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A hart. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A heart. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Hearty; heartily. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Of or pert. to the German physicist Heinrich Hertz.

An impure, massive, flintlike quartz or hornstone, of a dull color.

Like chert; containing chert; flinty.

To this place; to a prescribed limit. Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further. Job xxxviii. 11.

To that point; so far. [Obs.]

greater contrariety unto Christ's judgment, a more perfect antipodes to all that hath hitherto been gospel Hammond.

onstructive. "Architectonic wisdom." Boyle. These architectonic functions which we had hitherto thought belonged. J. C. Shairp.

se atoms are not assumed to be indivisible, but merely the finest grade of subdivision hitherto attained. Chemistry deals with the changes in the composition and constitution of molecules. See Atom, Molecule.

ely resting against each other is materially improved in conductivity by the influence of Hertzian waves; -- so called by Sir O. J. Lodge in 1894 on the assumption that the impact of the electic waves caused the loosely connected parts to cohere, or weld together, a condition easily destroyed by tapping. A common form…

hat which is inferred. [Obs.] We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines. Milton.

ermination of; to limit; to bound; to bring to an end; to finish. The knowledge of men hitherto hath been determined by the view or sight. Bacon. Now, where is he that will not stay so long Till his friend sickness hath determined me Shak.

Without circumlocution or ambiguity; absolutely; in express terms. No man hath hitherto been so impious as plainly and directly to condemn prayer. Hooker.

Capacity of being drawn; force necessary to draw; traction. The Hertfordshire wheel plow . . . is of the easiest draught. Mortimer.

A part of the breastbone. [Obs.] He feeleth through the herte-spon the pricke. Chaucer.

Up to this time; hitherto; before; in time past. Shak.

s stone, a variety of quartz, closely resembling flint, but more brittle; -- called also chert.

Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused. "Maiden flowers.' Shak. Full bravely hast thou fleshed Thy maiden sword. Shak.