Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter H - Page 38
Hobble (v. t.) 將（馬等的）兩腳捆綁 To fetter by tying the legs; to hopple; to clog. " They hobbled their horses." -- Dickens
Hobble (v. t.) To perplex; to embarrass.
Hobble (n.) An unequal gait; a limp; a halt; as, he has a hobble in his gait. -- Swift.
Hobble (n.) 跛行 [C] [U]；縛住馬腳的繩子 [C] Same as Hopple.
Hobble (n.) Difficulty; perplexity; embarrassment. -- Waterton.
Hobble (n.) A shackle for the ankles or feet [syn: fetter, hobble].
Hobble (n.) The uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg [syn: hitch, hobble, limp].
Hobble (v.) Walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury; "The old woman hobbles down to the store every day" [syn: limp, gimp, hobble, hitch].
Hobble (v.) Hamper the action or progress of; "The chairman was hobbled by the all-powerful dean".
Hobble (v.) Strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the legs on the same side moving in unison; "hobble race horses" [syn: hopple, hobble].
Hobblebush (n.) (Bot.) A low bush ({Viburnum lantanoides) having long, straggling branches and handsome flowers. It is found in the Northern United States. Called also shinhopple. Hobbledehoy
Hobbledehoy (n.) Alt. of Hobbletehoy.
Hobbletehoy (n.) A youth between boy and man; an awkward, gawky young fellow . [Colloq.]
All the men, boys, and hobbledehoys attached to the farm. -- Dickens.
Hobbledehoy (n.) An awkward bad-mannered adolescent boy.
Hobbler (n.) One who hobbles.
Hobbler (n.) One who by his tenure was to maintain a horse for military service; a kind of light horseman in the Middle Ages who was mounted on a hobby. -- Hallam. Sir J. Davies.
Hobbler (n.) Someone who has a limp and walks with a hobbling gait [syn: hobbler, limper].
Hobblingly (adv.) With a limping step.
Hobbly (a.) Rough; uneven; causing one to hobble; as a hobbly road.
Hobbies (n. pl. ) of Hobby.
Hobby (n.) (Zool.) A small, strong-winged European falcon ({Falco subbuteo), formerly trained for hawking. Hobby
Hobby (n.) Alt. of Hobbyhorse.
Hobbyhorse (n.) A strong, active horse, of a middle size, said to have been originally from Ireland; an ambling nag. -- Johnson.
Hobbyhorse (n.) A stick, often with the head or figure of a horse, on which boys make believe to ride. [ Usually under the form hobbyhorse.]
Hobbyhorse (n.) A subject or plan upon which one is constantly setting off; a favorite and ever-recurring theme of discourse, thought, or effort; that which occupies one's attention unduly, or to the weariness of others; a ruling passion. [Usually under the form hobby.]
Not one of them has any hobbyhorse, to use the phrase of Sterne. -- Macaulay.
Hobby (n.) An auxiliary activity [syn: avocation, by-line, hobby, pursuit, sideline, spare-time activity].
Hobby (n.) A child's plaything consisting of an imitation horse mounted on rockers; the child straddles it and pretends to ride [syn: hobby, hobbyhorse, rocking horse].
Hobby (n.) Small Old World falcon formerly trained and flown at small birds [syn: hobby, Falco subbuteo].
Hobbyhorsical (n.) Pertaining to, or having, a hobby or whim; eccentric; whimsical. [Colloq.] -- Sterne.
Hobgoblin (n.) A frightful goblin; an imp; a bugaboo; also, a name formerly given to the household spirit, Robin Goodfellow. -- Macaulay.
Hobgoblin (n.) (Folklore) A small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings [syn: goblin, hob, hobgoblin].
Hobgoblin (n.) An object of dread or apprehension; "Germany was always a bugbear for France"; "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"--Ralph Waldo Emerson [syn: bugbear, hobgoblin].
Hobiler (n.) A light horseman. See 2d Hobbler. [Obs.] -- Brande & C.
Hobit (n.) (Mil.) A small mortar on a gun carriage, in use before the howitzer.
Hobnail (n.) A short, sharp-pointed, large-headed nail, -- used in shoeing houses and for studding the soles of heavy shoes.
Hobnail (n.) A clownish person; a rustic. -- Milton.
Hobnail liver (Med.), A disease in which the liver is shrunken, hard, and covered with projections like hobnails; one of the forms of cirrhosis of the liver.
Hobnail (v. t.) To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes.
Your rights and charters hobnailed into slush. -- Tennyson.
Hobnail (n.) A short nail with a thick head; used to protect the soles of boots.
Hobnail (v.) Supply with hobnails.
Hobnailed (a.) See with hobnails, as a shoe.
Hobnailed (a.) Marked by the wearing of heavy boots studded with hobnails; "hobnailed laborers".
Hobnob (adv.) Have or have not; -- a familiar invitation to reciprocal drinking. -- Shak.
Hobnob (adv.) At random; hit or miss. (Obs.) -- Holinshed.
Hornobbed (imp. & p. p.) of Hobnob.
Hornobbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hobnob.
Hobnob (v. i.) To drink familiarly (with another). [ Written also hob-a-nob.].
Hobnob (v. i.) To associate familiarly; to be on intimate terms ; as, to hobnob with the political elite.
Hobnob (n.) Familiar, social intercourse. -- W. Black.
Hobnob (v.) Rub elbows with; "He hobnobs with the best of society".
Hobo (n.) 流動勞工；遊民 A hobo is a migrant worker or homeless vagabond, especially one who is impoverished. The term originated in the Western - probably Northwestern - United States around 1890. [1] Unlike a "tramp", who works only when forced to, and a "bum", who does not work at all, a "hobo" is a traveling worker.
Hobo (n.; pl. Hobos or Hoboes.) A professional tramp; one who spends his life traveling from place to place, esp. by stealing rides on trains, and begging for a living. [U. S.] -- Ho"bo*ism, n.
Syn: tramp; bum; vagrant; knight of the road.
Hobo (n.) A disreputable vagrant; "a homeless tramp"; "he tried to help the really down-and-out bums" [syn: tramp, hobo, bum].
Hobornob (adv.) See Hobnob.
Hoboy (n.) A hautboy or oboe. [Obs.]
Hobson's choice () A choice without an alternative; the thing offered or nothing.
Note: It is said to have had its origin in the name of one Hobson, at Cambridge, England, who let horses, and required every customer to take in his turn the horse which stood next the stable door.
Hocco (n.) (Zool.) The crested curassow; -- called also royal pheasant. See Curassow.
Hochepot (n.) Hotchpot. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Hock (n.) A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still. The name is also given indiscriminately to all Rhenish wines. Hock
Hock (n.) Alt. of Hough.
Hough (n.) The joint in the hind limb of quadrupeds between the leg and shank, or tibia and tarsus, and corresponding to the ankle in man.
Hough (n.) A piece cut by butchers, esp. in pork, from either the front or hind leg, just above the foot.
Hough (n.) The popliteal space; the ham.
Hock (v. t.) To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.
Hock (v. t.) To pawn; as, to hock one's jewelry.
Hock (n.) The state of having been pawned; usually preceded by in; as, all her jewelry is in hock.
Hock (n.) The state of being in debt; as, it took him two years to get out of hock.
Hock (n.) Any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany (`hock' is British usage) [syn: Rhine wine, Rhenish, hock].
Hock (n.) Tarsal joint of the hind leg of hoofed mammals; corresponds to the human ankle [syn: hock, hock-joint].
Hock (v.) Leave as a guarantee in return for money; "pawn your grandfather's gold watch" [syn: pawn, soak, hock]
Hock (v.) Disable by cutting the hock.
Hockamore (n.) A Rhenish wine. [Obs.] See Hock. -- Hudibras.
Hockday (n.) A holiday commemorating the expulsion of the Danes, formerly observed on the second Tuesday after Easter; -- called also hocktide. [Eng.] [Written also hokeday.]
Hockey (n.) 曲棍球 [U] A game in which two parties of players, armed with sticks curved or hooked at the end, attempt to drive any small object (as a ball or a bit of wood) toward opposite goals.
Hockey (n.) The stick used by the players. [Written also hookey and hawkey.].
Hockey (n.) A game resembling ice hockey that is played on an open field; two opposing teams use curved sticks try to drive a ball into the opponents' net [syn: {field hockey}, {hockey}].
Hockey (n.) A game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of six skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents' goal with angled sticks [syn: {ice hockey}, {hockey}, {hockey game}].
Hockherb (n.) (Bot.) 錦葵屬植物 The mallow.
Hockled (imp. & p. p.) of Hockle.
Hockling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hockle.
Hockle (v. t.) To hamstring; to hock; to hough. -- Hanmer.
Hockle (v. t.) To mow, as stubble. -- Mason.
Hocus (v. t.) To deceive or cheat. -- Halliwell.
Hocus (v. t.) To adulterate; to drug; as, liquor is said to be hocused for the purpose of stupefying the drinker. -- Dickens.
Hocus (v. t.) To stupefy with drugged liquor. -- Thackeray.
Hocus (n.) One who cheats or deceives. -- South.
Hocus (n.) Drugged liquor.
Hocus-pocus (v. t.) To cheat. [Colloq.] -- L'Estrange.
Hocus-pocus (n.) A term used by jugglers in pretended incantations.
Hocus-pocus (n.) A juggler or trickster. [Archaic] -- Sir T. Herbert.
Hocus-pocus (n.) A magician's trick; a cheat; nonsense. -- Hudibras.
Hocus-pocus (n.) Obfuscating talk or elaborate but meaningless activity intended to hide a deception or to obscure what is actually happening; verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way.
Syn: trickery, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery.
Hocus-pocus (n.) Verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way [syn: {trickery}, {hocus-pocus}, {slickness}, {hanky panky}, {jiggery-pokery}, {skulduggery}, {skullduggery}].
Hocus-pocus (n.) A juggler's trick; a cheat; nonsense.
Hod (n.) A kind of wooden tray with a handle, having V-shaped trough, made of wood or metal, attached to a long handle and usually carried over the shoulder; it is a tool used by construction workers for carrying bricks or mortar.
Hod (n.) A utensil for holding coal; a coal scuttle.
Hod (n.) An open box attached to a long pole handle; bricks or mortar are carried on the shoulder.
HOD, () Host On Demand (IBM, HOD).
Hod, () Praise; confession.
Hoddengray (a.) Applied to coarse cloth made of undyed wool, formerly worn by Scotch peasants. [Scot.]
Hoddy (n.) (Zool.) See Dun crow, under Dun, a.
Compare: Dun
Dun (a.) Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy.
Summer's dun cloud comes thundering up. -- Pierpont.
Chill and dun Falls on the moor the brief November day. -- Keble.
Dun crow (Zool.), The hooded crow; -- so called from its color; -- also called hoody, and hoddy.
Dun diver (Zool.), The goosander or merganser.
Hoddydoddy (n.) An awkward or foolish person. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Hodgepodge (n.) A mixed mass; a medley. See Hotchpot. -- Johnson.
Hodgepodge (n.) A motley assortment of things [syn: odds and ends, oddments, melange, farrago, ragbag, mishmash, mingle-mangle, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, gallimaufry, omnium-gatherum].
Hodgepodge (n.) A theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas [syn: patchwork, hodgepodge, jumble].
Hodgkin's disease () (Med.) A morbid condition characterized by progressive anaemia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician. Hodiern
Hodiern (a.) Alt. of Hodiernal.
Hodiernal (a.) Of this day; belonging to the present day. [R.] -- Boyle. Quart. Rev.
Hodmen (n. pl. ) of Hodman.
Hodman (n.) A man who carries a hod; a mason's tender.
Hodman (n.) A laborer who carries supplies to masons or bricklayers [syn: hod carrier, hodman].
Hodmandod (n.) [Obs.] See Dodman. -- Bacon.
Hodograph (n.) (Math.) A curve described by the moving extremity of a line the other end of which is fixed, this line being constantly parallel to the direction of motion of, and having its length constantly proportional to the velocity of, a point moving in any path; -used in investigations respecting central forces.
Hodometer (n.) See also Odometer.
Hodometer (n.) A device for measuring the length of a path, consisting of a wheel of known circumference attached to a rod held in the hand, and pushed along a surface, which is usually the ground or a floor. The number of times the wheel makes a complete circle multiplied by the circumference is a measure of the length of the path traversed. It may be used to measure distances on curved as well as straight paths. A variant which registers the miles and rods traversed is sometimes used by surveyors.
Compare: Odometer
Odometer (n.) An instrument attached to a vehicle or connected, as by a flexible cable, to the wheel of a vehicle, which measures the distance traversed.
Odometer (n.) A hodometer.
Hodometer (n.) A meter that shows mileage traversed [syn: odometer, hodometer, mileometer, milometer].
Hoe (n.) A tool chiefly for digging up weeds, and arranging the earth about plants in fields and gardens. It is made of a flat blade of iron or steel having an eye or tang by which it is attached to a wooden handle at an acute angle.
Hoe (n.) The horned or piked dogfish. See Dogfish.
Hoed (imp. & p. p.) of Hoe.
Hoeing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hoe.
Hoe (v. t.) To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with a hoe; as, to hoe the earth in a garden; also, to clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe; as, to hoe corn.
To hoe one's row, to do one's share of a job. [Colloq.]
Hoe (v. i.) To use a hoe; to labor with a hoe.
Hoe (n.) A tool chiefly for digging up weeds, and arranging the earth about plants in fields and gardens. It is made of a flat blade of iron or steel having an eye or tang by which it is attached to a wooden handle at an acute angle.
Hoe (n.) (Zool.) The horned or piked dogfish. See Dogfish.
Dutch hoe, One having the blade set for use in the manner of a spade.
Horse hoe, A kind of cultivator.
Hoe (n.) A tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long.
Handle (v.) Dig with a hoe; "He is hoeing the flower beds".
Hoecake (n.) A cake of Indian meal, water, and salt, baked before the fire or in the ashes; -- so called because often cooked on a hoe. [Southern U.S.]
Hoecake (n.) Thin usually unleavened johnnycake made of cornmeal; originally baked on the blade of a hoe over an open fire (southern).
Hoemother (n.) (Zool.) The basking or liver shark; -- called also homer. See Liver shark, under Liver.
Liver (n.) (Anat.) A very large glandular and vascular organ in the visceral cavity of all vertebrates.
Note: Most of the venous blood from the alimentary canal passes through it on its way back to the heart; and it secretes the bile, produces glycogen, and in other ways changes the blood which passes through it. In man it is situated immediately beneath the diaphragm and mainly on the right side. See Bile, Digestive, and Glycogen. The liver of invertebrate animals is usually made up of c[ae]cal tubes, and differs materially, in form and function, from that of vertebrates.
Floating liver. See Wandering liver, under Wandering.
Liver of antimony, Liver of sulphur. (Old Chem.) See Hepar.
Liver brown, Liver color, The color of liver, a dark, reddish brown.
Liver shark (Zool.), A very large shark ({Cetorhinus maximus), inhabiting the northern coasts both of Europe and North America. It sometimes becomes forty feet in length, being one of the largest sharks known; but it has small simple teeth, and is not dangerous. It is captured for the sake of its liver, which often yields several barrels of oil. It has gill rakers, resembling whalebone, by means of which it separates small animals from the sea water. Called also basking shark, bone shark, hoemother, homer, and sailfish; it is sometimes referred to as whale shark, but that name is more commonly used for the Rhincodon typus, which grows even larger.
Liver spots, Yellowish brown patches on the skin, or spots of chloasma.
Hoful (a.) Careful; wary. [Obs.] -- Stapleton.
Hog (n.) (Zool.) A quadruped of the genus Sus, and allied genera of Suidae; esp., the domesticated varieties of S. scrofa, kept for their fat and meat, called, respectively, lard and pork; swine; porker; specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow.
Note: The domestic hogs of Siam, China, and parts of Southern Europe, are thought to have been derived from Sus Indicus.
Hog (n.) A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow. [Low.]
Hog (n.) A young sheep that has not been shorn. [Eng.]
Hog (n.) (Naut.) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water. -- Totten.
Hog (n.) (Paper Manuf.) A device for mixing and stirring the pulp of which paper is made.
Bush hog, Ground hog, etc.. See under Bush, Ground, etc.
Hog caterpillar (Zool.), The larva of the green grapevine sphinx; -- so called because the head and first three segments are much smaller than those behind them, so as to make a resemblance to a hog's snout. See Hawk moth.
Hog cholera, An epidemic contagious fever of swine, attended by liquid, fetid, diarrhea, and by the appearance on the skin and mucous membrane of spots and patches of a scarlet, purple, or black color. It is fatal in from one to six days, or ends in a slow, uncertain recovery. -- Law (Farmer's Veter. Adviser.)
Hog deer (Zool.), The axis deer.
Hog gum (Bot.), West Indian tree ({Symphonia globulifera"> Hog gum (Bot.), West Indian tree ({Symphonia globulifera), yielding an aromatic gum.
Hog of wool, The trade name for the fleece or wool of sheep of the second year.
Hog peanut (Bot.), A kind of earth pea.
Hog plum (Bot.), A tropical tree, of the genus Spondias ({Spondias lutea), with fruit somewhat resembling plums, but chiefly eaten by hogs. It is found in the West Indies.
Hog's bean (Bot.), The plant henbane.
Hog's bread (Bot.) See Sow bread.
Hog's fennel (Bot.) See under Fennel.
Mexican hog (Zool.), The peccary.
Water hog. (Zool.) See Capybara.
Hogged (imp. & p. p.) of Hog.
Hogging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hog.
Hog (v. t.) To cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a horse. -- Smart.
Hog (v. t.) (Naut.) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
Hog (v. i.) (Naut.) To become bent upward in the middle, like a hog's back; -- said of a ship broken or strained so as to have this form.
Hog (n.) A person regarded as greedy and pig-like [syn: hog, pig].
Hog (n.) A sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared [syn: hog, hogget, hogg].
Hog (n.) Domestic swine [syn: hog, pig, grunter, squealer, Sus scrofa].
Hog (v.) Take greedily; take more than one's share.
Hog (n.), (v. t.) Favored term to describe programs or hardware that seem to eat far more than their share of a system's resources, esp. those which noticeably degrade interactive response. Not used of programs that are simply extremely large or complex or that are merely painfully slow themselves.
More often than not encountered in qualified forms, e.g., memory hog, core hog, hog the processor, hog the disk. ?A controller that never gives up the I/O bus gets killed after the bus-hog timer expires.?
Hog (n.), (v. t.) Also said of people who use more than their fair share of resources (particularly disk, where it seems that 10% of the people use 90% of the disk, no matter how big the disk is or how many people use it). Of course, once disk hogs fill up one filesystem, they typically find some other new one to infect, claiming to the sysadmin that they have an important new project to complete.
Hog, () A term used to describe programs, hardware or people that use more than their share of a system's resources, especially those which noticeably degrade interactive response.
The term is usually qualified, e.g. "memory hog", "core hog", "hog the processor", "hog the disk". E.g. "A controller that never gives up the I/O bus gets killed after the bus-hog timer expires".
User also hog resources, particularly disk, where it seems that 10% of the people use 90% of the disk, no matter how big the disk is or how many people use it. Once a disk hog fills up one file system, he typically finds a new one to consume, claiming to the sysadmin that they have an important new project to complete. (2014-08-16)
HOG, (n.) A bird remarkable for the catholicity of its appetite and serving to illustrate that of ours. Among the Mahometans and Jews, the hog is not in favor as an article of diet, but is respected for the delicacy and the melody of its voice. It is chiefly as a songster that the fowl is esteemed; the cage of him in full chorus has been known to draw tears from two persons at once. The scientific name of this dicky-bird is _Porcus Rockefelleri_. Mr. Rockefeller did not discover the hog, but it is considered his by right of resemblance.
Hogback (n.) (Arch.) An upward curve or very obtuse angle in the upper surface of any member, as of a timber laid horizontally; -- the opposite of camber.
Hogback (n.) (Naut.) See Hogframe.
Hogback (n.) (Geol.) A ridge formed by tilted strata; hence, any ridge with a sharp summit, and steeply sloping sides.
Compare: Hogframe
Hogframe (n.) (Steam Vessels) A trussed frame extending fore and aft, usually above deck, and intended to increase the longitudinal strength and stiffness. Used chiefly in American river and lake steamers.
Called also hogging frame, and hogback.
Hogback (n.) A narrow ridge of hills [syn: hogback, horseback].
Hogchain (n.) A chain or tie rod, in a boat or barge, to prevent the vessel from hogging.
Hogchoker (n.) (Zool.) An American sole ({Achirus lineatus syn. Achirus achirus), related to the European sole, but of no market value.
Hogchoker (n.) Useless as food; in coastal streams from Maine to Texas and Panama [syn: hogchoker, Trinectes maculatus].