HYPEROXYMURIATIC
HYPEROXYMURIAT'IC, adjective The hyperoxymuriatic acid is the chloric acid.
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HYPERPHYSICAL
HYPERPHYS'ICAL, adjective Supernatural.
HYPERSTENE
HY'PERSTENEHY'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 fr...
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-le...
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 prod...
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 opposit...
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 wa...
HYPOCHONDRES
HYPOCHON'DRESHYPOCHON'DRIA, nounplural [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 epigastr...
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. Hyp...
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, depre...
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 ...
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.
HYPOCRISY
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 ...
HYPOCRITE
HYP'OCRITE, noun1. 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 destitu...
HYPOCRITIC
HYPOCRIT'ICHYPOCRIT'ICAL, adjective Simulating; counterfeiting a religions character; assuming a false and deceitful appearance; applied to persons.1. Dissembling; concealing on...
HYPOCRITICAL
HYPOCRIT'ICAL, a. Simulating; counterfeiting a religions character; assuming a false and deceitful appearance; applied to persons.1. Dissembling; concealing one's real character...
HYPOCRITICALLY
HYPOCRIT'ICALLY, adverb With simulation; with a false appearance of what is good; falsely; without sincerity.
HYPOGASTRIC
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 branc...
HYPOGASTROCELE
HYPOGAS'TROCELE, noun [Gr. tumor.] A hernia or rupture of the lower belly.
HYPOGEUM
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
HYPOGYNOUS, adjective [Gr. under, and a female.] A term applied to plants that have their corols and stamens inserted under the pistil.
HYPOPHOSPHITE
HYPOPHOS'PHITE, noun A compound of hypophosphorous acid and a salifiable base.