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Hobble
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.
Hobbledehoy
HOB'BLEDEHOY, noun A cant phrase for a boy at the age of puberty.
Hobbler
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.
Hobbling
HOB'BLING, participle present tense Walking with a halting or interrupted step.
Hobblingly
HOB'BLINGLY, adverb With a limping or interrupted step.
Hobby
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.
Hobbyhorse
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.
Hobgoblin
HOB'GOBLIN, noun A fairy; a frightful apparition.
Hobit
HO'BIT, noun A small mortar, or short gun for throwing bombs. [See Howitzer, the common orthography.]
Hoblike
HOB'LIKE, adjective Clownish; boorish.
Hobnail
HOB'NAIL, noun A nail with a thick strong head, for shoeing horses.
1. A clownish person; in contempt.
Hobnailed
HOB'NAILED, adjective Set with hobnails; rough.
Hobnob
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
HOBOY. [See Hautboy.]
Hock
HOCK, noun The joint of an animal between the knee and the fetlock.
1. A part of the thigh.
HOCK
Hockday
HOCK'DAY
HOCK'EY, noun Harvest-home. [Not used.]
Hockey
HOCK'EY, n. Harvest-home. [Not used.]
Hockherb
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.
Hockle
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
HOCUSPOCUS, verb transitive To cheat.
Hod
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.
Hoddy-Doddy
HOD'DY-DODDY, noun An awkward or foolish person.
Hodge-Podge
HODGE-PODGE
HODIERN'AL, adjective [Latin hodiernus, from hodie, hoc die, this day.]
Of this day; belonging to the present day.
Hodman
HOD'MAN, noun A man who carries a hod; a mason's tender.
Hodmandod
HOD'MANDOD, noun A shell-fish, otherwise called dodman.
1. A shell-snail.
Hoe
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
Hoed
HO'ED, participle passive Cleared from weeds, or loosened by the hoe.
Hoeing
HO'EING, participle present tense Cutting, scraping or digging with a hoe.
1. Clearing of weeds with a hoe.
Hoful
HO'FUL, adjective Careful.
Hog
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.
Hogcote
HOG'COTE, noun [hog and cote.] A shed or house for swine; a sty.
Hogged
HOG'GED, participle passive Scraped under water.
1. Curving; having the ends lower than the middle.
Hoggerel
HOG'GEREL, noun A sheep of the second year.
A two year old ewe.
Hogget
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.
Hoggish
HOG'GISH, adjective Having the qualities of a hog; brutish; gluttonous; filthy; meanly selfish.
Hoggishly
HOG'GISHLY, adverb In a brutish, gluttonous or filthy manner.
Hoggishness
HOG'GISHNESS, noun Brutishness; voracious greediness in eating; beastly filthiness; mean selfishness.
Hogh
HOGH, noun [See High.] A hill; a cliff.
Hogherd
HOG'HERD, noun [hog and herd.] A keeper of swine.
Hogpen
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-Beans
HOG'S-BEANS, noun A plant.
Hogs-Fennel
HOG'S-FENNEL, noun A plant of the genus Peucedanum.
Hogs-Mushrooms
HOG'S-MUSHROOMS, noun A plant.
Hogshead
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.
Hogsty
HOG'STY, noun [hog and sty.] A pen or inclosure for hogs.
Hogwash
HOG'WASH, noun [hog and wash.] Swill; the refuse matters of a kitchen or brewery, or like matter for swine.
Hohlspath
HO'HLSPATH, noun The mineral otherwise called macle, and chiastolite.
Hoiden
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
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.
Hoisted
HOIST'ED, participle passive Raised; lifted; drawn up.
Hoisting
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?
Hokeday
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.
Holcad
HOLC'AD, noun [Gr.] In ancient Greece, a large ship of burden.
Hold
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. .
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. .
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. .
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. .
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. .
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..
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. .
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. .
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.
Take fast hold of instruction. .
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. .
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 .
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
HOLDBACK, noun Hinderance; restraint.
Holder
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
HOLDERFORTH, noun A haranguer; a preacher.
Holdfast
HOLDFAST, noun A thing that takes hold; a catch; a hook.
Holding
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
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. . .
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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. .
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
HOLIBUT. [See Halibut.]
Holidam
HO'LIDAM, noun [holy and dame.] Blessed lady; an ancient oath.
Holiday
HOLIDAY. [See Holyday.]
Holily
HO'LILY, adverb [from holy.] Piously; with sanctity.
1. Sacredly; inviolably; without breach. [Little used.]
Holiness
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? .
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. .
4. A title of the pope, and formerly of the Greek emperors.
Holing-Ax
HO'LING-AX, noun A narrow ax for cutting holes in posts.
Holla
HOL'LA
HOL'LAND, noun Fine linen manufactured in Holland.
Holland
HOL'LAND, n. Fine linen manufactured in Holland.
Hollander
HOL'LANDER, noun A native of Holland.
Hollen
HOL'LEN, noun [See Holly.]
Hollo
HOL'LO, verb intransitive To call out or exclaim. [See Halloo.]
Holloa
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
Hollow
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. .
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.]
Hollow-Eyed
HOL'LOW-EYED, adjective Having sunken eyes.
Hollow-Hearted
HOL'LOW-HE'ARTED, adjective Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; of practice or sentiment different from profession.
Hollow-Root
HOL'LOW-ROOT, noun A plant, tuberous moschatel, or inglorious, constituting the genus Adoxa; a low plant, whose leaves and flowers smell like musk; hence it is sometimes called musk-crowfoot.
Hollowed
HOL'LOWED, participle passive Made hollow; excavated.
Hollowing
HOL'LOWING, participle present tense Making hollow; excavating.
Hollowly
HOL'LOWLY, adverb Insincerely; deceitfully.
Hollowness
HOL'LOWNESS, noun The state of being hollow; cavity; depression of surface; excavation.
1. Insincerity; deceitfulness; treachery.
Holly
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.
Hollyhock
HOL'LYHOCK, noun A plant of the genus Alcea, bearing flowers of various colors. It is called also rose-mallow.
Hollyrose
HOL'LYROSE, noun A plant.
Holm
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.
Holmite
HOLM'ITE, noun A variety of carbonate of lime; so called from Mr. Holme, who analyzed it.
Holocaust
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.
Holograph
HOL'OGRAPH, noun [Gr. whole, and to write.] A deed or testament written wholly by the grantor's or testator's own hand.
Holographiic
HOLOGRAPHI'IC, adjective Written wholly by the grantor or testator himself.
Holometer
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
HOLP, HOLPEN, the antiquated preterit tense and participle passive of help.
Holpen
HOLP, HOLPEN the antiquated preterit tense and participle passive of help.
Holster
HOLSTER, noun [Latin celo.] A leathern case for a pistol, carried by a horseman at the fore part of his saddle.
Holstered
HOLSTERED, adjective Bearing holsters; as a holstered steed.
Holt
HOLT, noun [Latin celo.] A wood or woodland; obsolete, except in poetry.
Holy
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 .
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.
Holy-Cross
HOLY-CROSS day, noun The fourteenth of September.
Holy-One
HO'LY-ONE, noun An appellation of the Supreme Being, by way of emphasis.
1. An appellation of Christ. .
2. One separated to the service of God. .
Holy-Rood
HOLY-ROOD day, noun A festival observed by Roman Catholics in memory of the exaltation of our Savior's cross.
Holy-Thistle
HO'LY-THISTLE, noun A plant of the genus Cnicus.
The blessed thistle, Centaurea benedicta.
Holy-Thursday
HO'LY-THURSDAY, noun The day on which the ascension of our Savior is commemorated, ten days before Whitsuntide.
Holy-Week
HO'LY-WEEK, noun The week before Easter, in which the passion of our Savior is commemorated.
Holyday
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.
Homage
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.
Homageable
HOM'AGEABLE, adjective Subject to homage.
Homager
HOM'AGER, noun One who does homage, or holds land of another by homage.'s Pyrophorus, ignited muriate of lime.
Home
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 .
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 .
5. The present state of existence.
Whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. .
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.
Homeborn
HO'MEBORN, adjective Native; natural.
1. Domestic; not foreign.
Homebred
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.
Homefelt
HO'MEFELT, adjective Felt in one's own breast; inward; private; as homefelt joys or delight.
Homekeeping
HO'MEKEEPING, adjective Staying at home.
Homeless
HO'MELESS, adjective Destitute of a home.
Homeliness
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.
Homelot
HO'MELOT, noun An inclosure on or near which the mansion house stands.
Homely
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.]
Homelyn
HO'MELYN, noun A fish.
Homemade
HO'MEMADE, adjective Made at home; being of domestic manufacture; made either in private families, or in one's own country.
Homer
HO'MER
HOMER'IC, adjective Pertaining to homer the great poet of Greece, or to his poetry; resembling Homer's verse.
Homeric
HOMER'IC, a. Pertaining to Homer, the great poet of Greece, or to his poetry; resembling Homer's verse.
Homespeaking
HO'MESPEAKING, noun Forcible and efficacious speaking.
Homespun
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.
Homestall
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.]
Homeward
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.
Homewards
HO'MEWARDS, adverb Toward home; toward one's habitation, or toward one's native country.
Homicidal
HOM'ICIDAL, adjective [from homicide.] Pertaining to homicide; murderous bloody.
Homicide
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.
Homiletic
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.
Homilist
HOM'ILIST, noun One that preaches to a congregation.
Homily
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.
Hommoc
HOM'MOC, noun [I suppose this to be an Indian word.]
A hillock or small eminence of a conical form, sometimes covered with trees.
Hommony
HOM'MONY, noun [Indian.] In America, maiz hulled and broken, but coarse, prepared for food by being mixed with water and boiled.
Homogeneal
HOMOGE'NEAL
HOMOGE'NEALNESS
HOMOGENE'ITY, Words not to be encouraged; equivalent to.
Homogeneous
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.
Homogeneousness
HOMOGE'NEOUSNESS, noun Sameness of kind or nature.
Homogeny
HOM'OGENY, noun Joint nature.
Homologate
HOMOL'OGATE, verb transitive [Gr. like, and to speak.] To approve; to allow.
Homologous
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.
Homonymous
HOMON'YMOUS, adjective [Gr. like, and name.] Equivocal; ambiguous; that has different significations, or may be applied to different things.
Homonymously
HOMON'YMOUSLY, adverb In an equivocal manner.
Homonymy
HOMON'YMY, noun [Gr. See Supra.] Ambiguity; equivocation.
Homophony
HOMOPH'ONY, noun [Gr. like, sound.] Likeness of sound. Among the Greeks, a kind of music performed in unison, in opposition to antiphony.
Homotonous
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
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.
Hone-Wort
HO'NE-WORT, noun A plant of the genus Sison.
Honest
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. .
6. Decent; honorable; or suitable.
Provide things honest in the sight of all men. .
7. Chaste; faithful.
Wives may be merry, and yet honest too.
HON'EST, verb transitive on'est. To adorn; to grace. [Not used.]
Honestation
HONESTA'TION, noun Adornment; grace. [Not used.]
Honestly
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.
Honesty
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.
Honey
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.
Honey-Bag
HON'EY-BAG, noun The stomach of a honey-bee.
Honey-Comb
HON'EY-COMB, noun A substance of a firm, close texture, formed by bees into hexagonal cells for repositories of honey, and for the eggs which produce their young.
Honey-Combed
HONEY-COMBED, adjective Having little flaws or cells.
Honey-Dew
HON'EY-DEW, noun A sweet saccharine substance, found on the leaves of trees and other plants in small drops like dew. It is said there are two species; one secreted from the plants, and the other deposited by a small insect called the aphis, or vine-fretter. Bees and ants are said to be fond of honey-dew
Honey-Flower
HON'EY-FLOWER, noun A plant of the genus Melianthus.
Honey-Gnat
HON'EY-GNAT, noun An insect.
Honey-Guide
HON'EY-GUIDE, noun A species of Cuckoo, found in Africa, which will conduct persons to hives of wild honey.
Honey-Harvest
HON'EY-H'ARVEST, noun Honey collected.
Honey-Locust
HON'EY-LOCUST, noun A plant, the three-thorned Acacia, of the genus Gleditsia.
Honey-Month
HON'EY-MONTH, noun The first month after marriage.
Honey-Moon
HON'EY-MOON
HON'EY-MOUTHED, adjective Soft or smooth in speech.
Honey-Stalk
HON'EY-STALK, noun Clover-flower.
Honey-Stone
HON'EY-STONE, noun [See Mellite.]
Honey-Suckle
HON'EY-SUCKLE, noun A genus of plants, the Lonicera, of many species, one of which is called woodbine.
Honey-Sweet
HON'EY-SWEET, adjective Sweet as honey.
Honey-Tongued
HON'EY-TONGUED, adjective Using soft speech.
Honey-Wort
HON'EY-WORT, noun A plant of the genus Cerinthe.
Honeyed
HON'EYED, adjective Covered with honey.
1. Sweet; as honeyed words.
Honeyless
HON'EYLESS, adjective Destitute of honey.
Honied
HON'IED, adjective [See Honeyed.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828); edition by akaitsurugi (github.com/akaitsurugi/webster1828). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from the CrossWire Bible Society.