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Hawthorn. R. Scot.

Of pertaining to Hayti. -- n.

One of the partially thickened anterior wings of certain insects, as of many Hemiptera, the earwigs, etc.

Hence. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Of or pertaining to histolysis, or the degeneration of tissues.

Wholly or distinctively vegetable. Holophytic nutrition (, that form of nutrition, characteristic of vegetable organisms, in which carbonic acid, ammonia, and nitrates are absorbed as food, in distinction from the animal mode of nutrition, by the ingestion of albuminous matter.

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…

An aquatic plant; an alga.

The branch of botany which treats of water plants.

A plant, like the fungus, which lives on dead or living organic matter. -- Hys`ter*oph"y*tal, a.

A small haven. See Hithe. [Obs.]

A line connecting the points on the surface of the earth where a certain temperature is found at the same depth.

Of or pertaining to an isobathytherm; possessing or indicating the same temperature at the same depth.

A picture produced by superposing a very light print, rendered translucent by varnish, and tinted upon the back, upon a stronger print, so as to give the effect of a photograph in natural colors; -- called also hellenotype. Knight.

A gorgonian coral having a horny axis.

To come into view; to appear. [Scot.] It kythes bright . . . because all is dark around it. Sir W. Scott.

To make known; to manifest; to show; to declare. [Obs: or Scot.] For gentle hearte kytheth gentilesse. Chaucer.

See Karyomiton.

See Karyoplasma.

See Lachrymary, Lachrymatory, Lachrymose.