horsewell-grass 
horsewell-grass (hors'wel-gras), n. A small 
marsh-plant, I'eronien Hiirrnlnnitja : probably so 
called from reputed medicinal qualities. 
horsewhalet (hors'hwal), n. [Not foundinME.; 
in mod. E. an adaptation of AS. homhwcel (= 
leel. hrosslwalr), < hors, horse, + Ineti'l, whale. 
Cf. walrus, which contains the same elements 
reversed.] The walrus or morse. 
The principall purpose of his traueile this way was to 
encrease the knowledge and discouerie of these coasts and 
countreyes, for the more commoditie of fishing of horse- 
whales, which haue in their teeth bones of great price 
and excellencie. Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 5. 
horse-whim (hors'hwim), n. In mining, a ma- 
chine worked by a horse for raising ore or wa- 
ter from a mine. 
horsewhip (hors'hwip), . A whip for driving 
or controlling horses. 
horsewhip (hors'hwip), v. t. ; pret. and pp. 
horsewhipped (also horsewhipt), ppr. horsewhip- 
ping. To chastise with a horsewhip. 
I told him to consider himself horsewhipped, and he 
said he would make a point of doing so. 
/'. Book, Jack Brag. 
horse-winkle (h6rs'wing"kl), M. The common 
periwinkle, Littorina littorea. 
horsewoman (h6rs'wum"'an), n.; pi. horse- 
women (-wim'en). A woman who rides on horse- 
back. 
His cousins . . . wearied him beyond measure. One 
was blue, and a geologist ; one was a horsewoman. 
Thackeray, Pendennis. 
horsewomanship (hors'wum'an-ship), n. [< 
horsewoman + -ship."] Skill as a horsewoman. 
[Rare.] 
horsewood (hors'wud), n. In Jamaica, a legu- 
minous tree of the genus Calliandra. C. comosa 
is of small size. C. latifolia reaches a height of 
25 feet. 
horse-worm (hors'werm), . A worm that in- 
fests horses ; the larva of an oestrus or a bot- 
fly, Gasterophilus equi. 
horse-wrangler (hors'rang"gler), n. A herder 
having charge of a saddle-baud, or string of 
ponies, among stockmen. [Western U. S.] 
There are two herders, always known as horse-wranglers 
one for the day and one for the night. 
T. Roosevelt, The Century, XXXV. 851. 
horsey, a. See horsy. 
horsfordite (hors'ford-It), n. [After Prof. E. 
N. Horsford, an American chemist.] A silver 
antimonide, occurring in silver-white masses in 
Asia Minor. 
horsify (hor'si-fl), v. t. ; pret. and pp. horsified, 
ppr. horsifyinij. 1. [< horse 1 + -i-fy.] To trans- 
form into a horse. 
In the same duchy [Brunswick] a witch in tormentis 
once revealed a sentence that would horsify a man in a 
minute. F. L. Oswald, Pop. Sci. Mo., XXII. 474. 
2. [< horsy + -fy.] To render horsy. [Rare in 
both uses.] 
horsiness(hor'si-nes), n. The state or quality 
of being horsy . (a) Some quality suggestive of a horse, 
as a horsy smell. 
It shall be all my study for one hour 
To rose and lavender my horriness, 
Before I dare to glance upon your Grace. 
Tennyson, Queen Mary, ill. 5. 
(6) Special interest in horses, especially in horse-racing ; 
a disposition to devote one's time and thoughts to horse- 
breeding or horse-racing, etc. 
horsing (hor'sing), . [ME. horsing; verbal n. 
of horse 1 , v.] If. Supply of horses, as for hunt- 
ing or traveling. 
The chaunceler answeres for hor clothyng, 
For gomen, faukeners, and hor horsyng. 
Eabees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 817. 
2. Same as horse 1 , 5 (h). 
horsing-block (hor'sing-blok), n. A wooden 
horse or support for the ends of planks, as when 
they are used as a way for wheelbarrows in ca- 
nal- and railroad-work. 
horsing-irqn (hor'sing-i"ern), n. A large calk- 
iug-iron with a long handle, held by one man 
and driven by another. Also called horse-iron. 
horslyt, a. A Middle English form of Iiorsely. 
horst-beech (hdrst'bech), n. Same as hurst- 
oeeeh. 
horsy (h6r'si), . [Also written horsey; (horse 1 
-f -y 1 .] 1. Pertaining or relating to or con- 
cerned with horses: as, horsy talk. 2. Char- 
acteristic of or peculiar to the horse : as, a horsy 
smell. 3. Fond of or interested in horses; 
especially, devoted to or interested in horse- 
racing or horse-breeding: as, horsy company. 
Usually horse-dealing carries with it a lowering of the 
moral tone, which we quite understand when we say of a 
man that he is horsy. Harper's Mag., LXXVIII. 259. 
Mr. Badger Brush was a very rich sporting man, whose 
ties were horsey. The Century, XXVIII. 650. 
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Hortalia (hor-ta'li-a), n. [NL. ; also Sortulia.] 
A genus of African rock-snakes or pythons, con- 
Fetish-snake (Hortalia nafattHstf). 
taining such as H. natalensis (Python sebce), the 
fetish-snake. J. E. Gray, 1831. 
hortation (hdr-ta'shpn), n. [< L. hortatio(n-), < 
hortari, urge strongly, incite, encourage, contr. 
of horitari, freq. of hori, urge, incite. Cf. de- 
hort, exhort.'] The act of exhorting, or giving 
advice and encouragement ; exhortation. 
hortative (hdr'ta-tiv), a. and n. [= OF. hor- 
tatif= Pg. hortative (rare), < L. hortativus, that 
serves for encouragement, < hortari, encourage, 
incite: see hortation.] I. a. Giving exhorta- 
tion; encouraging; inciting. 
Il.t . An address intended to incite or en- 
courage ; an exhortation. 
For soldiers, I find the generals, commonly, in their hor. 
tatives, put men in mind of their wives and children. 
Bacon, Marriage and .Single Life. 
In hortative* and pleadings, as truth or disguise serveth 
best to the design in hand, so is the judgement or the fan- 
cy most required. Hoboes, On Man, L 8. 
hortatory (hor'ta-to-ri), a. [= Sp. hortatorio 
(rare), < LL. hortatorius, encouraging, cheer- 
ing, < hortator, an encourager, exborter, < hor- 
tari: see hortation.'] Encouraging; inciting; 
urging to some course of conduct or action : as, 
a hortatory address ; a hortatory style. 
I also send you here another hortatory letter, written In 
Latin, to the brethren who are embracing Christ with the 
cross. Bp. Ridley, in Bradford's Letters (Parker Soc., 
[1863), II. 207. 
He animated his souldiers with many hortatorie orations. 
Holland, tr. of Ammianus, p. 202. 
hortensialt (hor-ten'shal), a. [< L. hortensius, 
hortensis, of or for a garden, < hortus, a garden: 
see horttis siccus.] Fit for a garden. 
Such [weedy plants] as are sative and hortensial. 
Evelyn, Sylva, Int., | 3. 
horticultist (hor'ti-kul-tist), . [< L. hortus, a 
garden, + cultus, cultivation, + -ist.] A hor- 
ticulturist. [Rare.] 
See, what various crops. 
In quick succession, crown the garden a fields 
On Thames prolifick bank. On culture's hand 
Alone do these horlicultists rely? 
Dodtley, Agriculture, U. 
horticultor (hor'ti-kul-tqr), n. [= F. horticid- 
teur, < L. hortus, a garden, + eultor, a culti- 
vator.] One who cultivates a garden ; a horti- 
culturist. [Rare.] 
horticultural (hor-ti-kul'tur-al), " [< horticul- 
ture + -a/.] Pertaining to the culture of gar- 
dens. 
horticulture (h6r'ti-kul-tur), n. [= F. horti- 
culture, < L. hortus, a garden, + cultura, culti- 
vation, culture, < cotere, cultivate, till. Cf. agri- 
culture.'] The cultivation of a garden ; the art 
of cultivating or managing gardens. The ordinary 
productions of horticulture are generally classed under 
the three heads of fruits, flowers, and vegetables, which 
on a large scale are cultivated separately, but in small 
gardens are usually more or less combined. Electrical 
horticulture, a process of horticulture recommended by 
Dr. Siemens, by which fruits, flowers, etc., are kept under 
the electric light at night, and exposed to the sun in the 
daytime, to promote their rapid growth. Qrcer, Diet. 
Elect, p. 72. 
horticulturist (hor-ti-kul'tur-ist), n. [< horti- 
culture + -ist.] One who "practises the art of 
horticulture; a gardener; especially, one who 
Eractises gardening on a large scale or as a pro- 
jssion. 
hortonolite (hor'ton-o-llt), n. [Named after 
Silas P. Sorlon.] A member of the chrysolite 
group, intermediate between hyalosiderite and 
fayalite, found in Orange county, New York, 
horts (hSrts), . [Var. of hurtf.] The blue- 
berry or bilberry, Vaccinium Myrtillus. [Prov. 
hortulant (hor'tu-lan), n. and n. [= OF. hor- 
tolain, ortolain,~hortolan = Sp. hortelano = Pg. 
hortelSo, hortolSo = It. ortolano, n., a gardener, 
< L. hortulanus, of or belonging to a garden, < 
hortulus, dim. of hortus, a garden. Cf. ortolan, 
hose 
from the same source.] I. a. Belonging to a 
garden; relating to gardening: as, a hortulan 
calendar. 
This hortulan calendar is yours, mindful of the honour 
once conferred on it, when you were pleased to suspend 
your nobler raptures, and think it woithy your transcrib- 
ing. 
Evelyn, Caleudariuni Hortense, Ep. Ded. to A. Cowley. 
II. n. A bird: same as ortolan. 
Hortulanus (h6r-tu-la'nus), . [NL. : see hor- 
tulan and ortolan.] A genus of fringilline birds. 
The word is variously used : (a) By Vieillot (1807) for 
sundry American finches, now called Pij,ilo and Spiza. 
(b) By W. E. Leach (1816) for snow-buntings, now called 
Plectrophane. t 
hortus S1CCUS (h6r'tus sik'us). [L. (the phrase 
appears to be NL.), lit. a dry garden: L. hortus, 
a garden, = Gr. xl> r f, a yard. = A S. geard, E. 
yard?, of which garth 1 and gard-en are other 
forms : see yard 2 , garth 1 , garden; L. siccus, dry, 
> ult. E. sack 3 , q. v.] A collection of specimens 
of plants carefully dried and preserved for bo- 
tanical purposes ; a herbarium. 
A choice of old authors should be a florilegium, and not 
a botanist's hortus ticciti, to which grasses are as Impor- 
tant as the single shy blossom of a summer. 
Lowell, Study Windows, p. 293. 
hortyardt, [A sophisticated form of orchard, 
earlier *ortyard, simulating L. hortus, a garden: 
see hortus siccus and orchard.] An orchard. 
Of all imminent s of house and home, a pleasant garden 
and hortyeard, with a lively spring, is above all domesticall 
delight, and meetest for the melancholy heart and brayne. 
Bright, Treatise of Melancholy (1613), p. S20. 
The hortyard entering, admires the fair 
And pleasant fruits. 
Sandys, tr. of Ovid s Metamorph. (ed. 1638X p. 290. 
Horus (ho'rus), n. [LL. Horus, < Gr. ' 
Egypt. Hor.] In Egypt, myth., a divinity of dual 
relations. He was Horns the elder, a brother of Osiris, 
and Horus the child, the offspring of Osiris and Isis. By 
the Greeks of the decadence Horus the child was identified 
with Harpocrates, and his worship was also carried on in 
Rome. Like Ra, Horns was represented in art as hawk- 
headed. Also called Hor. 
horyt, a. [E. dial, horry ; < ME. hory, hoory, hori, 
once pi. horoice, foul, unclean, < AS. horig, once 
horhig, foul, unclean (= MHG. horwic, horwig, 
horig, horg, muddy, filthy), < horu = OFries. 
hore = OS. horu, dirt, filth, = OHG. horo (hmow-, 
horaw-), mud, filth; cf. AS. horh, horg, a clammy 
humor, phlegm, rheum. Hoary, 4, moldy, is 
prob. the same word, mixed with hoary, gray: 
see hoary.] Impure; unclean; dirty; foul. 
Envyous folke with tunges Itorowe. 
Chaucer, Complaint of Mars, 1. 206. 
Any unclene, whos touchynge Is Jtoovy. 
WycHS,'Lev. nil. 5(Oxf.). 
hosanna (ho-zan'a), interj. and n. [Formerly 
also osanna; < lAi.'osanna (var. ozanna, ossanna, 
ossana), ML. also hosanna, < Gr. iiaavva, uaam'd 
(var. ixsava, baaava), repr. Heb. hoshfdh nna, lit. 
save, I pray (or we pray), < hosliia', save, a stem 
of yasha', be large (cf. Jesus, from the same 
stem), + ndj a particle denoting entreaty.] 
An exclamation praying God for deliverance, or 
an acclamation or ascription of praise to God. 
This exclamation originated from the Hebrew words ren- 
dered "Save now " in Ps. cxviii. 25, a psalm forming part 
of the Hallel used at the Passover. The form hosanna is 
recorded in Mat. xxi. 9, 15, and in the parallel passages 
(Mark xi. 9, 10; John xii. 13), as used by the multitude in 
acclamation to Christ entering Jerusalem in triumph on 
the Sunday before his crucifixion, with the additions "to 
the son of David" and "in the highest." It has been in 
liturgical use from very early times. It appeal's in the 
Clementine Liturgy, in the response to the Sancta Sanctis, 
and in the liturgical directions of the book called The 
Teaching of the Twelve Apostles. In both the Western 
and the principal Eastern liturgies it follows the Sanctus. 
The English Prayer-Book of 1549 retained the hosanna 
(osanna) in the first "hosanna in excelsis." but altered the 
second to "Glory be to thee, O Lord, in the highest." (See 
Luke xix. 38.) Later revisions omitted the first hosanna 
and changed 'in the highest 'to 'most High.' See Bene- 
dictus. 
Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh 
in the name of the Lord : Hosanna in the highest. 
Mark xi. 10. 
Loud hosannas flll'd 
The eternal regions. Milton, P. L., iii. 348. 
Day or Sunday of Hosanna or of Hosannas, Hosanna 
Sunday, in the early church, in the medieval Western 
Church, and among the Nestorians, Palm Sunday. 
hose (hoz), n. sing, or pi. ; pi. formerly hoses or 
hosen. [< ME. hose, pi. hoscn, < AS. hosa, pi. 
'hosan (glossed 'caliga vel ocrea') = MD. hose, 
T>. hoos, hose, stocking, spout, water-spout, = 
MLG. hose, hfise = OHG. hosa, MHG. G. hose, 
breeches, = Icel. hosa, a covering for the leg 
between the knee and ankle, a kind of gaiter, 
= Dan. hose, pi. hoser, hose, stockings. The 
Rom. forms, OF. hose, OSp. Intesa, OPg. osa, 
It. uosa, ML. hosa, osa, are of G. origin; W. 
and Corn, hos are from E.] 1. Originally, a 
