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The homology of parts arranged on transverse axes. Haeckel.

nded, as from the top of a wall. -- Hook motion (Steam Engin.), a valve gear which is reversed by V hooks. -- Hook squid, any squid which has the arms furnished with hooks, instead of suckers, as in the genera Enoploteuthis and Onychteuthis. -- Hook wrench, a wrench or spanner, having a hook at the end, instead of a…

A collector of customs, as at Canton; an overseer of commerce.

One versed in horology.

One versed in horoscopy; an astrologer.

dicating the hour. (b) (Dialing) A line on which the shadow falls at a given hour; the intersection of an hour circle which the face of the dial. -- Hour plate, the plate of a timepiece on which the hours are marked; the dial. Locke. -- Sidereal hour, the twenty-fourth part of a sidereal day. -- Solar hour, the twen…

A twelfth part of the heavens, as divided by six circles intersecting at the north and south points of the horizon, used by astrologers in noting the positions of the heavenly bodies, and casting horoscopes or nativities. The houses were regarded as fixed in respect to the horizon, and numbered from the one at the east…

One who does, or oversees, the work of keeping house; as, his wife is a good housekeeper; often, a woman hired to superintend the servants of a household and manage the ordinary domestic affairs.

to, or in the style of, the poem "Hudibras," by Samuel Butler; in the style of doggerel verse. Macaulay.

One versed in knowledge of human nature.

To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country.

One who is versed or skilled in hydrostatics. [R.]

One versed in hygiene.

doctrine of belief that matter is God, or that there is no God except matter and the universe; pantheism. See Materialism.

A composer or compiler of hymns; one versed in hymnology. Busby.

, above measure, abnormally great, excessive; as, hyperæmia, hyperbola, hypercritical, hypersecretion.

e, the law of which is, that the distance from the pole to the generating point varies inversely as the angle swept over by the radius vector.

of its axes. The surface has two separate sheets when the axis of revolution is the transverse axis, but only one when the axis of revolution is the conjugate axis of the hyperbola.

Having a syllable or two beyond measure; as, a hypercatalectic verse.

A verse which has a redundant syllable or foot; a hypercatalectic verse.