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Heir - apparent

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The person who will succeed as heir if he survives. At the death of his predecessor the heir-apparent becomes heir-at-law.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Heel, Heels
Heel-tap
Heenan
Heep (Uriah)
Hegemony (g hard)
Hegira
Heimdall
Heimdall’s Horn
Heimdaller
Heims-kringla (The)
Heir - apparent
Heir-presumptive
Hel or Hela (in Scandinavian mythology)
Hel Keplein
Heldenbuch (Book of Heroes)
Helen
Helen of One’s Troy (The)
Helena
Helena (St.)
Helenos
Helicon

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Heir Apparent