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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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HEBREW n. 3 definitions
An appellative of Abraham or of one of his descendants, esp. in the line of Jacob; an Israelite; a Jew. There came one that had escaped and told Abram the Hebrew. Gen. xiv. 13.
HEDGE n. 8 definitions
een any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden. The roughest berry on the rudest hedge. Shak. Through the verdant maze Of sweetbrier hedges I pursue…
HELICIN n.
A glucoside obtained as a white crystalline substance by partial oxidation of salicin, from a willow (Salix Helix of Linnæus.)
HELICOGRAPH n.
An instrument for drawing spiral lines on a plane.
HELICOID n. 3 definitions
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.
HELIOTROPE n. 4 definitions
An instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line.
HELISPHERIC; HELISPHERICAL a.
Spiral. Helispherical line (Math.). the rhomb line in navigation. [R.]
HEMISTICH n.
Half a poetic verse or line, or a verse or line not completed.
HEMSTITCHED a.
Having a broad hem separated from the body of the article by a line of open work; as, a hemistitched handkerchief.
HENDECASYLLABIC a.
Pertaining to a line of eleven syllables.
HENDECASYLLABLE n.
A metrical line of eleven syllables. J. Warton.
HEPTAGYNIA n.
A Linnæan order of plants having seven pistils.
HEPTANDRIA n.
A Linnæan class of plants having seven stamens.
HEPTASTICH n.
A composition consisting of seven lines or verses.
HERRINGBONE a.
ine of a herring; especially, characterized by an arrangement of work in rows of parallel lines, which in the alternate rows slope in different directions. Herringbone stitch, a kind of cross-stitch in needlework, chiefly used in flannel. Simmonds.
HESP n.
A measure of two hanks of linen thread. [Scot.] [Written also hasp.] Knight.
HEXAGRAM n. 2 definitions
In Chinese literature, one of the sixty-four figures formed of six parallel lines (continuous or broken), forming the basis of the Yih King, or "Book of Changes." S. W. Williams.
HEXAGYNIA n.
A Linnæan order of plants having six pistils.
HEXANDRIA n.
A Linnæan class of plants having six stamens.
HEXASTICH; HEXASTICHON n.
A poem consisting of six verses or lines.
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