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Hesperian :: Hesperian (n.) Any one of the numerous species of Hesperidae; a skipper.

Hesperid :: Hesperid (a. & n.) Same as 3d Hesperian.

Clothespin :: Clothespin (n.) A forked piece of wood, or a small spring clamp, used for fastening clothes on a line..

Hesperides :: Hesperides (n. pl.) The garden producing the golden apples.

Hesperidene :: Hesperidene (n.) An isomeric variety of terpene from orange oil.

Pin :: Pin (n.) A clothespin.

Skipper :: Skipper (n.) Any one of numerous species of small butterflies of the family Hesperiadae; -- so called from their peculiar short, jerking flight..

Urbicolae :: Urbicolae (n. pl.) An extensive family of butterflies, including those known as skippers (Hesperiadae)..

Mouse :: Mouse (n.) Any one of numerous species of small rodents belonging to the genus Mus and various related genera of the family Muridae. The common house mouse (Mus musculus) is found in nearly all countries. The American white-footed, or deer, mouse (Hesperomys leucopus) sometimes lives in houses. See Dormouse, Meadow mouse, under Meadow, and Harvest mouse, under Harvest..

Hesperian :: Hesperian (a.) Of or pertaining to a family of butterflies called Hesperidae, or skippers..

Hesp :: Hesp (n.) A measure of two hanks of linen thread.

Hesperidium :: Hesperidium (n.) A large berry with a thick rind, as a lemon or an orange..

Damewort :: Damewort (n.) A cruciferrous plant (Hesperis matronalis), remarkable for its fragrance, especially toward the close of the day; -- called also rocket and dame's violet..

Hesperidin :: Hesperidin (n.) A glucoside found in ripe and unripe fruit (as the orange), and extracted as a white crystalline substance..

Odontolcae :: Odontolcae (n. pl.) An extinct order of ostrichlike aquatic birds having teeth, which are set in a groove in the jaw. It includes Hesperornis, and allied genera. See Hesperornis..

Hesperus :: Hesperus (n.) Venus when she is the evening star; Hesper.

Hesperus :: Hesperus (n.) Evening.

Hesper :: Hesper (n.) The evening; Hesperus.

Hesperides :: Hesperides (n. pl.) The daughters of Hesperus, or Night (brother of Atlas), and fabled possessors of a garden producing golden apples, in Africa, at the western extremity of the known world. To slay the guarding dragon and get some of these apples was one of the labors of Hercules. Called also Atlantides..

Venus :: Venus (n.) One of the planets, the second in order from the sun, its orbit lying between that of Mercury and that of the Earth, at a mean distance from the sun of about 67,000,000 miles. Its diameter is 7,700 miles, and its sidereal period 224.7 days. As the morning star, it was called by the ancients Lucifer; as the evening star, Hesperus..

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