HERPETIC
HERPET'IC, adjective Pertaining to the herpes or cutaneous eruptions; resembling the herpes, or partaking of its nature; as herpetic eruptions.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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HERPETOLOGIC
HERPETOLOG'ICHERPETOLOG'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to herpetology.
HERPETOLOGICAL
HERPETOLOG'ICAL, a. Pertaining to herpetology.
HERPETOLOGIST
HERPETOL'OGIST, noun A person versed in herpetology, or the natural history of reptiles.
HERPETOLOGY
HERPETOL'OGY, noun [Gr. a reptile, and discourse.] A description of reptiles; the natural history of reptiles, including oviparous quadrupeds, as the crocodile, frog and tortois...
HERRING
HER'RING, noun A fish of the genus Clupea. Herrings, when they migrate, move in vast shoals, and it is said that the name is formed from the Teutonic here, heer, an army or mult...
HERRING-FISHERY
HERRING-FISHERY, noun The fishing for herrings, which constitutes an important branch of business with the English, Dutch and Americans.
HERS
HERS, pronoun hurz, pronoun fem. possessive; as, this house is hers that is, this is the house of her. But perhaps it would be more correct to consider hers as a substitute for ...
HERSCHEL
HERSCHEL, noun her'shel. A planet discovered by Dr. herschel in 1781.
HERSE
HERSE, noun hers.1. In fortification, a lattice or portcullis in the form of a harrow, set with iron spikes. It is hung by a rope fastened to a moulinet, and when a gate is brok...
HERSELF
HERSELF', pronoun [her and self.] This denotes a female, the subject of discourse before mentioned, and is either in the nominative or objective case. In the nominative it usual...
HERSELIKE
HERSELIKE, adjective hers'like. Funereal; suitable to funerals.
HERSILLON
HERS'ILLON, noun [from herse.] In the military art, a plank or beam, whose sides are set with spikes or nails, to incommode and retard the march of an enemy.
HERY
HER'Y, verb transitive To regard as holy.
HESITANCY
HES'ITANCY, noun [See Hesitate.] A doubting; literally, a stopping of the mind; a pausing to consider; dubiousness; suspense.The reason of my hesitancy about the air is--
HESITANT
HES'ITANT, adjective Hesitating; pausing; wanting volubility of speech.
HESITATE
HES'ITATE, verb intransitive s as z. [Latin haesito, haereo, to hang.]1. To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be doubtful as to fact, principle or determination; t...
HESITATING
HES'ITATING, participle present tense Doubting; pausing; stammering.
HESITATINGLY
HES'ITATINGLY, adverb With hesitation or doubt.
HESITATION
HESITA'TION, noun A pausing or delay in forming an opinion or commencing action; doubt; suspension of opinion or decision, from uncertainty what is proper to be decided. When ev...
HESPERIAN
HESPE'RIAN. [Latin hesperius, western, from hesperus, vesper, the evening star, Venus.]Western; situated at the west.HESPE'RIAN, noun An inhabitant of a western country.
HEST
HEST, noun Command; precept; injunction; order. [Now obsolete, but it is retained in the compound, behest.]
HETERARCHY
HET'ERARCHY, noun [Gr. another, and rule.] The government of an alien.
HETEROCLITE
HET'EROCLITE, noun [Gr. another, or different, to incline, to lean.]1. In grammar, a word which is irregular or anomalous either in declension or conjugation, or which deviates ...
HETEROCLITIC
HETEROCLIT'ICHETEROCLIT'ICAL, adjective Irregular; anomalous; deviating from ordinary forms or rules.
HETEROCLITICAL
HETEROCLIT'ICAL, a. Irregular; anomalous; deviating from ordinary forms or rules.
HETEROCLITOUS
HETEROC'LITOUS, adjective Heteroclitic. [Not in use.]