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Hero :: Hero (n.) The principal personage in a poem, story, and the like, or the person who has the principal share in the transactions related; as Achilles in the Iliad, Ulysses in the Odyssey, and Aeneas in the Aeneid..

Assassin :: Assassin (n.) One who kills, or attempts to kill, by surprise or secret assault; one who treacherously murders any one unprepared for defense..

Qua-bird :: Qua-bird (n.) The American night heron. See under Night.

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..

Oophyte :: Oophyte (n.) Any plant of a proposed class or grand division (collectively termed oophytes or Oophyta), which have their sexual reproduction accomplished by motile antherozoids acting on oospheres, either while included in their oogonia or after exclusion..

Heroship :: Heroship (n.) The character or personality of a hero.

Bard :: Bard (n.) A professional poet and singer, as among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men..

Cultirostral :: Cultirostral (a.) Having a bill shaped like the colter of a plow, or like a knife, as the heron, stork, etc..

Ray :: Ray (n.) One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran..

Viper :: Viper (a.) A dangerous, treacherous, or malignant person..

Valhalla :: Valhalla (n.) Fig.: A hall or temple adorned with statues and memorials of a nation's heroes; specifically, the Pantheon near Ratisbon, in Bavaria, consecrated to the illustrious dead of all Germany..

Epanorthosis :: Epanorthosis (n.) A figure by which a speaker recalls a word or words, in order to substitute something else stronger or more significant; as, Most brave! Brave, did I say? most heroic act!.

Micrococcus :: Micrococcus (n.) A genus of Spherobacteria, in the form of very small globular or oval cells, forming, by transverse division, filaments, or chains of cells, or in some cases single organisms shaped like dumb-bells (Diplococcus), all without the power of motion. See Illust. of Ascoccus..

Heronsew :: Heronsew (n.) A heronshaw.

Antherozooid :: Antherozooid (n.) One of the mobile male reproductive bodies in the antheridia of cryptogams.

Eleuthero-petalous :: Eleuthero-petalous (a.) Having the petals free, that is, entirely separate from each other; -- said of both plant and flower..

Ochery :: Ochery (a.) Ocherous.

Achillean :: Achillean (a.) Resembling Achilles, the hero of the Iliad; invincible..

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..

Prime :: Prime (a.) Lecherous; lustful; lewd.

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