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A warped surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner that every point of the line shall have a uniform motion in the direction of another fixed straight line, and at the same time a uniform angular motion about it.

A border made on sheet-metal ware by doubling over the edge of the sheet, to stiffen it and remove the sharp edge.

A warm-blooded animal. [R.]

Warm-blooded; hematothermal. [R]

The warm-blooded vertebrates, comprising the mammals and birds; -- the antithesis to hematocrya.

Warm-blooded.

ce or origin. All other faces borrowed hence Their light and grace. Suckling. Whence come wars and fightings among you Come they not hence, even of your lusts James. iv. 1.

A metrical line of eleven syllables. J. Warton.

Of or pertaining to a heptarchy; constituting or consisting of a heptarchy. T. Warton.

An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character.

Of or pertaining to heralds or heraldry; as, heraldic blazoning; heraldic language. T. Warton.

A garden of herbs; a cottage garden. T. Warton.

Destitute of herbs or of vegetation. J. Warton.

is point of time, or of an argument; now. The prisoner here made violent efforts to rise. Warren.

In time to come; in some future time or state. Hereafter he from war shall come. Dryden.

rican thrush (Turdus Pallasii), with retiring habits, but having a sweet song. -- Hermit warbler (Zoöl.), a California wood warbler (Dendroica occidentalis), having the head yellow, the throat black, and the back gray, with black streaks.

One who treats of heroes. [R.] T. Warton.

A warming cathartic medicine, made of aloes and canella bark. Dunglison.

haracter, a mode of ancient Egyptian writing; a modified form of hieroglyphics, tending toward a cursive hand and formerly supposed to be the sacerdotal character, as the demotic was supposed to be that of the people. It was a false notion of the Greeks that of the three kinds of writing used by the Egyptians, two -- f…

Written in, or pertaining to, hierograms; expressive of sacred writing. Bp. Warburton.