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Hypothesis :: Hypothesis (n.) A supposition; a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof of the point in question; something not proved, but assumed for the purpose of argument, or to account for a fact or an occurrence; as, the hypothesis that head winds detain an overdue steamer..

Hyperaspist :: Hyperaspist (n.) One who holds a shield over another; hence, a defender..

Tutsan :: Tutsan (n.) A plant of the genus Hypericum (H. Androsoemum), from which a healing ointment is prepared in Spain; -- called also parkleaves..

Vapor :: Vapor (n.) An old name for hypochondria, or melancholy; the blues..

Hypapophyles :: Hypapophyles (pl. ) of Hypapophysi.

Hyperdicrotic :: Hyperdicrotic (a.) Excessive dicrotic; as, a hyperdicrotic pulse..

Hyperoxide :: Hyperoxide (n.) A compound having a relatively large percentage of oxygen; a peroxide.

Antichthon :: Antichthon (n.) A hypothetical earth counter to ours, or on the opposite side of the sun..

Hypodermatic :: Hypodermatic (a.) Hypodermic.

Xanthin :: Xanthin (n.) A crystalline nitrogenous body closely related to both uric acid and hypoxanthin, present in muscle tissue, and occasionally found in the urine and in some urinary calculi. It is also present in guano. So called from the yellow color of certain of its salts (nitrates)..

Hypoderma :: Hypoderma (n.) 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..

Fiddler :: Fiddler (n.) The common European sandpiper (Tringoides hypoleucus); -- so called because it continually oscillates its body.

Hyporhachis :: Hyporhachis (n.) The stem of an aftershaft or hypoptilum.

Macroglossia :: Macroglossia (n.) Enlargement or hypertrophy of the tongue.

Tartufe :: Tartufe (n.) A hypocritical devotee. See the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

Hypermetropy :: Hypermetropy (n.) A condition of the eye in which, through shortness of the eyeball or fault of the refractive media, the rays of light come to a focus behind the retina; farsightedness; -- called also hyperopia. Cf. Emmetropia..

Urethane :: Urethane (n.) A white crystalline substance, NH2.CO.OC2H5, produced by the action of ammonia on ethyl carbonate. It is used somewhat in medicine as a hypnotic. By extension, any one of the series of related substances of which urethane proper is the type..

Hypocarpogean :: Hypocarpogean (a.) Producing fruit below the ground.

Hypostoma :: Hypostoma (n.) The lower lip of trilobites, crustaceans, etc..

Stahlian :: Stagworm (n.) The larve of any species of botfly which is parasitic upon the stag, as /strus, or Hypoderma, actaeon, which burrows beneath the skin, and Cephalomyia auribarbis, which lives in the nostrils..

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