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- English Word Heronsew Definition A heronshaw.
- English Word Heronshaw Definition A heron.
- English Word Heroologist Definition One who treats of heroes.
- English Word Heroship Definition The character or personality of a hero.
- English Word Herpes Definition An eruption of the skin, taking various names, according to its form, or the part affected; especially, an eruption of vesicles in small distinct clusters, accompanied with itching or tingling, including shingles, ringworm, and the like; -- so called from its tendency to creep or spread from one part of the skin to another.
- English Word Herpetic Definition Pertaining to, or resembling, the herpes; partaking of the nature of herpes; as, herpetic eruptions.
- English Word Herpetism Definition See Dartrous diathesis, under Dartrous.
- English Word Herpetologic Definition Alt. of Herpetological
- English Word Herpetological Definition Pertaining to herpetology.
- English Word Herpetologist Definition One versed in herpetology, or the natural history of reptiles.
- English Word Herpetology Definition The natural history of reptiles; that branch of zoology which relates to reptiles, including their structure, classification, and habits.
- English Word Herpetotomist Definition One who dissects, or studies the anatomy of, reptiles.
- English Word Herpetotomy Definition The anatomy or dissection of reptiles.
- English Word Herr Definition A title of respect given to gentlemen in Germany, equivalent to the English Mister.
- English Word Herring Definition One of various species of fishes of the genus Clupea, and allied genera, esp. the common round or English herring (C. harengus) of the North Atlantic. Herrings move in vast schools, coming in spring to the shores of Europe and America, where they are salted and smoked in great quantities.
- English Word Herringbone Definition Pertaining to, or like, the spine of a herring; especially, characterized by an arrangement of work in rows of parallel lines, which in the alternate rows slope in different directions.
- English Word Herrnhuter Definition One of the Moravians; -- so called from the settlement of Herrnhut (the Lord's watch) made, about 1722, by the Moravians at the invitation of Nicholas Lewis, count of Zinzendorf, upon his estate in the circle of Bautzen.
- English Word Hers Definition See the Note under Her, pron.
- English Word Hersal Definition Rehearsal.
- English Word Herschel Definition See Uranus.
- English Word Herschelian Definition Of or relating to Sir William Herschel; as, the Herschelian telescope.
- English Word Herse Definition A kind of gate or portcullis, having iron bars, like a harrow, studded with iron spikes. It is hung above gateways so that it may be quickly lowered, to impede the advance of an enemy.
- English Word Herse Definition See Hearse, a carriage for the dead.
- English Word Herse Definition A funeral ceremonial.
- English Word Herse Definition Same as Hearse, v. t.
- English Word Herself Definition An emphasized form of the third person feminine pronoun; -- used as a subject with she; as, she herself will bear the blame; also used alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, it is herself; she blames herself.
- English Word Herself Definition Her own proper, true, or real character; hence, her right, or sane, mind; as, the woman was deranged, but she is now herself again; she has come to herself.
- English Word Hersillon Definition A beam with projecting spikes, used to make a breach impassable.
- English Word Hert Definition A hart.
- English Word Herte Definition A heart.