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 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.

An owl. See Howlet.

A piece of woodland; a small wood. [Obs.] See Holt.

To set on the chase; to incite to pursuit; as, to hounda dog at a hare; to hound on pursuers.

A biennial weed (Cynoglossum officinale), with soft tongue-shaped leaves, and an offensive odor. It bears nutlets covered with barbed or hooked prickles. Called also dog's-tongue.

Any small shark of the genus Galeus or Mustelus, of which there are several species, as the smooth houndfish (Galeus canis), of Europe and America; -- called also houndshark, and dogfish.

The act of one who hounds.

See Hoopoe.

The twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes.

An instrument for measuring time, especially the interval of an hour. It consists of a glass vessel having two compartments, from the uppermost of which a quantity of sand, water, or mercury occupies an hour in running through a small aperture unto the lower.

A nymph of paradise; -- so called by the Muslims.

Every hour; frequently; continually.

Goddess of the seasons, or of the hours of the day.

A fee for keeping goods in a house.

To take shelter or lodging; to abide to dwell; to lodge.

a guest entertained and staying overnight in one's house for one or more nights.

to take care of all household-related business.

proud of one's house or its furnishings or upkeep.