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Twin composition in crystals.

An evergreen tree common in North America (Abies, or Tsuga, Canadensis); hemlock spruce. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks. Longfellow.

A shed or hovel for cattle. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

One who, or that which, hems with a needle. Specifically:

Same as Hæma-, Hæmo-.

rmal coloring matter of the red blood corpuscles of vertebrate animals. It is composed of hematin and globulin, and is also called hæmatoglobulin. In arterial blood, it is always combined with oxygen, and is then called oxyhemoglobin. It crystallizes under different forms from different animals, and when crystallized,…

Same as Hæmochromometer.

See Hematophilia.

The expectoration of blood, due usually to hemorrhage from the mucous membrane of the lungs.

Any discharge of blood from the blood vessels.

Pertaining or tending to a flux o

Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, hemorrhoids.

he anus, from which blood or mucus is occasionally discharged; piles; emerods. [The sing. hemorrhoid is rarely used.]

Serving to arrest hemorrhage; styptic.

An effusion of blood into the cavity of the pleura.

pared for spinning. The name has also been extended to various fibers resembling the true hemp. African hemp, Bowstring hemp. See under African, and Bowstring. -- Bastard hemp, the Asiatic herb Datisca cannabina. -- Canada hemp, a species of dogbane (Apocynum cannabinum), the fiber of which was used by the Indians.…

Made of hemp; as, a hempen cord.

Like hemp. [R.] Howell.

Themselves; -- used reflexively. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To ornament at the head of a broad hem by drawing out a few parallel threads, and fastening the cross threads in successive small clusters; as, to hemstitch a handkerchief.