Deuterogamist :: Deuterogamist (n.) One who marries the second time.

Deuterogamy :: Deuterogamy (n.) A second marriage, after the death of the first husband of wife; -- in distinction from bigamy, as defined in the old canon law. See Bigamy..

Deuterogenic :: Deuterogenic (a.) Of secondary origin; -- said of certain rocks whose material has been derived from older rocks.

Enterography :: Enterography (n.) A treatise upon, or description of, the intestines; enterology..

Erogate :: Erogate (v. t.) To lay out, as money; to deal out; to expend..

Erogated :: Erogated (imp. & p. p.) of Erogat.

Erogating :: Erogating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Erogat.

Erogation :: Erogation (n.) The act of giving out or bestowing.

Heterogamous :: Heterogamous (a.) The condition of having two or more kinds of flowers which differ in regard to stamens and pistils, as in the aster..

Heterogamous :: Heterogamous (a.) Characterized by heterogamy.

Heterogamy :: Heterogamy (n.) The process of fertilization in plants by an indirect or circuitous method; -- opposed to orthogamy.

Heterogamy :: Heterogamy (n.) That form of alternate generation in which two kinds of sexual generation, or a sexual and a parthenogenetic generation, alternate; -- in distinction from metagenesis, where sexual and asexual generations alternate..

Heterogangliate :: Heterogangliate (a.) Having the ganglia of the nervous system unsymmetrically arranged; -- said of certain invertebrate animals.

Heterogene :: Heterogene (a.) Heterogenous.

Heterogeneal :: Heterogeneal (a.) Heterogeneous.

Heterogeneity :: Heterogeneity (n.) The state of being heterogeneous; contrariety.

Heterogeneous :: Heterogeneous (a.) Differing in kind; having unlike qualities; possessed of different characteristics; dissimilar; -- opposed to homogeneous, and said of two or more connected objects, or of a conglomerate mass, considered in respect to the parts of which it is made up..

Heterogenesis :: Heterogenesis (n.) Spontaneous generation, so called..

Heterogenesis :: Heterogenesis (n.) That method of reproduction in which the successive generations differ from each other, the parent organism producing offspring different in habit and structure from itself, the original form, however, reappearing after one or more generations; -- opposed to homogenesis, or gamogenesis..

Heterogenetic :: Heterogenetic (a.) Relating to heterogenesis; as, heterogenetic transformations..

Heterogenist :: Heterogenist (n.) One who believes in the theory of spontaneous generation, or heterogenesis..

Heterogenous :: Heterogenous (a.) Of or pertaining to heterogenesis; heterogenetic.

Heterogeny :: Heterogeny (n.) Heterogenesis.

Heterogonous :: Heterogonous (a.) Characterized by heterogony.

Heterogony :: Heterogony (n.) The condition of having two or more kinds of flowers, different as to the length of their stamens and pistils..

Heterographic :: Heterographic (a.) Employing the same letters to represent different sounds in different words or syllables; -- said of methods of spelling; as, the ordinary English orthography is heterographic..

Heterography :: Heterography (n.) That method of spelling in which the same letters represent different sounds in different words, as in the ordinary English orthography; e. g., g in get and in ginger..

Heterogynous :: Heterogynous (a.) Having females very unlike the males in form and structure; -- as certain insects, the males of which are winged, and the females wingless..

Hieroglyph :: Hieroglyph (a.) Alt. of Hieroglyphi.

Hieroglyphic :: Hieroglyphic (a.) A sacred character; a character in picture writing, as of the ancient Egyptians, Mexicans, etc. Specifically, in the plural, the picture writing of the ancient Egyptian priests. It is made up of three, or, as some say, four classes of characters: first, the hieroglyphic proper, or figurative, in which the representation of the object conveys the idea of the object itself; second, the ideographic, consisting of symbols representing ideas, not sounds, as an ostrich feather is a s

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