n. 1. 1 a genus of North American deciduous trees or shrubs.
Syn. -- genus Amelanchier. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ Russ. archieréi, fr. Gr. 'archierey`s; pref. 'archi- (E. arch-) + "ierey`s priest.] The higher order of clergy in Russia, including metropolitans, archbishops, and bishops. Pinkerton. [1913 Webster]

n. [ From Berthier, a French naturalist. ] (Min.) A double sulphide of antimony and iron, of a dark steel-gray color. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. OF. cayer, fr. LL. quaternum. See Quire of paper. The sheets of manuscript were folded into parts. ] 1. A number of sheets of paper put loosely together; esp. one of the successive portions of a work printed in numbers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A memorial of a body; a report of legislative proceedings, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. caissier, fr. caisse. See Cash. ] One who has charge of money; a cash keeper; the officer who has charge of the payments and receipts (moneys, checks, notes), of a bank or a mercantile company. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cashiered p. pr. & vb. n. Cashiering. ] [ Earlier cash, fr. F. casser to break, annul, cashier, fr. L. cassare, equiv. to cassum reddere, to annul; cf. G. cassiren. Cf. Quash to annul, Cass. ] 1. To dismiss or discard; to discharge; to dismiss with ignominy from military service or from an office or place of trust. [ 1913 Webster ]

They have cashiered several of their followers. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

He had insolence to cashier the captain of the lord lieutenant's own body guard. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To put away or reject; to disregard. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Connections formed for interest, and endeared [ 1913 Webster ]

By selfish views, [ are ] censured and cashiered. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

They absolutely cashier the literal express sense of the words. Sowth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who rejects, discards, or dismisses; as, a cashierer of monarchs. [ R. ] Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Banking) A check drawn by a bank upon its own funds, signed by the cashier. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. a World War I battle in northwestern France where the Allies defeated the Germans in 1918.
Syn. -- battle of the Marne, Belleau Wood, Marne River. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OF. cherté. See Charity. ] Love; tender regard. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who makes cloths; one who dresses or fulls cloth. Hayward. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who sells cloth or clothes, or who makes and sells clothes. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. "iero`s sacred + &unr_; bitter.] (med.) A warming cathartic medicine, made of aloes and canella bark. Dunglison. [1913 Webster]

n. [ LL. hierarcha, Gr. &unr_;; "iero`s sacred (akin to Skr. ishiras vigorous, fresh, blooming) + &unr_; leader, ruler, fr. &unr_; to lead, rule: cf. F. hiérarque.] One who has high and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order; as, princely hierarchs. Milton.

{ } a. Pertaining to a hierarch. “The great hierarchal standard.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. hiérarchique. ] Of or pertaining to a hierarchy; ordered in a hierarchy. -- Hi`er*arch`ic*al*ly, adv. Syn. -- hierarchical, hierarchal. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to a transitive relation between objects by which they may be ordered into a hierarchy; as, a hierarchical relation. [ PJC ]

n. The principles or authority of a hierarchy. [ 1913 Webster ]

The more dominant hierarchism of the West. Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Hierarchies [ Gr. 'ierarchi`a: cf. F. hiérarchie. ] 1. Dominion or authority in sacred things. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A body of officials disposed organically in ranks and orders each subordinate to the one above it; a body of ecclesiastical rulers. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A form of government administered in the church by patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in an inferior degree, by priests. Shipley. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A rank or order of holy beings. [ 1913 Webster ]

Standards and gonfalons . . . for distinction serve
Of hierarchies, of orders, and degrees. Milton.

5. (Math., Logic, Computers) Any group of objects ranked so that every one but the topmost is subordinate to a specified one above it; also, the entire set of ordering relations between such objects. The ordering relation between each object and the one above is called a hierarchical relation. Classification schemes, as in biology, usually form hierarchies. [ PJC ]

a. [ L. hieraticus, Gr. "ieratiko`s; akin to "iero`s sacred: cf. F. hiératique. ] Consecrated to sacred uses; sacerdotal; pertaining to priests. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hieratic character, a mode of ancient Egyptian writing; a modified form of hieroglyphics, tending toward a cursive hand and formerly supposed to be the sacerdotal character, as the demotic was supposed to be that of the people. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was a false notion of the Greeks that of the three kinds of writing used by the Egyptians, two -- for that reason called hieroglyphic and hieratic -- were employed only for sacred, while the third, the demotic, was employed for secular, purposes. No such distinction is discoverable on the more ancient Egyptian monuments; bur we retain the old names founded on misapprehension. W. H. Ward (Johnson's Cyc.). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. "iero`s sacred + &unr_; to be strong, rule.] Government by ecclesiastics; a hierarchy. Jefferson.

{ } n. [ Cf. F. hiéroglyphe. See Hieroglyphic, a. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A sacred character; a character used 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 symbol of truth; third, the phonetic, consisting of symbols employed as syllables of a word, or as letters of the alphabet, having a certain sound, as a hawk represented the vowel a. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any character or figure which has, or is supposed to have, a hidden or mysterious significance; hence, any unintelligible or illegible character or mark. [ Colloq. ]

{ } a. [ L. hieroglyphicus, Gr. &unr_;; "iero`s sacred + gly`fein to carve: cf. F. hiéroglyphique.] [1913 Webster]

1. Emblematic; expressive of some meaning by characters, pictures, or figures; as, hieroglyphic writing; a hieroglyphic obelisk. [1913 Webster]

Pages no better than blanks to common minds, to his, hieroglyphical of wisest secrets. Prof. Wilson. [1913 Webster]

2. Resembling hieroglyphics; not decipherable. “An hieroglyphical scrawl.” Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]

3. of or pertaining to hieroglyphs. [wns=1] [WordNet 1.5]

adv. In hieroglyphics. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One versed in hieroglyphics. Gliddon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. "iero`s sacred + -gram.] A form of sacred or hieratic writing. [1913 Webster]

a. [ Cf. F. hiérogrammatique. ] Written in, or pertaining to, hierograms; expressive of sacred writing. Bp. Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. hiérogrammatiste. ] A writer of hierograms; also, one skilled in hieroglyphics. Greenhill.

{ } a. [ L. hierographicus, Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. hiérographique. ] Of or pertaining to sacred writing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; "iero`s sacred + &unr_; to write: cf. F. hiérographie.] Sacred writing. [R.] Bailey. [1913 Webster]

n. [ Gr. "iero`s sacred + &unr_; worship, &unr_; to worship.] The worship of saints or sacred things. [R.] Coleridge.

{ } a. [ Cf. F. hiérologique. ] Pertaining to hierology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One versed in, or whostudies, hierology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; "iero`s sacred + &unr_; discourse: cf. F. hiérologie.] A treatise on sacred things; especially, the science which treats of the ancient writings and inscriptions of the Egyptians, or a treatise on that science. [1913 Webster]

n. [ Gr. "iero`s sacred + &unr_; divination: cf. F. hiéromantie.] Divination by observing the objects offered in sacrifice. [1913 Webster]

n. [ Gr. "iero`s sacred + E. martyr.] A priest who becomes a martyr. [1913 Webster]

‖n. [ NL., from Gr. &unr_;; "iero`s sacred + &unr_; mindful, fr. &unr_; to think on, remember.] (Gr. Antiq.) 1. The sacred secretary or recorder sent by each state belonging to the Amphictyonic Council, along with the deputy or minister. Liddel & Scott. [1913 Webster]

2. A magistrate who had charge of religious matters, as at Byzantium. Liddel & Scott. [1913 Webster]

‖n. [ Gr. "iero`n.] A consecrated place; esp., a temple. [1913 Webster]

n. [ From St. Hieronymus, or Jerome. ] (Eccl.) See Jeronymite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. hierophanta, hierophantes, Gr. "ierofa`nths; "iero`s sacred + fai`nein to show, make known: cf. F. hiérophante. ] The presiding priest who initiated candidates at the Eleusinian mysteries; hence, one who teaches the mysteries and duties of a religion or an arcane discipline; an expositor; as, In his television series “Cosmos”, Carl Sagan became the foremost hierophant of modern cosmology.. Abp. Potter.
Syn. -- mystagogue. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. an advocate or spokesperson. [ PJC ]

a. [ Gr. "ierofantiko`s.] Of or relating to hierophants or their teachings. [1913 Webster]

n. [ Gr. "ieroskopi`a divination; "iero`s sacred + &unr_; to view. ] Divination by inspection of entrails of victims offered in sacrifice. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. -cæ [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;; "iero`s sacred + &unr_; chest.] A receptacle for sacred objects. [1913 Webster]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; "iero`s sacred + &unr_; work.] A sacred or holy work or worship. [Obs.] Waterland. [1913 Webster]

n. One who makes wooden stringed instruments, such as violins, guitars, etc. [ RDH ]

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adj. Not arranged in a hierarchy. Opposite of hierarchical. [ Narrower terms: ungraded, unordered, unranked ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]