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Heedful. [Obs.] "Heedy shepherds." Spenser. -- Heed"i*ly, adv. [Obs.] -- Heed"i*ness, n. [Obs.] Spenser.

who herds or assembles domestic animals; a herdsman; -- much used in composition; as, a shepherd; a goatherd, and the like. Chaucer.

A shepherdess; a female herder. Sir P. Sidney. Chaucer.

fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose (Rosa canina). [Written also hop, hep.] Hip tree (Bot.), the dog- rose.

A dynasty of Egyptian kings, often called the Shepherd kings, of foreign origin, who, according to the narrative of Manetho, ruled for about 500 years, forming the XVth and XVIth dynasties. It is now considered that the XVIth is merely a double of the XVth dynasty, and that the total period of the six Hyksos kings was…

d incense tree. -- Incense wood, the fragrant wood of the tropical American tree Bursera heptaphylla.

o placed that the upper part of each one covers the base of the leaf next above it, as in hepatic mosses of the genus Frullania. See Succubous.

of the second degree of unsaturation; i. e., members of the acetyline series; as, hexine, heptine, etc.

Within lobules; as, the intralobular branches of the hepatic veins.

A genus of hepatic mosses, now much circumscribed, but formerly comprising most plants of the order, which is sometimes therefore called Jungermanniaceæ.

act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge. Chaucer. Pan, thou god of shepherds all, Which of our tender lambkins takest keep. Spenser.

A ranunculaceous plant (Anemone Hepatica) with pretty white or bluish flowers and a three-lobed leaf; -- called also squirrel cups.

A gray plaid; -- used by shepherds in Scotland.

The conductir of a mule team; also, a head shepherd.

htest members are gases, as methane, ethane; intermediate members are liquids, as hexane, heptane, etc. (found in benzine, kerosene, etc.); while the highest members are white, waxy, or fatty solids, as paraffin proper.

An old name for mosses in the widest sense, including the true mosses and also hepaticæ and sphagna.

culpable disregard; as, neglect of business, of health, of economy. To tell thee sadly, shepherd, without blame, Or our neglect, we lost her as we came. Milton.

rbon radical formerly supposed to exist in oenanthic acid, now known to be identical with heptyl.

osed to be identical with the acid in oenanthic ether, but now known to be identical with heptoic acid.

A colorless liquid hydrocarbon, having a garlic odor; heptine.