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Belonging or relating to winter; wintry; winterish. Sir T. Browne.

Of or relating to hierophants or their teachings.

. -- Hip molding (Arch.), a molding on the hip of a roof, covering the hip joint of the slating or other roofing. -- Hip rafter (Arch.), the rafter extending from the wall plate to the ridge in the angle of a hip roof. -- Hip roof, Hipped roof (Arch.), a roof having sloping ends and sloping sides. See Hip, n., 2., a…

To give a Spanish form or character to; as, to Hispanicize Latin words.

The science which treats of the laws relating to organic tissues, their formation, development, functions, etc.

Of or relating to the stage or a stageplayer; befitting a theatre; theatrical; -- sometimes in a bad sense. -- His`tri*on"ic*al*ly, adv. Tainted with false and histrionic feeling. De Quincey.

exhausted glass tube with metallic electrodes nearly in contact so as to exhibit the insulating effects of a vacuum. It was used by the German physicist W. Hittorf (b. 1824).

; to amass and deposit in secret; to store secretly, or for the sake of keeping and accumulating; as, to hoard grain.

Relating to Holland; Dutch.

Relating to that kind of homology or symmetry, the mathematical conception of organic form, in which all axes are equal. See under Promorphology.

omestead exemption law. (b) Also, a designation of an Act of Congress authorizing and regulating the sale of public lands, in parcels of 160 acres each, to actual settlers. [U.S.]

Relating to homodermy; originating from the same germ layer.

Relating to homophily.

Relating to homotaxis.

uel itself. -- Court of honor, a court or tribunal to investigate and decide questions relating to points of honor; as a court of chivalry, or a military court to investigate acts or omissions which are unofficerlike or ungentlemanly in their nature. -- Debt of honor, a debt contracted by a verbal promise, or by bett…

Of or pertaining to Horace, the Latin poet, or resembling his style.

ed in one organ and carried in the circulation to another organ on which it exerts a stimulating effect; thus, according to Starling, the gastric glands are stimulated by a hormone from the pyloric mucous membrane.

Composed largely of hornblende; resembling or relating to hornblende.

Relating to a horologe, or to horology.

e a nasal sound, like that of the letter m prolonged, without opening the mouth, or articulating; to mumble in monotonous undertone; to drone. The cloudy messenger turns me his back, And hums. Shak.