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.
HYACINTH'INE, adjective Made of hyacinth; consisting of hyacinth; resembling hyacinth.
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.
HY'ALINE, adjective [Gr. glass.] Glassy; resembling glass; consisting of glass.
HY'ALITE, noun Muller's glass. It consists chiefly of silex, and is white, sometimes with a shade of yellow, blue or green.
HYBERNACLE
HYBERNATE
HYBERNATION. See Hibernacle, Hibernate, Hibernation.
HYBERNATE
HYBERNATION. See Hibernacle, Hibernate, Hibernation.
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
HYB'RIDOUS, adjective Mongrel; produced from the mixture of two species.
HY'DAGE, noun In law, a tax on lands, at a certain rate by the hyde.
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.
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.
HYDRAC'ID, adjective [Gr. water, and acid.] An acid formed by the union of hydrogen with a substance without oxygen.
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.
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.
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.
HYDR'ARGILLITE, noun [Gr. water, and clay.] A mineral, called also Wavellite.
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.
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.
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.
HYDREN'TEROCELE, noun [Gr. water, intestine, and tumor.]
A dropsy of the scrotum with rupture.
HYD'RIODATE, noun A salt formed by the hydriodic acid, with a base.
HYDROC'ARBONATE, noun [Gr. water, or rather hydrogen, and Latin carbo, a coal.] Carbureted hydrogen gas, or heavy inflammable air.
HYDROC'ARBURET, noun Carbureted hydrogen.
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.
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.
HYDROCHLO'RATE, noun A compound of hydrochloric acid and a base; a muriate.
HYDROCHLO'RIC, adjective [hydrogen and chloric.]
Hydrochloric acid is muriatic acid gas, a compound of chlorine and hydrogen gas.
HYDROCY'ANATE, noun Prussiate; cyanuret.
HYDROCYAN'IC, adjective [Gr. water, or rather hydrogen, and blue.]
The hydrocyanic acid is the same as the prussic acid.
HYDRODYNAM'IC, adjective [Gr. water, and power, force.] Pertaining to
the force or pressure of water.
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.
HYDROFLU'ATE, noun A compound of hydrofluoric acid and a base.
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.
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.
HY'DROGENATE, verb transitive To combine hydrogen with any thing.
HY'DROGENATED, participle passive In combination with hydrogen.
HY'DROGENIZE, verb transitive To combine with hydrogen.
HY'DROGENIZED, participle passive Combined with hydrogen.
HY'DROGENIZING, participle present tense Combining with hydrogen.
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.
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.
HYDROGRAPH'ICAL, a. Relating to or containing a description of the sea, sea coast , isles, shoals, depth of water, &c. or of a lake.
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.
HYDROG'URET, noun A compound of hydrogen with a base.
Hydroguret is now scarcely used, except to give the derivative hydrogureted.
HYDROG'URETED, adjective Denoting a compound of hydrogen with a base.
HYDROID'IC, adjective [hydrogen and iodic.] Denoting a peculiar acid or gaseous substance, produced by the combination of hydrogen and iodine.
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.
HYDROLOG'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to hydrology.
HYDROL'OGY, noun [Gr. water, and discourse.] The science of water, its properties and phenomena.
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.
HYDROMAN'TIC, adjective Pertaining to divination by water.
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.
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.
HYDROMET'RIC
HYDROMET'RICAL, adjective Pertaining to a hydrometer, or to the measurement of the gravity, etc. of fluids.
1. Made by a hydrometer.
HYDROMET'RICAL, a. Pertaining to a hydrometer, or to the measurement of the gravity, &c. of fluids.
1. Made by a hydrometer.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.
HY'DROPHANE, noun [Gr. water, and to show.] In mineralogy, a variety of opal made transparent by immersion in water.
HYDROPH'ANOUS, adjective Made transparent by immersion in water.
HYDROPHO'BIA
HYDROPHO'BIC, adjective Pertaining to a dread of water, or canine madness.
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.
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.
HYDROPNEUMAT'IC, adjective [Gr. water, and inflated, breath, spirit.]
An epithet given to a vessel of water, with other apparatus for chimical experiments.
HYDROPSY. [See Dropsy.]
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.
HYDROSTAT'IC
HYDROSTAT'ICAL, adjective [Gr. water, and static, standing or settling.]
Relating to the science of weighing fluids, or hydrostatics.
HYDROSTAT'ICAL, a. [Gr. water, and static, standing or settling.]
Relating to the science of weighing fluids, or hydrostatics.
HYDROSTAT'ICALLY, adverb According to hydrostatics, or to hydrostatic principles.
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.
HYDROSULPH'ATE, noun The same as hydrosulphuret.
HYDROSULPH'URET, noun [hydrogen and sulphuret.] A combination of sulphureted hydrogen with an earth, alkali or metallic oxyd.
HYDROSULPH'URETED, adjective Combined with sulphureted hydrogen.
Hydrosulphuric acid, is called also hydrothionic acid, or sulphureted hydrogen.
HYDROTHO'RAX, noun [Gr. water.] Dropsy in the chest.
HYDROT'IC, adjective [Gr. water.] Causing a discharge of water.
HYDROT'IC, noun A medicine that purges off water or phlegm.
HYDROXAN'THATE, noun [Gr. water, and yellow.] In chimistry, a compound of hydroxanthic acid with a base.
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.
HY'DRURET, noun A combination of hydrogen with sulphur, or of sulphur and sulphureted hydrogen.
HY'DRUS, noun [Gr. water.] A water snake; also, a constellation of the southern hemisphere.
HYE'MAL, adjective [Latin hiems, winter.] Belonging to winter; done in winter.
HY'EMATE, verb intransitive To winter at a place. [Not in use.]
HYEMA'TION, noun [Latin hiemo, to winter.] The passing or spending of a winter in a particular place.
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.
HYGROM'ETER, noun [Gr. moist, and measure.] An instrument for measuring the degree of moisture of the atmosphere.
HYGROMET'RICAL, adjective Pertaining to hygrometry; made by or according to the hygrometer.
HYGROM'ETRY, noun The act or art of measuring the moisture of the air.
HY'GROSCOPE, noun [Gr. moist, and to view.] The same as hygrometer. The latter is now chiefly used.
HYGROSCOP'IC, adjective Pertaining to the hygroscope; capable of imbibing moisture.
HYGROSTAT'ICS, noun [Gr. moist.] The science of comparing degrees of moisture.
HYKE, noun A blanket or loose garment.
HYLAR'CHICAL, adjective [Gr. matter, and rule.] Presiding over matter.
HYLOZO'IC, noun [Gr. matter and life.] One who holds matter to be animated.
HYM, noun A species of dog.
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.
HYMENE'AL
HYMENE'AN, adjective Pertaining to marriage.
HYMENE'AL
HYMENE'AN, noun A marriage song.
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.
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.
HYMENOP'TERAL, adjective Having four membranous wings.
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.
HYM'NED, participle passive Sung; praised; celebrated in song.
HYM'NIC, adjective Relating to hymns.
HYM'NING, participle present tense Praising in song; singing.
HYMNOL'OGIST, noun A composer of hymns.
HYMNOL'OGY, noun A collection of hymns.
HYOSCIA'MA, noun A new vegetable alkali, extracted from the Hyoscyamus nigra, or henbane.
HYP, noun [a contraction of hypochondria.] A disease; depression of spirits.
HYP, verb transitive To make melancholy; to depress the spirits.
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.
HYPAS'PIST, noun [Gr. a shield.] A soldier in the armies of Greece, armed in a particular manner.
HYPER, Eng.over, is used in composition to denote excess, or something over or beyond.
1. A hypercritic. [Not used.]
HYPERAS'PIST, noun [Gr. a shield.] A defender.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
HYPERBOL'IFORM, adjective [hyperbola and form.] Having the form, or nearly the form of a hyperbola.
HYPER'BOLIST, noun One who uses hyperboles.
HYPER'BOLIZE, verb intransitive To speak or write with exaggeration.
HYPER'BOLIZE, verb transitive To exaggerate or extenuate.
HYPER'BOLOID, noun [hyperbola, and Gr. form.] A hyperbolic conoid; a solid formed by the revolution of a hyperbola about its axis.
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.
HYPERC'ARBURETED, adjective Supercarbureted; having the largest proportion of carbon.
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'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
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.
HYPERDU'LIA, noun [Gr. beyond, and service.] Super-service in the Romish church, performed to the virgin Mary.
HYPER'ICON, noun John's wort.
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.
HYPERMET'RICAL, adjective Exceeding the common measure; having a redundant syllable.
HYPEROX'YD, adjective Acute to excess, as a crystal.
HYPEROX'YGENATED
HYPEROX'YGENIZED, adjective [Gr. beyond, and oxygenated, or oxygenized.]
Super-saturated with oxygen.
HYPEROX'YGENIZED, a. [Gr. beyond, and oxygenated, or oxygenized.]
Super-saturated with oxygen.
HYPEROXYMU'RIATE, noun The same as chlorate.
HYPEROXYMURIAT'IC, adjective The hyperoxymuriatic acid is the chloric acid.
HYPERPHYS'ICAL, adjective Supernatural.
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.
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.
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, a Greek preposition, under, beneath; used in composition. Thus, hyposulphuric acid is an acid containing less oxygen than sulphuric acid.
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.
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.
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.
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.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.
HYPOCHONDRI'ACAL, adjective The same as hypochondriac.
HYPOCHONDRI'ACISM, noun A disease of men, characterized by languor or debility, depression of spirits or melancholy, with dyspepsy.
HYPOCHONDRI'ASIS, noun Hypochondriacism.
HYPOCHON'DRY, [See Hypochondria.]
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.
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.
HYPOC'RISY, noun [Latin hypocrisis; Gr. simulation; to feign; to separate, discern or judge.]
1. Simulation; a feigning to be what one is not; or dissimulation, a concealment of one's real character or motives. More generally, hypocrisy is simulation, or the assuming of a false appearance of virtue or religion; a deceitful show of a good character, in morals or religion; a counterfeiting of religion.
Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy Luke 12:1.
2. Simulation; deceitful appearance; false pretence.
Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.
HYP'OCRITE, noun
1. One who feigns to be what he is not; one who has the form of godliness without the power, or who assumes an appearance of piety and virtue, when he is destitute of true religion.
And the hypocrite's hope shall perish. Job 8:1.
2. A dissembler; one who assumes a false appearance.
Fair hypocrite you seek to cheat in vain.
HYPOCRIT'IC
HYPOCRIT'ICAL, adjective Simulating; counterfeiting a religions character; assuming a false and deceitful appearance; applied to persons.
1. Dissembling; concealing one's real character or motives.
2. Proceeding from hypocrisy, or marking hypocrisy; as a hypocritical face or look.
HYPOCRIT'ICAL, a. Simulating; counterfeiting a religions character; assuming a false and deceitful appearance; applied to persons.
1. Dissembling; concealing one's real character or motives.2. Proceeding from hypocrisy, or marking hypocrisy; as a hypocritical face or look.HYPOCRIT'ICALLY, adverb With simulation; with a false appearance of what is good; falsely; without sincerity.
HYPOGAS'TRIC, adjective [Gr. under, and the belly.]
1. Relating to the hypogastrium, or middle part of the lower region of the belly.
2. An appellation given to the internal branch of the iliac artery.
HYPOGAS'TROCELE, noun [Gr. tumor.] A hernia or rupture of the lower belly.
HYPOGE'UM, noun [Gr. under, and the earth.] A name given by ancient architects to all the parts of a building which were under ground, as the cellar, etc.
HYPOGYNOUS, adjective [Gr. under, and a female.] A term applied to plants that have their corols and stamens inserted under the pistil.
HYPOPHOS'PHITE, noun A compound of hypophosphorous acid and a salifiable base.
HYPOPHOS'PHOROUS, noun [Gr. phosphorus.] The hypophosphorous acid contains less oxygen than the phosphorous, and is obtained from the phosphuret of baryte. It is a liquid which may be concentrated by evaporation, till it becomes viscid. It has a very sour taste, reddens vegetable blues, and does not crystalize.
HYPOS'TASIS
HYPOS'TASY, noun [Latin hypostasis; Gr. to stand.] Properly, subsistence or substance. Hence it is used to denote distinct substance, or subsistence of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, in the Godhead, called by the Greek christians, three hypostases. The Latins more generally used persona to express the sense of hypostasis and this is the modern practice. We say, the Godhead consists of three persons.
HYPOSTAT'IC
HYPOSTAT'ICAL , adjective Relating to hypostasis; constitutive.
Let our Carneades warn men not to subscribe to the grand doctrine of the chimists, touching their three hypostatical principles, till they have a little examined it.
1. Personal, or distinctly personal; or constituting a distinct substance.
HYPOSTAT'ICAL , a. Relating to hypostasis; constitutive.
Let our Carneades warn men not to subscribe to the grand doctrine of the chimists, touching their three hypostatical principles, till they have a little examined it.1. Personal, or distinctly personal; or constituting a distinct substance.HYPOSUL'PHATE, noun A compound of hyposulphuric acid and a base.
HYPOSUL'PHITE, noun A compound of hyposulphurous acid and a salifiable base.
HYPOSUL'PHURIC, adjective hyposulphuric acid, is an acid combination of sulphur and oxygen, intermediate between sulphurous and sulphuric acid.
HYPOSUL'PHUROUS, adjective hyposulphurous acid is an acid containing less oxygen than sulphurous acid. This acid is known only in combination with salifiable bases.
HYPOT'ENUSE, noun [Gr. to subtend.] In geometry, the subtense or longest side of a right-angled triangle, or the line that subtends the right angle.
HYPOTH'ECATE, verb transitive [Latin hypotheca, a pledge; Gr. to put under, to suppose.]
1. To pledge, and properly to pledge the keel of a ship, that is, the ship itself, as security for the repayment of money borrowed to carry on a voyage. In this case the lender hazards the loss of his money by the loss of the ship, but if the ship returns safe, he received his principal, with the premium or interest agreed on, though it may exceed the legal rate of interest.
2. To pledge, as goods.
HYPOTH'ECATED, participle passive Pledged, as security for money borrowed.
HYPOTH'ECATING, participle present tense Pledging as security.
HYPOTHECA'TION, noun The act of pledging, as a ship or goods, for the repayment of money borrowed to carry on a voyage; otherwise called bottomry.
HYPOTH'ECATOR, noun One who pledges a ship or other property, as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
HYPOTH'ESIS, noun [Latin from Gr. a supposition; to suppose.]
1. A supposition; a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof of the point in question; something not proved, but assumed for the purpose of argument.
2. A system or theory imagined or assumed to account for what is not understood.
HYPOTHET'IC
HYPOTHET'ICAL, adjective Including a supposition; conditional; assumed without proof for the purpose of reasoning and deducing proof.
HYPOTHET'ICALLY, adverb By way of supposition; conditionally.
HYRSE, noun hirs. Millet.
HYRST, noun A wood. [See Hurst.]
HY'SON, noun A species of green tea from China.
HY'SOP
HYSSOP, noun hy'sop. [Latin hyssopus; Gr. It would be well to write this word hysop ] A plant or genus of plants, one species of which is cultivated for use. The leaves have an aromatic smell, and a warm pungent taste. Hyssop was much used by the Jews in purification.
HYSSOP, n. hy'sop. [L. hyssopus; Gr. It would be well to write this word hysop.] A plant or genus of plants, one species of which is cultivated for use. The leaves have an aromatic smell, and a warm pungent taste. Hyssop was much used by the Jews in purification.
HYSTER'IC
HYSTER'ICAL, adjective [Gr. from the womb.] Disordered in the region of the womb; troubled with fits or nervous affections.
HYSTER'ICS, noun A disease of women, proceeding from the womb, and characterized by fits or spasmodic affections of the nervous system.
A spasmodic disease of the primae viae, attended with the sensation of a ball rolling about the abdomen, stomach and throat.
HYS'TEROCELE, noun [Gr. the womb, and a tumor.] A species of hernia, caused by a displacement of the womb. A rupture containing the uterus.
HYS'TERON PROT'ERON, noun [Gr. last, and first.] A rhetorical figure, when that is said last which was done first.
HYSTEROT'OMY, noun [Gr. the uterus, and a cutting.] In surgery, the Cesarean section; the operation of cutting into the uterus for taking out a fetus, which cannot be excluded by the usual means.
HYTHE, noun A port. [See Hithe.]