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<i>Halliwell.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A latticework contrivance for catching fish.</def>

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

<p><b>6.</b> <def>A bend or winding of a stream.</def> <mark>[Prov. Eng.]</mark>

<cs><col>Half heck</col>, <cd>the lower half of a door.</cd> -- <col>Heck board</col>, <cd>the loose board at the bottom or back of a cart.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Heck</col> <col>box &or; frame</col></mcol>, <cd>that which carries the heck in warping.</cd></cs>

<h1>Heckimal</h1> <Xpage=680>

<hw>Heck"i*mal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The European blue titmouse (<spn>Parus c\'d2ruleus</spn>).</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>heckimel</asp>, <asp>hackeymal</asp>, <asp>hackmall</asp>, <asp>hagmall</asp>, and <asp>hickmall</asp>.]</altsp>

<h1>Heckle</h1> <Xpage=680>

<hw>Hec"kle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. & v. t.</tt> <def>Same as <er>Hackle</er>.</def>

<h1>Hectare</h1> <Xpage=680>

<hw>Hec"tare`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F., fr. Gr. <?/ hundred + F. <ets>are</ets> an are.]</ety> <def>A measure of area, or superficies, containing a hundred ares, or 10,000 square meters, and equivalent to 2.471 acres.</def>

<h1>Hectic</h1> <Xpage=680>

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

<p><b>2.</b> <def>In a hectic condition; having hectic fever; consumptive; <as>as, a <ex>hectic</ex> patient</as>.</def>

<cs><col>Hectic fever</col> <fld>(Med.)</fld>, <cd>a fever of irritation and debility, occurring usually at a advanced stage of exhausting disease, as a in pulmonary consumption.</cd></cs>

<h1>Hectic</h1> <Xpage=680>

<hw>Hec"tic</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Hectic fever.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A hectic flush.</def>

<blockquote>It is no living hue, but a strange <b>hectic</b>. <i>Byron.</i></blockquote>

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<h1>Hectocotylized</h1> <Xpage=681>

<hw>Hec`to*cot"y*lized</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Changed into a hectocotylus; having a hectocotylis.</def>

<h1>Hectocotylus</h1> <Xpage=681>

<hw>Hec`to*cot"y*lus</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Hectocotyli</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/ a hundred + <?/ a hollow vessel.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<h1>Hectogram</h1> <Xpage=681>

<hw>Hec"to*gram</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>hectogramme</ets>, fr. Gr. <?/ hundred + F. <ets>gramme</ets> a gram.]</ety> <def>A measure of weight, containing a hundred grams, or about 3.527 ounces avoirdupois.</def>

<h1>Hectogramme</h1> <Xpage=681>

<hw>Hec"to*gramme</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F.]</ety> <def>The same as <er>Hectogram</er>.</def>