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The daughters of Hesperus, or Night (brother of Atlas), and fabled possessors of a garden producing golden apples, in Africa, at the western extremity of the known world. To slay the guarding dragon and get some of these apples was one of the labors of Hercules. Called also Atlantides.

A glucoside found in ripe and unripe fruit (as the orange), and extracted as a white crystalline substance.

A large berry with a thick rind, as a lemon or an orange.

A genus of large, extinct, wingless birds from the Cretaceous deposits of Kansas, belonging to the Odontornithes. They had teeth, and were essentially carnivorous swimming ostriches. Several species are known. See Illust. in Append.

Venus when she is the evening star; Hesper.

Of or relating to Hesse, in Germany, or to the Hessians. Hessian boots, or Hessians, boot of a kind worn in England, in the early part of the nineteenth century, tasseled in front. Thackeray. -- Hessian cloth, or Hessians, a coarse hempen cloth for sacking. -- Hessian crucible. See under Crucible. -- Hessian fly (Zo…

A lead-gray sectile mineral. It is a telluride of silver.

Command; precept; injunction. [Archaic] See Behest. "At thy hest." Shak. Let him that yields obey the victor's hest. Fairfax. Yet I thy hest will all perform, at full. Tennyson.

Pertaining to yesterday. [Obs.] See Yester, a. Ld. Lytton.

One of a mystical sect of the Greek Church in the fourteenth century; a quietist. Brande & C.

A female paramour; a mistress, concubine, or harlot. -- He*tæ"ric, He*tai"ric (#), a.

A supposed primitive state of society, in which all the women of a tribe were held in common. H. Spencer. -- Het`a*ris"tic, a.

Same as Hatchel.

Variant of Hote. [Obs.] But one avow to greate God I hete. Chaucer.

Having the spines of the dorsal fin unsymmetrical, or thickened alternately on the right and left sides.

The government of an alien. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Unequal growth of a cell, or of a part of a plant.

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

The power of producing two kinds of reproductive bodies, as in Amphicarpæa, in which besides the usual pods, there are others underground.

Characterized by heterocarpism.