GLOSSARY. 



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Habitude. Customary manner or mode 

 of life. 



Haliotoid. Ear-shaped. 



Halteres. Two small club-like appen- 

 dages which occur in Diptera, and 

 which are supposed to be identical 

 with the hind wings of other insects. 



Hamate. Hooked, or set on with hooks. 



Hamiform. Curved at the extremity. 



Hamstring. To cut the tendons of the 

 ham, and thus to lame or disable. 



Hare-lipped. Having a divided upper 

 lip, like that of the hare. 



Harengiform. Shaped like a herring. 



Harpooned. Struck or killed with a har- 

 poon, which is a kind of spear, thrown 

 by the hand, used for taking whales. 

 It consists of a long shank, with a 

 broad, flat, triangular head, sharpened 

 at both edges for penetrating the whale 

 with facility. 



Hart. A stag or male deer. 



Hartshorn. The horn of the hart or 

 male deer, the raspings of which are 

 used medicinally ; hartshorn jetty is 

 nutritive and strengthening ; and the 

 salt of hartshorn yields a pungent vol- 

 atile spirit. It is composed of muriate 

 of ammonia, with a little animal oil. 



Hastate. Halberd-shaped : triangular, 

 hollowed out at the base and sides 

 with the posterior angles spreading. 



Haustellate. Pertaining to those insects 

 the structure of whose mouth is adapt- 

 ed for drinking or pumping up liquids- 



Haustellum. The instrument of suction 

 (in insects) contained in the theca. 



Helical. Spiral ; winding. 



Heliciform. Shaped like the Helix or 

 snail-shell. 



Helicite. Fossil remains of the Helix. 



Helminthoid. Worm-shaped. 



Helminthological. Pertaining to worms 

 or to their history. 



Hemelytra. A wing, of which one half is 

 opaque and firm like the elytra of co- 

 leopterous insects. 



Hemidactyle. Having an oval disc at the 

 base of the toes, as is the case with 

 some species of Saurian reptiles. 



Hemipteral. Having wings or wing- 

 cases like the Hemiptera. 



Hemipterous. Belonging to the Hemip- 

 tera, an order of insects in which the 



anterior wings are half crustaceous 

 and half membranaceous. 



Hemorrhage. A flux of blood, proceed- 

 ing from the rupture of a bloodvessel, 

 or some other cause. 



Hepatic. Pertaining to the liver. 



Uerbicarnivorous. Subsisting both on 

 vegetable and animal food. 



Herbivorous. Feeding or subsisting on 

 grass and herbaceous plants. 



Herculean. Of extraordinary strength 

 and size. 



Hermaphrodite. An animal in which 

 male and female characteristics are 

 combined. 



Hermaphroditic. Partaking of both sexes. 



Herpetic. Pertaining to the herpes, or 

 subject to cutaneous eruptions. 



Herpetology. The natural history of rep- 

 tiles. 



Hesperian. Western ; inhabiting a west- 

 ern country. 



Heterodyte. Anomalous ; deviating from 

 the ordinary form. 



Heterodactyle. Having the toes irregular, 

 either as to number or formation. 



Heterogangliate. Having the ganglion ic 

 nervous system, and the ganglions 

 often unsymmetrically scattered. 



Heterogeneous. Dissimilar or different in 

 kind or nature. 



Heteromorphous. Of an irregular or un- 

 usual form. 



Heteropodous. Pertaining to the Hetero- 

 poda, an order of the class Mollusca. 



Heterostrophe. Eeversed: a term ap- 

 plied to shells whose spires turn in a 

 contrary direction to the usual way. 



Hexadactylous. Having six toes. 



Hexaped. Having six feet. 



Hexapod. An animal with six legs, such 

 as a true insect. 



Hide. The skin of an animal, either 

 raw or dressed. 



Hidebound. When the skin sticks so 

 closely to the ribs and back of an ani- 

 mal as not to be easily loosened or 

 raised. 



Hind. The female of the red deer or 

 stag. 



HippopJiagous. Feeding on horse-flesh. 



Hinge. The part where the valves of a 

 bivalve shell are united, consisting of 

 ligament and teeth. 



