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plate. -- Horn of a dilemma. See under Dilemma. -- Horn distemper, a disease of cattle, affecting the internal substance of the horn. -- Horn drum, a wheel with long curved scoops, for raising water. -- Horn lead (Chem.), chloride of lead. -- Horn maker, a maker of cuckolds. [Obs.] Shak. -- Horn mercury. (Min.) S…

Those who dwell under the same roof and compose a family. And calls, without affecting airs, His household twice a day to prayers. Swift.

Affected with the disease called hoove; as, hoven cattle.

A close embrace or clasping with the arms, as in affection or in wrestling. Fuller.

ate sound, like h'm, through the nose in the process of speaking, from embarrassment or a affectation; to hem.

Content with right affections and actions toward man; ethical, as distinguished from religious; believing in the perfectibility of man's nature without supernatural aid.

Resembling hydrocephalus. Hydrocephaloid affection (Med.), the group of symptoms which follow exhausting diarrhea in young children, resembling those of acute hydrocephalus, or tubercular meningitis.

Of or pertaining to the motions of fluids, or the forces which produce or affect such motions; -- opposed to hydrostatic. Sir W. Thomson.

Of or pertaining to hypertrophy; affected with, or tending to, hypertrophy.

Affected, characterized, or produced, by hypochondriasis. Hypochondriac region (Anat.), a region on either side of the abdomen beneath the cartilages of the false ribs, beside the epigastric, and above the lumbar, region.

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

Affected with hypochondria; hypped. [Written also hyppish.]

A nervous affection, occurring almost exclusively in women, in which the emotional and reflex excitability is exaggerated, and the will power correspondingly diminished, so that the patient loses control over the emotions, becomes the victim of imaginary sensations, and often falls into paroxism or fits.…

Of or pertaining to hysteria; affected, or troubled, with hysterics; convulsive, fitful. With no hysteric weakness or feverish excitement, they preserved their peace and patience. Bancroft.

Pertaining to, or affected with, jaundice.

Yellow; of the color of the skin when it is affected by the jaundice.

; frigid; cold. Icy was the deportment with which Philip received these demonstrations of affection. Motley.

A peculiar, or individual, characteristic or affection. All men are so full of their own fancies and idiopathies, that they scarce have the civility to interchange any words with a stranger. Dr. H. More.

That on which the affections are strongly (often excessively) set; an object of passionate devotion; a person or thing greatly loved or adored. The soldier's god and people's idol. Denham.

To hold in the bosom; to cherish in the heart or affection; to embosom.