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Of or pertaining to marriage; as, hymeneal rites. Pope.

Same as Hyoid, a.

iting, a region in very far north; most northern; hence, very cold; fright, as, a hyperborean coast or atmosphere. The hyperborean or frozen sea. C. Butler (1633).

Producing fruit below the ground.

Hypogeous. [Written also hypogæan.]

Of or pertaining to ancient Idumea, or Edom, in Western Asia. -- n.

See Saint Ignatius's bean, under Saint.

; also, pertaining to the people or nations who speak these languages; as, the Indo- European or Aryan family. The common origin of the Indo-European nations. Tylor.

Something done in the meantime; interlude. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Between oceans; connecting oceans; as, interoceanic communication; an interoceanic canal.

ma) from Mexico. It bears a single, large, deep, red, lilylike flower. [Written also Jacobean.]

style of architecture and decoration in the time of James the First, of England. "A Jacobean table." C. L. Eastlake.

Consisting of jasper, or containing jasper; jaspery; jasperlike.

A twilled cotton cloth. Satin jean, a kind of jean woven smooth and glossy, after the manner of satin.

The seed of the wild licorice (Abrus precatorius) used by the people of India for beads in rosaries and necklaces, as a standard weight, etc.; -- called also jumble bead.

Of or pertaining to John, esp. to the Apostle John or his writings. M. Stuart.

Of or pertaining to Judea. -- n.

Milky; consisting of, or resembling, milk. "This lactean whiteness." Moxon.

Of or pertaining to Laodicea, a city in Phrygia Major; like the Christians of Laodicea; lukewarm in religion. Rev. iii. 14-16.

See Laryngeal.