Word Meanings - HYDROID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Related to, or resembling, the hydra; of or pertaining to the Hydroidea. -- n.

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• HYDRA
  A serpent or monster in the lake or marsh of Lerna, in the Peloponnesus, represented as having many heads, one of which, when cut off, was immediately succeeded by two others, unless the wound was cauterized. It was slain by Hercules.
• HYDRAULICON
  An ancient musical instrument played by the action of water; a water organ.
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• HYDRANT
  A discharge pipe with a valve and spout at which water may be drawn from the mains of waterworks; a water plug.
• HYDRARGYRUM
  Quicksilver; mercury.
• HYDRAULICS
  That branch of science, or of engineering, which treats of fluids in motion, especially of water, its action in rivers and canals, the works and machinery for conducting or raising it, its use as a prime mover, and the like. Note: As a science,
• RELATIVELY
  In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts.
• HYDRATED
  Formed into a hydrate; combined with water.
• RELATE
  1. To bring back; to restore. Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again Both light of heaven and strength of men relate. Spenser. 2. To refer; to ascribe, as to a source. 3. To recount; to narrate; to tell over. This heavy act with heavy
• RELATIVITY
  The state of being relative; as, the relativity of a subject. Coleridge.
• HYDRATION
  The act of becoming, or state of being, a hydrate. Water of hydration , water chemically combined with some substance to form a hydrate; -- distinguished from water of crystallization.
• HYDRASTINE
  An alkaloid, found in the rootstock of the golden seal , and extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance. It is used as a tonic and febrifuge.
• RELATRIX
  A female relator.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• HYDRAULIC
  Of or pertaining to hydraulics, or to fluids in motion; conveying, or acting by, water; as, an hydraulic clock, crane, or dock. Hydraulic accumulator, an accumulator for hydraulic machinery of any kind. See Accumulator, 2. -- Hydraulic brake, a
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• HYDRACTINIAN
  Any species or marine hydroids, of the genus Hydractinia and allied genera. These hydroids form, by their rootstalks, a firm, chitinous coating on shells and stones, and esp. on spiral shells occupied by hermit crabs. See Illust. of Athecata.
• RELATIONAL
  1. Having relation or kindred; related. We might be tempted to take these two nations for relational stems. Tooke. 2. Indicating or specifying some relation. Relational words, as prepositions, auxiliaries, etc. R. Morris.
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• HYDRAMINE
  One of a series of artificial, organic bases, usually produced as thick viscous liquids by the action of ammonia on ethylene oxide. They have the properties both of alcohol and amines.
• PRELATIST
  One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
• PRELATISM
  Prelacy; episcopacy.
• PRELATIZE
  To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey.
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
• STERHYDRAULIC
  Pertaining to, or designating, a kind of hydraulic press; resembling such a press in action or principle. Sterhydraulic press, an hydraulic press producing pressure or motion by the introduction of a solid substance into a cylinder previously filled
• IRRELATIVE
  Not relative; without mutual relations; unconnected. -- Ir*rel"a*tive*ly, adv. Irrelative chords , those having no common tone. -- Irrelative repetition , the multiplication of parts that serve for a common purpose, but have no mutual dependence
• CORRELATIVENESS
  Quality of being correlative.
• DEHYDRATION
  The act or process of freeing from water; also, the condition of a body from which the water has been removed.
• IRRELATION
  The quality or state of being irrelative; want of connection or relation.
• CARBOHYDRATE
  One of a group of compounds including the sugars, starches, and gums, which contain six carbon atoms, united with a variable number of hydrogen and oxygen atoms, but with the two latter always in proportion as to form water; as dextrose,
• PRELATEITY
  Prelacy. Milton.
• CORRELATE
  To have reciprocal or mutual relations; to be mutually related. Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice. Tylor.