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.

See Perchloric.

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.

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.

Having a higher osmotic pressure than a comparison solution; -- of an aqueous solution. Increasing the concentration of dissolved solids increases the osmotic pressure, and thus the tonicity of a solution. Opposite of hypotonic and contrasting with isotonic.

Of or pertaining to hypertrophy; affected with, or tending to, hypertrophy.

Excessively developed; characterized by hypertrophy.

A condition of overgrowth or excessive development of an organ or part; -- the opposite of atrophy.

to breathe rapidly and deeply; to breathe excessively; as, The mountain climber started to hyperventilate.

The act or process of hyperventilating; breathing rapidly and deeply.

Exposed to the air; wanting a roof; -- applied to a building or part of a building.

any of the threadlike filaments forming the mycelium of a fungus. See hyphae.

The long, branching filaments of which the mycelium (and the greater part of the plant) of a fungus is formed. They are also found enveloping the gonidia of lichens, making up a large part of their structure.

A genus of moths whose larvae are called fall webworms.

To connect with, or separate by, a hyphen, as two words or the parts of a word.

United by hyphens; hyphened; as, a hyphenated or hyphened word.

One of the great division of fungi, containing those species which have naked spores borne on free or only fasciculate threads.

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.