Vocabulary : Herpetotomist to Herschel

Herpetotomist : One who dissects, or studies the anatomy of, reptiles.
Herpetotomy : The anatomy or dissection of reptiles.
Herr : A title of respect given to gentlemen in Germany, equivalent to the English Mister.
Herrenhaus : See Legislature, Austria, Prussia.
Herring : One of various species of fishes of the genus Clupea, and allied genera, esp. the common round or English herring (C. harengus) of the North Atlantic. Herrings move in vast schools, coming in spring to the shores of Europe and America, where they are salted and smoked in great quantities.

Herringbone : Pertaining to, or like, the spine of a herring; especially, characterized by an arrangement of work in rows of parallel lines, which in the alternate rows slope in different directions.
Herrnhuter : One of the Moravians; -- so called from the settlement of Herrnhut (the Lord's watch) made, about 1722, by the Moravians at the invitation of Nicholas Lewis, count of Zinzendorf, upon his estate in the circle of Bautzen.
Hers : See the Note under Her, pron.
Hersal : Rehearsal.
Herschel : See Uranus.

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