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

Destitute of hoofs.

resembling a hoof.

a visible impression on a surface made by the hoof of an animal.

To bend; to curve as a hook.

A firefighting truck equipped with a ladder extendable to great length, for access to the upper stories of buildings; it also carries other firefighting equipment; called also ladder truck.

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

Having a strongly curved bill.

Having a hooked or aquiline nose.

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.

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

The state of being bent like a hook; incurvation.

One who, or that which, hooks.

See Hockey.

A little hook.

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.

Whole.

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

Home.

An Indian monkey. See Entellus.

A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.

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

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.

The game of basketball.

a skirt stiffened with hoops.

A basketball player.

a jail.

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

A derisive cry or shout.

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

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

the nose.

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

a kind of vacuum cleaner.

to clean with a vacuum cleaner.

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

to jump lightly.

See Hop-o'-my-thumb.

A very diminutive person.

a short distance; as, it's just a hop, skip and a jump away.

The climbing stem of the hop.

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.

expected and desired. Contrasted with unexpected.

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

In a hopeful manner.

A hydrous phosphate of zinc in transparent prismatic crystals.

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

One who hopes.

In a hopeful manner.

A heavy-armed infantry soldier.

Impregnated with hops.

One who, or that which, hops.

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.

Gravel retaining in the hopper of a cradle.

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./

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

A gathering of hops.

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

Same as Hobblebush.

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.

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.

A field where hops are raised.

Of or pertaining to an hour, or to hours.

Hourly.

Of or pertaining to an hour; noting the hours.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Hoar.

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.

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.

Pertaining to, or near, the horizon.

The state or quality of being horizontal.

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

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

of, pertaining to, or affected by, hormones.

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..

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

Quite mad; -- raving crazy.

A fish. See Hornfish.

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.

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.

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.

Composed largely of hornblende; resembling or relating to hornblende.

One who, or that which, blows a horn.

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.

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.

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

The condition of being horned.

The European sand eel.

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

One who works or deal in horn or horns.

A large, strong wasp. The European species (Vespa crabro) is of a dark brown and yellow color. It is very pugnacious, and its sting is very severe. Its nest is constructed of a paperlike material, and the layers of comb are hung together by columns. The American white-faced hornet (Vespa maculata) is larger and has similar habits.

The garfish or sea needle.

Having hoofs; hoofed.

To horn; to cuckold.

Appearance of the moon when increasing, or in the form of a crescent.

Somewhat like horn; hard.

A low, oven-shaped mound, common in volcanic regions, and emitting smoke and vapors from its sides and summit.

Having no horn.

A yearling; a bird of the year.

See Horned Owl.

The garfish.

An instrument of music formerly popular in Wales, consisting of a wooden pipe, with holes at intervals. It was so called because the bell at the open end was sometimes made of horn. A lively tune played on a hornpipe, for dancing; a tune adapted for such playing.

See Horned pout, under Horned.

A harmless snake (Farancia abacura), found in the Southern United States. The color is bluish black above, red below.

A siliceous stone, a variety of quartz, closely resembling flint, but more brittle; -- called also chert.

Any one of family (Urocerid/) of large hymenopterous insects, allied to the sawflies. The larv/ bore in the wood of trees. So called from the long, stout ovipositors of the females.

An outwork composed of two demibastions joined by a curtain. It is connected with the works in rear by long wings.

An aquatic plant (Ceratophyllum), with finely divided leaves.

A bryozoan of the genus Flustra.

Having horns or hornlike projections.

Having the hands horny and callous from labor.

Any North American river chub of the genus Hybopsis, esp. Hybopsis biguttatus.

An account of the hours.

A servant who called out the hours.

A maker or vender of clocks and watches; one skilled in horology.