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To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.

interrupta), allied to the cockoo spits. It often does great damage to hop vines. -- Hop hornbeam (Bot.), an American tree of the genus Ostrya (O.Virginica) the American ironwood; also, a European species (O. vulgaris). -- Hop moth (Zoöl.), a moth (Hypena humuli), which in the larval state is very injurious to hop vi…

Rough; rugged; bristling. [Archaic] Horrid with fern, and intricate with thorn. Dryden.

Hornless. See Hummel. [Scot.]

Having no awns or no horns; as, hummelcorn; a hummel cow. [Scot.]

Subject to be governed by humor or caprice; irregular; capricious; whimsical. Hawthorne. Rough as a storm and humorous as the wind. Dryden.

Moody; whimsical; capricious. Hawthorne. The commons do not abet humorsome, factious arms. Burke.

Having high, hunched shoulders. Hawthorne.

A tune played on the horn very early in the morning to call out the hunters; hence, any arousing sound or call. [Obs.] Shak. Time plays the hunt's-up to thy sleepy head. Drayton.

l.), the regions roamed over by the North American Indians in search of game. -- Hunting horn, a bulge; a horn used in the chase. See Horn, and Bulge. -- Hunting leopard (Zoöl.), the cheetah. -- Hunting lodge, a temporary residence for the purpose of hunting. -- Hunting seat, a hunting lodge. Gray. -- Hunting shir…

ger), and regarded as its active principle. It is also found with other alkaloids in the thorn apple and deadly nightshade. It is extracted as a white crystalline substance, with a sharp, offensive taste. Hyoscyamine is isomeric with atropine, is very poisonous, and is used as a medicine for neuralgia, like belladonna.…

One of several species of wild goats having very large, recurved horns, transversely ridged in front; -- called also steinbok.

oetic] With morning dews impearled. Mrs. Browning. The dews of the morning impearl every thorn. R. Digby.

ver; overhanging; suspended so as to menace; imminet; threatening. An impending brow. Hawthorne. And nodding Ilion waits th' impending fall. Pope.

great incommodity to the body. Jer. Taylor. Buried him under a bulk of incommodities. Hawthorne.

. His slightest and most indifferent acts . . . were odious in the clergyman's sight. Hawthorne.

Unarmed; destitute of prickles or thorns, as a leaf. Gray.

cute disease, almost exclusively infantile, characterized by inflammation of the anterior horns of the gray substance of the spinal cord. It is attended with febrile symptoms, motor paralysis, and muscular atrophy, often producing permanent deformities. Called also acute anterior poliomyelitis.

by treachery and deceit; as, insidious arts. The insidious whisper of the bad angel. Hawthorne. Insidious disease (Med.), a disease existing, without marked symptoms, but ready to become active upon some slight occasion; a disease not appearing to be as bad as it really is.

t delightful of English institutions, next to dinner) to be ready against our return. Hawthorne.