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HEN n.
domestic fowl; also, the female of grouse, pheasants, or any kind of birds; as, the heath hen; the gray hen.
HEN'S-FOOT n.
An umbelliferous plant (Caucalis daucoides).
HEN-HEARTED a.
Cowardly; timid; chicken-hearted. Udall.
HENBANE n.
leaves are used for the same purposes as belladonna. It is poisonous to domestic fowls; whence the name. Called also, stinking nightshade, from the fetid odor of the plant. See Hyoscyamus.
HENBIT n.
A weed of the genus Lamium (L. amplexicaule) with deeply crenate leaves.
HENCE adv. 5 definitions
From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles. Acts xxii. 21.
HENCEFORTH adv.
From this time forward; henceforward. I never from thy side henceforth to stray. Milton.
HENCEFORWARD adv.
From this time forward; henceforth.
HENCHBOY n.
A page; a servant. [Obs.]
HENCHMAN n.
An attendant; a servant; a follower. Now chiefly used as a political cant term.
HENCOOP n.
A coop or cage for hens.
HENDE a. 2 definitions
Skillful; dexterous; clever. [Obs.] Chaucer.
HENDECAGON n.
A plane figure of eleven sides and eleven angles. [Written also endecagon.]
HENDECANE n.
A hydrocarbon, C11H24, of the paraffin series; -- so called because it has eleven atoms of carbon in each molecule. Called also endecane, undecane.
HENDECASYLLABIC a.
Pertaining to a line of eleven syllables.
HENDECASYLLABLE n.
A metrical line of eleven syllables. J. Warton.
HENDECATOIC a.
Undecylic; pertaining to, or derived from, hendecane; as, hendecatoic acid.
HENDIADYS n.
A figure in which the idea is expressed by two nouns connected by and, instead of by a noun and limiting adjective; as, we drink from cups and gold, for golden cups.
HENDY a.
See Hende.
HENEN adv.
Hence. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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