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herring
  • n  valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled
  • n  commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific
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herring hog
  • n  the common porpoise of the northern Atlantic and Pacific
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herringbone
  • n  a twilled fabric with a herringbone pattern
  • n  a pattern of columns of short parallel lines with all the lines in one column sloping one way and lines in adjacent columns sloping the other way; it is used in weaving, masonry, parquetry, embroidery
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herringbone pattern
  • n  a pattern of columns of short parallel lines with all the lines in one column sloping one way and lines in adjacent columns sloping the other way; it is used in weaving, masonry, parquetry, embroidery
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herschel
  • n  English astronomer (son of William Herschel) who extended the catalogue of stars to the southern hemisphere and did pioneering work in photography (1792-1871)
  • n  English astronomer (born in Germany) who discovered infrared light and who catalogued the stars and discovered the planet Uranus (1738-1822)
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herschelian telescope
  • n  a reflecting telescope with the mirror slightly tilted to throw the image to the side where it can be viewed
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hershey
  • n  United States confectioner and philanthropist who created the model industrial town of Hershey, Pennsylvania; founded an industrial school for orphan boys (1857-1945)
  • n  an industrial town to the east of Harrisburg
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hershey bar
  • n  a bar of milk chocolate made by the Hershey company
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hertha
  • n  the Teutonic goddess of fertility; later identified with Norse Njord
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hertz
  • n  the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second
  • n  German physicist who was the first to produce electromagnetic waves artificially (1857-1894)
  • n  German physicist who with James Franck proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Bohr (1887-1975)
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hertzian wave
  • n  an electromagnetic wave generated by oscillations in an electric circuit
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herzberg
  • n  Canadian physicist (born in Germany) noted for contributions to understanding the structure of molecules (born in 1904)
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