Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter H - Page 46
Hoppet (n.) An infant in arms. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Hopping (n.) The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing.
Hopping (n.) A gathering of hops.
Hoppled (imp. & p. p.) of Hopple.
Hoppling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hopple.
Hopple (v. t.) To impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hamper; to hobble; as, to hopple an unruly or straying horse.
Hopple (v. t.) Fig.: To entangle; to hamper.
Hopple (n.) A fetter for horses, or cattle, when turned out to graze; -- chiefly used in the plural.
Hopplebush (n.) Same as Hobblebush.
Hoppo (n.) A collector of customs, as at Canton; an overseer of commerce.
Hoppo (n.) A tribunal or commission having charge of the revenue derived from trade and navigation.
Hopscotch (n.) 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.
Hop-thumb (n.) See Hop-o'-my-thumb.
Hopyard (n.) A field where hops are raised.
Horal (a.) Of or pertaining to an hour, or to hours.
Horaly (adv.) Hourly.
Horary (a.) Of or pertaining to an hour; noting the hours.
Horary (a.) Occurring once an hour; continuing an hour; hourly; ephemeral.
Horatian (a.) Of or pertaining to Horace, the Latin poet, or resembling his style.
Horde (n.) A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude.
Hordeic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, barley; as, hordeic acid, an acid identical or isomeric with lauric acid.
Hordein (n.) A peculiar starchy matter contained in barley. It is complex mixture.
Hordeolum (n.) A small tumor upon the eyelid, resembling a grain of barley; a sty.
Hordock (n.) An unidentified plant mentioned by Shakespeare, perhaps equivalent to burdock.
Hore (a.) Hoar.
Horehound (n.) A plant of the genus Marrubium (M. vulgare), which has a bitter taste, and is a weak tonic, used as a household remedy for colds, coughing, etc.
Horizon (n.) 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.
And when the morning sun shall raise his car Above the border of this horizon. -- Shak.
All the horizon round Invested with bright rays. -- Milton.
Horizon (n.) (Astron.) A plane passing through the eye of the spectator and at right angles to the vertical at a given place; a plane tangent to the earth's surface at that place; called distinctively the sensible horizon.
Horizon (n.) (Astron.) A plane parallel to the sensible horizon of a place, and passing through the earth's center; -- called also rational horizon or celestial horizon.
Horizon (n.) (Astron.) (Naut.) The unbroken line separating sky and water, as seen by an eye at a given elevation, no land being visible.
Horizon (n.) (Geol.) The epoch or time during which a deposit was made.
The strata all over the earth, which were formed at the same time, are said to belong to the same geological horizon. -- Le Conte.
Horizon (n.) (Painting) The chief horizontal line in a picture of any sort, which determines in the picture the height of the eye of the spectator; in an extended landscape, the representation of the natural horizon corresponds with this line.
Horizon (n.) The limit of a person's range of perception, capabilities, or experience; as, children raised in the inner city have limited horizons.
Horizon (n.) [fig.] A boundary point or line, or a time point, beyond which new knowledge or experiences may be found; as, more powerful computers are just over the horizon.
Apparent horizon. See under Apparent.
Artificial horizon, A level mirror, as the surface of mercury in a shallow vessel, or a plane reflector adjusted to the true level artificially; -- used chiefly with the sextant for observing the double altitude of a celestial body.
Celestial horizon. (Astron.) See def. 2, above.
Dip of the horizon (Astron.), The vertical angle between the sensible horizon and a line to the visible horizon, the latter always being below the former.
Rational horizon, and Sensible horizon. (Astron.) See def. 2, above.
Visible horizon. See definitions 1 and 2, above.
Horizon (n.) The line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet [syn: horizon, apparent horizon, visible horizon, sensible horizon, skyline].
Horizon (n.) The range of interest or activity that can be anticipated; "It is beyond the horizon of present knowledge" [syn: horizon, view, purview].
Horizon (n.) A specific layer or stratum of soil or subsoil in a vertical cross section of land.
Horizon (n.) The great circle on the celestial sphere whose plane passes through the sensible horizon and the center of the Earth [syn: horizon, celestial horizon].
Horizontal (a.) Pertaining to, or near, the horizon. "Horizontal misty air." -- Milton.
Horizontal (a.) Parallel to the horizon; on a level; as, a horizontalline or surface.
Horizontal (a.) Measured or contained in a plane of the horizon; as, horizontal distance.
Horizontal drill, A drilling machine having a horizontal drill spindle.
Horizontal engine, One the piston of which works horizontally.
Horizontal fire (Mil.), The fire of ordnance and small arms at point-blank range or at low angles of elevation.
Horizontal force (Physics), The horizontal component of the earth's magnetic force.
Horizontal line (Descriptive Geometry & Drawing), A constructive line, either drawn or imagined, which passes through the point of sight, and is the chief line in the projection upon which all verticals are fixed, and upon which all vanishing points are found.
Horizontal parallax. See under Parallax.
Horizontal plane (Descriptive Geometry), A plane parallel to the horizon, upon which it is assumed that objects are projected. See Projection. It is upon the horizontal plane that the ground plan of the buildings is supposed to be drawn.
Horizontal projection, A projection made on a plane parallel to the horizon.
Horizontal range (Gunnery), The distance in a horizontal plane to which a gun will throw a projectile.
Horizontal
water wheel, A
water wheel in which the axis is vertical, the buckets or floats
revolving in a horizontal plane, as in most turbines.
Horizontal (a.) Parallel to or in the plane of
the horizon or a base line; "a horizontal surface" [ant:
inclined, perpendicular, vertical].
Horizontal (n.) Something that is oriented horizontally.
Horizontality (n.) The state or quality of being horizontal. -- Kirwan.
Horizontality (n.) The quality of being parallel to the horizon; "houses with a pronounced horizontality."
Horizontally (adv.) In a horizontal direction or position; on a level; as, moving horizontally.
Horizontally (adv.) In a horizontal direction; "a gallery quite often is added to make use of space vertically as well as horizontally."
Hormogonium (n.) (Bot.) A chain of small cells in certain algae, by which the plant is propogated.
Horn (n.) A hard, projecting, and usually pointed organ, growing upon the heads of certain animals, esp. of the ruminants, as cattle, goats, and the like. The hollow horns of the Ox family consist externally of true horn, and are never shed.
Horn (n.) The antler of a deer, which is of bone throughout, and annually shed and renewed.
Horn (n.) (Zool.) Any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form; esp.:
Horn (n.) (Zool.) (a) A projection from the beak of a bird, as in the hornbill.
Horn (n.) (Zool.) (b) A tuft of feathers on the head of a bird, as in the horned owl.
Horn (n.) (Zool.) (c) A hornlike projection from the head or thorax of an insect, or the head of a reptile, or fish.
Horn (n.) (Zool.) (d) A sharp spine in front of the fins of a fish, as in the horned pout.
Horn (n.) (Bot.) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed ({Asclepias).
Horn (n.) Something made of a horn, or in resemblance of a horn; as:
Horn (n.) A wind instrument of music; originally, one made of a horn (of an ox or a ram); now applied to various elaborately wrought instruments of brass or other metal, resembling a horn in shape. "Wind his horn under the castle wall." -- Spenser. See French horn, under French.
Horn (n.) A drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle. "Horns of mead and ale." -- Mason.
Horn (n.) The cornucopia, or horn of plenty. See Cornucopia. "Fruits and flowers from Amalth[ae]a's horn." -- Milton.
Horn (n.) A vessel made of a horn; esp., one designed for containing powder; anciently, a small vessel for carrying liquids. "Samuel took the hornof oil and anointed him [David]." -- 1 Sam. xvi. 13.
Horn (n.) The pointed beak of an anvil.
Horn (n.) The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
Horn (n.) (Arch.) The Ionic volute.
Horn (n.) (Naut.) The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
Horn (n.) (Carp.) A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
Horn (n.) One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering. "Joab . . . caught hold on the horns of the altar." -- 1 Kings ii. 28.
Horn (n.) One of the curved ends of a crescent; esp., an extremity or cusp of the moon when crescent-shaped.
The moon Wears a wan circle round her blunted horns. -- Thomson.
Horn (n.) (Mil.) The curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form.
Sharpening in mooned horns Their phalanx. -- Milton.
Horn (n.) The tough, fibrous material of which true horns are composed, being, in the Ox family, chiefly albuminous, with some phosphate of lime; also, any similar substance, as that which forms the hoof crust of horses, sheep, and cattle; as, a spoon of horn.
Horn (n.) (Script.) A symbol of strength, power, glory, exaltation, or pride.
The Lord is . . . the horn of my salvation. -- Ps. xviii. 2.
Horn (n.) An emblem of a cuckold; -- used chiefly in the plural. "Thicker than a cuckold's horn." -- Shak.
Horn (n.) the telephone; as, on the horn. [slang]
Horn (n.) A body of water shaped like a horn; as, the Golden Horn in Istanbul.
Horn block, The frame or pedestal in which a railway car axle box slides up and down; -- also called horn plate.
Horn of a dilemma. See under Dilemma.
Horn distemper, A disease of cattle, affecting the internal substance of the horn.
Horn drum, A wheel with long curved scoops, for raising water.
Horn lead (Chem.), Chloride of lead.
Horn maker, A maker of cuckolds. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Horn mercury. (Min.) Same as Horn quicksilver (below).
Horn poppy (Bot.), A plant allied to the poppy ({Glaucium luteum), found on the sandy shores of Great Britain and Virginia; -- called also horned poppy. -- Gray.
Horn pox (Med.), Abortive smallpox with an eruption like that of chicken pox.
Horn quicksilver (Min.), Native calomel, or bichloride of mercury.
Horn shell (Zool.), Any long, sharp, spiral, gastropod shell, of the genus Cerithium, and allied genera.
Horn silver (Min.), Cerargyrite.
Horn slate, A gray, siliceous stone.
To pull in one's horns, To haul in one's horns, To withdraw some arrogant pretension; to cease a demand or withdraw an assertion. [Colloq.]
To raise the horn, or To lift the horn (Script.), to exalt one's self; to act arrogantly. "'Gainst them that raised thee dost thou lift thy horn?" -- Milton.
To take a horn, To take a drink of intoxicating liquor. [Low]
Horn (v. t.) To furnish with horns; to give the shape of a horn to.
Horn (v. t.) To cause to wear horns; to cuckold. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Horn (n.) A noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it.
Horn (n.) One of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates.
Horn (n.) A noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning.
Horn (n.) A high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather) [syn: horn, saddle horn].
Horn (n.) A brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves [syn: cornet, horn, trumpet, trump].
Horn (n.) Any hard protuberance from the head of an organism that is similar to or suggestive of a horn.
Horn (n.) The material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails.
Horn (n.) A device having the shape of a horn; "horns at the ends of a new moon"; "the hornof an anvil"; "the cleat had two horns."
Horn (n.) An alarm device that makes a loud warning sound.
Horn (n.) A brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves [syn: French horn, horn].
Horn (n.) A device on an automobile for making a warning noise [syn: automobile horn, car horn, motor horn, horn, hooter].
Horn (v.) Stab or pierce with a horn or tusk; "the rhino horned the explorer" [syn: horn, tusk].
Horn, () Trumpets were at first horns perforated at the tip, used for various purposes (Josh. 6:4,5).
Flasks or vessels were made of horn (1 Sam. 16:1, 13; 1 Kings 1:39).
But the word is used also metaphorically to denote the projecting corners of the altar of burnt offerings (Ex. 27:2) and of incense (30:2). The horns of the altar of burnt offerings were to be smeared with the blood of the slain bullock (29:12; Lev. 4:7-18). The criminal, when his crime was accidental, found an asylum by laying hold of the horns of the altar (1 Kings 1:50; 2:28).
The word also denotes the peak or summit of a hill (Isa. 5:1, where the word "hill" is the rendering of the same Hebrew word). This word is used metaphorically also for strength (Deut. 33:17) and honour (Job 16:15; Lam. 2:3). Horns are emblems of power, dominion, glory, and fierceness, as they are the chief means of attack and defence with the animals endowed with them (Dan. 8:5, 9; 1 Sam. 2:1; 16:1, 13; 1 Kings 1:39; 22:11; Josh. 6:4, 5; Ps. 75:5, 10; 132:17; Luke 1:69, etc.). The expression "horn of salvation," applied to Christ, means a salvation of strength, or a strong Saviour (Luke 1:69). To have the horn "exalted" denotes prosperity and triumph (Ps. 89:17, 24). To "lift up" the horn is to act proudly (Zech. 1:21). Horns are also the symbol of royal dignity and power (Jer. 48:25; Zech. 1:18; Dan. 8:24).
Hornbeak (n.) A fish. See Hornfish.
Hornbeam (n.) A tree of the genus Carpinus (C. 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 C. Betulus. The American is called also blue beech and water beech.
Hornbill (n.) Any bird of the family Bucerotidae, of which about sixty species are known, belonging to numerous genera. They inhabit the tropical parts of Asia, Africa, and the East Indies, and are remarkable for having a more or less horn-like protuberance, which is usually large and hollow and is situated on the upper side of the beak. The size of the hornbill varies from that of a pigeon to that of a raven, or even larger. They feed chiefly upon fruit, but some species eat dead animals.
Hornblende (n.) The common black, or dark green or brown, variety of amphibole. (See Amphibole.) It belongs to the aluminous division of the species, and is also characterized by its containing considerable iron. Also used as a general term to include the whole species.
Hornblendic (a.) Composed largely of hornblende; resembling or relating to hornblende.
Hornblower (n.) One who, or that which, blows a horn.
Hornbook (n.) 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.
Hornbook (n.) A book containing the rudiments of any science or branch of knowledge; a manual; a handbook.
Hornbug (n.) A large nocturnal beetle of the genus Lucanus (as L. capreolus, and L. dama), having long, curved upper jaws, resembling a sickle. The grubs are found in the trunks of old trees.
Horned (a.) Furnished with a horn or horns; furnished with a hornlike process or appendage; as, horned cattle; having some part shaped like a horn.
Hornedness (n.) The condition of being horned.
Hornel (n.) The European sand eel.
Horner (n.) One who works or deal in horn or horns.
Horner (n.) One who winds or blows the horn.
Horner (n.) One who horns or cuckolds.
Horner (n.) The British sand lance or sand eel (Ammodytes lanceolatus).
Hornet (n.) 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 (V. maculata) is larger and has similar habits.
Hornfish (n.) The garfish or sea needle.
Hornfoot (a.) Having hoofs; hoofed.
Hornify (v. t.) To horn; to cuckold.
Horning (n.) Appearance of the moon when increasing, or in the form of a crescent.
Hornish (a.) Somewhat like horn; hard.
Hornito (n.) A low, oven-shaped mound, common in volcanic regions, and emitting smoke and vapors from its sides and summit.
Hornless (a.) Having no horn.
Horn-mad (a.) Quite mad; -- raving crazy.
Horn of Africa (n.) 非洲之角（索馬利亞語：Geeska Afrika；吉茲語：የአፍሪካ ቀንድ；阿拉伯語：القرن الأفريقي），有時按照其地理位置，又稱東北非洲[註 1]，作為一個半島，則又稱索馬利亞半島。非洲之角位於非洲東北部，是東非的一個半島，在亞丁灣南岸，向東伸入阿拉伯海數百公里。它是非洲大陸最東的地區，非洲大陸最東端的哈豐角也位於這個地區。
作為一個更大的地區概念，非洲之角包括了吉布地、衣索比亞、厄利垂亞和索馬利亞[註 2]等國家[9][10][11][12] 。非洲之角面積約2,000,000平方公里，人口約9020萬（衣索比亞7500萬，索馬利亞1000萬，厄利垂亞450萬，吉布地70萬）。
The Horn of Africa (Somali: Geeska Afrika, Oromo: Gaaffaa Afriikaa, Amharic: የአፍሪካ ቀንድ? yäafrika qänd, Arabic: القرن الأفريقي al-qarn al-'afrīqī, Tigrinya: ቀርኒ ኣፍሪቃ?) (shortened to HOA) is a peninsula in Northeast Africa. It juts hundreds of kilometers into the Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean, lying along the southern side of the Gulf of Aden. The area is the easternmost projection of the African continent. The Horn of Africa denotes the region containing the countries of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia.[1][2][3][4]
It covers approximately 2,000,000 km2 (770,000 sq mi) and is inhabited by roughly 115 million people (Ethiopia: 96.6 million, Somalia: 12.3 million, Eritrea: 6.4 million, and Djibouti: 0.81 million). Regional studies on the Horn of Africa are carried out, among others, in the fields of Ethiopian Studies as well as Somali Studies.
Hornotine (n.) A yearling; a bird of the year.
Hornowl (n.) See Horned Owl.
Hornpike (n.) The garfish.
Hornpipe (n.) 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.
Hornpipe (n.) A lively tune played on a hornpipe, for dancing; a tune adapted for such playing.
Hornpout (n.) See Horned pout, under Horned.
Hornsnake (n.) A harmless snake (Farancia abacura), found in the Southern United States. The color is bluish black above, red below.
Hornstone (n.) A siliceous stone, a variety of quartz, closely resembling flint, but more brittle; -- called also chert.
Horntail (n.) Any one of family (Uroceridae) of large hymenopterous insects, allied to the sawflies. The larvae bore in the wood of trees. So called from the long, stout ovipositors of the females.
Hornwork (n.) An outwork composed of two demibastions joined by a curtain. It is connected with the works in rear by long wings.
Hornwort (n.) An aquatic plant (Ceratophyllum), with finely divided leaves.
Hornwrack (n.) A bryozoan of the genus Flustra.
Horny (a.) （有）角的；角狀的；【美】【俗】好色的 Having horns or hornlike projections. -- Gay.
Horny (a.) Composed or made of horn, or of a substance resembling horn; of the nature of horn. "The horny . . . coat of the eye." -- Ray.
Horny (a.) Hard; callous. "His horny fist." -- Dryden.
Horny (a.) Feeling great sexual desire; "feeling horny" [syn: {aroused}, {horny}, {randy}, {ruttish}, {steamy}, {turned on(p)}].
Horny (a.) Having horns or hornlike projections; "horny coral"; "horny (or horned) frog".
Horny (a.) Made of horn (or of a substance resembling horn) [syn: {corneous}, {hornlike}, {horny}].