HOA, exclamation [Latin eho.] A call to excite attention, or to give notice of approach.

What noise there, ho?

HOA, who's within?

HOAR, adjective

1. White; as hoar frost; hoar cliffs.

2. Gray; white with age; hoary; as a matron grave and hoar

HOAR, noun Hoariness; antiquity.

HOAR, verb intransitive To become moldy or musty. [Little used.]

HOARD, noun A store, stock or large quantity of any thing accumulated or laid up; a hidden stock; a treasure; as a hoard of provisions for winter; a hoard of money.

HOARD, verb transitive To collect and lay up a large quantity of any thing; to amass and deposit in secret; to store secretly; as, to hoard grain or provisions; to hoard silver and gold.

It is sometimes followed by up, but without use; as, to hoard up provisions.

HOARD, verb intransitive To collect and form a hoard; to lay up store.

Nor cared to hoard for those whom he did breed.

HOARDED, participle passive Collected and laid up in store.

HOARDER, noun One who lays up in store; one who accumulates and keeps in secret.

HOARDING, participle present tense Laying up in store.

1. Instinctively collecting and laying up provisions for winter; as, the squirrel is a hoarding animal.

HOARED, adjective Moldy; musty. [Not in use.]

HOARHOUND. [See Horehound.]

HOARINESS, noun [from hoary.] The state of being white, whitish or gray; as the hoariness of the hair or head of old men.

HOARSE, adjective hors.

1. Having a harsh, rough, grating voice, as when affected with a cold.

2. Rough; grating; discordant; as the voice, or as any sound. We say, the hoarse raven; the hoarse resounding shore.

HOARSELY, adverb With a rough, harsh, grating voice or sound.

HOARSENESS, noun Harshness or roughness of voice or sound; preternatural asperity of voice.

HOARY, noun [See Hoar.] White or whitish; as the hoary willows.

1. White or gray with age; as hoary hairs; a hoary head.

Reverence the hoary head.

2. Moldy; mossy, or covered with a white pubescence.

HOAX, noun Something done for deception or mockery; a trick played off in sport.

HOAX, verb transitive To deceive; to play a trick upon for sport, or without malice. [A colloquial word, but not elegant.]

HOB

HOB'BISM, noun The principles of the sceptical Thomas Hobbes.

HOB'BIST, noun A follower of Hobbes.

HOB'BLE, verb intransitive

1. To walk lamely, bearing chiefly on one leg; to limp; to walk with a hitch or hop, or with crutches.

The friar was hobbling the same way too.

2. To walk awkwardly, as when the feet are encumbered with a clog, or with fetters.

3. To move roughly or irregularly, as verse.

While you Pindaric truths rehearse,

She hobbles in alternate verse.

HOB'BLE, verb transitive To perplex. [Not in use.]

HOB'BLE, noun An unequal halting gait; an encumbered awkward step.

He has a hobble in his gait.

1. Difficulty; perplexity.

HOB'BLEDEHOY, noun A cant phrase for a boy at the age of puberty.

HOB'BLER, noun One that hobbles.

HOB'BLER, noun [from hobby.] One who by his tenure was to maintain a hobby for military service; or one who served as a soldier on a hobby with light armor.

HOB'BLING, participle present tense Walking with a halting or interrupted step.

HOB'BLINGLY, adverb With a limping or interrupted step.

HOB'BY, noun A kind of hawk; a hawk of the lure.

HOB'BY, noun

1. A strong active horse, of a middle size, said to have been originally from Ireland; a nag; a pacing horse; a garran.

2. A stick, or figure of a horse, on which boys ride.

3. Any favorite object; that which a person pursues with zeal or delight.

4. A stupid fellow.

HOB'BYHORSE, noun [tautological.] A hobby; a wooden horse on which boys ride.

1. A character in the old May games.

2. A stupid or foolish person.

3. The favorite object of pursuit.

HOB'GOBLIN, noun A fairy; a frightful apparition.

HO'BIT, noun A small mortar, or short gun for throwing bombs. [See Howitzer, the common orthography.]

HOB'LIKE, adjective Clownish; boorish.

HOB'NAIL, noun A nail with a thick strong head, for shoeing horses.

1. A clownish person; in contempt.

HOB'NAILED, adjective Set with hobnails; rough.

HOB'NOB, adverb Take, or not take; a familiar invitation to reciprocal drinking.

Hobson's choice, a vulgar proverbial expression, denoting without an alternative. It is said to have had its origin in the name of a person who let horses and coaches, and obliged every customer to take in his turn that horse which stood next the stable door.

HOBOY. [See Hautboy.]

HOCK, noun The joint of an animal between the knee and the fetlock.

1. A part of the thigh.

HOCK

HOCK'DAY

HOCK'EY, noun Harvest-home. [Not used.]

HOCK'EY, n. Harvest-home. [Not used.]

HOCK'HERB, noun A plant, the mallows.

HOCK'LE, verb transitive To hamstring.

1. To mow.

HOCUS POCUS, adjective A juggler; a juggler's trick; a cheat used by conjurers.

HOCK'LE, verb transitive To hamstring; to hough; to disable by cutting the tendons of the ham.

HOCK, noun A sort of Rhenish wine; sometimes called hockamore.

HOCUSPOCUS, verb transitive To cheat.

HOD, noun A kind of tray for carrying mortar and brick, used in bricklaying. It is fitted with a handle and borne on the shoulder.

HOD'MAN, noun A man who carries a hod; a mason's tender.

HOD'MANDOD, noun A shell-fish, otherwise called dodman.

1. A shell-snail.

HOE, noun ho. A farmer's instrument for cutting up weeds and loosening the earth in fields and gardens. It is in shape something like an adz, being a plate of iron, with an eye for a handle, which is set at an acute angle with the plate.

HOE, verb transitive To cut, dig, scrape or clean with a hoe; as, to hoe the earth in a garden; to hoe the beds.

1. To clear from weeds; as, to hoe maiz; to hoe cabbages.

HOE, verb intransitive To use a hoe

HO'ED, participle passive Cleared from weeds, or loosened by the hoe.

HO'EING, participle present tense Cutting, scraping or digging with a hoe.

1. Clearing of weeds with a hoe.

HO'FUL, adjective Careful.

HOG, noun

1. A swine; a general name of that species of animal.

2. In England, a castrated sheep of a year old.

3. A bullock of a year old.

4. A brutal fellow; one who is mean and filthy.

5. Among seamen, a sort of scrubbing-broom for scraping a ship's bottom under water.

HOG, verb transitive To scrape a ship's bottom under water.

1. To carry on the back. [Local.]

2. To cut the hair short, like the bristles of a hog [Local.]

HOG, verb intransitive To bend, so as to resemble in some degree a hog's back; as, a ship hogs in lanching.

HOG'COTE, noun [hog and cote.] A shed or house for swine; a sty.

HOG'GED, participle passive Scraped under water.

1. Curving; having the ends lower than the middle.

HOG'GEREL, noun A sheep of the second year.

A two year old ewe.

HOG'GET, noun A sheep two years old.

1. A colt of a year old, called also hog-colt. [Local.]

2. A young boar of the second year.

HOG'GISH, adjective Having the qualities of a hog; brutish; gluttonous; filthy; meanly selfish.

HOG'GISHLY, adverb In a brutish, gluttonous or filthy manner.

HOG'GISHNESS, noun Brutishness; voracious greediness in eating; beastly filthiness; mean selfishness.

HOGH, noun [See High.] A hill; a cliff.

HOG'HERD, noun [hog and herd.] A keeper of swine.

HOG'PEN, noun [hog and pen.] A hogsty.

HOG'-PLUMBTREE, noun A tree of the genus Spondias.

HOG'-RINGER, noun One whose business is to put rings in the snouts of swine.

HOGS'HEAD, noun [the English orthography is grossly corrupt.]

1. A measure of capacity, containing 63 gallons.

2. In America, this name is often given to a butt, a cask containing from 110 to 120 gallons; as a hogshead of spirit or molasses.

3. A large cask, of indefinite contents.

HOG'STY, noun [hog and sty.] A pen or inclosure for hogs.

HOG'WASH, noun [hog and wash.] Swill; the refuse matters of a kitchen or brewery, or like matter for swine.

HO'HLSPATH, noun The mineral otherwise called macle, and chiastolite.

HOI'DEN, noun A rude, bold girl; a romp.

1. A rude, bold man. [Not used in the United States.]

HOI'DEN, adjective Rude; bold; inelegant; rustic.

HOI'DEN, verb intransitive To romp rudely or indecently.

HOIST, verb transitive [originally hoise; but corrupted, perhaps beyond remedy.]

1. To raise; to lift.

We'll quickly hoist duke Humphrey from his seat.

In popular language, it is a word of general application. But the word has two appropriate uses, one by seamen, and the other by milkmaids, viz.

2. To raise, to lift or bear upwards by means of tackle; and to draw up or raise, as a sail along the masts or stays, or as a flag, though by a single block only. hoist the main-sail. hoist the flag.

3. To lift and move the leg backwards; a word of command used by milkmaids to cows, when they wish them to lift and set back the right leg.

HOIST, noun In marine language, the perpendicular highth of a flag or ensign, as opposed to the fly, or breadth from the staff to the outer edge.

HOIST'ED, participle passive Raised; lifted; drawn up.

HOIST'ING, participle present tense Raising; lifting.

HOITY TOITY, an exclamation, denoting surprise or disapprobation, with some degree of contempt.

Hoity toity, what have I to do with dreams?

HO'KEDAY, noun High day; a day of feasting and mirth, formerly held in England the second Tuesday after Easter, to commemorate the destruction of the Danes in the time of Ethelred.

HOLC'AD, noun [Gr.] In ancient Greece, a large ship of burden.

HOLD, verb transitive preterit tense held; participle passive held. Holden is obsolete in elegant writing. [Gr. to hold or restrain; Heb. to hold or contain.]

1. To stop; to confine; to restrain from escape; to keep fast; to retain. It rarely or never signifies the first act of seizing or falling on, but the act of retaining a thing when seized or confined. To grasp, is to seize, or to keep fast in the hand; hold coincides with grasp in the latter sense, but not in the former. We hold a horse by means of a bridle. An anchor holds a ship in her station.

2. To embrace and confine, with bearing or lifting. We hold an orange in the hand, or a child in the arms.

3. To connect; to keep from separation.

The loops held one curtain to another. Exodus 36:1.

4. To maintain, as an opinion. He holds the doctrine of justification by free grace.

5. To consider; to regard; to think; to judge, that is, to have in the mind.

I hold him but a fool.

The Lord will not hold him guiltless, that taketh his name in vain. Exodus 20:7.

6. To contain, or to have capacity to receive and contain. Here is an empty basket that holds two bushels. This empty cask holds thirty gallons. The church holds two thousand people.

7. To retain within itself; to keep from running or flowing out. A vessel with holes in its bottom will not hold fluids.

They have hewed them out broken cisterns that can hold no water. Jeremiah 2:13.

8. To defend; to keep possession; to maintain.

We mean to hold what anciently we claim

Of empire.

9. To have; as, to hold a place, office or title.

10. To have or possess by title; as, he held his lands of the king. The estate is held by copy of court-roll.

11. To refrain; to stop; to restrain; to withhold. hold your laughter. hold your tongue.

Death! what do'st? O, hold thy blow.

12. To keep; as, hold your peace.

13. To fix; to confine; to compel to observe or fulfill; as, to hold one to his promise.

14. To confine; to restrain from motion.

The Most High--held still the flood till they had passed. 2 Esdras.

15. To confine; to bind; in a legal or moral sense. He is held to perform his covenants.

16. To maintain; to retain; to continue.

But still he held his purpose to depart.

17. To keep in continuance or practice.

And Night and Chaos, ancestors of nature, hold Eternal anarchy.

18. To continue; to keep; to prosecute or carry on.

Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary-frost,

Shall hold their course.

19. To have in session; as, to hold a court or parliament; to hold a council.

20. To celebrate; to solemnize; as, to hold a feast.

21. To maintain; to sustain; to have in use or exercise; as, to hold an argument or debate.

22. To sustain; to support.

Thy right hand shall hold me. Psalms 139:10.

23. To carry; to wield.

They all hold swords, being expert in war. Song of Solomon 3:8.

24. To maintain; to observe in practice.

Ye hold the traditions of men. Mark 7:4.

25. To last; to endure. The provisions will hold us, till we arrive in port. So we say, the provisions will last us; but the phrase is elliptical for will hold or last for us, the verb being intransitive.

To hold forth, to offer; to exhibit; to propose.

Observe the connection of ideas in the propositions which books hold forth and pretend to teach.

1. To reach forth; to put forward to view.

To hold in, to restrain; to curb; to govern by the bridle.

1. To restrain in general; to check; to repress.

To hold off, to keep at a distance.

To hold on, to continue or proceed in; as, to hold on a course.

To hold out, to extend; to stretch forth.

The king held out to Esther the golden scepter.Esther 5:1.

1. To propose; to offer.

Fortune holds out these to you as rewards.

2. To continue to do or suffer.

He cannot long hold out these pangs. [Not used.]

To hold up, to raise; as, hold up your head.

1. To sustain; to support.

He holds himself up in virtue.

2. To retain; to withhold.

3. To offer; to exhibit. He held up to view the prospect of gain.

4. To sustain; to keep from falling.

To hold one's own, to keep good one's present condition; not to fall off, or to lose ground. In seamen's language, a ship holds her own, when she sails as fast as another ship, or keeps her course.

To hold is used by the Irish, for to lay, as a bet, to wager. I hold a crown, or a dollar; but this is a vulgar use of the word.

HOLD, verb intransitive To be true; not to fail; to stand, as a fact or truth. This is a sound argument in many cases, but does not hold in the case under consideration.

The rule holds in lands as well as in other things.

In this application, we often say, to hold true, to hold good. The argument holds good in both cases. This holds true in most cases.

1. To continue unbroken or unsubdued.

Our force by land hath nobly held. [Little used.]

2. To last; to endure.

We now say, to hold out.

3. To continue.

While our obedience holds.

4. To be fast; to be firm; not to give way, or part. The rope is strong; I believe it will hold The anchor holds well.

5. To refrain.

His dauntless heart would fain have held

From weeping.

6. To stick or adhere. The plaster will not hold

To hold forth, to speak in public; to harangue; to preach; to proclaim.

To hold in, to restrain one's self. He was tempted to laugh; he could hardly hold in.

1. To continue in good luck. [Unusual.]

To hold off, to keep at a distance; to avoid connection.

To hold of, to be dependent on; to derive title from.

My crown is absolute and holds of none.

To hold on, to continue; not to be interrupted.

The trade held on many years.

1. To keep fast hold; to cling to.

2. To proceed in a course. Job 17:9.

To hold out, to last; to endure; to continue.

A consumptive constitution may hold out a few years. He will accomplish the work, if his strength holds out.

1. Not to yield; not to surrender; not to be subdued.

The garrison still held out.

To hold to, to cling or cleave to; to adhere.

Else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Matthew 6:24.

To hold under, or from, to have title from; as petty barons holding under the greater barons.

To hold with, to adhere to; to side with; to stand up for.hold plow, to direct or steer a plow by the hands, in tillage.

To hold together, to be joined; not to separate; to remain in union.

To hold up, to support one's self; as, to hold up under misfortunes.

1. To cease raining; to cease, as falling weather; used impersonally. It holds up; it will hold up.

2. To continue the same speed; to run or move fast.

But we now say, to keep up.

To hold a wager, to lay, to stake or to hazard a wager.

HOLD, used imperatively, signifies stop; cease; forbear; be still.

HOLD, noun A grasp with the hand; an embrace with the arms; any act or exertion of the strength or limbs which keeps a thing fast and prevents escape. Keep your hold; never quit your hold

It is much used after the verbs to take, and to lay; to take hold or to lay hold is to seize. It is used in a literal sense; as to take hold with the hands, with the arms, or with the teeth; or in a figurative sense.

Sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestine. Exo 15.

Take fast hold of instruction. Proverbs 4:13.

My soul took hold on thee.

1. Something which may be seized for support; that which supports.

If a man be upon a high place, without a good hold he is ready to fall.

2. Power of keeping.

On your vigor now,

My hold of this new kingdom all depends.

3. Power of seizing.

The law hath yet another hold on you.

4. A prison; a place of confinement.

They laid hands on them, and put them in hold till the next day. Acts 4:3.

5. Custody; safe keeping.

King Richard, he is in the mighty hold

Of Bolingbroke.

6. Power or influence operating on the mind; advantage that may be employed in directing or persuading another, or in governing his conduct.

Fear--by which God and his laws take the surest hold of us.

--Gives fortune no more hold of him than is necessary.

7. Lurking place; a place of security; as the hold of a wild beast.

8. A fortified place; a fort; a castle; often called a strong hold Jeremiah 51:30.

9. The whole interior cavity of a ship, between the floor and the lower deck. In a vessel of one deck, the whole interior space from the keel or floor to the deck. That part of the hold which lies abaft the main-mast is called the after-hold; that part immediately before the main-mast, the main-hold; that part about the fore-hatchway, the fore-hold.

10. In music, a mark directing the performer to rest on the note over which it is placed. It is called also a pause.

HOLDBACK, noun Hinderance; restraint.

HOLDER, noun One who holds or grasps in his hand, or embraces with his arms.

1. A tenant; one who holds land under another.

2. Something by which a thing is held.

3. One who owns or possesses; as a holder of stock, or shares in a joint concern.

4. In ships, one who is employed in the hold.

HOLDERFORTH, noun A haranguer; a preacher.

HOLDFAST, noun A thing that takes hold; a catch; a hook.

HOLDING, participle present tense Stopping; confining; restraining; keeping; retaining; adhering; maintaining, etc.

HOLDING, noun A tenure; a farm held of a superior.

1. The burden or chorus of a song.

2. Hold; influence; power over.

HOLE, noun

1. A hollow place or cavity in any solid body, of any shape or dimensions, natural or artificial. It may differ from a rent or fissure in being wider. A cell; a den; a cave or cavern in the earth; an excavation in a rock or tree; a pit, etc. Isaiah 11:8. Ezekiel 8:7.

Nahum 2. Matthew 8:20.

2. A perforation; an aperture; an opening in or through a solid body, left in the work or made by an instrument.

Jehoida took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it. 2 Kings 12:9.

3. A mean habitation; a narrow or dark lodging.

4. An opening or means of escape; a subterfuge; in the vulgar phrase, he has a hole to creep out at.

Arm-hole, the arm-pit; the cavity under the shoulder of a person.

1. An opening in a garment for the arm.

HOLE, verb intransitive To go into a hole

HOLE, verb transitive To cut, dig or make a hole or holes in; as, to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars.

1. To drive into a bag, as in billiards.

HOLIBUT. [See Halibut.]

HO'LIDAM, noun [holy and dame.] Blessed lady; an ancient oath.

HOLIDAY. [See Holyday.]

HO'LILY, adverb [from holy.] Piously; with sanctity.

1. Sacredly; inviolably; without breach. [Little used.]

HO'LINESS, noun [from holy.] The state of being holy; purity or integrity of moral character; freedom from sin; sanctity. Applied to the Supreme Being, holiness denotes perfect purity or integrity of moral character, one of his essential attributes.

Who is like thee, glorious in holiness? Exodus 15:11.

1. Applied to human beings, holiness is purity of heart or dispositions; sanctified affections; piety; moral goodness, but not perfect.

We see piety and holiness ridiculed as morose singularities.

2. Sacredness; the state of any thing hallowed, or consecrated to God or to his worship; applied to churches or temples.

3. That which is separated to the service of God.

Israel was holiness unto the Lord. Jeremiah 2:3.

4. A title of the pope, and formerly of the Greek emperors.

HOL'LA

HOL'LAND, noun Fine linen manufactured in Holland.

HOL'LAND, n. Fine linen manufactured in Holland.

HOL'LANDER, noun A native of Holland.

HOL'LEN, noun [See Holly.]

HOL'LO, verb intransitive To call out or exclaim. [See Halloo.]

HOLLO'A, exclamation A word used in calling. Among seamen, it is the answer to one that hails, equivalent to, I hear, and am ready.

HOL'LA

HOL'LOW, adjective

1. Containing an empty space, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; as a hollow tree; a hollow rock; a hollow sphere.

Hollow with boards shalt thou make it. Exodus 27:8.

2. Sunk deep in the orbit; as a hollow eye.

3. Deep; low; resembling sound reverberated from a cavity, or designating such a sound; as a hollow roar.

4. Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as a hollow heart; a hollow friend.

Hollow spar, the mineral called also chiastolite.

HOL'LOW, noun A cavity, natural or artificial; any depression of surface in a body; concavity; as the hollow of the hand.

1. A place excavated; as the hollow of a tree.

2. A cave or cavern; a den; a hole; a broad open space in any thing.

3. A pit.

4. Open space of any thing; a groove; a channel; a canal.

HOL'LOW, verb transitive To make hollow as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate.

Trees rudely hollowed did the waves sustain.

HOL'LOW, verb intransitive To shout. [See Holla and Hollo.]

HOL'LOWED, participle passive Made hollow; excavated.

HOL'LOWING, participle present tense Making hollow; excavating.

HOL'LOWLY, adverb Insincerely; deceitfully.

HOL'LOWNESS, noun The state of being hollow; cavity; depression of surface; excavation.

1. Insincerity; deceitfulness; treachery.

HOL'LY, noun [perhaps Latin ilex, for hilex; Latin celo.]

The holm tree, of the genus Ilex, of several species. The common holly grows from 20 to 30 feet high; the stem by age becomes large, and is covered with a grayish smooth bark, and set with branches which form a sort of cone. The leaves are oblong oval, of a lucid green on the upper surface, but pale on the under surface; the edges are indented and waved, with sharp thorns terminating each of the points. The flowers grow in clusters and are succeeded by roundish berries, which turn to a beautiful red about Michaelmas. This tree is a beautiful evergreen.

Knee-Holly, a plant, the butcher's broom, of the genus Ruscus.

Sea-Holly, a plant, of the genus Eryngium.

HOL'LYHOCK, noun A plant of the genus Alcea, bearing flowers of various colors. It is called also rose-mallow.

HOL'LYROSE, noun A plant.

HOLM, noun The evergreen oak; the ilex.

1. An islet, or river isle.

2. A low flat tract of rich land on the banks of a river.

HOLM'ITE, noun A variety of carbonate of lime; so called from Mr. Holme, who analyzed it.

HOL'OCAUST, noun [Gr. whole, and burnt, to burn.] A burnt-sacrifice or offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire; a species of sacrifice in use among the Jews and some pagan nations.

HOL'OGRAPH, noun [Gr. whole, and to write.] A deed or testament written wholly by the grantor's or testator's own hand.

HOLOGRAPHI'IC, adjective Written wholly by the grantor or testator himself.

HOLOM'ETER, noun [Gr. all, and to measure.] An instrument for taking all kinds of measures, both on the earth and in the heavens; a pentameter.

HOLP, HOLPEN, the antiquated preterit tense and participle passive of help.

HOLP, HOLPEN the antiquated preterit tense and participle passive of help.

HOLSTER, noun [Latin celo.] A leathern case for a pistol, carried by a horseman at the fore part of his saddle.

HOLSTERED, adjective Bearing holsters; as a holstered steed.

HOLT, noun [Latin celo.] A wood or woodland; obsolete, except in poetry.

HO'LY, adjective

1. Properly, whole, entire or perfect, in a moral sense. Hence, pure in heart, temper or dispositions; free from sin and sinful affections. Applied to the Supreme Being, holy signifies perfectly pure, immaculate and complete in moral character; and man is more or less holy as his heart is more or less sanctified, or purified from evil dispositions. We call a man holy when his heart is conformed in some degree to the image of God, and his life is regulated by the divine precepts. Hence, holy is used as nearly synonymous with good, pious, godly.

Be ye holy; for I am holy 1 Peter 1:12.

2. Hallowed; consecrated or set apart to a sacred use, or to the service or worship of God; a sense frequent in Scripture; as the holy sabbath; holy oil; holy vessels; a holy nation; the holy temple; a holy priesthood.

3. Proceeding from pious principles, or directed to pious purposes; as holy zeal.

4. Perfectly just and good; as the holy law of God.

5. Sacred; as a holy witness.

Holy of holies, in Scripture, 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 Ghost, or holy Spirit, the Divine Spirit; the third person in the Trinity; the sanctifier of souls.

Holy war, a war undertaken to rescue the holy land, the ancient Judea, from the infidels; a crusade; an expedition carried on by christians against the Saracens in the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth centuries; a war carried on in a most unholy manner.

HOL'YDAY, noun A day set apart for commemorating some important event in history; a festival intended to celebrate some event deemed auspicious to the welfare of a nation; particularly an anniversary festival, devoted to religious solemnities; as christmas holydays.

1. A day of joy and gayety.

2. A day of exemption from labor; a day of amusement.

HOL'YDAY, adjective Pertaining to a festival; as a holyday suit of clothes.

HOM'AGE, noun [Latin homo, man.]

1. In feudal law, the submission, loyalty and service which a tenant promised to his lord or superior, when first admitted to the land which he held of him in fee; or rather the act of the tenant in making this submission, on being invested with the fee. The ceremony of doing homage was thus performed. The tenant, being ungirt and uncovered, kneeled and held up both his hands between those of the lord, who sat before him, and there professed that 'he did become his man, from that day forth, of life and limb and earthly honor, ' and then received a kiss from his lord.

2. Obeisance; respect paid by external action.

Go, go, with homage yon proud victors meet.

3. Reverence directed to the Supreme Being; reverential worship; devout affection.

HOM'AGE, verb transitive To pay respect to by external action; to give reverence to; to profess fealty.

HOM'AGEABLE, adjective Subject to homage.

HOM'AGER, noun One who does homage, or holds land of another by homage.'s Pyrophorus, ignited muriate of lime.

HOME, noun [Gr. a house, a close place, or place or rest.]

1. A dwelling house; the house or place in which one resides. He was not at home

Then the disciples went away again to their own home John 20:10.

HOME is the sacred refuge of our life.

2. One's own country. Let affairs at home be well managed by the administration.

3. The place of constant residence; the seat.

Flandria, by plenty, made the home of war.

4. The grave; death; or a future state.

Man goeth to his long home Ecclesiastes 12:5.

5. The present state of existence.

Whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. 2 Corinthians 5:6.

HOME, adjective Close; severe; poignant; as a home thrust.

HOME, adverb [This is merely elliptical; to being omitted.]

1. To one's own habitation; as in the phrases, go home come home bring home carry home

2. To one's own country. home is opposed to abroad, or in a foreign country. My brother will return home in the first ship from India.

3. Close; closely; to the point; as, this consideration comes home to our interest, that is, it nearly affects it. Drive the nail home that is, drive it close.

To haul home the top-sail sheets, in seamen's language, is to draw the bottom of the top-sail close to the yard-arm by means of the sheets.

An anchor is said to come home when it loosens from the ground by the violence of the wind or current, etc.

HO'MEBORN, adjective Native; natural.

1. Domestic; not foreign.

HO'MEBRED, adjective Native; natural; as homebred lusts.

1. Domestic; originating at home; not foreign; as homebred evil.

2. Plain, rude; artless; uncultivated; not polished by travel.

Only to me two homebred youths belong.

HO'MEFELT, adjective Felt in one's own breast; inward; private; as homefelt joys or delight.

HO'MEKEEPING, adjective Staying at home.

HO'MELESS, adjective Destitute of a home.

HO'MELINESS, noun [from homely.] Plainness of features; want of beauty. It expresses less than ugliness.

1. Rudeness; coarseness; as the homeliness of dress or of sentiments.

HO'MELOT, noun An inclosure on or near which the mansion house stands.

HO'MELY, adjective [from home.] Of plain features; not handsome; as a homely face. It expresses less than ugly.

Let time, which makes you homely make you wise.

1. Plain, like that which is made for common domestic use; rude; coarse; not fine or elegant; as a homely garment; a homely house; homely are.

Now Strephon daily entertains

His Chloe in the homeliest strains.

HO'MELY, adverb Plainly; rudely; coarsely; as homely dressed. [Little used.]

HO'MELYN, noun A fish.

HO'MEMADE, adjective Made at home; being of domestic manufacture; made either in private families, or in one's own country.

HO'MER

HOMER'IC, adjective Pertaining to homer the great poet of Greece, or to his poetry; resembling Homer's verse.

HOMER'IC, a. Pertaining to Homer, the great poet of Greece, or to his poetry; resembling Homer's verse.

HO'MESPEAKING, noun Forcible and efficacious speaking.

HO'MESPUN, adjective Spun or wrought at home; of domestic manufacture.

1. Not made in foreign countries.

2. Plain; coarse; rude; homely; not elegant; as a homespun English proverb; a homespun author.

HO'MESPUN, noun A coarse, unpolished, rustic person.

HO'MESTALL

HO'MESTEAD, noun The place of a mansion house; the inclosure or ground immediately connected with the mansion.

1. Native seat; original station or place of residence.

We can trace them back to a homestead on the rivers Volga and Ural. [In the U. States, homestead is the word used.]

HO'MEWARD

HO'MEWARD-BOUND, adjective Destined for home; returning from a foreign country to the place where the owner resides; as the homeward-bound fleet. We spoke a brig homeward-bound.

HO'MEWARDS, adverb Toward home; toward one's habitation, or toward one's native country.

HOM'ICIDAL, adjective [from homicide.] Pertaining to homicide; murderous bloody.

HOM'ICIDE, noun [Latin homicidium; homo, man, and caedo, to strike, to kill.]

1. The killing of one man or human being by another. homicide is of three kinds, justifiable, excusable, and felonious; justifiable, when it proceeds from unavoidable necessity, without an intention to kill, and without negligence; excusable, when it happens from misadventure, or in self-defense; felonious, when it proceeds from malice, or is done in the prosecution of some unlawful act, or in a sudden passion. homicide committed with premeditated malice, is murder. Suicide also, or self-murder, is felonious homicide homicide comprehends murder and manslaughter.

1. A person who kills another; a manslayer.

HOMILET'IC

HOMILET'ICAL, adjective [ Gr. to converse in company.]

1. Pertaining to familiar intercourse; social; conversable; companionable.

2. homiletic theology, a branch of practical theology, which teaches the manner in which ministers of the gospel should adapt their discourses to the capacities of their hearers, and pursue the best methods of instructing them by their doctrines and examples. It is also called pastoral theology.

HOM'ILIST, noun One that preaches to a congregation.

HOM'ILY, noun [Gr. to converse in company, a company or assembly.]

A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; or a plain, familiar discourse on some subject of religion, such as an instructor would deliver to his pupils, or a father to his children.

HOM'MOC, noun [I suppose this to be an Indian word.]

A hillock or small eminence of a conical form, sometimes covered with trees.

HOM'MONY, noun [Indian.] In America, maiz hulled and broken, but coarse, prepared for food by being mixed with water and boiled.

HOMOGE'NEAL

HOMOGE'NEALNESS

HOMOGENE'ITY, Words not to be encouraged; equivalent to.

HOMOGE'NEOUS, adjective [Gr. like, and kind.] Of the same kind or nature; consisting of similar parts, or of elements of the like nature. Thus we say, homogeneous particles, elements or principles; homogeneous bodies.

HOMOGE'NEOUSNESS, noun Sameness of kind or nature.

HOM'OGENY, noun Joint nature.

HOMOL'OGATE, verb transitive [Gr. like, and to speak.] To approve; to allow.

HOMOL'OGOUS, adjective [Gr. similar, and proportion.] Proportional to each other; a term in geometry, applied to the corresponding sides and angles of similar figures; as, homologous angles.

HOMON'YMOUS, adjective [Gr. like, and name.] Equivocal; ambiguous; that has different significations, or may be applied to different things.

HOMON'YMOUSLY, adverb In an equivocal manner.

HOMON'YMY, noun [Gr. See Supra.] Ambiguity; equivocation.

HOMOPH'ONY, noun [Gr. like, sound.] Likeness of sound. Among the Greeks, a kind of music performed in unison, in opposition to antiphony.

HOMOT'ONOUS, adjective [Gr. like, and tone.] Equable; of the same tenor; applied to diseases which have a uniform tenor of rise, state, or declension.

HONE, noun A stone of a fine grit, used for sharpening instruments that require a fine edge, and particularly for setting razors. [We never, I believe, call a hone a whet-stone. The latter is a stone of coarse grit. See the word.]

HONE, verb transitive To rub and sharpen on a bone; as, to hone a razor.

HONE, verb intransitive To pine; to long.

HON'EST, adjective on'est. [Latin honestus, from honos, honor.]

1. Upright; just; fair in dealing with others; free from trickishness and fraud; acting and having the disposition to act at all times according to justice or correct moral principles; applied to persons.

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

An honest physician leaves his patient, when he can contribute no farther to his health.

2. Fair; just; equitable; free from fraud; as an honest transaction; an honest transfer of property.

3. Frank; sincere; unreserved; according to truth; as an honest confession.

4. Sincere; proceeding from pure or just principles, or directed to a good object; as an honest inquiry after truth; an honest endeavor; honest views or motives.

5. Fair; good; unimpeached.

Seek seven men of honest report. Acts 6:3.

6. Decent; honorable; or suitable.

Provide things honest in the sight of all men. Romans 12:17.

7. Chaste; faithful.

Wives may be merry, and yet honest too.

HON'EST, verb transitive on'est. To adorn; to grace. [Not used.]

HONESTA'TION, noun Adornment; grace. [Not used.]

HON'ESTLY, adverb on'estly. Uprightly; justly; with integrity and fairness; as a contract honestly made.

1. With frank sincerity; without fraud or disguise; according to truth; as, to confess honestly one's real design.

2. By upright means; with upright conduct; as, to live honestly

3. Chastely; with conjugal loyalty and fidelity.

HON'ESTY, noun on'esty. [Latin honestas.]

1. In principle, an upright disposition; moral rectitude of heart; a disposition to conform to justice and correct moral principles, in all social transactions. In fact, upright conduct; an actual conformity to justice and moral rectitude.

2. Fairness; candor; truth; as the honesty of a narrative.

3. Frank sincerity.

Honesty is chiefly applicable to social transactions, or mutual dealings in the exchange of property.

HON'EY, noun hun'y.

1. A sweet vegetable juice, collected by bees from the flowers of plants, and deposited in cells of the comb in hives. honey when pure, is of a moderate consistence, of a whitish color, tinged with yellow, sweet to the taste, of an agreeable smell, soluble in water, and becoming vinous by fermentation. In medicine, it is useful as a detergent and aperient. It is supposed to consist of sugar, mucilage, and an acid.

2. Sweetness; lusciousness.

The king hath found

Matter against him, that forever mars

The honey of his language.

3. A word of tenderness; sweetness; sweet one.

HON'EY, verb transitive To talk fondly. [Little used.]

1. To sweeten.

HON'EYED, adjective Covered with honey.

1. Sweet; as honeyed words.

HON'EYLESS, adjective Destitute of honey.

HON'IED, adjective [See Honeyed.]

HON'OR, noun on'or. [Latin honor honos.]

1. The esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation.

A prophet is not without honor except in his own country. Matthew 13:1.

2. A testimony of esteem; any expression of respect or of high estimation by words or actions; as the honors of war; military honors; funeral honors; civil honors.

3. Dignity; exalted rank or place; distinction.

I have given thee riches and honor 1 Kings 3:1.

Thou art clothed with honor and majesty. Psalms 104:1.

In doing a good thing, there is both honor and pleasure.

4. Reverence; veneration; or any act by which reverence and submission are expressed, as worship paid to the Supreme Being.

5. Reputation; good name; as, his honor is unsullied.

6. True nobleness of mind; magnanimity; dignified respect for character, springing from probity, principle or moral rectitude; a distinguishing trait in the character of good men.

7. An assumed appearance of nobleness; scorn of meanness, springing from the fear of reproach, without regard to principle; as, shall I violate my trust? Forbid it, honor

8. Any particular virtue much valued; as bravery in men, and chastity in females.

9. Dignity of mien; noble appearance.

Godlike erect, with native honor clad.

10. That which honors; he or that which confers dignity; as, the chancellor is an honor to his profession.

11. Privileges of rank or birth; in the plural.

Restore me to my honors.

12. Civilities paid.

Then here a slave, or if you will, a lord,

To do the honors, and to give the word.

13. That which adorns; ornament; decoration.

The sire then shook the honors of his head.

14. A noble kind of seignory or lordship, held of the king in capite.

On or upon my honor words accompanying a declaration which pledge one's honor or reputation for the truth of it. The members of the house of lords in Great Britain are not under oath, but give their opinions on their honor

Laws of honor among persons of fashion, signify certain rules by which their social intercourse is regulated, and which are founded on a regard to reputation. These laws require a punctilious attention to decorum in external deportment, but admit of the foulest violations of moral duty.

Court of honor a court of chivalry; a court of civil and criminal jurisdiction, having power to redress injuries of honor and to hold pleas respecting matters of arms and deeds of war.

HON'OR, verb intransitive on'or. [Latin honoro.]

1. To revere; to respect; to treat with deference and submission, and perform relative duties to.

Honor thy father and thy mother. Exodus 20:1.

2. To reverence; to manifest the highest veneration for, in words and actions; to entertain the most exalted thoughts of; to worship; to adore.

That all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. John 5:1.

3. To dignify; to raise to distinction or notice; to elevate in rank or station; to exalt. Men are sometimes honored with titles and offices, which they do not merit.

Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honor Esther 6:1.

4. To glorify; to render illustrious.

I will be honored upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host. Exodus 14:3.

5. To treat with due civility and respect in the ordinary intercourse of life. The troops honored the governor with a salute.

6. In commerce, to accept and pay when due; as, to honor a bill of exchange.

HON'ORABLE, adjective [Latin honorabilis.]

1. Holding a distinguished rank in society; illustrious or noble.

Sheehem was more honorable than all the house of his father. Genesis 34:1.

Many of them believed; also of honorable women who were Greeks--not a few. Acts 17:1.

2. Possessing a high mind; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude or reputation. He is an honorable man.

3. Conferring honor, or procured by noble deeds; as honorable wounds.

4. Consistent with honor or reputation. It is not honorable to oppress the weak, or to insult the vanquished.

5. Respected; worthy of respect; regarded with esteem.

Marriage is honorable in all. Hebrews 13:1.

6. Performed or accompanied with marks of honor, or with testimonies of esteem; as an honorable burial.

7. Proceeding from an upright and laudable cause, or directed to a just and proper end; not base; not reproachful; as an honorable motive. Nothing can be honorable which is immoral.

8. Not to be disgraced.

Let her descend; my chambers are honorable

9. Honest; without hypocrisy or deceit; fair.

His intentions appear to be honorable

10. An epithet of respect or distinction; as the honorable senate; the honorable gentleman.

11. Becoming men of rank and character, or suited to support men in a station of dignity; as an honorable salary.

HON'ORABLENESS, noun The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction.

1. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity or moral rectitude; fairness; applied to disposition or to conduct.

HON'ORABLY, adverb With tokens of honor or respect. The man was honorably received at court.

1. Magnanimously; generously; with a noble spirit or purpose. The prince honorably interposed to prevent a rupture between the nations.

2. Reputably; without reproach.

Why did I not more honorably starve?

HON'ORARY, adjective Conferring honor, or intended merely to confer honor; as an honorary degree; an honorary crown.

1. Possessing a title or place without performing services or receiving a reward; as an honorary member of a society.

HON'ORARY, noun A lawyer's fee.

1. The salary of a professor in any art or science.

HON'ORED, participle passive Respected; revered; reverenced; elevated to rank or office; dignified; exalted; glorified; accepted and paid, as a bill of exchange.

HON'ORER, noun One that honors; one that reveres, reverences or regards with respect.

1. One who exalts, or who confers honors.

HON'ORING, participle present tense Respecting highly; reverencing; exalting; dignifying; conferring marks of esteem; accepting and paying, as a bill.

HON'ORLESS, adjective Destitute of honor; not honored.

HOOD. [Latin fraternitas.]

HOOD, noun

1. A covering for the head used by females, and deeper than a bonnet.

2. A covering for the head and shoulders used by monks; a cowl.

3. A covering for a hawk's head or eyes; used in falconry.

4. Any thing to be drawn over the head to cover it.

5. An ornamental fold that hangs down the back of a graduate to mark his degree.

6. A low wooden porch over the ladder which leads to the steerage of a ship; the upper part of a galley-chimney; the cover of a pump.

HOOD, verb transitive To dress in a hood or cowl; to put on a hood

The friar hooded, and the monarch crowned.

1. To cover; to blind.

I'll hood my eyes.

2. To cover.

And hood the flames.

HOOD'ED, participle passive Covered with a hood; blinded.

HOOD'MAN, blind, noun A play in which a person blinded is to catch another and tell his name; blindman's bluff.

HOOF, noun

1. The horny substance that covers or terminates the feet of certain animals, as horses, oxen, sheep, goats, deer, etc.

2. An animal; a beast.

He had not a single hoof of any kind to slaughter.

HOOF, verb intransitive To walk, as cattle. [Little used.]

HOOF'ED, adjective Furnished with of hoofs.

Of all the hoofed quadrupeds, the horse is the most beautiful.

HOOK, noun

1. A piece of iron or other metal bent into a curve for catching, holding and sustaining any thing; as a hook for catching fish; a teeter-hook; a chimney-hook; a pot-hook, etc.

2. A snare; a trap.

3. A curving instrument for cutting grass or grain; a sickle; an instrument for cutting or lopping.

4. That part of a hinge which is fixed or inserted in a post. Whence the phrase, to be off the hooks, to be unhinged, to be disturbed or disordered.

5. A forked timber in a ship, placed on the keel.

6. A catch; an advantage. [Vulgar.]

7. In husbandry, a field sown two years running. [Local.]

By hook and by crook, one way or other; by any means, direct or indirect.

HOOK, verb transitive To catch with a hook; as, to hook a fish.

1. To seize and draw, as with a hook

2. To fasten with a hook

3. To entrap; to ensnare.

4. To draw by force or artifice.

To hook on, to apply a hook

HOOK, verb intransitive To bend; to be curving.

HOOK'ED, adjective Bent into the form of a hook; curvated. The claws of a beast are hooked

1. Bent; curvated; aquiline; as a hooked nose.

HOOK'ED, participle passive Caught with a hook; fastened with a hook.

HOOK'EDNESS, noun A state of being bent like a hook.

HOOK'ING, participle present tense Catching with a hook; fastening with a hook.

HOOK'NOSED, adjective Having a curvated or aquiline nose.

HOOK'Y, adjective Full of hooks; pertaining to hooks.

HOOP, noun A band of wood or metal used to confine the staves of casks, tubs, etc. or for other similar purposes. Wooden hoops are usually made by splitting an oak or hickory sapling into two parts; but sometimes they are made of thin splints and of other species of wood.

1. A piece of whalebone in the form of a circle or ellipsis, used formerly by females to extend their petticoats; a farthingale.

2. Something resembling a hoop; a ring; any thing circular.

HOOP, verb transitive To bind or fasten with hoops; as, to hoop a barrel or puncheon.

1. To clasp; to encircle; to surround.

HOOP, verb intransitive to shout; to utter a loud cry, or a particular sound by way of call or pursuit.

HOOP, verb transitive To drive with a shout or outcry.

1. To call by a shout or hoop

HOOP, noun A shout; also, a measure, equal to a peck.

1. The hoopoe.

HOOP'ER, noun One who hoops casks or tubs; a cooper.

HOOP'ING, participle present tense Fastening with hoops.

HOOP'ING, participle present tense Crying out; shouting.

HOOP'OE

HOOP'OO, noun [Latin upupa, epops.] A bird of the genus Upupa, whose head is adorned with a beautiful crest, which it can erect or depress at pleasure.

HOOP'OO, n. [L. upupa, epops.] A bird of the genus Upupa, whose head is adorned with a beautiful crest, which it can erect or depress at pleasure.

HOOR'A

HOORAW', exclamation A shout of joy or exultation. [This is the genuine English word, for which we find in books most absurdly written, huzza, a foreign word never or rarely used.]

HOORAW', exclam. A shout of joy or exultation. [This is the genuine English word, for which we find in books most absurdly written, huzza, a foreign word never or rarely used.]

HOOT, verb intransitive

1. To cry out or shout in contempt.

Matrons and girls shall hoot at thee no more.

2. To cry, as an owl.

The clamorous owl, that nightly hoots.

HOOT, verb transitive To drive with cries or shouts uttered in contempt.

Partridge and his clan may hoot me for a cheat.

HOOT, noun A cry or shout in contempt.

HOOT'ING, noun A shouting; clamor.

HOP, verb intransitive

1. To leap, or spring on one leg; applied to persons.

2. To leap; to spring forward by leaps; to skip, as birds.

Hopping from spray to spray.

3. To walk lame; to limp; to halt. [We generally use hobble.]

4. To move by leaps or starts, as the blood in the veins. [Not used.]

5. To spring; to leap; to frisk about.

6. To dance.

HOP, noun A leap on one leg; a leap; a jump; a spring.

1. A dance.

HOP, noun A plant constituting the genus Humulus. The stalk or vine, which grows to a great length, is weak and requires to be supported. In growing, it climbs or winds round a pole or other support. This plant is of great importance in brewing, as it tends to preserve malt liquors, and renders them more aperient, diuretic and salubrious.

HOP, verb transitive To impregnate with hops.

HOP, noun The fruit of the dog-rose, or wild brier.

HOP'BIND, noun The stalk or vine on which hops grow.

HOPE, noun [Latin cupio.]

1. A desire of some good, accompanied with at least a slight expectation of obtaining it, or a belief that it is obtainable. hope differs from wish and desire in this, that it implies some expectation of obtaining the good desired, or the possibility of possessing it. hope therefore always gives pleasure or joy; whereas wish and desire may produce or be accompanied with pain and anxiety.

The hypocrite's hope shall perish. Job 8:13.

He wish'ed, but not with hope--

Sweet hope! kind cheat!

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

2. Confidence in a future event; the highest degree of well founded expectation of good; as a hope founded on God's gracious promises; a scriptural sense.

A well founded scriptural hope is, in our religion, the source of ineffable happiness.

3. That which gives hope; he or that which furnishes ground of expectation, or promises desired good. The hope of Israel is the Messiah.

The Lord will be the hope of his people. Joel 3:16.

4. An opinion or belief not amounting to certainty, but grounded on substantial evidence. The christian indulges a hope that his sins are pardoned.

HOPE, verb intransitive

1. To cherish a desire of food, with some expectation of obtaining it, or a belief that it is obtainable.

HOPE for good success.

Be sober and hope to the end. 1 Peter 1:3.

HOPE humbly then, with trembling pinions soar.

2. To place confidence in; to trust in with confident expectation of good.

Why art thou cast down, O my soul, and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God. Psalms 43:5.

HOPE, verb transitive To desire with expectation of good, or a belief that it may be obtained. But as a transitive verb, it is seldom used, and the phrases in which it is so used are elliptical, for being understood.

So stands the Thracian herdsman with his spear,

Full in the gap, and hopes the hunted bear.

HOPE, noun A sloping plain between ridges of mountains. [Not in use.]

HO'PED, participle passive Desired with expectation.

HO'PEFUL, adjective Having qualities which excite hope; promising or giving ground to expect good or success; as a hopeful youth; a hopeful prospect.

1. Full of hope or desire, with expectation.

I was hopeful the success of your first attempts would encourage you to the trial of more nice and difficult experiments.

HO'PEFULLY, adverb In a manner to raise hope; in a way promising good. He prosecutes his scheme hopefully

1. In a manner to produce a favorable opinion respecting some good at the present time. The young man is hopefully pious.

2. With hope; with ground to expect.

HO'PEFULNESS, noun Promise of good; ground to expect what is desirable.

HO'PELESS, adjective Destitute of hope; having no expectation of that which is desirable; despairing.

I am a woman, friendless, hopeless

1. Giving no ground of hope or expectation of good; promising nothing desirable; desperate; as a hopeless condition.

HO'PELESSLY, adverb Without hope.

HO'PELESSNESS, noun A state of being desperate, or affording no hope.

HO'PER, noun One that hopes.

HO'PING, participle present tense Having hope; indulging desire of good with the expectation of obtaining it, or a belief that it is obtainable.

1. Confiding in.

HO'PINGLY, adverb With hope or desire of good, and expectation of obtaining it.

HOP'LITE, noun [Gr. a weapon.] In ancient Greece, a heavy-armed soldier.

HOP'OAST, noun In Kent, a kiln for drying hops.

HOP'PER, noun [See Hop.] One who hops, or leaps on one leg.

1. Properly, a wooden trough through which grain passes into a mill; so named from its moving or shaking. But we give the name to a box or frame of boards, which receives the grain before it passes into the trough, and also to a similar box which receives apples for conducting them into a mill.

1. A vessel in which seed-corn is carried for sowing.

HOP'PERS, noun A play in which persons hop or leap on one leg.

HOP'PING, participle present tense Leaping on one leg; dancing.

HOP'PING, noun A dancing; a meeting for dancing.

HOP'PLE, verb transitive To tie the feet near together to prevent leaping; as, to hopple an unruly horse.

HOP'POLE, noun A pole used to support hops.

HOP'-PICKER, noun One that picks hops.

HOP'VINE, noun The stalk of hops.

HOP'-YARD

HOP'-GARDEN, noun A field or inclosure where hops are raised.

HO'RAL, adjective [Latin hora, an hour. See Hour.]

Relating to an hour, or to hours.

HO'RALLY, adverb Hourly. [Not in use.]

HO'RARY, adjective [Latin horarius; Latin hora hour.]

1. Pertaining to an hour; noting the hours; as the horary circle.

2. Continuing an hour.

HORD

HORDE, noun A company of wandering people dwelling in tents or wagons, and migrating from place to place to procure pasturage for their cattle. Such are some tribes of the Tartars in the north of Asia. A hord usually consists of fifty or sixty tents.

HORDE, n. A company of wandering people dwelling in tents or wagons, and migrating from place to place to procure pasturage for their cattle. Such are some tribes of the Tartars in the north of Asia. A hord usually consists of fifty or sixty tents.

HORE, noun A woman, married or single, who indulges unlawful sexual intercourse; also, a prostitute; a common woman; a harlot; a woman of ill fame. [This word comprehends adultress and fornicatrix, and all lewd women whether paid for prostitution or not.]

HORE, verb intransitive To indulge unlawful sexual commerce, as a male or female; to be habitually lewd.

HO'REDOM, noun The practice of unlawful sexual commerce; habitual or customary lewdness of males or females.

1. In Scripture, idolatry.

HO'REHOUND, noun The name of several plants of different genera. The common horehound is the Marrubium vulgare. It has a bitter taste, and is used as an attenuant.

HO'REMASTER

HO'REMONGER, noun A man who is addicted to lewdness, or frequently indulges in unlawful sexual intercourse.

HO'RESON, noun [hore and son.] A bastard; the son of a hore; a term of reproach or contempt, sometimes used in a ludicrous sense expressing dislike.

HO'RISH, adjective Lewd, unchaste; loose; given to unlawful sexual intercourse; applied to females only.

HO'RISHLY, adverb Lewdly; unchastely.

HOR'IZON, noun [Gr. to bound, a limit.] The line that terminates the view, when extended on the surface of the earth; or a great circle of the sphere, dividing the world into two parts or hemispheres; the upper hemisphere which is visible, and the lower which is hid. The horizon is sensible, and rational or real. The sensible, apparent, or visible horizon is a lesser circle of the sphere, which divides the visible part of the sphere from the invisible. It is eastern or western; the eastern is that wherein the sun and stars rise; the western, that wherein they set. The rational, true, or astronomical horizon is a great circle whose plane passes through the center of the earth, and whose poles are the zenith and nadir. This horizon would bound the sight, if the eye could take in the whole hemisphere.

HORIZON'TAL, adjective Pertaining to the horizon, or relating to it.

1. Parallel to the horizon; on a level; as a horizontal line or surface.

2. Near the horizon; as horizontal misty air.

HORIZONTAL'ITY, noun The state of being horizontal.

HORIZON'TALLY, adverb In a direction parallel to the horizon; on a level; as a ball carried horizontally

HORN, noun [Latin cornu]

1. A hard substance growing on the heads of certain animals, and particularly on cloven-footed quadrupeds; usually projecting to some length and terminating in a point. Horns are generally bent or curving, and those of some animals are spiral. They serve for weapons of offense and defense. The substance of horns is gelatinous, and in Papin's digester it may be converted into jelly.

HORN is an animal substance, chiefly membranous, consisting of coagulated albumen, with a little gelatin and phosphate of lime.

The horns of deer possess exactly the properties of bone, and are composed of the same constituents, only the proportion of cartilage is greater.

2. A wind instrument of music, made of horn; a trumpet. Such were used by the Israelites.

3. In modern times, a wind instrument made of metal.

4. An extremity of the moon, when it is waxing or waning, and forming a crescent.

5. The feeler or antenna of an insect.

6. The feeler of a snail, which may be withdrawn; hence, to pull or draw in the horns, is to repress one's ardor, or to restrain pride.

7. A drinking cup; horns being used anciently for cups.

8. A winding stream.

9. Horns, in the plural, is used to characterize a cuckold.

He wears the horns.

10. In Scripture, horn is a symbol of strength or power.

The horn of Moab is cut off. Jeremiah 48:25.

HORN is also an emblem of glory, honor, dignity.

My horn is exalted in the Lord. 1 Samuel 2:1.

In Daniel, horn represents a kingdom or state.

HORN'BEAK, noun A fish. [See Hornfish.]

HORN'BEAM, noun [See Beam.] A genus of trees, the Carpinus, so named from the hardness of the wood.

HORN'BILL, noun A fowl of the genus Buceros, which has a flat bony forehead with two horns; a native of the E. Indies.

HORN'BLEND, noun A mineral of several varieties, called by Hauy amphibole. It is sometimes in regular distinct crystals; more generally the result of confused crystallization, appearing in masses, composed of lamins, acicular crystals or fibers, variously aggregated. Its prevailing colors are black and green.

HORNBLOWER, noun One that blows a horn.

HORN'BOOK, noun The first book of children, or that in which they learn their letters and rudiments; so called from its cover of horn. [Now little used.]

HORN'-DISTEMPER, noun A disease of cattle, affecting the internal substance of the horn.

HORN'ED, adjective Furnished with horns; as horned cattle.

1. Shaped like a crescent, or the new moon.

HORN'EDNESS, noun The appearance of horns.

HORN'ER, noun One who works or deals in horns.

1. One who winds or blows the horn.

HORN'ET, noun An insect of the genus Vespa or wasp, the Vespa crabro. It is much larger and stronger than the wasp, and its sting gives severe pain. This insect constructs a nest of leaves or other substance which resembles brown paper of a light color. This is attached to the branches of trees, and often of the size of a half-peck measure.

HORN'FISH, noun The garfish or sea-needle, of the genus Esox.

HORN'FOOT, adjective Having a hoof; hoofed.

HORN'IFY, verb transitive To bestow horns upon. [Not used or vulgar.]

HORN'ING, noun Appearance of the moon when increasing, or in the form of a crescent.

HORN'ISH, adjective Somewhat like horn; hard.

HORN'LESS, adjective Having no horns.

HORN'MERCURY, noun Muriate of mercury.

HORN'OWL, noun A species of owl, so called from two tufts of feathers on its head like horns.

HORN'PIPE, noun An instrument of music in Wales, consisting of a wooden pipe with horns at the ends; one to collect the wind blown from the mouth; the other to carry off the sounds as modulated by the performer.

1. An air or tune of triple time, with six crotchets in a bar; four to the descending beat, and two to the ascending.

HORN'SHAVINGS, noun Scrapings or raspings of the horns of deer.

HORN'SILVER, noun Muriate of silver, or chlorid of silver.

HORN'SLATE, noun A gray siliceous stone.

HORN'SPOON, noun A spoon made of horn.

HORN'STONE, noun A siliceous stone, a subspecies of quartz. It is divided by Jameson into splintery, conchoidal, and wood-stone. [See Chert.]

HORN'WORK, noun In fortification, an outwork composed of two demi-bastions joined by a curtain.

HORN'Y, adjective Consisting of horn or horns.

1. Resembling horn.

2. Hard; callous.

HOROG'RAPHY, noun [Gr. hour, and to write.]

1. An account of hours.

2. The art of constructing dials.

HO'ROLOGE, noun [Latin horologium; Gr. hour, and to tell.]

An instrument that indicates the hour of the day. But chronometer is now generally used.

HOROLOG'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to the horologe, or to horology.

HOROLOGIOGRAPH'IC, adjective Pertaining to the art of dialling.

HOROLOGIOG'RAPHY, noun [Gr. hour, discourse, and to describe.]

An account of instruments that show the hour of the day; also, of the art of constructing dials.

HOROL'OGY, noun [Gr. hour, and to indicate. See Horologe.]

The art of constructing machines for measuring and indicating portions of time, as clocks, watches, etc.

HOROMET'RICAL, adjective [from horometry.] Belonging to horometry, or to the measurement of time by hours and subordinate divisions.

HOROM'ETRY, noun [Gr. hour, and measure.]

The art or practice of measuring time by hours and subordinate divisions.

HOR'OSCOPE, noun [Gr. hour, and to view or consider.]

1. In astrology, a scheme or figure of the twelve houses, or twelve signs of the zodiac, in which is marked the disposition of the heavens at a given time, and by which astrologers formerly told the fortunes of persons, according to the position of the stars at the time of their birth.

2. The degree or point of the heavens arising above the eastern point of the horizon at any given time when a prediction is to be made of a future event.

HOROS'COPY, noun The art or practice of predicting future events by the disposition of the stars and planets.

HOR'RENT, adjective [Latin horrens. See Horror.] Bristled; standing erect as bristles; pointing outward.

With bright emblazonry and horrent arms.

HOR'RIBLE, adjective [Latin horribilis. See Horror.] Exciting or tending to excite horror; dreadful; terrible; shocking; hideous; as a horrible figure or sight; a horrible story.

A dungeon horrible on all sides round.

HOR'RIBLENESS, noun The state or qualities that may excite horror; dreadfulness; terribleness; hideousness.

HOR'RIBLY, adverb In a manner to excite horror; dreadfully; terribly; as horribly loud; horribly afraid.

HOR'RID, adjective [Latin horridus. See Horror.]

1. That does or may excite horror; dreadful; hideous; shocking; as a horrid spectacle or sight; horrid sympathy.

2. Rough; rugged. This is the literal and primary sense.

Horrid with fern, and intricate with thorn.

3. Shocking; very offensive; a colloquial sense.

HOR'RIDLY, adverb In a manner to excite horror; dreadfully; shockingly.

HOR'RIDNESS, noun The qualities that do or may excite horror; hideousness; enormity.

HORRIF'IC, adjective [Latin horrificus.] Causing horror.

HORRIS'ONOUS, adjective [Latin horrisonus; horreo, to shake, and sonus, sound.] Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound.

HOR'ROR, noun [Latin from horreo, to shake or shiver, or to set up the bristles, to be rough.]

1. A shaking, shivering or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever. This ague is usually accompanied with a contraction of the skin into small wrinkles, giving it a kind of roughness.

2. An excessive degree of fear, or a painful emotion which makes a person tremble; terror; a shuddering with fear; but appropriately, terror or a sensation approaching it, accompanied with hatred or detestation. horror is often a passion compounded of fear and hatred or disgust. The recital of a bloody deed fills us with horror

A horror of great darkness fell on Abram. Genesis 15:12.

Horror hath taken hold on me, because of the wicked that forsake thy law. Psalms 119:53.

3. That which may excite horror or dread; gloom; dreariness.

And breathes a browner horror on the woods.

4. Dreadful thoughts.

5. Distressing scenes; as the horrors of war or famine.

HORSE, noun hors.

1. A species of quadrupeds of the genus Equus, having six erect and parallel fore-teeth in the upper jaw, and six somewhat prominent in the under jaw; the dog teeth are solitary, and the feet consist of an undivided hoof. The horse is a beautiful animal, and of great use for draught or conveyance on his back. horse in English, is of common gender, and may comprehend the male and female.

2. A constellation.

3. Cavalry; a body of troops serving on horseback. In this sense, it has no plural termination. We say, a thousand horse a regiment of horse

4. A machine by which something is supported; usually a wooden frame with legs. Various machines used in the arts are thus called.

5. A wooden machine on which soldiers ride by way of punishment; sometimes called a timber-mare.

6. In seamen's language, a rope extending from the middle of a yard to its extremity, to support the sailors while they loose, reef or furl the sails, also, a thick rope extended near the mast for hoisting a yard or extending a sail on it.

To take horse to set out to ride on horseback.

1. To be covered, as a mare.

HORSE, verb transitive To mount on a horse

1. To carry on the back.

The keeper, horsing a deer.

2. To ride astride; as ridges horsed.

3. To cover a mare, as the male.

HORSEBACK, noun hors'back. The state of being on a horse; the posture of riding on a horse.

I saw them salute on horseback

HORSEBEAN, noun A small bean usually given to horses.

HORSEBLOCK, noun A block or state that assists persons in mounting and dismounting from a horse.

HORSEBOAT, noun A boat used in conveying horses over a river or other water.

1. A boat moved by horses; a new species of ferry-boat.

HORSEBOY, noun A boy employed in dressing and tending horses; a stable boy.

HORSEBREAKER, noun One whose employment is to break horses, or to teach them to draw or carry.

HORSECLOTH, noun A cloth to cover a horse.

HORSECOURSER, noun One that runs horses, or keeps horses for the race.

1. A dealer in horses.

HORSECRAB, noun A crustaceous fish.

HORSEDEALER, noun One who buys and sells horses.

HORSEDRENCH, noun A dose of physic for a horse.

HORSEDUNG, noun The dung of horses.

HORSEFACED, adjective Having a long coarse face; ugly.

HORSEFLESH, noun The flesh of a horse.

HORSEFLY, noun A large fly that stings horses.

HORSEFOOT, noun A plant, called also coltsfoot.

HORSEGUARDS, noun A body of cavalry for guards.

HORSEHAIR, noun The hair of horses.

HORSEHOE, verb transitive To hoe or clean a field by means of horses.

HORSEKNAVE, noun A groom.

HORSELAUGH, noun A loud, boisterous laugh.

HORSELEECH, noun A large leech. [See Leech.]

1. A farrier.

HORSELITTER, noun A carriage hung on poles which are borne by and between two horses.

HORSELOAD, noun A load for a horse.

HORSEMAN, noun A rider on horseback.

1. A man skilled in riding.

2. A soldier who serves on horseback.

HORSEMANSHIP, noun The act of riding, and of training and managing horses.

HORSEMARTEN, noun A kind of large bee.

HORSEMATCH, noun A bird.

HORSEMEAT, noun Food for horses; provender.

HORSEPATH, noun A path for horses, as by canals.

HORSEPLAY, noun Rough, rugged play.

HORSEPOND, noun A pond for watering horses.

HORSEPURSLANE, noun A plant of the genus Trianthema.

HORSERACE, noun A race by horses; a match of horses in running.

HORSERACING, noun The practice or act of running horses.

HORSERADISH, noun A plant of the genus Cochlearia, a species of scurvy grass, having a root of a pungent taste.

HORSESHOE, noun A shoe for horses, consisting of a plate of iron of a circular form.

HORSESTEALER

HORSETAIL, noun A plant of the genus Equisetum. The shrubby horsetail is of the genus Ephedra.

HORSETHIEF, noun A stealer of horses.

HORSETONGUE, noun A plant of the genus Ruscus.

HORSEVETCH

HORSEWAY, noun A way or road in which horses may travel.

HORSEWAY, n. A way or road in which horses may travel.

HORSEWHIP, noun A whip for driving or striking horses.

HORSEWORM, noun A worm that infests horses; a bott.

HORTA'TION, noun [Latin hortatio, from hortor, to exhort.]

The act of exhorting, or giving advice; exhortation; advice intended to encourage. [But exhortation is generally used.]

HOR'TATIVE, adjective Giving exhortation, advisory.

HOR'TATIVE, noun Exhortation; a precept given to incite or encourage.

HOR'TATORY, adjective Encouraging; inciting; giving advice; as a hortatory speech.

HORTEN'SIAL, adjective [Latin hortensis.] Fit for a garden. [Not used.]

HOR'TICULTOR, noun [Latin hortus, a garden, and cultor, a tiller.]

One who cultivates a garden.

HORTICUL'TURAL, adjective Pertaining to the culture of gardens.

HOR'TICULTURE, noun [Latin hortus, garden, and cultura, culture, from colo, to till.] The cultivation of a garden; or the art of cultivating gardens.

HORTICUL'TURIST, noun One who is skilled in the art of cultivating gardens.

HOR'TULAN, adjective [Latin hortulanus.] Belonging to a garden; as a hortulan calendar.

HORTUSSICCUS, noun [Latin] Literally, a dry garden; an appellation given to a collection of specimens of plants, carefully dried and preserved.

HORT'YARD, noun An orchard, which see.

HOSAN'NA, noun s as z. [Heb. save, I beseech you.]

An exclamation of praise to God, or an invocation of blessings. In the Hebrew ceremonies, it was a prayer rehearsed on the several days of the feast of tabernacles, in which this word was often repeated.

HOSE, noun plural hosen or hose; pronoun hoze, ho'zn.

1. Breeches or trowsers.

2. Stockings; coverings for the legs. This word, in mercantile use, is synonymous with stockings, though originally a very different garment.

3. A leathern pipe, used with fire-engines, for conveying water to extinguish fires.

HOSEWHIP, verb transitive To lash; to strike with a horsewhip.

HO'SIER, noun ho'zhur. One who deals in stockings and socks, etc.

HO'SIERY, noun ho'zhury. Stockings in general; socks.

HOS'PITABLE, adjective [Latin hospitalis, from hospes, a guest.]

1. Receiving and entertaining strangers, with kindness and without reward; kind to strangers and guests; disposed to treat guests with generous kindness; as a hospitable man.

2. Proceeding from or indicating kindness to guests; manifesting generosity; as a hospitable table; hospitable rites.

3. Inviting to strangers; offering kind reception; indicating hospitality.

To where yon taper cheers the vale,

With hospitable ray.

HOS'PITABLY, adverb With kindness to strangers or guests; with generous and liberal entertainment.

HOS'PITAGE, noun Hospitality.

HOS'PITAL, noun [Latin hospitalis, supra.]

1. A building appropriated for the reception of sick, infirm and helpless paupers, who are supported and nursed by charity; also, a house for the reception of insane persons, whether paupers or not, or for seamen, soldiers, foundlings, etc. who are supported by the public, or by private charity, or for infected persons, etc.

2. A place for shelter or entertainment.

HOS'PITAL, adjective Hospitable. [Not in use.]

HOSPITAL'ITY, noun [Latin hospitalitas.] The act or practice of receiving and entertaining strangers or guests without reward, or with kind and generous liberality.

A bishop--must be given to hospitality 1 Timothy 3:2.

Hospitality I have found as universal as the face of man.

HOS'PITALLER, noun [from hospital.] Properly, one residing in a hospital for the purpose of receiving the poor and strangers. The hospitallers were an order of knights who built a hospital at Jerusalem for pilgrims. They were called knights of St. John, and are the same as the knights of Malta.

HOS'PITATE, verb intransitive [Latin hospitor.] To reside or lodge under the roof of another. [Not used.]

HOS'PITATE, verb transitive To lodge a person. [Not used.]

HOST, noun [Latin hostis, a stranger, an enemy, probably of the same family. See Hospitable.]

1. One who entertains another at his own house, without reward.

Homer never entertained guests or hosts with long speeches.

2. One who entertains another at his house for reward; an innkeeper; a landlord.

3. A guest; one who is entertained at the house of another. The innkeeper says of the traveler, he has a good host and the traveler says of his landlord, he has a kind host [See Guest.]

HOST, noun [Latin hostis, a stranger, an enemy.] The sense is probably transferred from a single foe to an army of foes.]

1. An army; a number of men embodied for war.

2. Any great number or multitude.

HOST, noun [Latin hostia, a victim or sacrifice, from hostis, an enemy.]

In the Romish church, the sacrifice of the mass, or the consecrated wafer, representing the body of Christ, or as the Catholics allege, transubstantiated into his own body.

HOST, verb intransitive To lodge at an inn; to take up entertainment. [Little used.]

HOST, verb transitive To give entertainment to. [Not used.]

HOS'TAGE, noun A person delivered to an enemy or hostile power, as a pledge to secure the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, and on the performance of which the person is to be released.

HOSTEL, HOSTELLER. [See Hotel.]

HOSTEL, HOSTELLER [See Hotel.]

HOSTESS, noun A female host; a woman who entertains guests at her house.

1. A woman who keeps an inn.

HOS'TILE, adjective [Latin hostilis, from hostis, an enemy, that is, a foreigner.]

1. Belonging to a public enemy; designating enmity, particularly public enmity, or a state of war; inimical; as a hostile band or army; a hostile force; hostile intentions.

2. Possessed by a public enemy; as a hostile country.

3. Adverse; opposite; unfriendly. [But the word is not properly applied to private enmity, or mere unfriendliness.]

HOS'TILELY, adverb In a hostile manner.

HOSTIL'ITY, noun [Latin hostilitas, from hostis, an enemy.]

1. The state of war between nations or states; the actions of an open enemy; aggression; attacks of an enemy. These secret enmities broke out in hostilities.

Hostility being thus suspended with France.

We have carried on even our hostilities with humanity.

2. Private enmity; a sense less proper.

HOS'TILIZE, verb transitive To make an enemy. [Little used.]

HOSTING, noun [from host, an army.]

An encounter; a battle. [Little used.]

1. A muster or review.

HOS'TLER, noun hos'ler. The person who has the care of horses at an inn.

HOSTLESS, adjective Inhospitable. [Not in use.]

HOSTRY, adjective A stable for horses.

1. A lodging house.

HOT, adjective

1. Having sensible heat; opposed to cold; as a hot stove or fire; a hot cloth; hot liquors. hot expresses more than warm.

2. Ardent in temper; easily excited or exasperated; vehement.

Achilles is impatient, hot and revengeful.

3. Violent; furious; as a hot engagement or assault.

4. Eager; animated; ; brisk; keen; as a hot pursuit, or a person hot in a pursuit.

5. Lustful; lewd.

6. Acrid; biting; stimulating; pungent; as hot as mustard or pepper.

HOT'BED, noun In gardening, a bed of earth and horsedung or tanner's bark, covered with glass to defend it form the cold air, intended for raising early plants, or for nourishing exotic plants of warm climates, which will not thrive in cool or temperate air.

HOT'BRAINED, adjective Ardent in temper; violent; rash; precipitate; as hotbrained youth.

HOTCH'POT, noun

1. Properly, a mingled mass; a mixture of ingredients.

2. In law, a mixing of lands. Thus lands given in frank-marriage to one daughter, shall, after the death of the ancestor, be blended with the lands descending to her and then be divided in equal portions to all the daughters.

HOT'COCKLES, noun plural A play in which one covers his eyes, and guesses who strikes him, or his hand placed behind him.

HOT, HOTE HOTEN, participle passive Called; named.

HOTEL', noun

1. A palace.

2. An inn; a house for entertaining strangers or travelers. It was formerly a house for genteel strangers or lodgers, but the name is now given to any inn.

HOT, HOTE, HOTEN participle passive Called; named.

HOT'HEADED, adjective Of ardent passions; vehement; violent; rash.

HOT'HOUSE, noun A house kept warm to shelter tender plants and shrubs from the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer climates may be reared, and fruits ripened.

1. A bagnio, or place to sweat and cup in.

2. A brothel.

HOT'LY, adverb [from hot.] With heat.

1. Ardently; vehemently; violently; as a stag hotly pursued.

2. Lustfully.

HOT'MOUTHED, adjective Headstrong; ungovernable.

That hotmouthed beast that bears against the curb.

HOT'NESS, noun Sensible heat beyond a moderate degree or warmth.

1. Violence; vehemence; fury.

HOT'SPUR, noun [hot and spur.] A man violent, passionate, heady, rash or precipitate.

1. A kind of pea of early growth.

HOT'SPUR, adjective Violent; impetuous.

HOT'SPURRED, adjective Vehement; rash; heady; headstrong.

HOT'TENTOT, noun A native of the southern extremity of Africa.

1. A savage brutal man.

HOUGH, noun hok.

1. The lower part of the thigh; the ham; the joint of the hind leg of a beast that connects the thigh with the leg.

2. An adz; a hoe. [Not in use.]

HOUGH, verb transitive hok. To hamstring; to disable by cutting the sinews of the ham.

1. To cut with a hoe.

HOUL'ET, noun An owl. [See Howlet.]

HOULT, noun [See Holt.]

HOUND, noun [Latin canis.] A generic name of the dog; but in English it is confined to a particular breed or variety, used in the chase. It has long, smooth, pendulous ears.

HOUND, verb transitive To set on the chase.

1. To hunt; to chase.

HOUND'FISH, noun A fish, called also Galeus laevis, with a long round body, and ash-colored sides and back.

A species of shark, the Squalus mustelus.

HOUNDS, noun In seamen's language, the projecting parts of the head of a mast.

HOUND'S TONGUE, noun A plant of the genus Cynoglossum.

HOUND'TREE, noun A kind of tree.

HOUP. [See Hoopoo.]

HOUR, noun our. [Latin hora; also Latin tempestivus, from tempus. See Time. But hour hora, afterward came to signify a certain portion or division of the day. This has been different in different nations.]

1. A space of time equal to one twenty fourth part of the natural day, or duration of the diurnal revolution of the earth. An hour answers to fifteen degrees of the equator. It consists of 60 minutes, each minute of 60 seconds, etc.

2. Time; a particular time; as the hour of death.

Jesus saith, woman, my hour is not yet come. John 2:4.

3. The time marked or indicated by a chronometer, clock or watch; the particular time of the day. What is the hour? At what hour shall we meet? I will be with you at an early hour

Good hour signifies early or seasonably.

You have arrived at a good hour

To keep good hours, to be at home in good season; not to be abroad late, or at the usual hours of retiring to rest.

HOURs, in the plural, certain prayers in the Romish church, to be repeated at stated times of the day, as matins and vespers.

HOUR'GLASS, noun our'glass. A chronometer that measures the flux of time by the running of sand from one glass vessel to another, through a small aperture. Instead of sand, dry egg shells pulverized are sometimes used. The quantity of sand may be so proportioned as to measure an hour, a half hour, or a quarter.

1. Space of time.

HOUR'HAND, noun The hand or pointed pin which shows the hour on a chronometer.

HOU'RI, noun Among Mohammedans, a nymph of paradise.

HOUR'LY, adjective our'ly. Happening or done every hour; occurring hour by hour; frequent; often repeated.

Observe the waning moon with hourly view.

1. Continual.

We must live in hourly expectation of having the troops recalled.

HOUR'LY, adverb our'ly. Every hour; frequently; continually.

Great was their strife which hourly was renewed.

HOUR'PLATE, noun our'plate. The plate of a clock or other time-piece on which the hours are marked; the dial.

HOUS'AGE, noun [from house.] A fee for keeping goods in a house.

HOUSE, noun hous. [Latin casa; Heb. to put on, to cover.]

1. In a general sense, a building or shed intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind; but appropriately, a building or edifice for the habitation of man; a dwelling place, mansion or abode for any of the human species. It may be of any size and composed of any materials whatever, wood, stone, brick, etc.

2. An edifice or building appropriated to the worship of God; a temple; a church; as the house of God.

3. A monastery; a college; as a religious house

4. The manner of living; the table.

He keeps a good house or a miserable house

5. In astrology, the station of a planet in the heavens, or the twelfth part of the heavens.

6. A family of ancestors; descendants and kindred; a race of persons from the same stock; a tribe. It particularly denotes a noble family or an illustrious race; as the house of Austria; the house of Hanover. So in Scripture, the house of Israel, or of Judah.

Two of a house few ages can afford.

7. One of the estates of a kingdom assembled in parliament or legislature; a body of men united in their legislative capacity, and holding their place by right or by election. Thus we say, the house of lords or peers of Great Britain; the house of commons; the house of representatives. In most of the United States, the legislatures consist of two houses, the senate, and the house of representatives or delegates.

8. The quorum of a legislative body; the number of representatives assembled who are constitutionally empowered to enact laws. Hence we say, there is a sufficient number of representatives present to form a house

9. In Scripture, those who dwell in a house and compose a family; a household.

Cornelius was a devout man, and feared God with all his house Acts 10:2.

10. Wealth; estate.

Ye devour widows' houses. Matthew 23:38.

11. The grave; as the house appointed for all living. Job 30:23.

12. Household affairs; domestic concerns.

Set thy house in order. 2 Kings 20:1.

13. The body; the residence of the soul in this world; as our earthly house 2 Corinthians 5:1.

14. The church among the Jews.

Moses was faithful in all his house Hebrews 3:2.

15. A place of residence. Egypt is called the house of bondage. Exodus 13:3.

16. A square, or division on a chess board.

HOUSE, verb transitive houz. To cover from the inclemencies of the weather; to shelter; to protect by covering; as, to house wood; to house farming utensils; to house cattle.

1. To admit to residence; to harbor.

Palladius wished him to house all the Helots.

2. To deposit and cover, as in the grave.

3. To drive to a shelter.

HOUSE, verb intransitive houz. To take shelter or lodgings; to keep abode; to reside.

To house with darkness and with death.

1. To have an astrological station in the heavens.

Where Saturn houses.

HOUSEBOAT, noun hous'boat. A covered boat.

HOUSEBOTE, noun hous'bote.

1. In law, a sufficient allowance of wood to repair the house and supply fuel.

HOUS'ED, participle passive s as z. Put under cover; sheltered.

HOUS'ING, participle present tense s as z. Covering; sheltering.

1. Warped; crooked, as a brick.

HOUS'ING, noun Houses in general.

1. A cloth laid over a saddle.

2. A piece of cloth fastened to the hinder part of a saddle, and covering the horse's croup; called also boot-housing.

3. [See Houseline.]

HOUSEDOG, noun hous'dog. A dog kept to guard the house.

HOUSEHOLD, noun hous'hold. Those who dwell under the same roof and compose a family; those who belong to a family.

I baptized also the household of Stephanus. 1 Corinthians 1:16.

1. Family life; domestic management.

HOUSEHOLD, adjective hous'hold. Belonging to the house and family; domestic; as household furniture; household affairs.

HOUSEHOLDER, noun hous'holder. The master or chief of a family; one who keeps house with his family. Matthew 13:27.

HOUSEKEEPER, noun hous'keeper. One who occupies a house with his family; a man or woman who maintains a family; a man or woman who maintains a family state in a house; a householder; the master or mistress of a family.

1. A female servant who has the chief care of the family and superintends the other servants.

2. One who lives in plenty. [Not in use.]

3. One who keeps much at home. [Not used.]

4. A housedog. [Not used.]

HOUSEKEEPING, adjective hous'keeping. Domestic; used in a family; as housekeeping commodities. [Little used.]

HOUSEKEEPING, noun [As above.] The family state in a dwelling.

1. Hospitality; a plentiful and hospitable table. [Not used in U. States.]

HOUS'EL, noun houz'l. The eucharist; the sacred bread.

HOUS'EL, verb transitive To give or receive the eucharist.

HOUSELAMB, noun hous'lamb. A lamb kept in a house for fatting.

HOUSELEEK, noun hous'leek. [See Leek.] A plant of the genus Sempervivum, which is found on the tops of houses. The lesser houseleek is of the genus Sedum.

HOUSELESS, noun hous'less. Destitute of a house or habitation; as the houseless child of want.

1. Destitute of shelter.

HOUSELINE

HOUSEMAID, noun hous'maid. A female servant employed to keep a house clean, etc.

HOUSEPIGEON, noun A tame pigeon.

HOUSERAISER, noun One who erects a house.

HOUSEROOM, noun hous'room. Room or place in a house.

HOUSESNAIL, noun A particular kind of snail.

HOUSEWARMING, noun hous'warming. A feast or merry making at the time a family enters a new house.

HOUSEWIFE, noun hous'wife. [house and wife; contracted into huswife, hussy.] The mistress of a family.

1. A female economist; a good manager.

2. One skilled in female business.

3. A little case or bag for articles of female work.

HOUSEWIFELY, adjective hous'wifely. Pertaining to the mistress of a family.

1. Taken from housewifery, or domestic affairs; as a housewifely metaphor.

HOUSEWIFERY, noun hous'wifery. The business of the mistress of a family; female business in the economy of a family; female management of domestic concerns.

HOUS'ING , noun Among seamen, a small line formed of three strands, smaller than rope-yard, used for seizings, etc.

HOUS'LING, adjective [See Housel.] Sacramental; as housling fire, used in the sacrament of marriage.

HOUSS, a covering. [See Housing.]

HOVE, preterit tense of heave.

HOV'EL, noun A shed; a cottage; a mean house.

HOV'EL, verb transitive To put in a hovel; to shelter.

HOVEN, participle passive of heave.

HOV'ER, verb intransitive

1. To flap the wings, as a fowl; to hang over or about, fluttering or flapping the wings, with short irregular flights.

Great flights of birds are hovering about the bridge, and settling on it.

2. To hang over or around, with irregular motions.

A hovering mist came swimming o'er his sight.

3. To stand in suspense or expectation.

4. To wander about from place to place in the neighborhood; to move back and forth; as an army hovering on our borders; a ship hovering on our coast.

HOV'ER, noun A protection or shelter by hanging over.

HOV'ERING, participle present tense Flapping the wings; hanging over or around; moving with short irregular flights.

HOW, adverb In what manner. I know not how to answer.

HOW can a man be born when he is old?

HOW can these things be? John 3:4.

1. To what degree or extent. how long shall we suffer these indignities? how much better is wisdom than gold!

O how love I thy law! how sweet are thy words to my taste. Psalms 119:84.

2. For what reason; from what cause.

HOW now, my love, why is your cheek so pale?

3. By what means. how can this effect by produced?

4. In what state.

HOW, and with what reproach shall I return!

5. It is used in a sense marking proportion; as how much less; how much more.

Behold, he putteth no trust in his servants--how much less in them that dwell in houses of clay-- Job 4:19.

By how much they would diminish the present extent of the sea, so much they would impair the fertility and fountains and rivers of the earth.

6. It is much used in exclamation.

HOW are the mighty fallen! 2 Samuel 1:4.

7. In some popular phrases, how is superfluous or inelegant.

Thick clouds put us in some hope of land; knowing how that part of the South Sea was utterly unknown.

HOWBE'IT, adverb [how, be, and it.] Be it as it may; nevertheless; notwithstanding; yet; but; however.

HOW'DY, noun A midwife. [Local.]

HOW D'YE, how do you? how is your health?

HOWEV'ER, adverb [how and ever.] In whatever manner or degree; as, however good or bad style may be.

1. At all events; at least.

Our chief end is to be freed from all, if it may be, however from the greatest evils.

2. Nevertheless; notwithstanding; yet. I shall not oppose your design; I cannot however approve of it.

You might howe'er have took a fairer way.

HOW'ITZ

HOW'ITZER, noun A kind of mortar or short gun, mounted on a field carriage, and used for throwing shells. The difference between a mortar and a howitz is that the trunnions of a mortar are at the end, but those of a howitz are at the middle.

HOW'KER, noun A Dutch vessel with two masts, a main and a mizen-mast; also, a fishing boat with one mast, used on the coast of Ireland.

HOWL, verb intransitive [Latin ululo.]

1. To cry as a dog or wolf; to utter a particular kind of loud, protracted and mournful sound. We say, the dog howls; the wolf howls. Hence,

2. To utter a loud, mournful sound, expressive of distress; to wail.

HOWL lye, for the day of the Lord is at hand. Isaiah 13:6.

Ye rich men, weep and howl James 5:1.

3. To roar; as a tempest.

HOWL, verb transitive To utter or speak with outcry.

Go--howl it out in deserts.

HOWL, noun The cry of a dog or wolf, or other like sound.

1. The cry of a human being in horror or anguish.

HOWL'ET, noun A fowl of the owl kind, which utters a mournful cry. It is as large as a pullet.

HOWL'ING, participle present tense Uttering the cry of a dog or wolf; uttering a loud cry of distress.

HOWL'ING, adjective Filled with howls, or howling beasts; dreary.

Innumerable artifices and stratagems are acted in the howling wilderness and in the great deep, that can never come to our knowledge.

HOWL'ING, noun The act of howling; a loud outcry or mournful sound.

HOWSOEV'ER, adverb [how, so, and ever.]

1. In what manner soever.

2. Although.

[For this word, however is generally used.]

HOX, verb transitive To hough; to hamstring. [Not used. See Hough.]

HOY, noun A small vessel, usually rigged as a sloop, and employed in conveying passengers and goods from place to place on the sea coast, or in transporting goods to and from a ship in a road or bay.

HOY, an exclamation, of no definite meaning.

HUB. [See Hob.]