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A crag; a cliff; a glen with overhanging sides. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

Variant of Huke. [Obs.]

A mineral of the Zeolite family, often occurring in amygdaloid, in foliated masses, and also in monoclinic crystals with pearly luster on the cleavage face. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime.

Serving to discover or find out.

The head. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To form or shape with a sharp instrument; to cut; hence, to form laboriously; -- often with out; as, to hew out a sepulcher. Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn. Is. li. 1. Rather polishing old works than hewing out new. Pope.

A domestic servant; a retainer. [Obs.] "False homely hewe." Chaucer.

One who hews.

The European green woodpecker. See Yaffle.

Felled, cut, or shaped as with an ax; roughly squared; as, a house built of hewn logs.

A prefix or combining form, used to denote six, sixth, etc.; as, hexatomic, hexabasic.

s capable of being replaced or saturated by bases; -- said of acids; as, mellitic acid is hexabasic.

Having six capsules or seed vessels.

A series of six notes, with a semitone between the third and fourth, the other intervals being whole tones.

Having six atoms or radicals capable of being replaced by acids; hexatomic; hexavalent; -- said of bases; as, mannite is a hexacid base.

Having six-rayed spicules; belonging to the Hexactinellinæ.

Belonging to the Hexactinellinæ, a group of sponges, having six-rayed siliceous spicules.

The Anthozoa.

An atom whose valence is six, and which can be theoretically combined with, substituted for, or replaced by, six monad atoms or radicals; as, sulphur is a hexad in sulphuric acid. Also used as an adjective.

Having six fingers or toes.