Hercules beetle

(Zool.) A Brazilian insect of the family Scarabæidæ, remarkable for its great size it being 5 inches long-and for the singular appearance of the male; - an immense horn projecting from the head, and being opposed by a similar but smaller projection of the thorax, the whole resembling a pair of great but somewhat unequal pincers, of which the body of the insect is the handle. IMG:content-0571.jpg:[graphic][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed] Hercyn'ian Forest. [Lat. Hercynia Sylva.] The ancient name of a forest of Germany, covering a mountain-range generally identified with the Hartz Mountains. The term H. F. was afterwards restricted to the range which encircles Bohemia. HERE FORD, a city of England, cap. of above co., on the Wye, 134 m. W.N.W. of London. Manuf. Gloves, hats, and flannel. Here'ford, in Maryland , a post-village of Baltimore co., abt. 52 m. N. by W. of Anna polis. Here'ford, in Pennsylvania , a post-township of Berks co. Herein', adv . In this. Shaks. Hercynite, n. [From Lat. Hercynia , the Bohemian forest.] ( Min .) A black spinel (q. v.) from Ronsberg. Sp . gr . 3-91-3-95. Comp . Alumina 58-9, oxide of iron 41-1. Herd, n. [A. S. heord, hord ; Swed., Goth., and Icel. hiörd ; Goth. hairda ; Sansk. chardha , force, strength.] A collection or a emblage, as of cattle which are Here mit i cal, a . Same as EREMITICAL, q. v. guarded, kept, or tended; a number of beasts together; Hereof, adv . Of this; from this. as, a herd of deer. - A company of men or people, used Hereon', adv . On this; hereupon. in a contemptuous sense; a crowd; a rabble. "Survey the world, and where one Cato shines, Count a degenerate herd of Cat i lines."-Dryden. Herd, n. [A. S. hirde , hierde , hyrde.] One who herds cattle or domestic animals; - much used in compo- sition; as, a shepherd , goatherd , swineherd, . -v.n. To run in herds or collected ma es, as beasts. "Weak women should, in danger, herd like deer."-Dryden. -To a ociate; to unite in a company or companies. "Run to towns to herd with knaves and fools."-Walsh. -v. a. To form or put into a herd. Herd'er, n. Same as HERDSMAN, q. v. Her'der, JOHANN GOTTFRIED VON, a German philosopher, theologian, poet, and miscellaneous writer, born in 1744, of poor parents, at Mohrungen, in Pru ia, was educated for the church, and became court-preacher, ecclesiastical counsellor, and vice-president of the consistory to the duke of Saxe-Weimar; and D. in 1803. At the moment when he died he was writing a hymn to the Deity, and the pen was found on the unfinished line. His works form 45 vols. 8vo., and embrace the most various branches of science, philosophy, philology, natural and civil history, and politics. Among those best known are the Geist der Hebräischen Poesie; Gedichte; and Ideen zur Philosophie -Geschichte der Mensch he it, translated into English under the title of "Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man" (London, 8vo.), which is one of the principal and standard treatises on the subject.