(imp.) Hove.

(interj.) Same as Ha.

(v. i.) To move by successive leaps, as toads do; to spring or jump on one foot; to skip, as birds do.

(v. i.) To walk lame; to limp; to halt.

(v. i.) To dance.

(n.) A leap on one leg, as of a boy; a leap, as of a toad; a jump; a spring.

(n.) A dance; esp., an informal dance of ball.

(n.) A climbing plant (Humulus Lupulus), having a long, twining, annual stalk. It is cultivated for its fruit (hops).

(n.) The catkin or strobilaceous fruit of the hop, much used in brewing to give a bitter taste.

(n.) The fruit of the dog-rose. See Hip.

(v. t.) To impregnate with hops.

(v. i.) To gather hops. [Perhaps only in the form Hopping, vb. n.]

() imp. & p. p. of Hote.

(superl.) Having much sensible heat; exciting the feeling of warmth in a great degree; very warm; -- opposed to cold, and exceeding warm in degree; as, a hot stove; hot water or air.

(superl.) Characterized by heat, ardor, or animation; easily excited; firely; vehement; passionate; violent; eager.

(superl.) Lustful; lewd; lecherous.

(superl.) Acrid; biting; pungent; as, hot as mustard.

() of Hote

() of Hote

(pron. & a.) The form of the objective and the possessive case of the personal pronoun she; as, I saw her with her purse out.

(pron. pl.) Alt. of Here

() of Hete

() imp. & p. p. of Hide. See Hidden.

(imp.) of Hide

() of Hide

(v. i.) To hasten; to go in haste; -- also often with the reciprocal pronoun.

(n.) Haste; diligence.

() of Hight

() 3d pers. sing. pres. of Have.

() of Have

(n.) A hedge; an inclosed garden or yard.

(n.) The fruit of the hawthorn.

(n.) The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. See Nictitating membrane, under Nictitate.

(n.) An intermission or hesitation of speech, with a sound somewhat like haw! also, the sound so made.

(v. i.) To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw; to speak with interruption and hesitation.

(v. i.) To turn to the near side, or toward the driver; -- said of cattle or a team: a word used by teamsters in guiding their teams, and most frequently in the imperative. See Gee.

(v. t.) To cause to turn, as a team, to the near side, or toward the driver; as, to haw a team of oxen.

(n.) A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing three quarts, one pint, one gill, English measure.

(n.) The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle.

(n.) The external angle formed by the meeting of two sloping sides or skirts of a roof, which have their wall plates running in different directions.

(n.) In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.

(v. t.) To dislocate or sprain the hip of, to fracture or injure the hip bone of (a quadruped) in such a manner as to produce a permanent depression of that side.

(v. t.) To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock).

(v. t.) To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.

(n.) The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose (Rosa canina).

(interj.) Used to excite attention or as a signal; as, hip, hip, hurra!

(n.) Alt. of Hipps

(pron.) See Here, pron.

(pron.) It.

() 3d pers. sing. pres. of Hide, contracted from hideth.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hit

(v. t.) To reach with a stroke or blow; to strike or touch, usually with force; especially, to reach or touch (an object aimed at).

(v. t.) To reach or attain exactly; to meet according to the occasion; to perform successfully; to attain to; to accord with; to be conformable to; to suit.

(v. t.) To guess; to light upon or discover.

(v. t.) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; -- said of a single unprotected piece on a point.

(v. i.) To meet or come in contact; to strike; to clash; -- followed by against or on.

(v. i.) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, -- often with implied chance, or luck.

(n.) A striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.

(n.) A stroke of success in an enterprise, as by a fortunate chance; as, he made a hit.

(n.) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark; as, a happy hit.

(n.) A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts less than a gammon.

(n.) A striking of the ball; as, a safe hit; a foul hit; -- sometimes used specifically for a base hit.

(n.) A kind of wooden tray with a handle, borne on the shoulder, for carrying mortar, brick, etc.

(n.) A utensil for holding coal; a coal scuttle.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow.

(n.) A young sheep that has not been shorn.

(n.) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.

(n.) A device for mixing and stirring the pulp of which paper is made.

(v. t.) To cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a horse.

(v. t.) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.

(v. i.) 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.

(v. t.) To hock; to hamstring. See Hock.

(n.) The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave. See Illust. of Axle box.

(n.) The hilt of a weapon.

(n.) A rough protuberance or projecting obstruction; as, a hub in the road. [U.S.] See Hubby.

(n.) A goal or mark at which quoits, etc., are cast.

(n.) A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc.

(n.) A screw hob. See Hob, 3.

(n.) A block for scotching a wheel.

(v. i.) To cower; to crouch; to curl up.

(v. i.) To crowd together; to cuddle.

(v. t.) To press closely within the arms; to clasp to the bosom; to embrace.

(v. t.) To hold fast; to cling to; to cherish.

(v. t.) To keep close to; as, to hug the land; to hug the wind.

(n.) A close embrace or clasping with the arms, as in affection or in wrestling.

(n.) An abbreviation of hypochonaria; -- usually in plural.

(v. t.) To make melancholy.