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Same as Hectare, Hectogram, Hectoliter, and Hectometer.

A fossil coral of the genus Heliolites, having twelve-rayed cells. It is found in the Silurian rocks.

Deviating from ordinary forms or rules; irregular; anomalous; abnormal.

A borosilicate of iron and lime, near datolite in form and composition.

A heavy-armed infantry soldier. Milford.

A pellucid variety of opal in globules looking like colorless gum or resin; -- called also Müller's glass.

A fossil footprint; an ichnite.

Fossil dung of fishes.

One of the spiny plates foundon the back and tail of certain skates.

A fossil fish, or fragment of a fish.

A bituminous substance obtained from the mercury mines of Idria, where it occurs mixed with cinnabar.

The state of being illiterate, or uneducated; want of learning, or knowledge; ignorance; specifically, inability to read and write; as, the illiteracy shown by the last census.

Not literal. [R.] B. Dawson.

Ignorant of letters or books; unlettered; uninstructed; uneducated; as, an illiterate man, or people.

Want of learning; illiteracy. [R.] Ayliffe. Southey.

Not polite; not of polished manners; wanting in good manners; discourteous; uncivil; rude. -- Im`po*lite"ly, adv. -- Im`po*lite"ness, n.

A variety of tourmaline of an indigo-blue color.

An insulating material, usually some variety of compressed cellulose, made of sawdust, paper pulp, cotton waste, etc.

A silicate of alumina, iron, and magnesia, having a bright blue color and vitreous luster; cordierite. It is remarkable for its dichroism, and is also called dichroite.

A descendant of Ishmael (the son of Abraham and Hagar), of whom it was said, "His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him." Gen. xvi. 12.