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many genera. Called also soldier crab. The hermit crabs usually occupy the dead shells of various univalve mollusks. See Illust. of Commensal. -- Hermit thrush (Zoöl.), an American thrush (Turdus Pallasii), with retiring habits, but having a sweet song. -- Hermit warbler (Zoöl.), a California wood warbler (Dendroica…

A thin silk or woolen goods, for women's dresses, woven in various styles and colors.

A heron. [Written variously hernshaw, harnsey, etc.]

An eruption of the skin, taking various names, according to its form, or the part affected; especially, an eruption of vesicles in small distinct clusters, accompanied with itching or tingling, including shingles, ringworm, and the like; -- so called from its tendency to creep or spread from one part of the skin to ano…

One of various species of fishes of the genus Clupea, and allied genera, esp. the common round or English herring (C. harengus) of the North Atlantic. Herrings move in vast schools, coming in spring to the shores of Europe and America, where they are salted and smoked in great quantities. Herring gull (Zoöl.), a large…

An isomeric variety of terpene from orange oil.

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

A division of Lepidoptera, including the moths, and hawk moths, which have the antennæ variable in form.

their being composed of different elements, or of like elements in different proportions; variation in structure from the normal form; -- opposed to homology.

Variation in arrangement from that existing in a normal form; heterogenous arrangement or structure, as, in botany, the deviation in position of the organs of a plant, from the ordinary or typical arrangement.

Variant of Huke. [Obs.]

An emerald-green variety of spodumene found in North Carolina; lithia emerald, -- used as a gem.

A variant of Height.

Variant of Height. [Obs.]

That which hinders; an impediment. What various hindrances we meet. Cowper. Something between a hindrance and a help. Wordsworth.

ghest perfection of man. Hooker. Hither and thither, to and fro; backward and forward; in various directions. "Victory is like a traveller, and goeth hither and thither." Knolles.

An eruptive disease (Varicella globularis), allied to the chicken pox.

A quadruped of the genus Sus, and allied genera of Suidæ; esp., the domesticated varieties of S. scrofa, kept for their fat and meat, called, respectively, lard and pork; swine; porker; specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow.

A species of Althæa (A. rosea), bearing flowers of various colors; -- called also rose mallow.

Wholly solid; -- said of a barometer constructed of solid materials to show the variations of atmospheric pressure without the use of liquids, as the aneroid.