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To adjust in fit proportions; to cause to agree; to show the agreement of; to reconcile the apparent contradiction of.

arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency; as, a harmony of the Gospels.

The gathering and bringing home of the harvest; the time of harvest. Showed like a stubble land at harvest-home. Shak.

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

A note at the head of a page or chapter; in law reports, an abstract of a case, showing the principles involved and the opinion of the court.

Vital part; secret meaning; real intention. And then show you the heart of my message. Shak.

, the heat of summer and the cold of winter; heat of the skin or body in fever, etc. Else how had the world . . . Avoided pinching cold and scorching heat! Milton.

trun. -- To lay by the heels, to fetter; to shackle; to imprison. Shak. Addison. -- To show the heels, to flee; to run from. -- To take to the heels, to flee; to betake to flight. -- To throw up another's heels, to trip him. Bunyan. -- To tread upon one's heels, to follow closely. Shak.

The condition of being high; elevated position. Behold the height of the stars, how high they are! Job xxii. 12.

-- applied to deeds or to character. It were most heinous and accursed sacrilege. Hooker. How heinous had the fact been, how deserving Contempt! Milton.

An instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line.

m trouble; as, to help one in distress; to help one out of prison. "God help, poor souls, how idly do they talk!" Shak.

; unable to help or defend one's self; needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless infant. How shall I then your helpless fame defend Pope.

Like hemp. [R.] Howell.

A cell annexed to an abbey, for the use of a hermit. Howell.

Showing, or characterized by, hesitation. [He said] in his mild, hesitative way. R. D. Blackmore.

Any thing or person deviating from the common rule, or from common forms. Howell.

Not orthodox. Howell.

nism producing offspring different in habit and structure from itself, the original form, however, reappearing after one or more generations; -- opposed to homogenesis, or gamogenesis.

A genus of plants (herbs, shrubs, or trees), some species of which have large, showy flowers. Some species are cultivated in India for their fiber, which is used as a substitute for hemp. See Althea, Hollyhock, and Manoe.