4. Summit; ascent; towering eminence ;high place.
From Alpine heights tbefather first descends;His daughter’s husband in the plain attends.
Dryden’s &neid.
5. Elevation of rank; station of dignity;great degree of excellence.
By him that rais’d me to this careful height,From that contented hap which I enjoy’d. onakesp.Ten kings had from the Norman conqu’rorreign’d,
When England to her greatest height attain’d,
Of pow’r, dominion, glory, wealth, and state.
Daniel.
Every man of learning need not enter into theirdifficulties, nor climb the heights to which someothers have arrived. Watts.
6. The utmost degree ; full completion.
Putrefaction doth not rise to its height at once.
Did not she
OfTimna first betray me, and revealThe secret, wrested from me in the heightOf nuptial love profess’d? Milton.
Hide me from the face
Of God , whom to behold was then my heightOf happiness ! Milton.
Despair is the height of madness. Sherlock .
7. Utmost exertion.
Come on, sir ; I shall now put you to the heightof your breeding. Shahesp.
8. State of excellence ; advance towardsperfection.
Social duties are carried to greater heights, andenforced with stronger motives, by the principlesof our religion. Addison.
To He ighten, v. a. [from height.]
1. To raise higher.
2. To improve ; to meliorate.
3. To aggravate.
Foreign states used their endeavours to heightenour contusions, and plunge us into all the evils ofa civil war. Addison.
4. To improve by decorations.
As in a room, contrived for state, the height ofthe roof should bear a proportion to the area ; soin the heightenings of poetry, the strength and ve-hemence of figures should be suited to the occa-sion. Dryden.
HE'INOUS. adj. [fiaineux, Fr. from hanehate; or from the Teuton, hoon shame.]Atrocious ; wicked in a high degree.
To abrogate or innovate the gospel of Christ, ifmen or angels should attempt, it were most /tei/umsand accursed sacrilege. Hooker.
this is the man should do the bloody deed :The image of a wicked heinous faultLives ill Ins eye. Shakesp.
As it is a most heirwus, so it is a most dangerousimpiety to despise him that can destroy us .Tillot.
He'inously. adv. [from heinous ] Atro-ciously ; wickedly.
He'inousNESS. n. s. [from heinous.]Atrociousness; wickedness.
He who can treat offences, provoking God , asjests and trifles, must have little sense of tiie hei-nousness of them. Rogers.
Heir. n. s. [heire, old Fr. hcerex , Lat.]
1. One that is inheritor of any thing afterthe present possessor.
An heir signifies the eldest, who is, by the lawsof England, to have all his father’s laud. Lockc.What lady is that ?
—The heir of Alauson, Rosaline her name. Shak.
That Ell give my voice on Richard’s side,
To bar my roasters heirs in true descent,
God knows, I will not do it. Shakesp.
Being heirs together of the grace of life.c , . t lPet.iii.7.
Sunk is the hero, and his glory lost,
And 1 his heir in misery alone. Pope.
The heirs to titles and large estates have a weak-ness in their eyes, and a tenderness in their con-stitution. Swift.
2. One newly inheriting an estate.
The young extravagant heir had got a newsteward, and was resolved to look into his estate.
Swift.
To Heir, v a. [from the noun.] To inherit.
Ilis son in blooming vonth was snatch’d by fate,One only daughter Iteir'd the royal state. Dryden.
IIeTress. 7i. s. [from heir.] An inheri-trix ; a woman that inherits.
An heiress she, while yet alive ;
All that was her’s to him did give. Waller.
Thicas, though he married the heiress of thecrown, yet claimed no title to it during the life ofhis father-in-law. Dryden.
IIe'irless. adj. [from A<7r.] Without anheir ; wanting one to inherit after him.
1 still think of
The wrong I did myself; which was so much,That keirless it hath made my kingdom. Shakesp .
He'irship. n.s. [from heir.] The state,character, or privileges of an heir.
A layman appoints an heir or an executor inhis will, to build an hospital within a year, underpain of being deprived of his heirship. Aylife's Par.
He'irloom. 7i. s. [heir and jtloma goods,Sax .] Any furniture or moveable decreedto descend by inheritance, and thereforeinseparable from the freehold.
Achilles’ sceptre was of wood,
Transmitted to the hero’s line ;
Thence through a long descent of kingsCame an heirloom, as Homer sings. Swif’t.
Held. Thepret. and part. pass, of hold.
A rich man beginning to fall is held up offriends. Eccles.
If Minerva had not appeared and held his hand,lie had executed his design. Dryden.
HELIACAL. adj. [heliaque, Fr. fromS**®-.] Emerging from the lustre ofthe sun, or falling into it.
Had they ascribed the heat of the season to thisstar, they would not have computed from its helia-cal ascent. Brown.
He'liacally. adv. [from heliacal.]
From the rising of this star, not cosmically, thatis, with the sun, but heliacally , that is, its emer-sion from the rays of the sun, the ancients com-puted their canicular days. Brown.
He is tempestuous in the Summer, when herises heliacally; and rainy in the Winter, when herises achronically. Dryden.
Helical. adv. \hdice, Fr. from «Ai|.]Spiral; with many circumvolutions.
The screw is a kind of wedge multiplied or con-tinued by a helical revolution about a cylinder,receiving its motion not from any stroke, but froma vectis at one end of it. H'ilkins.
He'lioid Parabola, in mathematicks, orthe parabolick spiral, is a curve whicharises from the supposition of the axis ofthe common Apollonian parabola beingbent round into lhe periphery of a cir-cle, and is a line then passing throughthe extremities of the ordinates, whichdo now converge towards the centre olthe said circle. Harris.
Helioce'ntrick. adj. [ heliocentrique ,F r. ijAi©- and xiVrjov.]
The heliocentrick place of a planet is said to hesuch as it would appear to ns from the sun, if oureye were fixed in its centre. Harris.
He'uoscope. n.s. [helioscope, Fr.Zhi®-and c-xovriw.] A sort of telescope fittedso as to look on the body of the sun,without offence to the eyes. Harris.
He'liotrope. n.s. [Jai©' and >'lioti'ope, Fr. heliotropium, Lat.] A p |s \,that turns towards the sun ; but n 1particularly the turnsol, or sunflower^’Tis an observation of flatterers, that they ^like tire heliotrope; they open only towardssun, but slmt and contract themselves ll L n Jig.and in cloudy weather. Government of the ^
Hemisphericai,. adj. [helix and
Tiie helisvherical line is the rhomb line ^ jtgation, ana is so called because on the g 10 n ^e>winds round the pole spirally, and stt te ini*'nearer and nearer tu it, but cannot termina^^.
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HE'LIX. n. s. [helice, Fr. ?a.|.]spiral line; a circumvolution.
Find the true inclination of the screw,with the quantity of water which everycontain.
1. The place of the devil and ^souls.
For it is a knell Shdrfi
That summons thee to heaven, or to A«y
If a man were a porter of hell gates, '\r aC bet‘ 1 'have old turning the key. Shakesp •
Let none admire . Jc3 tThat riches grow in hell; that soil may DDeserve the precious bane. .,
Hell 's black tyrant trembled to bchol ^
The glorious light he forfeited of old.
2. The place of separate souls, w
good or bad. hc u. Od
I will go down to my son mourning : i0 i.'sCr 1 *He descended into hell. ^P 01 ^
3. Temporal death. , eS n»I?. 5 i
The pains of hell came about me; 1
death overtook me.
4. The place at a running playthose who are caught are carr 'fj th crC '
Then couples three be straightThey of both ends the middle two do yThe two that in mid-pince, hell ca|
Must strive with waiting footTo catch of them, and them to hel pplj*' 3That they, as well as they, hell may
5. The place into which the tayl° r
his shreds. .
This trusty squire, he had as wo .
As the bold Trojan knight seen he >
Not with a counterfeited pass P*
Of golden bough, but true gold
In Covcut-garden did a taylor hd,' |grjl-
Who might deserve a place in 11,5 fcing’ 1 “
5. The infernal powers. he sus'^V
Much danger first, much toilWhile Saul and hell crost his strong
1. It is used in composition by _
ters more than by the be il. _, i(1
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Heart cannot think w 1 ’ ( , aS b»nfi ^
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The fie/i-fired beast threw fort' 1
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, sting'
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