Hermaphrodite

her-mafro-dit, n. An animal or hu- man being having both the male and the female generative organs. (Bot.) A flower that contains both sun, cube. f"11 moon, fdbt cow, oil HERRING the stamen and the pistil within the same calyx, or on the same receptacle. [Fr. Hermaphroditus, son of Hermes, or Mercury, and Aphrodite, or Venus, who, when bathing, became joined in one person with Salmacis, the nymph of the fountain.] — Hermaphroditp brig. (NauV) A square-rigged forward and schooner-rigged alt. -- Hermaph'rodite, -roditlc. -leal, a. Partaking of both sexes. — Hermaphroditism, -ro-dit-izm, -rodism, -rod-izm, n. Union of two sexes in the same individual. Hermeneutic, hgr-me-nn'tik, -tical, a. Pert, to interpretation; exegetical. — Hermeneu'tics, n. sing. Science of interpretation exegesis, — esp. applied to interpretation of the Scriptures. [Gr. rmeneutikos, her mene utes, her mene us. an interpreter, perh. Hermes, Mercury, tuteiarv god of skill.] Hermetic, her-metlk, -ical, a. Pert, to chemistry; chemical: pert, to that philosophy which pretends to explain all the phenomena of nature from the 3 chemical principles, salt, sulphur, and mercury pert, to the system which explains causes of diseases, etc., on the principles of the hennetical philosophv, esp. on the system of an alkali and acid perfectly close, so that no air, gas, or spirit can escape. [LL. hermetic us, the Egyptian Hermes Trismrgistus, the fabled inventor of alchemy.] —Hermetically, adv.