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A solid figure with seven sides.

e spines of the dorsal fin unsymmetrical, or thickened alternately on the right and left sides.

The power of producing two kinds of reproductive bodies, as in Amphicarpæa, in which besides the usual pods, there are others underground.

f a lever, pulley, etc., in which the resistance and the actuating force are on opposite sides of the fulcrum or axis.

A crag; a cliff; a glen with overhanging sides. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

ure of six angles. Regular hexagon, a hexagon in which the angles are all equal, and the sides are also all equal.

Having six sides and six angles; six-sided. Hexagonal system. (Crystal.) See under Crystallization.

In the form of a hexahedron; having six sides or faces.

A solid body of six sides or faces. Regular hexahedron, a hexagon having six equal squares for its sides; a cube.

wledge; to keep secret; to refrain from avowing or confessing. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate. Pope.

One who hides or conceals.

A screw cut on a solid whose sides are arcs of the periphery of a wheel into the teeth of which the screw is intended to work. It is named from the person who first used the form.

The external angle formed by the meeting of two sloping sides or skirts of a roof, which have their wall plates running in different directions.

0 B. C. Hippocrates' sleeve, a conical strainer, made by stitching together two adjacent sides of a square piece of cloth, esp. flannel of linen.

terruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; -- said of something obstructed or impeded. Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme. Pope. To ease themselves . . . by hitching into another place. Fuller.

A low bush (Viburnum lantanoides) having long, straggling branches and handsome flowers. It is found in the Northern United States. Called also shinhopple.

fessional tramp; one who spends his life traveling from place to place, esp. by stealing rides on trains, and begging for a living. [U. S.] -- Ho"bo*ism (#), n.

ridge formed by tilted strata; hence, any ridge with a sharp summit, and steeply sloping sides.

main in office, possession, etc., beyond a certain date. -- To hold to or with, to take sides with, as a person or opinion. -- To hold together, to be joined; not to separate; to remain in union. Dryden. Locke. -- To hold up. (a) To support one's self; to remain unbent or unbroken; as, to hold up under misfortunes.…

That which is homologous to something else; as, the corresponding sides, etc., of similar polygons are the homologues of each other; the members or terms of an homologous series in chemistry are the homologues of each other; one of the bones in the hand of man is the homologue of that in the paddle of a whale.…