Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HY-DRO-LOG'IC-AL, a.

Pertaining to hydrology.

HY-DROL'O-GY, n. [Gr. υδωρ, water, and λογος, discourse.]

The science of water, its properties and phenomena.

HY'DRO-MAN-CY, n. [Gr. υδωρ, water, and μαντεια, divination.]

A method of divination or prediction of events by water: invented, according to Varro, by the Persians, and practiced by the Romans. Encyc.

HY-DRO-MAN'TIC, a.

Pertaining to divination by water.

HY'DRO-MEL, n. [Fr. from Gr. υδωρ, water, and μελι, honey.]

A liquor consisting of honey diluted in water. Before fermentation, it is called simple hydromel; after fermentation, it is called vinous hydromel or mead.

HY-DROM'E-TER, n. [See Hydrometry.]

An instrument to measure the gravity, density, velocity, force, &c. of water and other fluids, and the strength of spirituous liquors. Encyc.

HY-DRO-MET'RIC, or HY-DRO-MET'RIC-AL, a.

1. Pertaining to a hydrometer, or to the measurement of the gravity, &c. of fluids.
2. Made by a hydrometer.

HY-DROM'E-TRY, a. [Gr. υδωρ, water, and μετρον, measure.]

The art of measuring, or the mensuration of the gravity, density, velocity, force, &c. of fluids, and the strength of rectified spirits. Encyc.

HY'DRO-PHANE, n. [Gr. υδωρ, water, and φαινω, to show.]

In mineralogy, a variety of opal made transparent by immersion in water. Kirwan.

HY-DROPH'AN-OUS, a.

Made transparent by immersion in water. Kirwan.

HY'DRO-PHID, n. [Gr. υδωρ and οφις.]

A water snake.

HY-DRO-PHO'BI-A, or HY'DRO-PHO-BY, n. [Gr. υδωρ, water, and φοβεομαι, to fear.]

A preternatural dread of water; a symptom of canine madness, or the disease itself, which is thus denominated. This dread of water sometimes takes place in violent inflammations of the stomach, and in hysteric fits. Encyc.

HY-DRO-PHO'BIC, a.

Pertaining to a dread of water, or canine madness. Med. Repos.

HY'DRO-PHYTE, n. [Gr. υδωρ, water, and φυτον, a plant.]

An aquatic plant. Bell.

HY-DROP'IC, or HY-DROP'IC-AL, a. [L. hydrops; Gr. υδρωψ, dropsy, υδωρ, water.]

1. Dropsical; diseased with extravasated water.
2. Containing water; caused by extravasated water; as, a hydropic swelling.
3. Resembling dropsy. Every lust is a kind of hydropic distemper, and the more we drink the more we shall thirst. Tillotson.

HY-DRO-PNEU-MAT'IC, a. [Gr. υδωρ, water, and πνευματικος, inflated, from πνευμα, breath, spirit.]

An epithet given to a vessel of water, with other apparatus for chimical experiments. Med. Repos.

HY-DROP'SY, n. [See DROPSY.]

HY'DRO-SCOPE, n. [Gr. υδωρ, water, and σκοπεω, to view.]

A kind of water clock, or instrument used anciently for measuring time, consisting of a cylindrical tube, conical at the bottom, perforated at the vertex, and the whole tube graduated. Encyc.

HY-DRO-STAT'IC, or HY-DRO-STAT'IC-AL, a. [Gr. υδωρ, water, and στατικος, static, standing or settling.]

Relating to the science of weighing fluids, or hydrostatics.

HY-DRO-STAT'IC-AL-LY, adv.

According to hydrostatics, or to hydrostatic principles. Bentley.

HY-DRO-STAT'ICS, n.

The science which treats of the weight, motion, and equilibriums of fluids, or of the specific gravity and other properties of fluids, particularly of water. Hydrostatics is that branch of the science of hydrodynamics which treats of the properties of fluids at rest. Ed. Encyc.

HY-DRO-SULPH'ATE, n.

The same as hydrosulphuret.

HY-DRO-SULPH'UR-ET, n. [hydrogen and sulphuret.]

A combination of sulphureted hydrogen with an earth, alkali or metallic oxyd.

HY-DRO-SULPH'UR-ET-ED, a.

Combined with sulphureted hydrogen. Hydrosulphuric acid, is called also hydrothionic acid, or sulphureted hydrogen.

HY-DRO-THO'RAX, n. [Gr. υδωρ, water, and θωραξ.]

Dropsy in the chest. Coxe.