A large blood-sucking leech (H/mopsis vorax), of Europe and Northern Africa. It attacks the lips and mouths of horses.

The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses.

A carriage hung on poles, and borne by and between two horses.

A plant of the genus Nasturtium (Nasturtium Armoracia), allied to scurvy grass, having a root of a pungent taste, much used, when grated, as a condiment and in medicine.

to negotiate with much give and take.

negotiation accompanied by mutual concessions and shrewd bargaining.

a trail for horses.

The back of a horse.

The seed of the broad-bean plant.

a conveyance (railroad car or trailer) for transporting racehorses.

a very prickly woody vine (Smilax rotundifolia) of eastern U. S. growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries.

A heavycart drawn by a horse, used for farm work.

The large nutlike seed of a species of Aesculus (Aesculus Hippocastanum), formerly ground, and fed to horses, whence the name. The seed is not considered edible by humans.

a cloth for the trapping of a horse.

The moonfish (Selene setipinnis). The sauger.

The flesh of horses.

Any dipterous fly of the family Tabanidae, that stings horses, and sucks their blood.

The coltsfoot.

A hair of a horse, especially one from the mane or tail; the hairs of the mane or tail taken collectively; a black shiny fabric made of such hairs, used commonly in the 1800's as a covering for stuffed furniture such as chairs and couches.

The silver moonfish (Selene vomer).

The hide of a horse.

Knapweed.

A loud, boisterous laugh; a guffaw.

Being without a horse; specif., not requiring a horse; -- said of certain vehicles in which horse power has been replaced by electricity, steam, etc.; as, a horseless carriage or truck. It was used primarily in the term /horseless carriage/, to refer to automobiles. By the 1930's when automobiles had become more common than horses for transportation, the term had lost its currency.

A rider on horseback; one skilled in the management of horses; a mounted man.

The act or art of riding, and of training and managing horses; manege.

The flesh of horses used as food.

A coarse American plant of the Mint family (Monarda punctata). In England, the wild mint (Mentha sylvestris).

A thin, pointed nail, with a heavy flaring head, for securing a horsehoe to the hoof; a horsehoe nail.

Rude, boisterous play.

A pond for watering horses.

A rake drawn by a horse.

A ludicrously false statement.

A shoe for horses, consisting of a narrow plate of iron in form somewhat like the letter U, nailed to a horse's hoof.

The act or employment of shoeing horses.

One who shoes horses.

A leafless plant, with hollow and rushlike stems. It is of the genus Equisetum, and is allied to the ferns. See Illust. of Equisetum.

A composite plant (Erigeron Canadensis), which is a common weed.

To flog or chastise with a horsewhip.

A woman who rides on horseback.

A West Indian tree (Calliandra latifolia) with showy, crimson blossoms.

The larva of a botfly.

The condition or quality of being a horse; that which pertains to a horse.

Horselike.

Pertaining to, or suggestive of, a horse, or of horse racing; as, horsy manners; garments of fantastically horsy fashions.

The act of exhorting, inciting, or giving advice; exhortation.

An exhortation.

Giving exhortation or advise; encouraging; exhortatory; inciting; as, a hortatory speech.

Fit for a garden.

One who cultivates a garden.

Of or pertaining to horticulture, or the culture of gardens or orchards.

The cultivation of a garden or orchard; the art of cultivating gardens or orchards.

One who practices horticulture.

Belonging to a garden.

An orchard.

A Hebrew exclamation of praise to the Lord, or an invocation of blessings.

Close-fitting trousers or breeches, as formerly worn, reaching to the knee.

See Hose.

A flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas.

One who deals in hose or stocking, or in goods knit or woven like hose.

A convent or monastery which is also a place of refuge or entertainment for travelers on some difficult road or pass, as in the Alps; as, the Hospice of the Great St. Bernard.

Receiving and entertaining strangers or guests with kindness and without reward; kind to strangers and guests; characterized by hospitality.

The quality of being hospitable; hospitality.

In a hospitable manner.

Hospitality.

Hospitable.

One residing in a hospital, for the purpose of receiving the poor, the sick, and strangers.

A form of medical insurance that pays for all or part of the fees for a person's residence and treatment in a hospital.

To place (a person) in a hospital in order to receive medical treatment, for observation, or for rest.

A vitiated condition of the body, due to long confinement in a hospital, or the morbid condition of the atmosphere of a hospital.

The act or practice of one who is hospitable; reception and entertainment of strangers or guests without reward, or with kind and generous liberality.

medical care in a hospital; also, the period during which one receives care in a hospital.

To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital.

To receive with hospitality; to lodge as a guest.

An inn; a lodging; a hospice.

A title borne by the princes or governors of Moldavia and Wallachia before those countries were united as Rumania.

To lodge at an inn; to take up entertainment.

A genus of robust East Asian clump-forming perennial herbs having racemose flowers: plantain lilies; sometimes placed in the family Hostaceae.

One of many families or subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted; includes genus Hosta.

A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, on the performance of which the person is to be released.

An inn.

The keeper of a hostel or inn.

An inn; a lodging house.

A female host; a woman who hospitably entertains guests at her house.

The character, personality, or office of a hostess.

The consecrated wafer; the host.

An enemy; esp., an American Indian in arms against the whites; -- commonly in the plural.

the purchase of a controlling interest in a publicly-traded company against the wishes of the current management.

In a hostile manner.

a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration, during which the international rules of war apply.

State of being hostile; public or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity.

To make hostile; to cause to become an enemy.

An encounter; a battle.

An innkeeper. [Obs.] See Hosteler.

Inhospitable.

A hostelry; an inn or lodging house.

Having much sensible heat; exciting the feeling of warmth in a great degree; very warm; -- opposed to cold, and exceeding warm in degree; as, a hot stove; hot water or air.

A bun or cake marked with a cross of icing, and intended to be eaten on Good Friday; called also cross bun.

An expression of delight.

Having hot blood; excitable; high-spirited; irritable; ardent; passionate.

Ardent in temper; violent; rash; impetuous; as, hot-brained youth.

A violent, passionate person; a hasty or impetuous person; as, the rant of a hot-head.

quickly and easily aroused to anger; fiery; violent; rash; hasty; impetuous; vehement; as, a hot-headed commander.

Of an excitable or irritable temperament; irascible.

Headstrong.

Brittle when heated, esp. beyond a red heat; as, hot-short iron.

Having a fiery spirit; hot-headed.

to start (a car) by using a wire instead of a key, as when stealing the car; the wire is connected to points in the ignition circuit that bypass the key.

A bed of earth heated by fermenting manure or other substances, and covered with glass, intended for raising early plants, or for nourishing exotics.

A mingled mass; a confused mixture; a stew of various ingredients; a hodgepodge.

A childish play, in which one covers his eyes, and guesses who strikes him or his hand placed behind him.

To command; to enjoin.

A small bamboo (Phyllostachys aurea) of Southeast China having slender culms flexuous when young.

A house for entertaining strangers or travelers; an inn or public house, of the better class.

A city hall or townhouse.

A hospital.

an owner or manager of a hotel or hotels.

p. p. of Hote.

In haste; foothot.

same as hot-headed.