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A liquid hydrocarbon, C6H8, of the valylene series, obtained from distillation products of certain fats and gums.

Any member of a group of sugars containing six carbon atoms in the molecule. Some are widely distributed in nature, esp. in ripe fruits.

A compound radical, C6H13, regarded as the essential residue of hexane, and a related series of compounds.

A colorless, liquid hydrocarbon, C6H12, of the ethylene series, produced artificially, and found as a natural product of distillation of certain coals; also, any one several isomers of hexylene proper. Called also hexene.

Pertaining to, or derived from, hexyl or hexane; as, hexylic alcohol.

High. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The time of triumph and exultation; hence, joy, high spirits, frolicsomeness; wildness. The heyday in the blood is tame. Shak. In the heyday of their victories. J. H. Newman.

A kind of country-dance or round. [Obs.] Spenser.

High. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A wretch; a rascal. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Hence. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The first letter of the English and of many other alphabets. The capital A of the alphabets of Middle and Western Europe, as also the small letter (a), besides the forms in Italic, black letter, etc., are all descended from the old Latin A, which was borrowed from the Greek Alpha, of the same form; and this was made fr…

The Manila-hemp plant (Musa textilis); also, its fiber. See Manila hemp under Manila.

To blind by a red-hot metal plate held before the eyes. [R.]

One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves. [Obs.]

The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; -- the same as Apollyon and Asmodeus.

To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject. [Obs.] That he might . . . abandon them from him. Udall. Being all this time abandoned from your bed. Shak.

To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye. [Archaic] Bacon. Saying so, he abased his lance. Shelton.

He who, or that which, abases.

To destroy the self-possession of; to confuse or confound, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit. Abashed, the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is. Milton. He was a man whom no check could abash. Macaulay.