hodden 
H. . [Abbr. of hodden-gray. ~\ Same as hod- 
den-gray. 
hirst in hodden or russet. 
Carlyle, French Rev., III. 1. 6. 
How true a poet is he ! And the poet, too, of poor men, 
of gray hodden and the guernsey coat, and the blouse. 
Emerson, Burns. 
hodden-gray (hod'n-gra'), n. [That is, hodden 
gray, or wool hodden or kept in its natural col- 
or: see hodden, .] A coarse cloth made of un- 
dyed wool of the natural color, formerly much 
worn by peasants. [North. Eng. and Scotch.] 
But Meg, poor Meg ! maun with the shepherds stay, 
And tak what God will send in hodden-grey. 
Ramsay, Gentle Shepherd, v. 2. 
hoddie (hod'i), . Same as hooded crow (which 
see, under hooded). [Scotch.] 
bedding-spade (hod'ing-spad), n. A sort of 
spade principally used in the fens, so shaped 
as to take up a considerable portion of earth 
entire. HaUiwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
hoddie (hod'l), v. i.: pret. and pp. hoddled, ppr. 
hoddling. [Appar. freq. of hod 2 , q. v.] To wad- 
dle; hobble. [Scotch.] 
Ye shall hae that for a tune o' the pipes, Steenie. . . . 
Play us up " Weel hoddUd, Luckie." 
Scott, Redgauntlet letter xi. 
noddy (hod'i), .; pi. hoddies (-iz). [Sc., also 
written hoddie, hoodie, hoody, and in comp. hod- 
dy-craw, huddy-craw, huddit-craw, hoodit-craw, 
i. e. hooded crow: see hooded and hoodie-craw.] 
Same as hooded crow (which see, under hooded). 
[Scotch.] 
hoddy-dodt, [Cf. hodmandod.] A snail. 
The running mange or tettar is a mischeefe peculiar 
unto the fig-tree ; as also, to breed certaine hoddy-dods or 
shell snailes sticking hard thereto and eating it. 
Holland, tr. of Pliny, xvii. 24. 
hoddy-doddyt (hod'i-dod'i), . [A riming 
compound, with various equivalents, hoddy- 
peke, hoddypoll, doddypoll, doddypate (q. v. ), etc., 
all terms of contempt for a foolish, stupid fel- 
low.] An awkward or foolish person. 
Cob's wife and you, 
That make your husband such a hoddy-doddy. 
B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, iv. 8. 
My master is a parsonable man, and not a spindle shank il 
hoddy-doddy. 
Swift, Mary, the Cook-maid, to Dr. Sheridan. 
hoddy-peak, hoddy-peke (hod'i-pek), . [OSc. 
hud-pyke (Dunbar), a miser or skinflint; origin 
obscure; cf. hoddy-doddy. ~\ A fool; a cuckold. 
[Obsolete or Scotch.] 
What, ye brain-sicke fooles, ye hoddy-pekeg, ye doddy- 
powles I Latimtr, Sermons, fol. 44, b. 
hodegetics (hod-e-jet'iks), . [< Gr. b 
fitted for guiding, < Adiryclv, show the way, 
guide, < oo^yop, a guide, < oS6f, way, + rjyeiaOai, 
ayeiv, lead.] Same as methodology. 
hod-elevator (hod'el"e-va-tpr), . An appa- 
ratus for raising hods filled with bricks or mor- 
tar in a building 
which is in process 
of erection, it gener- 
ally consists of endless 
chains united by rigid 
links or bars to which the 
hods are hooked. The 
chains pass over wheels 
above and below, and are 
moved by hand-cranks. 
hoder-modert, and 
a. [See hugger-mug- 
ger.] Hugger-mug- 
ger. Skelton. 
hodful (hod'ful), n. 
[<7io<Ji, n., + -ful, 2.] 
As much as a hod 
contains ; the con- 
tents of a hod. 
hodge (hoj), n. [A 
generalized use of 
Hodge, a familiar 
form of Rodger, 
Roger, like Rob, q. 
v., for Robert, Robin. 
T-. * -,-f -, nou -elevator, 
From Hodge are de- 
rived the surnames Hodge, Hodges, Hodgeson, 
Hodson, Hotehkins, Hoskins, Hodgkinson, etc. 
The name Roger, P. Roger, Sp. Pg. Rogerio, It. 
Ruggiero, ML. Rogerus, is of OHG. origin : OHG. 
Ruodiger, Hruadger, MHG. Ruedeger, Riiediger, 
Rtieger, G. Riidiger, lit. ' famous with the spear,' 
< OHG. *hruodi (only in proper names, = AS. 
hrotJi, glory, fame, = Icel. hrodhr, fame) + ger 
= AS. gar, spear: see gar\ gore 2 . The first 
syllable is the same as that in Roderick, Rodolph 
= Rudolph, Roland, Robert = Rupert."] A coun- 
tryman; a rustic; a clown. [Colloq.] 
2850 
One of these somnolent grinning hodges will suddenly 
display activity of body and finesse of mind. 
The Century, XXVII. 183. 
hodgepodge (hoj'poj), n. [A corruption of hotch- 
potch, q. v., and this of hotchpot, q. v.] 1. Same 
as hotchpotch. 
And Lesbian floure, . . . whereof the Turks make their 
Trachana and Boubort ; a certain hodgepodge of sundry 
ingredients. Sandys, Travailes, p. 12. 
Man's life is but vain ; for 'tis subject to pain 
And sorrow, and short as a bubble ; 
Tis a hodge-podge of business, and money, and care, 
And care, and money, and trouble. 
Quoted in Walton'i Complete Angler, p. 178. 
He [a horse] treated me to a hodge-podge of all his sever- 
al gaits at once. Lowell, Fireside Travels, p. 202. 
2. In law, a commixture of lands. See hotch- 
pot, 2. 
hodgepokert, n. [< hodge (cf. also hob 2 ) + po- 
ker 2 , equiv. to puck.] A hobgoblin. 
Maivmwlo [It], a sprite, a hag, a hobgoblin, a robin- 
goodfellow, a hodgpoker, a lar in the chimney. Florio. 
hodge-pudding (hoj'pud'ing), . [< hodge- 
-podge) + pudding.] A pudding made of a 
medley of ingredients. 
Mn. Page. Why, Sir John, do you think . . . that ever 
the devil could have made you our delight? 
Ford. What, a hodije pudding ! a bag of flax? 
Shalt., M. W. of W., v. 5. 
Hodgkin's disease. See disease. 
hodiernt (ho'di-ern), a. [= OF. hodierne = It. 
odierno, < L. hodiernux, of this day, < hodie, on 
this day, to-day, contr. of hoc die, abl. of hie 
dies : hie, this (see hie jacet) ; dies, day (see 
diary, diurnal). For the term., cf. hestern, hes- 
ternal.] Same as hodiernal. 
I know that this is contrary to the common opinion, not 
only of the schools, but even of divers hodiern mathema- 
ticians. Boyle, Works, III. 754. 
hodiernal (ho-di-r'nal), a. [= OF. hodiernal; 
as hodiern + -al.] & this day; belonging to 
the present day. 
Literature is a point outside of our hodiernal circle, 
through which a new one may be described. Emerson. 
hodman (hod'man), n. ; pi. hodmen (-men). [< 
hod 1 + man.] 1. A man who carries a hod ; a 
hod-carrier. 
Alas, so is it everywhere, so will it ever be; till the 
Hodman is discharged, or reduced to hodbearing, and an 
Architect is hired. Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, p. 73. 
2. A young scholar admitted from Westminster 
School to be student in Christ-church College 
in Oxford. [Local cant.] 
hodmandod (hod'man-dod), n. [E. dial, also 
hodmondod, Ttodmedod, hoddydod ; cf. dodman, 
a snail, E. dial. (Corn.) hoddymandoddy, a sim- 
pleton.] A snail ; a dodman. [Eng.] 
Those that cast their shell are the lobster, the crab, the 
era-fish, the hodmandod or dodman, the tortoise, etc. 
Bacon, Nat Hist, 732. 
I am an ant, a gnat, a worm ; a woodcock amongst birds ; 
a hodmondod amongst Uies ; amongst curs a trendle tail. 
Webster, Appius and Virginia, iii. 4. 
So they hoisted her down just as safe and as well, 
And as snug as a hodmandod rides in his shell. 
The New Bath Guide (ed. 1830), p. 36. (Halliwell.) 
hodograph (hpd'o-graf), n. [< Gr. orf<5f, way, 
+ ypd<j>ecv, write.] A curve the radius vector 
of which represents in magnitude and direc- 
tion the velocity of a moving particle. It was 
invented by Sir W. R. Hamilton. 
hodographic (hpd-o-graf'ik), a. [< hodograph 
+ -ic.] Pertaining to or of the nature of a hod- 
ograph: as, "hodographic isochrouism," Encyc. 
Brit., XII. 43. 
hodographically (hod-6-graf'i-kal-i), adv. On 
the principle of the hodograph. 
hodometer (ho-dom'e-ter), n. [< Gr. oM/ierpov, 
or M6/ierpo(, an instrument for measuring dis- 
tances by land or sea, < 6d6f, way, road, + /*e- 
rpov, measure.] An instrument for measuring 
the distance traveled by a wheeled vehicle. 
It is a clockwork arrangement which, attached to a spoke 
of a wheel, records the number of revolutions of the wheel 
The number of revolutions multiplied by the circumfer- 
ence of the wheel gives the distance traversed. Also odom- 
eter. 
hodometrical (hod-o-met'ri-kal), a. [< hodom- 
eter + -ic-al.] 1. Pertaining to a hodometer. 
2. Serving to find the longitude at sea by 
dead-reckoning. Smyth. 
hodthai (hod'thi), n. [E. Ind.] A resin ob- 
tained from Balsamodendron Playfairii, an East 
Indian tree of the natural order Burseraceie. 
See Commiphora, the name under which the ge- 
nus was formerly known. 
hoe 1 (ho), n. [Formerly spelled how (Bay, 
1691, who calls it rostrum Gallicum, a French 
rake), and erroneously haugh (Evelyn); < ME. 
howe, < OF. houe, hoe, F. houe, < OHG. houwa, 
Hoffmannite 
MHG. houwe, G. haue, a hoe, < OHG. houirttu, 
MHG. houwen, G. hatteti = E. hcw^, cut: see 
/!.] An imple- 
ment for digging, 
scraping, or loosen- 
ing earth, cutting 
weeds, etc., made in 
various forms. The 
common hoe, also called 
draw-hoe and field-hoe, 
consists of a blade of iron 
set transversely at a con- 
venient angle at the end 
of a long handle. In the 
Dutch hoe, push-hoe, or 
scumehoe the cutting 
blade is set like the blade and . Dutch hoes ; <- , hoe and 
of a Spade. rake combined ; </, common hoe. 
They sege Sarzyns myne the wale 
With pykoys & howes gret * smal. 
Sir Ferumbras, 1. 14993. 
The /"" is an ingenious instrument, calculated to call out 
a great deal of strength at a great disadvantage. 
C. D. Warner, Summer in a Garden, iii. 
Bayonet-hoe, a form of hoe with the blade set on the 
handle as in the Ueld-hoe, but narrow and pointed much 
in the form of a trowel-bayonet Horse-hoe, a frame 
mounted on wheels and furnished with ranges of shares 
spaced so as to work in the intervals between rows of 
English Horse-hoe. 
plants, such as turnips, potatoes, etc. used on farms for the 
same purposes as the field-hoe, and drawn by a horse ; a 
cultivator. Smaller machines of the same nature are made 
to be pushed by a man. 
hoe 1 (ho), i: ; pret. and pp. hoed, ppr. hoeing. 
[Formerly also haugh; <hoel, n.] I. trans. 1. 
To cut, dig, scrape, or clean with a hoe. 2. 
To clear from weeds or cultivate with a hoe: 
as, to hoe turnips or cabbages. 
When the Bowing and first hoeing and thinning of the 
crop [carrots] are got over successfully, the after culture 
of the crop is very simple. Encyc. Brit., I. 369. 
A hard or a long row to hoe, a difficult or tiresome 
task to perform. [U. s. ] To hoe one's own row, to do 
one's share of work ; attend to one's own affairs. [U. S.] 
U. intrans. To use a hoe. 
Begin the work of hatching as soon as ever they [weeds] 
begin to peep. Evelyn, Calendarium Hortense, July. 
hoe'- (ho), n. [< Icel. har (and corruptly hdfr) 
= Norw. Dan. haa = Sw. liaj = D. haai, > G. 
hai, a shark, dogfish.] The common dogfish, 
Squalus acanthias or Acanthias vulgaris; also, a 
name of several other kinds of sharks. See cut 
under dogfish. [Shetland and Orkney islands, 
and U. S.3 
hoe 3 (ho), M. A variant of how 2 . [Local, Eng.] 
TTpon that lofty place at Plymouth called the Hoe, 
Those mighty wrestlers met 
Drayton, Polyolbion, i. 482. 
hoe^t, inierj. and n. An obsolete form of Ao 1 . 
hoe-cake (ho'kak), n. Coarse bread, generally 
in the form of a thin cake, made of Indian 
meal, water, and salt: originally that cooked 
on the broad, thin blade of a cotton-field hoe. 
[Southern U. 8.] 
Some talk of hoe-cake, fair Virginia's pride. 
J. Barlow, Hasty Pudding, i. 
There was also a hoe, on which Mrs. Jake baked cold 
water hoe-cakes when she had company to supper. 
E. Eggleston, The Oraysons, xvii. 
hoe-down (ho'doun), . A dance: same as 
breakdown. [Southern U. S.] 
hoer (ho'er), n. One who hoes. 
It is very difficult to get the hoers trained to select and 
leave only the stoutest plants. Encyc. Brit., I. 367. 
hoff (hof), n. A dialectal variant of hock 1 . 
Hoffmannist (hof 'man-ist), n. [< Hoffmann (see 
def.) + -ist. The surname Hoffmann, Hof man, 
means 'courtman, courtier,' \ G. hof, MHG. 
OHG. hof (= OS. D. hof = AS. hof, house (see 
hovel), = Icel. hof), courtyard, palace, royal 
court, + mann = E. man.] One of a body of 
Lutheran dissenters, followers of Daniel Hoff- 
mann, a professor at Helmstedt in Germany 
(1576-1601), who taught that reason and reve- 
lation are antagonistic. 
Hoffmannite (hof 'man-it), n. [< Hoffmann (see 
defs.) + -ite 2 .] 1. A member of a short-lived 
German Anabaptist sect of the sixteenth cen- 
tury, founded by Melchior Hoffmann. 2. A 
member of a small German sect of Millenarians, 
