HOPPING
HOP'PING, participle present tense Leaping on one leg; dancing.HOP'PING, noun A dancing; a meeting for dancing.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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HOPPLE
HOP'PLE, verb transitive To tie the feet near together to prevent leaping; as, to hopple an unruly horse.
HOPPOLE
HOP'POLE, noun A pole used to support hops.HOP'-PICKER, noun One that picks hops.
HOPVINE
HOP'VINE, noun The stalk of hops.HOP'-YARDHOP'-GARDEN, noun A field or inclosure where hops are raised.
HORAL
HO'RAL, adjective [Latin hora, an hour. See Hour.]Relating to an hour, or to hours.
HORALLY
HO'RALLY, adverb Hourly. [Not in use.]
HORARY
HO'RARY, adjective [Latin horarius; Latin hora hour.]1. Pertaining to an hour; noting the hours; as the horary circle.2. Continuing an hour.
HORD
HORDHORDE, noun A company of wandering people dwelling in tents or wagons, and migrating from place to place to procure pasturage for their cattle. Such are some tribes of the T...
HORDE
HORDE, n. A company of wandering people dwelling in tents or wagons, and migrating from place to place to procure pasturage for their cattle. Such are some tribes of the Tartars...
HORE
HORE, noun A woman, married or single, who indulges unlawful sexual intercourse; also, a prostitute; a common woman; a harlot; a woman of ill fame. [This word comprehends adultr...
HOREDOM
HO'REDOM, noun The practice of unlawful sexual commerce; habitual or customary lewdness of males or females.1. In Scripture, idolatry.
HOREHOUND
HO'REHOUND, noun The name of several plants of different genera. The common horehound is the Marrubium vulgare. It has a bitter taste, and is used as an attenuant.
HOREMASTER
HO'REMASTERHO'REMONGER, noun A man who is addicted to lewdness, or frequently indulges in unlawful sexual intercourse.
HORESON
HO'RESON, noun [hore and son.] A bastard; the son of a hore; a term of reproach or contempt, sometimes used in a ludicrous sense expressing dislike.
HORISH
HO'RISH, adjective Lewd, unchaste; loose; given to unlawful sexual intercourse; applied to females only.
HORISHLY
HO'RISHLY, adverb Lewdly; unchastely.
HORIZON
HOR'IZON, noun [Gr. to bound, a limit.] The line that terminates the view, when extended on the surface of the earth; or a great circle of the sphere, dividing the world into tw...
HORIZONTAL
HORIZON'TAL, adjective Pertaining to the horizon, or relating to it.1. Parallel to the horizon; on a level; as a horizontal line or surface.2. Near the horizon; as horizontal mi...
HORIZONTALITY
HORIZONTAL'ITY, noun The state of being horizontal.
HORIZONTALLY
HORIZON'TALLY, adverb In a direction parallel to the horizon; on a level; as a ball carried horizontally
HORN
HORN, noun [Latin cornu]1. A hard substance growing on the heads of certain animals, and particularly on cloven-footed quadrupeds; usually projecting to some length and terminat...
HORNBEAK
HORN'BEAK, noun A fish. [See Hornfish.]
HORNBEAM
HORN'BEAM, noun [See Beam.] A genus of trees, the Carpinus, so named from the hardness of the wood.
HORNBILL
HORN'BILL, noun A fowl of the genus Buceros, which has a flat bony forehead with two horns; a native of the E. Indies.
HORNBLEND
HORN'BLEND, noun A mineral of several varieties, called by Hauy amphibole. It is sometimes in regular distinct crystals; more generally the result of confused crystallization, a...
HORNBLOWER
HORNBLOWER, noun One that blows a horn.
HORNBOOK
HORN'BOOK, noun The first book of children, or that in which they learn their letters and rudiments; so called from its cover of horn. [Now little used.]HORN'-DISTEMPER, noun A ...