hotel-car 
hotel-car (ho-tel'kar), H. A sleeping-car with 
a kitchen for cooking, and arrangements for 
sewing meals. Car-Builder's Diet. 
hot-flue (hot'flo), n. An apartment heated by 
stoves or steam-pipes, in which calicoes are 
dried hard; also, a heated chamber in which 
cloths, paper, starch, etc., are dried. 
hotfoot (hot'fiit), adv. In great haste; with 
great speed. 
The stream was deep here, but some fifty yards below 
was a shallow, for which he made off hut-foot. 
T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, i. 9. 
hothead (hot'hed), n. A hot-headed or vio- 
lent, impetuous person. 
The rant of a few hot-heads and the malice of a few 
newspapers. The American, IX. 99. 
hot-headed (hot'hed"ed), a. Of ardent pas- 
sions; vehement; violent; rash; impetuous. 
hothouse (hot'hous), n. If. A house in which 
to sweat and cup the body ; a bath-house. 
Let a man sweat once a week in a hot-house, and be well 
rubbed and froted. 
B. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, iv. 4. 
2f. A brothel. 
Now she professes a hot-house, which, I think, is a very 
ill house too. Shak. , M. for M., It 1. 
3. A structure kept artificially heated for the 
growth of tender exotic plants, or subtropical 
plants, or for the production of native fruits, 
flowers, etc., out of season. In degree of tempera- 
ture, strictly, the hothouse stands between the greenhouse 
and the stove or orchid-house. 
4. In manuf., any heated chamber or building; 
a drying-room ; specifically, the warmest dry- 
ing-room in which green pottery is dried be- 
fore going to the kiln. 
hot-livered (hot'liv"erd), a. Having a hot 
temper; fiery-tempered; irascible; excitable. 
Milton. 
hotly (hot'li), adv. In a hot manner ; ardently ; 
vehemently: violently. 
hot-mouthed (hot ' moutht), a. Headstrong; 
ungovernable, as a horse irritated by the chaf- 
ing of its mouth by the bits. 
That hot-mouthed beast that bears against the curb. 
Dryden, Spanish Friar. 
hotness (hot'nes), . The condition or qual- 
ity of being hot ; heat ; violence ; vehemence ; 
fury. 
hot-pintt (hot'pint), n. A kind of New Year's 
drink consisting of sweetened ale heated in a 
kettle. It was customary to go about to friends' houses 
with a mug of the liquor and a bun at midnight and after. 
Soon as the steeple clock strikes the ominous twelve 
[on New Year's Eve], . . . hot-pints in clear scoured cop- 
per kettles are seen in all directions. 
Hone's Every-day Book, II. 21. 
hot-plate (hot'plat), n. A gas-stove for heat- 
ing the copper bits employed in soldering. 
hot-pot (hot'pot), n. 1. In cookery, a dish con- 
sisting of small chops of mutton, seasoned with 
pepper and salt, and stewed in a deep dish be- 
tween layers of sliced potatoes. 
The Colonel himself was great at making hash mutton, 
hot-pot, curry and pillau. Thackeray. 
2. A drink made by mixing warm ale with 
spirits. 
hot-press (hot'pres), n. 1. A press in which 
papers or fabrics are calendered by pressing 
them between glazed boards and heated met- 
al plates. 2. A hydraulic press for extract- 
ing oils and stearin from material placed in 
bags and pressed between steam-heated radia- 
tors. 
hot-press (hot'pres), v. t. To apply heat to in 
conjunction with mechanical pressure, in order 
to produce a smooth and glossy surface : as, to 
hot-press paper or cloth. 
hot-saw (hot'sa), n. In iron-manuf., a buzz-saw 
for cutting up hot bar-iron, just from the rolls, 
into bars or into pieces for being filed, reheat- 
ed, and rerolled. E. H. Knight. 
hot-short (hot'sh6rt), a. More or less brittle 
when heated : as, hot-short iron. 
The former substance [sulphur] rendering the steel 
more or less brittle when hot (red-short or hot-short). 
Kurye. Brit., XIII. 283. 
hot-shot (hot'shot), n. A foolish, inconsiderate 
fellow. Halliwell. [Prov. Eug.] 
hotskull (hot'skul), . A hot-headed person ; 
one who is difficult to deal with. [Rare.] 
I have many of my house, scrupulous as yon hotsktill, 
to win over. Bulwer, Eienzi, ii. 1. 
hot-spirited (hot'spir"i-ted), a. Having a fiery 
spirit; vehement; passionate. Irving. 
hotspur (hot'sper), . and a. [< hot 1 + spur."] 
I. n. 1. A person who spurs or pushes on reck- 
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lessly; one who is violent, passionate, heady, 
or rash. 
A hare-brain'd Hotspur, govern'd by a spleen. 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., v. 2. 
Wars are begun by hairbrained dissolute captains, para- 
sitical fawners, unquiet hotspurs, and restless innovators. 
Burton, Anat. of Mel. 
2f. A kind of pea of early growth. 
Of such peas as are planted or gown in gardens, the 
hotspur is the speediest of any in growth. 
Mortimer, Husbandry. 
II. t Violent ; impetuous. 
The hot-spurre youth so scorning to be crost. 
Spenser, F. Q., IV. i. 35. 
hotspurredt (hot'sperd), a. Vehement; rash; 
headstrong. 
Philemon's friends then make a king again, 
A hot-spurred youth, hight Hylas. 
Chalkhill, Thealma and Clearchus, p. 41. 
hottet, n. A Middle English form of hut 1 . 
hot-tempered (hot'tem < 'perd), a. Having a vio- 
lent temper. 
For so confident and hot-tempered a man, he bore the 
blow remarkably well. 
George Eliot, Mill on the Floss, iii. 1. 
Hottentot (hot'n-tot), n. [< D. Hottentot, lit. 
'hot and tot' (D. en = E. and), a kind of imi- 
tative description of stammering, in ref. to the 
clucking sounds in the Hottentot speech; cf. 
OD. hateren, stammer (Kilian, Hexam), tate- 
ren, stammer, hesitate, speak imperfectly, also 
used of the harsh blare of a trumpet (Kilian). 
See click 1 , 2. The native name for Hottentot 
is Quaqua.] A member of a race of South Af- 
rica, which differs from the other South Afri- 
can races, being of a dark yellowish-brown 
complexion, of smaller stature, of more un- 
gainly build, and of inferior mental endow- 
ment. Some authorities infer from the language of the 
Hottentots (especially from its possession of the distinc- 
tion of gender) that they are related to the Hamitic peo- 
ples of northeastern Africa; but this opinion is a very 
doubtful one. Linguistic clicks are shared with the Hot- 
tentots by the South African tribes nearest them, and are 
supposed to have been learned by the latter from the for- 
mer. Hottentot breadfruit, cherry, fig, etc. See 
the nouns. Hottentot's-bread,Hottentot's-tea. See 
these entries. 
Hottentotic (hot-n-tot'ik), a. [< Hottentot + 
-Jc.] Pertaining to the Hottentots ; character- 
istic of the Hottentots. 
Many other examples of the results of the anthropologi- 
cal, or ethnopsychological, or agriological, or Hottentotic 
method might be mentioned. 
Nineteenth Century, XIX. 65. 
Hottentotism (hot'n-tot-izm), n. [< Hottentot 
+ -ism.'] That which is peculiar to the Hot- 
tentots ; something characteristic of the Hot- 
tentots. 
The term ffottentotiitm has been thence adopted as a 
medical description of one of the varieties of stammer- 
ing. E. B. Tylor, Prim. Culture, I. 172. 
Hottentot's-bread (hot'n-tots-bred), n. A spe- 
cies of Testudinaria. 
Hottentot'8-head (hot'n-tots-hed), . A cyca- 
daceous plant, Staiigeria paradoxa, a native of 
tropical Africa. 
Hottentot's-tea (hot'n-tots-te), n. See Heli- 
chrysum. 
hottering (hot'er-ing), a. [E. dial. Cf. hatter, 
2.] Raging. Dames. 
Haply, but for her I should ha' gone hottering mad. 
Dickens, Hard Times, xi. 
Hottonia (ho-to'ni-a), n. [NL., named after 
P. Hotton, a Dutch botanist (1649-1709).] A 
small genus of aquatic perennial plants, of the 
natural order Primulacece, the type of the tribe 
Hottonlece, with 5-parted calyx, salver-shaped 
corolla with short tube and 5-parted limb, and 
finely divided submersed leaves, and hollow, 
almost leafless flower-stems, with whorls of 
white or pale-pink flowers, with 5 included 
stamens. The species, H. palustris in F,urope and H. 
inltata in the United States, are called water-violet orfea- 
therfoil. 
Hottonieae (hot-o-ni'e-e), n. pi. [NL., < Hot- 
tonia + -ea?.~\ A tribe of plants of the natural 
order Primulacea;, founded by Endlieher, and 
typified by the genus Hottonia; the Huttoniacece 
of Reichenbach, and the Huttonidte of Lindley. 
It differs from the other tribes of the Primulacea; 
by having the seeds anatropous and fixed by 
the base. 
hot-wall (hot'wal), n. A wall inclosing hot-air 
flues, constructed in cold countries to afford 
warmth to trees placed against it for their pro- 
tection while budding and blossoming. 
He now looks upon two hundred rood of the best hot- 
u'ullx iii the north of England, besides two new summer- 
houses and a green-house. ./ Battlie. 
hound 
hot-well (hot'wel), n. In a condensing steam- 
engine, a reservoir for receiving the warm wa- 
ter which the air-pump draws on from the con- 
denser. Part of this water is used to feed the boiler, 
and for this purpose it is drawn off from the hot-well by 
means of the hot-water pump. 
houbara (ho-ba'ra), n. [Native name.] 1. An 
African bustard, Otis houbara, or Houbara un- 
dulata. Also spelled hubara. 2. [cap.] A 
genus of bustards, of which the houbara is the 
type, containing also the Indian H. macqueeni. 
Bonaparte, 1832. 
houdah, n. See howdah. 
Houdan (ho 'dan), n. [< Howdan, a town of 
France, in the" department of Seine-et-Oise.] 
A breed of the domestic fowl, of French ori- 
gin, characterized by its long square form, 
heavy, globular crest, full beard or muff, even- 
ly mottled black-and-white plumage, aud the 
presence of five toes on each foot. It lays large 
white eggs, and is esteemed as one of the best 
of fowls for the table. 
houdie, . See howdie. 
houff. n. and v. See how/. 
hough 1 , n. and v. See hock 1 . 
hough 2 , n. A variant of how'*. 
hougher, n. See hocker 1 . 
houghite (huf 'it), . [Named after Franklin 
B. Hough of Somerville.] A hydrated oxid of 
aluminium and magnesium derived from the 
alteration of spinel, found at Somerville in St. 
Lawrence county, New York. Also called hy- 
drotalcite. 
houghmagandie (hoch-ma-gan'di), n. Fornica- 
tion. Burns. [Scotch slang.] 
houguette (ho-gef), n. [F.] A needle used 
by marble-workers in etching. 
Etching needles called houguettes, partly flattened, and 
sharp. Marble-worker, f 99. 
houk, v. See howk. 
houlett, n. A variant of howlet, for owlet. 
houltt, An obsolete form of holt 1 . 
hount, n. An obsolete variant of hound. Chau- 
cer. 
bounce (nouns), TO. [Origin obscure ; perhaps 
a nasalized and aspirated form of ouch, an or- 
nament : see owcft.] An ornament on the col- 
lar of a cart-horse. [Prov. Eng.] 
hound (hound), n. [< ME. hound, hund, < AS. 
hund, a dog (the ordinary word for ' dog,' the 
word dog being of later introduction) , = OS. hund 
= OFries. hund, hond = D. hond = MLG. hunt, 
LG. hund = OHG. MHG. hunt, G. hund = Icel. 
hundr = Sw. Dan. hund = Goth. hunds, all with 
formative -d, not found in the cognate forms; = 
L. cants = Gr. KVUV (KW-) = Lith. szunis, also szuo 
(gen. szuns) = OPruss. minis = Olr. cu (gen. 
con) = Gael, cu = W.ci (pi. cusn) Zend cunis 
= Skt. cvan, a dog ; cf . Russ. Pol. suka, Hung. 
szuka, etc., a bitch. Root unknown.] 1. A 
dog ; specifically, a dog of a breed or variety 
used in the chase, as in hunting the boar, the 
deer, the fox, the hare, or the otter. The prin- 
cipal breeds of dogs distinctively classed as hounds (some- 
times considered as constituting a species, Cam's sagax) 
are the beagle, bloodhound, buckhound, foxhound, grey- 
hound, harrier, and staghound. (See these words.) Hounds 
commonly hunt by scent, and are for the most part used in 
numbers together, called pack*, to run down and capture 
or kill the game. Many kinds of dogs are readily bred or 
trained for this purpose, as it is the mode of hunting most 
natural to wild dogs and wolves. In England hound with- 
out qualification means a foxhound : as, to follow the 
hounds. 
He saw an hydous hwond dwell 
Withinne that hows that was full fell ; 
Of that //"//./ grette drede he had. 
Visions of Tundale, p. 25. 
Sleep ! the deer is in his den ; 
Sleep ! thy hounds are by thee lying. 
Scott, L. of the L., i. (song). 
2. A mean, contemptible fellow; a dastard; a 
poltroon: as, a low hound; a sly hound. 
Thanne shal borel clerkes ben abasched to blame jow or 
to greue, 
And carpen nougte as the! carpen now and calle sow 
doumbe houndes. Piers Plourman (B), x. 287. 
3. Same as lioundfish, 1. 
The species both of Mnstelus and of Rhinotriacis . . . 
share the name of hound, . . . doubtless due to their fol- 
lowing their prey in packs. Stand, flat. Hist., III. 82. 
4. The oldwife, or long-tailed duck, Harelda 
glacialis : so called from its gabble, likened to 
the cry of a pack of hounds. [Newfoundland.] 
5. Nant., a projection at the masthead on 
either side, serving as a support for the trestle- 
trees of large or the rigging of smaller vessels. 
Also called hounding. 6. Either of two pieces 
of wood used in artillery-limbers to connect 
the splinter-bar and pole with the axle. 7. 
Either of a pair of side-bars or horizontal 
