Associations to the word «Hypothec»

Wiktionary

HYPOTHEC, noun. (legal) In Scotland, a landlord's right over the stocking (cattle, implements, etc.), and crops of his tenant, as security for payment of rent.
HYPOTHEC, noun. (colloquial) Everything; the whole lot.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne