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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.]

3. A door, especially one partly of latticework; -- called also heck door. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

4. A latticework contrivance for catching fish.

5. (Weaving) An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.

6. A bend or winding of a stream. [Prov. Eng.]

Half heck, the lower half of a door. -- Heck board, the loose board at the bottom or back of a cart. -- Heck box or frame, that which carries the heck in warping.

Heck"i*mal (?), n. (Zoˆl.) The European blue titmouse (Parus cúruleus). [Written also heckimel, hackeymal, hackmall, hagmall, and hickmall.]

Hec"kle (?), n. & v. t. Same as Hackle.

Hec"tare` (?), n. [F., fr. Gr. &?; hundred + F. are an are.] A measure of area, or superficies, containing a hundred ares, or 10,000 square meters, and equivalent to 2.471 acres.

Hec"tic (?), a. [F. hectique, Gr. &?; habitual, consumptive, fr. &?; habit, a habit of body or mind, fr. &?; to have; akin to Skr. sah to overpower, endure; cf. AS. sige, sigor, victory, G. sieg, Goth. sigis. Cf. Scheme.] 1. Habitual; constitutional; pertaining especially to slow waste of animal tissue, as in consumption; as, a hectic type in disease; a hectic flush.

2. In a hectic condition; having hectic fever; consumptive; as, a hectic patient.

Hectic fever (Med.), a fever of irritation and debility, occurring usually at a advanced stage of exhausting disease, as a in pulmonary consumption.

Hec"tic, n. 1. (Med.) Hectic fever.

2. A hectic flush.

It is no living hue, but a strange hectic.

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Hec`to*cot"y*lized (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Changed into a hectocotylus; having a hectocotylis.

||Hec`to*cot"y*lus (?), n.; pl. Hectocotyli (#). [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a ||hundred + &?; a hollow vessel.] (Zoˆl.) One of the arms of the male ||of most kinds of cephalopods, which is specially modified in various ||ways to effect the fertilization of the eggs. In a special sense, the ||greatly modified arm of Argonauta and allied genera, which, after ||receiving the spermatophores, becomes detached from the male, and ||attaches itself to the female for reproductive purposes.

Hec"to*gram (?), n. [F. hectogramme, fr. Gr. &?; hundred + F. gramme a gram.] A measure of weight, containing a hundred grams, or about 3.527 ounces avoirdupois.

Hec"to*gramme (?), n. [F.] The same as Hectogram.

Hec"to*graph (?), n. [Gr. &?; hundred + -graph.] A contrivance for multiple copying, by means of a surface of gelatin softened with glycerin. [Written also hectograph.]

{ Hec"to*li`ter, Hec"to*li`tre } (?), n. [F. hectolitre, fr. Gr. &?; hundred + F. litre a liter.] A measure of liquids, containing a hundred liters; equal to a tenth of a cubic meter, nearly 26Ω gallons of wine measure, or 22.0097 imperial gallons. As a dry measure, it contains ten decaliters, or about 2 Winchester bushels.

{ Hec"to*me`ter, Hec"to*me`tre } (?), n. [F. &?; hectomËtre, fr. Gr. &?; hundred + F. mËtre a meter.] A measure of length, equal to a hundred meters. It is equivalent to 328.09 feet.