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The Tasmanian forty-spotted diamond bird (Pardalotus quadragintus).

An impure resin of turpentine, hardened on the outside of pine trees by the spontaneous evaporation of its essential oil. When purified, it is called yellow pitch, white pitch, or Burgundy pitch.

A glazed earthen pot or vessel, used by druggists and apothecaries for containing medicines, etc.

A utensil for melting glue, consisting of an inner pot holding the glue, immersed in an outer one containing water which is heated to soften the glue.

A large, amphibious, herbivorous mammal (Hippopotamus amphibius), common in the rivers of Africa. It is allied to the hogs, and has a very thick, naked skin, a thick and square head, a very large muzzle, small eyes and ears, thick and heavy body, and short legs. It is supposed to be the behemoth of the Bible. Called al…

Anatomy of the horse.

Hotchpot. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Semi-diesel, below.

mass; a confused mixture; a stew of various ingredients; a hodgepodge. A mixture or hotchpotch of many tastes. Bacon.

A process on the posterior side of the tarsometatarsus of many birds; the calcaneal process. -- Hy`po*tar"sal, a.

The side of a right-angled triangle that is opposite to the right angle.

A landlord's right, independently of stipulation, over the stocking (cattle, implements, etc.), and crops of his tenant, as security for payment of rent.

An obligation by which property of a debtor was made over to his creditor in security of his debt.

to mortgage, as ships, or other personal property; to make a contract by bottomry. See Hypothecation, Bottomry. He had found the treasury empty and the pay of the navy in arrear. He had no power to hypothecate any part of the public revenue. Those who lent him money lent it on no security but his bare word. Macaulay.…

The act or contract by which property is hypothecated; a right which a creditor has in or to the property of his debtor, in virtue of which he may cause it to be sold and the price appropriated in payment of his debt. This is a right in the thing, or jus in re. Pothier. B. R. Curtis. There are but few cases, if any, in…

One who hypothecates or pledges anything as security for the repayment of money borrowed.

ase of the little finger, or a corresponding part in the forefoot of an animal; as, the hypothenar eminence.

The hypothenar eminence.

Of or pertaining to hypothenuse. [R.]

Same as Hypotenuse.