Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter H - Page 47
Horny-handed (a.) Having the hands horny and callous from labor.
Hornyhead (n.) Any North American river chub of the genus Hybopsis, esp. H. biguttatus.
Horography (n.) An account of the hours.
Horography (n.) The art of constructing instruments for making the hours, as clocks, watches, and dials.
Horologe (n.) A servant who called out the hours.
Horologe (n.) An instrument indicating the time of day; a timepiece of any kind; a watch, clock, or dial.
Horologer (n.) A maker or vender of clocks and watches; one skilled in horology.
Horological (a.) Relating to a horologe, or to horology.
Horologiographer (n.) A maker of clocks, watches, or dials.
Horologiographic (a.) Of or pertaining to horologiography.
Horologiography (n.) An account of instruments that show the hour.
Horologiography (n.) The art of constructing clocks or dials; horography.
Horologist (n.) One versed in horology.
Horology (n.) The science of measuring time, or the principles and art of constructing instruments for measuring and indicating portions of time, as clocks, watches, dials, etc.
Horometer (n.) An instrument for measuring time.
Horometrical (a.) Belonging to horometry.
Horometry (n.) The art, practice, or method of measuring time by hours and subordinate divisions.
Horopter (n.) The line or surface in which are situated all the points which are seen single while the point of sight, or the adjustment of the eyes, remains unchanged.
Horopteric (a.) Of or pertaining to the horopter.
Horoscope (n.) The representation made of the aspect of the heavens at the moment of a person's birth, by which the astrologer professed to foretell the events of the person's life; especially, the sign of the zodiac rising above the horizon at such a moment.
Horoscope (n.) The diagram or scheme of twelve houses or signs of the zodiac, into which the whole circuit of the heavens was divided for the purposes of such prediction of fortune.
Horoscope (n.) The planisphere invented by Jean Paduanus.
Horoscope (n.) A table showing the length of the days and nights at all places.
Horoscoper (n.) Alt. of Horoscopist
Horoscopist (n.) One versed in horoscopy; an astrologer.
Horoscopy (n.) The art or practice of casting horoscopes, or observing the disposition of the stars, with a view to prediction events.
Horoscopy (n.) Aspect of the stars at the time of a person's birth.
Horrendous (a.) Fearful; frightful.
Horrent (a.) Standing erect, as bristles; covered with bristling points; bristled; bristling.
Horrible (a.) 可怕的，令人毛骨悚然的； 【口】極討厭的，糟透的 Exciting, or tending to excite, horror or fear; dreadful; terrible; shocking; hideous; as, a horrible sight; a horrible story; a horrible murder.
A dungeon horrible on all sides round. -- Milton.
Syn: Dreadful; frightful; fearful; terrible; awful; terrific; shocking; hideous; horrid.
Horrible (a.) Provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible" - Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound" [syn: atrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible, ugly].
Horribleness (n.) 可怕，令人毛骨悚然；【口】極討厭 The state or quality of being horrible; dreadfulness; hideousness.
The horribleness of the mischief. -- Sir P. Sidney.
Horribly (adv.) 可怕地；【口】非常，極其 In a manner to excite horror; dreadfully; terribly.
Horribly (adv.) Of a dreadful kind; "there was a dreadfully bloody accident on the road this morning" [syn: dreadfully, awfully, horribly].
Horrid (a.) Rough; rugged; bristling.
Horrid (a.) Fitted to excite horror; dreadful; hideous; shocking; hence, very offensive.
Horridly (adv.) In a horrid manner.
Horridness (n.) The quality of being horrid.
Horrific (a.) 令人毛骨悚然的，可怖的 Causing horror; frightful.
Horrific (a.) Grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror; "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry" [syn: {hideous}, {horrid}, {horrific}, {outrageous}].
Horrific (a.) Causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse" [syn: {awful}, {dire}, {direful}, {dread(a)}, {dreaded}, {dreadful}, {fearful}, {fearsome}, {frightening}, {horrendous}, {horrific}, {terrible}].
Horrification (n.) That which causes horror.
Horrified (imp. & p. p.) of Horrify.
Horrifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Horrify.
Horrify (v. t.) To cause to feel horror; to strike or impress with horror; as, the sight horrified the beholders.
Horripilation (n.) A real or fancied bristling of the hair of the head or body, resulting from disease, terror, chilliness, etc.
Horrisonant (a.) Horrisonous.
Horrisonous (a.) Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound.
Horror (n.) A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement.
Horror (n.) A shaking, shivering, or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever; in old medical writings, a chill of less severity than a rigor, and more marked than an algor.
Horror (n.) A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking.
Horror (n.) That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness.
Horror-sticken (a.) Struck with horror; horrified.
Horror-struck (a.) Horror-stricken; horrified.
Hors de combat (a.) Out of the combat; disabled from fighting.
Hors d'oeuvre (n.) 前菜，是正餐中的第一道食物，在主菜之前上，起到開胃和打發時間的作用。不同地區的前菜也有不同的傳統。 An hors d'oeuvre; French: hors d'œuvre, appetizer [1] or starter [2] is a small dish served before a meal. [3] Some hors d'oeuvres are served cold, others hot. [4] Hors d'oeuvres may be served at the dinner table as a part of the meal, or they may be served before seating. Formerly, hors d'oeuvres were also served between courses. [5]
Typically smaller than a main dish, it is often designed to be eaten by hand (with minimal use of cutlery). [6]
Horse (n.) (Zool.) 馬 [C]；有腳的木架 [C]；【體】鞍馬；跳馬 [C]；（總稱）騎兵 [K]；【俚】海洛因 [U] A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus; especially, the domestic horse (E. caballus), which was domesticated in Egypt and Asia at a very early period. It has six broad molars, on each side of each jaw, with six incisors, and two canine teeth, both above and below. The mares usually have the canine teeth rudimentary or wanting. The horse differs from the true asses, in having a long, flowing mane, and the tail bushy to the base. Unlike the asses it has callosities, or chestnuts, on all its legs. The horse excels in strength, speed, docility, courage, and nobleness of character, and is used for drawing, carrying, bearing a rider, and like purposes.
Note: Many varieties, differing in form, size, color, gait, speed, etc., are known, but all are believed to have been derived from the same original species. It is supposed to have been a native of the plains of Central Asia, but the wild species from which it was derived is not certainly known. The feral horses of America are domestic horses that have run wild; and it is probably true that most of those of Asia have a similar origin.
Some of the true wild Asiatic horses do, however, approach the domestic horse in several characteristics.
Several species of fossil ({Equus) are known from the later Tertiary formations of Europe and America. The
fossil species of other genera of the family Equid[ae] are also often called horses, in general sense.
Horse (n.) The male of the genus horse, in distinction from the female or male; usually, a castrated male.
Horse (n.) Mounted soldiery; cavalry; -- used without the plural termination; as, a regiment of horse; -- distinguished from foot.
The armies were appointed, consisting of twenty-five thousand horse and foot. -- Bacon.
Horse (n.) A frame with legs, used to support something; as, a clotheshorse, a sawhorse, etc.
Horse (n.) A frame of timber, shaped like a horse, on which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
Horse (n.) Anything, actual or figurative, on which one rides as on a horse; a hobby.
Horse (n.) (Mining) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse -- said of a vein -- is to divide into branches for a distance.
Horse (n.) (Naut.) See Footrope, a.
Horse (n.) (Naut.) A breastband for a leadsman.
Horse (n.) (Naut.) An iron bar for a sheet traveler to slide upon.
Horse (n.) (Naut.) A jackstay. -- W. C. Russell. -- Totten.
Horse (n.) heroin. [slang]
Horse (n.) horsepower. [Colloq. contraction]
Note: Horse is much used adjectively and in composition to signify of, or having to do with, a horse or horses, like a horse, etc.; as, horse collar, horse dealer or horse?dealer, horsehoe, horse jockey; and hence, often in the sense of strong, loud, coarse, etc.; as, horselaugh, horse nettle or horse-nettle, horseplay, horse ant, etc.
Black horse, Blood horse, etc. See under Black, etc.
Horse aloes, Caballine aloes.
Horse+ant+(Zool.),+A+large+ant+({Formica+rufa">Horse ant (Zool.), a large ant ({Formica rufa); -- called also horse emmet.
Horse artillery, That portion of the artillery in which the cannoneers are mounted, and which usually serves with the cavalry; flying artillery.
Horse balm (Bot.), A strong-scented labiate plant ({Collinsonia Canadensis), having large leaves and yellowish flowers.
Horse bean (Bot.), A variety of the English or Windsor bean ({Faba vulgaris), grown for feeding horses.
Horse boat, A boat for conveying horses and cattle, or a boat propelled by horses.
Horse bot. (Zool.) See Botfly, and Bots.
Horse box, A railroad car for transporting valuable horses, as hunters. [Eng.]
Horse breaker or Horse trainer, One employed in subduing or training horses for use.
Horse car. (a) A railroad car drawn by horses. See under Car.
Horse car. (b) A car fitted for transporting horses.
Horse cassia (Bot.), A leguminous plant ({Cassia Javanica), bearing long pods, which contain a black, catharic pulp, much used in the East Indies as a horse medicine.
Horse cloth, A cloth to cover a horse.
Horse conch (Zool.), A large, spiral, marine shell of the genus Triton. See Triton.
Horse courser. (a) One that runs horses, or keeps horses for racing. -- Johnson.
Horse courser. (b) A dealer in horses. [Obs.] --Wiseman.
Horse crab (Zool.), The Limulus; -- called also horsefoot, horsehoe crab, and king crab.
Horse crevall['e] (Zool.), The cavally.
Horse emmet (Zool.), The horse ant.
Horse finch (Zool.), The chaffinch. [Prov. Eng.]
Horse gentian (Bot.), Fever root.
Horse iron (Naut.), A large calking iron.
Horse latitudes, A space in the North Atlantic famous for calms and baffling winds, being between the westerly winds of higher latitudes and the trade winds. -- Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Horse mackrel. (Zool.) (a) The common tunny ({Orcynus thunnus), found on the Atlantic coast of Europe and America, and in the Mediterranean.
Horse mackrel. (Zool.) (b) The bluefish ({Pomatomus saltatrix).
Horse mackrel. (Zool.) (c) The scad.
Horse mackrel. (Zool.) (d) The name is locally applied to various other fishes, as the California hake, the black candlefish, the jurel, the bluefish, etc.
Horse marine (Naut.), An awkward, lubbery person; one of a mythical body of marine cavalry. [Slang]
Horse mussel (Zool.), A large, marine mussel ({Modiola modiolus), found on the northern shores of Europe and America.
Horse nettle (Bot.), A coarse, prickly, American herb, the Solanum Carolinense.
Horse parsley. (Bot.) See Alexanders.
Horse purslain (Bot.), A coarse fleshy weed of tropical America ({Trianthema monogymnum).
Horse race, A race by horses; a match of horses in running or trotting.
Horse racing, The practice of racing with horses.
Horse railroad, A railroad on which the cars are drawn by horses; -- in England, and sometimes in the United States, called a tramway.
Horse run (Civil Engin.), A device for drawing loaded wheelbarrows up an inclined plane by horse power.
Horse sense, Strong common sense. [Colloq. U.S.]
Horse soldier, A cavalryman.
Horse sponge (Zool.), A large, coarse, commercial sponge ({Spongia equina).
Horse stinger (Zool.), A large dragon fly. [Prov. Eng.]
Horse sugar (Bot.), A shrub of the southern part of the United States ({Symplocos tinctoria), Whose leaves are sweet, and good for fodder.
Horse tick (Zool.), A winged, dipterous insect ({Hippobosca equina), which troubles horses by biting them, and sucking their blood; -- called also horsefly, horse louse, and forest fly.
Horse vetch (Bot.), A plant of the genus Hippocrepis ({Hippocrepis comosa), cultivated for the beauty of its flowers; -- called also horsehoe vetch, from the peculiar shape of its pods.
Iron horse, A locomotive. [Colloq.]
Salt horse, The sailor's name for salt beef.
To look a gift horse in the mouth, To examine the mouth of a horse which has been received as a gift, in order to ascertain his age; -- hence, to accept favors in a critical and thankless spirit. -- Lowell.
To take horse. (a) To set out on horseback. -- Macaulay.
To take horse. (b) To be covered, as a mare.
To take horse. (c) See definition 7 (above).
Horsed (imp. & p. p.) of Horse.
Horsing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Horse.
Horse (v. t.) 使……騎上馬；為……備馬 To provide with a horse, or with horses; to mount on, or as on, a horse. "Being better horsed, outrode me." -- Shak.
Horse (v. t.) To sit astride of; to bestride. -- Shak.
Horse (v. t.) To mate with (a mare); -- said of the male.
Horse (v. t.) To take or carry on the back; as, the keeper, horsing a deer. -- S. Butler.
Horse (v. t.) To place on the back of another, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.
Horse (v. i.) 騎馬，【口】作弄人 (Obsolete) To get on horseback. [Obs.] -- Shelton.
Horse (n.) Solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times [syn: horse, Equus caballus].
Horse (n.) A padded gymnastic apparatus on legs [syn: horse, gymnastic horse].
Horse (n.) Troops trained to fight on horseback; "500 horse led the attack" [syn: cavalry, horse cavalry, horse].
Horse (n.) A framework for holding wood that is being sawed [syn: sawhorse, horse, sawbuck, buck].
Horse (n.) A chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa) [syn: knight, horse].
Horse (v.) Provide with a horse or horses.
Horse, () Always referred to in the Bible in connection with warlike operations, except Isa. 28:28. The war-horse is described Job 39:19-25. For a long period after their settlement in Canaan the Israelites made no use of horses, according to the prohibition, Deut. 17:16. David was the first to form a force of cavalry (2 Sam. 8:4). But Solomon, from his connection with Egypt, greatly multiplied their number (1 Kings 4:26; 10:26, 29). After this, horses were freely used in Israel (1 Kings 22:4; 2 Kings 3:7; 9:21, 33; 11:16). The furniture of the horse consisted simply of a bridle (Isa. 30:28) and a curb (Ps. 32:9).
HORSE. () Until a horse has attained the age of four years, he is called a colt. (q.v.) Russ. & Ry. 416. This word is sometimes used as a generic name for all animals of the horse kind. 3 Brev. 9. Vide Colt; Gender; and Yelv. 67, a.
Horseback (n.) 馬背；【地】峻峭的山脊；【美】馬背嶺 The back of a horse.
Horseback (n.) An extended ridge of sand, gravel, and bowlders, in a half-stratified condition. -- Agassiz.
On horseback, on the back of a horse; mounted or riding on a horse or horses; in the saddle.
The long journey was to be performed on horseback. -- Prescott.
Horseback (adv.) 在馬背上，騎在馬上 On the back of a horse; "he rode horseback to town"; "managed to escape ahorse"; "policeman patrolled the streets ahorseback" [syn: {horseback}, {ahorse}, {ahorseback}].
Horseback (n.) The back of a horse.
Horseback (n.) A narrow ridge of hills [syn: {hogback}, {horseback}].
Horse-chestnut (n.) (Bot.) The large nutlike seed of a species of Aesculus ({Aesculus Hippocastanum), formerly ground, and fed to horses, whence the name. The seed is not considered edible by humans.
Horse-chestnut (n.) (Bot.) The tree itself ({Aesculus hippocastanum), which was brought from Constantinople in the beginning of the sixteenth century, and is now common in the temperate zones of both hemispheres; it has palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds. The native American species is also called buckeye and conker.
Horse-drench (n.) A dose of physic for a horse. -- Shak.
Horse-drench (n.) The appliance by which the dose is administred.
Horsefish (n.) (Zool.) The moonfish ({Selene setipinnis).
Horsefish (n.) The sauger.
Compare: Moonfish
Moonfish (n.) (Zool.) (a) An American marine fish ({Vomer setipennis); -- called also bluntnosed shiner, horsefish, and sunfish.
Moonfish (n.) (Zool.) (b) A broad, thin, silvery marine fish ({Selene vomer); -- called also lookdown, and silver moonfish.
Moonfish (n.) (Zool.) (c) The mola. See Sunfish, 1.
Horsefish (n.) Any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies [syn: moonfish, Atlantic moonfish, horsefish, horsehead, horse-head, dollarfish, Selene setapinnis].
Horseflesh (n.) The flesh of horses.
Syn: horsemeat.
The Chinese eat horseflesh at this day. -- Bacon.
Horseflesh (n.) Horses, generally; the qualities of a horse; as, he is a judge of horseflesh. [Colloq.]
Horseflesh ore (Min.), A miner's name for bornite, in allusion to its peculiar reddish color on fresh facture.
Horseflesh (n.) The flesh of horses as food [syn: horsemeat, horseflesh].
Horseflies (n. pl. ) of Horsefly
Horsefly (n.) (Zool.) Any dipterous fly of the family Tabanidae, that stings horses, and sucks their blood.
Note: Of these flies there are numerous species, both in Europe and America. They have a large proboscis with four sharp lancets for piercing the skin. Called also breeze fly. See Illust. under Diptera, and Breeze fly.
Horsefly (n.) (Zool.) The horse tick or forest fly ({Hippobosca).
Compare: Breeze
Breeze, Breeze fly (n.) (Zool.) A fly of various species, of the family Tabanid[ae], noted for buzzing about animals, and tormenting them by sucking their blood; -- called also horsefly, and gadfly. They are among the largest of two-winged or dipterous insects. The name is also given to different species of botflies. [Written also breese and brize.]
Horsefly (n.) Winged fly parasitic on horses [syn: horse tick, horsefly, Hippobosca equina].
Horsefly (n.) Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals [syn: horsefly, cleg, clegg, horse fly].
Horsefeet (n. pl. ) of Horsefoot.
Horsefoot (n.) (Bot.) The coltsfoot.
Horsefoot (n.) (Zool.) The Limulus or horseshoe crab.
Horse Guards () (Mil.) A body of cavalry so called; esp., a British regiment, called the Royal Horse Guards, which furnishes guards of state for the sovereign.
The Horse Guards, A name given to the former headquarters of the commander in chief of the British army, at Whitehall in London.
Horsehair (n.) A hair of a horse, especially one from the mane or tail; the hairs of the mane or tail taken collectively; Specifically: a black shiny fabric made of such hairs, used commonly in the 1800's as a covering for stuffed furniture such as chairs and couches.
Horsehair worm (Zool.), The hair worm or gordius.
Horsehair (n.) Hair taken from the mane or tail of a horse.
Horsehair (n.) A fabric made from fibers taken from the mane or tail of horses; used for upholstery.
Compare: Scoter
Scoter (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of northern sea ducks of the genus Oidemia.
Note: The European scoters are Oidemia nigra, called also black duck, black diver, surf duck; and the velvet, or double, scoter ({Oidemia fusca). The common American species are the velvet, or white-winged, scoter ({Oidemia Deglandi), called also velvet duck, white-wing, bull coot, white-winged coot; the black scoter ({Oidemia Americana), called also black coot, butterbill, coppernose; and the surf scoter, or surf duck ({Oidemia perspicillata), called also baldpate, skunkhead, horsehead, patchhead, pishaug, and spectacled coot. These birds are collectively called also coots. The females and young are called gray coots, and brown coots.
Horsehead (n.) (Zool.) The silver moonfish ({Selene vomer).
Horsehead (n.) Any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies [syn: moonfish, Atlantic moonfish, horsefish, horsehead, horse-head, dollarfish, Selene setapinnis].
Horsehide (n.) The hide of a horse.
Horsehide (n.) Leather made of the hide of a horse.
Horsehide (n.) Leather from the hide of a horse.
Horse-jockey (n.) A professional rider and trainer of race horses.
Horse-jockey (n.) A trainer and dealer in horses.
Horseknop (n.) (Bot.) Knapweed.
Horselaugh (n.) A loud, boisterous laugh; a guffaw. -- Pope.
Horse-leech (n.) (Zool.) A large blood-sucking leech ({Haemopsis vorax), of Europe and Northern Africa. It attacks the lips and mouths of horses.
Horse-leech (n.) A farrier; a veterinary surgeon.
Horse-leech, () Occurs only in Prov. 30:15 (Heb. 'alukah); the generic name for any blood-sucking annelid. There are various species in the marshes and pools of Palestine. That here referred to, the Hoemopis, is remarkable for the coarseness of its bite, and is therefore not used for medical purposes. They are spoken of in the East with feelings of aversion and horror, because of their propensity to fasten on the tongue and nostrils of horses when they come to drink out of the pools. The medicinal leech (Hirudo medicinalis), besides other species of leeches, are common in the waters of Syria.
Horse-leechery (n.) The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses.
Horse-litter (n.) A carriage hung on poles, and borne by and between two horses. -- Milton.
Horsemen (n. pl. ) of Horseman