Hebdomadary

[Fr. hebdomadier.] (Eccl.) In the Roman Catholic Church, a member of a chapter or convent, whose week it is to officiate in the choir. Hebe, ( hë'bě .) ( Myth .) The Greek godde of youth, the fair daughter of Jupiter and Juno-answering to the Latin godde Juventas. She was originally the cupbearer to the gods, but being superseded by Ganymede, she was employed to harne her mother's peacocks, and prepare Juno's chariot. She subsequently became the wife of Hercules, and the mother of Alexia res and Aniatus. He'ber, Eber. ( Script .) The son of Salah, and father of Phaleg, B. 1281, B. C.; D. at the age of 464. The name of Hebrews given to the Jewish nation, is derived from him. Heber, in Utah , a city, cap. of Wahsatch co., about 45 m. S. E. of Salt Lake City. Pop . (1895) 1,682. Hébert, JACQUES RENÉ, one of the Jacobin leaders of the French revolution, commonly called Père Duchêne, from the name of his journal, B. at Alençon towards 1755, and executed on the 24th of March. 1794. He was the most brutal journalist of the period, and played a leading part in every conspiracy against the establishment of law and order, and in the detestable ma acre of September, 1792. On the 10th of August preceding he had been installed among the magistrates of the people Hebrew, ( hebru ,) n. [Fr. Hébreu; Heb. Eber , both a proper name and a name denoting region, opposite region, or country beyond the Euphrates. One of the descendants of Heber, or Eber; a Jew; an Israelite. See JEWS. -a. Belonging, or having reference to the Hebrews; as, the Hebrew rites and ceremonies.