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Hejira
- noun - a journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environment
- the flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 which marked the beginning of the Muslim era; the Muslim calendar begins in that year
Heliac
- adjective - pertaining to or near the sun; especially the first rising of a star after and last setting before its invisibility owing to its conjunction with the sun; "the heliacal rising of the Dog Star"; "the heliacal or Sothic year is determined by the heliacal rising of Sothis (the Egyptian name for the Dog Star)"
Helio-
- - A combining form from Gr. "h`lios the sun.
Helios
- noun - (Greek mythology) ancient god of the sun; drove his chariot across the sky each day; identified with Roman Sol
Helium
- noun - a very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses; the most difficult gas to liquefy; occurs in economically extractable amounts in certain natural gases (as those found in Texas and Kansas)
Hemina
- - A measure of half a sextary.
Heming
- noun - English actor who edited the first folio of Shakespeare's plays (1556-1630)
Hemins
- noun - a reddish-brown chloride of heme; produced from hemoglobin in laboratory tests for the presence of blood
Hering
- unknown - Karl Ewald Konstantin Hering (5 August 1834 – 26 January 1918) was a German physiologist who did much research into color vision, binocular perception and eye movements. He proposed opponent color theory in 1892.
Heriot
- - Formerly, a payment or tribute of arms or military accouterments, or the best beast, or chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant; in modern use, a customary tribute of goods or chattels to the lord of the fee, paid on the decease of a tenant.