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A thin silk or woolen goods, for women's dresses, woven in various styles and colors.

A corner. [Obs.] Lurking in hernes and in lanes blind. Chaucer.

and projects through some natural or accidental opening in the walls of the latter; as, hernia of the brain, of the lung, or of the bowels. Hernia of the abdominal viscera in most common. Called also rupture. Strangulated hernia, a hernia so tightly compressed in some part of the channel through which it has been prot…

Of, or connected with, hernia.

A cutting for the cure or relief of hernia; celotomy.

Heronshaw. [Obs.] Spenser.

Pertaining to yesterday. [Obs.] See Yester, a. Ld. Lytton.

That which serves for protection or shelter in winter; winter quarters; as, the hibernacle of an animal or a plant. Martyn.

A winter bud, in which the rudimentary foliage or flower, as of most trees and shrubs in the temperate zone, is protected by closely overlapping scales.

Belonging or relating to winter; wintry; winterish. Sir T. Browne.

thargic state, as certain mammals, reptiles, and insects. Inclination would lead me to hibernate, during half the year, in this uncomfortable climate of Great Britain. Southey.

The act or state of hibernating. Evelyn.

Of or pertaining to Hibernia, now Ireland; Irish. -- n.

An idiom or mode of speech peculiar to the Irish. Todd.

The native language of the Irish; that branch of the Celtic languages spoken by the natives of Ireland. Also adj.

Of this day; belonging to the present day. [R.] Boyle. Quart. Rev.

See Hibernacle, Hibernate, Hibernation.

Between the hyoid bone and the sternum, or pertaining to them; infrahyoid; as, the hyosternal region of the neck.

See Hyoplastron.

Abnormal breathing, due to slightly deficient arterialization of the blood; -- in distinction from eupnoea. See Eupnoea, and Dispnoea.