Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HE-MA-STAT'IC-AL, a. [Gr. αιμα, blood, and στατικος.]

Relating to the weight of the blood.

HEM'A-TIN, n. [Gr. αιμα, blood.]

The coloring principle of logwood, of a red color and bitterish taste. Chevreul.

HEM'A-TITE, n. [Gr. αιματιτης, from αιμα, blood.]

The name of two ores of iron, the red hematite, and the brown hematite. They are both of a fibrous structure, and the fibers, though sometimes nearly parallel, usually diverge, or even radiate from a center. They rarely occur amorphous, but almost always in concretions, rendiform, globular, botryoidal, stalactitic, &c. The red hematite is a variety of the red oxyd; its streak and powder are always nearly blood red. The brown hematite is a variety of the brown oxyd or hydrate of iron; its streak and powder are always of a brownish yellow. The red hematite is also called blood-stone. Cleaveland. Encyc.

HEM-A-TIT'IC, a.

Pertaining to hematite, or resembling it.

HEM'AT-O-CELE, n. [Gr. αιμα, blood, and κηλη, a tumor.]

A tumor filled with blood.

HEM'A-TOPE, n.

The sea-pye, a fowl of the grallic order, that feeds on shell-fish. Encyc.

HEM-A-TO'SINE, n.

One of the proximate principles of the blood.

HEM-A-TO'SIS, n.

A morbid quantity of blood.

HEM-ER-O-BAP'TIST, n. [Gr. ημερα, day, and βαπτω, to wash.]

One of a sect among the Jews who bathed every day. Fulke.

HEM'I, a.

In composition, from the Gr. ημισυς, signifies half, like demi and semi.

HEM'I-CRA-NY, n. [Gr. ημισυς, half, and κρανιον, the skull.]

A pain that affects only one side of the head.

HEM'I-CY-CLE, n. [Gr. ημικυκλος.]

A half circle; more generally called a semicircle.

HE-MID'I-TONE, n.

In Greek music, the lesser third. Busby.

HEM'I-NA, n. [L.]

1. In Roman antiquity, a measure containing half a sextary, and according to Arbuthnot, about half a pint English wine measure. Encyc.
2. In medicine, a measure equal to about ten ounces. Quincy.

HEM'I-PLE-GY, n. [Gr. ἡμισυς, half, and πληγη, a stroke, from πλησσω, to strike.]

A palsy that affects one half of the body; a paralytic affection on one side of the human frame. Encyc.

HEM'I-PRIS-MAT-IC, a.

Half prismatic.

HE-MIP'TER, or HE-MIP'TER-A, n. [Gr. ἡμισυς, half, and πτερον, a wing.]

The hemipters form an order of insects with the upper wings usually half crustaceous and half membranaceous, and incumbent on each other as the Cimex.

HE-MIP'TER-AL, a.

Having the upper wings half crustaceous and half membranaceous.

HEM'IS-PHERE, n. [Gr. ἡμισφαιριον.]

1. A half sphere; one half of a sphere or globe, when divided by a plane passing through its center. In astronomy, one half the mundane sphere. The equator divides the sphere into two equal parts. That on the north is called the northern hemisphere; the other, the southern. So the horizon divides the sphere into the upper and lower hemispheres. Hemisphere is also used for a map or projection of half the terrestrial or celestial sphere, and is then often called planisphere.
2. A map or projection of half the terrestrial globe.

HEM-IS-PHER'IC, or HEM-IS-PHER'IC-AL, a.

Containing half a sphere or globe; as, a hemispheric figure or form; a hemispherical body.

HEM-I-SPHER'ULE, n.

A half spherule.

HEM'IS-TICH, n. [Gr. ἡμιστιχιον.]

Half a poetic verse, or a verse not completed. Dryden. Encyc.

HEM-IS'TICH-AL, a.

Pertaining to a hemistich; denoting a division of the verse. Warton.

HEM'I-TONE, n. [Gr. ἡμιτονιον.]

A half tone in music; now called a semitone.

HEM'I-TROPE, a. [Gr. ἡμισυς, half, and τροπη, a turning.]

Half-turned; a hemitrope crystal is one in which one segment is turned through half the circumference of a circle. The word is used also as a noun. Haüy.