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HYOSCIA'MA, n. A new vegetable alkali, extracted from the Hyoscyamus nigra, or h...
HYP, n. [a contraction of hypochondria.] A disease; depression of spirits. HYP ,...
HYPAL'LAGE, n. hypal'largy. [Gr. change, to change.] In grammar, a figure consis...
HYPAS'PIST, n. [Gr. a shield.] A soldier in the armies of Greece, armed in a par...
HYPER, Eng.over, is used in composition to denote excess, or something over or b...
HYPERAS'PIST, n. [Gr. a shield.] A defender.
HY'PERBATE, n. [Gr. to transgress, or go beyond. In grammar, a figurative constr...
HYPER'BATON HYPER'BOLA, n. [Gr. over, beyond, and to throw.] In conic sections a...
HYPER'BOLE, n. hyper'boly. [Gr. excess, to throw beyond,to exceed.] In rhetoric,...
HYPERBOL'IC HYPERBOL'ICAL, n. Belonging to the hyperbola; having the nature of t...
HYPERBOL'ICALLY, adv. In the form of a hyperbola. 1. With exaggeration; in a man...
HYPERBOL'IFORM, a. [hyperbola and form.] Having the form, or nearly the form of ...
HYPER'BOLIST, n. One who uses hyperboles.
HYPER'BOLIZE, v.i. To speak or write with exaggeration. HYPER'BOLIZE , v.t. To e...
HYPER'BOLOID, n. [hyperbola, and Gr. form.] A hyperbolic conoid; a solid formed ...
HYPERBO'REAN, a. [L. hyperboreus; Gr. beyond, and the north.] 1. Northern; belon...