Hoof Hoof noun -- On the hoof , of cattle, standing (on the hoof); not slaughtered.

Hoofbound Hoof"bound` adjective (Far.) Having a dry and contracted hoof, which occasions pain and lameness.

Hoofed Hoofed adjective Furnished with hoofs. Grew.

Hoofless Hoof"less adjective Destitute of hoofs.

Hook Hook noun [ Middle English hok , Anglo-Saxon hōc ; confer Dutch haak , German hake , haken , Old High German hāko , hāgo , hāggo , Icelandic haki , Swedish hake , Danish hage . Confer Arquebuse , Hagbut , Hake , Hatch a half door, Heckle .] 1. A piece of metal, or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything; as, a hook for catching fish; a hook for fastening a gate; a boat hook , etc.

2. That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.

3. An implement for cutting grass or grain; a sickle; an instrument for cutting or lopping; a billhook.

Like slashing Bentley with his desperate hook .

Pope.

4. (Steam Engin.) See Eccentric , and V-hook .

5. A snare; a trap. [ R.] Shak.

6. A field sown two years in succession. [ Prov. Eng.]

7. plural The projecting points of the thigh bones of cattle; -- called also hook bones .

By hook or by crook , one way or other; by any means, direct or indirect. Milton. "In hope her to attain by hook or crook ." Spenser. -- Off the hooks , unhinged; disturbed; disordered. [ Colloq.] "In the evening, by water, to the Duke of Albemarle, whom I found mightly off the hooks that the ships are not gone out of the river." Pepys. -- On one's own hook , on one's own account or responsibility; by one's self. [ Colloq. U.S.] Bartlett. -- To go off the hooks , to die. [ Colloq.] Thackeray. -- Bid hook , a small boat hook. -- Chain hook . See under Chain . -- Deck hook , a horizontal knee or frame, in the bow of a ship, on which the forward part of the deck rests. -- Hook and eye , one of the small wire hooks and loops for fastening together the opposite edges of a garment, etc. -- Hook bill (Zoology) , the strongly curved beak of a bird. -- Hook ladder , a ladder with hooks at the end by which it can be suspended, as from the top of a wall. -- Hook motion (Steam Engin.) , a valve gear which is reversed by V hooks. -- Hook squid , any squid which has the arms furnished with hooks, instead of suckers, as in the genera Enoploteuthis and Onychteuthis . -- Hook wrench , a wrench or spanner, having a hook at the end, instead of a jaw, for turning a bolthead, nut, or coupling.

Hook Hook transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Hooked ; present participle & verbal noun Hooking .] 1. To catch or fasten with a hook or hooks; to seize, capture, or hold, as with a hook, esp. with a disguised or baited hook; hence, to secure by allurement or artifice; to entrap; to catch; as, to hook a dress; to hook a trout.

Hook him, my poor dear, . . . at any sacrifice.

W. Collins.

2. To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.

3. To steal. [ Colloq. Eng. & U.S.]

To hook on , to fasten or attach by, or as by, hook.

Hook Hook intransitive verb To bend; to curve as a hook.

Hook Hook noun (Geology) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end; as, Sandy Hook .

Hook Hook intransitive verb To move or go with a sudden turn; hence [ Slang or Prov. Eng.], to make off; to clear out; -- often with it . "Duncan was wounded, and the escort hooked it." Kipling.

Hook-billed Hook"-billed` adjective (Zoology) Having a strongly curved bill.

Hook-nosed Hook"-nosed` adjective Having a hooked or aquiline nose. Shak.

Hookah Hook"ah (hok"ȧ) noun [ Persian or Arabic huqqa a round box or casket, a bottle through which the fumes pass when smoking tobacco.] A pipe with a long, flexible stem, so arranged that the smoke is cooled by being made to pass through water.

Hooke's gearing Hooke's" gear"ing [ So called from the inventor.] (Machinery) Spur gearing having teeth slanting across the face of the wheel, sometimes slanting in opposite directions from the middle.

Hooke's joint Hooke's joint [ So called from the inventor.] (Machinery) A universal joint. See under Universal .

Hooked Hooked adjective 1. Having the form of a hook; curvated; as, the hooked bill of a bird.

2. Provided with a hook or hooks. "The hooked chariot." Milton.

Hookedness Hook"ed·ness noun The state of being bent like a hook; incurvation.

Hooker Hook"er noun 1. One who, or that which, hooks.

2. (Nautical) (a) A Dutch vessel with two masts. (b) A fishing boat with one mast, used on the coast of Ireland. (c) A sailor's contemptuous term for any antiquated craft.

Hookey Hook"ey noun See Hockey .

Hooklet Hook"let noun A little hook.

Hooky Hook"y adjective Full of hooks; pertaining to hooks.

Hooky Hook"y noun [ Written also hookey .] [ Confer Hook , transitive verb , 3.] A word used only in the expression to play hooky , to run away, to play truant.

This talk about boys . . . playing ball, and " hooky ," and marbles, was all moonshine.

F. Hopkinson Smith.

Hool Hool adjective Whole. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Hoolock Hoo"lock noun (Zoology) A small black gibbon ( Hylobates hoolock ), found in the mountains of Assam.

Hoom Hoom noun Home. Chaucer.

Hoonoomaun Hoo"noo·maun noun (Zoology) An Indian monkey. See Entellus . [ Written also hoonuman .]

Hoop Hoop noun [ Middle English hope ; akin to Dutch hoep , hoepel .] 1. A pliant strip of wood or metal bent in a circular form, and united at the ends, for holding together the staves of casks, tubs, etc.

2. A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop, as the cylinder (cheese hoop) in which the curd is pressed in making cheese.

3. A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; crinoline; -- used chiefly in the plural.

Though stiff with hoops , and armed with ribs of whale.

Pope.

4. A quart pot; -- so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents measured by the distance between the hoops. [ Obsolete]

5. An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks. [ Eng.] Halliwell.

Bulge hoop , Chine hoop , Quarter hoop , the hoop nearest the middle of a cask, that nearest the end, and the intermediate hoop between these two, respectively. -- Flat hoop , a wooden hoop dressed flat on both sides. -- Half-round hoop , a wooden hoop left rounding and undressed on the outside. -- Hoop iron , iron in thin narrow strips, used for making hoops. -- Hoop lock , the fastening for uniting the ends of wooden hoops by notching and interlocking them. -- Hoop skirt , a framework of hoops for expanding the skirts of a woman's dress; -- called also hoop petticoat . -- Hoop snake (Zoology) , a harmless snake of the Southern United States ( Abaster erythrogrammus ); -- so called from the mistaken notion that it curves itself into a hoop, taking its tail into its mouth, and rolls along with great velocity. -- Hoop tree (Botany) , a small West Indian tree ( Melia sempervirens ), of the Mahogany family.

Hoop Hoop transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Hooped ; present participle & verbal noun Hooping .] 1. To bind or fasten with hoops; as, to hoop a barrel or puncheon.

2. To clasp; to encircle; to surround. Shak.

Hoop Hoop intransitive verb [ Middle English houpen ; confer French houper to hoop, to shout; -- a hunting term, probably from houp , an interj. used in calling. Confer Whoop .] 1. To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout. [ Usually written whoop .]

2. To whoop, as in whooping cough. See Whoop .

Hooping cough . (Medicine) See Whooping cough .

Hoop Hoop transitive verb [ Written also whoop .] 1. To drive or follow with a shout. "To be hooped out of Rome." Shak.

2. To call by a shout or peculiar cry.

Hoop Hoop noun 1. A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.

2. (Zoology) The hoopoe. See Hoopoe .

Hooper Hoop"er noun [ See 1st Hoop .] One who hoops casks or tubs; a cooper.

Hooper Hoop"er noun (Zoology) [ So called from its note.] The European whistling, or wild, swan ( Olor cygnus ); -- called also hooper swan , whooping swan , and elk .

Hoopoe, Hoopoo Hoop"oe, Hoop"oo noun [ So called from its cry; confer Latin upupa , Greek ..., Dutch hop , French huppe ; confer also G. wieden hopf , Old High German witu hopfo , lit., wood hopper.] (Zoology) A European bird of the genus Upupa ( U. epops ), having a beautiful crest, which it can erect or depress at pleasure. Called also hoop , whoop . The name is also applied to several other species of the same genus and allied genera.

Hoosier Hoo"sier noun A nickname given to an inhabitant of the State of Indiana. [ U.S.]

Hoosier State Hoo"sier State Indiana; -- a nickname of obscure origin.

Hoot Hoot (hōt) intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Hooted ; present participle & verbal noun Hooting .] [ Middle English hoten , houten , huten ; confer OSw. huta , Swedish huta ut to take one up sharply, from Swedish hut interj., begone! confer also W. hwt off! off with it! away! hoot!] 1. To cry out or shout in contempt.

Matrons and girls shall hoot at thee no more.

Dryden.

2. To make the peculiar cry of an owl.

The clamorous owl that nightly hoots .

Shak.

Hoot Hoot transitive verb To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts.

Partridge and his clan may hoot me for a cheat.

Swift.

Hoot Hoot noun 1. A derisive cry or shout. Glanvill.

2. The cry of an owl.

Hoot owl (Zoology) , the barred owl ( Syrnium nebulosum ). See Barred owl .

Hoove Hoove noun [ Allied to heave , hove .] A disease in cattle consisting in inflammation of the stomach by gas, ordinarily caused by eating too much green food; tympany; bloating.

Hooven, Hoven Hoov"en, Ho"ven adjective Affected with hoove; as, hooven , or hoven , cattle.

Hop Hop intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Hopped ; present participle & verbal noun Hopping .] [ Middle English hoppen to hop, leap, dance, Anglo-Saxon hoppian ; akin to Icelandic & Swedish hoppa , Danish hoppe , Dutch huppelen , German hüpfen .] 1. To move by successive leaps, as toads do; to spring or jump on one foot; to skip, as birds do.

[ Birds] hopping from spray to spray.

Dryden.

2. To walk lame; to limp; to halt. Dryden.

3. To dance. Smollett.

Hop Hop noun 1. A leap on one leg, as of a boy; a leap, as of a toad; a jump; a spring.

2. A dance; esp., an informal dance of ball. [ Colloq.]

Hop , skip (or step ), and jump , a game or athletic sport in which the participants cover as much ground as possible by a hop, stride, and jump in succession. Addison.

Hop Hop noun [ Middle English hoppe ; akin to Dutch hop , hoppe , Old High German hopfo , German hopfen ; confer Late Latin hupa , W. hopez , Armor. houpez , and Icelandic humall , SW. & Danish humle .] 1. (Botany) A climbing plant ( Humulus Lupulus ), having a long, twining, annual stalk. It is cultivated for its fruit (hops).

2. The catkin or strobilaceous fruit of the hop, much used in brewing to give a bitter taste.

3. The fruit of the dog-rose. See Hip .

Hop back . (Brewing) See under 1st Back . -- Hop clover (Botany) , a species of yellow clover having heads like hops in miniature ( Trifolium agrarium , and T. procumbens ). -- Hop flea (Zoology) , a small flea beetle ( Haltica concinna ), very injurious to hops. -- Hop fly (Zoology) , an aphid ( Phorodon humuli ), very injurious to hop vines. -- Hop froth fly (Zoology) , an hemipterous insect ( Aphrophora interrupta ), allied to the cockoo spits. It often does great damage to hop vines. -- Hop hornbeam (Botany) , an American tree of the genus Ostrya ( O. Virginica ) the American ironwood; also, a European species ( O. vulgaris ). -- Hop moth (Zoology) , a moth ( Hypena humuli ), which in the larval state is very injurious to hop vines. -- Hop picker , one who picks hops. -- Hop pole , a pole used to support hop vines. -- Hop tree (Botany) , a small American tree ( Ptelia trifoliata ), having broad, flattened fruit in large clusters, sometimes used as a substitute for hops. -- Hop vine (Botany) , the climbing vine or stalk of the hop.

Hop Hop transitive verb To impregnate with hops. Mortimer.

Hop Hop intransitive verb To gather hops. [ Perhaps only in the form Hopping , verbal noun ]

Hop-o'-my-thumb, Hop-thumb Hop"-o'-my-thumb", Hop"-thumb" noun A very diminutive person. [ Colloq.] liwell.

Hop-thumb Hop"-thumb` noun See Hop-o'- my-thumb .

Hopbine, Hopbind Hop"bine`, Hop"bind` noun The climbing stem of the hop. Blackstone.

Hope Hope noun [ Confer Icelandic hōp a small bay or inlet.] 1. A sloping plain between mountain ridges. [ Obsolete]

2. A small bay; an inlet; a haven. [ Scot.] Jamieson.

Hope Hope noun [ Anglo-Saxon , akin to D . hoop , hope , Swedish hopp , Danish haab , Middle High German hoffe . Hope in forlorn hope is different word. See Forlorn hope , under Forlorn .] 1. A desire of some good, accompanied with an expectation of obtaining it, or a belief that it is obtainable; an expectation of something which is thought to be desirable; confidence; pleasing expectancy.

The hypocrite's hope shall perish.

Job vii. 13.

He wished, but not with hope .

Milton.

New thoughts of God, new hopes of Heaven.

Keble.

2. One who, or that which, gives hope, furnishes ground of expectation, or promises desired good.

The Lord will be the hope of his people.

Joel iii. 16.

A young gentleman of great hopes , whose love of learning was highly commendable.

Macaulay.

3. That which is hoped for; an object of hope.

Lavina is thine elder brother's hope .

Shak.

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