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Hog's Fennel – Holstein

Hog's Fennel

the umbelliferous genus Peucedanum, more particularly P. officinale, a plant found, but very rarely, in salt marshes. The root yields a stimulant resin; the plant has an odor of sulphur. Called also common or sea sulphurwort or harestrong.

Hogshead

in the United States a butt, a cask containing from 100 to 140 gallons. Also a measure of capacity containing 63 wine gallons, or 52½ imperial gallons.

Hold

the whole interior cavity or belly of a ship, or all that part of her inside which is comprehended between the floor and the lower deck throughout her length.

Holding

the term in Scots law used to denote the manner in which heritable estate is holden, and corresponding to tenure in English law.

Holland

or PARTS OF HOL- LAND, a district of England, one of the three portions into which the county of Lincoln is divided. It occupies the S.

E. part of the county round the Wash, and consists almost entirely of low, marsh, and fen land.

Holland

a fine and close kind of linen, so called from its first being manufactured in Holland; also a coarser linen fabric, unbleached or dyed brown, used for covering furniture, carpets, etc., or for making window-blinds or the like.

Holland

NEW, the name formerly given to the island or continent of Australia.

Hollow Ware

the trade term for

Holmes

OLIVER WENDELL, an

Holm Oak

Quercus Ilex, a shrublike tree, native of the Mediterranean countries, with holly-like leaves. In its native countries it attains a considerable size and age, but in Great Britain it forms an ornamental evergreen bush of from 20 to 30 feet high, seldom becoming single-stemmed.

Holocaine

p-diethoxy-diphenylethenyl-amidine, a synthetic drug, used in eye practice, as a local anæsthetic.

Sometimes known as Phenacaine.

HOLOCAUST (hol'ō-câst), a sacrifice, the whole of which was consumed by fire, nothing being retained; such sacrifices were practiced by the Jews. The word is now sometimes applied to a general sacrifice of life or slaughter.

Holstein

a princely German family, which includes the royal line of Denmark, the collateral branches of Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, and the ducal race of Holstein-Gottorp.