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A process on the posterior side of the tarsometatarsus of many birds; the calcaneal process. -- Hy`po*tar"sal, a.

The side of a right-angled triangle that is opposite to the right angle.

A landlord's right, independently of stipulation, over the stocking (cattle, implements, etc.), and crops of his tenant, as security for payment of rent.

An obligation by which property of a debtor was made over to his creditor in security of his debt.

n; to mortgage, as ships, or other personal property; to make a contract by bottomry. See Hypothecation, Bottomry. He had found the treasury empty and the pay of the navy in arrear. He had no power to hypothecate any part of the public revenue. Those who lent him money lent it on no security but his bare word. Macaulay…

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. Pothier. B. R. Curtis. There are but few cases, if any, in…

One who hypothecates or pledges anything as security for the repayment of money borrowed.

base of the little finger, or a corresponding part in the forefoot of an animal; as, the hypothenar eminence.

The hypothenar eminence.

Of or pertaining to hypothenuse. [R.]

Same as Hypotenuse.

t 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. An hypothesis being a mere supposition, there are no other limits to hypotheses than those of the human imagination. J. S. Mill.

Characterized by, or of the nature of, an hypothesis; conditional; assumed without proof, for the purpose of reasoning and deducing proof, or of accounting for some fact or phenomenon. Causes hypothetical at least, if not real, for the various phenomena of the existence of which our experience informs us. Sir W. Hamilt…

One who proposes or supports an hypothesis. [R.]

Same as Gorgerin.

A division of ciliated Infusoria in which the cilia cover only the under side of the body.

or radius produced, of a circle which rolls upon the concave side of a fixed circle. See Hypocycloid, Epicycloid, and Trochoid.

A vivid, picturesque description of scenes or events.

A crystalline, nitrogenous substance, closely related to xanthin and uric acid, widely distributed through the animal body, but especially in muscle tissue; -- called also sarcin, sarkin.

Anterior in age to the lowest rocks which contain organic remains. Lyell.