hock 
thigh: see coxa.] 1. () The joint on the hind 
leg of a quadruped between the knee and the 
fetlock, corresponding 
to the ankle-joint in 
man ; that part of the 
leg between the tibia 
and the cannon-bone, 
consisting of the ankle- 
bones more or less com- 
pletely united. (6) In 
man, the back part of 
the knee-joint ; the 
ham. 2. In the game 
of faro, the last card re- 
maining in the box after 
all the others have been 
dealt. 
hock 1 , hough (hok), v. t. 
[< ME. howghcn, how- 
when,*hogen; from the 
nOUn. Cf. the equiv. Front View of Left Hock of 
Ttft^L-o Itnv 1 Tn riam Horse, corresponding to the hu- 
liocks, nox.j lo nam- man ankle *^ nd * thsr tarsal 
string; disable by cut- bones. 
tiTirr thA SITIPW nr tpn- I, calcaneum, forming the pro- 
new Or ten- jection b<. hind corresponding to 
don Of the hOCk that the human heel; 2, astragalus, 
id rlio rorwln Antiillie articulating with the tibia, and 
IS, me tenao ACnilllS. forming the ankle-joint proper; 
They aCCOUllt Of 110 man 3, naviculare, a proximal tarsal 
that hath not a battle axe Sd's, two diS'tarsa! bWs! 
at his girdle to hough dogs 
with, or weares not a cock's fether in a thumb hat like a 
cavalier. Nashe, Pierce Penilesse (1592). (HalKwell.) 
Thou shall hough their horses. Josh. xi. 6. 
The clan, who would descend by night to burn the 
houses and to hough the cattle of those who offended 
them. Lecky, Eng. in 18th Cent., v. 
hock 2 t (hok), n. [< ME. hok, hokke, hoc, < AS. 
hoc (gen. hocces), also called hoc-leaf (see hock- 
leaf), mallow : cf . W. hocys, mallows. Now only 
in comp. hollyhock, hock-herb, hock-leaf, q. v.] 
Mallow; hollyhock. 
Hock, altluea rosea, malva sylvestris, malva rotundifolia. 
Eng. Dial. Soc., Plant Names. 
hock 3 (hok), re. A variant of hack 1 . [Prov. 
Eng.] 
hock 4 t, n. [ME. hock.] A caterpillar. 
Brenne her and ther the heedles garlic sceles, 
The stynke of it for hockes [Latin contra cainpas} help and 
hele is. Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 32. 
Other als seyne, hockes for to lese, 
Kest figtree aske on hem. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.X p. 35. 
hock s t, n. [Origin obscure.] An old game of 
cards. 
hock 6 (hok), re. [Abbr. of Jtockamore, q. v.] 1. 
Originally, the wine Hochheimer (which see). 
2. Any white German wine. 
His father, in delight at his arrival, sent the nurse a 
dozen of hock more than a hundred years old. 
Quarterly Bee., CXLV. 329. 
hockamoret, hoccamoret (hok'a-mdr), n. [A 
corrupt form of G. Hochheimer (sc. weiri), wine 
of Hochheim, near the river Main, in Germany, 
lit. 'high home' : see high and home 1 .'] The wine 
Hochheimer; hock. 
Restor'd the fainting high and mighty 
With brandy, wine, and aqua vitse ; 
And made 'em stoutly overcome 
With bachrach, hockamore, and mum. 
S. Butler, Hudibras, HI. iii. 300. 
hock-cart (hok'kiirt), n. [For "hockey-cart, < 
hockey 2 + cart.'] The harvest-home cart ; the 
last loaded wagon. Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
The harvest swaines and wenches bound 
For joy, to see the hock-cart crown'd. 
Herrick, The Hock Cart. 
hock-dayt (hok'da), re. [< ME. hokday, hokeday 
(> AF. hokkeday); prob. a dial. var. of high-day, 
the first element being, as also hocktide, Hock- 
Monday, Hock-, Hox-Tuesday, an altered form of 
high, ME. hig, heg, etc., sometimes hoghe, < AS. 
hedh (cf . hock 1 for hough, where the terminal con- 
sonants are similarly related, and D. hoog, G. 
hoch, > ult. E. hock 6 , q. v.), high-day, hightide, 
etc., being used for ' festival-day,' etc. : see high- 
day and Itiglitide. There is nothing to connect 
the term with Icel. hoku-nott, midwinter night, 
or with hogmenay, q. y.] A day of feasting and 
mirth kept formerly in England on the second 
or third Tuesday after Easter. Authorities 
differ as to its origin and the exact date. Also 
called Hock-Tuesday, Hox-Tuesday. 
Also that yerly, at the lawday holdyn at hokday, that 
the grete enquest shalle provide and ordeyn whether the 
pageant shuld go that yere or no. 
English Gildi (E. E. T. S.), p. 385. 
Bock-day was generally observed as lately as the six- 
teenth century. Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 453. 
hockelty-card (hok'l-ti-kanl), n. Same as 
hock 1 , 2. 
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hocker 1 , hougher (hok'er), . [< hock 1 , 
v., + -er 1 . Of. equiv. hoclcser, hoxer.] One who 
hocks or hamstrings. 
hocker 2 (hok'er), .i. [Cf. huck 1 .] 1. To scram- 
ble awkwardly; do anything clumsily; loiter. 
2. To stammer or hesitate. [North. Eng. in 
both senses.] 
hockeryet, See huckery. 
hockett (hok'et), n. [< OF. hoquet, hocquet, 
houquet, a hiccup, an interruption ; in music, as 
defined. See hie, hick a , hicket.] In music: (a) 
An arbitrary interruption of a voice-part by 
rests, so as to produce a broken, spasmodic ef- 
fect, frequently in two voices or groups of voices 
alternately. As a contrapuntal device it was mostly 
used before the fifteenth century, but a similar effect oc- 
curs occasionally in modern music. (/>) A composi- 
tion in which this effect is frequently employed. 
hockey 1 (hok'i), n. [Also written hawkey, hook- 
ey; appar. < hook, in ref. to the hooked or curved 
club.] 1. A game of ball played with a club 
curved at one end. Also called shinny, shinty. 
It is played (in the northern United States, commonly in 
winter on ice) by a number of persons divided into two 
parties or sides, the object of each side being to drive the 
ball or block with the curved end of the club into that 
part of the field marked off as the opponents' goal. 
On the common were some young men playing at hockey. 
That old-fashioned game, now very uncommon in Eng- 
land, except at schools, was still preserved in the primi- 
tive vicinity of Rood by the young yeomen and farmers. 
Bulwer, My Novel, viii. 5. 
2. The stick or club used in playing this game. 
Also called hockey-stick, hockey-club. 
hockey 2 (hok'i), . [Also written hawkey, hork- 
ey; origin obscure; possibly a corruption of 
hock-day, q. v., which seems to have been appli- 
cableto any festival day.] Harvest-home ; the 
harvest-supper. [Prov. Eng.] 
hockey-cake (hok'i-kak), . A kind of cake 
made for harvest-home festivals. [Prov. Eng.] 
Harvest is done, therefore, wife, make 
For harvest men a hoaky cake. Poor Sobin (1712). 
hockey-load (hok'i-lod), . [Also hawkey-load; 
< hockey? + load. ] The last load from the har- 
vest. [Prov. Eng.] 
hock-glass (hok'glas), re. A wineglass of col- 
ored glass, often used for white wines. 
hock-herbt(hok'erb),re. [< hock% + herb.] Mal- 
low. Also called hock-leaf. 
hockle' (hok'i), v. t.; pret. and pp. hockled, ppr. 
hackling. [Freq. of hock 1 , v.] To hamstring. 
Skinner. 
hockle 2 (hok'i), v. t.; pret. and pp. hockled,r>pr. 
hockling. [Prob. a var. of hackle*, like hock& for 
hack 1 .] To mow, as stubble. [Prov. Eng.] 
hock-leaft (hok'lef), n. [Not found in ME.; 
AS. hoc-leaf, mallow, < hoc, mallow, + leaf, leaf : 
see hock? and leaf.~\ Same as hock-herb. 
Hock-Mondayt (hok'nuin^da), re. [See hock- 
day.] The second or third Monday after Eas- 
ter. 
hock-moneyt, [< hock(-day) + money."] 
Money paid for the celebration of hock-day. 
In the churchwarden's accounts for the parish of Lam- 
beth for the years 1515 and 1618, are several entries of hock 
ies received from the men and the women for the 
Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 453. 
monies 
church service. 
hockst, v. t. See hox. 
hocksert, n. See hoxer. 
hocktide (hok' tid), re. [See hock-day.] The first 
or second week following Easter week. 
Hock-Tuesdayt (hok ' tuz " da), . Same as 
hock-day. 
The subject of the Hock-Tuesday show was the massa- 
cre of the Danes, a memorable event in the English his- 
tory, on St. Brice's night, November 13, 1002, which was 
expressed "in action and in rhimes." 
Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 241. 
hocus (ho'kus), n. [Short for hocus-pocus, q. v. 
Contr. hoax, q. v.] 1. A cheat; an impostor; 
also, a conjurer. 
Did you never see a little hocus by sleight of hand pop- 
ping a piece several times first out of one pocket, and 
then out of another? 
Loyal Oltservator, 1683 (HarL Misc., VI. 67). 
2. Drugged liquor given to a person to stupefy 
him. 
hocus (ho'kus), r. t. ; pret. and pp. hocused or 
hocussed, ppr. hocusing or hoeiifiifiiig. [< hocus, n. 
Contr. hoax, q. v.] 1. To impose upon; cheat. 
One of the greatest pieces of legerdemain with which 
these jugglers hocus the vulgar and incautelous of the 
present age. Nalson. 
Hence 2. To stupefy or render insensible by 
means of drugged drink for the purpose of 
cheating or robbing. 
He was hocussed at supper, nnd lost eight hundred 
pounds to Major Loder and the Honourable Mr. Deuceace. 
Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Ixiv. 
hodden 
3. To drug, as drink, for the purpose of stupe- 
fying. 
"\Vhat do you mean by hocussing brandy and water?" 
inquired Mr. 1'ickwick. " Puttin' laud num in it," replied 
Sam. Dickens, Pickwick, xiii. 
I strongly suspect the arum of deliberately hocusing its 
nectar. I nave often seen dozens of ... tiny flies rolling 
together in an advanced stage of apparent intoxication 
upon the pollen-covered floor of an arum-chamber. 
Pop. Sci. Mo., XXVI. 182. 
hocus-pocus (ho'kus-po'kus), n. and a. [A 
sham-Latin riming formula, mere jugglers' 
jargon, variously reflected in D. hokus-bokvs, 
G. Dan. Sw. hokus-pokus, formerly also ockes- 
bockes, ockes boles, F. hoccus-bocus, etc.; E. also 
hoky-poky ; cf. hanky-panky, of similar sense and 
origin. "According to Turner, in his 'History 
of the Anglo-Saxons,' from Ochus Bochus, a 
magician and demon of the Northern mythol- 
ogy; according to Tillotson, a corruption of hoc 
est corpus, uttered by Romish priests on the 
elevation of the host" (Webster's Diet.); but 
these are mere inventions of the fancy.] I. re. 
If. A juggler; a trickster. 
Dancing wenches, hocus-pocuses, and other anticks past 
my remembrance. 
Sir T. Herbert, Travels in Africa, p. 154. 
My mother could juggle as well as any hocus-pocus in 
the world. 
J. Kirk, Seven Champions, quoted in Strutt's Sports 
[and Pastimes, p. 290. 
2. A jugglers' trick ; a cheat used by conjurers ; 
jugglery. 
Convey men's interest, and right, 
From Stiles's pocket into Nokes's, 
As easily as hocus-pocus. 
S. Butler, Hudibras, III. iii. 716. 
Our author is playing hocus pocus in the very similitude 
he takes from that jugler, and would slip upon you, as he 
phrases it, a counter for a groat. 
Bentley, Free Thinking, 12. 
If the doctrine is an imposture. ... it would be inter- 
esting to have it pointed out by what extraordinary hocus- 
pocus the scientific men of the present age have been im- 
posed upon in accepting it. Pop. Sci. Mo., XXVIII. 555. 
II. a. Juggling; cheating. 
That Burlesque is a Hocus-Pocus trick they have got, 
which, by the virtue of Hictius doctius topsy turvey, they 
make a wise and witty Man in the World a Fool upon the 
Stage, you know not how. Wycherlcy, Country Wife, iii. 
Such hocus-pocus tricks, I own, 
Belong to Gallic bards alone. 
Mason, tr. of Horace's Odes, iv. 8. 
hocus-pOCUS (ho'kus-po'kus), v. i. ; pret. and 
pp. hocus-pocused or hocus-pocussed, ppr. hocus- 
pocusing or hocus-pocussing. [< hocus-pocus, re.] 
To juggle ; deceive ; cheat. 
This gift of hocus-pocussing and of disguising matters 
is surprizing. Sir S. L' Estrange. 
hocus-pocuslyt (ho'kus-po'kus-li), adv. By jug- 
glery; cheatmgly. 
Many of their hearers are not only methodistically con- 
vinced or alarmed, but are also hocus-pocusly converted. 
Life of J. Lackington, letter vii. 
hod 1 (hod), i: t. and i. [A dial, var., like baud, 
etc., of hold 1 .] To hold. [Prov. Eng.] 
hod 1 (hod), re. [A dial. var., like hud, haud, etc., 
of hold 1 : see hold 1 , v. andn. The E. dial, hot?, 
F. hotte, a basket for carrying on the back, is a 
different word.] 1. A form of portable trough 
for carrying mortar and bricks to masons and 
bricklayers, fixed crosswise on the end of a pole 
or handle and borne on the shoulder. See cut 
under hod-elevator. 2. A coal-scuttle. 3. A 
form of blowpipe used by pewterers. it consists 
of a cast-iron pot with a close cover, containing ignited 
charcoal. A stream of air is forced through it by means of a 
bellows worked by the foot, the air entering through a pipe 
and nozle on one side and passing out through a npzle on 
the opposite side, which directs the current of hot air upon 
the object to be soldered. 
4. A tub made of half a flour-barrel to which 
handles are fitted, used for carrying alewives. 
It is also a measure, holding about 200 of these 
fish. [Maine, U.S.] 5. A hole under the bank 
of a stream, as a retreat for fish. [Prov. Eng.] 
hod 2 (hod), v. i. ; pret. and pp. hodded, ppr. hod- 
ding. [Sc. also houd; cf. hoddle.] To bob up 
and down on horseback ; jog. 
hod 3 t, re. A Middle English form of hood. 
hod-carrier (hod'kar"i-er), n. A laborer who 
carries bricks and mortar in a hod. 
hodden (hod'n), a. and n. [A dial, form (Sc. 
also hatidi,li(tdden, etc.)of holden, pp. of hold 1 , 
v.] I. a. 1. [p. a.~] Kent; held; held over: 
as, a hodden yow, a ewe intended to be kept 
over the year ; liaudin cawf , a calf not fed for 
sale, but kept that it may grow to maturity. 
[North. Eng. and Scotch.] 2. [Attrib. use of 
hodden, n.] Wearing hodden-gray ; rustic. 
The hodden or russet individuals are uncustomary. 
Carli/le, French Hev., III. L 0. 
