Hesperus 
2. [NL.] In en torn., a genus of Staphylinidrt or 
rove-beetles. They are allied to Philonthag. but have 
thoracic setse far from the margin, the lateral fold wide and 
short, and the metasternum strongly projecting in front 
in the form of a triangle. The European //. rujipennie 
and the North American //. liultiiiutrenris are typical ex- 
amples. The genus was founded by Fauvel in 1874. 
Hesselbachian (hes-el-bak'i-an), a. Pertain- 
F. K. 
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HeMogenoui & word so vicious in formation as to be 
incapable of amendment, but intended to signify those 
[birds) that were hatched with a clothing of down. 
A. A'etcton, Encyc. Brit., XVIII. 31. 
Hesvan, Heshvan (lies'-, hesh'van), . [Heb.l 
The second month of the Jewish civil year, and 
the eighth of the sacred year, corresponding to 
heterio 
hetserplite (he-te'ro-Ht), . [So called because 
associated with chalcophanite; <Gr. craipof, a 
companion, + f.ithf, a stone.] An imperfectly 
known mineral from Franklin Furnace, New 
Jersey, U. 8. It is supposed to be an oxid of 
zinc andjnanganese allied to hausmannite. 
.irism, etc. See hctava, etc. 
direct inguinal hernia, bounded below by Poupart's liga- 
ment, outwardly by the epigastric artery, and Inwardly 
by the border of the rectus muscle. 
Hesse's equation. See equation. 
Hessian 1 (hesh'an), a. and n. [< Hessia, Latin- 
ized form of G. Hesse, Hessen, orig. a Teut. tribe- 
name, in L. Chaiii (Tacitus), Gr. Xdrroi (Stra- 
bo).] I. a. Relating or pertaining to Hesse in 
Germany, or to the Hessians Hessian bit See 
ml i . Hessian boots. See 600(2. Hessian crucible, 
II. n. 1. A native or an inhabitant of Hesse 
in Germany. The Hessians as a race are the represen- 
tatives of the ancient Teutonic people the Catti (Chatti); 
they formed various minor states in Germany, of which 
the chief have been Hesse-Cassel (annexed to Prussia In 
1866) and the grand duchy of Hesse, called Hesse-Darm- 
stadt previous to 1868. 
2. In the United States, as a term of reproach, 
a mercenary ; a military or political hireling : 
from the employment of Hessian troops as 
mercenaries by the British government in the 
American revolution. 3. pL A kind of long 
boots originally worn by Hessian soldiers; 
Hessian boots. 
Directly the Stranger saw the young men, he acted at 
< f/avxd^iv, be still or quiet: see Hesychast.} 
The doctrine of the Hesychasts, a doctrine 
closely akin to that of the Quietists of later 
times. See Hesychtixt. 
Hesychast (hes'i-kast), n. [< Gr. tfoT^aonfa, 
one who leads a still, retired life, a quietist, 
hermit, < yavxdfeiv, be still or quiet, < f/avx<%, 
still, quiet.] One of a body of monks who 
lived on Mount Athos during the fourteenth 
century, and aimed to attain, by the practice of 
contemplation and asceticism, entire tranquil- 
lity and serenity of mind, and hence supernat- 
ural insight and divine light, with knowledge of 
the Deity. Also Omphalopsychos and Massalian. 
hesychastic (hes-i-kas'tik), . [< Gr. ^avxaari- 
n6f, quieting (as music), also like a hermit, < 
VfXfyHi quiet, yavxaoTi/c , a quietist, hermit: see 
Hesychast.} Productive or expressive of quie- 
tude and serenity of mind. Hesychastic eplsyn- 
theta, In one. pros., compound or episynthetic meters 
the trochaic or iambic dipodies in which are epitritic in 
form (- ~ for - w - w, and ~ - for w _ ^ -). Also 
called dactylo-evitritei. 
bet 1 (het). Obsolete or provincial preterit and 
past participle of heat. 
Obsolete (Middle English) preterit of 
Thackeray, Pendennis, iv. 
nete-t, v. awMgltf. 
heteracanth (het'e-ra-kanth), a. [< Gr. crcpof, 
other, different, + aKavOa, spine.] In iclith., 
having asymmetrical dorsal and anal fin-spines, 
alternately broader on one* side than on the 
other; not homacaiith. 
heteracmy (het-e-rak'mi) ; n. [< Gr. erepor, 
other, different, -F d<>//#, prime, maturity.] Pro- 
terandry and proterogyuy: said of flowers in 
which cross-fertilization is secured by the sta- 
mens and pistils maturing at different times : 
opposed to suiiacmy. A. W. Bennett (1870), in 
Jour. Bot, VIII. 316. 
Heteractinida (het*e-rak-tin'i-da), n.pl. [NL., 
< Ueteraetis (-in-) + -Mo.1 Starfishes which have 
more than five rays : distinguished from Pentac- 
tiniiltt. 
heteradenic (het"e-ra-den'ik), a. [< Gr. erepof, 
other, different, -f a6ijv, gland.] Of glandular 
structure, but abnormally located: as, hetera- 
denic tissue. 
Heteralocha (het-e-ral'o-ka), n. [NL., < Gr. 
irepof, other, different, + d/io^oy, spouse.] A ge- 
nus of New Zealand sturnoid passerine birds, 
notable for the extraordinary sexual difference 
in the bill, which is comparatively short and 
Close textures, 
^. S. Cww. ^^., No. 
Hessian 2 (hes'ian), . [< Hesse (see def.) + 
-i.] In math., a functional determinant whose 
..,, ..., f .. hetterw (-re). [NL., 
< Gr. traipa, Ionic eraipr/, Epic irapt/, a female 
companion; in Attic use opposed to a lawful 
wife, and so with various shades of meaning 
from * concubine* to * courtezan 7 ; f em. of f ra/- 
pof, a companion, comrade, akin to ITJK, a 
clansman, kinsman.] In ancient Greece, a 
. It is the Jacobian to the differential coef- etc-. a "d m some cases rising to high con- 
homogeneous function of any number of va- sideration for learning, talents, and the social 
determinant 
flcienU of a 
Vipaoito fhea'iti , rAft^, arts ' aence coui'tezau ; an avowed concu- 
^^^^AAS^A ^'^^^^^^^^ 
occurring in the Altai and elsewhere. Petzite of citizens ; thus, Aspasia of Miletus, the accomplished 
is a variety containing also some gold. 
hessonite (hes'on-It), n. [Also, less prop., esso- 
nite; < Gr. yaauv, less, compar., with superl. 
r/Ktarof (see hekistotherm), going with uucpuf. lit- 
A1 - ,-,,,, *>...*>. . r Like most philosophers of his age, he [Button] coquet- 
ted with those final causes which have been named barren 
virgins, but which might be more fitly termed the hetai vn> 
of philosophy, so constantly have they led men astray. 
Huia-btrds (Hettralofha atutirostris) : I 
long curved bill. 
ale. short bill; female. 
m unuvwj lima, upuM 01 Aiueuis, me uccompnanea .. , . , , . ., . , 
companion of Pericles, was, as a foreigner classed as a I" 1 * 6 straight in the male, and very long and 
hettera. Also written hetaira, plural hetairai. 
Girls, Hetairai, curious in their art, 
Hired animalisms. Tennyton, Lucretius. 
A variety of 
tle, or Kan6c, bad, < qua, softly.] 
garnet : same as cinnamon-stone. 
best (hest), n. [< ME. hest, heste (with excres- 
cent t, as in against, whilst, etc., and with con- 
curved in the female. The base of the bill is 
wattled in both sexes. H. acutirostris is the 
huia-bird. Cubanis, 1815. Also, improperly, 
Heterolocha. Also called Xeomorpliti. 
leteranthera (het'e-ran-the'ra), n. [NL., < 
Gr. irepof, other, different, + NL. anthem, an- 
..U.V .: ^ iVU III' II ,1-1 I ,1^1 , _ _ '7' _ 
Huxley, Lay Sermons, p. 232. ther.J A genus of monocotyledonous plants, 
sequent shortening of the vowel), < AS. liiex, a hetaeria (he-te'ri-ii), it. [L., < Gr. haipia, hai- founded by Ruiz and Pavon in 1794, belonging 
command, hest (cf. freASs, behest: see behest), < P eia , companionship, association, brotherhood, to the natural order Fontedertacea:. itisdistin- 
hatan, bid, order, command: see hlghft.} l.A a society, < iralpo^, a companion, comrade : see SK&*.SlSSJStS&5*K*8?2l 
command; bidding; injunction; behest. [Po- ff*^*^! An association of^persons for a com- includes 9 species of aquatic herbs, gi-owin'g in mud or 
mon end; specifically [cop.], a secret political 
society of Greeks, formed about the " 
shallow water, with rounded, long-petioled or linear leaves, 
and blue, whitish, or yellowish flowers from a narrow 
etical or archaic.] 
To the ten heestis y haue not tende 
Thoruj slouthe, wraththe, & glotenie. 
Hymn, to Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. S. X p. 99. freeing Greece from the -f urkish yofe. * mF^^sut^Vthr^d.ito^rirhi'^'irf'kld: 
Mar. Wh&t have you done? heteBrio (he-te'ri-o), II. [NL., < Gr. eratpia a ney-shaped leaves and white flowers. 
Scath. Obeyed j -our hests, madam; done your commands, society: see hetwria.] In bot., a collection of heterarchy(het'e-rar-ki), n. [<Gr. JTt/wf, other, 
v em t T'l; K Sbepherd ' " a distinct indehiscent carpels, either dry upon a different, + aptf,, rule.] Government by an 
vortrfX^rvicfor aSay fleshv receptacle, as the strawberry, or^ry upon en or aliens; foreign rule. Also, erroneously, 
Scott, L. of the L, vL 10. a dr y receptacle, as the ranunculus, or fleshy tterarchy. [Rare.] 
2f. A promise. upon a dry receptacle, as the raspberry. Also, It is'a joy to think we have a king of our owne. Our 
That thai had bene cumen right improperly, heterio, etcrio. owne blood, our owne religion ; according to the motto of 
To the land of hest that tham was hight. hetaerism (he-te'rizm), n IX Gr eratotauAc the r Princes (IchDien): otherwise, next to anarchy is <(, 
Holy Kood (E. E. T. S-X p. 74. -!-._. '.' . k 
She nyl hire heste broken for no wight. 
Chaucer, Troilus, v. 855. 
hesternt (hes'tern), a. [= OF. esterne, hesterne, among 
< L. hesternus, of yesterday, yesterday's (= E. course 
primitive races of common inter- , 
, ., _, v course between the sexes; absence of the in- heterauxesis (het"e-rak-se sis), n. [< Gr. m- 
- in yesterday, etc.), <.heri, yesterday: see stitution of marriage, or of lasting union be- '' of ' other, different, + oftftwc, increase: see 
-, yesterday.] Jf yesterday ; yester-. tween man and woman. Also written hetairism aux ^-'} In bot., irregular or unsymmetrical 
and, incorrectly, hetarism. growth. It is a condition observed in the apex of grow- 
The primitive condition of man socially was one of pure 
,, ... j hetaiiism. Sir J. Lubbock, Orig. of Civilization, p. 67. 
3f or pertaining to yesterday. [Rare.] hetserist (he-te'rist), n. [< Gr. iratpiarvf, one 
I rose by candle-light, and consumed, in the intensest who practises hetffrism, < haipiCciv, to be a 
application, the hours which every other individual of our ' ' 
party wasted in enervating slumbers from the heiternal 
dissipation or debauch. Bvlwer, Pelham, Ivii 
yenter 
yester 
If a chronicler should misreport exploytes that were 
entorprised but hestern day. Holinshed, Hist. Ireland. 
hesternal (hes-ter'nal), a. [< hestern + -a/.] 
hetsera: see Itetanxm. In def. 2, < Hetairia + 
-ist.~\ 1. One who practises hetaarism. 2. A 
ing organs of plants, superinduced by certain irregulari- 
ties in the conditions upon which growth depends, such 
as variations in the osmotic properties of the cell-sap, in 
the physical properties of the primordial utricle, or in 
those of the cell-wall itself, giving rise to inequalities in 
the rate of growth of different parts of the organ, which 
in turn changes the direction of its growth. 
The rate of growth is usually not uniform in all parts 
.,",.. u. ui*u<iuv,ii. 0UHOVT. ruljlluil, IV11. "*. .. /-. , .... . . ^_ i lie law w ||WWU1 In UBIUU1V not UmlOIIll III all I):lrl8 
>ifiHtTincror,n<,n, QO ,<'. \ rr member of the Greek political society Hetsena. of the transverse growing zones, so that the growth in 
nestnogenous (hes-ttioj e-nus), a. [In-eg. (more Also written hetairist. length of an organ rarely, if ever, takes place in a straight 
hatched, as all pnecocial and some altricial 
birds: opposed to gymnoyenous or psiloptcdic. 
Even our poor relations, the anthropomorphous apes 
are not hetteristic. Athenaum. heterio, H. 
Vines, Physiol. of Plants, p. 375. 
See hetcerio. 
