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.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, the peanut, or earthnut (Arachis hypog/a).

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 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.

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.

A vivid, picturesque description of scenes or events.

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.

Anterior in age to the lowest rocks which contain organic remains.

Affected with hypochondria; hypped.

See Hyppogriff.

Resembling the Greek letter / in form; hyoid.

A genus of marsupials comprising the musk kangaroos.

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.

Of or pertaining to hypsometry.

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.

Under the tail; -- applied to the bones which support the caudal fin rays in most fishes.

Of or pertaining to the Hyracoidea. One of the Hyracoidea.

An order of small hoofed mammals, comprising the single living genus Hyrax.

An extinct horse genus, formerly called genus Eohippus.

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.

Of or pertaining to Hyrcania, an ancient country or province of Asia, southeast of the Caspian (which was also called the Hyrcanian) Sea.

Millet.

A wood. See Hurst.

A fragrant kind of green tea.

A plant (Hyssopus officinalis). The leaves have an aromatic smell, and a warm, pungent taste.

A Eurasian genus of perennial herbs or subshrubs.

Having the leaves expand after the flowers have opened.

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.

Of or pertaining to hysteresis.

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.

Extremely funny.

Of or pertaining to hysteria.

Hysteria.

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.

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.

A figure by which the ordinary course of thought is inverted in expression, and the last put first; -- called also hysteron proteron.

A plant, like the fungus, which lives on dead or living organic matter.

The act of cutting into the uterus, as in C/sarean section. See under C/sarean.

Like or pertaining to the porcupines.

Like, or allied to, the porcupines; -- said of a group (Hystricomorpha) of rodents.

A genus of rodents, including the porcupine.

A small haven. See Hithe.

The nominative case of the pronoun of the first person; the word with which a speaker or writer denotes himself.

See Y-.

any document testifying to the identity of the bearer, especially a card or badge.