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

See Legislature, Austria, Prussia.

pecies 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.

See the Note under Her, pr.

Rehearsal. [Obs.] Spenser.

See Uranus.

Of or relating to Sir William Herschel; as, the Herschelian telescope.

A kind of gate or portcullis, having iron bars, like a harrow, studded with iron spikes. It is hung above gateways so that it may be quickly lowered, to impede the advance of an enemy. Farrow.

hasized form of the third person feminine pronoun; -- used as a subject with she; as, she herself will bear the blame; also used alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, it is herself; she blames herself.

A beam with projecting spikes, used to make a breach impassable.

A hart. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A heart. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Hearty; heartily. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Of or pert. to the German physicist Heinrich Hertz.

To worship; to glorify; to praise. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

A member of the highest rank of nobility in Germany and Austria, corresponding to the British duke.

One who abolishes.

One who accomplishes.