Apothecaries :: Apothecaries (pl. ) of Apothecar.

Apothecary :: Apothecary (n.) One who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes.

Athecata :: Athecata (n. pl.) A division of Hydroidea in which the zooids are naked, or not inclosed in a capsule. See Tubularian..

Bibliotheca :: Bibliotheca (n.) A library.

Bibliothecal :: Bibliothecal (a.) Belonging to a library.

Bibliothecary :: Bibliothecary (n.) A librarian.

Dactylotheca :: Dactylotheca (n.) The scaly covering of the toes, as in birds..

Dertrotheca :: Dertrotheca (n.) The horny covering of the end of the bill of birds.

Dithecal :: Dithecal (a.) Alt. of Dithecou.

Endotheca :: Endotheca (n.) The tissue which partially fills the interior of the interseptal chambers of most madreporarian corals. It usually consists of a series of oblique tranverse septa, one above another..

Epitheca :: Epitheca (n.) A continuous and, usually, structureless layer which covers more or less of the exterior of many corals..

Exotheca :: Exotheca (n.) The tissue which fills the interspaces between the costae of many madreporarian corals, usually consisting of small transverse or oblique septa..

Glyptotheca :: Glyptotheca (n.) A building or room devoted to works of sculpture.

Gnathotheca :: Gnathotheca (n.) The horney covering of the lower mandible of a bird.

Gnathothecae :: GnathothecAe (pl. ) of Gnathothec.

Gonotheca :: Gonotheca (n.) A capsule developed on certain hydroids (Thecaphora), inclosing the blastostyle upon which the medusoid buds or gonophores are developed; -- called also gonangium, and teleophore. See Hydroidea, and Illust. of Campanularian..

Hierotheca :: Hierotheca (n.) A receptacle for sacred objects.

Hydrotheca :: Hydrotheca (n.) One of the calicles which, in some Hydroidea (Thecaphora), protect the hydrants. See Illust. of Hydroidea, and Campanularian..

Hydrothecae :: Hydrothecae (pl. ) of Hydrothec.

Hydrothecas :: Hydrothecas (pl. ) of Hydrothec.

Hypotheca :: Hypotheca (n.) An obligation by which property of a debtor was made over to his creditor in security of his debt.

Hypothecate :: Hypothecate (v. t.) To subject, as property, to liability for a debt or engagement without delivery of possession or transfer of title; to pledge without delivery of possession; to mortgage, as ships, or other personal property; to make a contract by bottomry. See Hypothecation, Bottomry..

Hypothecated :: Hypothecated (imp. & p. p.) of Hypothecat.

Hypothecating :: Hypothecating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hypothecat.

Hypothecation :: Hypothecation (n.) The act or contract by which property is hypothecated; a right which a creditor has in or to the property of his debtor, in virtue of which he may cause it to be sold and the price appropriated in payment of his debt. This is a right in the thing, or jus in re..

Hypothecation :: Hypothecation (n.) A contract whereby, in consideration of money advanced for the necessities of the ship, the vessel, freight, or cargo is made liable for its repayment, provided the ship arrives in safety. It is usually effected by a bottomry bond. See Bottomry..

Hypothecator :: Hypothecator (n.) One who hypothecates or pledges anything as security for the repayment of money borrowed.

Mesotheca :: Mesotheca (n.) The middle layer of the gonophore in the Hydrozoa.

Monothecal :: Monothecal (a.) Having a single loculament.

Ootheca :: Ootheca (n.) An egg case, especially those of many kinds of mollusks, and of some insects, as the cockroach. Cf. Ooecium..

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