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pertaining to him; -- used as a pronominal adjective or adjective pronoun; as, tell John his papers are ready; formerly used also for its, but this use is now obsolete. No comfortable star did lend his light. Shak. Who can impress the forest, bid the tree Unfix his earth-bound root Shak.

A soft black, iron ore, nearly earthy, a hydrous silicate of iron.

Of or pertaining to Spain or its language; as, Hispanic words.

A Spanish idiom or mode of speech. Keightley.

To give a Spanish form or character to; as, to Hispanicize Latin words.

Rough with bristles or minute spines.

Minutely hispid.

as an expression of hatred, passion, or disapproval. The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee. Ezek. xxvii. 36.

The act of emitting a hiss or hisses.

With a hissing sound.

Hush; be silent; -- a signal for silence. Milton.

Same as Histology.

The formation and development of organic tissues; histogeny; -- the opposite of histolysis.

Tissue-producing; connected with the formation and development of the organic tissues.

Same as Histogenesis. Dunglison.

One who describes organic tissues; an histologist.

Of or pertaining to histography.

A description of, or treatise on, organic tissues.

One of a class of respiratory pigments, widely distributed in the animal kingdom, capable of ready oxidation and reduction.

Resembling the normal tissues; as, histoid tumors.