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Hoddydoddy
() An awkward or foolish person.
Hodgepodge
() A mixed mass; a medley. See Hotchpot.
Hodgkin's disease
() A morbid condition characterized by progressive anaemia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician.
Hodiern
() Alt. of Hodiernal
Hodiernal
() Of this day; belonging to the present day.
Hodmen
() of Hodman
Hodman
() A man who carries a hod; a mason's tender.
Hodmandod
() See Dodman.
Hodograph
() A curve described by the moving extremity of a line the other end of which is fixed, this line being constantly parallel to the direction of motion of, and having its length constantly proportional to the velocity of, a point moving in any path; -used in investigations respecting central forces.
Hodometer
() See Odometer.
Hoe
() A tool chiefly for digging up weeds, and arranging the earth about plants in fields and gardens. It is made of a flat blade of iron or steel having an eye or tang by which it is attached to a wooden handle at an acute angle.
Hoe
() The horned or piked dogfish. See Dogfish.
Hoed
() of Hoe
Hoeing
() of Hoe
Hoe
() To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with a hoe; as, to hoe the earth in a garden; also, to clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe; as, to hoe corn.
Hoe
() To use a hoe; to labor with a hoe.
Hoecake
() A cake of Indian meal, water, and salt, baked before the fire or in the ashes; -- so called because often cooked on a hoe.
Hoemother
() The basking or liver shark; -- called also homer. See Liver shark, under Liver.
Hoful
() Careful; wary.
Hog
() A quadruped of the genus Sus, and allied genera of Suidae; esp., the domesticated varieties of S. scrofa, kept for their fat and meat, called, respectively, lard and pork; swine; porker; specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow.
Hog
() A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow.
Hog
() A young sheep that has not been shorn.
Hog
() A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
Hog
() A device for mixing and stirring the pulp of which paper is made.
Hogged
() of Hog
Hogging
() of Hog
Hog
() To cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a horse.
Hog
() To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
Hog
() To become bent upward in the middle, like a hog's back; -- said of a ship broken or strained so as to have this form.
Hogback
() An upward curve or very obtuse angle in the upper surface of any member, as of a timber laid horizontally; -- the opposite of camber.
Hogback
() See Hogframe.
Hogback
() A ridge formed by tilted strata; hence, any ridge with a sharp summit, and steeply sloping sides.
Hogchain
() A chain or tie rod, in a boat or barge, to prevent the vessel from hogging.
Hogchoker
() An American sole (Achirus lineatus, or A. achirus), related to the European sole, but of no market value.
Hogcote
() A shed for swine; a sty.
Hogfish
() A large West Indian and Florida food fish (Lachnolaemus).
Hogfish
() The pigfish or sailor's choice.
Hogfish
() An American fresh-water fish; the log perch.
Hogfish
() A large, red, spiny-headed, European marine fish (Scorpaena scrofa).
Hogframe
() A trussed frame extending fore and aft, usually above deck, and intended to increase the longitudinal strength and stiffness. Used chiefly in American river and lake steamers. Called also hogging frame, and hogback.
Hogged
() Broken or strained so as to have an upward curve between the ends. See Hog, v. i.
Hogger
() A stocking without a foot, worn by coal miners at work.
Hoggerel
() A sheep of the second year. [Written also hogrel.] Ash.
Hoggerpipe
() The upper terminal pipe of a mining pump.
Hogger-pump
() The for pump in the pit.
Hoggery
() Hoggish character or manners; selfishness; greed; beastliness.
Hogget
() A young boar of the second year.
Hogget
() A sheep or colt alter it has passed its first year.
Hogging
() Drooping at the ends; arching;-in distinction from sagging.
Hoggish
() Swinish; gluttonous; filthy; selfish.