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A plant of the genus Prunus (P. Padus); the bird cherry. [Scot.]

A title of respect given to gentlemen in Germany, equivalent to the English Mister.

See Legislature, Austria, Prussia.

ecies of fishes of the genus Clupea, and allied genera, esp. the common round or English herring (C. harengus) of the North Atlantic. Herrings move in vast schools, coming in spring to the shores of Europe and America, where they are salted and smoked in great quantities. Herring gull (Zoöl.), a large gull which feeds…

Pertaining to, or like, the spine of a herring; especially, characterized by an arrangement of work in rows of parallel lines, which in the alternate rows slope in different directions. Herringbone stitch, a kind of cross-stitch in needlework, chiefly used in flannel. Simmonds.

One of the Moravians; -- so called from the settlement of Herrnhut (the Lord's watch) made, about 1722, by the Moravians at the invitation of Nicholas Lewis, count of Zinzendorf, upon his estate in the circle of Bautzen.

The raspberry. [Prov. Eng.]

HONEYBERRY n. 2 definitions

An Old World hackberry (Celtis australis).

HUCKLEBERRY n. 2 definitions

t of several species of the American genus Gaylussacia, shrubs nearly related to the blueberries (Vaccinium), and formerly confused with them. The commonest huckelberry comes from G. resinosa.

See Whortleberry.

HYDROFERRICYANIC n.

Pertaining to, or containing, or obtained from, hydrogen, ferric iron, and cyanogen; as, hydroferricyanic acid. See Ferricyanic.

HYDROFERROCYANIC a.

Pertaining to, or containing, or obtained from, hydrogen, ferrous iron, and cyanogen; as, hydroferrocyanic acid. See Ferrocyanic.

INERRABILITY n.

Freedom or exemption from error; infallibility. Eikon Basilike.

Incapable of erring; infallible; unerring. "Inerabble and requisite conditions." Sir T. Browne. "Not an inerrable text." Gladstone.

INERRABLENESS n.

Exemption from error; inerrability; infallibility. Hammond.

With security from error; infallibly; unerringly.

Exemption from error. The absolute inerrancy odf the Bible. The Century.

Not erratic or wandering; fixed; settled; established.

INERRINGLY adv.

Without error, mistake, or deviation; unerringly. Glanvill.