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In a geodetic manner; according to geodesy.

Same as Geodesy.

imp. of Glide. Chaucer.

Good. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The venereal disease; -- often used as a mild oath. [Obs.] Shak.

Goodly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A cytode without either a cell wall or a nucleus. Haeckel.

female of different breeds or races; having only one parent of good stock; as, a half-blooded sheep.

Any bird of the genus Turnix. Various species inhabit Asia, Africa, and Australia.

Hermaphrodism. B. Jonson.

A morphological term signifying development, in the case of multicellular organisms, from the same unit deme or unit of the inferior orders of individuality.

Relating to homodermy; originating from the same germ layer.

Homology of the germinal layers.

Having a hoodlike crest or prominence on the head or neck; as, the hooded seal; a hooded snake. Hooded crow, a European crow (Corvus cornix); -- called also hoody, dun crow, and royston crow. -- Hooded gull, the European black-headed pewit or gull. -- Hooded merganser. See Merganser. -- Hooded seal, a large North At…

Having hot blood; excitable; high-spirited; irritable; ardent; passionate.

The negative pole or cathode. [R.]

A form of hygrometer having wet and dry bulb thermometers, with an adjustable index showing directly the percentage of moisture in the air, etc.

The piping frog (Hyla Pickeringii), a small American tree frog, which in early spring, while breeding in swamps and ditches, sings with high, shrill, but musical, notes.

Same as Hypoblast.

A layer of tissue beneath the epidermis in plants, and performing the physiological function of strengthening the epidermal tissue. In phanerogamous plants it is developed as collenchyma.