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- English Word Hygiology Definition A treatise on, or the science of, the preservation of health.
- English Word Hygrine Definition An alkaloid associated with cocaine in coca leaves (Erythroxylon coca), and extracted as a thick, yellow oil, having a pungent taste and odor.
- English Word Hygrodeik Definition A form of hygrometer having wet and dry bulb thermometers, with an adjustable index showing directly the percentage of moisture in the air, etc.
- English Word Hygrograph Definition An instrument for recording automatically the variations of the humidity of the atmosphere.
- English Word Hygrology Definition The science which treats of the fluids of the body.
- English Word Hygrometer Definition An instrument for measuring the degree of moisture of the atmosphere.
- English Word Hygrometric Definition Alt. of Hygrometrical
- English Word Hygrometrical Definition Of or pertaining to hygrometry; made with, or according to, the hygrometer; as, hygrometric observations.
- English Word Hygrometrical Definition Readily absorbing and retaining moisture; as, hygrometric substances, like potash.
- English Word Hygrometry Definition That branch of physics which relates to the determination of the humidity of bodies, particularly of the atmosphere, with the theory and use of the instruments constructed for this purpose.
- English Word Hygrophanous Definition Having such a structure as to be diaphanous when moist, and opaque when dry.
- English Word Hygrophthalmic Definition Serving to moisten the eye; -- sometimes applied to the lachrymal ducts.
- English Word Hygroplasm Definition The fluid portion of the cell protoplasm, in opposition to stereoplasm, the solid or insoluble portion. The latter is supposed to be partly nutritive and partly composed of idioplasm.
- English Word Hygroscope Definition An instrument which shows whether there is more or less moisture in the atmosphere, without indicating its amount.
- English Word Hygroscopic Definition Of or pertaining to, or indicated by, the hygroscope; not readily manifest to the senses, but capable of detection by the hygroscope; as, glass is often covered with a film of hygroscopic moisture.
- English Word Hygroscopic Definition Having the property of readily inbibing moisture from the atmosphere, or of the becoming coated with a thin film of moisture, as glass, etc.
- English Word Hygroscopicity Definition The property possessed by vegetable tissues of absorbing or discharging moisture according to circumstances.
- English Word Hygrostatics Definition The science or art of comparing or measuring degrees of moisture.
- English Word Hying Definition of Hie
- English Word Hyke Definition See Haik, and Huke.
- English Word Hylaeosaur Definition Alt. of Hylaeosaurus
- English Word Hylaeosaurus Definition A large Wealden dinosaur from the Tilgate Forest, England. It was about twenty feet long, protected by bony plates in the skin, and armed with spines.
- English Word Hylarchical Definition Presiding over matter.
- English Word Hyleosaur Definition Same as Hylaeosaur.
- English Word Hylic Definition Of or pertaining to matter; material; corporeal; as, hylic influences.
- English Word Hylicist Definition A philosopher who treats chiefly of matter; one who adopts or teaches hylism.
- English Word Hylism Definition A theory which regards matter as the original principle of evil.
- English Word Hylobate Definition Any species of the genus Hylobates; a gibbon, or long-armed ape. See Gibbon.
- English Word Hylodes Definition The piping frog (Hyla Pickeringii), a small American tree frog, which in early spring, while breeding in swamps and ditches, sings with high, shrill, but musical, notes.
- English Word Hyloism Definition Same as Hylotheism.