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  • English Word Henotheism Definition Primitive religion in which each of several divinities is regarded as independent, and is worshiped without reference to the rest.
  • English Word Henotic Definition Harmonizing; irenic.
  • English Word Henpeck Definition To subject to petty authority; -- said of a wife who thus treats her husband. Commonly used in the past participle (often adjectively).
  • English Word Henpecked Definition of Henpeck
  • English Word Henpecking Definition of Henpeck
  • English Word Henroost Definition A place where hens roost.
  • English Word Henry Definition 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 ampere a second.
  • English Word Henrys Definition of Henry
  • English Word Hent Definition of Hent
  • English Word Hent Definition To seize; to lay hold on; to catch; to get.
  • English Word Hente Definition of Hent
  • English Word Henware Definition A coarse, blackish seaweed. See Badderlocks.
  • English Word Henxman Definition Henchman.
  • English Word Hep Definition See Hip, the fruit of the dog-rose.
  • English Word Hep tree Definition The wild dog-rose.
  • English Word Hepar Definition Liver of sulphur; a substance of a liver-brown color, sometimes used in medicine. It is formed by fusing sulphur with carbonates of the alkalies (esp. potassium), and consists essentially of alkaline sulphides. Called also hepar sulphuris (/).
  • English Word Hepar Definition Any substance resembling hepar proper, in appearance; specifically, in homeopathy, calcium sulphide, called also hepar sulphuris calcareum (/).
  • English Word Hepatic Definition Of or pertaining to the liver; as, hepatic artery; hepatic diseases.
  • English Word Hepatic Definition Resembling the liver in color or in form; as, hepatic cinnabar.
  • English Word Hepatic Definition Pertaining to, or resembling, the plants called Hepaticae, or scale mosses and liverworts.
  • English Word Hepatica Definition A genus of pretty spring flowers closely related to Anemone; squirrel cup.
  • English Word Hepatica Definition Any plant, usually procumbent and mosslike, of the cryptogamous class Hepaticae; -- called also scale moss and liverwort. See Hepaticae, in the Supplement.
  • English Word Hepaticae Definition of Hepatica
  • English Word Hepatical Definition Hepatic.
  • English Word Hepatite Definition A variety of barite emitting a fetid odor when rubbed or heated.
  • English Word Hepatitis Definition Inflammation of the liver.
  • English Word Hepatization Definition Impregnating with sulphureted hydrogen gas.
  • English Word Hepatization Definition Conversion into a substance resembling the liver; a state of the lungs when gorged with effused matter, so that they are no longer pervious to the air.
  • English Word Hepatize Definition To impregnate with sulphureted hydrogen gas, formerly called hepatic gas.
  • English Word Hepatize Definition To gorge with effused matter, as the lungs.