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honour

Same as honor; -- chiefly British usage.

honours

A university degree with honors; -- a term used in Great Britain.

Honshu

the main island of Japan. Together with the islands of Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku it forms the bulk of the land area of Japan.

Honved

The Hungarian army in the revolutionary war of 1848-49.

hooch

an illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor.

Hood

Same as hoodlum.

Hoodcap

See Hooded seal, under Hooded.

Hoodlum

A young rowdy; a rough, lawless fellow; colloquially, called also hood.

Hoodman

The person blindfolded in the game called hoodman-blind.

Hoodoo

A natural rock pile or pinnacle of fantastic shape.

hoodooism

Voodoo, a form of religion practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (esp. Haiti); it involves witchcraft and animistic deities.

Hoody

The hooded crow; also, in Scotland, the hooded gull.

Hoof

To walk as cattle.

Hoofbound

Having a dry and contracted hoof, which occasions pain and lameness.

hoofer

a professional dancer, especially a tap dancer.

hoofing

a dance in which the steps are more important than gestures or postures.

Hook

To bend; to curve as a hook.

hook-and-ladder company

A company of firefighters who operate a hook-and-ladder truck; a fire company; called also ladder company.

Hookah

A pipe with a long, flexible stem, so arranged that the smoke is cooled by being made to pass through water. Also called narghile and water pipe. The hubble-bubble is a simple form of this device.

Hooked

Having the form of a hook; curvated; as, the hooked bill of a bird.

Hookedness

The state of being bent like a hook; incurvation.

Hooker

One who, or that which, hooks.

Hooky

A word used only in the expression to play hooky, to be truant, to run away; -- used mostly of youths absent from school without a valid reason and without the knowledge of their parents. Also (figuratively and jocosely), to be absent from duty for frivolous reasons.

Hoolock

A small black gibbon (Hylobates hoolock), found in the mountains of Assam.

Hoop

A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.

Hooper

The European whistling, or wild, swan (Olor cygnus); -- called also hooper swan, whooping swan, and elk.

Hoopoo Hoopoe

A European bird of the genus Upupa (Upupa epops), having a beautiful crest, which it can erect or depress at pleasure, and a slender down-curving bill. Called also hoop, whoop. The name is also applied to several other species of the same genus and allied genera.

hoops

The game of basketball.

Hoosier

A nickname given to an inhabitant of the State of Indiana.

Hoot

A derisive cry or shout.

Hoot down

To shout down; to cause (a speaker) to cease trying to speak by loud derisive shouts.

hootenanny

An informal social gathering or concert featuring mostly folk songs, sometimes dancing, and where the audience often participates in the singing.

Hoove

A disease in cattle consisting in inflammation of the stomach by gas, ordinarily caused by eating too much green food; tympany; bloating.

Hoover

a kind of vacuum cleaner.

hoover

to clean with a vacuum cleaner.

Hop

To gather hops. [Perhaps only in the form Hopping, vb. n.]

Hope

To desire with expectation or with belief in the possibility or prospect of obtaining; to look forward to as a thing desirable, with the expectation of obtaining it; to cherish hopes of.

hoped-for

expected and desired. Contrasted with unexpected.

Hopeful

Full of hope, or agreeable expectation; inclined to hope; expectant.

Hopeite

A hydrous phosphate of zinc in transparent prismatic crystals.

Hopeless

Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing.

Hoplite

A heavy-armed infantry soldier.

Hopper

One who, or that which, hops.

Hopperdozer

An appliance for the destruction of insects, consisting of a shallow iron box, containing kerosene or coated with tar or other sticky substance, which may be mounted on wheels.

Hopperings

Gravel retaining in the hopper of a cradle.

Hoppestere

An unexplained epithet used by Chaucer in reference to ships. By some it is defined as /dancing (on the wave)/; by others as /opposing,/ /warlike./

Hoppet

A hand basket; also, a dish used by miners for measuring ore.

Hopple

A fetter for horses, or cattle, when turned out to graze; -- chiefly used in the plural.

Hoppo

A collector of customs, as at Canton; an overseer of commerce. A tribunal or commission having charge of the revenue derived from trade and navigation.

hopsacking

a loosely woven coarse fabric of cotton or linen, used in clothing.

Hopscotch

A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground; -- called also hoppers.

Hopyard

A field where hops are raised.

Horal

Of or pertaining to an hour, or to hours.

Horary

Of or pertaining to an hour; noting the hours.

Horatian

Of or pertaining to Horace, the Latin poet, or resembling his style.

Horde

A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude.

Hordeic

Pertaining to, or derived from, barley; as, hordeic acid, an acid identical or isomeric with lauric acid.

Hordein

A peculiar starchy matter contained in barley. It is a complex mixture.

Hordeolum

A small tumor upon the eyelid, resembling a grain of barley; a sty.

Hordock

An unidentified plant mentioned by Shakespeare, perhaps equivalent to burdock.

Horehound

A plant of the genus Marrubium (Marrubium vulgare), which has a bitter taste, and is a weak tonic, used as a household remedy for colds, coughing, etc.

Horizon

The line which bounds that part of the earth's surface visible to a spectator from a given point; the apparent junction of the earth and sky.

Horizontally

In a horizontal direction or position; on a level; as, moving horizontally.

Hormogonium

A chain of small cells in certain alg/, by which the plant is propagated.

Hormonal

of, pertaining to, or affected by, hormones.

Hormone

A chemical substance formed in one organ and carried in the circulation to another organ on which it exerts a specific effect on cells at a distance from the producing cells; thus, pituitary hormones produced in the brain may have effects on cells in distant parts of the body..

Horn

To furnish with horns; to give the shape of a horn to.

Hornbeam

A tree of the genus Carpinus (Carpinus Americana), having a smooth gray bark and a ridged trunk, the wood being white and very hard. It is common along the banks of streams in the United States, and is also called ironwood. The English hornbeam is Carpinus Betulus. The American is called also blue beech and water beech.

Hornbill

Any bird of the family Bucerotid/, of which about sixty species are known, belonging to numerous genera. They inhabit the tropical parts of Asia, Africa, and the East Indies, and are remarkable for having a more or less horn-like protuberance, which is usually large and hollow and is situated on the upper side of the beak. The size of the hornbill varies from that of a pigeon to that of a raven, or even larger. They feed chiefly upon fruit, but some species eat dead animals.

Hornblende

The common black, or dark green or brown, variety of amphibole. (See Amphibole.) It belongs to the aluminous division of the species, and is also characterized by its containing considerable iron. Also used as a general term to include the whole species.

Hornblendic

Composed largely of hornblende; resembling or relating to hornblende.

Hornbook

The first book for children, or that from which in former times they learned their letters and rudiments; -- so called because a sheet of horn covered the small, thin board of oak, or the slip of paper, on which the alphabet, digits, and often the Lord's Prayer, were written or printed; a primer.

Hornbug

A large nocturnal beetle of the genus Lucanus (as Lucanus capreolus, and Lucanus dama), having long, curved upper jaws, resembling a sickle. The grubs are found in the trunks of old trees.

Horned

Furnished with a horn or horns; furnished with a hornlike process or appendage; as, horned cattle; having some part shaped like a horn.

Horneophyton

A genus of Devonian fossil plants considered one of the earliest forms of vascular land plants; it is similar to genus Rhynia but smaller.

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