Any dipterous fly of the family Tabanidae, that stings horses, and sucks their blood.
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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Being without a horse; specif., not requiring a horse; -- said of certain vehicles in which horse power has been replaced by electricity, steam, etc.; as, a horseless carriage or truck.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.
The business of a hosier.
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.
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.
In a hot or fiery manner; ardently; vehemently; violently; hastily; as, a hotly pursued.
The quality or state of being hot.
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.
Pressed while heat is applied. See Hotpress, v. t.
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.
highly talented, self-confident and successful.
A rash, hot-headed man.
Violent; impetuous; headstrong.
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.
A term employed to describe one of the varieties of stammering.
A genus of aquatic herbs.
See Howdah.
To cut with a hoe.
The joint in the hind limb of quadrupeds between the leg and shank, or tibia and tarsus, and corresponding to the ankle in man. A piece cut by butchers, esp. in pork, from either the front or hind leg, just above the foot.
A small tree or shrub (Hoheria populnea) of New Zealand having a profusion of axillary clusters of honey-scented paper-white flowers and whose bark is used for cordage.
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