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Horsefish

The moonfish (Selene setipinnis). The sauger.

Horsefly

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

Horsehair

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.

Horseless

Being without a horse; specif., not requiring a horse; -- said of certain vehicles in which horse power has been replaced by electricity, steam, etc.; as, a horseless carriage or truck.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.

Horseman

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

Horsemanship

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

Horsemint

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

Horsenail

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

Horseshoe

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

Horsetail

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

Horseweed

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

Horsewhip

To flog or chastise with a horsewhip.

Horsewood

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

Horsiness

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

Horsy

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

Hortation

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

Hortatory

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

Horticultural

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

Horticulture

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

Hosanna

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

Hose

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

hosepipe

A flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas.

Hosier

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

Hospice

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.

Hospitable

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

Hospitaler

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

hospitalisation insurance

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

hospitalise

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

Hospitalism

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

Hospitality

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

Hospitalize

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

Hospitate

To receive with hospitality; to lodge as a guest.

Hospodar

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

Host

To lodge at an inn; to take up entertainment.

Hosta

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

Hostaceae

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

Hostage

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.

Hostess

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

Hostess-ship

The character, personality, or office of a hostess.

Hostie

The consecrated wafer; the host.

Hostile

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

hostile takeover

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

hostilities

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

Hostility

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

Hostilize

To make hostile; to cause to become an enemy.

Hostler

An innkeeper. [Obs.] See Hosteler.

Hostry

A hostelry; an inn or lodging house.

Hot

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.

hot cross bun

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

Hot-blooded

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

Hot-brained

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

Hot-head

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

Hot-headed

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

Hot-livered

Of an excitable or irritable temperament; irascible.

Hot-short

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

hot-wire

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.

Hotbed

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

Hotchpotch Hotchpot

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

Hotcockles

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

Hote

To command; to enjoin.

hotei-chiku

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

Hotel

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

Hothouse

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.

Hotly

In a hot or fiery manner; ardently; vehemently; violently; hastily; as, a hotly pursued.

Hotness

The quality or state of being hot.

Hotpress

To apply heat to, in conjunction with mechanical pressure, for the purpose of giving a smooth and glossy surface, or to express oil, etc.; as, to hotpress paper, linen, etc.

Hotpressed

Pressed while heat is applied. See Hotpress, v. t.

Hotshot

a successful, self-confident person who is regarded by others as highly skilled; -- sometimes used ironically in reference to aggressive persons whose opinion of their own talents is considered exaggerated.

hotshot

highly talented, self-confident and successful.

Hottentot

One of a degraded-- "pastoral", in MW10 --> and savage race of South Africa, with yellowish brown complexion, high cheek bones, and wooly hair growing in tufts.

Hottentotism

A term employed to describe one of the varieties of stammering.

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