Word Meanings - HENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnan, G. hinnen, OHG. 1. From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send

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ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnan, G. hinnen, OHG. 1. From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles. Acts xxii. 21. 2. From this time; in the future; as, a week hence. "Half an hour hence." Shak. 3. From this reason; as an inference or deduction. Hence, perhaps, it is, that Solomon calls the fear of the Lord the beginning of wisdom. Tillotson. 4. From this source or origin. All other faces borrowed hence Their light and grace. Suckling. Whence come wars and fightings among you Come they not hence, even of your lusts James. iv. 1. Note: Hence is used, elliptically and imperatively, for go hence; depart hence; away; be gone. "Hence with your little ones." Shak. -- From hence, though a pleonasm, is fully authorized by the usage of good writers. An ancient author prophesied from hence. Dryden. Expelled from hence into a world Of woe and sorrow. Milton.

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• ENDENIZATION
  The act of naturalizing.
• ENDORSER
  See INDORSER
• ENDOGENY
  Growth from within; multiplication of cells by endogenous division, as in the development of one or more cells in the interior of a parent cell.
• ENDENIZE
  To endenizen.
• ENDOTHECIUM
  The inner lining of an another cell.
• ENDOSCOPE
  An instrument for examining the interior of the rectum, the urethra, and the bladder.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• ENDOPLASM
  The protoplasm in the interior of a cell.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• ENDOCHROME
  The coloring matter within the cells of plants, whether green, red, yellow, or any other color.
• ENDALL; END-ALL
  Complete termination. That but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here. Shak.
• ENDOSTYLE
  A fold of the endoderm, which projects into the blood cavity of ascidians. See Tunicata.
• ENDURANT
  Capable of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc. The ibex is a remarkably endurant animal. J. G. Wood.
• ENDERON
  The deep sensitive and vascular layer of the skin and mucous membranes. -- En`de*ron"ic, a.
• ENDODERMIS
  A layer of cells forming a kind of cuticle inside of the proper cortical layer, or surrounding an individual fibrovascular bundle.
• ENDOCHONDRAL
  Growing or developing within cartilage; -- applied esp. to developing bone.
• ENDABLE
  That may be ended; terminable.
• ENDOSTERNITE
  The part of each apodeme derived from the intersternal membrane in Crustacea and insects.
• ENDEAR
  1. To make dear or beloved. "To be endeared to a king." Shak. 2. To raise the price or cost of; to make costly or expensive. King James I. .
• COMMENDATOR
  One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers.
• AMENDFUL
  Much improving.
• OFFENDANT
  An offender. Holland.
• GENDER
  A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex. Gender is a grammatical distinction and applies to words only. Sex is natural distinction and applies to living
• ACCENDIBILITY
  Capacity of being kindled, or of becoming inflamed; inflammability.
• TOWNWARD; TOWNWARDS
  Toward a town. Longfellow.
• STIPEND
  Settled pay or compensation for services, whether paid daily, monthly, or annually.
• FRIENDLINESS
  The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.
• SEA LAVENDER
  See MARSH
• DECRESCENDO
  With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to performers, either written upon the staff , or indicated by the sign.
• SHENDFUL
  Destructive; ruinous; disgraceful. -- Shend"ful*ly, adv. Fabyan.
• TENDER
  A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
• ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
  See ASCENDENCY
• FACIEND
  The multiplicand. See Facient,
• DENDRIFORM
  Resembling in structure a tree or shrub.
• SPLENDIDIOUS
  Splendid.
• FRIENDED
  1. Having friends; 2. Iuclined to love; well-disposed. Shak.
• STIPENDIARIAN
  Acting from mercenary considerations; stipendiary. A. Seward.