Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter H - Page 22
Height (n.) The distance to which anything rises above its foot, above that on which in stands, above the earth, or above the level of the sea; altitude; the measure upward from a surface, as the floor or the ground, of animal, especially of a man; stature. -- Bacon.
[Goliath's] height was six cubits and a span. -- 1 Sam. xvii. 4.
Height (n.) Degree of latitude either north or south. [Obs.]
Guinea lieth to the north sea, in the same height as Peru to the south. -- Abp. Abbot.
Height (n.) That which is elevated; an eminence; a hill or mountain; as, Alpine heights. -- Dryden.
Height (n.) Elevation in excellence of any kind, as in power, learning, arts; also, an advanced degree of social rank; preeminence or distinction in society; prominence.
Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts. -- R. Browning.
All would in his power hold, all make his subjects. -- Chapman.
Height (n.) Progress toward eminence; grade; degree.
Social duties are carried to greater heights, and enforced with stronger motives by the principles of our religion. -- Addison.
Height (n.) Utmost degree in extent; extreme limit of energy or condition; as, the height of a fever, of passion, of madness, of folly; the height of a tempest.
My grief was at the height before thou camest. -- Shak.
On height, Aloud. [Obs.]
[He] spake these same words, all on hight. -- Chaucer.
Height (n.) The vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top [syn: height, tallness].
Height (n.) The highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development; "his landscapes were deemed the acme of beauty"; "the artist's gifts are at their acme"; "at the height of her career"; "the peak of perfection"; "summer was at its peak"; "...catapulted Einstein to the pinnacle of fame"; "the summit of his ambition"; "so many highest superlatives achieved by man"; "at the top of his profession" [syn: acme, height, elevation, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative, meridian, tiptop, top].
Height (n.) (Of a standing person) The distance from head to foot [syn: stature, height].
Height (n.) Elevation especially above sea level or above the earth's surface; "the altitude gave her a headache" [syn: altitude, height].
Heightened (imp. & p. p.) of Heighten.
Heightening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Heighten.
Heighten (v. t.) To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.
Heighten (v. t.) To carry forward; to advance; to increase; to augment; to aggravate; to intensify; to render more conspicuous; -- used of things, good or bad; as, to heighten beauty; to heighten a flavor or a tint. "To heighten our confusion." -- Addison.
An aspect of mystery which was easily heightened to the miraculous. -- Hawthorne.
Heighten (v.) Become more extreme; "The tension heightened" [syn: heighten, rise].
Heighten (v.) Make more extreme; raise in quantity, degree, or intensity; "heightened interest."
Heighten (v.) Increase; "This will enhance your enjoyment"; "heighten the tension" [syn: enhance, heighten, raise].
Heighten (v.) Increase the height of; "The athletes kept jumping over the steadily heightened bars."
Heighten (v.) Make (one's senses) more acute; "This drug will sharpen your vision" [syn: sharpen, heighten].
Heighten (v.) Make more intense, stronger, or more marked; "The efforts were intensified", "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her"; "Pot smokers claim it heightens their awareness"; "This event only deepened my convictions" [syn: intensify, compound, heighten, deepen].
Heightener (n.) One who, or that which, heightens.
Heinous (a.) Hateful; hatefully bad; flagrant; odious; atrocious; giving great great offense; -- applied to deeds or to character.
Heir (n.) One who inherits, or is entitled to succeed to the possession of, any property after the death of its owner; one on whom the law bestows the title or property of another at the death of the latter.
Heir (n.) One who receives any endowment from an ancestor or relation; as, the heir of one's reputation or virtues.
Heir (v. t.) To inherit; to succeed to.
Heirdom (n.) The state of an heir; succession by inheritance.
Heiress (n.) A female heir.
Heirless (a.) Destitute of an heir.
Heirloom (n.) Any furniture, movable, or personal chattel, which by law or special custom descends to the heir along with the inheritance; any piece of personal property that has been in a family for several generations.
Heirship (n.) The state, character, or privileges of an heir; right of inheriting.
Hejira (n.) See Hegira.
Hektare (n.) Alt. of Hektometer.
Hektogram (n.) Alt. of Hektometer.
Hektoliter (n.) Alt. of Hektometer.
Hektometer (n.) Same as Hectare, Hectogram, Hectoliter, and Hectometer.
Hektograph (n.) See Hectograph.
Helamys (n.) See Jumping hare, under Hare.
Helcoplasty (n.) The act or process of repairing lesions made by ulcers, especially by a plastic operation.
Held () imp. & p. p. of Hold.
Hele (n.) Health; welfare.
Hele (v. t.) To hide; to cover; to roof.
Helena (n.) See St. Elmo's fire, under Saint.
Helenin (n.) A neutral organic substance found in the root of the elecampane (Inula helenium), and extracted as a white crystalline or oily material, with a slightly bitter taste.
Heliac (a.) Heliacal.
Heliacal (a.) (Astron.) 太陽的；接近太陽的 Emerging from the light of the sun, or passing into it; rising or setting at the same, or nearly the same, time as the sun. -- Sir T. Browne.
Note: The heliacal rising of a star is when, after being in conjunction with the sun, 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 conjunction so near as to render the star invisible.
Heliacal (a.) Pertaining to or near the sun; especially the first rising of a star after and last setting before its invisibility owing to its conjunction with the sun; "the heliacal rising of the Dog Star"; "the heliacal or Sothic year is determined by the heliacal rising of Sothis (the Egyptian name for the Dog Star)" [syn: heliacal, heliac].
Heliacally (adv.) In a heliacal manner. -- De Quincey.
Helianthin (n.) (Chem.) An artificial, orange dyestuff, analogous to tropaolin, and like it used as an indicator in alkalimetry; -- called also methyl orange.
Helianthoid (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Helianthoidea.
Helianthoidea (n. pl.) (Zool.) An order of Anthozoa; the Actinaria.
Helical (a.) Of or pertaining to, or in the form of, a helix; spiral; as, a helical staircase; a helical spring. -- Hel"i*cal*ly, adv.
Helical (a.) In the shape of a coil [syn: coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled, turbinate].
Helichrysum (n.) (Bot.) A genus of composite plants, with shining, commonly white or yellow, or sometimes reddish, radiated involucres, which are often called "everlasting flowers."
Helichrysum (n.) Large genus of mostly African and Australian herbs and shrubs: everlasting flowers; in some classifications includes genus Ozothamnus [syn: Helichrysum, genus Helichrysum].
Heliciform (a.) Having the form of a helix; spiral.
Helicin (n.) (Chem.) A glucoside obtained as a white crystalline substance by partial oxidation of salicin, from a willow ({Salix Helix of Linnaeus.)
Helicine (a.) (Anat.) Curled; spiral; helicoid; -- applied esp. to certain arteries of the penis.
Helicobacter pylori (n.) 幽門螺桿菌或幽門螺旋桿菌 [1] [2]、幽門螺旋菌 Previously Campylobacter pylori, is a gram-negative, microaerophilic bacterium found usually in the stomach. It was identified in 1982 by Australian scientists Barry Marshall and Robin Warren, who found that it was present in a person with chronic gastritis and gastric ulcers, conditions not previously believed to have a microbial cause. It is also linked to the development of duodenal ulcers and stomach cancer. However, over 80% of individuals infected with the bacterium are asymptomatic, and it may play an important role in the natural stomach ecology. [6]
More than 50% of the world's population harbor H. pylori in their upper gastrointestinal tract. [5] Infection is more common in developing countries than Western countries. [4] H. pylori's helical shape (from which the genus name derives) is thought to have evolved to penetrate the mucoid lining of the stomach. [7] [8]
Helicograph (n.) An instrument for drawing spiral lines on a plane.
Helicoid (a.) Spiral; curved, like the spire of a univalve shell.
Helicoid (a.) (Zool.) Shaped like a snail shell; pertaining to the Helicidae, or Snail family.
Helicoid parabola (Math.), The parabolic spiral.
Helicoid (n.) (Geom.) A warped surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner that every point of the line shall have a uniform motion in the direction of another fixed straight line, and at the same time a uniform angular motion about it.
Helicoidal (a.) Same as Helicoid. -- Hel`i*coid"al*ly, adv.
Helicon (n.) A mountain in Boeotia, in Greece, supposed by the Greeks to be the residence of Apollo and the Muses.
From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take. -- Gray.
Helicon (n.) A tuba that coils over the shoulder of the musician [syn helicon, bombardon].
Heliconia (n.) (Zool.) One of numerous species of Heliconius, a genus of tropical American butterflies. The wings are usually black, marked with green, crimson, and white.
Heliconian (a.) Of or pertaining to Helicon. "Heliconian honey." -- Tennyson.
Heliconian (a.) (Zool.) Like or pertaining to the butterflies of the genus Heliconius.
Helicopter (n.) 直升機；直升飛機 [C] A heavier-than-air aircraft whose lift is provided by the aerodynamic forces on rotating blades rather than on fixed wings. Contrasted with {fixed-wing aircraft}.
Helicopter (v. i.) 乘直升機 To travel in a helicopter.
Helicopter (v. t.) 用直升機載送 To transport in a helicopter.
Helicopter (n.) An aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades [syn: {helicopter}, {chopper}, {whirlybird}, {eggbeater}].
Helicopter (n.) [ C ] (A2) 直升機 A type of aircraft without wings, that has one or two sets of large blades that go round very fast on top. It can land and take off vertically and can stay in one place in the air.
// The injured were ferried to hospital by helicopter.
// A helicopter pilot.
Helicotrema (n.) (Anat.) 蝸孔 The opening by which the two scal[ae] communicate at the top of the cochlea of the ear.
Helio- () A combining form from Gr. "h`lios the sun.
Heliocentric (a.) Alt. of Heliocentrical.
Heliocentrical (a.) pertaining to the sun's center, or appearing to be seen from it; having, or relating to, the sun as a center; -- opposed to geocentrical.
Heliochrome (n.) A photograph in colors.
Heliochromic (a.) Pertaining to, or produced by, heliochromy.
Heliochromy (n.) The art of producing photographs in color.
Heliograph (n.) A picture taken by heliography; a photograph.
Heliograph (n.) An instrument for taking photographs of the sun.
Heliograph (n.) An apparatus for telegraphing by means of the sun's rays. See Heliotrope, 3.
Heliographic (a.) Of or pertaining to heliography or a heliograph; made by heliography.
Heliography (n.) Photography.
Heliogravure (n.) The process of photographic engraving.
Heliolater (n.) A worshiper of the sun.
Heliolatry (n.) Sun worship. See Sabianism.
Heliolite (n.) A fossil coral of the genus Heliolites, having twelve-rayed cells. It is found in the Silurian rocks.
Heliometer (n.) An instrument devised originally for measuring the diameter of the sun; now employed for delicate measurements of the distance and relative direction of two stars too far apart to be easily measured in the field of view of an ordinary telescope.
Heliometric (a.) Alt. of Heliometrical.
Heliometrical (a.) Of or pertaining to the heliometer, or to heliometry.
Heliometry (n.) The apart or practice of measuring the diameters of heavenly bodies, their relative distances, etc. See Heliometer.
Heliopora (n.) An East Indian stony coral now known to belong to the Alcyonaria; -- called also blue coral.
Helioscope (n.) A telescope or instrument for viewing the sun without injury to the eyes, as through colored glasses, or with mirrors which reflect but a small portion of light.
Heliostat (n.) An instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, by which a sunbeam is made apparently stationary, by being steadily directed to one spot during the whole of its diurnal period; also, a geodetic heliotrope.
Heliotrope (n.) An instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line.
Heliotrope (n.) A plant of the genus Heliotropium; -- called also turnsole and girasole. H. Peruvianum is the commonly cultivated species with fragrant flowers.
Heliotrope (n.) An instrument for making signals to an observer at a distance, by means of the sun's rays thrown from a mirror.
Heliotrope (n.) See Bloodstone (a).
Heliotroper (n.) The person at a geodetic station who has charge of the heliotrope.
Heliotropic (a.) Manifesting heliotropism; turning toward the sun.
Heliotropism (n.) The phenomenon of turning toward the light, seen in many leaves and flowers.
Heliotype (n.) A picture obtained by the process of heliotypy.
Heliotypic (a.) Relating to, or obtained by, heliotypy.
Heliotypy (n.) A method of transferring pictures from photographic negatives to hardened gelatin plates from which impressions are produced on paper as by lithography.
Heliozoa (n. pl.) An order of fresh-water rhizopods having a more or less globular form, with slender radiating pseudopodia; the sun animalcule.
Helispheric (a.) Alt. of Helispherical.
Helispherical (a.) Spiral.
Helium (n.) A gaseous element found in the atmospheres of the sun and earth and in some rare minerals.
Helices (n. pl. ) of Helix.
Helixes (n. pl. ) of Helix.
Helix (n.) A nonplane curve whose tangents are all equally inclined to a given plane. The common helix is the curve formed by the thread of the ordinary screw. It is distinguished from the spiral, all the convolutions of which are in the plane.
Helix (n.) A caulicule or little volute under the abacus of the Corinthian capital.
Helix (n.) The incurved margin or rim of the external ear. See Illust. of Ear.
Helix (n.) A genus of land snails, including a large number of species.
Hell (n.) The place of the dead, or of souls after death; the grave; -- called in Hebrew sheol, and by the Greeks hades.
He descended into hell. -- Book of Common Prayer.
Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell. -- Ps. xvi. 10.
Hell (n.) The place or state of punishment for the wicked after death; the abode of evil spirits. Hence, any mental torment; anguish. "Within him hell." -- Milton.
It is a knell That summons thee to heaven or to hell. -- Shak.
Hell (n.) A place where outcast persons or things are gathered; as:
Hell (n.) A dungeon or prison; also, in certain running games, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.