Part 868

Holly-leaved oak (Bot.), the black scrub oak. See Scrub oak. -- Holly rose (Bot.), a West Indian shrub, with showy, yellow flowers (Turnera ulmifolia). -- Sea holly (Bot.), a species of Eryngium. See Eryngium.

Hol"ly*hock (?), n. [OE. holihoc; holi holy + hoc mallow, AS. hoc; cf. W. hocys mallows, hocys bendigaid hollyhock, lit., blessed mallow. Prob. so named because brought from the Holy Land. See Holy.] (Bot.) A species of AlthÊa (A. rosea), bearing flowers of various colors; -- called also rose mallow.

Holm (?), n. [OE., prob. from AS. holen holly; as the holly is also called holm. See Holly.] (Bot.) A common evergreen oak, of Europe (Quercus Ilex); -- called also ilex, and holly.

Holm (?), n. [AS. holm, usually meaning, sea, water; akin to Icel. hlmr, holmr, an island, Dan. holm, Sw. holme, G. holm, and prob. to E. hill. Cf. Hill.]

1. An islet in a river. J. Brand.

2. Low, flat land. Wordsworth.

The soft wind blowing over meadowy holms.

Tennyson.

Holm thrush (Zoˆl.), the missel thrush.

||Hol"mi*a (?), n. [NL.] (Chem.) An oxide of holmium.

||Hol"mi*um (?), n. [NL., of uncertain origin.] (Chem.) A rare element ||said to be contained in gadolinite. -- Hol"mic (#), a.

||Hol"mos (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr.&?;.] (Greek & Etrus. Antiq.) A name ||given to a vase having a rounded body; esp.: (a) A closed vessel of ||nearly spherical form on a high stem or pedestal. Fairholt. (b) A ||drinking cup having a foot and stem.

Hol"o- (?). A combining form fr. Gr. "o`los whole.

Hol"o*blast (?), n. [Holo + - blast.] (Biol.) an ovum composed entirely of germinal matter. See Meroblast.

Hol`o*blas"tic (?), a. (Biol.) Undergoing complete segmentation; composed entirely of germinal matter, the whole of the yolk undergoing fission; -- opposed to meroblastic.

Hol"o*caust (?), n. [L. holocaustum, Gr. &?;, neut. of &?;, &?;, burnt whole; "o'los whole + kaysto`s burnt, fr. kai`ein to burn (cf. Caustic): cf. F. holocauste.] 1. A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations. Milton.

2. Sacrifice or loss of many lives, as by the burning of a theater or a ship. [An extended use not authorized by careful writers.]

||Hol`o*ceph"a*li (?), n. pl. [NL., from Gr. "o`los whole + kefalh` ||head.] (Zoˆl.) An order of elasmobranch fishes, including, among ||living species, only the chimÊras; -- called also Holocephala. See ||ChimÊra; also Illustration in Appendix.

Hol`o*cryp"tic (?), a. [Holo- + Gr. kry`ptein to conceal.] Wholly or completely concealing; incapable of being deciphered.

Holocryptic cipher, a cipher so constructed as to afford no clew to its meaning to one ignorant of the key.

Hol`o*crys"tal*line (?), a. [Holo + crystalline.] (Min.) Completely crystalline; -- said of a rock like granite, all the constituents of which are crystalline.

Hol"o*graph (?), n. [L. holographus entirely autograph, Gr. "olo`grafos; "o`los whole + gra`fein to write: cf. F. holographe, olographe.] A document, as a letter, deed, or will, wholly in the handwriting of the person from whom it proceeds and whose act it purports to be.

Hol`o*graph"ic (?), a. Of the nature of a holograph; pertaining to holographs.

Hol`o*he"dral (?), a. [Holo- + Gr. &?; seat, base, fr. &?; to sit.] (Crystallog.) Having all the planes required by complete symmetry, -- in opposition to hemihedral.

Hol`o*hem`i*he"dral (?), a. [Holo- + hemihedral.] (Crystallog.) Presenting hemihedral forms, in which all the sectants have halt the whole number of planes. Dana.

||Hol`o*me*tab"o*la (?), n. pl. [NL. See Holo-, and Metabola.] (Zoˆl.) ||Those insects which have a complete metamorphosis; metabola.

Hol`o*met`a*bol"ic (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Having a complete metamorphosis; -- said of certain insects, as the butterflies and bees.

Ho*lom"e*ter (?), n. [Holo + -meter: cf. F. holometre.] An instrument for making all kinds of angular measurements.