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Girl/Female
Greek
A dragon killed by Hercules.
Female
Greek
(á½Î´Ïα) Greek name derived from the word hydor, HYDRA means "water." In mythology, this is the name of a many-headed water dragon killed by Herakles.
Girl/Female
Greek, Indian
Water; The Hydra in Heracles; Feminine of Hydr
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Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for someone who constructed or repaired roofs, from an agent derivative of Middle English roof (Old English hrÅf). In the Middle Ages roofs might be thatched with reeds or straw, or covered with tiles, slates, or wooden shingles.German and English : nickname for an unscrupulous individual, from Middle Low German rÅver ‘pirate’, ‘robber’, Middle English rover. The English verb rove ‘to wander’ is probably a back-formation from this, and is not attested before the 16th century, so it is unlikely to lie behind any examples of the surname.German : variant of Röver (see Roever).
Boy/Male
Indian
The forgiving
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Diamond
Male
French
Variant spelling of French Ferrand, FERRANT means "ardent for peace."
Girl/Female
Muslim
Beautiful, Silk of heaven
Boy/Male
Latin
Mythical keeper of the winds.
Male
English
Originally a short form of surnames, mostly Scottish, beginning with Mac-, MACK means "son of," it is now sometimes given as a forename.Â
Male
Egyptian
, Pthah Hotep.
Surname or Lastname
English (mainly Dorset)
English (mainly Dorset) : occupational name for a locksmith, from an agent derivative of Middle English, Old English loc ‘lock’, ‘fastening’ (see Lock, and compare Locker).
Boy/Male
Muslim
Husband. Crown.
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n.
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.
pl.
of Hydra
a.
Of or pertaining to hydraulics, or to fluids in motion; conveying, or acting by, water; as, an hydraulic clock, crane, or dock.
n.
The act of becoming, or state of being, a hydrate.
n.
A diseased condition produced by poisoning with hydrargyrum, or mercury; mercurialism.
v. t.
To form into a hydrate; to combine with water.
n.
Either one of two pigments (called blue verditer, and green verditer) which are made by treating copper nitrate with calcium carbonate (in the form of lime, whiting, chalk, etc.) They consist of hydrated copper carbonates analogous to the minerals azurite and malachite.
n.
Any small fresh-water hydroid of the genus Hydra, usually found attached to sticks, stones, etc., by a basal sucker.
pl.
of Hydra
n.
An aquatic mite of the genus Hydrachna. The hydrachnids, while young, are parasitic on fresh-water mussels.
a.
Dipped in the gall of the fabulous hydra; poisonous; deadly.
n.
Any one of a series of nitrogenous bases, resembling the amines and produced by the reduction of certain nitroso and diazo compounds; as, methyl hydrazine, phenyl hydrazine, etc. They are derivatives of hydrazine proper, H2N.NH2, which is a doubled amido group, recently (1887) isolated as a stable, colorless gas, with a peculiar, irritating odor. As a base it forms distinct salts. Called also diamide, amidogen, (or more properly diamidogen), etc.
imp. & p. p.
of Hydrate
a.
Hydraulic.
a.
Formed into a hydrate; combined with water.
n.
An alkaloid, found in the rootstock of the golden seal (Hydrastis Canadensis), and extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance. It is used as a tonic and febrifuge.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Hydrate
n.
A genus of hydroids having large, naked, flowerlike hydranths at the summits of long, slender, usually simple, stems. The gonophores are small, and form clusters at the bases of the outer tentacles.
n.
A substance which does not contain water as such, but has its constituents (hydrogen, oxygen, hydroxyl) so arranged that water may be eliminated; hence, a derivative of, or compound with, hydroxyl; hydroxide; as, ethyl hydrate, or common alcohol; calcium hydrate, or slaked lime.
n.
A hydragogue medicine, usually a cathartic or diuretic.