Vocabulary : Heckerism to Hectogramme

Heckerism : The teaching of Isaac Thomas Hecker (1819-88), which interprets Catholicism as promoting human aspirations after liberty and truth, and as the religion best suited to the character and institutions of the American people. ;; Improperly, certain views or principles erroneously ascribed to Father Hecker in a French translation of Elliott's Life of Hecker. They were condemned as "Americanism" by the Pope, in a letter to Cardinal Gibbons, January 22, 1899.
Heckimal : The European blue titmouse (Parus coeruleus).
Heckle : Same as Hackle. ;; To interrogate, or ply with questions, esp. with severity or antagonism, as a candidate for the ministry.
Hectare : A measure of area, or superficies, containing a hundred ares, or 10,000 square meters, and equivalent to 2.471 acres.
Hectic : Habitual; constitutional; pertaining especially to slow waste of animal tissue, as in consumption; as, a hectic type in disease; a hectic flush. ;; In a hectic condition; having hectic fever; consumptive; as, a hectic patient. ;; Hectic fever. ;; A hectic flush.

Hectocotyli : of Hectocotylus
Hectocotylized : Changed into a hectocotylus; having a hectocotylis.
Hectocotylus : One of the arms of the male of most kinds of cephalopods, which is specially modified in various ways to effect the fertilization of the eggs. In a special sense, the greatly modified arm of Argonauta and allied genera, which, after receiving the spermatophores, becomes detached from the male, and attaches itself to the female for reproductive purposes.
Hectogram : A measure of weight, containing a hundred grams, or about 3.527 ounces avoirdupois.
Hectogramme : The same as Hectogram.

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