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One of the calicles which, in some Hydroidea (Thecaphora), protect the hydrants. See Illust. of Hydroidea, and Campanularian.

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

o 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.

The middle layer of the gonophore in the Hydrozoa.

Having a single loculament.

An egg case, especially those of many kinds of mollusks, and of some insects, as the cockroach. Cf. Ooecium.

A picture gallery.

A hypothetical genus of primates intermediate between man and the anthropoid apes. Haeckel.

The scaly covering of the foot of a bird or reptile.

An apothecary. [Obs.]

To hypothecate again. -- Re`hy*poth`e*ca"tion, n.

The horny covering of the bill of birds.

The sheath of the upper mandible of a bird.

A small sac connected with the female reproductive organs of insects and many other invertebrates, serving to receive and retain the spermatozoa.

Having four loculaments, or thecæ.

d honey, ana (or, contracted, aa), ., that is, of wine and honey, each, two ounces. An apothecary with a . . . long bill of anas. Dryden.

articulated himself upon a process that hand already begun in the Christian church. Bibliotheca Sacra. To . . . articulate the dumb, deep want of the people. Carlyle.

on which the ovary of certain flowers, as the passion flower, is seated; a carpophore or thecaphore.