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a small flea beetle (Haltica concinna), very injurious to hops. -- Hop fly (Zoöl.), an aphid (Phorodon humuli), very injurious to hop vines. -- Hop froth fly (Zoöl.), an hemipterous insect (Aphrophora interrupta), allied to the cockoo spits. It often does great damage to hop vines. -- Hop hornbeam (Bot.), an America…

Exciting, or tending to excite, horror or fear; dreadful; terrible; shocking; hideous; as, a horrible sight; a horrible story; a horrible murder. A dungeon horrible on all sides round. Milton.

The state or quality of being horrible; dreadfulness; hideousness. The horribleness of the mischief. Sir P. Sidney.

Fitted to excite horror; dreadful; hideous; shocking; hence, very offensive. Not in the legions Of horrid hell. Shak. The horrid things they say. Pope.

To treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke with insolence; to hector; to bully. You must not presume to huff us. Echard.

A land tax. See Hidage.

An aquatic mite of the genus Hydrachna. The hydrachids, while young, are parasitic on fresh-water mussels.

A hydrosulphide. [Archaic]

Combined with hydrogen sulphide.

nd sulphur; as, hydrosulphuricacid, a designation applied to the solution of hydrogen sulphide in water.

(a) The nonmetallic, or negative, element or radical in a binary compound; as, oxide, sulphide, chloride. (b) A compound which is an anhydride; as, glycolide, phthalide. (c) Any one of a series of derivatives; as, indogenide, glucoside, etc.

To conceal, as in bushes; to hide. [Obs.] Shelton.

Immersed; buried; hid; sunk. [Obs.] "Things immerse in matter." Bacon.

Impending; threatening. Impendent horrors, threatening hideous fall. Milton.

To chide; to rebuke; to reprove. [Obs.]

A chiding; rebuke; reproof. [Obs.] Hammond.

The effect of anger; punishment. Shak. Hide thyself . . . until the indignation be overpast. Is. xxvi. 20.

To hide in a shell. [Obs.] Shak.

Information communicated; news; notice; advice. Intelligence is given where you are hid. Shak.

time intervening; interval between events, etc. All the interim is Like a phantasms, or a hideous dream. Shak.