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A football field. Gridiron pendulum. See under Pendulum. -- Gridiron valve (Steam Engine), a slide valve with several parallel perforations corresponding to openings in the seat on which the valve moves.

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

A worn-out strumpet; a vixenish woman; a hag. Such a weak, watery, wicked old harridan, substituted for the pretty creature I had been used to see. De Quincey.

Of or pertaining to the islands called Hebrides, west of Scotland. -- n.

Same as 3d Hesperian.

An isomeric variety of terpene from orange oil.

den producing the golden apples. It not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides Shak.

A glucoside found in ripe and unripe fruit (as the orange), and extracted as a white crystalline substance.

A large berry with a thick rind, as a lemon or an orange.

Rough; rugged; bristling. [Archaic] Horrid with fern, and intricate with thorn. Dryden.

In a horrid manner. Shak.

The quality of being horrid.

Produced from the mixture of two species; as, plants of hybrid nature.

The state or quality of being hybrid.

One who hybridizes.

Hybridism.

Capable of forming a hybrid, or of being subjected to a hybridizing process; capable of producing a hybrid by union with another species or stock. Hybridizable genera are rarer than is generally supposed, even in gardens where they are so often operated upon, under circumstances most favorable to the production of hybr…

The act of hybridizing, or the state of being hybridized.

To render hybrid; to produce by mixture of stocks.

One who hybridizes.