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Subject to the payment of a heriot. Burn.

A beam or bar armed with iron spikes, and turning on a pivot; - - used to block up a passage.

The state of being heritable.

Capable of being inherited or of passing by inheritance; inheritable.

That which is inherited, or passes from heir to heir; inheritance. Part of my heritage, Which my dead father did bequeath to me. Shak.

Heritage; inheritance. [R.] Robbing their children of the heritance Their fathers handed down Southey.

A proprietor or landholder in a parish. [Scot.]

Same as Harl, 2.

The young of the sea trout. [Prov. Eng.]

See Hermes,

Hermaphrodism. B. Jonson.

See Hermaphroditism.

may take place without the union of the distinct individuals. In the animal kingdom true hermaphrodites are found only among the invertebrates. See Illust. in Appendix, under Helminths.

Partaking of the characteristics of both sexes; characterized by hermaphroditism. -- Her*maph`ro*dit"ic*al*ly, adv.

The union of the two sexes in the same individual, or the combination of some of their characteristics or organs in one individual.

lding the signification; of or pertaining to interpretation; exegetical; explanatory; as, hermeneutic theology, or the art of expounding the Scriptures; a hermeneutic phrase.

According to the principles of interpretation; as, a verse of Scripture was examined hermeneutically.

retation and explanation; exegesis; esp., that branch of theology which defines the laws whereby the meaning of the Scriptures is to be ascertained. Schaff-Herzog Encyc.

Originally, a boundary stone dedicated to Hermes as the god of boundaries, and therefore bearing in some cases a head, or head and shoulders, placed upon a quadrangular pillar whose height is that of the body belonging to the head, sometimes having feet or other parts of the body sculptured upon it. These figures, thou…

Of, pertaining to, or taught by, Hermes Trismegistus; as, hermetic philosophy. Hence: Alchemical; chemic. "Delusions of the hermetic art." Burke. The alchemists, as the people were called who tried to make gold, considered themselves followers of Hermes, and often called themselves Hermetic philosophers. A. B. Buckley.…