Part 5495

<h1>Hyphomycetes</h1> <Xpage=720>

<hw>Hy`pho*my*ce"tes</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/ a web + <?/, <?/, a mushroom.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>One of the great division of fungi, containing those species which have naked spores borne on free or only fasciculate threads.</def>

<i>M. J. Berkley.</i>

<h1>Hypidiomorphic</h1> <Xpage=720>

<hw>Hy*pid`i*o*mor"phic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>hypo-</ets> + <ets>idiomorphic</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Crystallog.)</fld> <def>Partly idiomorphic; -- said of rock a portion only of whose constituents have a distinct crystalline form.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>Hy*pid`i*o*mor"phic*al*ly</wf> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Hypinosis</h1> <Xpage=720>

<hw>Hyp`i*no"sis</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/ under + <?/, <?/ strength, fiber.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>A diminution in the normal amount of fibrin present in the blood.</def>

<h1>Hypnagogic</h1> <Xpage=720>

<hw>Hyp`na*gog"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ sleep + <?/ a carrying away.]</ety> <def>Leading to sleep; -- applied to the illusions of one who is half asleep.</def>

<h1>Hypnobate</h1> <Xpage=720>

<hw>Hyp"no*bate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F., fr. Gr. <?/ sleep + <?/ to go.]</ety> <def>A somnambulist.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Hypnocyst</h1> <Xpage=720>

<hw>Hyp"no*cyst</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ sleep + E. <ets>cyst</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>A cyst in which some unicellular organisms temporarily inclose themselves, from which they emerge unchanged, after a period of drought or deficiency of food. In some instances, a process of spore formation seems to occur within such cysts.</def>

<h1>Hypnogenic</h1> <Xpage=720>

<hw>Hyp`no*gen"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ sleep + root of <?/ to be born.]</ety> <fld>(Physiol.)</fld> <def>Relating to the production of hypnotic sleep; <as>as, the so-called <ex>hypnogenic</ex> pressure points, pressure upon which is said to cause an attack of hypnotic sleep</as>.</def>

<i>De Watteville.</i>

<h1>Hypnologist</h1> <Xpage=720>

<hw>Hyp*nol"o*gist</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who is versed in hypnology.</def>

<h1>Hypnology</h1> <Xpage=720>

<hw>Hyp*nol"o*gy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ sleep + <ets>-logy</ets>.]</ety> <def>A treatise on sleep; the doctrine of sleep.</def>

<h1>Hypnosis</h1> <Xpage=720>

<hw>Hyp*no"sis</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/ sleep.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Supervention of sleep.</def>

<h1>Hypnotic</h1> <Xpage=720>

<hw>Hyp*not"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ inclined to sleep, putting to sleep, fr. <?/ to lull to sleep, fr. <?/ sleep; akin to L. <ets>somnus</ets>, and E. <ets>somnolent</ets>: cf. F. <ets>hypnotique</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Of or pertaining to hypnotism; in a state of hypnotism; liable to hypnotism; <as>as, a <ex>hypnotic</ex> condition</as>.</def>

<h1>Hypnotic</h1> <Xpage=720>

<hw>Hyp*not"ic</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Any agent that produces, or tends to produce, sleep; an opiate; a soporific; a narcotic.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A person who exhibits the phenomena of, or is subject to, hypnotism.</def>