hutch ins i a

[Named after Mi Hutchings, of Bantry, a zealous botanist.] Bot.: A genus of Cruciferae, family Lepidide. The petals are small; the filaments without scales, the stigma se ile, the pod broadly oblong, obtuse, much compre ed, the valves keeled, the septum narrow, two seeds, not margined, on each cell. Hutch ins i a petræa , a small plant two to four inches high, is found on limestone rocks in the west of England and in Wales. Hutch-in-sō-ni-ans, s. [See def.] Ch. Hist ., . ( pl . ): The followers of John Hutch in son, a native of Spennithorne, in Yorkshire (16741737). He believed that the Hebrew Scriptures contain a complete system of natural science, as well as of theology. He opposed the Newton i an philosophy. He often departed from the literal interpretation of the sacred text. Many divines embraced his views, but he never founded a sect. "The Hutch in son i ans were combined in an extreme dislike for rationalism."- Leslie Stephen : English Thought in the Eighteenth Century, i. 390. hutt-ěd, pa. par.ora. [Hυτ, ν.] Hut-tô-ni-an, a. [ Hutton , a proper name (see def.); suff.- ian . Geol.: Of or belonging to Dr. Hutton, of Edinburgh, one of the founders of modern geology. Huttonian-theory, s. Geol.: The theory first published by Dr. Hutton, in 1788, in his Theory of the Earth , and developed in 1795. He was the first to distinguish between cosmogony and geology, believing the latter to be in no way concerned with "questions as to the origin of things." He says that "The ruins of an older world are visible in the present structure of our planet, and the strata which now compose our continents have been once beneath the sea, and were formed out of the waste of preëxisting continents. The same forces are still destroying, by chemical decomposition or mechanical violence, even the hardest rocks and transporting the materials to the sea, where they are spread out and form strata analogous to those of more ancient date. Although loosely deposited along the bottom of the ocean, they become afterward altered and consolidated by volcanic heat, and then heaved up fractured IMG:content-1369.png:[blocks in formation] Mil.: A covering for the head for a soldier. hux, v . t . [Etym. doubtful.] To fish, as for pike, with hooks and lines attached to floating bladders. hux-tër, s . [HUCKSTER.] Huy-ge-ni-ạn, a. [From Hugenius, the Latinized name of Huyghens. See def.] Optics, .: Of or belonging to Christian Huyghens, born at The Hague, April 14, 1629, died 1695, aged 66. He discovered double refraction in crys tals, ascertained that the apparent horns, seen by Galileo, projecting from Saturn were a ring, discovered the fourth satellite to that planet, . Huygenian-telescope, s . Optic In strum.: A telescope having an object gla of 123 feet of focal length. The gla was mounted on a pole, the only tube being a small one for the eye-gla . He subsequently constructed an eye-piece of two lenses, which served the double purpose of enlarging the field of vision and diminishing aberration.