Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter H - Page 62
Hypochlorous (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, chlorine having a valence lower than in chlorous compounds.
Hypochlorous acid (Chem.), An acid derived from chlorine, not known in a pure state, but forming various salts, called hypochlorites.
Hypochondres (n. pl.) The hypochondriac regions. See Hypochondrium.
Hypochondrium (n.; pl. L. Hypochondria, E. Hypochondriums.) (Anat.) Either of the hypochondriac regions.
Hypochondrium (n.) The upper region of the abdomen just below the lowest ribs on either side of the epigastrium.
Hypochondria (n.) [NL.] (Med.) An excessive concern about one's own health, particularly a morbid worry about illnesses which a person imagines are affecting him, often focusing on specific symptoms; also called {hypochondriasis}.
Hypochondria (n.) Chronic and abnormal anxiety about imaginary symptoms and ailments [syn: hypochondria, hypochondriasis].
Hypochondria (n.) Hypochondriasis; melancholy; the blues.
Hypochondria (n.) [U] 慮病症，疑病症 A state in which a person continuously worries about their health without having any reason to do so.
// I thought the doctor was going to accuse me of hypochondria.
Hypochondriac (a.) Of or pertaining to hypochondria, or the hypochondriac regions.
Hypochondriac (a.) Affected, characterized, or produced, by hypochondriasis.
Hypochondriac region (Anat.), A region on either side of the abdomen beneath the cartilages of the false ribs, beside the epigastric, and above the lumbar, region.
Hypochondriac (n.) A person affected with hypochondria.
He had become an incurable hypochondriac. -- Macaulay.
Hypochondriac (a.) Suffering from hypochondria [syn: hypochondriac, hypochondriacal].
Hypochondriac (n.) A patient with imaginary symptoms and ailments.
Hypochondriacal (a.) Same as Hypochondriac, 2. -- Hy`po*chon"dri*a*cal*ly, adv.
Hypochondriacal (a.) Suffering from hypochondria [syn: hypochondriac, hypochondriacal].
Hypochondriacism (n.) (Med.) Hypochondriasis. [R.]
Hypochondriasis (n.) (Med.) A mental disorder in which melancholy and gloomy views torment the affected person, particularly concerning his own health; a morbid and deluded belief that one is afflicted with disease.
Syn: hypochondria.
Hypochondria (n.) [NL.] (Med.) An excessive concern about one's own health, particularly a morbid worry about illnesses which a person imagines are affecting him, often focusing on specific symptoms; also called hypochondriasis.
Hypochondriasis (n.) Chronic and abnormal anxiety about imaginary symptoms and ailments [syn: hypochondria, hypochondriasis].
Hypochondriasis (n.) Depression of one's own spirits.
Some heaps of trash upon a vacant lot Where long the village rubbish had been shot Displayed a sign among the stuff and stumps -- "Hypochondriasis." It meant The Dumps. Bogul S. Purvy
Hypochondriasm (n.) (Med.) Hypochondriasis. [R.]
Hypochondria (n. pl. ) of Hypochondrium.
Hypochondriums (n. pl. ) of Hypochondrium.
Hypochondrium (n.) (Anat.) Either of the hypochondriac regions.
Hypochondria (n.) [NL.] (Med.) An excessive concern about one's own health, particularly a morbid worry about illnesses which a person imagines are affecting him, often focusing on specific symptoms; also called hypochondriasis.
Hypochondria (n.) Chronic and abnormal anxiety about imaginary symptoms and ailments [syn: hypochondria, hypochondriasis].
Hypochondry (n.) Hypochondriasis.
Hypocist (n.) An astringent inspissated juice obtained from the fruit of a plant ({Cytinus hypocistis), growing from the roots of the Cistus, a small European shrub.
Hypocleida (n. pl. ) of Hypocleidium.
Hypocleidiums (n. pl. ) of Hypocleidium.
Hypocleidium (n.) (Anat.) A median process on the furculum, or merrythought, of many birds, where it is connected with the sternum.
Hypocoristic (a.) Endearing; diminutive; as, the hypocoristic form of a name.
The hypocoristic or pet form of William. -- Dr. Murray.
Hypocrateriform (a.) (Bot.) Hypocraterimorphous; salver-shaped. -- Wood.
Hypocraterimorphous (a.) (Bot.) Salver-shaped; having a slender tube, expanding suddenly above into a bowl-shaped or spreading border, as in the blossom of the phlox and the lilac.
Hypocrisies (n. pl. ) of Hypocrisy.
Hypocrisy (n.) 偽善；虛偽 [U] The act or practice of a hypocrite; a feigning to be what one is not, or to feel what one does not feel; a dissimulation, or a concealment of one's real character, disposition, or motives; especially, the assuming of false appearance of virtue or religion; a simulation of goodness.
Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy. -- Rambler.
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. -- La Rochefoucauld (Trans. ).
Hypocrisy (n.) An expression of agreement that is not supported by real conviction [syn: hypocrisy, lip service].
Hypocrisy (n.) Insincerity by virtue of pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not really have.
Hypocrite (n.) 偽君子，偽善者 One who plays a part; especially, one who, for the purpose of winning approbation of favor, puts on a fair outside seeming; one who feigns to be other and better than he is; a false pretender to virtue or piety; one who simulates virtue or piety.
The hypocrite's hope shall perish. -- Job viii. 13.
I dare swear he is no hypocrite, but prays from his heart. -- Shak.
Syn: Deceiver; pretender; cheat. See Dissembler.
Hypocrite (n.) A person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives [syn: hypocrite, dissembler, dissimulator, phony, phoney, pretender].
Hypocrite, () One who puts on a mask and feigns himself to be what he is not; a dissembler in religion. Our Lord severely rebuked the scribes and Pharisees for their hypocrisy (Matt. 6:2, 5, 16). "The hypocrite's hope shall perish" (Job 8:13). The Hebrew word here rendered "hypocrite" rather means the "godless" or "profane," as it is rendered in Jer. 23:11, i.e., polluted with crimes.
Hypocrite (n.) One who, profession virtues that he does not respect secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.
Hypocritely (adv.) Hypocritically. [R.] -- Sylvester.
Hypocritic (a.) See Hypocritical. -- Swift.
Hypocritical (a.) 偽善的，虛偽的 Of or pertaining to a hypocrite, or to hypocrisy; as, a hypocriticalperson; a hypocritical look; a hypocritical action.
Hypocritical professions of friendship and of pacific intentions were not spared. -- Macaulay. -- Hyp`o*crit"ic*al*ly, adv.
Hypocritical (a.) Professing feelings or virtues one does not have; "hypocritical praise."
Hypocritical (a.) 偽善的，虛偽的 Behaving in a way that suggests one has higher standards or more noble beliefs than is the case.
‘We don't go to church and we thought it would be hypocritical to have him christened.’
‘It would be entirely hypocritical of me to say I regret it because I don't.’
Hypocritically (adv.) 虛偽地；偽善地 See Hypocritical.
Hypocritically (adv.) In a hypocritical manner; "he behaved hypocritically by praying piously when people were watching."
Hypocrystalline (a.) (Crystallog.) Partly crystalline; -- said of rock which consists of crystals imbedded in a glassy ground mass.
Hypocycloid (n.) (Geom.) A curve traced by a point in the circumference of a circle which rolls on the concave side in the fixed circle. Cf. Epicycloid, and Trochoid.
Hypocycloid (n.) A line generated by a point on a circle that rolls around inside another circle.
-tyla (n. pl. ) of Hypodactylum.
Hypodactylum (n.) (Zool.) The under side of the toes.
Compare: Hypoblast
Hypoblast (n.) (Biol.) The inner or lower layer of the blastoderm; -- called also endoderm, entoderm, and sometimes hypoderm. See Illust. of Blastoderm, Delamination, and Ectoderm.
Hypoderm (n.) (Biol.) Same as Hypoblast.
Hypoderma (n.) (Bot.) A layer of tissue beneath the epidermis in plants, and performing the physiological function of strengthening the epidermal tissue. In phanerogamous plants it is developed as collenchyma.
Hypoderma (n.) (Zool.) An inner cellular layer which lies beneath the chitinous cuticle of arthropods, annelids, and some other invertebrates.
Hypoderma (n.) In some classifications considered the type genus of the family Hypodermatidae: warble flies [syn: Hypoderma, genus Hypoderma].
Hypodermatic (a.) Hypodermic. -- Hyp`o*der*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.
Hypodermic (a.) Of or pertaining to the parts under the skin.
Hypodermic medication, The application of remedies under the epidermis, usually by means of a small syringe, called the hypodermic syringe. -- Hyp`o*der"mic*al*ly, adv.
Hypodermic (n.) A hypodermic needle [2].
Hypodermic (a.) Relating to or located below the epidermis; "hypodermic needle"; "subcutaneous implant" [syn: hypodermic, subcutaneous].
Hypodermic (n.) A piston syringe that is fitted with a hypodermic needle for giving injections [syn: hypodermic syringe, hypodermic, hypo].
Hypodermis (n.) (Biol.) Same as Hypoblast.
Hypodermis (n.) (Zool.) Same as Hypoderma, 2. Hypodicrotic
Hypodermis (n.) Layer of cells that secretes the chitinous cuticle in e.g. arthropods.
Hypodicrotic (a.) Alt. of Hypodicrotous.
Hypodicrotous (a.) (Physiol.) Exhibiting retarded dicrotism; as, a hypodicrotic pulse curve.
Hypogaeic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the peanut, or earthnut ({Arachis hypogaea).
Hypog[ae]ic acid (Chem.), An acid in the oil of the earthnut, in which it exists as a glyceride, and from which it is extracted as a white, crystalline substance.
Hypogastric (a.) (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the hypogastrium or the hypogastric region.
Hypogastric region. () (a) The lower part of the abdomen.
Hypogastric region. () (b) An arbitrary division of the abdomen below the umbilical and between the two iliac regions.
Hypogastrium (n.) (Anat.) The lower part of the abdomen.
Hypogean (a.) (Bot.) Hypogeous. [Written also hypog[ae]an.]
Hypogene (a.) (Geol.) Formed or crystallized at depths the earth's surface; -- said of granite, gneiss, and other rocks, whose crystallization is believed of have taken place beneath a great thickness of overlying rocks. Opposed to epigene.
Hypogeous (a.) (Bot.) Growing under ground; remaining under ground; ripening its fruit under ground. [Written also hypog[ae]ous.]
Hypogea (n. pl. ) of Hypogeum.
Hypogeum (n.) (Anc. Arch.) The subterraneous portion of a building, as in amphitheaters, for the service of the games; also, subterranean galleries, as the catacombs.
Hypoglossal (a.) (Anat.) Under the tongue; -- applied esp., in the higher vertebrates, to the twelfth or last pair of cranial nerves, which are distributed to the base of the tongue.
Hypoglossal (n.) One of the hypoglossal nerves.
Hypoglossal (n.) Supplies intrinsic muscles of the tongue and other tongue muscles [syn: hypoglossal, hypoglossal nerve, nervus hypoglosus, twelfth cranial nerve].
Hypognatous (a.) (Zool.) Having the maxilla, or lower jaw, longer than the upper, as in the skimmer.
Hypogyn (n.) (Bot.) An hypogynous plant.
Hypogynous (a.) (Bot.) Inserted below the pistil or pistils; -- said of sepals, petals, and stamens; having the sepals, petals, and stamens inserted below the pistil; -- said of a flower or a plant. -- Gray.
Hypohyal (a.) (Anat.) Pertaining to one or more small elements in the hyoidean arch of fishes, between the caratohyal and urohyal.
Hypohyal (n.) One of the hypohyal bones or cartilages.
Hyponastic (a.) (Bot.) Exhibiting a downward convexity caused by unequal growth. Cf. Epinastic.
Hyponasty (n.) (Bot.) Downward convexity, or convexity of the inferior surface.
Hyponatremia (n.) Abnormally low level of sodium in the blood; associated with dehydration [ant: hypernatremia].
Hyponatremia (n.) A deficiency of sodium in the blood. Variant: or chiefly British Hyponatraemia [hypo- New Latin natrium, sodium; see hypernatremia -emia.], Hyponatremic or chiefly British Hyponatraemic (a.).
Hyponitrite (n.) (Chem.) A salt of hyponitrous acid.
Hyponitrous (a.) (Chem.) Containing or derived from nitrogen having a lower valence than in nitrous compounds.
Hyponitrous acid (Chem.), An unstable nitrogen acid, NOH, whose salts are produced by reduction of the nitrates, although the acid itself is not isolated in the free state except as a solution in water; -- called also nitrosylic acid.
Hyponym (n.) (Linguistics) 【語】下位的名稱；下義詞 A word that is more specific (less abstract) than a given word; a term designating a class which is a subtype of the given word; a subcategory; a subtype. Inverse of hypernym; as, "dog" is a hyponym of "mammal", and "mammal" is a hyponym of "vertebrate."
Syn: subordinate, subordinate word.
Hyponym (n.) A word that is more specific than a given word [syn: hyponym, subordinate, subordinate word].
Compare: Linguistics
Linguistics (n.) (pluraal noun) [treated as singular] 語言學 The scientific study of language and its structure, including the study of grammar, syntax, and phonetics. Specific branches of linguistics include sociolinguistics, dialectology, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, comparative linguistics, and structural linguistics.
Hypopharynx (n.) [解] 下咽部；喉咽（部） An appendage or fold on the lower side of the pharynx, in certain insects.
Hypophosphate (n.) (Chem.) A salt of hypophosphoric acid.
Hypophosphite (n.) (Chem.) A salt of hypophosphorous acid.
Hypophosphoric (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, or containing, phosphorus in a lower state of oxidation than in phosphoric compounds; as, hypophosphoric acid.
Hypophosphoric acid (Chem.), An acid, P2H4O6, produced by the slow oxidation of moist phosphorus, and isolated only as a solution in water. It is regarded as a condensation product of one molecule of phosphoric acid with one of phosphorous acid, by partial dehydration.
Hypophosphorous (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or containing, phosphorus in a lower state of oxidation than in phosphoric compounds; as, hypophosphorous acid.
Hypophosphorous acid (Chem.), An acid, H3PO2, whose salts are produced by the action of barium hygrate on phosphorus. It may be obtained from its water solution, by exaporation and freezing, as a white crystalline substance. It is a powerful reducing agent.
Hypophyllous (a.) (Bot.) Being or growing on the under side of a leaf, as the fruit dots of ferns.
Hypophysial (a.) (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the hypophysis; pituitary.
Hypophysis (n.) (pl. -ses) See Pituitary gland, Pituitary body, under Pituitary.
Hypophysial (a.) Of or relating to the hypophysis [syn: hypophyseal, hypophysial].
Hypophysis (n.) (Anat.) See Pituitary body, under Pituitary.
Hypophysis (n.) (Med.) Cataract.
Hypophysis (n.) The master gland of the endocrine system; located at the base of the brain [syn: pituitary, pituitary gland, pituitary body, hypophysis].
Hypoplastra (n. pl. ) of Hypoplastron.
Hypoplastron (n.) (Anat.) 下腹甲 The third lateral plate in the plastron of turtles; -- called also hyposternum.
Hypoptila (n. pl. ) of Hypoptilum.
Hypoptilums (n. pl. ) of Hypoptilum.
Hypoptilum (n.) (Zool.) An accessory plume arising from the posterior side of the stem of the contour feathers of many birds; -- called also aftershaft. See Illust. of Feather.
Hyporadii (n. pl. ) of Hyporadius.
Hyporadius (n.) (Zool.) One of the barbs of the hypoptilum, or aftershaft of a feather. See Feather.
Hyporhachides (n. pl. ) of Hyporhachis.
Hyporhachis (n.) (Zool.) The stem of an aftershaft or hypoptilum. [Written also hyporachis.]
Hyposkeletal (a.) (Anat.) Beneath the endoskeleton; hypaxial; as, the hyposkeletal muscles; -- opposed to episkeletal.
Hypospadias (n.) (Med.) 尿道下裂 A deformity of the penis, in which the urethra opens upon its under surface.
Hypospadias (n.) An abnormal condition in males in which the urethra opens on the under surface of the penis.
Hypostases (n. pl. ) of Hypostasis.
Hypostasis (n.) That which forms the basis of anything; underlying principle; a concept or mental entity conceived or treated as an existing being or thing.
Hypostasis (n.) (Theol.) Substance; subsistence; essence; person; personality; -- used by the early theologians to denote any one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Note: The Council of Alexandria (a. d. 362) defined hypostasis as synonymous with person. -- Schaff-Herzog.
Hypostasis (n.) Principle; an element; -- used by the alchemists in speaking of salt, sulphur, and mercury, which they considered as the three principles of all material bodies.
Hypostasis (n.) (Med.) That which is deposited at the bottom of a fluid; sediment.
Hypostasis (n.) The suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene [syn: hypostasis, epistasis].
Hypostasis (n.) The accumulation of blood in an organ.
Hypostasis (n.) Any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united [syn: hypostasis, hypostasis of Christ].
Hypostasis (n.) (Metaphysics) Essential nature or underlying reality.
Hypostasize (v. t.) To make into a distinct substance; to conceive or treat as an existing being; to hypostatize. [R.]
The pressed Newtonians . . . refused to hypostasize the law of gravitation into an ether. -- Coleridge. Hypostatic
Hypostatic (a.) Alt. of Hypostatical.
Hypostatical (a.) 本質的；實在的 Relating to hypostasis, or substance; hence, constitutive, or elementary.
The grand doctrine of the chymists, touching their three hypostatical principles. -- Boyle.
Hypostatical (a.) Personal, or distinctly personal; relating to the divine hypostases, or substances. -- Bp. Pearson.
Hypostatical (a.) (Med.) Depending upon, or due to, deposition or setting; as, hypostatic cognestion, cognestion due to setting of blood by gravitation.
Hypostatic union (Theol.) The union of the divine with the human nature of Christ. -- Tillotson.
Hypostatically (adv.) 根本原理；原質；本質 In a hypostatic manner.
Hypostatize (v. t.) 使實體化；視為實存 To make into, or regarded as, a separate and distinct substance.
Looked upon both species and genera as hypostatized universals. -- Pop. Sci. Monthly.
Hypostatize (v. t.) To attribute actual or personal existence to. -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Hypostatize (v.) Construe as a real existence, of a conceptual entity [syn: hypostatize, hypostatise].
Compare: Hypoplastron
Hypoplastron (n.; pl. Hypoplastra.) (Anat.) 下腹甲 The third lateral plate in the plastron of turtles; -- called also hyposternum.
Hyposterna (n. pl. ) of Hyposternum.
Hyposternums (n. pl. ) of Hyposternum.
Hyposternum (n.) (Anat.) See Hypoplastron. Hypostome
Hypostome (n.) Alt. of Hypostoma.
Hypostoma (n.) (Zool.) The lower lip of trilobites, crustaceans, etc.
Hypostrophe (n.) (Med.) The act of a patient turning himself.
Hypostrophe (n.) (Med.) A relapse, or return of a disease.
Hypostyle (a.) (Arch.) Resting upon columns; constructed by means of columns; -- especially applied to the great hall at Karnak.