hiation
English edit
Etymology edit
See hiatus.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
hiation (plural hiations)
- (obsolete) The act of gaping; a gap.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- the continual hiation or holding open its mouth, which men observing, conceive the intention thereof to receive the aliment of air
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “hiation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)