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Hexameron (The)

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The six days of creation; any six days taken as one continuous period.

“‘Every winged fowlʹ was produced on the fourth day of the Hexameron.”—W. E. Gladstone: Nineteenth Century, January, 1866.

 

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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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Hertha
Hesione
Hesperia
Hesperides
Hesperus
Hesychasts (pron. He-se-kasts)
Hetærism
Hetman
Heu-monat or Heg-monath
Hewson
Hexameron (The)
Hexameter and Pentameter
Hexameter Verse
Hexapla
Hext
Heyday of Youth
Hiawatha
Hibernia
Hic Jacets
Hickathrift (Tom or Jack)
Hickory