Part 5200

<h1>Hectograph</h1> <Xpage=681>

<hw>Hec"to*graph</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ hundred + <ets>-graph</ets>.]</ety> <def>A contrivance for multiple copying, by means of a surface of gelatin softened with glycerin.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>hectograph</asp>.]</altsp>

<h1>Hectoliter, Hectolitre</h1> <Xpage=681>

<hw><hw>Hec"to*li`ter</hw>, <hw>Hec"to*li`tre</hw><hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>hectolitre</ets>, fr. Gr. <?/ hundred + F. <ets>litre</ets> a liter.]</ety> <def>A measure of liquids, containing a hundred liters; equal to a tenth of a cubic meter, nearly 26<frac12/ gallons of wine measure, or 22.0097 imperial gallons. As a dry measure, it contains ten decaliters, or about 2<frac56/ Winchester bushels.</def>

<h1>Hectometer, Hectometre</h1> <Xpage=681>

<hw><hw>Hec"to*me`ter</hw>, <hw>Hec"to*me`tre</hw><hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <?/ <ets>hectom\'8atre</ets>, fr. Gr. <?/ hundred + F. <ets>m\'8atre</ets> a meter.]</ety> <def>A measure of length, equal to a hundred meters. It is equivalent to 328.09 feet.</def>

<h1>Hector</h1> <Xpage=681>

<hw>Hec"tor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From the Trojan warrior <ets>Hector</ets>, the son of Priam.]</ety> <def>A bully; a blustering, turbulent, insolent, fellow; one who vexes or provokes.</def>

<h1>Hector</h1> <Xpage=681>

<hw>Hec"tor</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Hectored</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Hectoring</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To treat with insolence; to threaten; to bully; hence, to torment by words; to tease; to taunt; to worry or irritate by bullying.</def>

<i>Dryden.</i>

<h1>Hector</h1> <Xpage=681>

<hw>Hec"tor</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To play the bully; to bluster; to be turbulent or insolent.</def>

<i>Swift.</i>

<h1>Hectorism</h1> <Xpage=681>

<hw>Hec"to*rism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The disposition or the practice of a hector; a bullying.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Hectorly</h1> <Xpage=681>

<hw>Hec"tor*ly</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Resembling a hector; blustering; insolent; taunting.</def> "<i>Hectorly</i>, ruffianlike swaggering or huffing."

<i>Barrow.</i>

<h1>Hectostere</h1> <Xpage=681>

<hw>Hec"to*stere</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>hectost\'8are</ets>; Gr. <?/ hundred + F. <ets>st\'8are</ets>.]</ety> <def>A measure of solidity, containing one hundred cubic meters, and equivalent to 3531.66 English or 3531.05 United States cubic feet.</def>

<h1>Heddle</h1> <Xpage=681>

<hw>Hed"dle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Heddles</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[Cf. <er>Heald</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Weaving)</fld> <def>One of the sets of parallel doubled threads which, with mounting, compose the harness employed to guide the warp threads to the lathe or batten in a loom.</def>

<h1>Heddle</h1> <Xpage=681>

<hw>Hed"dle</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To draw (the warp thread) through the heddle-eyes, in weaving.</def>

<h1>Heddle-eye</h1> <Xpage=681>

<hw>Hed"dle-eye`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Weaving)</fld> <def>The eye or loop formed in each heddle to receive a warp thread.</def>

<h1>Heddling</h1> <Xpage=681>