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HY'ALINE, adj. [ vahtvo;, Gr.] Glaffy; cryfialline; 
made of gdafs ; refernbling glafs : 
From heaven-gate not far, founded in view 
On the clear hyaline, the glaffy fea. Milton. 
HY'ALINGE, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Blekingen : twenty miles fouth-fonth-eaft of Konlback. 
HYAM'POLIS, a city of Phocis, on the Cephifus. He¬ 
rodotus. 
HYAN'THES, the ancient name of the inhabitants of 
Bceotia, from king Hyas. Cadmus is fometimes called 
Ryanthius, becaufe he was king of Bceotia. 
HY'AS,a man’s name ; the fon of Atlas. See Hyades. 
HYBAN'THUS, f. in botany. See Viola. 
HYBERNAC'ULUM,/ in botany, the liybernacle. It 
is a compendium of tlie whole herb, before it grows up, 
in which the embryo of the future plant is inciofed 
byafcaly covering, and fecured from external injuries 
during the winter. It is either a bulb, formed from the 
remains of pall leaves ; or a bud, from the rudiments of 
future leaves. 
HYBERNA'GIUM, f. The feafon for lowing winter- 
corn, between Michaelmas and Chriflmas; as tremagium 
is the feafon for fovving the lummer-corn in the fpring of 
the year. Thefe words w’ere taken fometimes for the dif¬ 
ferent feafons ; other times for the different lands* on 
which the feveral kinds of grain were fowed ; and fome¬ 
times for the different corn;.as hybernagium was applied 
to wheat and rye, which we ftill call winter-corn ; and 
tremagium to barley, oats, See. which we term fpring or 
Trimmer-corn. 
HYBER'NAL, adj. [from kybernus, Lat. winter.] Be¬ 
longing to winter. Scott. 
HYBERNA'TION, f. [from kybernare, Lat.] Period of 
winter.—As lhould be very agreeable to the nature and 
conRitution of the feveral plants, that were to pafs their 
hybernation in the green-houfe. Evelyn. —The periodical 
deep or torpor of animals. M. Fabricius ingenioufly 
fuppofes that the torpor of certain animals in cold wea¬ 
ther is not natural, nor coeval with the fpecies. The 
fpecies fubjefled to it, according to him, are natives of 
countries warmer than thofe in which they undergo this 
change; but, from their multiplication beyond their 
means of fubfifience, they were obliged to emigrate. 
The unufual cold of the new climate, (provided they 
moved from the equator,) and the failure of food in win¬ 
ter, brought on the Hate of torpor. The author obferves, 
inTupport of his hypothefis, that thefe animals, carried 
back to a warm climate, and fupplied with food in plenty, 
never hybernate; in like manner, if fed by the hand of 
man, they lofe this habit. He is alfo of opinion, as Mr. 
Hunter alfo once conjectured, that all animals* man not 
excepted, are capable of this Rate : he quotes the inftance 
of fheep in Iceland, which pafs the winter covered with 
fnow, wdiere they probably take no food, and where in¬ 
deed they could only find a little dried heath; he adds 
the fad of the Swils, who have been found motionlefs un¬ 
der fnow, and who, though they had remained long in this 
Rate without food, recovered perfectly; and he is of opi¬ 
nion, that lwallows do not quit the country in which 
they live during funvmer. At all events, the fmall num¬ 
ber of thefe birds hitherto difeovered in a llate of hyber¬ 
nation adds much probability to his opinion, fince the 
fwallow feems capable of palling the winter-months with 
us without torpor, according to circumRances. The au¬ 
thor believes that extreme warmth has nearly the fame 
effeCl on animals which cold produces. In excefiively 
hot feafons, almofi the fame torpor, he obferves, prevails 
throughout nature, and many animals hide themfelves in 
dark and cool receffes, or emigrate. Our knowledge with 
refpeCt to the caufe of hybernation is extremely limited, 
efpecially that of aquatic plants, which, in order to avoid 
.the rigour of winter, retire to the bottom of the water at 
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the fetting-in of this feafon, and emerge on the approach 
of the firli fine weather in fpring. “Change of 1 tempe¬ 
rature alone feems to me (fays M. Fabricius) infuffi- 
cent to account for this phenomenon; for it fometimes 
happens that plants emerge when the temperature is lower 
than at the time of their finking.” The phenomenon 
doubtlefs depends on the accumulation of excitability, if 
we may ufe this phrafe, during the Rate of quiefcence of 
the vegetables : the fame thing happens to animals. 
HY'BLA, or Megara, in ancient geography, a 
mountain in Sicily, fo named from the Megarear.s, 
who led thither a colony; called alfo Hybla Parva, and 
Galcotis. In Strabo’s time Megara was extinft; but the 
name Hybla remained on account of its excellent honey 
named from it. It was fituated on the eafi coafi of Si¬ 
cily, between Syracufe and the Leontines. The Hyblai 
colics, or fmall eminences at the fprings of the Alabus 
near this place, were famous for their variety of flowers ; 
the honey gathered from which was by the ancients rec¬ 
koned the beR in the world, excepting that of Hyraet- 
tus in Attica. By the moderns it was called Mel PaJJi, 
for.the fame reafon, namely, on account of its excellent 
honey and extraordinary fertility, till it was overwhelm¬ 
ed by the lava of AStna ; and, having then become totally 
barren, its name was changed to Mai PaJJi. In a fecond 
eruption, by a fiiower of afhes from the mountain, it foon 
re-affumed its ancient beauty and fertility, and for many 
years was called Bel PaJJi: and laR of all, in 1669, it was 
again laid under an ocean of fire, and reduced to the moR 
wretched Rerility ; fince which time it is again known by 
the appellation of Mai PaJJi. However, the lava in its 
courfe over this beautiful country has left feveral little 
iflands or hillocks, fufficient to ftiow what it formerly 
was. Thefe make a Angular appearance in all the bloom 
of the moR luxuriant vegetation, furrounded and render¬ 
ed almoR inaccelfible by large fields of black and rugged 
lava. 
HYBLA 2 A.N, adj. [from Hybla.'] Belonging to Hybla, 
produced on mount Hybla. 
HYBO'MA, f. [Greek.] A curvature of the back-bone. 
HYBRIA'NES, in ancient geography, a peonle near 
Thrace. 
HY'BRID, adj. Begotten between animals of a differ¬ 
ent fpecies, produced from plants of different kinds. 
HYB'RIDA, f. [from Gr.) An animal whofe 
fire is of one kind and dam of another. 
HYB'RIDOUS, adj. [vS^t?, Gr. hybrida, Lat.] Begotten 
between animals of different fpecies.—Why fuch different 
fpecies lhould not only mingle together, but alfo generate 
an animal, and yet that that hybridous production lhould 
not again generate, is to me a myflery. Ray. 
HY'BRIS, J. in Grecian antiquity, the iilver Rool on 
which the plaintiff Rood in the court of the areopagus. 
HYBRIffTICA, / [of vGps, Gr. injury.] A lolemn 
feaR held among the Greeks, with facrifices and other ce¬ 
remonies ; at which the men attended in the apparel of 
women, and the women in that of men, to do honour to 
Venus in quality either of a god or a goddefs, or both. 
Or, according to the account given by others, it was a 
feaR celebrated at Argos, wherein the women, being; 
dreffed like men, infulted their lnilbands, and treated 
them with all marks of fuperiority, in memory of the 
Argian dames having anciently defended their country 
with lingular courage againR Cleomenes and Demaratus. 
Plutarch fpeaks of this feaR in his treatife of the great 
aflions of women. 
HYC'CARON, a town of Sicily, the native place of 
Lais. 
HY'CO-O'TEE, or Hycoo, a fmall river of the Ame¬ 
rican States, which empties into the Dan about four miles 
above the mouth of Staunton river. 
HY'DA, a town of Lydia, under mount Tmolus, which 
fome fuppofe to b.e the lame as Sardes. 
HY'DAGE, 
