Hade
[heid]
Definition
(n.) The descent of a hill.
(n.) The inclination or deviation from the vertical of any mineral vein.
(v. i.) To deviate from the vertical; -- said of a vein, fault, or lode.
Typed by Floyd
Definition
n. (min.) the dip or underlie of a lode or fault.—v.i. to underlay or incline from the vertical.
Edited by Andrea
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. The lower world; the residence of departed spirits; the place where the dead live.
Editor: Martin
Examples
- Egdon was her Hades, and since coming there she had imbibed much of what was dark in its tone, though inwardly and eternally unreconciled thereto. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It is monstrous--as if you had had a vision of Hades in your childhood, like the boy in the legend. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And they said, Depart thou to Hades, and went their way. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- What is the best way, Thuvia, the shortest way out of this celestial Hades? Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Let a man do what is just, whether he have the ring of Gyges or not, and even if in addition to the ring of Gyges he put on the helmet of Hades. Plato. The Republic.
Editor: Megan