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Partaking of, or tending to produce, hallucination.

quarters, in a torpid or lethargic state, as certain mammals, reptiles, and insects. Inclination would lead me to hibernate, during half the year, in this uncomfortable climate of Great Britain. Southey.

The act or state of hibernating. Evelyn.

Indued with humanity. [Obs.] Cranmer.

See Hibernacle, Hibernate, Hibernation.

See Hydrocyanide.

To hydrogenize.

The act of combining with hydrogen, or the state of being so combined.

Combined with a relatively large amount of oxygen; -- said of higher oxides. [Obs.]

United by hyphens; hyphened; as, a hyphenated or hyphened word.

Having the maxilla, or lower jaw, longer than the upper, as in the skimmer.

See Saint Ignatius's bean, under Saint.

Of habitual bad temper; peevish; fractious; cross; crabbed; surly; as, an ill-natured person.

to dispel the obscurity to by knowledge or reason; to explain; to elucidate; as, to illuminate a text, a problem, or a duty.

ism; in which ceremony a lighted taper was given them, as a symbol of the spiritual illumination they has received by that sacrament.

Giving or producing light; used for illumination. Illuminating gas. See Gas, n., 2 (a).

The act of illuminating, or supplying with light; the state of being illuminated.

Illuminism. [R.]

Tending to illuminate or illustrate; throwing light; illustrative. "Illuminative reading." Carlyle.

ation is to adorn books, especially manuscripts, with miniatures, borders, etc. See Illuminate, v. t., 3.