethylene series, produced artificially, and found as a natural product of distillation of certain coals; also, any one several isomers of hexylene proper. Called also hexene.

A little case in which certain insects pass the winter.