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or radius produced, of a circle which rolls upon the concave side of a fixed circle. See Hypocycloid, Epicycloid, and Trochoid.

A vivid, picturesque description of scenes or events.

A crystalline, nitrogenous substance, closely related to xanthin and uric acid, widely distributed through the animal body, but especially in muscle tissue; -- called also sarcin, sarkin.

Anterior in age to the lowest rocks which contain organic remains. Lyell.

See Antihypochondriac.

Counteractive of hypochondria. -- n.

To hypothecate again. -- Re`hy*poth`e*ca"tion, n.

hall call the . . . doctrine that living matter may be produced by not living matter, the hypothesis of abiogenesis. Huxley, 1870.

A complex, hypothetical radical, composed of two parts of carbon to three of hydrogen and one of oxygen. Its hydroxide is acetic acid.

Of or containing acryl, the hypothetical radical of which acrolein is the hydride; as, acrylic acid.

A servile or hypocritical flatterer. Carlyle.

In an affected manner; hypocritically; with more show than reality.

The hypoptilum.

A double-dealer; one equally ready to act on either side in party disputes. The rest are hypocrites, ambidexters, so many turning pictures -- a lion on one side, a lamb on the other. Burton.

brace, Angle tie (Carp.), a brace across an interior angle of a wooden frame, forming the hypothenuse and securing the two side pieces together. Knight. -- Angle iron (Mach.), a rolled bar or plate of iron having one or more angles, used for forming the corners, or connecting or sustaining the sides of an iron structu…

The first or conditional part of a hypothetical proposition; as, If the earth is fixed, the sun must move.

Any substance (but especially sodium hyposulphite) used in removing the excess of chlorine left in paper pulp or stuffs after bleaching.

A hypothetical earth counter to ours, or on the opposite side of the sun. Grote.

Insincere, flattering, or obsequious assent; hypocritical or pretended concurrence. Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. Ld. Chesterfield.

Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as, an assumed character.