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A heron; esp., the common European heron. "A stately hern." Trench.

A thin silk or woolen goods, for women's dresses, woven in various styles and colors.

A corner. [Obs.] Lurking in hernes and in lanes blind. Chaucer.

, and projects through some natural or accidental opening in the walls of the latter; as, hernia of the brain, of the lung, or of the bowels. Hernia of the abdominal viscera in most common. Called also rupture. Strangulated hernia, a hernia so tightly compressed in some part of the channel through which it has been pro…

Of, or connected with, hernia.

A cutting for the cure or relief of hernia; celotomy.

Heronshaw. [Obs.] Spenser.

See Cittern.

The state or condition of being feathery.

Made of leather; consisting of. leather; as, a leathern purse. "A leathern girdle about his loins." Matt. iii. 4.

The sordid friar bird of Australia (Tropidorhynchus sordidus).

A dormer window. See Dormer.

In a direction toward the north; as, to steer a northern course; coming from the north; as, a northern wind. Northern diver. (Zoöl.) See Loon. -- Northern lights. See Aurora borealis, under Aurora. -- Northern spy (Bot.), an excellent American apple, of a yellowish color, marked with red.

A native or inhabitant of the Northern States; -- contradistinguished from Ant: Southerner. [U. S.]

Northerly. [Obs.] Hakewill.

Farthest north.

The quality or state of being other or different; alterity; oppositeness.

The property of a woman which, on her marriage, was not made a part of her dower, but remained her own.

Of or pertaining to paraphernalia; as, paraphernal property. Kent.

Something reserved to a wife, over and above her dower, being chiefly apparel and ornaments suited to her degree.