Forcible manipulation of a dislocated, stiff, or painful joint.
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See Huckster.
Pertaining to, or invented by, Christian Huyghens, a Dutch astronomer of the seventeenth century; as, the Huyghenian telescope.
To buzz; to murmur.
To receive or attend with huzzas.
High.
A hyacinth.
A bulbous plant of the genus Hyacinthus, bearing beautiful spikes of fragrant flowers. Hyacinthus orientalis is a common variety. A plant of the genus Camassia (Camassia Farseri), called also Eastern camass; wild hyacinth. 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.
Hyacinthine.
Belonging to the hyacinth; resembling the hyacinth; in color like the hyacinth.
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.
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.
Same as Hyena.
A natural family of canids comprising the hyenas.
A pteropod of the genus Cavolina. See Pteropoda, and Illustration in Appendix.
The process of becoming, or the state of being, transparent like glass.
a glassy translucent material that occurs in hyaline cartilage or in certain skin conditions.
A poetic term for the sea or the atmosphere.
A pellucid variety of opal in globules looking like colorless gum or resin; -- called also M/ller's glass.
An instrument for tracing designs on glass.
Art of writing or engraving on glass.
Resembling glass; vitriform; transparent; hyaline; as, the hyaloid membrane, a very delicate membrane inclosing the vitreous humor of the eye.
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.
A species of the feldspar group containing barium. See Feldspar.
An order of vitreous sponges, having glassy six-rayed, siliceous spicules; -- called also Hexactinellin/.
A photographic picture copied from the negative on glass; a photographic transparency.
Pertaining to Hybla, an ancient town of Sicily, famous for its bees.
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.
An extinct genus of sharks having conical, compressed teeth.
Produced from the mixture of two genetically distinct strains; as, plants of hybrid nature.
The state or quality of being hybrid.
One who hybridizes.
Hybridism.
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.
The act of hybridizing, or the state of being hybridized.
To produce hybrid offspring; to interbreed; to cross.
One who hybridizes.
Same as Hybrid.
A land tax. See Hidage.
Pertaining to, or derived from, hydantoin. See Glycoluric.
A derivative of urea, C3H4N2O2, obtained from allantion, as a white, crystalline substance, with a sweetish taste; -- called also glycolyl urea.
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 C/nurus. See these words in the Vocabulary.
Resembling a hydatid.
Resembling water; watery; aqueous; hyaloid.
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.
Dipped in the gall of the fabulous hydra; poisonous; deadly.
An aquatic mite of the genus Hydrachna. The hydrachnids, while young, are parasitic on fresh-water mussels.
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.
Pertaining to, or designating, an isomeric variety of lactic acid that breaks down into acrylic acid and water.
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.
An abnormally watery state of the blood; an/mia.
Causing a discharge of water; expelling serum effused into any part of the body, as in dropsy. A hydragogue medicine, usually a cathartic or diuretic.
One of a group of crystalline bodies produced by the action of ammonia on certain aldehydes.
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.
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.
A natural family of plants including the hydrangeas, sometimes included in the family Saxifragaceae.
A discharge pipe with a valve and spout at which water may be drawn from the mains of waterworks; a water plug.
One of the nutritive zooids of a hydroid colony. Also applied to the proboscis or manubrium of a hydroid medusa. See Illust. of Hydroidea.
A compound of the bichloride of mercury with another chloride.
Of or pertaining to mercury; containing, or impregnated with, mercury.
A diseased condition produced by poisoning with hydrargyrum, or mercury; mercurialism.
Quicksilver; mercury.
An effusion of watery liquid into the cavity of a joint.
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.
To form into a hydrate; to combine with water.
Formed into a hydrate; combined with water.
The act of becoming, or state of being, a hydrate.
Of or pertaining to hydraulics, or to fluids in motion; conveying, or acting by, water; as, an hydraulic clock, crane, or dock.
Hydraulic.
An ancient musical instrument played by the action of water; a water organ.
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.
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.
Same as Hydrocephaloid.
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.
A water nymph.
Pertaining to, or containing, hydrogen; as, hydric oxide.
A compound of the binary type, in which hydrogen is united with some other element.
Having the form or structure of a hydra.
The group of hydroids to which the fresh-water hydras belong.
Same as Hydriodide.
Pertaining to, or derived from, hydrogen and iodine; -- said of an acid (HI) produced by the combination of these elements.
A compound of hydriodic acid with a base; -- distinguished from an iodide, in which only the iodine combines with the base.
A hydro-a/roplane.
Pertaining to, employed in, or produced by, the evolution of electricity by means of a battery in which water or steam is used.
An apparatus for drying anything, as yarn, cloth, sugar, etc., by centrifugal force; a centrifugal.
An instrument for determining the depth of the sea water by its pressure.
A body formed from bilirubin, identical with urobilin.
A hydro-a/roplane having two supporting planes.
An extensive artificial division of gastropod mollusks, including those that breathe by gills, as contrasted with the Pulmonifera.
Same as Hydrobromide.
Composed of hydrogen and bromine; as, hydrobromic acid.
A compound of hydrobromic acid with a base; -- distinguished from a bromide, in which only the bromine unites with the base.
A compound containing only hydrogen and carbon, as methane, benzene, etc.; also, by extension, any of their derivatives.
Of the nature, or containing, hydrocarbons.
A hydrocarbon. A hydrous carbonate, as malachite.
A white, crystalline, nitrogenous hydrocarbon, C9H9NO, obtained from certain derivatives of cinnamic acid and closely related to quinoline and carbostyril.
Carbureted hydrogen; also, a hydrocarbon.
The hollow stem of a hydroid, either simple or branched. See Illust. of Gymnoblastea and Hydroidea.
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.
Relating to, or connected with, hydrocephalus, or dropsy of the brain.
Resembling hydrocephalus.
Having hydrocephalus.
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.
Same as Hydrochloride.
Pertaining to, or compounded of, chlorine and hydrogen gas; as, hydrochloric acid; chlorhydric.
A compound of hydrochloric acid with a base; -- distinguished from a chloride, where only chlorine unites with the base.
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.
See Hydrocyanide.
Pertaining to, or derived from the combination of, hydrogen and cyanogen.
A compound of hydrocyanic acid with a base; -- distinguished from a cyanide, in which only the cyanogen so combines.
Pertaining to, or derived from, the dynamical action of water of a liquid; of or pertaining to water power.
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.
An instrument to measure the velocity of a liquid current by the force of its impact.
Pertaining to, or containing, or obtained from, hydrogen, ferric iron, and cyanogen; as, hydroferricyanic acid. See Ferricyanic.
Pertaining to, or containing, or obtained from, hydrogen, ferrous iron, and cyanogen; as, hydroferrocyanic acid. See Ferrocyanic.
A supposed compound of hydrofluoris acid and a base; a fluoride.
Pertaining to, or containing, hydrogen and fluorine; fluohydric; as, hydrofluoric acid.
A salt of hydrofluosilic acid; a silicofluoride. See Silicofluoride.
Pertaining to, or denoting, a compound consisting of a double fluoride of hydrogen and silicon; silicofluoric. See Silicofluoric.
Pertaining to, produced by, or consisting of, electricity evolved by the action or use of fluids; as, hydrogalvanic currents.
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.
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