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word: Humifuse
definition:
Humifuse

Hu"mi*fuse
(?)
a.
[L. humus ground + fusus, p. p. of fundere to spread.]
(Bot.)
Spread over the surface of the ground; procumbent.
Gray.


word: Humiliant
definition:
Humiliant

Hu*mil"i*ant
(?)
a.
[L. humilians, p. pr. of humiliare.]
Humiliating; humbling.
Humiliant
[R.]
Mrs. Browning.


word: Humiliate
definition:
Humiliate

Hu*mil"i*ate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Humiliated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Humiliating.]
[L. humiliatus, p. p. of humiliare. See Humble.]
To reduce to a lower position in one's own eyes, or in the eyes of others; to cause a loss of pride or dignity; to humble; to mortify.

We stand humiliated rather than encouraged.
M. Arnold.


word: humiliated
definition:
humiliated

humiliated
adj.
brought low in condition or status; reduced in dignity; humbled; mortified.

Syn. -- broken, crushed, humbled, low, mortified.


word: humiliating
definition:
humiliating

humiliating
adj.
causing humiliation.
undignified (vs. dignified)

Syn. -- demeaning, humbling, mortifying.


word: Humiliation
definition:
Humiliation

Hu*mil`i*a"tion
(?)
n.
[L. humiliatio: cf. F. humiliation.]
1.
The act of humiliating or humbling; abasement of pride; mortification.
Bp. Hopkins.

2.
The state of being humiliated, humbled, or reduced to lowliness or submission.

The former was a humiliation of Deity; the latter a humiliation of manhood.
Hooker.


word: Humility
definition:
Humility

Hu*mil"i*ty
(?)
n.
pl. Humilities (#).
[OE. humilite, OF. humilité, humelité, F. humilité, fr. L. humiliatis. See Humble.]
1.
The state or quality of being humble; freedom from pride and arrogance; lowliness of mind; a modest estimate of one's own worth; a sense of one's own unworthiness through imperfection and sinfulness; self-abasement; humbleness.

Serving the Lord with all humility of mind.
Acts xx. 19.

2.
An act of submission or courtesy.

With these humilities they satisfied the young king.
Sir J. Davies.


word: Humin
definition:
Humin

Hu"min
(?)
n.
[L. humus the earth, ground.]
(Chem.)
A bitter, brownish yellow, amorphous substance, extracted from vegetable mold, and also produced by the action of acids on certain sugars and carbohydrates; -- called also humic acid, ulmin, gein, ulmic or geic acid, etc.


word: Humiri
definition:
Humiri

Hu*mi"ri
(?)
n.
[From native name.]
(Bot.)
A fragrant balsam obtained from Brazilian trees of the genus Humirium.


word: Humite
definition:
Humite

Hum"ite
(?)
n.
[Named after Sir A. Hume.]
(Min.)
A mineral of a transparent vitreous brown color, found in the ejected masses of Vesuvius. It is a silicate of iron and magnesia, containing fluorine.


word: Hummer
definition:
Hummer

Hum"mer
(?)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, hums; one who applauds by humming.
Ainsworth.

2.
(Zool.)
A humming bird.


word: Humming₂
definition:
Humming

Hum"ming
n.
A sound like that made by bees; a low, murmuring sound; a hum.

Hummingale, lively or strong ale. Dryden. -- Humming-bird moth (Zool.), a hawk moth. See Hawk moth, under Hawk, the bird.


word: humming bird
definition:
humming bird

hummingbird

hummingbird, humming bird
n.
(Zool.)
any bird of the family Trochilidæ, of which over one hundred genera are known, including about four hundred species. They are found only in America and are most abundant in the tropics. They are mostly of very small size with long slender bills adapted to sucking nectar from flowers, and are noted for the very brilliant iridescent colors of their plumage and their peculiar habit of hovering about flowers while vibrating their wings very rapidly with a humming noise; the wings are specialized for hovering flight, but they can also dart forward and fly quite rapidly. They feed both upon the nectar of flowers and upon small insects. The common humming bird or ruby-throat of the Eastern United States is Trochilus colubris. Several other species are found in the Western United States. See Calliope, and Ruby-throat.


word: Hummock
definition:
Hummock

Hum"mock
(?)
n.
[Prob. a dim. of hump. See Hump.]
1.
A rounded knoll or hillock; a rise of ground of no great extent, above a level surface.

2.
A ridge or pile of ice on an ice field.

3.
Timbered land. See Hammock.
[Southern U.S.]


word: Hummum
definition:
Hummum

Hum"mum
(?)
n.
[Per. or Ar. hammān.]
A sweating bath or place for sweating.
Sir T. Herbert.


word: Humor
definition:
Humor

Hu"mor
(?)
n.
[OE. humour, OF. humor, umor, F. humeur, L. humor, umor, moisture, fluid, fr. humere, umere, to be moist. See Humid.]
[Written also humour.]
1.
Moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.; as, the humors of the eye, etc.

&hand_; The ancient physicians believed that there were four humors (the blood, phlegm, yellow bile or choler, and black bile or melancholy), on the relative proportion of which the temperament and health depended.

2.
(Med.)
A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often causes an eruption on the skin.
humors
Sir W. Temple.

3.
State of mind, whether habitual or temporary (as formerly supposed to depend on the character or combination of the fluids of the body); disposition; temper; mood; as, good humor; ill humor.

Examine how your humor is inclined,
And which the ruling passion of your mind.
Roscommon.

A prince of a pleasant humor.
Bacon.

I like not the humor of lying.
Shak.

4.
pl.
Changing and uncertain states of mind; caprices; freaks; vagaries; whims.

Is my friend all perfection, all virtue and discretion? Has he not humors to be endured?
South.

5.
That quality of the imagination which gives to ideas an incongruous or fantastic turn, and tends to excite laughter or mirth by ludicrous images or representations; a playful fancy; facetiousness.

For thy sake I admit
That a Scot may have humor, I'd almost said wit.
Goldsmith.

A great deal of excellent humor was expended on the perplexities of mine host.
W. Irving.

Aqueous humor, Crystalline humor or Crystalline lens, Vitreous humor. (Anat.) See Eye. -- Out of humor, dissatisfied; displeased; in an unpleasant frame of mind.


word: Humor₂
definition:
Humor

Hu"mor
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Humored (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Humoring.]
1.
To comply with the humor of; to adjust matters so as suit the peculiarities, caprices, or exigencies of; to adapt one's self to; to indulge by skillful adaptation; as, to humor the mind.

It is my part to invent, and the musician's to humor that invention.
Dryden.

2.
To help on by indulgence or compliant treatment; to soothe; to gratify; to please.

You humor me when I am sick.
Pope.


word: Humoral
definition:
Humoral

Hu"mor*al
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. humoral.]
Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the humors; as, a humoral fever.

Humoral pathology (Med.), the pathology, or doctrine of the nature of diseases, which attributes all morbid phenomena to the disordered condition of the fluids or humors of the body.


word: Humoralism
definition:
Humoralism

Hu"mor*al*ism
(?)
n.
1.
(Med.)
The state or quality of being humoral.

2.
(Med.)
The doctrine that diseases proceed from the humors; humorism.
[Obs.]


word: Humorism
definition:
Humorism

Hu"mor*ism
(?)
n.
1.
(Med.)
The theory founded on the influence which the humors were supposed to have in the production of disease; Galenism.
Dunglison.

2.
The manner or disposition of a humorist; humorousness.
Coleridge.


word: Humorist
definition:
Humorist

Hu"mor*ist
n.
[Cf. F. humoriste.]
1.
(Med.)
One who attributes diseases of the state of the humors.
[archaic]

2.
One who has some peculiarity or eccentricity of character, which he indulges in odd or whimsical ways.

He [Roger de Coverley] . . . was a great humorist in all parts of his life.
Addison.

3.
One who displays humor in speaking or writing; one who has a facetious fancy or genius; a wag; a droll; especially, one who writes or tells jokes as a profession.

The reputation of wits and humorists.
Addison.


word: Humorous
definition:
Humorous

Hu"mor*ous
(?)
a.
[Cf. L. humorosus, umorosus, moist. See Humor.]
1.
Moist; humid; watery.
[Obs.]

All founts wells, all deeps humorous.
Chapman.

2.
Subject to be governed by humor or caprice; irregular; capricious; whimsical.
Hawthorne.

Rough as a storm and humorous as the wind.
Dryden.

3.
Full of humor; jocular; exciting laughter; playful; as, a humorous story or author; a humorous aspect.


word: Humorously
definition:
Humorously

Hu"mor*ous*ly
adv.
1.
Capriciously; whimsically.

We resolve rashly, sillily, or humorously.
Calamy.

2.
Facetiously; wittily.


word: Humorsome
definition:
Humorsome

Hu"mor*some
(?)
a.
1.
Moody; whimsical; capricious.
Hawthorne.

The commons do not abet humorsome, factious arms.
Burke.

2.
Jocose; witty; humorous.
Swift.


word: humourous
definition:
humourous

humourous
adj.
same as humorous; causing amusement or laughter.
bantering, facetious, tongue-in-cheek, witty 
boisterous, knockabout, slapstick 
buffoonish, clownish, zany
comic, comical, funny, laughable, risible 
droll, waggish 
dry, ironic, ironical, pawky, wry 
farcical, ludicrous, ridiculous 
Gilbertian 
hilarious, uproarious 
jesting, jocose, jocular, jocund, joking
merry, mirthful
seriocomic, seriocomical 
tragicomic, tragicomical 
killing, sidesplitting
Also See: pleasing.

Syn. -- humorous.


word: Hump
definition:
Hump

Hump
(hŭmp)
n.
[Cf. D. homp a lump, LG. hump heap, hill, stump, possibly akin to E. heap.  Cf. Hunch.]
1.
A protuberance; especially, the protuberance formed by a crooked back.

2.
(Zool.)
A fleshy protuberance on the back of an animal, as a camel or whale.

3.
(Railroad)
a portion of a switchyard with a slanting track in which freight cars may coast without an engine and be sorted through a series of switches.


word: Hump₂
definition:
Hump

Hump
(?)
v. t.
1.
To form into a hump; to make hump-shaped; to hunch; -- often with up.
The cattle were very uncomfortable, standing humped up in the bushes.
T. Roosvelt.

2.
To put or carry on the (humped) back; to shoulder; hence, to carry, in general.
[Slang, Australia]
Having collected a sufficient quantity, we humped it out of the bush.
C. L. Money.

3.
To bend or gather together for strenuous effort, as in running; to do or effect by such effort; to exert; -- usually reflexively or with it; as, you must hump yourself.
[Slang, U. S.]
A half dozen other negroes, some limping and all scared, were humping it across a meadow.
McClure's Mag.

4.
(Railroad)
to sort freight cars by means of a hump.

5.
to engage in sexual intercourse with.
[Vulgar Slang, U. S.]


word: Humpback
definition:
Humpback

Hump"back`
(?)
n.
[Cf. Hunchback.]
1.
A crooked back; a humped back.
Tatler.

2.
A humpbacked person; a hunchback.

3.
(Zool.)
(a)
Any whale of the genus Megaptera, characterized by a hump or bunch on the back. Several species are known. The most common ones in the North Atlantic are Megaptera longimana of Europe, and Megaptera osphyia of America; that of the California coasts is Megaptera versabilis.
(b)
A small salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha), of the northwest coast of America; the humpbacked salmon.


word: Humpbacked salmon
definition:
Humpbacked salmon

Hump"backed` salm"on
A small salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) which ascends the rivers of the Pacific coast from California to Alaska, and also on the Asiatic side. In the breeding season the male has a large dorsal hump and distorted jaws.


word: Humph
definition:
Humph

Humph
(?)
interj.
[Of imitative origin.]
An exclamation denoting surprise, or contempt, doubt, etc.


word: Humus
definition:
Humus

Hu"mus
(?)
n.
[L., the earth, ground, soil.]
That portion of the soil formed by the decomposition of animal or vegetable matter. It is a valuable constituent of soils.
Graham.


word: Hun
definition:
Hun

Hun
(?)
n.
[L. Hunni, also Chunni, and Chuni; cf. AS. H_;nas, H_;ne, OHG. H_;ni, G. Hunnen.]
One of a warlike nomadic people of Northern Asia who, in the 5th century, under Atilla, invaded and conquered a great part of Europe.


word: Hunch
definition:
Hunch

Hunch
(?)
n.
[Perh. akin to huckle; cf. hump, hunch, bunch, hunk.]
1.
A hump; a protuberance.

2.
A lump; a thick piece; as, a hunch of bread.

3.
A push or thrust, as with the elbow.

4.
A strong, intuitive impression that something will happen; -- said to be from the gambler's superstition that it brings luck to touch the hump of a hunchback.
[Colloq. or Slang]
hunch

Syn. -- presentiment, premonition.


word: Hunch₂
definition:
Hunch

Hunch
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Hunched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hunching.]
1.
To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust suddenly.

2.
To thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back.
Dryden.


word: Hunchback
definition:
Hunchback

Hunch"back`
(?)
n.
[Cf. Humpback.]
A back with a hunch or hump; also, a hunchbacked person.


word: hunched
definition:
hunched

hunched
adj.
having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect; -- of people.

Syn. -- round-backed, round-shouldered, stooped, stooping, crooked.


word: Hundred
definition:
Hundred

Hun"dred
(hŭn"drĕd)
n.
[OE. hundred, AS. hundred a territorial division; hund hundred + a word akin to Goth. ga-raþjan to count, L. ratio reckoning, account; akin to OS. hunderod, hund, D. hondred, G. hundert, OHG. also hunt, Icel. hundrað, Dan. hundrede, Sw. hundra, hundrade, Goth. hund, Lith. szimtas, Russ. sto, W. cant, Ir. cead, L. centum, Gr. "ekato`s, Skr. çata. √309.  Cf. Cent, Century, Hecatomb, Quintal, and Reason.]
1.
The product of ten multiplied by ten, or the number of ten times ten; a collection or sum, consisting of ten times ten units or objects; five score. Also, a symbol representing one hundred units, as 100 or C.

With many hundreds treading on his heels.
Shak.

&hand_; The word hundred, as well as thousand, million, etc., often takes a plural form. We may say hundreds, or many hundreds, meaning individual objects or units, but with an ordinal numeral adjective in constructions like five hundreds, or eight hundreds, it is usually intended to consider each hundred as a separate aggregate; as, ten hundreds are one thousand.

2.
A division of a country in England, supposed to have originally contained a hundred families, or freemen.

Hundred court, a court held for all the inhabitants of a hundred. [Eng.] Blackstone.


word: Hundreder
definition:
Hundreder

Hun"dred*er
(?)
n.
1.
An inhabitant or freeholder of a hundred.

2.
(Law)
A person competent to serve on a jury, in an action for land in the hundred to which he belongs.

3.
One who has the jurisdiction of a hundred; and sometimes, a bailiff of a hundred.
Blount. Cowell.


word: Hundredfold
definition:
Hundredfold

Hun"dred*fold`
(?)
n.
A hundred times as much or as many.

He shall receive as hundredfold now in this time.
Mark x. 30.


word: Hundredth
definition:
Hundredth

Hun"dredth
(?)
a.
1.
Coming last of a hundred successive individuals or units.

2.
Forming one of a hundred equal parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a tenth.


word: Hundredth₂
definition:
Hundredth

Hun"dredth
n.
One of a hundred equal parts into which one whole is, or may be, divided; the quotient of a unit divided by a hundred.


word: Hundredweight
definition:
Hundredweight

Hun"dred*weight`
(?)
n.
A denomination of weight, containing 100, 112, or 120 pounds avoirdupois, according to differing laws or customs. By the legal standard of England it is 112 pounds. In most of the United States, both in practice and by law, it is 100 pounds avoirdupois, the corresponding ton of 2,000 pounds, sometimes called the short ton, being the legal ton.


word: Hung
definition:
Hung

Hung
(?)
imp. & p. p. of Hang.

Hung beef, the fleshy part of beef slightly salted and hung up to dry; dried beef.


word: Hungarian
definition:
Hungarian

Hun*ga"ri*an
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to Hungary or to the people of Hungary.
n. A native or one of the people of Hungary.

Hungarian grass. See Italian millet, under Millet.


word: Hungary
definition:
Hungary

Hun"ga*ry
(?)
n.
A country in Central Europe, formerly a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Hungary water, a distilled “water,” made from dilute alcohol aromatized with rosemary flowers, etc.


word: Hunger
definition:
Hunger

Hun"ger
(?)
n.
[AS. hungor; akin to OFries. hunger, D. honger, OS. & OHG. hungar, G. hunger, Icel. hungr, Sw. & Dan. hunger, Goth. h_;hrus hunger, huggrjan to hunger.]
1.
An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food.

&hand_; The sensation of hunger is usually referred to the stomach, but is probably dependent on excitation of the sensory nerves, both of the stomach and intestines, and perhaps also on indirect impressions from other organs, more or less exhausted from lack of nutriment.

2.
Any strong eager desire.

O sacred hunger of ambitious minds!
Spenser.

For hunger of my gold I die.
Dryden.


word: Hunger₂
definition:
Hunger

Hun"ger
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Hungered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hungering.]
[OE. hungren, AS. hyngrian. See Hunger, n.]
1.
To feel the craving or uneasiness occasioned by want of food; to be oppressed by hunger.

2.
To have an eager desire; to long.

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteouness.
Matt. v. 6.


word: Hunger-bitten
definition:
Hunger-bitten

Hunger-bit

{ Hun"ger-bit` (?), Hun"ger-bit`ten (?), }
a.
Pinched or weakened by hunger.
[Obs.]
Milton.


word: hungriness
definition:
hungriness

hungriness
n.
1.
The state of being hungry; a need for food.

Syn. -- hunger.

2.
An intense desire.


word: Hungry
definition:
Hungry

Hun"gry
(?)
a.
[Compar. Hungrier (?); superl. Hungriest.]
[AS. hungrid. See Hunger.]
1.
Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire.

2.
Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious.

The cruel, hungry foam.
C. Kingsley.

Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
Shak.

3.
Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved; as, a hungry soil.
hungry
Shak.


word: Hunk
definition:
Hunk

Hunk
(?)
n.
[Cf. Hunch.]
1.
A large lump or piece; a hunch; as, a hunk of bread.
[Colloq.]
2.
a sexually attractive, well-built man.


word: Hunker
definition:
Hunker

Hun"ker
(?)
n.
Originally, a nickname for a member of the conservative section of the Democratic party in New York; hence, one opposed to progress in general; a fogy.
[Political Cant, U.S.]


word: Hunker down
definition:
Hunker down

Hun"ker down
(?)
v.
1.
to crouch or squat; to sit on one's haunches.

2.
to settle in at a location for an extended period; --  also (figuratively) to maintain a position and resist yielding to some pressure, as of public opinion.

3.
to take shelter, literally or figuratively; to assume a defensive position to resist difficulties.
hunkered down

While many businessmen were hunkering down for another bust after the lean years of the Second World War and the Great Depression before it, Taylor and company correctly reckoned it was the dawn of an era of prosperity and growth.
Richard Siklos [Shades of Black, 1995]


word: Hunkerism
definition:
Hunkerism

Hun"ker*ism
(?)
n.
Excessive conservatism; hostility to progress.
[Political Cant, U.S.]


word: Hunkers
definition:
Hunkers

Hun"kers
(?)
n. pl.
[See Hunker.]
In the phrase on one's hunkers, in a squatting or crouching position; haunches.
[Scot. & Local, U. S.]
Sit on your hunkers -- and pray for the bridge.
Kipling.


word: Hunks
definition:
Hunks

Hunks
(?)
n.
[Etymol. uncertain.]
A covetous, sordid man; a miser; a niggard.

Pray make your bargain with all the prudence and selfishness of an old hunks.
Gray.


word: Hunky
definition:
Hunky

Hunk"y
(?)
a.
[Perh. fr. Hunk.]
All right; in a good condition; also, even; square.
[Slang, U. S.]
He . . . began to shoot; began to get “hunky” with all those people who had been plugging at him.
Stephen Crane.


word: Hunnemannia
definition:
Hunnemannia

Hunnemannia
n.
1.
A genus with only one species, the golden cup.

Syn. -- genus Hunnemania.


word: Hunnish
definition:
Hunnish

Hunnish
a.
1.
Of or pertaining to the Huns.

2.
Like the Huns; barbarous, cruel, and destructive.


word: Hunt
definition:
Hunt

Hunt
(hŭnt)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Hunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Hunting.]
[AS. huntian to hunt; cf. hentan to follow, pursue, Goth. hin_;an (in comp.) to seize. √36.  Cf. Hent.]
1.
To search for or follow after, as game or wild animals; to chase; to pursue for the purpose of catching or killing; to follow with dogs or guns for sport or exercise; as, to hunt a deer.

Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.
Tennyson.

2.
To search diligently after; to seek; to pursue; to follow; -- often with out or up; as, to hunt up the facts; to hunt out evidence.

Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
Ps. cxl. 11.

3.
To drive; to chase; -- with down, from, away, etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish.

4.
To use or manage in the chase, as hounds.

He hunts a pack of dogs.
Addison.

5.
To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country.

6.
(Change Ringing)
To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.


word: Hunt₂
definition:
Hunt

Hunt
v. i.
1.
To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds.

Esau went to the field to hunt for venison.
Gen. xxvii. 5.

2.
To seek; to pursue; to search; -- with for or after.

He after honor hunts, I after love.
Shak.

3.
(Mach.)
To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, or the like; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.

4.
(Change Ringing)
To shift up and down in order regularly.

To hunt counter, to trace the scent backward in hunting, as a hound to go back on one's steps. [Obs.] Shak.


word: Hunt₃
definition:
Hunt

Hunt
n.
1.
The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search.

The hunt is up; the morn is bright and gray.
Shak.

2.
The game secured in the hunt.
[Obs.]
Shak.

3.
A pack of hounds.
[Obs.]

4.
An association of huntsmen.

5.
A district of country hunted over.

Every landowner within the hunt.
London Field.


word: Hunt-counter
definition:
Hunt-counter

Hunt"-count`er
(?)
n.
A worthless dog that runs back on the scent; a blunderer.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: Hunter
definition:
Hunter

Hunt"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who hunts wild animals either for sport or for food; a huntsman.

2.
A dog that scents game, or is trained to the chase; a hunting dog.
Shak.

3.
A horse used in the chase; especially, a thoroughbred, bred and trained for hunting.

4.
One who hunts or seeks after anything, as if for game; as, a fortune hunter a place hunter.

No keener hunter after glory breathes.
Tennyson.

5.
(Zool.)
A kind of spider. See Hunting spider, under Hunting.

6.
A hunting watch, or one of which the crystal is protected by a metallic cover.

Hunter's room, the lunation after the harvest moon. -- Hunter's screw (Mech.), a differential screw, so named from the inventor. See under Differential.


word: Hunterian
definition:
Hunterian

Hun*te"ri*an
(?)
a.
Discovered or described by John Hunter, an English surgeon; as, the Hunterian chancre. See Chancre.


word: Hunting
definition:
Hunting

Hunt"ing
(?)
n.
The pursuit of game or of wild animals.
A. Smith.

Happy hunting grounds, the region to which, according to the belief of American Indians, the souls of warriors and hunters pass after death, to be happy in hunting and feasting. Tylor. -- Hunting box. Same As Hunting lodge (below). -- Hunting cat (Zool.), the cheetah. -- Hunting cog (Mach.), a tooth in the larger of two geared wheels which makes its number of teeth prime to the number in the smaller wheel, thus preventing the frequent meeting of the same pairs of teeth. -- Hunting dog (Zool.), the hyena dog. -- Hunting ground, a region or district abounding in game; esp. (pl.), the regions roamed over by the North American Indians in search of game. -- Hunting horn, a bulge; a horn used in the chase. See Horn, and Bulge. -- Hunting leopard (Zool.), the cheetah. -- Hunting lodge, a temporary residence for the purpose of hunting. -- Hunting seat, a hunting lodge. Gray. -- Hunting shirt, a coarse shirt for hunting, often of leather. -- Hunting spider (Zool.), a spider which hunts its prey, instead of catching it in a web; a wolf spider. -- Hunting watch. See Hunter, 6.


word: Huntsman
definition:
Huntsman

Hunts"man
(?)
n.
pl. Huntsmen (_;).
1.
One who hunts, or who practices hunting.

2.
The person whose office it is to manage the chase or to look after the hounds.
L'Estrange.

Huntsman's cup (Bot.), the sidesaddle flower, or common American pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea).


word: Huntsmanship
definition:
Huntsmanship

Hunts"man*ship
(?)
n.
The art or practice of hunting, or the qualification of a hunter.
Donne.


word: Hunt's-up
definition:
Hunt's-up

Hunt's"-up`
(?)
n.
A tune played on the horn very early in the morning to call out the hunters; hence, any arousing sound or call.
[Obs.]
Shak.

Time plays the hunt's-up to thy sleepy head.
Drayton.


word: Hurdle
definition:
Hurdle

Hur"dle
(?)
n.
[OE. hurdel, hirdel, AS. hyrdel; akin to D. horde, OHG. hurt, G. hürde a hurdle, fold, pen, Icel. hur_; door, Goth. haúrds, L. cratis wickerwork, hurdle, Gr. _;, Skr. k_;t to spin, c_;t to bind, connect. √16.  Cf. Crate, Grate, n.]
1.
A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for inclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes.

2.
In England, a sled or crate on which criminals were formerly drawn to the place of execution.
Bacon.

3.
An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which men or horses leap in a race.

Hurdle race, a race in which artificial barriers in the form of hurdles, fences, etc., must be leaped.


word: Hurdle₂
definition:
Hurdle

Hur"dle
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Hurdleed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hurdleing (?).]
To hedge, cover, make, or inclose with hurdles.
Milton.


word: Hurdy-gurdy
definition:
Hurdy-gurdy

Hur"dy-gur`dy
(?)
n.
[Prob. of imitative origin.]
1.
A stringled instrument, lutelike in shape, in which the sound is produced by the friction of a wheel turned by a crank at the end, instead of by a bow, two of the strings being tuned as drones, while two or more, tuned in unison, are modulated by keys.

2.
In California, a water wheel with radial buckets, driven by the impact of a jet.


word: Hurkaru
definition:
Hurkaru

Hur*ka"ru
(?)
n.
[Hind. harkāra]
In India, a running footman; a messenger.
[Written also hurkaroo.]


word: Hurl
definition:
Hurl

Hurl
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Hurled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hurling.]
[OE. hurlen, hourlen; prob. contracted fr. OE. hurtlen to hurtle, or probably akin to E. whirl. √16. See Hurtle.]
1.
To send whirling or whizzing through the air; to throw with violence; to drive with great force; as, to hurl a stone or lance.

And hurl'd them headlong to their fleet and main.
Pope.

2.
To emit or utter with vehemence or impetuosity; as, to hurl charges or invective.
Spenser.

3.
[Cf. Whirl.]
To twist or turn.
Hurled
[Obs.]
Fuller.


word: Hurl₂
definition:
Hurl

Hurl
v. i.
1.
To hurl one's self; to go quickly.
[R.]

2.
To perform the act of hurling something; to throw something (at another).

God shall hurl at him and not spare.
Job xxvii. 22 (Rev. Ver. ).

3.
To play the game of hurling. See Hurling.


word: Hurl₃
definition:
Hurl

Hurl
n.
1.
The act of hurling or throwing with violence; a cast; a fling.
Congreve.

2.
Tumult; riot; hurly-burly.
[Obs.]
Knolles.

3.
(Hat Manuf.)
A table on which fiber is stirred and mixed by beating with a bowspring.


word: Hurlbone
definition:
Hurlbone

Hurl"bone`
(?)
n.
1.
See Whirlbone.

2.
(Far.)
A bone near the middle of the buttock of a horse.
Crabb.


word: Hurling
definition:
Hurling

Hurl"ing
n.
1.
The act of throwing with force.

2.
A kind of game at ball, formerly played.

Hurling taketh its denomination from throwing the ball.
Carew.


word: Hurly
definition:
Hurly

Hur"ly
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. hurler to howl.]
Noise; confusion; uproar.

That, with the hurly, death itself awakes.
Shak.


word: Hurly-burly
definition:
Hurly-burly

Hur"ly-bur`ly
(?)
n.
[Reduplicated fr. OE. hurly confusion: cf. F. hurler to howl, yell, L. ululare; or cf. E. hurry.]
Tumult; bustle; confusion.
Shak.

All places were filled with tumult and hurly-burly.
Knolles.


word: Huronian
definition:
Huronian

Hu*ro"ni*an
(?)
a.
[Named from Lake Huron.]
(Geol.)
Of or pertaining to certain non-fossiliferous rocks on the borders of Lake Huron, which are supposed to correspond in time to the latter part of the Archæan age.


word: Huron-Iroquous
definition:
Huron-Iroquous

Hu"ron-Ir`o*quous"
(?)
n.
(Ethnol.)
A linguistic group of warlike North American Indians, belonging to the same stock as the Algonquins, and including several tribes, among which were the Five Nations. They formerly occupied the region about Lakes Erie and Ontario, and the larger part of New York.


word: Hurons
definition:
Hurons

Hu"rons
(?)
n. pl.
sing. Huron.
(Ethnol.)
A powerful and warlike tribe of North American Indians of the Algonquin stock. They formerly occupied the country between Lakes Huron, Erie, and Ontario, but were nearly exterminated by the Five Nations about 1650.


word: Hurr
definition:
Hurr

Hurr
(?)
v. i.
[See Hurry.]
To make a rolling or burring sound.
[Obs.]

R is the dog's letter, and hurreth in the sound.
B. Jonson.


word: Hurra
definition:
Hurra

Hurrah

{ Hur*rah" Hur*ra" }
(?)
interj.
[Cf. G., Dan., & Sw. hurra.  Cf. Huzza.]
A word used as a shout of joy, triumph, applause, encouragement, or welcome.

Hurrah! hurrah! for Ivry and Henry of Navarre.
Macaulay.


word: Hurrah
definition:
Hurrah

Hur*rah"
n.
A cheer; a shout of joy, etc.

Hurrah's nest, state of utmost confusion. [Colloq. U.S.]

A perfect hurrah's nest in our kitchen.
Mrs. Stowe.


word: Hurricane
definition:
Hurricane

Hur"ri*cane
(?)
n.
[Sp. hurracan; orig. a Carib word signifying, a high wind.]
A violent storm, characterized by extreme fury and sudden changes of the wind, and generally accompanied by rain, thunder, and lightning; -- especially prevalent in the East and West Indies. Also used figuratively.

Like the smoke in a hurricane whirl'd.
Tennyson.

Each guilty thought to me is
A dreadful hurricane.
Massinger.

Hurricane bird (Zool.), the frigate bird. -- Hurricane deck. (Naut.) See under Deck.


word: Hurricano
definition:
Hurricano

Hur`ri*ca"no
(?)
n.
pl. Hurricanoes (#).
A waterspout; a hurricane.
[Obs.]
Drayton.
hurricanoes
Shak.


word: Hurried
definition:
Hurried

Hur"ried
(?)
a.
1.
Urged on; hastened; going or working at speed; as, a hurried writer; a hurried life.

2.
Done in a hurry; hence, imperfect; careless; as, a hurried job.
hurried
Milton.


word: Hurries
definition:
Hurries

Hur"ries
(?)
n.
A staith or framework from which coal is discharged from cars into vessels.


word: Hurry
definition:
Hurry

Hur"ry
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Hurried (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hurrying.]
[OE. horien; cf. OSw. hurra to whirl round, dial. Sw. hurr great haste, Dan. hurre to buzz, Icel. hurr hurly-burly, MHG. hurren to hurry, and E. hurr, whir to hurry; all prob. of imitative origin.]
1.
To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.

Impetuous lust hurries him on.
South.

They hurried him abroad a bark.
Shak.

2.
To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.

And wild amazement hurries up and down
The little number of your doubtful friends.
Shak.

3.
To cause to be done quickly.


word: Hurry₂
definition:
Hurry

Hur"ry
v. i.
To move or act with haste; to proceed with celerity or precipitation; as, let us hurry.

To hurry up, to make haste. [Colloq.]


word: Hurry₃
definition:
Hurry

Hur"ry
n.
The act of hurrying in motion or business; pressure; urgency; bustle; confusion.

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


word: Hurry-skurry
definition:
Hurry-skurry

Hur"ry-skur`ry
(?)
adv.
[An imitative word; cf. Sw. skorra to rattle, snarl, E. scurry.]
Confusedly; in a bustle.
[Obs.]
Gray.


word: Hurst
definition:
Hurst

Hurst
(?)
n.
[OE. hurst, AS. hyrst; akin to OHG. hurst, horst, wood, thicket, G. horst the nest of a bird of prey, an eyerie, thicket.]
A wood or grove; -- a word used in the composition of many names, as in Hazlehurst.


word: Hurt
definition:
Hurt

Hurt
n.
(Mach.)
(a)
A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
(b)
A husk. See Husk, 2.


word: Hurt₂
definition:
Hurt

Hurt
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Hurt (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hurting.]
[OE. hurten, hirten, horten, herten; prob. fr. OF. hurter, heurter, to knock, thrust, strike, F. heurter; cf. W. hyrddu to push, drive, assault, hwrdd a stroke, blow, push; also, a ram, the orig. sense of the verb thus perhaps being, to butt as a ram; cf. D. horten to push, strike, MHG. hurten, both prob. fr. Old French.]
1.
To cause physical pain to; to do bodily harm to; to wound or bruise painfully.

The hurt lion groans within his den.
Dryden.

2.
To impar the value, usefulness, beauty, or pleasure of; to damage; to injure; to harm.

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt.
Milton.

3.
To wound the feelings of; to cause mental pain to; to offend in honor or self-respect; to annoy; to grieve.
hurt
Thackeray.


word: Hurter
definition:
Hurter

Hurt"er
n.
1.
A bodily injury causing pain; a wound, bruise, or the like.

The pains of sickness and hurts . . . all men feel.
Locke.

2.
An injury causing pain of mind or conscience; a slight; a stain; as of sin.

But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels.
Tennyson.

3.
Injury; damage; detriment; harm; mischief.

Thou dost me yet but little hurt.
Shak.


word: Hurter₂
definition:
Hurter

Hurt"er
(?)
n.
One who hurts or does harm.

I shall not be a hurter, if no helper.
Beau. & Fl.


word: Hurter₃
definition:
Hurter

Hurt"er
n.
[F. heurtoir, lit., a striker. See Hurt, v. t.]
A butting piece; a strengthening piece, esp.: (Mil.) A piece of wood at the lower end of a platform, designed to prevent the wheels of gun carriages from injuring the parapet.


word: Hurtful
definition:
Hurtful

Hurt"ful
(?)
a.
Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury; as, hurtful words or conduct.


word: hurting₂
definition:
hurting

hurting
adj.
1.
aching when touched.

Syn. -- sensitive, sore, tender.

2.
In distress; experiencing difficulty; as, with the dollar exchange rate so high, companies dependent on exports are really hurting.
[Colloq.]


word: Hurtle
definition:
Hurtle

Hur"tle
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Hurtled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hurtling (?).]
[OE. hurtlen, freq. of hurten. See Hurt, v. t., and cf. Hurl.]
1.
To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle.

Together hurtled both their steeds.
Fairfax.

2.
To move rapidly; to wheel or rush suddenly or with violence; to whirl round rapidly; to skirmish.

Now hurtling round, advantage for to take.
Spenser.

Down the hurtling cataract of the ages.
R. L. Stevenson.

3.
To make a threatening sound, like the clash of arms; to make a sound as of confused clashing or confusion; to resound.

The noise of battle hurtled in the air.
Shak.

The earthquake sound
Hurtling 'death the solid ground.
Mrs. Browning.


word: Hurtle₂
definition:
Hurtle

Hur"tle
(?)
v. t.
1.
To move with violence or impetuosity; to whirl; to brandish.
[Obs.]

His harmful club he gan to hurtle high.
Spenser.

2.
To push; to jostle; to hurl.

And he hurtleth with his horse adown.
Chaucer.


word: Hurtless
definition:
Hurtless

Hurt"less
(?)
a.
Doing no injury; harmless; also, unhurt; without injury or harm.

Gentle dame so hurtless and so true.
Spenser.


word: Husband
definition:
Husband

Hus"band
(?)
n.
[OE. hosebonde, husbonde, a husband, the master of the house or family, AS. h_;sbonda master of the house; h_;s house + bunda, bonda, householder, husband; prob. fr. Icel. h_;sb&omacrndi house master, husband; h_;s house + b_;andi dwelling, inhabiting, p. pr. of b_;a to dwell; akin to AS. b_;an, Goth. bauan. See House Be, and cf. Bond a slave, Boor.]
1.
The male head of a household; one who orders the economy of a family.
[Obs.]

2.
A cultivator; a tiller; a husbandman.
[Obs.]
Shak.

The painful husband, plowing up his ground.
Hakewill.

He is the neatest husband for curious ordering his domestic and field accommodations.
Evelyn.

3.
One who manages or directs with prudence and economy; a frugal person; an economist.
[R.]

God knows how little time is left me, and may I be a good husband, to improve the short remnant left me.
Fuller.

4.
A married man; a man who has a wife; -- the correlative to wife.

The husband and wife are one person in law.
Blackstone.

5.
The male of a pair of animals.
[R.]
Dryden.

A ship's husband (Naut.), an agent representing the owners of a ship, who manages its expenses and receipts.


word: Husband₂
definition:
Husband

Hus"band
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Husbanded; p. pr. & vb. n. Husbanding.]
1.
To direct and manage with frugality; to use or employ to good purpose and the best advantage; to spend, apply, or use, with economy.

For my means, I'll husband them so well,
They shall go far.
Shak.

2.
To cultivate, as land; to till.
[R.]

Land so trim and rarely husbanded.
Evelyn.

3.
To furnish with a husband.
[R.]
Shak.


word: Husbandage
definition:
Husbandage

Hus"band*age
(?)
n.
(Naut.)
The commission or compensation allowed to a ship's husband.


word: Husbandman
definition:
Husbandman

Hus"band*man
(?)
n.
pl. Husbandmen (_;).
1.
The master of a family.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

2.
A farmer; a cultivator or tiller of the ground.


word: Husbandry
definition:
Husbandry

Hus"band*ry
(?)
n.
1.
Care of domestic affairs; economy; domestic management; thrift.

There's husbandry in heaven;
Their candles are all out.
Shak.

2.
The business of a husbandman, comprehending the various branches of agriculture; farming.

Husbandry supplieth all things necessary for food.
Spenser.


word: Hush
definition:
Hush

Hush
(hŭsh)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Hushed (hŭsht); p. pr. & vb. n. Hushing.]
[OE. huschen, hussen, prob. of imitative origin; cf. LG. hussen to lull to sleep, G. husch quick, make haste, be silent.]
1.
To still; to silence; to calm; to make quiet; to repress the noise or clamor of.

My tongue shall hush again this storm of war.
Shak.

2.
To appease; to allay; to calm; to soothe.

With thou, then,
Hush my cares?
Otway.

And hush'd my deepest grief of all.
Tennyson.

To hush up, to procure silence concerning; to suppress; to keep secret. “This matter is hushed up.”  Pope.


word: Hush₂
definition:
Hush

Hush
v. i.
To become or to keep still or quiet; to become silent; -- esp. used in the imperative, as an exclamation; be still; be silent or quiet; make no noise.

Hush, idle words, and thoughts of ill.
Keble.

But all these strangers' presence every one did hush.
Spenser.


word: Hush₃
definition:
Hush

Hush
n.
Stillness; silence; quiet.
[R.]
hush
Byron.

Hush money, money paid to secure silence, or to prevent the disclosure of facts. Swift.


word: hushed
definition:
hushed

hushed
(hŭsht)
adj.
1.
having the sound level reduced; -- especially used of the noise of conversation; as, speaking in hushed tones.

Syn. -- muted.

2.
having relatively little noise; as, a hushed church.

Syn. -- quiet.


word: hushed-up
definition:
hushed-up

hushed-up
adj.
kept secret; -- used of reports; as, hushed-up stories sometimes leak out.


word: Hushing
definition:
Hushing

Hush"ing
n.
(Mining)
The process of washing ore, or of uncovering mineral veins, by a heavy discharge of water from a reservoir; flushing; -- also called booming and hydraulic mining.


word: Husk
definition:
Husk

Husk
(hŭsk)
n.
[Prob. for hulsk, and from the same root as hull a husk. See Hull a husk.]
1.
The external covering or envelope of certain fruits or seeds; glume; hull; rind; in the United States, especially applied to the covering of the ears of maize.

2.
The supporting frame of a run of millstones.

Husks of the prodigal son (Bot.), the pods of the carob tree. See Carob.


word: Husk₂
definition:
Husk

Husk
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Husked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Husking.]
To strip off the external covering or envelope of; as, to husk Indian corn.


word: Huskiness
definition:
Huskiness

Hus"ki*ness
n.
1.
The state of being husky.

2.
Roughness of sound; harshness; hoarseness; as, huskiness of voice.
G. Eliot.


word: Husking
definition:
Husking

Husk"ing
(?)
n.
1.
The act or process of stripping off husks, as from Indian corn.

2.
A meeting of neighbors or friends to assist in husking maize; -- called also
husking bee
[U.S.]
husking
Longfellow.


word: Husky₂
definition:
Husky

Hus"ky
(?)
a.
[Prob. for husty; cf. OE. host cough, AS. hw&omacrsta; akin to D. hoest, G. husten, OHG. huosto, Icel. h&omacrsti. See Wheeze.]
Rough in tone; harsh; hoarse; raucous; as, a husky voice.


word: Husky₃
definition:
Husky

Hus"ky
(?)
a.
Powerful; strong; burly.
[Colloq., U. S.]
A good, husky man to pitch in the barnyard.
Hamlin Garland.


word: Husky₄
definition:
Husky

Hus"ky
(?)
n.
pl. -kies (#)
[Cf. Eskimo.]
1.
An Eskimo.
[archaic]

2.
The Eskimo language.
[archaic]

3.
an Eskimo dog, especially a breed of strong heavy-coated dogs used to pull dogsleds in the Northern regions of North America.


word: Huso
definition:
Huso

Hu"so
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. G. hausen, and E. isinglass.]
(Zool.)
(a)
A large European sturgeon (Huso huso or Acipenser huso), inhabiting the region of the Black and Caspian Seas. It sometimes attains a length of more than twelve feet, and a weight of two thousand pounds. Called also hausen and beluga.  It is the source of the finest and most esteemed caviar.
(b)
The huchen, a large salmon.


word: Hussar
definition:
Hussar

Hus*sar"
(?)
n.
[Hung. huszár, from husz twenty, because under King Matthais I., in the fifteenth century, every twenty houses were to furnish one horse soldier; cf. G. husar, F. houssard, hussard, from the same source.]
(Mil.)
Originally, one of the national cavalry of Hungary and Croatia; now, one of the light cavalry of European armies.


word: Hussite
definition:
Hussite

Huss"ite
(?)
n.
(Eccl. Hist.)
A follower of John Huss, the Bohemian reformer, who was adjudged a heretic and burnt alive in 1415.


word: Hussy
definition:
Hussy

Hus"sy
(?)
n.
[Contr. fr. huswife.]
1.
A housewife or housekeeper.
[Obs.]

2.
A worthless woman or girl; a forward wench; a jade; -- used as a term of contempt or reproach.
Grew.

3.
A pert girl; a frolicsome or sportive young woman; -- used jocosely.
Goldsmith.


word: Hussy₂
definition:
Hussy

Hus"sy
n.
[From Icel. h_;si a case, prob. fr. h_;s house. See House, and cf. Housewife a bag, Huswife a bag.]
A case or bag. See Housewife, 2.


word: Hustings
definition:
Hustings

Hus"tings
(?)
n. pl.
[OE. husting an assembly, coucil, AS. h_;sting; of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. h_;s_;ing; h_;s home + _;ing thing, assembly, meeting; akin to Dan. & Sw. ting, E. thing. See House, and Thing.]
1.
A court formerly held in several cities of England; specif., a court held in London, before the lord mayor, recorder, and sheriffs, to determine certain classes of suits for the recovery of lands within the city. In the progress of law reform this court has become unimportant.
Mozley & W.

2.
Any one of the temporary courts held for the election of members of the British Parliament.

3.
The platform on which candidates for Parliament formerly stood in addressing the electors.
[Eng.]

When the rotten hustings shake
In another month to his brazen lies.
Tennyson.


word: Hustle
definition:
Hustle

Hus"tle
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Hustled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hustling (?).]
[D. hustelen to shake, fr. husten to shake.  Cf. Hotchpotch.]
To shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly; as, to hustle a person out of a room.
Macaulay.


word: Hustle₂
definition:
Hustle

Hus"tle
v. i.
To push or crows; to force one's way; to move hustily and with confusion; a hurry.

Leaving the king, who had hustled along the floor with his dress worfully arrayed.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Huswife
definition:
Huswife

Hus"wife
(?)
n.
[OE. huswif; hus house + wif wife.  Cf. Hussy a housewife, Housewife.]
[Written also housewife.]
1.
A female housekeeper; a woman who manages domestic affairs; a thirfty woman.
huswife
Shak.

The huswife is she that do labor doth fall.
Tusser.

2.
A worthless woman; a hussy.
[Obs.]
Shak.

3.
[See Hussy a bag.]
A case for sewing materials. See Housewife.
Cowper.


word: Huswifely
definition:
Huswifely

Hus"wife*ly
a.
Like a huswife; capable; economical; prudent.
adv. In a huswifely manner.


word: Huswifery
definition:
Huswifery

Hus"wife*ry
(?)
n.
The business of a housewife; female domestic economy and skill.
Tusser.


word: Hut
definition:
Hut

Hut
(?)
n.
[OE. hotte; akin to D. hut, G. hütte, OHG. hutta, Dan. hytte, Sw. hydda; and F. hutte, of G. origin; all akin to E. hide to conceal. See Hude to conceal.]
A small house, hivel, or cabin; a mean lodge or dwelling; a slightly built or temporary structure.

Death comes on with equal footsteps
To the hall and hut
Bp. Coxe.


word: Hutch
definition:
Hutch

Hutch
(?)
v. t. & i.
[imp. & p. p. Hutted (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hutting.]
To place in huts; to live in huts; as, to hut troops in winter quarters.

The troops hutted among the heights of Morristown.
W. Irving.


word: Hutch₂
definition:
Hutch

Hutch
(?)
n.
[OE. hucche, huche, hoche, F. huche, LL. hutica.]
1.
A chest, box, coffer, bin, coop, or the like, in which things may be stored, or animals kept; as, a grain hutch; a rabbit hutch.

2.
A measure of two Winchester bushels.

3.
(Mining)
The case of a flour bolt.

4.
(Mining)
(a)
A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.
(b)
A jig for washing ore.

Bolting hutch, Booby hutch, etc. See under Bolting, etc.


word: Hutch₃
definition:
Hutch

Hutch
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Hutched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hutching.]
1.
To hoard or lay up, in a chest.
[R.]
hutched
Milton.

2.
(Mining)
To wash (ore) in a box or jig.


word: Hutchunsonian
definition:
Hutchunsonian

Hutch`un*so"ni*an
(?)
n.
A follower of John Hutchinson of Yorkshire, England, who believed that the Hebrew Scriptures contained a complete system of natural science and of theology.


word: Huttonian
definition:
Huttonian

Hut*to"ni*an
(?)
a.
Relating to what is now called the Plutonic theory of the earth, first advanced by Dr. James Hutton.
Lyell.


word: Huttoning
definition:
Huttoning

Hut"ton*ing
(?)
n.
[So named after two English bonesetters, Richard and Robert Hutton, who made it a part of their method.]
(Med.)
Forcible manipulation of a dislocated, stiff, or painful joint.


word: Huyghenian
definition:
Huyghenian

Huy*ghe"ni*an
(?)
a.
Pertaining to, or invented by, Christian Huyghens, a Dutch astronomer of the seventeenth century; as, the Huyghenian telescope.

Huyghenian eyepieceSee under Eyepiece.


word: Huzz
definition:
Huzz

Huzz
(?)
v. i.
[An onomatopœa. √43.  Cf. Buzz.]
To buzz; to murmur.
[Obs.]

Huzzing and burring in the preacher's ear.
Latimer.


word: Huzza
definition:
Huzza

Huz*za"
(?)
interj.
[Cf. G. hussa, husa, interj., hurrah, huzza. √43.  Cf. Hurrah.]
A word used as a shout of joy, exultation, approbation, or encouragement.


word: Huzza₃
definition:
Huzza

Huz*za"
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Huzzaed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Huzzaing.]
To shout huzza; to cheer.


word: Hyacinth
definition:
Hyacinth

Hy"a*cinth
(?)
n.
[L. hyacinthus a kind of flower, prob. the iris, gladiolus, or larkspur, also a kind of gem, perh. the sapphire; as, a proper name, Hyacinthus, a beautiful Laconian youth, beloved by Apollo, fr. Gr. _;, _;: cf. F. hyacinthe.  Cf. Jacinth. The hyacinth was fabled to have sprung from the blood of Hyacinthus, who was accidentally slain by Apollo.]
1.
(Bot.)
(a)
A bulbous plant of the genus Hyacinthus, bearing beautiful spikes of fragrant flowers. Hyacinthus orientalis is a common variety.
(b)
A plant of the genus Camassia (Camassia Farseri), called also Eastern camass; wild hyacinth.
(c)
The name also given to Scilla Peruviana, a Mediterranean plant, one variety of which produces white, and another blue, flowers; -- called also, from a mistake as to its origin, Hyacinth of Peru.

2.
(Min.)
A red variety of zircon, sometimes used as a gem. See Zircon.

Hyacinth bean (Bot.), a climbing leguminous plant (Dolichos Lablab), related to the true bean. It has dark purple flowers and fruit.


word: Hyacinthine
definition:
Hyacinthine

Hy`a*cin"thine
(?)
a.
[L. hyacinthinus, Gr. _;.]
Belonging to the hyacinth; resembling the hyacinth; in color like the hyacinth.
Milton.

His curling locks like hyacinthine flowers.
Cowper.

The hyacinthine boy, for whom
Morn well might break and April bloom.
Emerson.


word: Hyades
definition:
Hyades

Hyades
n.
(Greek mythology)
The seven daughters of Atlas and half-sisters of the Pleiades; they nurtured the infant Dionysus and Zeus placed them among the stars as a reward.


word: Hyads
definition:
Hyads

Hyades

{ Hy"a*des (?), Hy"ads (?), }
n. pl.
[L. Hyades, Gr. _;.]
(Astron.)
A cluster of five stars in the face of the constellation Taurus, supposed by the ancients to indicate the coming of rainy weather when they rose with the sun.

Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades
Vext the dim sea.
Tennyson.


word: Hyaenidae
definition:
Hyaenidae

Hyaenidae
prop. n.
A natural family of canids comprising the hyenas.

Syn. -- family Hyaenidae.


word: Hyalea
definition:
Hyalea

Hy*a"le*a
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; glassy, fr. "y`alos glass.]
(Zool.)
A pteropod of the genus Cavolina. See Pteropoda, and Illustration in Appendix.


word: Hyalescence
definition:
Hyalescence

Hy`a*les"cence
(?)
n.
[See Hyaline.]
The process of becoming, or the state of being, transparent like glass.


word: hyalin
definition:
hyalin

hyalin
n.
a glassy translucent material that occurs in hyaline cartilage or in certain skin conditions.

Syn. -- hyaline.


word: Hyaline
definition:
Hyaline

Hy"a*line
(?)
a.
[L. hyalinus, Gr. _;, fr. "y`alos glass: cf. F. hyalin.]
Glassy; resembling glass; consisting of glass; transparent, like crystal.
Hyaline
Carpenter.


word: Hyaline₂
definition:
Hyaline

Hy"a*line
n.
1.
A poetic term for the sea or the atmosphere.
hyaline
Milton.

Our blood runs amazed 'neath the calm hyaline.
Mrs. Browning.

2.
(Biol.)
The pellucid substance, present in cells in process of development, from which, according to some embryologists, the cell nucleus originates.

3.
(Physiol. Chem.)
The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible of alcoholic fermentation.
Gamgee.


word: Hyalite
definition:
Hyalite

Hy"a*lite
(?)
n.
[Gr. "y`alos glass: cf. F. hyalite.]
(Min.)
A pellucid variety of opal in globules looking like colorless gum or resin; -- called also Müller's glass.


word: Hyalograph
definition:
Hyalograph

Hy*al"o*graph
(?)
n.
[Gr. "y`alos glass + graph.]
An instrument for tracing designs on glass.


word: Hyaloid
definition:
Hyaloid

Hy"a*loid
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; glassy, transparent; "y`alos glass + _; appearance: cf. F. hyaloïde.]
(Anat.)
Resembling glass; vitriform; transparent; hyaline; as, the hyaloid membrane, a very delicate membrane inclosing the vitreous humor of the eye.


word: Hyalonema
definition:
Hyalonema

Hy`a*lo*ne"ma
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. "y`alos glass + _; a thread.]
(Zool.)
A genus of hexactinelline sponges, having a long stem composed of very long, slender, transparent, siliceous fibres twisted together like the strands of a color.  The stem of the Japanese species (Hyalonema Sieboldii), called glass-rope, has long been in use as an ornament. See Glass-rope.


word: Hyalophane
definition:
Hyalophane

Hy*al"o*phane
(?)
n.
[Gr. "y`alos glass + _; to appear.]
(Min.)
A species of the feldspar group containing barium. See Feldspar.


word: Hyalospongia
definition:
Hyalospongia

Hy`a*lo*spon"gi*a
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. "y`alos glass + _; a sponge.]
(Zool.)
An order of vitreous sponges, having glassy six-rayed, siliceous spicules; -- called also Hexactinellinæ.


word: Hyalotype
definition:
Hyalotype

Hy*al"o*type
(?)
n.
[Gr. "y`alos glass + -type.]
A photographic picture copied from the negative on glass; a photographic transparency.
R. Hunt.


word: Hybernation
definition:
Hybernation

Hybernate

Hybernacle

{ Hy*ber"na*cle (?), Hy"ber*nate (?), Hy`ber*na"tion (?). }
See Hibernacle, Hibernate, Hibernation.


word: Hyblaean
definition:
Hyblaean

Hy*blæ"an
(?)
a.
[L. Hyblaeus.]
Pertaining to Hybla, an ancient town of Sicily, famous for its bees.


word: Hybodont
definition:
Hybodont

Hyb"o*dont
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; hump + _;, _;, a tooth.]
(Paleon.)
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an extinct genus of sharks (Hybodus), especially in the form of the teeth, which consist of a principal median cone with smaller lateral ones.


word: Hybodus
definition:
Hybodus

Hyb"o*dus
(?)
n.
[NL. See Hybodont.]
(Paleon.)
An extinct genus of sharks having conical, compressed teeth.


word: Hybrid
definition:
Hybrid

Hy"brid
(?)
n.
[L. hybrida, hibrida, prob. allied to Gr. _; wantonness (as if unbridled, lawless, unnatural), perh. akin to Gr. "ype`r over, E. over: cf. F. hybride.]
1.
(Biol.)
The offspring of the union of two animals or plants derived from recognizably different genetic lines, as two distinct species, or two strains of the same species with known genetic differences; an animal or plant produced from the mixture of two genetic lines. See Mongrel.

2.
(Philol.)
A word composed of elements which belong to different languages.

3.
anything derived by a mixture of components or characteristics from two distinctly different sources; as, a musical hybrid; a DNA-RNA hybrid.


word: Hybrid₂
definition:
Hybrid

Hy"brid
a.
1.
Produced from the mixture of two genetically distinct strains; as, plants of hybrid nature.

2.
derived by a mixture of characteristics from two distinctly different sources; as, a hybrid musical style; a hybrid DNA molecule.


word: Hybridizable
definition:
Hybridizable

Hy"brid*i`za*ble
(?)
a.
Capable of forming a hybrid, or of being subjected to a hybridizing process; capable of producing a hybrid by union with another species or stock.

Hybridizable genera are rarer than is generally supposed, even in gardens where they are so often operated upon, under circumstances most favorable to the production of hybrids.
J. D. Hooker.


word: Hybridize
definition:
Hybridize

Hy"brid*i`ze
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Hybridized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hybridizing (?).]
To render hybrid; to produce by mixture of stocks.


word: Hydantoin
definition:
Hydantoin

Hy*dan"to*in
(?)
n.
[Hydrogen + allantion.]
(Chem.)
A derivative of urea, C3H4N2O2, obtained from allantion, as a white, crystalline substance, with a sweetish taste; -- called also glycolyl urea.


word: Hydatid
definition:
Hydatid

Hy"da*tid
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;, _;, a watery vesicle under the upper eyelid, fr. "y`dwr, "y`datos, water: cf. F. hydatide.]
(Zool.)
A membranous sac or bladder filled with a pellucid fluid, found in various parts of the bodies of animals, but unconnected with the tissues. It is usually formed by parasitic worms, esp. by larval tapeworms, as Echinococcus and Cœnurus. See these words in the Vocabulary.

Hydatid of Morgagni (Anat.), one of the small pedunculated bodies found between the testicle and the head of the epididymis, and supposed to be a remnant of the Müllerian duct.


word: Hydatoid
definition:
Hydatoid

Hy"da*toid
(?)
a.
[Gr. "y`dwr, "y`datos, water + -oid.]
(Anat.)
Resembling water; watery; aqueous; hyaloid.


word: Hydra
definition:
Hydra

Hy"dra
(?)
n.
pl. E. Hydras (#), L. Hydræ (#).
[L. hydra, Gr. "y`dra; akin to "y`dwr water. See Otter the animal, Water.]
1.
(Class. Myth.)
A serpent or monster in the lake or marsh of Lerna, in the Peloponnesus, represented as having many heads, one of which, when cut off, was immediately succeeded by two others, unless the wound was cauterized. It was slain by Hercules. Hence, a terrible monster.

Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire.
Milton.

2.
Hence: A multifarious evil, or an evil having many sources; not to be overcome by a single effort.

3.
(Zool.)
Any small fresh-water hydroid of the genus Hydra, usually found attached to sticks, stones, etc., by a basal sucker.

&hand_; The body is a simple tube, having a mouth at one extremity, surrounded by a circle of tentacles with which it captures its prey. Young hydras bud out from the sides of the older ones, but soon become detached and are then like their parent. Hydras are remarkable for their power of repairing injuries; for if the body be divided in pieces, each piece will grow into a complete hydra, to which fact the name alludes. The zooids or hydranths of marine hydroids are sometimes called hydras.

4.
(Astron.)
A southern constellation of great length lying southerly from Cancer, Leo, and Virgo.


word: Hydrachnid
definition:
Hydrachnid

Hy*drach"nid
(?)
n.
[Hydr- + arachnid.]
(Zool.)
An aquatic mite of the genus Hydrachna. The hydrachnids, while young, are parasitic on fresh-water mussels.


word: Hydracid
definition:
Hydracid

Hy*drac"id
(?)
n.
[Hydr- + acid: cf. F. hydracide.]
(Chem.)
An acid containing hydrogen; -- sometimes applied to distinguish acids like hydrochloric, hydrofluoric, and the like, which contain no oxygen, from the oxygen acids or oxacids. See Acid.


word: Hydracrylic
definition:
Hydracrylic

Hy`dra*cryl"ic
(?)
a.
[Hydr- + acrylic.]
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or designating, an isomeric variety of lactic acid that breaks down into acrylic acid and water.


word: Hydractinian
definition:
Hydractinian

Hy`drac*tin"i*an
(?)
n.
[See Hydra, and Actinia.]
(Zool.)
Any species or marine hydroids, of the genus Hydractinia and allied genera. These hydroids form, by their rootstalks, a firm, chitinous coating on shells and stones, and esp. on spiral shells occupied by hermit crabs. See Illust. of Athecata.


word: Hydraemia
definition:
Hydraemia

Hy*dræ"mi*a
(hi̝*drē"mĭ*ȧ)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. "y`dwr water + a"i^ma blood.]
(Med.)
An abnormally watery state of the blood; anæmia.


word: Hydragogue
definition:
Hydragogue

Hy"dra*gogue
(?)
a.
[L. hydragogus conveying off water, Gr. _;; "y`dwr water + _; to lead: cf. F. hydragogue.]
(Med.)
Causing a discharge of water; expelling serum effused into any part of the body, as in dropsy.
n. A hydragogue medicine, usually a cathartic or diuretic.


word: Hydramide
definition:
Hydramide

Hy*dram"ide
(?)
n.
[Hydr- + -amide.]
(Chem.)
One of a group of crystalline bodies produced by the action of ammonia on certain aldehydes.


word: Hydramine
definition:
Hydramine

Hy*dram"ine
(?)
n.
[Hydroxyl + amine.]
(Chem.)
One of a series of artificial, organic bases, usually produced as thick viscous liquids by the action of ammonia on ethylene oxide. They have the properties both of alcohol and amines.


word: Hydrangea
definition:
Hydrangea

Hy*dran"ge*a
(?)
peop. n.
[NL., fr. Gr. "y`dwr water + _; vessel, capsule: cf. F. hydrangée.]
(Bot.)
A genus of shrubby plants bearing opposite leaves and large heads of showy flowers, white, or of various colors. Hydrangea hortensis, the common garden species, is a native of China or Japan.


word: Hydrangeaceae
definition:
Hydrangeaceae

Hydrangeaceae
prop. n.
A natural family of plants including the hydrangeas, sometimes included in the family Saxifragaceae.

Syn. -- family Hydrangeaceae, hydrangea family.


word: Hydrant
definition:
Hydrant

Hy"drant
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; to irrigate, fr. "y`dwr water. See Hydra.]
A discharge pipe with a valve and spout at which water may be drawn from the mains of waterworks; a water plug.


word: Hydranth
definition:
Hydranth

Hy"dranth
(?)
n.
[Hydra + Gr. _; a flower.]
(Zool.)
One of the nutritive zooids of a hydroid colony. Also applied to the proboscis or manubrium of a hydroid medusa. See Illust. of Hydroidea.


word: Hydrargochloride
definition:
Hydrargochloride

Hy*drar"go*chlo"ride
(?)
n.
[Hydrargyrum + chloride.]
(Chem.)
A compound of the bichloride of mercury with another chloride.
[Obs.]


word: Hydrargyrate
definition:
Hydrargyrate

Hy*drar"gy*rate
(hi̝*drär"jĭ*ra̝t)
a.
Of or pertaining to mercury; containing, or impregnated with, mercury.
[R.]


word: Hydrargyrism
definition:
Hydrargyrism

Hy*drar"gy*rism
(hi̝*drär"jĭ*rĭz'm)
n.
(Med.)
A diseased condition produced by poisoning with hydrargyrum, or mercury; mercurialism.


word: Hydrargyrum
definition:
Hydrargyrum

Hy*drar"gy*rum
(hi̝*drär"jĭ*rŭm)
n.
[NL., fr. L. hydrargyrus, Gr. "ydra`rgyros; "y`dwr water + 'a`rgyros silver.]
(Chem.)
Quicksilver; mercury.


word: Hydrarthrosis
definition:
Hydrarthrosis

Hy`drar*thro"sis
(?)
n.
[NL. See Hydro-, 1, and Arthrosis.]
(Med.)
An effusion of watery liquid into the cavity of a joint.


word: Hydrastine
definition:
Hydrastine

Hy*dras"tine
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
An alkaloid, found in the rootstock of the golden seal (Hydrastis Canadensis), and extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance. It is used as a tonic and febrifuge.


word: Hydra-tainted
definition:
Hydra-tainted

Hy"dra-taint`ed
(?)
a.
Dipped in the gall of the fabulous hydra; poisonous; deadly.
Cowper.


word: Hydrate
definition:
Hydrate

Hy"drate
(?)
n.
[Gr. "y`dwr water: cf. F. hydrate.]
(Chem.)
(a)
A compound formed by the union of water with some other substance, generally forming a neutral body, as certain crystallized salts.
(b)
A substance which does not contain water as such, but has its constituents (hydrogen, oxygen, hydroxyl) so arranged that water may be eliminated; hence, a derivative of, or compound with, hydroxyl; hydroxide; as, ethyl hydrate, or common alcohol; calcium hydrate, or slaked lime.


word: Hydrate₂
definition:
Hydrate

Hy"drate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Hydrated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hydrating (?).]
To form into a hydrate; to combine with water.


word: Hydration
definition:
Hydration

Hy*dra"tion
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
The act of becoming, or state of being, a hydrate.

Water of hydration (Chem.), water chemically combined with some substance to form a hydrate; -- distinguished from water of crystallization.


word: Hydraulic
definition:
Hydraulic

Hy*drau"lic
(?)
a.
[F. hydraulique, L. hydraulicus, fr. Gr. _;, _;, a water organ; "y`dwr water + _; flute, pipe. See Hydra.]
Of or pertaining to hydraulics, or to fluids in motion; conveying, or acting by, water; as, an hydraulic clock, crane, or dock.

Hydraulic accumulator, an accumulator for hydraulic machinery of any kind. See Accumulator, 2. -- Hydraulic brake, a cataract. See Cataract, 3. -- Hydraulic cement, a cement or mortar made of hydraulic lime, which will harden under water. -- Hydraulic elevator, a lift operated by the weight or pressure of water. -- Hydraulic jack. See under Jack. -- Hydraulic lime, quicklime obtained from hydraulic limestone, and used for cementing under water, etc. -- Hydraulic limestone, a limestone which contains some clay, and which yields a quicklime that will set, or form a firm, strong mass, under water. -- Hydraulic main (Gas Works), a horizontal pipe containing water at the bottom into which the ends of the pipes from the retorts dip, for passing the gas through water in order to remove ammonia. -- Hydraulic mining, a system of mining in which the force of a jet of water is used to wash down a bank of gold-bearing gravel or earth. [Pacific Coast] -- Hydraulic press, a hydrostatic press. See under Hydrostatic. -- Hydraulic propeller, a device for propelling ships by means of a stream of water ejected under water rearward from the ship. -- Hydraulic ram, a machine for raising water by means of the energy of the moving water of which a portion is to be raised. When the rush of water through the main pipe d shuts the valve at a, the momentum of the current thus suddenly checked forces part of it into the air chamber b, and up the pipe c, its return being prevented by a valve at the entrance to the air chamber, while the dropping of the valve a by its own weight allows another rush through the main pipe, and so on alternately. -- Hydraulic valve. (Mach.) (a) A valve for regulating the distribution of water in the cylinders of hydraulic elevators, cranes, etc. (b) (Gas Works) An inverted cup with a partition dipping into water, for opening or closing communication between two gas mains, the open ends of which protrude about the water.


word: Hydraulicon
definition:
Hydraulicon

Hy*drau"li*con
(?)
n.
[NL. See Hydraulic.]
(Mus.)
An ancient musical instrument played by the action of water; a water organ.
[Written also hydraulis.]


word: Hydraulics
definition:
Hydraulics

Hy*drau"lics
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. hydraulique.]
That branch of science, or of engineering, which treats of fluids in motion, especially of water, its action in rivers and canals, the works and machinery for conducting or raising it, its use as a prime mover, and the like.

&hand_; As a science, hydraulics includes hydrodynamics, or the principles of mechanics applicable to the motion of water; as a branch of engineering, it consists in the practical application of the mechanics of fluids to the control and management of water with reference to the wants of man, including canals, waterworks, hydraulic machines, pumps, water wheels, etc. Some writers treat hydraulics and hydrostatics as subdivisions of hydrodynamics.


word: Hydrazine
definition:
Hydrazine

Hy"dra*zine
(?)
n.
[Hydr- + azo- + -ine.]
(Chem.)
Any one of a series of nitrogenous bases, resembling the amines and produced by the reduction of certain nitroso and diazo compounds; as, methyl hydrazine, phenyl hydrazine, etc.  They are derivatives of hydrazine proper, H2N.NH2, which is a doubled amido group, recently (1887) isolated as a stable, colorless gas, with a peculiar, irritating odor. As a base it forms distinct salts. Called also diamide, amidogen, (or more properly diamidogen), etc.


word: Hydrencephsloid
definition:
Hydrencephsloid

Hy"dren*ceph"s*loid
(?)
a.
[Hydrencephalus + -oid.]
(Med.)
Same as Hydrocephaloid.


word: Hydria
definition:
Hydria

Hy"dri*a
(?)
n.
[L., fr. Gr. _;.]
(Gr. Antiq.)
A water jar; esp., one with a large rounded body, a small neck, and three handles. Some of the most beautiful Greek vases are of this form.


word: Hydric
definition:
Hydric

Hy"dric
(?)
a.
[From Hydrogen.]
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or containing, hydrogen; as, hydric oxide.

Hydric dioxide. (Chem.) See Hydrogen dioxide, under Hydrogen. -- Hydric oxide (Chem.), water. -- Hydric sulphate (Chem.), hydrogen sulphate or sulphuric acid.


word: Hydride
definition:
Hydride

Hy"dride
(?)
n.
[Hydr- + ide.]
(Chem.)
A compound of the binary type, in which hydrogen is united with some other element.
lith"i*um hy"dride (?), n. (Chem.) A hydride of lithium, LiH, commonly used as a powerful reducing agent in organic chemistry.


word: Hydrina
definition:
Hydrina

Hy*dri"na
(?)
n. pl.
[NL. See Hydra.]
(Zool.)
The group of hydroids to which the fresh-water hydras belong.


word: Hydriodic
definition:
Hydriodic

Hy`dri*od"ic
(?)
a.
[Hydr- + iodic: cf. F. hydriodique.]
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or derived from, hydrogen and iodine; -- said of an acid (HI) produced by the combination of these elements.

Hydriodic acid (Chem.), a pungent, colorless gas, HI, usually prepared as a solution in water. It is strong reducing agent. Called also hydrogen iodide.


word: Hydriodide
definition:
Hydriodide

Hy*dri"o*dide
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A compound of hydriodic acid with a base; -- distinguished from an iodide, in which only the iodine combines with the base.


word: Hydro
definition:
Hydro

Hy"dro
(?)
n.
1.
A hydro-aëroplane.
[obsolescent]

2.
hydroelectric power; -- also used attributively.


word: Hydr-₂
definition:
Hydr-

Hydro-

{ Hy"dro- (?), Hy"dr-. }
1.
A combining form from Gr. _;, _;, water (see Hydra).

2.
(Chem.)
A combining form of hydrogen, indicating hydrogen as an ingredient, as hydrochloric; or a reduction product obtained by hydrogen, as hydroquinone.


word: Hydro-aeroplane
definition:
Hydro-aeroplane

Hy"dro-a"ër*o*plane`
(Aëronautics)
An aëroplane with a boatlike or other understructure that enables it to travel on, or to rise from the surface of, a body of water by its own motive power; -- now usually referred to as a seaplane.
[obsolescent]


word: Hydrobarometer
definition:
Hydrobarometer

Hy`dro*ba*rom"e*ter
(?)
n.
[Hydro-, 1 + barometer.]
An instrument for determining the depth of the sea water by its pressure.


word: Hydrobilirubin
definition:
Hydrobilirubin

Hy`dro*bil`i*ru"bin
(?)
n.
[Hydro-, 2 + bilirubin.]
(Physiol. Chem.)
A body formed from bilirubin, identical with urobilin.


word: Hydrobranchiata
definition:
Hydrobranchiata

Hy`dro*bran`chi*a"ta
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. "y`dwr water + _; gills.]
(Zool.)
An extensive artificial division of gastropod mollusks, including those that breathe by gills, as contrasted with the Pulmonifera.
Hy`dro*bran"chi*ate (#), a.


word: Hydrobromic
definition:
Hydrobromic

Hy`dro*bro"mic
(?)
a.
[Hydro-, 2 + bromic.]
(Chem.)
Composed of hydrogen and bromine; as, hydrobromic acid.

Hydrobromic acid (Chem.), a colorless, pungent, corrosive gas, HBr, usually collected as a solution in water. It resembles hydrochloric acid, but is weaker and less stable. Called also hydrogen bromide.


word: Hydrobromide
definition:
Hydrobromide

Hy`dro*bro"mide
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A compound of hydrobromic acid with a base; -- distinguished from a bromide, in which only the bromine unites with the base.


word: Hydrocarbon
definition:
Hydrocarbon

Hy`dro*car"bon
(?)
n.
[Hydro-, 2 + carbon.]
(Chem.)
A compound containing only hydrogen and carbon, as methane, benzene, etc.; also, by extension, any of their derivatives.

Hydrocarbon burner, furnace, stove, a burner, furnace, or stove with which liquid fuel, as petroleum, is used.


word: Hydrocarbonate
definition:
Hydrocarbonate

Hy`dro*car"bon*ate
(?)
n.
(a)
(Old Chem.)
A hydrocarbon.
[Obs.]
(b)
(Chem.)
A hydrous carbonate, as malachite.


word: Hydrocarbostyril
definition:
Hydrocarbostyril

Hy`dro*car`bo*sty"ril
(?)
n.
[Hydro-, 2 + carbostyril.]
(Chem.)
A white, crystalline, nitrogenous hydrocarbon, C9H9NO, obtained from certain derivatives of cinnamic acid and closely related to quinoline and carbostyril.


word: Hydrocarburet
definition:
Hydrocarburet

Hy`dro*car"bu*ret
(?)
n.
[Hydro-, 2 + carburet.]
(Chem.)
Carbureted hydrogen; also, a hydrocarbon.
[Obs.]


word: Hydrocaulus
definition:
Hydrocaulus

Hy`dro*cau"lus
(?)
n.
pl. Hydrocauli (#).
[NL., fr. Gr. "y`dwr water + _; a stalk.]
(Zool.)
The hollow stem of a hydroid, either simple or branched. See Illust. of Gymnoblastea and Hydroidea.


word: Hydrocele
definition:
Hydrocele

Hy`dro*cele
(?)
n.
[L., fr. Gr. _;; "y`dwr water + _; tumor.]
(Med.)
A collection of serous fluid in the areolar texture of the scrotum or in the coverings, especially in the serous sac, investing the testicle or the spermatic cord; dropsy of the testicle.


word: Hydrocephalic
definition:
Hydrocephalic

Hy`dro*ce*phal"ic
(?)
a.
Relating to, or connected with, hydrocephalus, or dropsy of the brain.


word: Hydrocephaloid
definition:
Hydrocephaloid

Hy`dro*ceph"a*loid
(?)
a.
[Hydrocephalus + -oid.]
(Med.)
Resembling hydrocephalus.

Hydrocephaloid affection (Med.), the group of symptoms which follow exhausting diarrhea in young children, resembling those of acute hydrocephalus, or tubercular meningitis.


word: Hydrocephalus
definition:
Hydrocephalus

Hy`dro*ceph"a*lus
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; hydrocephalus; "y`dwr water + _; head.]
(Med.)
An accumulation of liquid within the cavity of the cranium, especially within the ventricles of the brain; dropsy of the brain. It is due usually to tubercular meningitis. When it occurs in infancy, it often enlarges the head enormously.


word: Hydrochloric
definition:
Hydrochloric

Hy`dro*chlo"ric
(?)
a.
[Hydro-, 2 + chloric: cf. F. hydrochlorique.]
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or compounded of, chlorine and hydrogen gas; as, hydrochloric acid; chlorhydric.

Hydrochloric acid (Chem.), hydrogen chloride; a colorless, corrosive gas, HCl, of pungent, suffocating odor. It is made in great quantities in the soda process, by the action of sulphuric acid on common salt. It has a great affinity for water, and the commercial article is a strong solution of the gas in water. It is a typical acid, and is an indispensable agent in commercial and general chemical work. Called also muriatic acid and chlorhydric acid.


word: Hydrochloride
definition:
Hydrochloride

Hy`dro*chlo"ride
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A compound of hydrochloric acid with a base; -- distinguished from a chloride, where only chlorine unites with the base.


word: Hydrocorallia
definition:
Hydrocorallia

Hy`dro*co*ral"li*a
(?)
n. pl.
[NL. See Hydra, and Coral.]
(Zool.)
A division of Hydroidea, including those genera that secrete a stony coral, as Millepora and Stylaster. Two forms of zooids in life project from small pores in the coral and resemble those of other hydroids. See Millepora.


word: Hydrocyanic
definition:
Hydrocyanic

Hy`dro*cy*an"ic
(?)
a.
[Hydro-, 2 + anic: cf. F. hydrocyanique.]
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or derived from the combination of, hydrogen and cyanogen.

Hydrocyanic acid (Chem.), a colorless, mobile, volatile liquid, HCN, having a characteristic peach-blossom odor. It is one of the most deadly poisons. It is made by the action of sulphuric acid on yellow prussiate of potassium (potassium ferrocyanide), and chemically resembles hydrochloric and hydrobromic acids. Called also prussic acid, hydrogen cyanide, etc.


word: Hydrocyanide
definition:
Hydrocyanide

Hy`dro*cy"a*nide
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A compound of hydrocyanic acid with a base; -- distinguished from a cyanide, in which only the cyanogen so combines.


word: Hydrodynamical
definition:
Hydrodynamical

Hydrodynamic

{ Hy`dro*dy*nam"ic (?), Hy`dro*dy*nam"ic*al (?), }
a.
[Hydro-, 1 + dynamic, -ical: cf. F. hydrodynamique.]
Pertaining to, or derived from, the dynamical action of water of a liquid; of or pertaining to water power.

Hydrodynamic friction, friction produced by the viscosity of a liquid in motion.


word: Hydrodynamics
definition:
Hydrodynamics

Hy`dro*dy*nam"ics
(?)
n.
[Hydro-, 1 + dynamics: cf. F. hydrodynamique.]
That branch of the science of mechanics which relates to fluids, or, as usually limited, which treats of the laws of motion and action of nonelastic fluids, whether as investigated mathematically, or by observation and experiment; the principles of dynamics, as applied to water and other fluids.

&hand_; The word is sometimes used as a general term, including both hydrostatics and hydraulics, together with pneumatics and acoustics. See Hydraulics.


word: Hydrodynamometer
definition:
Hydrodynamometer

Hy`dro*dy`na*mom"e*ter
(?)
n.
[Hydro-, 1 + dynamometer.]
An instrument to measure the velocity of a liquid current by the force of its impact.


word: Hydro-electric
definition:
Hydro-electric

Hy`dro-e*lec"tric
(?)
a.
[Hydro-, 1 + electric.]
Pertaining to, employed in, or produced by, the evolution of electricity by means of a battery in which water or steam is used.

Hydro-electric machine (Physics), an apparatus invented by Sir William Armstrong of England for generating electricity by the escape of high-pressure steam from a series of jets connected with a strong boiler, in which the steam is produced.


word: Hydro-extractor
definition:
Hydro-extractor

Hy`dro-ex*tract"or
(?)
n.
[Hydro-, 1 + extractor.]
An apparatus for drying anything, as yarn, cloth, sugar, etc., by centrifugal force; a centrifugal.


word: Hydroferricyanic
definition:
Hydroferricyanic

Hy`dro*fer`ri*cy*an"ic
(?)
n.
[Hydro-, 2 + ferricyanic.]
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or containing, or obtained from, hydrogen, ferric iron, and cyanogen; as, hydroferricyanic acid. See Ferricyanic.


word: Hydroferrocyanic
definition:
Hydroferrocyanic

Hy`dro*fer`ro*cy*an"ic
(?)
a.
[Hydro-, 2 + ferrocyanic.]
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or containing, or obtained from, hydrogen, ferrous iron, and cyanogen; as, hydroferrocyanic acid. See Ferrocyanic.


word: Hydrofluate
definition:
Hydrofluate

Hy`dro*flu"ate
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A supposed compound of hydrofluoris acid and a base; a fluoride.
[Archaic]


word: Hydrofluoric
definition:
Hydrofluoric

Hy`dro*flu*or"ic
(?)
a.
[Hydro-, 2 + fluoric.]
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or containing, hydrogen and fluorine; fluohydric; as, hydrofluoric acid.

Hydrofluoric acid (Chem.), a colorless, mobile, volatile liquid, HF, very corrosive in its action, and having a strong, pungent, suffocating odor. It is produced by the action of sulphuric acid on fluorite, and is usually collected as a solution in water. It attacks all silicates, as glass or porcelain, is the agent employed in etching glass, and is preserved only in vessels of platinum, lead, caoutchouc, or gutta-percha.


word: Hydrofluosilicate
definition:
Hydrofluosilicate

Hy`dro*flu`o*sil"i*cate
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A salt of hydrofluosilic acid; a silicofluoride. See Silicofluoride.


word: Hydrofluosilicic
definition:
Hydrofluosilicic

Hy`dro*flu`o*si*lic"ic
(?)
a.
[Hydro-, 2 + fluorine + silicic.]
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or denoting, a compound consisting of a double fluoride of hydrogen and silicon; silicofluoric. See Silicofluoric.


word: Hydrogalvanic
definition:
Hydrogalvanic

Hy`dro*gal*van"ic
(?)
a.
[Hydro-, 1 + galvanic.]
Pertaining to, produced by, or consisting of, electricity evolved by the action or use of fluids; as, hydrogalvanic currents.
[R.]


word: Hydrogen
definition:
Hydrogen

Hy"dro*gen
(?)
n.
[Hydro-, 1 + -gen: cf. F. hydrogène. So called because water is generated by its combustion. See Hydra.]
(Chem.)
A gaseous element, colorless, tasteless, and odorless, the lightest known substance, being fourteen and a half times lighter than air (hence its use in filling balloons), and over eleven thousand times lighter than water. It is very abundant, being an ingredient of water and of many other substances, especially those of animal or vegetable origin. It may by produced in many ways, but is chiefly obtained by the action of acids (as sulphuric) on metals, as zinc, iron, etc. It is very inflammable, and is an ingredient of coal gas and water gas. It is standard of chemical equivalents or combining weights, and also of valence, being the typical monad. Symbol H. Atomic weight 1.

&hand_; Although a gas, hydrogen is chemically similar to the metals in its nature, having the properties of a weak base.  It is, in all acids, the base which is replaced by metals and basic radicals to form salts.  Like all other gases, it is condensed by great cold and pressure to a liquid which freezes and solidifies by its own evaporation. It is absorbed in large quantities by certain metals (esp. palladium), forming alloy-like compounds; hence, in view of quasi-metallic nature, it is sometimes called hydrogenium. It is the typical reducing agent, as opposed to oxidizers, as oxygen, chlorine, etc.

Bicarbureted hydrogen, an old name for ethylene. -- Carbureted hydrogen gas. See under Carbureted. -- Hydrogen dioxide, a thick, colorless liquid, H2O2, resembling water, but having a bitter, sour taste, produced by the action of acids on barium peroxide. It decomposes into water and oxygen, and is manufactured in large quantities for an oxidizing and bleaching agent. Called also oxygenated water. -- Hydrogen oxide, a chemical name for water, H_;O. -- Hydrogen sulphide, a colorless inflammable gas, H2S, having the characteristic odor of bad eggs, and found in many mineral springs. It is produced by the action of acids on metallic sulphides, and is an important chemical reagent. Called also sulphureted hydrogen.


word: Hydrogenate
definition:
Hydrogenate

Hy"dro*gen*ate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Hydrogenated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hydrogenating (?).]
(Chem.)
To hydrogenize.


word: Hydrogenation
definition:
Hydrogenation

Hy`dro*gen*a"tion
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
The act of combining with hydrogen, or the state of being so combined.


word: Hydrogenide
definition:
Hydrogenide

Hy"dro*gen*ide
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A binary compound containing hydrogen; a hydride. [R.] See Hydride.


word: Hydrogenium
definition:
Hydrogenium

Hy`dro*ge"ni*um
(?)
n.
[NL. See Hydrogen.]
(Chem.)
Hydrogen; -- called also in view of its supposed metallic nature.
Graham.


word: Hydrogenize
definition:
Hydrogenize

Hy"dro*gen*ize
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Hydrogenized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hydrogenizing (?).]
(Chem.)
To combine with hydrogen; to treat with, or subject to the action of, hydrogen; to reduce; -- contrasted with oxidize.


word: Hydrognosy
definition:
Hydrognosy

Hy*drog"no*sy
(?)
n.
[Hydro-, 1 + Gr. _; knowledge.]
A treatise upon, or a history and description of, the water of the earth.


word: Hydrogode
definition:
Hydrogode

Hy"drog*ode
(?)
n.
[Hydrogen + Gr. _; way. path.]
(Elec.)
The negative pole or cathode.
[Obs. & R.]


word: Hydrographer
definition:
Hydrographer

Hy*drog"ra*pher
(?)
n.
One skilled in the hydrography; one who surveys, or draws maps or charts of, the sea, lakes, or other waters, with the adjacent shores; one who describes the sea or other waters.
Boyle.


word: Hydrographical
definition:
Hydrographical

Hydrographic

{ Hy`dro*graph"ic (?), Hy`dro*graph"ic*al (?), }
a.
Of or relating to hydrography.


word: Hydrography
definition:
Hydrography

Hy*drog"ra*phy
(?)
n.
[Hydro-, 1 + -graphy: cf. F. hydrographie.]
1.
The art of measuring and describing the sea, lakes, rivers, and other waters, with their phenomena.

2.
That branch of surveying which embraces the determination of the contour of the bottom of a harbor or other sheet of water, the depth of soundings, the position of channels and shoals, with the construction of charts exhibiting these particulars.


word: Hydroid
definition:
Hydroid

Hy"droid
(?)
a.
[Hydra + -oid.]
(Zool.)
Related to, or resembling, the hydra; of or pertaining to the Hydroidea.
n. One of the Hydroideas.


word: Hydroidea
definition:
Hydroidea

Hy*droi"de*a
n. pl.
[NL. See Hydra, and -oid.]
(Zool.)
An extensive order of Hydrozoa or Acalephæ.
[Written also Hydroida.]

&hand_; This order includes the hydras and the free-swimming hydromedusæ, together with a great variety of marine attached hydroids, many of which grow up into large, elegantly branched forms, consisting of a vast number of zooids (hydranths, gonophores, etc.), united by hollow stems. All the zooids of a colony are produced from one primary zooid, by successive buddings. The Siphonophora have also been included in this order by some writers. See Gymnoblastea, Hydromedusa, Gonosome, Gonotheca.


word: Hydrokinetic
definition:
Hydrokinetic

Hy`dro*ki*net"ic
(?)
a.
[Hydro-, 1 + kinetic.]
Of or pertaining to the motions of fluids, or the forces which produce or affect such motions; -- opposed to hydrostatic.
Sir W. Thomson.


word: Hydrolase
definition:
Hydrolase

Hy"dro*lase
(?)
n.
[Hydrolysis + -ase.]
1.
(Chem.)
an enzyme which causes the splitting of a chemical bond with the addition of the elements of water; a hydrolytic enzyme.  Formerly called a hydrolytic ferment.
There are many known hydrolases, including nearly all of the digestive enzymes.  Among the hydrolases are the esterases, which split ester bonds and amidases, which split amide bonds, and among the latter are the proteases and peptidases, which split peptide bonds, such as those found in proteins.


word: Hydrology
definition:
Hydrology

Hy*drol"o*gy
(?)
n.
[Hydro-, 1 + -logy: cf. F. hydrologie.]
The science of water, its properties, phenomena, and distribution over the earth's surface.


word: Hydrolysis
definition:
Hydrolysis

Hy*drol"y*sis
(?)
n.
[Hydro-, 1 + -lysis.]
(Chem.)
A chemical process causing the splitting of a chemical bond by the addition of the elements of water.  Where the bond which is split is not part of a ring structure, this process causes formation of two compounds from one compound plus water, as in the hydrolysis of the ester bonds of fats during saponification.


word: Hydrolytic
definition:
Hydrolytic

Hy`dro*lyt"ic
(?)
a.
[Hydro-, 1 + Gr. _; to loose.]
1.
(Chem.)
Tending to remove or separate water; eliminating water.
[archaic]

2.
(Chem.)
of, pertaining to, or accompanied by hydrolysis.

Hydrolytic agents, such as sulphuric acid or caustic alkali.
Encyc. Brit.

Hydrolytic ferment (Physiol. Chem.), an enzyme (formerly referred to as a ferment), which acts only in the presence of water, and which causes the substance acted upon to take up a molecule of water, resulting in the splitting of a chemical bond and often splitting one compound into two.  Thus, diastase of malt, ptyalin of saliva, and boiling dilute sulphuric acid all convert starch by hydration into dextrin and sugar.  Nearly all of the digestive enzymes are hydrolytic in their action.  Since 1910 such an enzyme is usually referred to as a hydrolase or hydrolytic enzyme.


word: Hydromagnesite
definition:
Hydromagnesite

Hy`dro*mag"ne*site
(hī`dro̝*măg"ne̝*sīt)
n.
[Hydro-, 1 + magnesite.]
(Min.)
A hydrous carbonate of magnesia occurring in white, earthy, amorphous masses.


word: Hydromancy
definition:
Hydromancy

Hy"dro*man`cy
(?)
n.
[Hydro-, 1 + -mancy: cf. F. hydromancie.]
Divination by means of water, -- practiced by the ancients.


word: Hydromantic
definition:
Hydromantic

Hy`dro*man"tic
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. hydromantique.]
Of or pertaining to divination by water.


word: Hydromechanics
definition:
Hydromechanics

Hy`dro*me*chan"ics
(?)
n.
[Hydro-, 1 + mechanics.]
That branch of physics which treats of the mechanics of liquids, or of their laws of equilibrium and of motion.


word: Hydromedusa
definition:
Hydromedusa

Hy`dro*me*du"sa
(?)
n.
pl. Hydromedusæ (#).
[NL. See Hydra, and Medusa.]
(Zool.)
Any medusa or jellyfish which is produced by budding from a hydroid. They are called also Craspedota, and naked-eyed medusæ.

&hand_; Such medusæ are the reproductive zooids or gonophores, either male or female, of the hydroid from which they arise, whether they become free or remain attached to the hydroid colony.  They in turn produce the eggs from which the hydroids are developed.  The name is also applied to other similar medusæ which are not known to bud from a hydroid colony, and even to some which are known to develop directly from the eggs, but which in structure agree essentially with those produced from hydroids. See Hydroidea, and Gymnoblastea.


word: Hydromel
definition:
Hydromel

Hy"dro*mel
(?)
n.
[L. hydromel, hydromeli, Gr. _;; "y`dwr water + _; honey: cf. F. hydromel.]
A liquor consisting of honey diluted in water, and after fermentation called mead.


word: Hydrometallurgical
definition:
Hydrometallurgical

Hy`dro*met`al*lur"gic*al
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to hydrometallurgy; involving the use of liquid reagents in the treatment or reduction of ores.
Hy`dro*met`al*lur"gic*al*ly, adv.


word: Hydrometallurgy
definition:
Hydrometallurgy

Hy`dro*met"al*lur`gy
(?)
n.
[Hydro-, 1 + metallurgy.]
The art or process of assaying or reducing ores by means of liquid reagents.


word: Hydrometeor
definition:
Hydrometeor

Hy`dro*me"te*or
(?)
n.
[Hydro-, 1 + meteor.]
A meteor or atmospheric phenomenon dependent upon the vapor of water; -- in the pl., a general term for the whole aqueous phenomena of the atmosphere, as rain, snow, hail, etc.
Nichol.


word: Hydrometeorological
definition:
Hydrometeorological

Hy`dro*me`te*or`o*log"ic*al
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to hydrometeorology, or to rain, clouds, storms, etc.


word: Hydrometeorology
definition:
Hydrometeorology

Hy`dro*me`te*or*ol"o*gy
(?)
n.
[Hydro-, 1 + meteorology.]
That branch of meteorology which relates to, or treats of, water in the atmosphere, or its phenomena, as rain, clouds, snow, hail, storms, etc.


word: Hydrometer
definition:
Hydrometer

Hy*drom"e*ter
(?)
n.
[Hydro-, 1 + -meter: cf. F. hydromètre.]
1.
(Physics)
An instrument for determining the specific gravities of liquids, and thence the strength spirituous liquors, saline solutions, etc.

&hand_; It is usually made of glass with a graduated stem, and indicates the specific gravity of a liquid by the depth to which it sinks in it, the zero of the scale marking the depth to which it sinks in pure water. Extra weights are sometimes used to adapt the scale to liquids of different densities.

2.
An instrument, variously constructed, used for measuring the velocity or discharge of water, as in rivers, from reservoirs, etc., and called by various specific names according to its construction or use, as tachometer, rheometer, hydrometer, pendulum, etc.; a current gauge.


word: Hydrometrical
definition:
Hydrometrical

Hydrometric

{ Hy`dro*met"ric (?), Hy`dro*met"ric*al (?), }
a.
[Cf. F. hydromètrique.]
1.
Of or pertaining to an hydrometer, or to the determination of the specific gravity of fluids.

2.
Of or pertaining to measurement of the velocity, discharge, etc., of running water.

3.
Made by means of an hydrometer; as, hydrometric observations.

Hydrometric pendulum, a species of hydrometer consisting of a hollow ball of ivory or metal suspended by a treated from the center of a graduated quadrant, and held in a stream to measure the velocity of the water by the inclination given to the thread; a kind of current gauge.


word: Hydrometrograph
definition:
Hydrometrograph

Hy`dro*met"ro*graph
(?)
n.
[Hydro-, 1 + Gr. _; measure + -graph.]
An instrument for determining and recording the quantity of water discharged from a pipe, orifice, etc., in a given time.


word: Hydrometry
definition:
Hydrometry

Hy*drom"e*try
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. hydromètrique.]
1.
The art of determining the specific gravity of liquids, and thence the strength of spirituous liquors, saline solutions, etc.

2.
The art or operation of measuring the velocity or discharge of running water, as in rivers, etc.


word: Hydromica
definition:
Hydromica

Hy`dro*mi"ca
(?)
n.
[Hydro-, 1 + mica.]
(Min.)
A variety of potash mica containing water. It is less elastic than ordinary muscovite.

Hydromica schist (Min.), a mica schist characterized by the presence of hydromica. It often has a silky luster and almost soapy feel.


word: Hydronephrosis
definition:
Hydronephrosis

Hy`dro*ne*phro"sis
(?)
n.
[NL., Gr. "y`dwr water + _; a kidney.]
(Med.)
An accumulation of urine in the pelvis of the kidney, occasioned by obstruction in the urinary passages.


word: Hydropathical
definition:
Hydropathical

Hydropathic

{ Hy`dro*path"ic (?), Hy`dro*path"ic*al (?), }
a.
Of or pertaining to hydropathy.


word: Hydropathy
definition:
Hydropathy

Hy*drop"a*thy
(?)
n.
[Hydro-, 1 + Gr. _;, _;, to suffer.]
The water cure; a mode of treating diseases by the copious and frequent use of pure water, both internally and externally.


word: Hydroperitoneum
definition:
Hydroperitoneum

Hy`dro*per`i*to*ne"um
(?)
n.
[NL. See Hydro-, and Peritoneum.]
(Med.)
Same as Ascites.


word: Hydrophane
definition:
Hydrophane

Hy"dro*phane
(?)
n.
[Hydro-, 1 + Gr. _; to show, appear: cf. F. hydrophane.]
(Min.)
A semitranslucent variety of opal that becomes translucent or transparent on immersion in water.


word: Hydrophid
definition:
Hydrophid

Hy"dro*phid
(?)
n.
[Hydro-, 1 + Gr. _; a small serpent.]
(Zool.)
Any sea snake of the genus Hydrophys and allied genera. These snakes are venomous, live upon fishes, and have a flattened tail for swimming.


word: Hydrophlorone
definition:
Hydrophlorone

Hy`dro*phlo"rone
(?)
n.
[Hydro-, 2 + phlorone.]
(Chem.)
A white, crystalline benzene derivative, C8H10O2, obtained by the reduction of phlorone.


word: Hydrophobia
definition:
Hydrophobia

Hy`dro*pho"bi*a
(?)
n.
[L., fr. Gr. _;; "y`dwr water + _; fear: cf. F. hydrophobie.]
(Med.)
(a)
An abnormal dread of water, said to be a symptom of canine madness; hence:
(b)
A viral disease trransmitted by a bite from, or inoculation with the saliva of, a rabid creature, of which the chief symptoms are, a sense of dryness and constriction in the throat, causing difficulty in deglutition, and a marked heightening of reflex excitability, producing convulsions whenever the patient attempts to swallow, or is disturbed in any way, as by the sight or sound of water; rabies; canine madness.
[Written also hydrophoby.]


word: Hydrophobic
definition:
Hydrophobic

Hy`dro*phob"ic
(?)
a.
[L. hydrophobicus, Gr. _;: cf. F. hydrophobique.]
Of or pertaining to hydrophobia; producing or caused by rabies; as, hydrophobic symptoms; the hydrophobic poison.


word: Hydrophora
definition:
Hydrophora

Hy*droph"o*ra
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. E. hydra + Gr. fe`rein to bear.]
(Zool.)
The Hydroidea.


word: Hydrophore
definition:
Hydrophore

Hy"dro*phore
(?)
n.
[Gr. "y`dwr water + fe`rein to bear.]
An instrument used for the purpose of obtaining specimens of water from any desired depth, as in a river, a lake, or the ocean.


word: Hydrophyllium
definition:
Hydrophyllium

Hy`dro*phyl"li*um
(?)
n.
pl. L. Hydrophyllia (#), E. Hydrophylliums (#).
[NL., fr. Gr. "y`dwr water + _; a leaf.]
(Zool.)
One of the flat, leaflike, protective zooids, covering other zooids of certain Siphonophora.


word: Hydrophytology
definition:
Hydrophytology

Hy*droph`y*tol"o*gy
(?)
n.
[Hydro- + phyte + -logy.]
The branch of botany which treats of water plants.


word: Hydropical
definition:
Hydropical

Hydropic

{ Hy*drop"ic (?), Hy*drop"ic*al (?), }
a.
[L. hydropicus, Gr. _;: cf. F. hydropique. See Dropsy.]
Dropsical, or resembling dropsy.

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


word: Hydropiper
definition:
Hydropiper

Hy"dro*pi`per
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. "y`dwr water + L. piper a pepper.]
(Bot.)
A species (Polygonum Hydropiper) of knotweed with acrid foliage; water pepper; smartweed.


word: Hydroplane
definition:
Hydroplane

Hy"dro*plane
(?)
n.
[Pref. hydro-, 1 + plane.]
1.
A plane, or any of a number of planes, projecting from the hull of a submarine boat, which by being elevated or depressed cause the boat, when going ahead, to sink or rise, after the manner of an aëroplane.

2.
A projecting plane or fin on a hydroplane{3} to lift the moving boat on top of the water; also, a gliding boat.

3.
a powered surface boat fitted with planes (hydroplanes{2}) projecting below the hull, designed to lift the boat, when moving rapidly, so that the hull itself is lifted out of the water and the boat is supported by the hydrodynamic forces of the water on the hydroplanes{2}, thus permitting higher speeds; formerly called a gliding boat.


word: Hydroplane₂
definition:
Hydroplane

Hy"dro*plane
v. i.
1.
Of a boat, to move through water while supported by hydroplanes{3} (see hydroplane{3}, above).

2.
to move through a body of water supported by the hydrodynamic forces on a surface, similar in principle to a hydroplane{3}; -- said, e. .g, of automobiles skidding on a shallow patch of water on a road when moving at high speed, thus causing the tires to lose contact with the road surface.


word: Hydropneumatic
definition:
Hydropneumatic

Hy`dro*pneu*mat"ic
(?)
a.
[Hydro-, 1 + pneumatic: cf. F. hydropneumatique.]
Pertaining to, or depending upon, both liquid and gaseous substances; as, hydropneumatic apparatus for collecting gases over water or other liquids.


word: Hydropneumatic gun carriage
definition:
Hydropneumatic gun carriage

Hy`dro*pneu*mat"ic gun carriage
(Ordnance)
A disappearing gun carriage in which the recoil is checked by cylinders containing liquid and air, the air when compressed furnishing the power for restoring the gun to the firing position. It is used with some English and European heavy guns.


word: Hydropult
definition:
Hydropult

Hy"dro*pult
(?)
n.
[Hydro-, 1 + Gr. _; to hurl.]
A machine for throwing water by hand power, as a garden engine, a fire extinguisher, etc.


word: Hydroquinone
definition:
Hydroquinone

Hy`dro*qui"none
(?)
n.
[Hydro-, 2 + quinone.]
(Chem.)
A white crystalline substance, C6H4(OH)2, obtained by the reduction of quinone. It is a diacid phenol, resembling, and metameric with, pyrocatechin and resorcin. Called also dihydroxy benzene.


word: Hydrorhiza
definition:
Hydrorhiza

Hy`dro*rhi"za
(?)
n.
pl. L. Hydrorhizæ (#), E. Hydrorhizas (#).
[NL., fr. E. hydra + Gr. _; a root.]
(Zool.)
The rootstock or decumbent stem by which a hydroid is attached to other objects. See Illust. under Hydroidea.


word: Hydrosalt
definition:
Hydrosalt

Hy"dro*salt`
(?)
n.
[Hydro-, 1 + salt.]
(Chem.)
(a)
A salt supposed to be formed by a hydracid and a base.
(b)
An acid salt.
[R.]
(c)
A hydrous salt; a salt combined with water of hydration or crystallization.


word: Hydroscope
definition:
Hydroscope

Hy"dro*scope
(?)
n.
[Hydro-, 1 + -scope.]
1.
An instrument designed to mark the presence of water, especially in air.
Weale.

2.
A kind of water clock, used anciently for measuring time, the water tricking from an orifice at the end of a graduated tube.


word: Hydrosoma
definition:
Hydrosoma

Hydrosome

{ Hy"dro*some (?), &VerbarHy`dro*so"ma (?) }
n.
[NL. hydrosoma. See Hydra, and -some body.]
(Zool.)
All the zooids of a hydroid colony collectively, including the nutritive and reproductive zooids, and often other kinds.


word: Hydrosorbic
definition:
Hydrosorbic

Hy`dro*sor"bic
(?)
a.
[Hydro-, 2 + sorbic.]
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from sorbic acid when this takes up hydrogen; as, hydrosorbic acid.


word: Hydrosphere
definition:
Hydrosphere

Hy"dro*sphere
(?)
n.
[Pref. hydro-, 1 + sphere.]
1.
(Meteor.)
The aqueous vapor of the entire atmosphere.

2.
(Phys. Geog.)
The aqueous envelope of the earth, including the ocean, all lakes, streams, and underground waters, and the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere.


word: Hydrostat
definition:
Hydrostat

Hy"dro*stat
(?)
n.
1.
A contrivance or apparatus to prevent the explosion of steam boilers.
2.
A device, usually electrical, for indicating or regulating the height of water in a reservoir or receptacle.


word: Hydrostatical
definition:
Hydrostatical

Hydrostatic

{ Hy`dro*stat"ic (?), Hy`dro*stat"ic*al (?), }
a.
[Hydro-, 1 + Gr. _; causing to stand: cf. F. hydrostatique. See Static.]
Of or relating to hydrostatics; pertaining to, or in accordance with, the principles of the equilibrium of fluids.

The first discovery made in hydrostatics since the time of Archimedes is due to Stevinus.
Hallam.

Hydrostatic balance, a balance for weighing substances in water, for the purpose of ascertaining their specific gravities. -- Hydrostatic bed, a water bed. -- Hydrostatic bellows, an apparatus consisting of a water-tight bellowslike case with a long, upright tube, into which water may be poured to illustrate the hydrostatic paradox. -- Hydrostatic paradox, the proposition in hydrostatics that any quantity of water, however small, may be made to counterbalance any weight, however great; or the law of the equality of pressure of fluids in all directions. -- Hydrostatic press, a machine in which great force, with slow motion, is communicated to a large plunger by means of water forced into the cylinder in which it moves, by a forcing pump of small diameter, to which the power is applied, the principle involved being the same as in the hydrostatic bellows. Also called hydraulic press, and Bramah press. In the illustration, a is a pump with a small plunger b, which forces the water into the cylinder c, thus driving upward the large plunder d, which performs the reduced work, such as compressing cotton bales, etc.


word: Hydrostatically
definition:
Hydrostatically

Hy`dro*stat"ic*al*ly
adv.
According to hydrostatics, or to hydrostatic principles.
Bentley.


word: Hydrostatics
definition:
Hydrostatics

Hy`dro*stat"ics
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. hydrostatique.]
(Physics)
The branch of science which relates to the pressure and equilibrium of nonelastic fluids, as water, mercury, etc.; the principles of statics applied to water and other liquids.


word: Hydrosulphide
definition:
Hydrosulphide

Hy`dro*sul"phide
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
One of a series of compounds, derived from hydrogen sulphide by the replacement of half its hydrogen by a base or basic radical; as, potassium hydrosulphide, KSH. The hydrosulphides are analogous to the hydrates and include the mercaptans.


word: Hydrosulphite
definition:
Hydrosulphite

Hy`dro*sul"phite
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A saline compound of hydrosulphurous acid and a base.
[R.]


word: Hydrosulphuric
definition:
Hydrosulphuric

Hy`dro*sul*phu"ric
(?)
a.
[Hydro-, 2 + sulphuric.]
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or derived from, hydrogen and sulphur; as, hydrosulphuric acid, a designation applied to the solution of hydrogen sulphide in water.


word: Hydrosulphurous
definition:
Hydrosulphurous

Hy`dro*sul"phur*ous
(?)
a.
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained by the reduction of sulphurous acid. See Hyposulphurous acid, under Hyposulphurous.


word: Hydrotellurate
definition:
Hydrotellurate

Hy`dro*tel"lu*rate
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A salt formed by the union of hydrotelluric acid and the base.


word: Hydrotelluric
definition:
Hydrotelluric

Hy`dro*tel*lu"ric
(?)
a.
[Hydro-, 2 + telluric.]
(Chem.)
Formed by hydrogen and tellurium; as, hydrotelluric acid, or hydrogen telluride.


word: Hydrotheca
definition:
Hydrotheca

Hy`dro*the"ca
(?)
n.
pl. L. Hydrothecæ (#), E. Hydrothecas (#).
[NL., fr. E. hydra + Gr. _; a box.]
(Zool.)
One of the calicles which, in some Hydroidea (Thecaphora), protect the hydrants. See Illust. of Hydroidea, and Campanularian.


word: Hydrotherapeutics
definition:
Hydrotherapeutics

Hy`dro*ther`a*peu"tics
(?)
n.
[Hydro-, 1 + therapeutics.]
(Med.)
A system of treating disease by baths and mineral waters.


word: Hydrothermal
definition:
Hydrothermal

Hy`dro*ther"mal
(?)
a.
[Hydro-, 1 + thermal.]
1.
Of or pertaining to hot water; -- used esp. with reference to the action of heated waters in dissolving, redepositing, and otherwise producing mineral changes within the crust of the globe.

2.
of, pertaining to, or using the hot waters or steam found at special locations within the earth's crust; as, hydrothermal power generation.


word: Hydrothorax
definition:
Hydrothorax

Hy`dro*tho"rax
(?)
n.
[Hydro-, 1 + thorax.]
(Med.)
An accumulation of serous fluid in the cavity of the chest.


word: Hydrotic
definition:
Hydrotic

Hy*drot"ic
(?)
a.
[Gr. "y`dwr water: cf. Gr. _; moisture, F. hydrotique.]
Causing a discharge of water or phlegm.
n. (Med.) A hydrotic medicine.


word: Hydrotrope
definition:
Hydrotrope

Hy"dro*trope
(?)
n.
[Hydro-, 1 + Gr. _; to turn, direct.]
A device for raising water by the direct action of steam; a pulsometer.


word: Hydrotropic
definition:
Hydrotropic

Hy`dro*trop"ic
(?)
a.
[See Hydrotrope.]
(Bot.)
Turning or bending towards moisture, as roots.


word: Hydrotropism
definition:
Hydrotropism

Hy*drot"ro*pism
(?)
n.
1.
(Bot.)
A tendency towards moisture.

2.
(Bot.)
In a broader sense, any curvature or turning induced in certain growing plant organs under the influence of moisture.
&hand_; When the movement is toward the moisture, as is the case in most roots, the phenomenon is called positive hydrotropism; when away from the moisture, as in the case of hyphae of certain fungi, negative hydrotropism.


word: Hydrous
definition:
Hydrous

Hy"drous
(?)
a.
[Gr. "y`dwr water.]
1.
Containing water; watery.

2.
(Chem.)
Containing water of hydration or crystallization.


word: Hydroxide
definition:
Hydroxide

Hy*drox"ide
(?)
n.
[Hydro-, 2 + oxide.]
(Chem.)
A hydrate; a substance containing hydrogen and oxygen, made by combining water with an oxide, and yielding water by elimination. The hydroxides are regarded as compounds of hydroxyl, united usually with basic element or radical; as, calcium hydroxide ethyl hydroxide.


word: Hydroxy-
definition:
Hydroxy-

Hy*drox"y-
(?)
(Chem.)
A combining form, also used adjectively, indicating hydroxyl as an ingredient.

Hydroxy acid (Chem.), an organic acid, having (besides the hydroxyl group of the carboxyl radical) an alcoholic hydroxyl group, and thus having the qualities of an alcohol in addition to its acid properties; as, lactic and tartaric acids are hydroxy acids.


word: Hydroxyl
definition:
Hydroxyl

Hy*drox"yl
(?)
n.
[Hydro-, 2 + oxygen + -yl.]
(Chem.)
A compound radical, or unsaturated group, HO, consisting of one atom of hydrogen and one of oxygen. It is a characteristic part of the hydrates, the alcohols, the oxygen acids, etc.


word: Hydroxylamine
definition:
Hydroxylamine

Hy*drox`yl*am"ine
(?)
n.
[Hydroxyl + amine.]
(Chem.)
A nitrogenous, organic base, NH2.OH, resembling ammonia, and produced by a modified reduction of nitric acid. It is usually obtained as a volatile, unstable solution in water. It acts as a strong reducing agent.


word: hydroxymethyl
definition:
hydroxymethyl

hydroxymethyl
n.
a methyl radical with a hydroxyl group replacing one of the hydrogen atoms.


word: hydroxyproline
definition:
hydroxyproline

hydroxyproline
n.
A crystalline amino acid (C5H9NO3), a hydroxylated proline, obtained by hydrolysis of gelatin or collagen.  Chemically it is 4-hydroxy-L-proline.  It is classified as nonessential for growth in rats.


word: Hydrozoa
definition:
Hydrozoa

Hy`dro*zo"a
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. E. hydra + Gr. zw^,on an animal.]
(Zool.)
The Acalephæ; one of the classes of cœlenterates, including the Hydroidea, Discophora, and Siphonophora.


word: Hydrozoon
definition:
Hydrozoon

Hy`dro*zo"ön
(?)
n.
pl. L. Hydrozoa (#), E. Hydrozoöns (#).
[NL.]
(Zool.)
One of the Hydrozoa.


word: Hydrus
definition:
Hydrus

Hy"drus
(?)
n.
[L., a water serpent; also, a certain constellation, Gr. "y`dros.]
(Astron.)
A constellation of the southern hemisphere, near the south pole.


word: Hyemal
definition:
Hyemal

Hy*e"mal
(?)
a.
[L. hyemalis, or better hiemalis, fr. hyems, hiems, winter: cf. F. hyémal.]
Belonging to winter; done in winter.
Sir T. Browne.


word: Hyemation
definition:
Hyemation

Hy`e*ma"tion
(?)
n.
[L. hiematio.]
1.
The passing of a winter in a particular place; a wintering.

2.
The act of affording shelter in winter.
[Obs.]


word: Hyena
definition:
Hyena

Hy*e"na
(?)
n.
pl. Hyenas (#).
[L. hyaena, Gr. _;, orig., a sow, but usually, a Libyan wild beast, prob., the hyena, fr. _; hog: cf. F. hyène. See Sow female hog.]
(Zool.)
Any carnivorous mammal of the family Hyænidæ, doglike nocturnal mammals of Africa and southern Asia, of which three living species are known. They are large and strong, but cowardly. They feed chiefly on carrion, and are nocturnal in their habits.
[Written also hyæna.]

Syn. -- hyaena.

&hand_; The striped hyena (Hyæna striata) inhabits Southern Asia and a large part of Africa.  The brown hyena (Hyæna brunnea), and the spotted hyena (Crocuta maculata), are found in Southern Africa.  The extinct cave hyena (Hyæna spelæa) inhabited England and France.

Cave hyena. See under Cave. -- Hyena dog (Zool.), a South African canine animal (Lycaon venaticus), which hunts in packs, chiefly at night. It is smaller than the common wolf, with very large, erect ears, and a bushy tail. Its color is reddish or yellowish brown, blotched with black and white. Called also hunting dog.


word: Hyetal
definition:
Hyetal

Hy"e*tal
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; rain, from _; to rain.]
Of or pertaining to rain; descriptive of the distribution of rain, or of rainy regions.


word: Hyetograph
definition:
Hyetograph

Hy"e*to*graph
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; rain + -graph.]
A chart or graphic representation of the average distribution of rain over the surface of the earth.


word: Hyetography
definition:
Hyetography

Hy`e*tog"ra*phy
(?)
n.
The branch of physical science which treats of the geographical distribution of rain.


word: Hyetology
definition:
Hyetology

Hy`e*tol"o*gy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; + rain -logy.]
The science which treats of the precipitation of rain, snow, etc.
Hy`e*to*log"ic*al (_;), a.


word: Hygeia
definition:
Hygeia

Hy*ge"ia
(?)
n.
[L. Hygea, Hygia, fr. Gr. _;, _;, health, _;, Hygeia, fr. _; sound, healthy.]
(Classic Myth.)
The goddess of health, daughter of Esculapius.


word: Hygeian
definition:
Hygeian

Hy*ge"ian
(?)
a.
Relating to Hygeia, the goddess of health; of or pertaining to health, or its preservation.


word: Hygiene
definition:
Hygiene

Hy"gi*ene
(?)
n.
[F. hygiène. See Hygeia.]
That department of sanitary science which treats of the preservation of health, esp. of households and communities; a system of principles or rules designated for the promotion of health.


word: Hygiology
definition:
Hygiology

Hy`gi*ol"o*gy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; health + -logy.]
A treatise on, or the science of, the preservation of health.
[R.]


word: Hygrine
definition:
Hygrine

Hy"grine
(?)
n.
[From Gr. _; moist.]
(Chem.)
An alkaloid associated with cocaine in coca leaves (Erythroxylon coca), and extracted as a thick, yellow oil, having a pungent taste and odor.


word: Hygrodeik
definition:
Hygrodeik

Hy"gro*deik
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; wet, moist, and _; to show.]
(Physics)
A form of hygrometer having wet and dry bulb thermometers, with an adjustable index showing directly the percentage of moisture in the air, etc.


word: Hygrograph
definition:
Hygrograph

Hy"gro*graph
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; wet + -graph.]
(Physics)
An instrument for recording automatically the variations of the humidity of the atmosphere.


word: Hygrology
definition:
Hygrology

Hy*grol"o*gy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; wet + -logy: cf. F. hygrologie.]
(Med.)
The science which treats of the fluids of the body.


word: Hygrometer
definition:
Hygrometer

Hy*grom"e*ter
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; wet, moist + -meter: cf. F. hygromètre.]
(Physics)
An instrument for measuring the degree of moisture of the atmosphere.

Daniell's hygrometer, a form of hygrometer consisting of a bent glass tube terminating in two bulbs, the one covered with muslin, the other of black glass, and containing ether and a thermometer. Ether being poured on the muslin, the black ball, cooled by the evaporation of the ether within, is soon covered with dew; at this moment, the inclosed thermometer gives the dew-point, and this, compared with the reading of one in the air, determines the humidity.


word: Hygrometrical
definition:
Hygrometrical

Hygrometric

{ Hy`gro*met"ric (?), Hy`gro*met"ric*al (?), }
a.
[Cf. F. hygrométrique.]
1.
Of or pertaining to hygrometry; made with, or according to, the hygrometer; as, hygrometric observations.

2.
Readily absorbing and retaining moisture; as, hygrometric substances, like potash.


word: Hygrometry
definition:
Hygrometry

Hy*grom"e*try
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. hygrométrie.]
(Physics)
That branch of physics which relates to the determination of the humidity of bodies, particularly of the atmosphere, with the theory and use of the instruments constructed for this purpose.


word: Hygrophanous
definition:
Hygrophanous

Hy*groph"a*nous
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; wet + _; to show.]
Having such a structure as to be diaphanous when moist, and opaque when dry.


word: Hygrophthalmic
definition:
Hygrophthalmic

Hy`groph*thal"mic
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; wet + E. ophthalmic.]
(Anat.)
Serving to moisten the eye; -- sometimes applied to the lachrymal ducts.


word: Hygroplasm
definition:
Hygroplasm

Hy"gro*plasm
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; wet + _; form, mold.]
(Biol.)
The fluid portion of the cell protoplasm, in opposition to stereoplasm, the solid or insoluble portion. The latter is supposed to be partly nutritive and partly composed of idioplasm.


word: Hygroscope
definition:
Hygroscope

Hy"gro*scope
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; wet + -scope: cf. F. hygroscope.]
(Physics)
An instrument which shows whether there is more or less moisture in the atmosphere, without indicating its amount.


word: Hygroscopic
definition:
Hygroscopic

Hy`gro*scop"ic
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. hygroscopique.]
1.
Of or pertaining to, or indicated by, the hygroscope; not readily manifest to the senses, but capable of detection by the hygroscope; as, glass is often covered with a film of hygroscopic moisture.

2.
Having the property of readily inbibing moisture from the atmosphere, or of the becoming coated with a thin film of moisture, as glass, etc.


word: Hygroscopicity
definition:
Hygroscopicity

Hy`gro*sco*pic"i*ty
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
The property possessed by vegetable tissues of absorbing or discharging moisture according to circumstances.


word: Hygrostatics
definition:
Hygrostatics

Hy`gro*stat"ics
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; wet + _;. See Statics.]
The science or art of comparing or measuring degrees of moisture.
Evelyn.


word: Hyksos
definition:
Hyksos

Hyk"sos
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;, fr. Egypt. hikshasu chiefs of the Bedouins, shepherds.]
A dynasty of Egyptian kings, often called the Shepherd kings, of foreign origin, who, according to the narrative of Manetho, ruled for about 500 years, forming the XVth and XVIth dynasties. It is now considered that the XVIth is merely a double of the XVth dynasty, and that the total period of the six Hyksos kings was little more than 100 years. It is supposed that they were Asiatic Semites.


word: Hylaeosaurus
definition:
Hylaeosaurus

Hylaeosaur

{ Hy"læ*o*saur` (?), &VerbarHy`læ*o*sau"rus (?), }
n.
[NL. hylaeosaurus, fr. Gr. _; belonging to a forest (fr. _; wood) + _; a lizard.]
(Paleon.)
A large Wealden dinosaur from the Tilgate Forest, England. It was about twenty feet long, protected by bony plates in the skin, and armed with spines.


word: Hylarchical
definition:
Hylarchical

Hy*lar"chi*cal
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; wood, matter + _;: cf. F. hylarchique. See Archical.]
Presiding over matter.
[Obs.]
Hallywell.


word: Hylicist
definition:
Hylicist

Hy"li*cist
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; adj., material, fr. _; wood, matter.]
A philosopher who treats chiefly of matter; one who adopts or teaches hylism.


word: Hylism
definition:
Hylism

Hy"lism
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; wood, matter.]
(Metaph.)
A theory which regards matter as the original principle of evil.


word: Hylobate
definition:
Hylobate

Hy"lo*bate
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; one that walks or inhabits the woods: _; a wood + _; to go.]
(Zool.)
Any species of the genus Hylobates; a gibbon, or long-armed ape. See Gibbon.


word: Hylodes
definition:
Hylodes

Hy*lo"des
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; woody, wooded, muddy; _; a wood + e'i^dos form.]
(Zool.)
The piping frog (Hyla Pickeringii), a small American tree frog, which in early spring, while breeding in swamps and ditches, sings with high, shrill, but musical, notes.


word: Hylopathism
definition:
Hylopathism

Hy*lop"a*thism
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; matter + _;, _;, to suffer.]
The doctrine that matter is sentient.
Krauth-Fleming.


word: Hylophagous
definition:
Hylophagous

Hy*loph"a*gous
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; wood + _; to eat.]
(Zool.)
Eating green shoots, as certain insects do.


word: Hylotheism
definition:
Hylotheism

Hy"lo*the*ism
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; wood, matter + _; God.]
The doctrine of belief that matter is God, or that there is no God except matter and the universe; pantheism. See Materialism.


word: Hylozoism
definition:
Hylozoism

Hy`lo*zo"ism
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; wood, matter + _; life, fr. _; to live: cf. F. hylozoïsme.]
The doctrine that matter possesses a species of life and sensation, or that matter and life are inseparable.
[R.]
Cudworth.


word: Hymen
definition:
Hymen

Hy"men
(?)
n.
[Gr. "ymh`n skin, membrane.]
(Anat.)
A fold of muscous membrane often found at the orifice of the vagina in virgins; the vaginal membrane.  It is usually torn by sexual intercourse.


word: Hymen₂
definition:
Hymen

Hy"men
n.
[L., fr. Gr. _;.]
1.
(Class Myth.)
A fabulous deity; according to some, the son of Apollo and Urania, according to others, of Bacchus and Venus. He was the god of marriage, and presided over nuptial solemnities.

Till Hymen brought his love-delighted hour,
There dwelt no joy in Eden's rosy bower.
Campbell.

2.
Marriage; union as if by marriage.

Hymen of element and race.
Emerson.


word: Hymenean
definition:
Hymenean

Hymeneal

{ Hy`me*ne"al (?), Hy`me*ne"an (?), }
a.
[L. hymeneius, a., also Hymenaeus, n., Hymen, Gr. _; the wedding song, also _; Hymen: cf. F. hyménéal, hyménéen.]
Of or pertaining to marriage; as, hymeneal rites.
Pope.


word: Hymenium
definition:
Hymenium

Hy*me"ni*um
(?)
n.
pl. L. Hymenia (#), E. Hymeniums (#).
[NL., fr. Gr. _; a membrane.]
(Bot.)
The spore-bearing surface of certain fungi, as that on the gills of a mushroom.


word: Hymenogastrales
definition:
Hymenogastrales

Hymenogastrales
n.
An order of fungi sometimes placed in subclass Homobasidiomycetes.

Syn. -- order Hymenogastrales.


word: Hymenogeny
definition:
Hymenogeny

Hy`me*nog"e*ny
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; a membrane + root of gi`gnesqai to be born.]
The production of artificial membranes by contact of two fluids, as albumin and fat, by which the globules of the latter are surrounded by a thin film of the former.


word: Hymenomycetes
definition:
Hymenomycetes

Hy`me*no*my*ce"tes
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; a membrane + _;, _;, a mushroom.]
(Bot.)
One of the great divisions of fungi, containing those species in which the hymenium is completely exposed.
M. J. Berkley.


word: Hymenophore
definition:
Hymenophore

Hy*men"o*phore
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; a membrane + fe`rein to bear.]
(Bot.)
That part of a fungus which is covered with the hymenium.


word: Hymenoptera
definition:
Hymenoptera

Hy`me*nop"te*ra
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; membrane-winged; _; skin, membrane + _; wing.]
(Zool.)
An extensive order of insects, including the bees, ants, ichneumons, sawflies, etc.

&hand_; They have four membranous wings, with few reticulations, and usually with a thickened, dark spot on the front edge of the anterior wings. In most of the species, the tongue, or lingua, is converted into an organ for sucking honey, or other liquid food, and the mandibles are adapted for biting or cutting. In one large division (Aculeata), including the bees, wasps, and ants, the females and workers usually have a sting, which is only a modified ovipositor.


word: Hymenopterous
definition:
Hymenopterous

Hymenopteral

{ Hy`me*nop"ter*al (?), Hy`me*nop"ter*ous (?), }
a.
(Zool.)
Like, or characteristic of, the Hymenoptera; pertaining to the Hymenoptera.


word: hymenopteron
definition:
hymenopteron

hymenopteron
n.
Same as hymenopteran.

Syn. -- hymenopterous insect, hymenopteran, hymnenopter.


word: Hymn
definition:
Hymn

Hymn
(hĭm)
n.
[OE. hympne, ympne, F. hymne, OF. also ymne, L. hymnus, Gr. _;; perh. akin to _; web, _; to weave, and so to E. weave.]
An ode or song of praise or adoration; especially, a religious ode, a sacred lyric; a song of praise or thanksgiving intended to be used in religious service; as, the Homeric hymns; Watts' hymns.

Admonishing one another in psalms and hymns.
Col. iii. 16.

Where angels first should practice hymns, and string
Their tuneful harps.
Dryden.

Hymn book, a book containing a collection of hymns, as for use in churches; a hymnal.


word: Hymn₂
definition:
Hymn

Hymn
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Hymned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hymning (?).]
[Cf. L. hymnire, Gr. _;.]
To praise in song; to worship or extol by singing hymns; to sing.

To hymn the bright of the Lord.
Keble.

Their praise is hymned by loftier harps than mine.
Byron.


word: Hymnody
definition:
Hymnody

Hym"no*dy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;; _; a hymn + _; a song, a singing.]
Hymns, considered collectively; hymnology.


word: Hymnographer
definition:
Hymnographer

Hym*nog"ra*pher
(?)
n.
1.
One who writes on the subject of hymns.

2.
A writer or composed of hymns.


word: Hymnologist
definition:
Hymnologist

Hym*nol"o*gist
(?)
n.
A composer or compiler of hymns; one versed in hymnology.
Busby.


word: Hymnology
definition:
Hymnology

Hym*nol"o*gy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; hymn + -logy: cf. F. hymnologie.]
1.
The hymns or sacred lyrics composed by authors of a particular country or period; as, the hymnology of the eighteenth century; also, the collective body of hymns used by any particular church or religious body; as, the Anglican hymnology.

2.
A knowledge of hymns; a treatise on hymns.


word: Hyo-
definition:
Hyo-

Hy"o-
(?)
[See Hyod.]
A prexif used in anatomy, and generally denoting connection with the hyoid bone or arch; as, hyoglossal, hyomandibular, hyomental, etc.


word: Hyoganoidei
definition:
Hyoganoidei

Hy`o*ga*noi"de*i
(?)
n. pl.
[NL. See Hyo-, and Canoidei.]
(Zool.)
A division of ganoid fishes, including the gar pikes and bowfins.
Hy`o*ga"noid (#), a.


word: Hyoglossal
definition:
Hyoglossal

Hy`o*glos"sal
(?)
a.
[Hyo- + Gr. _; tongue.]
(Anat.)
(a)
Pertaining to or connecting the tongue and hyodean arch; as, the hyoglossal membrane.
(b)
Of or pertaining to the hyoglossus muscle.


word: Hyoglossus
definition:
Hyoglossus

Hy`o*glos"sus
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. hyo- hyo- + Gr. glw^ssa tongue.]
(Anat.)
A flat muscle on either side of the tongue, connecting it with the hyoid bone.


word: Hyoid
definition:
Hyoid

Hy"oid
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; fr. the letter Υ + e'i^dos form: cf. F. hyoïde.]
1.
Having the form of an arch, or of the Greek letter upsilon [Υ].

2.
(Anat.)
Of or pertaining to the bony or cartilaginous arch which supports the tongue. Sometimes applied to the tongue itself.

Hyoid arch (Anat.), the arch of cartilaginous or bony segments, which connects the base of the tongue with either side of the skull. -- Hyoid bone (Anat.), the bone in the base of the tongue, the middle part of the hyoid arch.


word: Hyomandibular
definition:
Hyomandibular

Hy`o*man*dib"u*lar
(?)
a.
[Hyo- + mandibular.]
(Anat.)
Pertaining both to the hyoidean arch and the mandible or lower jaw; as, the hyomandibular bone or cartilage, a segment of the hyoid arch which connects the lower jaw with the skull in fishes.
n. The hyomandibular bone or cartilage.


word: Hyomental
definition:
Hyomental

Hy`o*men"tal
(?)
a.
[Hyo- + mental of the chin.]
(Anat.)
Between the hyoid bone and the lower jaw, pertaining to them; suprahyoid; submaxillary; as, the hyomental region of the front of the neck.


word: Hyopastron
definition:
Hyopastron

Hy`o*pas"tron
(?)
n.
[Hyo- + plastron.]
(Zool.)
The second lateral plate in the plastron of turtles; -- called also hyosternum.


word: Hyoscine
definition:
Hyoscine

Hy*os"cine
(?)
n.
[See Hyoscyamus.]
(Chem.)
An alkaloid found with hyoscyamine (with which it is also isomeric) in henbane, and extracted as a white, amorphous, semisolid substance.


word: Hyoscyamine
definition:
Hyoscyamine

Hy`os*cy"a*mine
(?)
n.
[See Hyoscyamus.]
(Chem.)
An alkaloid found in henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), and regarded as its active principle. It is also found with other alkaloids in the thorn apple and deadly nightshade. It is extracted as a white crystalline substance, with a sharp, offensive taste. Hyoscyamine is isomeric with atropine, is very poisonous, and is used as a medicine for neuralgia, like belladonna. Called also hyoscyamia, duboisine, etc.


word: Hyoscyamus
definition:
Hyoscyamus

Hy`os*cy"a*mus
(?)
n.
[L., fr. Gr. _;; _; a sow, hog + _; a bean.]
1.
(Bot.)
A genus of poisonous plants of the Nightshade family; henbane.

2.
(Med.)
The leaves of the black henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), used in neuralgic and pectorial troubles.


word: Hyosternal
definition:
Hyosternal

Hy`o*ster"nal
(?)
a.
[Hyo- + ternal.]
(Anat.)
(a)
Between the hyoid bone and the sternum, or pertaining to them; infrahyoid; as, the hyosternal region of the neck.
(b)
Pertaining to the hyosternum of turtles.


word: Hyostylic
definition:
Hyostylic

Hy`o*styl"ic
(?)
a.
[Hyo- + Gr. _; a pillar.]
(Anat.)
Having the mandible suspended by the hyomandibular, or upper part of the hyoid arch, as in fishes, instead of directly articulated with the skull as in mammals; -- said of the skull.


word: Hyp
definition:
Hyp

Hyp
(?)
n.
An abbreviation of hypochonaria; -- usually in plural.
[Colloq.]

Heaven send thou hast not got the hyps.
Swift.


word: Hypethral
definition:
Hypethral

Hypaethral

{ Hy*pæ"thral, Hy*pe"thral (?) }
a.
[L. hypaethrus in the open air, uncovered, Gr. _;; _; under + _; ether, the clear sky.]
(Arch.)
Exposed to the air; wanting a roof; -- applied to a building or part of a building.
Gwilt.


word: Hypallage
definition:
Hypallage

Hy*pal"la*ge
(?)
n.
[L., fr. Gr. _;, prop., interchange, exchange, fr, _; to interchange; _; under + _; to change.]
(Gram.)
A figure consisting of a transference of attributes from their proper subjects to others. Thus Virgil says, “dare classibus austros,” to give the winds to the fleets, instead of dare classibus austris, to give the fleets to the winds.

The hypallage, of which Virgil is fonder than any other writer, is much the gravest fault in language.
Landor.


word: Hypanthium
definition:
Hypanthium

Hy*pan"thi*um
(?)
n.
pl. L. Hypanthia (#), E. Hypanthiums (#).
[NL., fr. Gr. "ypo beneath + 'a`nqos flower.]
(Bot.)
A fruit consisting in large part of a receptacle, enlarged below the calyx, as in the Calycanthus, the rose hip, and the pear.


word: Hypapophysis
definition:
Hypapophysis

Hy`pa*poph"y*sis
(?)
n.
pl. Hypapophyles (#).
[NL. See Hypo-, and Apophysis.]
(Anat.)
A process, or other element, of a vertebra developed from the ventral side of the centrum, as hæmal spines, and chevron bones.
Hy`pa*po*phys"i*al (#), a.


word: Hyparterial
definition:
Hyparterial

Hy`par*te"ri*al
(?)
a.
[Hypo- + arterial.]
(Anat.)
Situated below an artery; applied esp. to the branches of the bronchi given off below the point where the pulmonary artery crosses the bronchus.


word: Hypaxial
definition:
Hypaxial

Hy*pax"i*al
(?)
a.
[Hypo- + axial.]
(Anat.)
Beneath the axis of the skeleton; subvertebral; hyposkeletal.


word: Hyper-
definition:
Hyper-

Hy"per-
(?)
[Gr. "ype`r over, above; akin to L. super, E. over. See Over, and cf. Super-.]
1.
A prefix signifying over, above; as, hyperphysical, hyperthyrion; also, above measure, abnormally great, excessive; as, hyperæmia, hyperbola, hypercritical, hypersecretion.

2.
(Chem.)
A prefix equivalent to super- or per-; as hyperoxide, or peroxide. [Obs.] See Per-.


word: hyperactivity
definition:
hyperactivity

hyperactivity
n.
An unusually high level of activity; -- used especially with respect to children who move around frequently and do not sit still very long, most noticeably in school.  It is sometimes associated with attention deficit disorder.


word: Hyperaemia
definition:
Hyperaemia

Hy`per*æ"mi*a
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. "ype`r over + a"i^ma blood.]
(Med.)
A superabundance or congestion of blood in an organ or part of the body.

Active hyperæmia, congestion due to increased flow of blood to a part. -- Passive hyperæmia, interchange due to obstruction in the return of blood from a part.


word: Hyperaesthesia
definition:
Hyperaesthesia

Hy`per*æs*the"si*a
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. "ype`r over + _; sense, perception.]
(Med. & Physiol.)
A state of exalted or morbidly increased sensibility of the body, or of a part of it.
Hy`per*æs*thet"ic (#), a.


word: Hyperapophysis
definition:
Hyperapophysis

Hy`per*a*poph"y*sis
(?)
n.
pl. Hyperapophyses (#).
[NL. See Hyper-, and Apophysis.]
(Anat.)
A lateral and backward-projecting process on the dorsal side of a vertebra.
Hy`per*ap`o*phys"i*al (#), a.


word: Hyperaspist
definition:
Hyperaspist

Hy`per*as"pist
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;, fr. _; to cover with a shield; "ype`r over + _; shield.]
One who holds a shield over another; hence, a defender.
[Obs.]
Chillingworth.


word: Hyperbaric
definition:
Hyperbaric

Hy`per*bar"ic
(?)
a.
[hyper- + baric.]
1.
Of, pertaining to, or using a pressure that is greater than normal atmospheric pressure; as, a hyperbaric chamber, where divers may decompress slowly to avoid the bends.

2.
Of, pertaining to, or using an oxygen pressure that is greater than that at normal atmospheric pressure; as, a hyperbaric tent to provide additional oxygen to patients with breathing difficulty.


word: Hyperbaton
definition:
Hyperbaton

Hy*per"ba*ton
(hī*pẽr"bȧ*t&obreve_;n)
n.
[L., fr. Gr. "ype`rbaton, fr. "yperbato`s transposed, fr. "yperbai`nein to step over; "ype`r over + bai`nein to step.]
(Gram.)
A figurative construction, changing or inverting the natural order of words or clauses; as, “echoed the hills” for “the hills echoed.”

With a violent hyperbaton to transpose the text.
Milton.


word: Hyperbola
definition:
Hyperbola

Hy*per"bo*la
(hī*pẽr"bo̝*lȧ)
n.
[Gr. "yperbolh`, prop., an overshooting, excess, i. e., of the angle which the cutting plane makes with the base. See Hyperbole.]
(Geom.)
A curve formed by a section of a cone, when the cutting plane makes a greater angle with the base than the side of the cone makes. It is a plane curve such that the difference of the distances from any point of it to two fixed points, called foci, is equal to a given distance. See Focus.  If the cutting plane be produced so as to cut the opposite cone, another curve will be formed, which is also an hyperbola. Both curves are regarded as branches of the same hyperbola. See Illust. of Conic section, and Focus.


word: Hyperbole
definition:
Hyperbole

Hy*per"bo*le
(hī*pẽr"bo̝*le̝)
n.
[L., fr. Gr "yperbolh`, prop., an overshooting, excess, fr. Gr. "yperba`llein to throw over or beyond; "ype`r over + ba`llein to throw. See Hyper-, Parable, and cf. Hyperbola.]
(Rhet.)
A figure of speech in which the expression is an evident exaggeration of the meaning intended to be conveyed, or by which things are represented as much greater or less, better or worse, than they really are; a statement exaggerated fancifully, through excitement, or for effect.

Our common forms of compliment are almost all of them extravagant hyperboles.
Blair.

Somebody has said of the boldest figure in rhetoric, the hyperbole, that it lies without deceiving.
Macaulay.


word: Hyperbolical
definition:
Hyperbolical

Hyperbolic

{ Hy`per*bol"ic (hī`pẽr*b&obreve_;l"ĭk), Hy`per*bol"ic*al (hī`pẽr*b&obreve_;l"ĭ*kal), }
a.
[L. hyperbolicus, Gr. "yperboliko`s: cf. F. hyperbolique.]
1.
(Math.)
Belonging to the hyperbola; having the nature of the hyperbola.

2.
(Rhet.)
Relating to, containing, or of the nature of, hyperbole; exaggerating or diminishing beyond the fact; exceeding the truth; as, an hyperbolical expression.
hyperbolical
Fuller.

Hyperbolic functions (Math.), certain functions which have relations to the hyperbola corresponding to those which sines, cosines, tangents, etc., have to the circle; and hence, called hyperbolic sines, hyperbolic cosines, etc. -- Hyperbolic logarithm. See Logarithm. -- Hyperbolic spiral (Math.), a spiral curve, the law of which is, that the distance from the pole to the generating point varies inversely as the angle swept over by the radius vector.


word: Hyperbolically
definition:
Hyperbolically

Hy`per*bol"ic*al*ly
(?)
adv.
1.
(Math.)
In the form of an hyperbola.

2.
(Rhet.)
With exaggeration; in a manner to express more or less than the truth.
Sir W. Raleigh.


word: Hyperboliform
definition:
Hyperboliform

Hy`per*bol"i*form
(?)
a.
[Hyperbola + -form.]
Having the form, or nearly the form, of an hyperbola.


word: Hyperbolize
definition:
Hyperbolize

Hy*per"bo*lize
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Hyperbolized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hyperbolizing (?).]
[Cf. F. hyperboliser.]
To speak or write with exaggeration.
Bp. Montagu.


word: Hyperboloid
definition:
Hyperboloid

Hy*per"bo*loid
(?)
n.
[Hyperbola + -oid: cf. F. hyperboloïde.]
(Geom.)
A surface of the second order, which is cut by certain planes in hyperbolas; also, the solid, bounded in part by such a surface.

Hyperboloid of revolution, an hyperboloid described by an hyperbola revolving about one of its axes. The surface has two separate sheets when the axis of revolution is the transverse axis, but only one when the axis of revolution is the conjugate axis of the hyperbola.


word: Hyperboloid₂
definition:
Hyperboloid

Hy*per"bo*loid
a.
(Geom.)
Having some property that belongs to an hyperboloid or hyperbola.


word: Hyperborean
definition:
Hyperborean

Hy`per*bo"re*an
(?)
a.
[L. hyperboreus, Gr. _;; "ype`r over, beyond + _;. See Boreas.]
1.
(Greek Myth.)
Of or pertaining to the region beyond the North wind, or to its inhabitants.

2.
Northern; belonging to, or inhabiting, a region in very far north; most northern; hence, very cold; fright, as, a hyperborean coast or atmosphere.

The hyperborean or frozen sea.
C. Butler (1633).


word: Hyperborean₂
definition:
Hyperborean

Hy`per*bo"re*an
n.
1.
(Greek Myth.)
One of the people who lived beyond the North wind, in a land of perpetual sunshine.

2.
An inhabitant of the most northern regions.


word: Hypercarbureted
definition:
Hypercarbureted

Hy`per*car"bu*ret`ed
(?)
a.
(Chem.)
Having an excessive proportion of carbonic acid; -- said of bicarbonates or acid carbonates.
[Written also hypercarburetted.]


word: Hypercatalectic
definition:
Hypercatalectic

Hy`per*cat`a*lec"tic
(?)
a.
[L. hypercatalecticus, hypercatalectus, Gr. _;: cf. F. hypercatalectique. See Hyper-, and Catalectic.]
(Pros.)
Having a syllable or two beyond measure; as, a hypercatalectic verse.


word: Hypercritic
definition:
Hypercritic

Hy`per*crit"ic
(?)
n.
[Pref. hyper- + critic: cf. F. hypercritique.]
One who is critical beyond measure or reason; a carping critic; a captious censor.
Hypercritics
Dryden.


word: Hypercritical
definition:
Hypercritical

Hy`per*crit"ic*al
(?)
a.
1.
Over critical; unreasonably or unjustly critical; carping; captious.
Hypercritical
Swift.

2.
Excessively nice or exact.
Evelyn.


word: Hypercriticise
definition:
Hypercriticise

Hy`per*crit"i*cise
(?)
v. t.
To criticise with unjust severity; to criticise captiously.


word: Hypercriticism
definition:
Hypercriticism

Hy`per*crit"i*cism
(?)
n.
Excessive criticism, or unjust severity or rigor of criticism; zoilism.


word: hypercube
definition:
hypercube

hypercube
n.
A mathematical object existing in more than three dimensions, analogous to the cube in that each two-dimensional facet of the surface is a square; a generalization of a cube in more than three dimensions.


word: Hyperdulia
definition:
Hyperdulia

Hy`per*du*li"a
(?)
n.
[Pref. hyper- + dulia: cf. F. hyperdulie.]
(R. C. Ch.)
Veneration or worship given to the Virgin Mary as the most exalted of mere creatures; higher veneration than dulia.
Addis & Arnold.


word: hyperegol
definition:
hyperegol

Hy"per*gol
(hī"pẽr*g&obreve_;l)
a.
(Rocketry)
A substance which can form one of a pair of hypergolic substances.  See hypergolic.


word: hyperegolic
definition:
hyperegolic

Hy`per*gol"ic
(hī`pẽr*g&obreve_;l"ĭk)
a.
(Rocketry)
Igniting spontaneously when mixed together; -- used of pairs of substances which react violently with evolution of heat when mixed, as for example hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide.  Such combinations of substances are convenient for use in liquid-fueled rockets, as they do not require a source of ignition.


word: Hypericum
definition:
Hypericum

Hy*per"i*cum
(?)
n.
[L., fr. Gr. _;, _;; _; under, among + _;, _;, heath, heather.]
(Bot.)
A genus of plants, generally with dotted leaves and yellow flowers; -- called also St. John's-wort.


word: hyperinflation
definition:
hyperinflation

hyperinflation
n.
an unusually rapid rate of monetary inflation, as when prices rise more than 100 per cent per year.
A famous example occurred in Germany after the first World War, reaching its peak in the period 1923.  When the hyperinflation ended by 1924, the value of the mark had decreased by more than one trillion times compared to its value in 1914.  Periods of lesser hyperinflation have occurred in many other countries, as in Russia in 1994.


word: Hyperinosis
definition:
Hyperinosis

Hy`per*i*no"sis
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. "ype`r over + _;, _;, strength, fiber.]
(Med.)
A condition of the blood, characterized by an abnormally large amount of fibrin, as in many inflammatory diseases.


word: Hyperion
definition:
Hyperion

Hy*pe"ri*on
(?)
n.
[L., fr. Gr. _;.]
(Class Myth.)
The god of the sun; in the later mythology identified with Apollo, and distinguished for his beauty.

So excellent a king; that was, to this,
Hyperion to a satyr.
Shak.


word: Hyperkinesis
definition:
Hyperkinesis

Hy`per*ki*ne"sis
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. "ype`r over + _; motion.]
(Med.)
Abnormally increased muscular movement; spasm.


word: Hypermetamorphosis
definition:
Hypermetamorphosis

Hy`per*met`a*mor"pho*sis
(?)
n.
[Hyper- + metamorphosis.]
(Zool.)
A kind of metamorphosis, in certain insects, in which the larva itself undergoes remarkable changes of form and structure during its growth.


word: Hypermeter
definition:
Hypermeter

Hy*per"me*ter
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; beyond all measure; "ype`r over, beyond + _; measure: cf. F. hypermètre.]
1.
(Pros.)
A verse which has a redundant syllable or foot; a hypercatalectic verse.

2.
Hence, anything exceeding the ordinary standard.

When a man rises beyond six foot, he is an hypermeter.
Addison.


word: Hypermetrical
definition:
Hypermetrical

Hy`per*met"ric*al
(?)
a.
Having a redundant syllable; exceeding the common measure.

Hypermetrical verse (Gr. & Lat. Pros.), a verse which contains a syllable more than the ordinary measure.


word: Hypermetropy
definition:
Hypermetropy

Hypermetropia

{ &VerbarHy`per*me*tro"pi*a (?), Hy`per*met"ro*py (?), }
n.
[NL. hypermetropia, fr. Gr. _; excessive + _;, _;, the eye. See Hypermeter.]
An abnormal condition of the eye in which, through shortness of the eyeball or fault of the refractive media, the rays of light come to a focus behind the retina, making vision for distant objects better than for near objects; farsightedness; -- now most commonly called hyperopia.  Cf. Emmetropia.
[Obsolescent]

Syn. -- hyperopia, farsightedness, longsightedness.

&hand_; In hypermetropia, vision for distant objects, although not better absolutely, is better than that for near objects, and hence, the individual is said to be farsighted. It is corrected by the use of convex glasses.


word: Hypermyriorama
definition:
Hypermyriorama

Hy`per*myr`i*o*ra"ma
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; beyond + _; countless + _; view.]
A show or exhibition having a great number of scenes or views.


word: hypernym
definition:
hypernym

hypernym
n.
a word that is more generic or more abstract than a given word; a word designating a class of which the given word is a member.  Inverse of subtype and hyponym.

Syn. -- superordinate, superordinate word.


word: hypernymy
definition:
hypernymy

hypernymy
n.
the relation of being superordinate or belonging to a higher (more abstract) rank or class.  Inverse of hyponymy.

Syn. -- superordination.


word: Hyperoartia
definition:
Hyperoartia

Hy`per*o*ar"ti*a
(?)
n. pl.
[NL.]
(Zool.)
An order of marsipobranchs including the lampreys. The suckerlike moth contains numerous teeth; the nasal opening is in the middle of the head above, but it does not connect with the mouth. See Cyclostoma, and Lamprey.


word: Hyperodontidae
definition:
Hyperodontidae

Hyperodontidae
prop. n.
A natural family of cetaceans comprising the beaked whales; in some, especially former, classifications it included in the family Physeteridae.

Syn. -- Ziphiidae, family Ziphiidae, family Hyperodontidae.


word: hyperon
definition:
hyperon

hyperon
n.
(Physics)
Any baryon that is not a nucleon; it is an unstable particle with a mass greater than that of a neutron.


word: Hyperoodon
definition:
Hyperoodon

Hyperoodon
prop. n.
(Zool.)
The mammalian genus comprised of the bottle-nosed whales.

Syn. -- genus Hyperoodon.


word: Hyperopia
definition:
Hyperopia

Hy`per*o"pi*a
(hī`pẽr*&omacr"pĭ*ȧ)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. "ype`r over + 'w`ps, 'wpo`s, the eye.]
An abnormal condition of the eye in which, through shortness of the eyeball or fault of the refractive media, the rays of light come to a focus behind the retina, making vision for distant objects better than for near objects; farsightedness; -- called also hypermetropia.  Cf. Emmetropia.
Hy`per*op"tic (#), a.

Syn. -- hypermetropia, farsightedness, longsightedness.


word: Hyperorganic
definition:
Hyperorganic

Hy`per*or*gan"ic
(hī`pẽr*ôr*găn"ĭk)
a.
[Pref. hyper- + organic.]
Higher than, or beyond the sphere of, the organic.
Sir W. Hamilton.


word: hyperorthodox
definition:
hyperorthodox

hy`per*or"tho*dox
(hī`pẽr*ôr"tho̝*d&obreve_;ks)
a.
Orthodox to an excessive degree.

Syn. -- ultraorthodox.


word: Hyperorthodoxy
definition:
Hyperorthodoxy

Hy`per*or"tho*dox`y
(hī`pẽr*ôr"tho̝*d&obreve_;ks`&ybreve_;)
n.
Orthodoxy pushed to excess.

Syn. -- ultraorthodoxy.


word: Hyperotreta
definition:
Hyperotreta

Hy`per*o*tre"ta
(hī`pẽr*o̝*trē"tȧ)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. "yperw`,n the palate + trhto`s perforated.]
(Zool.)
An order of marsipobranchs, including the Myxine or hagfish and the genus Bdellostoma. They have barbels around the mouth, one tooth on the palate, and a communication between the nasal aperture and the throat. See Hagfish.
[Written also Hyperotreti.]


word: Hyperoxide
definition:
Hyperoxide

Hy`per*ox"ide
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A compound having a relatively large percentage of oxygen; a peroxide.
[Obs.]


word: Hyperoxygenized
definition:
Hyperoxygenized

Hyperoxygenated

{ Hy`per*ox"y*gen*a`ted (?), Hy`per*ox"y*gen*ized (?), }
a.
(Chem.)
Combined with a relatively large amount of oxygen; -- said of higher oxides.
[Obs.]


word: Hyperoxymuriatic
definition:
Hyperoxymuriatic

Hy`per*ox`y*mu`ri*at"ic
(?)
a.
(Chem.)
Perchloric; as, hyperoxymuriatic acid.
[Obs.]


word: Hyperphysical
definition:
Hyperphysical

Hy`per*phys"ic*al
(?)
a.
Above or transcending physical laws; supernatural.

Those who do not fly to some hyperphysical hypothesis.
Sir W. Hamilton.


word: Hyperplasia
definition:
Hyperplasia

Hy`per*pla"si*a
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. "ype`r over + _; conformation, fr. _; to mold.]
(Med. & Biol.)
An increase in, or excessive growth of, the normal elements of any part.

&hand_; Hyperplasia relates to the formation of new elements, hypertrophy being an increase in bulk of preexisting normal elements.
Dunglison.


word: Hyperplastic
definition:
Hyperplastic

Hy`per*plas"tic
(?)
a.
1.
Of or pertaining to hyperplasia.

2.
(Biol.)
Tending to excess of formative action.


word: Hyperpnoea
definition:
Hyperpnoea

Hy`perp*nœ"a
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. "ype`r over + _;, _;, breath.]
(Physiol.)
Abnormal breathing, due to slightly deficient arterialization of the blood; -- in distinction from eupnœa. See Eupnœa, and Dispnœa.


word: Hyperpyrexia
definition:
Hyperpyrexia

Hy`per*py*rex"i*a
(?)
n.
[NL. See Hyper-, and Pyrexia.]
(Med.)
A condition of excessive fever; an elevation of temperature in a disease, in excess of the limit usually observed in that disease.


word: hypersonic
definition:
hypersonic

hy`per*son"ic
(?)
n.
[Pref. hyper- + sonic.]
(Aeronautics)
Pertaining to or moving at a speed greatly in excess of the speed of sound, usually meaning greater than mach 5.  All speeds in excess of the speed of sound are supersonic, but to be hypersonic requires even higher speed.


word: hyperspace
definition:
hyperspace

hy"per*space
(hī"pẽr*spās)
n.
[Pref. hyper- + space.]
(Geom.)
A mathematical space having more than three dimensions.  It is a mathematical construct and is not intended to represent the structure of the common physical space in which matter exists.


word: hypersphere
definition:
hypersphere

hy"per*sphere
(hī"pẽr*sfēr)
n.
A mathematical object existing in more than three dimensions, analogous to the sphere in that all points on the surface are equidistant from the central point; a generalization of a sphere in more than three dimensions.


word: Hypersthene
definition:
Hypersthene

Hy"per*sthene
(hī"pẽr*sthēn)
n.
[Gr. "ype`r over + sqe`nos strength: cf. F. hyperstène.]
(Min.)
An orthorhombic mineral of the pyroxene group, of a grayish or greenish black color, often with a peculiar bronzelike luster (schiller) on the cleavage surface.


word: hypertension
definition:
hypertension

hypertension
n.
abnormally high blood pressure; especially, the chronic condition associated with persistent high blood pressure.


word: hypertensive
definition:
hypertensive

hypertensive
n.
1.
having abnormally high blood pressure.

2.
Causing high blood pressure.


word: hyperthermy
definition:
hyperthermy

hyperthermia

hyperthermia, hyperthermy
n.
abnormally high body temperature.

Syn. -- hyperthermy.


word: Hyperthetical
definition:
Hyperthetical

Hy`per*thet"ic*al
(?)
a.
[Gr. _;; "ype`r over + tiqe`nai to place.]
Exaggerated; excessive; hyperbolical.
[Obs.]

Hyperthetical or superlative . . . expression.
Chapman.


word: Hyperthyrion
definition:
Hyperthyrion

Hy`per*thyr"i*on
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _;; "ype`r over + _; door.]
(Arch.)
That part of the architrave which is over a door or window.


word: hypertonic
definition:
hypertonic

hy`per*ton"ic
(?)
n.
[Pref. hyper- + tonic.]
(Physiology, Biochemistry)
Having a higher osmotic pressure than a comparison solution; -- of an aqueous solution.  Increasing the concentration of dissolved solids increases the osmotic pressure, and thus the tonicity of a solution.  Opposite of hypotonic and contrasting with isotonic.
[wns=1]

A knowledge of the colligative properties of solutions . . . is essential for one to understand fully the principles involved in rendering intravenous solutions isotonic with blood serum, or opthalmic solutions isotonic with lachrymal fluid.  Solutions thus adjusted produce less shock and much less irritation than those which are hypotonic or hypertonic, and present-day practise recognizes the desirability of making the necessary adjustments whenever possible.
Cook & Martin (Remington's Practice of Pharmacy, Tenth Ed.: Mack Publ., Easton Pa., 1951)
2.
Specifically:
Having an osmotic pressure greater than that of blood plasma, which is approximately that of a 0.2 normal solution of sodium chloride.  Cells taken from a medium of normal physiological osmolality and placed in a hypertonic medium will shrink.
[wns=1]

3.
in a state of abnormally high tension; -- of muscle.
[wns=2]

Syn. -- pumped-up.


word: hyperthyroidism
definition:
hyperthyroidism

hyperthyroidism
n.
(Med.)
An abnormality of the thyroid gland characterized by the pathologically excessive production of thyroid hormones; -- also, the resulting condition characterized by increased metabolism, weight loss, rapid heart rate, high blood pressure, an enlarged thyroid gland and sometimes exophthalmos.  It leads to, and may be confirmed by, high plasma levels of triiodothyronine or thyroxin.

Syn. -- thyrotoxicosis.


word: Hypertrophical
definition:
Hypertrophical

Hypertrophic

{ Hy`per*troph"ic (?), Hy`per*troph"ic*al (?), }
a.
[Cf. F. hypertrophique.]
(Med. & Biol.)
Of or pertaining to hypertrophy; affected with, or tending to, hypertrophy.


word: Hypertrophied
definition:
Hypertrophied

Hy*per"tro*phied
(?)
a.
(Med. & Biol.)
Excessively developed; characterized by hypertrophy.


word: Hypertrophy
definition:
Hypertrophy

Hy*per"tro*phy
(?)
n.
[Gr. "ype`r over, beyond + _; nourishment, fr. _; to nourish: cf. F. hypertrophie.]
(Med. & Biol.)
A condition of overgrowth or excessive development of an organ or part; -- the opposite of atrophy.


word: hyperventilate
definition:
hyperventilate

hyperventilate
v. i.
to breathe rapidly and deeply; to breathe excessively; as, The mountain climber started to hyperventilate.


word: hyperventilation
definition:
hyperventilation

hyperventilation
n.
1.
The act or process of hyperventilating; breathing rapidly and deeply.

2.
(Med.)
A condition in which alveolar carbon dioxide concentration is markedly lower than normal, usually due to breathing rapidly and deeply.


word: hypha
definition:
hypha

hypha
(#)
n.
pl. hyphae (#).
any of the threadlike filaments forming the mycelium of a fungus.  See hyphae.


word: Hyphantria
definition:
Hyphantria

Hyphantria
n.
A genus of moths whose larvae are called fall webworms.

Syn. -- genus Hyphantria.


word: Hyphae
definition:
Hyphae

Hy"phæ
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. "yfh` a web.]
(Bot.)
The long, branching filaments of which the mycelium (and the greater part of the plant) of a fungus is formed.  They are also found enveloping the gonidia of lichens, making up a large part of their structure.


word: Hyphen
definition:
Hyphen

Hy"phen
(hī"fĕn)
n.
[L., fr. Gr. "yfe`n, fr. "yf "e`n under one, into one, together, fr. _; under + _;, neut. of _; one. See Hypo-.]
(Print.)
A mark or short dash, thus [-], placed at the end of a line which terminates with a syllable of a word, the remainder of which is carried to the next line; or between the parts of many a compound word; as in fine-leaved, clear-headed. It is also sometimes used to separate the syllables of words.


word: Hyphen₂
definition:
Hyphen

Hy"phen
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Hyphened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hyphening.]
To connect with, or separate by, a hyphen, as two words or the parts of a word.


word: Hyphenated American
definition:
Hyphenated American

Hyphenated American
An American who is referred to by a hyphenated term with the first word indicating an origin in a foreign country, and the second term being “American”, as Irish-American, Italian-American, African-American, Asian-American.
Used in reference to Americans of foreign birth or ancestry.  When used of Americans of European ancestry, it is often used to refer to those who have a strong attachment to the ancestral country or its culture.  It implies that the individual is imperfectly assimilated into American culture, and is sometimes used derogatively.


word: Hyphomycetes
definition:
Hyphomycetes

Hy`pho*my*ce"tes
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; a web + _;, _;, a mushroom.]
(Bot.)
One of the great division of fungi, containing those species which have naked spores borne on free or only fasciculate threads.
M. J. Berkley.


word: Hypidiomorphic
definition:
Hypidiomorphic

Hy*pid`i*o*mor"phic
(?)
a.
[Pref. hypo- + idiomorphic.]
(Crystallog.)
Partly idiomorphic; -- said of rock a portion only of whose constituents have a distinct crystalline form.
Hy*pid`i*o*mor"phic*al*ly (#), adv.


word: Hypinosis
definition:
Hypinosis

Hyp`i*no"sis
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; under + _;, _; strength, fiber.]
(Med.)
A diminution in the normal amount of fibrin present in the blood.


word: Hypnagogic
definition:
Hypnagogic

Hyp`na*gog"ic
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; sleep + _; a carrying away.]
Leading to sleep; -- applied to the illusions of one who is half asleep.


word: Hypnocyst
definition:
Hypnocyst

Hyp"no*cyst
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; sleep + E. cyst.]
(Biol.)
A cyst in which some unicellular organisms temporarily inclose themselves, from which they emerge unchanged, after a period of drought or deficiency of food. In some instances, a process of spore formation seems to occur within such cysts.


word: Hypnogenic
definition:
Hypnogenic

Hyp`no*gen"ic
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; sleep + root of gi`gnesqai to be born.]
(Physiol.)
Relating to the production of hypnotic sleep; as, the so-called hypnogenic pressure points, pressure upon which is said to cause an attack of hypnotic sleep.
De Watteville.


word: Hypnoscope
definition:
Hypnoscope

Hyp"no*scope
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; + -scope.]
(Physiol.)
An instrument for ascertaining the susceptibility of a person to hypnotic influences.


word: Hypnosis
definition:
Hypnosis

Hyp*no"sis
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; sleep.]
1.
(Med.)
Supervention of sleep.

2.
The condition of being hypnotized or the process of hypnotizing a person; hypnotism{1}.


word: Hypnotic
definition:
Hypnotic

Hyp*not"ic
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; inclined to sleep, putting to sleep, fr. _; to lull to sleep, fr. _; sleep; akin to L. somnus, and E. somnolent: cf. F. hypnotique.]
1.
Having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific.

2.
Of or pertaining to hypnotism; in a state of hypnotism; liable to hypnotism; as, a hypnotic condition.


word: Hypnotic₂
definition:
Hypnotic

Hyp*not"ic
n.
1.
Any agent that produces, or tends to produce, sleep; an opiate; a soporific; a narcotic.

2.
A person who exhibits the phenomena of, or is subject to, hypnotism.


word: Hypnotism
definition:
Hypnotism

Hyp"no*tism
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; sleep: cf. F. hypnotisme.]
1.
A form of sleep or trance, in some respects resembling somnambulism, but brought on by artificial means, in which there is an unusual suspension of some powers, and an unusual activity of others, especially a heightened susceptibility to suggestion. It is induced by an action upon the nerves, through the medium of the senses, by causing the subject to gaze steadily at a very bright object held before the eyes, or on an oscillating object, or by pressure upon certain points of the surface of the body, usually accompanied by the speaking of the hypnotist in quiet soothing tones.  Called also hypnosis.

2.
The science which deals with the induction and properties of the hypnotic state.


word: Hypnotist
definition:
Hypnotist

Hyp"no*tist
(?)
n.
A person who hypnotizes another, especially one who is professionally trained in the technique.


word: Hypnotize
definition:
Hypnotize

Hyp"no*tize
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Hypnotized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hypnotizing (?).]
To induce hypnotism in; to place in a state of hypnotism.


word: Hypnum
definition:
Hypnum

Hyp"num
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; moss.]
(Bot.)
The largest genus of true mosses; feather moss.


word: Hypo-
definition:
Hypo-

Hy"po-
(?)
[Gr. _; under, beneath; akin to L. sub. See Sub-.]
1.
A prefix signifying a less quantity, or a low state or degree, of that denoted by the word with which it is joined, or position under or beneath.

2.
(Chem.)
A prefix denoting that the element to the name of which it is prefixed enters with a low valence, or in a low state of oxidization, usually the lowest, into the compounds indicated; as, hyposulphurous acid.


word: Hypo₂
definition:
Hypo

Hy"po
n.
[Abbrev. from hyposulphite.]
(Photog.)
Sodium hyposulphite, or thiosulphate, a solution of which is used as a bath to wash out the unchanged silver salts in a picture.
[Colloq.]


word: Hypoarion
definition:
Hypoarion

Hy`po*a"ri*on
(?)
n.
pl. Hypoaria (#).
[NL., fr. Gr. "ypo` beneath + _; a little egg.]
(Anat.)
An oval lobe beneath each of the optic lobes in many fishes; one of the inferior lobes.
Owen.


word: Hypoblast
definition:
Hypoblast

Hy"po*blast
(?)
n.
[Pref. hypo- + -blast.]
(Biol.)
The inner or lower layer of the blastoderm; -- called also endoderm, entoderm, and sometimes hypoderm. See Illust. of Blastoderm, Delamination, and Ectoderm.


word: Hypoblastic
definition:
Hypoblastic

Hy`po*blas"tic
(?)
a.
(Biol.)
Relating to, or connected with, the hypoblast; as, the hypoic sac.


word: Hypobole
definition:
Hypobole

Hy*pob"o*le
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; a throwing under, a suggesting; _; under + _; to throw.]
(Rhet.)
A figure in which several things are mentioned that seem to make against the argument, or in favor of the opposite side, each of them being refuted in order.


word: Hypobranchial
definition:
Hypobranchial

Hy`po*bran"chi*al
(?)
a.
[Pref. hypo- + branchial.]
(Anat.)
Pertaining to the segment between the basibranchial and the ceratobranchial in a branchial arch.
n. A hypobranchial bone or cartilage.


word: Hypocarpium
definition:
Hypocarpium

Hypocarp

{ Hy"po*carp (?), &VerbarHy`po*car"pi*um (?), }
n.
[NL. hypocarpium, fr. Gr. "ypo` beneath + _; fruit.]
(Bot.)
A fleshy enlargement of the receptacle, or for the stem, below the proper fruit, as in the cashew. See Illust. of Cashew.


word: Hypocarpogean
definition:
Hypocarpogean

Hy`po*car`po*ge"an
(?)
a.
[Pref. hypo- + Gr. _; fruit + _; earth.]
(Bot.)
Producing fruit below the ground.


word: Hypocaust
definition:
Hypocaust

Hyp"o*caust
(?)
n.
[L. hypocaustum, Gr. _;; _; under + _; to burn: cf. F. hypocauste.]
(Anc. Arch.)
A furnace, esp. one connected with a series of small chambers and flues of tiles or other masonry through which the heat of a fire was distributed to rooms above. This contrivance, first used in bath, was afterwards adopted in private houses.


word: Hypochlorite
definition:
Hypochlorite

Hy`po*chlo"rite
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A salt of hypochlorous acid; as, a calcium hypochloride.


word: Hypochlorous
definition:
Hypochlorous

Hy`po*chlo"rous
(?)
a.
[Pref. hypo- + chlorous.]
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or derived from, chlorine having a valence lower than in chlorous compounds.

Hypochlorous acid (Chem.), an acid derived from chlorine, not known in a pure state, but forming various salts, called hypochlorites.


word: Hypochondres
definition:
Hypochondres

Hy`po*chon"dres
(?)
n. pl.
[F. hypocondres, formerly spely hypochondres.]
The hypochondriac regions. See Hypochondrium.


word: Hypochondria
definition:
Hypochondria

Hy`po*chon"dri*a
(?)
n.
[NL.]
(Med.)
An excessive concern about one's own health, particularly a morbid worry about illnesses which a person imagines are affecting him, often focusing on specific symptoms; also called hypochondriasis.


word: Hypochondriac
definition:
Hypochondriac

Hy`po*chon"dri*ac
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; affocated in the hypochondrium: cf. F. hypocondriaque, formerly spelt hypochondriaque.]
1.
Of or pertaining to hypochondria, or the hypochondriac regions.

2.
Affected, characterized, or produced, by hypochondriasis.

Hypochondriac region (Anat.), a region on either side of the abdomen beneath the cartilages of the false ribs, beside the epigastric, and above the lumbar, region.


word: Hypochondriac₂
definition:
Hypochondriac

Hy`po*chon"dri*ac
n.
A person affected with hypochondria.

He had become an incurable hypochondriac.
Macaulay.


word: Hypochondriacal
definition:
Hypochondriacal

Hy`po*chon"dri*a*cal
(?)
a.
Same as Hypochondriac, 2.
Hy`po*chon"dri*a*cal*ly, adv.


word: Hypochondriasis
definition:
Hypochondriasis

Hy`po*chon"dri*a*sis
(?)
n.
[NL. So named because supposed to have its seat in the hypochondriac regions. See Hypochondriac, Hypochondrium, and cf. Hyp, 1st Hypo.]
(Med.)
A mental disorder in which melancholy and gloomy views torment the affected person, particularly concerning his own health; a morbid and deluded belief that one is afflicted with disease.

Syn. -- hypochondria.


word: Hypochondrium
definition:
Hypochondrium

Hy`po*chon"dri*um
(?)
n.
pl. L. Hypochondria (#), E. Hypochondriums (#).
[L., fr. Gr. _;, from _; under the cartilage of the breastbone; _; under + _; cartilage.]
(Anat.)
Either of the hypochondriac regions.


word: Hypocist
definition:
Hypocist

Hyp"o*cist
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; a plant growing on the roots of the Cistus.]
An astringent inspissated juice obtained from the fruit of a plant (Cytinus hypocistis), growing from the roots of the Cistus, a small European shrub.


word: Hypocleidium
definition:
Hypocleidium

Hy`po*clei"di*um
(?)
n.
pl. L. Hypocleida (#), E. Hypocleidiums (#).
[NL., fr. Gr. _; under + _; a little key.]
(Anat.)
A median process on the furculum, or merrythought, of many birds, where it is connected with the sternum.


word: Hypocoristic
definition:
Hypocoristic

Hyp`o*co*ris"tic
(?)
a.
[Gr. _;; _; under + _; to caress.]
Endearing; diminutive; as, the hypocoristic form of a name.

The hypocoristic or pet form of William.
Dr. Murray.


word: Hypocrateriform
definition:
Hypocrateriform

Hyp`o*cra*ter"i*form
(?)
a.
[Pref. hypo- + krath`r cup + -form.]
(Bot.)
hypocraterimorphous; salver-shaped.
Wood.


word: Hypocraterimorphous
definition:
Hypocraterimorphous

Hyp`o*cra*ter`i*mor"phous
(?)
a.
[Pref. hypo- + Gr. krath`r bowl + morfh` form.]
(Bot.)
Salver-shaped; having a slender tube, expanding suddenly above into a bowl-shaped or spreading border, as in the blossom of the phlox and the lilac.


word: Hypocrisy
definition:
Hypocrisy

Hy*poc"ri*sy
(hĭ*p&obreve_;k"rĭ*s&ybreve_;)
n.
pl. Hypocrisies (-sĭz).
[OE. hypocrisie, ypocrisie, OF. hypocrisie, ypocrisie, F. hypocrisie, L. hypocrisis, fr. Gr. "ypo`krisis the playing a part on the stage, simulation, outward show, fr. "ypokri`nesqai to answer on the stage, to play a part; "ypo` under + kri`nein to decide; in the middle voice, to dispute, contend. See Hypo-, and Critic.]
The act or practice of a hypocrite; a feigning to be what one is not, or to feel what one does not feel; a dissimulation, or a concealment of one's real character, disposition, or motives; especially, the assuming of false appearance of virtue or religion; a simulation of goodness.

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.
Rambler.

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
La Rochefoucauld (Trans. ).


word: Hypocrite
definition:
Hypocrite

Hyp"o*crite
(?)
n.
[F., fr. L. hypocrita, Gr. _; one who plays a part on the stage, a dissembler, feigner. See Hypocrisy.]
One who plays a part; especially, one who, for the purpose of winning approbation of favor, puts on a fair outside seeming; one who feigns to be other and better than he is; a false pretender to virtue or piety; one who simulates virtue or piety.

The hypocrite's hope shall perish.
Job viii. 13.

I dare swear he is no hypocrite, but prays from his heart.
Shak.


word: Hypocritical
definition:
Hypocritical

Hyp`o*crit"ic*al
(?)
a.
[Gr. _;: cf. F. hypocritique.]
Of or pertaining to a hypocrite, or to hypocrisy; as, a hypocriticalperson; a hypocritical look; a hypocritical action.

Hypocritical professions of friendship and of pacific intentions were not spared.
Macaulay.


word: Hypocrystalline
definition:
Hypocrystalline

Hyp`o*crys"tal*line
(?)
a.
[Pref. hypo- + crystalline.]
(Crystallog.)
Partly crystalline; -- said of rock which consists of crystals imbedded in a glassy ground mass.


word: Hypocycloid
definition:
Hypocycloid

Hy`po*cy"cloid
(?)
n.
[Pref. hypo- + cycloid: cf. F. hypocycloïde.]
(Geom.)
A curve traced by a point in the circumference of a circle which rolls on the concave side in the fixed circle.  Cf. Epicycloid, and Trochoid.


word: Hypodactylum
definition:
Hypodactylum

Hyp`o*dac"ty*lum
(?)
n.
pl. -tyla (#).
[NL., fr. Gr. "ypo` beneath + _; a finger, toe.]
(Zool.)
The under side of the toes.


word: Hypoderma
definition:
Hypoderma

Hyp`o*der"ma
(?)
n.
[NL. See Hypo, and derma.]
1.
(Bot.)
A layer of tissue beneath the epidermis in plants, and performing the physiological function of strengthening the epidermal tissue. In phanerogamous plants it is developed as collenchyma.

2.
(Zool.)
An inner cellular layer which lies beneath the chitinous cuticle of arthropods, annelids, and some other invertebrates.


word: Hypodermic
definition:
Hypodermic

Hyp`o*der"mic
(?)
a.
[See Hypoderma.]
Of or pertaining to the parts under the skin.

Hypodermic medication, the application of remedies under the epidermis, usually by means of a small syringe, called the hypodermic syringe.


word: Hypodermic needle
definition:
Hypodermic needle

Hyp`o*der"mic need"le
(?)
n.
1.
A small slender hollow metallic tube, sharp-pointed at one end and fitted at the other end with an adapter of larger internal diameter, designed for introduction of liquids directly into the bloodstream or other parts of the body of an animal.

2.
a hypodermic needle{1} together with an attached syringe.


word: Hypodermic syringe
definition:
Hypodermic syringe

Hyp`o*der"mic syr"inge
(?)
n.
a small syringe designed for use together with a hypodermic needle{1} for injection of liquids directly under the skin, or into other parts of the body of an animal.


word: Hypodermis
definition:
Hypodermis

Hyp`o*der"mis
(?)
n.
[NL. See Hypo-, and Derma.]
1.
(Biol.)
Same as Hypoblast.

2.
(Zool.)
Same as Hypoderma, 2.


word: Hypodicrotous
definition:
Hypodicrotous

Hypodicrotic

{ Hyp`o*di*crot"ic (?), Hyp`o*di"cro*tous (?), }
a.
(Physiol.)
Exhibiting retarded dicrotism; as, a hypodicrotic pulse curve.


word: Hypogaeic
definition:
Hypogaeic

Hyp`o*gæ"ic
(?)
a.
[Pref. hypo- + Gr. gai^a, gh^, earth.]
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or obtained from, the peanut, or earthnut (Arachis hypogæa).

Hypogæic acid (Chem.), an acid in the oil of the earthnut, in which it exists as a glyceride, and from which it is extracted as a white, crystalline substance.


word: Hypogastric
definition:
Hypogastric

Hyp`o*gas"tric
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. hypogastrique. See Hypogastrium.]
(Anat.)
Of or pertaining to the hypogastrium or the hypogastric region.

Hypogastric region. (a) The lower part of the abdomen. (b) An arbitrary division of the abdomen below the umbilical and between the two iliac regions.


word: Hypogastrium
definition:
Hypogastrium

Hyp`o*gas"tri*um
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _;; _; under + _; belly.]
(Anat.)
The lower part of the abdomen.


word: Hypogean
definition:
Hypogean

Hyp`o*ge"an
(?)
a.
[Pref. hypo- + Gr. _; earth.]
(Bot.)
Hypogeous.
[Written also hypogæan.]


word: Hypogene
definition:
Hypogene

Hyp"o*gene
(?)
a.
[Pref. hypo- + the root of Gr. gi`gnesqai to be born: cf. F. hypogène.]
(Geol.)
Formed or crystallized at depths beneath the earth's surface; -- said of granite, gneiss, and other rocks, whose crystallization is believed of have taken place beneath a great thickness of overlying rocks. Opposed to epigene.


word: Hypogeous
definition:
Hypogeous

Hyp`o*ge"ous
(?)
a.
[See Hypogean.]
(Bot.)
Growing under ground; remaining under ground; ripening its fruit under ground.
[Written also hypogæous.]


word: Hypogeum
definition:
Hypogeum

Hyp`o*ge"um
(?)
n.
pl. Hypogea (#).
[L., fr. Gr. _;, _;, subterranean; _; under + _;, _;, the earth.]
(Anc. Arch.)
The subterraneous portion of a building, as in amphitheaters, for the service of the games; also, subterranean galleries, as the catacombs.


word: Hypoglossal
definition:
Hypoglossal

Hyp`o*glos"sal
(?)
a.
[Pref. hypo- + Gr. _; the tongue.]
(Anat.)
Under the tongue; -- applied esp., in the higher vertebrates, to the twelfth or last pair of cranial nerves, which are distributed to the base of the tongue.
n. One of the hypoglossal nerves.


word: Hypognatous
definition:
Hypognatous

Hy*pog"na*tous
(?)
a.
[Pref. hypo- + Gr. _; the jaw.]
(Zool.)
Having the maxilla, or lower jaw, longer than the upper, as in the skimmer.


word: Hypogynous
definition:
Hypogynous

Hy*pog"y*nous
(?)
a.
[Pref. hypo- + Gr. _; woman, female: cf. F. hypogyne.]
(Bot.)
Inserted below the pistil or pistils; -- said of sepals, petals, and stamens; having the sepals, petals, and stamens inserted below the pistil; -- said of a flower or a plant.
Gray.


word: Hypohyal
definition:
Hypohyal

Hy`po*hy"al
(?)
a.
[Pref. hypo- + Greek letter _;.]
(Anat.)
Pertaining to one or more small elements in the hyoidean arch of fishes, between the caratohyal and urohyal.
n. One of the hypohyal bones or cartilages.


word: Hyponastic
definition:
Hyponastic

Hy`po*nas"tic
(?)
a.
[Pref. hypo- + Gr. _; pressed close.]
(Bot.)
Exhibiting a downward convexity caused by unequal growth.  Cf. Epinastic.


word: Hyponitrous
definition:
Hyponitrous

Hy`po*ni"trous
(?)
a.
[Pref. hypo- + nitrous.]
(Chem.)
Containing or derived from nitrogen having a lower valence than in nitrous compounds.

Hyponitrous acid (Chem.), an unstable nitrogen acid, NOH, whose salts are produced by reduction of the nitrates, although the acid itself is not isolated in the free state except as a solution in water; -- called also nitrosylic acid.


word: hyponym
definition:
hyponym

hyponym
n.
(linguistics)
a word that is more specific (less abstract) than a given word; a term designating a class which is a subtype of the given word; a subcategory; a subtype.  Inverse of hypernym; as, “dog” is a hyponym of “mammal”, and “mammal” is a hyponym of “vertebrate”.

Syn. -- subordinate, subordinate word.


word: hyponymy
definition:
hyponymy

hyponymy
n.
(Linguistics)
The state or quality of being a hyponym; as, hyponymy is symbolized by the tag “hypon”.


word: Hypopharynx
definition:
Hypopharynx

Hy`po*phar"ynx
(?)
n.
[NL. See Hypo-, and Pharynx.]
(Zool.)
An appendage or fold on the lower side of the pharynx, in certain insects.


word: Hypophosphoric
definition:
Hypophosphoric

Hy`po*phos*phor"ic
(?)
a.
[Pref. hypo- + phosphoric.]
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or derived from, or containing, phosphorus in a lower state of oxidation than in phosphoric compounds; as, hypophosphoric acid.

Hypophosphoric acid (Chem.), an acid, P2H4O6, produced by the slow oxidation of moist phosphorus, and isolated only as a solution in water. It is regarded as a condensation product of one molecule of phosphoric acid with one of phosphorous acid, by partial dehydration.


word: Hypophosphorous
definition:
Hypophosphorous

Hy`po*phos"phor*ous
(?)
a.
[Pref. hypo- + phosphorous.]
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or containing, phosphorus in a lower state of oxidation than in phosphoric compounds; as, hypophosphorous acid.

Hypophosphorous acid (Chem.) , an acid, H3PO2, whose salts are produced by the action of barium hygrate on phosphorus. It may be obtained from its water solution, by exaporation and freezing, as a white crystalline substance. It is a powerful reducing agent.


word: Hypophyllous
definition:
Hypophyllous

Hy*poph"yl*lous
(?)
a.
[Pref. hypo- + Gr. _; leaf.]
(Bot.)
Being or growing on the under side of a leaf, as the fruit dots of ferns.


word: Hypophysis
definition:
Hypophysis

Hy*poph"y*sis
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; under + _; nature, origin.]
1.
(Anat.)
See Pituitary body, under Pituitary.

2.
(Med.)
Cataract.


word: Hypoplastron
definition:
Hypoplastron

Hy`po*plas"tron
(?)
n.
pl. Hypoplastra (#).
[Pref. hypo- + plastron.]
(Anat.)
The third lateral plate in the plastron of turtles; -- called also hyposternum.


word: Hypoptilum
definition:
Hypoptilum

Hy*pop"ti*lum
(?)
n.
pl. L. Hypoptila (#), E. Hypoptilums (#).
[NL., fr. Gr. "ypo` beneath + _; down.]
(Zool.)
An accessory plume arising from the posterior side of the stem of the contour feathers of many birds; -- called also aftershaft. See Illust. of Feather.


word: Hyporadius
definition:
Hyporadius

Hy`po*ra"di*us
(?)
n.
pl. Hyporadii (#).
[Pref. hypo- + radius.]
(Zool.)
One of the barbs of the hypoptilum, or aftershaft of a feather. See Feather.


word: Hyporhachis
definition:
Hyporhachis

Hy`po*rha"chis
(?)
n.
pl. Hyporhachides (#).
[NL., fr. Gr. "ypo` beneath + _; spine.]
(Zool.)
The stem of an aftershaft or hypoptilum.
[Written also hyporachis.]


word: Hyposkeletal
definition:
Hyposkeletal

Hy`po*skel"e*tal
(?)
a.
[Pref. hypo- + skeletal.]
(Anat.)
Beneath the endoskeleton; hypaxial; as, the hyposkeletal muscles; -- opposed to episkeletal.


word: Hypospadias
definition:
Hypospadias

Hy`po*spa"di*as
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. "ypo` beneath + spa`n to draw, tear.]
(Med.)
A deformity of the penis, in which the urethra opens upon its under surface.


word: Hypostasis
definition:
Hypostasis

Hy*pos"ta*sis
(?)
n.
pl. Hypostases (#).
[L., fr. Gr. _; subsistence, substance, fr. _; to stand under; _; under + _; to stand, middle voice of _; to cause to stand. See Hypo-, and Stand.]
1.
That which forms the basis of anything; underlying principle; a concept or mental entity conceived or treated as an existing being or thing.

2.
(Theol.)
Substance; subsistence; essence; person; personality; -- used by the early theologians to denote any one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

&hand_; The Council of Alexandria (a. d. 362) defined hypostasis as synonymous with person. Schaff-Herzog.

3.
Principle; an element; -- used by the alchemists in speaking of salt, sulphur, and mercury, which they considered as the three principles of all material bodies.

4.
(Med.)
That which is deposited at the bottom of a fluid; sediment.


word: Hypostasize
definition:
Hypostasize

Hy*pos"ta*size
(?)
v. t.
To make into a distinct substance; to conceive or treat as an existing being; to hypostatize.
[R.]

The pressed Newtonians . . . refused to hypostasize the law of gravitation into an ether.
Coleridge.


word: Hypostatical
definition:
Hypostatical

Hypostatic

{ Hy`po*stat"ic (?), Hy`po*stat"ic*al (?), }
a.
[Gr. _;: cf. F. hypostatique.]
1.
Relating to hypostasis, or substance; hence, constitutive, or elementary.

The grand doctrine of the chymists, touching their three hypostatical principles.
Boyle.

2.
Personal, or distinctly personal; relating to the divine hypostases, or substances.
Bp. Pearson.

3.
(Med.)
Depending upon, or due to, deposition or setting; as, hypostatic cognestion, cognestion due to setting of blood by gravitation.

Hypostatic union (Theol.), the union of the divine with the human nature of Christ. Tillotson.


word: Hypostatize
definition:
Hypostatize

Hy*pos"ta*tize
(?)
v. t.
1.
To make into, or regarded as, a separate and distinct substance.

Looked upon both species and genera as hypostatized universals.
Pop. Sci. Monthly.

2.
To attribute actual or personal existence to.
Sir W. Hamilton.


word: Hyposternum
definition:
Hyposternum

Hy`po*ster"num
(?)
n.
pl. L. Hyposterna (#), E. Hyposternums (#).
[Pref. hypo- + sternum.]
(Anat.)
See Hypoplastron.


word: Hypostoma
definition:
Hypostoma

Hypostome

{ Hy"po*stome (?), &VerbarHy*pos"to*ma (?), }
n.
[NL. hypostoma, fr. Gr. "ypo` beneath + _; mouth.]
(Zool.)
The lower lip of trilobites, crustaceans, etc.


word: Hypostrophe
definition:
Hypostrophe

Hy*pos"tro*phe
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _;, fr. _; to turn round or back; _; under + _; to turn.]
(Med.)
(a)
The act of a patient turning himself.
(b)
A relapse, or return of a disease.


word: Hypostyle
definition:
Hypostyle

Hy"po*style
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; resting on pillars; _; under + _; a pillar.]
(Arch.)
Resting upon columns; constructed by means of columns; -- especially applied to the great hall at Karnak.


word: Hyposulphite
definition:
Hyposulphite

Hy`po*sul"phite
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
(a)
A salt of what was formerly called hyposulphurous acid; a thiosulphate.
[Obs.]
(b)
A salt of hyposulphurous acid proper.


word: Hyposulphuric
definition:
Hyposulphuric

Hy`po*sul*phur"ic
(?)
a.
[Pref. hypo- + sulphuric.]
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or containing, sulphur in a lower state of oxidation than in the sulphuric compounds; as, hyposulphuric acid.

Hyposulphuric acid, an acid, H2S2O6, obtained by the action of manganese dioxide on sulphur dioxide, and known only in a watery solution and in its salts; -- called also dithionic acid. See Dithionic.


word: Hyposulphurous
definition:
Hyposulphurous

Hy`po*sul"phur*ous
(?)
a.
[Pref. hypo- + sulphurous.]
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or containing, sulphur, all, or a part, in a low state of oxidation.

Hyposulphurous acid. (a) Thiosulphuric acid. [Obs.] (b) An acid, H2SO2, obtained by the reduction of sulphurous acid. It is not obtained in the free state, but in an orange-yellow water solution, which is a strong reducing and bleaching agent. Called also hydrosulphurous acid.


word: Hypotarsus
definition:
Hypotarsus

Hy`po*tar"sus
(?)
n.
pl. Hypotarsi (#).
[NL. See Hypo-, and Tarsus.]
(Anat.)
A process on the posterior side of the tarsometatarsus of many birds; the calcaneal process.
Hy`po*tar"sal (#), a.


word: Hypothenuse
definition:
Hypothenuse

Hypotenuse

{ Hy*pot"e*nuse (?), Hy*poth"e*nuse (?) }
n.
[L. hypotenusa, Gr. _;, prob., subtending (sc. _;), fr. _; to stretch under, subtend; _; under + _; to stretch. See Subtend.]
(Geom.)
The side of a right-angled triangle that is opposite to the right angle.


word: Hypothec
definition:
Hypothec

Hy*poth"ec
(?)
n.
[F. hypothèque. See Hypotheca.]
(Scot. Law)
A landlord's right, independently of stipulation, over the stocking (cattle, implements, etc.), and crops of his tenant, as security for payment of rent.


word: Hypotheca
definition:
Hypotheca

Hy`po*the"ca
(?)
n.
[L., fr. Gr. _; a thing subject to some obligation, fr. _; to put under, put down, pledge. See Hypothesis.]
(Rom. Law)
An obligation by which property of a debtor was made over to his creditor in security of his debt.

&hand_; It differed from pledge in regard to possession of the property subject to the obligation; pledge requiring, simple hypotheca not requiring, possession of it by the creditor. The modern mortgage corresponds very closely with it.
Kent.


word: Hypothecate
definition:
Hypothecate

Hy*poth"e*cate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Hypothecated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hypothecating (?).]
[LL. hypothecatus, p. p. of hypothecare to pledge, fr. L. hypotheca pledge, security. See Hypotheca.]
(Law)
To subject, as property, to liability for a debt or engagement without delivery of possession or transfer of title; to pledge without delivery of possession; to mortgage, as ships, or other personal property; to make a contract by bottomry. See Hypothecation, Bottomry.

He had found the treasury empty and the pay of the navy in arrear. He had no power to hypothecate any part of the public revenue. Those who lent him money lent it on no security but his bare word.
Macaulay.


word: Hypothecation
definition:
Hypothecation

Hy*poth`e*ca"tion
(?)
n.
[LL. hypothecatio.]
1.
(Civ. Law)
The act or contract by which property is hypothecated; a right which a creditor has in or to the property of his debtor, in virtue of which he may cause it to be sold and the price appropriated in payment of his debt. This is a right in the thing, or jus in re.
Pothier. B. R. Curtis.

There are but few cases, if any, in our law, where an hypothecation, in the strict sense of the Roman law, exists; that is a pledge without possession by the pledgee.
Story.

&hand_; In the modern civil law, this contract has no application to movable property, not even to ships, to which and their cargoes it is most frequently applied in England and America. See Hypothecate.
B. R. Curtis. Domat.

2.
(Law of Shipping)
A contract whereby, in consideration of money advanced for the necessities of the ship, the vessel, freight, or cargo is made liable for its repayment, provided the ship arrives in safety. It is usually effected by a bottomry bond. See Bottomry.

&hand_; This term is often applied to mortgages of ships.


word: Hypothecator
definition:
Hypothecator

Hy*poth"e*ca`tor
(?)
n.
(Law)
One who hypothecates or pledges anything as security for the repayment of money borrowed.


word: Hypothenar
definition:
Hypothenar

Hypothenal

{ Hy*poth"e*nal (?), Hy*poth"e*nar (?), }
a.
[Pref. hypo- + thenar.]
(Anat.)
Of or pertaining to the prominent part of the palm of the hand above the base of the little finger, or a corresponding part in the forefoot of an animal; as, the hypothenar eminence.


word: Hypothesis
definition:
Hypothesis

Hy*poth"e*sis
(?)
n.
pl. Hypotheses (#).
[NL., fr. Gr. _; foundation, supposition, fr. _; to place under, _; under + _; to put. See Hypo-, Thesis.]
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, or to account for a fact or an occurrence; as, the hypothesis that head winds detain an overdue steamer.

An hypothesis being a mere supposition, there are no other limits to hypotheses than those of the human imagination.
J. S. Mill.

2.
(Natural Science)
A tentative theory or supposition provisionally adopted to explain certain facts, and to guide in the investigation of others; hence, frequently called a working hypothesis.
Nebular hypothesis. See under Nebular.


word: Hypothetical
definition:
Hypothetical

Hypothetic

{ Hy`po*thet"ic (?), Hy`po*thet"ic*al (?), }
a.
[L. hypotheticus, Gr. _;: cf. F. hypothétique.]
Characterized by, or of the nature of, an hypothesis; conditional; assumed without proof, for the purpose of reasoning and deducing proof, or of accounting for some fact or phenomenon.

Causes hypothetical at least, if not real, for the various phenomena of the existence of which our experience informs us.
Sir W. Hamilton.

Hypothetical baptism (Ch. of Eng.), baptism administered to persons in respect to whom it is doubtful whether they have or have not been baptized before. Hook.


word: Hypotrachelium
definition:
Hypotrachelium

Hy`po*tra*che"li*um
(?)
n.
[L., fr. Gr. _;; _; under + _; neck.]
(Arch.)
Same as Gorgerin.


word: Hypotricha
definition:
Hypotricha

Hy*pot"ri*cha
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. "ypo` beneath + _;, _;, a hair.]
(Zool.)
A division of ciliated Infusoria in which the cilia cover only the under side of the body.


word: Hypotrochoid
definition:
Hypotrochoid

Hy`po*tro"choid
(?)
n.
[Pref. hypo- + trochoid.]
(Geom.)
A curve, traced by a point in the radius, or radius produced, of a circle which rolls upon the concave side of a fixed circle. See Hypocycloid, Epicycloid, and Trochoid.


word: Hypotyposis
definition:
Hypotyposis

Hy`po*ty*po"sis
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _;, fr. _; to sketch out; _; under + _; to impress.]
(Rhet.)
A vivid, picturesque description of scenes or events.


word: Hypoxanthin
definition:
Hypoxanthin

Hy`po*xan"thin
(?)
n.
[Pref. hypo- + xanthin.]
(Physiol. Chem.)
A crystalline, nitrogenous substance, closely related to xanthin and uric acid, widely distributed through the animal body, but especially in muscle tissue; -- called also sarcin, sarkin.


word: Hypozoic
definition:
Hypozoic

Hy`po*zo"ic
(?)
a.
[Pref. hypo- + Gr. zw^,on an animal.]
(Geol.)
Anterior in age to the lowest rocks which contain organic remains.
Lyell.


word: Hypsiloid
definition:
Hypsiloid

Hyp"si*loid
(?)
a.
[From Υ, the Greek letter called “upsilon” + -oid.]
(Anat.)
Resembling the Greek letter Υ in form; hyoid.


word: Hypsometer
definition:
Hypsometer

Hyp*som"e*ter
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; height + -meter.]
(Physics)
An instrument for measuring heights by observation of barometric pressure; esp., one for determining heights by ascertaining the boiling point of water. It consists of a vessel for water, with a lamp for heating it, and an inclosed thermometer for showing the temperature of ebullition.


word: Hypsometrical
definition:
Hypsometrical

Hypsometric

{ Hyp`so*met"ric (?), Hyp`so*met"ric*al (?), }
a.
Of or pertaining to hypsometry.


word: Hypsometry
definition:
Hypsometry

Hyp*som"e*try
(?)
n.
That branch of the science of geodesy which has to do with the measurement of heights, either absolutely with reference to the sea level, or relatively.


word: Hypsiprymnodon
definition:
Hypsiprymnodon

Hypsiprymnodon
n.
A genus of marsupials comprising the musk kangaroos.

Syn. -- genus Hypsiprymnodon.


word: Hypural
definition:
Hypural

Hy*pu"ral
(?)
a.
[Pref. hypo- + Gr. _; tail.]
(Anat.)
Under the tail; -- applied to the bones which support the caudal fin rays in most fishes.


word: Hyracoidea
definition:
Hyracoidea

Hyr`a*coi"de*a
(?)
n. pl.
[NL. See Hyrax, and oid.]
(Zool.)
An order of small hoofed mammals, comprising the single living genus Hyrax.


word: Hyracotherium
definition:
Hyracotherium

Hyracotherium
n.
An extinct horse genus, formerly called genus Eohippus.

Syn. -- genus Hyracotherium.


word: Hyrax
definition:
Hyrax

Hy"rax
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; shrew mouse.]
(Zool.)
Any animal of the genus Hyrax, of which about four species are known.  They constitute the order Hyracoidea.  The best known species are the daman (Hyrax Syriacus) of Palestine, and the klipdas (Hyrax capensis) of South Africa.  Other species are Hyrax arboreus and Hyrax Sylvestris, the former from Southern, and the latter from Western, Africa. See Daman.


word: Hyrcan
definition:
Hyrcan

Hyrcanian

{ Hyr*ca"ni*an (?), Hyr"can (?), }
a.
Of or pertaining to Hyrcania, an ancient country or province of Asia, southeast of the Caspian (which was also called the Hyrcanian) Sea.
Hyrcan
Hyrcanian
Shak.


word: Hyson
definition:
Hyson

Hy"son
(?)
n.
[Chin. hi-tshun, lit., first crop, or blooming spring.]
A fragrant kind of green tea.

Hyson skin, the light and inferior leaves separated from the hyson by a winnowing machine. M‘Culloch.


word: Hyssop
definition:
Hyssop

Hys"sop
(?)
n.
[OE. hysope, ysope, OF. ysope, F. hysope, hyssope, L. hysopum, hyssopum, hyssopus, Gr. _;, _;, an aromatic plant, fr. Heb. ēsov.]
A plant (Hyssopus officinalis). The leaves have an aromatic smell, and a warm, pungent taste.

&hand_; The hyssop of Scripture is supposed to be a species of caper (Capparis spinosa), but probably the name was used for several different plants.


word: Hysteranthous
definition:
Hysteranthous

Hys`ter*an"thous
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; after + _; flower.]
(Bot.)
Having the leaves expand after the flowers have opened.
Henslow.


word: Hysteresis
definition:
Hysteresis

Hys`te*re"sis
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; to be behind, to lag.]
(Physics)
A lagging or retardation of the effect, when the forces acting upon a body are changed, as if from velocity or internal friction; a temporary resistance to change from a condition previously induced, observed in magnetism, thermoelectricity, etc., on reversal of polarity.


word: Hysteretic
definition:
Hysteretic

Hys`ter*et"ic
(?)
a.
(Elec.)
Of or pertaining to hysteresis.
-- Hysteretic constant, the hysteretic loss in ergs per cubic centimeter per cycle.


word: Hysteria
definition:
Hysteria

Hys*te"ri*a
(?)
n.
[NL.: cf. F. hystérie. See Hysteric.]
(Med.)
A nervous affection, occurring almost exclusively in women, in which the emotional and reflex excitability is exaggerated, and the will power correspondingly diminished, so that the patient loses control over the emotions, becomes the victim of imaginary sensations, and often falls into paroxism or fits.

&hand_; The chief symptoms are convulsive, tossing movements of the limbs and head, uncontrollable crying and laughing, and a choking sensation as if a ball were lodged in the throat. The affection presents the most varied symptoms, often simulating those of the gravest diseases, but generally curable by mental treatment alone.


word: Hysterical
definition:
Hysterical

Hysteric

{ Hys*ter"ic (?), Hys*ter"ic*al (?), }
a.
[L. hystericus, Gr. _;, fr. "yste`ra the womb; perh. akin to _; latter, later, and E. utter, out.]
1.
Of or pertaining to hysteria.

With no hysteric weakness or feverish excitement, they preserved their peace and patience.
Bancroft.

2.
In a state of hysteria; affected, or troubled, with hysterics; uncontrollably emotional; convulsive, fitful.

3.
In a state of panic or behaving in a wild irrational manner, due to fear or emotional trauma.

4.
Resembling hysteria; as, hysterical laughter.


word: Hysteroepilepsy
definition:
Hysteroepilepsy

Hys`ter*o*ep"i*lep`sy
(?)
n.
[Hysteria + epilepsy.]
(Med.)
A disease resembling hysteria in its nature, and characterized by the occurrence of epileptiform convulsions, which can often be controlled or excited by pressure on the ovaries, and upon other definite points in the body.
Hys`ter*o*ep`i*lep"tic (#), a.


word: Hysterogenic
definition:
Hysterogenic

Hys`ter*o*gen"ic
(?)
a.
[Hysteria + root of Gr. gi`gnesqai to be born.]
(Physiol.)
Producing hysteria; as, the hysterogenicpressure points on the surface of the body, pressure upon which is said both to produce and arrest an attack of hysteria.
De Watteville.


word: Hysterology
definition:
Hysterology

Hys`ter*ol"o*gy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;; _; the latter + _; discourse: cf. F. hystérologie.]
(Rhet.)
A figure by which the ordinary course of thought is inverted in expression, and the last put first; -- called also hysteron proteron.


word: Hysteron proteron
definition:
Hysteron proteron

Hys"te*ron prot"e*ron
(?)
[NL., fr. Gr. "y`steros the latter, following + pro`teros before, others, sooner.]
(Rhet.)
(a)
A figure in which the natural order of sense is reversed; hysterology; as, valet atque vivit, “he is well and lives.”
(b)
An inversion of logical order, in which the conclusion is put before the premises, or the thing proved before the evidence.


word: Hysterophyte
definition:
Hysterophyte

Hys*ter"o*phyte
(?)
n.
[Gr. "y`steros  following + fyto`n plant.]
(Bot.)
A plant, like the fungus, which lives on dead or living organic matter.
Hys`ter*oph"y*tal (#), a.


word: Hysterotomy
definition:
Hysterotomy

Hys`ter*ot"o*my
(?)
n.
[Gr. "yste`ra womb + te`mnein to cut: cf. F. hystérotomie.]
(Med.)
The act of cutting into the uterus, as in Cæsarean section. See under Cæsarean.


word: Hystricine
definition:
Hystricine

Hys"tri*cine
(hĭs"trĭ*sĭn)
a.
[See Hystrix.]
(Zool.)
Like or pertaining to the porcupines.


word: Hystricomorphous
definition:
Hystricomorphous

Hys`tri*co*mor"phous
(hĭs`trĭ*ko̝*môr"fŭs)
a.
[Hystrix + Gr. morfh` form.]
(Zool.)
Like, or allied to, the porcupines; -- said of a group (Hystricomorpha) of rodents.


word: Hystrix
definition:
Hystrix

Hys"trix
(hĭs"trĭks)
prop. n.
[Gr. "y`strix porcupine.]
(Zool.)
A genus of rodents, including the porcupine.


word: Hythe
definition:
Hythe

Hythe
(hī&thlig_;)
n.
A small haven. See Hithe.
[Obs.]
A dictionary containing a natural history requires too many hands, as well as too much time, ever to be hoped for.
Locke.


word: I
definition:
I

I
(ī)
1.
I, the ninth letter of the English alphabet, takes its form from the Phœnician, through the Latin and the Greek. The Phœnician letter was probably of Egyptian origin. Its original value was nearly the same as that of the Italian I, or long e as in mete. Etymologically I is most closely related to e, y, j, g; as in dint, dent, beverage, L. bibere; E. kin, AS. cynn; E. thin, AS. þynne; E. dominion, donjon, dungeon.
pīne
īce
pĭn
a
e
term
thirst
b
e
mete
machine
pique
regime
c
y
bunion
million
filial
Christian
fail
field
seize
feign
friend
o
oil
join
coin
The dot which we place over the small or lower case i dates only from the 14th century. The sounds of I and J were originally represented by the same character, and even after the introduction of the form J into English dictionaries, words containing these letters were, till a comparatively recent time, classed together.

2.
In our old authors, I was often used for ay (or aye), yes, which is pronounced nearly like it.

3.
As a numeral, I stands for 1, II for 2, etc.


word: I₂
definition:
I

I
(ī)
pron.
[poss. My (mī) or Mine (mīn); object. Me (mē). pl. nom. We (wē); poss. Our (our) or Ours (ourz); object. Us (ŭs).]
[OE. i, ich, ic, AS. ic; akin to OS. & D. ik, OHG. ih, G. ich, Icel. ek, Dan. jeg, Sw. jag, Goth. ik, OSlav. az', Russ. ia, W. i, L. ego, Gr. 'egw`, 'egw`n, Skr. aham. √179.  Cf. Egoism.]
The nominative case of the pronoun of the first person; the word with which a speaker or writer denotes himself.


word: IAA
definition:
IAA

IAA
n.
Indoleacetic acid, a plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
[Acronym]

Syn. -- indoleacetic acid.


word: Iamatology
definition:
Iamatology

I*am`a*tol"o*gy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;, _;, medicine + -logy.]
(Med.)
Materia Medica; that branch of therapeutics which treats of remedies.


word: Iambic
definition:
Iambic

I*am"bic
(?)
a.
[L. iambicus, Gr. _;: cf. F. iambique.]
1.
(Pros.)
Consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented; as, an iambic foot.

2.
Pertaining to, or composed of, iambics; as, an iambic verse; iambic meter. See Lambus.


word: Iambic₂
definition:
Iambic

I*am"bic
n.
1.
(Pros.)
(a)
An iambic foot; an iambus.
(b)
A verse composed of iambic feet.

&hand_; The following couplet consists of iambic verses.

Thy gen- | ius calls | thee not | to pur- | chase fame
In keen | iam- | bics, but | mild an- | agram.
Dryden.

2.
A satirical poem (such poems having been anciently written in iambic verse); a satire; a lampoon.


word: Iambus
definition:
Iambus

I*am"bus
(?)
n.
pl. L. Iambi (#), E. Iambuses (#).
[L. iambus, Gr. _;; prob. akin to _; to throw, assail (the iambus being first used in satiric poetry), and to L. jacere to throw.  Cf. Jet a shooting forth.]
(Pros.)
A foot consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, as in ămāns, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one, as invent; an iambic. See the Couplet under Iambic, n.


word: Ianthina
definition:
Ianthina

I*an"thi*na
(?)
n.
pl. L. Ianthinæ (#), E. Ianthinas (#).
[NL., fr. L. ianthinus violet-blue, Gr. _;; _; violet + _; flower.]
(Zool.)
Any gastropod of the genus Ianthina, of which various species are found living in mid ocean; -- called also purple shell, and violet snail.
[Written also janthina.]

&hand_; It floats at the surface by means of a raft, which it constructs by forming and uniting together air bubbles of hardened mucus. The Tyrian purple of the ancients was obtained in part from mollusks of this genus.


word: Iatraliptic
definition:
Iatraliptic

I*a`tra*lip"tic
(?)
a.
[Gr. _;; _; physician + _; belonging to the _; or anointer, fr. _; to anoint: cf. F. iatraliptique.]
Treating diseases by anointing and friction; as, the iatraliptic method.
[Written also iatroleptic.]


word: Iatrical
definition:
Iatrical

Iatric

{ I*at"ric (?), I*at"ric*al (?), }
a.
[Gr. _; healing, fr. _; physician, fr. _; to heal.]
Of or pertaining to medicine, or to medical men.


word: Iatrochemical
definition:
Iatrochemical

I*a`tro*chem"ic*al
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to iatrochemistry, or to the iatrochemists.


word: Iatrochemist
definition:
Iatrochemist

I*a`tro*chem"ist
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; physician + E. chemist.]
A physician who explained or treated diseases upon chemical principles; one who practiced iatrochemistry.


word: Iatrochemistry
definition:
Iatrochemistry

I*a`tro*chem"is*try
(?)
n.
Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body, and who endeavored to explain the conditions of health or disease by chemical principles.


word: Iatromathematical
definition:
Iatromathematical

I*a`tro*math`e*mat"ic*al
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to iatromathematicians or their doctrine.


word: Iatromathematician
definition:
Iatromathematician

I*a`tro*math`e*ma*ti"cian
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; physician + E. mathematician.]
(Hist. Med.)
One of a school of physicians in Italy, about the middle of the 17th century, who tried to apply the laws of mechanics and mathematics to the human body, and hence were eager student of anatomy; -- opposed to the iatrochemists.


word: Iberis
definition:
Iberis

Iberis
n.
A genus of Old World herbs and subshrubs including the candytuft.

Syn. -- genus Iberis.


word: Ibero-mesornis
definition:
Ibero-mesornis

Ibero-mesornis
n.
A sparrow-sized fossil bird of the Lower Cretaceous having a strutlike pectoral bone and vestigial tail; found in Spain; considered possibly the third most primitive of all birds.


word: Ibex
definition:
Ibex

I"bex
(ī"bĕks)
n.
pl. E. Ibexes (ī"bĕks*ĕz), L. Ibices (īb"ĭ*sēz).
[L., a kind of goat, the chamois.]
(Zool.)
One of several species of wild goats having very large, recurved horns, transversely ridged in front; -- called also steinbok.

&hand_; The Alpine ibex (Capra ibex) is the best known. The Spanish, or Pyrenean, ibex (Capra Hispanica) has smoother and more spreading horns.


word: Ibis
definition:
Ibis

I"bis
(?)
n.
[L. ibis, Gr. _;; of Egyptian origin.]
(Zool.)
Any bird of the genus Ibis and several allied genera, of the family Ibidæ, inhabiting both the Old World and the New. Numerous species are known. They are large, wading birds, having a long, curved beak, and feed largely on reptiles.

&hand_; The sacred ibis of the ancient Egyptians (Ibis aethiopica) has the head and neck black, without feathers.  The plumage of the body and wings is white, except the tertiaries, which are lengthened and form a dark purple plume. In ancient times this bird was extensively domesticated in Egypt, but it is now seldom seen so far north.  The glossy ibis (Plegadis autumnalis), which is widely distributed both in the Old World and the New, has the head and neck feathered, except between the eyes and bill; the scarlet ibis (Guara rubra) and the white ibis (Guara alba) inhabit the West Indies and South America, and are rarely found in the United States.  The wood ibis (Tantalus loculator) of America belongs to the Stork family (Ciconidæ). See Wood ibis.


word: IBRD
definition:
IBRD

IBRD
prop. n.
[acronym]
The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, a United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
[acronym]

Syn. -- International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, World Bank.


word: Ibsen
definition:
Ibsen

Ibsen
prop. n.
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), Norwegian poet and dramatist.

Syn. -- Henrik Ibsen.


word: Ibsenism
definition:
Ibsenism

Ib"sen*ism
(?)
prop. n.
The dramatic practice or purpose characteristic of the writings of Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), Norwegian poet and dramatist, whose best-known plays deal with conventional hypocrisies, the story in each play thus developing a definite moral problem.


word: ibuprofen
definition:
ibuprofen

ibuprofen
n.
a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medicine used to relieve the pain of arthritis and as an analgesic and antipyretic; Advil and Motrin and Nuprin are trademarks of brands of ibuprofen tablets.

Syn. -- isobutylphenyl propionic acid, Advil, Motrin, Nuprin.


word: -ic
definition:
-ic

-ic
(?)
[L. -icus, Gr. _;: cf. F. -ique.]
1.
A suffix signifying, in general, relating to, or characteristic of; as, historic, hygienic, telegraphic, etc.

2.
(Chem.)
A suffix, denoting that the element indicated enters into certain compounds with its highest valence, or with a valence relatively higher than in compounds where the name of the element ends in -ous; as, ferric, sulphuric. It is also used in the general sense of pertaining to; as, hydric, sodic, calcic.


word: icaco
definition:
icaco

icaco
n.
1.
A small tropical American tree (Chrysobalanus icaco) bearing edible plumlike fruit.

Syn. -- coco plum, coco plum tree, cocoa plum, Chrysobalanus icaco.

2.
A plum-shaped whitish to almost black fruit used for preserves.

Syn. -- cocoa plum, coco plum.


word: Icarian
definition:
Icarian

I*ca"ri*an
(?)
a.
[L. Icarius, Gr. _;, fr. _;, the mythic son of Dædalus, who, when flying from Crete on wings cemented with wax, mounted so high that the sun melted the wax, and he fell into the sea.]
Soaring too high for safety, like Icarus; adventurous in flight.


word: ICBM
definition:
ICBM

ICBM
n.
[acronym intercontinental ballistic missile]
An intercontinental ballistic missile, a long-range ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.  Contrasted with IRBM.

Syn. -- intercontinental ballistic missile.


word: Ice
definition:
Ice

Ice
(īs)
n.
[OE. is, iis, AS. īs; aksin to D. ijs, G. eis, OHG. īs, Icel. īss, Sw. is, Dan. iis, and perh. to E. iron.]
1.
Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent colorless substance, crystalline, brittle, and viscoidal. Its specific gravity (0.92, that of water at 4° C. being 1.0) being less than that of water, ice floats.

&hand_; Water freezes at 32° F. or 0° Cent., and ice melts at the same temperature. Ice owes its cooling properties to the large amount of heat required to melt it.

2.
Concreted sugar.
Johnson.

3.
Water, cream, custard, etc., sweetened, flavored, and artificially frozen.

4.
Any substance having the appearance of ice; as, camphor ice.

Anchor ice, ice which sometimes forms about stones and other objects at the bottom of running or other water, and is thus attached or anchored to the ground. -- Bay ice, ice formed in bays, fiords, etc., often in extensive fields which drift out to sea. -- Ground ice, anchor ice. -- Ice age (Geol.), the glacial epoch or period. See under Glacial. -- Ice anchor (Naut.), a grapnel for mooring a vessel to a field of ice. Kane. -- Ice blink [Dan. iisblink], a streak of whiteness of the horizon, caused by the reflection of light from ice not yet in sight. -- Ice boat. (a) A boat fitted with skates or runners, and propelled on ice by sails; an ice yacht. (b) A strong steamboat for breaking a channel through ice. -- Ice box or Ice chest, a box for holding ice; a box in which things are kept cool by means of ice; a refrigerator. -- Ice brook, a brook or stream as cold as ice. [Poetic] Shak. -- Ice cream [for iced cream], cream, milk, or custard, sweetened, flavored, and frozen. -- Ice field, an extensive sheet of ice. -- Ice float, Ice floe, a sheet of floating ice similar to an ice field, but smaller. -- Ice foot, shore ice in Arctic regions; an ice belt. Kane. -- Ice house, a close-covered pit or building for storing ice. -- Ice machine (Physics), a machine for making ice artificially, as by the production of a low temperature through the sudden expansion of a gas or vapor, or the rapid evaporation of a volatile liquid. -- Ice master. See Ice pilot (below). -- Ice pack, an irregular mass of broken and drifting ice. -- Ice paper, a transparent film of gelatin for copying or reproducing; papier glacé. -- Ice petrel (Zool.), a shearwater (Puffinus gelidus) of the Antarctic seas, abundant among floating ice. -- Ice pick, a sharp instrument for breaking ice into small pieces. -- Ice pilot, a pilot who has charge of a vessel where the course is obstructed by ice, as in polar seas; -- called also ice master. -- Ice pitcher, a pitcher adapted for ice water. -- Ice plow, a large tool for grooving and cutting ice.  -- Ice sludge, bay ice broken small by the wind or waves; sludge. -- Ice spar (Min.), a variety of feldspar, the crystals of which are very clear like ice; rhyacolite. -- Ice tongs, large iron nippers for handling ice. -- Ice water. (a) Water cooled by ice. (b) Water formed by the melting of ice. -- Ice yacht. See Ice boat (above). -- To break the ice. See under Break. -- Water ice, a confection consisting of water sweetened, flavored (usually with a fruit syrup), and frozen.


word: ice
definition:
ice

ice
(īs)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. iced (īst); p. pr. & vb. n. icing (ī"sĭng).]
1.
To cover with ice; to convert into ice, or into something resembling ice.

2.
To cover with icing, or frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg; to frost, as cakes, tarts, etc.; as, iced cupcakes with a pink icing look delicious.

3.
To chill or cool, as with ice; to freeze.

4.
To kill.
[slang]


word: Iceberg
definition:
Iceberg

Ice"berg`
(?)
n.
[Prob. of Scand. origin; cf. Dan. iisbierg, Sw. isberg, properly, a mountain of ice. See Ice, and Berg.]
A large mass of ice, generally floating in the ocean.

&hand_; Icebergs are large detached portions of glaciers, which in cold regions often project into the sea.


word: iceboat
definition:
iceboat

iceboat
n.
1.
A ship with a reinforced bow to break up ice and keep channels open for navigation; an icebreaker.

Syn. -- icebreaker.

2.
a sailing craft with runners and a cross-shaped frame; suitable for traveling over ice; it is usually propelled by a sail, and sometimes by an engine-powered propeller.

Syn. -- ice yacht.


word: Icebound
definition:
Icebound

Ice"bound`
(?)
a.
Totally surrounded with ice, so as to be incapable of advancing; as, an icebound vessel; also, surrounded by or fringed with ice so as to hinder easy access; as, an icebound coast.


word: icebreaker
definition:
icebreaker

icebreaker
n.
1.
a ship with a reinforced bow and powerful engines designed to break up layers of ice on waterways and keep channels open for navigation.

Syn. -- iceboat.

2.
A remark or action intended to relieve tension or reduce formality when initiating conversation or beginning a speech; it is often a humorous or light remark.


word: icecap
definition:
icecap

ice"cap`
(īs"kăp`)
n.
a mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak).


word: ice-clogged
definition:
ice-clogged

ice-clogged
adj.
having flow restricted by ice; -- of rivers or conduits; as, ice-clogged rivers.


word: ice-cold
definition:
ice-cold

ice-cold
adj.
as cold as ice; extremely cold.

Syn. -- arctic, freezing, frigid, gelid, glacial, icy, polar.


word: ice-free
definition:
ice-free

ice-free
adj.
free of ice and open to travel; -- of water routes; as, an ice-free channel in the river.


word: Iced
definition:
Iced

Iced
(īst)
a.
1.
Covered with ice.

2.
Chilled with ice; as, iced water; iced tea; iced coffee; -- of beverages.

3.
(Cookery)
Covered with something resembling ice, as sugar icing; frosted; as, iced cake.

Iced cream. Same as Ice cream, under Ice.


word: Icefall
definition:
Icefall

Ice"fall`
(?)
n.
A frozen waterfall, or mass of ice resembling a frozen waterfall.
Coleridge.


word: icehouse
definition:
icehouse

ice"house`
n.
a building used for storing ice, especially one built partly below ground and insulated so as to preserve ice obtained during the winter from frozen lakes or rivers.


word: Icelandic
definition:
Icelandic

Ice*lan"dic
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to Iceland; relating to, or resembling, the Icelanders.


word: Icelandic₂
definition:
Icelandic

Ice*lan"dic
(?)
n.
The language of the Icelanders. It is one of the Scandinavian group, and is more nearly allied to the Old Norse than any other language now spoken.


word: Iceland moss
definition:
Iceland moss

Ice"land moss`
(?)
(Bot.)
A kind of lichen (Cetraria Icelandica) found from the Arctic regions to the North Temperate zone. It furnishes a nutritious jelly and other forms of food, and is used in pulmonary complaints as a demulcent.


word: Iceland spar
definition:
Iceland spar

Ice"land spar`
(?)
(Min.)
A transparent variety of calcite, the best of which is obtained in Iceland. It is used for the prisms of the polariscope, because of its strong double refraction.  Cf. Calcite.


word: Iceman
definition:
Iceman

Ice"man
(?)
n.
pl. Icemen (_;).
1.
A man who is skilled in traveling upon ice, as among glaciers.

2.
One who deals in ice; one who retails or delivers ice.


word: Ice plant
definition:
Ice plant

Ice" plant`
(?)
(Bot.)
A plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum), sprinkled with pellucid, watery vesicles, which glisten like ice. It is native along the Mediterranean, in the Canaries, and in South Africa. Its juice is said to be demulcent and diuretic; its ashes are used in Spain in making glass.


word: Icequake
definition:
Icequake

Ice"quake`
(īs"kwāk`)
n.
The crash or concussion attending the breaking up of masses of ice, -- often due to contraction from extreme cold.


word: Ice skate
definition:
Ice skate

Ice" skate`
(?)
n.
A shoe with a metal runner (called a blade) attached to permit the wearer to glide on ice.


word: Ice skater
definition:
Ice skater

Ice" skat`er
(?)
n.
One who skates on ice wearing an ice skate; esp. an athlete who performs athletic or artistic movements on a sheet of ice, wearing ice skates; a speed skater or a figure skater.


word: Ich
definition:
Ich

Ich
(ĭk)
pron.
I.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

&hand_; In the Southern dialect of Early English this is the regular form.  Cf. Ik.


word: Ichneumon
definition:
Ichneumon

Ich*neu"mon
(?)
n.
[L., fr. Gr. _;, lit., the tracker; so called because it hunts out the eggs of the crocodile, fr. _; to track or hunt after, fr. 'i`chnos track, footstep.]
1.
(Zool.)
Any carnivorous mammal of the genus Herpestes, and family Viverridæ.  Numerous species are found in Asia and Africa. The Egyptian species (Herpestes ichneumon), which ranges to Spain and Palestine, is noted for destroying the eggs and young of the crocodile as well as various snakes and lizards, and hence was considered sacred by the ancient Egyptians.  The common species of India (Herpestes griseus), known as the mongoose, has similar habits and is often domesticated. It is noted for killing the cobra.

2.
(Zool.)
Any hymenopterous insect of the family Ichneumonidæ, of which several thousand species are known, belonging to numerous genera.

&hand_; The female deposits her eggs upon, or in, the bodies of other insects, such as caterpillars, plant lice, etc. The larva lives upon the internal tissues of the insect in which it is parasitic, and finally kills it. Hence, many of the species are beneficial to agriculture by destroying noxious insects.

Ichneumon fly. See Ichneumon, 2.


word: Ichneumonidan
definition:
Ichneumonidan

Ich`neu*mon"i*dan
(?)
a.
(Zool.)
Of or pertaining to the Ichneumonidæ, or ichneumon flies.
n. One of the Ichneumonidæ.


word: Ichnite
definition:
Ichnite

Ich"nite
(?)
n.
[Gr. 'i`chnos track, footstep.]
A fossil footprint; as, the ichnites in the Triassic sandstone.
Page.


word: Ichnographical
definition:
Ichnographical

Ichnographic

{ Ich`no*graph"ic (?), Ich`no*graph"ic*al (?), }
a.
[Cf. F. ichonographique.]
Of or pertaining to ichonography; describing a ground plot.


word: Ichnography
definition:
Ichnography

Ich*nog"ra*phy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;; 'i`chnos track, footstep + _; to describe: cf. F. ichonographie.]
(Drawing)
A horizontal section of a building or other object, showing its true dimensions according to a geometric scale; a ground plan; a map; also, the art of making such plans.


word: Ichnolite
definition:
Ichnolite

Ich"no*lite
(?)
n.
[Gr. 'i`chnos track, footstep + -lite.]
A fossil footprint; an ichnite.


word: Ichnolithology
definition:
Ichnolithology

Ich`no*li*thol"o*gy
(?)
n.
[Gr. 'i`chnos footstep + -lith + -logy.]
Same as Ichnology.
Hitchcock.


word: Ichnology
definition:
Ichnology

Ich*nol"o*gy
(?)
n.
[Gr. 'i`chnos a footstep + -logy.]
(Geol.)
The branch of science which treats of fossil footprints.


word: Ichnoscopy
definition:
Ichnoscopy

Ich*nos"co*py
(?)
n.
[Gr. 'i`chnos footstep + -scopy.]
The search for the traces of anything.
[R.]


word: Ichor
definition:
Ichor

I"chor
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. 'ichw`r: cf. F. ichor.]
1.
(Class. Myth.)
An ethereal fluid that supplied the place of blood in the veins of the gods.

2.
A thin, acrid, watery discharge from an ulcer, wound, etc.


word: Ichorhaemia
definition:
Ichorhaemia

I`chor*hæ"mi*a
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. 'ichw`r ichor + _; blood.]
(Med.)
Infection of the blood with ichorous or putrid substances.


word: Ichorous
definition:
Ichorous

I"chor*ous
(ī"k&obreve_;r*ŭs)
a.
[Cf. F. ichoreux.]
Of or like ichor; thin; watery; serous; sanious.


word: Ichthidin
definition:
Ichthidin

Ich"thi*din
(ĭk"thĭ*dĭn)
n.
(Physiol. Chem.)
A substance from the egg yolk of osseous fishes.


word: Ichthin
definition:
Ichthin

Ich"thin
(ĭk"thĭn)
n.
[Gr. 'ichqy`s fish.]
(Physiol. Chem.)
A nitrogenous substance resembling vitellin, present in the egg yolk of cartilaginous fishes.


word: Ichthulin
definition:
Ichthulin

Ich"thu*lin
(ĭk"th&uuptack_;*lĭn)
n.
(Physiol. Chem.)
A substance from the yolk of salmon's eggs.


word: Ichthus
definition:
Ichthus

Ich"thus
(ĭk"thŭs)
n.
[Gr. 'ichqy`s.]
In early Christian and ecclesiastical art, an emblematic fish, or the Greek word for fish, which combined the initials of the Greek words Ihsoy^s, Christo`s, Qeoy^ Gio`s Swth`r, Jesus, Christ, Son of God, Savior.


word: Ichthyic
definition:
Ichthyic

Ich"thy*ic
(ĭk"thĭ*ĭk)
a.
[Gr. 'ichqy`s, -y`os, a fish.]
(Zool.)
Like, or pertaining to, fishes.


word: Ichthyocolla
definition:
Ichthyocolla

Ichthyocol

{ Ich"thy*o*col (?), Ich`thy*o*col"la (?), }
n.
[L. ichthyocolla, Gr. _;; 'ichqy`s, -y`os, a fish + _; glue: cf. F. ichthyocolle.]
Fish glue; isinglass; a glue prepared from the sounds of certain fishes.


word: Ichthyocoprolite
definition:
Ichthyocoprolite

Ich`thy*o*cop"ro*lite
(?)
n.
[Gr. 'ichqy`s, -y`os, a fish + E. coprolite.]
(Geol.)
Fossil dung of fishes.


word: Ichthyodorulite
definition:
Ichthyodorulite

Ich`thy*o*dor"u*lite
(?)
n.
[Gr. 'ichqy`s, -y`os, a fish + _; a spear + -lite.]
(Zool.)
One of the spiny plates found on the back and tail of certain skates.


word: Ichthyography
definition:
Ichthyography

Ich`thy*og"ra*phy
(?)
n.
[Gr. 'ichqy`s, -y`os + graphy: cf. F. ichthyographie.]
A treatise on fishes.


word: Ichthyoidal
definition:
Ichthyoidal

Ichthyoid

{ Ich"thy*oid (?), Ich`thy*oid"al (?), }
a.
[Gr. _;: 'ichqy`s, -y`os, a fish + e'i^dos form.]
(Zool.)
Somewhat like a fish; having some of the characteristics of fishes; -- said of some amphibians.


word: Ichthyol
definition:
Ichthyol

Ich"thy*ol
(?)
n.
[Gr. 'ichqy`s, -y`os, a fish + (prob.) L. oleum oil; but cf. Ichthyolite.]
(Chem.)
An oily substance prepared by the dry distillation of a bituminous mineral containing fossil fishes. It is used in medicine as a remedy in some forms of skin diseases.


word: Ichthyolatry
definition:
Ichthyolatry

Ich`thy*ol"a*try
(?)
n.
[Gr. 'ichqy`s, -y`os, a fish + _; to worship.]
Worship of fishes, or of fish-shaped idols.
Layard.


word: Ichthyolite
definition:
Ichthyolite

Ich"thy*o*lite
(?)
n.
[Gr. 'ichqy`s, -y`os, a fish + -lite.]
(Paleon.)
A fossil fish, or fragment of a fish.


word: Ichthyological
definition:
Ichthyological

Ichthyologic

{ Ich`thy*o*log"ic (?), Ich`thy*o*log"ic*al (?), }
a.
[Cf. F. ichthyologique.]
Of or pertaining to ichthyology.


word: Ichthyologist
definition:
Ichthyologist

Ich`thy*ol"o*gist
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. ichthyologiste.]
One versed in, or who studies, ichthyology.


word: Ichthyology
definition:
Ichthyology

Ich`thy*ol"o*gy
(?)
n.
[Gr. 'ichqy`s, -y`os, a fish + -logy: cf. F. ichthyologie.]
The natural history of fishes; that branch of Zoology which relates to fishes, including their structure, classification, and habits.


word: Ichthyomancy
definition:
Ichthyomancy

Ich"thy*o*man`cy
(?)
n.
[Gr. 'ichqy`s, -y`os, a fish + -mancy: cf. F. ichthyomancie.]
Divination by the heads or the entrails of fishes.


word: Ichthyomorpha
definition:
Ichthyomorpha

Ich`thy*o*mor"pha
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; fish-shaped; 'ichqy`s, -y`os, a fish + morfh` form.]
(Zool.)
The Urodela.


word: Ichthyomorphous
definition:
Ichthyomorphous

Ichthyomorphic

{ Ich`thy*o*mor"phic (?), Ich`thy*o*mor"phous (?), }
a.
[See Ichthyomorpha.]
Fish-shaped; as, the ichthyomorphic idols of ancient Assyria.


word: Ichthyophagist
definition:
Ichthyophagist

Ich`thy*oph"a*gist
(?)
n.
[See Ichthyophagous.]
One who eats, or subsists on, fish.


word: Ichthyophagous
definition:
Ichthyophagous

Ich`thy*oph"a*gous
(?)
a.
[L. ichthyophagus, Gr. _;; 'ichqy`s, -y`os, a fish + fagei^n to eat.]
Eating, or subsisting on, fish.


word: Ichthyophagy
definition:
Ichthyophagy

Ich`thy*oph"a*gy
(?)
n.
[Gr. 'ichqyofagi`a: cf. F. ichthyophagie.]
The practice of eating, or living upon, fish.


word: Ichthyophthalmite
definition:
Ichthyophthalmite

Ich`thy*oph*thal"mite
(?)
n.
[Gr. 'ichqy`s, -y`os, a fish + _; eye.]
See Apophyllite.
[R.]


word: Ichthyophthira
definition:
Ichthyophthira

Ich`thy*oph*thi"ra
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. 'ichqy`s, -y`os, a fish + _; a louse.]
(Zool.)
A division of copepod crustaceans, including numerous species parasitic on fishes.


word: Ichthyopsida
definition:
Ichthyopsida

Ich`thy*op"si*da
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. 'ichqy`s, -y`os, a fish + _; appearance.]
(Zool.)
A grand division of the Vertebrata, including the Amphibia and Fishes.


word: Ichthyopterygia
definition:
Ichthyopterygia

Ich`thy*op`te*ryg"i*a
(?)
n. pl.
[NL. See Ichthyopterygium.]
(Paleon.)
See Ichthyosauria.


word: Ichthyopterygium
definition:
Ichthyopterygium

Ich`thy*op`te*ryg"i*um
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. 'ichqy`s, -y`os, a fish + _; a fin.]
(Anat.)
The typical limb, or lateral fin, of fishes.


word: Ichthyornis
definition:
Ichthyornis

Ich`thy*or"nis
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. 'ichqy`s, -y`os, a fish + _; bird.]
(Paleon.)
An extinct genus of toothed birds found in the American Cretaceous formation. It is remarkable for having biconcave vertebræ, and sharp, conical teeth set in sockets. Its wings were well developed. It is the type of the order Odontotormæ.


word: Ichthyosauria
definition:
Ichthyosauria

Ich`thy*o*sau"ri*a
(?)
n. pl.
[NL. See Ichthyosaurus.]
(Paleon.)
An extinct order of marine reptiles, including Ichthyosaurus and allied forms; -- called also Ichthyopterygia. They have not been found later than the Cretaceous period.


word: Ichthyosaurian
definition:
Ichthyosaurian

Ich`thy*o*sau"ri*an
(?)
a.
(Paleon.)
Of or pertaining to the Ichthyosauria.
n. One of the Ichthyosauria.


word: Ichthyosaurus
definition:
Ichthyosaurus

Ich`thy*o*sau"rus
(?)
n.
pl. Ichthyosauri (#).
[NL., fr. Gr. 'ichqy`s, -y`os, a fish + say^ros a lizard.]
(Paleon.)
An extinct genus of marine reptiles; -- so named from their short, biconcave vertebræ, resembling those of fishes. Several species, varying in length from ten to thirty feet, are known from the Liassic, Oölitic, and Cretaceous formations.


word: Ichthyosis
definition:
Ichthyosis

Ich`thy*o"sis
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. 'ichqy`s fish.]
(Med.)
A disease in which the skin is thick, rough, and scaly; -- called also fishskin.
Ich`thy*ot"ic (#), a.


word: Ichthyotomy
definition:
Ichthyotomy

Ich`thy*ot"o*my
(?)
n.
[Gr. 'ichqy`s, -y`os, a fish + _; to cut.]
The anatomy or dissection of fishes.
[R.]


word: Icicle
definition:
Icicle

I"ci*cle
(?)
n.
[OE. isikel, AS. īsgicel; īs ice + gicel icicle; akin to Icel. jökull; cf. Gael. eigh ice, Ir. aigh.]
A pendent, and usually conical, mass of ice, formed by freezing of dripping water; as, the icicles on the eaves of a house.


word: Icily
definition:
Icily

I"ci*ly
(?)
adv.
In an icy manner; coldly.

Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null,
Dead perfection, no more.
Tennyson.


word: Icing
definition:
Icing

I"cing
(?)
n.
A coating or covering resembling ice, as of sugar and milk or white of egg; frosting.


word: icky
definition:
icky

icky
adj.
1.
very bad; repulsive; unpleasant; distasteful.
[informal]
[wns=1]

Syn. -- crappy, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinky.

2.
sticky; as, icky, sticky goo.
[wns=2]

Syn. -- gooey.

3.
Overly sentimental; -- of stories or dramas.


word: icon
definition:
icon

i"con
(ī"k&obreve_;n)
n.
[Also spelled ikon.]
[L., fr. Gr. e'ikw`n.]
1.
An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait.

Netherlands whose names and icons are published.
Hakewill.

2.
(Gr. Ch.)
A sacred picture representing the Virgin Mary, Christ, a saint, or a martyr, and having the same function as an image of such a person in the Latin Church.  The term is used especially for a highly stylized and conventionalized representation of a holy person, rich in symbolism and used in devotional services in many of the eastern Orthodox churches, especially the Greek and Russian Orthodox Churches.

3.
a symbol, especially a symbol whose form suggests its meaning or the object it represents.

4.
(Computers)
a graphical symbol for a data object whose form suggests the nature or function of the object; especially, such a symbol as viewed on the computer screen.
In a graphical user interface, pointing to and clicking on an icon may cause any of several types of actions, such as opening a file or executing a program, depending on how the icon properties are defined.

5.
any object of uncritical devotion.

The former congresswoman and Vice-Presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro is still an icon to many party members.
The New York Times, April 16, 1998

6.
an outstanding example of something which has come to represent the class of things to which it belongs; a paragon; used of persons as well as objects.


word: Iconical
definition:
Iconical

I*con"ic*al
(?)
a.
Pertaining to, or consisting of, images, pictures, or representations of any kind.


word: Iconism
definition:
Iconism

I"con*ism
(?)
n.
[L. iconismus, Gr. _;, fr. _; to mold, delineate, fr. e'ikw`n an image: cf. F. iconisme.]
The formation of a figure, representation, or semblance; a delineation or description.

Some kind of apish imitations, counterfeit iconisms.
Cudworth.


word: Iconoclasm
definition:
Iconoclasm

I*con"o*clasm
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. iconoclasme. See Iconoclast.]
The doctrine or practice of the iconoclasts; image breaking.


word: Iconoclast
definition:
Iconoclast

I*con"o*clast
(?)
n.
[Gr. e'ikw`n image + _; to break: cf. F. iconoclaste.]
1.
A breaker or destroyer of images or idols; a determined enemy of idol worship.

2.
One who exposes or destroys impositions or shams; one who attacks cherished beliefs; a radical.


word: Iconoclastic
definition:
Iconoclastic

I*con`o*clas"tic
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to the iconoclasts, or to image breaking.
Milman.


word: Iconodulist
definition:
Iconodulist

Iconodule

{I*con"o*dule (?), I*con"o*du`list (?), }
n.
[Gr. e'ikw`n an image + _; a slave.]
(Eccl. Hist.)
One who serves images; -- opposed to an iconoclast.
Schaff-Herzog Encyc.


word: Iconograph
definition:
Iconograph

I*con"o*graph
(?)
n.
[See Iconography.]
An engraving or other picture or illustration for a book.


word: Iconographic
definition:
Iconographic

I*con`o*graph"ic
(?)
a.
1.
Of or pertaining to iconography.

2.
Representing by means of pictures or diagrams; as, an icongraphic encyclopædia.


word: Iconography
definition:
Iconography

I`co*nog"ra*phy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; a sketch or description; e'ikw`n an image + _; of describe: cf. F. iconographie.]
1.
The art or representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons; as, the iconography of the ancients.

2.
The study of representative art in general.

Christian iconography, the study of the representations in art of the Deity, the persons of the Trinity, angels, saints, virtues, vices, etc.


word: Iconolater
definition:
Iconolater

I`co*nol"a*ter
(?)
n.
[Gr. e'ikw`n an image + _; to worship: cf. F. iconolâtre.]
One who worships images.


word: Iconolatry
definition:
Iconolatry

I`co*nol"a*try
(?)
n.
[See Iconolater.]
The worship of images as symbols; -- distinguished from idolatry, the worship of images themselves.


word: Iconology
definition:
Iconology

I`co*nol"o*gy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;; e'ikw`n an image + _; discourse: cf. F. iconologie.]
The discussion or description of portraiture or of representative images.  Cf. Iconography.


word: Iconomachy
definition:
Iconomachy

I`co*nom"a*chy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; a war against images; e'ikw`n an image + _; fight.]
Hostility to images as objects of worship.
[R.]


word: Iconomania
definition:
Iconomania

I`co*no*ma"ni*a
(?)
n.
[NL. See Icon, and Mania.]
A mania or infatuation for icons, whether as objects of devotion, bric-a-brac, or curios.


word: Iconomical
definition:
Iconomical

I`co*nom"ic*al
(?)
a.
[Gr. _;; e'ikw`n image + _; fight.]
Opposed to pictures or images as objects of worship.
[R.]
Sir T. Browne.


word: Iconophilist
definition:
Iconophilist

I`co*noph"i*list
(?)
n.
[Gr. e'ikw`n an image + _; to love.]
A student, or lover of the study, of iconography.


word: Icosahedron
definition:
Icosahedron

I`co*sa*he"dron
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;; _; twenty + _; seat, base, fr. _; to sit.]
(Geom.)
A solid bounded by twenty sides or faces.

Regular icosahedron, one of the five regular polyhedrons, bounded by twenty equilateral triangules. Five triangles meet to form each solid angle of the polyhedron.


word: Icosandria
definition:
Icosandria

I`co*san"dri*a
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; twenty +_;, _;, man, male: cf. F. icosandrie.]
(Bot.)
A Linnæan class of plants, having twenty or more stamens inserted in the calyx.


word: Icosandrous
definition:
Icosandrous

Icosandrian

{ I`co*san"dri*an (?), I`co*san"drous (?), }
a.
(Bot.)
Pertaining to the class Icosandria; having twenty or more stamens inserted in the calyx.


word: Icositetrahedron
definition:
Icositetrahedron

I`co*si*tet`ra*he"dron
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; twenty + _;, combining form of _; four + _; seat, base.]
(Crystallog.)
A twenty-four-sided solid; a tetragonal trisoctahedron or trapezohedron.


word: -ics
definition:
-ics

-ics
(?)
A suffix used in forming the names of certain sciences, systems, etc., as acoustics, mathematics, dynamics, statistics, politics, athletics.

&hand_; The names sciences ending in ics, as mathematics, mechanics, metaphysics, optics, etc., are, with respect to their form, nouns in the plural number. The plural form was probably introduced to mark the complex nature of such sciences; and it may have been in imitation of the use of the Greek plurals _;, _;, _;, _;, etc., to designate parts of Aristotle's writings. Previously to the present century, nouns ending in ics were construed with a verb or a pronoun in the plural; but it is now generally considered preferable to treat them as singular. In Greman we have die Mathematik, die Mechanik, etc., and in French la metaphysique, la optique, etc., corresponding to our mathematics, mechanics, metaphysics, optics, etc.
[1913 Webster]
Mathematics have for their object the consideration of whatever is capable of being numbered or measured. John Davidson.
The citations subjoined will serve as examples of the best present usage.
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Ethics is the sciences of the laws which govern our actions as moral agents. Sir W. Hamilton.
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All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it. De Quincey.
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Mechanics, like pure mathematics, may be geometrical, or may be analytical; that is, it may treat space either by a direct consideration of its properties, or by a symbolical representation. Whewell.


word: Icterical
definition:
Icterical

Icteric

{ Ic*ter"ic (ĭk*tĕr"ĭk), Ic*ter"ic*al (ĭk*tĕr"ĭ*kal), }
a.
[L. ictericus, Gr. 'ikteriko`s, fr. 'i`kteros jaundice: cf. F. ictérique.]
1.
Pertaining to, or affected with, jaundice.

2.
Good against the jaundice.
Johnson.


word: Icteritous
definition:
Icteritous

Icteritious

{ Ic`ter*i"tious (?), Ic*ter"i*tous (?), }
a.
Yellow; of the color of the skin when it is affected by the jaundice.


word: Icteroid
definition:
Icteroid

Ic"ter*oid
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; jaundice + -oid.]
Of a tint resembling that produced by jaundice; yellow; as, an icteroid tint or complexion.


word: Ictic
definition:
Ictic

Ic"tic
(?)
a.
[L. ictus blow.]
Pertaining to, or caused by, a blow; sudden; abrupt.
[R.]
H. Bushnell.


word: ictodosaur
definition:
ictodosaur

ictodosaur
n.
An extinct reptile intermediate in form between the therapsids and most primitive true mammals.


word: Ictodosauria
definition:
Ictodosauria

Ictodosauria
n.
An order of extinct reptiles of the Upper Triassic.

Syn. -- order Ictodosauria.


word: Ictus
definition:
Ictus

Ic"tus
(?)
n.
[L., fr. icere, ictum, to strike.]
1.
(Pros.)
The stress of voice laid upon accented syllable of a word.  Cf. Arsis.

2.
(Med.)
A stroke or blow, as in a sunstroke, the sting of an insect, pulsation of an artery, etc.


word: Icy
definition:
Icy

I"cy
(?)
a.
[Compar. Icier (?); superl. Iciest.]
[AS. īsig. See Ice.]
1.
Pertaining to, resembling, or abounding in, ice; cold; frosty.
Icy
Shak.
Icy
Boyle.
Icy
Pope.

2.
Characterized by coldness, as of manner, influence, etc.; chilling; frigid; cold.

Icy was the deportment with which Philip received these demonstrations of affection.
Motley.


word: I.D.
definition:
I.D.

ID

ID, I.D.
(ī`dē")
n.
[capitalized]
[shortened form of identification.]
any document testifying to the identity of the bearer, especially a card or badge.

Syn. -- ID.


word: Id
definition:
Id

Id
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
A small fresh-water cyprinoid fish (Leuciscus idus or Idus idus) of Europe. A domesticated variety, colored like the goldfish, is called orfe in Germany.


word: id
definition:
id

id
(ĭd)
n.
(Psychoanalysis)
That part of a person's psyche which is the unconscious source of impulses seeking gratification or pleasure; the impulses are usually modified by the ego and superego before being acted upon.


word: Idalian
definition:
Idalian

I*da"li*an
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to Idalium, a mountain city in Cyprus, or to Venus, to whom it was sacred.
Idalian
Tennyson.


word: -ide
definition:
-ide

-ide
(?)
(Chem.)
A suffix used to denote: (a) The nonmetallic, or negative, element or radical in a binary compound; as, oxide, sulphide, chloride. (b) A compound which is an anhydride; as, glycolide, phthalide. (c) Any one of a series of derivatives; as, indogenide, glucoside, etc.


word: Idea
definition:
Idea

I*de"a
(?)
n.
pl. Ideas (#).
[L. idea, Gr. _;, fr. _; to see; akin to E. wit: cf. F. idée. See Wit.]
1.
The transcript, image, or picture of a visible object, that is formed by the mind; also, a similar image of any object whatever, whether sensible or spiritual.

Her sweet idea wandered through his thoughts.
Fairfax.

Being the right idea of your father
Both in your form and nobleness of mind.
Shak.

This representation or likeness of the object being transmitted from thence [the senses] to the imagination, and lodged there for the view and observation of the pure intellect, is aptly and properly called its idea.
P. Browne.

2.
A general notion, or a conception formed by generalization.

Alice had not the slightest idea what latitude was.
L. Caroll.

3.
Hence: Any object apprehended, conceived, or thought of, by the mind; a notion, conception, or thought; the real object that is conceived or thought of.

Whatsoever the mind perceives in itself, or as the immediate object of perception, thought, or undersanding, that I call idea.
Locke.

4.
A belief, option, or doctrine; a characteristic or controlling principle; as, an essential idea; the idea of development.

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
Johnson.

What is now “idea” for us? How infinite the fall of this word, since the time where Milton sang of the Creator contemplating his newly-created world, --
“how it showed . . . 
Answering his great idea,” --
to its present use, when this person “has an idea that the train has started,” and the other “had no idea that the dinner would be so bad!”
Trench.

5.
A plan or purpose of action; intention; design.

I shortly afterwards set off for that capital, with an idea of undertaking while there the translation of the work.
W. Irving.

6.
A rational conception; the complete conception of an object when thought of in all its essential elements or constituents; the necessary metaphysical or constituent attributes and relations, when conceived in the abstract.

7.
A fiction object or picture created by the imagination; the same when proposed as a pattern to be copied, or a standard to be reached; one of the archetypes or patterns of created things, conceived by the Platonists to have excited objectively from eternity in the mind of the Deity.

Thence to behold this new-created world,
The addition of his empire, how it showed
In prospect from his throne, how good, how fair,
Answering his great idea.
Milton.

&hand_; “In England, Locke may be said to have been the first who naturalized the term in its Cartesian universality. When, in common language, employed by Milton and Dryden, after Descartes, as before him by Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Hooker, etc., the meaning is Platonic.”
Sir W. Hamilton.

Abstract idea, Association of ideas, etc. See under Abstract, Association, etc.


word: Ideal
definition:
Ideal

I*de"al
(?)
a.
[L. idealis: cf. F. idéal.]
1.
Existing in idea or thought; conceptional; intellectual; mental; as, ideal knowledge.

2.
Reaching an imaginary standard of excellence; fit for a model; faultless; as, ideal beauty.
Byron.

There will always be a wide interval between practical and ideal excellence.
Rambler.

3.
Existing in fancy or imagination only; visionary; unreal.
ideal
Southey.

4.
Teaching the doctrine of idealism; as, the ideal theory or philosophy.

5.
(Math.)
Imaginary.


word: Ideal₂
definition:
Ideal

I*de"al
(?)
n.
A mental conception regarded as a standard of perfection; a model of excellence, beauty, etc.

The ideal is to be attained by selecting and assembling in one whole the beauties and perfections which are usually seen in different individuals, excluding everything defective or unseemly, so as to form a type or model of the species. Thus, the Apollo Belvedere is the ideal of the beauty and proportion of the human frame.
Fleming.

Beau ideal. See Beau ideal.


word: Idealism
definition:
Idealism

I*de"al*ism
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. idéalisme.]
1.
The quality or state of being ideal.

2.
Conception of the ideal; imagery.

3.
(Philos.)
The system or theory that denies the existence of material bodies, and teaches that we have no rational grounds to believe in the reality of anything but ideas and their relations.

4.
The practice or habit of giving or attributing ideal form or character to things; treatment of things in art or literature according to ideal standards or patterns; -- opposed to realism.

5.
a belief in the feasibility of the implementation of ideal principles and noble goals, and the practice or habit of pursuing such goals; -- opposed to realism and cynicism.


word: Idealist
definition:
Idealist

I*de"al*ist
n.
[Cf. F. idéaliste.]
1.
One who idealizes; one who forms picturesque fancies; one given to romantic expectations.

2.
One who holds the doctrine of idealism, in any sense.  In senses 4 and 5 of idealism, opposed to realist.


word: Ideality
definition:
Ideality

I`de*al"i*ty
(?)
n.
pl. Idealities (_;).
1.
The quality or state of being ideal.

2.
The capacity to form ideals of beauty or perfection.

3.
(Phren.)
The conceptive faculty.


word: Idealization
definition:
Idealization

I*de`al*i*za"tion
(?)
n.
1.
The act or process of idealizing.

2.
(Fine Arts)
The representation of natural objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show their most important characteristics; the study of the ideal.

3.
A defense mechanism that splits something one is ambivalent about into two representations -- one good and one bad.
[wns=1]

4.
something that exists only as an idea.
[wns=2]

5.
a protrayal of something as ideal.
[wns=3]

Syn. -- glorification.


word: Idealize
definition:
Idealize

I*de"al*ize
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Idealized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Idealizing (?).]
1.
To make ideal; to consider as ideal; to give an ideal form or value to; to attribute ideal characteristics and excellences to; as, to idealize real life.
[wns=1]

2.
(Fine Arts)
To treat in an ideal manner. See Idealization, 2.

3.
to form ideals.
[wns=2]


word: Idealogue
definition:
Idealogue

I*de"a*logue
(?)
n.
[Idea + -logue, as in theologue: cf. F. idéologue.]
One given to fanciful ideas or theories; a theorist; a spectator.
[R.]
Mrs. Browning.


word: Ideate
definition:
Ideate

Ideat

{ I*de"at (?), I*de"ate (?), }
n.
[LL. ideatum. See Idea.]
(Metaph.)
The actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea; the correlate in real existence to the idea as a thought or existence.


word: Ideate₂
definition:
Ideate

I*de"ate
(?)
v. t.
1.
To form in idea; to fancy.
[R.]

The ideated man . . . as he stood in the intellect of God.
Sir T. Browne.

2.
To apprehend in thought so as to fix and hold in the mind; to memorize.
[R.]


word: Ideation
definition:
Ideation

I`de*a"tion
(?)
n.
The faculty or capacity of the mind for forming ideas; the exercise of this capacity; the act of the mind by which objects of sense are apprehended and retained as objects of thought.

The whole mass of residua which have been accumulated . . . all enter now into the process of ideation.
J. D. Morell.


word: Ideational
definition:
Ideational

I`de*a"tion*al
(?)
a.
Pertaining to, or characterized by, ideation.

Certain sensational or ideational stimuli.
Blackw. Mag.


word: Identical
definition:
Identical

I*den"tic*al
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. identique. See Identity.]
1.
The same; the selfsame; the very same; not different; as, the identical person or thing.

I can not remember a thing that happened a year ago, without a conviction . . . that I, the same identical person who now remember that event, did then exist.
Reid.

2.
Uttering sameness or the same truth; expressing in the predicate what is given, or obviously implied, in the subject; tautological.

When you say body is solid, I say that you make an identical proposition, because it is impossible to have the idea of body without that of solidity.
Fleming.

Identical equation (Alg.), an equation which is true for all values of the algebraic symbols which enter into it.


word: Identical₂
definition:
Identical

Identic

{ I*den"tic, I*den"tic*al  }
a.
In diplomacy (esp. in the form identic), precisely agreeing in sentiment or opinion and form or manner of expression; -- applied to concerted action or language which is used by two or more governments in treating with another government.


word: Identically
definition:
Identically

I*den"tic*al*ly
adv.
In an identical manner; with respect to identity.
Identically
Bp. Warburton.
Identically
Ross.


word: Identification
definition:
Identification

I*den`ti*fi*ca"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. identification.]
The act of identifying, or proving to be the same; also, the state of being identified.


word: Identify
definition:
Identify

I*den"ti*fy
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Identified (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Identifying (?).]
[Cf. F. identifier. See Identity, and -fy.]
1.
To make to be the same; to unite or combine in such a manner as to make one; to treat as being one or having the same purpose or effect; to consider as the same in any relation.

Every precaution is taken to identify the interests of the people and of the rulers.
D. Ramsay.

Let us identify, let us incorporate ourselves with the people.
Burke.

2.
To establish the identity of; to prove to be the same with something described, claimed, or asserted; as, to identify stolen property.


word: Identify₂
definition:
Identify

I*den"ti*fy
(?)
v. i.
1.
To become the same; to coalesce in interest, purpose, use, effect, etc.
[Obs. or R.]
2.
To coalesce in interest, purpose, use, effect, etc.; to associate oneself in name, goals, or feelings; usually used with with; as, he identified with the grief she felt at her father's death.

An enlightened self-interest, which, when well understood, they tell us will identify with an interest more enlarged and public.
Burke.


word: identifying
definition:
identifying

identifying
adj.
1.
serving to distinguish or identify an object, person, species or group; as, we were asked to describe any identifying marks or distinguishing features.
[prenominal]

Syn. -- distinguishing, distinctive.


word: Identikit
definition:
Identikit

Identikit
prop. n.
[trademark]
A set of images containing a wide variety of facial features, such as noses, hairlines, chins, etc. on transparencies which can be overlayed in combinations to build up a picture of a person; it is used by police agencies to create concrete images of a crime suspect from the descriptions of witnesses; the image created with the kit is also called an Identikit, or more properly an Identikit picture.
[Trademark]

Syn. -- Identikit picture.


word: Identism
definition:
Identism

I*den"tism
(?)
n.
[See Identity.]
(Metaph.)
The doctrine taught by Schelling, that matter and mind, and subject and object, are identical in the Absolute; -- called also the system of identity or doctrine of identity.


word: Identity
definition:
Identity

I*den"ti*ty
(?)
n.
pl. Identities (#).
[F. identité, LL. identitas, fr. L. idem the same, from the root of is he, that; cf. Skr. idam this.  Cf. Item.]
1.
The state or quality of being identical, or the same; sameness.

Identity is a relation between our cognitions of a thing, not between things themselves.
Sir W. Hamilton.

2.
The condition of being the same with something described or asserted, or of possessing a character claimed; as, to establish the identity of stolen goods.

3.
(Math.)
An identical equation.


word: Ideogeny
definition:
Ideogeny

I`de*og"e*ny
(?)
n.
[Ideo- + -geny, from the same root as Gr. _;, birth: cf. F. idéogénie.]
The science which treats of the origin of ideas.


word: Ideogram
definition:
Ideogram

I*de"o*gram
(?)
n.
[Ideo- + -gram; cf. F. idéograme.]
1.
An original, pictorial element of writing; a kind of hieroglyph expressing no sound, but only an idea.

Ideograms may be defined to be pictures intended to represent either things or thoughts.
I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

You might even have a history without language written or spoken, by means of ideograms and gesture.
J. Peile.

2.
A symbol used for convenience, or for abbreviation; as, 1, 2, 3, +, -, _;, $, _;, etc.

3.
A phonetic symbol; a letter.


word: Ideographical
definition:
Ideographical

Ideographic

{ I`de*o*graph"ic (?), I`de*o*graph"ic*al (?), }
a.
[Cf. F. idéographique.]
Of or pertaining to an ideogram; representing ideas by symbols, independently of sounds; as, 9 represents not the word “nine,” but the idea of the number itself.
I`de*o*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.


word: Ideographics
definition:
Ideographics

I`de*o*graph"ics
(?)
n.
The system of writing in ideographic characters; also, anything so written.


word: Ideography
definition:
Ideography

I`de*og"ra*phy
(?)
n.
The representation of ideas independently of sounds, or in an ideographic manner, as sometimes is done in shorthand writing, etc.


word: ideological
definition:
ideological

ideologic

ideologic, ideological
adj.
concerned with or suggestive of ideas; as, an ideologic argument.

Syn. -- ideological.


word: Ideologist
definition:
Ideologist

I`de*ol"o*gist
(?)
n.
1.
One who treats of ideas; one who theorizes or idealizes; one versed in the science of ideas, or who advocates the doctrines of ideology.
2.
An ideologue.


word: Ideology
definition:
Ideology

I`de*ol"o*gy
(?)
n.
[Ideo- + -logy: cf. F. idéologie.]
1.
The science of ideas.
Stewart.

2.
(Metaph.)
A theory of the origin of ideas which derives them exclusively from sensation.

&hand_; By a double blunder in philosophy and Greek, idéologie . . . has in France become the name peculiarly distinctive of that philosophy of mind which exclusively derives our knowledge from sensation.  Sir W. Hamilton.
3.
A set or system of theories and beliefs held by an individual or group, especially about sociopolitical goals and methods to attain them; in common usage, ideology is such a set of beliefs so strongly held by their adherents as to cause them to ignore evidence against such beliefs, and thus fall into error -- in this sense it is viewed as a negative trait; contrasted to pragmatism, and distinct from idealism.


word: Ideo-motor
definition:
Ideo-motor

I`de*o-mo"tor
(?)
a.
[Ideo- + motor.]
(Physiol.)
Applied to those actions, or muscular movements, which are automatic expressions of dominant ideas, rather than the result of distinct volitional efforts, as the act of expressing the thoughts in speech, or in writing, while the mind is occupied in the composition of the sentence.
Carpenter.


word: Ides
definition:
Ides

Ides
(īdz)
n. pl.
[L. idus: cf. F. ides.]
(Anc. Rom. Calendar)
The fifteenth day of March, May, July, and October, and the thirteenth day of the other months.

The ides of March remember.
Shak.

&hand_; Eight days in each month often pass by this name, but only one strictly receives it, the others being called respectively the day before the ides, and so on, backward, to the eighth from the ides.


word: Idio-
definition:
Idio-

Id"i*o-
(ĭd"ĭ*o̝-)
A combining form from the Greek 'i`dios, meaning private, personal, peculiar, distinct.


word: Idioblast
definition:
Idioblast

Id"i*o*blast
(ĭd"ĭ*o̝*blăst)
n.
[Ideo- + -blast.]
(Bot.)
An individual cell, differing greatly from its neighbours in regard to size, structure, or contents.


word: Idiocrasy
definition:
Idiocrasy

Id`i*oc"ra*sy
(?)
n.
pl. Idiocrasies (#).
[Idio- + Gr. kra^sis a mixture, fr. _; to mix: cf. F. idiocrasie.]
Peculiarity of constitution; that temperament, or state of constitution, which is peculiar to a person; idiosyncrasy.


word: Idiocratical
definition:
Idiocratical

Idiocratic

{ Id`i*o*crat"ic (?), Id`i*o*crat"ic*al (?), }
a.
Peculiar in constitution or temperament; idiosyncratic.


word: Idiocy
definition:
Idiocy

Id"i*o*cy
(ĭd"ĭ*o̝*s&ybreve_;)
n.
[From idiot; cf. Gr. _; uncouthness, lack of education, fr. _;. See Idiot, and cf. Idiotcy.]
The condition or quality of being an idiot; absence, or marked deficiency, of sense and intelligence.

I will undertake to convict a man of idiocy, if he can not see the proof that three angles of a triangle are equal to two right angles.
F. W. Robertson.


word: Idiocyclophanous
definition:
Idiocyclophanous

Id`i*o*cy*cloph"a*nous
(?)
a.
[Idio- + Gr. _; circle + _; to appear.]
(Crystallog.)
Same as Idiophanous.


word: Idioelectric
definition:
Idioelectric

Id`i*o*e*lec"tric
(?)
a.
[Idio- + electric: cf. F. idioélectrique.]
(Physics)
Electric by virtue of its own peculiar properties; capable of becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to anelectric.
n. An idioelectric substance.


word: Idiograph
definition:
Idiograph

Id"i*o*graph
(ĭd"ĭ*o̝*grȧf)
n.
[Gr. _; autographic; 'i`dios one's own + gra`fein to write.]
A mark or signature peculiar to an individual; a trade-mark.


word: Idiographical
definition:
Idiographical

Idiographic

{ Id`i*o*graph"ic (ĭd`ĭ*o̝*grăf"ĭk), Id`i*o*graph"ic*al (?), }
a.
Of or pertaining to an idiograph.


word: idiolect
definition:
idiolect

idiolect
n.
(Linguistics)
the language or speech of one individual at a particular period in life.


word: Idiom
definition:
Idiom

Id"i*om
(ĭd"ĭ*ŭm)
n.
[F. idiome, L. idioma, fr. Gr. 'idi`wma, fr. 'idioy^n to make a person's own, to make proper or peculiar; fr. 'i`dios one's own, proper, peculiar; prob. akin to the reflexive pronoun o"y^, o'i^, 'e`, and to "eo`s, 'o`s, one's own, L. suus, and to E. so.]
1.
The syntactical or structural form peculiar to any language; the genius or cast of a language.

Idiom may be employed loosely and figuratively as a synonym of language or dialect, but in its proper sense it signifies the totality of the general rules of construction which characterize the syntax of a particular language and distinguish it from other tongues.
G. P. Marsh.

By idiom is meant the use of words which is peculiar to a particular language.
J. H. Newman.

He followed their language [the Latin], but did not comply with the idiom of ours.
Dryden.

2.
An expression conforming or appropriate to the peculiar structural form of a language.

Some that with care true eloquence shall teach,
And to just idioms fix our doubtful speech.
Prior.

3.
A combination of words having a meaning peculiar to itself and not predictable as a combination of the meanings of the individual words, but sanctioned by usage; as, an idiomatic expression; less commonly, a single word used in a peculiar sense.

It is not by means of rules that such idioms as the following are made current: “I can make nothing of it.” “He treats his subject home.”  Dryden. “It is that within us that makes for righteousness.” M. Arnold.
Gostwick (Eng. Gram.)

Sometimes we identify the words with the object -- though by courtesy of idiom rather than in strict propriety of language.
Coleridge.

4.
The phrase forms peculiar to a particular author; as, written in his own idiom.

Every good writer has much idiom.
Landor.

5.
Dialect; a variant form of a language.


word: Idiomatical
definition:
Idiomatical

Idiomatic

{ Id`i*o*mat"ic (?), Id`i*o*mat"ic*al (?), }
a.
[Gr. 'idiwmatiko`s.]
1.
Of or pertaining to, or conforming to, the mode of expression peculiar to a language; as, an idiomatic meaning; an idiomatic phrase.
Id`i*o*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.

2.
Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of an idiom{3}; having a meaning that is peculiar to itself and not predictable from general rules.


word: Idiomorphous
definition:
Idiomorphous

Id`i*o*morph"ous
(?)
a.
[Gr. 'idio`morfos of peculiar form; 'i`dios peculiar + morfh` form.]
1.
Having a form of its own.

2.
(Crystallog.)
Apperaing in distinct crystals; -- said of the mineral constituents of a rock.


word: Idiomuscular
definition:
Idiomuscular

Id`i*o*mus"cu*lar
(?)
a.
[Idio- + muscular.]
(Physiol.)
Applied to a semipermanent contraction of a muscle, produced by a mechanical irritant.


word: Idiopathical
definition:
Idiopathical

Idiopathic

{ Id`i*o*path"ic (?), Id`i*o*path"ic*al (?), }
a.
[Cf. F. idiopathique.]
(Med.)
Pertaining to idiopathy; characterizing a disease arising primarily, and not in consequence of some other disease or injury; -- opposed to symptomatic, sympathetic, and traumatic.
Id`i*o*path"ic*al*ly, adv.


word: Idiopathy
definition:
Idiopathy

Id`i*op"a*thy
(?)
n.
pl. Idiopathies (#).
[Gr. _;; 'i`dios proper, peculiar + _;, _;, to suffer: cf. F. idiopathie.]
1.
A peculiar, or individual, characteristic or affection.

All men are so full of their own fancies and idiopathies, that they scarce have the civility to interchange any words with a stranger.
Dr. H. More.

2.
(Med.)
A morbid state or condition not preceded or occasioned by any other disease; a primary disease.


word: Idiophanous
definition:
Idiophanous

Id`i*oph"a*nous
(?)
a.
[Idio- + _; to appear.]
(Crystallog.)
Exhibiting interference figures without the aid of a polariscope, as certain crystals.


word: Idioplasma
definition:
Idioplasma

Id`i*o*plas"ma
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. 'i`dios proper, peculiar + _; a form, mold.]
(Biol.)
That portion of the cell protoplasm which is the seat of all active changes, and which carries on the function of hereditary transmission; -- distinguished from the other portion, which is termed nutritive plasma. See Hygroplasm.


word: Idiorepulsive
definition:
Idiorepulsive

Id`i*o*re*pul"sive
(?)
a.
[Idio- + repulsive.]
Repulsive by itself; as, the idiorepulsive power of heat.


word: Idiosyncrasy
definition:
Idiosyncrasy

Id`i*o*syn"cra*sy
(?)
n.
pl. Idiosyncrasies (#).
[Gr. _;; 'i`dios proper, peculiar + _; a mixing together, fr. _; to mix together; _; with + _; to mix: cf. F. idiosyncrasie. See Idiom, and Crasis.]
A peculiarity of physical or mental constitution or temperament; a characteristic belonging to, and distinguishing, an individual; characteristic susceptibility; idiocrasy; eccentricity.

The individual mind . . . takes its tone from the idiosyncrasies of the body.
I. Taylor.


word: Idiosyncratical
definition:
Idiosyncratical

Idiosyncratic

{ Id`i*o*syn*crat"ic (?), Id`i*o*syn*crat"ic*al (?), }
a.
Of peculiar temper or disposition; belonging to one's peculiar and individual character.


word: Idiot
definition:
Idiot

Id"i*ot
(ĭd"ĭ*&obreve_;t)
n.
[F. idiot, L. idiota an uneducated, ignorant, ill-informed person, Gr. 'idiw`ths, also and orig., a private person, not holding public office, fr. 'i`dios proper, peculiar. See Idiom.]
1.
A man in private station, as distinguished from one holding a public office.
[Obs.]

St. Austin affirmed that the plain places of Scripture are sufficient to all laics, and all idiots or private persons.
Jer. Taylor.

2.
An unlearned, ignorant, or simple person, as distinguished from the educated; an ignoramus.
[Obs.]

Christ was received of idiots, of the vulgar people, and of the simpler sort, while he was rejected, despised, and persecuted even to death by the high priests, lawyers, scribes, doctors, and rabbis.
C. Blount.

3.
A human being destitute of the ordinary intellectual powers, whether congenital, developmental, or accidental; commonly, a person without understanding from birth; a natural fool.  In a former classification of mentally retarded people, idiot designated a person whose adult level of intelligence was equivalent to that of a three-year old or younger; this corresponded with an I.Q. level of approximately 25 or less.

Life . . . is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Shak.

4.
A fool; a simpleton; -- a term of reproach.

Weenest thou make an idiot of our dame?
Chaucer.


word: Idiothermic
definition:
Idiothermic

Id`i*o*ther"mic
(?)
a.
[Idio- + thermic.]
Self-heating; warmed, as the body of animal, by process going on within itself.


word: Idiotical
definition:
Idiotical

Idiotic

{ Id`i*ot"ic (?), Id`i*ot"ic*al (?), }
a.
[L. idioticus ignorant, Gr. _;: cf. F. idiotique. See Idiot.]
1.
Common; simple.
[Obs.]
Blackwall.

2.
Pertaining to, or like, an idiot; characterized by idiocy; foolish; fatuous; as, an idiotic person, speech, laugh, or action.


word: Idioticon
definition:
Idioticon

Id`i*ot"i*con
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; belonging to a private man, private. See Idiot.]
A dictionary of a peculiar dialect, or of the words and phrases peculiar to one part of a country; a glossary.


word: Idiotism
definition:
Idiotism

Id"i*ot*ism
(?)
n.
[F. idiotisme, L. idiotismus the way of fashion of a private person, the common or vulgar manner of speaking, Gr. _;, fr. _; to put into or use common language, fr. _;. See Idiot.]
1.
An idiom; a form, mode of expression, or signification, peculiar to a language.

Scholars sometimes give terminations and idiotisms, suitable to their native language, unto words newly invented.
M. Hale.

2.
Lack of knowledge or mental capacity; idiocy; foolishness.

Worse than mere ignorance or idiotism.
Shaftesbury.

The running that adventure is the greatist idiotism.
Hammond.


word: Idle
definition:
Idle

I"dle
(?)
a.
[Compar. Idler (?); superl. Idlest.]
[OE. idel, AS. īdel vain, empty, useless; akin to OS. īdal, D. ijdel, OHG. ītal vain, empty, mere, G. eitel, Dan. & Sw. idel mere, pure, and prob. to Gr. _; clear, pure, _; to burn.  Cf. Ether.]
1.
Of no account; useless; vain; trifling; unprofitable; thoughtless; silly; barren.
idle
Shak.

Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
Matt. xii. 36.

Down their idle weapons dropped.
Milton.

This idle story became important.
Macaulay.

2.
Not called into active service; not turned to appropriate use; unemployed; as, idle hours.

The idle spear and shield were high uphing.
Milton.

3.
Not employed; unoccupied with business; inactive; doing nothing; as, idle workmen.

Why stand ye here all the day idle?
Matt. xx. 6.

4.
Given rest and ease; averse to labor or employment; lazy; slothful; as, an idle fellow.

5.
Light-headed; foolish.
[Obs.]
Ford.

Idle pulley (Mach.), a pulley that rests upon a belt to tighten it; a pulley that only guides a belt and is not used to transmit power. -- Idle wheel (Mach.), a gear wheel placed between two others, to transfer motion from one to the other without changing the direction of revolution. -- In idle, in vain. [Obs.] “God saith, thou shalt not take the name of thy Lord God in idle.”  Chaucer.


word: Idle₂
definition:
Idle

I"dle
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Idled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Idling (?).]
To lose or spend time in inaction, or without being employed in business.
Shak.


word: Idle₃
definition:
Idle

I"dle
v. t.
To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume; -- often followed by away; as, to idle away an hour a day.


word: Idle-headed
definition:
Idle-headed

I"dle-head`ed
(?)
a.
1.
Foolish; stupid.
[Obs.]
idle-headed
Shak.

2.
Delirious; infatuated.
[Obs.]
L'Estrange.


word: Idleness
definition:
Idleness

I"dle*ness
n.
[AS. īdelnes.]
The condition or quality of being idle (in the various senses of that word); uselessness; fruitlessness; triviality; inactivity; laziness.


word: Idler
definition:
Idler

I"dler
(?)
n.
1.
One who idles; one who spends his time in inaction; a lazy person; a sluggard.

2.
(Naut.)
One who has constant day duties on board ship, and keeps no regular watch.
Totten.

3.
(Mach.)
An idle wheel or pulley. See under Idle.


word: Idlesse
definition:
Idlesse

Idless

{ I"dless, I"dlesse  }
(?)
n.
Idleness.
[Archaic]
ydlesse
Spenser.

And an idlesse all the day
Beside a wandering stream.
Mrs. Browning.


word: Idly
definition:
Idly

I"dly
(?)
adv.
In a idle manner; ineffectually; vainly; lazily; carelessly; (Obs.) foolishly.


word: Ido
definition:
Ido

I"do
(ē"d&omacr)
n.
An artificial international language, selected by the “Delegation for the Adoption of an Auxillary International Language” (founded at Paris in 1901), made public in 1907, and subsequently greatly revised and extended by a permanent committee or “Academy.”   It is a revised and simplified form of Esperanto.  It combines systematically the advantages of previous schemes with a thoroughly logical word formation, and has neither accented constants nor arbitrarily coined pronominal words. For each idea that root is selected which is already most international, on the principle of the “greatest facility for the greatest number of people.” The word “Ido” means in the language itself “offspring.” The official name is: “Linguo Internaciona di la Delegitaro (Sistema Ido).”
I"dism (#), n. -- I"dist (#), n.


word: Idocrase
definition:
Idocrase

Id"o*crase
(ĭd"o̝*krās; 277)
n.
[Gr. e'i^dos form + kra^sis mixture, from keranny`nai to mix; cf. F. idocrase.]
(Min.)
Same as Vesuvianite.


word: Idol
definition:
Idol

I"dol
(?)
n.
[OE. idole, F. idole, L. idolum, fr. Gr. _;, fr. _; that which is seen, the form, shape, figure, fr. _; to see. See Wit, and cf. Eidolon.]
1.
An image or representation of anything.
[Obs.]

Do her adore with sacred reverence,
As th' idol of her maker's great magnificence.
Spenser.

2.
An image of a divinity; a representation or symbol of a deity or any other being or thing, made or used as an object of worship; a similitude of a false god.

That they should not worship devils, and idols of gold.
Rev. ix. 20.

3.
That on which the affections are strongly (often excessively) set; an object of passionate devotion; a person or thing greatly loved or adored.

The soldier's god and people's idol.
Denham.

4.
A false notion or conception; a fallacy.
Bacon.

The idols of preconceived opinion.
Coleridge.


word: Idolater
definition:
Idolater

I*dol"a*ter
(?)
n.
[F. idolâtre: cf. L. idololatres, Gr. _;. See Idolatry.]
1.
A worshiper of idols; one who pays divine honors to images, statues, or representations of anything made by hands; one who worships as a deity that which is not God; a pagan.

2.
An adorer; a great admirer.

Jonson was an idolater of the ancients.
Bp. Hurd.


word: Idolatrize
definition:
Idolatrize

I*dol"a*trize
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Idolatrized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Idolatrizing (?).]
To worship idols; to pay idolatrous worship.


word: Idolatrous
definition:
Idolatrous

I*dol"a*trous
(?)
a.
1.
Of or pertaining to idolatry; partaking of the nature of idolatry; given to idolatry or the worship of false gods; as, idolatrous sacrifices.

[Josiah] put down the idolatrous priests.
2 Kings xxiii. 5.

2.
Consisting in, or partaking of, an excessive attachment or reverence; as, an idolatrous veneration for antiquity.


word: Idolatry
definition:
Idolatry

I*dol"a*try
(?)
n.
pl. Idolatries (#).
[F. idolâtrie, LL. idolatria, L. idololatria, Fr. Gr. _;; _; idol + _; service.]
1.
The worship of idols, images, or anything which is not God; the worship of false gods.

His eye surveyed the dark idolatries
Of alienated Judah.
Milton.

2.
Excessive attachment or veneration for anything; respect or love which borders on adoration.
Shak.


word: Idolize
definition:
Idolize

I"dol*ize
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Idolized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Idolizing (?).]
1.
To make an idol of; to pay idolatrous worship to; as, to idolize the sacred bull in Egypt.

2.
To love to excess; to love or reverence to adoration; as, to idolize gold, children, a hero.


word: Idolize₂
definition:
Idolize

I"dol*ize
v. i.
To practice idolatry.
[R.]

To idolize after the manner of Egypt.
Fairbairn.


word: Idolon
definition:
Idolon

Idolum

&VerbarI*do"lum (?), &VerbarI*do"lon (_;)
n.
pl. Idola (#)
[L. See Idol; cf. Eidolon.]
Appearance or image; a phantasm; a spectral image; also, a mental image or idea.


word: Idoneous
definition:
Idoneous

I*do"ne*ous
(?)
a.
[L. idoneus.]
Appropriate; suitable; proper; fit; adequate.
[R.]

An ecclesiastical benefice . . . ought to be conferred on an idoneous person.
Ayliffe.


word: Idorgan
definition:
Idorgan

Id*or"gan
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; form + E. organ.]
(Biol.)
A morphological unit, consisting of two or more plastids, which does not possess the positive character of the person or stock, in distinction from the physiological organ or biorgan. See Morphon.


word: Idrialite
definition:
Idrialite

Idrialine

{ Id"ri*a*line (?), Id"ri*a*lite (?), }
n.
[Cf. F. idrialine.]
(Min.)
A bituminous substance obtained from the mercury mines of Idria, where it occurs mixed with cinnabar.


word: Idumean
definition:
Idumean

Id`u*me"an
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to ancient Idumea, or Edom, in Western Asia.
n. An inhabitant of Idumea, an Edomite.


word: Idyl
definition:
Idyl

I"dyl
(?)
n.
[L. idyllium, Gr. _;, fr. _; form; literally, a little form of image: cf. F. idylle. See Idol.]
A short poem; properly, a short pastoral poem; as, the idyls of Theocritus; also, any poem, especially a narrative or descriptive poem, written in an eleveted and highly finished style; also, by extension, any artless and easily flowing description, either in poetry or prose, of simple, rustic life, of pastoral scenes, and the like.
[Written also idyll.]

Wordsworth's solemn-thoughted idyl.
Mrs. Browning.

His [Goldsmith's] lovely idyl of the Vicar's home.
F. Harrison.


word: If
definition:
If

If
(?)
conj.
[OE. if, gif, AS. gif; akin to OFries. ief, gef, ef, OS. ef, of, D. of, or, whether, if, G. ob whether, if, OHG. oba, ibu, Icel. ef, Goth. iba, ibai, an interrogative particle; properly a case form of a noun meaning, doubt (cf. OHG. iba doubt, condition, Icel. if, ef, ifi, efi), and therefore orig. meaning, on condition that.]
1.
In case that; granting, allowing, or supposing that; -- introducing a condition or supposition.

Tisiphone, that oft hast heard my prayer,
Assist, if Œdipus deserve thy care.
Pope.

If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
Matt. iv. 3.

2.
Whether; -- in dependent questions.

Uncertain if by augury or chance.
Dryden.

She doubts if two and two make four.
Prior.

As if, But if. See under As, But.


word: Igasuric
definition:
Igasuric

Ig`a*su"ric
(?)
a.
[See Igasurine.]
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or obtained from, nux vomica or St. Ignatius's bean; as, igasuric acid.


word: Igasurine
definition:
Igasurine

Ig`a*su"rine
(?)
n.
[Malay igasura the nux vomica.]
(Chem.)
An alkaloid found in nux vomica, and extracted as a white crystalline substance.


word: Igloo
definition:
Igloo

Ig"loo
(?)
n.
1.
An Eskimo snow house.

2.
(Zool.)
A cavity, or excavation, made in the snow by a seal, over its breathing hole in the ice.


word: Igneous
definition:
Igneous

Ig"ne*ous
(?)
a.
[L. igneus, fr. ignis fire; allied to Skr. agni, Lith. ugnis, OSlav. ogne.]
1.
Pertaining to, having the nature of, fire; containing fire; resembling fire; as, an igneous appearance.

2.
(Geol.)
Resulting from, or produced by, the action of fire; as, lavas and basalt are igneous rocks.


word: Ignescent
definition:
Ignescent

Ig*nes"cent
(?)
a.
[L. ignescens, p. pr. of ignescere to become inflamed, fr. ignis fire: cf. F. ignescent.]
Emitting sparks of fire when struck with steel; scintillating; as, ignescent stones.


word: Igniferous
definition:
Igniferous

Ig*nif"er*ous
(?)
a.
[L. ignifer; ignis fire + ferre to bear.]
Producing fire.
[R.]
Blount.


word: Ignifluous
definition:
Ignifluous

Ig*nif"lu*ous
(?)
a.
[L. ignifluus; ignis fire + fluere to flow.]
Flowing with fire.
[Obs.]
Cockerman.


word: Ignify
definition:
Ignify

Ig"ni*fy
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Ignified (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Ignifying (?).]
[L. ignis fire + -fy.]
To form into fire.
[R.]
Stukeley.


word: Ignigenous
definition:
Ignigenous

Ig*nig"e*nous
(?)
a.
[L. ignigenus; ignis fire + genere, ginere, to beget, produce.]
Produced by the action of fire, as lava.
[R.]


word: Ignipotent
definition:
Ignipotent

Ig*nip"o*tent
(?)
a.
[L. ignipotens; ignis fire + potens powerful.]
Presiding over fire; also, fiery.

Vulcan is called the powerful ignipotent.
Pope.


word: Ignis fatuus
definition:
Ignis fatuus

Ig"nis fat"u*us
(?)
pl. Ignes fatui (#).
[L. ignis fire + fatuus foolish. So called in allusion to its tendency to mislead travelers.]
1.
A phosphorescent light that appears, in the night, over marshy ground, supposed to be occasioned by the decomposition of animal or vegetable substances, or by some inflammable gas; -- popularly called also Will-with-the-wisp, or Will-o'-the-wisp, and Jack-with-a-lantern, or Jack-o'-lantern.  It is thought by some to be caused by phosphine, PH3, a sponaneously combustible gas.

Will o'the Wisp -- which also rejoices in the names of Ignis Fatuus or Jack o'Lantern -- is not, as some of you may think, a cartoon character.  In mediaeval times this chemical phenomenon struck terror into travellers and, very likely, lured some of them to their deaths in a stinking and marshy grave.
    I have never seen this Will o'the Wisp; nor am I likely to do so.  It is a flickering flame seen over marshes; marshes are not now common in London, nor indeed anywhere else in Britain.  In any case the ephemeral nature of the phenomenon and the enormous amount of ambient light “pollution” found in most areas means that most of us will never see it.
   What is this Will o'the Wisp?  Popular chemical lore has it that it is marsh gas, or methane, which catches fire when it hits the air because of the presence of either phosphine (PH3) or diphosphine (P2H4) in the gas, both of which are spontaneously flammable in air.  Methane is certainly formed in marshes, and bubbles up if the mud is disturbed in a pond, say.  It is the same reaction that enables organic materials to produce biogas, methane from the decomposition of sewage, which can be profitably used.  But is it this that is burning in Will o'the Wisp?
    Almost certainly not.  At this point I will say that I have thought for some years off and on as to how one might set up an experiment to test the hypotheses, since the sporadic and rare nature of the natural version renders its investigation a highly intractable problem.  However: the combustion of methane under the conditions in a marsh would give a yellow flame, and heat.
    Will o'the Wisp is not like this, so it is said.  Firstly the flame is bluish, not yellow, and it is said to be a cold flame.  The colour and the temperature suggests some sort of phosphorescence; since organic material contain phosphorus, the production of phosphine or diphosphine is scarcely impossible, and maybe it does oxidise via a mainly chemiluminescent reaction.  The exact nature of the Will o'the Wisp reaction nevertheless remains, to me at any rate, a mystery.  Similar phenomena have been reported in graveyards and are known as corpse candles.  If anyone knows anything more, I would love to hear of it.  A warning that if you look for it on the Web, you will get a great deal of bizarre stuff. You will also get the delightful picture from a Canadian artist which decorates the top of this page (http://www.rod.beavon.clara.net/willo.htm), and a couple of poems at least. One is also by a Canadian, Annie Campbell Huestis, the other by the prolific fantasy poet Walter de la Mare.
    The preparation of phosphine in the laboratory (by the teacher!) is fun, and perfectly safe in a fume cupboard.  White phosphorus is boiled with aqueous sodium hydroxide solution in an apparatus from which all air must have been removed by purging with, say, natural gas.  The phosphine will form marvellous smoke rings if allowed to bubble up through water in a pneumatic trough.  This is an experiment for the teacher, needless to say. The experiment is described in Partington J.R., “A Textbook of Inorganic Chemistry”, 6th ed, Macmillan 1957, p 572. (So, inter alia, is a great deal of other interesting chemistry.)

Dr. Rod Beavon
(17 Dean's Yard London SW1P 3PB;
e-mail:  rod.beavon@westminster.org.uk

2.
Fig.: A misleading influence; a decoy.

Scared and guided by the ignis fatuus of popular superstition.
Jer. Taylor.


word: Ignite
definition:
Ignite

Ig*nite"
(ĭg*nīt")
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Ignited (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Igniting.]
[L. ignitus, p. p. of ignire to ignite, fr. ignis fire. See Igneous.]
1.
To kindle or set on fire; as, to ignite paper or wood.

2.
(Chem.)
To subject to the action of intense heat; to heat strongly; -- often said of incombustible or infusible substances; as, to ignite iron or platinum.


word: igniter
definition:
igniter

igniter
n.
1.
a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire.

Syn. -- ignitor, lighter.

2.
a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires.

Syn. -- lighter, light, ignitor.


word: Ignition
definition:
Ignition

Ig*ni"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. ignition.]
1.
The act of igniting, kindling, or setting on fire.

2.
The state of being ignited or kindled.
Sir T. Browne.


word: Ignitor
definition:
Ignitor

Ig*nit"or
(?)
n.
One who, or that which, produces ignition; especially, a contrivance for igniting the powder in a torpedo or the like.
[Written also igniter.]


word: Ignoble
definition:
Ignoble

Ig*no"ble
(?)
a.
[L. ignobilis; pref. in- not + nobilis noble: cf. F. ignoble. See In- not, and Noble, a.]
1.
Of low birth or family; not noble; not illustrious; plebeian; common; humble.

I was not ignoble of descent.
Shak.

Her royal stock graft with ignoble plants.
Shak.

2.
Not honorable, elevated, or generous; base.

'T is but a base, ignoble mind,
That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.
Shak.

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.
Gray.

3.
(Zool.)
Not a true or noble falcon; -- said of certain hawks, as the goshawk.


word: Ignominious
definition:
Ignominious

Ig`no*min"i*ous
(?)
a.
[L. ignominiosus: cf. F. ignominieux.]
1.
Marked with ignominy; incurring public disgrace; dishonorable; shameful.

Then first with fear surprised and sense of pain,
Fled ignominious.
Milton.

2.
Deserving ignominy; despicable.

One single, obscure, ignominious projector.
Swift.

3.
Humiliating; degrading; as, an ignominious judgment or sentence.
Macaulay.


word: Ignominiously
definition:
Ignominiously

Ig`no*min"i*ous*ly
adv.
In an ignominious manner; disgracefully; shamefully; ingloriously.


word: Ignominy
definition:
Ignominy

Ig"no*min*y
(?)
n.
pl. Ignominies (#).
[L. ignominia ignominy (i.e., a deprivation of one's good name); in- not + nomen name: cf. F. ignominie. See In- not, and Name.]
1.
Public disgrace or dishonor; reproach; infamy.

Their generals have been received with honor after their defeat; yours with ignominy after conquest.
Addison.

Vice begins in mistake, and ends in ignominy.
Rambler.

Ignominy is the infliction of such evil as is made dishonorable, or the deprivation of such good as is made honorable by the Commonwealth.
Hobbes.

2.
An act deserving disgrace; an infamous act.


word: Ignoramus
definition:
Ignoramus

Ig`no*ra"mus
(?)
n.
[L., we are ignorant. See Ignore.]
1.
(Law)
We are ignorant; we ignore; -- being the word formerly written on a bill of indictment by a grand jury when there was not sufficient evidence to warrant them in finding it a true bill. The phrase now used is, “No bill,” “No true bill,” or “Not found,” though in some jurisdictions “Ignored” is still used.
Wharton (Law Dict. ). Burn.

2.
(pl. Ignoramuses (_;).)
A stupid, ignorant person; a vain pretender to knowledge; a dunce.

An ignoramus in place and power.
South.


word: Ignorance
definition:
Ignorance

Ig"no*rance
(?)
n.
[F., fr. L. ignorantia.]
1.
The condition of being ignorant; the lack of knowledge in general, or in relation to a particular subject; the state of being uneducated or uninformed.

Ignorance is the curse of God,
Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
Shak.

2.
(Theol.)
A willful neglect or refusal to acquire knowledge which one may acquire and it is his duty to have.
Book of Common Prayer.

Invincible ignorance (Theol.), ignorance beyond the individual's control and for which, therefore, he is not responsible before God.


word: Ignorant
definition:
Ignorant

Ig"no*rant
(?)
a.
[F., fr. L. ignorans, -antis, p. pr. of ignorare to be ignorant. See Ignore.]
1.
Destitute of knowledge; uninstructed or uninformed; untaught; unenlightened.

He that doth not know those things which are of use for him to know, is but an ignorant man, whatever he may know besides.
Tillotson.

2.
Unacquainted with; unconscious or unaware; -- used with of.

Ignorant of guilt, I fear not shame.
Dryden.

3.
Unknown; undiscovered.
[Obs.]

Ignorant concealment.
Shak.

Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed?
Shak.

4.
Resulting from ignorance; foolish; silly.

His shipping,
Poor ignorant baubles! -- on our terrible seas,
Like eggshells moved.
Shak.
In such business
Action is eloquence, and the eyes of the ignorant
More learned than the ears.
Shak.

In the first ages of Christianity, not only the learned and the wise, but the ignorant and illiterate, embraced torments and death.
Tillotson.


word: Ignorant₂
definition:
Ignorant

Ig"no*rant
n.
A person untaught or uninformed; one unlettered or unskilled; an ignoramous.

Did I for this take pains to teach
Our zealous ignorants to preach?
Denham.


word: Ignorantism
definition:
Ignorantism

Ig"no*rant*ism
(?)
n.
The spirit of those who extol the advantage of ignorance; obscurantism.


word: Ignorantly
definition:
Ignorantly

Ig"no*rant*ly
adv.
In a ignorant manner; without knowledge; inadvertently.

Whom therefoer ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Acts xvii. 23.


word: Ignore
definition:
Ignore

Ig*nore"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Ignored (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Ignoring.]
[L. ignorare; pref. in- not + the root of gnarus knowing, noscere to become acquainted with. See Know, and cf. Narrate.]
1.
To be ignorant of or not acquainted with.
[Archaic]

Philosophy would solidly be established, if men would more carefully distinguish those things that they know from those that they ignore.
Boyle.

2.
(Law)
To throw out or reject as false or ungrounded; -- said of a bill rejected by a grand jury for lack of evidence. See Ignoramus.

3.
Hence: To refuse to take notice of; to shut the eyes to; not to recognize; to disregard willfully and causelessly; as, to ignore certain facts; to ignore the presence of an objectionable person.

Ignoring Italy under our feet,
And seeing things before, behind.
Mrs. Browning.


word: Ignoscible
definition:
Ignoscible

Ig*nos"ci*ble
(?)
a.
[L. ignoscibilis, fr. ignoscere to pardon, lit., not to wish to know; pref. in- not + gnoscere, noscere, to learn to know. See In- not, and Know.]
Pardonable.
[Obs.]
Bailey.


word: Ignote
definition:
Ignote

Ig*note"
(?)
a.
[L. ignotus; pref. in- not + gnotus, notus, known, p. p. of gnocere, nocere, to learn to know.]
Unknown.
[Obs.]
Sir E. Sandys.
n. One who is unknown. Bp. Hacket.


word: Iguana
definition:
Iguana

I*gua"na
(?)
n.
[Sp. iguana, from the native name in Haiti.  Cf. Guana.]
(Zool.)
Any species of the genus Iguana, a genus of large American lizards of the family Iguanidæ. They are arboreal in their habits, usually green in color, and feed chiefly upon fruits.

&hand_; The common iguana (Iguana tuberculata) of the West Indies and South America is sometimes five feet long. Its flesh is highly prized as food.  The horned iguana (Iguana cornuta) has a conical horn between the eyes.


word: Iguania
definition:
Iguania

Iguania
n.
A superfamily (or suborder) of New World lizards including the Iguanidae.

Syn. -- family Iguania.


word: Iguanidae
definition:
Iguanidae

Iguanidae
n.
A natural family of New World lizards including the common Iguana, Iguana iguana.

Syn. -- family Iguanidae.


word: Iguanodon
definition:
Iguanodon

I*gua"no*don
(?)
n.
[Iguana + Gr. _;, _;, a tooth.]
(Paleon.)
A genus of gigantic herbivorous dinosaurs having a birdlike pelvis and large hind legs with three-toed feet capable of supporting the entire body. Its teeth resemble those of the iguana, whence its name. Several species are known, mostly from the Wealden of England and Europe. See Illustration in Appendix.


word: Ihlang-ihlang
definition:
Ihlang-ihlang

Ih*lang`-ih*lang"
(?)
n.
[Malayan, flower of flowers.]
A rich, powerful, perfume, obtained from the volatile oil of the flowers of Canada odorata, an East Indian tree.
[Also written ylang-ylang.]


word: IHVH
definition:
IHVH

IHVH
[Written also JHVH, YHVH.]
A transliteration of the four constants forming the Hebrew tetragrammaton or “incommunicable name” of the Supreme Being, which in latter Jewish tradition is not pronounced save with the vowels of adonai or elohim, so that the true pronunciation is lost.
&hand_; Numerous attempts have been made to represent the supposed original form of the word, as Jahaveh, Jahvaj, Jahve, Jahveh, Yahve, Yahveh, Yahwe, Yahweh, etc.


word: Ik
definition:
Ik

Ik
(?)
pron.
[See I.]
I.
[Obs.]
Piers Plowman.

&hand_; The Northern dialectic form of I, in Early English, corresponding to ich of the Southern.


word: ilama
definition:
ilama

ilama
n.
1.
A tropical American tree (Annona diversifolia) grown in the southern U. S. having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.

Syn. -- ilama tree, Annona diversifolia.

2.
whitish tropical fruit with a pinkish tinge related to custard apples, grown in the southern U. S.


word: ilang-ilang
definition:
ilang-ilang

ilang-ilang
n.
1.
An oil distilled from flowers of the ilang-ilang tree, used in perfumery.

2.
An evergreen Asian tree (Cananga odorata) with aromatic greenish-yellow flowers yielding a volatile oil; widely grown in the tropics as an ornamental.

Syn. -- ylang-ylang, Cananga odorata.


word: Ileac
definition:
Ileac

Il"e*ac
(?)
a.
[See Ileum.]
1.
(Anat.)
Pertaining to the ileum.
[Written also iliac.]

2.
See Iliac, 1.
[R.]

Ileac passion. (Med.) See Ileus.


word: Ileocolic
definition:
Ileocolic

Il`e*o*col"ic
(?)
a.
(Anat.)
Pertaining to the ileum and colon; as, the ileocolic, or ileocæcal, valve, a valve where the ileum opens into the large intestine.


word: Ileum
definition:
Ileum

Il"e*um
(?)
n.
[L. ile, ileum, ilium, pl. ilia, groin, flank.]
1.
(Anat.)
The last, and usually the longest, division of the small intestine; the part between the jejunum and large intestine.
[Written also ileon, and ilium.]

2.
(Anat.)
See Ilium.
[R.]

&hand_; Most modern writers restrict ileum to the division of the intestine and ilium to the pelvic bone.


word: Ileus
definition:
Ileus

Il"e*us
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _;, _;, fr. _; to roll up.]
(Med.)
A morbid condition due to intestinal obstruction.  It is characterized by complete constipation, with griping pains in the abdomen, which is greatly distended, and in the later stages by vomiting of fecal matter.  Called also ileac passion or iliac passion.


word: Ilex
definition:
Ilex

I"lex
(?)
n.
[L., holm oak.]
(Bot.)
(a)
The holm oak (Quercus Ilex).
(b)
A genus of evergreen trees and shrubs, including the common holly.


word: Iliac
definition:
Iliac

Il"i*ac
(?)
a.
[L. Iliacus, Gr. _;. See Iliad.]
Pertaining to ancient Ilium, or Troy.
Gladstone.


word: Iliac₂
definition:
Iliac

Il"i*ac
a.
[Cf. F. iliaque. See Ileum, and cf. Jade a stone.]
1.
(Anat.)
Pertaining to, or in the region of, the ilium, or dorsal bone of the pelvis; as, the iliac artery.
[Written also ileac.]

2.
See Ileac, 1.
[R.]

Iliac crest, the upper margin of the ilium. -- Iliac passion. See Ileus. -- Iliac region, a region of the abdomen, on either side of the hypogastric regions, and below the lumbar regions.


word: Iliad
definition:
Iliad

Il"i*ad
(?)
n.
[L. Ilias, -adis, Gr. _;, _; (sc. _;), fr. _;, _;, Ilium, the city of Ilus, a son of Tros, founder of Ilium, which is a poetical name of Troy.]
A celebrated Greek epic poem, in twenty-four books, on the destruction of Ilium, the ancient Troy. The Iliad is ascribed to Homer.


word: Ilicic
definition:
Ilicic

I*lic"ic
(?)
a.
[L. ilex, ilicis, holm oak.]
Pertaining to, or derived from, the holly (Ilex), and allied plants; as, ilicic acid.


word: Ilio-
definition:
Ilio-

Il"i*o-
(?)
[From Ilium.]
A combining form used in anatomy to denote connection with, or relation to, the ilium; as, ilio-femoral, ilio-lumbar, ilio-psoas, etc.


word: Iliofemoral
definition:
Iliofemoral

Il`i*o*fem"o*ral
(?)
a.
(Anat.)
Pertaining to the ilium and femur; as, iliofemoral ligaments.


word: Iliolumbar
definition:
Iliolumbar

Il`i*o*lum"bar
(?)
a.
(Anat.)
Pertaining to the iliac and lumbar regions; as, the iliolumbar artery.


word: Ilion
definition:
Ilion

Ilion
prop. n.
Ilium, or Troy, the ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War; -- a variant spelling of Ilium.

Syn. -- Troy, Ilium.


word: Iliopsoas
definition:
Iliopsoas

Il`i*o*pso"as
(?)
n.
(Anat.)
The great flexor muscle of the hip joint, divisible into two parts, the iliac and great psoas, -- often regarded as distinct muscles.


word: Ilium
definition:
Ilium

Il"i*um
(?)
n.
[See Ileum.]
(Anat.)
The dorsal one of the three principal bones comprising either lateral half of the pelvis; the dorsal or upper part of the hip bone. See Innominate bone, under Innominate.
[Written also ilion, and ileum.]


word: Ilixanthin
definition:
Ilixanthin

Il`ix*an"thin
(?)
n.
[Ilex the genus including the holly + Gr. _; yellow.]
(Chem.)
A yellow dye obtained from the leaves of the holly.


word: Ilk
definition:
Ilk

Ilk
(?)
a.
[Scot. ilk, OE. ilke the same, AS. ilca.  Cf. Each.]
Same; each; every.
[Archaic]
Spenser.

Of that ilk, (a) denoting that a person's surname and the title of his estate are the same; as, Grant of that ilk, i.e., Grant of Grant. [Scottish] Jamieson. (a) Of the same kind.


word: Ilk₂
definition:
Ilk

Ilk
(ĭlk)
n.
Kind; class; sort; type; as, him and his ilk; -- sometimes used to indicate disapproval when applied to people.


word: Ilkoon
definition:
Ilkoon

Ilkon

{ Il*kon", Il*koon" (?) }
pron.
[See Ilk, and One.]
Each one; every one.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Ill
definition:
Ill

Ill
(ĭl)
a.
[The regular comparative and superlative are wanting, their places being supplied by worse (_;) and worst (_;), from another root.]
[OE. ill, ille, Icel. illr; akin to Sw. illa, adv., Dan. ilde, adv.]
1.
Contrary to good, in a physical sense; contrary or opposed to advantage, happiness, etc.; bad; evil; unfortunate; disagreeable; unfavorable.

Neither is it ill air only that maketh an ill seat, but ill ways, ill markets, and ill neighbors.
Bacon.

There 's some ill planet reigns.
Shak.

2.
Contrary to good, in a moral sense; evil; wicked; wrong; iniquitious; naughtly; bad; improper.

Of his own body he was ill, and gave
The clergy ill example.
Shak.

3.
Sick; indisposed; unwell; diseased; disordered; as, ill of a fever.

I am in health, I breathe, and see thee ill.
Shak.

4.
Not according with rule, fitness, or propriety; incorrect; rude; unpolished; inelegant.

That 's an ill phrase.
Shak.

Ill at ease, uneasy; uncomfortable; anxious. “I am very ill at ease.” Shak. -- Ill blood, enmity; resentment; bad blood. -- Ill breeding, lack of good breeding; rudeness. -- Ill fame, ill or bad repute; as, a house of ill fame, a house where lewd persons meet for illicit intercourse. -- Ill humor, a disagreeable mood; bad temper. -- Ill nature, bad disposition or temperament; sullenness; esp., a disposition to cause unhappiness to others. -- Ill temper, anger; moroseness; crossness. -- Ill turn. (a) An unkind act. (b) A slight attack of illness. [Colloq. U.S.] -- Ill will, unkindness; enmity; malevolence.


word: Ill₂
definition:
Ill

Ill
(?)
n.
1.
Whatever annoys or impairs happiness, or prevents success; evil of any kind; misfortune; calamity; disease; pain; as, the ills of humanity.

Who can all sense of others' ills escape
Is but a brute at best in human shape.
Tate.

That makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of.
Shak.

2.
Whatever is contrary to good, in a moral sense; wickedness; depravity; iniquity; wrong; evil.

Strong virtue, like strong nature, struggles still,
Exerts itself, and then throws off the ill.
Dryden.


word: Ill₃
definition:
Ill

Ill
adv.
In a ill manner; badly; weakly.

How ill this taper burns!
Shak.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates and men decay.
Goldsmith.

&hand_; Ill, like above, well, and so, is used before many participal adjectives, in its usual adverbal sense. When the two words are used as an epithet preceding the noun qualified they are commonly hyphened; in other cases they are written separatively; as, an ill-educated man; he was ill educated; an ill-formed plan; the plan, however ill formed, was acceptable. Ao, also, the following: ill-affected or ill affected, ill-arranged or ill arranged, ill-assorted or ill assorted, ill-boding or ill boding, ill-bred or ill bred, ill-conditioned, ill-conducted, ill-considered, ill-devised, ill-disposed, ill-doing, ill-fairing, ill-fated, ill-favored, ill-featured, ill-formed, ill-gotten, ill-imagined, ill-judged, ill-looking, ill-mannered, ill-matched, ill-meaning, ill-minded, ill-natured, ill-omened, ill-proportioned, ill-provided, ill-required, ill-sorted, ill-starred, ill-tempered, ill-timed, ill-trained, ill-used, and the like.


word: I' ll
definition:
I' ll

I' ll
(?)
Contraction for I will or I shall.

I'll by a sign give notice to our friends.
Shak.


word: Illabile
definition:
Illabile

Il*lab"ile
(?)
a.
Incapable of falling or erring; infalliable.
[Obs.]
Il`la*bil"i*ty (#), n. [Obs.]


word: Illacerable
definition:
Illacerable

Il*lac"er*a*ble
(?)
a.
[L. illacerabilis: cf. F. illacérable. See In- not, and Lacerable.]
Not lacerable; incapable of being torn or rent.
[Obs.]


word: Illacrymable
definition:
Illacrymable

Il*lac"ry*ma*ble
(?)
a.
[L. illacrimabilis; pref. il- not + lacrimabilis worthy of tears.]
Incapable of weeping.
[Obs.]
Bailey.


word: Illapsable
definition:
Illapsable

Il*laps"a*ble
(?)
a.
[Pref. il- not + lapsable.]
Incapable of slipping, or of error.
[R.]

Morally immutable and illapsable.
Glanvill.


word: Illapse
definition:
Illapse

Il*lapse"
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Illapsed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Illapsing.]
[L. illapsus, p. p. of illabi; pref. il- in + labi to fall, slide.]
To fall or glide; to pass; -- usually followed by into.
Cheyne.


word: Illapse₂
definition:
Illapse

Il*lapse"
n.
[L. illapsus. See Illapse, v. i.]
A gliding in; an immisson or entrance of one thing into another; also, a sudden descent or attack.
Akenside.

They sit silent . . . waiting for an illapse of the spirit.
Jeffrey.


word: Illaqueate
definition:
Illaqueate

Il*la"que*ate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Illaqueated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Illaqueating.]
[L. illaqueatus, p. p. of illaqueare; pref. il- in + laqueare to insnare, fr. laqueus, noose, snare.]
To insnare; to entrap; to entangle; to catch.

Let not the surpassing eloquence of Taylor dazzle you, nor his scholastic retiary versatility of logic illaqueate your good sense.
Coleridge.


word: Illaqueation
definition:
Illaqueation

Il*la`que*a"tion
(?)
n.
1.
The act of catching or insnaring.
[R.]
Sir T. Browne.

2.
A snare; a trap.
Johnson.


word: Illation
definition:
Illation

Il*la"tion
(?)
n.
[L. illatio, fr. illatus, used as p. p. of inferre to carry or bring in, but from a different root: cf. F. illation. See 1st In-, and Tolerate, and cf. Infer.]
The act or process of inferring from premises or reasons; perception of the connection between ideas; that which is inferred; inference; deduction; conclusion.

Fraudulent deductions or inconsequent illations from a false conception of things.
Sir T. Browne.


word: Illative
definition:
Illative

Il"la*tive
(?)
a.
[L. illativus: cf. F. illatif.]
Relating to, dependent on, or denoting, illation; inferential; conclusive; as, an illative consequence or proposition; an illative word, as then, therefore, etc.

Illative conversion (Logic), a converse or reverse statement of a proposition which in that form must be true because the original proposition is true. -- Illative sense (Metaph.), the faculty of the mind by which it apprehends the conditions and determines upon the correctness of inferences.


word: Illaudable
definition:
Illaudable

Il*laud"a*ble
(?)
a.
[L. illaudabilis. See In- not, and Laudable.]
Not laudable; not praise-worthy; worthy of censure or disapprobation.
Milton.


word: Ill-bred
definition:
Ill-bred

Ill"-bred`
(?)
a.
Badly educated or brought up; impolite; incivil; rude. See Note under Ill, adv.


word: Illecebrous
definition:
Illecebrous

Il*lec"e*brous
(?)
a.
[L. illecebrosus, fr. illecebra allurement, fr. illicere to allure.]
Alluring; attractive; enticing.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Elyot.


word: Illegal
definition:
Illegal

Il*le"gal
(?)
a.
[Pref. il- not + legal: cf. F. illégal.]
Not according to, or authorized by, law; specif., contrary to, or in violation of, human law; unlawful; illicit; hence, immoral; as, an illegal act; illegal trade; illegal love.
Bp. Burnet.


word: Illegality
definition:
Illegality

Il`le*gal"i*ty
(?)
n.
pl. Illegalities (#).
[Cf. F. illégalité.]
The quality or condition of being illegal; unlawfulness; as, the illegality of trespass or of false imprisonment; also, an illegal act.


word: Illegalize
definition:
Illegalize

Il*le"gal*ize
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Illegalized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Illegalizing (?).]
To make or declare illegal or unlawful.


word: Illegible
definition:
Illegible

Il*leg"i*ble
(?)
a.
Incapable of being read; not legible; as, illegible handwriting; an illegible inscription.
Il*leg"i*ble*ness, n. -- Il*leg"i*bly, adv.


word: Illegitimate
definition:
Illegitimate

Il`le*git"i*mate
(?)
a.
1.
Not according to law; not regular or authorized; unlawful; improper.

2.
Unlawfully begotten; born out of wedlock; bastard; as, an illegitimate child.

3.
Not legitimately deduced or inferred; illogical; as, an illegitimate inference.

4.
Not authorized by good usage; not genuine; spurious; as, an illegitimate word.

Illegitimate fertilization, or Illegitimate union (Bot.), the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers. Darwin.


word: Illegitimate₂
definition:
Illegitimate

Il`le*git"i*mate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Illegitimated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Illegitimating.]
To render illegitimate; to declare or prove to be born out of wedlock; to bastardize; to illegitimatize.

The marriage should only be dissolved for the future, without illegitimating the issue.
Bp. Burnet.


word: Illegitimation
definition:
Illegitimation

Il`le*git`i*ma"tion
(?)
n.
1.
The act of illegitimating; bastardizing.

2.
The state of being illegitimate; illegitimacy.
[Obs.]

Gardiner had performed his promise to the queen of getting her illegitimation taken off.
Bp. Burnet.


word: Illesive
definition:
Illesive

Il*le"sive
(?)
a.
[Pref. il- not + L. laedere, laesum, to injure.]
Not injurious; harmless.
[R.]


word: Illeviable
definition:
Illeviable

Il*lev"i*a*ble
(?)
a.
Not leviable; incapable of being imposed, or collected.
[R.]
Sir M. Hale.


word: ill-fated
definition:
ill-fated

ill-fated
adj.
1.
marked by or promising bad fortune; unsuccessful; as, an ill-fated business venture.

Syn. -- ill-omened, ill-starred, unlucky.


word: Ill-favoured
definition:
Ill-favoured

Ill-favored

Ill`-fa"vored, Ill`-fa"voured
(?)
a.
Wanting beauty or attractiveness; unattractive; deformed; ugly; ill-looking; -- usually used of a face; as, an ill-favored countenance.

Ill-favored and lean-fleshed.
Gen. xli. 3.


word: ill-formed
definition:
ill-formed

ill-formed
adj.
1.
(Grammar)
not grammatical; ungrammatical; not conforming to the rules of grammar or accepted usage.  Opposite of grammatical.

Syn. -- ungrammatical.


word: ill-gotten
definition:
ill-gotten

ill-gotten
adj.
obtained illegally or by improper means; as, ill-gotten gains.

Syn. -- dirty.


word: ill-humoured
definition:
ill-humoured

ill-humored

ill-humored ill-humoured
adj.
ill-natured; having a sour, disagreeable, or surly disposition.  Opposite of good-natured.

Syn. -- crusty, curmudgeonly, gruff.


word: Illiberal
definition:
Illiberal

Il*lib"er*al
(?)
a.
[L. illiberalis; pref. il- not + liberalis liberal: cf. F. illibéral.]
1.
Not liberal; not free or generous; close; niggardly; mean; sordid.
illiberal
Mason.

2.
Indicating a lack of breeding, culture, and the like; ignoble; rude; narrow-minded; disingenuous.

3.
Not well authorized or elegant; as, illiberal words in Latin.
[R.]
Chesterfield.


word: Illiberality
definition:
Illiberality

Il*lib`er*al"i*ty
(?)
n.
[L. illiberalitas: cf. F. illibéralité.]
The state or quality of being illiberal; narrowness of mind; meanness; niggardliness.
Bacon.


word: Illiberalize
definition:
Illiberalize

Il*lib"er*al*ize
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Illiberalized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Illiberalizing (?).]
To make illiberal.


word: Illiberally
definition:
Illiberally

Il*lib"er*al*ly
adv.
In a illiberal manner, ungenerously; uncharitably; parsimoniously.


word: Illicit
definition:
Illicit

Il*lic"it
(?)
a.
[L. illicitus; pref. il- not + licitus, p. p. of licere to be allowed or permitted: cf. F. illicite. See In- not, and License.]
Not permitted or allowed; prohibited; unlawful; as, illicit trade; illicit intercourse; illicit pleasure.

One illicit . . . transaction always leads to another.
Burke.


word: Illicium
definition:
Illicium

Il*li"ci*um
(?)
n.
[So called, in allusion to its aroma, from L. illicium an allurement.]
(Bot.)
A genus of Asiatic and American magnoliaceous trees, having star-shaped fruit; star anise. The fruit of Illicium anisatum is used as a spice in India, and its oil is largely used in Europe for flavoring cordials, being almost identical with true oil of anise.


word: Illimitable
definition:
Illimitable

Il*lim"it*a*ble
(?)
a.
[Pref. il- not + limitable: cf. F. illimitable.]
Incapable of being limited or bounded; immeasurable; limitless; boundless; as, illimitable space.

The wild, the irregular, the illimitable, and the luxuriant, have their appropriate force of beauty.
De Quincey.


word: Illimitation
definition:
Illimitation

Il*lim`it*a"tion
(?)
n.
[Pref. il- not + limitation: cf. F. illimitation.]
State of being illimitable; lack of, or freedom from, limitation.
Bp. Hall.


word: Illimited
definition:
Illimited

Il*lim"it*ed
(?)
a.
Not limited; interminable.
Bp. Hall.
Il*lim"it*ed*ness, n.

The absoluteness and illimitedness of his commission was generally much spoken of.
Clarendon.


word: Illinition
definition:
Illinition

Il`li*ni"tion
(?)
n.
[L. illinire, illinere, to besmear; pref. il- in, on + linire, linere, to smear.]
1.
A smearing or rubbing in or on; also, that which is smeared or rubbed on, as ointment or liniment.

2.
A thin crust of some extraneous substance formed on minerals.
[R.]

A thin crust or illinition of black manganese.
Kirwan.


word: Illinois
definition:
Illinois

Il`li*nois"
(?)
n. sing. & pl.
(Ethnol.)
A tribe of North American Indians, which formerly occupied the region between the Wabash and Mississippi rivers.


word: Illiquation
definition:
Illiquation

Il`li*qua"tion
(?)
n.
[Pref. il- in + L. liquare to melt.]
The melting or dissolving of one thing into another.


word: Illision
definition:
Illision

Il*li"sion
(?)
n.
[L. illisio, fr. illidere, illisum, to strike against; pref. il- in + laedere to strike.]
The act of dashing or striking against.
Sir T. Browne.


word: Illiteracy
definition:
Illiteracy

Il*lit"er*a*cy
(?)
n.
pl. Illiteracies (#).
[From Illiterate.]
1.
The state of being illiterate, or uneducated; lack of learning, or knowledge; ignorance; specifically, inability to read and write; as, the illiteracy shown by the last census.

2.
An instance of ignorance; a literary blunder.

The many blunders and illiteracies of the first publishers of his [Shakespeare's] works.
Pope.


word: Illiterate
definition:
Illiterate

Il*lit"er*ate
(?)
a.
[L. illiteratus: pref. il- not + literatus learned. See In- not, and Literal.]
Unable to read or write; ignorant of letters or books; unlettered; uninstructed; uneducated; as, an illiterate man, or people.


word: Ill-judged
definition:
Ill-judged

Ill"-judged`
(?)
a.
Not well judged; unwise; not well considered or thought out; as, an ill-judged attempt.

Syn. -- ill-advised, ill considered, rash.


word: Ill-mannered
definition:
Ill-mannered

Ill`-man"nered
(?)
a.
Impolite; rude; displaying socially incorrect behavior.

Syn. -- rude, unmannered, unmannerly.


word: Ill-natured
definition:
Ill-natured

Ill`-na"tured
(?)
a.
1.
Of habitual bad temper; having an unpleasant disposition; surly; disagreeable; cross; peevish; fractious; crabbed; -- of people; as, an ill-natured person; an ill-natured disagreeable old man.  Opposite of good-natured.
argumentative, contentious, disputatious, disputative, litigious 
atrabilious, bilious, dyspeptic, liverish 
bristly, prickly, snappish, splenetic, waspish 
cantankerous, crotchety, ornery 
choleric, irascible, hotheaded, hot-headed, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, short-tempered 
crabbed, crabby, cross, fussy, fussbudgety, grouchy, grumpy, bad-tempered, ill-tempered
cranky, fractious, irritable, peevish, peckish, pettish, petulant, testy, tetchy, techy 
crusty, curmudgeonly, gruff, ill-humored, ill-humoured
dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen 
feisty, touchy 
huffish, sulky
misanthropic, misanthropical 
misogynous 
shirty, snorty  ill-tempered or annoyed)
shrewish, nagging, vixenish 
surly, ugly 
Also See: unpleasant.

2.
Dictated by, or indicating, ill nature; spiteful.
ill-natured
Addison.

3.
Intractable; not yielding to culture.
[R.]
Ill-natured
J. Philips.
3.
not to one's liking; unpleasant; disagreeable.  Opposite of agreeable.
[wns=2]
annoying, galling, chafing, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestiferous, pestilent, plaguy, plaguey, teasing, vexatious, vexing
nerve-racking, nerve-wracking, stressful, trying 

Syn. -- disagreeable.


word: Illness
definition:
Illness

Ill"ness
(?)
n.
[From Ill.]
1.
The condition of being ill, evil, or bad; badness; unfavorableness.
[Obs.]
illness
Locke.

2.
Disease; indisposition; malady; disorder of health; sickness; as, a short or a severe illness.

3.
Wrong moral conduct; wickedness.
Shak.


word: Illogical
definition:
Illogical

Il*log"ic*al
(?)
a.
Ignorant or negligent of the rules of logic or correct reasoning; as, an illogical disputant; contrary of the rules of logic or sound reasoning; as, an illogical inference.
Il*log"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Il*log"ic*al*ness, n.


word: Ill-omened
definition:
Ill-omened

Ill`-o"mened
(?)
a.
Having unlucky omens; inauspicious. See Note under Ill, adv.

Syn. -- ill-fated, ill-starred, unlucky.


word: ill-proportioned
definition:
ill-proportioned

ill-proportioned
adj.
1.
out of proportion in shape.

Syn. -- lopsided, one-sided.

2.
lacking pleasing shape.


word: ill-shapen
definition:
ill-shapen

ill-shapen
adj.
so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly; as, an ill-shapen vase.

Syn. -- deformed, distorted, malformed, misshapen.


word: Ill-starred
definition:
Ill-starred

Ill"-starred`
(?)
a.
Fated to be unfortunate; unlucky; as, an ill-starred man or day.

Syn. -- ill-fated, ill-omened, unlucky.


word: Ill-tempered
definition:
Ill-tempered

Ill`-tem"pered
(?)
a.
1.
Of bad temper; grouchy; morose; crabbed; sour; peevish; fretful; quarrelsome.

Syn. -- crabbed, crabby, cross, fussy, fussbudgety, grouchy, grumpy, bad-tempered.

2.
Unhealthy; ill-conditioned.
[Obs.]

So ill-tempered I am grown, that I am afraid I shall catch cold, while all the world is afraid to melt away.
Pepys.


word: Ill-timed
definition:
Ill-timed

Ill"-timed`
(?)
a.
Done, attempted, or said, at an unsuitable or unpropitious time; occurring at an inappropriate time; as, an ill-timed intervention.

Syn. -- ill timed(predicate), inappropriate, unseasonable, untimely, wrong, poorly timed, badly timed.


word: Illtreat
definition:
Illtreat

Ill`treat"
(?)
v. t.
To treat cruelly or improperly; to ill use; to maltreat.

Syn. -- mistreat, maltreat, abuse, ill-use.


word: ill-treated
definition:
ill-treated

ill-treated
adj.
physically abused.
assaulted, molested, raped 
battered, beaten 
misunderstood 

Syn. -- abused, maltreated, mistreated.


word: ill-treatment
definition:
ill-treatment

ill-treatment
n.
cruel or inhumane treatment.

Syn. -- maltreatment, ill-usage, abuse.


word: Illude
definition:
Illude

Il*lude"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Illuded; p. pr. & vb. n. Illuding.]
[L. illudere, illusum; pref. il- in + ludere to play: cf. OF. illuder. See Ludicrous.]
To play upon by artifice; to deceive; to mock; to excite and disappoint the hopes of.


word: Illume
definition:
Illume

Il*lume"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Illumed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Illuming.]
[Cf. F. illuminer. See Illuminate.]
To throw or spread light upon; to make light or bright; to illuminate; to illumine.
Shak.

The mountain's brow,
Illumed with fluid gold.
Thomson.


word: Illuminant
definition:
Illuminant

Il*lu"mi*nant
(?)
n.
[L. illuminans, -antis, p. pr. of illuminare.]
That which illuminates or affords light; as, gas and petroleum are illuminants.
Boyle.


word: Illuminate
definition:
Illuminate

Il*lu"mi*nate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Illuminated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Illuminating (?).]
[L. illuminatus, p. p. of illuminare; pref. il- in + luminare to enlighten, fr. lumen light. See Luminous, and cf. Illume, Illumine, Enlimn, Limn.]
1.
To make light; to throw light on; to supply with light, literally or figuratively; to brighten.

2.
To light up; to decorate with artificial lights, as a building or city, in token of rejoicing or respect.

3.
To adorn, as a book or page with borders, initial letters, or miniature pictures in colors and gold, as was done in manuscripts of the Middle Ages.

4.
To make plain or clear; to dispel the obscurity to by knowledge or reason; to explain; to elucidate; as, to illuminate a text, a problem, or a duty.


word: Illuminate₄
definition:
Illuminate

Il*lu"mi*nate
n.
One who is enlightened; esp., a pretender to extraordinary light and knowledge.


word: illuminated
definition:
illuminated

illuminated
adj.
[p. p. of illuminate.]
1.
rendered luminous by rays of light striking and reflecting; -- used especially of illumination by artificial light.

Syn. -- lighted.

2.
Adorned with pictorial or graphical designs, as a book or page with borders, initial letters, or miniature pictures in colors and gold, as was done in manuscripts of the Middle Ages; as, an illuminated manuscript.


word: Illuminati
definition:
Illuminati

Il*lu`mi*na"ti
(?)
n. pl.
[L. illuminatus. See Illuminate, v. t., and cf. Illuminee.]
Literally, those who are enlightened

1.
(Eccl.)
Persons in the early church who had received baptism; in which ceremony a lighted taper was given them, as a symbol of the spiritual illumination they has received by that sacrament.

2.
(Eccl. Hist.)
Members of a sect which sprung up in Spain about the year 1575. Their principal doctrine was, that, by means of prayer, they had attained to so perfect a state as to have no need of ordinances, sacraments, good works, etc.; -- called also Alumbrados, Perfectibilists, etc.

3.
(Mod. Hist.)
Members of certain associations in Modern Europe, who combined to promote social reforms, by which they expected to raise men and society to perfection, esp. of one originated in 1776 by Adam Weishaupt, professor of canon law at Ingolstadt, which spread rapidly for a time, but ceased after a few years.

4.
(a)
An obscure sect of French Familists;
(b)
The Hesychasts, Mystics, and Quietists;
(c)
The Rosicrucians.

5.
Any persons who profess special spiritual or intellectual enlightenment.


word: Illuminating
definition:
Illuminating

Il*lu"mi*na`ting
(?)
a.
Giving or producing light; used for illumination.

Illuminating gas. See Gas, n., 2 (a).


word: Illumination
definition:
Illumination

Il*lu`mi*na"tion
(?)
n.
[L. illuminatio: cf. F. illumination.]
1.
The act of illuminating, or supplying with light; the state of being illuminated.

2.
Festive decoration of houses or buildings with lights.

3.
Adornment of books and manuscripts with colored illustrations. See Illuminate, v. t., 3.

4.
That which is illuminated, as a house; also, an ornamented book or manuscript.

5.
That which illuminates or gives light; brightness; splendor; especially, intellectual light or knowledge.

The illumination which a bright genius giveth to his work.
Felton.

6.
(Theol.)
The special communication of knowledge to the mind by God; inspiration.

Hymns and psalms . . . are framed by meditation beforehand, or by prophetical illumination are inspired.
Hooker.


word: Illuminative
definition:
Illuminative

Il*lu"mi*na*tive
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. illuminatif.]
Tending to illuminate or illustrate; throwing light; illustrative.
Illuminative
Carlyle.


word: Illuminator
definition:
Illuminator

Il*lu"mi*na`tor
(?)
n.
[L., an enlightener, LL. also, an illuminator of books.]
1.
One whose occupation is to adorn books, especially manuscripts, with miniatures, borders, etc. See Illuminate, v. t., 3.

2.
A condenser or reflector of light in optical apparatus; also, an illuminant.


word: Illumine
definition:
Illumine

Il*lu"mine
(?)
v. t.
[Cf. F. illuminer. See Illuminate.]
To illuminate; to light up; to adorn.


word: Illuminize
definition:
Illuminize

Il*lu"mi*nize
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Illuminized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Illuminizing (?).]
To initiate the doctrines or principles of the Illuminati.


word: Illure
definition:
Illure

Il*lure"
(?)
v. t.
[Pref. il- in + lure.]
To deceive; to entice; to lure.
[Obs.]

The devil insnareth the souls of many men, by illuring them with the muck and dung of this world.
Fuller.


word: ill-usage
definition:
ill-usage

ill-usage
n.
1.
cruel or inhumane treatment.

Syn. -- maltreatment, ill-treatment, abuse.


word: ill-used
definition:
ill-used

ill`-used"
adj.
1.
taken advantage of; treated badly; -- of persons.
[wns=1]

Syn. -- exploited, put-upon, used, victimized.

2.
Misapplied.


word: Illusion
definition:
Illusion

Il*lu"sion
(?)
n.
[F. illusion, L. illusio, fr. illudere, illusum, to illude. See Illude.]
1.
An unreal image presented to the bodily or mental vision; a deceptive appearance; a false show; mockery; hallucination.

To cheat the eye with blear illusions.
Milton.

2.
Hence: Anything agreeably fascinating and charming; enchantment; witchery; glamour.

Ye soft illusions, dear deceits, arise!
Pope.

3.
(Physiol.)
A sensation originated by some external object, but so modified as in any way to lead to an erroneous perception; as when the rolling of a wagon is mistaken for thunder.

&hand_; Some modern writers distinguish between an illusion and hallucination, regarding the former as originating with some external object, and the latter as having no objective occasion whatever.

4.
A plain, delicate lace, usually of silk, used for veils, scarfs, dresses, etc.


word: illusionary
definition:
illusionary

illusionary
adj.
marked by or producing illusion; as, illusionary stage effects.

Syn. -- illusional.


word: Illusionist
definition:
Illusionist

Il*lu"sion*ist
n.
1.
One given to illusion; a visionary dreamer.

2.
A magician or conjurer who produces illusions by sleight of hand; a prestidigitator.


word: Illusive
definition:
Illusive

Il*lu"sive
(?)
a.
[See Illude.]
Deceiving by false show; deceitful; deceptive; false; illusory; unreal.

Truth from illusive falsehood to command.
Thomson.


word: Illusory
definition:
Illusory

Il*lu"so*ry
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. illusore.]
Deceiving, or tending of deceive; fallacious; illusive; as, illusory promises or hopes.


word: Illustrate
definition:
Illustrate

Il*lus"trate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Illustrated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Illustrating (?).]
[L. illustratus, p. p. of illustrare to illustrate, fr. illustris bright. See Illustrious.]
1.
To make clear, bright, or luminous.

Here, when the moon illustrates all the sky.
Chapman.

2.
To set in a clear light; to exhibit distinctly or conspicuously.
Shak.

To prove him, and illustrate his high worth.
Milton.

3.
To make clear, intelligible, or apprehensible; to elucidate, explain, or exemplify, as by means of figures, comparisons, and examples.

4.
To adorn with pictures, as a book or a subject; to elucidate with pictures, as a history or a romance.

5.
To give renown or honor to; to make illustrious; to glorify.
[Obs.]

Matter to me of glory, whom their hate
Illustrates.
Milton.


word: Illustrate₂
definition:
Illustrate

Il*lus"trate
(?)
a.
[L. illustratus, p. p.]
Illustrated; distinguished; illustrious.
[Obs.]

This most gallant, illustrate, and learned gentleman.
Shak.


word: illustrated
definition:
illustrated

illustrated
adj.
provided with pictures; -- of a publication; as, an illustrated weekly.  Opposite of unillustrated.


word: Illustration
definition:
Illustration

Il`lus*tra"tion
(?)
n.
[L. illustratio: cf. F. illustration.]
1.
The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct.

2.
That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove obscurity.

3.
A picture designed to decorate a volume or elucidate a literary work.


word: Illustrative
definition:
Illustrative

Il*lus"tra*tive
(?)
a.
1.
Tending or designed to illustrate, exemplify, or elucidate.

2.
Making illustrious.
[Obs.]


word: Illustrious
definition:
Illustrious

Il*lus"tri*ous
(?)
a.
[L. illustris, prob. for illuxtris; fr. il- in + the root of lucidus bright: cf. F. illustre. See Lucid.]
1.
Possessing luster or brightness; brilliant; luminous; splendid.

Quench the light; thine eyes are guides illustrious.
Beau. & Fl.

2.
Characterized by greatness, nobleness, etc.; eminent; conspicuous; distinguished.

Illustrious earls, renowened everywhere.
Drayton.

3.
Conferring luster or honor; renowned; as, illustrious deeds or titles.


word: Illustriously
definition:
Illustriously

Il*lus"tri*ous*ly
adv.
In a illustrious manner; conspicuously; eminently; famously.
Milton.


word: Illustriousness
definition:
Illustriousness

Il*lus"tri*ous*ness
n.
The state or quality of being eminent; greatness; grandeur; glory; fame.


word: Illutation
definition:
Illutation

Il`lu*ta"tion
(?)
n.
[Pref. il- in + L. lutum mud: cf. F. illutation.]
The act or operation of smearing the body with mud, especially with the sediment from mineral springs; a mud bath.


word: Ilmenite
definition:
Ilmenite

Il"men*ite
(?)
n.
[So called from Ilmen, a branch of the Ural Mountains.]
(Min.)
Titanic iron. See Menaccanite.


word: Ilmenium
definition:
Ilmenium

Il*me"ni*um
(?)
n.
[NL. See Ilmenite.]
(Chem.)
A supposed element claimed to have been discovered by R.Harmann.


word: Ilvaite
definition:
Ilvaite

Il"va*ite
(?)
n.
[From L. Ilva, the island now called Elba.]
(Min.)
A silicate of iron and lime occurring in black prismatic crystals and columnar masses.


word: Im-
definition:
Im-

Im-
(?)
A form of the prefix in- not, and in- in. See In-. Im- also occurs in composition with some words not of Latin origin; as, imbank, imbitter.


word: Image
definition:
Image

Im"age
(ĭm"a̝j; 48)
n.
[F., fr. L. imago, imaginis, from the root of imitari to imitate. See Imitate, and cf. Imagine.]
1.
An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a visible presentation; a copy; a likeness; an effigy; a picture; a semblance.

Even like a stony image, cold and numb.
Shak.

Whose is this image and superscription?
Matt. xxii. 20.

This play is the image of a murder done in Vienna.
Shak.

And God created man in his own image.
Gen. i. 27.

2.
Hence: The likeness of anything to which worship is paid; an idol.
Chaucer.

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, . . . thou shalt not bow down thyself to them.
Ex. xx. 4, 5.

3.
Show; appearance; cast.

The face of things a frightful image bears.
Dryden.

4.
A representation of anything to the mind; a picture drawn by the fancy; a conception; an idea.

Can we conceive
Image of aught delightful, soft, or great?
Prior.

5.
(Rhet.)
A picture, example, or illustration, often taken from sensible objects, and used to illustrate a subject; usually, an extended metaphor.
Brande & C.

6.
(Opt.)
The figure or picture of any object formed at the focus of a lens or mirror, by rays of light from the several points of the object symmetrically refracted or reflected to corresponding points in such focus; this may be received on a screen, a photographic plate, or the retina of the eye, and viewed directly by the eye, or with an eyeglass, as in the telescope and microscope; the likeness of an object formed by reflection; as, to see one's image in a mirror.

Electrical image. See under Electrical. -- Image breaker, one who destroys images; an iconoclast. -- Image graver, Image maker, a sculptor. -- Image worship, the worship of images as symbols; iconolatry distinguished from idolatry; the worship of images themselves. -- Image Purkinje (Physics), the image of the retinal blood vessels projected in, not merely on, that membrane. -- Virtual image (Optics), a point or system of points, on one side of a mirror or lens, which, if it existed, would emit the system of rays which actually exists on the other side of the mirror or lens. Clerk Maxwell.


word: Image₂
definition:
Image

Im"age
(ĭm"a̝j; 48)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Imaged (ĭm"a̝jd; 48); p. pr. & vb. n. Imaging (?).]
1.
To represent or form an image of; as, the still lake imaged the shore; the mirror imaged her figure.
imaged
J. Warton.

2.
To represent to the mental vision; to form a likeness of by the fancy or recollection; to imagine.

Condemn'd whole years in absence to deplore,
And image charms he must behold no more.
Pope.


word: Imager
definition:
Imager

Im"a*ger
(?)
n.
One who images or forms likenesses; a sculptor.
[Obs.]

Praxiteles was ennobled for a rare imager.
Holland.


word: Imagery
definition:
Imagery

Im"age*ry
(ĭm"a̝j*r&ybreve_;; 277)
n.
[OE. imagerie, F. imagerie.]
1.
The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass.
imagery
Shak.

In those oratories might you see
Rich carvings, portraitures, and imagery.
Dryden.

2.
Fig.: Unreal show; imitation; appearance.

What can thy imagery of sorrow mean?
Prior.

3.
The work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms.

The imagery of a melancholic fancy.
Atterbury.

4.
Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse.

I wish there may be in this poem any instance of good imagery.
Dryden.


word: Imaginable
definition:
Imaginable

Im*ag"i*na*ble
(?)
a.
[L. imaginabilis: cf. F. imaginable.]
Capable of being imagined; conceivable.

Men sunk into the greatest darkness imaginable.
Tillotson.


word: Imaginal
definition:
Imaginal

Im*ag"i*nal
(?)
a.
[L. imaginalis.]
1.
Characterized by imagination; imaginative; also, given to the use or rhetorical figures or imagins.

2.
(Zool.)
Of or pertaining to an imago.

Imaginal disks (Zool.), masses of hypodermic cells, carried by the larvæ of some insects after leaving the egg, from which masses the wings and legs of the adult are subsequently formed.


word: Imaginant
definition:
Imaginant

Im*ag"i*nant
(?)
a.
[L. imaginans, p. pr. of imaginari: cf. F. imaginant.]
Imagining; conceiving.
[Obs.]
Bacon.
n. An imaginer. [Obs.] Glanvill.


word: Imaginary
definition:
Imaginary

Im*ag"i*na*ry
(?)
a.
[L. imaginarius: cf. F. imaginaire.]
Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal.

Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills and fancied tortures?
Addison.

Imaginary calculus See under Calculus. -- Imaginary expression or Imaginary quantity (Alg.), an algebraic expression which involves the impossible operation of taking the square root of a negative quantity; as, √-9, a + b √-1. -- Imaginary points, lines, surfaces, etc. (Geom.), points, lines, surfaces, etc., imagined to exist, although by reason of certain changes of a figure they have in fact ceased to have a real existence.


word: Imagination
definition:
Imagination

Im*ag`i*na"tion
(?)
n.
[OE. imaginacionum, F. imagination, fr. L. imaginatio. See Imagine.]
1.
The imagine-making power of the mind; the power to create or reproduce ideally an object of sense previously perceived; the power to call up mental imagines.

Our simple apprehension of corporeal objects, if present, is sense; if absent, is imagination.
Glanvill.

Imagination is of three kinds: joined with belief of that which is to come; joined with memory of that which is past; and of things present, or as if they were present.
Bacon.

2.
The representative power; the power to reconstruct or recombine the materials furnished by direct apprehension; the complex faculty usually termed the plastic or creative power; the fancy.

The imagination of common language -- the productive imagination of philosophers -- is nothing but the representative process plus the process to which I would give the name of the “comparative.”
Sir W. Hamilton.

The power of the mind to decompose its conceptions, and to recombine the elements of them at its pleasure, is called its faculty of imagination.
I. Taylor.

The business of conception is to present us with an exact transcript of what we have felt or perceived. But we have moreover a power of modifying our conceptions, by combining the parts of different ones together, so as to form new wholes of our creation. I shall employ the word imagination to express this power.
Stewart.

3.
The power to recombine the materials furnished by experience or memory, for the accomplishment of an elevated purpose; the power of conceiving and expressing the ideal.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Are of imagination all compact . . . 
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven,
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.
Shak.

4.
A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; a conception; a notion.
Shak.
The same power, which we should call fancy if employed on a production of a light nature, would be dignified with the title of imagination if shown on a grander scale.
C. J. Smith.


word: Imaginative
definition:
Imaginative

Im*ag"i*na*tive
(?)
a.
[F. imaginatif.]
1.
Proceeding from, and characterized by, the imagination, generally in the highest sense of the word.

In all the higher departments of imaginative art, nature still constitutes an important element.
Mure.

2.
Given to imagining; full of images, fancies, etc.; having a quick imagination; conceptive; creative.

Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind.
Coleridge.

3.
Unreasonably suspicious; jealous.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: imaginativeness
definition:
imaginativeness

imaginativeness
n.
the capability of imagining; the power of imagination.

Syn. -- imagination, vision.


word: Imagine
definition:
Imagine

Im*ag"ine
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Imagined (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Imagining.]
[F. imaginer, L. imaginari, p. p. imaginatus, fr. imago image. See Image.]
1.
To form in the mind a notion or idea of; to form a mental image of; to conceive; to produce by the imagination.

In the night, imagining some fear,
How easy is a bush supposed a bear!
Shak.

2.
To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise; to compass; to purpose. See Compass, v. t., 5.

How long will ye imagine mischief against a man?
Ps. lxii. 3.

3.
To represent to one's self; to think; to believe.
Shak.


word: Imagine₂
definition:
Imagine

Im*ag"ine
v. i.
1.
To form images or conceptions; to conceive; to devise.

2.
To think; to suppose.

My sister is not so defenseless left
As you imagine.
Milton.


word: imagined
definition:
imagined

imagined
adj.
existing in the mind only; not real or actual; as, her imagined fame.

Syn. -- imaginary, notional.


word: Imago
definition:
Imago

I*ma"go
(?)
n.
pl. Imagoes (#).
[L. See Image.]
1.
An image.

2.
(Zool.)
The final adult, and usually winged, state of an insect. See Illust. of Ant-lion, and Army worm.


word: Imaum
definition:
Imaum

Iman

Imam

{ &VerbarI*mam" (?), &VerbarI*man" (?), &VerbarI*maum" (?), }
n.
[Ar. imām.]
1.
Among the Muslims, a minister or priest who performs the regular service of the mosque.

2.
A Muslim prince who, as a successor of Mohammed, unites in his person supreme spiritual and temporal power.


word: Imbank
definition:
Imbank

Im*bank"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Imbanked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Imbanking.]
[Pref. im- in + bank.  Cf. Embank.]
To inclose or defend with a bank or banks. See Embank.


word: Imbankment
definition:
Imbankment

Im*bank"ment
(?)
n.
The act of surrounding with a bank; a bank or mound raised for defense, a roadway, etc.; an embankment. See Embankment.


word: Imbathe
definition:
Imbathe

Im*bathe"
(?)
v. t.
[Pref. im- in + bathe.  Cf. Embathe.]
To bathe; to wash freely; to immerse.

And gave her to his daughters to imbathe
In nectared lavers strewed with asphodel.
Milton.


word: Imbecile
definition:
Imbecile

Im"be*cile
(?)
a.
[L. imbecillis, and imbecillus; of unknown origin: cf. F. imbécile.]
Destitute of strength, whether of body or mind; feeble; impotent; esp., mentally wea; feeble-minded; as, hospitals for the imbecile and insane.


word: Imbecile₂
definition:
Imbecile

Im"be*cile
n.
1.
One destitute of strength; esp., one of feeble mind; -- sometimes used as a pejorative term.

2.
(Psychology)
A person with a degree of mental retardation between that of an idiot and a moron; in a former classification of mentally retarded person, it applied to a person with an adult mental age of from four to eith years, and an I.Q. of from 26 to 50.


word: Imbecile₃
definition:
Imbecile

Im"be*cile
v. t.
To weaken; to make imbecile; as, to imbecile men's courage.
[Obs.]
Jer. Taylor.


word: Imbecilitate
definition:
Imbecilitate

Im`be*cil"i*tate
(?)
v. t.
To weaken, as to the body or the mind; to enfeeble.
[R.]
A. Wilson.


word: Imbecility
definition:
Imbecility

Im`be*cil"i*ty
(?)
n.
pl. Imbecilities (#).
[L. imbecillitas: cf. F. imbécillité.]
The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, esp. of mind.

Cruelty . . . argues not only a depravedness of nature, but also a meanness of courage and imbecility of mind.
Sir W. Temple.

&hand_; This term is used specifically to denote natural weakness of the mental faculties, affecting one's power to act reasonably or intelligently.


word: Imbed
definition:
Imbed

Im*bed"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Imbedded (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Imbedding.]
[Pref. im- in + bed.  Cf. Embed.]
To sink or lay, as in a bed; to deposit in a partly inclosing mass, as of clay or mortar; to cover, as with earth, sand, etc.


word: Imbellic
definition:
Imbellic

Im*bel"lic
(?)
a.
[L. imbellis; pref. im- = in- not + bellum war; cf. bellicus warlike.]
Not warlike or martial.
[Obs.]
R. Junius.


word: Imbenching
definition:
Imbenching

Im*bench"ing
(?)
n.
[Pref. im- in + bench.]
A raised work like a bench.
[Obs.]
Parkhurst.


word: Imbibe
definition:
Imbibe

Im*bibe"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Imbibed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Imbibing.]
[L. imbibere; pref. im- in + bibere to drink: cf. F. imbiber.  Cf. Bib, Imbue, Potable.]
1.
To drink in; to absorb; to soak up; to suck or take in; to receive as by drinking; as, a person imbibes drink, or a sponge imbibes moisture.

2.
To receive or absorb into the mind and retain; as, to imbibe principles; to imbibe errors.

3.
To saturate; to imbue.
[Obs.]
imbibed
Sir I. Newton.


word: Imbibition
definition:
Imbibition

Im`bi*bi"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. imbibition.]
The act or process of imbibing, or absorbing; as, the post-mortem imbibition of poisons.
Bacon.


word: Imbitter
definition:
Imbitter

Im*bit"ter
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Imbittered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Imbittering.]
[Pref. im- in + bitter.  Cf. Embitter.]
[Written also embitter.]
To make bitter; hence, to make distressing or more distressing; to make sad, morose, sour, or malignant.

Is there anything that more imbitters the enjoyment of this life than shame?
South.

Imbittered against each other by former contests.
Bancroft.


word: Imbody
definition:
Imbody

Im*bod"y
(?)
v. i.
[See Embody.]
To become corporeal; to assume the qualities of a material body. See Embody.

The soul grows clotted by contagion,
Imbodies, and imbrutes.
Milton.


word: Imbonity
definition:
Imbonity

Im*bon"i*ty
(?)
n.
[Pref. im- not + L. bonitas goodness.]
Lack of goodness.
[Obs.]
Burton.


word: Imborder
definition:
Imborder

Im*bor"der
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Imbordered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Imbordering.]
[Pref. im- in + border.  Cf. Emborder.]
To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of.
Milton.


word: Imbosk
definition:
Imbosk

Im*bosk"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Imbosked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Imbosking.]
[CF. It. imboscare to imbosk, imboscarsi to retire into a wood; pref. im- in + bosco wood. See Boscage, and cf. Ambush.]
To conceal, as in bushes; to hide.
[Obs.]
Shelton.


word: Imbosom
definition:
Imbosom

Im*bos"om
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Imbosomed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Imbosoming.]
[Pref. im- in + bosom.  Cf. Embosom.]
1.
To hold in the bosom; to cherish in the heart or affection; to embosom.

2.
To inclose or place in the midst of; to surround or shelter; as, a house imbosomed in a grove.
imbosomed
Thomson.

The Father infinite,
By whom in bliss imbosomed sat the Son.
Milton.


word: Imbow
definition:
Imbow

Im*bow"
(?)
v. t.
[Pref. im- in + bow.  Cf. Embow.]
To make like a bow; to curve; to arch; to vault; to embow.
Imbowed
Bacon.


word: Imbrangle
definition:
Imbrangle

Im*bran"gle
(?)
v. t.
To entangle as in a cobweb; to mix confusedly.
[R.]
Hudibras.

Physiology imbrangled with an inapplicable logic.
Coleridge.


word: Imbricated
definition:
Imbricated

Imbricate

{ Im"bri*cate (?), Im"bri*ca`ted (?), }
a.
[L. imbricatus, p. p. of imbricare to cover with tiles, to form like a gutter tile, fr. imbrex, -icis, a hollow tile, gutter tile, fr. imber rain.]
1.
Bent and hollowed like a roof or gutter tile.

2.
Lying over each other in regular order, so as to “break joints,” like tiles or shingles on a roof, the scales on the leaf buds of plants and the cups of some acorns, or the scales of fishes; overlapping each other at the margins, as leaves in æstivation.

3.
In decorative art: Having scales lapping one over the other, or a representation of such scales; as, an imbricated surface; an imbricated pattern.


word: Imbricate
definition:
Imbricate

Im"bri*cate
(?)
v. t.
To lay in order, one lapping over another, so as to form an imbricated surface.


word: imbricated
definition:
imbricated

imbricated
adj.
(Botany)
overlapping or layered as scales or shingles; -- used especially of leaves or bracts.

Syn. -- imbricate.


word: Imbrication
definition:
Imbrication

Im`bri*ca"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. imbrication.]
An overlapping of the edges, like that of tiles or shingles; hence, intricacy of structure; also, a pattern or decoration representing such a structure.


word: Imbroccata
definition:
Imbroccata

Imbrocata

{ &VerbarIm`bro*ca"ta (?), Im`broc*ca"ta  }
n.
[It. imbroccata.]
A hit or thrust.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.


word: Imbroglio
definition:
Imbroglio

Im*brogl"io
(?)
n.
pl. Imbroglios (#).
[Written also embroglio.]
[It. See 1st Broil, and cf. Embroil.]
1.
An intricate, complicated plot, as of a drama or work of fiction.

2.
A complicated and embarrassing state of things; a serious misunderstanding or disagreement, especially one that is bitter.

Wrestling to free itself from the baleful imbroglio.
Carlyle.


word: Imbrown
definition:
Imbrown

Im*brown"
(?)
v. t.
[Pref. im- in + brown.  Cf. Embrown.]
To make brown; to obscure; to darken; to tan; as, features imbrowned by exposure.

The mountain mass by scorching skies imbrowned.
Byron.


word: Imbrue
definition:
Imbrue

Im*brue"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Imbureed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Imbureing.]
[Cf. OF. embruer, also embruver, embreuver, embrever, to give to drink, soak (see pref. En-, 1, 1st In-, and Breverage), but also OE. enbrewen, enbrowen, to stain, soil (cf. Brewis).]
To wet or moisten; to soak; to drench, especially in blood.

While Darwen stream, will blood of Scots imbrued.
Milton.


word: Imbrute
definition:
Imbrute

Im*brute"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Imbruted; p. pr. & vb. n. Imbruting.]
[Pref. im- in + brute: cf. F. abrutir.  Cf. Embrute.]
To degrade to the state of a brute; to make brutal.

And mixed with bestial slime,
THis essence to incarnate and imbrute.
Milton.


word: Imbrute₂
definition:
Imbrute

Im*brute"
v. i.
To sink to the state of a brute.

The soul grows clotted by contagion,
Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose
The divine property of her first being.
Milton.


word: Imbrutement
definition:
Imbrutement

Im*brute"ment
(?)
n.
The act of imbruting, or the state of being imbruted.
[R.]
Brydges.


word: Imbue
definition:
Imbue

Im*bue"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Imbued (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Imbuing.]
[L. imbuere; pref. im- in + perh. a disused simple word akin to L. bibere to drink.  Cf. Imbibe.]
1.
To tinge deeply; to dye; to cause to absorb; as, clothes thoroughly imbued with black.

2.
To tincture deply; to cause to become impressed or penetrated; as, to imbue the minds of youth with good principles.

Thy words with grace divine
Imbued, bring to their sweetness no satiety.
Milton.


word: Imbuement
definition:
Imbuement

Im*bue"ment
(?)
n.
The act of imbuing; the state of being imbued; hence, a deep tincture.


word: Imburse
definition:
Imburse

Im*burse"
(?)
v. t.
[Pref. im- in + burse: cf. F. embourser to put into one's purse. See Burse, and Purse.]
To supply or stock with money.
[Obs.]


word: Imbursement
definition:
Imbursement

Im*burse"ment
(?)
n.
1.
The act of imbursing, or the state of being imbursed.
[Obs.]

2.
Money laid up in stock.
[Obs.]


word: Imesatin
definition:
Imesatin

I*mes"a*tin
(?)
n.
[Imide + isatin.]
(Chem.)
A dark yellow, crystalline substance, obtained by the action of ammonia on isatin.


word: Imide
definition:
Imide

Im"ide
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A compound with, or derivative of, the imido group; specif., a compound of one or more acid radicals with the imido group, or with a monamine; hence, also, a derivative of ammonia, in which two atoms of hydrogen have been replaced by divalent basic or acid radicals; -- frequently used as a combining form; as, succinimide.


word: Imido
definition:
Imido

Im"i*do
(?)
a.
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, containing, or combined with, the radical NH, which is called the imido group.

Imido acid, an organic acid, consisting of one or more acid radicals so united with the imido group that it contains replaceable acid hydrogen, and plays the part of an acid; as, uric acid, succinimide, etc., are imido acids.


word: Imitable
definition:
Imitable

Im"i*ta*ble
(?)
a.
[L. imitabilis: cf. F. imitable. See Imitate.]
1.
Capable of being imitated or copied.

The characters of man placed in lower stations of life are more usefull, as being imitable by great numbers.
Atterbury.

2.
Worthy of imitation; as, imitable character or qualities.
Sir W. Raleigh.


word: Imitancy
definition:
Imitancy

Im"i*tan*cy
(?)
n.
[From L. imitans, p. pr. of imitare.]
Tendency to imitation.
[R.]
Carlyle.


word: Imitate
definition:
Imitate

Im"i*tate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Imitated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Imitating (?).]
[L. imitatus, p. p. of imitari to imitate; of unknown origin.  Cf. Image.]
1.
To follow as a pattern, model, or example; to copy or strive to copy, in acts, manners etc.

Despise wealth and imitate a dog.
Cowlay.

2.
To produce a semblance or likeness of, in form, character, color, qualities, conduct, manners, and the like; to counterfeit; to copy.

A place picked out by choice of best alive
The Nature's work by art can imitate.
Spenser.

This hand appeared a shining sword to weild,
And that sustained an imitated shield.
Dryden.

3.
(Biol.)
To resemble (another species of animal, or a plant, or inanimate object) in form, color, ornamentation, or instinctive habits, so as to derive an advantage thereby; sa, when a harmless snake imitates a venomous one in color and manner, or when an odorless insect imitates, in color, one having secretion offensive to birds.


word: Imitation
definition:
Imitation

Im"i*ta"tion
(?)
n.
[L. imitatio: cf. F. imitation.]
1.
The act of imitating.

Poesy is an art of imitation, . . . that is to say, a representing, counterfeiting, or figuring forth.
Sir P. Sidney.

2.
That which is made or produced as a copy; that which is made to resemble something else, whether for laudable or for fraudulent purposes; likeness; resemblance.

Both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
Dryden.

3.
(Mus.)
One of the principal means of securing unity and consistency in polyphonic composition; the repetition of essentially the same melodic theme, phrase, or motive, on different degrees of pitch, by one or more of the other parts of voises.  Cf. Canon.

4.
(Biol.)
The act of condition of imitating another species of animal, or a plant, or unanimate object. See Imitate, v. t., 3.

&hand_; Imitation is often used adjectively to characterize things which have a deceptive appearance, simulating the qualities of a superior article; -- opposed to real or genuine; as, imitation lace; imitation bronze; imitation modesty, etc.


word: Imitational
definition:
Imitational

Im`i*ta"tion*al
(?)
a.
Pertaining to, or employed in, imitation; as, imitational propensities.


word: Imitative
definition:
Imitative

Im"i*ta*tive
(?)
a.
[L. imitavitus: cf. F. imitatif.]
1.
Inclined to imitate, copy, or follow; imitating; exhibiting some of the qualities or characteristics of a pattern or model; dependent on example; not original; as, man is an imitative being; painting is an imitative art.

2.
Formed after a model, pattern, or original.

This temple, less in form, with equal grace,
Was imitative of the first in Thrace.
Dryden.

3.
(Nat. Hist.)
Designed to imitate another species of animal, or a plant, or inanimate object, for some useful purpose, such as protection from enemies; having resemblance to something else; as, imitative colors; imitative habits; dendritic and mammillary forms of minerals are imitative.


word: Immaculate
definition:
Immaculate

Im*mac"u*late
(?)
a.
[L. immaculatus; pref. im- not + maculatus, p. p. of maculare to spot, stane, fr. macula spot. See Mail armor.]
Without stain or blemish; spotless; undefiled; clear; pure.

Were but my soul as pure
From other guilt as that, Heaven did not hold
One more immaculate.
Denham.

Thou sheer, immaculate and silver fountain.
Shak.

Immaculate conception (R. C. Ch.), the doctrine that the Virgin Mary was conceived without original sin.


word: Immanacle
definition:
Immanacle

Im*man"a*cle
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Immanacled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Immanacling (?).]
To manacle; to fetter; hence; to confine; to restrain from free action.

Although this corporal rind
Thou hast immanacled.
Milton.


word: Immanation
definition:
Immanation

Im"ma*na"tion
(?)
n.
[Pref. im- in + L. manare to flow; cf. mantio a flowing.]
A flowing or entering in; -- opposed to emanation.
[R.]
Good.


word: Immane
definition:
Immane

Im*mane"
(?)
a.
[L. immanis.]
Very great; huge; vast; also, monstrous in character; inhuman; atrocious; fierce.
[Obs.]
immane
Chapman.


word: Immanency
definition:
Immanency

Immanence

{ Im"ma*nence (?), Im"ma*nen*cy (?), }
n.
The condition or quality of being immanent; inherence; an indwelling.

[Clement] is mainly concerned in enforcing the immanence of God. Christ is everywhere presented by him as Deity indwelling in the world.
A. V. G. Allen.


word: Immanent
definition:
Immanent

Im"ma*nent
(?)
a.
[L. immanens, p. pr. of immanere to remain in or near; pref. im- in + manere to remain: cf. F. immanent.]
Remaining within; inherent; indwelling; abiding; intrinsic; internal or subjective; hence, limited in activity, agency, or effect, to the subject or associated acts; -- opposed to emanant, transitory, transitive, or objective.

A cognition is an immanent act of mind.
Sir W. Hamilton.

An immanent power in the life of the world.
Hare.


word: Immanity
definition:
Immanity

Im*man"i*ty
(?)
n.
[L. immanitas.]
The state or quality of being immane; barbarity.
[R.]
Shak.


word: Immanuel
definition:
Immanuel

Im*man"u*el
(?)
n.
[Heb. 'immān_;ēl, fr. 'im with + ān_; us + ēl God.]
God with us; -- an appellation of the Christ.
Is. vii. 14. Matt. i. 23.


word: Immarcescible
definition:
Immarcescible

Im`mar*ces"ci*ble
(?)
a.
[L. immarcescibilis; pref. im- not + marcescere to fade: cf. F. immarcescible.]
Unfading; lasting.
[Obs.]
Bp. Hall.


word: Immaterial
definition:
Immaterial

Im`ma*te"ri*al
(ĭm`mȧ*tē"rĭ*al)
a.
[Pref. im- not + material: cf. F. immatériel.]
1.
Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied.

Angels are spirits immaterial and intellectual.
Hooker.

2.
Of no substantial consequence; without weight or significance; unimportant; as, it is wholly immaterial whether he does so or not.


word: Immaterialism
definition:
Immaterialism

Im`ma*te"ri*al*ism
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. immatérialisme.]
1.
The doctrine that immaterial substances or spiritual being exist, or are possible.

2.
(Philos.)
The doctrine that external bodies may be reduced to mind and ideas in a mind; any doctrine opposed to materialism or phenomenalism, esp. a system that maintains the immateriality of the soul; idealism; esp., Bishop Berkeley's theory of idealism.


word: Immaterialist
definition:
Immaterialist

Im`ma*te"ri*al*ist
n.
[Cf. F. immatérialiste.]
(Philos.)
One who believes in or professes, immaterialism.


word: Immateriality
definition:
Immateriality

Im`ma*te`ri*al"i*ty
(?)
n.
pl. Immaterialities (#).
[Cf. F. immatérialité.]
The state or quality of being immaterial or incorporeal; as, the immateriality of the soul.


word: Immaterialize
definition:
Immaterialize

Im`ma*te"ri*al*ize
(?)
v. t.
[Cf. F. immatérialiser.]
To render immaterial or incorporeal.

Immateralized spirits.
Glanvill.


word: Immaterially
definition:
Immaterially

Im`ma*te"ri*al*ly
adv.
1.
In an immaterial manner; without matter or corporeal substance.

2.
In an unimportant manner or degree.


word: Immature
definition:
Immature

Im`ma*ture"
(?)
a.
[L. immaturus; pref. im- not + maturus mature, ripe. See Mature.]
1.
Not mature; unripe; not arrived at perfection of full development; crude; unfinished; as, immature fruit; immature character; immature plans.
immature
Bacon.

2.
Premature; untimely; too early; as, an immature death.
[R.]
Jer. Taylor.


word: Immaturity
definition:
Immaturity

Im`ma*tu"ri*ty
(?)
n.
[L. immaturitas: cf. F. immaturité.]
The state or quality of being immature or not fully developed; unripeness; incompleteness.

When the world has outgrown its intellectual immaturity.
Caird.


word: Immeability
definition:
Immeability

Im`me*a*bil"i*ty
(?)
n.
[Pref. im- not + L. meabilis passable, fr. meare to pass.]
Lack of power to pass, or to permit passage; impassableness.

Immeability of the juices.
Arbuthnot.


word: Immeasurable
definition:
Immeasurable

Im*meas"ur*a*ble
(?)
a.
[Pref. im- not + measurable: cf. F. measurable.  Cf. Immensurable, Unmeasurable.]
Incapable of being measured; indefinitely extensive; illimitable; immensurable; vast.

Of depth immeasurable.
Milton.


word: Immeasurableness
definition:
Immeasurableness

Im*meas"ur*a*ble*ness
n.
The state or quality of being immeasurable.

Eternity and immeasurableness belong to thought alone.
F. W. Robertson.


word: Immechanical
definition:
Immechanical

Im`me*chan"ic*al
(?)
a.
Not mechanical.
[Obs.]
Cheyne.
Im"me*chan"ic*al*ly, adv. [Obs.]


word: Immediacy
definition:
Immediacy

Im*me"di*a*cy
(?)
n.
The relation of freedom from the interventionof a medium; immediateness.
Shak.


word: Immediate
definition:
Immediate

Im*me"di*ate
(?)
a.
[F. immédiat. See In- not, and Mediate.]
1.
Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact.

You are the most immediate to our throne.
Shak.

2.
Not deferred by an interval of time; present; instant.
immediate
Shak.

Death . . . not yet inflicted, as he feared,
By some immediate stroke.
Milton.

3.
Acting with nothing interposed or between, or without the intervention of another object as a cause, means, or agency; acting, perceived, or produced, directly; as, an immediate cause.

The immediate knowledge of the past is therefore impossible.
Sir. W. Hamilton.

Immediate amputation (Surg.), an amputation performed within the first few hours after an injury, and before the the effects of the shock have passed away.


word: Immediately
definition:
Immediately

Im*me"di*ate*ly
(?)
adv.
1.
In an immediate manner; without intervention of any other person or thing; proximately; directly; -- opposed to mediately; as, immediately contiguous.

God's acceptance of it either immediately by himself, or mediately by the hands of the bishop.
South.

2.
Without interval of time; without delay; promptly; instantly; at once.

And Jesus . . . touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
Matt. viii. 3.

3.
As soon as.  Cf. Directly, 8, Note.


word: Immediateness
definition:
Immediateness

Im*me"di*ate*ness
n.
The quality or relations of being immediate in manner, place, or time; exemption from second or interventing causes.
Bp. Hall.


word: Immedicable
definition:
Immedicable

Im*med"i*ca*ble
(?)
a.
[L. Immedicabilis. See In- not, and Medicable.]
Not to be healed; incurable.
immedicable
Milton.


word: Immemorable
definition:
Immemorable

Im*mem"o*ra*ble
(?)
a.
[L. immemorabilis; pref. im- not +  memorabilis memorable: cf. F. immémorable. See Memorable.]
Not memorable; not worth remembering.
Johnson.


word: Immemorial
definition:
Immemorial

Im`me*mo"ri*al
(?)
a.
[Pref. im- not + memorial: cf. F. immémorial.]
Extending beyond the reach of memory, record, or tradition; indefinitely ancient; as, existing from time immemorial.
Immemorial
Tennyson.
Immemorial
Sir M. Hale.

Time immemorial (Eng. Law.), a time antedating (legal) history, and beyond “legal memory” so called; formerly an indefinite time, but in 1276 this time was fixed by statute as the begining of the reign of Richard I. (1189). Proof of unbroken possession or use of any right since that date made it unnecessary to establish the original grant. In 1832 the plan of dating legal memory from a fixed time was abandoned and the principle substituted that rights which had been enjoyed for full twenty years (or as against the crown thirty years) should not be liable to impeachment merely by proving that they had not been enjoyed before.


word: Immense
definition:
Immense

Im*mense"
(?)
a.
[L. immensus; pref. im- not + mensus, p. p. of metiri to measure: cf. F. immense. See Measure.]
Immeasurable; unlimited. In commonest use: Very great; vast; huge.
Immense
Pope.
Immense
Daniel.

O Goodness infinite! Goodness immense!
Milton.


word: Immensity
definition:
Immensity

Im*men"si*ty
(?)
n.
pl. Immensities (#).
[L. immensitas: cf. F. immensité.]
The state or quality of being immense; inlimited or immeasurable extension; infinity; vastness in extent or bulk; greatness.

Lost in the wilds of vast immensity.
Blackmore.

The immensity of the material system.
I. Taylor.


word: Immensurable
definition:
Immensurable

Im*men"su*ra*ble
(?)
a.
[Pref. im- not + L. mensurabilis measurable: cf. F. immensurable.  Cf. Immeasurable.]
Immeasurable.

What an immensurable space is the firmament.
Derham.


word: Immensurate
definition:
Immensurate

Im*men"su*rate
(?)
a.
[Pref. im- not + mensurate.]
Unmeasured; unlimited.
[R.]
W. Montagu.


word: Immerge
definition:
Immerge

Im*merge"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Immerged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Immerging (?).]
[L. immergere; pref. im- in + mergere to dip, plunge: cf. F. immerger. See Merge, and cf. Immerse.]
To plungel into, under, or within anything especially a fuid; to dip; to immerse. See Immerse.

We took . . . lukewarm water, and in it immerged a quantity of the leaves of senna.
Boyle.

Their souls are immerged in matter.
Jer. Taylor.


word: Immerge₂
definition:
Immerge

Im*merge"
(?)
v. i.
To dissapear by entering into any medium, as a star into the light of the sun.
[R.]


word: Immeritous
definition:
Immeritous

Im*mer"it*ous
(?)
a.
[L. immeritus; pref. im- not + meritus, p. p. of merere, mereri, to deserve.]
Undeserving.
[Obs.]
Milton.


word: Immerse
definition:
Immerse

Im*merse"
(?)
a.
[L. immersus, p. p. of immergere. See Immerge.]
Immersed; buried; hid; sunk.
[Obs.]
immerse
Bacon.


word: Immerse₂
definition:
Immerse

Im*merse"
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Immersed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Immersing.]
1.
To plunge into anything that surrounds or covers, especially into a fluid; to dip; to sink; to bury; to immerge.

Deep immersed beneath its whirling wave.
J Warton.

More than a mile immersed within the wood.
Dryden.

2.
To baptize by immersion.

3.
To engage deeply; to engross the attention of; to involve; to overhelm.

The queen immersed in such a trance.
Tennyson.

It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed inn the enjoyments of this.
Atterbury.


word: Immersed
definition:
Immersed

Im*mersed"
(?)
p. p. & a.
1.
Deeply plunged into anything, especially a fluid.

2.
Deeply occupied; engrossed; entangled.

3.
(Bot.)
Growing wholly under water.
Gray.


word: Immersible₂
definition:
Immersible

Im*mers"i*ble
a.
[Pref. im- not + L. mersus, p. p. of mergere to plunge.]
Not capable of being immersed.


word: Immersion
definition:
Immersion

Im*mer"sion
(?)
n.
[L. immersio; cf. F. immersion.]
1.
The act of immersing, or the state of being immersed; a sinking within a fluid; a dipping; as, the immersion of Achilles in the Styx.

2.
Submersion in water for the purpose of Christian baptism, as, practiced by the Baptists.

3.
The state of being overhelmed or deeply absorbed; deep engagedness.

Too deep an immersion in the affairs of life.
Atterbury.

4.
(Astron.)
The dissapearance of a celestail body, by passing either behind another, as in the occultation of a star, or into its shadow, as in the eclipse of a satellite; -- opposed to emersion.

Immersion lens, a microscopic objective of short focal distance designed to work with a drop of liquid, as oil, between the front lens and the slide, so that this lens is practically immersed.


word: Immersionist
definition:
Immersionist

Im*mer"sion*ist
n.
(Eccl.)
One who holds the doctrine that immersion is essential to Christian baptism.


word: Immesh
definition:
Immesh

Im*mesh"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Immeshed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Immeshing.]
[Pref. im- in + mesh.  Cf. Inmesh.]
To catch or entangle in, or as in, the meshes of a net. or in a web; to insnare.


word: Immethodical
definition:
Immethodical

Im`me*thod"ic*al
(?)
a.
Not methodical; without method or systematic arrangement; without order or regularity; confused.
Addison.


word: Immethodize
definition:
Immethodize

Im*meth"od*ize
(?)
v. t.
To render immethodical; to destroy the method of; to confuse.
[R.]


word: Immigrant
definition:
Immigrant

Im"mi*grant
(?)
n.
[L. immigrans, p. pr. of immigrare to go into: cf. F. immigrant. See Immigrate.]
One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant.


word: Immigrate
definition:
Immigrate

Im"mi*grate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Immigrated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Immigrating (?).]
[L. immigrare, immigratum, to immigrate; pref. im- in + migrare to migrate. See Migrate.]
To come into a country of which one is not a native, for the purpose of permanent residence. See Emigrate.


word: Immigration
definition:
Immigration

Im"mi*gra"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. immigration.]
The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence.

The immigrations of the Arabians into Europe.
T. Warton.


word: Imminence
definition:
Imminence

Im"mi*nence
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. imminence, L. imminentia, See Imminent.]
1.
The condition or quality of being imminent; a threatening, as of something about to happen. The imminence of any danger or distress.
Fuller.

2.
That which is imminent; impending evil or danger.
imminence
Shak.


word: imminency
definition:
imminency

imminency
n.
the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon; imminence.

Syn. -- imminence, impendence, impendency, forthcomingness.


word: Imminent
definition:
Imminent

Im"mi*nent
(?)
a.
[L. imminens, p. pr. of imminere to project; pref. im- in + minere (in comp.) to jut, project. See Eminent.]
1.
Threatening to occur immediately; near at hand; impending; -- said especially of misfortune or peril.
imminent
Spenser.

2.
Full of danger; threatening; menacing; perilous.

Hairbreadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach.
Shak.

3.
(With upon) Bent upon; attentive to.
[R.]

Their eyes ever imminent upon worldly matters.
Milton.
Three times to-day
You have defended me from imminent death.
Shak.

No story I unfold of public woes,
Nor bear advices of impending foes.
Pope.

Fierce faces threatening war.
Milton.


word: Imminution
definition:
Imminution

Im`mi*nu"tion
(?)
n.
[L. imminutio, fr. imminuere, imminutum, to lessen; pref. im- in + minuere.]
A lessening; diminution; decrease.
[R.]
Ray.


word: Immiscibility
definition:
Immiscibility

Im*mis"ci*bil"i*ty
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. immiscibilité.]
Incapability of being mixed, or mingled.


word: Immiscible
definition:
Immiscible

Im*mis"ci*ble
(?)
a.
[Pref. im- not + miscible: cf. F. immiscible.]
1.
Not capable of being mixed or mingled.

A chaos of immiscible and conflicting particles.
Cudworth.

2.
Specifically:
(Chem.)
Not miscible; forming two distinct phases when mixed at some concentration; -- of two liquids; as, water and gasoline are immiscible.


word: Immission
definition:
Immission

Im*mis"sion
(?)
n.
[L. immissio: cf. F. immission. See Immit.]
The act of immitting, or of sending or thrusting in; injection; -- the correlative of emission.


word: Immit
definition:
Immit

Im*mit"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Immitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Immiting.]
[L. immittere, immissum; pref. im- in + mittere to send.]
To send in; to inject; to infuse; -- the correlative of emit.
[R.]
Boyle.


word: Immitigable
definition:
Immitigable

Im*mit"i*ga*ble
(?)
a.
[L. immitigabilis; fr. pref. im- not + mitigare to mitigate.]
Not capable of being mitigated, softened, or appeased.
Coleridge.


word: Immix
definition:
Immix

Im*mix"
(?)
v. t.
[Pref. in- in + mix.]
To mix; to mingle.
[R.]

Amongst her tears immixing prayers meek.
Spenser.


word: Immixed
definition:
Immixed

Im*mixed"
(?)
a.
[Pref. in- not + mixed, p. p. of mix.]
Unmixed.
[Obs.]

How pure and immixed the design is.
Boyle.


word: Immobile
definition:
Immobile

Im*mo"bile
(?)
a.
[L. immobilis: cf. F. immobile. See Immobility.]
Incapable of being moved; immovable; fixed; stable.
Prof. Shedd.


word: immobilization
definition:
immobilization

immobilisation

immobilisation immobilization
n.
The act or process of limiting movement or making incapable of movement; as, immobilization of the injured knee was necessary; the storm caused complete immobilization of the rescue team.

Syn. -- immobilizing.


word: Immobility
definition:
Immobility

Im`mo*bil"i*ty
(?)
n.
[L. immobilitas, fr. immobilis immovable; pref. im- not + mobilis movable: cf. F. immobilité. See Mobile.]
The condition or quality of being immobile; fixedness in place or state.


word: Immobilize
definition:
Immobilize

Im*mob"i*lize
(?)
v. t.
[Pref. im- in + mobilize; cf. f. immobiliser.]
To make immovable; in surgery, to make immovable (a naturally mobile part, as a joint) by the use of splints, or stiffened bandages.


word: Immoderate
definition:
Immoderate

Im*mod"er*ate
(?)
a.
[L. immoderatus; pref. im- not + moderatus moderate. See Moderate.]
Not moderate; exceeding just or usual and suitable bounds; excessive; extravagant; unreasonable; as, immoderate demands; immoderate grief; immoderate laughter.

So every scope by the immoderate use
Turns to restraint.
Shak.


word: Immoderateness
definition:
Immoderateness

Im*mod"er*ate*ness
n.
The quality of being immoderate; excess; extravagance.
Puller.


word: Immoderation
definition:
Immoderation

Im*mod`er*a"tion
(?)
n.
[L. immoderatio: cf. F. imodération.]
Lack of moderation.
Hallywell.


word: Immodest
definition:
Immodest

Im*mod"est
(?)
a.
[F. immodeste, L. immodestus immoderate; pref. im- not + modestus modest. See Modest.]
1.
Not limited to due bounds; immoderate.

2.
Not modest; wanting in the reserve or restraint which decorum and decency require; indecent; indelicate; obscene; lewd; as, immodest persons, behavior, words, pictures, etc.

Immodest deeds you hinder to be wrought,
But we proscribe the least immodest thought.
Dryden.


word: Immodesty
definition:
Immodesty

Im*mod"es*ty
(?)
n.
[L. immodestia: cf. F. immodestie.]
Lack of modesty, delicacy, or decent reserve; indecency.
immodesty
Pope.


word: Immolate
definition:
Immolate

Im"mo*late
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Immolated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Immolating.]
[L. immolatus, p. p. of immolare to sacrifice, orig., to sprinkle a victim with sacrifical meal; pref. im- in + mola grits or grains of spelt coarsely ground and mixed with salt; also, mill. See Molar, Meal ground grain.]
1.
To sacrifice; to offer in sacrifice; to kill, as a sacrificial victim.

Worshipers, who not only immolate to them [the deities] the lives of men, but . . . the virtue and honor of women.
Boyle.

2.
To destroy by fire.


word: Immolation
definition:
Immolation

Im`mo*la"tion
(?)
n.
[L. immolatio: cf. F. immolation.]
1.
The act of immolating, or the state of being immolated, or sacrificed.
Sir. T. Browne.

2.
That which is immolated; a sacrifice.

3.
Destruction by fire.


word: Immolator
definition:
Immolator

Im"mo*la`tor
(?)
n.
[L.]
One who offers in sacrifice; specifically, one of a sect of Russian fanatics who practice self-mutilation and sacrifice.


word: Immould
definition:
Immould

Immold

{ Im*mold", Im*mould"  }
(?)
v. t.
To mold into shape, or form.
[Obs.]
G. Fletcher.


word: Immomentous
definition:
Immomentous

Im`mo*men"tous
(?)
a.
[Pref. im- not + momentous.]
Not momentous; unimportant; insignificant.
[R.]
A. Seward.


word: Immoral
definition:
Immoral

Im*mor"al
(?)
a.
[Pref. im- not + moral: cf. F. immoral.]
Not moral; inconsistent with rectitude, purity, or good morals; contrary to conscience or the divine law; wicked; unjust; dishonest; vicious; licentious; as, an immoral man; an immoral deed.


word: Immorality
definition:
Immorality

Im`mo*ral"i*ty
(?)
n.
pl. Immoralities (#).
[Cf. F. immoralité.]
1.
The state or quality of being immoral; vice.

The root of all immorality.
Sir W. Temple.

2.
An immoral act or practice.

Luxury and sloth and then a great drove of heresies and immoralities broke loose among them.
Milton.


word: Immorigerous
definition:
Immorigerous

Im`mo*rig"er*ous
(?)
a.
[Pref. im- not + morigerous.]
Rude; uncivil; disobedient.
[Obs.]
Im`mo*rig"er*ous*ness, n. [Obs.]
Jer. Taylor.


word: Immortal
definition:
Immortal

Im*mor"tal
(?)
a.
[L. immortalis; pref. im- not + mortalis mortal: cf. F. immortel. See Mortal, and cf. Immortelle.]
1.
Not mortal; exempt from liability to die; undying; imperishable; lasting forever; having unlimited, or eternal, existance.

Unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible.
1 Tim. i. 17.

For my soul, what can it do to that,
Being a thing immortal as itself?
Shak.

2.
Connected with, or pertaining to immortality.

I have immortal longings in me.
Shak.

3.
Destined to live in all ages of this world; abiding; exempt from oblivion; imperishable; as, immortal fame.

One of the few, immortal names,
That were not born to die.
Halleck.

4.
Great; excessive; grievous.
[Obs.]
Hayward.

Immortal flowers, immortelles; everlastings.


word: Immortal₂
definition:
Immortal

Im*mor"tal
(?)
n.
One who will never cease to be; one exempt from death, decay, or annihilation.
Bunyan.


word: Immortalist
definition:
Immortalist

Im*mor"tal*ist
n.
One who holds the doctrine of the immortality of the soul.
[R.]
Jer. Taylor.


word: Immortality
definition:
Immortality

Im`mor*tal"i*ty
(?)
n.
pl. Immortalities (#).
[L. immortalitas: cf. F. immortalité.]
1.
The quality or state of being immortal; exemption from death and annihilation; unending existance; as, the immortality of the soul.

This mortal must put on immortality.
1 Cor. xv. 53.

2.
Exemption from oblivion; perpetuity; as, the immortality of fame.


word: Immortalization
definition:
Immortalization

Im*mor`tal*i*za"tion
(?)
n.
The act of immortalizing, or state of being immortalized.


word: Immortalize
definition:
Immortalize

Im*mor"tal*ize
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Immortalized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Immortalizing (?).]
[Cf. F. immortaliser.]
1.
To render immortal; to cause to live or exist forever.
S. Clarke.

2.
To exempt from oblivion; to perpetuate in fame.

Alexander had no Homer to immortalize his guilty name.
T. Dawes.


word: Immortelle
definition:
Immortelle

Im`mor*telle"
(?)
n.
pl. Immortelles (#).
[F. See Immortal.]
(Bot.)
A plant with a conspicuous, dry, unwithering involucre, as the species of Antennaria, Helichrysum, Gomphrena, etc. See Everlasting.


word: Immovability
definition:
Immovability

Im*mov"a*bil"i*ty
(?)
n.
The quality or state of being immovable; fixedness; steadfastness; as, immovability of a heavy body; immovability of purpose.


word: Immovable
definition:
Immovable

Im*mov"a*ble
(?)
a.
1.
Incapable of being moved; firmly fixed; fast; -- used of material things; as, an immovable foundation.

Immovable, infixed, and frozen round.
Milton.

2.
Steadfast; fixed; unalterable; unchangeable; -- used of the mind or will; as, an immovable purpose, or a man who remains immovable.

3.
Not capable of being affected or moved in feeling or by sympathy; unimpressible; impassive.
Dryden.

4.
(Law.)
Not liable to be removed; permanent in place or tenure; fixed; as, an immovable estate. See Immovable, n.
Blackstone.

Immovable apparatus (Med.), an appliance, like the plaster of paris bandage, which keeps fractured parts firmly in place. -- Immovable feasts (Eccl.), feasts which occur on a certain day of the year and do not depend on the date of Easter; as, Christmas, the Epiphany, etc.


word: Immovable₂
definition:
Immovable

Im*mov"a*ble
n.
1.
That which can not be moved.

2.
pl.
(Civil Law)
Lands and things adherent thereto by nature, as trees; by the hand of man, as buildings and their accessories; by their destination, as seeds, plants, manure, etc.; or by the objects to which they are applied, as servitudes.
Ayliffe. Bouvier.


word: Immundicity
definition:
Immundicity

Im`mun*dic"i*ty
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. immondicité, L. immunditia, immundities.]
Uncleanness; filthiness.
[R.]
W. Montagu.


word: Immune
definition:
Immune

Im*mune"
(?)
a.
[L. immunis. See Immunity.]
1.
Exempt; protected.
Im*mu"nize (#), v. t.

2.
(Med.)
Protected from disease due to the action of the immune system, especially by having been inoculated against or previously exposed to a disease.

3.
(Med.)
Of or pertaining to the immune system or the components of the immune system.

4.
Not responsive; as, immune to suggestion.


word: Immune₂
definition:
Immune

Im*mune"
(?)
n.
One who is immune; esp., a person who is immune from a disease by reason of previous affection with the disease or inoculation.


word: immune system
definition:
immune system

im*mune" sys"tem
(?)
n.
(Biol.)
The complex of cells, cellular processes, and substances within and diffused throughout an organism which allow the organism to counteract or destroy noxious foreign substances introduced into the body, destroy infectious agents such as bacteria and viruses, destroy malignant cells, and remove cellular debris, thus protecting the organism against many of the potentially harmful external agents and internal events that could lead to sickness or death.  The system has numerous interacting components, including circulating antibodies, antibody-producing cells, white blood cells and lymphokines, lymph tissue and lymph nodes, and stem cells which may differentiate into other types of cell, together with the thymus and spleen.  The system is responsible for the phenomenon of immunity{3}.  See also immunoglobulin and antibody.


word: Immunity
definition:
Immunity

Im*mu"ni*ty
(?)
n.
pl. Immunities (#).
[L. immunitas, fr. immunis free from a public service; pref. im- not + munis complaisant, obliging, cf. munus service, duty: cf. F. immunité. See Common, and cf. Mean, a.]
1.
Freedom or exemption from any charge, duty, obligation, office, tax, imposition, penalty, or service; a particular privilege; as, the immunities of the free cities of Germany; the immunities of the clergy.

2.
Freedom; exemption; as, immunity from error.

3.
The state of being insusceptible to disease, certain poisons, etc.


word: immunization
definition:
immunization

immunization
n.
the act of making immune (especially by inoculation).

Syn. -- immunisation.


word: immunized
definition:
immunized

immunized
adj.
1.
1
(Med.)
rendered less susceptible (to disease) by treatment with a vaccine.

Syn. -- vaccinated.

2.
rendered insusceptible.


word: immunoelectrophoresis
definition:
immunoelectrophoresis

immunoelectrophoresis
n.
(Biochemistry)
electrophoresis to separate antigens and antibodies.


word: immunoglobulin
definition:
immunoglobulin

im`mu*no*glob"ulin
(ĭm`m&uuptack_;*no̝*gl&obreve_;b"&uuptack_;*lĭn)
n.
(1953)
any one of a class of globular proteins which are antibodies and are produced by the immune system in animals.
The immunoglobulins form a series of related proteins which are each composed of two pairs of polypeptide chains, called heavy (H) and light (L, meaning of lower molecular weight), all linked together by disulfide bonds.  They are subdivided on the basis of the structural and antigenic properties of the H chains into four subgroups, immunoglobulin G (IgG), immunoglobulin A (IgA), immunoglobulin M (IgM), and immunoglobulin D (IgD).  They are divided also into subclasses. Both H and L chains of anny given class and subclass have regions which are of constant structure within that class, as well as regions which are of variable structure.  The variable regions impart the ability to recognize and bind to specific molecular structures, thus providing the organism the capacity to recognize and defend itself against the harmful effects of substances foreign to the body.
Stedman

Syn. -- Ig.


word: immunology
definition:
immunology

immunology
n.
The science which studies the immune system, the processes of immunity, and the nature of the immune response, and techniques of analysis which use the immune response.


word: Immure
definition:
Immure

Im*mure"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Immured (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Immuring.]
[Pref. im- in + mure: cf. F. emmurer.]
1.
To wall around; to surround with walls.
[Obs.]
Sandys.

2.
To inclose whithin walls, or as within walls; hence, to shut up; to imprison; to incarcerate.

Those tender babes
Whom envy hath immured within your walls.
Shak.

This huge convex of fire,
Outrageous to devour, immures us round.
Milton.


word: Immutability
definition:
Immutability

Im*mu`ta*bil"i*ty
(?)
n.
[L. immutabilitas: cf. F. immutabilité.]
The state or quality of being immutable; immutableness.
Heb. vi. 17.


word: Immutable
definition:
Immutable

Im*mu"ta*ble
(?)
a.
[L. immutabilis; pref. im- not + mutabilis mutable. See Mutable.]
Not mutable; not capable or susceptible of change; unchangeable; unalterable.

That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation.
Heb. vi. 18.

Immutable, immortal, infinite,
Eternal King.
Milton.


word: Immutation
definition:
Immutation

Im"mu*ta"tion
(?)
n.
[L. immutatio, from immutare, immutatum, to change. See Immute.]
Change; alteration; mutation.
[R.]
Dr. H. More.


word: Immute
definition:
Immute

Im*mute"
(ĭm*mūt")
v. t.
[L. immutare, immutatum; perf. im- in + mutare to change : cf. OF. immuter.]
To change or alter.
[Obs.]
J. Salkeld.


word: Imp
definition:
Imp

Imp
(ĭmp)
n.
[OE. imp a graft, AS. impa; akin to Dan. ympe, Sw. ymp, prob. fr. LL. impotus, Gr. _; engrafted, innate, fr. _; to implant; _; in + _; to produce; akin to E. be. See 1st In-, Be.]
1.
A shoot; a scion; a bud; a slip; a graft.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

2.
An offspring; progeny; child; scion.
[Obs.]

The tender imp was weaned.
Fairfax.

3.
A young or inferior devil; a little, malignant spirit; a puny demon; a contemptible evil worker.

To mingle in the clamorous fray
Of squabbling imps.
Beattie.

4.
Something added to, or united with, another, to lengthen it out or repair it, -- as, an addition to a beehive; a feather inserted in a broken wing of a bird; a length of twisted hair in a fishing line.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]


word: Imp₂
definition:
Imp

Imp
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Imped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Imping.]
[AS. impian to imp, ingraft, plant; akin to Dan. ympe, Sw. ympa, OHG. impf&omacrn, impit&omacrn, G. impfen. See Imp, n.]
1.
To graft; to insert as a scion.
[Obs.]
Rom. of R.

2.
(Falconry)
To graft with new feathers, as a wing; to splice a broken feather.
Hence,
[Fig.]
To repair; to extend; to increase; to strengthen; to equip.
[Archaic]

Imp out our drooping country's broken wing.
Shak.

Who lazily imp their wings with other men's plumes.
Fuller.

Here no frail Muse shall imp her crippled wing.
Holmes.

Help, ye tart satirists, to imp my rage
With all the scorpions that should whip this age.
Cleveland.


word: Impacable
definition:
Impacable

Im*pa"ca*ble
(?)
a.
[L. pref. im- not + pacare to quiet. See Pacate.]
Not to be appeased or quieted.
[Obs.]
Spenser.
Im*pa"ca*bly, adv.


word: Impackment
definition:
Impackment

Im*pack"ment
(?)
n.
[Pref. im- in + pack.]
The state of being closely surrounded, crowded, or pressed, as by ice.
[R.]
Kane.


word: Impact
definition:
Impact

Im*pact"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Impacted; p. pr. & vb. n. Impacting.]
[L. impactus, p. p. of impingere to push, strike against. See Impinge.]
1.
To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place.
Woodward.

2.
To affect or influence, especially in a significant or undesirable manner; as, budget cuts impacted the entire research program; the fish populations were adversely impacted by pollution.

3.
To collide forcefully with; to strike.


word: Impact₂
definition:
Impact

Im"pact
(?)
n.
1.
Contact or impression by touch; collision; forcible contact; force communicated.

The quarrel, by that impact driven.
Southey.

2.
(Mech.)
The single instantaneous stroke of a body in motion against another either in motion or at rest.


word: Impacted
definition:
Impacted

Im*pact"ed
(?)
a.
1.
Driven together or close.

2.
Specifically:
(Dentistry)
Grown in an abnormal direction so that it is wedged against another tooth and cannot erupt normally; -- of teeth, especially the third molar; as, to extract an impacted third molar.

Impacted fracture (Surg.), a fracture in which the fragments are driven into each other so as to be immovable.


word: Impaction
definition:
Impaction

Im*pac"tion
(?)
n.
[L. impactio a striking : cf. F. impaction.]
1.
(Surg.)
The driving of one fragment of bone into another so that the fragments are not movable upon each other; as, impaction of the skull or of the hip.

2.
An immovable packing; (Med.), a lodgment of something in a strait or passage of the body; as, impaction of the fetal head in the strait of the pelvis; impaction of food or feces in the intestines of man or beast.


word: Impair
definition:
Impair

Im*pair"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Impaired (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Impairing.]
[Written also empair.]
[OE. empeiren, enpeiren, OF. empeirier, empirier, F. empirer, LL. impejorare; L. pref. im- in + pejorare to make worse, fr. pejor worse.  Cf. Appair.]
To make worse; to diminish in quantity, value, excellence, or strength; to deteriorate; as, to impair health, character, the mind, value.

Time sensibly all things impairs.
Roscommon.

In years he seemed, but not impaired by years.
Pope.


word: Impair₃
definition:
Impair

Im"pair
(?)
a.
[F. impair uneven, L. impar; im- not + par equal.]
Not fit or appropriate.
[Obs.]


word: Impairment
definition:
Impairment

Im*pair"ment
(?)
n.
[OE. enpeirement, OF. empirement.]
The state, act, or process of being impaired; injury.
impairment
Dryden.


word: impala
definition:
impala

im*pa"la
(?)
n.
An antelope (Aepyceros melampus) of Southeastern Africa, the male of which has ringed lyre-shaped horns, which curve first backward, then sideways, then upwards.  ALso called impalla and pallah.


word: Impale
definition:
Impale

Im*pale"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Impaled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Impaling.]
[See 2d Empale.]
1.
To pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake. See Empale.

Then with what life remains, impaled, and left
To writhe at leisure round the bloody stake.
Addison.

2.
To inclose, as with pales or stakes; to surround.

Impale him with your weapons round about.
Shak.

Impenetrable, impaled with circling fire.
Milton.

3.
(Her.)
To join, as two coats of arms on one shield, palewise; hence, to join in honorable mention.

Ordered the admission of St. Patrick to the same to be matched and impaled with the blessed Virgin in the honor thereof.
Fuller.


word: Impalement
definition:
Impalement

Im*pale"ment
(?)
n.
1.
The act of impaling, or the state of being impaled.
Byron.

2.
An inclosing by stakes or pales, or the space so inclosed.
H. Brooke.

3.
That which hedges in; inclosure.
[R.]
Milton.

4.
(Her.)
The division of a shield palewise, or by a vertical line, esp. for the purpose of putting side by side the arms of husband and wife. See Impale, 3.


word: Impalpability
definition:
Impalpability

Im*pal`pa*bil"i*ty
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. impalpabilité.]
The quality of being impalpable.
Jortin.


word: Impalpable
definition:
Impalpable

Im*pal"pa*ble
(?)
a.
[Pref. im- not + palpable: cf. F. impalpable.]
1.
Not palpable; that cannot be felt; extremely fine, so that no grit can be perceived by touch.
Impalpable
Boyle.

2.
Not material; intangible; incorporeal.
Impalpable
Holland.

3.
Not apprehensible, or readily apprehensible, by the mind; unreal; as, impalpable distinctions.


word: Impanate
definition:
Impanate

Im*pa"nate
(?)
a.
[LL. impanatus, p. p. of impanare to impanate; L. pref. im- in + panis bread.]
Embodied in bread, esp. in the bread of the eucharist.
[Obs.]
Cranmer.


word: Impanate₂
definition:
Impanate

Im*pa"nate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Impanated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Impanating.]
To embody in bread, esp. in the bread of the eucharist.
[Obs.]


word: Impanation
definition:
Impanation

Im"pa*na"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. impanation. See Impanate, a.]
(Eccl.)
Embodiment in bread; the supposed real presence and union of Christ's material body and blood with the substance of the elements of the eucharist without a change in their nature; -- distinguished from transubstantiation, which supposes a miraculous change of the substance of the elements. It is akin to consubstantiation.


word: Impanel
definition:
Impanel

Im*pan"el
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Impaneled (?) or Impanelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Impaneling or Impanelling.]
[Pref. im- in + panel.  Cf. Empanel.]
[Written also empanel.]
To enter in a list, or on a piece of parchment, called a panel; to form or enroll, as a list of jurors in a court of justice.
Blackstone.


word: Impanelment
definition:
Impanelment

Im*pan"el*ment
(?)
n.
The act or process of impaneling, or the state of being impaneled.


word: Imparadise
definition:
Imparadise

Im*par"a*dise
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Imparadised (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Imparadising (?).]
[Pref. im- + paradise: cf. F. emparadiser.]
To put in a state like paradise; to make supremely happy.
Imparadised
Milton.


word: Imparidigitate
definition:
Imparidigitate

Im*par`i*dig"i*tate
(?)
a.
[L. impar unequal + digitus finger.]
(Anat.)
Having an odd number of fingers or toes, either one, three, or five, as in the horse, tapir, rhinoceros, etc.


word: Imparipinnate
definition:
Imparipinnate

Im*par"i*pin"nate
(?)
a.
[L. impar unequal + E. pinnate.]
(Bot.)
Pinnate with a single terminal leaflet.


word: Imparisyllabic
definition:
Imparisyllabic

Im*par"i*syl*lab"ic
(?)
a.
[L. impar unequal + E. syllabic: cf. F. imparisyllabique.]
(Gram.)
Not consisting of an equal number of syllables; as, an imparisyllabic noun, one which has not the same number of syllables in all the cases; as, lapis, lapidis; mens, mentis.


word: Imparity
definition:
Imparity

Im*par"i*ty
(?)
n.
[Pref. im- + parity: cf. F. imparité.]
1.
Inequality; disparity; disproportion; difference of degree, rank, excellence, number, etc.
Milton.

2.
Lack of comparison, correspondence, or suitableness; incongruity.

In this region of merely intellectual notion we are at once encountered by the imparity of the object and the faculty employed upon it.
I. Taylor.

3.
Indivisibility into equal parts; oddness.
[R.]


word: Impark
definition:
Impark

Im*park"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Imparked (?), p. pr. & vb. n. Imparking.]
[Cf. Empark.]
To inclose for a park; to sever from a common; hence, to inclose or shut up.

They . . . impark them [the sheep] within hurdles.
Holland.


word: Imparl
definition:
Imparl

Im*parl"
(?)
v. i.
[OF. emparler; pref. em- (L. in) + parler to speak. See In, prep., and Parley.]
1.
To hold discourse; to parley.
[Obs.]
Sir. T. North.

2.
(Law)
To have time before pleading; to have delay for mutual adjustment.
Blackstone.


word: Imparlance
definition:
Imparlance

Im*par"lance
(?)
n.
[Cf. Emparlance, Parlance.]
[Written also inparliance.]
1.
Mutual discourse; conference.
[Obs.]

2.
(Law)
(a)
Time given to a party to talk or converse with his opponent, originally with the object of effecting, if possible, an amicable adjustment of the suit. The actual object, however, has long been merely to obtain further time to plead, or answer to the allegations of the opposite party.
(b)
Hence, the delay or continuance of a suit.

&hand_; Imparlance and continuance by imparlance have been abolished in England.
Wharton (Law Dict. ).


word: Imparsonee
definition:
Imparsonee

Im*par`son*ee"
(?)
a.
[OF. empersone. See 1st In-, and Parson.]
(Eng. Eccl. Law)
Presented, instituted, and inducted into a rectory, and in full possession.
n. A clergyman so inducted.


word: Impart
definition:
Impart

Im*part"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Imparted; p. pr. & vb. n. Imparting.]
[OF. impartir, empartir, L. impartire, impertire; pref. im- in + partire to part, divide, fr. pars, partis, part, share. See Part, n. ]
1.
To bestow a share or portion of; to give, grant, or communicate; to allow another to partake in; as, to impart food to the poor; the sun imparts warmth.

Well may he then to you his cares impart.
Dryden.

2.
To obtain a share of; to partake of.
[R.]
Munday.

3.
To communicate the knowledge of; to make known; to show by words or tokens; to tell; to disclose.

Gentle lady,
When I did first impart my love to you.
Shak.


word: Impart₂
definition:
Impart

Im*part"
(?)
v. i.
1.
To give a part or share.

He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none.
Luke iii. 11.

2.
To hold a conference or consultation.
Blackstone.


word: Impartation
definition:
Impartation

Im`par*ta"tion
(?)
n.
The act of imparting, or the thing imparted.

The necessity of this impartation.
I. Taylor.


word: Impartial
definition:
Impartial

Im*par"tial
(?)
a.
[Pref. im- not + partial: cf. F. impartial.]
Not partial; not favoring one more than another; treating all alike; unprejudiced; unbiased; disinterested; equitable; fair; just.
Shak.

Jove is impartial, and to both the same.
Dryden.

A comprehensive and impartial view.
Macaulay.


word: Impartiality
definition:
Impartiality

Im*par`ti*al"i*ty
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. impartialité.]
The quality of being impartial; freedom from bias or favoritism; disinterestedness; equitableness; fairness; as, impartiality of judgment, of treatment, etc.

Impartiality strips the mind of prejudice and passion.
South.


word: Impartibility
definition:
Impartibility

Im*part`i*bil"i*ty
(?)
n.
The quality of being impartible; communicability.
Blackstone.


word: Impartibility₂
definition:
Impartibility

Im*part`i*bil"i*ty
n.
[Cf. F. impartibilité.]
The quality of being incapable of division into parts; indivisibility.
Holland.


word: Impartible₂
definition:
Impartible

Im*part"i*ble
a.
[Pref. im- not + partible: cf. F. impartible.]
Not partible; not subject to partition; indivisible; as, an impartible estate.
Blackstone.


word: Impartment
definition:
Impartment

Im*part"ment
(?)
n.
The act of imparting, or that which is imparted, communicated, or disclosed.
[R.]

It beckons you to go away with it,
As if it some impartment did desire
To you alone.
Shak.


word: Impassable
definition:
Impassable

Im*pass"a*ble
(?)
a.
[Cf. Unpassable.]
Incapable of being passed; not admitting a passage; as, an impassable road, mountain, or gulf.
Milton.
Im*pass"a*ble*ness, n. -- Im*pass"a*bly, adv.


word: Impasse
definition:
Impasse

Im`passe"
(ăN`päs"; E. ĭm*pȧs")
n.
[F.]
An impassable road or way; a  blind alley; cul-de-sac; fig., a position or predicament affording no escape.
The issue from the present impasse will, in all probability, proceed from below, not from above.
Arnold White.


word: Impassibility
definition:
Impassibility

Im*pas`si*bil"i*ty
(?)
a.
[L. impassibilitas: cf. F. impassibilité.]
The quality or condition of being impassible; insusceptibility of injury from external things.


word: Impassible
definition:
Impassible

Im*pas"si*ble
(?)
a.
[L. impassibilis; pref. im- not + passibilis passable: cf. F. impassible. See Passible.]
Incapable of suffering; inaccessible to harm or pain; not to be touched or moved to passion or sympathy; unfeeling, or not showing feeling; without sensation.
Impassible
Sir W. Scott.

Secure of death, I should contemn thy dart
Though naked, and impassible depart.
Dryden.


word: Impassion
definition:
Impassion

Im*pas"sion
(?)
v. t.
[Pref. im- in + passion.  Cf. Empassion, Impassionate, v.]
To move or affect strongly with passion.
[Archaic]
Chapman.


word: Impassionate₂
definition:
Impassionate

Im*pas"sion*ate
(?)
v. t.
To affect powerfully; to arouse the passions of.
Dr. H. More.


word: Impassionate₃
definition:
Impassionate

Im*pas"sion*ate
(?)
a.
[Pref. im- not + passionate.]
Without passion or feeling.
Burton.


word: Impassioned
definition:
Impassioned

Im*pas"sioned
(?)
p. p. & a.
Actuated or characterized by passion or zeal; showing warmth of feeling; ardent; animated; excited; as, an impassioned orator or discourse.


word: Impassive
definition:
Impassive

Im*pas"sive
(?)
a.
Not susceptible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible; unmoved.

Impassive as the marble in the quarry.
De Quincey.

On the impassive ice the lightings play.
Pope.


word: Impassivity
definition:
Impassivity

Im`pas*siv"i*ty
(?)
n.
The quality of being insusceptible of feeling, pain, or suffering; impassiveness.


word: Impastation
definition:
Impastation

Im`pas*ta"tion
(?)
n.
[F. See Impaste.]
The act of making into paste; that which is formed into a paste or mixture; specifically, a combination of different substances by means of cements.


word: Impaste
definition:
Impaste

Im*paste"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Impasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Impasting.]
[Pref. im- in + paste: cf. It. impastare, OF. empaster, F. empâter. See 1st In- and Paste.]
1.
To knead; to make into paste; to concrete.
impasted
Shak.

2.
(Paint.)
To lay color on canvas by uniting them skillfully together. Cf. Impasto.
[R.]


word: Impasto
definition:
Impasto

Im*pas"to
(?)
n.
[It. See Impaste.]
(Paint.)
The thickness of the layer or body of pigment applied by the painter to his canvas with especial reference to the juxtaposition of different colors and tints in forming a harmonious whole.
Fairholt.


word: Impatible
definition:
Impatible

Im*pat"i*ble
(?)
a.
[L. impatibilis; pref. im- not + patibilis supportable. See Patible.]
1.
Not capable of being borne; impassible.

A spirit, and so impatible of material fire.
Fuller.


word: Impatience
definition:
Impatience

Im*pa"tience
(?)
n.
[OE. impacience, F. impatience, fr. L. impatientia.]
The quality of being impatient; lack of endurance of pain, suffering, opposition, or delay; eagerness for change, or for something expected; restlessness; chafing of spirit; fretfulness; passion; as, the impatience of a child or an invalid.

I then, . . . 
Out of my grief and my impatience,
Answered neglectingly.
Shak.

With huge impatience he inly swelt
More for great sorrow that he could not pass,
Than for the burning torment which he felt.
Spenser.


word: Impatiens
definition:
Impatiens

Im*pa"ti*ens
(ĭm*pā"shĭ*ĕnz)
prop. n.
[L., impatient.]
(Bot.)
A genus of plants, several species of which have very beautiful flowers; -- so called because the elastic capsules burst when touched, and scatter the seeds with considerable force.  Called also touch-me-not, jewelweed, and snapweed.  Impatiens Balsamina (sometimes called lady's slipper) is the common garden balsam.


word: Impatient
definition:
Impatient

Im*pa"tient
(ĭm*pā"shent)
a.
[OE. impacient, F. impatient, fr. L. impatiens; pref. im- not + patiens patient. See Patient.]
1.
Not patient; not bearing with composure; intolerant; uneasy; fretful; restless, because of pain, delay, or opposition; eager for change, or for something expected; hasty; passionate; -- often followed by at, for, of, and under.

A violent, sudden, and impatient necessity.
Jer. Taylor.

Fame, impatient of extremes, decays
Not more by envy than excess of praise.
Pope.

The impatient man will not give himself time to be informed of the matter that lies before him.
Addison.

Dryden was poor and impatient of poverty.
Macaulay.

2.
Not to be borne; unendurable.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

3.
Prompted by, or exhibiting, impatience; as, impatient speeches or replies.
Shak.


word: Impatronization
definition:
Impatronization

Im*pat`ron*i*za"tion
(?)
n.
Absolute seignory or possession; the act of investing with such possession.
[R.]
Cotgrave.


word: Impatronize
definition:
Impatronize

Im*pat"ron*ize
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Impatronized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Impatronizing (?).]
To make lord or master; as, to impatronize one's self of a seigniory.
[R.]
Bacon.


word: Impave
definition:
Impave

Im*pave"
(?)
v. t.
To pave.
[Poetic]

Impaved with rude fidelity
Of art mosaic.
Wordsworth.


word: Impawn
definition:
Impawn

Im*pawn"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Impawned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Impawning.]
[Pref. im- + pawn: cf. Empawn.]
To put in pawn; to pledge; to pawn.
Shak.


word: Impeach
definition:
Impeach

Im*peach"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Impeached (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Impeaching.]
[OE. empeechier to prevent, hinder, bar, F. empêcher, L. impedicare to entangle; pref. im- in + pedica fetter, fr. pes, pedis, foot. See Foot, and Appeach, Dispatch, Impede.]
1.
To hinder; to impede; to prevent.
[Obs.]

These ungracious practices of his sons did impeach his journey to the Holy Land.
Sir J. Davies.

A defluxion on my throat impeached my utterance.
Howell.

2.
To charge with a crime or misdemeanor; to accuse; especially to charge (a public officer), before a competent tribunal, with misbehavior in office; to cite before a tribunal for judgment of official misconduct; to arraign; as, to impeach a judge. See Impeachment.

3.
Hence, to charge with impropriety; to dishonor; to bring discredit on; to call in question; as, to impeach one's motives or conduct.

And doth impeach the freedom of the state.
Shak.

4.
(Law)
To challenge or discredit the credibility of, as of a witness, or the validity of, as of commercial paper.

&hand_; When used in law with reference to a witness, the term signifies, to discredit, to show or prove unreliable or unworthy of belief; when used in reference to the credit of witness, the term denotes, to impair, to lessen, to disparage, to destroy. The credit of a witness may be impeached by showing that he has made statements out of court contradictory to what he swears at the trial, or by showing that his reputation for veracity is bad, etc.


word: Impeachable
definition:
Impeachable

Im*peach"a*ble
(?)
a.
That may be impeached; liable to impeachment; chargeable with a crime.

Owners of lands in fee simple are not impeachable for waste.
Z. Swift.


word: Impeachment
definition:
Impeachment

Im*peach"ment
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. empêchement.]
The act of impeaching, or the state of being impeached
(a)
Hindrance; impediment; obstruction.
[Obs.]

Willing to march on to Calais,
Without impeachment.
Shak.
The consequence of Coriolanus' impeachment had like to have been fatal to their state.
Swift.
&hand_; In England, it is the privilege or right of the House of Commons to impeach, and the right of the House of Lords to try and determine impeachments. In the United States, it is the right of the House of Representatives to impeach, and of the Senate to try and determine impeachments.

Articles of impeachment. See under Article. -- Impeachment of waste (Law), restraint from, or accountability for, injury; also, a suit for damages for injury. Abbott.


word: Impearl
definition:
Impearl

Im*pearl"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Impearled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Impearling.]
[Pref. im- in + pearl: cf. F. emperler.]
1.
To form into pearls, or into that which resembles pearls.
[Poetic]

Dewdrops which the sun
Impearls on every leaf and every flower.
Milton.

2.
To decorate as with pearls or with anything resembling pearls.
[Poetic]

With morning dews impearled.
Mrs. Browning.

The dews of the morning impearl every thorn.
R. Digby.


word: Impeccability
definition:
Impeccability

Im*pec`ca*bil"i*ty
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. impeccabilité.]
The quality of being impeccable; exemption from sin, error, or offense.

Infallibility and impeccability are two of his attributes.
Pope.


word: Impeccable
definition:
Impeccable

Im*pec"ca*ble
(?)
a.
[L. impeccabilis; pref. im- not + peccare to err, to sin: cf. F. impeccable.]
Not liable to sin; exempt from the possibility of doing wrong.
n. One who is impeccable; esp., one of a sect of Gnostic heretics who asserted their sinlessness.

God is infallible, impeccable, and absolutely perfect.
P. Skelton.


word: Impecunious
definition:
Impecunious

Im"pe*cu"ni*ous
(?)
a.
[L. im- not + pecunia money: cf. F. impécunieux.]
Not having money; habitually without money; poor.

An impecunious creature.
B. Jonson.


word: Impedance
definition:
Impedance

Im*ped"ance
(?)
n.
[Impede + -ance.]
(Elec.)
The apparent resistance in an electric circuit to the flow of an alternating current, analogous to the actual electrical resistance to a direct current, being the ratio of electromotive force to the current. It is equal to R2 + X2, where R = ohmic resistance, X = reactance. For an inductive circuit, X = 2πfL, where f = frequency and L = self-inductance; for a circuit with capacity X = 1 ÷ 2πfC, where C = capacity.


word: Impede
definition:
Impede

Im*pede"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Impeded; p. pr. & vb. n. Impeding.]
[L. impedire, lit., to entangle the feet; pref. im- in + pes, pedis, foot. See Foot, and cf. Impeach.]
To hinder; to stop in progress; to obstruct; as, to impede the advance of troops.

Whatever hinders or impedes
The action of the nobler will.
Logfellow.


word: Impediment
definition:
Impediment

Im*ped"i*ment
(?)
n.
[L. impedimentum: cf. F. impediment.]
That which impedes or hinders progress, motion, activity, or effect.

Thus far into the bowels of the land
Have we marched on without impediment.
Shak.

Impediment in speech, a defect which prevents distinct utterance.
The eloquence of Demosthenes was to Philip of Macedon, a difficulty to be met with his best resources, an obstacle to his own ambition, and an impediment in his political career.
C. J. Smith.


word: Impedimenta
definition:
Impedimenta

Im*ped`i*men"ta
(?)
n. pl.
[L. See Impediment, Impede.]
Things which impede or hinder progress; incumbrances; baggage;
specif.
(Mil.)
the supply trains which must accompany an army.
On the plains they will have horses dragging travoises, dogs with travoises, women and children loaded with impedimenta.
Julian Ralph.


word: Impedimental
definition:
Impedimental

Im*ped`i*men"tal
(?)
a.
Of the nature of an impediment; hindering; obstructing; impeditive.

Things so impedimental to success.
G. H. Lewes.


word: Impedite
definition:
Impedite

Im"pe*dite
(?)
a.
[L. impeditus, p. p. See Impede.]
Hindered; obstructed.
[R.]
Jer. Taylor.


word: Impeditive
definition:
Impeditive

Im*ped"i*tive
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. impéditif.]
Causing hindrance; impeding.
impeditive
Bp. Hall.


word: Impel
definition:
Impel

Im*pel"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Impelled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Impelling.]
[L. impellere; pref. im- in + pellere, pulsum, to drive. See Pulse a beat, and cf. Impulse.]
To drive or urge forward or on; to press on; to incite to action or motion in any way.

The surge impelled me on a craggy coast.
Pope.


word: Impellent
definition:
Impellent

Im*pel"lent
(?)
a.
[L. impellens, p. pr. of impellere.]
Having the quality of impelling.


word: Impen
definition:
Impen

Im*pen"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Impenned (?) and Impent (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Impenning.]
To shut up or inclose, as in a pen.
Feltham.


word: Impend
definition:
Impend

Im*pend"
(?)
v. t.
[L. impendĕre; pref. im- in + pendĕre to weigh out, pay.]
To pay.
[Obs.]
Fabyan.


word: Impend₂
definition:
Impend

Im*pend"
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Impended; p. pr. & vb. n. Impending.]
[L. impendēre; pref. im- in + pendēre to hang. See Pendant.]
To hang over; to be suspended above; to threaten from near at hand; to menace; to be imminent. See Imminent.

Destruction sure o'er all your heads impends.
Pope.


word: Impendency
definition:
Impendency

Impendence

{ Im*pend"ence (?), Im*pend"en*cy (?), }
n.
The state of impending; the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon; also, that which impends.
Impendence
Ruskin.

Syn. -- imminence, imminency, impendence, forthcomingness.


word: Impendent
definition:
Impendent

Im*pend"ent
(?)
a.
[L. impendens, p. pr. of impendēre.]
Impending; threatening.

Impendent horrors, threatening hideous fall.
Milton.


word: Impending
definition:
Impending

Im*pend"ing
a.
Hanging over; overhanging; suspended so as to menace; imminet; threatening.

An impending brow.
Hawthorne.

And nodding Ilion waits th' impending fall.
Pope.


word: Impenetrability
definition:
Impenetrability

Im*pen`e*tra*bil"i*ty
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. impénétrabilité.]
1.
Quality of being impenetrable.

2.
(Physics)
That property in virtue of which two portions of matter can not at the same time occupy the same portion of space.

3.
Insusceptibility of intellectual or emotional impression; obtuseness; stupidity; coldness.


word: Impenetrable
definition:
Impenetrable

Im*pen"e*tra*ble
(?)
a.
[L. impenetrabilis; pref. im- not + penetrabilis penetrable: cf. F. impénétrable.]
1.
Incapable of being penetrated or pierced; not admitting the passage of other bodies; not to be entered; impervious; as, an impenetrable shield.

Highest woods impenetrable
To star or sunlight.
Milton.

2.
(Physics)
Having the property of preventing any other substance from occupying the same space at the same time.

3.
Inaccessible, as to knowledge, reason, sympathy, etc.; unimpressible; not to be moved by arguments or motives; as, an impenetrable mind, or heart.

They will be credulous in all affairs of life, but impenetrable by a sermon of the gospel.
Jer. Taylor.


word: Impenetrably
definition:
Impenetrably

Im*pen"e*tra*bly
adv.
In an impenetrable manner or state; imperviously.
Impenetrably
Milton.
Impenetrably
Pope.


word: Impenitence
definition:
Impenitence

Im*pen"i*tence
(?)
n.
[L. impenitentia: cf. F. impénitence.]
The condition of being impenitent; failure or refusal to repent; hardness of heart.

He will advance from one degree of wickedness and impenitence to another.
Rogers.


word: Impenitent
definition:
Impenitent

Im*pen"i*tent
(?)
a.
[L. impaenitens; pref. im- not + paenitens penitens: cf. F. impénitent. See Penitent.]
Not penitent; not repenting of sin; not contrite; of a hard heart.
impenitent
Milton.
impenitent
Bp. Hall.


word: Impennate
definition:
Impennate

Im*pen"nate
(?)
a.
(Zool.)
Characterized by short wings covered with feathers resembling scales, as the penguins.
n. One of the Impennes.


word: Impennes
definition:
Impennes

Im*pen"nes
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. L. pref. im- not + penna feather.]
(Zool.)
An order of birds, including only the penguins, in which the wings are without quills, and not suited for flight.


word: Impennous
definition:
Impennous

Im*pen"nous
(?)
a.
[L. pref. im- not + penna wing.]
(Zool.)
Having no wings, as some insects.


word: Impeople
definition:
Impeople

Im*peo"ple
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Impeopled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Impeopling (?).]
[See Empeople.]
To people; to give a population to.
[Obs.]

Thou hast helped to impeople hell.
Beaumont.


word: Imperant
definition:
Imperant

Im"pe*rant
(ĭm"pe̝*rant)
a.
[L. imperans, p. pr. of imperare to command.]
Commanding.
[R.]
Baxter.


word: imperate
definition:
imperate

Im"pe*rate
(ĭm"pe̝*ra̝t)
a.
[L. imperatus, p. p. of imperare to command.]
Done by express direction; not involuntary; commanded.
[Obs.]

Those imperate acts, wherein we see the empire of the soul.
Sir M. Hale.


word: Imperatival
definition:
Imperatival

Im*per`a*ti"val
(ĭm*pĕr`ȧ*tĭ"val)
a.
(Gram.)
Of or pertaining to the imperative mood.


word: Imperative
definition:
Imperative

Im*per"a*tive
(ĭm*pĕr"ȧ*tĭv)
a.
[L. imperativus, fr. imperare to command; pref. im- in + parare to make ready, prepare: cf. F. impératif. See Perade, and cf. Empire.]
1.
Expressive of command; containing positive command; authoritatively or absolutely directive; commanding; authoritative; as, imperative orders.

The suit of kings are imperative.
Bp. Hall.

2.
Not to be avoided or evaded; obligatory; binding; compulsory; as, an imperative duty or order.

3.
(Gram.)
Expressive of command, entreaty, advice, or exhortation; as, the imperative mood.


word: Imperator
definition:
Imperator

Im`pe*ra"tor
(?)
n.
[L. See Emperor.]
(Rom. Antiq.)
A commander; a leader; an emperor; -- originally an appellation of honor by which Roman soldiers saluted their general after an important victory.  Subsequently the title was conferred as a recognition of great military achievements by the senate, whence it carried with it some special privileges.  After the downfall of the Republic it was assumed by Augustus and his successors, and came to have the meaning now attached to the word emperor.


word: Imperatorial
definition:
Imperatorial

Im*per`a*to"ri*al
(ĭm*pĕr`ȧ*t&omacr"rĭ*val)
a.
[L. imperatorius.]
1.
Commanding; imperative; authoritative.

2.
Of or pertaining to the title or office of imperator.
Imperatorial
C. Merivale.


word: Imperceivable
definition:
Imperceivable

Im`per*ceiv"a*ble
(?)
a.
Imperceptible.
[R.]
South.
Im`per*ceiv"a*ble*ness, n. Sharp.


word: Imperceptible
definition:
Imperceptible

Im`per*cep"ti*ble
(?)
a.
[Pref. im- not + perceptible: cf. F. imperceptible.]
Not perceptible; not to be apprehended or cognized by the senses; not discernible by the mind; not easily apprehended.

Almost imperceptible to the touch.
Dryden.

Its operation is slow, and in some cases almost imperceptible.
Burke.
Their . . . subtilty and imperceptibleness.
Sir M. Hale.


word: Imperceptive
definition:
Imperceptive

Im`per*cep"tive
(?)
a.
Unable to perceive.

The imperceptive part of the soul.
Dr. H. More.


word: Imperdible
definition:
Imperdible

Im*per"di*ble
(?)
a.
[Pref. im- not + L. perdere to destroy.]
Not destructible.
[Obs.]
Im*per"di*bly, adv. [Obs.]


word: Imperfect
definition:
Imperfect

Im*per"fect
(?)
a.
[L. imperfectus: pref. im- not + perfectus perfect: cf. F imparfait, whence OE. imparfit. See Perfect.]
1.
Not perfect; not complete in all its parts; wanting a part; deective; deficient.

Something he left imperfect in the state.
Shak.

Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect.
Shak.

2.
Wanting in some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity.

He . . . stammered like a child, or an amazed, imperfect person.
Jer. Taylor.

3.
Not fulfilling its design; not realizing an ideal; not conformed to a standard or rule; not satisfying the taste or conscience; esthetically or morally defective.

Nothing imperfect or deficient left
Of all that he created.
Milton.

Then say not man's imperfect, Heaven in fault;
Say rather, man's as perfect as he ought.
Pope.

Imperfect arch, an arch of less than a semicircle; a skew arch. -- Imperfect cadence (Mus.), one not ending with the tonic, but with the dominant or some other chord; one not giving complete rest; a half close. -- Imperfect consonances (Mus.), chords like the third and sixth, whose ratios are less simple than those of the fifth and forth. -- Imperfect flower (Bot.), a flower wanting either stamens or pistils. Gray. -- Imperfect interval (Mus.), one a semitone less than perfect; as, an imperfect fifth. -- Imperfect number (Math.), a number either greater or less than the sum of its several divisors; in the former case, it is called also a defective number; in the latter, an abundant number. -- Imperfect obligations (Law), obligations as of charity or gratitude, which cannot be enforced by law. -- Imperfect power (Math.), a number which can not be produced by taking any whole number or vulgar fraction, as a factor, the number of times indicated by the power; thus, 9 is a perfect square, but an imperfect cube. -- Imperfect tense (Gram.), a tense expressing past time and incomplete action.


word: Imperfect₂
definition:
Imperfect

Im*per"fect
(ĭm*pẽr"fĕkt)
n.
(Gram.)
The imperfect tense; or the form of a verb denoting the imperfect tense.


word: Imperfection
definition:
Imperfection

Im`per*fec"tion
(?)
n.
[L. imperfectio: cf. F. imperfection. See Imperfect, a.]
The quality or condition of being imperfect; lack of perfection; incompleteness; deficiency; fault or blemish.

Sent to my account
With all my imperfections on my head.
Shak.


word: Imperforable
definition:
Imperforable

Im*per"fo*ra*ble
(?)
a.
[See Imperforate.]
Incapable of being perforated, or bored through.


word: Imperforata
definition:
Imperforata

Im*per"fo*ra"ta
(?)
n. pl.
[NL. See Imperforate.]
(Zool.)
A division of Foraminifera, including those in which the shell is not porous.


word: Imperforated
definition:
Imperforated

Imperforate

{ Im*per"fo*rate (?), Im*per"fo*ra"ted (?), }
a.
[L. pref. im- not + perforatus, p. p. of perforate to perforate. See Perforate.]
Not perforated; having no opening or aperture.
Sir J. Banks.


word: Imperforation
definition:
Imperforation

Im*per`fo*ra"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. imperforation.]
The state of being without perforation.


word: Imperial
definition:
Imperial

Im*pe"ri*al
(?)
a.
[OE. emperial, OF. emperial, F. impérial, fr. L. imperialis, fr. imperium command, sovereignty, empire. See Empire.]
1.
Of or pertaining to an empire, or to an emperor; as, an imperial government; imperial authority or edict.

The last
That wore the imperial diadem of Rome.
Shak.

2.
Belonging to, or suitable to, supreme authority, or one who wields it; royal; sovereign; supreme.
imperial
Mitford.

Who, as Ulysses says, opinion crowns
With an imperial voice.
Shak.

To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free,
These are imperial arts, and worthy thee.
Dryden.

He sounds his imperial clarion along the whole line of battle.
E. Everett.

3.
Of superior or unusual size or excellence; as, imperial paper; imperial tea, etc.

Imperial bushel, gallon, etc. See Bushel, Gallon, etc. -- Imperial chamber, the, the sovereign court of the old German empire. -- Imperial city, under the first German empire, a city having no head but the emperor. -- Imperial diet, an assembly of all the states of the German empire. -- Imperial drill. (Manuf.) See under 8th Drill. -- Imperial eagle. (Zool.) See Eagle. -- Imperial green. See Paris green, under Green. -- Imperial guard, the royal guard instituted by Napoleon I. -- Imperial weights and measures, the standards legalized by the British Parliament.


word: Imperial₂
definition:
Imperial

Im*pe"ri*al
n.
[F. impériale: cf. Sp. imperial.]

1.
The tuft of hair on a man's lower lip and chin; -- so called from the style of beard of Napoleon III.

2.
An outside seat on a diligence.
T. Hughes.

3.
A luggage case on the top of a coach.
Simmonds.

4.
Anything of unusual size or excellence, as a large decanter, a kind of large photograph, a large sheet of drawing, printing, or writing paper, etc.

5.
A gold coin of Russia worth ten rubles, or about eight dollars.
McElrath.

6.
A kind of fine cloth brought into England from Greece. or other Eastern countries, in the Middle Ages.

7.
A game at cards differing from piquet in some minor details, and in having a trump; also, any one of several combinations of cards which score in this game.


word: Imperialism
definition:
Imperialism

Im*pe"ri*al*ism
(?)
n.
1.
The power or character of an emperor; imperial authority; the spirit of empire.

Roman imperialism had divided the world.
C. H. Pearson.

2.
The policy, practice, or advocacy of seeking, or acquiescing in, the extension of the control, dominion, or empire of a nation, as by the acquirement of new, esp. distant, territory or dependencies, or by the closer union of parts more or less independent of each other for operations of war, copyright, internal commerce, etc.    The practise of building or extending an empire.

The tide of English opinion began to turn about 1870, and since then it has run with increasing force in the direction of what is called imperialism.
James Bryce.


