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Of or pertaining to matter; material; corporeal; as, hylic influences.

A philosopher who treats chiefly of matter; one who adopts or teaches hylism.

A theory which regards matter as the original principle of evil.

Any species of the genus Hylobates; a gibbon, or long-armed ape. See Gibbon.

The piping frog (Hyla Pickeringii), a small American tree frog, which in early spring, while breeding in swamps and ditches, sings with high, shrill, but musical, notes.

Same as Hylotheism.

Same as Hylotheist.

The doctrine that matter is sentient. Krauth-Fleming.

One who believes in hylopathism.

Eating green shoots, as certain insects do.

The doctrine of belief that matter is God, or that there is no God except matter and the universe; pantheism. See Materialism.

One who believes in hylotheism.

Of or pertaining to hylozoism.

The doctrine that matter possesses a species of life and sensation, or that matter and life are inseparable. [R.] Cudworth.

A believer in hylozoism. A. Tucker.

The wild ass of Persia.

acchus and Venus. He was the god of marriage, and presided over nuptial solemnities. Till Hymen brought his love-delighted hour, There dwelt no joy in Eden's rosy bower. Campbell.

Of or pertaining to marriage; as, hymeneal rites. Pope.

The spore-bearing surface of certain fungi, as that on the gills of a mushroom.

The production of artificial membranes by contact of two fluids, as albumin and fat, by which the globules of the latter are surrounded by a thin film of the former.