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the shoulder to the elbow; the 

 bone of that part, consisting of 

 two parts, the scapula and the 

 clavicle: humeral, a., hum'er-al, 

 pert, to the shoulder. 



humifuse, a., humf-i-fuz (L. humus, 

 the ground ; fusus, spread), in 

 bot., spreading over the surface 

 of the ground ; procumbent. 



HumiriacesB, n. plu., hum'-ir^-d' 

 s$-e (formed probably from Umiri, 

 where found), the Humiriads, an 

 Order of plants of Brazil, which 

 some place as a Sub-order under 

 the Ord. Meliacese : Humiria, n. , 

 hum-tr'-i-a, a genus : Humiria 

 floribunda, flo^i-Mud'-a (L. 



flos, a flower, floris, of a flower ; 

 abundans, abounding), a species 

 whose trunk, when wounded, 

 yields a liquid yellow balsam, 

 called balsam of Umiri : H. bal- 

 samifera, bal'-sam-if-tr-a (L. 

 balsamum, balsam ; fero, I bear), 

 yields a balsam used for perfumery 

 and in medicine. 



humor or humour, n., humf-or 

 (L. humor, fluid of any kind, 

 moisture ; F. humeur), any 

 moisture or fluid of the body 

 except the blood ; certain parts 

 of the eye which abound in fluid: 

 humoral, a., hurn'or-al, pert, to 

 the fluids of the body or proceed- 

 ing from them ; in med. , applied 

 to that doctrine which ascribes 

 all diseases to a degenerate or 

 disordered state of the fluids of 

 the body : aqueous humor, the 

 watery matter which fills the 

 space in the forepart of the eye- 

 ball between the cornea and iris. 



Humulus, n., hum'ul-us (L. 

 humus, the earth, the ground), a 

 genus of creeping plants, Ord. 

 Cannabinacese, constituting the 

 well - known Hop, extensively 

 cultivated in some parts of 

 England, so named as it creeps 

 along the ground if not sup- 

 ported: Humulus lupulus, loop'- 

 ul'iis (dim. of L. lupus, a wolf), 

 the common hops, the strobili 



of the female plants of which 

 constitute the hops ; employed 

 as a tonic and narcotic in the 

 form of extract, infusion, and 

 tincture. 



humus, n., hum'-us (L. humu*, 

 earth, soil), vegetable mould, 

 the product of decayed veget- 

 ation. 



Hura, n., hur'-a (S. Arner. name), 

 a genus of plants, Ord. Euphorbi- 

 acese: Hura crepitans, Jcrep'it-anz 

 (L. crepitans, creaking, crack- 

 ling), the sand-box tree or 

 monkey's dinner-bell, the juice 

 of which is very acrid ; the 

 numerous parts of its fruit, when 

 dry, separate from each other 

 with great force. 



husk, n., husk (Dut. hulsche, the 

 covering of seeds), the external 

 covering of many fruits and 

 seeds ; the pericarp. 



Hyacinthus, n., hi'-a-smth'us (L. 

 Hyddnthus, Gr. Huakinthos, a 

 beautiful youth, beloved by 

 Apollo, and accidentally killed 

 by a blow of his quoits, and from 

 whose blood the flowers sprang ; 

 the blue iris, corn-flag, or gladiol- 

 us of the ancients), a beautiful 

 and well-known genus of bulbous 

 plants, Ord. Liliacese : Hyacinth- 

 us orientalis, dr'-i-ent-dl'is (L. 

 orientdlis, oriental from orient, 

 arising), the hyacinth, a popular 

 spring flower having numerous 

 garden varieties and various 

 colours of flowers. 



hyaline, a., hi'al-in (Gr. hualos, 

 glass), consisting of or resembling 

 glass ; in med. , clear and of a 

 slight consistence like a jelly ; in 

 bot., transparent or colourless : 

 n., a substance which originates 

 the cell-nucleus, or the part where 

 the cell-nucleus appears : hyaloid, 

 a., hl'-al-dyd (Gr. eidos, re- 

 semblance), like glass ; trans- 

 parent : n. , an extremely thin 

 and clear membrane. 



hybrid, n., hi'-brid (L. hybrida, 

 a hybrid, a mongrel from Gr. 



