Hunt – Hypocrateriform

Hunt

HUNT, verb transitive

1. To chase wild animals, particularly quadrupeds, for the purpose of catching them for food, or for the diversion of sportsmen; to pursue with hounds for taking, as game; as, to hunt stag or a hare.

2. To go in search of, for the purpose of shooting; as, to hunt wolves, bears, squirrels or partridges. This is the common use of the word in America. It includes fowling by shooting.

3. To pursue; to follow closely.

Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him. Psalms 140:11.

4. To use, direct or mange hounds in the chase.

He hunts a pack of dogs.

To hunt out or after, to seek; to search for.

To hunt from, to pursue and drive out or away.

To hunt down, to depress; to bear down by persecution or violence.

HUNT, verb intransitive To follow the chase. Genesis 27:5.

1. To seek wild animals for game, or for killing them by shooting when noxious; with for; as, to hunt for bears or wolves; to hunt for quails, or for ducks.

2. To seek by close pursuit; to search; with for.

The adulteress will hunt for the precious life. Proverbs 6:26.

HUNT, noun A chase of wild animals for catching them.

1. A huntsman. [Not in use.]

2. A pack of hounds.

3. Pursuit; chase.

4. A seeking of wild animals of any kind for game; as a hunt for squirrels.

Hunted

HUNT'ED, participle passive Chased; pursued; sought.

Hunter

HUNT'ER, noun One who pursues wild animals with a view to take them, either for sport or for food.

1. A dog that scents game, or is employed in the chase.

2. A horse used in the chase.

Hunting

HUNT'ING, participle present tense Chasing for seizure; pursuing; seeking; searching.

HUNT'ING, noun The act or practice of pursuing wild animals, for catching or killing them. hunting was originally practiced by men for the purpose of procuring food, as it still is by uncivilized nations. But among civilized men, it is practiced mostly for exercise or diversion, or for the destruction of noxious animals, as in America.

1. A pursuit; a seeking.

Hunting-Horn

HUNT'ING-HORN, noun A bugle; a horn used to cheer the hounds in pursuit of game.

Hunting-Horse

HUNT'ING-HORSE

HUNT'ING-NAG , A horse used in hunting.

Hunting-Seat

HUNT'ING-SEAT, noun A temporary residence for the purpose of hunting.

Huntress

HUNT'RESS, noun A female that hunts, or follows the chase. Diana is called the huntress

Huntsman

HUNTS'MAN, noun One who hunts, or who practices hunting.

1. The servant whose office it is to manage the chase.

Huntsmanship

HUNTS'MANSHIP, noun The art or practice of hunting, or the qualifications of a hunter.

Hurden

HUR'DEN, noun [made of hurds, hards, or coarse flax.]

A coarse kind of linen.

Hurdle

HUR'DLE, noun [Latin crates.]

1. A texture of twigs, osiers or sticks; a crate of various forms, according to its destination. The English give this name to a sled or crate on which criminals are drawn to the place of execution. In this sense, it is not used in America.

2. In fortification, a collection of twigs or sticks interwoven closely and sustained by long stakes. It is made in the figure of a long square, five or six feet by three and a half. Hurdles serve to render works firm, or to cover traverses and lodgments for the defense of workmen against fire-works or stones.

3. In husbandry, a frame of split timber or sticks wattled together, serving for gates, inclosures, etc.

Hurds

HURDS, noun The coarse part of flax or hemp. [See Hards.]

Hurdy-Gurdy

HUR'DY-GURDY, noun An instrument of music, said to be used in the streets of London.

Hurl

HURL, verb transitive

1. To throw with violence; to drive with great force; as, to hurl a stone.

And hurl them headlong to their fleet and main.

2. To utter with vehemence; as, to hurl out vows. [Not in use.]

3. To play at a kind of game.

HURL, noun The act of throwing with violence.

1. Tumult; riot; commotion.

Hurlbat

HURL'BAT, noun A whirl-bat; an old kind of weapon.

Hurlbone

HURL'BONE, noun In a horse, a bone near the middle of the buttock.

Hurled

HURL'ED, participle passive Thrown with violence.

Hurler

HURL'ER, noun One who hurls, or who plays at hurling.

Hurling

HURL'ING, participle present tense Throwing with force; playing at hurling

Hurlwind

HURL'WIND, noun A whirlwind, which see.

Hurly

HURL'Y

HURL'Y-BURLY, noun Tumult; bustle; confusion.

Hurrah

HURRAH, exclamation Hoora; huzza. [See Hoora.]

Hurraw

HURRAW

HUR'RICANE, noun [Latin furio, furo, to rage.]

1. A most violent storm of wind, occurring often in the West Indies, and sometimes in higher northern latitudes, and on the coast of the United States, as far north as New England. A hurricane is distinguished from every other kind of tempest by the extreme violence of the wind, and by its sudden changes; the wind often veering suddenly several points, sometimes a quarter of the circle and even more.

2. Any violent tempest.

Hurricane

HUR'RICANE, n. [L. furio, furo, to rage.] 1. A most violent storm of wind, occurring often in the West Indies, and sometimes in higher northern latitudes, and on the coast of the United States, as far north as New England. A hurricane is distinguished from every other kind of tempest by the extreme violence of the wind, and by its sudden changes; the wind often veering suddenly several points, sometimes a quarter of the circle and even more.2. Any violent tempest.

Hurried

HUR'RIED, participle passive [from hurry.] Hastened; urged or impelled to rapid motion or vigorous action.

Hurrier

HUR'RIER, noun One who hurries, urges or impels.

Hurry

HUR'RY, verb transitive [Latin curro.]

1. To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to drive or press forward with more rapidity; to urge to act or proceed with more celerity; as, to hurry the workmen or the work. Our business hurries us. The weather is hot and the load heavy; we cannot safely hurry the horses.

2. To drive or impel with violence.

Impetuous lust hurries him on to satisfy the cravings of it.

3. To urge or drive with precipitation and confusion; for confusion is often caused by hurry

And wild amazement hurries up and down

The little number of your doubtful friends.

To hurry away, to drive or carry away in haste.

HUR'RY, verb intransitive To move or act with haste; to proceed with celerity or precipitation.

The business is urgent; let us hurry

HUR'RY, noun A driving or pressing forward in motion or business.

1. Pressure; urgency to haste.

We cannot wait long; we are in a hurry

2. Precipitation that occasions disorder or confusion.

It is necessary sometimes to be in haste, but never in a hurry

3. Tumult; bustle; commotion.

Ambition raises a tumult in the soul, and puts it into a violent hurry of thought.

Hurry-Skurry

HUR'RY-SKURRY, adverb Confusedly; in a bustle. [Not in use.]

Hurrying

HUR'RYING, participle present tense Driving or urging to greater speed; precipitating.

Hurst

HURST, noun A wood or grove; a word found in many names, as in Hazlehurst.

Hurt

HURT, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive hurt

1. To bruise; to give pain by a contusion, pressure, or any violence to the body. We hurt the body by a severe blow, or by tight clothes, and the feet by fetters. Psalms 105:18.

2. To wound; to injure or impair the sound state of the body, as by incision or fracture.

3. To harm; to damage; to injure by occasioning loss. We hurt a man by destroying his property.

4. To injure by diminution; to impair.

A man hurts his estate by extravagance.

5. To injure by reducing in quality; to impair the strength, purity or beauty of.

HURT not the wine and the oil--Revelation 6:6.

6. To harm; to injure; to damage, in general.

7. To wound; to injure; to give pain to; as, to hurt the feelings.

HURT, noun A wound; a bruise; any thing that gives pain to the body.

The pains of sickness and hurts.

1. Harm; mischief; injury.

I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt Genesis 4:23.

2. Injury; loss.

Why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings? Ezra 4:22.

Hurter

HURT'ER, noun One who hurts or does harm.

Hurters

HURT'ERS, noun Pieces of wood at the lower end of a platform, to prevent the wheels of gun-carriages from injuring the parapet.

Hurtful

HURT'FUL, adjective Injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or destruction; tending to impair or destroy. Negligence is hurtful to property; intemperance is hurtful to health.

Hurtfully

HURT'FULLY, adverb Injuriously; ; mischievously.

Hurtfulness

HURT'FULNESS, noun Injuriousness; tendency to occasion loss or destruction; mischievousness.

Hurtle

HURT'LE, verb intransitive [from hurt.] To clash or run against; to jostle; to skirmish; to meet in shock and encounter; to wheel suddenly. [Not now used.]

HURT'LE, verb transitive To move with violence or impetuosity.

1. To push forcibly; to whirl.

Hurtleberry

HURT'LEBERRY, noun A whortleberry, which see.

Hurtless

HURT'LESS, adjective Harmless; innocent; doing no injury; innoxious; as hurtless blows.

1. Receiving no injury.

Hurtlessly

HURT'LESSLY, adverb Without harm. [Little used.]

Hurtlessness

HURT'LESSNESS, noun Freedom from any harmful quality. [Little used.

Husband

HUS'BAND, noun s as z.

1. A man contracted or joined to a woman by marriage. A man to whom a woman is betrothed, as well as one actually united by marriage, is called a husband Leviticus 19:20. Deuteronomy 22:22.

2. In seaman's language, the owner of a ship who manages its concerns in person.

3. The male of animals of a lower order.

4. An economist; a good manager; a man who knows and practices the methods of frugality and profit. In this sense, the word is modified by an epithet; as a good husband; a bad husband [But in America, this application of the word is little or not at all used.]

5. A farmer; a cultivator; a tiller of the ground. [In this sense, it is not used in America. We always use husbandman.]

HUS'BAND, verb transitive To direct and manage with frugality in expending any thing; to use or employ in the manner best suited to produce the greatest effect; to use with economy. We say, a man husbands his estate, his means or his time.

He is conscious how ill he has husbanded the great deposit of his Creator.

1. To till; to cultivate with good management.

2. To supply with a husband [Little used.]

Husbandable

HUS'BANDABLE, adjective Manageable with economy.

Husbanded

HUS'BANDED, participle passive Used or managed with economy; well managed.

Husbanding

HUS'BANDING, participle present tense Using or managing with frugality.

Husbandless

HUS'BANDLESS, adjective Destitute of a husband.

Husbandly

HUS'BANDLY, adjective Frugal; thrifty. [Little used.]

Husbandman

HUS'BANDMAN, noun A farmer; a cultivator or tiller of the ground; one who labors in tillage. In America, where men generally own the land on which they labor, the proprietor of a farm is also a laborer or husbandman; but the word includes the lessee and the owner.

1. The master of a family. [Not in use in America.]

Husbandry

HUS'BANDRY, noun The business of a farmer, comprehending agriculture or tillage of the ground, the raising, managing and fattening of cattle and other domestic animals, the management of the dairy and whatever the land produces.

1. Frugality; domestic economy; good management; thrift. But in this sense we generally prefix good; as good husbandry

2. Care of domestic affairs.

Hush

HUSH, adjective [Heb. to be silent.] Silent; still; quiet; as, they are hush as death. This adjective never precedes the noun which it qualifies, except in the compound, hushmoney.

HUSH, verb transitive To still; to silence; to calm; to make quiet; to repress noise; as, to hush the noisy crown; the winds were hushed.

My tongue shall hush again this storm of war.

1. To appease; to allay; to calm, as commotion or agitation.

Wilt thou then

HUSH my cares?

HUSH, verb intransitive To be still; to be silent.

HUSH, imperative of the verb, used as an exclamation, be still; be silent or quiet; make no noise.

To hush up, to suppress; to keep concealed.

This matter is hushed up.

Hushmoney

HUSH'MONEY, noun A bribe to secure silence; money paid to hinder information, or disclosure of facts.

Husk

HUSK, noun The external covering of certain fruits or seeds of plants. It is the calyx of the flower or glume of corn and grasses, formed of valves embracing the seed. The husks of the small grains, when separated, are called chaff; but in America we apply the word chiefly to the covering of the ears or seeds of maiz, which is never denominated chaff. It is sometimes used in England for the rind, skin or hull of seeds.

HUSK, verb transitive To strip off the external integument or covering of the fruits or seeds of plants; as, to husk maiz.

Husked

HUSK'ED, participle passive Stripped of its husks.

1. Covered with a husk.

Huskiness

HUSK'INESS, noun The state of being dry and rough, like a husk.

Husking

HUSK'ING, participle present tense Stripping off husks.

HUSK'ING, noun The act of stripping off husks. In New England, the practice of farmers it to invite their neighbors to assist them in stripping their maiz, in autumnal evenings, and this is called a husking

Husky

HUSK'Y, adjective Abounding with husks; consisting of husks.

1. Resembling husks; dry; rough.

2. Rough, as sound; harsh; whizzing.

Huso

HU'SO, noun A fish of the genus Accipenser, whose mouth is in the under part of the head; the body is naked, or without prickles or protuberances. It grows to the length of twenty four feet, and its skin is so tough that it is used for ropes in drawing wheel-carriages. It inhabits the Danube and the rivers of Russia, and of its sounds is made isinglass.

Hussa

HUSS'A, verb intransitive To utter a loud shout of joy, or an acclamation in joy or praise.

HUZZ'A, verb transitive To receive or attend with shouts of joy.

Hussar

HUS'SAR, noun s as z. A mounted soldier of horseman, in German cavalry. The hussars are the national cavalry of Hungary and Croatia. Their regimentals are a fur cap adorned with a feather, a doublet, a pair of breeches to which the stockings are fastened, and a pair of red or yellow boots. Their arms are a saber, a carbine and pistols. Hussars now form a part of the French and English cavalry.

Hussite

HUSS'ITE, noun A follower of John Huss, the Bohemian reformer.

Hussy

HUSS'Y, noun [contracted from huswife, housewife.]

1. A bad or worthless woman. It is used also ludicrously in slight disapprobation or contempt. Go, hussy go.

2. An economist; a thrifty woman.

Hustings

HUS'TINGS, noun

1. A court held in Guildhall, in London, before the lord mayor and aldermen of the city; the supreme court or council of the city. In this court are elected the aldermen and the four members of parliament.

2. The place where an election of a member of parliament is held.

Hustle

HUS'TLE, verb intransitive hus'l. To shake together in confusion; to push or crowd.

Huswife

HUS'WIFE, noun A worthless woman; a bad manager. [See Hussy.]

1. A female economist; a thrifty woman.

HUS'WIFE, verb transitive To manage with economy and frugality.

Huswifery

HUS'WIFERY, noun The business of managing the concerns of a family by a female; female management, good or bad.

Hut

HUT, noun A small house, hovel or cabin; a mean lodge or dwelling; a cottage. It is particularly applied to log-houses erected for troops in winter.

HUT, verb transitive To place in huts, as troops encamped in winter quarters.

HUT, verb intransitive To take lodgings in huts.

The troops hutted for the winter.

Hutch

HUTCH, noun

1. A chest or box; a corn chest or bin; a case for rabbits.

2. A rat trap.

Hutted

HUT'TED, participle passive Lodged in huts.

Hutting

HUT'TING, participle present tense Placing in huts; taking lodgings in huts.

Hux

HUX, verb transitive To fish for pike with hooks and lines fastened to floating bladders.

Huzz

HUZZ, verb intransitive To buzz. [Not in use.]

Huzza

HUZZ'A, noun A shout of joy; a foreign word used in writing only, and most preposterously, as it is never used in practice. The word used in our native word hoora, or hooraw. [See Hoora.]

Hyacinth

HY'ACINTH, noun [Latin hyacinthus.]

1. In botany, a genus of plants, of several species, and a great number of varieties. The oriental hyacinth has a large, purplish, bulbous root, from which spring several narrow erect leaves; the flower stalk is upright and succulent, and adorned with many bell-shaped flowers, united in a large pyramidical spike, of different colors in the varieties.

2. In mineralogy, a mineral, a variety of zircon, whose crystals, when distinct, have the form of a four-sided prism, terminated by four rhombic planes, which stand on the lateral edges. Its structure is foliated; its luster, strong; its fracture, conchoidal. Its prevailing color is a hyacinth red, in which the red is more or less tinged with yellow or brown. It is sometimes transparent, and sometimes only translucent.

Hyacinth is a subspecies of pyramidical zircon.

Hyacinthine

HYACINTH'INE, adjective Made of hyacinth; consisting of hyacinth; resembling hyacinth.

Hyads

HY'ADS, noun [Gr. to rain; rain.] In astronomy, a cluster of seven stars in the Bull's head, supposed by the ancients to bring rain.

Hyaline

HY'ALINE, adjective [Gr. glass.] Glassy; resembling glass; consisting of glass.

Hyalite

HY'ALITE, noun Muller's glass. It consists chiefly of silex, and is white, sometimes with a shade of yellow, blue or green.

Hybernacle

HYBERNACLE

HYBERNATE

HYBERNATION. See Hibernacle, Hibernate, Hibernation.

Hybernate

HYBERNATE

Hybernation

HYBERNATION. See Hibernacle, Hibernate, Hibernation.

Hybrid

HYB'RID, noun [Gr. injury, force, rape; Latin hybrida.]

A mongrel or mule; an animal or plant, produced from the mixture of two species.

HY'BRID

Hybridous

HYB'RIDOUS, adjective Mongrel; produced from the mixture of two species.

Hydage

HY'DAGE, noun In law, a tax on lands, at a certain rate by the hyde.

Hydatid

HY'DATID

HY'DATIS, noun [ Gr. water.] A little transparent vesicle or bladder filled with water, on any part of the body, as in dropsy.

Hydatids are certain spherical bodies, found occasionally in man, as well as in other animals, lodged in or adhering to the different viscera. Some of them, at least, are considered as possessing an independent vitality, and as constituting a distinct animal, allied to the toenia or tape-worm. They consist of a head, neck, and vesicular body filled with a transparent fluid.

Hydra

HY'DRA, noun [Latin hydra Gr. water.]

1. A water serpent. In fabulous history, a serpent or monster in the lake or marsh of Lerna, in Peloponnesus, represented as having many heads, one of which, being cut off, was immediately succeeded by another, unless the wound was cauterized. Hercules killed this monster by applying firebrands to the wounds, as he cut off the heads. Hence we give the name to a multitude of evils, or to a cause of multifarious evils.

2. A technical name of a genus of Zoophytes, called polypus, or polypuses.

3. A southern constellation, containing 60 stars.

Hydracid

HYDRAC'ID, adjective [Gr. water, and acid.] An acid formed by the union of hydrogen with a substance without oxygen.

Hydragogue

HY'DRAGOGUE, noun hy'dragog. [Gr. water, and a leading or drawing; to lead or drive.] A medicine that occasions a discharge of watery humors; a name that implies a supposition that every purgative has the quality of evacuating a particular humor. But in general, the stronger cathartics are hydragogues.

Hydrangea

HYDRAN'GEA, noun [Gr. water, and a vessel.] A plant which grows in the water, and bears a beautiful flower. Its capsule has been compared to a cup.

Hydrant

HY'DRANT, noun [Gr. to irrigate, from water.] A pipe or machine with suitable valves and a spout, by which water is raised and discharged from the main conduit of an aqueduct.

Hydrargillite

HYDR'ARGILLITE, noun [Gr. water, and clay.] A mineral, called also Wavellite.

Hydrate

HY'DRATE, noun [Gr. water.] In chimistry, a compound, indefinite proportions, of a metallic oxyd with water.

A hydrate is a substance which has formed so intimate a union with water as to solidify it, and render it a component part.

Slaked lime is a hydrate of lime.

Hydraulic

HYDRAUL'IC

HYDRAUL'ICAL, adjective [Latin hydraulicus; Gr. an instrument of music played by water; a pipe.]

1. Relating to the conveyance of water through pipes.

2. Transmitting water through pipes; as a hydraulic engine.

Hydraulic lime, a species of lime that hardens in water; used for cementing under water.

Hydraulics

HYDRAUL'ICS, noun The science of the motion and force of fluids, and of the construction of all kinds of instruments and machines by which the force of fluids is applied to practical purposes; a branch of hydrostatic.

Hydraulics is that branch of the science of hydrodynamics which treats of fluids considered as in motion.

Hydrenterocele

HYDREN'TEROCELE, noun [Gr. water, intestine, and tumor.]

A dropsy of the scrotum with rupture.

Hydriodate

HYD'RIODATE, noun A salt formed by the hydriodic acid, with a base.

Hydro-Oxyd

HYDRO-OXYD, noun [Gr. water, and oxyd.]

A metallic oxyd combined with water; a metallic hydrate.

Hydrocarbonate

HYDROC'ARBONATE, noun [Gr. water, or rather hydrogen, and Latin carbo, a coal.] Carbureted hydrogen gas, or heavy inflammable air.

Hydrocarburet

HYDROC'ARBURET, noun Carbureted hydrogen.

Hydrocele

HY'DROCELE, noun [Gr. water, and tumor.] Any hernia proceeding from water; a watery tumor, particularly one in the scrotum.

A dropsy of the scrotum.

Hydrocephalus

HYDROCEPH'ALUS, noun [Gr. water, and the head.] Dropsy of the head; a preternatural distension of the head by a stagnation and

extravasation of the lymph, either within or without the cranium.

Hydrochlorate

HYDROCHLO'RATE, noun A compound of hydrochloric acid and a base; a muriate.

Hydrochloric

HYDROCHLO'RIC, adjective [hydrogen and chloric.]

Hydrochloric acid is muriatic acid gas, a compound of chlorine and hydrogen gas.

Hydrocyanate

HYDROCY'ANATE, noun Prussiate; cyanuret.

Hydrocyanic

HYDROCYAN'IC, adjective [Gr. water, or rather hydrogen, and blue.]

The hydrocyanic acid is the same as the prussic acid.

Hydrodynamic

HYDRODYNAM'IC, adjective [Gr. water, and power, force.] Pertaining to

the force or pressure of water.

Hydrodynamics

HYDRODYNAM'ICS, noun That branch of natural philosophy which treat of the phenomena of water and other fluids, whether in motion or at rest; of their equilibrium, motion, cohesion, pressure, resistance, etc. It comprehends both hydrostatics and hydraulics.

Hydrofluate

HYDROFLU'ATE, noun A compound of hydrofluoric acid and a base.

Hydrofluoric

HYDROFLUOR'IC, adjective [Gr. water.] Consisting of fluorin and hydrogen. The hydrofluoric acid is obtained by distilling a mixture of one part of the purest fluor spar in fine powder, with two of sulphuric acid.

Hydrogen

HY'DROGEN, noun [Gr. water, and to generate; so called as being considered the generator of water.]

In Chimistry, a gas which constitutes one of the elements of water, of which it is said by Lavoisier to form fifteen parts in a hundred; but according to Berzelius and Dulong, hydrogen gas is 11.1 parts in a hundred, and oxygen 88.9. hydrogen gas is an aeriform fluid, the lightest body known, and though extremely inflammable itself, it extinguishes burning bodies, and is fatal to animal life. Its specific gravity is 0.0694, that of air being 1.00. In consequence of its extreme lightness, it is employed for filling air balloons.

Hydrogenate

HY'DROGENATE, verb transitive To combine hydrogen with any thing.

Hydrogenated

HY'DROGENATED, participle passive In combination with hydrogen.

Hydrogenize

HY'DROGENIZE, verb transitive To combine with hydrogen.

Hydrogenized

HY'DROGENIZED, participle passive Combined with hydrogen.

Hydrogenizing

HY'DROGENIZING, participle present tense Combining with hydrogen.

Hydrographer

HYDROG'RAPHER, noun [See Hydrography.] One who draws maps of the sea, lakes or other waters, with the adjacent shores; one who describes the sea or other waters.

Hydrographic

HYDROGRAPH'IC

HYDROGRAPH'ICAL, adjective Relating to or containing a description of the sea, sea coast , isles, shoals, depth of water, etc. or of a lake.

Hydrographical

HYDROGRAPH'ICAL, a. Relating to or containing a description of the sea, sea coast , isles, shoals, depth of water, &c. or of a lake.

Hydrography

HYDROG'RAPHY, noun [Gr. water, and to describe.] The art of measuring and describing the sea, lakes, rivers and other waters; or the art of forming charts, exhibiting a representation of the sea coast, gulfs, bays, isles, promontories, channels, soundings, etc.

Hydroguret

HYDROG'URET, noun A compound of hydrogen with a base.

Hydroguret is now scarcely used, except to give the derivative hydrogureted.

Hydrogureted

HYDROG'URETED, adjective Denoting a compound of hydrogen with a base.

Hydroidic

HYDROID'IC, adjective [hydrogen and iodic.] Denoting a peculiar acid or gaseous substance, produced by the combination of hydrogen and iodine.

Hydrolite

HYDROLITE, noun [Gr. water, and a stone.] A mineral whose crystals are described as six sided prisms, terminated by low six sided pyramids, with truncated summits.

Hydrological

HYDROLOG'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to hydrology.

Hydrology

HYDROL'OGY, noun [Gr. water, and discourse.] The science of water, its properties and phenomena.

Hydromancy

HY'DROMANCY, noun [Gr. water and divination.] A method of divination or prediction of events by water; invested, according to Varro, by the Persians, and practiced by the Romans.

Hydromantic

HYDROMAN'TIC, adjective Pertaining to divination by water.

Hydromel

HY'DROMEL, noun [Gr. water, and honey.] A liquor consisting of honey diluted in water. Before fermentation, it is called simple hydromel; after fermentation, it is called vinous hydromel or mead.

Hydrometer

HYDROM'ETER, noun [See Hydrometry.] An instrument to measure the gravity, density, velocity, force, etc. of water and other fluids, and the strength of spirituous liquors.

Hydrometric

HYDROMET'RIC

HYDROMET'RICAL, adjective Pertaining to a hydrometer, or to the measurement of the gravity, etc. of fluids.

1. Made by a hydrometer.

Hydrometrical

HYDROMET'RICAL, a. Pertaining to a hydrometer, or to the measurement of the gravity, &c. of fluids. 1. Made by a hydrometer.

Hydrometry

HYDROM'ETRY, noun [Gr. water, and measure.] The art of measuring, or the mensuration of the gravity, density, velocity, force, etc. of fluids, and the strength of rectified spirits.

Hydrophane

HY'DROPHANE, noun [Gr. water, and to show.] In mineralogy, a variety of opal made transparent by immersion in water.

Hydrophanous

HYDROPH'ANOUS, adjective Made transparent by immersion in water.

Hydrophobia

HYDROPHO'BIA

HYDROPHO'BIC, adjective Pertaining to a dread of water, or canine madness.

Hydrophoby

HY'DROPHOBY, noun [Gr. water, and to fear.] A preternatural dread of water; a symptom of canine madness, or the disease itself, which is thus denominated. This dread of water sometimes takes place in violent inflammations to the stomach, and in hysteric fits.

Hydropic

HYDROP'IC

HYDROP'ICAL, adjective [Latin hydrops; Gr. dropsy; water.]

1. Dropsical; diseased with extravasated water.

2. Containing water; caused by extravasated water; as a hydropic swelling.

3. Resembling dropsy.

Every lust is a kind of hydropic distemper, and the more we drink the more we shall thirst.

Hydropneumatic

HYDROPNEUMAT'IC, adjective [Gr. water, and inflated, breath, spirit.]

An epithet given to a vessel of water, with other apparatus for chimical experiments.

Hydropsy

HYDROPSY. [See Dropsy.]

Hydroscope

HY'DROSCOPE, noun [Gr. water, and to view.] A kind of water clock, or instrument used anciently for measuring time, consisting of a cylindrical tube, conical at the bottom, perforated at the vertex, and the whole tube graduated.

Hydrostatic

HYDROSTAT'IC

HYDROSTAT'ICAL, adjective [Gr. water, and static, standing or settling.]

Relating to the science of weighing fluids, or hydrostatics.

Hydrostatical

HYDROSTAT'ICAL, a. [Gr. water, and static, standing or settling.]

Relating to the science of weighing fluids, or hydrostatics.

Hydrostatically

HYDROSTAT'ICALLY, adverb According to hydrostatics, or to hydrostatic principles.

Hydrostatics

HYDROSTAT'ICS, noun The science which treats of the weight, motion, and equilibriums of fluids, or of the specific gravity and other properties of fluids, particularly of water.

Hydrostatics is that branch of the science of hydrodynamics which treats of the properties of fluids at rest.

Hydrosulphate

HYDROSULPH'ATE, noun The same as hydrosulphuret.

Hydrosulphuret

HYDROSULPH'URET, noun [hydrogen and sulphuret.] A combination of sulphureted hydrogen with an earth, alkali or metallic oxyd.

Hydrosulphureted

HYDROSULPH'URETED, adjective Combined with sulphureted hydrogen.

Hydrosulphuric acid, is called also hydrothionic acid, or sulphureted hydrogen.

Hydrothorax

HYDROTHO'RAX, noun [Gr. water.] Dropsy in the chest.

Hydrotic

HYDROT'IC, adjective [Gr. water.] Causing a discharge of water.

HYDROT'IC, noun A medicine that purges off water or phlegm.

Hydroxanthate

HYDROXAN'THATE, noun [Gr. water, and yellow.] In chimistry, a compound of hydroxanthic acid with a base.

Hydroxanthic

HYDROXAN'THIC, adjective A term used to denote a new acid, formed by the action of alkalies on the bisulphuret of carbon. It is called also carbo-sulphuric acid.

Hydruret

HY'DRURET, noun A combination of hydrogen with sulphur, or of sulphur and sulphureted hydrogen.

Hydrus

HY'DRUS, noun [Gr. water.] A water snake; also, a constellation of the southern hemisphere.

Hyemal

HYE'MAL, adjective [Latin hiems, winter.] Belonging to winter; done in winter.

Hyemate

HY'EMATE, verb intransitive To winter at a place. [Not in use.]

Hyemation

HYEMA'TION, noun [Latin hiemo, to winter.] The passing or spending of a winter in a particular place.

Hyena

HYE'NA, noun [Latin hyaena.] A quadruped of the genus Canis, having small naked ears, four toes on each foot, a straight jointed tail, and erect hair on the neck; an inhabitant of Asiatic Turkey, Syria, Persia and Barbary. It is a solitary animal, and feeds on flesh; it preys on flocks and herds, and will open graves to obtain food. It is a fierce, cruel and untamable animal, and is sometimes called the tiger-wolf.

Hygrometer

HYGROM'ETER, noun [Gr. moist, and measure.] An instrument for measuring the degree of moisture of the atmosphere.

Hygrometrical

HYGROMET'RICAL, adjective Pertaining to hygrometry; made by or according to the hygrometer.

Hygrometry

HYGROM'ETRY, noun The act or art of measuring the moisture of the air.

Hygroscope

HY'GROSCOPE, noun [Gr. moist, and to view.] The same as hygrometer. The latter is now chiefly used.

Hygroscopic

HYGROSCOP'IC, adjective Pertaining to the hygroscope; capable of imbibing moisture.

Hygrostatics

HYGROSTAT'ICS, noun [Gr. moist.] The science of comparing degrees of moisture.

Hyke

HYKE, noun A blanket or loose garment.

Hylarchical

HYLAR'CHICAL, adjective [Gr. matter, and rule.] Presiding over matter.

Hylozoic

HYLOZO'IC, noun [Gr. matter and life.] One who holds matter to be animated.

Hym

HYM, noun A species of dog.

Hymen

HY'MEN, noun [Latin from Gr. membrana, pellicula, hymen.]

1. In ancient mythology, a fabulous deity, the son of Bacchus and Venus, supposed to preside over marriages.

2. In anatomy, the virginal membrane.

3. In botany, the fine pellicle which incloses a flower in the bud.

Hymeneal

HYMENE'AL

HYMENE'AN, adjective Pertaining to marriage.

HYMENE'AL

HYMENE'AN, noun A marriage song.

Hymenopter

HY'MENOPTER

HYMENOP'TERA, noun [Gr. a membrane, and a wing.] In entomology, the hymenopters are an order of insects, having four membranous wings, and the tail of the female mostly armed with a sting.

Hymenoptera

HYMENOP'TERA, n. [Gr. a membrane, and a wing.] In entomology, the hymenopters are an order of insects, having four membranous wings, and the tail of the female mostly armed with a sting.

Hymenopteral

HYMENOP'TERAL, adjective Having four membranous wings.

Hymn

HYMN, noun hym. [Latin hymnus; Eng. hum.]song or ode in honor of God, and among pagans, in honor of some deity. A hymn among christians is a short poem, composed for religious service, or a song of joy and praise to God. The word primarily expresses the tune, but it is used for the ode or poem.

And when the had sung a hymn they went out to the mount of Olives. Matthew 26:30.

HYMN, verb transitive hym. To praise in song; to worship by singing hymns.

1. To sing; to celebrate in song. They hymn their maker's praise.

HYMN, verb intransitive hym. To sing in praise or adoration.

Hymned

HYM'NED, participle passive Sung; praised; celebrated in song.

Hymnic

HYM'NIC, adjective Relating to hymns.

Hymning

HYM'NING, participle present tense Praising in song; singing.

Hymnologist

HYMNOL'OGIST, noun A composer of hymns.

Hymnology

HYMNOL'OGY, noun A collection of hymns.

Hyosciama

HYOSCIA'MA, noun A new vegetable alkali, extracted from the Hyoscyamus nigra, or henbane.

Hyp

HYP, noun [a contraction of hypochondria.] A disease; depression of spirits.

HYP, verb transitive To make melancholy; to depress the spirits.

Hypallage

HYPAL'LAGE, noun hypal'largy. [Gr. change, to change.]

In grammar, a figure consisting of mutual change of cases. Thus in Virgil, dare classibus austros, for dare classes austris.

Hypallage is a species of hyperbaton.

Hypaspist

HYPAS'PIST, noun [Gr. a shield.] A soldier in the armies of Greece, armed in a particular manner.

Hyper

HYPER, Eng.over, is used in composition to denote excess, or something over or beyond.

1. A hypercritic. [Not used.]

Hyperaspist

HYPERAS'PIST, noun [Gr. a shield.] A defender.

Hyperbate

HY'PERBATE, noun [Gr. to transgress, or go beyond.

In grammar, a figurative construction, inverting the natural and proper order of words and sentences. The species are the anastrophe, the hysteron proteron, the hypallage, the synchysis, the tmesis, the parenthesis, and the proper hyperbaton, which last is a long retention of the verb which completes the sentence.

Hyperbaton

HYPER'BATON

HYPER'BOLA, noun [Gr. over, beyond, and to throw.]

In conic sections and geometry, a curve formed by cutting a cone in a direction parallel to its axis.

A section of a cone, when the cutting plane makes a greater angle with the base than the side of the cone makes.

The latter definition is the most correct.

Hyperbola

HYPER'BOLA, n. [Gr. over, beyond, and to throw.]

In conic sections and geometry, a curve formed by cutting a cone in a direction parallel to its axis.

A section of a cone, when the cutting plane makes a greater angle with the base than the side of the cone makes.

The latter definition is the most correct.

Hyperbole

HYPER'BOLE, noun hyper'boly. [Gr. excess, to throw beyond, to exceed.]

In rhetoric, a figure of speech which expresses much more or less than the truth, or which represents things much greater or less, better or worse than they really are. An object uncommon in size, either great or small, strikes us with surprise, and this emotion produces a momentary conviction that the object is greater or less than it is in reality. The same effect attends figurative grandeur or littleness; and hence the use of the hyperbole which expresses this momentary conviction. The following are instances of the use of this figure.

He was owner of a piece of ground not larger than a Lacedemonian letter.

If a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. Genesis 13:16.

Ipse arduus, alta que pulsat Sidera.

He was so gaunt, the case of a flagellet was a mansion for him.

Hyperbolic

HYPERBOL'IC

HYPERBOL'ICAL, noun Belonging to the hyperbola; having the nature of the hyperbola.

1. Relating to or containing hyperbole; exaggerating or diminishing beyond the fact; exceeding the truth; as a hyperbolical expression.

Hyperbolic space, in geometry, the space or content comprehended between the curve of a hyperbole and the whole ordinate.

Hyperbolical

HYPERBOL'ICAL, n. Belonging to the hyperbola; having the nature of the hyperbola. 1. Relating to or containing hyperbole; exaggerating or diminishing beyond the fact; exceeding the truth; as a hyperbolical expression. Hyperbolic space, in geometry, the space or content comprehended between the curve of a hyperbole and the whole ordinate.

Hyperbolically

HYPERBOL'ICALLY, adverb In the form of a hyperbola.

1. With exaggeration; in a manner to express more or less than the truth.

Scylla--is hyperbolically described by Homer as inaccessible.

Hyperboliform

HYPERBOL'IFORM, adjective [hyperbola and form.] Having the form, or nearly the form of a hyperbola.

Hyperbolist

HYPER'BOLIST, noun One who uses hyperboles.

Hyperbolize

HYPER'BOLIZE, verb intransitive To speak or write with exaggeration.

HYPER'BOLIZE, verb transitive To exaggerate or extenuate.

Hyperboloid

HYPER'BOLOID, noun [hyperbola, and Gr. form.] A hyperbolic conoid; a solid formed by the revolution of a hyperbola about its axis.

Hyperborean

HYPERBO'REAN, adjective [Latin hyperboreus; Gr. beyond, and the north.]

1. Northern; belonging to or inhabiting a region very far north; most northern.

2. Very cold; frigid.

HYPERBO'REAN, noun An inhabitant of the most northern region of the earth. The ancients gave this denomination to the people and places to the northward of the Scythians, people and regions of which they had little or no knowledge. The Hyperboreans then are the Laplanders, the Samoiedes, and the Russians near the White Sea.

Hypercarbureted

HYPERC'ARBURETED, adjective Supercarbureted; having the largest proportion of carbon.

Hypercatalectic

HYPERCATALEC'TIC, adjective [Gr. termination.] A hypercatalectic verse, in Greek and Latin poetry, is a verse which has a syllable or two beyond the regular and just measure.

Hypercrit-Icism

HYPERCRIT-ICISM, noun Excessive rigor of criticism.

Hypercritic

HYPERCRIT'IC, noun [Gr. beyond, and critical. See Critic.]

One who is critical beyond measure or reason; an over rigid critic; a captious censor.

HYPERCRIT'IC

Hypercritical

HYPERCRIT'ICAL, adjective Over critical; critical beyond use or reason; animadverting on faults with unjust severity; as a hypercritical reader.

1. Excessively nice or exact; as a hypercritical punculio.

Hyperdulia

HYPERDU'LIA, noun [Gr. beyond, and service.] Super-service in the Romish church, performed to the virgin Mary.

Hypericon

HYPER'ICON, noun John's wort.

Hypermeter

HYPER'METER, noun [Gr. beyond, and measure.] Anything greater than the ordinary standard of measure.

A verse is called a hypermeter when it contains a syllable more than the ordinary measure. When this is the case, the following line begins with a vowel, and the redundant syllable of the former line blends with the first of the following, and they are read as one syllable.

Hypermetrical

HYPERMET'RICAL, adjective Exceeding the common measure; having a redundant syllable.

Hyperoxyd

HYPEROX'YD, adjective Acute to excess, as a crystal.

Hyperoxygenated

HYPEROX'YGENATED

HYPEROX'YGENIZED, adjective [Gr. beyond, and oxygenated, or oxygenized.]

Super-saturated with oxygen.

Hyperoxygenized

HYPEROX'YGENIZED, a. [Gr. beyond, and oxygenated, or oxygenized.]

Super-saturated with oxygen.

Hyperoxymuriate

HYPEROXYMU'RIATE, noun The same as chlorate.

Hyperoxymuriatic

HYPEROXYMURIAT'IC, adjective The hyperoxymuriatic acid is the chloric acid.

Hyperphysical

HYPERPHYS'ICAL, adjective Supernatural.

Hyperstene

HY'PERSTENE

HY'PERSTHENE, noun A mineral, Labrador hornblend, or schillerspar. Its color is between grayish and greenish black, but nearly copper-red on the cleavage. So named from its difficult frangibility.

Hyphen

HY'PHEN, noun [Gr. under one, or to one.] A mark or short line made between two words to show that they form a compound word, or are to be connected; as in pre-occupied; five-leafed; ink-stand. In writing and printing, the hyphen is used to connect the syllables of a divided word, and is placed after the syllable that closes a line, denoting the connection of that syllable or part of a word with the first syllable of the next line.

Hypnotic

HYPNOT'IC, adjective [Gr. sleep.] Having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; narcotic; soporific.

HYPNOT'IC, noun A medicine that produces, or tends to produce sleep; an opiate; a narcotic; a soporific.

Hypo

HYPO, a Greek preposition, under, beneath; used in composition. Thus, hyposulphuric acid is an acid containing less oxygen than sulphuric acid.

Hypobole

HYPOB'OLE, noun hypob'oly. [Gr. under, and to cast.]

In rhetoric, a figure in which several things are mentioned that seem to make against the argument or in favor of the opposite side, and each of them is refuted in order.

Hypocaust

HYP'OCAUST, noun [Gr. to burn.]

1. Among the Greeks and Romans, a subterraneous place where was a furnace to heat baths.

2. Among the moderns, the place where a fire is kept to warm a stove or a hot-house.

Hypochondres

HYPOCHON'DRES

HYPOCHON'DRIA, noun plural [Gr. a cartilage.]

1. In anatomy, the sides of the belly under the cartilages of the spurious ribs; the spaces on each side of the epigastric region.

2. Hypochondriac complaints.

Hypochondria

HYPOCHON'DRIA, n. plu. [Gr. a cartilage.] 1. In anatomy, the sides of the belly under the cartilages of the spurious ribs; the spaces on each side of the epigastric region.2. Hypochondriac complaints.

Hypochondriac

HYPOCHON'DRIAC, adjective Pertaining to the hypochondria, or the parts of the body so called; as the hypochondriac region.

1. Affected by a disease, attended with debility, depression of spirits or melancholy.

2. Producing melancholy, or low spirits.

HYPOCHON'DRIAC, noun A person affected with debility, lowness of spirits or melancholy.

Hypochondriacal

HYPOCHONDRI'ACAL, adjective The same as hypochondriac.

Hypochondriacism

HYPOCHONDRI'ACISM, noun A disease of men, characterized by languor or debility, depression of spirits or melancholy, with dyspepsy.

Hypochondriasis

HYPOCHONDRI'ASIS, noun Hypochondriacism.

Hypochondry

HYPOCHON'DRY, [See Hypochondria.]

Hypocist

HYP'OCIST, noun [Gr. sub cisto, under the distus.] An inspissated juice obtained from the sessile asarum [Cytinus hypocistis, ] resembling the true Egyptian acacia. The juice is expressed from the unripe fruit and evaporated to the consistence of an extract, formed into cakes and dried in the sun. It is an astringent, useful in diarrheas and hemorrhages.

Hypocrateriform

HYPOCRATER'IFORM, adjective [Gr. under, a cup, and form.]

Salver-shaped; tubular, but suddenly expanding into a flat border at top; applied to a monopetalous corol.