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  • HYBERNAGIUM
    In old English law. The season for sowing winter grain, between Michaelmas and Christmas. The land on which such grain was sown. The grain itself; winter grain or winter corn. Cowell.
  • HYBRID
    A mongrel; an animal formed of the union of different species, or different genera; also (metaphorically) a human being bom of the union of persons of different races.
  • HYD
    In old English law. Hide; skin. A measure of land, containing, according to some, a hundred acres, which quantity is also assigned to it in the Dialogue de Bcaccario. It seems, however, that the hide varied in different parts of the kingdom.
  • HYDAGE
    See HIDAGE.
  • HYDROMETER
    An instrument for measuring the density of fluids. Being immersed in fluids, as in water, brine, beer, brandy, etc., it determines the proportion of their density, or their specific gravity, and thence their quality. See Rev. St U. S. f 2918 (U. S. Comp. St 1901, p. 1927.)
  • HYEMS, HIEMS
    Lat. In the civil law. Winter. Dig. 43, 20, 4, 34. Written, in some of the old books, "yems." Fleta, lib. 2, c" "73, f? 16, ia A"
  • HYPNOTISM
    In medical jurisprudence. A psychic or mental state rendering the patient susceptible to suggestion at the will of another. The hypnotic state is an abnormal condition o of the mind and senses, in the nature of trance, artificial catalepsy, or somnambulism, induced in one person by another, by concentration of More...
  • HYPOBOLUM
    In the civil law. The name of the bequest or legacy given by the husband to his wife, at his death, above her dowry.
  • HYPOCHONDRIA
    See INSANITY.
  • HYPOSTASIS
    In medical jurisprudence. (1) The morbid deposition of a sediment of any kind in the body. (2) A congestion or flushing of the blood vessels, as in varicose veins. Post-mortem hypostasis, a peculiar lividlty of the cadaver.
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