<B>heelplate, </B>noun, or <B>heel plate.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a protective metal plate on the heel of a shoe, boot, or ski. <DD><B> 2. </B>a metal plate on the heel of a shoe to which a skate can be attached. </DL>
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<B>heelpost, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the post to which a door or gate is fastened. <DD><B> 2. </B>the post which supports a propeller shaft at the outer end, nearest the screw in a ship. </DL>
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<B>heeltap, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a layer of leather in the heel of a shoe. <DD><B> 1. </B>a small amount of liquor left in a glass after drinking. <BR> <I>Ex. Toss it off, don't leave any heeltap (Dickens).</I> </DL>
<B>heft, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> (Informal.) <B>1a. </B>weight; heaviness. <BR> <I>Ex. He tested the heft of the stone before he threw it.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>(Figurative.) ponderousness; significance. <DD><B> 2. </B>(U.S.) the greater part; bulk. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Obsolete.) a heaving effort; a heave; strain. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to lift; heave. <BR> <I>Ex. Workers hefted sandbags.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to judge the weight of by lifting. </DL>
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<B>hefty, </B>adjective, <B>heftier,</B> <B>heftiest,</B> adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>weighty; heavy. <BR> <I>Ex. a hefty load. This baby is a hefty armful.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) substantial; considerable. <BR> <I>Ex. Rail officials expect some hefty returns on the millions they're spending on new classification yards (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>big and strong. <DD><B> 4. </B>violent. <DD><I>adv. </I> powerfully; exceedingly. <BR> <I>Ex. It's hefty damp in here (Rudyard Kipling).</I> adv. <B>heftily.</B> noun <B>heftiness.</B> </DL>
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<B>hegari, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an African grain sorghum grown, in an early-maturing variety, in the southwestern United States. </DL>
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<B>Hegelian, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with the German philosopher Georg Hegel (1770-1831) or his philosophy. <DD><I>noun </I> a person who believes in the philosophical system of Hegel. </DL>
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<B>Hegelianism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the philosophy of Hegel, especially his view of reality as a dynamic process determined by the dialectics of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. </DL>
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<B>hegemon, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a leading or paramount power. </DL>
<B>hegemonist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who favors hegemony. </DL>
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<B>hegemonistic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or characterized by hegemony. <BR> <I>Ex. ... a hegemonistic policy of territorial claims (London Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>hegemony, </B>noun, pl. <B>-nies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> political domination, especially the leadership or domination of one state over others in a group; leadership; predominance. <BR> <I>Ex. The headship, or hegemony, was in the hands of Athens (George Grote).</I> </DL>
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<B>Hegira, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the flight of Mohammed from Mecca to Medina in A.D. 622. The Moslems use a calendar reckoned from this date. The abbreviation A.H. following a date signifies "after the Hegira." <DD><B> 2. </B>the Moslem era. Also, <B>Hejira.</B> </DL>
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<B>hegira, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> departure; flight. <BR> <I>Ex. the summer hegira from the cities to the coast and lakes. Completely contrary to the famous trip of the salmon, which crowds the rivers and creeks in spring with fish eager to spawn, the hegira of the eel is toward the sea (Science News Letter).</I> <DL COMPACT><DD> Also, <B>hejira.</B> </DL>
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<B>he-goat, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a male goat. </DL>
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<B>Heian</B> or <B>Hei'an, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with a culture that flourished in Japan between the 800's and 1100's. <BR> <I>Ex. The Heian world was devoted to the arts (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
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<B>heiau, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an ancient place of worship, usually a terrace or a platform of stone; temple. </DL>
<A NAME="heidelbergman">
<B>Heidelberg man,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a prehistoric man of the Pleistocene epoch, who lived during the period of the great glaciers, reconstructed from a human lower jawbone found in 1907 near Heidelberg, Germany. </DL>
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<B>Heiduc</B> or <B>Heiduk, </B>noun. =Haiduk.</DL>
<A NAME="heifer">
<B>heifer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a young cow that has not had a calf. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Slang.) a girl or young lady. </DL>
<A NAME="heigh">
<B>heigh, </B>interjection.<DL COMPACT><DD> a sound used to attract attention, give encouragement, or express surprise </DL>
<A NAME="heighho">
<B>heigh-ho, </B>interjection.<DL COMPACT><DD> a sound made to express surprise, joy, sadness, weariness, or boredom. </DL>
<A NAME="height">
<B>height, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>how tall a person is; how high anything is; how far up a thing goes. <BR> <I>Ex. the height of a mountain. Seven feet is an unusual height for a man.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a fairly great distance up. <BR> <I>Ex. rising at a height above the valley.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a high point or place; hill. <BR> <I>Ex. on the mountain heights.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>the highest part; top; summit. <BR> <I>Ex. When we reached the height we rested. (Figurative.) He [Tennyson] could not think up to the height of his own towering style (G. K. Chesterton).</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>(Figurative.) the highest point; greatest degree; extremity. <BR> <I>Ex. the height of fashion. Fast driving on icy roads is the height of folly.</I> (SYN) summit, zenith, acme. <DD><B> 6. </B>(Figurative.) high rank; high degree. <DD><B> 7. </B>(Archaic.) loftiness of mind. </DL>
<A NAME="heighten">
<B>heighten, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to make higher; elevate. <BR> <I>Ex. The builder heightened the doorway to accommodate the tall owner.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to make stronger or greater; increase. <BR> <I>Ex. The clowns and the band heightened the children's pleasure. Wax applied to a floor heightens the shine.</I> (SYN) raise, augment, intensify. <DD><B> 3. </B>to make (a color) more luminous. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Obsolete.) to elate; excite. <BR> <I>Ex. Satiate at length, and hight'nd as with wine (Milton).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to become higher; increase in height; rise. <BR> <I>Ex. Day by day the structure heightened.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to become stronger or greater; increase. <BR> <I>Ex. Their industry always heightened at the boss's approach.</I> noun <B>heightener.</B> </DL>
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<B>height-to-paper, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the standard and customary distance from the feet to the face of modern printing type (in the United States, 0.9186 inch; in Great Britain, 0.918 inch). </DL>
<B>Heimdall, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Norse Mythology.) a god of light, guardian of Asgard, city of the gods. </DL>
<A NAME="heimin">
<B>heimin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (in Japan) the common people; the working class. </DL>
<A NAME="heimish">
<B>heimish, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Especially U.S. Slang.) cozy; friendly; informal. <BR> <I>Ex. The restaurant attracts this crowd not only because of its heimish cuisine but because of its five-man team of countermen, a couple of whom mainly provide countertalk entertainment and a couple of whom mainly provide food (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="heimlichmaneuver">
<B>Heimlich maneuver,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a procedure to prevent choking on something lodged in the windpipe by grasping the victim from behind and locking one's hands in a fist over the victim's upper abdomen and with a quick squeeze forcing the fist up under the diaphragm to expel air through the windpipe. </DL>
<A NAME="heine">
<B>Heine, </B>noun. =Heinie.</DL>
<A NAME="heinie">
<B>Heinie, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) a German (used in an unfriendly way). </DL>
<A NAME="heinous">
<B>heinous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> very wicked; extremely offensive; hateful. <BR> <I>Ex. The gangster was punished for his heinous crimes by a long prison sentence.</I> (SYN) odious, infamous, atrocious. adv. <B>heinously.</B> noun <B>heinousness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="heintzite">
<B>heintzite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a colorless or white hydrous borate of magnesium and potassium found in monoclinic crystals. </DL>
<A NAME="heir">
<B>heir, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a person who has the right to someone's property or title after the death of its owner; person who inherits property. <BR> <I>Ex. The rich man adopted the boy and made him his heir.</I> <DD><B> 2a. </B>(Figurative.) a person who inherits anything; person who receives or has something from someone before him. <BR> <I>Ex. We are truly heirs of all the ages (John Tyndall).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>(in civil law) a person who succeeds to the property, real and personal, and to the rights and obligations of a deceased person. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Obsolete.) offspring; product. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to inherit. <BR> <I>Ex. When falls a mate in battle broil, His comrade heirs his portion'd spoil (Scott).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>fall heir to,</B> </I>to inherit. <BR> <I>Ex. He fell heir to a small fortune. The new government fell heir to the problems of the old one.</I> adj. <B>heirless.</B> noun <B>heirship.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="heirapparent">
<B>heir apparent,</B> pl. <B>heirs apparent.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who will be heir if he lives longer than the one holding the property or title. <BR> <I>Ex. The king's oldest son is heir apparent to the throne.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) a person who seems certain to succeed another. <BR> <I>Ex. Young Saint-Laurent ... had been Christian Dior's heir apparent (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="heiratlaw">
<B>heir at law,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a person who receives, or is legally entitled to receive, the real property of an intestate person at his death. </DL>
