Hetman
(Het"man) n.; pl. Hetmans [Pol. hetman. Cf. Ataman.] A Cossack headman or general.
The title of chief hetman is now held by the heir to the throne of Russia.
Heugh
(Heugh) n. [Cf. Hogh.]
1. A crag; a cliff; a glen with overhanging sides. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
2. A shaft in a coal pit; a hollow in a quarry. [Scot.]
Heuk
(Heuk) n. Variant of Huke. [Obs.]
Heulandite
(Heu"land*ite) n. [After Heuland, an English mineralogist.] (Min.) A mineral of the Zeolite
family, often occurring in amygdaloid, in foliated masses, and also in monoclinic crystals with pearly
luster on the cleavage face. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime.
Heuristic
(Heu*ris"tic) a. e"yri`skein to discover.]—> Serving to discover or find out.
Heved
(Hev"ed) n. The head. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Hew
(Hew) v. t. [imp. Hewed (hud); p. p. Hewed or Hewn (hun); p. pr. & vb. n. Hewing.] [AS.
heáwan; akin to D. houwen, OHG. houwan, G. hauen, Icel. höggva, Sw. hugga, Dan. hugge, Lith.
kova battle, Russ. kovate to hammer, forge. Cf. Hay cut grass, Hoe.]
1. To cut with an ax; to fell with a sharp instrument; — often with down, or off. Shak.
2. To form or shape with a sharp instrument; to cut; hence, to form laboriously; — often with out; as, to
hew out a sepulcher.
Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn.
Is. li. 1.
Rather polishing old works than hewing out new.
Pope. 3. To cut in pieces; to chop; to hack.
Hew them to pieces; hack their bones asunder.
Shak. Hew
(Hew), n. Destruction by cutting down. [Obs.]
Of whom he makes such havoc and such hew.
Spenser. Hew
(Hew), n.
1. Hue; color. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. Shape; form. [Obs.] Spenser.
Hewe
(Hewe) n. [Cf. Hind a peasant.] A domestic servant; a retainer. [Obs.] "False homely hewe."
Chaucer.
Hewer
(Hew"er) n. One who hews.
Hewhole
(Hew"hole`) n. [Cf. Hickwall.] (Zoöl.) The European green woodpecker. See Yaffle.
Hewn
(Hewn) a.
1. Felled, cut, or shaped as with an ax; roughly squared; as, a house built of hewn logs.
