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Husking (?), n. 1. The act or process of stripping off husks, as from Indian corn.
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2. A meeting of neighbors or friends to assist in husking maize; -- called also husking bee. [U.S.] “A red ear in the husking.” Longfellow.
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Husky (?), a. [From , n.] Abounding with husks; consisting of husks. Dryden.
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Husky (?), a. [Prob. for husty; cf. OE. host cough, AS. hwōsta; akin to D. hoest, G. husten, OHG. huosto, Icel. hōsti. See .] Rough in tone; harsh; hoarse; raucous; as, a husky voice.
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Husky (?), a. Powerful; strong; burly. [Colloq., U. S.]

A good, husky man to pitch in the barnyard. Hamlin Garland.
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Husky (?), n.; pl. -kies (#). [Cf. .] 1. An Eskimo. [archaic]
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2. The Eskimo language. [archaic]
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3. an Eskimo dog, especially a breed of strong heavy-coated dogs used to pull dogsleds in the Northern regions of North America.
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Huso (?), n. [NL., fr. G. hausen, and E. isinglass.] (Zoöl.) (a) A large European sturgeon (Huso huso or Acipenser huso), inhabiting the region of the Black and Caspian Seas. It sometimes attains a length of more than twelve feet, and a weight of two thousand pounds. Called also hausen and beluga. It is the source of the finest and most esteemed caviar. (b) The huchen, a large salmon.
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Hussar (?), n. [Hung. huszár, from husz twenty, because under King Matthais I., in the fifteenth century, every twenty houses were to furnish one horse soldier; cf. G. husar, F. houssard, hussard, from the same source.] (Mil.) Originally, one of the national cavalry of Hungary and Croatia; now, one of the light cavalry of European armies.
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Hussite (?), n. (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of John Huss, the Bohemian reformer, who was adjudged a heretic and burnt alive in 1415.
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Hussy (?), n. [Contr. fr. huswife.] 1. A housewife or housekeeper. [Obs.]
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2. A worthless woman or girl; a forward wench; a jade; -- used as a term of contempt or reproach. Grew.
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3. A pert girl; a frolicsome or sportive young woman; -- used jocosely. Goldsmith.
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Hussy, n. [From Icel. h�si a case, prob. fr. h�s house. See , and cf. a bag, a bag.] A case or bag. See , 2.
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Hustings (?), n. pl. [OE. husting an assembly, coucil, AS. h�sting; of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. h�s�ing; h�s home + �ing thing, assembly, meeting; akin to Dan. & Sw. ting, E. thing. See , and .] 1. A court formerly held in several cities of England; specif., a court held in London, before the lord mayor, recorder, and sheriffs, to determine certain classes of suits for the recovery of lands within the city. In the progress of law reform this court has become unimportant. Mozley & W.
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2. Any one of the temporary courts held for the election of members of the British Parliament.
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3. The platform on which candidates for Parliament formerly stood in addressing the electors. [Eng.]
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When the rotten hustings shake
In another month to his brazen lies. Tennyson.
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Hustle (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hustled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hustling (?).] [D. hustelen to shake, fr. husten to shake. Cf. .] To shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly; as, to hustle a person out of a room. Macaulay.
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Hustle, v. i. To push or crows; to force one's way; to move hustily and with confusion; a hurry.
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Leaving the king, who had hustled along the floor with his dress worfully arrayed. Sir W. Scott.
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Huswife (?), n. [OE. huswif; hus house + wif wife. Cf. a housewife, .] [Written also housewife.] 1. A female housekeeper; a woman who manages domestic affairs; a thirfty woman. “The bounteous huswife Nature.” Shak.
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The huswife is she that do labor doth fall. Tusser.
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2. A worthless woman; a hussy. [Obs.] Shak.
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3. [See a bag.] A case for sewing materials. See . Cowper.
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Huswife, v. t. To manage with frugality; -- said of a woman. Dryden.
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Huswifely, a. Like a huswife; capable; economical; prudent. -- adv. In a huswifely manner.
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Huswifery (?), n. The business of a housewife; female domestic economy and skill. Tusser.
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Hut (?), n. [OE. hotte; akin to D. hut, G. hütte, OHG. hutta, Dan. hytte, Sw. hydda; and F. hutte, of G. origin; all akin to E. hide to conceal. See to conceal.] A small house, hivel, or cabin; a mean lodge or dwelling; a slightly built or temporary structure.
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Death comes on with equal footsteps
To the hall and hut. Bp. Coxe.
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Hutch (?), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Hutted (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hutting.] To place in huts; to live in huts; as, to hut troops in winter quarters.
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The troops hutted among the heights of Morristown. W. Irving.
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Hutch (?), n. [OE. hucche, huche, hoche, F. huche, LL. hutica.] 1. A chest, box, coffer, bin, coop, or the like, in which things may be stored, or animals kept; as, a grain hutch; a rabbit hutch.
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2. A measure of two Winchester bushels.
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3. (Mining) The case of a flour bolt.
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4. (Mining) (a) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit. (b) A jig for washing ore.
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Coloq. Bolting hutch , Coloq. Booby hutch , etc. See under , etc.
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Hutch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hutched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hutching.] 1. To hoard or lay up, in a chest. [R.] “She hutched the . . . ore.” Milton.
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2. (Mining) To wash (ore) in a box or jig.
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Hutchunsonian (?), n. A follower of John Hutchinson of Yorkshire, England, who believed that the Hebrew Scriptures contained a complete system of natural science and of theology.
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Huttonian (?), a. Relating to what is now called the Plutonic theory of the earth, first advanced by Dr. James Hutton. Lyell.
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Huttoning (?), n. [So named after two English bonesetters, Richard and Robert Hutton, who made it a part of their method.] (Med.) Forcible manipulation of a dislocated, stiff, or painful joint.
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Huxter (?), n. & v. i. See .
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Huyghenian (?), a. Pertaining to, or invented by, Christian Huyghens, a Dutch astronomer of the seventeenth century; as, the Huyghenian telescope.
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Coloq. Huyghenian eyepiece See under .
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Huzz (?), v. i. [An onomatopœa. √43. Cf. .] To buzz; to murmur. [Obs.]
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Huzzing and burring in the preacher's ear. Latimer.
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Huzza (?), interj. [Cf. G. hussa, husa, interj., hurrah, huzza. √43. Cf. .] A word used as a shout of joy, exultation, approbation, or encouragement.
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Huzza, n. A shout of huzza; a cheer; a hurrah.
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They made a great huzza or shout. Evelyn.
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Huzza, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Huzzaed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Huzzaing.] To shout huzza; to cheer.
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Huzza, v. t. To receive or attend with huzzas.
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He was huzzaed into the court. Addison.
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Hy (?), a. High. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Hyacine (?), n. A hyacinth. [Obs.] Spenser.
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Hyacinth (?), n. [L. hyacinthus a kind of flower, prob. the iris, gladiolus, or larkspur, also a kind of gem, perh. the sapphire; as, a proper name, Hyacinthus, a beautiful Laconian youth, beloved by Apollo, fr. Gr. �, �: cf. F. hyacinthe. Cf. . The hyacinth was fabled to have sprung from the blood of Hyacinthus, who was accidentally slain by Apollo.] 1. (Bot.) (a) A bulbous plant of the genus Hyacinthus, bearing beautiful spikes of fragrant flowers. Hyacinthus orientalis is a common variety. (b) A plant of the genus Camassia (Camassia Farseri), called also Eastern camass; wild hyacinth. (c) The name also given to Scilla Peruviana, a Mediterranean plant, one variety of which produces white, and another blue, flowers; -- called also, from a mistake as to its origin, Hyacinth of Peru.
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2. (Min.) A red variety of zircon, sometimes used as a gem. See .
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Coloq. Hyacinth bean (Bot.), a climbing leguminous plant (Dolichos Lablab), related to the true bean. It has dark purple flowers and fruit.
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Hyacinthian (?), a. Hyacinthine. [R.]
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Hyacinthine (?), a. [L. hyacinthinus, Gr. �.] Belonging to the hyacinth; resembling the hyacinth; in color like the hyacinth. Milton.
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His curling locks like hyacinthine flowers. Cowper.
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The hyacinthine boy, for whom
Morn well might break and April bloom. Emerson.

Hyades n. (Greek mythology) The seven daughters of Atlas and half-sisters of the Pleiades; they nurtured the infant Dionysus and Zeus placed them among the stars as a reward.
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{ Hyades (?), Hyads (?), } n. pl. [L. Hyades, Gr. �.] (Astron.) A cluster of five stars in the face of the constellation Taurus, supposed by the ancients to indicate the coming of rainy weather when they rose with the sun.
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Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades
Vext the dim sea. Tennyson.
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hyaena, hyæna (?), n. (Zoöl.) Same as .
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Hyaenidae prop. n. A natural family of canids comprising the hyenas.
Syn. -- family Hyaenidae.
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Hyalea (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. � glassy, fr. yalos glass.] (Zoöl.) A pteropod of the genus Cavolina. See , and Illustration in Appendix.
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Hyalescence (?), n. [See .] The process of becoming, or the state of being, transparent like glass.
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hyalin n. a glassy translucent material that occurs in hyaline cartilage or in certain skin conditions.
Syn. -- hyaline.
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Hyaline (?), a. [L. hyalinus, Gr. �, fr. yalos glass: cf. F. hyalin.] Glassy; resembling glass; consisting of glass; transparent, like crystal. “Hyaline spaces.” Carpenter.
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Hyaline, n. 1. A poetic term for the sea or the atmosphere. “The clear hyaline, the glassy sea.” Milton.
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Our blood runs amazed 'neath the calm hyaline. Mrs. Browning.
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2. (Biol.) The pellucid substance, present in cells in process of development, from which, according to some embryologists, the cell nucleus originates.
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3. (Physiol. Chem.) The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible of alcoholic fermentation. Gamgee.
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Hyalite (?), n. [Gr. yalos glass: cf. F. hyalite.] (Min.) A pellucid variety of opal in globules looking like colorless gum or resin; -- called also Müller's glass.
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Hyalograph (?), n. [Gr. yalos glass + graph.] An instrument for tracing designs on glass.
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Hyalography (?), n. Art of writing or engraving on glass.
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Hyaloid (?), a. [Gr. � glassy, transparent; yalos glass + � appearance: cf. F. hyaloïde.] (Anat.) Resembling glass; vitriform; transparent; hyaline; as, the hyaloid membrane, a very delicate membrane inclosing the vitreous humor of the eye.
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Hyalonema (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. yalos glass + � a thread.] (Zoöl.) A genus of hexactinelline sponges, having a long stem composed of very long, slender, transparent, siliceous fibres twisted together like the strands of a color. The stem of the Japanese species (Hyalonema Sieboldii), called glass-rope, has long been in use as an ornament. See .
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Hyalophane (?), n. [Gr. yalos glass + � to appear.] (Min.) A species of the feldspar group containing barium. See .
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Hyalospongia (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. yalos glass + � a sponge.] (Zoöl.) An order of vitreous sponges, having glassy six-rayed, siliceous spicules; -- called also Hexactinellinæ.
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Hyalotype (?), n. [Gr. yalos glass + -type.] A photographic picture copied from the negative on glass; a photographic transparency. R. Hunt.

{ Hybernacle (?), Hybernate (?), Hybernation (?). } See , , .
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Hyblæan (?), a. [L. Hyblaeus.] Pertaining to Hybla, an ancient town of Sicily, famous for its bees.
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Hybodont (?), a. [Gr. � hump + �, �, a tooth.] (Paleon.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an extinct genus of sharks (Hybodus), especially in the form of the teeth, which consist of a principal median cone with smaller lateral ones.
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Hybodus (?), n. [NL. See .] (Paleon.) An extinct genus of sharks having conical, compressed teeth.
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Hybrid (?), n. [L. hybrida, hibrida, prob. allied to Gr. � wantonness (as if unbridled, lawless, unnatural), perh. akin to Gr. yper over, E. over: cf. F. hybride.] 1. (Biol.) The offspring of the union of two animals or plants derived from recognizably different genetic lines, as two distinct species, or two strains of the same species with known genetic differences; an animal or plant produced from the mixture of two genetic lines. See .
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2. (Philol.) A word composed of elements which belong to different languages.
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3. anything derived by a mixture of components or characteristics from two distinctly different sources; as, a musical hybrid; a DNA-RNA hybrid.
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Hybrid, a. 1. Produced from the mixture of two genetically distinct strains; as, plants of hybrid nature.
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2. derived by a mixture of characteristics from two distinctly different sources; as, a hybrid musical style; a hybrid DNA molecule.
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Hybridism (?), n. The state or quality of being hybrid.
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Hybridist, n. One who hybridizes.
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Hybridity (?), n. Hybridism.
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Hybridizable (?), a. Capable of forming a hybrid, or of being subjected to a hybridizing process; capable of producing a hybrid by union with another species or stock.
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Hybridizable genera are rarer than is generally supposed, even in gardens where they are so often operated upon, under circumstances most favorable to the production of hybrids. J. D. Hooker.
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Hybridization (?), n. The act of hybridizing, or the state of being hybridized.
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Hybridize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hybridized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hybridizing (?).] To render hybrid; to produce by mixture of stocks.
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Hybridize (?), v. i. (Biol.) To produce hybrid offspring; to interbreed; to cross.
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Hybridizer (?), n. One who hybridizes.
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Hybridous (?), a. Same as .
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Hydage (?), n. (Law) A land tax. See .
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Hydantoic (?), a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, hydantoin. See .
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Hydantoin (?), n. [Hydrogen + allantion.] (Chem.) A derivative of urea, C3H4N2O2, obtained from allantion, as a white, crystalline substance, with a sweetish taste; -- called also glycolyl urea.
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Hydatid (?), n. [Gr. �, �, a watery vesicle under the upper eyelid, fr. ydwr, ydatos, water: cf. F. hydatide.] (Zoöl.) A membranous sac or bladder filled with a pellucid fluid, found in various parts of the bodies of animals, but unconnected with the tissues. It is usually formed by parasitic worms, esp. by larval tapeworms, as Echinococcus and Cœnurus. See these words in the Vocabulary.
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Coloq. Hydatid of Morgagni (Anat.), one of the small pedunculated bodies found between the testicle and the head of the epididymis, and supposed to be a remnant of the Müllerian duct.
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Hydatiform (?), a. [Hydatid + -form.] Resembling a hydatid.
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Hydatoid (?), a. [Gr. ydwr, ydatos, water + -oid.] (Anat.) Resembling water; watery; aqueous; hyaloid.
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Hydr- (?). See under .
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Hydra (?), n.; pl. E. Hydras (#), L. Hydræ (#). [L. hydra, Gr. ydra; akin to ydwr water. See the animal, .] 1. (Class. Myth.) A serpent or monster in the lake or marsh of Lerna, in the Peloponnesus, represented as having many heads, one of which, when cut off, was immediately succeeded by two others, unless the wound was cauterized. It was slain by Hercules. Hence, a terrible monster.
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Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire. Milton.
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2. Hence: A multifarious evil, or an evil having many sources; not to be overcome by a single effort.
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3. (Zoöl.) Any small fresh-water hydroid of the genus Hydra, usually found attached to sticks, stones, etc., by a basal sucker.
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☞ The body is a simple tube, having a mouth at one extremity, surrounded by a circle of tentacles with which it captures its prey. Young hydras bud out from the sides of the older ones, but soon become detached and are then like their parent. Hydras are remarkable for their power of repairing injuries; for if the body be divided in pieces, each piece will grow into a complete hydra, to which fact the name alludes. The zooids or hydranths of marine hydroids are sometimes called hydras.
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4. (Astron.) A southern constellation of great length lying southerly from Cancer, Leo, and Virgo.
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Hydrachnid (?), n. [Hydr- + arachnid.] (Zoöl.) An aquatic mite of the genus Hydrachna. The hydrachnids, while young, are parasitic on fresh-water mussels.
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Hydracid (?), n. [Hydr- + acid: cf. F. hydracide.] (Chem.) An acid containing hydrogen; -- sometimes applied to distinguish acids like hydrochloric, hydrofluoric, and the like, which contain no oxygen, from the oxygen acids or oxacids. See .
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Hydracrylic (?), a. [Hydr- + acrylic.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an isomeric variety of lactic acid that breaks down into acrylic acid and water.
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Hydractinian (?), n. [See , and .] (Zoöl.) Any species or marine hydroids, of the genus Hydractinia and allied genera. These hydroids form, by their rootstalks, a firm, chitinous coating on shells and stones, and esp. on spiral shells occupied by hermit crabs. See Illust. of .
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