HORSE-CUCUMBER — HOUNDTREE

HORSE-CUCUMBER — HOUNDTREE NWAD HORSE-CUCUMBER.1

HORSE-CUCUMBER, n. A large green cucumber. NWAD HORSE-CUCUMBER.1

HORSEDEALER, n. One who buys and sells horses. NWAD HORSEDEALER.1

HORSEDRENCH, n. A dose of physic for a horse. NWAD HORSEDRENCH.1

HORSEDUNG, n. The dung of horses. NWAD HORSEDUNG.1

HORSE-EMMET, n. A species of large ant. NWAD HORSE-EMMET.1

HORSEFACED, a. Having a long coarse face; ugly. NWAD HORSEFACED.1

HORSEFLESH, n. The flesh of a horse. NWAD HORSEFLESH.1

HORSEFLY, n. A large fly that stings horses. NWAD HORSEFLY.1

HORSEFOOT, n. A plant, called also coltsfoot. NWAD HORSEFOOT.1

HORSEGUARDS, n. A body of cavalry for guards. NWAD HORSEGUARDS.1

HORSEHAIR, n. The hair of horses. NWAD HORSEHAIR.1

HORSEHOE, v.t. To hoe or clean a field by means of horses. NWAD HORSEHOE.1

HORSEKNAVE, n. A groom. NWAD HORSEKNAVE.1

HORSE-KEEPER, n. One who keeps or takes care of horses. NWAD HORSE-KEEPER.1

HORSELAUGH, n. A loud, boisterous laugh. NWAD HORSELAUGH.1

HORSELEECH, n. A large leech. [See Leech.] NWAD HORSELEECH.1

1. A farrier. NWAD HORSELEECH.2

HORSELITTER, n. A carriage hung on poles which are borne by and between two horses. NWAD HORSELITTER.1

HORSELOAD, n. A load for a horse. NWAD HORSELOAD.1

HORSEMAN, n. A rider on horseback. NWAD HORSEMAN.1

1. A man skilled in riding. NWAD HORSEMAN.2

2. A soldier who serves on horseback. NWAD HORSEMAN.3

HORSEMANSHIP, n. The act of riding, and of training and managing horses. NWAD HORSEMANSHIP.1

HORSEMARTEN, n. A kind of large bee. NWAD HORSEMARTEN.1

HORSEMATCH, n. A bird. NWAD HORSEMATCH.1

HORSEMEAT, n. Food for horses; provender. NWAD HORSEMEAT.1

HORSE-MILL, a. A mill turned by a horse. NWAD HORSE-MILL.1

HORSE-MINT, n. A species of large mint. NWAD HORSE-MINT.1

HORSE-MUSCLE, n. A large muscle or shell-fish. NWAD HORSE-MUSCLE.1

HORSEPATH, n. A path for horses, as by canals. NWAD HORSEPATH.1

HORSEPLAY, n. Rough, rugged play. NWAD HORSEPLAY.1

HORSEPOND, n. A pond for watering horses. NWAD HORSEPOND.1

HORSEPURSLANE, n. A plant of the genus Trianthema. NWAD HORSEPURSLANE.1

HORSERACE, n. A race by horses; a match of horses in running. NWAD HORSERACE.1

HORSERACING, n. The practice or act of running horses. NWAD HORSERACING.1

HORSERADISH, n. A plant of the genus Cochlearia, a species of scurvy grass, having a root of a pungent taste. NWAD HORSERADISH.1

HORSESHOE, n. A shoe for horses, consisting of a plate of iron of a circular form. NWAD HORSESHOE.1

HORSESHOE-HEAD, n. A disease of infants, in which the sutures of the skull are too open; opposed to headmold-shot. NWAD HORSESHOE-HEAD.1

HORSESTEALER, HORSETHIEF, n. A stealer of horses. NWAD HORSESTEALER.1

HORSETAIL, n. A plant of the genus Equisetum. The shrubby horsetail is of the genus Ephedra. NWAD HORSETAIL.1

HORSETONGUE, n. A plant of the genus Ruscus. NWAD HORSETONGUE.1

HORSEVETCH, HORSESHOE-VETCH, n. A plant of the genus Hippocrepis. NWAD HORSEVETCH.1

HORSEWAY, n. A way or road in which horses may travel. NWAD HORSEWAY.1

HORSEWHIP, n. A whip for driving or striking horses. NWAD HORSEWHIP.1

HOSEWHIP, v.t. To lash; to strike with a horsewhip. NWAD HOSEWHIP.1

HORSEWORM, n. A worm that infests horses; a bott. NWAD HORSEWORM.1

HORTATION, n. [L. hortatio, from hortor, to exhort.] NWAD HORTATION.1

The act of exhorting, or giving advice; exhortation; advice intended to encourage. [But exhortation is generally used.] NWAD HORTATION.2

HORTATIVE, a. Giving exhortation, advisory. NWAD HORTATIVE.1

HORTATIVE, n. Exhortation; a precept given to incite or encourage. NWAD HORTATIVE.2

HORTATORY, a. Encouraging; inciting; giving advice; as a hortatory speech. NWAD HORTATORY.1

HORTENSIAL, a. [L. hortensis.] Fit for a garden. [Not used.] NWAD HORTENSIAL.1

HORTICULTOR, n. [L. hortus, a garden, and cultor, a tiller.] NWAD HORTICULTOR.1

One who cultivates a garden. NWAD HORTICULTOR.2

HORTICULTURAL, a. Pertaining to the culture of gardens. NWAD HORTICULTURAL.1

HORTICULTURE, n. [L. hortus, garden, and cultura, culture, from colo, to till.] The cultivation of a garden; or the art of cultivating gardens. NWAD HORTICULTURE.1

HORTICULTURIST, n. One who is skilled in the art of cultivating gardens. NWAD HORTICULTURIST.1

HORTULAN, a. [L. hortulanus.] Belonging to a garden; as a hortulan calendar. NWAD HORTULAN.1

HORTUSSICCUS, n. [L.] Literally, a dry garden; an appellation given to a collection of specimens of plants, carefully dried and preserved. NWAD HORTUSSICCUS.1

HORTYARD, n. An orchard, which see. NWAD HORTYARD.1

HOSANNA, n. s as z. [Heb. save, I beseech you.] NWAD HOSANNA.1

An exclamation of praise to God, or an invocation of blessings. In the Hebrew ceremonies, it was a prayer rehearsed on the several days of the feast of tabernacles, in which this word was often repeated. NWAD HOSANNA.2

HOSE, n. plu. hosen or hose; pron. hoze, ho’zn. NWAD HOSE.1

1. Breeches or trowsers. NWAD HOSE.2

2. Stockings; coverings for the legs. This word, in mercantile use, is synonymous with stockings, though originally a very different garment. NWAD HOSE.3

3. A leathern pipe, used with fire-engines, for conveying water to extinguish fires. NWAD HOSE.4

HOSIER, n. ho’zhur. One who deals in stockings and socks, etc. NWAD HOSIER.1

HOSIERY, n. ho’zhury. Stockings in general; socks. NWAD HOSIERY.1

HOSPITABLE, a. [L. hospitalis, from hospes, a guest.] NWAD HOSPITABLE.1

1. Receiving and entertaining strangers, with kindness and without reward; kind to strangers and guests; disposed to treat guests with generous kindness; as a hospitable man. NWAD HOSPITABLE.2

2. Proceeding from or indicating kindness to guests; manifesting generosity; as a hospitable table; hospitable rites. NWAD HOSPITABLE.3

3. Inviting to strangers; offering kind reception; indicating hospitality. NWAD HOSPITABLE.4

To where yon taper cheers the vale, NWAD HOSPITABLE.5

With hospitable ray. NWAD HOSPITABLE.6

HOSPITABLY, adv. With kindness to strangers or guests; with generous and liberal entertainment. NWAD HOSPITABLY.1

HOSPITAGE, n. Hospitality. NWAD HOSPITAGE.1

HOSPITAL, n. [L. hospitalis, supra.] NWAD HOSPITAL.1

1. A building appropriated for the reception of sick, infirm and helpless paupers, who are supported and nursed by charity; also, a house for the reception of insane persons, whether paupers or not, or for seamen, soldiers, foundlings, etc. who are supported by the public, or by private charity, or for infected persons, etc. NWAD HOSPITAL.2

2. A place for shelter or entertainment. NWAD HOSPITAL.3

HOSPITAL, a. Hospitable. [Not in use.] NWAD HOSPITAL.4

HOSPITALITY, n. [L. hospitalitas.] The act or practice of receiving and entertaining strangers or guests without reward, or with kind and generous liberality. NWAD HOSPITALITY.1

A bishop--must be given to hospitality. 1 Timothy 3:2. NWAD HOSPITALITY.2

Hospitality I have found as universal as the face of man. NWAD HOSPITALITY.3

HOSPITALLER, n. [from hospital.] Properly, one residing in a hospital for the purpose of receiving the poor and strangers. The hospitallers were an order of knights who built a hospital at Jerusalem for pilgrims. They were called knights of St. John, and are the same as the knights of Malta. NWAD HOSPITALLER.1

HOSPITATE, v.i. [L. hospitor.] To reside or lodge under the roof of another. [Not used.] NWAD HOSPITATE.1

HOSPITATE, v.t. To lodge a person. [Not used.] NWAD HOSPITATE.2

HOST, n. [L. hostis, a stranger, an enemy, probably of the same family. See Hospitable.] NWAD HOST.1

1. One who entertains another at his own house, without reward. NWAD HOST.2

Homer never entertained guests or hosts with long speeches. NWAD HOST.3

2. One who entertains another at his house for reward; an innkeeper; a landlord. NWAD HOST.4

3. A guest; one who is entertained at the house of another. The innkeeper says of the traveler, he has a good host, and the traveler says of his landlord, he has a kind host. [See Guest.] NWAD HOST.5

HOST, n. [L. hostis, a stranger, an enemy. The sense is probably transferred from a single foe to an army of foes.] NWAD HOST.6

1. An army; a number of men embodied for war. NWAD HOST.7

2. Any great number or multitude. NWAD HOST.8

HOST, n. [L. hostia, a victim or sacrifice, from hostis, an enemy.] NWAD HOST.9

In the Romish church, the sacrifice of the mass, or the consecrated wafer, representing the body of Christ, or as the Catholics allege, transubstantiated into his own body. NWAD HOST.10

HOST, v.i. To lodge at an inn; to take up entertainment. [Little used.] NWAD HOST.11

HOST, v.t. To give entertainment to. [Not used.] NWAD HOST.12

HOSTAGE, n. A person delivered to an enemy or hostile power, as a pledge to secure the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, and on the performance of which the person is to be released. NWAD HOSTAGE.1

HOSTEL, HOSTELLER. [See Hotel.] NWAD HOSTEL.1

HOSTESS, n. A female host; a woman who entertains guests at her house. NWAD HOSTESS.1

1. A woman who keeps an inn. NWAD HOSTESS.2

HOSTESS-SHIP, n. The character or business of a hostess. NWAD HOSTESS-SHIP.1

HOSTILE, a. [L. hostilis, from hostis, an enemy, that is, a foreigner.] NWAD HOSTILE.1

1. Belonging to a public enemy; designating enmity, particularly public enmity, or a state of war; inimical; as a hostile band or army; a hostile force; hostile intentions. NWAD HOSTILE.2

2. Possessed by a public enemy; as a hostile country. NWAD HOSTILE.3

3. Adverse; opposite; unfriendly. [But the word is not properly applied to private enmity, or mere unfriendliness.] NWAD HOSTILE.4

HOSTILELY, adv. In a hostile manner. NWAD HOSTILELY.1

HOSTILITY, n. [L. hostilitas, from hostis, an enemy.] NWAD HOSTILITY.1

1. The state of war between nations or states; the actions of an open enemy; aggression; attacks of an enemy. These secret enmities broke out in hostilities. NWAD HOSTILITY.2

Hostility being thus suspended with France. NWAD HOSTILITY.3

We have carried on even our hostilities with humanity. NWAD HOSTILITY.4

2. Private enmity; a sense less proper. NWAD HOSTILITY.5

HOSTILIZE, v.t. To make an enemy. [Little used.] NWAD HOSTILIZE.1

HOSTING, n. [from host, an army.] NWAD HOSTING.1

An encounter; a battle. [Little used.] NWAD HOSTING.2

1. A muster or review. NWAD HOSTING.3

HOSTLER, n. hos’ler. The person who has the care of horses at an inn. NWAD HOSTLER.1

HOSTLESS, a. Inhospitable. [Not in use.] NWAD HOSTLESS.1

HOSTRY, a. A stable for horses. NWAD HOSTRY.1

1. A lodging house. NWAD HOSTRY.2

HOT, a. NWAD HOT.1

1. Having sensible heat; opposed to cold; as a hot stove or fire; a hot cloth; hot liquors. Hot expresses more than warm. NWAD HOT.2

2. Ardent in temper; easily excited or exasperated; vehement. NWAD HOT.3

Achilles is impatient, hot and revengeful. NWAD HOT.4

3. Violent; furious; as a hot engagement or assault. NWAD HOT.5

4. Eager; animated;; brisk; keen; as a hot pursuit, or a person hot in a pursuit. NWAD HOT.6

5. Lustful; lewd. NWAD HOT.7

6. Acrid; biting; stimulating; pungent; as hot as mustard or pepper. NWAD HOT.8

HOT, HOTE, HOTEN, pp. Called; named. NWAD HOT.9

HOTBED, n. In gardening, a bed of earth and horsedung or tanner’s bark, covered with glass to defend it form the cold air, intended for raising early plants, or for nourishing exotic plants of warm climates, which will not thrive in cool or temperate air. NWAD HOTBED.1

HOTBRAINED, a. Ardent in temper; violent; rash; precipitate; as hotbrained youth. NWAD HOTBRAINED.1

HOTCHPOT, n. NWAD HOTCHPOT.1

1. Properly, a mingled mass; a mixture of ingredients. NWAD HOTCHPOT.2

2. In law, a mixing of lands. Thus lands given in frank-marriage to one daughter, shall, after the death of the ancestor, be blended with the lands descending to her and then be divided in equal portions to all the daughters. NWAD HOTCHPOT.3

HOTCOCKLES, n. plu. A play in which one covers his eyes, and guesses who strikes him, or his hand placed behind him. NWAD HOTCOCKLES.1

HOTEL, n. NWAD HOTEL.1

1. A palace. NWAD HOTEL.2

2. An inn; a house for entertaining strangers or travelers. It was formerly a house for genteel strangers or lodgers, but the name is now given to any inn. NWAD HOTEL.3

HOTHEADED, a. Of ardent passions; vehement; violent; rash. NWAD HOTHEADED.1

HOTHOUSE, n. A house kept warm to shelter tender plants and shrubs from the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer climates may be reared, and fruits ripened. NWAD HOTHOUSE.1

1. A bagnio, or place to sweat and cup in. NWAD HOTHOUSE.2

2. A brothel. NWAD HOTHOUSE.3

HOTLY, adv. [from hot.] With heat. NWAD HOTLY.1

1. Ardently; vehemently; violently; as a stag hotly pursued. NWAD HOTLY.2

2. Lustfully. NWAD HOTLY.3

HOTMOUTHED, a. Headstrong; ungovernable. NWAD HOTMOUTHED.1

That hotmouthed beast that bears against the curb. NWAD HOTMOUTHED.2

HOTNESS, n. Sensible heat beyond a moderate degree or warmth. NWAD HOTNESS.1

1. Violence; vehemence; fury. NWAD HOTNESS.2

HOTSPUR, n. [hot and spur.] A man violent, passionate, heady, rash or precipitate. NWAD HOTSPUR.1

1. A kind of pea of early growth. NWAD HOTSPUR.2

HOTSPUR, a. Violent; impetuous. NWAD HOTSPUR.3

HOTSPURRED, a. Vehement; rash; heady; headstrong. NWAD HOTSPURRED.1

HOTTENTOT, n. A native of the southern extremity of Africa. NWAD HOTTENTOT.1

1. A savage brutal man. NWAD HOTTENTOT.2

HOTTENTOT-CHERRY, n. A plant. [See Cherry.] NWAD HOTTENTOT-CHERRY.1

HOUGH, n. hok. NWAD HOUGH.1

1. The lower part of the thigh; the ham; the joint of the hind leg of a beast that connects the thigh with the leg. NWAD HOUGH.2

2. An adz; a hoe. [Not in use.] NWAD HOUGH.3

HOUGH, v.t. hok. To hamstring; to disable by cutting the sinews of the ham. NWAD HOUGH.4

1. To cut with a hoe. NWAD HOUGH.5

HOULET, n. An owl. [See Howlet.] NWAD HOULET.1

HOULT, n. [See Holt.] NWAD HOULT.1

HOUND, n. [L. canis.] A generic name of the dog; but in English it is confined to a particular breed or variety, used in the chase. It has long, smooth, pendulous ears. NWAD HOUND.1

HOUND, v.t. To set on the chase. NWAD HOUND.2

1. To hunt; to chase. NWAD HOUND.3

HOUNDFISH, n. A fish, called also Galeus laevis, with a long round body, and ash-colored sides and back. NWAD HOUNDFISH.1

A species of shark, the Squalus mustelus. NWAD HOUNDFISH.2