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The unit of electric induction; the induction in a circuit when the electro-motive force induced in this circuit is one volt, while the inducing current varies at the rate of one ampère a second.

The state, quality, or character of the heathen. Your heathenry and your laziness. C. Kingsley.

A class of levelers in the time of K. Henry I.

e words, but from its admitting of a double construction; e. g., "The duke yet lives that Henry shall depose." Whately.

XI., bearing the image of St. Michael; also, a piece coined at Paris by the English under Henry VI. [Obs.]

ficulties before us; an appreciation of colors. His foreboding showed his appreciation of Henry's character. J. R. Green.

A follower of Henry Barrowe, one of the founders of Independency or Congregationalism in England. Barrowe was executed for nonconformity in 1953.

agency of a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal; -- so called from Sir Henry Bessemer, an English engineer, the inventor of the process.

excellent manner; with more skill and wisdom, courage, virtue, advantage, or success; as, Henry writes better than John; veterans fight better than recruits. I could have better spared a better man. Shak.

n the English monasteries and religious houses, compiled by order of their visitors under Henry VIII., to hasten their dissolution.

A kind of base silver money, first coined in England by Henry V., and worth about 8 pence; also, a French coin of the seventeenth century, worth about 4 pence. Nares.

withers and blows upon a fine passage, may be seen in those speeches from [Shakespeare's] Henry V. which are current in the mouths of schoolboys. C. Lamb. A lady's maid whose character had been blown upon. Macaulay.

A bubble. At his mouth a blubber stood of foam. Henryson.

nomenclature, but sometimes used as a general term for heat. Caloric expands all bodies. Henry.

terest; circulated, or intended for circulation; as, a circular letter. A proclamation of Henry III., . . . doubtless circular throughout England. Hallam.

A pit, or inclosed area, for cockfights. Henry the Eight had built . . . a cockpit. Macaulay.

stence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginnig; start. The time of Henry VII . . . nearly coincides with the commencement of what is termed "modern history."

ment by stipulation; compact; covenant; treaty or league. [Obs.] The concord made between Henry and Roderick. Davies.

attacked in vain by all the wits and philosophers, and its triumph has been complete. P. Henry.

, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous. This king [Henry VIII.] was contemporary with the greatest monarchs of Europe. Strype.