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The hypothenar eminence.

Of or pertaining to hypothenuse. [R.]

Same as Hypotenuse.

is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof of the point in question; something not proved, but assumed for the purpose of argument, or to account for a fact or an occurrence; as, the hypothesis that head winds detain an overdue steamer. An hypothesis being a mere supposition,…

Characterized by, or of the nature of, an hypothesis; conditional; assumed without proof, for the purpose of reasoning and deducing proof, or of accounting for some fact or phenomenon. Causes hypothetical at least, if not real, for the various phenomena of the existence of which our experience informs us. Sir W. Hamilt…

One who proposes or supports an hypothesis. [R.]

A small haven. See Hithe. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to iatromathematicians or their doctrine.

One of a school of physicians in Italy, about the middle of the 17th century, who tried to apply the laws of mechanics and mathematics to the human body, and hence were eager student of anatomy; -- opposed to the iatrochemists.

Idiopathic. [R.]

Self-heating; warmed, as the body of animal, by process going on within itself.

To bathe; to wash freely; to immerce. And gave her to his daughters to imbathe In nectared lavers strewed with asphodel. Milton.

Not bearing anthers; -- said of sterile stamens.

To infuse by breathing; to inspire. Coleridge.

The privilege granted to lords of certain manors to judge thieves taken within the seigniory of such lords. Cowell.

The act or business of gathering or collecting anything; especially, the gathering of the fruits of the earth; harvest. Thou shalt keep . . . the feast of ingathering. Ex. xxii. 16.

To insert as in a sheath; to sheathe. Hughes.

To wrap up; to infold; to swathe. Inswathed sometimes in wandering mist. Tennyson.

To weave into a wreath; to intertwine. [R.] Lovelace.

To surround or encompass as with a wreath. [Written also enwreathe.] Resplendent locks, inwreathed with beams. Milton.