Of or pertaining to hydrology.

One skilled in hydrology.

The science of water, its properties, phenomena, and distribution over the earth's surface.

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.

Tending to remove or separate water; eliminating water.

A hydrous carbonate of magnesia occurring in white, earthy, amorphous masses.

Divination by means of water, -- practiced by the ancients.

Of or pertaining to divination by water.

That branch of physics which treats of the mechanics of liquids, or of their laws of equilibrium and of motion.

Any medusa or jellyfish which is produced by budding from a hydroid. They are called also Craspedota, and naked-eyed medus/.

A liquor consisting of honey diluted in water, and after fermentation called mead.

See Cyamellone.

Of or pertaining to hydrometallurgy; involving the use of liquid reagents in the treatment or reduction of ores.

The art or process of assaying or reducing ores by means of liquid reagents.

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.

Of or pertaining to hydrometeorology, or to rain, clouds, storms, etc.

That branch of meteorology which relates to, or treats of, water in the atmosphere, or its phenomena, as rain, clouds, snow, hail, storms, etc.

An instrument for determining the specific gravities of liquids, and thence the strength spirituous liquors, saline solutions, etc.

Of or pertaining to an hydrometer, or to the determination of the specific gravity of fluids.

An instrument for determining and recording the quantity of water discharged from a pipe, orifice, etc., in a given time.

The art of determining the specific gravity of liquids, and thence the strength of spirituous liquors, saline solutions, etc.

A variety of potash mica containing water. It is less elastic than ordinary muscovite.

An accumulation of urine in the pelvis of the kidney, occasioned by obstruction in the urinary passages.

A hydropathist.

Of or pertaining to hydropathy.

One who practices hydropathy; a water-cure doctor.

The water cure; a mode of treating diseases by the copious and frequent use of pure water, both internally and externally.

Same as Ascites.

A semitranslucent variety of opal that becomes translucent or transparent on immersion in water.

Made transparent by immersion in water.

Any sea snake of the genus Hydrophys and allied genera. These snakes are venomous, live upon fishes, and have a flattened tail for swimming.

A white, crystalline benzene derivative, C8H10O2, obtained by the reduction of phlorone.

An abnormal dread of water, said to be a symptom of canine madness; hence: 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.

Of or pertaining to hydrophobia; producing or caused by rabies; as, hydrophobic symptoms; the hydrophobic poison.

See Hydrophobia.

The Hydroidea.

An instrument used for the purpose of obtaining specimens of water from any desired depth, as in a river, a lake, or the ocean.

One of the flat, leaflike, protective zooids, covering other zooids of certain Siphonophora.

An aquatic plant; an alga.

The branch of botany which treats of water plants.

Dropsical, or resembling dropsy.

In a hydropical manner.

A species (Polygonum Hydropiper) of knotweed with acrid foliage; water pepper; smartweed.

Of a boat, to move through water while supported by hydroplanes{3} (see hydroplane{3}, above).

Pertaining to, or depending upon, both liquid and gaseous substances; as, hydropneumatic apparatus for collecting gases over water or other liquids.

Same as Dropsy.

A machine for throwing water by hand power, as a garden engine, a fire extinguisher, etc.

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.

The rootstock or decumbent stem by which a hydroid is attached to other objects. See Illust. under Hydroidea.

A salt supposed to be formed by a hydracid and a base. An acid salt. A hydrous salt; a salt combined with water of hydration or crystallization.

An instrument designed to mark the presence of water, especially in air.

All the zooids of a hydroid colony collectively, including the nutritive and reproductive zooids, and often other kinds.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from sorbic acid when this takes up hydrogen; as, hydrosorbic acid.

The aqueous vapor of the entire atmosphere.

A contrivance or apparatus to prevent the explosion of steam boilers.

Of or relating to hydrostatics; pertaining to, or in accordance with, the principles of the equilibrium of fluids.

According to hydrostatics, or to hydrostatic principles.

One who is versed or skilled in hydrostatics.

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.

Same as Hydrosulphurent.

A saline compound of hydrosulphurous acid and a base.

A hydrosulphide.

Combined with hydrogen sulphide.

Pertaining to, or derived from, hydrogen and sulphur; as, hydrosulphuric acid, a designation applied to the solution of hydrogen sulphide in water.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained by the reduction of sulphurous acid. See Hyposulphurous acid, under Hyposulphurous.

A salt formed by the union of hydrotelluric acid and the base.

Formed by hydrogen and tellurium; as, hydrotelluric acid, or hydrogen telluride.

One of the calicles which, in some Hydroidea (Thecaphora), protect the hydrants. See Illust. of Hydroidea, and Campanularian.

A system of treating disease by baths and mineral waters.

See Hydropathy.

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.

An accumulation of serous fluid in the cavity of the chest.

Causing a discharge of water or phlegm. A hydrotic medicine.

Hydrotic.

A device for raising water by the direct action of steam; a pulsometer.

Turning or bending towards moisture, as roots.

A tendency towards moisture.

Containing water; watery.

A persulphocyanate.

Persulphocyanic.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The Acaleph/; one of the classes of c/lenterates, including the Hydroidea, Discophora, and Siphonophora.

Of or pertaining to the Hydrozoa.

One of the Hydrozoa.

A binary compound of hydrogen; a hydride.

A constellation of the southern hemisphere, near the south pole.

See Hie.

Belonging to winter; done in winter.

To pass the winter.

The passing of a winter in a particular place; a wintering.

A hyena.

Any carnivorous mammal of the family Hy/nid/, 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.

Of or pertaining to rain; descriptive of the distribution of rain, or of rainy regions.

A chart or graphic representation of the average distribution of rain over the surface of the earth.

Of or pertaining to to hyetography.

The branch of physical science which treats of the geographical distribution of rain.

The science which treats of the precipitation of rain, snow, etc.

The goddess of health, daughter of Esculapius.

Relating to Hygeia, the goddess of health; of or pertaining to health, or its preservation.

One skilled in hygiena; a hygienist.

A hygienist.

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.

Of or pertaining to health or hygiene; sanitary.

The science of health; hygiene.

Hygiene.

One versed in hygiene.

A treatise on, or the science of, the preservation of health.

An alkaloid associated with cocaine in coca leaves (Erythroxylon coca), and extracted as a thick, yellow oil, having a pungent taste and odor.

A form of hygrometer having wet and dry bulb thermometers, with an adjustable index showing directly the percentage of moisture in the air, etc.

An instrument for recording automatically the variations of the humidity of the atmosphere.

The science which treats of the fluids of the body.

An instrument for measuring the degree of moisture of the atmosphere.

Of or pertaining to hygrometry; made with, or according to, the hygrometer; as, hygrometric observations.

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.

Having such a structure as to be diaphanous when moist, and opaque when dry.

Serving to moisten the eye; -- sometimes applied to the lachrymal ducts.