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Same as Hemochromometer.

A dark brown powder containing iron, prepared by the action of zinc dust as a reducing agent upon the coloring matter of the blood, used medicinally as a hematinic.

See Hematoidin.

Same as Hæmatolysis, Hæmatolytic.

Same as Hemadynamometer.

Same as Hemadynamometer.

A plant described by Milton as "of sovereign use against all enchantments."

Same as Hæmatoplastic.

Same as Hemorrhoidal.

An instrument devised by Hermann, for regulating and measuring the thickness of a layer of blood for spectroscopic examination.

Same Hemostatic.

Same as Hæmatachometer.

Same as Hæmatachometry.

Hove. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To stammer; to speak unintelligibly; to prevaricate. [Prov.Eng.] Halliwell.

A handle; that part of an instrument or vessel taken into the hand, and by which it is held and used; -- said chiefly of a knife, sword, or dagger; the hilt. This brandish'dagger I'll bury to the haft in her fair breast. Dryden.

A caviler; a wrangler. [Obs.] Baret.

A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard. [Obs.] "[Silenus] that old hag." Golding.

Ridden by a hag or witch; hence, afflicted with nightmare. Beattie. Cheyne.

The great woolly mullein (Verbascum Thapsus).