Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HY-POTH'E-CA-TED, pp.

Pledged as security for money borrowed.

HY-POTH'E-CA-TING, ppr.

Pledging as security.

HY-POTH-E-CA'TION, n.

The act of pledging, as a ship or goods, for the repayment of money borrowed to carry on a voyage; otherwise called bottomry.

HY-POTH'E-CA-TOR, n.

One who pledges a ship or other property, as security for the repayment of money borrowed. Judge Johnson.

HY-POTH'E-SIS, n. [L. from Gr. ὑποθεσις, a supposition; υποτιθημι, to suppose; υπο and τιθημι.]

1. A supposition; a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof of the point in question; something not proved, but assumed for the purpose of argument. Encyc.
2. A system or theory imagined or assumed to account for what is not understood. Encyc.

HY-PO-THET'IC, or HY-PO-THET'ICAL, a.

Including a supposition; conditional; assumed without proof for the purpose of reasoning and deducing proof. Watts.

HY-PO-THET'IC-AL-LY, adv.

By way of supposition; conditionally.

HY-PO-TYP'O-SIS, n. [Gr.]

In rhetoric, imagery; a description of things in strong or lively colors.

HYP'PED, pp.

Made melancholy.

HYP'PISH, a.

Affected with hypochondria.

HYRSE, n. [hirs; G. hirse.]

Millet.

HYRST, n.

A wood. [See Hurst.]

HY'SON, n.

A species of green tea from China.

HY'SOP, or HYS'SOP, n. [hy'sop; L. hyssopus; Gr. υσσωπος. It would be well to write this word Hysop.]

A plant, Hyssopus officinalis. The leaves have an aromatic smell, and a warm pungent taste. Something called Hyssop was much used by the Jews in purifications. Encyc.

HYS-TER'IC, or HYS-TER'IC-AL, a. [Fr. hysterique; Gr. υστερικος, from υστερα, the womb.]

Disordered in the region of the womb; troubled with fits or nervous affections.

HYS-TER'ICS, or HYS-TE'RI-A, n.

A disease characterized by convulsive struggling, alternately remitting and exacerbating; rumbling in the bowels; sense of suffocation; drowsiness; urine copious and limpid; temper fickle. Good.

HYS-TER'O-CELE, n. [Gr. υστερα, the womb, and κηλη, a tumor.]

A species of hernia containing the womb. Coxe.

HYS-TER-OL'O-GY, n. [Gr. υστερος and λογος.]

In rhetoric, a figure by which the ordinary course of thought is inverted in expression, and the last put first; called also hysteron proteron.

HYS'TER-ON-PROT'ER-ON, n. [Gr. υστερον, last, and πρετερον, first.]

A rhetorical figure, when that is said last which was done first. Peacham.

HYS-TE-ROT'O-MY, n. [Gr. υστερα, the uterus, and τομη, a cutting.]

In surgery, the Cesarean section; the operation of cutting into the uterus for taking out a fetus, which can not be excluded by the usual means.

HYTHE, n.

A port. [See Hithe.]