To dull; to blunt; to stupefy; as, to hebetate the intellectual faculties. NWAD HEBETATE.2
1. The state of being dulled. NWAD HEBETATION.2
One of the descendants of Eber, or Heber; but particularly, a descendant of Jacob, who was a descendant of Eber; an Israelite; a Jew. NWAD HEBREW.2
1. The Hebrew language. NWAD HEBREW.3
In antiquity, a sacrifice of a hundred altars, and by a hundred priests. NWAD HECATOMB.2
1. A rack for holding fodder for cattle. NWAD HECK.2
2. A bend in a stream. NWAD HECK.3
3. A hatch or latch of a door. NWAD HECK.4
1. Affected with hectic fevers; as a hectic patient. NWAD HECTIC.2
2. Troubled with a morbid heat. NWAD HECTIC.3
No hectic student scares the gentle maid. NWAD HECTIC.4
1. A bully; a blustering, turbulent, noisy fellow. NWAD HECTOR.2
2. One who teases or vexes. NWAD HECTOR.3
1. To tease; to vex; to torment by words. NWAD HECTOR.5
A mineral, or ore of iron, in masses, composed of shining plates, which break into rhombic fragments; found at Tunaberg, in Sweden. NWAD HEDENBERGITE.2
1. Pertaining to ivy. NWAD HEDERACEOUS.2
2. Producing ivy. NWAD HEDERACEOUS.3
Producing ivy. NWAD HEDERIFEROUS.2
Hedge, prefixed to another word, or in composition, denotes something mean, as a hedge-priest, a hedge-press, a hedge-vicar, that is, born in or belonging to the hedges or woods, low, outlandish. [Not used in American.] NWAD HEDGE.2
1. To obstruct with a hedge, or to obstruct in any manner. NWAD HEDGE.4
I will hedge up thy way with thorns. Hosea 2:6. NWAD HEDGE.5
2. To surround for defense; to fortify. NWAD HEDGE.6
England hedged in with the main. NWAD HEDGE.7
3. To inclose for preventing escape. NWAD HEDGE.8
That is a law to hedge in the cuckow. NWAD HEDGE.9
Dryden, Swift and Shakespeare have written hedge, for edge, to edge in, but improperly. NWAD HEDGE.10
1. A term of reproach. NWAD HEDGEHOG.2
2. A plant of the genus Medicago, or snail-trefoil. The seeds are shaped like a snail, downy, and armed with a few short spines. NWAD HEDGEHOG.3
3. The globe-fish, orbis echinatus. NWAD HEDGEHOG.4
This fish belongs to the genus Diodon. It is covered with long spines, and has the power of inflating its body, whence the name globe-fish. NWAD HEDGEHOG.5
The Sea-hedgehog, is the Echinus, a genus of Zoophytes, generally of a spheroidal or oval form, and covered with movable spines. NWAD HEDGEHOG.6
With pleasure Argus the musician heeds. NWAD HEED.2
With wanton heed and giddy cunning. NWAD HEED.4
1. Caution; care; watch for danger; notice; circumspection; usually preceded by take. NWAD HEED.5
Take heed of evil company. Take heed to your ways. NWAD HEED.6
Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab’s hand. 2 Samuel 20:10. NWAD HEED.7
2. Notice; observation; regard; attention; often preceded by give. NWAD HEED.8
The preacher gave good heed. Ecclesiastes 12:9. NWAD HEED.9
Neither give heed to fables. 1 Timothy 1:4. NWAD HEED.10
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed. Hebrews 2:1. NWAD HEED.11
3. Seriousness; a steady look. NWAD HEED.12
A heed. NWAD HEED.13
Was in his countenance. [Unusual.] NWAD HEED.14
1. Watchful; cautious; circumspect; wary. NWAD HEEDFUL.2
1. Watchfully. NWAD HEEDFULLY.2
The heedless lover does not know, NWAD HEEDLESS.2
Whose eyes they are that wound him so. NWAD HEEDLESS.3
1. The hind part of the foot, particularly of man; but it is applied also to the corresponding part of the feet of quadrupeds. NWAD HEEL.2
2. The whole foot. NWAD HEEL.3
The stag recalls his strength, his speed, NWAD HEEL.4
His winged heels-- NWAD HEEL.5
3. The hind part of a shoe, either for man or beast. NWAD HEEL.6
4. The part of a stocking intended for the heel. NWAD HEEL.7
To be out at the heels, is to have on stockings that are worn out. NWAD HEEL.8
5. Something shaped like the human heel; a protuberance or knob. NWAD HEEL.9
6. The latter part; as, a bill was introduced into the legislature at the heel of the session. NWAD HEEL.10
7. A spur. NWAD HEEL.11
This horse understands the heel well. NWAD HEEL.12
8. The after end of a ship’s keel; the lower end of the stern-post to which it is connected; also, the lower end of a mast. NWAD HEEL.13
To be at the heels, to pursue closely; to follow hard; also, to attend closely. NWAD HEEL.14
Hungry want is at my heels. NWAD HEEL.15
To show the heels, to flee; to run from. NWAD HEEL.16
To take to the heels, to flee; to betake to flight. NWAD HEEL.17
To lay by the heels, to fetter; to shackle; to confine. NWAD HEEL.18
To have the heels of, to outrun. NWAD HEEL.19
Neck and heels, the whole length of the body. NWAD HEEL.20
1. To add a heel to; as, to heel a shoe. NWAD HEEL.23
1. A piece of leather on the heel of a shoe. NWAD HEEL-PIECE.2
1. Heaving; effort. NWAD HEFT.2
He cracks his gorge, his sides. NWAD HEFT.3
With violent hefts. [Not used.] NWAD HEFT.4
2. Weight; ponderousness. [This use is common in popular language in America. And we sometimes hear it used as a verb, as, to heft, to lift for the purpose of feeling or judging of the weight.] NWAD HEFT.5
3. A handle; a haft. [Not used.] NWAD HEFT.6
1. Elevation above the ground; any indefinite distance above the earth. The eagle flies at a great hight, or highth. NWAD HEIGHT.2
2. The altitude of an object; the distance which any thing rises above its foot, basis or foundation; as the hight, or highth of a tower or steeple. NWAD HEIGHT.3
3. Elevation of a star or other celestial luminary above the horizon. NWAD HEIGHT.4
4. Degree of latitude either north or south. In this application, the distance from the equator is considered as elevation. Latitudes are higher as they approach the pole. NWAD HEIGHT.5
Guinea lieth to the north sea, in the same height as Peru to the south. NWAD HEIGHT.6
5. Distance of one thing above another. NWAD HEIGHT.7
6. An eminence; a summit; an elevated part of any thing. NWAD HEIGHT.8
7. A hill or mountain; any elevated ground; as the hights of Dorchester. NWAD HEIGHT.9
8. Elevation of rank; station of dignity or office. NWAD HEIGHT.10
By him that raised me to this careful height. NWAD HEIGHT.11
9. Elevation in excellence of any kind, as in power, learning, arts. NWAD HEIGHT.12
10. Elevation in fame or reputation. NWAD HEIGHT.13
11. Utmost degree in extent or violence; as the highth or hight of a fever, of passion, of madness, of folly, of happiness, of good breeding. So we say, the hight of a tempest. NWAD HEIGHT.14
12. Utmost exertion. NWAD HEIGHT.15
I shall now put you to the height of your breeding. NWAD HEIGHT.16
13. Advance; degree; progress towards perfection or elevation; speaking comparatively. NWAD HEIGHT.17
Social duties are carried to a greater height--by the principles of our religion. NWAD HEIGHT.18
1. To advance in progress towards a better state; to improve; to meliorate; to increase in excellence or good qualities; as, to highten virtue; to highten the beauties of description, or of poetry. NWAD HEIGHTEN.2
2. To aggravate; to advance towards a worse state; to augment in violence. NWAD HEIGHTEN.3
3. To increase; as, to highten our relish for intellectual pleasure. NWAD HEIGHTEN.4
1. Aggravation; augmentation. NWAD HEIGHTENING.3
1. The man who succeeds, or is to succeed another in the possession of lands, tenements and hereditaments, by descent; the man on whom the law casts an estate of inheritance by the death of the ancestor or former possessor; or the man in whom the title to an estate of inheritance is vested by the operation of law, on the death of a former owner. NWAD HEIR.2
We give the title to a person who is to inherit after the death of an ancestor, and during his life, as well as to the person who has actually come into possession. A man’s children are his heirs. In most monarchies, the king’s eldest son is heir to the throne; and a nobleman’s eldest son is heir to his title. NWAD HEIR.3
Lo, one born in my house is my heir. Genesis 15:3. NWAD HEIR.4
2. One who inherits, or takes from an ancestor. The son is often heir to the disease, or to the miseries of the father. NWAD HEIR.5
3. One who succeeds to the estate of a former possessor. Jeremiah 49:1; Micah 1:15. NWAD HEIR.6
4. One who is entitled to possess. In Scripture, saints are called heirs of the promise, heirs of righteousness, heirs of salvation, etc., by virtue of the death of Christ, or of God’s gracious promises. NWAD HEIR.7
Heir-presumptive, one who, if the ancestor should die immediately, would be heir, but whose right of inheritance may be defeated by any contingency, as by the birth of a nearer relative. NWAD HEIR.8
1. Heirship movables, in Scotland, the best of certain kinds of movables which the heir is entitled to take, besides the heritable estate. NWAD HEIRSHIP.2
Emerging from the light of the sun, or passing into it. The heliacal rising of a star, is when, after being in conjunction with it and invisible, it emerges from the light so as to be visible in the morning before sunrising. On the contrary, the heliacal setting of a star, is when the sun approaches so near as to render it invisible by its superior splendor. NWAD HELIACAL.2
Spiral; winding; moving round. NWAD HELICAL.2
The heliocentric place of a planet, is the place of the ecliptic in which the planet would appear to a spectator at the center of the sun. NWAD HELIOCENTRIC.2
The heliocentric latitude of a planet, is the inclination of a line drawn between the center of the sun and the center of a planet to the plane of the ecliptic. NWAD HELIOCENTRIC.3
Helioid parabola, in mathematics, the parabolic spiral, a curve which arises from the supposition that the axis of the common Apollonian parabola is bent round into the periphery of a circle, and is a line then passing through the extremities of the ordinates, which now converge towards the center of the said circle. NWAD HELIOCENTRIC.4
A worship of the sun. NWAD HELIOLATER.2
The worship of the sun, a branch of Sabianism. NWAD HELIOLATRY.2
1. Among the ancients, an instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and the equinoctial line. NWAD HELIOTROPE.2
2. A genus or plants, the turnsole. NWAD HELIOTROPE.3
3. A mineral, a subspecies of rhomboidal quartz, of a deep green color, peculiarly pleasant to the eye. It is usually variegated with blood red or yellowish dots, and is more or less translucent. Before the blowpipe, it loses its color. It is generally supposed to be chalcedony, colored by green earth or chlorite. NWAD HELIOTROPE.4
1. In zoology, the snail-shell. NWAD HELIX.2
1. The place or state of punishment for the wicked after death. Matthew 10:28; Luke 12:5. NWAD HELL.2
Sin is hell begun, as religion is heaven anticipated. NWAD HELL.3
2. The place of the dead, or of souls after death; the lower regions, or the grave; called in Hebrew, sheol, and by the Greeks, hades. Psalm 16:10; Jonah 2:2. NWAD HELL.4
3. The pains of hell, temporal death, or agonies that dying persons feel, or which bring to the brink of the grave. Psalm 18:5. NWAD HELL.5
4. The gates of hell, the power and policy of Satan and his instruments. Matthew 16:18. NWAD HELL.6
5. The infernal powers. NWAD HELL.7
While Saul and hell cross’d his strong fate in vain. NWAD HELL.8
6. The place at a running play to which are carried those who are caught. NWAD HELL.9
7. A place into which a tailor throws his shreds. NWAD HELL.10
8. A dungeon or prison. NWAD HELL.11