Hyla 
hylactism (hi-lak'tizm), . [< Gr. vfaia-eiv, 
bark (< i-'/fii; bark), + -ism 1 A barking or 
baying [Rare] 
There are turkeys too and twoor three doss, who 
baikwlthlsharp^Silm: SAto Letter? p 54 
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iiylaaae (hi la-de), n.pl. See HyKda, 
hylseosaur (hi'le-o-sar), n. [< Hylwosaurus, 
' rd, 
2943 
of 
(hi-lob-a-ti'ne), n. pi. [NL., < 
Hymen 
hylotheism (hi'lo-the-izm), H. [< Gr. v7.ii, mat- 
ter, + fedc, God, + -I'.S-;H. ] The doctrine or belief 
that matter is God, or that there is no God ex- 
,1 i " ' r !>'". \ tunu uianer IB uoci, or inai mere 18 no uoa ex- 
ylooatex + -ma?.] A subfamily of anthropoid cept matter and the universe. Alsohulotheism 
S^S *yi? ifle(1 bv the 8 e ' hylotheist (hi'lo-the-ist), . [< hylothe-ism + 
ainin tin- ibbons - 
One who believes that matter is God. 
, . 
q. v.] A gigantic 'fossil liza 
IfylimxiniruK. 
Hylaeosaurus (hi"le-6-sa'rus) 
apes, of the family _ Jr 
ims Ifi/lobatex, containing the gibbons' They are 
characterized by their very slender form with extremely ^^u , , s , 
^,,,_, c tt ( - e ^ the ^ a "' lth ~ - Hylotoma (lii:,ot : o-m & ),,, 
of the genus hylobatine (lu-lob'a-tin), a. and u. I. a. Of 
or relating to the Hylobatixie, or having their 
. [NL., < Gr. characters. 
1804), fern, to Hyl'otoniiis.] A genus of saw- 
flies, of the family Tenthredinid<e, or Hylotomi- 
d(E. The second and third submarginal cells of the fore 
(Gennar), < 
ered by Mantell in the Wealden formation of * weevils, of the family Curculionidte. The 
Tilgate Forest in England, and characterized species live in wood. H. abietis is destructive 
by the development of the dermal scutes into to nrs an( J other conifers, 
prodigious spines along the middle line of the Hylocharis (hi-lok'a-ris), . [NL., < Gr. v/.q, 
back. One of these great lizards was probably wood, forest, + xoipetv, rejoice.] A genus of 
about 25 feet long. humming-birds, based by Boie in 1831 upon one 
Kylaplesia (hi-la-ple'si-S), n. [NL., < Gr. i/ty, of the sapphirs, Trochilm sapphirintis. The 
a wood, + irAiplof, near, close to.] A genus of name was subsequently applied by various 
tropical American frog-like toads, typical of the authors to several different groups of Trochi- 
family HyJaplesiida: The species are very prettily J, i(la '- 
Hylocichla (hi-lo-sik'la), . [NL. (Baird, 1864), 
< Gr. ii).n, wood,+ Ki^Aiy, a bird like the thrush.] 
A genus of Turdidce, including the American 
wood-thrushes. The type is the common wood-thrush, 
Rose Saw-fly (Hylatama rosn\ (Cross shows natural size.) 
wing each receive a recurrent nervure. There are about 
25 European and 15 North American species, of rather small 
-..- type is the common wood-thrush, size. H. rosce is the rose saw-fly 
SiuSSSlS^^tffiiSSri^^^^ Hylotomida (hi - 16 - torn 'i -de) . pi [NL., 
backed thrush, and the hermit-thrush. See wood-thrush, s a y l otoma f -Ma;.} A family of insects, 
named from the genus Hylotoma: now usually 
merged in Tcnthredinida. 
hylotomous (hi-lot'6-mus), a. [< Gr. fan, wood, 
+ TO//OC, cutting, < re/fvctv, cut.] Wood-cutting: 
or brightly colored ; they are such as H. tinctoria, H. 
picta, and H. speciosa, the latter living in the Andes of 
the United States of Colombia at a height of 6,000 feet 
above the sea. Soie, 1827. 
Hylaplesiidae (hi"la-ple-si'i-de), n.pl. [NL., 
< Hylaplesia + -i<fe.] A family of batrachians, 
named from the genus 
veery. 
Hylodes 1 (hl-16'dez), . [NL., < Gr. t>/<i<%, 
woody, wooded (of the wood), < My, wood, + 
clSoc, form.] A genus of Australian birds: now 
called Drymodes. J. Gould, 1841. -rr - 
" (hl-16'dez), n. [NL., < Hyla + Gr. 1 >7> z< ? 1< 5 (hi;lo-z6'ik), a- 
, , tv, u. oo-cung: 
applied to certain insects which bore into wood. 
' [As hylozo-ism + -ic.~\ 
h 7 lol 
L rt 
[< 
(hi'loid), a. and n. 
" ' or relating to the 
-. ii"lo-I-de'al-izm), n. [< Gr. vkn, 
matter, + E . idealism. ] The doctrine that real- 
ity belongs to the immediate object of belief 
as such ; sensuous subjectivism 
j >-* w "* wuv 't.^i ' 1 1' i.i 1 1 l , \JL III.--I UVYClitU | '."I II V 1 A /1.-/1- A\ rT\ JIT 
of the heavens above the eastern horizon; the W^ist (hi lo-ist), n. [Prop, "hylist, < Gr. 
apheta, prorogator, significator, or giver of life. matter ( se . e H J>a), + -ist.] One who 
Also spelled hileg. 
hylephobia (hi-le-fo'bi-S), n. [< Gr. tvli?, matter, 
+ -<t>o/3ia, fear: of. hydrophobia.] Morbid fear 
of materialism ; dread of the result of material- 
istic doctrines. [Rare.] 
ff 
.mo ilium n " mi ii irn- n HI ii mi'!,' <( ii'pnri'iuiM pays all 
his devotions to is a certain blind shee-god or goddess, 
called Nature, or the life of matter. 
Ctidworth, Intellectual System, p. 107. 
hylozoical (hi-lo-zo'i-kal), a. [< hylozoic + 
-al.] Same as hylozoic'.' 
There hath been already mentioned another form of 
Atheism, called by us hylozoical. 
Cudwrth, Intellectual System, p. 105. 
hylozoism (hi-lo-zo'izm), n. [< Gr. i?.)?, matter, 
+ -oid.] + fov, animal,' + -ism.] The doctrine that all 
matter is endowed with life. 
Hylozoimi makes all body, as such, and therefore every 
smallest atom of it, to have life essentially belonging to it. 
Cudicorth, Intellectual System, p. 105. 
When we have attained to this conception of hylozoism, 
of a living material universe, the mystery of Nature is 
odes* (hi-16'dez), n. [NL., < Hyla + Gr Ay ioz ic im-io-zo IK;, . [AS nylozo-ism + -i 
~~ Jf, form.] A genus of toads, of the family Pertaining to or of the nature of hylozoism. 
Cystignathidce, containing such species as H. ^^^ " umen **'<* the AI/ZOZOTC* corporealist pays 
oxyrhynchus of the West Indies. They resem- 
ble tree-toads, 
hylogenesis (hi-16-jen'e-sis), n. [X Gr. vfai. 
..iii.i. . i nviiij uuvj etcnuo -*-(/KliytGani, Jlilvlllt; [lit.' i * . . '2- __. fc* '? 
sacral apophyses not flattened, the toes all free ma er > + ^"^'f. generation.] The origin of 
and dilated at the ends, perfect ears, and no i^i.,- ,^- i , , r/ .- 
neck-glands. The few species are confined to HylOfeny (hi-loj e-m), n. [< Gr. VM,, matter, 
tropical America. Also Hylaplesida:. Synony- + 7 , ' < '?"*' P rod g = see-aeny.] Same 
mous with Dendrobatidai. 
hylde 1 t, A Middle English form of heeld. 
hylde 2 t. A Middle English form of held, pret- 
erit of hold*. 
hyleg (hi'leg), n. [Of Ar. origin.] In astro!., 
the planet which rules the particular sign of the 
zodiac which happens at the instant of a nativ- 
ity to be in the ascendant, or first twelfth part . as , 8U 
of the heavens above the eastern horizon : thn nyiOlSt V" 1 UJ-UH,/, . L^i'op. nyusi, \ ur. vf.t], --'- 
matter (see Hyla), + -ist.] One who believes nylOZOlSt (hi-lo-zo ist), n. [Ashylozo-ism + -ist.] 
matter to be God. Also huloist. A believer in hylozoism ; one who holds that 
r (hi-lol'o-ji), n. [< Gr. via/, matter, + I " otfo " ""^ "--i ~> " *- 
, Acyeiv, speak: see -ology.] The doc- 
trine or theory of matter as unorganized. 
Krauth. 
Hylephobia is now often regarded as a sacred madness ^y lom y s (M'lo-mis), n. [NL., < Gr. ify, wood, 
as epilepsy used to be. + t*vf = E. mouse.] A genus of insectivorous 
6. S. Hall, Amer. Jour. Psychol., Nov., 1887, p. 152. mammals, of the subfamily Gymnurinee, differ- 
hylicism (hi'li-sizm), n. Same as hylism. ing from GymnMro in the shorter tail and smaller 
hylicist (M'li-sist), n. A materialist; specifi- t hird "PP er premolar. 
cally, one of the early Ionic philosophers. 
Hylidse (hi'li-de), n.pl. [NL.; improp. Hyladt^, 
<Hyla + -idee.] A family of arciferous salient 
amphibians, named from the genus Hyla ' 
ing maxillary teeth, dilated sacral diapopl 
andjlilated^ terminal phalanges. The species are 
solved. 
Pop. Sci. Mo., XXII. 169. 
i ii t yiuzuisiii ; one wiio noias inai 
matter, and every particle of it, has a species of 
life or animation. 
The hylozoists, by Cudworth's account of them, ascribed 
a little more to their atoms, imagining them endued with 
a quality which, though not perception, might be stiled 
the seed or principle whereout by the junction of many 
of them together perception might be compleated. 
A. Tucker, Light of Nature, II. 1. 9. 
The hylozoist can attribute consciousness to the falling 
stone, while Descartes denied it to even the highest brutes. 
McK. Cattell, Mind, XIII. 43S. 
amphibians, named from the genus Hyla, hav- "*" ~ JC -J pertaining to nylopathism. 
ing maxillary teeth, dilated sacral diapophyses, hylopathism (hi-lop'a-thizm), n. [< Gr. vfai, 
and dilated terminal phalanges. The species are matter > + Toflof, feeling, + -ism.] The doc- 
trine that matter is sentient. 
commonly called tree-toads or tree-frogs. The limits of 
the family have varied widely with different writers. The 
very obvious character of the dilated disk-like ends of the 
toes i- ' 
variou 
31 Dat. KI..IIIIO, iv. im vi j ' n i'-i HI M_\ rcieri'eu lo illls laniliy 
Elimination of all such greatly restricts the family, con- 
formably to the definition here given 
hylism (hnizm), , ra& Gr. g^ter^ fBtiffS**** 
doctrines nf thA corlv T^i n WOOd, f QiAof, 
' ^iov-iiivc ciiuo tJl lliu ?Q))} -H -J <tl I A ItAllAVAV in h\rl*A-no f h-iovi 
is by no means peculiar to the Hylid<e, and has caused , * , , ,. . D f"* ve " nywpathism. 
ms toads and frogs, some even of a different suborder HyiOpnagOUS (Ill-lot a-gus), a. [< Gr. f/li 
itrachians, to l>e erroneously referred to this family, eating wood, feeding in the woods, < i?n 
'''"?".. ^L 8 "?-? I ^ t . 1 /_^ tricto the famu y' "- + Wriv, eat.] Eatine wood : xvloDha^', 
wood, 
as 
specifically, the doctrines of the early Ionic 
philosophers. (5) The theory which regards 
matter as the principle of evil. Also hylicism. 
hyllt. An obsolete spelling of hill. 
hylobate(hi'lo-bat),);, [< Hytobates.] A mem- 
ber of the genus Hylobates or subfamily Hylo- 
hiitimi-; a long-armed ape or gibbon. 
Hylobates (hi-lob'a-tez), H. [NL., < Gr. Mo- 
panK, one who haunts the woods, < i>)j, a wood, 
forest, + flarr/f, one who mounts, < flaivav, go ] 
1. A genus of anthropoid apes, the gibbons or 
long-armed apes, typical of the subfamily Ht/- 
lobahna: It usually includes all the gibbons, being thus 
conterminous with (lie subfamily, but the sianmim is some- 
times separated from the rest under the genus tfiamawia 
There are several true species of Uylobates. such as It lar 
See ape and gibbon. Illiger, 1811. 
v, eat.] Eating wood; 
beetles. 
. [NL., < Gr. /?, 
, , , -- o-j I" ornith., a genus 
American 
of 
, -, loving.] 
of Amt 
greenlets, 
the family Yire- 
onida;. It differs 
from Vireo proper 
in the stouter feet 
with larger claws 
and equal lateral 
toes, more conical 
bill with straighter 
culinen, and other 
characters. The 
wings are about as 
long as the tail, and 
both are rounded. 
The genus contains 
upward of 15 spe- 
cies, all of the wanner parts of continental America; H. 
sclattri is an example. C. J. Temminck, about 1823. 
Hylffhaus sclateri. 
A Monism that though essentially based on hylozois- 
lie assumptions pretends, nevertheless, to explain every- 
thing in strict keeping with mechanical principles. 
The Open Court, March 17, 1887. 
hylozoistically (hl"lo-zo-is'ti-kal-i), adv. After 
the manner of the hylozoists ; in accordance 
with hylozoistic doctrines. 
Hymen 1 (lu'men), n. [L., < Gr. "tfifyi (v/tev-), 
Gr. myth., the god of marriage, son of Bacchus 
and Aphrodite (Venus), or of Apollo and one 
of the Muses, in some legends originally a 
mortal youth, invoked in hymeneal songs for 
reasons variously given. Also called Hyme- 
rueits. 
Here's eight that must take hands 
To join in Hymen's bands. 
Shak., As you Like it, v. 4. 
They light the nuptial torch, and bid invoke 
Hymen, then first to marriage rites invoked. 
Milton, P. L., xl. 691. 
Hence 2. Marriage; the wedded state. [Poet- 
ical or archaic.] 
Well have all. sir, that may make your Hymen high 
and happy. B. Jonson, Epiccene, iii. 2. 
To whose bounty 
Owe we our thanks for gracing thus our hymen' 
Maiiinger, Renegado, v. 8. 
