English Dictionary: heather | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Juneberry \June"ber`ry\, n. (Bot.) (a) The small applelike berry of American trees of genus {Amelanchier}; -- also called {service berry}. (b) The shrub or tree which bears this fruit; -- also called {shad bush}, and {had tree}. | |
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Hadder \Had"der\, n. Heather; heath. [Obs.] --Burton. | |
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Hater \Hat"er\, n. One who hates. An enemy to God, and a hater of all good. --Sir T. Browne. | |
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Hatter \Hat"ter\, n. One who makes or sells hats. | |
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Hatter \Hat"ter\, v. t. [Prov. E., to entangle; cf. LG. verhaddern, verheddern, verhiddern.] To tire or worry; -- out. [Obs.] --Dryden. | |
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Hattree \Hat"tree`\, n. A hatstand. | |
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Header \Head"er\, n. 1. One who, or that which, heads nails, rivets, etc., esp. a machine for heading. 2. One who heads a movement, a party, or a mob; head; chief; leader. [R.] 3. (Arch.) (a) A brick or stone laid with its shorter face or head in the surface of the wall. (b) In framing, the piece of timber fitted between two trimmers, and supported by them, and carrying the ends of the tailpieces. 4. A reaper for wheat, that cuts off the heads only. 5. A fall or plunge headforemost, as while riding a bicycle, or in bathing; as, to take a header. [Colloq.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Headtire \Head"tire`\, n. 1. A headdress. [bd]A headtire of fine linen.[b8] --1 Edras iii. 6. 2. The manner of dressing the head, as at a particular time and place. | |
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Heater \Heat"er\, n. 1. One who, or that which, heats. 2. Any contrivance or implement, as a furnace, stove, or other heated body or vessel, etc., used to impart heat to something, or to contain something to be heated. {Feed heater}. See under {Feed}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Heath \Heath\, n. [OE. heth waste land, the plant heath, AS. h[?][?]; akin to D. & G. heide, Icel. hei[?]r waste land, Dan. hede, Sw. hed, Goth. haipi field, L. bucetum a cow pasture; cf. W. coed a wood, Skr. ksh[?]tra field. [root]20.] 1. (Bot.) (a) A low shrub ({Erica, [or] Calluna, vulgaris}), with minute evergreen leaves, and handsome clusters of pink flowers. It is used in Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens. It is also called {heather}, and {ling}. (b) Also, any species of the genus {Erica}, of which several are European, and many more are South African, some of great beauty. See Illust. of {Heather}. 2. A place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of country overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage. Their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. --Milton {Heath cock} (Zo[94]l.), the blackcock. See {Heath grouse} (below). {Heath grass} (Bot.), a kind of perennial grass, of the genus {Triodia} ({T. decumbens}), growing on dry heaths. {Heath grouse}, [or] {Heath game} (Zo[94]l.), a European grouse ({Tetrao tetrix}), which inhabits heats; -- called also {black game}, {black grouse}, {heath poult}, {heath fowl}, {moor fowl}. The male is called, {heath cock}, and {blackcock}; the female, {heath hen}, and {gray hen}. {Heath hen}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Heath grouse} (above). {Heath pea} (bot.), a species of bitter vetch ({Lathyris macrorhizus}), the tubers of which are eaten, and in Scotland are used to flavor whisky. {Heath throstle} (Zo[94]l.), a European thrush which frequents heaths; the ring ouzel. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Heather \Heath"er\ (?; 277. This is the only pronunciation in Scotland), n. [See {Heath}.] Heath. [Scot.] Gorse and grass And heather, where his footsteps pass, The brighter seem. --Longfellow. {Heather bell} (Bot.), one of the pretty subglobose flowers of two European kinds of heather ({Erica Tetralix}, and {E. cinerea}). | |
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Heath \Heath\, n. [OE. heth waste land, the plant heath, AS. h[?][?]; akin to D. & G. heide, Icel. hei[?]r waste land, Dan. hede, Sw. hed, Goth. haipi field, L. bucetum a cow pasture; cf. W. coed a wood, Skr. ksh[?]tra field. [root]20.] 1. (Bot.) (a) A low shrub ({Erica, [or] Calluna, vulgaris}), with minute evergreen leaves, and handsome clusters of pink flowers. It is used in Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens. It is also called {heather}, and {ling}. (b) Also, any species of the genus {Erica}, of which several are European, and many more are South African, some of great beauty. See Illust. of {Heather}. 2. A place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of country overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage. Their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. --Milton {Heath cock} (Zo[94]l.), the blackcock. See {Heath grouse} (below). {Heath grass} (Bot.), a kind of perennial grass, of the genus {Triodia} ({T. decumbens}), growing on dry heaths. {Heath grouse}, [or] {Heath game} (Zo[94]l.), a European grouse ({Tetrao tetrix}), which inhabits heats; -- called also {black game}, {black grouse}, {heath poult}, {heath fowl}, {moor fowl}. The male is called, {heath cock}, and {blackcock}; the female, {heath hen}, and {gray hen}. {Heath hen}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Heath grouse} (above). {Heath pea} (bot.), a species of bitter vetch ({Lathyris macrorhizus}), the tubers of which are eaten, and in Scotland are used to flavor whisky. {Heath throstle} (Zo[94]l.), a European thrush which frequents heaths; the ring ouzel. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Heather \Heath"er\ (?; 277. This is the only pronunciation in Scotland), n. [See {Heath}.] Heath. [Scot.] Gorse and grass And heather, where his footsteps pass, The brighter seem. --Longfellow. {Heather bell} (Bot.), one of the pretty subglobose flowers of two European kinds of heather ({Erica Tetralix}, and {E. cinerea}). | |
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Heathery \Heath"er*y\, a. Heathy; abounding in heather; of the nature of heath. | |
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Hetero- \Het"er*o-\ [Gr. "e`teros other.] A combining form signifying other, other than usual, different; as, heteroclite, heterodox, heterogamous. | |
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Hider \Hid"er\, n. One who hides or conceals. | |
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Hither \Hith"er\, adv. [OE. hider, AS. hider; akin to Icel. h[emac][edh]ra, Dan. hid, Sw. hit, Goth. hidr[emac]; cf. L. citra on this side, or E. here, he. [root]183. Cf. {He}.] 1. To this place; -- used with verbs signifying motion, and implying motion toward the speaker; correlate of hence and thither; as, to come or bring hither. 2. To this point, source, conclusion, design, etc.; -- in a sense not physical. Hither we refer whatsoever belongeth unto the highest perfection of man. --Hooker. {Hither and thither}, to and fro; backward and forward; in various directions. [bd]Victory is like a traveller, and goeth hither and thither.[b8] --Knolles. | |
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Hither \Hith"er\, a. 1. Being on the side next or toward the person speaking; nearer; -- correlate of thither and farther; as, on the hither side of a hill. --Milton. 2. Applied to time: On the hither side of, younger than; of fewer years than. And on the hither side, or so she looked, Of twenty summers. --Tennyson. To the present generation, that is to say, the people a few years on the hither and thither side of thirty, the name of Charles Darwin stands alongside of those of Isaac Newton and Michael Faraday. --Huxley. | |
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Hitter \Hit"ter\, n. One who hits or strikes; as, a hard hitter. | |
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Hot \Hot\, a. [Compar. {Hotter}; superl. {Hottest}.] [OE. hot, hat, AS. h[be]t; akin to OS. h[c7]t, D. heet, OHG. heiz, G. heiss, Icel. heitr, Sw. het, Dan. heed, hed; cf. Goth. heit[d3] fever, hais torch. Cf. {Heat}.] 1. Having much sensible heat; exciting the feeling of warmth in a great degree; very warm; -- opposed to cold, and exceeding warm in degree; as, a hot stove; hot water or air. [bd]A hotvenison pasty.[b8] --Shak. 2. Characterized by heat, ardor, or animation; easily excited; firely; vehement; passionate; violent; eager. Achilles is impatient, hot, and revengeful. --Dryden. There was mouthing in hot haste. --Byron. 3. Lustful; lewd; lecherous. --Shak. 4. Acrid; biting; pungent; as, hot as mustard. {Hot bed} (Iron Manuf.), an iron platform in a rolling mill, on which hot bars, rails, etc., are laid to cool. {Hot wall} (Gardening), a wall provided with flues for the conducting of heat, to hasten the growth of fruit trees or the ripening of fruit. {Hot well} (Condensing Engines), a receptacle for the hot water drawn from the condenser by the air pump. This water is returned to the boiler, being drawn from the hot well by the feed pump. {In hot water} (Fig.), in trouble; in difficulties. [Colloq.] Syn: Burning; fiery; fervid; glowing; eager; animated; brisk; vehement; precipitate; violent; furious; ardent; fervent; impetuous; irascible; passionate; hasty; excitable. | |
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Hydr- \Hy"dr-\ See under {Hydro-}. | |
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Hydro- \Hy"dro-\, Hydr- \Hy"dr-\ 1. A combining form from Gr. [?], [?], water (see {Hydra}). 2. (Chem.) A combining form of hydrogen, indicating hydrogen as an ingredient, as hydrochloric; or a reduction product obtained by hydrogen, as hydroquinone. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Hydra \Hy"dra\, n.; pl. E. {Hydras}, L. {Hydr[91]}. [L. hydra, Gr. "y`dra; akin to "y`dwr water. See {Otter} the animal, {Water}.] 1. (Class. Myth.) A serpent or monster in the lake or marsh of Lerna, in the Peloponnesus, represented as having many heads, one of which, when cut off, was immediately succeeded by two others, unless the wound was cauterized. It was slain by Hercules. Hence, a terrible monster. Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire. --Milton. 2. Hence: A multifarious evil, or an evil having many sources; not to be overcome by a single effort. 3. (Zo[94]l.) Any small fresh-water hydroid of the genus {Hydra}, usually found attached to sticks, stones, etc., by a basal sucker. Note: The body is a simple tube, having a mouth at one extremity, surrounded by a circle of tentacles with which it captures its prey. Young hydras bud out from the sides of the older ones, but soon become detached and are then like their parent. Hydras are remarkable for their power of repairing injuries; for if the body be divided in pieces, each piece will grow into a complete hydra, to which fact the name alludes. The zooids or hydranths of marine hydroids are sometimes called hydras. 4. (Astron.) A southern constellation of great length lying southerly from Cancer, Leo, and Virgo. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Hydra \Hy"dra\, n.; pl. E. {Hydras}, L. {Hydr[91]}. [L. hydra, Gr. "y`dra; akin to "y`dwr water. See {Otter} the animal, {Water}.] 1. (Class. Myth.) A serpent or monster in the lake or marsh of Lerna, in the Peloponnesus, represented as having many heads, one of which, when cut off, was immediately succeeded by two others, unless the wound was cauterized. It was slain by Hercules. Hence, a terrible monster. Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire. --Milton. 2. Hence: A multifarious evil, or an evil having many sources; not to be overcome by a single effort. 3. (Zo[94]l.) Any small fresh-water hydroid of the genus {Hydra}, usually found attached to sticks, stones, etc., by a basal sucker. Note: The body is a simple tube, having a mouth at one extremity, surrounded by a circle of tentacles with which it captures its prey. Young hydras bud out from the sides of the older ones, but soon become detached and are then like their parent. Hydras are remarkable for their power of repairing injuries; for if the body be divided in pieces, each piece will grow into a complete hydra, to which fact the name alludes. The zooids or hydranths of marine hydroids are sometimes called hydras. 4. (Astron.) A southern constellation of great length lying southerly from Cancer, Leo, and Virgo. | |
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Hydro \Hy"dro\, n. A hydro-a[89]roplane. | |
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Hydro- \Hy"dro-\, Hydr- \Hy"dr-\ 1. A combining form from Gr. [?], [?], water (see {Hydra}). 2. (Chem.) A combining form of hydrogen, indicating hydrogen as an ingredient, as hydrochloric; or a reduction product obtained by hydrogen, as hydroquinone. | |
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Hydro \Hy"dro\, n. A hydro-a[89]roplane. | |
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Hydro- \Hy"dro-\, Hydr- \Hy"dr-\ 1. A combining form from Gr. [?], [?], water (see {Hydra}). 2. (Chem.) A combining form of hydrogen, indicating hydrogen as an ingredient, as hydrochloric; or a reduction product obtained by hydrogen, as hydroquinone. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Hadar, NE (village, FIPS 20470) Location: 42.10582 N, 97.45147 W Population (1990): 291 (108 housing units) Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Heathrow, FL Zip code(s): 32746 | |
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Huetter, ID (city, FIPS 39070) Location: 47.70385 N, 116.84785 W Population (1990): 82 (35 housing units) Area: 0.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Hyder, AK (CDP, FIPS 34570) Location: 55.98042 N, 130.05869 W Population (1990): 99 (58 housing units) Area: 39.4 sq km (land), 3.5 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 99923 | |
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Hydro, OK (town, FIPS 36700) Location: 35.54882 N, 98.57862 W Population (1990): 977 (473 housing units) Area: 1.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 73048 | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
header 1. The portion of a {packet}, preceding the actual data, containing source and destination addresses, error checking and other fields. 2. The part of an {electronic mail} message or {news} article that precedes the body of a message and contains, among other things, the sender's name and e-mail address and the date and time the message was sent. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Hadar Adod, brave(?). (1.) A son of Ishmael (Gen. 25:15); in 1 Chr. 1:30 written Hadad. (2.) One of the Edomitish kings (Gen. 36:39) about the time of Saul. Called also Hadad (1 Chr. 1:50, 51). It is probable that in these cases Hadar may be an error simply of transcription for Hadad. | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Hadar, power; greatness | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Hothir, excelling; remaining |