Partly idiomorphic; -- said of rock a portion only of whose constituents have a distinct crystalline form.

A diminution in the normal amount of fibrin present in the blood.

Leading to sleep; -- applied to the illusions of one who is half asleep.

A somnambulist.

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.

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.

One who is versed in hypnology.

A treatise on sleep; the doctrine of sleep.

An instrument for ascertaining the susceptibility of a person to hypnotic influences.

Supervention of sleep.

Any agent that produces, or tends to produce, sleep; an opiate; a soporific; a narcotic.

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.

A person who hypnotizes another, especially one who is professionally trained in the technique.

The act or process of producing hypnotism.

To induce hypnotism in; to place in a state of hypnotism.

One who hypnotizes; a hypnotist.

The largest genus of true mosses; feather moss.

Sodium hyposulphite, or thiosulphate, a solution of which is used as a bath to wash out the unchanged silver salts in a picture.

Of or pertaining to a hypoarion.

An oval lobe beneath each of the optic lobes in many fishes; one of the inferior lobes.

The inner or lower layer of the blastoderm; -- called also endoderm, entoderm, and sometimes hypoderm. See Illust. of Blastoderm, Delamination, and Ectoderm.

Relating to, or connected with, the hypoblast; as, the hypoic sac.

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.

Pertaining to the segment between the basibranchial and the ceratobranchial in a branchial arch. A hypobranchial bone or cartilage.

A fleshy enlargement of the receptacle, or for the stem, below the proper fruit, as in the cashew. See Illust. of Cashew.

Producing fruit below the ground.

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.

A salt of hypochlorous acid; as, a calcium hypochloride.

Pertaining to, or derived from, chlorine having a valence lower than in chlorous compounds.

The hypochondriac regions. See Hypochondrium.

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.

A person affected with hypochondria.

Same as Hypochondriac, 2.

Hypochondriasis.

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.

Hypochondriasis.

Either of the hypochondriac regions.

Hypochondriasis.

An astringent inspissated juice obtained from the fruit of a plant (Cytinus hypocistis), growing from the roots of the Cistus, a small European shrub.

A median process on the furculum, or merrythought, of many birds, where it is connected with the sternum.

Endearing; diminutive; as, the hypocoristic form of a name.

hypocraterimorphous; salver-shaped.

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.

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.

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.

Hypocritically.

See Hypocritical.

Of or pertaining to a hypocrite, or to hypocrisy; as, a hypocriticalperson; a hypocritical look; a hypocritical action.

Partly crystalline; -- said of rock which consists of crystals imbedded in a glassy ground mass.

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.

The under side of the toes.

Same as Hypoblast.

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.

Hypodermic.

Of or pertaining to the parts under the skin.

A hypodermic needle{2}.

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.

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.

Same as Hypoblast.

Exhibiting retarded dicrotism; as, a hypodicrotic pulse curve.

Of or pertaining to the hypogastrium or the hypogastric region.

The lower part of the abdomen.

Hypogeous.

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.

Growing under ground; remaining under ground; ripening its fruit under ground.

The subterraneous portion of a building, as in amphitheaters, for the service of the games; also, subterranean galleries, as the catacombs.

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. One of the hypoglossal nerves.

Having the maxilla, or lower jaw, longer than the upper, as in the skimmer.

An hypogynous plant.

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.

Pertaining to one or more small elements in the hyoidean arch of fishes, between the caratohyal and urohyal. One of the hypohyal bones or cartilages.

Exhibiting a downward convexity caused by unequal growth. Cf. Epinastic.

Downward convexity, or convexity of the inferior surface.

A salt of hyponitrous acid.

Containing or derived from nitrogen having a lower valence than in nitrous compounds.

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/.

The state or quality of being a hyponym; as, hyponymy is symbolized by the tag /hypon/.

An appendage or fold on the lower side of the pharynx, in certain insects.

A salt of hypophosphoric acid.

A salt of hypophosphorous acid.

Pertaining to, or derived from, or containing, phosphorus in a lower state of oxidation than in phosphoric compounds; as, hypophosphoric acid.

Pertaining to, or containing, phosphorus in a lower state of oxidation than in phosphoric compounds; as, hypophosphorous acid.

Being or growing on the under side of a leaf, as the fruit dots of ferns.

Of or pertaining to the hypophysis; pituitary.

See Pituitary body, under Pituitary.

The third lateral plate in the plastron of turtles; -- called also hyposternum.

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.

One of the barbs of the hypoptilum, or aftershaft of a feather. See Feather.

The stem of an aftershaft or hypoptilum.

Beneath the endoskeleton; hypaxial; as, the hyposkeletal muscles; -- opposed to episkeletal.

A deformity of the penis, in which the urethra opens upon its under surface.

That which forms the basis of anything; underlying principle; a concept or mental entity conceived or treated as an existing being or thing.

To make into a distinct substance; to conceive or treat as an existing being; to hypostatize.

Relating to hypostasis, or substance; hence, constitutive, or elementary.

In a hypostatic manner.

To make into, or regarded as, a separate and distinct substance.

See Hypoplastron.

The lower lip of trilobites, crustaceans, etc.

The act of a patient turning himself. A relapse, or return of a disease.

Resting upon columns; constructed by means of columns; -- especially applied to the great hall at Karnak.

A salt of hyposulphuric acid.

A salt of what was formerly called hyposulphurous acid; a thiosulphate. A salt of hyposulphurous acid proper.

Pertaining to, or containing, sulphur in a lower state of oxidation than in the sulphuric compounds; as, hyposulphuric acid.

Pertaining to, or containing, sulphur, all, or a part, in a low state of oxidation.

A process on the posterior side of the tarsometatarsus of many birds; the calcaneal process.

A landlord's right, independently of stipulation, over the stocking (cattle, implements, etc.), and crops of his tenant, as security for payment of rent.

An obligation by which property of a debtor was made over to his creditor in security of his debt.

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.

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.

One who hypothecates or pledges anything as security for the repayment of money borrowed.

The hypothenar eminence.

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.

Of or pertaining to hypothenuse.

Same as Hypotenuse.

The side of a right-angled triangle that is opposite to the right angle.

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.

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.

One who proposes or supports an hypothesis.

Same as Gorgerin.

A division of ciliated Infusoria in which the cilia cover only the under side of the body.