Hybrid
a whether in plants or animals, by the impregnation of the female of one species, genus, or race, by the male belonging to a different family. The commonest sorts of hybrid are those which arise from the interconnection of different varieties of the same species; to notice which, the product of the wild boar and the domestic sow need only be mentioned. Hybrids are generally sterile, and the intermixture of different species, according to Owen, is guarded against by the aversion of two specifically different individuals to sexual union.
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Hycsos
HYKSHOS, (hik'sos), or Shepherd Kings, gs, wandering tribes of Semitic descent, who conquered the whole of Egypt about 2100 b. c., and were driven out some 500 years afterward. The only detailed account of them in any ancient writer is a passage of a lost work of Manetho, cited by Josephus. Their epoch covers the 13th to the 17th dynasties.
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Hyde
. See Clarendon
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Hyde
a city of England in Cheshire. It is on the river Tame. It has grown rapidly as a cotton manufacturing center. There are also manufactures of machinery and margarine. In the neighborhood are important coal mines. Pop. about 34,000.
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Hyde
WILLIAM DEWITT, an American educator, born in Winchenfrom 1858. He graduated Harvard University in 1879 and from don, Mass., in the Andover Theological Seminary in 1882. He entered the C Congregational ministry in 1883 and for two years following was pastor in Newark, N. JBo In he was chosen of Bowdoin College, where he held the chair of mental and moral philosophy. 7. He wrote extensively on social and theological subjects. writings include "Practical Ethics" (1892); "Practical Idealism," (1897); "The New Ethics" (1903); "The Five Great Philosophies of Life," (1911); "The Quest of the Best" (1913). He died in 1917.
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Hyde (DOUGLAS an Irish author)
DOUGLAS, an Irish author. He was born in Roscommon and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. Has been leading promoter of the revival of the Irish language and Irish customs and was president of the Gaelic League from its foundation till 1915. Has written many books both in Irish and English. President of the Irish Texts Society, Examiner in Irish to the Royal University. Received honorary freedom of Dublin, Cork, and Kilkenny in 1906 on returning from America with $55,000 for Gaelic League. His works include: "Love Songs of Connacht" (in Irish with English translation); "Literary History of Ireland"; "Medieval Tales from the Irish."
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Hyderabad
preferably HAIDAR- ABAD (hi-där-ä-bad'), a state of Hindustan, which comprehends the greater part of that central plateau of Southern India known as the Deccan, and is in possession of a Mohammedan prince, the Nizam; area, 80,000 square miles, exclusive of the Berar or Haidarabad Assigned Districts under British administration. The chief products are rice, wheat, maize, sugar-cane, tobacco, cotton, indigo, fruits, and timber. Pop. about 15,000,000. The ruler of Haidarabad belongs to a dynasty founded by Asaf Jah, a distinguished soldier, whom the Emperor Aurungzeb made viceroy of the Deccan in 1713, with the title of Nizam or Regulator. HAIDARABAD, the capital, is on the Musi river, at an elevation of 1,672 feet above the sea. It is surrounded by a stone wall flanked with bastions. Among the chief buildings are the extensive palace of the Nizam, the British residency, the Char Minar, or Four Minarets, built about 1590 as a Mohammedan college, the Jama Masjid, or cathedral mosque, designed after the one at Mecca. There are manufactures of silks, trinkets, and turbans. Pop. of city, with suburbs, about 550,000. Also a city, capital Sindh, B. I., pop. about 75,000.
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Hydnora
a genus of parasitic plants belonging to the order Cytinaceæ, which consists entirely of root-parasites. Hydnora africana is a South African species parasitic on the roots of fleshy euphorbiæ and other succulent plants; it has a putrid smell, but is roasted and eaten by the natives, and is also used for tanning.
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Hydra
a fabulous serpent infesting the Grecian lake of Lerna in Argolis. It had nine heads. If any one of these was cut off, two grew in its place. The destruction of this monster was one of the twelve labors of Hercules. The term hydra-headed is often applied to an evil which it is difficult to suppress. In zoology, the hydra is a small cylindrical animal of low organism found in cold and fresh waters. One end of the cylinder is attached to a suitable base, the other is surrounded by a whorl of tentacles which waft water containing food into the central cavity.
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Hydra
A celebrated monster which infested the neighborhood of Lake Lerna in Peloponnesus . It was one of the labors of Hercules to destroy the monster, which he effected with the aid of Iolas.
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Hydra
or IDRA, an island of the Grecian archipelago, on the E. coast of the Morea, between the gulfs of Nauplia and Ægina; arca, 20 square miles. Pop. about 6,500.
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Hydrangea
a genus of shrubs or herbs of the order Saxifragaceæ, containing about 33 species, natives of Asia and America. The garden hydrangea (H. hortensis) is a native of China, and was introduced into Great Britain by Banks in 1790. It is a favorite for the beauty and size of its flowers. i-drar'thrus), a HYDRARTHRUS white swelling. The joints most subject to this disease are the knee, ankle, elbow, and wrist. It can be distinguished from rheumatic swelling of the joints by its fixed and wearing pain, which often exists for a long time before any enlargement of the part is perceptible. HYDRATE. In chemistry, in combination with certain metallic oxides, water seems to play the part of an acid, forming a compound that may be considered as a pseudo-salt. Thus, with oxide of sodium water forms the compound NaOH2O, or hydrate of soda, which is quite a different body to the simple NaO; in fact, such is the attraction existing between the two bodies that they cannot be separated by the strongest heat.
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Hydraulic Crane
Invented by Sir William Armstrong in 1846, who erected the first in Newcastle-on-Tyne. These cranes have come into very extensive use where water under sufficient pressure is available. But it would seem that the latter condition is now made unnecessary by the invention of the steam hydraulic crane. See CRANES.
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