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A genus of leguminous plants containing but a single species, the H. Campechianum or logwood tree, native in Yucatan.

utinosa), allied to the lamprey. It has a suctorial mouth, with labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings. It is the type of the order Hyperotpeta. Called also hagfish, borer, slime eel, sucker, and sleepmarken.

A single particle of ice falling from a cloud; a frozen raindrop; a pellet of hail.

r support; to depend; to cling; -- usually with on or upon; as, this question hangs on a single point. "Two infants hanging on her neck." Peacham.

lating to the accessory sounds or overtones which accompany the predominant and apparent single tone of any string or sonorous body.

A single draught of a net; as, to catch a hundred fish at a haul.

man deputed of the king to hear thee. 2 Sam. xv. 3. I beseech your honor to hear me one single word. Shak.

Of a single and sincere heart. If he keeps heart-whole towards his Master. Bunyan.

A single complete operation of heating, as at a forge or in a furnace; as, to make a horseshoe in a certain number of heats.

Passage of urine mingled with blood.

of vesicles in small distinct clusters, accompanied with itching or tingling, including shingles, ringworm, and the like; -- so called from its tendency to creep or spread from one part of the skin to another.

A genus of large, extinct, wingless birds from the Cretaceous deposits of Kansas, belonging to the Odontornithes. They had teeth, and were essentially carnivorous swimming ostriches. Several species are known. See Illust. in Append.

orm and structure; -- as certain insects, the males of which are winged, and the females wingless.

our from grain by several successive grindings and intermediate sorting, instead of by a single grinding. -- High noon, the time when the sun is in the meridian. -- High place (Script.), an eminence or mound on which sacrifices were offered. -- High priest. See in the Vocabulary. -- High relief. (Fine Arts) See Alt…

A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them; as, a hill of corn or potatoes. [U. S.] Hill ant (Zoöl.), a common ant (Formica rufa), of Europe and America, which makes mounds or ant-hills over its nests. -- Hill myna (Zoöl.), one of several species of birds of I…

To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; -- said of a single unprotected piece on a point. To hit off, to describe with quick characteristic strokes; as, to hit off a speaker. Sir W. Temple. -- To hit out, to perform by good luck. [Obs.] Spenser.

Having a single series of large scutes on the posterior side of the tarsus; -- said of certain birds.

Expressing a phrase or sentence in a single word, -- as is the case in the aboriginal languages of America.

Employing a single and separate character to represent each sound; -- said of certain methods of spelling words.

That method of spelling in which every sound is represented by a single character, which indicates that sound and no other.