hook 
The larboard Kiilley, crippled but not daunted, swung 
mul across his stern, and hooked herse" 
roi 
to him. 
icrself venomously on 
Kingaley, Westward Ho, xx. 
II. iiitraiix. 1. To bend; be in or take the 
form of a hook. 
Her bill hook* and bends downwards. 
Sir T. Herbert, Travels in Africa, p. 383. 
2. To become attached by means of a hook, or 
something resembling a hook : as, a chain that 
hooks on to the watch. 
Fat. Go, witli her, with her; |to Bardolph] hook on, 
hook on. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., ii. 1. 
3. To have a habit of attacking with the horns : 
said of a cow or other horned animal. 4. To 
turn away; depart; decamp: now (transitively) 
with an indefinite it, as a slang phrase. 
Hokit out of havyn all thehepe somyn, 
Hade bir at hor bake. 
Destruction of Troy(E. E. T. 8.), 1. 421. 
[That is, 'All the heap (fleet) together hooked out of ha- 
yen, had the wind at 
their back.'] 
Every school-boy 
knows that the lion 
has a claw at the 
end of his tall, with 
which he lashes 
himself into fury. 
When the experi- 
enced hunter sees 
him doing that, he, 
so to speak, hooks it. 
U. Kinqslry, Ra- 
[venshoe, Ix. 
hooka, hookah 
(ho'ka), ii. [E. 
spelling of 
Hind, and Pers. 
liuqqa, a pipe for 
smoking, Pers. 
also a casket, < 
Ar. huqqa, a 
pipe for smok- 
ing, a casket, a 
Hooka (a simple form). 
box for pomatum ; cf . Ar. Jiuqq, a hollow place. ] 
In India, the water-pipe for smoking. The smoke 
is drawn through water by means of a long flexible tube. 
The apparatus is commonly made of expensive materials 
and elaborately ornamented. Also spelled tntkah. See 
narghile, hubble-bulible. 
Sublime tobacco ! . . . 
Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe. 
When tipped with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe. 
Byron, The Island, ii. 19. 
The good old hookah days are past ; cheroots and pipes 
have now usurped the place of the aristocratic silver bowl, 
the cut-glass goblets, and the twisted glistening snake 
with silver or amber mouth-piece. 
W. H. RussM, Diary in India, I. 187. 
hook-and-eye, n. See hook and eye, under honk. 
hooka-stand (ho'ka-staud), H. A stand for sup- 
porting the bowl of the hooka at a convenient 
height from the ground. 
hook-beaked (huk'bekt), n. Having a curved 
beak or bill; curvirostral. 
hookbill (huk'bil), H. [< ;iwA- + 6iV/i.] i. A 
curved or hooked bill or beak of a bird. 2. 
A spent male salmon whose jaws have become 
hooked. 
hOOk-bill (huk'bil), 11. [< hook + 6(7/2.] A bill- 
hook with a curved end. 
hook-billed (huk'bild), . Having a curved 
bill; hook-beaked. 
hook-block (huk'blok), H. A pulley-block fit- 
ted with a hook at one end. 
hook-bolt (huk'bolt), 11. A bolt having one end 
in the form of a hook. 
hook-bone (huk'bon), n. Same as hook, 5. 
hopk-climber (huk'kli'mer), n. A plant that 
climbs by the aid of hooks, as those developed 
on Galium, Rubus, Rosa, Uncnrin,eia. These hooks, 
according to Darwin, do not curl as do tendrils, but act by 
hooking over the supports upon which they climb. 
hooked (hukt or huk'ed), a.- [< ME. linked; < 
hook + -ed2.~] 1 . Bent like a hook ; hook-shaped. 
The bill is short, strong, and very much hooked. 
Pennant, British Zool., The Peregrine Falcon. 
He clasps the crag with hooked hands. 
Tennyson, The Eagle. 
2. Having a hook or hooks; furnished with 
hooks: as, a hooked stick; a hooked chariot 
(one having sharp hooks projecting outward for 
offensive purposes, as used in ancient war). 
The hooked chariot stood, 
Unstain'd with hostile blood. 
Milton, Nativity,!. 6. 
Hooked gearing. See gearing. Hooked tool, (a) A 
tool with one end bent to form three sides of a square, 
one side being prolonged to serve as a handle. (6) A 
chisel with the end bent at an angle, used in marble-cut- 
ting where the square chisel cannot conveniently be em- 
ployed, (c) A tool similar to a scorper, used in wood-turn- 
ing, (if) A bent knife for paring hoofs. 
2878 
hookedness(huk'ed-nes), H. [< liookwl + -ness.] 
The state of being bent like a hook ; incurva- 
tion. 
hooker 1 (huk'er), n. [< hook + -pi' 1 .] 1. One 
who or that which hooks. Specifically (a) One who 
fishes with hook and line ; also, a fishing-vessel engaged in 
fishing with the hook : distinguished from netter. (6) In 
tliettponge-jixhery, one who hooksup sponges. [Florida, U. 
S.] (c) An iron rod bent more or less like a hook at one 
end, used to hook up or pull out racoon-oysters, or knock 
the bunches of them to pieces. [Georgia, U. S.] 
2. [Formerly Itoker.] A thief; a filcher; a 
shoplifter. 
A cunning filcher, a craftie hooker. Fiona. 
These sly theeues and night-hookers . . . committed 
such felonious outrages. Holland, tr. of Pliny, xix. 4. 
hooker 2 (huk'er), ii. [Formerly also howker 
(= G. Dan. huker), < D. hoeker, < hoek, a 
hook. It was also called in D. hoekboot, MD. 
linci'kboot, a fishing-boat, < hoek, = E. hook, + 
boot = E. boat.] A two-masted Dutch vessel; 
also, a small fishing-smack used on the Irish 
coasts. 
(Hookei-or Howker). A coast or fishing vessel a small 
hoy-built craft with one mast, intended for fishing. Book- 
ers are common on our coasts, and greatly used by pilots, 
especially off Irish ports. See Smyth's " Sailor's Word- 
Book." N. and Q., 7th ser., IV. 420. 
[Sometimes used in contempt for any ill-conditioned or 
disorderly vessel. 
I was overjoyed to find that the old hooker actually 
made two and a half knots. The Century, XXVI. 945. 
Something to set the old hooker creaking. 
W. C. Ruttell, Jack's Courtship, xxviii.) 
Hookeria (hu-ke'ri-ji), n. [NL., after the Eng- 
lish botanist Sir W. '3. Booker (1785- 1865).] A 
genus of pluricarpous mosses, the type of the 
tribe Hookeriece. 
Hookerieae (huk-e-ri'e-e), n. pi. [NL., < Hooke- 
ria + -ea 1 .] A tribe of pluricarpous mosses, 
typified by the genus Hookeria. They are charac- 
terized by having the calyptra conical or mitrate, and near- 
ly entire at the base ; the capsule suberect, horizontal, or 
(-minions, and usually long-pediceled ; and the peristome 
onble, of 18, usually lanceolate, teeth. The same as 
Hookeriacea of Miiller and llookeriri of other authors. 
Hooker's green. See green*. 
Hooke's gearing. See gearing. 
hookey 1 (huk'i), w. Same as hockey^. 
hookey 2 , . See hooky^. 
hookheal (huk'hel). n. The common labiate 
plant Britnella (or I'runella) vulgarly, the heal- 
all. Also called hookweed. 
booking-frame (huk'ing-fram), n. A wooden 
frame fitted with hooks, on which fabrics may 
be hung for convenience in folding and mea- 
suring. 
hook-ladder (huk'lad'er), . A ladder with a 
hook or hooks at the top for holding. 
hook-land (huk'land), n. Land plowed and 
sowed every year. [Eng.] 
hooklet (huk'let), 11. [< hook + -let.] A small 
hook or hook-shaped process. Specifically (a) 
In ornith., a hamulus. (b) In entom., one of the minute 
hook-shaped bristles found on the front edge of the pos- 
terior wings of many insects, and serving to hold the two 
wings of a side together during flight. 
hook-money (huk'mun'i), n. A currency of 
Ceylon in the seventeenth century, consisting 
of pieces of pure silver 
twisted into the form of 
fish-hooks. Similar" coins "of 
silver wire were made in Lar, 
Persia, and were called larins; 
specimens also circulated in the 
Mill. live islands. Some of the 
larins bear a brief Inscription in 
Arabic letters. 
hook-motion (huk ' m 6 " - 
shon), . In the steam- 
engine, a valve-gear which 
is reversed by V- hooks. 
hook-nebbedt, a. [ME. 
huke-nebbyde; < hook + 
neb + -ed?.] Having a 
hooked beak. 
[He was] huke-nebbyde as a hawke, and [had] a hore berde. 
Morte Arthure (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 1082. 
hook-net (huk'net), n. A fishing-net having a 
kind of pocket formed by an L-shaped contin- 
uation. E. H. Knight. 
hook-nose (huk'noz), n. A nose with a pro- 
nounced curve, suggesting the beak of a hawk ; 
an aquiline nose. 
Mr. Barton was immediately accosted by a person well- 
stricken in years, tall, and raw-boned, with a hook-nose, 
and an arch leer, that indicated at least as much cunning 
as sagacity. Smollett, Humphrey Clinker. 
He had a hook nose, handsome after its kind, but too 
high between the eyes. Dickens, Little Don-it, L 1. 
hook-npsed (huk'nozd), . Having a curvated 
or aquiline nose. 
Hook -money, British Mu- 
seum. (Size of the origi- 
hooly 
I may Justly say with the hook-noted fellow of Rome, I 
came, saw, and overcame. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., iv. 3. 
hook-pin (huk'pin), H. A tapering iron pin with 
a hooked head, used for pinning the frame of 
a floor or roof together. 
hook-rope (huk'rop), n. Naut., a rope six or 
eight fathoms long, with a hook and thimble 
spliced at one end, and whipped at the other, 
used in dragging chain cables out of the lock- 
ers, etc. 
hook-scarf (huk'skarf), H. A method of unit- 
ing timbers endwise so that they lock into 
each other. See scarf. E. H. Knight. 
hook-squid (huk'skwid), w. ,One of the decap- 
odous cephalopod mollusks of the family Oiiy- 
choteuthididte (allied to the common squids or 
calamaries), remarkable for the length of their 
tentacles, the clubbed extremities of which are 
armed with hooks having their bases furnished 
with suckers, which the animals employ to seize 
their prey. They are often of large size, some attaining 
the length of 6 feet, and are much dreaded by bathers. 
They occur in most seas. 
hook-sucker (huk'suk^er), . A fish which 
takes a hook or bait by a sucking motion. 
hook-swivel (huk'swiv'l), . The swivel of a 
gorge-hook, used by anglers to enable them to 
put on or take off the bait. 
hook-tip (huk'tip), n. One of certain moths, 
particularly those of the genus I'latyjitei-yx, of 
which the wings are tipped with hooks. The 
scalloped hook-tip is /'. laeertula ; the pebble 
hook-tip is P. falculia. 
hook-tool (huk'tol), 11. 1. A hand-tool used in 
metal-turning, which is hook-shaped, and ex- 
tends beyond the rest that supports it ; a hang- 
ing-tool. 2. A bent tool for wood-turning, 
used in bottoming boxes, lids, or other hollow 
work. 
hookum (ho'kum), n. [Hind, hukm, a command, 
order, decree : see hakim.'] In India, an order 
or instruction from a person in authority. Com- 
pare hakim. 
We had no hookum from the commissioner or deputy, 
but Hay's chuprassie worked very hard in and about the 
valleys and high-road. 
W. H. Ruiaell, Diary in India, II. 226. 
hookumpake (huk'um-pak), n. [Imitative of 
the bird's cry.] The American woodcock, Phi- 
lohela minor. G. Trnmbull, 1888. [Worcester 
county, Maryland, U. S.] 
hookweed (huk'wed), . Same as hookheal. 
hook-wrench (huk'rench), . A spanner hav- 
ing a curved or hooked end for grasping a nut 
or coupling-piece on a hose. 
hooky 1 (huk'i), a. [< hook* + -yl.] 1. Full of 
hooks; pertaining to hooks. 2. Given to hook- 
ing: as, a hooky cow. [Colloq.] 3. Hooked. 
Daries. 
A miniature sketch of his hooky nose. 
Hood, Miss Kilmausegg, Her Courtship. 
hooky 2 (huk'i), w. [In allusion to hook, v. i., 4.] 
A pupil absent from school without leave; a 
truant: only in the phrase to play hooky, equiva- 
lent to to jilay truant. Also hookey. [School 
slang.] 
He moped to school gloomy and sad, and took his flog- 
ging along with Joe Harper for playing hookey the day 
before. S. L. Clemens, Tom Sawyer, p. 100. 
hoolH, a,- A Middle English form of whole. 
Chaucer. 
hool 2 (hoi), . An obsolete or dialectal (Scotch) 
form of hull 1 . 
Poor Leezie's heart maist lap the hool. 
Burnt, Hallowe'en. 
hoolee (ho'le), n. [Also hooly, hoolee, hvti, prop. 
holt; < Hind, holi.] The great festival or car- 
nival of the Hindus, held in the spring in honor 
I Krishna. The occasion is one of boisterous merry- 
making and fooling. Friends and strangers are pelted 
with red powder, or drenched with a yellow liquid from 
squirts. There is continual singing and dancing, more or 
less obscene, and tricks are played closely resembling the 
April-fooling of the English. 
hoolock (ho'lok), H. [Also hillock, yulock, yo- 
lock; from a native name.] A species of Hy- 
lobates or gibbon, H. hoolock, inhabiting Assam 
in British India. 
hooly (hul'i), a. [Sc., also huty, in Aberdeen 
heelie, perhaps orig. *huvely, < *hure, hiife, hove, 
tarry, delay: see hore 1 .'] Slow; cautious: care- 
ful. 
hooly (hul'i), adv. [Sc., < Jiooly, .] Slowly; 
cautiously; softly; carefully; moderately. Also 
lioulii'. 
Deal hooly wi' my head, maidens, 
Deal hooly wi' my hair, 
For it was washen late yestreen. 
And it is wonder sair. 
Sweet Willie (Child's Ballads, II. 96). 
