1. Of or pertaining to, or indicated by, the hygroscope; not readily manifest to the senses, but capable of
detection by the hygroscope; as, glass is often covered with a film of hygroscopic moisture.
2. Having the property of readily inbibing moisture from the atmosphere, or of the becoming coated with
a thin film of moisture, as glass, etc.
Hygroscopicity
(Hy`gro*sco*pic"i*ty) n. (Bot.) The property possessed by vegetable tissues of absorbing
or discharging moisture according to circumstances.
Hygrostatics
(Hy`gro*stat"ics) n. [Gr. wet + . See Statics.] The science or art of comparing or measuring
degrees of moisture. Evelyn.
Hyke
(Hyke) n. See Haik, and Huke.
Hylæosaur
(Hy"læ*o*saur`) Hylæosaurus
(||Hy`læ*o*sau"rus) n. [NL. hylaeosaurus, fr. Gr. belonging to a
forest (fr. wood) + a lizard.] (Paleon.) A large Wealden dinosaur from the Tilgate Forest, England. It
was about twenty feet long, protected by bony plates in the skin, and armed with spines.
Hylarchical
(Hy*lar"chi*cal) a. [Gr. wood, matter + : cf. F. hylarchique. See Archical.] Presiding over
matter. [Obs.] Hallywell.
Hyleosaur
(Hy"le*o*saur") n. Same as Hylæosaur.
Hylic
(Hyl"ic) a. Of or pertaining to matter; material; corporeal; as, hylic influences.
Hylicist
(Hy"li*cist) n. [Gr. adj., material, fr. wood, matter.] A philosopher who treats chiefly of matter; one
who adopts or teaches hylism.
Hylism
(Hy"lism) n. (Metaph.) A theory which regards matter as the original principle of evil.
Hylobate
(Hy"lo*bate) n. [Gr. one that walks or inhabits the woods: a wood + to go.] (Zoöl.) Any species
of the genus Hylobates; a gibbon, or long-armed ape. See Gibbon.
Hylodes
(||Hy*lo"des) n. [NL., fr. Gr. woody, wooded, muddy; a wood + form.] (Zoöl.) The piping frog a
small American tree frog, which in early spring, while breeding in swamps and ditches, sings with high,
shrill, but musical, notes.
Hyloism
(Hy"lo*ism) n. Same as Hylotheism.
Hyloist
(Hy"lo*ist), n. Same as Hylotheist.
Hylopathism
(Hy*lop"a*thism) n. [Gr. matter + to suffer.] The doctrine that matter is sentient. Krauth-
Fleming.
Hylopathist
(Hy*lop"a*thist) n. One who believes in hylopathism.
Hylophagous
(Hy*loph"a*gous) a. [Gr. wood + to eat.] (Zoöl.) Eating green shoots, as certain insects
do.
Hylotheism
(Hy"lo*the*ism) n. [Gr. wood, matter + God.] The doctrine of belief that matter is God, or
that there is no God except matter and the universe; pantheism. See Materialism.
Hylotheist
(Hy"lo*the*ist), n. One who believes in hylotheism.
Hylozoic
(Hy`lo*zo"ic) a. Of or pertaining to hylozoism.
