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Same as Hæmaphæin.

Anæsthesia upon one side of the body.

A female paramour; a mistress, concubine, or harlot. -- He*tæ"ric, He*tai"ric (#), a.

A group of birds including the trogons.

One of a class of respiratory pigments, widely distributed in the animal kingdom, capable of ready oxidation and reduction.

Same as Hyena.

Pertaining to Hybla, an ancient town of Sicily, famous for its bees.

An abnormally watery state of the blood; anæmia.

An aëroplane with a boatlike or other understructure that enables it to travel on, or to rise from the surface of, a body of water by its own motive power.

A large Wealden dinosaur from the Tilgate Forest, England. It was about twenty feet long, protected by bony plates in the skin, and armed with spines.

Exposed to the air; wanting a roof; -- applied to a building or part of a building. Gwilt.

A superabundance or congestion of blood in an organ or part of the body. Active hyperæmia, cognestion d%ue to increased flow of blood to a part. -- Passive hyperæmia, interchange due to obstruction in the return of blood from a part. -- Hy`per*æ"mic, a.

A state of exalted or morbidly increased sensibility of the body, or of a part of it. -- Hy`per*æs*thet"ic, a.

The long, branching filaments of which the mycelium (and the greater part of the plant) of a fungus is formed. They are also found enveloping the gonidia of lichens, making up a large part of their structure.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, the peanut, or earthnut (Arachis hypogæa). Hypogæic acid (Chem.), an acid in the oil of the earthnut, in which it exists as a glyceride, and from which it is extracted as a white, crystalline substance.

Infection of the blood with ichorous or putrid substances.

Pertaining to the ileum and cæcum.

Persistent portions of a calyx or corolla; also, leaves which do not disarticulate from the stem, and hence remain for a long time.

Sacrifices offered to the souls of deceased heroes or friends.

Between the hemal arches or hemal spines. -- n.