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A stick, often with the head or figure of a horse, on which boys make believe to ride. [ Usually under the form hobbyhorse.]

Of this day; belonging to the present day. [R.] Boyle. Quart. Rev.

A leap on one leg, as of a boy; a leap, as of a toad; a jump; a spring.

furnace, through which the charge is introduced, while the gases are retained. -- Hopper boy, a rake in a mill, moving in a circle to spread meal for drying, and to draw it over an opening in the floor, through which it falls. -- Hopper closet, a water-closet, without a movable pan, in which the receptacle is a funne…

abet, digits, and often the Lord's Prayer, were written or printed; a primer. "He teaches boys the hornbook." Shak.

A despicable person. "Boy! false hound!" Shak.

the hyacinth. Milton. His curling locks like hyacinthine flowers. Cowper. The hyacinthine boy, for whom Morn well might break and April bloom. Emerson.

es, or other waters, with the adjacent shores; one who describes the sea or other waters. Boyle.

r a future event] insistently, in a manner exaggerating the importance of; to promote flamboyantly. [wns=1] [WordNet 1.5]

entary. The grand doctrine of the chymists, touching their three hypostatical principles. Boyle.

ing to, resembling, or abounding in, ice; cold; frosty. "Icy chains." Shak. "Icy region." Boyle. "Icy seas." Pope.

would more carefully distinguish those things that they know from those that they ignore. Boyle.

That which illuminates or affords light; as, gas and petroleum are illuminants. Boyle.

The state or quality of being immature; immaturity. Boyle.

erse. We took . . . lukewarm water, and in it immerged a quantity of the leaves of senna. Boyle. Their souls are immerged in matter. Jer. Taylor.

To send in; to inject; to infuse; -- the correlative of emit. [R.] Boyle.

Unmixed. [Obs.] How pure and immixed the design is. Boyle.

immolate to them [the deities] the lives of men, but . . . the virtue and honor of women. Boyle.

be felt; extremely fine, so that no grit can be perceived by touch. "Impalpable powder." Boyle.

One who is impartial. [R.] Boyle.