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[Etym. doubtful.] A roe in its third year. hěn, s . [A. S. henn, hen, hæn, from han a=acock; cogn. with Dut. hen (from haan =a cock); Icel. hæna (from han i); Dan. hone (from hane); Sw. hon a (from hane); Gr. henne (from hahn ); Goth. han a a cock. Hana means literally a singer, from the same root as Lat. cano =to sing.] 1. Farming , .: The female of the domestic or barn-fowl ( Gallus domestic us) has run like other domestic animals into many varieties. A good hen will lay 200 eggs in a year. Ten or twelve are as many as it can rear in one brood. sin, as; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. hen-drinking, s. (See extract.) "There is yet another [Yorkshire marriage-custom], viz., the hen -drinking. On the evening of the wedding day the young men of the village call upon the bride- groom for a hen-meaning money for refreshments should the hen be refused, the inmates may ex- pect some ugly trick to the house ere the festivities ter- minate."-Notes and Queries , Sept. 17, 1859, p. 239. *hen-driver, s. A kind of hawk; a hen-harrier. "The hen- driver I forbear to name." -Walton . *hen-egg, s. A hen's egg. hen-harrier, hen-harm, s. IMG:content-1116.png:[blocks in formation] *hěnçe, v . t . [HENCE, adv .] To send away, to calyx five-parted, lined with a woolly disc, its dispatch. "With that his dog he henced , his flock he cursed." Sidney: Arcadia , bk. i. hěnçe-förth, *hennes-forth, adv . [Eng. hence, and forth ; cf. A. S. forth heonan.] From this time forward; for the future; henceforward. "He never more henceforth will dare set foot In Paradise." Milton: P. R. , iv. 610. hěnçe-for-ward, adv . [Eng. hence, and for- ward. From this time forward; henceforth; for the future. "Henceforward shalt thou see such officers!" Long fellow: Celestial Pilot . (Trans.) hẽnch-mạn, hěnch-boy,hense-man, *hensh- man, s. [A word of doubtful origin; according to Skeat, from A. S. hengest a horse, and man .] A male attendant; a servant, a page, a follower. "Call me your shadow's henchboy." hěn-di-a-dỹs, s. [Gr. hen dia duo in = one by Rhet.: A figure wherein two substantives are used instead of one substantive or an adjective and a substantive; a figure wherein the same idea is represented by two words or phrases. hẽ nĩ ở chus, s . [Lat.,=the wagoner, a con- stell at i on, from Gr. hēniochus =a charioteer.] Bot.: A genus of Che to don tide, often made a hen-house, s. A house or shelter for fowls. hen-peck, v . t. To govern or rule; said of a wife sub-genus of Chetodon. The anterior spines of the who has the upper hand of her husband. back are produced into a long filament, which is sometimes twice as long as the body. Heniochus macro lep i dot us is a large fish eaten in India. Bot.: A dye obtained from the leaves of Laws on i a inerm is, with which the Egyptians and other Oriental ladies make their nails and feet of an orange color. It is also used for dyeing skins or Morocco leather reddish-yellow. hep-bramble, hep-briar, hep-tree, s . Bot.: The wild dog-rose, Rosa can in a . he-par, s . (Gr.,=the liver.] of religion among the Vedic Indians, it can be neither monotheism, nor polytheism, but only henotheism ." -Мах Müller: Hibbert Lectures (1878), p. 230. hẽ-nō-tì-căn, s . [Greek henōtikos =serving to unite; henco to unite.] Ch. Hist.: A formula of concord, offered by the Greek emperor Zeno, in A. D. 482, by advice of Aca- cius, Bishop of Constantinople, to reconcile the Eutychians to the church. It was annulled by Pope Justin I., in A. D. 518. [EUTYCHIAN, MONOPHYSITE.] Hen-riç-1-ạn, s. [For etym. see def.] IMG:content-1117.png:[blocks in formation] "Playing on shaumes and trumpets, that from hence, Their sound did reach unto the heaven's hight." Spenser: F. Q., V. v. 4. B. As interj.: Away, away with, begone, depart. "Hence, horrible shadow, Unreal mockery, hence ."- Shakesp .: Macbeth , iii. 4. came from Lausanne in Switzerland to France. He declaimed against the vices of the clergy, who so persecuted him that he was driven from place to place, and finally died in prison in 1148. hěn-roôst, 8. [Eng. hen, and roost.] A place where poultry roost at night. "Bradshaw was to have privileges which were refused to a boy who had robbed a henroost ." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. xviii. hěnş foot, s. [Eng. hen's , and foot .] Bot .: Caucalis daucoides . hěn-slō-vi-a, s. [Named after Profe or Hen- slow.] [HENSLOVIAN.] Bof.: The typical genus of the order Henslo- viaceae (q. v.). It contains two or three trees from the hottest parts of India. hěn-slo-vi-ā-çě-æ, s. pl . [Mod. Latin hen- slov ( ia ) (q. v.); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -aceӕ .] Bot .: An order of perigynous exogens, doubtfully proposed by Lindley. The leaves are opposite, entire without stipules; the flowers unisexual. The IMG:content-1118.png:[blocks in formation] hepatical and, as a rule, po e elaters, while mo es po e an operculum and are always destitute of elaters. Lindley, who doubts whether this distinction is of more than ordinal value, divides Hepaticæ into four orders: Ricciacese, Marchantiacese, Junger. manniacese, and Equisetaceæ.