One of the Hymenoptera.

Same as hymenopteran.

Like, or characteristic of, the Hymenoptera; pertaining to the Hymenoptera.

To sing in praise or adoration.

A collection of hymns; a hymn book.

Relating to hymns, or sacred lyrics.

The singing of hymns.

A writer of hymns.

Hymns, considered collectively; hymnology.

One who writes on the subject of hymns.

The art or act of composing hymns.

A composer or compiler of hymns; one versed in hymnology.

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.

A hymn.

See Hinderest.

A servant. See Hine.

A division of ganoid fishes, including the gar pikes and bowfins.

Pertaining to or connecting the tongue and hyodean arch; as, the hyoglossal membrane. Of or pertaining to the hyoglossus muscle.

A flat muscle on either side of the tongue, connecting it with the hyoid bone.

The hyoid bone.

Same as Hyoid, a.

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. The hyomandibular bone or cartilage.

Between the hyoid bone and the lower jaw, pertaining to them; suprahyoid; submaxillary; as, the hyomental region of the front of the neck.

The second lateral plate in the plastron of turtles; -- called also hyosternum.

An alkaloid found with hyoscyamine (with which it is also isomeric) in henbane, and extracted as a white, amorphous, semisolid substance.

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.

A genus of poisonous plants of the Nightshade family; henbane.

Between the hyoid bone and the sternum, or pertaining to them; infrahyoid; as, the hyosternal region of the neck. Pertaining to the hyosternum of turtles.

See Hyoplastron.

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.

To make melancholy.

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.

See Allelomorph.

A fruit consisting in large part of a receptacle, enlarged below the calyx, as in the Calycanthus, the rose hip, and the pear.

A process, or other element, of a vertebra developed from the ventral side of the centrum, as h/mal spines, and chevron bones.

Situated below an artery; applied esp. to the branches of the bronchi given off below the point where the pulmonary artery crosses the bronchus.

A shield-bearer or armor-bearer.

Beneath the axis of the skeleton; subvertebral; hyposkeletal.

A throw in which the wrestler lifts his opponent from the ground, swings him to one side, knocks up his nearer thigh from the back with the knee, and throws him on his back.

Exhibiting hyperactivity.

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.

A superabundance or congestion of blood in an organ or part of the body.

A state of exalted or morbidly increased sensibility of the body, or of a part of it.

A lateral and backward-projecting process on the dorsal side of a vertebra.

One who holds a shield over another; hence, a defender.

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.

Of or pertaining to an hyperbaton; transposed; inverted.

A figurative construction, changing or inverting the natural order of words or clauses; as, /echoed the hills/ for /the hills echoed./

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.

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.

Belonging to the hyperbola; having the nature of the hyperbola.

In the form of an hyperbola.

Having the form, or nearly the form, of an hyperbola.

The use of hyperbole.

One who uses hyperboles.

To state or represent hyperbolically.

Having some property that belongs to an hyperboloid or hyperbola.

One of the people who lived beyond the North wind, in a land of perpetual sunshine.

Having an excessive proportion of carbonic acid; -- said of bicarbonates or acid carbonates.

Having a syllable or two beyond measure; as, a hypercatalectic verse.

The condition of having an unusual intensity of color.

Hypercritical.

Over critical; unreasonably or unjustly critical; carping; captious.

In a hypercritical manner.

To criticise with unjust severity; to criticise captiously.

Excessive criticism, or unjust severity or rigor of criticism; zoilism.

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.

Excessive dicrotic; as, a hyperdicrotic pulse.

A hyperdicrotic condition.

Hyperdicrotic.

Veneration or worship given to the Virgin Mary as the most exalted of mere creatures; higher veneration than dulia.

Hyperdulia.

A substance which can form one of a pair of hypergolic substances. See hypergolic.

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.

Same as Hyper/sthesia.

A genus of plants, generally with dotted leaves and yellow flowers; -- called also St. John's-wort.

an unusually rapid rate of monetary inflation, as when prices rise more than 100 per cent per year.

A condition of the blood, characterized by an abnormally large amount of fibrin, as in many inflammatory diseases.

The god of the sun; in the later mythology identified with Apollo, and distinguished for his beauty.

Abnormally increased muscular movement; spasm.

Of or pertaining to hyperkinesis.

A kind of metamorphosis, in certain insects, in which the larva itself undergoes remarkable changes of form and structure during its growth.

A verse which has a redundant syllable or foot; a hypercatalectic verse.

Having a redundant syllable; exceeding the common measure.

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.

A show or exhibition having a great number of scenes or views.

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.

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

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.

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

Any baryon that is not a nucleon; it is an unstable particle with a mass greater than that of a neutron.

The mammalian genus comprised of the bottle-nosed whales.

a person with hyperopia.

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.

Higher than, or beyond the sphere of, the organic.

Orthodox to an excessive degree.

Orthodoxy pushed to excess.

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.

A compound having a relatively large percentage of oxygen; a peroxide.

Combined with a relatively large amount of oxygen; -- said of higher oxides.

A perchlorate.

Perchloric; as, hyperoxymuriatic acid.

Above or transcending physical laws; supernatural.

An increase in, or excessive growth of, the normal elements of any part.

Of or pertaining to hyperplasia.

Abnormal breathing, due to slightly deficient arterialization of the blood; -- in distinction from eupn/a. See Eupn/a, and Dispn/a.

A condition of excessive fever; an elevation of temperature in a disease, in excess of the limit usually observed in that disease.

Morbid or excessive secretion, as in catarrh.

See Hyper/sthesia.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Composed of, or containing, hypersthene.

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

A person who suffers from persistently high blood pressure.

abnormally high body temperature.

Exaggerated; excessive; hyperbolical.

That part of the architrave which is over a door or window.

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.