Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HET'E-RO-CLITE, n. [Gr. ετεροκλιτον; ετερος, another, or different, and κλιτος, from κλινω, to incline, to lean.]

1. In grammar, a word which is irregular or anomalous either in declension or conjugation, or which deviates from ordinary forms of inflection in words of a like kind. It is particularly applied to nouns irregular in declension.
2. Any thing or person deviating from common forms. Johnson.