Definition of hero

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Hero (n.) An illustrious man, supposed to be exalted, after death, to a place among the gods; a demigod, as Hercules..

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Heronry :: Heronry (n.) A place where herons breed.
Prolatum :: Prolatum (n.) A prolate spheroid. See Ellipsoid of revolution, under Ellipsoid..
Heroes :: Heroes (pl. ) of Her.
Chappion :: Chappion (n.) One who engages in any contest; esp. one who in ancient times contended in single combat in behalf of another's honor or rights; or one who acts or speaks in behalf of a person or a cause; a defender; an advocate; a hero.
Hero :: Hero (n.) A man of distinguished valor or enterprise in danger, or fortitude in suffering; a prominent or central personage in any remarkable action or event; hence, a great or illustrious person..
Insidious :: Insidious (a.) Lying in wait; watching an opportunity to insnare or entrap; deceitful; sly; treacherous; -- said of persons; as, the insidious foe..
Megatheroid :: Megatheroid (n.) One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc..
Act :: Act (v. t.) To assume the office or character of; to play; to personate; as, to act the hero..
Spherobacteria :: Spherobacteria (n. pl.) See the Note under Microbacteria.
Judas :: Judas (a.) Treacherous; betraying.
Spherometer :: Spherometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the curvature of spherical surface, as of lenses for telescope, etc..
Demigod :: Demigod (n.) A half god, or an inferior deity; a fabulous hero, the offspring of a deity and a mortal..
Hernshaw :: Hernshaw (n.) Heronshaw.
Cultirostral :: Cultirostral (a.) Having a bill shaped like the colter of a plow, or like a knife, as the heron, stork, etc..
Paramere :: Paramere (n.) One of the symmetrical halves of any one of the radii, or spheromeres, of a radiate animal, as a starfish..
Bombolo :: Bombolo (n.) A thin spheroidal glass retort or flask, used in the sublimation of camphor..
Hammerkop :: Hammerkop (n.) A bird of the Heron family; the umber.
Feline :: Feline (a.) Characteristic of cats; sly; stealthy; treacherous; as, a feline nature; feline manners..
Spherograph :: Spherograph (n.) An instrument for facilitating the practical use of spherics in navigation and astronomy, being constructed of two cardboards containing various circles, and turning upon each other in such a manner that any possible spherical triangle may be readily found, and the measures of the parts read off by inspection..
Theropoda :: Theropoda (n. pl.) An order of carnivorous dinosaurs in which the feet are less birdlike, and hence more like those of an ordinary quadruped, than in the Ornithopoda. It includes the rapacious genera Megalosaurus, Creosaurus, and their allies..
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