hoop-snake 
trundled with a wand called a hoople-Ktii'k. 
[New York, U. S.] 
hoop-lock (hop'lok), . A fastening formed by 
interlocking notches in the ends of a barrel- 
hoop. 
hoop-net (hop'net), . A net the mouth of 
which is stretched upon a hoop, as a handle- 
net, dip-net, scoop-net, etc. A hoop-net with a 
rectangular or circular opening is often used to capture 
fish under the ice. 
hoopoe, hoopoo (ho'po, -p6), . [The form hou- 
u- OJ1 . poe was doubtless orig. pron. like hoopoo, which, 
, . [< ME. hoope, hope, a toop 1 (hop or hup), r. * [< ME. hoopen; fron wlth hoopoof first appears about 1667-78; an 
ho"op, < AS. "ho,,: not found in the same sense the noun.] 1. To bind or fasten with a hoop imitative var . or dipped reduplication of the 
of 'hoop,' but what seems to be essentially the or with hoops; provide with a hoop: as, to hoop earlier hoop ^ appal . after L upllpa . gee ] t oopS.] 
j ?_ j, j i.. ^... ii_ ~. i,;:,, a barrel or nuneheon. A tenuirostral non-passerine bird of the family 
Ujmpidte. The best-known species is Upupa epopt, the 
hooly 
O hooly, futolif gaed she back, 
As the day began to peep. 
Fair Annie of Lochroyan (Child's Ballads, II. 102). 
Hooly and fairly, softly and smoothly ; cautiously aud 
moderately. 
flooly ami fairly nun ride fur juurnies. 
Ferguson's Scottish Proverbs, p. 13. 
Hoon (lion), ii. Same as Him^. Sir II'. Jones. 
hoondee (hou'de), . [Anglo-Iiul., repr. Hind. 
hundi, a bill of exchange.] An East Indian 
draft or bill of exchange drawn by or upon a 
a barrel or puncheon. 
Good son, loke thy bagges be koopid at the mothe a-bove, 
same word is found in comp.,/ew-Aop, mor-hop 
(poet.), a hollow or pool, or a mound or hum- 
mock, or more prob. a recess, in a fen or moor; 
lid[>-gchnaJst (poet.), the dashing of the waves 
(against the shore of a bay f), deriv. hopig 
(poet.), in hills and hollows (of the waves); also 
in compound place-names, as East-hop, E. East- 
hope, Bethlinghop, etc. (see hope^, 2); further in 
comp. hop-pdda, in a gloss, i. e. a ' hoop-tunic,' 
or circular cloak (?) ; = OFries. hop, a hoop, 
band, = North Fries, hop, a hoop, band, ring, hoop- (hop), v. and n. Same as whoop. 
= D. hoep (also dim. hoepel),a, hoop, =Icel. hop, hoop :; t (hop), n. [Also whoop, hottpe, hoope; 
a small landlocked bay or inlet (named appar. 
from its circular form), > E. hope 3 , a bay or in- 
let: see hope% and hope 3 . Root unknown.] 1. 
A circular band or flattened ring of wood, met- 
al, or other material; especially, a band of wood 
or metal used to confine the staves of casks, 
tubs, etc., or for any similar purpose ; also, that 
part of a finger-ring which surrounds the fin- 
ger, as distinguished from the chaton. 
oou BOH, ioic uij IJUKKCO i -TO, iinmnaO!. The best-known species is Upupa eiiops, me 
The surere mayst thow put in th ^JJ' v E " to r t "A , "^' common hoopoe of Europe, a bird about 12 inches long, 
2. To clasp ; encircle ; surround. 
Off with these robes of peace and clemency, 
And let us hoop our aged limbs with steel, 
And study tortures for this tyranny ! 
Beau, anil Fl. ('<), Faithful Friends, v. 2. 
I hoop the firmament, and make 
This my embrace the zodiack. Cleavtlaiul. 
F. huppe, OF. huppe, hupe = It. upupa, formerly 
also upega, < L. upupa = Gr. tnoijt, a hoopoe; 
prob. orig. imitative of the bird's cry; hence 
the variation of forms. Cf. OHG. witulutpfo, 
-lioffo, MHG. witehopfe, G. wiedehopf, > appar. 
MD. weedhoppe, wedehoppe (also simply weede, 
icede, and hoppe, D. hop), a hoopoe, lit. ' wood- 
hopper,' < OHG. witu, = AS. widu, wiidu, E. 
woodl, + OHG. "hopfon, MHG. G. hopfen = 
A hoop of gold, a paltry ring AS. hoppiait^ E. hop?; but the second element 
ihe did give me. SAo*.,M. of V., v. 1. may have been suggested by the imitative 
name. Cf. Servian hupak, hupac, hoopoe; the 
general Slavic name is also imitative, in an- 
other form, OBulg. vModu, vudidii, Bohem. dud, 
Pol. dudek, Russ. udodti, Little Russ. vdod, vu,d- 
vud, itdod, odud.udul, etc. See hoopoe, the form 
now in use.] Same as hoopoe. 
hoop 4 (hop), n. [Perhaps another use of hoop 3 .] 
A bullfinch. Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
That si 
The performance of leaping through barrels without 
heads, and through hoop*, especially the latter, is an exploit 
of long standing. Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 317. 
2. A large ring of wood or iron for a child to 
trundle. 
The boy ... 
Had tost his ball and flown his kite, and roll'd 
His hoop to pleasure Edith. 
Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. 
the skirt itself so expanded. The hoop or hoop- 
skirt was evolved from the farthingale of the sixteenth 
century. (See farthingale.) The time of its greatest ex- 
travagance was the middle of the eighteenth century, 
two separate structures, one over each hip, the two being 
held together by a girdle. The use of hoops continued 
3. A circular band of stiff material serving to hoop-ash (hop'ash), n. 1. A species of ash, 
expand the skirt of a woman's dress: often Fmxinus sambucifolia, so called from the use of 
used, either in the singular or in the plural, for its flexible wood in making hoops. Also called 
black ash, ground-ash. 2. The American net- 
tle-tree, Celti.t occideittalis. See ha,ckberry. 
hoop-bee (hop'be), n. A fossorial bee of the 
genus Eucera. 
hoop-cramp (hop'kramp), . In coopering, a 
clutch for clasping and holding in position the 
lapped ends of a barrel-hoop. 
began to be expanded again by the use of crinoline petti- hoop-driver (hop'dri"ver), n. A hand-tool used 
coats (see crinoline), for which were afterward substituted ill driving the hoops over a barrel ; also, a pow- 
underskirts (called hoop-skirts) with a series of hoops, at or-machine for doing the same work, 
first of ratan and whalebone and afterward of flat flexible h OODer l (ho'per or hup'er), II. [< hoop*. V., + 
steel, which at times were nearly as large as those of a , ,-> *V hoons r>nsk4 nr tuhi a cootier 
century earlier. They went out of use again about 1870. -er 1 . J One who hoops casks or tubs , a c 
Th' important charge, the petticoat, . . . iOOpW. 2 (ho'per), n. [< hoop* + -! ; iteMy 
Though stiff with hoops, and arm'd with ribs of whale. 
Pope, R. of the L., ii. 120. 
But from the hoop's bewitching round, 
Her very shoe has power to wound. 
E. Moore, Spider and Bee, Fable x. 
It may be noticed that by the end of 1787 hoops had al- 
most entirely gone out of fashion. 
Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XLII. 291. 
4. Something resembling a hoop; anything 
circular: technically applied in botany to the 
Hoopoe ( UfKfa rfofs). 
with a slender, sharp, decurved bill about 2J inches long, 
and a large, thin, compressed, and semicircular crest, erec- 
tile at will, on the head. The general color is buff of some 
shade, varied with black and white on the wings and tail. 
The bird is insectivorous and migratory, aud is widely dif- 
fused in Europe, Asia, and Africa. There are several other 
species of Upupa. The birds of the neighboring family 
Irrisoridou are known as wood-hoopoes. Also hooper. 
" Vannellus" (the lapwing) is a new-made name of the 
. .-ench "vanneau " : which bird, by a great mistake, hath 
been generally taken to be the upupa of the ancients, whicli 
is now by all acknowledged to be the hoopoo. 
Bay, Dictionarium Trilingue, p. 22. 
You know the holy birds who run up and down on the 
Prado at Seville among the ladies' pretty feet eh? with 
hooked noses and cinnamon crests? Of course. Hoopoes 
Upupa, as the classics have it. 
Kingsley, Westward Ho, xxvi. 
hoopoopt, H. Same as hoopoe. Charleton. 
hoop-petticoat (hop'pefi-kot), . 1. Same as 
hoop-skirt. 
Must we accept the costume of to-day, and carve, for 
example, a Venus in a hoop-petticoat? 
Hairthorne, Marble Faun, xiv. 
2. A plant, Narcissus Bulbocodium, a native of 
heaths in France, so called from the shape of 
its flowers. See narcissus. 
The diitfodil, the "pheasant-eye," and the hoop-petticoat 
are all narcissuses, and bloom freely in-doors. 
J. Habberton, Harper's Mag., LXXVIII. 387. 
overlapping edge of one of the valves of the 
frustule of the Diatomaeeai. 
is said to resemble the syllable hoop.'] The 
European whooping swan, Cyyniis musicus: so 
called from its cry. It is one of several swans which 
have the windpipe peculiarly coiled in a cavity of the 
breast-bone, and the bill not tuberculate. The adult is 
snow-white, with black feet, and a black bill blotched hoop-pine (hOp'pin), . A large coniferous tree, 
with yellow. ^ ^ Araucaria Cumringhami, a native of eastern 
Australia, where it attains a height of 200 feet 
and a diameter of 6 feet. Also called the More- 
ton Bay pine. 
hoop-pole (hop'pol), n. A smooth, straight 
ood, us 
buff. 
i. The game of blindmau's- 
Nares. 
But Robbin finding him silly. 
Most friendly took hire aside, 
The while that his wife with Willy 
Was playing at hooper's hide. 
Hast tli on forgot 
The foul witch Sycorax, who, with age and envy, 
Was grown into a hoop > Shak., Tempest, i. 2. 
Each organism forms a small box, the silicious walls of 
which completely enclose a space ; these walls in many, 
If not in all, species are formed by two distinct plates or 
valves, each possessing its own hoop, one of which em- 
braces or slides over the other like the lid of a box. This 
hoop, connecting zone or belt, may be single, double, or of 
complex structure. Challenger Reports, II. 3. 
5t. A certain quantity of drink, up to the first 
hoop on a quart pot (which was formerly bound hooping-COUgh (ho'ping-kof) 
with hoops like a barrel). ing-coiujh. 
I believe hoopes in quart pots were invented that every hoop-iron (hop'I"ern), n. Strap-iron or thin 
man should take his hoope, and no more. ribbon-iron from which hoops are made for 
Nashe, Pierce Penilesse. baling co tton, securing packing-boxes, etc. . 
6f. An old English measure of capacity, vari- hoopkoop-plant (hop 'kop- plant), n. [Etym. 
ously estimated at from 1 to 4 pecks. unknown.] A low, spreading leguminous plant, 
shoot of green" w'ood, usually a sapling of small 
diameter, for making hoops for casks. [U. S.] 
The Winchester Wedding (old ballad), hoop-lingt, [< ME. hope-ring; < hoop*- + 
hooping (ho'ping or hup'ing), n. [Verbal n. of ring 1 .] A finger-ring. 
", v.] 1. Hoops in general, or the mate- 
, v.j . iiuupa 111 gciieiai. \JL mo mon?- A gret ring of gould on his lyttell finger on his right 
used for hoops. 2. The hoops used in hand, like a wedding ringe, a hope-ringe. 
building or strengthening any article, as the Mle ' 802 ' I* 56 - 
hoops shrunk on a built-up gun. 
For the whole length of the breech-screw, hooping is of 
See whoop- 
Half a hoop of corn. 
Tullie, Siege of Carlisle, p. 22. 
(Halliwell.) 
Hoop-rimjs and childrens whistles, and some forty or 
fifty dozen of gilt-spoons, that's all. 
, W. Cartmright, Lady Errant (1651). 
no avail, for only longitudinal strains are here developed. . , , , 
MichaeKs, tr. of Monthaye's Krupp and De Bange, p. 77. hoop-Shell (hop'shel), . A shell of the genus 
Trochus; a top-shell. 
hoop-skirt (hop'skerf), n. A petticoat stiff- 
ened and expanded by means of hoops of ratan, 
whalebone, or steel. Also hoop-petticoat. 
The hoop-skirts now in vogue typify the swelling con- 
ceit, the empty pride and vanity, which, beginning with 
the upper circles, is mimicked and caricatured by all the 
orders of society, from the family of the millionaire down 
id fruit-dealer. 
ig on in the World, p. 815. 
_ _ _ . , 
Lesnedcza striata, originally from China or Ja- to that of the humble grocer an 
(HalliweU.) ^ but introduced (about 1850) into the south- W- MaOteva, Gettin 
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7. The casing inclosing a pair of millstones ; e rn Atlantic States, where it is rapidly spread- hoop-snake (hop'snak), n. A snake fabled to 
also, a reinforcing band about one of the stones, ing in old fields and waste places. It is greed- take its tail in its mouth and roll along like a 
ProvlBory hoop, in MMfe-moMMft a device for straining ji v ea ten fcy cattle. 
up and holding the staves. It consists of a chain and , _! n,;;',.i\ r,f /,,,,,! after T) 
double screws for tightening it. See cut In next column, hoople (ho pi), n. Dim. ot lioopi, a r U. 
To set the cock on hoop. Seex*i. hoepel, dim. of liorp.] A child s hoop, usually 
hoop; specifically, Abastor erythrogrammus, a 
harmless species of the family Colubrida 1 , abun- 
dant in the southern United States. 
