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Honor

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.

Honorable

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.

Honorableness

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.

Honorably

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?

Honorary

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.

Honored

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

Honorer

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

1. One who exalts, or who confers honors.

Honoring

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

Honorless

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

Hood

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-Wink

HOOD'-WINK, verb transitive [hood and wink.] To blind by covering the eyes.

We will blind and hood-wink him.

1. To cover; to hide.

For the prize I'll bring thee to,

Shall hood-wink this mischance.

2. To deceive by external appearances of disguise; to impose on.

HOOD'-WINKED, participle passive Blinded; deceived.

HOOD'-WINKING, participle present tense Blinding the eyes; covering; hiding; deceiving.

Hooded

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

Hoodman

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

Hoof

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-Bound

HOOF'-BOUND, adjective A horse is said to be hoof-bound when he has a pain in the fore-feet, occasioned by the dryness and contraction of the horn of the quarters, which straightens the quarters of the heels, and often makes him lame.

Hoofed

HOOF'ED, adjective Furnished with of hoofs.

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

Hook

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.

Hooked

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.

Hookedness

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

Hooking

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

Hooknosed

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

Hooky

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

Hoop

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.

Hooper

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

Hooping

HOOP'ING, participle present tense Fastening with hoops.

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

Hooping-Cough

HOOP'ING-COUGH, noun A cough in which the patient hoops or whoops, with a deep inspiration of breath.

Hoopoe

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.

Hoopoo

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.

Hoora

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

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

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.

Hooting

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

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

Hopbind

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

Hope

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.]

Hoped

HO'PED, participle passive Desired with expectation.

Hopeful

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.

Hopefully

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.

Hopefulness

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

Hopeless

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.

Hopelessly

HO'PELESSLY, adverb Without hope.

Hopelessness

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

Hoper

HO'PER, noun One that hopes.

Hoping

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.

Hopingly

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

Hoplite

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

Hopoast

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

Hopper

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.

Hoppers

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

Hopping

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

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

Hopple

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

Hoppole

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

HOP'-PICKER, noun One that picks hops.

Hopvine

HOP'VINE, noun The stalk of hops.

HOP'-YARD

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

Horal

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

Relating to an hour, or to hours.

Horally

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

Horary

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

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

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

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.

Horedom

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

1. In Scripture, idolatry.

Horehound

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.

Horemaster

HO'REMASTER

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

Horeson

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.

Horish

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

Horishly

HO'RISHLY, adverb Lewdly; unchastely.

Horizon

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.

Horizontal

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.

Horizontality

HORIZONTAL'ITY, noun The state of being horizontal.

Horizontally

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

Horn

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.

Hornbeak

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

Hornbeam

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

Hornbill

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

Hornblend

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

HORNBLOWER, noun One that blows a horn.

Hornbook

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.

Horned

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

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

Hornedness

HORN'EDNESS, noun The appearance of horns.

Horner

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

1. One who winds or blows the horn.

Hornet

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.

Hornfish

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

Hornfoot

HORN'FOOT, adjective Having a hoof; hoofed.

Hornify

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

Horning

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

Hornish

HORN'ISH, adjective Somewhat like horn; hard.

Hornless

HORN'LESS, adjective Having no horns.

Hornmercury

HORN'MERCURY, noun Muriate of mercury.

Hornowl

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

Hornpipe

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.

Hornshavings

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

Hornsilver

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

Hornslate

HORN'SLATE, noun A gray siliceous stone.

Hornspoon

HORN'SPOON, noun A spoon made of horn.

Hornstone

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

Hornwork

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

Horny

HORN'Y, adjective Consisting of horn or horns.

1. Resembling horn.

2. Hard; callous.

Horography

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

1. An account of hours.

2. The art of constructing dials.

Horologe

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.

Horological

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

Horologiographic

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

Horologiography

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.

Horology

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.

Horometrical

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

Horometry

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

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

Horoscope

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.

Horoscopy

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

Horrent

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

With bright emblazonry and horrent arms.

Horrible

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.

Horribleness

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

Horribly

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

Horrid

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.

Horridly

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

Horridness

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

Horrific

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

Horrisonous

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

Horror

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

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.

Horse-Chestnut

HORSE-CHESTNUT, noun A large nut, the fruit of a species of Aesculus; or the tree that produces it. The tree is much cultivated for shade.

Horse-Cucumber

HORSE-CU'CUMBER, noun A large green cucumber.

Horse-Emmet

HORSE-EMMET, noun A species of large ant.

Horse-Keeper

HORSE-KEEPER, noun One who keeps or takes care of horses.

Horse-Mill

HORSE-MILL, adjective A mill turned by a horse.

Horse-Mint

HORSE-MINT, noun A species of large mint.

Horse-Muscle

HORSE-MUSCLE, noun A large muscle or shell-fish.

Horseback

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

HORSEBEAN, noun A small bean usually given to horses.

Horseblock

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

Horseboat

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

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

Horsebreaker

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

Horsecloth

HORSECLOTH, noun A cloth to cover a horse.

Horsecourser

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

1. A dealer in horses.

Horsecrab

HORSECRAB, noun A crustaceous fish.

Horsedealer

HORSEDEALER, noun One who buys and sells horses.

Horsedrench

HORSEDRENCH, noun A dose of physic for a horse.

Horsedung

HORSEDUNG, noun The dung of horses.

Horsefaced

HORSEFACED, adjective Having a long coarse face; ugly.

Horseflesh

HORSEFLESH, noun The flesh of a horse.

Horsefly

HORSEFLY, noun A large fly that stings horses.

Horsefoot

HORSEFOOT, noun A plant, called also coltsfoot.

Horseguards

HORSEGUARDS, noun A body of cavalry for guards.

Horsehair

HORSEHAIR, noun The hair of horses.

Horsehoe

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

Horseknave

HORSEKNAVE, noun A groom.

Horselaugh

HORSELAUGH, noun A loud, boisterous laugh.

Horseleech

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

1. A farrier.

Horselitter

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

Horseload

HORSELOAD, noun A load for a horse.

Horseman

HORSEMAN, noun A rider on horseback.

1. A man skilled in riding.

2. A soldier who serves on horseback.

Horsemanship

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

Horsemarten

HORSEMARTEN, noun A kind of large bee.

Horsematch

HORSEMATCH, noun A bird.

Horsemeat

HORSEMEAT, noun Food for horses; provender.

Horsepath

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

Horseplay

HORSEPLAY, noun Rough, rugged play.

Horsepond

HORSEPOND, noun A pond for watering horses.

Horsepurslane

HORSEPURSLANE, noun A plant of the genus Trianthema.

Horserace

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

Horseracing

HORSERACING, noun The practice or act of running horses.

Horseradish

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

Horseshoe

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

Horseshoe-Head

HORSESHOE-HEAD, noun A disease of infants, in which the sutures of the skull are too open; opposed to headmold-shot.

Horseshoe-Vetch

HORSESHOE-VETCH, noun A plant of the genus Hippocrepis.

Horsestealer

HORSESTEALER

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

Horsethief

HORSETHIEF, noun A stealer of horses.

Horsetongue

HORSETONGUE, noun A plant of the genus Ruscus.

Horsevetch

HORSEVETCH

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

Horseway

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

Horsewhip

HORSEWHIP, noun A whip for driving or striking horses.

Horseworm

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

Hortation

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.]

Hortative

HOR'TATIVE, adjective Giving exhortation, advisory.

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

Hortatory

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

Hortensial

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

Horticultor

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

One who cultivates a garden.

Horticultural

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

Horticulture

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

Horticulturist

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

Hortulan

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

Hortussiccus

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

Hortyard

HORT'YARD, noun An orchard, which see.

Hosanna

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

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

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

Hosier

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

Hosiery

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

Hospitable

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.

Hospitably

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

Hospitage

HOS'PITAGE, noun Hospitality.

Hospital

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.]

Hospitality

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.

Hospitaller

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.

Hospitate

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

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.]

Hostage

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

HOSTEL, HOSTELLER. [See Hotel.]

Hosteller

HOSTEL, HOSTELLER [See Hotel.]

Hostess

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

1. A woman who keeps an inn.

Hostess-Ship

HOSTESS-SHIP, noun The character or business of a hostess.

Hostile

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.]

Hostilely

HOS'TILELY, adverb In a hostile manner.

Hostility

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.

Hostilize

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

Hosting

HOSTING, noun [from host, an army.]

An encounter; a battle. [Little used.]

1. A muster or review.

Hostler

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

Hostless

HOSTLESS, adjective Inhospitable. [Not in use.]

Hostry

HOSTRY, adjective A stable for horses.

1. A lodging house.

Hot

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.

Hotbed

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.

Hotbrained

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

Hotch-Potch

HOTCH-POTCH, noun A mixed mass; a medley of ingredients. [Vulgar.] [See Hotchpot.]

Hotchpot

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.

Hotcockles

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

Hote

HOT, HOTE HOTEN, participle passive Called; named.