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Of or pertaining to the hippocampus.

the head and fore quarters of a horse joined to the tail of a dolphin or other fish (Hippocampus brevirostris), -- seen in Pompeian paintings, attached to the chariot of Neptune. Fairholt.

A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations. Milton.

Belonging to the same category of individuality; -- a morphological term applied to organisms so related.

and carbon, as methane, benzene, etc.; also, by extension, any of their derivatives. Hydrocarbon burner, furnace, stove, a burner, furnace, or stove with which liquid fuel, as petroleum, is used.

Of the nature, or containing, hydrocarbons.

A white, crystalline, nitrogenous hydrocarbon, C9H9NO, obtained from certain derivatives of cinnamic acid and closely related to quinoline and carbostyril.

Carbureted hydrogen; also, a hydrocarbon. [Obs.]

The hollow stem of a hydroid, either simple or branched. See Illust. of Gymnoblastea and Hydroidea.

A fleshy enlargement of the receptacle, or for the stem, below the proper fruit, as in the cashew. See Illust. of Cashew.

Producing fruit below the ground.

A furnace, esp. one connected with a series of small chambers and flues of tiles or other masonry through which the heat of a fire was distributed to rooms above. This contrivance, first used in bath, was afterwards adopted in private houses.

Pertaining to the ileum and cæcum.

Want of locality or place. [R.] Cudworth.

Cloth of silver or of gold. [R.]

A hit or thrust. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

d, gummy, coloring matter, extracted from the colorless juice of the Otaheite chestnut (Inocarpus edulis).

A placing or coming between; interposition.

Situated between vowels; immediately preceded and followed by vowel sounds, as, p in occupy, d in idea, etc.

o call on, or for, in supplication; to implore. If Dagon be thy god, Go to his temple, invocate his aid. Milton.