in Medicine and Surgery, an excess of flesh, or rather a fleshy excrescence, such as those generally rising upon the lips of wounds, &c.

YPHEN, an accent or character in grammar, implying that two words are to be joined, or connected into one compound word, and marked thus -; as pre-established, five-leaved, &c. Hyphens also serve to connect the syllables of such words as are divided by the end of the line.