hope 
[Hope is also loosely used as synonymous with desire, long 
for, or wish.] 
2f. To expect; regard as likely to happen: not 
implying desire: with a clause as object. 
Thare ere many maners of thynkynges, whilke ere beste 
to the I cane noghte say, bot 1 hope the whilke thou felis 
inaste sauour in and innste riste for tin: tyme it es beste 
for the. Hamiuilf, 1'rose Treatises (E. E. T. S.), p. 30. 
Oure manciple, I hope he wil be deed. 
Chaucer, Reeve's Tale, 1. 108. 
In his bosum he hid his hand 
And said he hurt it on a brand. 
"Thar on," he said, "I haue slike pine [pain] 
That I hope my hand to tyne |lose]." 
Holy Rood (E. E. T. S-X p. 85. 
3. To imagine; have an impression; think: 
with an effect of irony: as, I hope I know what 
I am talking about. [Colloq.] 
Why, very well ; I twite here be truths. 
Shak., M. for M, ii. 1. 
hope 1 (hop), ii. [< ME. hope, hope, expectation, 
ground or object of hope, < AS. hopa (also in 
comp. to-hopa) =D. hoop = MHG. hoffe = Sw. 
hopp = Dan. haab, hope; from the verb.] 1. 
Expectation of something desired; desire ac- 
companied by expectation. 
Captain Swan . . . and his Men being now agreed, and 
they incouraged with the hope of gain, which works its 
way thro' all Difficulties, we set out from Cape Corrieutes, 
March the 31st, 1686. Dampier, Voyages, I. 280. 
Hope is that pleasure in the mind which every one finds 
in himself, upon the thought of a profitable future enjoy- 
ment of a thing which is apt to delight him. 
Locke, Human Understanding, II. xx. 9. 
It was natural that the rage of their disappointment 
should be proportioned to the extravagance of their hopes. 
Macaulay, Sir J. Mackintosh. 
2. Confidence in a future event, or in the fu- 
ture disposition or conduct of some person; 
trust, especially a high or holy trust. 
Who [Abraham] against hope believed in hope, that he 
might become the father of many nations. Rom. iv. 18. 
We have receiv'd a comfortable Aojoe 
That all will speed well. 
Beau, and fl., Honest Man's Fortune, L 1. 
Just so much hope I have of thee 
As on this dry staff fruit and flowers to see ! 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, III. 387. 
3. That which gives hope ; one who or that 
which furnishes ground of expectation or prom- 
ise of desired good; promise. 
When their brave hope, bold Hector, march'd to field, 
Stood many Trojan mothers sharing joy. 
Shak., Lucrece, 1. 1430. 
I was my parents' only hope, 
They ne'er had ane but me. 
Mary Hamilton (Child's Ballads, III. 330). 
Then they [the nobles] enacted, that Edwi Brother of 
Edmund, a Prince of great hope, should be banish't the 
Realm. Milton, Hist. Eng., vi. 
4. The object of hope ; the thing hoped for. 
For we are saved by hope ; but hope that is seen is not 
hope : for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? 
Rom. viii. 24. 
Thy mother felt more than a mother's pain, 
And yet brought forth less than a mother's hope. 
Shak., 3 Hen. VI., T. 6. 
5t. Expectation, without reference to desire; 
prognostication. [Rare.] 
By how much better than my word I am, 
By so much shall 1 falsify men's hopes. 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., L 2. 
Forlorn hope. See/orforn. = Syn. 3. Reliance, depen- 
dence. 
hope 2 (hop), . [< ME. hope, a valley, < AS. 
"hop, prob. in the same sense, but it is not found 
except in comp., with indeterminate sense : see 
hoop*-.] 1. A hollow; a valley; especially, the 
upper end of a narrow mountain valley when 
it is nearly encircled by smooth green slopes : 
nearly equivalent to comb 3 . [Prov. Eng. and 
Scotch.] 
Now ferkes to the fyi-the thees fresche mene of urines, . . . 
Thorowe hopes and hymlande hillys and other. 
ilorte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2503. 
Descending by a path towards a well-known ford, Dum- 
ple crossed the small river, . . . and approached . . . the 
farm-steading of Charlie's-Aope. 
Scott, Guy Mannering, xxiii. 
The survey of 1542 describes the Redesdale men as liv- 
ing in sheels during the summer months, and pasturing 
their cattle in the grains and hopes of the country on the 
south side of the Coquet, about Wilkwood and Ridlees. 
Hodgson, Northumberland (1827), quoted in Ribton- 
[Turner's Vagrants and Vagrancy, p. 86. 
2. A mound; a hill. [Prov. Eng.] This word 
occurs in several place-names, as Eiistlmjii; 
Kirkhope, Stanhope, etc. 
hope 3 (hop), n. [< Icel. hopr, a small land- 
locked bay or inlet, named appar. from its cir- 
cular form, the word being prob. identical with 
hop, a recess or inlet, = AS. "hop, E. hoop 1 , a 
2881 
circular band: see hoop 1 , and cf. hope 2 , a vnl- 
ley.] An inlet ; a small bay ; a haven. 
To the north is St. Margaret's Hope, a very safe harbour 
for ships. Wallace, Orkney, p. S. 
It was a little hamlet which straggled along the side of 
a creek formed by the discharge of a small brook into the 
sea. ... It was called Wulfs-hopr. (i. e. Wolf's haven). 
Scott, Bride of Lammermoor, xii. 
Hopea (ho'pe-a), n. [NL., after John Hope, 
professor of 'botany in Edinburgh (1725-86).] 
A genus of dicotyledonous polype talous plants, 
belonging to the natural order IMpterocari>m . 
It is characterized by a short calyx-tube of five parts, two 
of which are extended into wings, a 5-cleft convolute co- 
rolla, 15 or 10 stamens, and a s-celled ovary. They are 
resinous trees, with entire coriaceous leaves and flowers, 
often secured along the ramifications of the panicle. Ten 
species are known, natives of tropical Asia. H. odorata 
is an evergreen tree, 80 feet or more in height, a native of 
British Burma and the Andaman Islands. The wood is 
yellow or yellowish-brown, hard, and close-grained. It is 
the chief timber-tree of southern Tenasserim, being used 
for house-building, cart-wheels, etc. The tree yields a yel- 
low resin, used by the natives, when mixed with beeswax 
and red ocher, to make a wax used to fasten their arrow- 
and spear-heads. 
hope: 
I spear-heads. 
ieful (hop'ful), a. and n. [< hope 1 + -fill.'] 
a. 1. Full of hope; having desire with ex- 
pectation of its fulfilment. 
If ever he have child, abortive be it, ... 
Whose ugly and unnatural aspect 
May fright the hopeful mother at the view. 
S/w*.,Kich. Ill, L 2. 
For the air S youth, 
Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign 
A melancholy damp of cold and dry, 
To weigh thy spirits down. Milton, P. L, xi. 543. 
2. Having qualities which excite hope ; prom- 
ising advantage or success: as, a hopeful pros- 
pect: often used ironically. 
Horse could never passe ; 
Much lesse their chariots, after them : yet for the foot there 
was 
Some hopefull service, which they wisht. 
Chapman, Iliad, xii. 
While they [the people] were under the sense of their 
present miseries, Samuel puts them into the most hope- 
full way for their deliverance. 
StilKngJleet, Sermons, II. iv. 
A republic in an over-civilized, highly centralized, bu- 
reaucratically governed country, with a religiously hol- 
low, hasty, violent, excitable people, seems of all social 
experiments the least hopeful. 
British Quarterly Rev., LXXXIII. 429. 
Among others, one of Lady Lizard's daughters, and her 
hopeful maid, made their entrance. 
Steele, Guardian, No. 65. 
=Syn. 1. Confident, sanguine, buoyant, enthusiastic. 
fl. . A more or less wilful, troublesome, or 
incorrigible boy or girl, regarded ironically as 
the rising hope of the family. [Colloq.] 
The young Hopeful was by no means a fool, and In some 
matters more than a match for his father. 
Trollope, Dr. Thome, xxiv. 
Mrs. Dr. Land's youngest hopeful, who had been brought 
away from home because it was discovered that she had 
been meditating a matrimonial alliance with the butler. 
The Atlantic, LIX. 185. 
hopefully (hop'ful-i), adv. In a hopeful or en- 
couraging manner ; in a manner to excite hope ; 
with ground for expectation of advantage, suc- 
cess, or pleasure. 
hopefulness (hop'ful-nes), n. The state or 
quality of being hopeful, or of giving ground 
for hope. 
hopeite, hopite (ho'pit), n. [After Professor 
Thomas Charles Hope of Edinburgh (1766- 
1844).] A transparent, light-colored mineral, 
a hydrous zinc phosphate, found in the calamin- 
mines of Altenberg, near Aix-la-Chapelle. 
hopeless (hop'les), a. [= Dan. haablos = Sw. 
hopplos; as hope 1 + -few*.] 1. Without hope; 
having no expectation of gaining or attaining 
the thing desired; despairing. 
1 am a woman, friendless, hopeless. 
Shak., Hen. VIII, ill. 1. 
Hopeless grief that knows no tears. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, II. 51. 
2. Affording no ground of hope or expectation 
of good ; despaired of : as, a hopeless case ; a 
hopeless scamp. 
The most hopeless idleness is that most smoothed with 
excellent plans. Bagehot, Eng. Const. (Boston ed.), p. 150. 
3f. Unhopedfor; unexpected. 
His watry eies drizling like deawy rayne 
He up gan lifte toward the azure skies, 
From whence descend all hopelesse remedies. 
Spenser, F. Q., III. v. 34. 
Gluing thanks to God for so hopelesge a deliuerance. it 
pleased his Diuine power, both they and their prouision 
came safely aboord. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, II. 94. 
= Svn. 1. Desponding, discouraged. 2. Incurable, irre- 
mediable, incorrigible, Irreparable. 
Hoplegnathus 
hopelessly (hop'les-li), adv. In a hopeless man- 
ner; without hope; utterly; irretrievably. 
For thus their sense informeth them, and herein their 
reason cannot rectifle them ; and therefore hujtrlettly con- 
tinuing in mistakes, they live and die in their absurditiea. 
Sir T. Broicne, Vulg. Err., I. .:. 
hopelessness (hop'les-iies), M. The state of be- 
ing hopeless; discouragement; despair. 
hoper (no' per), n. One who hopes. Swift. 
hopes (hops), n. A plant, Matthiula incana, the 
com moil stock. 
hop-factor (hop'fak"tor), n. A dealer in hops; 
one who buys and sells hops, either on his own 
account or for a commission. 
hop-feeder (hop'fe'der), . An insect which 
feeds upon the hop. 
hop-flea (hop'fle), . A very small coleopterous 
insect, Haltica concinna, destructive to hops. 
It is about one tenth of an inch long. The tur- 
nip-flea is another species of this genus. 
hop-fly (hop'fli), n. An aphid, Phorodon hum uli. 
found on hops. 
hop-frame (hop'fram), . A trellis or frame 
of poles or wires, on which growing hop- vines 
may be supported. 
hop-frogfly (hop'frog"fli), n. Same as hop-froth- 
jli/. 
hop-frothfly (hop'froth"fll), n. A species of 
froth-fly, Aphrophora interrupta, or Amblyce- 
phalus interruptus, which does much damage in 
hop-plantations, where it sometimes appears in 
great multitudes. It is about one fourth of an 
inch long, and of a yellow color variegated with 
black. 
hop-garden (hop'gar'dn), . Same as hop- 
yard. 
Accounting new land best for hops, the Kentish plant- 
ers plant their hop-gardens with apple-trees at a large 
distance, and with cherry-trees between. 
Miller, Gardener's Dictionary. 
hop-harlott, Same as hap-harlot. 
hop-hornheam (hop'horn'bem), n. The Amer- 
ican ironwood, Ostrya Virginica : so called from 
the resemblance of the inflated involucre to the 
fruit of the hop. 
hopingly (ho'ping-li), adv. With hope; with 
expectant desire. 
hopite, n. See hopeite. 
hop-jack (hop'jak), n. In brewing, a vat which 
has a false bottom to retain the solid contents 
of the mash-tubs, and to allow the wort to flow 
away. Before the wort enters this vat it is 
boiled, and the hops are then added. 
hop-kiln (hop'kil), . An apartment for dry- 
ing hops ; a hop-drier. 
Hopkinsian (hop-kin'zi-an), a. and n. [< Hop- 
kins (see def.) + -ian. The suniame Hopkiim 
is a patronymic possessive or genitive of Hop- 
kin, which stands for Hobkin, < Hob, a famil- 
iar form of Robin or Robert (see hob 2 ), + dim. 
-A-jn.] I. a. Of or pertaining to the New Eng- 
land divine Samuel Hopkins (1721-1803), or to 
his doctrines. 
II. . An adherent of the theological system 
founded by Hopkins and developed by Emmons 
and others. 
Also called Hopkinsonian. 
Hopkinsianism (hop-kin'zi-an-izm), M. [< Hop- 
kinsian + -ism.'] The theological principles or 
doctrines maintained by Dr. Samuel Hopkins. 
Hopkinsianism was Calvinistic, and a development of the 
system taught by Jonathan Edwards. It laid especial 
stress on the sovereignty and decrees of God, election, the 
obligation of impenitent sinners to submit to the divine 
will, the overruling of evil to the good of the universe, sin 
and holiness as not inherent in man's nature apart from 
his exercise of the will and as belonging to each man ex- 
clusively and personally, eternity of future punishment, 
etc. As a distinct system Hopkinsianism no longer exists, 
but much of it reappears in the so-called New England 
theology. 
Puritan theology had developed in New England into 
Edwardism, and then into Hopkinsianism, Emmonsism. 
and Taylorism. Encyc. Brit., XIX. 700. 
Hopkinsonian (hop-kin-so'ni-an),. and n. [< 
Hopkins + -)<-.] Same as Hopkinsian. 
Hoplegnathidae (hop-leg-nath'i-de), . pi. 
[NL., < Hoplegnathus + -ida;.~] A family of 
acanthopterygian fishes, named from the genus 
llopleanathus. It is characterized by perfect ventral 
fins, the absence of a bony stay for the preoperculum, a 
continuous lateral line, naked jaws, and jaw-teeth conflu- 
ent into a trenchant lamella. Four species are known as 
inhabitants of the Pacific ocean. Also erroneously writ- 
ten Hoplognathidte. 
Hoplegnathus (hop-leg'na-thus), . [NL. (ori- 
ginally Oplegiiathus): so called in ref. to the 
form of the jaws, likened to a horse's hoof ; 
irreg. < Gr. oir'ii], hoof (< 6;r/W, a shield, unfa, 
arms), + yvddof, jaw.] The typical genus of 
the family Hoplegnathtda;, remarkable for the 
