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Hydromancy – Hurricane

Hydromancy

a form of divination practiced by the ancients; it consisted in interpreting symbolically the colors and images seen in water.

HYDROPATHY (hi-drop'a-the). See HYDROTHERAPY.

Hydroscope

an instrument for measuring the dampness or moisture of the air or of any other gas.

Hydrosulphuric Acid

or sul-

Hymettus

a mountain in Attica, Greece; now called Trelo Vouni, to the S. E. of Athens; was famous among the ancients for its honey and its bluish marble. The honey is still in repute.

Hypersthenite

a more or less fers from presbyopia in being congenital.

Hypersthenite

a more or less coarsely crystalline igneous neck allied was, that which, popularly, still is called "mesmerism," or, more exactly "animal magnetism," founded on a belief in a of plutonic origin.

Hypochlorous Acid

HCIO, the acid contained in bleaching powder. It can only be obtained as a dilute solution, as in the concentrated state it is very liable to decomposition.

Hypophosphites

salts of hypophosphorous acid, especially certain medicinal salts, chiefly the hypophosphites of potassium, sodium, and calcium. They have been used with considerable advantage in disorders of the blood and the di- HYPOPHOSPHOROUS ACID gestive organs, and have also been found of benefit in consumption.

Hypophosphorous Acid

H3:

PO2, hydric hypophosphite. It can be obtained as a barium salt. By boiling phosphorus with barium hydrate, phosphuretted hydrogen escapes as a gas. HYPOPHYSIS (-pof'i-sis), a disease of the eyelids, when hairs grow so much as to irritate and offend the pupil.

Hypostasis

in alchemy, the principle or element of anything; specifically, mercury, sulphur, and salt, which the alchemists deemed the principles or elements of all material bodies. In botany, the name given by Dutrochet to what is more commonly called the suspensor or suspensory cord of the embryo of an ovule.

Hyrcania

an ancient district of Asia, of indefinite extent, bordered on the Caspian Sea (sometimes called Hyrcanum Mare) and the river Oxus. It corresponded with the modern Mazanderán and Asterabad. HYRCANUS

Hurricane

a name applied to tropirian minister.