hogshead 
byastatuteof 22Geo. II. Formerly the London hogshead hohlspath (hol'spath), n. [Gr., < hohl, hollow, 
of beer was 54 beer-gallons, the London hogshead of ale was 4. . v ,,,,f/, Rpa r.l An early name given by Wer- 
i$Sf^^^^^SS^^SS^ <? * V^Wj* a ?dalusite called chias- 
lime, tobacco, etc., have had local acceptance. See huye- tollte or 
headuvvjht. Abbreviated hhd. hollow spar. 
3. [Directly</<o</'.v/xw/.] A draught, as of wine holes, hoicks (hoiks), inter/. In hunting, & cry 
or ale, taken from a cup which forms the head to cheer the hounds. 
Holaspideae 
or cover of a jug in the shape of a hog. 
Sussex pig, under pig. 
hogsheadweightt, Five hundredweight. 
See 
Groom (within, holloing). Come along, Sir Callagan 
O'Brallagan! Hoics! hoics! Hark forward, my honeys ! 
. Hoics! hoics I What is the matter here? 
Macklin, Love a la Mode, II. 1. 
make ] hogt-headweight. 
hog-shearing (hog'sher"ing), n. Much ado 
about nothing. [Ludicrous.] 
Why do I hold vou thus long in these his noisome ex- 
halations, and hideous cry of hog-shearing, where, as we 
used to say in England, we have a great deal of noise and 
no wool? E. Martin, Letters (1662), p. 95. 
Hoisted and swung (naf.), ready to be lowered into 
the water at the word of command, as a boat. = Syn. Heave, 
Lift, etc. See raise. 
e variety of andalusite called cliias- nQ { st (hoist), n. [<hoist,i:] 1. The act of hoist- 
inacle. See chiitxlnhte. Also called ing . a lift . 2. That by which something is 
hoisted; a machine for raising ore, merchan- 
dise, passengers, etc., in a mine, warehouse, 
hotel, etc.; an elevator. 3. The perpendicular 
height of a flag or ensign, as opposed to the fly, 
or breadth from the staff to the outer edge ; also, 
the extent to which a sail or yard may be hoisted : 
as, give the sail more hoist. 4. Xattt., a num- 
ber of flags fastened together for hoisting as a 
signal. Pneumatic hoist, a lifting apparatus consist- 
ing of a platform which is raised by suspension-chains pass- 
ing over drums, and thence to pistons operated by com- 
pressed air in vertical tubular shafts ; an air-hoist, 
hoistt (hoist). Past participle of hoise, regularly 
hoised. 
hoiden, hoyden (hoi'dn), . and a. [< MD. hoist-bridge (hoist'brij), n. See bridge. 
hog-shouther (hog shuTH'er), . [Appar. in /,<7 en now /lewfew, a heathen, gentile, a gipsy, hoister (hois'ter), n. One who or that which 
allusion to the crowding and pushing of hogs vagabond, = E. heathen, q. v. The W. hoedon, hoists; an elevator or lift, 
while being fed, < hogi + shouther = K.shoulder.} a coque tte, a flirt, a hoiden, is from the E. The hoisting (hois'ting), n. [Verbal n. of hoist, v.] 
A game in_which those who take partjostle one D ^ ei ^ soun( j s nearly as E. "long i," and this The act of raising or elevating. 
was formerly commutable with oi, as in hoiden 
and hoise, hoist (also from the D.), joist, joint, 
point, etc., dial, or obs. hist, jist (gist), jint, 
pint, etc.] I. n. If. A rude, bold man. 
Shall I argue of conversation with this hoyden, to go and windlass adapted for hoisting, 
practise at his opportunities in the larder? hoisting-engine (hois'ting-en"jin), n, 
Milton, Colasterion. - 
2. A rude, bold girl ; a romp. 
Such another slatternly ignorant hoyden I never saw. 
Life of Mrs. Delamj, II. 323. 
II. a. Eude; bold; inelegant; rustic. 
, hoicks (hoiks), v. t. [< 
fo salute or encourage with the hunting-cry 
"Hoics!" Davies. 
Our adventurer's speech was drowned in the acclama- 
tions of the fox-hunters, who now triumphed in their 
turn, and hoicksed the speaker. 
Smollett, Sir L. Greaves, ix. 
another with the shoulders. [Scotch.] 
hog-shouther (hog'shuTH"er), v. i. [See hog- 
sliouthcr, n.~\ To jostle with the shoulder. 
[Scotch.] 
The warly race may drudge an' drive, 
Hog-shouther, jundie, stretch, an' strive. 
Burns, To William Simpson. 
hogskin (hog'skin), n. Leather made of the 
hides of hogs, having a grained and minutely 
punctured surface, used for saddles (generally 
under the name pigskin) and as an ornamental 
material for bookbinding and wall-hangings. 
For the latter uses also called sowskin and hogs' 
leather. See also Avignon leather (under lea- 
ther) and corami. 
There were many examples of superb binding, especially 
of exquisite tooling on hog-skin. 
C. D. Warner, Little Journey, vi. 
It may be truly amrm'd, he was the subversion and fall 
of that Monarchy which was the /uniting of him. 
Milton, Reformation in Eng., ii. 
hoisting-crab (hois'ting-krab), . A crab or 
They throw their persons with a hoiden air 
Across the room and toss into the chair. 
Young, Satires, v. 
hoiden, hoyden (hoi'dn), v. i. 
To romp rudely. 
They have been hoidening with the young apprentices. 
Swift. 
hog-snake (hog'snak), n. A serpent of the ge- hoidenhood, hoydenhood (hoi'dn-hud). n. [< 
nus Heterodon; a hog-nosed snake. hoiden -t- -hood.] The condition of a hoiden. 
hog's-pudding (hogz'pud"ing), n. The entrails Craig. 
of a nog, stuffed with pudding composed of hoidenish, hoydenish (hoi'dn-ish), a. 
flour, currants, and spice. Halliwell. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
hog-Steert (hog'ster), n. [ Appar. < hogl + steer 12 ; 
but orig. an accom. of hogster.~\ A boar of the 
[< hoi- 
~dcn + -isti 1 .] Having the manners of a hoiden ; 
like or appropriate to a hoiden. 
fan 
She is very handsome, and mighty gay and giddy, half 
mish and half hoydenish. Mme. D'Arblay, Diary, 1. 306. 
third year. hoidenism, hoydenism (hoi'dn-izm), n. [< hoi- 
Hee scornes theese rascal tame games, but a sounder of fen + -ism.] The character or manners of a 
Or tKrownye lion too stalck fro the mountain he wissh- .^,1;. rompi 8 hness; rusticity. Imp. Diet. 
eth Stanihurst, MneiA, iv. 163. hOlgh 1 , interj. bee hoy*. 
hoigh 2 t (hoi), n. [Appar. a var. of Jiigh used 
hogstert (hog'ster), n. [Early mod. E. hoggester, 
hoggaster; appar. < hog 1 + -stei:] 1. A sheep 
in its second year: same as hoggerel. 2. A 
boar in its third year. 
hog-Sty (hog'sti), n. [< ME. hogstye; < hogl + 
siy 1 .] A pen or an inclosure for hogs. 
The besotted Grecians being so far from endeavouring a 
recovery that they jested at the losse, and said that they 
had but taken a Hogs-stie. Sandys, Travailes, p. 21. 
^ v __ A spe- 
cial type of steam-engine, usually double, and 
either directly connected with a hoisting-drum 
around which a hoisting-rope is wound, or pro- 
vided with a frictional clutch to control the 
hoisting-drum or let it run free at will. Such en- 
gines for light work are usually portable, with an upright 
boiler, and one or two cylinders placed horizontally at the 
., .. base of the boiler. 
hoiden n ~\ hoisting-jack (hois'ting-jak), n. A device for 
applying hand-power to lift an object by means 
of a screw or lever. E. H. Knight. 
hoistway (hoist'wa), n. A passage through 
which goods are hoisted in a warehouse; the 
shaft of a freight-elevator, 
hoitt (hoit), v. i. [Origin uncertain ; cf . W. hoe- 
tian, suspend, dandle.] To indulge in riotous 
and noisy mirth. 
Hark, my husband, he's singing and hotting, and I'm 
fain to cark and care, and all little enough. 
Beau, and PL, Knight of Burning Pestle, t 3. 
hoity-toity (hoi'ti-toi'ti), interj. [Also written 
hoighty-toighty, hity-tity, highty-tighty ; appar. a 
varied redupl. of hoit, without def. meaning.] 
An exclamation denoting surprise or disappro- 
bation, with some degree of contempt: equiva- 
lent to pshaw. 
Hoity-toity! what have I to do with dreams? 
Congreve, Love for Love. 
hog-SUCCOry (hog'suk"o-ri), n. A species of 
Syoseris, small taraxacum-like plants of the 
Mediterranean region. 
hog-SUCker (hog'suk"er), . A catostomoid fish hoighty-toighty, interj. and a. 
of the United States, Hypentelittm nigricans, the spelling of hoity-toity. 
hog-molly or hog-mullet. It has various other hqiset (hois), v. t^ [Early mod. E. hyse, Jiyce 
local names, as crawl-a-bottom, hammerhead, 
allusively, with perhaps a ref. to hoigh 1 , interj.] 
High excitement; rampage: in the phrase on 
or upon the hoigh, eager; excited; excitedly; hoity . toity (hoi'ti-toi'ti), a. [Also highty- 
isl y- tighty, etc.; <hoity-toity, interj.] Elated; giddy; 
Young wenches now ; are all o" the hoigh. flighty ; petulant ; huffy : as, he is in hoity-toity 
' spirits. [Colloq.] 
hokt, hoket, and v. Obsolete variants of hook. 
lfeywoodWomau'k"ilied with Kindness, hokedayt, n. Same as hock-day. 
There comes running upon the hoigh together to meete hokert, . [ME., < AS. hocor, scorn mockery, 
me all the hucksters, fishmongers, butchers, cookes. derision: see remarks under hoax.] bcorn; 
Terence in English (1614). 
An occasional 
derision; invective; abusive talk. 
She was as digne as water in a dich, 
As ful of hoker and of bisemare. 
Chaucer, Reeve's Tale, 1. 45. 
(Palsgrave )','< OD. hyssen, D. hijschen'= Dan. hokerlyt, adv. [ME., < hoker + -ly' 2 .] Scorn- 
heise (> Se.heeze),hisse=Sw.hissa, hoise, hoist fully; disdainfully; abusively. 
Thanne wol he be angry, and answere hokerly and an- 
grily. Chaucer, Parson's Tale. 
stone-lugger, stone-roller, and toter. 
hog-wallow (hog'wol"6), n. A peculiar kind 
of irregular surface, when the clayey soil is ., _______ _____ *-^f- T- ,,--- 
broken up by a series of hillocks and hollows ly hist (hist). For the relation of hoise, hoist, to hoky-caket, n. See hockey-cake. 
closely succeeding one another. [U. 8.] hyse, hisft, cf. hoiden, joist, etc.] To raise; lift ; hoky-poky_(h6'ki-p6[ki) u . ^1. Same 
elevate; hoist. 
(> F. hisser, hoist a sail). Now, with excrescent 
t, hoist (due prop, to pp. hoist = hoiked), vulgar- 
These hog-wallowx are formations of pitfalls and eleva- 
tions, hollows and hillocks of every variety, which succeed 
each other like cups and saucers turned topsy-turvy. 
Putnam's Mag., Feb., 1854. 
hog-wardt (hog' ward), n. A hog-keeper. 
The hotj-ward who drove the swine to the " denes" in 
the woodland paid his lord fifteen pigs at the slaughter- 
time, and was himself paid by the increase of the herd. 
J. R. Green, Conq. of Eng., p. 317. 
hogwash (hog' wosh), 11. The refuse of a kitchen here - 
or brewery, etc., given to swine as food ; swill, hoist (hoist), v. t. 
hogweed (hog'wed), n. One of several plants, 
a,RHeracleumSphondylium,Polygonumavicularc, 
and Ambrosia artemisio'folia. The poisonous 
hogweed is Arixtolocliia, grandiflora of the West 
Indies, 
hogwort (hog'wert), n. An annual euphor- 
biaceous plant, Croton capitatus (Septalon gra- 
veolens), with densely soft-woolly and some- 
what glandular stems, and the fertile flowers 
capitate and crowded at the base of the sterile 
spike. It occurs from Illinois and Kentucky 
southward. 
as hocus- 
pocus. [Prov. Eng.] 2. Ice-cream sold by 
the pennyworth by street venders. 
Hokey Pokey is of a firmer make and probably stiffer 
material than the penny ice of the Italians, which it rivals 
in public favour, and it is built up of variously flavoured 
layers. Tuer, London Cries, p. 21. 
holt, a. An obsolete form of whole. 
Hoist with his own petar. Shak., Hamlet, iii. 4. holarctic (hol-ark'tik), a. [< Gr. 8/lof, whole, en- 
I hoise up Parnell partly to spite the envious Irish folks tire, + apKTtKof, arctic.] Entirely arctic ; wholly 
subject to arctic influences : as, the holarctic 
They . . . hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and made 
toward shore. Acts xxvii. 40. 
We descried land, which land we bare with all, hoising 
out our boat to discouer what land it might be. 
Hakluyt'a Voyages, I. 236. 
For 'tis the sport, to have the engineer 
Swift, Journal to Stella, Ivii. 
[ Also dial, liist ; a later form 
of hoise, due prob. to the pp. hoist, vulgarly 
hist: see hoise.] To raise; lift; elevate; es- 
pecially, to raise by means of block and tackle 
or other machinery. 
I have hoisted sail to all the winds 
Which should transport me farthest from your sight. 
region. 
The great northern or holarctic fauna. 
A. Newton, Address to Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci., Manchester 
[(1887), p. 8. 
holarthritic (hol-ar-thrit'ik), a. [< Gr. o/.oc, 
entire, whole, + apdpirif, gout : see arthritis.] 
Having gout in all the joints. Dungllson. 
Shak., Sonnets, cxvii. Holaspidese (hol-as-pid'e-e), w. pi. [< Gr. otof, 
Where other princes, hoisted to their thrones entire whole, + aairtf (aairid-), a shield, + -eai.] 
si y t inthd'r 6 hS ODate an B d J r< PoSel- v i In " tith -> in Sundevall's classification, the first 
' . ' cohort of the series of scutelliplantar oscines, 
Deposits formed originally on the floor of the sea have :*,..< A f ... 11T ,natnrl nwipintion of the 
been hoisted above water, and now form the bulk of our consisting Ot an unnatui 
dry land. Huxley, Physiography, p. 215. larks, Alaudida;, and the hoopoes, Upuptda. 
