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- English Word Hebrew Definition Of or pertaining to the Hebrews; as, the Hebrew language or rites.
- English Word Hebrewess Definition An Israelitish woman.
- English Word Hebrician Definition A Hebraist.
- English Word Hebridean Definition Alt. of Hebridian
- English Word Hebridian Definition Of or pertaining to the islands called Hebrides, west of Scotland.
- English Word Hebridian Definition A native or inhabitant of the Hebrides.
- English Word Hecatomb Definition A sacrifice of a hundred oxen or cattle at the same time; hence, the sacrifice or slaughter of any large number of victims.
- English Word Hecatompedon Definition A name given to the old Parthenon at Athens, because measuring 100 Greek feet, probably in the width across the stylobate.
- English Word Hecdecane Definition A white, semisolid, spermaceti-like hydrocarbon, C16H34, of the paraffin series, found dissolved as an important ingredient of kerosene, and so called because each molecule has sixteen atoms of carbon; -- called also hexadecane.
- English Word Heck Definition The bolt or latch of a door.
- English Word Heck Definition A rack for cattle to feed at.
- English Word Heck Definition A door, especially one partly of latticework; -- called also heck door.
- English Word Heck Definition A latticework contrivance for catching fish.
- English Word Heck Definition An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.
- English Word Heck Definition A bend or winding of a stream.
- English Word Heckimal Definition The European blue titmouse (Parus coeruleus).
- English Word Heckle Definition Same as Hackle.
- English Word Hectare Definition A measure of area, or superficies, containing a hundred ares, or 10,000 square meters, and equivalent to 2.471 acres.
- English Word Hectic Definition Habitual; constitutional; pertaining especially to slow waste of animal tissue, as in consumption; as, a hectic type in disease; a hectic flush.
- English Word Hectic Definition In a hectic condition; having hectic fever; consumptive; as, a hectic patient.
- English Word Hectic Definition Hectic fever.
- English Word Hectic Definition A hectic flush.
- English Word Hectocotyli Definition of Hectocotylus
- English Word Hectocotylized Definition Changed into a hectocotylus; having a hectocotylis.
- English Word Hectocotylus Definition One of the arms of the male of most kinds of cephalopods, which is specially modified in various ways to effect the fertilization of the eggs. In a special sense, the greatly modified arm of Argonauta and allied genera, which, after receiving the spermatophores, becomes detached from the male, and attaches itself to the female for reproductive purposes.
- English Word Hectogram Definition A measure of weight, containing a hundred grams, or about 3.527 ounces avoirdupois.
- English Word Hectogramme Definition The same as Hectogram.
- English Word Hectograph Definition A contrivance for multiple copying, by means of a surface of gelatin softened with glycerin.
- English Word Hectoliter Definition Alt. of Hectolitre
- English Word Hectolitre Definition A measure of liquids, containing a hundred liters; equal to a tenth of a cubic meter, nearly 26/ gallons of wine measure, or 22.0097 imperial gallons. As a dry measure, it contains ten decaliters, or about 2/ Winchester bushels.