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<h1>Heyday</h1> <Xpage=691>

<hw>Hey"day`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Prob. for. <ets>high day</ets>. See <ets>High</ets>, and <er>Day</er>.]</ety> <def>The time of triumph and exultation; hence, joy, high spirits, frolicsomeness; wildness.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>heyday</b> in the blood is tame. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>In the <b>heyday</b> of their victories. <i>J. H. Newman.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Heydeguy</h1> <Xpage=691>

<hw>Hey"de*guy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Perh. fr. <ets>heyday + guise</ets>.]</ety> <def>A kind of country-dance or round.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Spenser.</i>

<mhw><h1>Heyh, Heygh</h1> <Xpage=691>

<hw>Heyh</hw>, <hw>Heygh</hw> <tt>(<?/)</tt></mhw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>High.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Heyne</h1> <Xpage=691>

<hw>Heyne</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>he\'a0n</ets> low, mean.]</ety> <def>A wretch; a rascal.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Heyten</h1> <Xpage=691>

<hw>Hey"ten</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <ety>[Icel. <ets>h<?/<?/an</ets>.]</ety> <def>Hence.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Hiation</h1> <Xpage=691>

<hw>Hi*a"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Hiatus</er>.]</ety> <def>Act of gaping.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Sir T. Browne.</i>

<h1>Hiatus</h1> <Xpage=691>

<hw>Hi*a"tus</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. L. <plw>Hiatus</plw>, E. <plw>Hiatuses</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[L., fr. <ets>hiare</ets>, <ets>hiatum</ets>, to gape; akin to E. <ets>yawn</ets>. See <er>Yawn</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>An opening; an aperture; a gap; a chasm; esp., a defect in a manuscript, where some part is lost or effaced; a space where something is wanting; a break.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Gram.)</fld> <def>The concurrence of two vowels in two successive words or syllables.</def>

<i>Pope.</i>

<h1>Hibernacle</h1> <Xpage=691>

<hw>Hi*ber"na*cle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>hibernaculum</ets> a winter residence, pl. <ets>hibernacula</ets> winter quarters: cf. F. <ets>hibernacle</ets>. See <er>Hibernate</er>.]</ety> <def>That which serves for protection or shelter in winter; winter quarters; <as>as, the <ex>hibernacle</ex> of an animal or a plant</as>.</def>

<i>Martyn.</i>

<h1>Hibernaculum</h1> <Xpage=691>

<hw>Hi`ber*nac"u*lum</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Hibernacle</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A winter bud, in which the rudimentary foliage or flower, as of most trees and shrubs in the temperate zone, is protected by closely overlapping scales.</def>