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A furnace, esp. one connected with a series of small chambers and flues of tiles or other masonry through which the heat of a fire was distributed to rooms above. This contrivance, first used in bath, was afterwards adopted in private houses.

A salt of hypochlorous acid; as, a calcium hypochloride.

rtaining to, or derived from, chlorine having a valence lower than in chlorous compounds. Hypochlorous acid (Chem.), an acid derived from chlorine, not known in a pure state, but forming various salts, called hypochlorites.

The hypochondriac regions. See Hypochondrium.

Hypochondriasis; melancholy; the blues.

Of or pertaining to hypochondria, or the hypochondriac regions.

Same as Hypochondriac, 2. -- Hy`po*chon"dri*a*cal*ly, adv.

Hypochondriasis. [R.]

A mental disorder in which melancholy and gloomy views torment the affected person, particularly concerning his own health.

Hypochondriasis. [R.]

Either of the hypochondriac regions.

Hypochondriasis.

An astringent inspissated juice obtained from the fruit of a plant (Cytinus hypocistis), growing from the roots of the Cistus, a small European shrub.

A median process on the furculum, or merrythought, of many birds, where it is connected with the sternum.

Endearing; diminutive; as, the hypocoristic form of a name. The hypocoristic or pet form of William. Dr. Murray.

hypocraterimorphous; salver-shaped. Wood.

Salver-shaped; having a slender tube, expanding suddenly above into a bowl-shaped or spreading border, as in the blossom of the phlox and the lilac.

The act or practice of a hypocrite; a feigning to be what one is not, or to feel what one does not feel; a dissimulation, or a concealment of one's real character, disposition, or motives; especially, the assuming of false appearance of virtue or religion; a simulation of goodness. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of…

than he is; a false pretender to virtue or piety; one who simulates virtue or piety. The hypocrite's hope shall perish. Job viii. 13. I dare swear he is no hypocrite, but prays from his heart. Shak.

Hypocritically. [R.] Sylvester.