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The hydrogen bomb a thermonuclear weapon that releases atomic energy by union of hydrogen nuclei at high temperatures to form helium The force of its explosion may range from one to hundreds of megatons of TNT equivalent...
letter bomb
A bomb disguised as a letter and sent through the mail usually rigged to explode and kill or harm the recipient when opened...
Qui h'ret in litera h'ret in cortice
Qui h'ret in litera h'ret in cortice. Co. Litt. 283 b, (He who considers merely the letter of an instrument goes but skin-deep into it meaning.) Broom's Leg. Max....
H'reditas jacens
H'reditas jacens. An estate in Scotland is in h'reditate jacente when, after the ancestor's death, no title to it has been made up in the person of his heir, Bell's Dict....
H'retico comburendo, De
H'retico comburendo, De, an ancient common law writ against a heretic, who having been convicted of heresy by the bishop, abjured it, and afterwards fell into the same again, or some other, and was thereupon delivered over to the secular power in order that he might be burnt to death.-See Fitz. N.B. 269; Lely's Church of England Position, 179; 2 Hen. 4, c. 15; 1 & 2 P. & M. c. 6; 31 Hen. 8, c. 14. By 1 Eliz. c. 1, s. 6, all statutes relating to heresy were repealed, though somehow two men were burnt in her reign and two under James I. by 29 Car. 2, c. 9, s. 1, the writ de h'retico comburendo was abolished, but with a saving for the jurisdiction of Protestant archbishops or bishops or any other judges of any ecclesiastical courts to punish, according to his Majesty's ecclesiastical laws, 'atheism, blasphemy, heresy, or schism and other damnable doctrines and opinions by excommunication, deprivation, degradation, and other ecclesiastical censures not extending to death'in such sort and n...
H Res
H Res House resolution ...
H.B.
H.B. House bill ...
H
the eighth letter of the English alphabet is classed among the consonants and is formed with the mouth organs in the same position as that of the succeeding vowel It is used with certain consonants to form digraphs representing sounds which are not found in the alphabet as sh th thlig as in shall thing thligine for zh see sect274 also to modify the sounds of some other letters as when placed after c and p with the former of which it represents a compound sound like that of tsh as in charm written also tch as in catch with the latter the sound of f as in phase phantom In some words mostly derived or introduced from foreign languages h following c and g indicates that those consonants have the hard sound before e i and y as in chemistry chiromancy chyle Ghent Ghibelline etc in some others ch has the sound of sh as in chicane See Guide to Pronunciation sectsect 153 179 181 3 237 8...
H M S
A prefix used in the names of British warships meaning His Majestys Ship or Her Majestys Ship as H M S Pinafore...
Actio contra defunctum caepta continuitur in h'redes
Actio contra defunctum caepta continuitur in h'redes. (An action begun against a person who dies is continued against his heirs.) This rule did not apply to actions strictly personal. See Lansdowne v. Lansdowne, (1815) 1 Mad 116; and see ACTIO PERSONALIS....
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