hopping-dick 
hopping-dick (hop'ing-dik), n. A species of 
thrush common in Jamaica, the Mcrula leuco- 
genys, which in its lively and familiar manners, 
as well as its sable plumage, and clear, rich, 
mellow song, greatly resembles the English 
blackbird. 
hopping-john (hop'ing-jon), . Astew of bacon 
with rice and peas. [Southern U. S.'J 
hopple (liop'l), v. t. ; pret. and pp. hoppled, ppr. 
hoppling. [See hobble.] To fetter or hamper 
the legs, as of a horse, to prevent leaping or 
straying; hobble; hence, to trammel; entangle. 
Superstitiously hoppled in the toils and nets of super- 
fluous opinions. Dr. H. More. 
A dozen or more oboz drivers were gathered around a 
cheerful camp-fire in the midst of their wagons, while 
their liberated but hoppled horses grazed and jumped 
awkwardly here and there along the road. 
0. Kenntm, The Century, XXXVI. 21. 
hopple (hop'l), n. [< hopple, v.] A fetter or 
shackle for the legs of horses or other animals 
when turned out to graze, to prevent them 
from leaping or straying: used chiefly in the 
plural. 
hoppo (hop'6), . [A corruption of Chin, hitpu, 
board of revenue.] The superintendent of cus- 
toms at Canton, China : so called by foreigners. 
hop-pocket (hop'pok"et), n. A coarse sack for 
containing hops. As a measure a pocket of 
hops is 1J hundredweight, and is about 5J feet 
in circumference and 7-J feet long. 
hop-pole (hop'pol), . A slender pole from 18 
to 2o feet in height used to support a hop-vine. 
The arbor-vita;. Thuja occidental, is most frequently 
employed in the United States, and the chestnut, Casta- 
nea aativa (C. wxca of Gartner), in England. 
hop-press (hop'pres), n. In brewing, a machine 
for expressing the liquid from hops after boil- 
ing. 
hoppy (hop'i), a. [< 7io 2 + -y 1 .] Abounding 
witn hops ; having the flavor of hops. 
hop-raising (hop'ra"zing), . In brewing, the 
second stage of fermentation. 
hop-sacking (hop'sak'ing), n. A coarse bag- 
ging made of a combination of hemp and jute. 
hopscott, n. See hop-scotch. 
hop-scotch (hop'skoch' ), n. [Appar. < hop 1 , v., 
+ obj. scotch 1 , a line scotched or scored. IT 
this view the form hopscot, formerly in use, ii, 
a perversion.] A children's game in which the 
player, while hopping on one leg, drives a disk 
of stone or a fragment of tile with the foot from 
one compartment to another of an oblong fig- 
ure traced or scotched (scored) on the ground, 
neither the stone nor the foot being allowed to 
rest on a line. 
A very common game at every school called hop-scot. 
Archceologia, IX. 18 (1789). 
hopser (hop'ser), n. [Irreg. < hop 1 , v.] A lively 
country-dance, said to be of English origin. 
hop-setter (hop' set 'er), n. One who plants 
hops; an instrument for planting hops. 
hopshacklet, . [Also hobshackle, hapshackle; 
appar. < hop 1 (with ref. to hobble) + shackle.] 
A shackle or weight used to hobble a horse or 
other animal. 
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They shoue and sholder to stand formost, yet in the end 
they cum behind others and deserue but the hopshakle*. 
Aicham, The Scholemaster, p. 128. 
hop-tree (hop'tre), n. A North American shrub 
or small tree, Ptelea trifoliata, belonging to the 
me family, having trifoliate leaves, and small 
hop-trefoil (hop'tre'foil), H. 1 - 
plant, Trifolium proeufllOMM, or yellow clover, 
naturalized in the United States from Europe. 
It is readily distinguished from the other clovers by its 
bunch of yellow flowers, which wither to the bright brown 
of a strobile of hops, to which it has some resemblance. 
It has been used for farm purposes, but is of little value. 
Also called hop-clover. 
2. A farmers' name for Hedicago lupulma, a 
plant closely resembling yellow clover, and 
abundant in waste lands and cultivated fields. 
It is distinguished from trefoil by its twisted 
legume. Also called hop-medick. 
hop-Vine (hop'vln), . The climbing stem or 
bine of the hop-plant, Hnmulus Lupulus. 
hop-yard (hop'yard), 11. A field or inclosure 
where hops are raised. 
Hor (hor), n. [Egypt.] Same as Horus. 
horal (ho'ral), a. [< LL. horalis, < hora, hour: 
see hour.] " Relating to an hour; hourly. 
Horal variations of aerial bacteria. Science, VIII. 179. 
horallyt (ho'ral-i), adv. Hourly. 
horarious (ho-ra'ri-us), a. [< ML. 'horariits, ot 
an hour: see horary.] In hot., enduring for 
only an hour or two, as the petals of Cistus. 
horary (ho'ra-ri), a. [= F. horaire = Sp. Pg. 
horario = It'.orario, < ML. horarius (mostly as 
a noun) (cf. LL. horarium, neut., a dial), < L. 
hora, hour: see hour.] 1. Pertaining to an 
hour; noting the hours: as, the horary circle. 
2. Continuing or lasting an hour; occurring 
once an hour; hourly. 
His horary shifts 
Of shirts and waistcoats. 
B. Jonson, Magnetick Lady, i. 1. 
Their tranquillity was of no longer duration then these 
horary or soon decaying fruits of summer. 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., vii. 1. 
Horary astrology, circle, motion, question, etc. See 
the nouns. 
Horatian (ho-ra'shan), a. [< L. Horatianus, 
relating to Horace',' < Horatius, Horace (> F. 
Horace, > E. Horace). The poet's full name 
was Quintus Horatius Flaccus; floratias was the 
name of a Roman gens.] Of or pertaining to 
the Latin poet Horatius Flaccus (Horace, 65-8 
B. c. ); resembling the poetry or style of Horace. 
hordH, n. An obsolete spelling of hoard 1 . 
hord' 2 t An obsolete spelling of horde. 
horde (hord), . [= D. horde = G. horde = Dan. 
horde = Sw. hord, < F. horde (16th century) = 
Sp. horda = Pg. horda = It. oraa, a horde, 
= Bohem. Serv. ordija = Little Russ. orda, an 
army, = Ar. 'aurdui, a camp, < Turk, orda, urdu, 
ordi, orda, a camp, < Pers. ordu, a court, camp, 
horde of Tatars, also urdu, a camp, an army, 
the Hindustani language : see Urdu. The ini- 
tial h is unoriginal, and is due to the French.] 
1. A tribe or troop of Asiatic nomads dwelling 
in tents or wagons, and migrating from place 
to place to procure pasturage for their cattle, 
or for war or plunder. 
His [a Tatar's] hord, which consisted of about a thou- 
sand housholds of a kindred. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 421. 
Hence 2. Any clan or troop; a gang; a mi- 
gratory crew ; a multitude. 
Each valley, each sequestered glen, 
Mustered its little horde of men. 
Scott, L. of the L., ill. 24. 
horizon 
(so called as resembling in size or shape a grain 
of barley), dim. of L. hordeum, barley.] In pa- 
thol., a sty or small inflammatory tumor on the 
edge of the eyelid. 
Hordeum (hor'de-um), . [L., alsoordewm, OL. 
fordeiim, barley, = OHG. gemta, MHG. G. 
ticrste = D. ijerst, barley; perhaps connected 
with L. horrere, bristle, Skt. V harsh, bristle, 
said of the hair: see horrent and horrid.] A 
genus of plants belonging to the natural order 
Graminece, and the type of the tribe ffordcea, 
characterized by having the spikelets 1-flow- 
ered, 3 at each joint, but the 2 lateral usually 
sterile. The glumes are 6 in number, forming a kind 
of involucre, side by side in front of the spikelets, slen- 
der and pointed with an awn or of the form of a bristle. 
The grain is ovoid-oblong or narrow, adherent to the pa- 
lets. About 12 species are known, natives of boreal Eu- 
rope, Africa, temperate Asia, and America, including H. 
sylvaticum, the wood-barley of Europe ; H. pratense, the 
meadow-barley of Europe and North America ; H. inuri- 
nmn, the mouse- or wall-barley of Europe ; H. manti- 
- 
Society is now one polish'd horde, 
Forrn'd of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored. 
, . 
Byron, Don Juan, xiii. 95. 
I . clash'd with Pagan hordes, and bore them down. 
Tennyson, Holy Grail. 
Golden Horde, a name given to the possessors of the 
khanate of Kiptchak, a Mongol realm in eastern Russia 
and western and central Asia. This realm was founded 
in the thirteenth century and overthrown in 1480. 
horde (hord), v. i.; pret. and pp. horded, ppr. 
hording. [< horde, n.] To live in hordes ; hud- 
dle together like the members of a migratory 
tribe : usually followed by together. Byron. 
hordeaceous (hor-de-a'shius), a. [< L. hordea- 
ccits, of or relating to barley, < hordeum, barley : 
see Hordeum.] Barley-like; resembling barley. 
Hordeeae (hor-de'e-e), n. pi. [NL., < Hordeum + 
-eat.] A tribe of plants belonging to the natural 
order Graminece, and typified by the genus Hor- 
deum. The spikelets are one- to many-flowered, sessile on 
opposite sides of a zigzag jointed rachis, which is exca- 
mum the sea-barley or squirrel-tail grass of western Eu- 
rope ; and If. iubatutn, the American squirrel-tail grass. 
The cultivated barley belongs here, but the exact origin 
of the several forms under cultivation is obscure. See 
barley*. 
horeH, a. An obsolete spelling of hoar. Chaucer. 
hore 2 t, n. An obsolete spelling of whore. 
hore 3 t, pron. See lie 1 . 
horecopt. ' [Early mod. E., < ME. horecoppr, 
horcop, < hore, whore, + cop (uncertain).] A 
bastard. Palsgrave. 
For, syr, he seyde, hyt were not feyre 
A horcop to be yowre heyre. 
Sir Tryamoure, 1. 228. 
horehound, . See hoarliound. 
horestrongt, horestrangt, n. Same as liar- 
strong. 
Horia (ho'ri-a), n. [NL., appar. after L. horia, 
oria, a small vessel, a fishing-smack. The dim., 
NL. Horiola(< L. horiola, askiff, afishing-boat), 
is applied to a genus of hemipters.] A genus 
of South American coleopterous insects, of the 
family Caittharidce, the members of which are 
finely colored and of comparatively large size. 
Horiidae (ho-ri'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < Horia + 
-iclie.] A family of heteromerous Coleoptera, 
named from the genus Horia. Westwood, 1839. 
horizon (ho-ri'zon), . [Formerly with the ac- 
cent on the first syllable (in ME. orizonte on 
the last), as from the F.; now pron. as if di- 
rectly from the L.; = D. horizon = G. horizont 
= Dan. Sw. horisont, < F. horizon = Pr. orizon 
= Sp. Pg. horizonte = It. orizzonte, < L. hori- 
zon (horizont-), < Gr. op/Cuv (sc. nvidof), the 
bounding circle, the horizon, ppr. of 6pit;etv, 
bound, limit, < bpof, a boundary, limit.] 1 . The 
circle which at sea forms the apparent boun- 
dary between sea and sky, and on land would 
bound the sky were all terrestrial obstructions 
down to the sea-level removed. Called the ap- 
parent, sensible, or visible horizon, in distinc- 
tion from the astronomical liorizon (which see, 
below). 
When the morning sun shall raise his car 
Above the border of this horizon. 
Shah., 3 Hen. VI., Iv. 7. 
Hence 2. The line that bounds the view ; the 
limit of vision. 
Our horizon is never quite at our elbows. 
Thoreau, Walden, p. 141. 
3. Figuratively, the limit of intellectual per- 
ception, of experience, or of knowledge. 
The history of one horizon of life is that its own com- 
pletion but prepares the way for a higher one, furnishing 
the latter with conditions of a still further development. 
E. D. Cope, Origin of the Fittest, p. 438. 
4. In geol., a stratum or group of strata char- 
acterized by the presence of a particular fossil 
not found in the underlying or overlying beds, or 
of a peculiar assemblage of fossils. Such a bed or 
series of beds is often designated as the zone of the fossil 
seres o fs s o 
or group of fossils in question, and such a distinctly 
rked 
Hop-tree (Ptclta tn/aliala). 
a, male flower ; 0, female flower ; c, fruit. 
greenish-white flowers in terminal cymes. The 
Fruit is a 2-celled and 2-seeded samara, winged all around, 
"-- "- hop, whence the name. Also 
marked division is sometimes called a horizon, as forming 
a convenient plane of reference for other groups of strata 
occurring above and below, and not so definitely marked 
by peculiar fossil contents. 
Lepidodendra are especially characteristic trees of this 
horizon. Dawton, Geol. Hist, of Plants, App., p. 277. 
5 In zool. and anat., a level or horizontal line 
vaTd'or cTalmeled or^'s^'Slo.^^^ surface : as, the horizon oi : the teeth; the ho- 
spike : glumes frequently abortive or wanting. Also Hor- nzon of the diaphragm Artificial horizon, a con- 
<&e aid Hordrinm. trivanceiorenablinganobservertodeterminethealtitudc 
- of a star above the horizon when the horizon itself is not 
visible. It consists of a small hollow trough containing 
quicksilver or any other fluid the surface of which affords 
a reflected image of a celestial body. The angle subtended 
at the eye by the star and its image in a fluid being double 
the star's altitude, this angle, when measured and halved, 
gives the altitude of the star. Astronomical horizon, 
the great circle of the celestial sphere midway between the 
zenith and nadir, its plane being perpendicular to gravity 
at any station. Celestial horizon. Same as astronomi- 
fce an orenece. 
hordein, hordeine (h6r'df-in), n. [< L. horde 
urn, barley, + - 2 , -me 2 .] A pulverulent sub- 
stance left undissolved ontreatingbarley-starch 
with acidulated water. It is not a simple body, 
but a mixture of starch-cellulose and a proteid. 
Watts, Diet, of Chem. 
|, or .i eo l um Chor-de ' 6-lum), n. ; pi. hordeola 
( fif) [NL. , neut.? < ' LL. hordeolm, m.. a sty 
