Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: HERD'GROOM – HER-E-SI-OG'RA-PHY
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HERD'GROOM, n.
A keeper of a herd. [Obs.] Spenser.
HERD'ING, ppr.
Associating in companies.
- A keeper of herds; one employed in tending herds of cattle.
- Formerly, the owner of a herd. Sidney.
HERE, adv. [Goth. her; Sax. her; G. and D. hier; Sw. här; Dan. her. It denotes this place.]
- In this place; in the place where the speaker is present; opposed to there. Behold, here am I. Lodge here thas night. Build here seven altars. Scripture.
- In the present life or state. Thus shall you be happy here, and more happy hereafter. Bacon.
- It is used in making an offer or attempt. Then here's for earnest. Dryden.
- In drinking health. Here's to thee, Dick. Cowley. It is neither here nor there, it is neither in this place nor in that; neither in one place nor in another. Here and there, in one place and another; in a dispersed manner or condition; thinly; or irregularly.
HERE'A-BOUT, or HERE'A-BOUTS, adv. [compound, here and about.]
About this place. Addison.
HERE-AFT'ER, adv. [comp. here and after.]
- In time to come; in some future time.
- In a future state.
HERE-AFT'ER, n.
A future state. 'Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter. Addison.
HERE-AT', adv. [comp. here and at.]
At this. He was offended hereat, that as, at this saying, this fact, &c.
HERE-BY', adv. [comp. here and by.]
By this. Hereby we became acquainted with the nature of things. Watts.
HE-RED'IT-A-BLE, a. [from the root of heir; L. hæreditas.]
That may be inherited. [Not much used.] [See Inheritable.] Locke.
HE-RED'IT-A-BLY, adv.
By inheritance; by right of descent. The one-house-owners belong hereditably to no private persons. Tooke, Russ. Encyc.
HER-E-DIT'A-MENT, n. [L. hæres, hæredium. See Heir.]
Any species of property that may be inherited; lands, tenements, any thing corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal or mixed, that may descend to an heir. Blackstone. A corporeal hereditament is visible and tangible; an incorporeal hereditament is an ideal right, existing in contemplation of law, issuing out of substantial corporeal property.
HE-RED'IT-A-RI-LY, adv.
By inheritance; by descent from an ancestor. Pope.
HE-RED'IT-A-RY, a. [Fr. hereditaire; It. ereditario. See Heir.]
- That has descended from an ancestor. He is in possession of a large hereditary estate.
- That may descend from an ancestor to an heir; descendible to an heir at law. The crown of Great Britain is hereditary.
- That is or may be transmitted from a parent to a child; as, hereditary pride; hereditary bravery; hereditary disease.
HERE-IN', adv. [comp. here and in.]
In this. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit. John. xv.
HERE-IN'TO, adv. [comp. here and into.]
Into this. Hooker.
HER'E-MIT, n.
A hermit. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
HER-E-MIT'IC-AL, a. [See Hermit. It should rather be written hermitical.]
Solitary; secluded from society. Pope.
HERE-OF', adv. [comp. here and of.]
Of this; from this. Hereof comes it that Prince Harry is valiant. Shak.
HERE-ON', adv. [comp. here and on.]
On this. Brown.
HERE-OUT', adv. [comp. here and out.]
Out of this place. Spenser.
HER'E-SI-ARCH, n. [s as z. Gr. αίρεσις, heresy, and αρχος, chief.]
A leader in heresy; the chief of a sect of heretics. Stillingfleet.
HER'E-SI-ARCH-Y, n.
Chief heresy.
HER-E-SI-OG'RA-PHER, n. [Gr. αίρεσις, and γραφω.]
One who writes on heresies.
A treatise on heresy.