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Serving to commemorate; commomerative. Bp. Hooper.

The frontal bone, over which the ancients wore their coronæ or garlands. Hooper.

ngthwise, to enable it to pass a narrow place, the two parts being afterward united and rehooped.

A lady's skirt made of any stiff material; latterly, a hoop skirt.

or more players endeavor to drive wooden balls, by means of mallets, through a series of hoops or arches set in the ground according to some pattern.

o retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; esp., a canvas bag with a hooped mouth, so used. See Drag sail (below).

he size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.

urnal box, that encircles and receives motion from an eccentric; -- called also eccentric hoop.

ortion; inordinate; abnormal. "Enormous bliss." Milton. "This enormous state." Shak. "The hoop's enormous size." Jenyns. Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait. Milton.

To separate and throw off; to excrete urine. "The mucus thus excreted." Hooper.

A hoop skirt or hoop petticoat, or other light, elastic material, used to extend the petticoat. We'll revel it as bravely as the best, . . . With ruffs and cuffs, and farthingales and things. Shak.

hed the forlorn hope that he was still living. Thomson. A forlorn hope Etym: [D. verloren hoop, prop., a lost band or troop; verloren, p.p. of verliezen to lose + hoop band; akin to E. heap. See For-, and Heap.] (Mil.), a body of men (called in F. enfants perdus, in G. verloren posten) selected, usually from volunteers…

A long bag net distended by hoops, into which fish can pass easily, without being able to return; -- called also fyke net. Cozzens.

A hoop or band. [Prov. Eng.]

in embers over night, about which kindling wood is gathered in the morning. -- Gathering hoop, a hoop used by coopers to draw together the ends of barrel staves, to allow the hoops to be slipped over them. -- Gathering peat. (a) A piece of peat used as a gathering coal, to preserve a fire. (b) In Scotland, a fiery pe…

A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of each. Called also grace hoop or hoops. Act of grace. See under Act. -- Day of grace (Theol.), the time of probation, when the offer of divine forgiveness is mad…

lubly. The gallies were grappled to the Centurion. Hakluyt. Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel. Shak.

See Hoopoe. [Obs.]

To cry out; to whoop. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Whooping cough. [Obs.or Prov. Eng.]