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d. -- Horned horse (Zoöl.), the gnu. -- Horned lark (Zoöl.), the shore lark. -- Horned lizard (Zoöl.), the horned toad. -- Horned owl (Zoöl.), a large North American owl (Bubo Virginianus), having a pair of elongated tufts of feathers on the head. Several distinct varieties are known; as, the Arctic, Western, dusky…

lly combined with some substance to form a hydrate; -- distinguished from water of crystallization.

A hydrous salt; a salt combined with water of hydration or crystallization.

Containing water of hydration or crystallization.

Abnormal breathing, due to slightly deficient arterialization of the blood; -- in distinction from eupnoea. See Eupnoea, and Dispnoea.

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.

is noted for destroying the eggs and young of the crocodile as well as various snakes and lizards, and hence was considered sacred by the ancient Egyptians. The common species of India (H. griseus), known as the mongoose, has similar habits and is often domesticated. It is noted for killing the cobra.…

A general notion, or a conception formed by generalization. Alice had not the slightest idea what latitude was. L. Caroll.

To treat in an ideal manner. See Idealization, 2.

Of or pertaining to an idealogue, or to idealization.

Any species of the genus Iguana, a genus of large American lizards of the family Iguanidæ. They are arboreal in their habits, usually green in color, and feed chiefly upon fruits.

horized by good usage; not genuine; spurious; as, an illegitimate word. Illegitimate fertilization, or Illegitimate union (Bot.), the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers. Darwin.

o form a single new cell endowed with the power of developing into a new individual; fertilization; fecundation.

Want of civilization; a state of rudeness or barbarism. [R.] Sir W. Raleigh.

The act of individuating or state of being individuated; individualization. H. Spencer.

rotection. "A most inherent baseness." Shak. The sore disease which seems inherent in civilization. Southey.

The process or result of cross fertilization between different kinds of animals, or different varieties of plants. We have reason to believe that occasional intercrosses take place with all animals and plants. Darwin.

bands, or darkness, in the case of light, silence or increased intensity in sounds; neutralization or superposition of waves generally.

erjectional speech, such as gestures, grimaces, and gesticulations, are restrained by civilization. Earle.

ical, which succeeded the Moralities or Moral Plays in the transition to the romantic or Elizabethan drama.