HO 510 HOBNOB Ho (hó), c.i. To call out: an old sea term. Knolles. - 4 In bot covered with short, 2. Difficulty; perplexity; scrape. Nay, Captain Cleveland, will you get us out of this Hoactzin (hő-akt'zin), n. Same as Hoazin. Hoary-headed (hör'i-hed-ed), a. Having a hobble! Sir W. Scott. Hoamingt (hom'ing), a. (From G. schaum, hoary or white head; gray-headed; as, 3. Anything used to hamper the feet of an foam, through the Walloon. Wedgwood.] 'hoary-headed eld.' Keats. animal; a clog; a fetter. Swelling; surging. Hoast, Hoaste (host), n. (A. Sax. huosta, Hobble (hob'l), v.i.ort. To dance. (Scotch.] What a sea comes in ! Icel. hósti, Dan. hoste, a cough. Imitative.] Hobble-bush (hol'l-bush), n. A low bush It is a hoaming sea. We shall have foul weather. A cough. (Scotch.) (Viburnum lantanoides) found in the northDryden. Hoast (host), v.t. and i. To cough. (Scotch.) ern United States. It has long straggling Hoar (hör), a. [A. Sax. hår, hoary, gray Hoax (höks), n. [A. Sax. hucs, hux, hosc, branches and handsome flowers. haired; allied to Icel. hæra, gray hair, irony sarcasm, taunt; comp. w. hoced, Hobbledehoy, Hobbletehoy (hobl-de-hoi, hoariness; also Sc. haar, a whitish mist.] cheat, juggle, trick.] Something done for hob'l-tė-hoi), n. (Written variously and of 1. White; as, hoar-frost; hoar clitfs. 2. Gray or grayish-white; white with age; deception or mockery; a trick played off in uncertain origin. Hob, an awkward fellow, sport; a practical joke. and houden, may be elements.) A stripling; hoary; as, a matron grave and hoar. He ... would have been scared by so silly a hoax. a raw gawky youth approaching manhood. The mariner whose eye is bright, Maarulay. Whose beard with age is hoar. Coleridge, Hoax (höks), v.t. To deceive; to play a There was a terrific roaring on the grass in front of the house, occasioned by all the men, boys, and 3. Mouldy; musty. trick upon for sport or without malice. hobhladehoys attached to the farm. Dickens. A hare, sir, in a lenten pie, that is something stale M. was hoaxing you surely about my engraving: Auntie would fain become a mother, and in order and hoar ere it be spent. Shak. 'tis a little sixpenny thing, too like by half. Lamb thereunto a wife, and waylays a hoobletchoy. Hoar (hor), n. Hoariness; antiquity. Pref. Wilson, Hoaxer (höks'ér), n. One that hoaxes. Hobbler (hob'l-er), n. One that hobbles. His grants are engrafted on the public law of Hoay (hoi), interj. A sea term added to an Europe, covered with the awful hoar of innumerable exclamation in order to attract the attention Hobbler, Hobler (hob'l-er), n. (From hobby.) ages. Burke. 1. One who by his tenure was to maintain Hoar (hor), v.i. To become mouldy or hot.” a hobby for military service.-2. One who musty. (Rare. ] Hoazin, Hoatzin (ho'a-zin, hö'at-zin), n. served as a soldier on a hobby with light armour When it hoars ere it be spent. Shak. [The native name: said to be from the cry No man shall be constrained to find men-at-arms, Hoart (hor), v. t. To make white or hoary. of the bird.] A singular gregarious South hoolers, nor archers, others than those who hold by Hoar the flamen American bird, sometimes called the Crested such service. Hallam. That scolds against the quality of flesh, Touraco, of the genus Opisthocomus (0. Hobbleshow (hob'bl-sho), n. A hubbub; a And not believes himself. Shak. cristatus), referred by some naturalists to tumult; an uproar. (Scotch.) In a hoband Ghort, Icel. hodd, hoard, store, treasure; and the order Gallinacea, by others regarded bling manner; with a limping interrupted Goth. huzd, a treasure.) A store, stock, or as of the order Insessores, and allied to the step. large quantity of anything accumulated or plantain-eaters. The plumage is brown Hobbly (hob1-i), a. Full of holes; rough; laid up; a hidden stock; a treasure; as, a streaked with white, and the head has a uneven, as a road. hoard of provisions for winter; a hoard of movable crest like that of the cockatoo It money. is of the size of the peacock, and has an Hobby (hob'bi), n. [Comp. Fr. hoberau, dim. of 0. Fr. hobe, a little bird of prey. Whether With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a enormous crop with a very small gizzard. the word is of French or English origin is daughter's heart. Tennyson. Hob (hob), n.. [A contr. and corruption of Hoard (hord), n. uncertain.) A small but strong - winged See HOARDING. Robin, Robert. Comp. Hodge, from Roger. British falcon (Falco or Hypotriorchis subHoard (hord), v.t. To collect and lay up; to In the sense of elf it is a contr. for Robin amass and deposit in secret; to store se- Goodfellow, a celebrated domestic spirit.) buteo) which preys on the small birds and larger insects, such as the chaffers and cretly; as, to hoard grain or provisions; to 1. An awkward, clumsy, clownish fellow. grasshoppers. It was sometimes trained to hoard silver and gold. It is often followed Many of the country hoos, who had got an estate chase larks, pigeons, and even partridges. by up; as, to hoard up provisions. liable to a fine, took it at first as a jest. Hoard (hõrd), v.i. To collect and form a Select Lives of Eng. Worthies. The nest is made in trees, and the eggs are hoard; to lay up store. 2. A sprite; an elf. two to five in number. Hobby (hobbi), n. (Comp. Dan. hoppe, a Nor cared to hoard for those whom he did breed. From elves, hors and fairies Defend us, good heaven! Beau, & FI. mare; Prov. Sw. and Fris. hoppa.] 1. A Spenser strong active horse of a middle size, said to Hoarder (hörd'ér), n. One who hoards; one Hob (hob), n. [Perhaps connected with heap, who lays up a store of something; one who hip. Comp. Dan, hol, a heap; W. hob, what have been originally from Ireland; a nag; a accumulates and keeps in secret. * Hoard- rises or swells out. Ilump may be a nasal pacing horse; a garran.-2. A stick or figure ers of money.' Locke. ized form; hobnail is a compound.] 1. The of a horse on which boys ride.-3. Any faHoarding (hörd'ing), p. and a. Laying up in vourite object, plan, or pursuit; that which part of a grate on which things are placed store; specifically, in zool. collecting and in order to be kept warm.--2. The nave of a person persistently pursues with zeal or laying up provisions for winter; as, the a wheel. See HUB. delight. squirrel a hoarding animal. Hob-a-nob, Hob-and-nob(hob'a-nob, hob' John was not without his hobby. The fiddle relieved his vacant hours. Lamb. Hoarding (hord'ing), n. (0. Fr. horde, a and-nob), v.i. To hobnob (which see). barrier. See HURDLE.) In arch. the name Perchance that very hand, now pinioned flat, 4. A stupid fellow. given to the timber inclosure round a Has hob-a-robbed with Pharaoh, glass to glass! Hobby-horse (hobbi-hors), n. [Hobby and building when the latter is in the course of Horace Smith, horse. ] 1. A hobby; a wooden horse on erection or undergoing alteration or repair. Slip-shod waiter, lank and sour, which boys ride.-2. One of the principal At the Dragon on the heath! Hoaredt (hor'ed), a. Mouldy; musty. Let us have a quiet hour. performers in a morris dance having the Hoar-frost (hor'frost), nt. The white par- figure of a horse supported round his waist ticles of frozen dew. and his feet concealed by a long foot-cloth. Hobbadehoy (hob'ba-de-hoi), n. Same as Hoarhound (hör'hound), n. See HORE- Hobbledehoy. But see, the hobby-horse is forgot, Fool, it must be your lot, HOUND. James, then a hobbadehoy, was now become a To supply his want with faces Hoariness (hör'i-nes), n. 1. The state of young man. Thackeray. And other buffoon graces. B. Fonson. being hoary, whitish, or gray; as, the hoari. Hobbedyhoy (hob'be-de-hoi), n. Same as 3. A stupid or foolish person.-4. A favourness of the hair or head of old men. Hobbledehoy. 2. + Mouldiness. ite plan or pursuit; a hobby. Barret. Hobbism (hob'izm), n. The principles of Hobbyhorsical (hob-bi-hors'ik-al), a. PerHoarse (hors). a. (A. Sax. has, hoarse, Thomas Hobbes, an English philosopher of husky; comp. Icel, háss, Dan. hæs, G. heiser, taining to or having a hobby-horse; eccenthe seventeenth century, who considered tric. Sterne, 0. D. haersch, hoarse.] 1. Having a harsh, rough, grating voice, as when affected with religion to be a mere engine of state, and Hobbyhorsically (hob-bi-hors'ik-al-li), adv. a cold. - 2. Giving out a harsh rough cry or man by nature altogether a ferocious and Oddly; whimsically. Sterne. sound; rough; grating; discordant; as, the selfish being, requiring the strong hand of Hobgoblin (hob.goblin), n. [See How and hoarse raven; a hoarse voice. despotism to keep him in check. GOBLIN.) À kind of goblin or fairy. Hobiler (hob'il-ér), n. Same as lobbler. Hobble (hob'l), v.i. pret. & pp. hobbled; ppr. Hobit (hob'it), n [G. haubitze. See Howner; with a rough, harsh, grating voice or hobbling. [A freq. from or connected with ITZER.) A small mortar or short gun for hop. Comp. D. hobbelen, to hobble, to stam- throwing bombs. See HOWITZER, the comsound. mer; W. hobelu, to hop, to hobble.] 1. To mon orthography. The hounds at nearer distance hoarsely bay'd. walk lamely, bearing chiefly on one leg; to Hoblike (hob'lik), a. Clownish; boorish, Dryden, Hoarseness (hors'nes), n. The state or qua limp; to walk with a hitch or hop, or with Hobnail (hob’nál), n. [Hob, a projection, lity of being hoarse; harshness or roughness crutches; to walk awkwardly. and nail (see HOB); or perhaps for hoof-nail] of voice or sound; unnatural roughness of The friar was hobbling the same way too. Dryden. 1. A nail with a thick strong head used for voice. 2. To move irregularly; to wriggle. shoeing horses, or for the soles of heavy Hoarse-sounding (hors'sound-ing), a. Mak- If it (a hoop) hobble in its motion on level ground, boots.--2. A clownish person: in contempt. ing a harsh sound. it cannot be a perfect circle. Cogan. No antic hobnail at a morris but is more handHoarstone (hor'ston), n. _[Probably A. Sax. Miltos. 3. Fig. to move roughly or irregularly, as somely facetious. hære, here, an army, and E stone. Others re Hobnailed (hol'nāld), a. 1. Set with hobfer the first syllable to Armor, harz, a bound While you Pindaric truths rehearse, nails; rough.-2. In pathol. a morbid condior limit.) A landmark; a stone designat She hobbles in alternate verse. Prior. tion of the liver. ing the bounds of an estate. Hobble (hob'l), v.t. 1. To tie the legs to- Hobnob (hob'nob), ady. [A. Sax, habban, to Hoary (hör'i), a. (See HOAR.) 1. White or gether so as to impede or prevent free mo- have, and nabban, for ne habban, not to whitish; as, 'the hoary willows.' Addison. tion; to clog; to hopple. have.] 1. Take or not take; a familiar invita2. White or gray with age; as, hoary hairs; I am ready to go down to the place where your tion to reciprocal drinking.–2. At random; a hoary head; hence, fig. remote in time uncle ... has hobbled his teams. Cooper, come what will. past; as, hoary antiquity. 2. + To perplex; to embarrass. Hobnob is his word; give't or taket. Shak. Reverence the hoary head. Dwight. Hobble (hob'l), n. 1. An unequal halting Hobnob (hob'nob), v.i. To drink familiarly; 3. Mouldy; mossy, or covered with a white gait; an encumbered awkward step. to clink glasses; to invite to reciprocal pubescence. 'Coarse, hoary, moulded bread.' He has a hobble in his gait. Swift. drinking verse, HOBOMOKKO 511 HOGGERY A pro Hobomokko (hob-o-mok'ko), n. Among Hodden - gray (hod'n-gră), n. (Hodden mon hand hoe in having the cutting blade American Indians, an evil spirit. and gray. ] Cloth manufactured from un- set like the blade of a spade.- Horse-hoe, a Hoboy (hö'boi). See HAUTBOY. dyed wool: in former times much worn by frame mounted on wheels, furnished with Hobson's Choice (hol'snz chois). the Scottish peasantry. (Scotch.). ranges of shares spaced like the drills so verbial expression denoting a choice with. Hoddle (hod'l), v.i. (A dim. of hod, or a as to work in the intervals between the out an alternative; the thing offered or form of hobble.) To waddle; to hobble. rows of plants, such as turnips, potatoes, nothing. It is said to have had its origin (Scotch.) &c., used on farms for the same purpose as in the name of a carrier and innkeeper at Hoddy (hod'i), n. [A corruption of hoody, the hand hoe, and worked by horse-power; Cambridge, who let horses and coaches, and for hooded.] Another name for the carrion- a cultivator. obliged every customer to take in his turn crow. Hoe (hó), v.t. pret. & pp. hoed; ppr. hoeing. that horse which stood next the stable door. Hoddy-doddyt (hod’i-dod'i), n. [See HOD, 1. To cut, dig, scrape, or clean with a hoe; Why is the greatest of free communities reduced v.i., and HODDY-PEAK.) An awkward or as, to hoe the earth in a garden; to hoe the to Hooson's choice i The Times netus paper. foolish person. bedls.--2. To clear from weeds; as, to hoe Cob's wife and you, Hoby, n. Same as Hobby, a falcon. turnips; to hoe cabbages. Hochepot, t n. See HOTCH POT. Chaucer. That make your husband such a hodiy daddy. B. Jonson. Hoe (ho), v.i. To use a hoe. Hoe (hó), n. The name given in Orkney to 1. The joint of an animal between the knee (Perhaps same as D. holdebek, a stammerer, the picked dog-fish or picked shark (Acanand the fetlock. --2. In man, the posterior from a verb holden, to stammer. The Scot thias vulgaris), common on the British part of the knee-joint; the ham. tish poet Dunbar uses hud-pykis apparently coasts, The name is also applied to other Hock, Hockle (hok, hok'?), v.t. To hamin the sense of misers or skinflints, and if varieties of sharks. string; to hough; to disable by cutting the this was the original meaning the elements Hoe-cake (ho'kāk), n. A cake of Indian tendons of the ham. of the word would seem to be given by the meal: so named because sometimes baked Hock (hok), n. (G. Hochheimer, from Hoch- Icel. hodd, treasure, and pikka, to pick; Hoe-mother (hö’muth-ėr), contracted into on a hoe. heim, in Nassan, where it is produced.) A comp. Icel. hodd-toji, stinginess; hodd-nildr, light sort of Rhenish wine, which is either liberal.) A fool; a cuckold, Homer, n. The name in Orkney of the sparkling or still: formerly called Hocka What ye brain-sick fools, ye hoddy.pekes, ye doddy. Hoffmanist (hof'man-ist), n. basking-shark. more. See HOCKAMORE. One of a sect powles? Latimer. Hockamoret (hok’a-mor),n. [Corruption of of Lutheran dissenters, followers of HoffHochheimer.) The old name for the kind Hodge (hoj), n. [An abbrev. of the name Rouger.) A countryman; a rustic clown. man, a professor at Helmstadt in 1598, who of wine called hock. Ilockamore, and [Colloq.) taught that reason and religion are antagomum.' Hudibras. nistic. Hodge-podge, Hotch-potch(hoj'poj,hoch'. Hockday, Hokeday (hok'dā, hök'dā), n. [Comp. Icel. höku-nótt, the night beginning poch), n. Probably a form of Kotchpoi Hoful, a. 14. Sax. hohfull, hogfull-hoga, (which see).] 1. A mixed mass; a medley of Hog (hog), n. (W. huch, Corn. hoch, Armor. care, and full.] Carefui. yule-tide.) A day of feasting and mirth, ingredients; hotchpot.--2. In law, a comformerly held in England the second Tues houch, hoch, a sow, swine, hog] 1. A swine; mixture of lands. See HOTCHPOT. day after Easter. A pud a general name of that species of animal. Hockey (hok'i), n. Harvest-home; the har. Hodge-pudding (hojpud-diny), n. All the varieties of the domestic hog are ding made of a medley of ingredients. vest-supper. (Provincial.] derived from the wild boar (Sus scrofa). Hockey (hok’ē), n. (From hook; A. Sax. hóc.) Mrs. Page.- Why, Sir John, do you think that ever the devil could have made you our delight; They are ungulate animals, and belong to A game at ball played with a club curved Ford.-What, a horige pudding a bag of flax! the family Suidæ. See SUID--2. A casat the lower end. It is played by a number Shk. trated boar. --3. A sheep of a year old; a of persons divided into two parties or sides, Hodiern, Hodiernal (ho'di-ern, ho-di-érn'- young sheep that has not been shorn.--4. A and the object of each side is to drive the al), a. (L. hodiernus, from hodie, hoc die, bullock of a year old.-5. A brutal fellow; ball into that part of the field marked off as this day.) of this day ; belonging to the one who is mean and filthy.-6. Naut. a sort their opponents' goal. Also termed Hawkey present day. “Divers hodiern mathemati. of scrubbing-broom for scraping a ship's and Hookey. cians.' Boyle. bottom under water.- To go the whole hog. Hock-herb (hok'érb), n. (A. Sax. hoc, a In the roar and conflict of the hodiernal arena of See under Go. mallow.) A name given to various species opinion the voice of doubt is not heard, and decision Hog (hog), v.t. 1. To cut the hair short like of mallow is in request. Quart. Rev. the bristles of a hog.-2. To scrape a ship's Hockle (hok']), v.t. (See Hock, v.t. ; in second Hodja (hod'ja), n. (Per. khavadje, a reader.) bottom under water. meaning may be from hook. ] 1. To ham- In Turkey, a professor in a medress or Hog (hog), v.t. [G. hocken, to take on one's string. -2. To mow, as stubble. secondary school attached to a mosque. back-hocke, the back.] To carry on the Hock-leaf (hok'lēf), n. Same as Ilock-herb. Hodjas have been softas and have passed an back. (Local.) Hock Monday, n. Monday se'nnight after examination in the Arabic language, the Hog (hog), v.i. 1. To droop at both ends, so Easter. Koran and its commentaries. See SOFTA. as to resemble in some degree a hog's back; Hock-tide (hok'tid), n. The second Tuesday Hodman (hod'man), n. 1. A man who car- as, a ship hogs in launching. -2. In the after Easter. ries a hod; a mason's, bricklayer's, or plas- manége, to hold or carry the head down Hocus (ho'kus), 0.t. pret. & pp. hocussed; terer's assistant. -2. A cant term formerly like a hog. ppr. hocussing. (See HOCUS-POCUS.) 1. Tó used for a young scholar, admitted from Hog (hog), n. In the game of curling, a stone impose upon; to cheat. Hence-2. To stu- Westminster School to be student in Christ- which does not go over the hog-score; the pefy or render insensible by drugging one's church College in Oxford. hog-score itself. [Scotch.) drink with the purpose of cheating or rob- Hodmandod (hod'man-dod), n. Same as Hog (hog), v.t. In curling, to play, as a stone bing. Dodman. with so little force that it does not clear the He was horussed at supper and lost eight hundred Hodograph (hod'o-graf), n. (Gr. hodos, a hog-score. (Scotch.) pounds to Major Loder and the Honourable Mr. path, and graphò, to write or describe.] In Hog-back (hogʻbak), n. A convex back like Deuceace. Thackeray. math. a peculiar curve imagined by Sir W. that of a hog 3. To drug, as drink, for the purpose of stu- R. Hamilton, sometimes used to iilustrate Hog-backed (hog'bakt), a. Shaped like the pefying the theory of central forces. back of a hog or sow. "What do you mean by 'hocussing' brandy and Hodometer (hod-om'et-ér), n. (Gr. hodos, Hogcote (hog' kõt), n. [Hog and cote.) A water?' inquired Mr. Pickwick. Dickens. a way, and metron, a measure.] An instru- shed or house for swine; a sty. Hocus (hökus), n. 1. A cheat; an impostor. ment for measuring the length of way tra- Hogen-Mogen (hö'gen-moʻgen), n. [D. hoog South.--2. The drugged liquor given to a velled by any vehicle. It consists of a clock- en mogend, high and mighty.) An old slang person to stupefy him. work arrangement fixed to the side of the term for Holland or the Netherlands. Hocus - pocus (hö'kus - põ'kus), n. [This vehicle, and connected with the axle. An But I have sent him for a token compound occurs in similar forms in various index records on a dial the distance tra Hudibras. To your Low.country Hogen.Mogen. modern tongues; comp. It. ochus-bochus, velled. Hog-fish (hog'fish), n. The popular name D. hokus-bokus, 'cant words of jugglers: Hodometrical (hod-o-met'rik-al), a. 1. Per- given to teleostean fishes of the genus Perhaps a corruption of 'hoc est corpus,' taining to a hodometer. -2. Noting the Scorpæna, family Scorpaenidæ or Triglidæ. the words pronounced by Roman Catholic method of finding the longitude at sea by The best known species is the S. scrofa, priests during the sacrifice of the mass.] 1. A dead reckoning common in the Mediterranean, having the juggler; a trickster. Hoe (hó), n. (O. Fr. hoe, Fr. houe, from the head flattened sideways, armed with spines, Dancing wenches, hocus pocuses, and other an German; comp. 0. H. G. houwa, M.H.G. and adorned with membranous lobes or filaticks past my remembrance. Sir T. Herbert. ments. It is of a large size and a red colour. 2. A juggler's trick; a cheat used by conjurers. Hog-frame (hog'irām), n. In steam vessels, Convey men's interest and right a fore-and-aft frame, usually above deck, Froin Stiles's pocket into Nokes's and forming, together with the frame of the As easily as hocus.focus. Hudibras. vessel, a truss to prevent vertical flexure: Hocus-pocus (hö'kus-põ’kus), v.t. To cheat. used chiefly in American river and lake Hod (hod), n. (Fr. hotte, a basket for carry steamers. Called also Hogging-frame. ing on the back. ) 1. A kind of trough for Hogger (hog'er), 1. A stocking without a carrying mortar and brick to masons and foot, worn by coal-miners when at work. bricklayers, fixed crosswise to the upper end Called also in Scotland a Hoshen. of a pole or a handle and borne on the Hoggerel (hog'er-el), n. A sheep of the shoulder. -2. A coal-scuttle. second year. Hod (hod), v.i. [Perhaps same as D. hodden, Horse-hoe. Hogger-pump(hog'er-pump), n. In mining, to stammer; comp. hoddle. See HODDY the top pup in the sinking pit of a mine. PEAK.) To bob up and down on horseback; houwe, G. haue. See HEW.) In agri. and Hoggery (hog'e-ri), n. 1. A place where to jog (Scotch.] hort, an instrument for cutting up weeds hogs or swine are kept. --2. A collection of Hodden (hol'n), a. [Perhaps from hoiden, and loosening the earth in fields and gardens, hogs or swine. rustic.) Coarse; rustic; as, hodden stuff. Crime and shame, in shape something like an adze, being a Hodden or russet individuals.' Carlyle. And all their hossery trample your smooth world, plate of iron, with an eye for å handle, Nor leave more footmarks ihan Apollo's kine. Hodden (hod'n), n. Hodden-gray. * Drest which is set at a convenient angle with the E. B. Browning in hodden or russet.' Carlyle. plate. The Dutch hoe differs from the com- 3. Hoggishness; swinishness; brutishness. HOGGET 512 HOLD Hogget (hog'et), n. [Norm. hoget. See Hog.] to express the ridgy conformation of any They have been hoidening with the young ap1. A sheep two years old.--2. A colt of a district of alternate rounded ridges and prentices. STUTA. year old. Called also Hog.colt. (Local.) ravines. Hoidenhood (hoi'den-hyd), n. State of being 3. A young boar of the second year. Hog's-back (hogz'bak), a. Shaped like the a hoiden. Hogging (hog'ing), n. Screened or sifted back of a hog; rounded. In geol, the term Hoidenish (hoi'den-ish), a. Having the mangravel-possibly from the rounded form of applied to a peculiar conformation of a dis- ners of a hoiden; like or appropriate to a the heap trict. See the noun. hoiden. Hogging -frame (hog'ing-frâm), n. See | Hog's-bane (hogzoãn), . See SOW-BANE. Hoidenism (hoi'den-izm), n. The character HOG-FRAME. Hog's-bean (hogz'bēn), n. (A translation or manners of a hoiden; rompishness; rusHoggish (hog'ish), a. Having the qualities of the Gr. hyoskyamos.] Henbane (which ticity. of a hog; brutish; gluttonous; filthy; mean; see). Hoise (hois), v.t. To hoist. selfish. Hog's-bread (hogz'bred), n. Same as Hog- And when they had taken up the anchors, they These devils, so talked of and feared, are none else meat. comunitted themselves unto the sea, and loosed the but hoggesh jailers. Overbury'. rudder-bands, and hoised up the mainsail to the Hog-score (hog'skor), n. [D. hok, a sty or pen, wind, and made toward shore. Acts xxvii. 40. Hoggishly (hog'ish-li), ado. In a hoggish, a dock, and E. score, a line.] In curling, a brutish, gluttonous, or filthy manner. distance - line drawn across the riuk or Hoist (hoist), v.t. _[0.E. hoise, Sc. heeze. Comp. D. hijzen, L.G. hissen, Dan. heise, course between the middle line and the tee. Hoggishness (hog'ish-nes), n. hisse, to hoist. The t seems to have been added as in against, among&t.] 1. To raise; A plant, to lift; to heave; especially, to raise by means of block and tackle; as, to hoist a mean selfishness. Peucedanum officinale. See SULPHUR-WORT. sail; to hoist a heavy package to an upper Hog-gum (hog'gum), n. The name given to Hogshead (högz'hed), n. (Probably cor room. a resinous substance used for strengthening- rupted from one or other of the following Hoisting him into his father's throne.' South. plasters, and also as a diuretic, laxative, words - D. okshoofd, G. oxhoft, Dan. oxeand stimulant medicine. In the West Indies hoved, Sw, oxhufvud, all meaning the mea They land my goods and horst my flying sails. Pope. it is employed as a substitute for pitch in sure called a hogshead, while the Danish 2. To torture by raising with a rope and tarring boats, ropes, &c. It is uncertain and Swedish also mean literally an ox's. pulley from the ground and then letting to what tree it is due, some ascribing it to head. It is not easy to see why ox-head suddenly fall. See extract. Rhus metopium of the order Anacardiaceæ, should come to mean a certain measure, These were among the forms of procedure by tor. others to the Moronobea coccinea of the and perhaps the word has merely simulated ture in those times, without doubt mercilessly em. ployed in the dungeons which confined the Tem. order Guttiferæ, and some to Helwygia balthis origin by a false spelling If the original The criminal was stripped, his hands tied Behind , sa mifera of the order Amyridaceae. It is meaning was ox-head the lanish or Swedish probable that all three yield resinous sub- was probably the original form, the others upon a pulley at some height above. At the sign of stances of similar qualities and bearing the being borrowed. The Dutch and German the judge he was hauled up with a frightful wrench, and then violently let fall to the ground. This was same name. Called also Hog-doctor's Gum, words cannot be separated into two words called in the common phrase hoisting. It was the Doctor's-gum, and Boar-tree. meaning ox and head in these languages. most usual, perhaps the mildest form of torture. Hoght (ho), n. (See High.] A hill; a cliff. In D. os is ox, in G. ochs, while in G. haupt Alilman. is head.) 1. A measure of capacity con- Hoist (hoist), n. Spenser. 1. The act of hoisting; a Hogherd (hog'hérd), n. (Hog and herd.) A taining 63 old wine gallons, or 52 imperial lift.--2. That by which anything is hoisted; keeper of swine. gallons. The London hogshead of beer was a machine for elevating ores, merchandise, Hog-louse (hogʻlous), n. A crustacean of 54 beer gallons, the London hogshead of ale passengers, &c., in a mine, warehouse, hotel, the genus Oniscus, belonging to the order was 48 ale gallons, and the ale and beer and the like; an elevator.-3. Vaut. the perIsopoda. In Scotland the species are gener hogshead for the rest of England was 51 pendicular height of a flag or ensign as opally called “slaters,' from being found under gallons. All these measures are now set posed to the fly, or breadth from the staff to stones and slates. aside. --2. In America this name is often the outer edge; also the extent to which a Hogmanay (hog'ma-nă), n. [Supposed to be given to a butt, a cask containing from 100 sail or yard may be hoisted'; as, give the from Fr. Au gui menez,' 'Lead on to the to 140 gallons; as, a hogshead of spirit or sail more hoist. molasses.-3. A large cask of indefinite con- Hoist (hoist), pp. mistletoe,' a cry which in some parts of Hoisted. France the boys that go about begging on the tents. 'Tis the sport, to have the enginer Hog-shearing (hog'shēr-ing), n. A ludicrous Hoist with his own petar. last day of December are said to use.) The Shak. name given in Scotland to the last day of the term denoting much ado about nothing. Hoisting-crab (hoist'ing-krab), n. A crab year; and also to an entertainment given to Why do I hold you thus long in these his noisome or kind of windlass for hoisting. as we used to say in England, we have a great deal engine for driving hoisting machinery. Dean Alartin. ancient custom. Hoistway (hoist'wā), n. A passage through which goods are hoisted in a warehouse. Hog-meat (hog'mēt), n. The name given in Hog-shouther (hog'shyth-ėr), n. in which those who amuse themselves jostle Hoit (hoit), v. [Comp. W. hoetian, to Jamaica to the root of the Boerhaaria de. each other by the shoulders. (Scotch.) cumbens. It is emetic, and is said to be dally, to dandle.) To indulge in riotous used in the form of decoction in dysentery, Hog-shouther (hog'shith-ér), v.i. To jostle and noisy mirth. He sings and hoits and revels among his drunken companions. bean. & Fl. name given to two species of snake of the Hog.shouther, jundie, stretch, an' strive. Burns. genus Heterodon, which flatten their head Hoity-toity (hoi'ti-toi'ti). (Reduplicated when about to strike. They are not venomHog-skin (hog'skin), n. Tanned leather from hoit ] An exclamation denoting surmade of the skins of swine. Ous. Called also Flat-headed Adder. prise or disapprobation, with some degree The fat of the Hog's-lard (hogz'lärd), n. Hog-nut (hog'nut), n. The name of Carya of contempt: equivalent to pshaw! hog or of swine. It is soft and white, and porcina. Called also Pig-nut and Brown Hoity-toity! what have I to do with dreams? hickory. See HICKORY. contains elaine and stearine. Hog's-lard is Congreve. extensively used for ointments. Hogot (ho'go), n. (Corrupted from Fr. haut, Hoity-toity (hoi'ti-toi'ti), a. Elated; giddy; high, and gout, taste, relish, flavour.) High Hogsteer (hog'stēr), n. (Hog,and steer(which flighty; petulant; huffy; as, he is in hoity. flavour; strong scent. see). ) A wild boar of three years old. toity spirits. Hogsty (hog'sti), n. [Hog and sty.) A pen Hoke-day (hök’dā), n. See HOCKDAY. Hoker,t n. (A. Sax. hocer, mocking, re- Hog-wallow (hog'wol-lo), n. The name proach.) Frowardness. 'Ful of hoker, and given to rough ground on some of the of bismare.' Chaucer. twining plant (Amphicarpæa monoica), western prairies of North America, from its Hokerly,t adv. Frowardly. ‘Answerhokerly with purplish flowers, and also subterranean having the appearance of having been rooted and angrily.' Chaucer. or semi-subterranean flowers that become or torn up by hogs. Holaster (ho-las'tër), n. [Gr. holos, entire, fleshy pea-shaped fruits: found in the United Hogwash (hog'wosh). n. (H og and wash. ] and astron, a star. ] A fossil genus of seaStates. The refuse matters of a kitchen or brewery, urchins, comprising such as are heartHog-pen (hog'pen), n. [II og and pen.) A or like matter given to swine; swill. shaped. hog-sty. Hog-weed (hog'wed), n. A name given to Holcad (hol'kad), n. (Gr. holkas, holkados, Hog-plum (hog' plum), n. The popular several plants, as Heracleum Sphondylium, a ship of burden, from helko, to draw.] In name of the plants belonging to the genus Polygonum aviculare, &c. Greek antiq. a large ship of burden. Mitford, Spondias, nat order Anacardiacea. Some Hohlspath (hol'spath), n. [G., hollow-spar Holcus (hol'kus), n. (Gr. holkos, extractive, of the species yield pleasant fruits, as S. --hohl, hollow, and spath, spar.) The mi- from helkö, to extract.] A genus of perennial neral otherwise called macle and chiastopurpurea and S. lutea of the West Indies, plants, nat. order Gramineæ. The H. saclite. the species generally called hog-plum, he charatus contains a large quantity of sugar, cause their fruit is a common food for hogs. Hohoni (ho-ho'ni), n. The name given in and H, odoratus is celebrated for its fraA much esteemed Brazilian dish is prepared the Pacific islands to large cocoa-nut shells grance. Two species are found in Britain, from the juice of S. tuberosa, mixed with used to hold water. both known by the name of soft-grass, milk, curds, and sugar. Hoiden (hoi'den), n. (O.D. heyden, a hea- Hold (hold), v. t. pret. & pp. held; ppr. hold- then, a gypsy, a vagabond. Skeat. See ing; holden, pp., is now chiefly used in law. Hog-reeve (hog'rēv), n. A district officer HEATHEN) 1.7 A rude bold man. (A. Sax. healdan; comp. Dan holde, L.G. in some of the colonies who adjudicates on Shall I argue of conversation with this hoiden, to holden, D. houden, Icel. halda, to hold; go and practise at his opportunities in the larder? the trespasses and damage committed by Goth. haldan, to tend or pasture cattle; Millon. swine. 2. A rude bold girl; a romp. 0. Sax. haldan, to nourish, tend, or cherish. Hog-ringer (hog'ring-ér), n. One whose Cog. L. colere, to tend or cherish.] 1. To Such another slatternly ignorant hoiden I never saw. business is to put rings in the snouts of life of lrs. Delany. have or grasp in the hand; to support with swine. Hoiden (hoi'den), a. Rude; bold; inelegant; or as with the hand; to grasp and retain; to Hog-rubber (hog'rub-hér). n. A low coarse rustic. sustain (often followed by up or out: see fellow fit for such work as rubbing hogs. They throw their persons with a hoiden air phrases below); as, to hold a sword, a pen, a J. Webster. Across the room and toss into the chair. Young candle; to hold one's head; he held him by Hog's-back (hogz'bak), n. Anything shaped Hoiden (hoi'den), v.i. To romp rudely or in- the arm. Hold their hips and laugh.' Shak. like the back of a hog." In geol. a term used | decently Thy right hand shall hold me. Ps. cxxxix. 10 HOLD 513 HOLE 2. To bear or manage in a certain way; to put or keep in a certain position; as, hold your feet, your hands, your fingers thus; he holds his rifle very awkwardly. “Pure hands held up.' Shak. I have ever keld my cap off to thy fortunes. Shak. 3. To consider; to regard; to think; to judge; to account. The Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Ex. xx. 7. Tell me, ye yourselves, Hold ye this Arthur for King Uther's son. Tennyson, l'nder this head may be classed such periphrastic usages as to hold in contempt (=despise or regard with contempt); to hold in honour (=to honour); to hold in hatred (=to hate).-4. To contain, or to have capacity to receive and contain; as, a basket that holds two bushels; a cask that holds thirty gallons; the church holds two thousand people. --5. To retain within itself; to keep from running or flowing out; as, a vessel with holes in its bottom will not hold fluids. They have .. hewed them out cisterns, broken With what arms Milton. The star that bids the shepherd fold Shak. The Most High... held still the flood till they were passed. 2 Esdras xiii. 44. 11. To keep fixed, as to a certain line of action; to bind or oblige; to keep or guard under more or less of restraint; as, to hold one to his promise. Whilst I at banquet hold him sure.' Shak. Often used reflex as, hold you content;' I can no longer hold me patient.'—12. To maintain, as a course, determination, or the like; to retain; to continue; to keep in continuance or practice; to prosecute or carry on; to observe; to pursue; as, to hold an argument or debate. There studious let me sit, And hold high converse with the mighty dead. Thomson. Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary frost, Milton, The language held by both father and daughter to the House of Coinmons. Brougham, 15. To keep employed; to engage the attention of; to occupy; as, these discussions held parliament till midsummer. 'Sad talk wherewith my brother held you.' Shak.16. To bear; to continue to suffer. "The ripest mulberry that will not hold the handling.' Shak.-17. In betting, to lay; to bet; to wager; as, I hold you a crown.18. In betting, to accept, as a bet; as, I hold you; I hold that offer. -19. In cricket, to catch, generally implying a clever catch: said of a ball. --To hold a candle to. See under CANDLE. - To hold in hand, to toy with; to keep in expectation; to amuse with the view of gaining some advantage. O fie! to receive favours, return falsehoods, And hold a lady in hand. Beau. & FZ. -To hold in play, to keep fully occupied so as to prevent from attending to the main point or directing efforts towards it. I, with two more to help me, --To hold water, (a) naut. to stop a boat in (c) To continue the same speed; to run or quit one's hold; to take hold; to lay hold. Observe the connection of ideas in the proposi. Take fast hold of instruction. Prov. iv. 13. tions which books hold forth and pretend to teach. Locke, King Richard, he is in the mighty hold --To hold in, to curb; to guide with a tight Of Bolingbroke. Shak, rein; hence, to restrain in general; to check; Fear by which God and his laws take the surest hold of us. Tillotson. to repress.---To hold off, to keep at a distance. --To hold on, to continue or proceed 2. Something which may be seized for supin; as, to hold on a course. -- To hold out, port; that which supports. (a) to extend; to stretch forth; hence, to If a man be upon a high place, without a good hold, propose; to offer. he is ready to fall. Bacon. The king held out to Esther the golden sceptre. 3. Power of keeping. Est. v. 2. On your vigour now My hold of this new kingdom all depends. Milton, B. Fouson. () To continue to do or suffer. 4. Authority to seize or keep; claim. He cannot long hold out these pangs. Shak. The law hath yet another hold on you. Shak. -To hold up, (a) to raise; to keep in an 5. A prison; a place of confinement. erect position; as, hold up your head. (6) To They laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto sustain; to support; to uphold. Us that the next day. Acts iv. 3. here hold up his right.' Shak. 6. A fortified place; a fort; a castle; a place He holds himself up in virtue. Sir P. Sidney. of security: often called a Stronghold. (c) To sustain; to buoy up; to keep from 7. The whole interior cavity of a ship, befalling or sinking. (d) To show; to exhibit; tween the bottom and the lowest deck; in a to put prominently forward. - To hold one's vessel of one deck, the whole interior space own, to keep good one's present condition; from the keel to the deck.--8. In music, the not to fall off or to lose ground. - To hold character a, directing the performer to one's peace, to keep silence.-To hold the pause on the note or rest over which it is plough, to guide or manage a plough in placed. Called also a Pause. turning up the soil. Holdback (hõld'bak), n. 1. Check; hinderHold (hold), v.i. 1. To take or keep a thing ance; restraint; obstacle. in one's grasp; to maintain an attachment; The only holdback is the affection, and passionate love, that we bear to our wealth. Hammond to continue firm; not to give way or break; to adhere; as, he cannot hold any longer, he 2. The iron or strap on the shaft of a vehicle must fall; the rope is strong, I believe it to which a part of the harness is attached, will hold; the anchor holds well; the plaster in order to enable the animal to hold back will not hold.--2. To be true or valid; not the vehicle when going down hill; a drag. to fail; to stand; to apply, as a fact or Hold-beam (höld'bēm), n. Naut. one of the truth: often with true or good; as, the argu- lowest range of beams in a merchant vessel. ment holds good in both cases; this holds In a man-of-war they support the orlop. true in most cases, deck. The proverb holds that to be wise and love Holden, pp. of hold. Is hardly granted to the gods above. Dryden. Holder hold'ér), n. 1. One who or that This will rather hold of the colossal sculptures .. which holds; one who grasps, embraces, which encumber the pulpits of Flemish and German confines, restrains, believes, possesses, and churches, thian of the delicate mosaics and ivory-like the like. -2. Something by or i. which a Ruskin. carving of the Romanesque basilicas. thing is held or contained; as, a holder for 3. To continue unbroken or unsubdued; a flat-iron.-3. Naut. one who is employed not to surrender; to stand one's ground: in the hold.-4. A payee of a bill of exchange generally followed with out; as, the garrison or a promissory note. still held out. Holder-forth (höld'ér-forth), n. One who Our force by land hath nobly held. Shak. holds forth; a haranguer; a preacher. Ad4. To last; to endure; to continue: gene- dison. rally followed by out. Holdfast (hold'fast), n. 1. Something used While our obedience holds. Milton. to secure and hold in place something else; 5. To refrain. a catch; a hook; a long nail with a flat His dauntless heart would fain have held short head for securing objects to a wall; a From weeping: Dryden. clamp and the like.-2. Support; hold. 6. To be dependent on for possessions; to His holdfast was gone, his footing lost. Montagu, derive right or title; as, petty barons hold- Holding (hold'ing), n. 1. A tenure; the naing under the greater barons : generally ture of a right granted by a superior to a with of, and sometimes with from. vassal; a farm held of a superior; anything My crown is absolute and holds of none. Dryden. that is held.-2. The burden or chorus of His imagination holds immediately from nature. a song Shak. Hazlitt. The undersong or holding whereof is, 'It is merrie 7. To stop, stay, or wait; to cease or give in hall where beards wag all.' over: chiefly in the imperative; as, hold! The Serving Man's Comfort, enough.-To hold forth, to speak in public; 3. That which holds, binds, or influences; to harangue; to preach; to proclaim. To hold; influence; power. hold in, (a) to restrain one's self; as, he was Everything would be drawn from its holdings in tempted to laugh; he could hardly hold in. the country to the personal favour and inclination of (6) To continue in good luck. (Unusual.) the prince. Burke. To hold of, to keep at a distance; to avoid Holding-ground (höld’ing-ground),n. Naut. connection.--To hold on, (a) to continue; Good anchoring-ground. not to be interrupted. Hole (hol), n. [A. Sax. hol, hollow, cavern, The trade held on many years. Swift. hole. Comp. D. hol, Icel. hol, hola, a hol(6) To keep fast hold; to cling to. (c) To low, a cavity; O.H.G. hol, G. hohl, hollow; proceed in a course. Job xvii. 9.- To hold of same root as A. Sax, helan, to cover, to out. See 3 and 4 above. --To hold to, to cling conceal, whence hell; or as Gr. koilos, holor cleave to; to adhere. low.) 1. A hollow place or cavity in any solid Else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. body, natural or artificial; a perforation, Mat. vi. 24. orifice, aperture, pit, rent, fissure, crevice, -To hold with, to adhere to; to side with; or the like. to stand up for. Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole But the multitude of the city was divided; and part in the lid of it. 2 Ki. xii. g. held with the Jews, and part with the apostles. Specifically-2. The excavated habitation -To hold together, to be joined; not to se of certain wild beasts, as the fox, the badger, parate; to remain in union.---To hold up, &c.; hence, a mean habitation; a narrow or (a) to support one's self; as, to hold up under dark lodging. misfortunes. (6) To cease raining; to remain How much more happy thou, that art content To live within this little hole, than I dry or not showery, as the weather; hence, Who after empire, that vain quarry, fly. Dryden. to cease to be obscure: used impersonally. - A hole in one's coat, a flaw in one's reputaThough nice and dark the point appear, Quoth Ralph, it may hold up and clear. tion; a weak spot in one's character. --Syn. Hildibras. Rent, fissure, crevice, orifice, aperture, in Acts xiv. 4. j, job; f, Fr. ton; ng, sing; 8, go; ch, chain; ch, Sc. loch; TH, then; th, thin; w, wig; wh, whig; zh, azure.--See KEY. HOLE 514 HOLLY terstice, perforation, excavation, pit, cave, originally manufactured in Holland; also a Hollow-plane (hollo-plán), n. A moulding den. coarser linen fabric unbleached or dyed plane with a convex sole. Hole (höl), v.i. pret. & pp. holed; ppr. holing, brown used for covering furniture, carpets, Hollow-punch (hol'lo-punsh), n. A punch To go into a hole. B. Jonson. &c., or for making window-blinds and the with a circular cutting edge for cutting Hole (höl), v.t. 1. To cut, dig, or make a like. holes for rivets, eyelets, &c., in leather, hole or holes in; as, to hole a post for the Hollander (hol'land-ér), n. A native of cloth, paper, or where a smooth round hole insertion of rails or bars. Holland. is to be cut in a soft yielding material. With throwing the holed stone, with hurling of Hollandish (hol'land-ish), a. Like Holland. Hollow-rail (hol'lő-rāl), n. A tubular railtheir darts. Chapman, Hollands (hol'landz), n. A sort of gin im- way rail, heated with steam to prevent the 2. To drive into a hole, as in golfing, or into ported from Holland. accretion of ice. a bag, as in billiards.-3. In mining, to un Hollen (hollen), n. A local name for Holly Hollow-root (hol'lo-röt), n. A plant, A doxa dercut a coal-seam. See HOLER. (which see) Moschatellina, nat, order Caprifoliaceæ. See ADOXA. Hole,t Hol, t a. Entire; whole; sound. Chau- Hollo (hol'lo), n. v.i. interj. Same as Holla. Hollow (hol'lo), a. (A. Sax. holg, holh, a Hollow-spar (hol'lo-spär), n. cer. Same as Hole-and-corner (höl'and - kor - nėr), a. hollow space. See HOLE.) 1. Containing an Hohlspath. Clandestine; underhand. empty space, natural or artificial, within a Hollow-square (hol'lo-skwār), n. A body Such is the wretched trickery of hole-and-corner solid substance; not solid; having a vacant of soldiers drawn up in the form of a square, buffery! These are not its only artifices. Dickens space or cavity within; as, a hollow tree; a with an empty space in the middle. Holectypus (ho-lek'tī-pus), n. Hollow-toned (hol'lo-tond), a. Having a (Gr. holos, hollow rock; a hollow sphere. entire, wholly, and ektypos, embossed.] A Hollow with boards shalt thou make it. tone or sound like that coming from a Exod. xxvii. 8. fossil genus of sea-urchins, with a hemi cavity; deep-toned. spherical circular shell, strengthened m 2. Concave; sunken; as, a hollow eye; a Hollow-wall (hollo-wal), n. A wall built ternally by five strong ribs or projections. hollow cheek. -- 3. Deep; low; resembling Holer (hol'er), n. In mining, one who un sound reverberated from a cavity, or desigdercuts the coal seam for 2 or 3 feet in- nating such a sound; as, a hollow roar.' wards with a light pick, and then by driving Dryden. The mingled measure in wedges breaks away the portions that In hollow murmurs died away.. Collins. have been holed. Holibut (hoʻli-but). See HALIBUT. 4. Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; Holidame (ho'li-dām), n. [Apparently from not sound; as, a hollow heart. holy and dame, but really a corruption of Who in want a hollotv friend doth try, halidom.] Same as Halidom. Directly seasons him his enemy. Shak, By my holidame here comes Katharina ! Shak. 5. Thorough; complete ; out-and-out; as, a Holiday (hoʻli-dā), n. (Holy and day.) 1. A hollow beating; a hollow victory. (Colloq.] consecrated day; a religious anniversary; a -Hollow spar. Same as Hohlspath. --SYN. day set apart for commemorating some im- Concave, sunken, low, vacant, empty, void, portant event or in honour of some person. false, faithless, deceitful, hollow-hearted. Hollow-wall. 2. An occasion of joy and gaiety. Hollow (hollo), n. A depression or excavaMy approach has made a little holiday, tion below the general level or in the sub- in two thicknesses, leaving a cavity or cavi. And every face was dress'd in smiles to meet me. stance of anything; an empty space in any ties between, either for the purpose of preRowe. thing; a cavity, natural or artificial; con- venting moisture from being driven by 3. A day of exemption from labour; a day cavity; a cave or cavern; a den; a hole; storms through the brickwork, for ventilatof amusement; a day or a number of days groove; a channel; a canal; as, the hollow ing, for preserving a uniform temperature during which a person is released from his of the hand; the hollow of a tree. "Some in apartments, or for saving materials. everyday labours. vault or hollow.' Bacon. Hollow-ware (hol'lo-war), n. A general If all the year were playing holidays, Forests grew trade name given to various iron articles To sport would be as tedious as to work. Shak. Upon the barren hollows, high o'ershading which are hollow, as cauldrons, kettles, Holiday (ho'li-dá), a. 1. Pertaining to a The haunts of savage beasts. Prior. saucepans, coffee-mills, &c. Hollow-ware is festival: befitting a holiday; cheerful; joyous; The little springs and rills are conveyed through of two kinds, cast-iron and wrought-iron. The as, a holiday suit of clothes. little channels into the main hollow of the aqueduct. name is also sometimes applied to earthen Addison. Now I am in a holiday humour. Shak. ware. Hollow (hol'lo), v.t. [From the adj.) To Hollow-wort (hol'lo-wert), n. The name 2. Adapted for or proper to a special oc- make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or en- of a succulent plant with pink flowers, casion. graving; to excavate. Corydalis cava. Trees rudely hollowed did the waves sustain Holly (hol'li), n. [A. Sax holegn, holen, holly, Ere ships in triumph ploughed the watery plain Holily (holi-li), adv. 1. In a holy or de alder, elder;0. E. and Sc. hollen, hollin, holly; Dryden. vout manner; piously; with sanctity. -2. Sa- Hollow (hol'lo), adv. Utterly; completely; credly; inviolably. Friendship . . . that out-and-out: generally with the verbs beat, so holily was observed.' Sir P. Sidney. carry, and the like; as, he beat him hollow; (Rare.) he carried it hollow. (Colloq.] lity of being holy or sinless; purity or in. Hollow (hol'lo), v.t. To urge or call on by Sir 1. Scott. Applied to the Supreme Being, holiness de: Hollow-boned (hol'lő-bond), a. Having the notes perfect purity or integrity of moral bones hollow, not solid, as character, one of his essential attributes. birds. Holiness suggests the idea, not of perfect virtue, Hollow - brick (hol'lobut of that peculiar affection wherewith a being of perfect virtue regards moral evil; and so much indeed brik), n. A brick made is this the precise and characteristic import of the with perforations through term, that, had there been no evil, either actual or con it for the purpose of warm- ! ceivable, in the universe there would have been no ing or ventilation, or to holiness. There would have been perfect truth and prevent moisture from perfect righteousness, yet not holiness; for this is a word which denotes neither any one of the virtues in penetrating a wall. particular, nor the assemblage of them all put to Hollow-eyed (hol'lő-id).a. gether, but the recoil or the repulsion of these towards Having sunken eyes. 'Holthe opposite vices--a recoil that never would have low-eyed, sharp - looking Holly (Ilex Aquifolium). been felt, if vice had been so far a nonentity as to be neither an object of real existence nor an object of wretch.' Shak. thought. Chalmers. allied to W. celyn, Gael. cuilionn, holly. Hollow-hearted (hol'lo. 2. The state of anything hallowed, or con härt-ed), a. Insincere; de- Comp. holm(-oak), which is = holen, with m secrated to God or to his worship; sacredceitful; not sound and true; of practice or instead of n.) 1. A plant of the genus Ilex (I. ness.-3. That which is separated to the sentiment different from profession. Aquifolium), and the only British species of service of God. The hollow-hearted, disaffected, that genus. It belongs to the nat.order AquiAnd close malignants are detected. Hudibras. foliaceae. The common holly, of which there Israel was holiness unto the Lord. 3. are many varieties, grows to the height of 4. A title of the pope, and formerly of the Hollow-horned (hol'lo-hornd), a. Having from 20 to 30 feet; the stem by age becomes the horns hollow as oxen. Greek emperors. -SYN. Piety, devotion, god- Hollowly (hol'lo-li), adv. In a hollow man large, and is covered with a grayish smooth liness, religiousness, sanctity, sacredness. bark, and set with branches which form a sort Holing-axe (hol'ing-aks), n. A narrow axe ner; insincerely; deceitfully. of cone. The leaves are oblong oval, of a lucid for cutting holes in posts. Crown what I profess with kind event green on the upper surface, but pale on the Holla (hol-la'). [Fr. hola-ho! ho! and la, If I speak true; if hollowly, invert under surface; the edges are indented and What best is boded me, to mischief! Shak. there.) An exclamation to some one at a waved, with sharp thorns terminating each of distance, in order to call attention or in Hollowness (hollo-nes), n. 1. The state of the points. The flowers grow in clusters, and answer to one that hails. Written also Hollo, being hollow; cavity; depression of surface; are succeeded by roundish berries, which Holloa. excavation.-2. Insincerity, deceitfulness; turn to a beautiful red about Michaelmas. The albatross did follow; treachery. This plant is a beautiful evergreen, and exAnd every day for food or play The hardness of most hearts, the hollowness of cellently adapted for hedges and fences, as Came to the mariner's hollo. Coleridge. others, and the baseness and ingratitude of almost it bears clipping. The wood is hard and Holla, Hollo (hol'la, hol'lo), v.i. To call all. South. white, and is much employed for turnery out or exclaim; to shout or cry aloud. 'He Hollow-newel (hol'lo-nu-el), n. In arch. work, for drawing upon, for knife-handles, hollaed but even now.' Shak. See HALI 00. the well-hole or opening in the centre of &c. Of the bark bird-lime is made by maHolland (holland), n. A kind of fine linen winding stairs. See NEWEL. cerations, and houses and churches at Jer. ii. |