hoop-tree 
hoop-tree (hop'tre), H. A shrub or low tree, 
Melia semperi'ireiis, a native of the warm parts 
of both hemispheres. 
hoort, a. An obsolete spelling of hoar. Chau- 
hoose, hooze (hos, hoz), . [A dial. var. of 
hoarse (ME. hose, etc.): see hoarse; prob. con- 
fused in part with hoast, haust, whoost, etc.] A 
disease incident to cattle, especially to calves, 
Characterized by a husky cough, loss of appe- 
tite, dry muzzle, coat rough and staring, quick- 
ened respiration, the horns hot, but the ears, 
nose, and legs cold, and the bowels frequently 
constipated. It is caused by the filling of the bronchial 
tubes and air-passages with hair-like white worms, the 
eggs of which are found on the grass in damp pastures. 
Hoosier (ho'zher), n. [A name of homely form, 
doubtless of some forgotten local origin. Va- 
rious stories are told to account for it, but none 
are authenticated by evidence.] An inhabitant 
of the State of Indiana : a nickname : also used 
adjectively. [U. S.] 
It has been in my mind since I was a Honitier boy to do 
something toward describing life in the back-country dis- 
tricts of the Western States. 
E. Eggletton, Hoosier Schoolmaster, p. 5. 
hoot (hot), v. [< ME. houten, liuten, hoten, 
prob. of Scand. origin, < OSw. huta, in the 
phrase hut ut en, cast out with contempt, as 
one would a dog, lit. 'hoot out one,' Sw. huta 
ut, take one up sharply, lit. 'hoot out.' Cf. 
MHG. hiuzen, huzeii, call to the pursuit ; imi- 
tative words, in so far as they rest upon the 
exclamatory syllables, Sw. hut, begone, Sc. 
hoot, hout, q. v. (of. W. hwt, off, away, Ir. ut, 
out, pshaw, Gael, ut ut, interj. of dislike), D. 
hut, Dan. huj, ho, halloo. The reg. form repr. 
ME. houten would be hout (riming with shout, 
so reg. houp for hoopl) but the imitation pre- 
serves the more sonorous sound.] I. intrans. 
1 . To cry out or shout in contempt. 
And thow, Astrot, hot out and haue oute oure knaues, 
Coltyng and al hus kynne oure catel to saue. 
Pien Plowman (C\ xxi. 289. 
The people poynted at her for a murtherer, yonge chil- 
dren howled at her. Nathe, Pierce Penllesse. 
I am wretched ! 
Open'd, discover'd, lost to my wishes ! 
I shall be hooted at 
Fletcher, Spanish Curate, ill 4. 
The agitators harangued, the mobs hooted. Disraeli. 
2. To cry as some owls: distinguished from 
screech. 
The clamorous owl, that nightly hoot and wonders 
At our quaint spirits. SAo*., M. N. D., ii. 3. 
II. trans. To drive or pursue with cries or 
shouts uttered in contempt ; utter contemptu- 
ous cries or shouts at. 
Away, and let me shift ; I shall be hooted else. 
Fletcher, Wildgoose Chase, iii. 1. 
His play had not been hooted from the boards. 
Macaulay, Madame D'Arblay. 
hoot (hot), n. [< hoot, D.] A cry or shout in 
contempt. 
hoot (hot), interj. [See hoot, r.] An exclama- 
tion expressive of dissatisfaction, of some de- 
gree of irritation, and sometimes of disbelief: 
equivalent to Jie, tut, tush, pshaw, etc. Also 
hoot-toot, hout, hout-tout. [Scotch.] 
hooting-OWl (ho'ting-oul), . Same as hoof- 
owl. 
hoot-owl (hot'oul), n. An owl that hoots: dis- 
tinguished from screech-owl. 
He could hear the . . . quail, hoot-aiel, and screech- 
owl sing to perfection. Connecticut Courant, June 9, 1887. 
hoot-toot (hot'tof), interj. Same as hoot. 
hoove 1 ,-, v. i. Same as hoce*. 
hoove 2 , hooven (hov, ho'vn), . [< hooven, a.] 
A disease of cattle in which the stomach is in- 
flated with gas, caused generally by eating too 
much green food. Also hove. 
hooven, hoven 2 (ho'vn, ho'vn), a. [Orig. pp. 
(dial, hooven) of heave, q. v.] Affected with the 
disease called hoove : as, hooven cattle. 
hop 1 (hop), c. ; pret. and pp. hopped, ppr. 
hopping. [< ME. hoppen, hop, leap, dance, < 
AS. hoppian (found only once, in the sense of 
' hop, leap,' but the sense of ' dance ' is proved 
by the deriv. hoppestre, a female dancer), also 
hoppetan = MD. hoppen, hobben, freq. hoppelen, 
leap, dance, D. hoppen. hop, = OHG. "hop/on, 
MHG. G. hopfen (also hoppen, freq. hoppeln, of 
LG. origin) = Icel. hoppa, hop, skip, = Sw. lio/i- 
pa, hop, leap, jump, = Dan. hoppe, hop, skip, 
jump. Other forms are AS. *hyppan, ME. hyp- 
pen, happen, hippen, E. dial, hip, hop, skip, etc. 
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(see ItipS), and AS. hoppetan, ME. "hoppcten, E. 
dial, hoppet, hop (see hoppet); not found in Goth. 
Hence hopper*, hopple, hobble, etc.] I. intrans. 
1. To leap, or move by successive leaps or 
sudden starts; skip, as birds: frisk or dance 
about; spring; specifically, as applied to per- 
sons, to spring or leap with one foot. 
He cam haupiity on ae foot, 
And winking wi ae ee. 
Earl Richard (Child's Ballads, III. 898). 
Every elf, and fairy sprite, 
Hop as light as bird from brier. 
Shak., M. N. D., v. 2. 
The painted birds, companions of the spring, 
Hopping from spray to spray, were heard to sing. 
Dryden, Flower and Leaf, 1. 4ti. 
2. To limp; halt; walk lame. 
The limping smith observ'd the sadden'd feast, 
And hopping here and there, himself a jest, 
Put in his word. Dryden, Iliad, i. 
A diminutive old hag, who, with crutches, hopped for- 
ward to Abudah. 
Sir C. Horell, tr. of Tales of the Genii, p. 25. 
3f. To dance. 
We olde men, I drede, so fare we, 
111 we be roten, can we nat be rype : 
We hoppen alway, whil the world wol pype. 
Chaucer, Prol. to Reeve's Tale, 1. 22. 
Where wooers hoppe in and out, long time may bring 
Him that hoppeth best at last to have the ring. 
J. Heywood, Proverbs. 
Hopping mad, so mad as to hop or jump about In 
rage ; violently angry. [Prov. Eng. and U. 8.) 
Miss Fustick said Liddy Ann was too old to wear 
plumes. Old Miss C went straight and told her; 
which made Liddy Ann hoppin' nutd. 
Mrs. Whitcher, Widow Bedott, p. 275. 
= Syn. Leap, Trip, etc. See skip. 
H. trans. 1. To jump over. [Colloq.] 2. In 
cutting rasps, to carry (the punch) with a skip- 
ping movement the required distance between 
the teeth: as, to hop the punch. TO hop the 
hope 
VrticacecK, with long twining stems and abun- 
dant 3- to 5-lobed leaves. The female flowers, which 
grow in strobiles or catkins, are used to impart a bitter 
flavor to malt liquors, and to preserve them from fermen- 
tation, their active properties depending on the presence 
of an aromatic and mildly narcotic resin, called hipulin, 
secreted by the scales and fruit. The hop plant is a dire- 
clous perennial, indigenous in temperate Europe, Asia, 
and North America. It is trained upon poles, and re- 
quires to be cultivated with great care ; a full crop is nol 
produced till the fourth or fifth year after planting. The 
hops when ripe are picked by hand, dried in a kiln called 
an oast, and packed into bags or pockets. They can be 
kept several years by tight packing. In medicine hops 
are used as a tonic and soporinc, in tincture and infusion, 
and in some cases in bulk. 
A land of hops and poppy-mingled corn. 
Tennyson, Alymer's Field. 
There are makers of beer who substitute for the clean 
bitter of the hops some deleterious drug. 
C. D. Warner, Backlog Studies, p. 141. 
2. pi. The flowers of this plant, as used in 
brewing, medicine, etc. 3. Wood fit for hop- 
poles. Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
hop 2 (hop), t). ; pret. and pp. hopped, ppr. hop- 
/lini/. [< hop 2 , .] I. trans. To treat with 
hops: as, to hop ale. 
The worts [in operations of brewing beer] are then boiled 
and hopped in the copper. 
S. Dowell, Taxes In England, IV. 140. 
The heel's are very strongly hopped. 
Thawing, Beer (trans.), p. 229. 
II. intrans. To pick or gather hops. 
After that, I was ^-hopping, and made my 15. regular 
at it, and a haymaking. 
Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, I. 104. 
hop-back (hop'bak), n. The vessel beneath 
the copper which receives the infusion of malt 
and hops, and the perforated bottom of which 
strains off the hops from the unfermented beer. 
hopbindt (hop'bind), n. [< hop% + bind.] Same 
as hopbine. 
HlClp, V. I. 
hop 1 (hop), H. [= Dan. hop = Sw. hopp, a leap 
on one foot; from the verb.] 1. A leap, espe- 
cially on one foot ; a light spring. 2. A dance ; 
a dancing-party. [Prov. Eng.; colloq., U. S.] 
Dancings are here [north of England, 1776J vulgarly 
called Hops. Bourne's Pop. Antiq. (1777), p. 302, note. 
I remember last Christmas, at a little hop at the Park 
he danced from eight o'clock till four. 
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, ix. 
The visitors lived in huge hotels, at one or other of which 
there was a ball every night a hop was the charming 
Saratoga expression. 
Arch. Forbes, Souvenirs of some Continents, p. ia. 
Hop, skip, and jump, the act of taking in succession a 
hop 2 (hop), H. [< ME. hoppe ("hoppe, sede for 
beyre [var. Itere}, hummulus, secundum extra- 
ueos" Prompt. Parv., A. D. 1440 the earliest 
instance in E.), < MD. hoppe, D. hop = MLG. 
LG. hoppe = OHG. hopfo, MHG. hopfc, G. hop- 
fen, the hop. The ML. kupa.F. houblon, hoube- 
lon, Walloon hubillon, hop, OF. hoppe, houppe, 
beer, are of D. origin. The MD. hommel, feel. 
humall, Sw. Dan. humle, > ML. humulus, hummu- 
lus, NL. humulus, the hop, may be ult. connect- 
ed with feop2; but evidence is lacking.] 1. A 
plant, Humulus Lupulus, of the natural order 
Male Flowering Branch ; i > and Fruiting Branch (a) of Hop (H 
lus Lupulus}. 
a, male flower ; 4. female flower; f. single fruit ; rf, embryo. 
ciously to cut any hop-binds growing in a plantation of 
hops. Blackstone, Com., IV. xvii. 
hopbine (hop'bin), n. [Prop, hopbiiid, q. v. Cf. 
woodbine, woodbind.'] The climbing or twining 
stem of the hop-plant. 
hop-bush (hop 'bush), n. A shrub, Dodonata 
triquetra, of the natural order Sapindaceas, a 
native of Australia, where the capsules are used 
as a substitute for hops. 
hop-Clover (hop'klo'ver), n. Same as hop-tre- 
foil, 1. 
hop-cushion (hop'kush'on), H. Same as hop- 
pillow. 
n. A tool used for drawing 
e ground. [Prov. Eug.] 
,er (hop'dri l! 'er), . A heated room or 
inclosure fitted with trays, etc., for drying hops ; 
a hop-kiln. 
lope 1 (hop), .; pret. and pp. hoped, ppr. hop- 
ing. [< ME. hopen, hope, sometimes merely 
expect, think, guess, without implication of 
desire; < AS. hopian (pret. hopode), hope, look 
for (followed by prep, to, to, or by a clause with 
that, that), = D. hopen, hoopen = MLG. LG. 
hopen, hapen = MHG. hoffen, G. hoffen = Icel. 
hopask, refl., = Sw. hoppas, refl., =Dan. haabe, 
hope. Root unknown; the L. cupere, desire, 
does not agree phonetically: see cupidity.'] I. 
intrans. 1. To entertain or indulge an expec- 
tation of something desired. 
But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with pa- 
tience wait for it. Rom. viii. 25. 
Are we to hope for more rewards or greatness, 
Or any thing but death, now he is dead? 
Fletcher, Valentinian, iv. 4. 
2. To have confidence ; trust with earnest ex- 
pectation of good. 
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou 
disquieted within me? hope thou in God. Ps. xlii. 11. 
And I can weep, can hope, and can despond, 
Feel wrath and pity, when I think on thee ! 
Cirwper, Task, iii. 841. 
Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar. 
Pope, Essay on Man, i. 91. 
To hope against hope, to hope without hopeful prospect 
or encouragement; hope in the absence of all the condi- 
tions which justify hope. 
II. trans. 1. To desire with expectation ; look 
forward to as desirable, with the expectation 
of obtaining : with a clause (with or without 
that) or, less commonly, a noun as object. 
-My father dead, my fortune lives for me ; 
And I do hope good days, and long, to see. 
Shak.,T. of the S., 1. 2. 
Now am I feeble grown ; my end draws nigh ; 
I hope my end draws nigh. 
Tennyson, St, Simeon Stylites. 
