HEBDOMADAL
HEBDOM'ADALHEBDOM'ADARY, adjective Weekly; consisting of seven days, or occurring every seven days.HEBDOM'ADARY, noun A member of a chapter or convent, whose week it is to offic...
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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HEBDOMATICAL
HEBDOMAT'ICAL, adjective Weekly.
HEBEN
HEB'EN, noun Ebony.
HEBETATE
HEB'ETATE, verb transitive [Latin hebeto, from hebes, dull, blunt, heavy.]To dull; to blunt; to stupefy; as, to hebetate the intellectual faculties.
HEBETATED
HEB'ETATED, participle present tense Made blunt, dull or stupid.
HEBETATING
HEB'ETATING, participle passive Rendering blunt, dull or stupid.
HEBETATION
HEBETA'TION, noun The act of making blunt, dull or stupid.1. The state of being dulled.
HEBETE
HEBE'TE, adjective Dull; stupid.
HEBETUDE
HEB'ETUDE, noun [Latin hebetudo.] Dullness; stupidity.
HEBRAIC
HEBRA'IC, adjective [from Hebrew.] Pertaining to the Hebrews; designating the language of the Hebrews.
HEBRAICALLY
HEBRA'ICALLY, adverb After the manner of the Hebrew language; from right to left.
HEBRAISM
HE'BRAISM, noun A Hebrew idiom; a peculiar expression or manner of speaking in the Hebrew language.
HEBRAIST
HE'BRAIST, noun One versed in the Hebrew language.
HEBRAIZE
HE'BRAIZE, verb transitive To convert into the Hebrew idiom; to make Hebrew.HE'BRAIZE, verb intransitive To speak Hebrew, or to conform to the Hebrews.
HEBREW
HE'BREW, noun [Heb. Eber, either a proper name, or a name denoting passage, pilgrimage, or coming from beyond the Euphrates.]One of the descendants of Eber, or Heber; but partic...
HEBREWESS
HE'BREWESS, noun An Israelitish woman.
HEBRICIAN
HEBRI'CIAN, noun One skilled in the Hebrew language.
HEBRIDIAN
HEBRID'IAN, adjective Pertaining to the isles called Hebrides, west of Scotland.
HECATOMB
HEC'ATOMB, noun [Latin hecatombe; Gr. a hundred, and an ox.]In antiquity, a sacrifice of a hundred altars, and by a hundred priests.
HECK
HECK, noun [See Hatch.] An engine or instrument for catching fish; as a salmon heck1. A rack for holding fodder for cattle.2. A bend in a stream.3. A hatch or latch of a door.
HECKLE
HECK'LE, verb transitive A different orthography of hackle, or hetchel.
HECTARE
HEC'TARE, noun [Gr. a hundred, and Latin area.] A French measure containing a hundred ares, or ten thousand square meters.
HECTIC
HEC'TICHEC'TICAL, adjective [Gr. habit of body, to have.] Habitual; denoting a slow, continual fever, marked by preternatural, though remitting heat, which precedes and accompan...
HECTICALLY
HEC'TICALLY, adverb Constitutionally.
HECTOGRAM
HEC'TOGRAM, noun [Gr. a hundred; and a gram.] In the French system of weights and measures, a weight containing a hundred grams; equal to 3 ounces, 2 gros, and 12 grains, French.
HECTOLITER
HEC'TOLITER, noun [Gr. a hundred, and a pound.] A French measure of capacity for liquids, containing a hundred liters; equal to a tenth of a cubic meter, or 107 Paris pints. As ...
HECTOMETER
HECTOM'ETER, noun [Gr. a hundred, and measure.] A French measure equal to a hundred meters; the meter being the unit of lineal measure. It is equivalent nearly to 308 French feet.