One only daughter heired the royal state.
Dryden.
Heir"dom (?), n. The state of an heir; succession by inheritance.
Burke.
Heir"ess, n. A female heir.
Heir"less a. Destitute of an heir. Shak.
Heir"loom` (?), n. [Heir + loom, in its earlier sense of implement,
tool. See Loom the frame.] 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.
Woe to him whose daring hand profanes The honored heirlooms of his
ancestors.
Moir.
Heir"ship (?), n. The state, character, or privileges of an heir; right
of inheriting.
Heirship movables, certain kinds of movables which the heir is entitled
to take, besides the heritable estate. [Scot.]
He*ji"ra (?), n. See Hegira.
Hek"tare`, Hek"to*gram, Hek"to*li`ter, ∧ Hek"to*me`ter, n. Same as
Hectare, Hectogram, Hectoliter, and Hectometer.
Hek"to*graph (?), n. See Hectograph.
||Hel*a*mys (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; fawn + &?; mouse.] (Zoˆl.) See
||Jumping hare, under Hare.
Hel"co*plas`ty (?), n. [Gr. &?; a wound + -plasty.] (Med.) The act or
process of repairing lesions made by ulcers, especially by a plastic
operation.
Held (?), imp. & p. p. of Hold.
Hele (?), n. [See Heal, n.] Health; welfare. [Obs.] "In joy and perfyt
hele." Chaucer.
Hele, v. t. [AS. helan, akin to D. helen, OHG. helan, G. hehlen, L.
celare. √17. See Hell, and cf. Conceal.] To hide; to cover; to
roof. [Obs.]
Hide and hele things.
Chaucer.
Hel"e*na (?), n. [L.: cf. Sp. helena.] See St. Elmo's fire, under
Saint.
Hel"e*nin (?), n. (Chem.) 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.
He"li*ac (?), a. Heliacal.
He*li"a*cal (?), a. [Gr. &?; belonging to the sun, fr. &?; the sun: cf.
F. hÈliaque.] (Astron.) 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.
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.
He*li"a*cal*ly, adv. In a heliacal manner. De Quincey.
He`li*an"thin (?), n. [Prob. fr. L. helianthes, or NL. helianthus,
sunflower, in allusion to its color.] (Chem.) An artificial, orange
dyestuff, analogous to tropaolin, and like it used as an indicator in
alkalimetry; -- called also methyl orange.
He`li*an"thoid (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Of or pertaining to the Helianthoidea.
||He`li*an"thoi"de*a (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. helianthes sunflower +
||-oid.] (Zoˆl.) An order of Anthozoa; the Actinaria.
Hel"i*cal (?), a. [From Helix.] Of or pertaining to, or in the form of,
a helix; spiral; as, a helical staircase; a helical spring. --
Hel"i*cal*ly, adv.
||Hel`i*chry"sum (&?;), n. [L., the marigold, fr. Gr. &?; a kind of
||plant.] (Bot.) A genus of composite plants, with shining, commonly
||white or yellow, or sometimes reddish, radiated involucres, which are
||often called "everlasting flowers."
He*lic"i*form (?), a. [Helix + -form.] Having the form of a helix;
spiral.
Hel"i*cin (?), n. (Chem.) A glucoside obtained as a white crystalline
substance by partial oxidation of salicin, from a willow (Salix Helix
of LinnÊus.)
Hel"i*cine (?), a. (Anat.) Curled; spiral; helicoid; -- applied esp. to
certain arteries of the penis.
Hel"i*co*graph` (?), n. [Helix + -graph.] An instrument for drawing
spiral lines on a plane.
Hel"i*coid (?), a. [Gr. &?;; "e`lix, -ikos, spiral + &?; shape: cf. F.
hÈlicoÔde. See Helix.]