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A professional tramp; one who spends his life traveling from place to place, esp. by stealing rides on trains, and begging for a living. [U. S.] -- Ho"bo*ism (#), n.

See Hobnob.

A hautboy or oboe. [Obs.]

A choice without an alternative; the thing offered or nothing.

Dread of a current of air.

Intense dread of, or aversion to, England or the English. -- An"glo*phobe, n.

A beetle which feeds on flowers.

A division of nudibranchiate Mollusca, in which the gills form a wreath or cluster upon the posterior part of the back. See Nudibranchiata, and Doris.

Counteracting or preventing hydrophobia. -- n.

Fear of one's self; fear of being egotistical. [R.] Hare.

A dread of books. [R.]

To repeat the distillation of, pouring the liquor back upon the matter remaining in the vessel. Arbuthnot.

The process of cohobating. Grew.

A Russian religious sect founded about the middle of the 18th century at Kharkov. They believe that Christ was wholly human, but that his soul reappears from time to time in mortals. They accept the Ten Commandments and the "useful" portions of the Bible, but deny the need of rulers, priests, or churches, and have no c…

The granule within the nucleolus or entoblast of a nucleated cell. Agassiz.

Hatred of women; repugnance to the society of women. Holmes.

n any way, as by the sight or sound of water; rabies; canine madness. [Written also hydrophoby.]

Of or pertaining to hydrophobia; producing or caused by rabies; as, hydrophobic symptoms; the hydrophobic poison.

See Hydrophobia.

Pertaining to or designating an organic acid of the tartaric acid series, distinct from lithofellic acid, but, like it, obtained from certain bile products, as bezoar stones.