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A convulsive motion of some of the muscles used in breathing, accompanied by a shutting of the glottis. Hilum, sometimes written Hilus. A small fissure, notch, or depression. A term applied to the concave part of the kidney. Of the same kind or quality throughout; uniform in nature, the reverse of heterogeneous. Humor. The transparent contents of the eyeball.
Humanity, in imitation of God, produces everything from nothing, de nihilo hilum just as it is itself a product of nothing, just as its thought comes out of the void; and M. Rossi would not have made such a mistake, if, like the physiocrats, he had not confounded the products of the INDUSTRIAL KINGDOM with those of the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms.
"Nil igitur mors est, ad nos neque pertinet hilum; quando quidem natura animi mortalis habetur!" cries Lucretius. With the advent of Christianity, condemning as it did the barbarous customs of self-mutilation and self-murder, these practices seem to disappear gradually; but stoicism and indifference to pain were exhibited in martyrdom.
The smooth, simple stems, which grow about 2 feet tall, bear lanceolate-linear, entire leaves and small clusters of usually blue, though sometimes pink or white flowers, crowded in terminal spikes. The small, brown, glistening three-angled seeds, which have a little white hilum near their apices, retain their viability three years.
Muter, according to the appearance they give under the microscope, into five groups: Class I. Hilum and concentric rings visible. All the granules, oval or ovate. Tous-le-mois, potato, arrowroot, etc. Class II. The concentric rings are all but invisible, the hilum is stellate. Maize, pea, bean, etc. Class III. The concentric rings are all but invisible, also the hilum in the majority of granules.
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