Chapter 95

Animal heat, Blood heat, Capacity for heat, etc. See under Animal, Blood, etc. -- Atomic heat (Chem.), the product obtained by multiplying the atomic weight of any element by its specific heat. The atomic heat of all solid elements is nearly a constant, the mean value being 6.4. -- Dynamical theory of heat, that theory of heat which assumes it to be, not a peculiar kind of matter, but a peculiar motion of the ultimate particles of matter. Heat engine, any apparatus by which a heated substance, as a heated fluid, is made to perform work by giving motion to mechanism, as a hot-air engine, or a steam engine. -- Heat producers. (Physiol.) See under Food. -- Heat rays, a term formerly applied to the rays near the red end of the spectrum, whether within or beyond the visible spectrum. -- Heat weight (Mech.), the product of any quantity of heat by the mechanical equivalent of heat divided by the absolute temperature; -- called also thermodynamic function, and entropy. -- Mechanical equivalent of heat. See under Equivalent. -- Specific heat of a substance (at any temperature), the number of units of heat required to raise the temperature of a unit mass of the substance at that temperature one degree. -- Unit of heat, the quantity of heat required to raise, by one degree, the temperature of a unit mass of water, initially at a certain standard temperature. The temperature usually employed is that of 0∞ Centigrade, or 32∞ Fahrenheit.

Heat (ht), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Heated; p. pr. & vb. n. Heating.] [OE. heten, AS. htan, fr. ht hot. See Hot.] 1. To make hot; to communicate heat to, or cause to grow warm; as, to heat an oven or furnace, an iron, or the like.

Heat me these irons hot.

Shak.

2. To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.

Pray, walk softly; do not heat your blood.

Shak.

3. To excite ardor in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.

A noble emulation heats your breast.

Dryden.

Heat, v. i. 1. To grow warm or hot by the action of fire or friction, etc., or the communication of heat; as, the iron or the water heats slowly.

2. To grow warm or hot by fermentation, or the development of heat by chemical action; as, green hay heats in a mow, and manure in the dunghill.

Heat (ht), imp. & p. p. of Heat. Heated; as, the iron though heat red- hot. [Obs. or Archaic] Shak.

Heat"er (ht"r), n. 1. One who, or that which, heats.

2. Any contrivance or implement, as a furnace, stove, or other heated body or vessel, etc., used to impart heat to something, or to contain something to be heated.

Feed heater. See under Feed.

Heath (hth), n. [OE. heth waste land, the plant heath, AS. h; akin to D. & G. heide, Icel. heir waste land, Dan. hede, Sw. hed, Goth. hai˛i field, L. bucetum a cow pasture; cf. W. coed a wood, Skr. kshtra field. √20.] 1. (Bot.) (a) A low shrub (Erica, or Calluna, vulgaris), with minute evergreen leaves, and handsome clusters of pink flowers. It is used in Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens. It is also called heather, and ling. (b) Also, any species of the genus Erica, of which several are European, and many more are South African, some of great beauty. See Illust. of Heather.

2. A place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of country overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage.

Their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath.

Milton

Heath cock (Zoˆl.), the blackcock. See Heath grouse (below). -- Heath grass (Bot.), a kind of perennial grass, of the genus Triodia (T. decumbens), growing on dry heaths. -- Heath grouse, or Heath game (Zoˆl.), a European grouse (Tetrao tetrix), which inhabits heaths; -- called also black game, black grouse, heath poult, heath fowl, moor fowl. The male is called heath cock, and blackcock; the female, heath hen, and gray hen. -- Heath hen. (Zoˆl.) See Heath grouse (above). -- Heath pea (Bot.), a species of bitter vetch (Lathyrus macrorhizus), the tubers of which are eaten, and in Scotland are used to flavor whisky. -- Heath throstle (Zoˆl.), a European thrush which frequents heaths; the ring ouzel.

Heath"clad` (-kld`), a. Clad or crowned with heath.

Hea"then (h"'n; 277), n.; pl. Heathens (-'nz) or collectively Heathen. [OE. hethen, AS. hen, prop. an adj. fr. h heath, and orig., therefore, one who lives in the country or on the heaths and in the woods (cf. pagan, fr. pagus village); akin to OS. hin, adj., D. heiden a heathen, G. heide, OHG. heidan, Icel. heiinn, adj., Sw. heden, Goth. hai˛n, n. fem. See Heath, and cf. Hoiden.] 1. An individual of the pagan or unbelieving nations, or those which worship idols and do not acknowledge the true God; a pagan; an idolater.

2. An irreligious person.

If it is no more than a moral discourse, he may preach it and they may hear it, and yet both continue unconverted heathens.

V. Knox.

The heathen, as the term is used in the Scriptures, all people except the Jews; now used of all people except Christians, Jews, and Mohammedans.

Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance.

Ps. ii. 8.

Syn. -- Pagan; gentile. See Pagan.

Hea"then (h"'n), a. 1. Gentile; pagan; as, a heathen author. "The heathen philosopher." "All in gold, like heathen gods." Shak.

2. Barbarous; unenlightened; heathenish.

3. Irreligious; scoffing.

Hea"then*dom (-dm), n. [AS. hendm.] 1. That part of the world where heathenism prevails; the heathen nations, considered collectively.

2. Heathenism. C. Kingsley.

Hea"then*esse (-s), n. [AS. hennes, i. e., heathenness.] Heathendom. [Obs.] Chaucer. Sir W. Scott.

Hea"then*ish, a. [AS. henisc.] 1. Of or pertaining to the heathen; resembling or characteristic of heathens. "Worse than heathenish crimes." Milton.

2. Rude; uncivilized; savage; cruel. South.

3. Irreligious; as, a heathenish way of living.

Hea"then*ish*ly, adv. In a heathenish manner.

Hea"then*ish*ness, n. The state or quality of being heathenish. "The . . . heathenishness and profaneness of most playbooks." Prynne.

Hea"then*ism (-z'm), n. 1. The religious system or rites of a heathen nation; idolatry; paganism.

2. The manners or morals usually prevalent in a heathen country; ignorance; rudeness; barbarism.

Hea"then*ize (-z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Heathenized (-zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Heathenizing (- `zng).] To render heathen or heathenish. Firmin.

Hea"then*ness, n. [Cf. Heathenesse.] State of being heathen or like the heathen.

Hea"then*ry (-r), n. 1. The state, quality, or character of the heathen.

Your heathenry and your laziness.

C. Kingsley.

2. Heathendom; heathen nations.

Heath"er (h"r; 277. This is the only pronunciation in Scotland), n. [See Heath.] Heath. [Scot.]

Gorse and grass And heather, where his footsteps pass, The brighter seem.

Longfellow.

Heather bell (Bot.), one of the pretty subglobose flowers of two European kinds of heather (Erica Tetralix, and E. cinerea).

Heath"er*y (-), a. Heathy; abounding in heather; of the nature of heath.

Heath"y (hth"), a. Full of heath; abounding with heath; as, heathy land; heathy hills. Sir W. Scott.

Heat"ing (ht"ng), a. That heats or imparts heat; promoting warmth or heat; exciting action; stimulating; as, heating medicines or applications.

Heating surface (Steam Boilers), the aggregate surface exposed to fire or to the heated products of combustion, esp. of all the plates or sheets that are exposed to water on their opposite surfaces; -- called also fire surface.

Heat"ing*ly, adv. In a heating manner; so as to make or become hot or heated.

Heat"less, a. Destitute of heat; cold. Beau. & Fl.

Heave (hv), v. t. [imp. Heaved (hvd), or Hove (hv); p. p. Heaved, Hove, formerly Hoven (h"v'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Heaving.] [OE. heven, hebben, AS. hebban; akin to OS. hebbian, D. heffen, OHG. heffan, hevan, G. heben, Icel. hefja, Sw. h‰fva, Dan. hÊve, Goth. hafjan, L. capere to take, seize; cf. Gr. kw`ph handle. Cf. Accept, Behoof, Capacious, Forceps, Haft, Receipt.] 1. To cause to move upward or onward by a lifting effort; to lift; to raise; to hoist; -- often with up; as, the wave heaved the boat on land.

One heaved ahigh, to be hurled down below.

Shak.

Heave, as now used, implies that the thing raised is heavy or hard to move; but formerly it was used in a less restricted sense.

Here a little child I stand, Heaving up my either hand.

Herrick.

2. To throw; to cast; -- obsolete, provincial, or colloquial, except in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the lead; to heave the log.

3. To force from, or into, any position; to cause to move; also, to throw off; -- mostly used in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the ship ahead.

4. To raise or force from the breast; to utter with effort; as, to heave a sigh.

The wretched animal heaved forth such groans.

Shak.

5. To cause to swell or rise, as the breast or bosom.

The glittering, finny swarms That heave our friths, and crowd upon our shores.

Thomson.

To heave a cable short (Naut.), to haul in cable till the ship is almost perpendicularly above the anchor. -- To heave a ship ahead (Naut.), to warp her ahead when not under sail, as by means of cables. -- To heave a ship down (Naut.), to throw or lay her down on one side; to careen her. -- To heave a ship to (Naut.), to bring the ship's head to the wind, and stop her motion. - - To heave about (Naut.), to put about suddenly. -- To heave in (Naut.), to shorten (cable). -- To heave in stays (Naut.), to put a vessel on the other tack. -- To heave out a sail (Naut.), to unfurl it. -- To heave taut (Naut.), to turn a capstan, etc., till the rope becomes strained. See Taut, and Tight. -- To heave the lead (Naut.), to take soundings with lead and line. -- To heave the log. (Naut.) See Log. -- To heave up anchor (Naut.), to raise it from the bottom of the sea or elsewhere.

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Heave (hv), v. i. 1. To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.

And the huge columns heave into the sky.

Pope.

Where heaves the turf in many a moldering heap.

Gray.

The heaving sods of Bunker Hill.

E. Everett.

2. To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the lungs in heavy breathing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the billows, as the earth when broken up by frost, etc.; to swell; to dilate; to expand; to distend; hence, to labor; to struggle.

Frequent for breath his panting bosom heaves.

Prior.

The heaving plain of ocean.

Byron.

3. To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.

The Church of England had struggled and heaved at a reformation ever since Wyclif's days.

Atterbury.

4. To make an effort to vomit; to retch; to vomit.

To heave at. (a) To make an effort at. (b) To attack, to oppose. [Obs.] Fuller. -- To heave in sight (as a ship at sea), to come in sight; to appear. -- To heave up, to vomit. [Low]

Heave, n. 1. An effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy.

After many strains and heaves He got up to his saddle eaves.

Hudibras.

2. An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, and the like.

There's matter in these sighs, these profound heaves, You must translate.

Shak.

None could guess whether the next heave of the earthquake would settle . . . or swallow them.

Dryden.

3. (Geol.) A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.

Heav"en (hv"'n), n. [OE. heven, hefen, heofen, AS. heofon; akin to OS. hevan, LG. heben, heven, Icel. hifinn; of uncertain origin, cf. D. hemel, G. himmel, Icel. himmin, Goth. himins; perh. akin to, or influenced by, the root of E. heave, or from a root signifying to cover, cf. Goth. gahamn to put on, clothe one's self, G. hemd shirt, and perh. E. chemise.] 1. The expanse of space surrounding the earth; esp., that which seems to be over the earth like a great arch or dome; the firmament; the sky; the place where the sun, moon, and stars appear; -- often used in the plural in this sense.

I never saw the heavens so dim by day.

Shak.

When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven.

D. Webster.

2. The dwelling place of the Deity; the abode of bliss; the place or state of the blessed after death.

Unto the God of love, high heaven's King.

Spenser.

It is a knell That summons thee to heaven or to hell.

Shak.

New thoughts of God, new hopes of Heaven.

Keble.

In this general sense heaven and its corresponding words in other languages have as various definite interpretations as there are phases of religious belief.

3. The sovereign of heaven; God; also, the assembly of the blessed, collectively; -- used variously in this sense, as in No. 2.

Her prayers, whom Heaven delights to hear.

Shak.

The will And high permission of all-ruling Heaven.

Milton.

4. Any place of supreme happiness or great comfort; perfect felicity; bliss; a sublime or exalted condition; as, a heaven of delight. "A heaven of beauty." Shak. "The brightest heaven of invention." Shak.

O bed! bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head!

Hood.

Heaven is very often used, esp. with participles, in forming compound words, most of which need no special explanation; as, heaven-appeasing, heaven-aspiring, heaven- begot, heaven-born, heaven-bred, heaven- conducted, heaven-descended, heaven-directed, heaven-exalted, heaven-given, heaven-guided, heaven-inflicted, heaven-inspired, heaven- instructed, heaven-kissing, heaven-loved, heaven-moving, heaven-protected, heaven-taught, heaven-warring, and the like.

Heav"en, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Heavened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Heavening.] To place in happiness or bliss, as if in heaven; to beatify. [R.]

We are happy as the bird whose nest Is heavened in the hush of purple hills.

G. Massey.

Heav"en*ize (hv"'n*z), v. t. To render like heaven or fit for heaven. [R.] Bp. Hall.

Heav"en*li*ness (?), n. [From Heavenly.] The state or quality of being heavenly. Sir J. Davies.

Heav"en*ly, a. [AS. heofonic.] 1. Pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting heaven; celestial; not earthly; as, heavenly regions; heavenly music.

As is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.

1 Cor. xv. 48.

2. Appropriate to heaven in character or happiness; perfect; pure; supremely blessed; as, a heavenly race; the heavenly, throng.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

Sir P. Sidney.

Heav"en*ly, adv. 1. In a manner resembling that of heaven. "She was heavenly true." Shak.

2. By the influence or agency of heaven.

Out heavenly guided soul shall climb.

Milton.

Heav"en*ly-mind`ed (?), a. Having the thoughts and affections placed on, or suitable for, heaven and heavenly objects; devout; godly; pious. Milner. -- Heav"en*ly-mind`ed*ness, n.

Heav"en*ward (?), a & adv. Toward heaven.

Heave" of`fer*ing (?). (Jewish Antiq.) An offering or oblation heaved up or elevated before the altar, as the shoulder of the peace offering. See Wave offering. Ex. xxix. 27.

Heav"er (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, heaves or lifts; a laborer employed on docks in handling freight; as, a coal heaver.

2. (Naut.) A bar used as a lever. Totten.

Heaves (?), n. A disease of horses, characterized by difficult breathing, with heaving of the flank, wheezing, flatulency, and a peculiar cough; broken wind.

Heav"i*ly (?), adv. [From 2d Heavy.] 1. In a heavy manner; with great weight; as, to bear heavily on a thing; to be heavily loaded.

Heavily interested in those schemes of emigration.

The Century.

2. As if burdened with a great weight; slowly and laboriously; with difficulty; hence, in a slow, difficult, or suffering manner; sorrowfully.

And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily.

Ex. xiv. 25.

Why looks your grace so heavily to- day?

Shak.

heavily-traveled, heavily traveled adj. subject to much traffic or travel; as, the region's most heavily traveled highways. Syn. -- heavily traveled. [WordNet 1.5]

Heav"i*ness, n. The state or quality of being heavy in its various senses; weight; sadness; sluggishness; oppression; thickness.

Heav"ing (?), n. A lifting or rising; a swell; a panting or deep sighing. Addison. Shak.

Heav"i*some (?), a. Heavy; dull. [Prov.]

Heav"y (?), a. Having the heaves.

Heav"y (?), a. [Compar. Heavier (?); superl. Heaviest.] [OE. hevi, AS. hefig, fr. hebban to lift, heave; akin to OHG. hebig, hevig, Icel. hˆfigr, hˆfugr. See Heave.] 1. Heaved or lifted with labor; not light; weighty; ponderous; as, a heavy stone; hence, sometimes, large in extent, quantity, or effects; as, a heavy fall of rain or snow; a heavy failure; heavy business transactions, etc.; often implying strength; as, a heavy barrier; also, difficult to move; as, a heavy draught.

2. Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive; hard to endure or accomplish; hence, grievous, afflictive; as, heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc.

The hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod.

1 Sam. v. 6.

The king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make.

Shak.

Sent hither to impart the heavy news.

Wordsworth.

Trust him not in matter of heavy consequence.

Shak.

3. Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with care, grief, pain, disappointment.

The heavy [sorrowing] nobles all in council were.

Chapman.

A light wife doth make a heavy husband.

Shak.

4. Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid; as, a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, and the like; a heavy writer or book.

Whilst the heavy plowman snores.

Shak.

Of a heavy, dull, degenerate mind.

Dryden.

Neither [is] his ear heavy, that it can not hear.

Is. lix. 1.

5. Strong; violent; forcible; as, a heavy sea, storm, cannonade, and the like.

6. Loud; deep; -- said of sound; as, heavy thunder.

But, hark! that heavy sound breaks in once more.

Byron.

7. Dark with clouds, or ready to rain; gloomy; -- said of the sky.

8. Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey; -- said of earth; as, a heavy road, soil, and the like.

9. Not raised or made light; as, heavy bread.

10. Not agreeable to, or suitable for, the stomach; not easily digested; -- said of food.

11. Having much body or strength; -- said of wines, or other liquors.

12. With child; pregnant. [R.]

Heavy artillery. (Mil.) (a) Guns of great weight or large caliber, esp. siege, garrison, and seacoast guns. (b) Troops which serve heavy guns. -- Heavy cavalry. See under Cavalry. -- Heavy fire (Mil.), a continuous or destructive cannonading, or discharge of small arms. -- Heavy metal (Mil.), large guns carrying balls of a large size; also, large balls for such guns. -- Heavy metals. (Chem.) See under Metal. -- Heavy weight, in wrestling, boxing, etc., a term applied to the heaviest of the classes into which contestants are divided. Cf. Feather weight (c), under Feather.

Heavy is used in composition to form many words which need no special explanation; as, heavy-built, heavy-browed, heavy-gaited, etc.

Heav"y, adv. Heavily; -- sometimes used in composition; as, heavy-laden.

Heav"y, v. t. To make heavy. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Heav"y-armed` (?), a. (Mil.) Wearing heavy or complete armor; carrying heavy arms.

Heav"y-had"ed (?), a. Clumsy; awkward.

Heav"y-head"ed (?), a. Dull; stupid. "Gross heavy-headed fellows." Beau. & Fl.

Heav"y spar` (?). (Min.) Native barium sulphate or barite, -- so called because of its high specific gravity as compared with other non-metallic minerals.

Heb"do*mad (?), n. [L. hebdomas, -adis, Gr. "ebdoma`s the number seven days, fr. &?; seventh, &?; seven. See Seven.] A week; a period of seven days. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

{ Heb*dom"a*dal (?), Heb*dom"a*da*ry (?), } a. [L. hebdomadalis, LL. hebdomadarius: cf. F. hebdomadaire.] Consisting of seven days, or occurring at intervals of seven days; weekly.

Heb*dom"a*dal*ly (?), adv. In periods of seven days; weekly. Lowell.

Heb*dom"a*da*ry (?), n. [LL. hebdomadarius: cf. F. hebdomadier.] (R. C. Ch.) A member of a chapter or convent, whose week it is to officiate in the choir, and perform other services, which, on extraordinary occasions, are performed by the superiors.

Heb`do*mat"ic*al (?), a. [L. hebdomaticus, Gr. &?;.] Weekly; hebdomadal. [Obs.]

He"be (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. "h`bh youth, "H`bh Hebe.]

1. (Class. Myth.) The goddess of youth, daughter of Jupiter and Juno. She was believed to have the power of restoring youth and beauty to those who had lost them.

2. (Zoˆl.) An African ape; the hamadryas.

Heb"en (?), n. Ebony. [Obs.] Spenser.

Heb"e*non (?), n. See Henbane. [Obs.] Shak.

Heb"e*tate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hebetated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hebetating.] [L. hebetatus, p. p. of hebetare to dull. See Hebete.] To render obtuse; to dull; to blunt; to stupefy; as, to hebetate the intellectual faculties. Southey

Heb"e*tate (?), a. 1. Obtuse; dull.

2. (Bot.) Having a dull or blunt and soft point. Gray.

Heb`e*ta"tion (?), n. [L. hebetatio: cf. F. hÈbÈtation.] 1. The act of making blunt, dull, or stupid.

2. The state of being blunted or dulled.

He*bete" (?), a. [L. hebes, hebetis, dull, stupid, fr. hebere to be dull.] Dull; stupid. [Obs.]

Heb"e*tude (?), n. [L. hebetudo.] Dullness; stupidity. Harvey.

He"bra"ic (?), a. [L. Hebraicus, Gr. &?;: cf. F. hebraÔque. See Hebrew.] Of or pertaining to the Hebrews, or to the language of the Hebrews.

He*bra"ic*al*ly (?), adv. After the manner of the Hebrews or of the Hebrew language.

He"bra*ism (?), n. [Cf. F. hÈbraÔsme.]

1. A Hebrew idiom or custom; a peculiar expression or manner of speaking in the Hebrew language. Addison.

2. The type of character of the Hebrews.

The governing idea of Hebraism is strictness of conscience.

M. Arnold.

He"bra*ist, n. [Cf. F. hÈbraÔste.] One versed in the Hebrew language and learning.

He`bra*is"tic (?), a. Pertaining to, or resembling, the Hebrew language or idiom.

He`bra*is"tic*al*ly (?), adv. In a Hebraistic sense or form.

Which is Hebraistically used in the New Testament.

Kitto.

He"bra*ize (?), v. t. [Gr. &?; to speak Hebrew: cf. F. hÈbraÔser.] To convert into the Hebrew idiom; to make Hebrew or Hebraistic. J. R. Smith.

He"bra*ize, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Hebraized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hebraizing.] To speak Hebrew, or to conform to the Hebrew idiom, or to Hebrew customs.

He"brew (?), n. [F. HÈbreu, L. Hebraeus, Gr. &?;, fr. Heb. 'ibhr.] 1. An appellative of Abraham or of one of his descendants, esp. in the line of Jacob; an Israelite; a Jew.

There came one that had escaped and told Abram the Hebrew.

Gen. xiv. 13.

2. The language of the Hebrews; -- one of the Semitic family of languages.

He"brew, a. Of or pertaining to the Hebrews; as, the Hebrew language or rites.

He"brew*ess, n. An Israelitish woman.

He*bri"cian (?), n. A Hebraist. [R.]

{ He*brid"e*an (?), He*brid"i*an (?), } a. Of or pertaining to the islands called Hebrides, west of Scotland. -- n. A native or inhabitant of the Hebrides.

Hec"a*tomb (?), n. [L. hecatombe, Gr. &?;; &?; hundred + &?; ox: cf. F. hÈcatombe.] (Antiq.) A sacrifice of a hundred oxen or cattle at the same time; hence, the sacrifice or slaughter of any large number of victims.

Slaughtered hecatombs around them bleed.

Addison.

More than a human hecatomb.

Byron.

Hec`a*tom"pe*don (?), n. [Gr. &?; hundred feet long, &?; &?; the Parthenon; &?; hundred + &?; foot.] (Arch.) A name given to the old Parthenon at Athens, because measuring 100 Greek feet, probably in the width across the stylobate.

Hec"de*cane (?), n. [Gr. &?; six + &?; ten.] (Chem.) A white, semisolid, spermaceti-like hydrocarbon, C16H34, of the paraffin series, found dissolved as an important ingredient of kerosene, and so called because each molecule has sixteen atoms of carbon; -- called also hexadecane.

Heck (?), n. [See Hatch a half door.] [Written also hack.] 1. The bolt or latch of a door. [Prov. Eng.]

2. A rack for cattle to feed at. [Prov. Eng.]