Hibernation, Hybernation

The act of hibernating, or of pa ing the winter in a domicile or place of seclusion. ( Zool .) That peculiar condition of sleep which certain animals, chiefly cheiroptera and rodent i a, pa the winter season. The bats, the hedgehog and the dormouse are the most striking examples of this phenomenon. Hibernia, the Roman name for IRELAND ( q . v .). Hibernia, in Mi ouri , a village of Call away co., on the Mi ouri river, opposite Jefferson City. Hibernia, in New Jersey, a post-village of Morris co., on Central R. R. of N.J. Pop. (1897) about 1,420. Hibernian, a . [From Lat. Hibernia .] (Geog.) Per taining or relating to Hibernia, or the modern Ireland; as, the Hibernian brogue. -n. A native or inhabitant of Ireland. Hibernianism, Hibernicism, n . An idiom of speech peculiar to the Irish. Hiber'no-Celtic, n. The branch of the Celtic language spoken by the people of Ireland.