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<h1>Henbane</h1> <Xpage=685>

<hw>Hen"bane`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Hen</ets> + <ets>bane</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A plant of the genus <spn>Hyoscyamus</spn> (<spn>H. niger</spn>). All parts of the plant are poisonous, and the leaves are used for the same purposes as belladonna. It is poisonous to domestic fowls; whence the name. Called also, <altname>stinking nightshade</altname>, from the fetid odor of the plant. See <er>Hyoscyamus</er>.</def>

<h1>Henbit</h1> <Xpage=685>

<hw>Hen"bit`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A weed of the genus <spn>Lamium</spn> (<spn>L. amplexicaule</spn>) with deeply crenate leaves.</def>

<h1>Hence</h1> <Xpage=685>

<hw>Hence</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>hennes</ets>, <ets>hens</ets> (the <ets>s</ets> is prop. a genitive ending; cf. <er>-wards</er>), also <ets>hen</ets>, <ets>henne</ets>, <ets>hennen</ets>, <ets>heonnen</ets>, <ets>heonene</ets>, AS. <ets>heonan</ets>, <ets>heonon</ets>, <ets>heona</ets>, <ets>hine</ets>; akin to OHG. <ets>hinn\'ben</ets>, G. <ets>hinnen</ets>, OHG. <ets>hina</ets>, G. <ets>hin</ets>; all from the root of E. <ets>he</ets>. See <er>He</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>From this place; away.</def> "Or that we <i>hence</i> wend."

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<blockquote>Arise, let us go <b>hence</b>. <i>John xiv. 31.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>I will send thee far <b>hence</b> unto the Gentiles. <i>Acts xxii. 21.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>From this time; in the future; <as>as, a week <ex>hence</ex></as>.</def> "Half an hour <i>hence</i>."

<i>Shak.</i>

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<p><b>3.</b> <def>From this reason; as an inference or deduction.</def>

<blockquote><b>Hence</b>, perhaps, it is, that Solomon calls the fear of the Lord the beginning of wisdom. <i>Tillotson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>From this source or origin.</def>

<blockquote>All other faces borrowed <b>hence</b> Their light and grace. <i>Suckling.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not <b>hence</b>, even of your lusts? <i>James. iv. 1.</i></blockquote>

<note>&hand; <i>Hence</i> is used, elliptically and imperatively, for <i>go hence</i>; <i>depart hence</i>; <i>away</i>; <i>be gone</i>. "<i>Hence</i> with your little ones." <i>Shak</i>. -- <i>From hence</i>, though a pleonasm, is fully authorized by the usage of good writers.</note><-- raus! -->

<blockquote>An ancient author prophesied <b>from hence</b>. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Expelled <b>from hence</b> into a world Of woe and sorrow. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Hence</h1> <Xpage=686>

<hw>Hence</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To send away.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Sir P. Sidney.</i>

<h1>Henceforth</h1> <Xpage=686>

<hw>Hence`forth"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>From this time forward; henceforward.</def>

<blockquote>I never from thy side <b>henceforth</b> to stray. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Henceforward</h1> <Xpage=686>

<hw>Hence`for"ward</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>From this time forward; henceforth.</def>