HYDROPHOBIC — HYPOTENUSE NWAD HYDROPHOBIC.1
HYDROPHOBIC, a. Pertaining to a dread of water, or canine madness. NWAD HYDROPHOBIC.1
HYDROPIC, HYDROPICAL, a. [L. hydrops; Gr. dropsy; water.] NWAD HYDROPIC.1
1. Dropsical; diseased with extravasated water. NWAD HYDROPIC.2
2. Containing water; caused by extravasated water; as a hydropic swelling. NWAD HYDROPIC.3
3. Resembling dropsy. NWAD HYDROPIC.4
Every lust is a kind of hydropic distemper, and the more we drink the more we shall thirst. NWAD HYDROPIC.5
HYDROPNEUMATIC, a. [Gr. water, and inflated, breath, spirit.] NWAD HYDROPNEUMATIC.1
An epithet given to a vessel of water, with other apparatus for chimical experiments. NWAD HYDROPNEUMATIC.2
HYDROPSY. [See Dropsy.] NWAD HYDROPSY.1
HYDROSCOPE, n. [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. NWAD HYDROSCOPE.1
HYDROSTATIC, HYDROSTATICAL, a. [Gr. water, and static, standing or settling.] NWAD HYDROSTATIC.1
Relating to the science of weighing fluids, or hydrostatics. NWAD HYDROSTATIC.2
HYDROSTATICALLY, adv. According to hydrostatics, or to hydrostatic principles. NWAD HYDROSTATICALLY.1
HYDROSTATICS, n. 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. NWAD HYDROSTATICS.1
Hydrostatics is that branch of the science of hydrodynamics which treats of the properties of fluids at rest. NWAD HYDROSTATICS.2
HYDROSULPHATE, n. The same as hydrosulphuret. NWAD HYDROSULPHATE.1
HYDROSULPHURET, n. [hydrogen and sulphuret.] A combination of sulphureted hydrogen with an earth, alkali or metallic oxyd. NWAD HYDROSULPHURET.1
HYDROSULPHURETED, a. Combined with sulphureted hydrogen. NWAD HYDROSULPHURETED.1
Hydrosulphuric acid, is called also hydrothionic acid, or sulphureted hydrogen. NWAD HYDROSULPHURETED.2
HYDROTHORAX, n. [Gr. water.] Dropsy in the chest. NWAD HYDROTHORAX.1
HYDROTIC, a. [Gr. water.] Causing a discharge of water. NWAD HYDROTIC.1
HYDROTIC, n. A medicine that purges off water or phlegm. NWAD HYDROTIC.2
HYDROXANTHATE, n. [Gr. water, and yellow.] In chimistry, a compound of hydroxanthic acid with a base. NWAD HYDROXANTHATE.1
HYDROXANTHIC, a. 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. NWAD HYDROXANTHIC.1
HYDRURET, n. A combination of hydrogen with sulphur, or of sulphur and sulphureted hydrogen. NWAD HYDRURET.1
HYDRUS, n. [Gr. water.] A water snake; also, a constellation of the southern hemisphere. NWAD HYDRUS.1
HYEMAL, a. [L. hiems, winter.] Belonging to winter; done in winter. NWAD HYEMAL.1
HYEMATE, v.i. To winter at a place. [Not in use.] NWAD HYEMATE.1
HYEMATION, n. [L. hiemo, to winter.] The passing or spending of a winter in a particular place. NWAD HYEMATION.1
HYENA, n. [L. 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. NWAD HYENA.1
HYGROMETER, n. [Gr. moist, and measure.] An instrument for measuring the degree of moisture of the atmosphere. NWAD HYGROMETER.1
HYGROMETRICAL, a. Pertaining to hygrometry; made by or according to the hygrometer. NWAD HYGROMETRICAL.1
HYGROMETRY, n. The act or art of measuring the moisture of the air. NWAD HYGROMETRY.1
HYGROSCOPE, n. [Gr. moist, and to view.] The same as hygrometer. The latter is now chiefly used. NWAD HYGROSCOPE.1
HYGROSCOPIC, a. Pertaining to the hygroscope; capable of imbibing moisture. NWAD HYGROSCOPIC.1
HYGROSTATICS, n. [Gr. moist.] The science of comparing degrees of moisture. NWAD HYGROSTATICS.1
HYKE, n. A blanket or loose garment. NWAD HYKE.1
HYLARCHICAL, a. [Gr. matter, and rule.] Presiding over matter. NWAD HYLARCHICAL.1
HYLOZOIC, n. [Gr. matter and life.] One who holds matter to be animated. NWAD HYLOZOIC.1
HYM, n. A species of dog. NWAD HYM.1
HYMEN, n. [L. from Gr. membrana, pellicula, hymen.] NWAD HYMEN.1
1. In ancient mythology, a fabulous deity, the son of Bacchus and Venus, supposed to preside over marriages. NWAD HYMEN.2
2. In anatomy, the virginal membrane. NWAD HYMEN.3
3. In botany, the fine pellicle which incloses a flower in the bud. NWAD HYMEN.4
HYMENEAL, HYMENEAN, a. Pertaining to marriage. NWAD HYMENEAL.1
HYMENEAL, HYMENEAN, n. A marriage song. NWAD HYMENEAL.2
HYMENOPTER, HYMENOPTERA, 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. NWAD HYMENOPTER.1
HYMENOPTERAL, a. Having four membranous wings. NWAD HYMENOPTERAL.1
HYMN, n. hym. [L. 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. NWAD HYMN.1
And when the had sung a hymn, they went out to the mount of Olives. Matthew 26:30. NWAD HYMN.2
HYMN, v.t. hym. To praise in song; to worship by singing hymns. NWAD HYMN.3
1. To sing; to celebrate in song. They hymn their maker’s praise. NWAD HYMN.4
HYMN, v.i. hym. To sing in praise or adoration. NWAD HYMN.5
HYMNED, pp. Sung; praised; celebrated in song. NWAD HYMNED.1
HYMNING, ppr. Praising in song; singing. NWAD HYMNING.1
HYMNIC, a. Relating to hymns. NWAD HYMNIC.1
HYMNOLOGIST, n. A composer of hymns. NWAD HYMNOLOGIST.1
HYMNOLOGY, n. A collection of hymns. NWAD HYMNOLOGY.1
HYOSCIAMA, n. A new vegetable alkali, extracted from the Hyoscyamus nigra, or henbane. NWAD HYOSCIAMA.1
HYP, n. [a contraction of hypochondria.] A disease; depression of spirits. NWAD HYP.1
HYP, v.t. To make melancholy; to depress the spirits. NWAD HYP.2
HYPALLAGE, n. hypal’largy. [Gr. change, to change.] NWAD HYPALLAGE.1
In grammar, a figure consisting of mutual change of cases. Thus in Virgil, dare classibus austros, for dare classes austris. NWAD HYPALLAGE.2
Hypallage is a species of hyperbaton. NWAD HYPALLAGE.3
HYPASPIST, n. [Gr. a shield.] A soldier in the armies of Greece, armed in a particular manner. NWAD HYPASPIST.1
HYPER, Eng. over, is used in composition to denote excess, or something over or beyond. NWAD HYPER.1
1. A hypercritic. [Not used.] NWAD HYPER.2
HYPERASPIST, n. [Gr. a shield.] A defender. NWAD HYPERASPIST.1
HYPERBATON, HYPERBATE, n. [Gr. to transgress, or go beyond.] NWAD HYPERBATON.1
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. NWAD HYPERBATON.2
HYPERBOLA, n. [Gr. over, beyond, and to throw.] NWAD HYPERBOLA.1
In conic sections and geometry, a curve formed by cutting a cone in a direction parallel to its axis. NWAD HYPERBOLA.2
A section of a cone, when the cutting plane makes a greater angle with the base than the side of the cone makes. NWAD HYPERBOLA.3
The latter definition is the most correct. NWAD HYPERBOLA.4
HYPERBOLE, n. hyper’boly. [Gr. excess, to throw beyond, to exceed.] NWAD HYPERBOLE.1
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. NWAD HYPERBOLE.2
He was owner of a piece of ground not larger than a Lacedemonian letter. NWAD HYPERBOLE.3
If a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. Genesis 13:16. NWAD HYPERBOLE.4
Ipse arduus, alta que pulsat Sidera. NWAD HYPERBOLE.5
He was so gaunt, the case of a flagellet was a mansion for him. NWAD HYPERBOLE.6
HYPERBOLIC, HYPERBOLICAL, n. Belonging to the hyperbola; having the nature of the hyperbola. NWAD HYPERBOLIC.1
1. Relating to or containing hyperbole; exaggerating or diminishing beyond the fact; exceeding the truth; as a hyperbolical expression. NWAD HYPERBOLIC.2
Hyperbolic space, in geometry, the space or content comprehended between the curve of a hyperbole and the whole ordinate. NWAD HYPERBOLIC.3
HYPERBOLICALLY, adv. In the form of a hyperbola. NWAD HYPERBOLICALLY.1
1. With exaggeration; in a manner to express more or less than the truth. NWAD HYPERBOLICALLY.2
Scylla--is hyperbolically described by Homer as inaccessible. NWAD HYPERBOLICALLY.3
HYPERBOLIFORM, a. [hyperbola and form.] Having the form, or nearly the form of a hyperbola. NWAD HYPERBOLIFORM.1
HYPERBOLIST, n. One who uses hyperboles. NWAD HYPERBOLIST.1
HYPERBOLIZE, v.i. To speak or write with exaggeration. NWAD HYPERBOLIZE.1
HYPERBOLIZE, v.t. To exaggerate or extenuate. NWAD HYPERBOLIZE.2
HYPERBOLOID, n. [hyperbola, and Gr. form.] A hyperbolic conoid; a solid formed by the revolution of a hyperbola about its axis. NWAD HYPERBOLOID.1
HYPERBOREAN, a. [L. hyperboreus; Gr. beyond, and the north.] NWAD HYPERBOREAN.1
1. Northern; belonging to or inhabiting a region very far north; most northern. NWAD HYPERBOREAN.2
2. Very cold; frigid. NWAD HYPERBOREAN.3
HYPERBOREAN, n. 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. NWAD HYPERBOREAN.4
HYPERCARBURETED, a. Supercarbureted; having the largest proportion of carbon. NWAD HYPERCARBURETED.1
HYPERCATALECTIC, a. [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. NWAD HYPERCATALECTIC.1
HYPERCRITIC, n. [Gr. beyond, and critical. See Critic.] NWAD HYPERCRITIC.1
One who is critical beyond measure or reason; an over rigid critic; a captious censor. NWAD HYPERCRITIC.2
HYPERCRITIC, HYPERCRITICAL, a. Over critical; critical beyond use or reason; animadverting on faults with unjust severity; as a hypercritical reader. NWAD HYPERCRITIC.3
1. Excessively nice or exact; as a hypercritical punculio. NWAD HYPERCRITIC.4
HYPERCRIT-ICISM, n. Excessive rigor of criticism. NWAD HYPERCRIT-ICISM.1
HYPERDULIA, n. [Gr. beyond, and service.] Super-service in the Romish church, performed to the virgin Mary. NWAD HYPERDULIA.1
HYPERICON, n. John’s wort. NWAD HYPERICON.1
HYPERMETER, n. [Gr. beyond, and measure.] Anything greater than the ordinary standard of measure. NWAD HYPERMETER.1
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. NWAD HYPERMETER.2
HYPERMETRICAL, a. Exceeding the common measure; having a redundant syllable. NWAD HYPERMETRICAL.1
HYPEROXYD, a. Acute to excess, as a crystal. NWAD HYPEROXYD.1
HYPEROXYGENATED, HYPEROXYGENIZED, a. [Gr. beyond, and oxygenated, or oxygenized.] NWAD HYPEROXYGENATED.1
Super-saturated with oxygen. NWAD HYPEROXYGENATED.2
HYPEROXYMURIATE, n. The same as chlorate. NWAD HYPEROXYMURIATE.1
HYPEROXYMURIATIC, a. The hyperoxymuriatic acid is the chloric acid. NWAD HYPEROXYMURIATIC.1
HYPERPHYSICAL, a. Supernatural. NWAD HYPERPHYSICAL.1
HYPERSTENE, HYPERSTHENE, n. 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. NWAD HYPERSTENE.1
HYPHEN, n. [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. NWAD HYPHEN.1
HYPNOTIC, a. [Gr. sleep.] Having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; narcotic; soporific. NWAD HYPNOTIC.1
HYPNOTIC, n. A medicine that produces, or tends to produce sleep; an opiate; a narcotic; a soporific. NWAD HYPNOTIC.2
HYPO, a Greek preposition, under, beneath; used in composition. Thus, hyposulphuric acid is an acid containing less oxygen than sulphuric acid. NWAD HYPO.1
HYPOBOLE, n. hypob’oly. [Gr. under, and to cast.] NWAD HYPOBOLE.1
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. NWAD HYPOBOLE.2
HYPOCAUST, n. [Gr. to burn.] NWAD HYPOCAUST.1
1. Among the Greeks and Romans, a subterraneous place where was a furnace to heat baths. NWAD HYPOCAUST.2
2. Among the moderns, the place where a fire is kept to warm a stove or a hot-house. NWAD HYPOCAUST.3
HYPOCHONDRIA, n. plu. [Gr. a cartilage.] NWAD HYPOCHONDRIA.1
1. In anatomy, the sides of the belly under the cartilages of the spurious ribs; the spaces on each side of the epigastric region. NWAD HYPOCHONDRIA.2
2. Hypochondriac complaints. NWAD HYPOCHONDRIA.3
HYPOCHONDRIAC, a. Pertaining to the hypochondria, or the parts of the body so called; as the hypochondriac region. NWAD HYPOCHONDRIAC.1
1. Affected by a disease, attended with debility, depression of spirits or melancholy. NWAD HYPOCHONDRIAC.2
2. Producing melancholy, or low spirits. NWAD HYPOCHONDRIAC.3
HYPOCHONDRIAC, n. A person affected with debility, lowness of spirits or melancholy. NWAD HYPOCHONDRIAC.4
HYPOCHONDRIACAL, a. The same as hypochondriac. NWAD HYPOCHONDRIACAL.1
HYPOCHONDRIACISM, n. A disease of men, characterized by languor or debility, depression of spirits or melancholy, with dyspepsy. NWAD HYPOCHONDRIACISM.1
HYPOCHONDRIASIS, n. Hypochondriacism. NWAD HYPOCHONDRIASIS.1
HYPOCIST, n. [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. NWAD HYPOCIST.1
HYPOCRATERIFORM, a. [Gr. under, a cup, and form.] NWAD HYPOCRATERIFORM.1
Salver-shaped; tubular, but suddenly expanding into a flat border at top; applied to a monopetalous corol. NWAD HYPOCRATERIFORM.2
HYPOCRISY, n. [L. hypocrisis; Gr. simulation; to feign; to separate, discern or judge.] NWAD HYPOCRISY.1
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. NWAD HYPOCRISY.2
Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. Luke 12:1. NWAD HYPOCRISY.3
2. Simulation; deceitful appearance; false pretence. NWAD HYPOCRISY.4
Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy. NWAD HYPOCRISY.5
HYPOCRITE, n. NWAD HYPOCRITE.1
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. NWAD HYPOCRITE.2
And the hypocrite’s hope shall perish. Job 8:13. NWAD HYPOCRITE.3
2. A dissembler; one who assumes a false appearance. NWAD HYPOCRITE.4
Fair hypocrite, you seek to cheat in vain. NWAD HYPOCRITE.5
HYPOCRITIC, HYPOCRITICAL, a. Simulating; counterfeiting a religions character; assuming a false and deceitful appearance; applied to persons. NWAD HYPOCRITIC.1
1. Dissembling; concealing one’s real character or motives. NWAD HYPOCRITIC.2
2. Proceeding from hypocrisy, or marking hypocrisy; as a hypocritical face or look. NWAD HYPOCRITIC.3
HYPOCRITICALLY, adv. With simulation; with a false appearance of what is good; falsely; without sincerity. NWAD HYPOCRITICALLY.1
HYPOGASTRIC, a. [Gr. under, and the belly.] NWAD HYPOGASTRIC.1
1. Relating to the hypogastrium, or middle part of the lower region of the belly. NWAD HYPOGASTRIC.2
2. An appellation given to the internal branch of the iliac artery. NWAD HYPOGASTRIC.3
HYPOGASTROCELE, n. [Gr. tumor.] A hernia or rupture of the lower belly. NWAD HYPOGASTROCELE.1
HYPOGEUM, n. [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. NWAD HYPOGEUM.1
HYPOGYNOUS, a. [Gr. under, and a female.] A term applied to plants that have their corols and stamens inserted under the pistil. NWAD HYPOGYNOUS.1
HYPOPHOSPHOROUS, n. [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. NWAD HYPOPHOSPHOROUS.1
HYPOPHOSPHITE, n. A compound of hypophosphorous acid and a salifiable base. NWAD HYPOPHOSPHITE.1
HYPOSTASIS, HYPOSTASY, n. [L. 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. NWAD HYPOSTASIS.1
HYPOSTATIC, HYPOSTATICAL, a. Relating to hypostasis; constitutive. NWAD HYPOSTATIC.1
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. NWAD HYPOSTATIC.2
1. Personal, or distinctly personal; or constituting a distinct substance. NWAD HYPOSTATIC.3
HYPOSULPHATE, n. A compound of hyposulphuric acid and a base. NWAD HYPOSULPHATE.1
HYPOSULPHITE, n. A compound of hyposulphurous acid and a salifiable base. NWAD HYPOSULPHITE.1
HYPOSULPHURIC, a. Hyposulphuric acid, is an acid combination of sulphur and oxygen, intermediate between sulphurous and sulphuric acid. NWAD HYPOSULPHURIC.1
HYPOSULPHUROUS, a. Hyposulphurous acid is an acid containing less oxygen than sulphurous acid. This acid is known only in combination with salifiable bases. NWAD HYPOSULPHUROUS.1
HYPOTENUSE, n. [Gr. to subtend.] In geometry, the subtense or longest side of a right-angled triangle, or the line that subtends the right angle. NWAD HYPOTENUSE.1