| hedeoma | See: pennyroyal. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| hederic | Pertaining to, or derived from, the ivy (Hedera); as, hederic acid, an acid of the acetylene series. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| hederiform | Ivy-shaped; a term used for certain sensory endings in the skin. Origin: L. Hedera, ivy, + forma, shape (05 Mar 2000) |
| hederiform ending | A type of free sensory ending in the skin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hedge | 1. To inclose or separate with a hedge; to fence with a thickly set line or thicket of shrubs or small trees; as, to hedge a field or garden. 2. To obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to hinder from progress or success; sometimes with up and out. "I will hedge up thy way with thorns." (Hos. Ii. 6) "Lollius Urbius . . . Drew another wall . . . To hedge out incursions from the north." (Milton) 3. To surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem (in). "England, hedged in with the main." 4. To surround so as to prevent escape. "That is a law to hedge in the cuckoo." (Locke) To hedge a bet, to bet upon both sides; that is, after having bet on one side, to bet also on the other, thus guarding against loss. Origin: Hedged; Hedging. A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden. "The roughest berry on the rudest hedge." (Shak) "Through the verdant maze Of sweetbrier hedges I pursue my walk." (Thomson) Hedge, when used adjectively or in composition, often means rustic, outlandish, illiterate, poor, or mean; as, hedge priest; hedgeborn, etc. <botany> Hedge bells, Hedge bindweed, a European warbler (Accentor modularis) which frequents hedges. Its colour is reddish brown, and ash; the wing coverts are tipped with white. Called also chanter, hedge warbler, dunnock, and doney. Hedge writer, an insignificant writer, or a writer of low, scurrilous stuff. To breast up a hedge. See Breast. To hang in the hedge, to be at a standstill. "While the business of money hangs in the hedge." Origin: OE. Hegge, AS. Hecg; akin to haga an inclosure, E. Haw, AS. Hege hedge, E. Haybote, D. Hegge, OHG. Hegga, G. Hecke. See Haw a hedge. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| hedgehog | 1. <zoology> A small European insectivore (Erinaceus Europaeus), and other allied species of Asia and Africa, having the hair on the upper part of its body mixed with prickles or spines. It is able to roll itself into a ball so as to present the spines outwardly in every direction. It is nocturnal in its habits, feeding chiefly upon insects. 2. <zoology> The Canadian porcupine. 3. <botany> A species of Medicago (M. Intertexta), the pods of which are armed with short spines; popularly so called. 4. A form of dredging machine. Hedgehog caterpillar, a plant of the Cactus family, globular in form, and covered with spines (Echinocactus). Sea hedgehog. See Diodon. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| hedgerow | A row of shrubs, or trees, planted for inclosure or separation of fields. "By hedgerow elms and hillocks green." (Milton) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| hedonophobia | <psychology> Morbid fear of pleasure. Origin: G. Hedone, delight, + phobos, fear (05 Mar 2000) |
| hedrocele | Prolapse of the intestine through the anus. Origin: G. Hedra, a seat, the fundament, + kele, hernia (05 Mar 2000) |
| Hedstrom | Gustav, Swedish endodontist. See: Hedstrom file. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Hedstrom file | A coarse root canal file similar to a rasp. (05 Mar 2000) |