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The line between the lower part of the abdomen and the thigh, or the region of this line; the inguen.

enish, eel-like body, and is possessed of electric power. One fearful shock, fearful but momentary, like from the electric blow of the gymnotus. De Quincey.

The part of a large house, among the ancients, exclusively appropriated to women. [Written also gyneceum, gynecium.] Tennyson.

Of or relating to women.

The science which treats of the structure and diseases of women. -- Gyn`e*col"o*gist.

Hatred of women; repugnance to the society of women. Holmes.

The doctrine or theory of the gyrostat, or of the phenomena of rotating bodies.

Inhabited. [Archaic] Another world, which is habited by the ghosts of men and women. Addison.

weary with vexation. How are superstitious men hagged out of their wits with the fancy of omens. L'Estrange.

A pin, usually forked, or of bent wire, for fastening the hair in place, -- used by women.

; delusion. Hallucinations are always evidence of cerebral derangement and are common phenomena of insanity. W. A. Hammond.

An instrument for exhibition or illustration of the phenomena of halos, parhelia, and the like.

ally, a sale, gift, delivery, or using which is the first of a series, and regarded as on omen for the rest; a first installment; an earnest; as the first money received for the sale of goods in the morning, the first money taken at a shop newly opened, the first present sent to a young woman on her wedding day, etc. T…

which is written by hand; manuscript. The handwriting on the wall, a doom pronounced; an omen of disaster. Dan. v. 5.

erous; satisfying desire; as, a happy expedient; a happy effort; a happy venture; a happy omen. Chymists have been more happy in finding experiments than the causes of them. Boyle.

Suicide, by slashing the abdomen, formerly practiced in Japan, and commanded by the government in the cases of disgraced officials; disembowelment; -- also written, but incorrectly, hari-kari. W. E. Griffis.

A very astringent shrub (Spiræa tomentosa), common in pastures. The Potentilla fruticosa in also called by this name.

the head; esp., one with a crown and brim, made of various materials, and worn by men or women for protecting the head from the sun or weather, or for ornament. Hat block, a block on which hats are formed or dressed. -- To pass around the hat, to take up a collection of voluntary contributions, which are often receive…

A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as manifested in fire, the sun's rays, mechanical action, chemical combination, etc., becomes directly known to us through the sense of feeling. In its nature heat is a mode if motion, being i…

The phenomenon of turning toward the light, seen in many leaves and flowers.