Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter H - Page 29
Hermogenian (n.) (Eccl. Hist.) A disciple of Hermogenes, an heretical teacher who lived in Africa near the close of the second century. He held matter to be the fountain of all evil, and that souls and spirits are formed of corrupt matter.
Hern (n.) (Zool.) A heron; esp., the common European heron. "A stately hern." -- Trench.
Hernani (n.) A thin silk or woolen goods, for women's dresses, woven in various styles and colors.
Herne (n.) A corner. [Obs.]
Lurking in hernes and in lanes blind. -- Chaucer.
Hernias (n. pl. ) of Hernia.
Herniae (n. pl. ) of Hernia.
Hernia (n.) (Med.) A protrusion, consisting of an organ or part which has escaped from its natural cavity, and projects through some natural or accidental opening in the walls of the latter; as, hernia of the brain, of the lung, or of the bowels. Hernia of the abdominal viscera in most common. Called also rupture.
Strangulated hernia, A hernia so tightly compressed in some part of the channel through which it has been protruded as to arrest its circulation, and produce swelling of the protruded part. It may occur in recent or chronic hernia, but is more common in the latter.
Hernia (n.) Rupture in smooth muscle tissue through which a bodily structure protrudes [syn: hernia, herniation].
Hernial (a.) Of, or connected with, hernia.
Herniotomy (n.) (Med.) A surgical procedure for the cure or relief of hernia; celotomy.
Herniotomy (n.) A cutting for the cure or relief of hernia; celotomy.
Hernshaw (n.) Heronshaw. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Heronshaw (n.) (Zool.) A heron. [Written variously hernshaw, harnsey, etc.]
Heroes (n. pl. ) of Hero.
Hero (n.) (Myth.) 英雄，超越常人者，男主角 An illustrious man, supposed to be exalted, after death, to a place among the gods; a demigod, as Hercules.
Hero (n.) A man of distinguished valor or enterprise in danger, or fortitude in suffering; a prominent or central personage in any remarkable action or event; hence, a great or illustrious person.
Each man is a hero and oracle to somebody. -- Emerson.
Hero (n.) The principal personage in a poem, story, and the like, or the person who has the principal share in the transactions related; as Achilles in the Iliad, Ulysses in the Odyssey, and Aeneas in the Aeneid.
The shining quality of an epic hero. -- Dryden.
Hero worship, Extravagant admiration for great men, likened to the ancient worship of heroes.
Hero worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among mankind. -- Carlyle.
Hero (n.) A man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength; "RAF pilots were the heroes of the Battle of Britain."
Hero (n.) The principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem.
Hero (n.) Someone who fights for a cause [syn: champion, fighter, hero, paladin].
Hero (n.) Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century) [syn: Hero, Heron, Hero of Alexandria].
Hero (n.) (Classical mythology) A being of great strength and courage celebrated for bold exploits; often the offspring of a mortal and a god.
Hero (n.) (Greek mythology) Priestess of Aphrodite who killed herself when her lover Leander drowned while trying to swim the Hellespont to see her.
Hero (n.) A large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States [syn: bomber, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep].
Herodian (prop. n.) (Jewish Hist.) One of a party among the Jews, composed of partisans of Herod of Galilee. They joined with the Pharisees against Christ.
Herodiones (n. pl.) (Zool.) A division of wading birds, including the herons, storks, and allied forms. Called also Herodii. -- {He*ro`di*o"nine}, a.
Heroess (n.) A heroine. [Obs.] -- Dryden.
Heroic (a.) Of or pertaining to, or like, a hero; of the nature of heroes; distinguished by the existence of heroes; as, the heroic age; an heroic people; heroic valor.
Heroic (a.) Worthy of a hero; bold; daring; brave; illustrious; as, heroic action; heroic enterprises.
Heroic (a.) (Sculpture & Painting) Larger than life size, but smaller than colossal; -- said of the representation of a human figure.
Heroic Age, The age when the heroes, or those called the children of the gods, are supposed to have lived.
Heroic poetry, That which celebrates the deeds of a hero; epic poetry.
Heroic treatment or Heroic remedies (Med.), Treatment or remedies of a severe character, suited to a desperate case.
Heroic verse (Pros.), The verse of heroic or epic poetry, being in English, German, and Italian the iambic of ten syllables; in French the iambic of twelve syllables; and in classic poetry the hexameter.
Syn: Brave; intrepid; courageous; daring; valiant; bold; gallant; fearless; enterprising; noble; magnanimous; illustrious.
Heroic (a.) Very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale); "an epic voyage"; "of heroic proportions"; "heroic sculpture" [syn: epic, heroic, larger-than-life].
Heroic (a.) Relating to or characteristic of heroes of antiquity; "heroic legends"; "the heroic age."
Heroic (a.) Having or displaying qualities appropriate for heroes; "the heroic attack on the beaches of Normandy"; "heroic explorers" [syn: heroic, heroical].
Heroic (a.) Of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope; "an expansive lifestyle"; "in the grand manner"; "collecting on a grand scale"; "heroic undertakings" [syn: expansive, grand, heroic].
Heroic (a.) Showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort; "made a last desperate attempt to reach the climber"; "the desperate gallantry of our naval task forces marked the turning point in the Pacific war" -- G.C.Marshall; "they took heroic measures to save his life" [syn: desperate, heroic].
Heroic (n.) A verse form suited to the treatment of heroic or elevated themes; dactylic hexameter or iambic pentameter [syn: heroic verse, heroic meter, heroic].
Heroical (a.) Heroic. [R.] -- Spectator. -- He*ro"ic*al*ly, adv. -- He*ro"ic*al*ness, n.
Heroical (a.) Having or displaying qualities appropriate for heroes; "the heroic attack on the beaches of Normandy"; "heroic explorers" [syn: heroic, heroical].
Heroicness (n.) Heroism. [R.] -- W. Montagu. Heroicomic
Heroicomic (a.) Alt. of Heroicomical
Heroicomical (a.) Combining the heroic and the ludicrous; denoting high burlesque; as, a heroicomic poem.
Heroine (n.) A woman of an heroic spirit.
The heroine assumed the woman's place. -- Dryden.
Heroine (n.) The principal female person who figures in a remarkable action, or as the subject of a poem or story.
Heroine (n.) The main good female character in a work of fiction.
Heroine (n.) A woman possessing heroic qualities or a woman who has performed heroic deeds.
Heroism (n.) The qualities characteristic of a hero, as courage, bravery, fortitude, unselfishness, etc.; the display of such qualities.
Heroism is the self-devotion of genius manifesting itself in action. -- Hare.
Syn: Heroism, Courage, Fortitude, Bravery, Valor, Intrepidity, Gallantry.
Usage: Courage is generic, denoting fearlessness or defiance of danger; fortitude is passive courage, the habit of bearing up nobly under trials, danger, and sufferings; bravery is courage displayed in daring acts; valor is courage in battle or other conflicts with living opponents; intrepidity is firm courage, which shrinks not amid the most appalling dangers; gallantry is adventurous courage, dashing into the thickest of the fight. Heroism may call into exercise all these modifications of courage. It is a contempt of danger, not from ignorance or inconsiderate levity, but from a noble devotion to some great cause, and a just confidence of being able to meet danger in the spirit of such a cause. Cf. Courage.
Heroism (n.) The qualities of a hero or heroine; exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger (especially in battle); "he showed great heroism in battle"; "he received a medal for valor" [syn: heroism, gallantry, valor, valour, valorousness, valiance, valiancy].
Heron (n.) 【鳥】鷺，蒼鷺 [C] Any wading bird of the genus Ardea and allied genera, of the family Ardeidae. The herons have a long, sharp bill, and long legs and toes, with the claw of the middle toe toothed. The common European heron (Ardea cinerea) is remarkable for its directly ascending flight, and was formerly hunted with the larger falcons.
Note: There are several common American species; as, the great blue heron ({Ardea herodias); the little blue ({Ardea c[oe]rulea); the green ({Ardea virescens}); the snowy ({Ardea candidissima); the night heron or qua-bird ({Nycticorax nycticorax). The plumed herons are called egrets.
Heron's bill (Bot.), A plant of the genus Erodium; -- so called from the fancied resemblance of the fruit to the head and beak of the heron.
Heron (n.) Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century) [syn: Hero, Heron, Hero of Alexandria].
Heron (n.) Grey or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill.
Heron () (Lev. 11:19; Deut. 14:18), Ranked among the unclean birds. The Hebrew name is _'anaphah_, and indicates that the bird so named is remarkable for its angry disposition. "The herons are wading-birds, peculiarly irritable, remarkable for their voracity, frequenting marshes and oozy rivers, and spread over the regions of the East." The Ardea russeta, or little golden egret, is the commonest species in Asia.
Heron, MT -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Montana
Population (2000): 149
Housing Units (2000): 63
Land area (2000): 3.392157 sq. miles (8.785645 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.392157 sq. miles (8.785645 sq. km)
FIPS code: 35875
Located within: Montana (MT), FIPS 30
Location: 48.057437 N, 115.960373 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 59844
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Heron, MT
Heron
Heroner (n.) A hawk used in hunting the heron. "Heroner and falcon." -- Chaucer.
Heronry (n.) A place where herons breed.
Heronry (n.) A breeding ground for herons; a heron rookery.
Heronsew (n.) A heronshaw. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Heronshaw (n.) (Zool.) A heron. [Written variously {hernshaw}, {harnsey}, etc.]
Heroologist (n.) One who treats of heroes. [R.] -- T. Warton.
Heroship (n.) The character or personality of a hero. "Three years of heroship." -- Cowper.
Herpes (n.) (Med.) An eruption of the skin, taking various names, according to its form, or the part affected, caused by a herpesvirus infection; 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.
Herpes (n.) Viral diseases causing eruptions of the skin or mucous membrane.
Herpes (n.) Any of the animal viruses that cause painful blisters on the skin [syn: {herpes}, {herpes virus}].
Herpetic (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the herpes; partaking of the nature of herpes; as, herpetic eruptions.
Compare: Dartrous
Dartrous (a.) (Med.) Relating to, or partaking of the nature of, the disease called tetter; herpetic.
{Dartrous diathesis}, A morbid condition of the system predisposing to the development of certain skin diseases, such as eczema, psoriasis, and pityriasis. Also called {rheumic diathesis}, and {herpetism}. -- Piffard.
Herpetism (n.) (Med.) See Dartrous diathesis, under Dartrous. Herpetologic
Herpetologic (a.) Alt. of Herpetological.
Herpetological (a.) Pertaining to herpetology.
Herpetologist (n.) One versed in herpetology, or the natural history of reptiles.
Herpetologist (n.) A zoologist who studies reptiles and amphibians.
Herpetology (n.) The natural history of reptiles; that branch of zoology which relates to reptiles, including their structure, classification, and habits.
Herpetology (n.) The branch of zoology concerned with reptiles and amphibians.
Herpetotomist (n.) One who dissects, or studies the anatomy of, reptiles.
Herpetotomy (n.) The anatomy or dissection of reptiles.
Herr (n.) A title of respect given to gentlemen in Germany, equivalent to the English Mister.
Herr (n.) A German man; used before the name as a title equivalent to Mr in English.
Herr (n.) A German courtesy title or form of address for a man.
Herring (n.) (Zool.) One of various species of fishes of the genus {Clupea}, and allied genera, esp. the common round or English herring ({Clupea 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.
{Herring gull} (Zool.), A large gull which feeds in part upon herrings; esp., {Larus argentatus} in America, and {Larus cachinnans} in England. See {Gull}.
{Herring hog} (Zool.), The common porpoise.
{King of the herrings}. (Zool.) (a) The chim[ae]ra ({Chimaera monstrosa}) which follows the schools of herring. Called also {rabbit fish} in the U. K. See {Chim[ae]ra}.
{King of the herrings}. (b) The opah.
Herring (n.) Valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled
Herring (n.) Commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific [syn: {herring}, {Clupea harangus}].
Herringbone (a.) 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.
{Herringbone stitch}, A kind of cross-stitch in needlework, chiefly used in flannel. -- Simmonds.
Herringbone (n.) A twilled fabric with a herringbone pattern.
Herringbone (n.) A pattern of columns of short parallel lines with all the lines in one column sloping one way and lines in adjacent columns sloping the other way; it is used in weaving, masonry, parquetry, embroidery [syn: {herringbone}, {herringbone pattern}].
Compare: Moravian
Moravian, (n.) (Eccl. Hist.) One of a religious sect called the United Brethren (an offshoot of the Hussites in Bohemia), which formed a separate church of Moravia, a northern district of Austria, about the middle of the 15th century. After being nearly extirpated by persecution, the society, under the name of The Renewed Church of the United Brethren, was reestablished in 1722-35 on the estates of Count Zinzendorf in Saxony. Called also {Herrnhuter}.
Herrnhuter (n.) (Eccl. Hist.) 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.
Compare: She
She (pron.) This or that female; the woman understood or referred to; the animal of the female sex, or object personified as feminine, which was spoken of.
She loved her children best in every wise. -- Chaucer.
Then Sarah denied, . . . for she was afraid. -- Gen. xviii. 15.
She (pron.) A woman; a female; -- used substantively. [R.]
Lady, you are the cruelest she alive. -- Shak.
Note: She is used in composition with nouns of common gender, for female, to denote an animal of the female sex; as, a she-bear; a she-cat.
Hers (pron.) See the Note under Her, pron.
HERS, pron. His.
Hersal (n.) Rehearsal. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Her.schel ,Caroline Lucretia 赫瑟爾
(1750-1848,英國天文學家,Sir William之妹)
Uranus, (n.) (Gr. Myth.) The son or husband of Gaia (Earth), and father of Chronos (Time) and the Titans.
Uranus, (n.) (Astron.) One of the primary planets. It is about 1,800,000,000 miles from the sun, about 36,000 miles in diameter, and its period of revolution round the sun is nearly 84 of our years.
Note: This planet has also been called {Herschel}, from Sir William Herschel, who discovered it in 1781, and who named it {Georgium Sidus}, in honor of George III., then King of England.
Herschel (n.) (Astron.) See {Uranus}.
Herschel (n.) English astronomer (son of William Herschel) who extended the catalogue of stars to the southern hemisphere and did pioneering work in photography (1792-1871) [syn: {Herschel}, {John Herschel}, {Sir John Herschel}, {Sir John Frederick William Herschel}].
Herschel (n.) English astronomer (born in Germany) who discovered infrared light and who catalogued the stars and discovered the planet Uranus (1738-1822) [syn: {Herschel}, {William Herschel}, {Sir William Herschel}, {Sir Frederick William Herschel}].
Herschelian (a.) Of or relating to Sir William Herschel; as, the Herschelian telescope.
Herse (n.) (Fort.) 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. -- Farrow.
Herse (n.) See Hearse, a carriage for the dead.
Herse (n.) A funeral ceremonial. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Herse (v. t.) Same as Hearse, v. t. -- Chapman.
Herself (pron.) 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.
Herself (pron.) 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.
By herself, Alone; apart; unaccompanied.
Hersillon (n.) (Fort.) A beam with projecting spikes, used to make a breach impassable.
Hert (n.) A hart. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Herte (n.) A heart. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Hertely (a. & adv.) Hearty; heartily. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Hery (v. t.) To worship; to glorify; to praise. [Obs.] -- Chaucer. Spenser.
Hesitancy (n.) The act of hesitating, or pausing to consider; slowness in deciding; vacillation; also, the manner of one who hesitates.
Hesitancy (n.) A stammering; a faltering in speech.
Hesitancy (n.) A feeling of diffidence and indecision about doing something [syn: hesitance, hesitancy].
Hesitancy (n.) A certain degree of unwillingness; "a reluctance to commit himself"; "his hesitancy revealed his basic indisposition"; "after some hesitation he agreed" [syn: reluctance, hesitancy, hesitation, disinclination, indisposition].
Hesitant (a.) Not prompt in deciding or acting; hesitating.
Hesitant (a.) Unready in speech. -- Baxter.
Hesitant (a.) Lacking decisiveness of character; unable to act or decide quickly or firmly [syn: hesitant, hesitating].
Hesitantly (adv.) With hesitancy or doubt.
Hesitantly (adv.) With hesitation; in a hesitant manner; "he finally accepted hesitantly" [syn: {hesitantly}, {hesitatingly}] [ant: {unhesitatingly}].
Hesitate (v. t.) 有疑慮，不願意 [Y] [+to-v] To utter with hesitation or to intimate by a reluctant manner. [Poetic & R.]
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike. -- Pope.
Hesitated (imp. & p. p.) of Hesitate.
Hesitating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hesitate.
Hesitate (v. i.) 躊躇；猶豫；說話吞吞吐吐 To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination; as, he hesitated whether to accept the offer or not; men often hesitate in forming a judgment. -- Pope.
Hesitate (v. i.) To stammer; to falter in speaking.
Syn: To doubt; waver; scruple; deliberate; demur; falter; stammer.
Hesitate (v.) Pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness; "Authorities hesitate to quote exact figures" [syn: {hesitate}, {waver}, {waffle}].
Hesitate (v.) Interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing; "The speaker paused" [syn: {hesitate}, {pause}].
Hesitate (v.) [ I ] (B2) 猶豫，躊躇 To pause before you do or say something, often because you are uncertain or nervous about it.
// She hesitated slightly before answering the detective's question.
// "Do you love me?" she asked. He hesitated and then said, "I'm not sure."
// [ + to infinitive ] If you need anything, don't hesitate to call me.
Hesitatingly (adv.) With hesitation or doubt.
Hesitatingly (adv.) With hesitation; in a hesitant manner; "he finally accepted hesitantly" [syn: {hesitantly}, {hesitatingly}] [ant: {unhesitatingly}].
Hesitation (n.) The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation.
Hesitation (n.) A faltering in speech; stammering. -- Swift.
Hesitation (n.) Indecision in speech or action [syn: {hesitation}, {vacillation}, {wavering}].
Hesitation (n.) A certain degree of unwillingness; "a reluctance to commit himself"; "his hesitancy revealed his basic indisposition"; "after some hesitation he agreed" [syn: {reluctance}, {hesitancy}, {hesitation}, {disinclination}, {indisposition}].
Hesitation (n.) The act of pausing uncertainly; "there was a hesitation in his speech" [syn: {hesitation}, {waver}, {falter}, {faltering}].
Hesitative (a.) Showing, or characterized by, hesitation.
[He said] in his mild, hesitative way. -- R. D. Blackmore.
Hesitatory (a.) Hesitating. -- R. North.
Hesp (n.) A measure of two hanks of linen thread. [Scot.] [Written also {hasp}.] -- Knight.
Hesper (n.) The evening; Hesperus.
Hesperetin (n.) (Chem.) A white, crystalline substance having a sweetish taste, obtained by the decomposition of hesperidin, and regarded as a complex derivative of caffeic acid.
Hesperian (a.) Western; being in the west; occidental. [Poetic] -- Milton.
Hesperian (n.) A native or an inhabitant of a western country. [Poetic] -- J. Barlow.
Hesperian (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to a family of butterflies called Hesperidae, or skippers.
Hesperian (n.) Any one of the numerous species of Hesperidae; a skipper.
Hesperian (a.) Denoting or characteristic of countries of Europe and the western hemisphere; "occidental civilization"; "Hesperian culture" [syn: {occidental}, {Hesperian}].
Hesperid (a. & n.) (Zool.) Same as 3d Hesperian.
Hesperidene (n.) (Chem.) An isomeric variety of terpene from orange oil.
Hesperides (n. pl.) (Class. Myth.) The daughters of Hesperus, or Night (brother of Atlas), and fabled possessors of a garden producing golden apples, in Africa, at the western extremity of the known world. To slay the guarding dragon and get some of these apples was one of the labors of Hercules. Called also Atlantides.
Hesperides (n. pl.) The garden producing the golden apples.
It not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides? -- Shak.
Hesperides (n.) (Greek mythology) Group of 3 to 7 nymphs who guarded the golden apples that Gaea gave as a wedding gift to Hera [syn: {Hesperides}, {Atlantides}].
Hesperidin (n.) (Chem.) A glucoside found in ripe and unripe fruit (as the orange), and extracted as a white crystalline substance.
Hesperidium (n.) (Bot.) A large berry with a thick rind, as a lemon or an orange.
Hesperornis (n.) (Paleon.) A genus of large, extinct, wingless birds from the Cretaceous deposits of Kansas, belonging to the Odontornithes. They had teeth, and were essentially carnivorous swimming ostriches. Several species are known. See Illust. in Append.
Compare: Venus
Venus (n.) (Class. Myth.) The goddess of beauty and love, that is, beauty or love deified.
Venus's looking-glass (n.) (Anat.) One of the planets, the second in order from the sun, its orbit lying between that of Mercury and that of the Earth, at a mean distance from the sun of about 67,000,000 miles. Its diameter is 7,700 miles, and its sidereal period 224.7 days. As the morning star, it was called by the ancients {Lucifer}; as the evening star, {Hesperus}.
Venus (n.) (Alchem.) The metal copper; -- probably so designated from the ancient use of the metal in making mirrors, a mirror being still the astronomical symbol of the planet Venus. [Archaic]
Venus (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve shells of the genus {Venus} or family {Veneridae}. Many of these shells are large, and ornamented with beautiful frills; others are smooth, glossy, and handsomely colored. Some of the larger species, as the round clam, or quahog, are valued for food.
{Venus's basin} (Bot.), The wild teasel; -- so called because the connate leaf bases form a kind of receptacle for water, which was formerly gathered for use in the toilet. Also called {Venus's bath}.
{Venus's basket} (Zool.), An elegant, cornucopia-shaped, hexactinellid sponge ({Euplectella speciosa}) native of the East Indies. It consists of glassy, transparent, siliceous fibers interwoven and soldered together so as to form a firm network, and has long, slender, divergent anchoring fibers at the base by means of which it stands erect in the soft mud at the bottom of the sea. Called also {Venus's flower basket}, and {Venus's purse}.
{Venus's comb}. (a) (Bot.) Same as {Lady's comb}.
{Venus's comb}. (b) (Zool.) A species of {Murex} ({Murex tenuispinus}). It has a long, tubular canal, with a row of long, slender spines along both of its borders, and rows of similar spines covering the body of the shell. Called also {Venus's shell}.
{Venus's fan} (Zool.), A common reticulated, fanshaped gorgonia ({Gorgonia flabellum}) native of Florida and the West Indies. When fresh the color is purple or yellow, or a mixture of the two.
{Venus's flytrap}. (Bot.) See {Flytrap}, 2.
{Venus's girdle} (Zool.), A long, flat, ribbonlike, very delicate, transparent and iridescent ctenophore ({Cestum Veneris}) which swims in the open sea. Its form is due to the enormous development of two spheromeres. See Illust. in Appendix.
{Venus's hair} (Bot.), A delicate and graceful fern ({Adiantum Capillus-Veneris}) having a slender, black and shining stem and branches.
{Venus's hair stone} (Min.), Quartz penetrated by acicular crystals of rutile.
{Venus's looking-glass} (Bot.), An annual plant of the genus {Specularia} allied to the bellflower; -- also called
{lady's looking-glass}.
{Venus's navelwort} (Bot.), Any one of several species of {Omphalodes}, low boraginaceous herbs with small blue or white flowers.
{Venus's pride} (Bot.), An old name for Quaker ladies. See
under {Quaker}.
{Venus's purse}. (Zool.) Same as {Venus's basket}, above.
{Venus's shell}. (Zool.) (a) Any species of Cypraea; a cowrie.
{Venus's shell}. (Zool.) (b) Same as {Venus's comb}, above.
{Venus's shell}. (Zool.) (c) Same as {Venus}, 4.
{Venus's slipper}. (a) (Bot.) Any plant of the genus {Cypripedium}. See {Lady's slipper}.
{Venus's slipper}. (b) (Zool.) Any heteropod shell of the genus {Carinaria}. See {Carinaria}.
Hesperus (n.) Venus when she is the evening star; Hesper.
Hesperus (n.) Evening. [Poetic]
The Sun was sunk, and after him the Star Of Hesperus. -- Milton.
Compare: Evening
Evening (n.) The latter part and close of the day, and the beginning of darkness or night; properly, the decline of the day, or of the sun.
In the ascending scale Of heaven, the stars that usher evening rose. -- Milton.
Note: Sometimes, especially in the Southern parts of the
United States, the afternoon is called evening. -- Bartlett.
Evening (n.) The latter portion, as of life; the declining period, as of strength or glory.
Note: Sometimes used adjectively; as, evening gun. "Evening Prayer." -- Shak.
{Evening
flower} (Bot.), A genus of iridaceous plants ({Hesperantha}) from the Cape of
Good Hope, with sword-shaped leaves, and sweet-scented
flowers which expand in the evening.
{Evening grosbeak} (Zo["o]l.), An American singing bird ({Coccothraustes
vespertina}) having a very large bill.
Its color is olivaceous, with the crown, wings, and tail black, and the under tail coverts yellow. So called because it sings in the evening.
{Evening primrose}. See under {Primrose}.
{The evening star}, The bright star of early evening in the western sky, soon passing below the horizon; specifically, the planet Venus; -- called also {Vesper} and {Hesperus}.
During portions of the year, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn are also evening stars. See {Morning Star}.
Hesperus (n.) A planet (usually Venus) seen at sunset in the western sky [syn: {evening star}, {Hesperus}, {Vesper}].
Hessian (a.) Of or relating to Hesse, in Germany, or to the Hessians.
{Hessian boots}, or {Hessians}, Boot of a kind worn in England, in the early part of the nineteenth century, tasseled in front. -- Thackeray.
{Hessian cloth}, or {Hessians}, A coarse hempen cloth for sacking.
{Hessian crucible}. See under {Crucible}.
{Hessian fly} (Zool.), A small dipterous fly or midge ({Cecidomyia destructor}). Its larv[ae] live between the base of the lower leaves and the stalk of wheat, and are very destructive to young wheat; -- so called from the erroneous idea that it was brought into America by the Hessian troops, during the Revolution.
Hessian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Hesse.
Hessian (n.) A mercenary or venal person. [U. S.]
Note: This use is a relic of the patriot hatred of the Hessian mercenaries who served with the British troops in the Revolutionary War.
Hessian (n.) pl. See Hessian boots and cloth, under Hessian, a.
Hessian (n.) (19th century) A man's high tasseled boot [syn: {Hessian boot}, {hessian}, {jackboot}, {Wellington}, {Wellington boot}].
Hessite (n.) (Min.) A lead-gray sectile mineral. It is a telluride of silver.
Hest (n.) Command; precept; injunction. [Archaic] See {Behest}. "At thy hest." -- Shak.
Let him that yields obey the victor's hest. -- Fairfax.
Hestern (a.) Alt. of Hesternal.