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- English Word Hydromellonic Definition See Cyamellone.
- English Word Hydrometallurgical Definition Of or pertaining to hydrometallurgy; involving the use of liquid reagents in the treatment or reduction of ores.
- English Word Hydrometallurgy Definition The art or process of assaying or reducing ores by means of liquid reagents.
- English Word Hydrometeor Definition A meteor or atmospheric phenomenon dependent upon the vapor of water; -- in the pl., a general term for the whole aqueous phenomena of the atmosphere, as rain, snow, hail, etc.
- English Word Hydrometeorological Definition Of or pertaining to hydrometeorology, or to rain, clouds, storms, etc.
- English Word Hydrometeorology Definition That branch of meteorology which relates to, or treats of, water in the atmosphere, or its phenomena, as rain, clouds, snow, hail, storms, etc.
- English Word Hydrometer Definition An instrument for determining the specific gravities of liquids, and thence the strength spirituous liquors, saline solutions, etc.
- English Word Hydrometer Definition An instrument, variously constructed, used for measuring the velocity or discharge of water, as in rivers, from reservoirs, etc., and called by various specific names according to its construction or use, as tachometer, rheometer, hydrometer, pendulum, etc.; a current gauge.
- English Word Hydrometric Definition Alt. of Hydrometrical
- English Word Hydrometrical Definition Of or pertaining to an hydrometer, or to the determination of the specific gravity of fluids.
- English Word Hydrometrical Definition Of or pertaining to measurement of the velocity, discharge, etc., of running water.
- English Word Hydrometrical Definition Made by means of an hydrometer; as, hydrometric observations.
- English Word Hydrometrograph Definition An instrument for determining and recording the quantity of water discharged from a pipe, orifice, etc., in a given time.
- English Word Hydrometry Definition The art of determining the specific gravity of liquids, and thence the strength of spirituous liquors, saline solutions, etc.
- English Word Hydrometry Definition The art or operation of measuring the velocity or discharge of running water, as in rivers, etc.
- English Word Hydromica Definition A variety of potash mica containing water. It is less elastic than ordinary muscovite.
- English Word Hydronephrosis Definition An accumulation of urine in the pelvis of the kidney, occasioned by obstruction in the urinary passages.
- English Word Hydropath Definition A hydropathist.
- English Word Hydropathic Definition Alt. of Hydropathical
- English Word Hydropathical Definition Of or pertaining to hydropathy.
- English Word Hydropathist Definition One who practices hydropathy; a water-cure doctor.
- English Word Hydropathy Definition The water cure; a mode of treating diseases by the copious and frequent use of pure water, both internally and externally.
- English Word Hydroperitoneum Definition Same as Ascites.
- English Word Hydrophane Definition A semitranslucent variety of opal that becomes translucent or transparent on immersion in water.
- English Word Hydrophanous Definition Made transparent by immersion in water.
- English Word Hydrophid Definition Any sea snake of the genus Hydrophys and allied genera. These snakes are venomous, live upon fishes, and have a flattened tail for swimming.
- English Word Hydrophlorone Definition A white, crystalline benzene derivative, C8H10O2, obtained by the reduction of phlorone.
- English Word Hydrophobia Definition An abnormal dread of water, said to be a symptom of canine madness; hence:
- English Word Hydrophobia Definition The disease caused by a bite form, or inoculation with the saliva of, a rabid creature, of which the chief symptoms are, a sense of dryness and construction in the throat, causing difficulty in deglutition, and a marked heightening of reflex excitability, producing convulsions whenever the patient attempts to swallow, or is disturbed in any way, as by the sight or sound of water; rabies; canine madness.
- English Word Hydrophobic Definition Of or pertaining to hydrophobia; producing or caused by rabies; as, hydrophobic symptoms; the hydrophobic poison.