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<blockquote>This son shall be legitimate and <b>heritable</b>. <i>Sir M. Hale.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Heritable rights</col> <fld>(Scots Law)</fld>, <cd>rights of the heir; rights to land or whatever may be intimately connected with land; realty.</cd></cs>

<i>Jacob (Law Dict.).</i>

<h1>Heritage</h1> <Xpage=688>

<hw>Her"it*age</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>heritage</ets>, <ets>eritage</ets>, OF. <ets>heritage</ets>, <ets>eritage</ets>, F. <ets>h\'82ritage</ets>, fr. <ets>h\'82riter</ets> to inherit, LL. <ets>heriditare</ets>. See <er>Hereditable</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>That which is inherited, or passes from heir to heir; inheritance.</def>

<blockquote>Part of my <b>heritage</b>, Which my dead father did bequeath to me. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Script.)</fld> <def>A possession; the Israelites, as God's chosen people; also, a flock under pastoral charge.</def>

<i>Joel iii. 2.</i></blockquote> <i>1 Peter v. 3.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Heritance</h1> <Xpage=688>

<hw>Her"it*ance</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>heritance</ets>.]</ety> <def>Heritage; inheritance.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>Robbing their children of the <b>heritance</b> Their fathers handed down <i>Southey.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Heritor</h1> <Xpage=688>

<hw>Her"it*or</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. LL. <ets>her<?/ator</ets>, fr. L. <ets>heres</ets> an heir.]</ety> <def>A proprietor or landholder in a parish.</def> <mark>[Scot.]</mark>

<h1>Herl</h1> <Xpage=688>

<hw>Herl</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Same as <er>Harl</er>, 2.</def>

<mhw><h1>Herling, Hirling</h1> <Xpage=688>

<hw>Her"ling</hw>, <hw>Hir"ling</hw> <tt>(<?/)</tt></mhw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Etymol. uncertain.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The young of the sea trout.</def> <mark>[Prov. Eng.]</mark>

<h1>Herma</h1> <Xpage=688>

<hw>Her"ma</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Herm\'91</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[L.]</ety> <def>See <er>Hermes</er>, <p><b>2.</b></def>

<h1>Hermaphrodeity</h1> <Xpage=688>

<hw>Her*maph`ro*de"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Hermaphrodism.</def>

<i>B. Jonson.</i>

<h1>Hermaphrodism</h1> <Xpage=688>

<hw>Her*maph"ro*dism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>hermaphrodisme</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>See <er>Hermaphroditism</er>.</def>

<h1>Hermaphrodite</h1> <Xpage=688>

<hw>Her*maph"ro*dite</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>hermaphroditus</ets>, Gr. <?/, so called from the mythical story that <ets>Hermaphroditus</ets>, son of Hermes and Aphrodite, when bathing, became joined in one body with Salmacis, the nymph of a fountain in Caria: cf. F. <ets>hermaphrodite</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>An individual which has the attributes of both male and female, or which unites in itself the two sexes; an animal or plant having the parts of generation of both sexes, as when a flower contains both the stamens and pistil within the same calyx, or on the same receptacle. In some cases reproduction may take place without the union of the distinct individuals. In the animal kingdom true hermaphrodites are found only among the invertebrates. See <i>Illust</i>. in Appendix, under <i>Helminths</i>.</def>

<h1>Hermaphrodite</h1> <Xpage=688>

<hw>Her*maph"ro*dite</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Including, or being of, both sexes; <as>as, an <ex>hermaphrodite</ex> animal or flower</as>.</def>