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Hippoboscidas, n. plu., hip'po 

 bos'id-e (Gr. hippos, a horse ; 

 bosko, I feed), a family of dip- 

 terous insects, belonging to the 

 Viviparous section of the Ord. 

 Diptera, generally known by the 

 name ' forest flies : ' Hippobosca, 

 n., hip'po'bftsk'-a, a genus of in- 

 sects which live upon quadrupeds 

 and birds : Hippobosca equina, 

 frkwin'-d (L. equmus, belonging 

 to a horse from equus, a horse), 

 the horse fly. 



hippocamp, n,, hfptpd-Jc&mp) also 

 hippocampus, n., hlp'pd-kdmp'* 

 us (Gr. hippos, a horse ; Jcampto, 

 I bend or curve ; hippokampos, 

 L. hippocampus, the sea-horse), 

 the sea-horse, a fabulous monster; 

 a small fish of singular shape, 

 with head and neck like a horse, 

 called the Pipe-fish or Sea-horse; 

 in anat, , one of the two convolu- 

 tions of the brain resembling a 

 ram's horn or the shape of a sea- 

 horse, named respectively hippo- 

 campus minor and hippocampus 

 major, that is, the lesser and 

 greater hippocampus. 

 Hippocratese, n. plu., Mtf-pQ-ler&t 

 e-e (after Hippocrates, an ancient 

 Greek physician, and one of the 

 fathers of botany), a Tribe or Sub- 

 order of the Ord. Celastraceae : 

 Hippocratea, n., hip'pd-krdt'e-a, 

 a genus of mostly climbing 

 shrubs with very minute flowers : 

 Hippocratea comosa, kom-oz'd 

 (L. comosus, hairy from coma, 

 the hair of the head), yields nuts 

 which are oily and sweet. 

 Hippomane, n., hip'pom'dn-e (Gr. 

 hippomdnes, furious with desire, 

 a plant which is said by the 

 ancients to have driven horses 

 mad if eaten by them from 

 hippos, a horse ; mania, mad- 

 ness), a genus of plants, Ord. 

 Euphorbiacese: Hippomane man- 

 cinella, man'siri'&l'ld (mod. L. 

 mancinella, It. mancinello, the 

 manchineel), the manchineel 

 tree, growing 40 or 50 feet high 



in the W. Indian islands, yields 

 a milky juice very acrid and 

 poisonous, which applied to the 

 skin excites violent inflammation 

 and ulceration. 



hippopathology, n., Up'. po- path* 

 M'-ti-ji (Gr. hippos, a horse ; Eng. 

 pathology), the doctrine or de- 

 scription of the diseases of horses ; 

 the science of veterinary medic- 

 ine. 



Hippophae, n., hip-pof'-d-e (Gr. 

 hippos, a horse ; phdo, I destroy, 

 in allusion to the supposed poison- 

 ous qualities of the seed), a genus 

 of ornamental trees, Ord. Elseag- 

 naceae : Hippophae rhamnoides, 

 ram-noyd'-ez (Gr. rhamnos, the 

 white thorn; eidos, resemblance), 

 the sea buckthorn, furnished 

 with sharp spines, fruit eaten, 

 and has been used as a pre- 

 serve. 



hippophagy, n., hip-pdf'-a>ji (Gr. 

 hippos, a horse ; phago, I eat), 

 the practice of eating horse flesh : 

 hippophagi, n. plu., htp-ptif'.&'ji, 

 those who eat horse flesh. 



hippuria, n., hip-pur'-i-d (Gr. 

 hippos, a horse ; ouron, urine), 

 an excess of hippuric acid in the 

 urine : hippuric, a., liip-pur'-ik, 

 denoting an acid ; a constituent 

 of the urine, obtained in greatest 

 abundance from the urine of horses 

 or cows ; said to be also found in 

 the blood of herbivora. 



Hippuris, n., hip-pur'-is (Gr. hip- 

 pos, a horse ; oura, a tail), a 

 genus of curious aquatic plants, 

 growing best in marshy places, 

 so called from the stem resem- 

 bling a mare's tail arising from the 

 crowded whorls of very narrow, 

 hair-like leaves ; Ord. Halorage- 

 acese. 



hirsute, a., her^-sut (L. hirsutus, 

 rough, hairy), covered with long, 

 stiffish hairs, thickly set ; 

 hairy. 



Hirudinea, n., her<iid^n<e-d (L. 

 hirudo, a leech, a blood-sucker, 

 hirudinis, of a leech), in zool. t 



