(historical) One of the five annually-elected senior magistrates in various Dorian states, especially in ancient Sparta, where they oversaw the actions of Spartan kings.
(in modern Greece) A superintendent or curator.
hepar
hepar
noun
(obsolete, chemistry) Any substance resembling hepar in appearance; specifically, in homeopathy, calcium sulphide.
(obsolete, chemistry) liver of sulphur; a substance of a liver-brown colour, sometimes used in medicine, formed by fusing sulphur with carbonates of the alkalis (especially potassium).
hiper
hiper
noun
(wrestling) A wrestler who uses the hipe technique.
(dated) A linear measure of 5+¹⁄₂ yards, equal to a rod, a pole or ¹⁄₄ chain; the related square measure.
(figuratively) A position that is overly elevated or haughty.
(figuratively) A position that is secure and advantageous, especially one which is prominent or elevated.
(textiles) A frame used to examine cloth.
(theater) A platform for lights to be directed at the stage.
A bar used to support a candle, especially in a church.
A cubic measure of stonework equal to 16.6 × 1.5 × 1 feet.
A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.
A rod, staff, tree branch, ledge, etc., used as a roost by a bird.
Any of the three species of spiny-finned freshwater fish in the genus Perca.
Several similar species in the order Perciformes, such as the grouper.
verb
(intransitive) To rest on a perch (especially, of a bird); to roost.
(intransitive) To sit upon the edge of something.
(intransitive) To stay in an elevated position.
(transitive) To place something on (or as if on) a perch.
(transitive, intransitive, textiles) To inspect cloth using a perch.
perth
perth
Proper noun
A city in central Scotland.
The state capital of Western Australia.
A small town in Tasmania.
A town in New York.
A hamlet in North Dakota.
phare
phare
noun
beacon
lighthouse
phren
phren
noun
(obsolete, anatomy) The diaphragm.
(philosophy, historical) The brain or mind.
raphe
raphe
noun
(anatomy) A seamlike ridge or furrow on an organ, bodily tissue, or other structure, typically marking the line where two halves or sections fused in the embryo.
(botany) A longitudinal median groove in the valve of many diatoms.
(botany) The part of the stalk of an anatropous ovary that is united in growth to the outside covering and forms a ridge along the body of the ovule.
The connecting ridge between the two halves of the medulla oblongata or the tegmentum of the midbrain.