Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HEB-DOM'AD-AL, or HEB-DOM'AD-A-RY, a.

Weekly; consisting of seven days, or occurring every seven days. Brown.

HEB-DOM'AD-A-RY, n.

A member of a chapter or convent, whose week it is to officiate in the choir, rehearse the anthems and prayers, and perform other services, which on extraordinary occasions are performed by the superiors.

HEB-DO-MAT'IC-AL, a.

Weekly. Bp. Morton.

HEB'EN, n.

Ebony. Spenser.

HEB'E-TATE, v.t. [L. hebeto, from hebes, dull, blunt, heavy.]

To dull; to blunt; to stupefy; as, to hebetate the intellectual faculties. Arbuthnot.

HEB'E-TA-TED, pp.

Made blunt, dull or stupid.

HEB'E-TA-TING, ppr.

Rendering blunt, dull or stupid.

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.