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- English Word Hemoptysis Definition The expectoration of blood, due usually to hemorrhage from the mucous membrane of the lungs.
- English Word Hemorrhage Definition Any discharge of blood from the blood vessels.
- English Word Hemorrhagic Definition Pertaining or tending to a flux of blood; consisting in, or accompanied by, hemorrhage.
- English Word Hemorrhoidal Definition Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, hemorrhoids.
- English Word Hemorrhoidal Definition Of or pertaining to the rectum; rectal; as, the hemorrhoidal arteries, veins, and nerves.
- English Word Hemorrhoids Definition Livid and painful swellings formed by the dilation of the blood vessels around the margin of, or within, the anus, from which blood or mucus is occasionally discharged; piles; emerods.
- English Word Hemostatic Definition Of or relating to stagnation of the blood.
- English Word Hemostatic Definition Serving to arrest hemorrhage; styptic.
- English Word Hemostatic Definition A medicine or application to arrest hemorrhage.
- English Word Hemp Definition A plant of the genus Cannabis (C. sativa), the fibrous skin or bark of which is used for making cloth and cordage. The name is also applied to various other plants yielding fiber.
- English Word Hemp Definition The fiber of the skin or rind of the plant, prepared for spinning. The name has also been extended to various fibers resembling the true hemp.
- English Word Hempen Definition Made of hemp; as, a hempen cord.
- English Word Hempen Definition Like hemp.
- English Word Hempy Definition Like hemp.
- English Word Hemself Definition Alt. of Hemselven
- English Word Hemselven Definition Themselves; -- used reflexively.
- English Word Hemstitch Definition To ornament at the head of a broad hem by drawing out a few parallel threads, and fastening the cross threads in successive small clusters; as, to hemstitch a handkerchief.
- English Word Hemstitched Definition of Hemstitch
- English Word Hemstitched Definition Having a broad hem separated from the body of the article by a line of open work; as, a hemistitched handkerchief.
- English Word Hemstitching Definition of Hemstitch
- English Word Hemuse Definition The roebuck in its third year.
- English Word Hen Definition The female of the domestic fowl; also, the female of grouse, pheasants, or any kind of birds; as, the heath hen; the gray hen.
- English Word Hen's-foot Definition An umbelliferous plant (Caucalis daucoides).
- English Word Hen-hearted Definition Cowardly; timid; chicken-hearted.
- English Word Henbane Definition A plant of the genus Hyoscyamus (H. niger). All parts of the plant are poisonous, and the 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.
- English Word Henbit Definition A weed of the genus Lamium (L. amplexicaule) with deeply crenate leaves.
- English Word Hence Definition From this place; away.
- English Word Hence Definition From this time; in the future; as, a week hence.
- English Word Hence Definition From this reason; as an inference or deduction.
- English Word Hence Definition From this source or origin.