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  • English Word Huzz Definition To buzz; to murmur.
  • English Word Huzza Definition A word used as a shout of joy, exultation, approbation, or encouragement.
  • English Word Huzza Definition A shout of huzza; a cheer; a hurrah.
  • English Word Huzza Definition To shout huzza; to cheer.
  • English Word Huzza Definition To receive or attend with huzzas.
  • English Word Huzzaed Definition of Huzza
  • English Word Huzzaing Definition of Huzza
  • English Word Hy Definition High.
  • English Word Hyacine Definition A hyacinth.
  • English Word Hyacinth Definition A bulbous plant of the genus Hyacinthus, bearing beautiful spikes of fragrant flowers. H. orientalis is a common variety.
  • English Word Hyacinth Definition A plant of the genus Camassia (C. Farseri), called also Eastern camass; wild hyacinth.
  • English Word Hyacinth Definition 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.
  • English Word Hyacinth Definition A red variety of zircon, sometimes used as a gem. See Zircon.
  • English Word Hyacinthian Definition Hyacinthine.
  • English Word Hyacinthine Definition Belonging to the hyacinth; resemblingthe hyacinth; in color like the hyacinth.
  • English Word Hyades Definition Alt. of Hyads
  • English Word Hyads Definition 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.
  • English Word Hyaena Definition Same as Hyena.
  • English Word Hyalea Definition A pteroid of the genus Cavolina. See Pteropoda, and Illustration in Appendix.
  • English Word Hyalescence Definition The process of becoming, or the state of being, transparent like glass.
  • English Word Hyaline Definition Glassy; resembling glass; consisting of glass; transparent, like crystal.
  • English Word Hyaline Definition A poetic term for the sea or the atmosphere.
  • English Word Hyaline Definition The pellucid substance, present in cells in process of development, from which, according to some embryologists, the cell nucleous originates.
  • English Word Hyaline Definition The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible of alcoholic fermentation.
  • English Word Hyalite Definition A pellucid variety of opal in globules looking like colorless gum or resin; -- called also Muller's glass.
  • English Word Hyalograph Definition An instrument for tracing designs on glass.
  • English Word Hyalography Definition Art of writing or engraving on glass.
  • English Word Hyaloid Definition Resembling glass; vitriform; transparent; hyaline; as, the hyaloid membrane, a very delicate membrane inclosing the vitreous humor of the eye.
  • English Word Hyalonema Definition 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 (H. Sieboldii), called glass-rope, has long been in use as an ornament. See Glass-rope.
  • English Word Hyalophane Definition A species of the feldspar group containing barium. See Feldspar.