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Hymnology
- - The hymns or sacred lyrics composed by authors of a particular country or period; as, the hymnology of the eighteenth century; also, the collective body of hymns used by any particular church or religious body; as, the Anglican hymnology.
Hyomental
- - Between the hyoid bone and the lower jaw, pertaining to them; suprahyoid; submaxillary; as, the hyomental region of the front of the neck.
Hyoscines
- noun - an alkaloid with anticholinergic effects that is used as a sedative and to treat nausea and to dilate the pupils in ophthalmic procedures; "transdermal scopolamine is used to treat motion sickness"; "someone sedated with scopolamine has difficulty lying"
Hyostylic
- - Having the mandible suspended by the hyomandibular, or upper part of the hyoid arch, as in fishes, instead of directly articulated with the skull as in mammals; -- said of the skull.
Hypallage
- noun - reversal of the syntactic relation of two words (as in `her beauty's face')
Hypanthia
- noun - the cuplike or ringlike or tubular structure of a flower which bears the sepals and stamens and calyx (as in Rosaceae)
Hypaspist
- - A shield-bearer or armor-bearer.
Hyperbola
- noun - an open curve formed by a plane that cuts the base of a right circular cone
Hyperbole
- noun - Exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally.
- extravagant exaggeration