Hoard, n. See Hoarding, 2. Smart.

Hoard, n. [OE. hord, AS. hord; akin to OS. hord, G. hort, Icel. hodd, Goth. huzd; prob. from the root of E. hide to conceal, and of L. custos guard, E. custody. See Hide to conceal.] A store, stock, or quantity of anything accumulated or laid up; a hidden supply; a treasure; as a hoard of provisions; a hoard of money.

Hoard, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Hoarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Hoarding.] [AS. hordian.] To collect and lay up; to amass and deposit in secret; to store secretly, or for the sake of keeping and accumulating; as to hoard grain.

Hoard, v. i. To lay up a store or hoard, as of money.
"To hoard for those whom he did breed." Spenser.

Hoarder
Hoard´er, n. One who hoards.

Hoarding
Hoard´ing, n. [From OF. hourd, hourt, barrier, palisade, of German or Dutch origin; cf. D. horde hurdle, fence, G. horde, hürde; akin to E. hurdle. rad.16. See Hurdle.]
1. (Arch.) A screen of boards inclosing a house and materials while builders are at work. [Eng.]
"Posted on every dead wall and hoarding." London Graphic.
2. A fence, barrier, or cover, inclosing, surrounding, or concealing something.
"The whole arrangement was surrounded by a hoarding, the space within which was divided into compartments by sheets of tin." Tyndall.

Hoarfrost
Hoar´frost, n. The white particles formed by the congelation of dew; white frost. [Written also horefrost. See Hoar, a. ]
"He scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes." Ps. cxlvii. 16.

Hoarsen
Hoars´en, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Hoarsened p. pr. & vb. n. Hoarsening.] To make hoarse.
"I shall be obliged to hoarsen my voice." Richardson.

Hoarstone
Hoar´stone (hor"ston•), n. A stone designating the bounds of an estate; a landmark. Halliwell.

Hoary
Hoar´y, a.
1. White or whitish. "The hoary willows." Addison.
2. White or gray with age; hoar; as hoary hairs.
"Reverence the hoary head." Dr. T. Dwight.
3. Hence, remote in time past; as hoary antiquity.
4. Moldy; mossy; musty. [Obs.] Knolles.
5. (Zoöl.) Of a pale silvery gray.
6. (Bot.) Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent. Hoary bat (Zoöl.), an American bat ( Atalapha cinerea), having the hair yellowish, or brown, tipped with white.

Hoatzin
Ho´at•zin, n. (Zoöl.) Same as Hoazin.

Hoazin
Hoa´zin, n. (Zoöl.) A remarkable South American bird ( Opisthocomus cristatus); the crested touraco. By some zoölogists it is made the type of a distinct order ( Opisthocomi).

Hob, n. [Prob. akin to hump. Cf. Hub. ]
1. The hub of a wheel. See Hub. Washington.
2. The flat projection or iron shelf at the side of a fire grate, where things are put to be kept warm. Smart.
3. (Mech.) A threaded and fluted hardened steel cutter, resembling a tap, used in a lathe for forming the teeth of screw chasers, worm wheels, etc.

Hob, n. [Orig. an abbrev. of Robin, Robert; Robin Goodfellow a celebrated fairy, or domestic spirit. Cf. Hobgoblin, and see Robin. ]
1. A fairy; a sprite; an elf. [Obs.]
"From elves, hobs, and fairies, … Defend us, good Heaven !" Beau. & FL.
2. A countryman; a rustic; a clown. [Obs.] Nares. { Hob´a•nob•, Hob´and•nob• } v. i. Same as Hobnob. Tennyson.

Hob, n. A peg, pin, or mark used as a target in some games, as an iron pin in quoits; also a game in which such a target is used.

Hob, n. (Zoöl.) The male ferret.

Hobbism
Hob´bism, n. The philosophical system of Thomas Hobbes, an English materialist (1588-1679); esp., his political theory that the most perfect form of civil government is an absolute monarchy with despotic control over everything relating to law, morals, and religion.

Hobbist
Hob´bist, n. One who accepts the doctrines of Thomas Hobbes.

Hobble
Hob´ble, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Hobbled p. pr. & vb. n. Hobbling ] [OE. hobelen, hoblen, freq. of hoppen to hop; akin to D. hobbelen, hoblen, hoppeln. See Hop to jump, and cf. Hopple ]
1. To walk lame, bearing chiefly on one leg; to walk with a hitch or hop, or with crutches.
"The friar was hobbling the same way too." Dryden.
2. To move roughly or irregularly; — said of style in writing. Prior.
"The hobbling versification, the mean diction." Jeffreys.

Hobble
Hob´ble, v. t.
1. To fetter by tying the legs; to hopple; to clog. " They hobbled their horses." Dickens
2. To perplex; to embarrass.

Hobble
Hob´ble, n.
1. An unequal gait; a limp; a halt; as he has a hobble in his gait. Swift.
2. Same as Hopple.
3. Difficulty; perplexity; embarrassment. Waterton.

Hobblebush
Hob´ble•bush, n. (Bot.) A low bush ( Viburnum lantanoides) having long, straggling branches and handsome flowers. It is found in the Northern United States. Called also shinhopple. { Hob´ble•de•hoy•, Hob´ble•te•hoy• } n. [Written also hobbetyhoy, hobbarddehoy, hobbedehoy, hobdehoy.] [ Cf. Prob. E. hobbledygee with a limping movement; also F. hobereau, a country squire, E. hobby, and OF. hoi to-day; perh. the orig. sense was an upstart of to-day.] A youth between boy and man; an awkward, gawky young fellow . [Colloq.]
"All the men, boys, and hobbledehoys attached to the farm." Dickens. .

Hobbler
Hob´bler, n. One who hobbles.

Hobbler
Hob´bler, n. [OE. also hobeler, OF. hobelier, LL. hobellarius. See Hobby a horse.] (Eng. Hist.) One who by his tenure was to maintain a horse for military service; a kind of light horseman in the Middle Ages who was mounted on a hobby. Hallam. Sir J. Davies.

Hobbly
Hob´bly, a. Rough; uneven; causing one to hobble; as a hobbly road.

Hobby
Hob´by, n. ; pl. Hobbies (#). [OE. hobi; cf. OF. hobe, hobe, F. hobereau a hobby, a species of falcon. OF. hober to move, stir. Cf. Hobby a horse.] (Zoöl.) A small, strong-winged European falcon ( Falco subbuteo), formerly trained for hawking. { Hob´by, Hob´by•horse• } n. [OE. hobin a nag, OF. hobin hobby; cf. hober to stir, move; prob. of German or Scand. origin; cf. Dan. hoppe a mare, dial. Sw. hoppa; perh. akin to E. hop to jump.]
1. A strong, active horse, of a middle size, said to have been originally from Ireland; an ambling nag. Johnson.
2. A stick, often with the head or figure of a horse, on which boys make believe to ride. [ Usually under the form hobbyhorse.]
3. A subject or plan upon which one is constantly setting off; a favorite and ever-recurring theme of discourse, thought, or effort; that which occupies one’s attention unduly, or to the weariness of others; a ruling passion. [Usually under the form hobby.]
"Not one of them has any hobbyhorse, to use the phrase of Sterne." Macaulay.

Hobgoblin
Hob´gob•lin, n. [See 2d Hob, and Goblin.] A frightful goblin; an imp; a bugaboo; also a name formerly given to the household spirit, Robin Goodfellow. Macaulay.

Hobnailed
Hob´nailed, a. See with hobnails, as a shoe.

Hobnob
Hob´nob, adv. [AS. habban to have + habban to have not; n. not + habban to have. See Have, and cf. Habnab.]
1. Have or have not; — a familiar invitation to reciprocal drinking. Shak.
2. At random; hit or miss. (Obs.) Holinshed.

Hobnob
Hob´nob, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Hornobbed p. pr. & vb. n. Hornobbing.]
1. To drink familiarly (with another). [ Written also hob-a-nob.]
2. To associate familiarly; to be on intimate terms.

Hobnob
Hob´nob, n. Familiar, social intercourse. W. Black.

Hobo
Ho´bo, n. ; pl. Hobos or Hoboes (#). [Of uncertain origin.] A professional tramp; one who spends his life traveling from place to place, esp. by stealing rides on trains, and begging for a living. [U. S.] — Ho´bo•ism (#), n.

Hobornob
Hob´or•nob, adv. See Hobnob.

Hobson’s choice
Hob"son’s choice" A choice without an alternative; the thing offered or nothing. It is said to have had its origin in the name of one Hobson, at Cambridge, England, who let horses, and required every customer to take in his turn the horse which stood next the stable door.

Hocco
Hoc´co, n. (Zoöl.) The crested curassow; — called also royal pheasant. See Curassow.

Hock, n. [So called from Hochheim, in Germany.] A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still. The name is also given indiscriminately to all Rhenish wines.

Hock, Hough, n. [ AS. hh the heel; prob. akin to Icel. hasinn hock sinew, Dan. hasc, G. hechse, hächse, LG. hacke, D. hak; also to L. coxa hip (cf. Cuisses), Skr. kaksha armpit. rad.12. Cf. Heel.]
1. (a) The joint in the hind limb of quadrupeds between the leg and shank, or tibia and tarsus, and corresponding to the ankle in man. (b) A piece cut by butchers, esp. in pork, from either the front or hind leg, just above the foot.
2. The popliteal space; the ham.

Hock, v. t. To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.

Hockamore
Hock´a•more, n. [See 1st Hock.] A Rhenish wine. [Obs.] See Hock. Hudibras.

Hockey
Hock´ey, n. [From Hook, n. ]
1. A game in which two parties of players, armed with sticks curved or hooked at the end, attempt to drive any small object (as a ball or a bit of wood) toward opposite goals.
2. The stick used by the players. [Written also hookey and hawkey.]

Hockle
Hoc´kle, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Hockled p. pr. & vb. n. Hockling ] [From 2d Hock.]
1. To hamstring; to hock; to hough. Hanmer.
2. To mow, as stubble. Mason.

Hocus-pocus
Ho´cus-po´cus, n. [Prob. invented by jugglers in imitation of Latin. Cf. Hoax, Hocus.]
1. A term used by jugglers in pretended incantations.
2. A juggler or trickster. Sir T. Herbert.
3. A juggler’s trick; a cheat; nonsense. Hudibras.

Hocus-pocus
Ho´cus-po´cus, v. t. To cheat. [Colloq.] L’Estrange.

Hod, n. [Prov. E. for hold, i. e., that which holds. See Hold.]
1. A kind of wooden tray with a handle, borne on the shoulder, for carrying mortar, brick, etc.
2. A utensil for holding coal; a coal scuttle.

Hoddy
Hod´dy, n. [Prob. for hooded.] (Zoöl.) See Dun crow, under Dun, a.

Hodgepodge
Hodge´podge, n. A mixed mass; a medley. See Hotchpot. Johnson.

Hodman
Hod´man, n. ; pl. Hodmen. A man who carries a hod; a mason’s tender.

Hodmandod
Hod´man•dod, n. [Obs.] See Dodman. Bacon.

Hodometer
Ho•dom´e•ter, n. See Odometer.

Hoecake
Hoe´cake, n. A cake of Indian meal, water, and salt, baked before the fire or in the ashes; — so called because often cooked on a hoe. [Southern U.S.]

Hoemother
Hoe´moth•er, n. [A local Orkney name; cf. Icel. har.] (Zoöl.) The basking or liver shark; — called also homer. See Liver shark, under Liver.

Hog, n. [Prob. akin to E. hack to cut, and meaning orig., a castrated boar; cf. also W. hwch swine, sow, Armor. houc’h, hoc’h. Cf. Haggis, Hogget, and Hoggerel.]
1. (Zoöl.) A quadruped of the genus Sus, and allied genera of Suidae; esp., the domesticated varieties of S. scrofa, kept for their fat and meat, called, respectively, lard and pork; swine; porker; specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow. The domestic hogs of Siam, China, and parts of Southern Europe, are thought to have been derived from Sus Indicus.
2. A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow. [Low.]
3. A young sheep that has not been shorn. [Eng.]
4. (Naut.) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship’s bottom under water. Totten.
5. (Paper Manuf.) A device for mixing and stirring the pulp of which paper is made. Bush hog, Ground hog, etc.. See under Bush, Ground, etc. — Hog caterpillar (Zoöl.), the larva of the green grapevine sphinx; — so called because the head and first three segments are much smaller than those behind them, so as to make a resemblance to a hog’s snout. See Hawk moth. — Hog cholera, an epidemic contagious fever of swine, attended by liquid, fetid, diarrhea, and by the appearance on the skin and mucous membrane of spots and patches of a scarlet, purple, or black color. It is fatal in from one to six days, or ends in a slow, uncertain recovery. Law (Farmer’s Veter. Adviser.) — Hog deer (Zoöl.), the axis deer. — Hog gum (Bot.), West Indian tree ( Symphonia globulifera), yielding an aromatic gum. — Hog of wool, the trade name for the fleece or wool of sheep of the second year. — Hog peanut (Bot.), a kind of earth pea. — Hog plum (Bot.), a tropical tree, of the genus Spondias ( S. lutea), with fruit somewhat resembling plums, but chiefly eaten by hogs. It is found in the West Indies. — Hog’s bean (Bot.), the plant henbane. — Hog’s bread. (Bot.) See Sow bread. — Hog’s fennel. (Bot.) See under Fennel. — Mexican hog (Zoöl.), the peccary. — Water hog. (Zoöl.) See Capybara.

Hog, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Hogged p. pr. & vb. n. Hogging.]
1. To cut short like bristles; as to hog the mane of a horse. Smart.
2. (Naut.) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.

Hog, v. i. (Naut.) To become bent upward in the middle, like a hog’s back; — said of a ship broken or strained so as to have this form.

Hog’s-back
Hog’s´-back, n. (Geol.) A hogback.

Hogback
Hog´back, n.
1. (Arch.) An upward curve or very obtuse angle in the upper surface of any member, as of a timber laid horizontally; — the opposite of camber.
2. (Naut.) See Hogframe.
3. (Geol.) A ridge formed by tilted strata; hence, any ridge with a sharp summit, and steeply sloping sides.

Hogchoker
Hog´chok•er, n. (Zoöl.) An American sole ( Achirus lineatus, or A. achirus), related to the European sole, but of no market value.

Hogcote
Hog´cote, n. A shed for swine; a sty.

Hogfish
Hog´fish, n. (Zoöl.) (a) A large West Indian and Florida food fish ( Lachnolaemus). (b) The pigfish or sailor’s choice. (c) An American fresh-water fish; the log perch. (d) A large, red, spiny-headed, European marine fish ( Scorpaena scrofa).

Hogframe
Hog´frame, n. (Steam Vessels) A trussed frame extending fore and aft, usually above deck, and intended to increase the longitudinal strength and stiffness. Used chiefly in American river and lake steamers. Called also hogging frame, and hogback.

Hogged, a. (Naut.) Broken or strained so as to have an upward curve between the ends. See Hog, v. i.

Hoggerel
Hog´ger•el, n. [From the same source as hog; prob. orig., a sheep clipped the first year. See Hog.] A sheep of the second year. [Written also hogrel.] Ash.

Hogger-pump
Hog´ger-pump´ (hog"ger-pump•), n. (Mining) The top pump in the pit. Raymond.

Hoggery
Hog´ger•y, n. Hoggish character or manners; selfishness; greed; beastliness.
"Crime and shame And all their hoggery." Mrs. Browning.

Hogget
Hog´get, n. [See Hog, and Hoggerel.]
1. A young boar of the second year.
2. A sheep or colt alter it has passed its first year.

Hogh (ho), n. [Icel. haugr hill, mound; akin to E. high. See High.] A hill; a cliff. [Obs.] Spenser.

Hogmanay
Hog•ma•nay´, n. The old name, in Scotland, for the last day of the year, on which children go about singing, and receive a dole of bread or cakes; also the entertainment given on that day to a visitor, or the gift given to an applicant. [Scot.]

Hognosesnake
Hog´nose•snake´ (Zoöl.) A harmless North American snake of the genus Heterodon, esp. H. platyrhynos; — called also puffing adder, blowing adder, and sand viper.

Hognut
Hog´nut, n. (Bot.) (a) The pignut. See Hickory. (b) In England, the Bunium flexuosum, a tuberous plant.

Hogpen
Hog´pen, n. A pen or sty for hogs.

Hogreeve
Hog´reeve, n. [See Reeve.] A civil officer charged with the duty of impounding hogs running at large. [New Eng.] Bartlett.

Hogscore
Hog´score, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Curling) A distance line drawn across the rink or course between the middle line and the tee. [Scot.]

Hogshead
Hogs´head, n. [D. okshoofd; akin to Sw. oxhufvud, Dan. oxehoved, G. oxhoft; apparently meaning orig., ox head, but it is not known why this name was given. Cf. Ox, Head.]
1. An English measure of capacity, containing 63 wine gallons, or about 52½ imperial gallons; a half pipe. The London hogshead of beer was 54 beer gallons, the London hogshead of ale was 48 ale gallons. Elsewhere in England the ale and beer hogsheads held 51 gallons. These measures are no longer in use, except for cider.
2. A large cask or barrel, of indefinite contents; esp. one containing from 100 to 140 gallons. [U. S.]

Hogsty
Hog´sty, n. ; pl. Hogsties . A pen, house, or inclosure, for hogs.

Hogwash
Hog´wash, n. Swill. Arbuthnot.

Hogweed
Hog´weed, n. (Bot.) (a) A common weed ( Ambrosia artemisiaege). See Ambrosia, 3. (b) In England, the Heracleum Sphondylium.

Hoidenhood
Hoi´den•hood, n. State of being a hoiden.

Hoidenish
Hoi´den•ish, a. Like, or appropriate to, a hoiden.

Hoise, v. t. [See Hoist.] To hoist. [Obs.]
"They … hoised up the mainsail to the wind." Acts xxvii. 40.

Hoistaway
Hoist´a•way, n. A mechanical lift. See Elevator.

Hoit, v. i. [Gf. W. hoetian to dally, dandle.] To leap; to caper; to romp noisily. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Hoity-toity
Hoi´ty-toi•ty, a. [From Hoit.] Thoughtless; giddy; flighty; also haughty; patronizing; as to be in hoity-toity spirits, or to assume hoity-toity airs; used also as an exclamation, denoting surprise or disapprobation, with some degree of contempt.
"Hoity-toity! What have I to do with dreams?" Congreve.

Hol, a. [See Whole.] Whole. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Holaspidean
Hol•as•pid´e•an, a. [ Holo- + Gr.,, shield.] (Zoöl.) Having a single series of large scutes on the posterior side of the tarsus; — said of certain birds.

Holcad
Hol´cad, n. [Gr. ’olka•s, -a•dos, a ship which is towed, a ship of burden, fr. ’e•lkein to draw. Gf. Hulk.] A large ship of burden, in ancient Greece. Mitford.

Holdback
Hold´back, n.
1. Check; hindrance; restraint; obstacle.
"The only holdback is the affection … that we bear to our wealth." Hammond.
2. The projection or loop on the thill of a vehicle. to which a strap of the harness is attached, to hold back a carriage when going down hill, or in backing; also the strap or part of the harness so used.

Holder
Hold´er, n. One who is employed in the hold of a vessel.

Holder
Hold´er, n.
1. One who, or that which, holds.
2. One who holds land, etc., under another; a tenant.
3. (Com.) The payee of a bill of exchange or a promissory note, or the one who owns or holds it. Holder is much used as the second part of a compound; as share holder, office holder, stock holder,etc.

Holder-forth
Hold´er-forth, n. One who speaks in public; an haranguer; a preacher. Addison.

Holdfast
Hold´fast, n.
1. Something used to secure and hold in place something else, as a long flat-headed nail, a catch a hook, a clinch, a clamp, etc.; hence, a support. "His holdfast was gone." Bp. Montagu.
2. (Bot.) A conical or branching body, by which a seaweed is attached to its support, and differing from a root in that it is not specially absorbent of moisture.

Holding
Hold´ing, n.
1. The act or state of sustaining, grasping, or retaining.
2. A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another.
3. That which holds, binds, or influences. Burke.
4. The burden or chorus of a song. [Obs.] Shak. Holding note (Mus.), a note sustained in one part, while the other parts move.

Hole (hol), a. Whole. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Hole, n. [OE. hol, hole, AS. hol, hole, cavern, from hol, a., hollow; akin to D. hol, OHG. hol, G. hohl, Dan. huul hollow, hul hole, Sw. hål, Icel. hola; prob. from the root of AS. helan to conceal. See Hele, Hell, and cf. Hold of a ship.]
1. A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure.
"The holes where eyes should be." Shak.
"The blind walls Were full of chinks and holes." Tennyson.
"The priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid." 2 Kings xii. 9.
2. An excavation in the ground, made by an animal to live in, or a natural cavity inhabited by an animal; hence, a low, narrow, or dark lodging or place; a mean habitation. Dryden.
"The foxes have holes, … but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head." Luke ix. 58.
Syn. — Hollow; concavity; aperture; rent; fissure; crevice; orifice; interstice; perforation; excavation; pit; cave; den; cell. Hole and corner, clandestine, underhand. [Colloq.] "The wretched trickery of hole and corner buffery." Dickens. — Hole board (Fancy Weaving), a board having holes through which cords pass which lift certain warp threads; — called also compass board.

Hole, v. t. [AS. holian. See Hole, n. ]
1. To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in; as to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars. Chapman.
2. To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball.

Hole, v. i. To go or get into a hole. B. Jonson.

Hole, n. (Games) (a) A small cavity used in some games, usually one into which a marble or ball is to be played or driven; hence, a score made by playing a marble or ball into such a hole, as in golf. (b) (Fives) At Eton College, England, that part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.

Hole in the air. (Aëronautics) = Air hole, above. { Hol•lan•daise" sauce, or Hol•lan•daise´ }, n. [F. hollandaise, fem. of hollandais Dutch.] (Cookery) A sauce consisting essentially of a seasoned emulsion of butter and yolk of eggs with a little lemon juice or vinegar.

Holethnos
Hol•eth´nos, n. [ Holo + Gr. race.] A parent stock or race of people, not yet divided into separate branches or tribes.

Holibut
Hol´i•but, n. (Zoöl.) See Halibut.

Holily
Ho´li•ly, adv. [From Holy.]
1. Piously; with sanctity; in a holy manner.
2. Sacredly; inviolably. [R.] Shak.

Holing
Hol´ing, n. [See Hole a hollow.] (Mining) Undercutting in a bed of coal, in order to bring down the upper mass. Raymond.

Hollander
Hol´land•er, n.
1. A native or one of the people of Holland; a Dutchman.
2. A very hard, semi-glazed, green or dark brown brick, which will not absorb water; — called also Dutch clinker. Wagner.

Hollandish
Hol´land•ish, a. Relating to Holland; Dutch.

Hollands
Hol´lands, n.
1. Gin made in Holland.
2. pl. See Holland.

Hollow-hearted
Hol´low-heart•ed, a. Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within.
Syn. — Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous.

Hollow-horned
Hol´low-horned, a. (Zoöl.) Having permanent horns with a bony core, as cattle.

Hollowly
Hol´low•ly, adv. Insincerely; deceitfully. Shak.

Hollowness
Hol´low•ness, n.
1. State of being hollow. Bacon.
2. Insincerity; unsoundness; treachery. South.

Holluschickie
Hol´lus•chick•ie, n. sing. & pl. [Prob. of Russ. goluishka bare of possessions, offspring, etc., fr. goluii naked.] (Zoöl.) A young male fur seal, esp. one from three to six years old; — called also bachelor, because prevented from breeding by the older full- grown males. The holluschickie are the seals that may legally be killed for their skins.
"But he’ll lie down on the killing grounds where the holluschickie go." Kipling.

Holly
Hol´ly, adv. Wholly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Holly
Hol´ly (hol"ly), n. [OE holi, holin, AS. holen, holegn; akin to D. & G. hulst, OHG. huls hulis, W. celyn, Armor. kelen, Gael. cuilionn, Ir. cuileann. Cf. 1st Holm, Hulver.]
1. (Bot.) A tree or shrub of the genus Ilex. The European species ( Ilex Aquifolium) is best known, having glossy green leaves, with a spiny, waved edge, and bearing berries that turn red or yellow about Michaelmas. The holly is much used to adorn churches and houses, at Christmas time, and hence is associated with scenes of good will and rejoicing. It is an evergreen tree, and has a finegrained, heavy, white wood. Its bark is used as a febrifuge, and the berries are violently purgative and emetic. The American holly is the Ilex opaca, and is found along the coast of the United States, from Maine southward. Gray.
2. (Bot.) The holm oak. See 1st Holm. Holly-leaved oak (Bot.), the black scrub oak. See Scrub oak. — Holly rose (Bot.), a West Indian shrub, with showy, yellow flowers ( Turnera ulmifolia). — Sea holly (Bot.), a species of Eryngium. See Eryngium.

Holmium
Hol´mi•um, n. [NL., of uncertain origin.] (Chem.) A rare element said to be contained in gadolinite. — Hol´mic (#), a.

Holmos
Hol´mos, n. [NL., fr. Gr..] (Greek & Etrus. Antiq.) A name given to a vase having a rounded body; esp.: (a) A closed vessel of nearly spherical form on a high stem or pedestal. Fairholt. (b) A drinking cup having a foot and stem.

Holo-
Hol´o- A combining form fr. Gr. "o•los whole.

Holoblast
Hol´o•blast, n. [ Holo + - blast.] (Biol.) an ovum composed entirely of germinal matter. See Meroblast.

Holocaust
Hol´o•caust, n. [L. holocaustum, Gr., neut. of,, burnt whole; "o’los whole + kaysto•s burnt, fr. kai•ein to burn (cf. Caustic): cf. F. holocauste.]
1. A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations. Milton.
2. Sacrifice or loss of many lives, as by the burning of a theater or a ship. [An extended use not authorized by careful writers.]

Holocrystalline
Hol•o•crys´tal•line, a. [ Holo + crystalline.] (Min.) Completely crystalline; — said of a rock like granite, all the constituents of which are crystalline.

Holograph
Hol´o•graph, n. [L. holographus entirely autograph, Gr. "olo•grafos; "o•los whole + gra•fein to write: cf. F. holographe, olographe.] A document, as a letter, deed, or will, wholly in the handwriting of the person from whom it proceeds and whose act it purports to be.

Holographic
Hol•o•graph´ic, a. Of the nature of a holograph; pertaining to holographs.

Holohedral
Hol•o•he´dral, a. [ Holo- + Gr. seat, base, fr. to sit.] (Crystallog.) Having all the planes required by complete symmetry, — in opposition to hemihedral.

Holohemihedral
Hol•o•hem•i•he´dral, a. [ Holo- + hemihedral.] (Crystallog.) Presenting hemihedral forms, in which all the sectants have halt the whole number of planes. Dana.

Holometabola
Hol•o•me•tab´o•la, n. pl. [NL. See Holo-, and Metabola.] (Zoöl.) Those insects which have a complete metamorphosis; metabola.

Holometer
Ho•lom´e•ter, n. [ Holo + -meter: cf. F. holometre.] An instrument for making all kinds of angular measurements.

Holophanerous
Hol•o•phan´er•ous, a. [ Holo + Gr. visible, fr. to appear.] (Zoöl.) Same as Holometabolic.

Holophote
Hol´o•phote, n. A lamp with lenses or reflectors to collect the rays of light and throw them in a given direction; — used in lighthouses.

Holophrastic
Hol•o•phras´tic, a. [ Holo + Gr. to speak: cf. F. holophrastique.] Expressing a phrase or sentence in a single word, — as is the case in the aboriginal languages of America.

Holophytic
Hol•o•phyt´ic, a. [ Holo + Gr. a plant.] Wholly or distinctively vegetable. Holophytic nutrition, that form of nutrition, characteristic of vegetable organisms, in which carbonic acid, ammonia, and nitrates are absorbed as food, in distinction from the animal mode of nutrition, by the ingestion of albuminous matter.

Holorhinal
Hol•o•rhi´nal, a. [ Holo + Gr., nose.] (Anat.) Having the nasal bones contiguous.

Holosiderite
Hol•o•sid´er•ite, n. [ Holo + siderite.] (Min.) Meteoric iron; a meteorite consisting of metallic iron without stony matter.

Holostean
Ho•los´te•an, a. (Zoöl.) Pertaining to the Holostei.

Holostei
Ho•los´te•i, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. "o•los whole + a bone.] (Zoöl.) An extensive division of ganoids, including the gar pike, bowfin, etc.; the bony ganoids. See Illustration in Appendix.

Holosteric
Hol•o•ster´ic, a. [ Holo + Gr.stereo•s solid.] Wholly solid; — said of a barometer constructed of solid materials to show the variations of atmospheric pressure without the use of liquids, as the aneroid.

Holostomata
Hol•o•stom´a•ta, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. "o•los whole + sto•ma, -atos, mouth.] (Zoöl.) An artificial division of gastropods, including those that have an entire aperture.

Holostomate
Ho•los´to•mate, a. (Zoöl.) Same as Holostomatous.

Holostome
Hol´o•stome, n. [ Holo + Gr. sto•ma mouth.] (Zoöl.) One of the Holostomata.

Holostraca
Ho•los´tra•ca, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. "o•los whole + shell of a testacean.] (Zoöl.) A division of phyllopod Crustacea, including those that are entirely covered by a bivalve shell.

Holothure
Hol´o•thure, n. [L. holothuria, pl., a sort of water polyp, Gr. .] (Zoöl.) A holothurian.

Holothurian
Hol•o•thu´ri•an, a. (Zoöl.) Belonging to the Holothurioidea. — n. One of the Holothurioidea. Some of the species of Holothurians are called sea cucumbers, sea slugs, trepang, and bêche de mèr. Many are used as food, esp. by the Chinese. See Trepang.

Holour
Hol´our, n. [OF. holier.] A whoremonger. [Obs.] Chaucer. { Holp, Hol´pen } imp. & p. p. of Help. [Obs.] Shak.

Holstein
Hol´stein, n. (Zoöl.) One of a breed of cattle, originally from Schleswig- Holstein, valued for the large amount of milk produced by the cows. The color is usually black and white in irregular patches.

Holster
Hol´ster, n. [D. holster; skin to AS. heolstor den, cave, fr. helan to conceal, and to Icel. hulstr case, Goth. hulistr covering, veil, huljan to cover. rad.17. See Hele to cover, Hell, and cf. Housing, Houss.] A leather case for a pistol, carried by a horseman at the bow of his saddle.

Holt, 3d pers. sing. pres. of Hold, contr. from holdeth. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Holt, n. [AS. holt; akin to LG. holt, D. hout, G. holz. Icel. holt; cf Gael. & Ir. coill wood, Gr. branch, shoot.]
1. A piece of woodland; especially, a woody hill. "Every holt and heath." Chaucer.
"She sent her voice though all the holt Before her, and the park." Tennyson.
2. A deep hole in a river where there is protection for fish; also a cover, a hole, or hiding place. " The fox has gone to holt." C. Kingsley.

Holwe
Hol´we, a. Hollow. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Holy
Ho´ly, a. [ Compar. Holier superl. Holiest.] [OE. holi, hali, AS. halig, fr. hael health, salvation, happiness, fr. hal whole, well; akin to OS. hlag, D. & G. heilig, OHG. heilac, Dan. hellig, Sw. helig, Icel. heilagr. See Whole, and cf. Halibut, Halidom, Hallow, Hollyhock.]
1. Set apart to the service or worship of God; hallowed; sacred; reserved from profane or common use; holy vessels; a holy priesthood. "Holy rites and solemn feasts." Milton.
2. Spiritually whole or sound; of unimpaired innocence and virtue; free from sinful affections; pure in heart; godly; pious; irreproachable; guiltless; acceptable to God.
"Now through her round of holy thought The Church our annual steps has brought." Keble. Holy Alliance (Hist.), a league ostensibly for conserving religion, justice, and peace in Europe, but really for repressing popular tendencies toward constitutional government, entered into by Alexander I. of Russia, Francis I. of Austria, and Frederic William III. of Prussia, at Paris, on the 26th of September, 1815, and subsequently joined by all the sovereigns of Europe, except the pope and the king of England. — Holy bark. See Cascara sagrada. — Holy Communion. See Eucharist. — Holy family (Art), a picture in which the infant Christ, his parents, and others of his family are represented. - - Holy Father, a title of the pope. — Holy Ghost (Theol.),the third person of the Trinity; the Comforter; the Paraclete. — Holy Grail. See Grail. — Holy grass (Bot.), a sweet-scented grass ( Hierochloa borealis and H. alpina). In the north of Europe it was formerly strewed before church doors on saints’ days; whence the name. It is common in the northern and western parts of the United States. Called also vanilla, or Seneca, grass. — Holy Innocents’ day, Childermas day. — Holy Land, Palestine, the birthplace of Christianity. — Holy office, the Inquisition. — Holy of holies (Script.), the innermost apartment of the Jewish tabernacle or temple, where the ark was kept, and where no person entered, except the high priest once a year. — Holy One. (a) The Supreme Being; — so called by way of emphasis. " The Holy One of Israel." Is. xliii. 14. (b) One separated to the service of God. — Holy orders. See Order. — Holy rood, the cross or crucifix, particularly one placed, in churches. over the entrance to the chancel. — Holy rope, a plant, the hemp agrimony. — Holy Saturday (Eccl.), the Saturday immediately preceding the festival of Easter; the vigil of Easter. — Holy Spirit, same as Holy Ghost (above). — Holy Spirit plant. See Dove plant. — Holy thistle (Bot.), the blessed thistle. See under Thistle. — Holy Thursday. (Eccl.) (a) (Episcopal Ch.) Ascension day. (b) (R. C. Ch.) The Thursday in Holy Week; Maundy Thursday. — Holy war, a crusade; an expedition carried on by Christians against the Saracens in the Holy Land, in the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries, for the possession of the holy places. — Holy water (Gr. & R. C. Churches), water which has been blessed by the priest for sacred purposes. — Holy-water stoup, the stone stoup or font placed near the entrance of a church, as a receptacle for holy water. — Holy Week (Eccl.), the week before Easter, in which the passion of our Savior is commemorated. — Holy writ, the sacred Scriptures. " Word of holy writ." Wordsworth.

Holyday
Ho´ly•day, n.
1. A religious festival.
2. A secular festival; a holiday. Holiday is the preferable and prevailing spelling in the second sense. The spelling holy day or holyday in often used in the first sense.

Holystone
Ho´ly•stone, n. (Naut.) A stone used by seamen for scrubbing the decks of ships. Totten.

Holystone
Ho´ly•stone, v. t. (Naut.) To scrub with a holystone, as the deck of a vessel.

Homacanth
Hom´a•canth, a. [ Homo + Gr. a spine.] (Zoöl.) Having the dorsal fin spines symmetrical, and in the same line; — said of certain fishes.

Homage
Hom´age, n. [OF. homage, homenage, F. hommage, LL. hominaticum, homenaticum, from L. homo a man, LL. also a client, servant, vassal; akin to L. humus earth, Gr. on the ground, and E. groom in bride groom. Cf. Bridegroom, Human.]
1. (Feud. Law) A symbolical acknowledgment made by a feudal tenant to, and in the presence of, his lord, on receiving investiture of fee, or coming to it by succession, that he was his man, or vassal; profession of fealty to a sovereign.
2. Respect or reverential regard; deference; especially, respect paid by external action; obeisance.
"All things in heaven and earth do her [Law] homage." Hooker.
"I sought no homage from the race that write." Pope.
3. Reverence directed to the Supreme Being; reverential worship; devout affection. Chaucer.
Syn. — Fealty; submission; reverence; honor; respect. — Homage, Fealty. Homage was originally the act of a feudal tenant by which he declared himself, on his knees, to be the hommage or bondman of the lord; hence the term is used to denote reverential submission or respect. Fealty was originally the fidelity of such a tenant to his lord, and hence the term denotes a faithful and solemn adherence to the obligations we owe to superior power or authority. We pay our homage to men of preëminent usefulness and virtue, and profess our fealty to the principles by which they have been guided.
"Go, go with homage yon proud victors meet ! Go, lie like dogs beneath your masters’ feet !" Dryden.
"Man, disobeying, Disloyal, breaks his fealty, and sins Against the high supremacy of heaven." Milton.

Homage
Hom´age, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Homaged p. pr. & vb. n. Homaging.] [Cf. OF. hommager.]
1. To pay reverence to by external action. [R.]
2. To cause to pay homage. [Obs.] Cowley.

Homager
Hom´a•ger, n. [From Homage: cf. F. hommager.] One who does homage, or holds land of another by homage; a vassal. Bacon.

Homatropine
Ho•mat´ro•pine, n. [ Homo- + atropine.] (Med.) An alkaloid, prepared from atropine, and from other sources. It is chemically related to atropine, and is used for the same purpose.

Homaxonial
Hom•ax•o´ni•al, a. [ Homo- + Gr. an axle, axis.] (Biol.) Relating to that kind of homology or symmetry, the mathematical conception of organic form, in which all axes are equal. See under Promorphology.

Homeborn
Home´born (hom"bôrn•), a.
1. Native; indigenous; not foreign. Donne. Pope.
2. Of or pertaining to the home or family.
"Fireside enjoyments, homeborn happiness." Cowper.

Home-bound
Home´-bound, a. Kept at home.

Home-bred
Home´-bred, a.
1. Bred at home; domestic; not foreign. " Home-bred mischief." Milton.
"Benignity and home-bred sense." Wordsworth.
2. Not polished; rude; uncultivated.
"Only to me home-bred youths belong." Dryden.

Home-coming
Home´-com•ing, n. Return home.
"Kepeth this child, al be it foul or fayr, And eek my wyf, unto myn hoom-cominge." Chaucer.

Home-driven
Home´-driv•en, a. Driven to the end, as a nail; driven close.

Home-dwelling
Home´-dwell•ing, a. Keeping at home.

Home-felt
Home´-felt (-felt•), a. Felt in one’s own breast; inward; private. "Home- felt quiet." Pope.

Homefield
Home´field (-feld•), n. A field adjacent to its owner’s home. Hawthorne.

Home-keeping
Home´-keep•ing (-kep•ing), a. Staying at home; not gadding.
"Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits." Shak.

Home-keeping
Home´-keep•ing, n. A staying at home.

Homeless
Home´less, a. [AS. hamleas.] Destitute of a home. — Home´less•ness, n.

Homelike
Home´like, a. Like a home; comfortable; cheerful; cozy; friendly.

Homelily
Home´li•ly, adv. Plainly; inelegantly. [R.]

Homeliness
Home´li•ness, n. [From Homely.]
1. Domesticity; care of home. [Obs.] "Wifely homeliness." Chaucer.
2. Familiarity; intimacy. [Obs.] Chaucer.
3. Plainness; want of elegance or beauty.
4. Coarseness; simplicity; want of refinement; as the homeliness of manners, or language. Addison.

Homely
Home´ly, a. [ Compar. Homelier superl. Homeliest.] [From Home, n. ]
1. Belonging to, or having the characteristics of, home; domestic; familiar; intimate. [Archaic]
"With all these men I was right homely, and communed with, them long and oft." Foxe.
"Their homely joys, and destiny obscure." Gray.
2. Plain; unpretending; rude in appearance; unpolished; as a homely garment; a homely house; homely fare; homely manners.
"Now Strephon daily entertains His Chloe in the homeliest strains." Pope.
3. Of plain or coarse features; uncomely; — contrary to handsome.
"None so homely but loves a looking- glass." South.

Homely
Home´ly, adv. Plainly; rudely; coarsely; as homely dressed. [R.] Spenser.

Homelyn
Home´lyn, n. [Scot. hommelin.] (Zoöl) The European sand ray ( Raia maculata); — called also home, mirror ray, and rough ray.

Homemade
Home´made, a. Made at home; of domestic manufacture; made either in a private family or in one’s own country. Locke.

Homeopath
Ho´me•o•path, n. [Cf. F. home opathe.] A practitioner of homeopathy. [Written also homœopath.]

Homeopathic
Ho•me•o•path´ic, a. [Cf. F. homeopathique.] Of or pertaining to homeopathy; according to the principles of homeopathy. [Also homœpathic.]

Homeopathically
Ho•me•o•path´ic•al•ly, adv. According to the practice of homeopathy. [Also homœopathically.]

Homeopathist
Ho•me•op´a•thist, n. A believer in, or practitioner of, homeopathy. [Written also homœopathist.]

Homeopathy
Ho•me•op´a•thy, n. [Gr. likeness of condition or feeling; like (fr. same; cf. Same) + to suffer: cf. F. homeopathie. See Pathos.] (Med.) The art of curing, founded on resemblances; the theory and its practice that disease is cured ( tuto, cito, et jucunde) by remedies which produce on a healthy person effects similar to the symptoms of the complaint under which the patient suffers, the remedies being usually administered in minute doses. This system was founded by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, and is opposed to allopathy, or heteropathy. [Written also homœopathy.]

Homeric
Ho•mer´ic, a. [L. Homericus, Gr. "Omhriko•s.] Of or pertaining to Homer, the most famous of Greek poets; resembling the poetry of Homer. Homeric verse, hexameter verse; — so called because used by Homer in his epics.

Homesick
Home´sick, a. Pining for home; in a nostalgic condition. — Home´sick•ness, n.

Home-speaking
Home´-speak•ing, n. Direct, forcible, and effective speaking. Milton.

Homespun
Home´spun, a.
1. Spun or wrought at home; of domestic manufacture; coarse; plain. "Homespun country garbs." W. Irving.
2. Plain in manner or style; not elegant; rude; coarse. "Our homespun English proverb." Dryden. "Our homespun authors." Addison.

Homespun
Home´spun, n.
1. Cloth made at home; as he was dressed in homespun.
2. An unpolished, rustic person. [Obs.] Shak.

Homestall
Home´stall, n. [AS. hamsteall.] Place of a home; homestead. Cowper.

Homestead
Home´stead, n. [AS. hamstede.]
1. The home place; a home and the inclosure or ground immediately connected with it. Dryden.
2. The home or seat of a family; place of origin.
"We can trace them back to a homestead on the Rivers Volga and Ural." W. Tooke.
3. (Law) The home and appurtenant land and buildings owned by the head of a family, and occupied by him and his family. Homestead law. (a) A law conferring special privileges or exemptions upon owners of homesteads; esp., a law exempting a homestead from attachment or sale under execution for general debts. Such laws, with limitations as to the extent or value of the property, exist in most of the States. Called also homestead exemption law. (b) also a designation of an Act of Congress authorizing and regulating the sale of public lands, in parcels of 160 acres each, to actual settlers. [U.S.]

Homesteader
Home´stead•er, n. One who has entered upon a portion of the public land with the purpose of acquiring ownership of it under provisions of the homestead law, so called; one who has acquired a homestead in this manner. [Local, U.S.]

Homeward
Home´ward, a. Being in the direction of home; as the homeward way. { Home´ward, Home´wards } adv. [AS. hamweard.] Toward home; in the direction of one’s house, town, or country. Homeward bound, bound for home; going homeward; as the homeward bound fleet.

Homicidal
Hom´i•ci•dal, a. Pertaining to homicide; tending to homicide; murderous.

Homicide
Hom´i•cide, n. [F., fr. L. homicidium, fr. homicida a man slayer; homo man + caedere to cut, kill. See Homage, and cf. Concise, Shed, v. t.]
1. The killing of one human being by another. Homicide is of three kinds: justifiable, as when the killing is performed in the exercise of a right or performance of a duty; excusable, as when done, although not as duty or right, yet without culpable or criminal intent; and felonious, or involving what the law terms malice; the latter may be either manslaughter or murder. Bouvier.
2. One who kills another; a manslayer. Chaucer. Shak.

Homilete
Hom´i•lete, n. A homilist. { Hom•i•let´ic, Hom•i•let´ic•al } a. [Gr. : cf. F. homiletique. See Homily.]
1. Of or pertaining to familiar intercourse; social; affable; conversable; companionable. [R.]
"His virtues active, chiefly, and homiletical, not those lazy, sullen ones of the cloister." Atterbury.
2. Of or pertaining to homiletics; hortatory.

Homilist
Hom´i•list, n. One who prepares homilies; one who preaches to a congregation.

Homilite
Hom´i•lite, n. [From Gr. to be in company with.] (Min.) A borosilicate of iron and lime, near datolite in form and composition.

Homily
Hom´i•ly, n. ; pl. Homilies (#). [LL. homilia, Gr. communion, assembly, converse, sermon, fr. an assembly, fr. same; cf. together, and crowd, cf. to press: cf. F. homelie. See Same.]
1. A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; a serious discourse. Shak.
2. A serious or tedious exhortation in private on some moral point, or on the conduct of life.
"As I have heard my father Deal out in his long homilies." Byron. Book of Homilies. A collection of authorized, printed sermons, to be read by ministers in churches, esp. one issued in the time of Edward VI., and a second, issued in the reign of Elizabeth; — both books being certified to contain a "godly and wholesome doctrine."

Hominy
Hom´i•ny, n. [From North American Indian auhúminea parched corn.] Maize hulled and broken, and prepared for food by being boiled in water. [U.S.] [Written also homony.]

Homish
Hom´ish, a. Like a home or a home circle.
"Quiet, cheerful, homish hospital life." E. E. Hale.

Hommock
Hom´mock, n. A small eminence of a conical form, of land or of ice; a knoll; a hillock. See Hummock. Bartram.

Homo-
Ho´mo- A combining form from Gr. "omo•s, one and the same, common, joint.

Homocategoric
Ho•mo•cat•e•gor´ic, a. [ Homo- + categoric.] (Biol.) Belonging to the same category of individuality; — a morphological term applied to organisms so related.

Homocentric
Ho•mo•cen´tric, a. [Gr. : the same + center: cf. F. homocentrique.] Having the same center.

Homocercal
Ho•mo•cer´cal, a. [ Homo- + Gr. tail.] (Zoöl.) Having the tail nearly or quite symmetrical, the vertebral column terminating near its base; — opposed to heterocercal.

Homocercy
Ho´mo•cer•cy, n. (Zoöl.) The possession of a homocercal tail.

Homocerebrin
Ho•mo•cer•e•brin, n. [ Homo- + rebrin.] (Physiol. Chem.) A body similar to, or identical with, cerebrin.

Homochromous
Ho•mo•chro´mous, a. [ Homo- + Gr. color.] (Bot.) Having all the florets in the same flower head of the same color.

Homodemic
Ho•mo•dem´ic, a. [ Homo- + 1st deme, 2.] (Biol.) A morphological term signifying development, in the case of multicellular organisms, from the same unit deme or unit of the inferior orders of individuality.

Homodermic
Ho•mo•der´mic, a. (Biol.) Relating to homodermy; originating from the same germ layer.

Homodermy
Ho´mo•der•my, n. [ Homo- + -derm.] (Biol.) Homology of the germinal layers.

Homodont
Hom´o•dont, a. [ Homo- + Gr.,, a tooth.] (Anat.) Having all the teeth similar in front, as in the porpoises; — opposed to heterodont. { Ho•mod´ro•mal, Ho•mod´ro•mous } a. [ Homo- + Gr. a course, running.]
1. (Bot.) Running in the same direction; — said of stems twining round a support, or of the spiral succession of leaves on stems and their branches.
2. (Mech.) Moving in the same direction; — said of a lever or pulley in which the resistance and the actuating force are both on the same side of the fulcrum or axis.

Homodynamic
Ho•mo•dy•nam´ic, a. Homodynamous. Quain.

Homodynamous
Ho•mo•dy´na•mous, a. (Biol.) Pertaining to, or involving, homodynamy; as successive or homodynamous parts in plants and animals.

Homodynamy
Ho•mo•dy´na•my, n. [Gr. of like power; the same + power.] (Biol.) The homology of metameres. See Metamere. Gegenbaur.

Homœomerous
Ho•mœ•om"er•ous, a. (Anat.) Having the main artery of the leg parallel with the sciatic nerve; — said of certain birds.

Homœomery
Ho•mœ•om"e•ry, n. [Gr. like + -metry.] Same as Homœomeria. [Obs.] Cudworth.

Homœopathic
Ho•mœ•o•path"ic, a. , Ho•mœ•op"a•thist, n. , Ho•mœ•op"a•thy, n. Same as Homeopathic, Homeopathist, Homeopathy.

Homogamous
Ho•mog´a•mous, a. [Gr. married together; the same + marriage.] (Bot.) Having all the flowers alike; — said of such composite plants as Eupatorium, and the thistels.

Homogamy
Ho•mog´a•my, n. (Bot.) The condition of being homogamous.

Homogangliate
Ho•mo•gan´gli•ate, a. [ Homo- + gangliate.] (Zoöl.) Having the ganglia of the nervous system symmetrically arranged, as in certain invertebrates; — opposed to heterogangliate.

Homogene
Ho´mo•gene, a. [Cf. F. homogène.] Homogeneous. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Homogeneal
Ho•mo•ge´ne•al, a. Homogeneous.

Homogenealness
Ho•mo•ge´ne•al•ness, n. Homogeneousness.

Homogeneity
Ho•mo•ge•ne´i•ty, n. [Cf. F. homogeneite.] Same as Homogeneousness.

Homogenesis
Ho•mo•gen´e•sis, n. [ Homo- + genesis.] (Biol.) That method of reproduction in which the successive generations are alike, the offspring, either animal or plant, running through the same cycle of existence as the parent; gamogenesis; — opposed to heterogenesis.

Homogenetic
Ho•mo•ge•net´ic, a. (Biol.) Homogenous; — applied to that class of homologies which arise from similarity of structure, and which are taken as evidences of common ancestry.

Homogenous
Ho•mog´e•nous, a. (Biol.) Having a resemblance in structure, due to descent from a common progenitor with subsequent modification; homogenetic; — applied both to animals and plants. See Homoplastic.

Homogonous
Ho•mog´o•nous, a. [Gr. . See Homogeneous.] (Bot.) Having all the flowers of a plant alike in respect to the stamens and pistils.

Homograph
Hom´o•graph, n. [Gr. "omo•grafos with the same letters; "omo•s the same + gra•fein to write.] (Philol.) One of two or more words identical in orthography, but having different derivations and meanings; as fair, n. , a market, and fair, a. , beautiful.

Homographic
Ho•mo•graph´ic, a.
1. Employing a single and separate character to represent each sound; — said of certain methods of spelling words.
2. (Geom.) Possessing the property of homography.

Homography
Ho•mog´ra•phy, n.
1. That method of spelling in which every sound is represented by a single character, which indicates that sound and no other.
2. (Geom.) A relation between two figures, such that to any point of the one corresponds one and but one point in the other, and vise versa. Thus, a tangent line rolling on a circle cuts two fixed tangents of the circle in two sets of points that are homographic.

Homoioptoton
Ho•moi•op•to´ton, n. [NL., fr. Gr. in a like case; like + falling.] (Rhet.) A figure in which the several parts of a sentence end with the same case, or inflection generally.

Homoiothermal
Ho•moi•o•ther´mal, a. [Gr. like + E. thermal.] (Physiol.) Maintaining a uniform temperature; haematothermal; homothermic; — applied to warm- bodied animals, because they maintain a nearly uniform temperature in spite of the great variations in the surrounding air; in distinct from the cold-blooded ( poikilothermal) animals, whose body temperature follows the variations in temperature of the surrounding medium.

Homoiousian
Ho•moi•ou´si•an, n. [Gr.,, of like substance; "o•moios + o’ysi•a the substance, being, essence.] (Eccl. Hist.) One of the semi-Arians of the 4th century, who held that the Son was of like, but not the same, essence or substance with the Father; — opposed to homoousian.

Homoiousian
Ho•moi•ou´si•an, a. Of or pertaining to Homoiousians, or their belief.

Homologate
Ho•mol´o•gate, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Homologated p. pr. & vb. n. Homologating.] [LL. homologatus, p. p. of homologare to homologate; Gr. to assent, agree. See Homologous.] (Civ. Law) To approve; to allow; to confirm; as the court homologates a proceeding. Wheaton.

Homological
Ho•mo•log´ic•al, a. Pertaining to homology; having a structural affinity proceeding from, or base upon, that kind of relation termed homology. — Ho•mo•log´ic•al•ly, adv.

Homologinic
Ho•mol•o•gin´ic, a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, homology; as homologinic qualities, or differences.

Homologize
Ho•mol´o•gize, v. t. (Biol.) To determine the homologies or structural relations of.

Homologon
Ho•mol´o•gon, n. [NL.] See Homologue.

Homologue
Hom´o•logue, n. [Cf. F. homologue. See Homologous.] That which is homologous to something else; as the corresponding sides, etc., of similar polygons are the homologues of each other; the members or terms of an homologous series in chemistry are the homologues of each other; one of the bones in the hand of man is the homologue of that in the paddle of a whale.

Homomorphism
Ho•mo•mor´phism, n. [See Homomorphous.]
1. (Biol.) Same as Homomorphy.
2. (Bot.) The possession, in one species of plants, of only one kind of flowers; — opposed to heteromorphism, dimorphism, and trimorphism.
3. (Zoöl.) The possession of but one kind of larvae or young, as in most insects.

Homonomy
Ho•mon´o•my, n. [ Homo- + Gr. law.] (Biol.) The homology of parts arranged on transverse axes. Haeckel.

Homonym
Hom´o•nym, n. [Cf. F. homonyme. See Homonymous.] A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning; as the noun bear and the verb bear. [Written also homonyme.]

Homonymously
Ho•mon´y•mous•ly, adv.
1. In an homonymous manner; so as to have the same name or relation.
2. Equivocally; ambiguously.

Homonymy
Ho•mon´y•my, n. [Gr. : cf. F. homonymie.]
1. Sameness of name or designation; identity in relations. Holland.
"Homonymy may be as well in place as in persons." Fuller.
2. Sameness of name or designation of things or persons which are different; ambiguity.

Homoörgan
Ho•mo•ör"gan [ Homo- + organ.] Same as Homoplast.

Homophone
Hom´o•phone, n. [Cf. F. homophone. See Homophonous.]
1. A letter or character which expresses a like sound with another. Gliddon.
2. A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning and usually in spelling; as all and awl; bare and bear; rite, write, right, and wright. { Ho•mo•phon´ic, Ho•moph´o•nous } a. [Gr. ; the same + sound, tone: cf. F. homophone.]
1. (Mus.) (a) Originally, sounding alike; of the same pitch; unisonous; monodic. (b) Now used for plain harmony, note against note, as opposed to polyphonic harmony, in which the several parts move independently, each with its own melody.
2. Expressing the same sound by a different combination of letters; as bay and bey.

Homophyly
Ho•moph´y•ly, n. [ Homo- + Gr. a clan.] (Biol.) That form of homology due to common ancestry (phylogenetic homology), in opposition to homomorphy, to which genealogic basis is wanting. Haeckel.

Homoplasmy
Ho´mo•plas•my, n. [ Homo- + Gr. anything formed, fr. to form, mold.] (Biol.) Resemblance between different plants or animals, in external shape, in general habit, or in organs, which is not due to descent from a common ancestor, but to similar surrounding circumstances.

Homoplast
Hom´o•plast, n. (Biol.) One of the plastids composing the idorgan of Haeckel; — also called homoörgan.

Homoplastic
Ho•mo•plas´tic, a. [ Homo- + plastic.] Of or pertaining to homoplasty; as homoplasticorgans; homoplastic forms.

Homoplasty
Ho´mo•plas•ty, n. [ Homo- + plasty.] (Biol.) The formation of homologous tissues.

Homoplasy
Ho•mop´la•sy, n. [ Homo- + Gr. to form, mold.] (Biol.) See Homogeny.

Homoptera
Ho•mop´te•ra, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. the same, like + wing.] (Zoöl.) A suborder of Hemiptera, in which both pairs of wings are similar in texture, and do not overlap when folded, as in the cicada. See Hemiptera.

Homopterous
Ho•mop´ter•ous, a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Homoptera.

Homostyled
Ho´mo•styled, a. [ Homo- + style.] (Bot.) Having only one form of pistils; — said of the flowers of some plants. Darwin.

Homosystemic
Ho•mo•sys•tem´ic, a. [ Homo- + systemic.] (Biol.) Developing, in the case of multicellular organisms, from the same embryonic systems into which the secondary unit (gastrula or plant enbryo) differentiates.

Homotaxia
Ho•mo•tax´i•a, n. [NL.] Same as Homotaxis. { Ho•mo•tax´i•al, Ho•mo•tax´ic } a. (Biol.) Relating to homotaxis.

Homotaxy
Ho´mo•tax•y, n. Same as Homotaxis. { Ho•mo•ther´mic, Ho•mo•ther´mous } a. [ Homo- + Gr. heat.] (Physiol.) Warm-blooded; homoiothermal; haematothermal.

Homotypal
Ho´mo•ty•pal, a. (Biol.) Of the same type of structure; pertaining to a homotype; as homotypal parts.

Homotype
Hom´o•type, n. [ Homo- + - type.] (Biol.) That which has the same fundamental type of structure with something else; thus, the right arm is the homotype of the right leg; one arm is the homotype of the other, etc. Owen. { Ho•mo•typ´ic, Ho•mo•typ´ic•al } a. (Biol.) Same as Homotypal.

Hond, n. Hand. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Hone, v. i. [Etymology uncertain. rad.37.] To pine; to lament; to long. Lamb.

Hone, n. [Cf. Icel. hun a knob.] A kind of swelling in the cheek.

Hone, n. [AS. han; akin to Icel. hein, OSw. hen; cf. Skr. çana, also ço, çi, to sharpen, and E. cone. rad.38, 228.] A stone of a fine grit, or a slab, as of metal, covered with an abrading substance or powder, used for sharpening cutting instruments, and especially for setting razors; an oilstone. Tusser. Hone slateSee Polishing slate. - - Hone stone, one of several kinds of stone used for hones. See Novaculite.

Hone, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Honed (hond); p]. pr. & vb. n. Honing.] To sharpen on, or with, a hone; to rub on a hone in order to sharpen; as to hone a razor.

Hone, v. i. [Cf. F. honger to grumble.] To grumble; pine; lament; long. [Dial.Eng. & Southern U. S.]

Honest
Hon´est, a. [OE. honest, onest, OF. honeste, oneste, F. honnête, L. honestus, fr. honos, honor, honor. See Honor.]
1. Decent; honorable; suitable; becoming. Chaucer.
"Belong what honest clothes you send forth to bleaching!" Shak.
2. Characterized by integrity or fairness and straightforwardness in conduct, thought, speech, etc.; upright; just; equitable; trustworthy; truthful; sincere; free from fraud, guile, or duplicity; not false; — said of persons and acts, and of things to which a moral quality is imputed; as an honest judge or merchant; an honest statement; an honest bargain; an honest business; an honest book; an honest confession.
"An honest man’s the noblest work of God." Pope.
"An honest physician leaves his patient when he can contribute no farther to his health." Sir W. Temple.
"Look ye out among you seven men of honest report." Acts vi. 3.
"Provide things honest in the sight of all men." Rom. xii. 17.
3. Open; frank; as an honest countenance.
4. Chaste; faithful; virtuous.
"Wives may be merry, and yet honest too." Shak.
Syn. — Upright; ingenuous; honorable; trusty; faithful; equitable; fair; just; rightful; sincere; frank; candid; genuine.

Honest
Hon´est, v. t. [L. honestare to clothe or adorn with honor: cf. F. honester. See Honest, a. ] To adorn; to grace; to honor; to make becoming, appropriate, or honorable. [Obs.] Abp. Sandys.

Honestetee
Ho•nes´te•tee, n. Honesty; honorableness. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Honestly
Hon´est•ly, adv.
1. Honorably; becomingly; decently. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. In an honest manner; as a contract honestly made; to live honestly; to speak honestly. Shak. To come honestly by. (a) To get honestly. (b) A circumlocution for to inherit; as to come honestly by a feature, a mental trait, a peculiarity.

Honesty
Hon´es•ty, n. [OE. honeste, oneste, honor, OF. honeste, oneste (cf. F. honnêtete), L. honestas. See Honest, a. ]
1. Honor; honorableness; dignity; propriety; suitableness; decency. [Obs.] Chaucer.
"She derives her honesty and achieves her goodness." Shak.
2. The quality or state of being honest; probity; fairness and straightforwardness of conduct, speech, etc.; integrity; sincerity; truthfulness; freedom from fraud or guile.
"That we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty." 1 Tim. ii. 2.
3. Chastity; modesty. Chaucer.
"To lay … siege to the honesty of this Ford’s wife." Shak.
4. (Bot.) Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; — called also lunary and moonwort. Lunaria biennis is common honesty; L. rediva is perennial honesty.
Syn. — Integrity; probity; uprightness; trustiness; faithfulness; honor; justice; equity; fairness; candor; plain- dealing; veracity; sincerity.

Honey
Hon´ey, n. [OE. honi, huni, AS. hunig; akin to OS. honeg, D. & G. honig, OHG. honag, honang, Icel. hunang, Sw. håning, Dan. honning, cf. Gr. dust, Skr. kaa grain.]
1. A sweet viscid fluid, esp. that collected by bees from flowers of plants, and deposited in the cells of the honeycomb.
2. That which is sweet or pleasant, like honey.
"The honey of his language." Shak.
3. Sweet one; — a term of endearment. Chaucer.
"Honey, you shall be well desired in Cyprus." Shak. Honey is often used adjectively or as the first part of compound; as honeydew or honey dew; honey guide or honeyguide; honey locust or honey- locust. Honey ant (Zoöl.), a small ant ( Myrmecocystus melliger), found in the Southwestern United States, and in Mexico, living in subterranean formicares. There are larger and smaller ordinary workers, and others, which serve as receptacles or cells for the storage of honey, their abdomens becoming distended to the size of a currant. These, in times of scarcity, regurgitate the honey and feed the rest. — Honey badger (Zoöl.), the ratel. — Honey bear. (Zoöl.) See Kinkajou. — Honey buzzard (Zoöl.), a bird related to the kites, of the genus Pernis. The European species is P. apivorus; the Indian or crested honey buzzard is P. ptilorhyncha. They feed upon honey and the larvae of bees. Called also bee hawk, bee kite. — Honey creeper (Zoöl.), one of numerous species of small, bright, colored, passerine birds of the family Cœrebidae, abundant in Central and South America. — Honey eater (Zoöl.), one of numerous species of small passerine birds of the family Meliphagidae, abundant in Australia and Oceania; — called also honeysucker. — Honey flower (Bot.), an evergreen shrub of the genus Melianthus, a native of the Cape of Good Hope. The flowers yield much honey. — Honey guide (Zoöl.), one of several species of small birds of the family Indicatoridae, inhabiting Africa and the East Indies. They have the habit of leading persons to the nests to wild bees. Called also honeybird, and indicator. — Honey harvest, the gathering of honey from hives, or the honey which is gathered. Dryden. — Honey kite. (Zoöl.) See Honey buzzard (above). — Honey locust (Bot.), a North American tree ( Gleditschia triacanthos), armed with thorns, and having long pods with a sweet pulp between the seeds. — Honey month. Same as Honeymoon. — Honey weasel (Zoöl.), the ratel.

Honey
Hon´ey, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Honeyed p. pr. & vb. n. Honeying.] To be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments; also to be or become obsequiously courteous or complimentary; to fawn. "Honeying and making love." Shak.
"Rough to common men, But honey at the whisper of a lord." Tennyson.

Honey
Hon´ey, v. t. To make agreeable; to cover or sweeten with, or as with, honey.
"Canst thou not honey me with fluent speech?" Marston.

Honey-bag
Hon´ey-bag, n. (Zoöl.) The receptacle for honey in a honeybee. Shak. Grew.

Honeybee
Hon´ey•bee, n. (Zoöl.) Any bee of the genus Apis, which lives in communities and collects honey, esp. the common domesticated hive bee ( Apis mellifica), the Italian bee ( A. ligustica), and the Arabiab bee ( A. fasciata). The two latter are by many entomologists considered only varieties of the common hive bee. Each swarm of bees consists of a large number of workers (barren females), with, ordinarily, one queen or fertile female, but in the swarming season several young queens, and a number of males or drones, are produced.

Honeyberry
Hon´ey•ber•ry, n. ; pl. - berries. The fruit of either of two trees having sweetish berries: (a) An Old World hackberry ( Celtis australis). (b) In the West Indies, the genip ( Melicocca bijuga).

Honeybird
Hon´ey•bird, n. (Zoöl.) The honey guide.

Honeycomb
Hon´ey•comb, n. [AS. hunigcamb. See Honey, and 1st Comb.]
1. A mass of hexagonal waxen cells, formed by bees, and used by them to hold their honey and their eggs.
2. Any substance, as a easting of iron, a piece of worm-eaten wood, or of triple, etc., perforated with cells like a honeycomb. Honeycomb moth (Zoöl.), the wax moth. — Honeycomb stomach. (Anat.) See Reticulum.

Honeydew
Hon´ey•dew, n.
1. A sweet, saccharine substance, found on the leaves of trees and other plants in small drops, like dew. Two substances have been called by this name; one exuded from the plants, and the other secreted by certain insects, esp. aphids.
2. A kind of tobacco moistened with molasses.

Honeyed
Hon´eyed, a.
1. Covered with honey.
2. Sweet, as honeyed words. Milton.

Honeyless
Hon´ey•less, a. Destitute of honey. Shak.

Honeymoon
Hon´ey•moon, n. The first month after marriage. Addison.

Honey-mouthed
Hon´ey-mouthed, a. Soft to sweet in speech; persuasive. Shak.

Honeystone
Hon´ey•stone, n. See Mellite.

Honey-sweet
Hon´ey-sweet, a. Sweet as honey. Chaucer.

Honey-tongued
Hon´ey-tongued, a. Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. Shak.

Honeyware
Hon´ey•ware, n. (Bot.) See Badderlocks.

Hong, n. [Chinese hang, Canton dialect hong, a mercantile house, factory.] A mercantile establishment or factory for foreign trade in China, as formerly at Canton; a succession of offices connected by a common passage and used for business or storage. Hong merchant, one of the few Chinese merchants who, previous to the treaty of 1842, formed a guild which had the exclusive privilege of trading with foreigners.

Hong, v. t. & i. To hang. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Honied
Hon´ied, a. See Honeyed.

Honk, n. [Of imitative origin.] (Zoöl.) The cry of a wild goose. — Honk´ing, n.

Honor
Hon´or, n. [OE. honor, honour, onour, onur, OF. honor, onor, honur, onur, honour, onour, F. honneur, fr. L. honor, honos.] [Written also honour.]
1. Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of respect or reverence.
"A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country." Matt. xiii. 57.
2. That which rightfully attracts esteem, respect, or consideration; self-respect; dignity; courage; fidelity; especially, excellence of character; high moral worth; virtue; nobleness; specif., in men, integrity; uprightness; trustworthness; in women, purity; chastity.
"If she have forgot Honor and virtue." Shak.
"Godlike erect, with native honor clad." Milton.
3. A nice sense of what is right, just, and true, with course of life correspondent thereto; strict conformity to the duty imposed by conscience, position, or privilege.
"Say, what is honor? ’T is the finest sense Of justice which the human mind can frame, Intent each lurking frailty to disclaim, And guard the way of life from all offense Suffered or done." Wordsworth.
"I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more." Lovelace.
4. That to which esteem or consideration is paid; distinguished position; high rank. "Restored me to my honors." Shak.
"I have given thee … both riches, and honor." 1 Kings iii. 13.
"Thou art clothed with honor and majesty." Ps. civ. 1.
5. Fame; reputation; credit.
"Some in theiractions do woo, and affect honor and reputation." Bacon.
"If my honor is meant anything distinct from conscience, ’t is no more than a regard to the censure and esteem of the world." Rogers.
6. A token of esteem paid to worth; a mark of respect; a ceremonial sign of consideration; as he wore an honor on his breast; military honors; civil honors. "Their funeral honors." Dryden.
7. A cause of respect and fame; a glory; an excellency; an ornament; as he is an honor to his nation.
8. A title applied to the holders of certain honorable civil offices, or to persons of rank; as His Honor the Mayor. See Note under Honorable.
9. (Feud. Law) A seigniory or lordship held of the king, on which other lordships and manors depended. Cowell.
10. pl. Academic or university prizes or distinctions; as honors in classics.
11. pl. (Whist) The ace, king, queen, and jack of trumps. The ten and nine are sometimes called Dutch honors. R. A. Proctor.Affair of honor, a dispute to be decided by a duel, or the duel itself. — Court of honor, a court or tribunal to investigate and decide questions relating to points of honor; as a court of chivalry, or a military court to investigate acts or omissions which are unofficerlike or ungentlemanly in their nature. — Debt of honor, a debt contracted by a verbal promise, or by betting or gambling, considered more binding than if recoverable by law. — Honor bright! An assurance of truth or fidelity. [Colloq.] — Honor court (Feudal Law), one held in an honor or seignory. — Honor point. (Her.) See Escutcheon. — Honors of war (Mil.), distinctions granted to a vanquished enemy, as of marching out from a camp or town armed, and with colors flying. — Law, or Code, of honor, certain rules by which social intercourse is regulated among persons of fashion, and which are founded on a regard to reputation. Paley. — Maid of honor, a lady of rank, whose duty it is to attend the queen when she appears in public. — On one’s honor, on the pledge of one’s honor; as the members of the House of Lords in Great Britain, are not under oath, but give their statements or verdicts on their honor. — Point of honor, a scruple or nice distinction in matters affecting one’s honor; as he raised a point of honor. — To do the honors, to bestow honor, as on a guest; to act as host or hostess at an entertainment. "To do the honors and to give the word." Pope. — To do one honor, to confer distinction upon one. — To have the honor, to have the privilege or distinction. — Word of honor, an engagement confirmed by a pledge of honor.

Honor
Hon´or, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Honored p. pr. & vb. n. Honoring.] [OE. honouren, onouren, OF. honorer, honourer, F. honorer, fr. L. honorare, fr. honor, n. ]
1. To regard or treat with honor, esteem, or respect; to revere; to treat with deference and submission; when used of the Supreme Being, to reverence; to adore; to worship.
"Honor thy father and thy mother." Ex. xx. 12.
"That all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father." John v. 23.
"It is a custom More honor’d in the breach than the observance." Shak.
2. To dignify; to raise to distinction or notice; to bestow honor upon; to elevate in rank or station; to ennoble; to exalt; to glorify; hence, to do something to honor; to treat in a complimentary manner or with civility.
"Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighten to honor." Esther vi. 9.
"The name of Cassius honors this corruption." Shak.
3. (Com.) To accept and pay when due; as to honora bill of exchange.

Honorably
Hon´or•a•bly, adv.
1. In an honorable manner; in a manner showing, or consistent with, honor.
"The reverend abbot … honorably received him." Shak.
"Why did I not more honorably starve?" Dryden.
2. Decently; becomingly. [Obs.] "Do this message honorably." Shak.
Syn. — Magnanimously; generously; nobly; worthily; justly; equitably; fairly; reputably. { Hon•o•ra´ri•um, Hon´or•a•ry } n. [L. honorarium (sc. donum), fr. honorarius. See Honorary, a. ]
1. A fee offered to professional men for their services; as an honorarium of one thousand dollars. S. Longfellow.
2. (Law) An honorary payment, usually in recognition of services for which it is not usual or not lawful to assign a fixed business price. Heumann.

Honorer
Hon´or•er, n. One who honors.

Honorific
Hon•or•if´ic, a. [See Honor, -fy, and -ic.] Conferring honor; tending to honor. London Spectator.

Hont (hont), n. & v. See under Hunt. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Hoodlum
Hood´lum, n. A young rowdy; a rough, lawless fellow. [Colloq. U.S.]

Hoodman
Hood´man, n. The person blindfolded in the game called hoodman-blind. [Obs.] Shak.

Hoodman-blind
Hood´man-blind, n. An old term for blindman’s buff. Shak. { Hood" mold•ingHood" mould•ing } (Arch.) A projecting molding over the head of an arch, forming the outermost member of the archivolt; — called also hood mold.

Hoodoo
Hoo´doo, n. [Perh. a var. of voodoo.] One who causes bad luck. [Colloq.]

Hoodoo
Hoo´doo, v. t. To be a hoodoo to; to bring bad luck to by occult influence; to bewitch. [Colloq., U. S.]

Hoodoo
Hoo´doo, n. A natural rock pile or pinnacle of fantastic shape. [Western U. S.]

Hoodwink
Hood´wink, v. t. [ Hood + wink.]
1. To blind by covering the eyes.
"We will blind and hoodwink him." Shak.
2. To cover; to hide. [Obs.] Shak.
3. To deceive by false appearance; to impose upon. "Hoodwinked with kindness." Sir P. Sidney.

Hoody
Hood´y, n. (Zoöl.) The hooded crow; also in Scotland, the hooded gull.

Hoof, n. ; pl. Hoofs (#), very rarely Hooves (#). [OE. hof, AS. hof; akin to D. hoef, G1huf, OHG. huof, Icel. hofr, Sw. hof, Dan. hov; cf. Russ. kopuito, Skr. çapha. rad.225.]
1. The horny substance or case that covers or terminates the feet of certain animals, as horses, oxen, etc.
"On burnished hooves his war horse trode." Tennyson.
2. A hoofed animal; a beast.
"Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not a hoof be left behind." Ex. x. 26.
3. (Geom.) See Ungula.

Hoof, v. i.
1. To walk as cattle. [R.] William Scott.
2. To be on a tramp; to foot. [Slang, U.S.] To hoof it, to foot it.

Hoof, n. — On the hoof, of cattle, standing (on the hoof); not slaughtered.

Hoofbound
Hoof´bound, a. (Far.) Having a dry and contracted hoof, which occasions pain and lameness.

Hoofed, a. Furnished with hoofs. Grew.

Hoofless
Hoof´less, a. Destitute of hoofs.

Hook, n. [OE. hok, AS. hoc; cf. D. haak, G. hake, haken, OHG. hako, hago, haggo, Icel. haki, Sw. hake, Dan. hage. Cf. Arquebuse, Hagbut, Hake, Hatch a half door, Heckle.]
1. A piece of metal, or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything; as a hook for catching fish; a hook for fastening a gate; a boat hook, etc.
2. That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
3. An implement for cutting grass or grain; a sickle; an instrument for cutting or lopping; a billhook.
"Like slashing Bentley with his desperate hook." Pope.
4. (Steam Engin.) See Eccentric, and V-hook.
5. A snare; a trap. [R.] Shak.
6. A field sown two years in succession. [Prov. Eng.]
7. pl. The projecting points of the thigh bones of cattle; — called also hook bones. By hook or by crook, one way or other; by any means, direct or indirect. Milton. "In hope her to attain by hook or crook." Spenser. — Off the hooks, unhinged; disturbed; disordered. [Colloq.] "In the evening, by water, to the Duke of Albemarle, whom I found mightly off the hooks that the ships are not gone out of the river." Pepys. — On one’s own hook, on one’s own account or responsibility; by one’s self. [Colloq. U.S.] Bartlett. — To go off the hooks, to die. [Colloq.] Thackeray. — Bid hook, a small boat hook. — Chain hook. See under Chain. — Deck hook, a horizontal knee or frame, in the bow of a ship, on which the forward part of the deck rests. — Hook and eye, one of the small wire hooks and loops for fastening together the opposite edges of a garment, etc. — Hook bill (Zoöl.), the strongly curved beak of a bird. — Hook ladder, a ladder with hooks at the end by which it can be suspended, as from the top of a wall. — Hook motion (Steam Engin.), a valve gear which is reversed by V hooks. — Hook squid, any squid which has the arms furnished with hooks, instead of suckers, as in the genera Enoploteuthis and Onychteuthis. — Hook wrench, a wrench or spanner, having a hook at the end, instead of a jaw, for turning a bolthead, nut, or coupling.

Hook, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Hooked p. pr. & vb. n. Hooking.]
1. To catch or fasten with a hook or hooks; to seize, capture, or hold, as with a hook, esp. with a disguised or baited hook; hence, to secure by allurement or artifice; to entrap; to catch; as to hook a dress; to hook a trout.
"Hook him, my poor dear, … at any sacrifice." W. Collins.
2. To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
3. To steal. [Colloq. Eng. & U.S.] To hook on, to fasten or attach by, or as by, hook.

Hook, v. i. To bend; to curve as a hook.

Hook, n. (Geog.) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end; as Sandy Hook.

Hook, v. i. To move or go with a sudden turn; hence [Slang or Prov. Eng.], to make off; to clear out; — often with it. "Duncan was wounded, and the escort hooked it." Kipling.

Hookah
Hook´ah (hook"a), n. [Per. or Ar. huqqa a round box or casket, a bottle through which the fumes pass when smoking tobacco.] A pipe with a long, flexible stem, so arranged that the smoke is cooled by being made to pass through water.

Hook-billed
Hook´-billed, a. (Zoöl.) Having a strongly curved bill.

Hooke’s gearing
Hooke’s" gear"ing [So called from the inventor.] (Mach.) Spur gearing having teeth slanting across the face of the wheel, sometimes slanting in opposite directions from the middle.

Hooke’s joint [So called from the inventor.] (Mach.) A universal joint. See under Universal.

Hookedness
Hook´ed•ness, n. The state of being bent like a hook; incurvation.

Hooker
Hook´er, n.
1. One who, or that which, hooks.
2. (Naut.) (a) A Dutch vessel with two masts. (b) A fishing boat with one mast, used on the coast of Ireland. (c) A sailor’s contemptuous term for any antiquated craft.

Hookey
Hook´ey, n. See Hockey.

Hook-nosed
Hook´-nosed, a. Having a hooked or aquiline nose. Shak.

Hooky
Hook´y, a. Full of hooks; pertaining to hooks.

Hooky
Hook´y, n. [Written also hookey.] [Cf. Hook, v. t., 3.] A word used only in the expression to play hooky, to run away, to play truant.
"This talk about boys … playing ball, and "hooky," and marbles, was all moonshine." F. Hopkinson Smith.

Hoolock
Hoo´lock, n. (Zoöl.) A small black gibbon ( Hylobates hoolock), found in the mountains of Assam.

Hoom, n. Home. Chaucer.

Hoonoomaun
Hoo´noo•maun, n. (Zoöl.) An Indian monkey. See Entellus. [Written also hoonuman.]

Hoosier
Hoo´sier, n. A nickname given to an inhabitant of the State of Indiana. [U.S.]

Hoosier State
Hoo"sier State. Indiana; — a nickname of obscure origin.

Hoot (hoot), v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Hooted; p. pr. & vb. n. Hooting.] [OE. hoten, houten, huten; cf. OSw. huta, Sw. huta ut to take one up sharply, fr. Sw. hut interj., begone! cf. also W. hwt off! off with it! away! hoot!]
1. To cry out or shout in contempt.
"Matrons and girls shall hoot at thee no more." Dryden.
2. To make the peculiar cry of an owl.
"The clamorous owl that nightly hoots." Shak.

Hoot, v. t. To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts.
"Partridge and his clan may hoot me for a cheat." Swift.

Hoot, n.
1. A derisive cry or shout. Glanvill.
2. The cry of an owl. Hoot owl (Zoöl.), the barred owl ( Syrnium nebulosum). See Barred owl.

Hop, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Hopped p. pr. & vb. n. Hopping ] [OE. hoppen to hop, leap, dance, AS. hoppian; akin to Icel. & Sw. hoppa, Dan. hoppe, D. huppelen, G. hüpfen.]
1. To move by successive leaps, as toads do; to spring or jump on one foot; to skip, as birds do.
"[Birds] hopping from spray to spray." Dryden.
2. To walk lame; to limp; to halt. Dryden.
3. To dance. Smollett.

Hop, n.
1. A leap on one leg, as of a boy; a leap, as of a toad; a jump; a spring.
2. A dance; esp., an informal dance of ball. [Colloq.] Hop, skip (or step, and jump, a game or athletic sport in which the participants cover as much ground as possible by a hop, stride, and jump in succession. Addison.

Hop, n. [OE. hoppe; akin to D. hop, hoppe, OHG. hopfo, G. hopfen; cf. LL. hupa, W. hopez, Armor. houpez, and Icel. humall, SW. & Dan. humle.]
1. (Bot.) A climbing plant ( Humulus Lupulus), having a long, twining, annual stalk. It is cultivated for its fruit (hops).
2. The catkin or strobilaceous fruit of the hop, much used in brewing to give a bitter taste.
3. The fruit of the dog-rose. See Hip. Hop back. (Brewing) See under 1st Back. — Hop clover (Bot.), a species of yellow clover having heads like hops in miniature ( Trifolium agrarium, and T. procumbens). — Hop flea (Zoöl.), a small flea beetle ( Haltica concinna), very injurious to hops. — Hop fly (Zoöl.), an aphid ( Phorodon humuli), very injurious to hop vines. — Hop froth fly (Zoöl.), an hemipterous insect ( Aphrophora interrupta), allied to the cockoo spits. It often does great damage to hop vines. — Hop hornbeam (Bot.), an American tree of the genus Ostrya ( O. Virginica) the American ironwood; also a European species ( O. vulgaris). — Hop moth (Zoöl.), a moth ( Hypena humuli), which in the larval state is very injurious to hop vines. — Hop picker, one who picks hops. — Hop pole, a pole used to support hop vines. — Hop tree (Bot.), a small American tree ( Ptelia trifoliata), having broad, flattened fruit in large clusters, sometimes used as a substitute for hops. — Hop vine (Bot.), the climbing vine or stalk of the hop.

Hop, v. t. To impregnate with hops. Mortimer.

Hop, v. i. To gather hops. [Perhaps only in the form Hopping, vb. n.] { Hop´bine•, Hop´bind• } n. The climbing stem of the hop. Blackstone.

Hopeful
Hope´ful, a.
1. Full of hope, or agreeable expectation; inclined to hope; expectant.
"Men of their own natural inclination hopeful and strongly conceited." Hooker.
2. Having qualities which excite hope; affording promise of good or of success; as a hopeful youth; a hopeful prospect. "Hopeful scholars." Addison. — Hope´ful•ly, adv. — Hope´ful•ness, n.

Hopeite
Hope´ite, n. [Named after Professor Hope, of Edinburgh.] (Min.) A hydrous phosphate of zinc in transparent prismatic crystals.

Hopeless
Hope´less, a.
1. Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing.
"I am a woman, friendless, hopeless." Shak.
2. Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate; as a hopeless cause.
"The hopelessword of "never to return" Breathe I against thee, upon pain of life." Shak.
3. Unhoped for; despaired of. [Obs.] Marston. — Hope´less•ly, adv. — Hope´less•ness, n.

Hoper
Hop´er, n. One who hopes. Swift.

Hopingly
Hop´ing•ly, adv. In a hopeful manner. Hammond.

Hoplite
Hop´lite, n. [Gr., fr. tool, weapon: cf. F. hoplite.] (Gr. Antiq.) A heavy-armed infantry soldier. Milford. { Hop´-o’-my-thumb´, Hop´-humb´ }, n. A very diminutive person. [Colloq.] liwell.

Hopped, p. a. Impregnated with hops.

Hopper
Hop´per, n. [See 1st Hop.]
1. One who, or that which, hops.
2. A chute, box, or receptacle, usually funnel-shaped with an opening at the lower part, for delivering or feeding any material, as to a machine; as the wooden box with its trough through which grain passes into a mill by joining or shaking, or a funnel through which fuel passes into a furnace, or coal, etc., into a car.
3. (Mus.) See Grasshopper, 2.
4. pl. A game. See Hopscotch. Johnson.
5. (Zoöl.) (a) See Grasshopper, and Frog hopper, Grape hopper, Leaf hopper, Tree hopper, under Frog, Grape, Leaf, and Tree. (b) The larva of a cheese fly.
6. (Naut.) A vessel for carrying waste, garbage, etc., out to sea, so constructed as to discharge its load by a mechanical contrivance; — called also dumping scow. Bell and hopper (Metal.), the apparatus at the top of a blast furnace, through which the charge is introduced, while the gases are retained. — Hopper boy, a rake in a mill, moving in a circle to spread meal for drying, and to draw it over an opening in the floor, through which it falls. — Hopper closet, a water- closet, without a movable pan, in which the receptacle is a funnel standing on a draintrap. — Hopper cock, a faucet or valve for flushing the hopper of a water-closet.

Hopperings
Hop´per•ings, n. (Gold Washing) Gravel retaining in the hopper of a cradle.

Hoppestere
Hop•pes•tere´, a. An unexplained epithet used by Chaucer in reference to ships. By some it is defined as "dancing (on the wave)"; by others as "opposing," "warlike." T. R. Lounsbury.

Hoppet
Hop´pet, n.
1. A hand basket; also a dish used by miners for measuring ore. [Prov. Eng.]
2. An infant in arms. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Hopping
Hop´ping, n. The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing. Hopping Dick (Zoöl.), a thrush of Jamaica ( Merula leucogenys), resembling the English blackbird in its familiar manners, agreeable song, and dark plumage.

Hopping
Hop´ping, n. [See 3rd Hop.] A gathering of hops.

Hopplebush
Hop´ple•bush, n. Same as Hobblebush.

Hopscotch
Hop´scotch, n. A child’s game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground; — called also hoppers.

Hop-thumb
Hop´-thumb, n. See Hop-o’- my-thumb.

Horal
Ho´ral, a. [L. horalis, fr. hora hour. See Hour.] Of or pertaining to an hour, or to hours. Prior.

Horary
Ho´ra•ry, a. [LL. horarius, fr. L. hora hour: cf. F. horaire. See Hour.]
1. Of or pertaining to an hour; noting the hours. Spectator.
2. Occurring once an hour; continuing an hour; hourly; ephemeral.
"Horary, or soon decaying, fruits of summer." Sir T. Browne.Horary circles. See Circles.

Horde (hord), n. [F. horde (cf. G. horde), fr. Turk. ordu, ordi, camp; of Tartar origin.] A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude. Thomson.

Hordeic
Hor•de´ic, a. [L. hordeum barley.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, barley; as hordeic acid, an acid identical or isomeric with lauric acid.

Hordein
Hor´de•in, n. [L. hordeum barley.] (Chem.) A peculiar starchy matter contained in barley. It is a complex mixture. [R.]

Hordeolum
Hor•de´o•lum, n. [NL., fr. L. hordeolus, dim. of hordeum barley.] (Med.) A small tumor upon the eyelid, resembling a grain of barley; a sty.

Hordock
Hor´dock, n. An unidentified plant mentioned by Shakespeare, perhaps equivalent to burdock.

Hore, a. Hoar. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Horehound
Hore´hound, n. [OE. horehune, AS. harhune; har hoar, gray + hune horehound; cf. L. cunila a species of organum, Gr., Skr. kny to smell.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Marrubium ( M. vulgare), which has a bitter taste, and is a weak tonic, used as a household remedy for colds, coughing, etc. [Written also hoarhound.] Fetid horehound, or Black horehound, a disagreeable plant resembling horehound ( Ballota nigra). — Water horehound, a species of the genus Lycopus, resembling mint, but not aromatic.

Horizon
Ho•ri´zon, n. [F., fr. L. horizon, fr. Gr. (sc. ) the bounding line, horizon, fr. to bound, fr. boundary, limit.]
1. The circle which bounds that part of the earth’s surface visible to a spectator from a given point; the apparent junction of the earth and sky.
"And when the morning sun shall raise his car Above the border of this horizon." Shak.
"All the horizon round Invested with bright rays." Milton.
2. (Astron.) (a) A plane passing through the eye of the spectator and at right angles to the vertical at a given place; a plane tangent to the earth’s surface at that place; called distinctively the sensible horizon. (b) A plane parallel to the sensible horizon of a place, and passing through the earth’s center; — called also rational or celestial horizon. (c) (Naut.) The unbroken line separating sky and water, as seen by an eye at a given elevation, no land being visible.
3. (Geol.) The epoch or time during which a deposit was made.
"The strata all over the earth, which were formed at the same time, are said to belong to the same geological horizon." Le Conte.
4. (Painting) The chief horizontal line in a picture of any sort, which determines in the picture the height of the eye of the spectator; in an extended landscape, the representation of the natural horizon corresponds with this line. Apparent horizon. See under Apparent. — Artificial horizon, a level mirror, as the surface of mercury in a shallow vessel, or a plane reflector adjusted to the true level artificially; — used chiefly with the sextant for observing the double altitude of a celestial body. — Celestial horizon. (Astron.) See def. 2, above. — Dip of the horizon (Astron.), the vertical angle between the sensible horizon and a line to the visible horizon, the latter always being below the former. — Rational horizon, and Sensible horizon. (Astron.) See def. 2, above. — Visible horizon. See definitions 1 and 2, above.

Horizontally
Hor•i•zon´tal•ly, adv. In a horizontal direction or position; on a level; as moving horizontally.

Hormogonium
Hor•mo•go•ni´um, n. [NL., fr. Gr. a chain + generation.] (Bot.) A chain of small cells in certain algae, by which the plant is propagated.

Hormone
Hor´mone (hôr"mon), n. [From Gr. "orma•ein to excite.] (Physiol. Chem.) A chemical substance formed in one organ and carried in the circulation to another organ on which it exerts a stimulating effect; thus, according to Starling, the gastric glands are stimulated by a hormone from the pyloric mucous membrane.

Horn, n. [AS. horn; akin to D. horen, hoorn, G., Icel., Sw., & Dan. horn, Goth. haúrn, W., Gael., & Ir. corn, L. cornu, Gr., and perh. also to E. cheer, cranium, cerebral; cf. Skr. çiras head. Cf. Carat, Corn on the foot, Cornea, Corner, Cornet, Cornucopia, Hart.]
1. A hard, projecting, and usually pointed organ, growing upon the heads of certain animals, esp. of the ruminants, as cattle, goats, and the like. The hollow horns of the Ox family consist externally of true horn, and are never shed.
2. The antler of a deer, which is of bone throughout, and annually shed and renewed.
3. (Zoöl.) Any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form; esp.: (a) A projection from the beak of a bird, as in the hornbill. (b) A tuft of feathers on the head of a bird, as in the horned owl. (c) A hornlike projection from the head or thorax of an insect, or the head of a reptile, or fish. (d) A sharp spine in front of the fins of a fish, as in the horned pout.
4. (Bot.) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed ( Asclepias).
5. Something made of a horn, or in resemblance of a horn; as: (a) A wind instrument of music; originally, one made of a horn (of an ox or a ram); now applied to various elaborately wrought instruments of brass or other metal, resembling a horn in shape. "Wind his horn under the castle wall." Spenser. See French horn, under French. (b) A drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle. "Horns of mead and ale." Mason. (c) The cornucopia, or horn of plenty. See Cornucopia. "Fruits and flowers from Amalthaea’s horn." Milton. (d) A vessel made of a horn; esp., one designed for containing powder; anciently, a small vessel for carrying liquids. "Samuel took the hornof oil and anointed him [David]." 1 Sam. xvi. 13. (e) The pointed beak of an anvil. (f) The high pommel of a saddle; also either of the projections on a lady’s saddle for supporting the leg. (g) (Arch.) The Ionic volute. (h) (Naut.) The outer end of a crosstree; also one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc. (i) (Carp.) A curved projection on the fore part of a plane. (j) One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering. "Joab … caught hold on the horns of the altar." 1 Kings ii. 28.
6. One of the curved ends of a crescent; esp., an extremity or cusp of the moon when crescent- shaped.
"The moon Wears a wan circle round her blunted horns." Thomson.
7. (Mil.) The curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form.
"Sharpening in mooned horns Their phalanx." Milton.
8. The tough, fibrous material of which true horns are composed, being, in the Ox family, chiefly albuminous, with some phosphate of lime; also any similar substance, as that which forms the hoof crust of horses, sheep, and cattle; as a spoon of horn.
9. (Script.) A symbol of strength, power, glory, exaltation, or pride.
"The Lord is … the horn of my salvation." Ps. xviii. 2.
10. An emblem of a cuckold; — used chiefly in the plural. "Thicker than a cuckold’s horn." Shak. Horn block, the frame or pedestal in which a railway car axle box slides up and down; — also called horn plate. — Horn of a dilemma. See under Dilemma. — Horn distemper, a disease of cattle, affecting the internal substance of the horn. — Horn drum, a wheel with long curved scoops, for raising water. — Horn lead (Chem.), chloride of lead. — Horn maker, a maker of cuckolds. [Obs.] Shak. — Horn mercury. (Min.) Same as Horn quicksilver (below). — Horn poppy (Bot.), a plant allied to the poppy ( Glaucium luteum), found on the sandy shores of Great Britain and Virginia; — called also horned poppy. Gray. — Horn pox (Med.), abortive smallpox with an eruption like that of chicken pox. — Horn quicksilver (Min.), native calomel, or bichloride of mercury. — Horn shell (Zoöl.), any long, sharp, spiral, gastropod shell, of the genus Cerithium, and allied genera. — Horn silver (Min.), cerargyrite. — Horn slate, a gray, siliceous stone. — To haul in one’s horns, to withdraw some arrogant pretension. [Colloq.] — Toraise, or lift, the horn (Script.), to exalt one’s self; to act arrogantly. "’Gainst them that raised thee dost thou lift thy horn?" Milton. — To take a horn, to take a drink of intoxicating liquor. [Low]