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A treatise upon, or a history and description of, the water of the earth.

The negative pole or cathode. [R.]

One skilled in the hydrography; one who surveys, or draws maps or charts of, the sea, lakes, or other waters, with the adjacent shores; one who describes the sea or other waters. Boyle.

Of or relating to hydrography.

The art of measuring and describing the sea, lakes, rivers, and other waters, with their phenomena.

A hydride. [Obs.]

Related to, or resembling, the hydra; of or pertaining to the Hydroidea. -- n.

An extensive order of Hydrozoa or Acalephæ. [Written also Hydroida.]

the motions of fluids, or the forces which produce or affect such motions; -- opposed to hydrostatic. Sir W. Thomson.

Of or pertaining to hydrology.

One skilled in hydrology.

The science of water, its properties, phenomena, and distribution over the earth's surface.

A chemical process involving the addition of the elements of water.

Tending to remove or separate water; eliminating water. Hydrolytic agents, such as sulphuric acid or caustic alkali. Encyc. Brit. Hydrolitic ferment (Physiol. Chem.), a ferment, enzyme, or chemical ferment, which acts only in the presence of water, and which causes the substance acted upon to take up a molecule of wate…

A hydrous carbonate of magnesia occurring in white, early, amorphous masses.

Divination by means of water, -- practiced by the ancients.

Of or pertaining to divination by water.

That branch of physics which treats of the mechanics of liquids, or of their laws of equilibrium and of motion.

Any medusa or jellyfish which is produced by budding from a hydroid. They are called also Craspedota, and naked-eyed medusæ.

A liquor consisting of honey diluted in water, and after fermentation called mead.