<B>hereabouts, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> about this place; around here; near here. <BR> <I>Ex. The farm population hereabouts is getting smaller and smaller, so the farmers want bigger tractors to be able to do more work (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="hereafter">
<B>hereafter, </B>adverb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adv. </I> <B>1. </B>after this; after now; in the future. <BR> <I>Ex. Do not bring that question up hereafter.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>in life after death. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the future. <DD><B> 2. </B>the life or time after death. <BR> <I>Ex. The minister committed his soul to the hereafter.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="hereat">
<B>hereat, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>when this happened; at this time. <DD><B> 2. </B>because of this. </DL>
<A NAME="hereaway">
<B>hereaway, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>in this neighborhood. <BR> <I>Ex. They told us below, we should find settlers something thinnish, hereaway (James Fenimore Cooper).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Slang.) hither. </DL>
<A NAME="hereby">
<B>hereby, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>by this; by this means; in this way. <BR> <I>Ex. The license said: "You are hereby given the right to hunt and fish in Dover County."</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Obsolete.) nearby. </DL>
<A NAME="heredes">
<B>heredes, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> plural of <B>heres.</B> </DL>
<B>hereditable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be inherited. adv. <B>hereditably.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="hereditament">
<B>hereditament, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Law.) any thing that can be inherited. <BR> <I>Ex. all the landed possessions, houses, mills ... and other hereditaments which formed the royal patrimony (Washington Irving).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="hereditarian">
<B>hereditarian, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a person who maintains that individual traits are acquired chiefly by genetic transmission or heredity. <DD><I>adj. </I> maintaining that individual traits are determined chiefly by heredity. <BR> <I>Ex. Current studies do not support either an "environmentalist" or a "hereditarian" interpretation of differences in intelligence (Saturday Review).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="hereditary">
<B>hereditary, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>coming by inheritance. <BR> <I>Ex. "Prince" is a hereditary title.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>holding a position by inheritance. <BR> <I>Ex. The Queen of England is a hereditary ruler.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>caused or transmitted by heredity. <BR> <I>Ex. Color blindness is hereditary.</I> (SYN) inherited. <DD><B> 4. </B>coming from one's parents or ancestors. <BR> <I>Ex. a hereditary belief, a hereditary custom.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>having to do with inheritance or heredity. <BR> <I>Ex. hereditary descent.</I> adv. <B>hereditarily.</B> noun <B>hereditariness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="hereditist">
<B>hereditist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who believes that all individuality is determined by inheritance. </DL>
<A NAME="heredity">
<B>heredity, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the fact that one generation of plants and animals produces the next. <DD><B> 2. </B>the passing of physical or mental characteristics from one generation of plants or animals to the next. <BR> <I>Ex. It has long been known that heredity is determined by the chromosomes, the threadlike bodies in the nucleus of the cell, and by their subunits the genes (Scientific American).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>the qualities of body and mind that have come to a child from its parents. <BR> <I>Ex. His father was a very gentle man and so it was not in the son's heredity to resort to outbursts of temper.</I> (SYN) heritage. <DD><B> 4. </B>the tendency of offspring to be like the parents. <BR> <I>Ex. Variation, then, is quite as universal a fact in life as is heredity, and both are significant in understanding man (Beals and Hoijer).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="hereford">
<B>Hereford, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>one of a breed of beef cattle having a reddish-brown body, white face, and white markings under the body. <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of an American breed of red hog with white markings. </DL>
<A NAME="herefrom">
<B>herefrom, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>from this place. <DD><B> 2. </B>from this fact or statement. </DL>
<A NAME="herein">
<B>herein, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>in here; in this place; in this passage or book. <DD><B> 2. </B>in this matter; in this way. </DL>
<A NAME="hereinabove">
<B>hereinabove, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> above in this document, statement, or the like. <BR> <I>Ex. The factual record of the Mandatory's conduct, as hereinabove more particularly set forth, has a ... remarkable consistency (E. J. Kahn, Jr.).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="hereinafter">
<B>hereinafter, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> afterward in this document, statement, or the like. </DL>
<A NAME="hereinbefore">
<B>hereinbefore, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> before in this document, statement, or the like. </DL>
<A NAME="hereinto">
<B>hereinto, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>into this place. <DD><B> 2. </B>into this matter. </DL>
<A NAME="hereof">
<B>hereof, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> of this; about this. </DL>
<B>Herero, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ros.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a member of a Bantu tribe living in central South-West Africa. <DD><B> 2. </B>their language. </DL>
<A NAME="heres">
<B>heres, </B>noun, pl. <B>heredes.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Law.) an heir. Also, <B>haeres.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="heres">
<B>here's,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> here is. <BR><I>expr. <B>here's to,</B> </I>a wish of health, happiness, or success to. <BR> <I>Ex. Here's to you! Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here's to the widow of fifty; Here's to the flaunting extravagant quean, And here's to the housewife that's thrifty! (Richard Brinsley Sheridan).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="heresiarch">
<B>heresiarch, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a leader or founder of a heresy. <BR> <I>Ex. Kandinsky was the last great heresiarch of painting, the last master who could be wrong (Art News).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="heresiology">
<B>heresiology, </B>noun, pl. <B>-gies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the study of heresies. <DD><B> 2. </B>a book about heresies. noun <B>heresiologist.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="heresy">
<B>heresy, </B>noun, pl. <B>-sies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a belief different from the accepted belief of a church, school, profession, or other group. <BR> <I>Ex. It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies (Thomas Huxley).</I> (SYN) heterodoxy. <DD><B> 2. </B>the holding of such a belief. <BR> <I>Ex. to fall into heresy.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="heretic">
<B>heretic, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a person who holds a belief that is different from the accepted belief of his church, school, profession, or other group. <BR> <I>Ex. Many young poets regard themselves as heretics in their art. Pelagius's ideas were officially condemned, and he himself was excommunicated as a heretic (Atlantic).</I> (SYN) dissenter. <DD><I>adj. </I> holding such a belief; heretical. </DL>
<A NAME="heretical">
<B>heretical, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with heresy or heretics. <BR> <I>Ex. Galileo's theory that the earth goes round the sun was regarded as a heretical opinion.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>containing heresy; characterized by heresy. adv. <B>heretically.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="hereto">
<B>hereto, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to this place, thing, document, etc. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Obsolete.) hitherto. </DL>
<A NAME="heretofore">
<B>heretofore, </B>adverb, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adv. </I> before this time; until now. <BR> <I>Ex. Heretofore, doctors have tried low fat diets ... to reduce the cholesterol in the blood (Science News Letter).</I> (SYN) hitherto. <DD><I>adj. </I> former. <BR> <I>Ex. Considering the heretofore reluctance of our film folk to move into this realm ... this coincidental emergence of two films ... is something to hum about (New York Times).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> time past. </DL>
<B>hereunto, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to this place, thing, document, etc.; hereto. </DL>
<A NAME="hereupon">
<B>hereupon, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>upon this thing, point, subject, or matter. <BR> <I>Ex. Hereupon we disagree.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>immediately after this. <BR> <I>Ex. We had an argument; hereupon she left.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="herewith">
<B>herewith, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>with this. <BR> <I>Ex. I am sending ten cents in stamps herewith.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>by this means; in this way. </DL>
<A NAME="heriot">
<B>heriot, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (in English law) a feudal payment due a lord at the death of a tenant. </DL>
<A NAME="heritability">
<B>heritability, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> heritable quality or condition. </DL>
<A NAME="heritable">
<B>heritable, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>that can be inherited; inheritable. <BR> <I>Ex. heritable diseases, heritable tendencies. In Mendel's experiments one could discern the constant heritable characters which might disappear for a time in hybrids only to reappear again unchanged (Atlantic).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>capable of inheriting. <DD><I>noun </I> (in Scottish law) a possession or right that can be inherited. </DL>
<A NAME="heritably">
<B>heritably, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> by way of inheritance. </DL>
<A NAME="heritage">
<B>heritage, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>what is or may be handed on to a person from his ancestors, such as land, a trait, beliefs, or customs; inheritance. <BR> <I>Ex. a great cultural heritage. The heritage of freedom is precious to Americans. It was ... part of my heritage, which my dead father did bequeath to me (Shakespeare).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>(Figurative.) what comes to a person from the circumstances of his birth. <BR> <I>Ex. Poverty was his heritage.</I> <DD><B> c. </B>(Figurative.) inherited portion; lot; fate. <BR> <I>Ex. Let us hope that the heritage of old age is not despair (Benjamin Disraeli).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the Israelites, God's chosen people (in the Bible, Joel 3:2). <DD><B> 3. </B>the Christian church (in the Bible, I Peter 5:3). </DL>
