Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HEB-E-TA'TION, n.

1. The act of making blunt, dull or stupid.
2. The state of being dulled.

HE-BETE', a.

Dull; stupid. [Obs.]

HEB'E-TUDE, n. [L. hebetudo.]

Dullness; stupidity. Harvey.

HE-BRA'IC, a. [from Hebrew.]

Pertaining to the Hebrews; designating the language of the Hebrews.

HE-BRA'IC-AL-LY, adv.

After the manner of the Hebrew language; from right to left. Swift.

HE'BRA-ISM, n.

A Hebrew idiom; a peculiar expresses or manner of speaking in the Hebrew language.

HE'BRA-IST, or HE'BREW-IST, n.

One versed in the Hebrew language and learning.

HE'BRA-IZE, v.i.

To speak Hebrew, or to conform to the Hebrews.

HE'BRA-IZE, v.t.

To convert into the Hebrew idiom; to make Hebrew. J. P. Smith

HE-BRA-IZ'ED, pp.

Converted into the Hebrew idiom.

HE'BREW, a.

Pertaining to the Hebrews; as, the Hebrew language or rites.

HE'BREW, n. [Heb. עבר Eber, either a proper name, or a name denoting passage, pilgrimage, or coming from beyond the Euphrates.]

1. One of the descendants of Eber, or Heber; but particularly, a descendant of Jacob, who was a descendant of Eber; an Israelite; a Jew.
2. The Hebrew language.

HE'BREW-ESS, n.

An Israelitish woman.

HE-BRI'CIAN, n.

One skilled in the Hebrew language. [Less proper. See Hebraist.]

HE-BRID'I-AN, a.

Pertaining to the isles called Hebrides, west of Scotland. Johnson.

HEC'A-TOMB, n. [L. hecatombe; Gr. εκατομβη; εκατον, a hundred, and βους, an ox.]

In antiquity, a sacrifice of a hundred oxen or beasts of the same kind, and it is said, at a hundred altars, and by a hundred priests. Encyc.

HECK, n. [See Hatch.]

1. An engine or instrument for catching fish; as, a salmon heck. Chambers.
2. A rack for holding fodder for cattle. [Local.] Ray.
3. A bend in a stream. [G. ecke, a corner.]
4. A hatch or latch of a door. [Local.] Grose.

HECK'LE, v.t.

A different orthography of Hackle, or Hetchel.

HEC'TARE, n. [Gr. εκατον, a hundred, and L. area.]

A French measure containing a hundred ares, or ten thousand square meters. Lunier.

HEC'TIC, or HEC'TIC-AL, a. [Gr. εκτικος, from εξις, habit of body, from εχω, to have.]

1. Habitual; pertaining to hectic.
2. Affected with hectic fevers; as, a hectic patient. No hectic student scares the gentle maid. Taylor.

HEC'TIC, n.

An exacerbating and remitting fever, with stages of chilliness, heat and sweat, variously intermixed; exacerbation chiefly in the evening; the sweats mostly in the night; pulse weak; urine with a natant furfuraceous cloud.

HEC'TIC-AL-LY, adv.

Constitutionally. Johnson.

HEC'TO-GRAM, n. [Gr. εκατον, a hundred, and γραμμα, a gram.]

In the French system of weights and measures, a weight containing a hundred grams; equal to 3 ounces, 2 gros, and 12 grains, French. Lunier.

HEC-TOL'I-TER, n. [Gr. εκατον, a hundred, and λιτρα, a pound.]

A French measure of capacity for liquids, containing a hundred liters; equal to a tenth of a cubic meter, or 107 Paris pints. As a dry measure, it is called a setier, and contains 10 decaliters or bushels [boisseaux]. Lunier.

HEC-TOM'E-TER, n. [Gr. ἑκατον, a hundred, and μετρον, measure.]

A French measure equal to a hundred meters; the meter being the unit of lineal measure. It is equivalent nearly to 308 French feet. Lunier.