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See Hockey.

A little hook.

Full of hooks; pertaining to hooks.

Whole. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A small black gibbon (Hylobates hoolock), found in the mountains of Assam.

Home. Chaucer.

An Indian monkey. See Entellus. [Written also hoonuman.]

A pliant strip of wood or metal bent in a circular form, and united at the ends, for holding together the staves of casks, tubs, etc.

One who hoops casks or tubs; a cooper.

epops), having a beautiful crest, which it can erect or depress at pleasure. Called also hoop, whoop. The name is also applied to several other species of the same genus and allied genera.

A nickname given to an inhabitant of the State of Indiana. [U.S.]

Indiana; -- a nickname of obscure origin.

To cry out or shout in contempt. Matrons and girls shall hoot at thee no more. Dryden.

A disease in cattle consisting in inflammation of the stomach by gas, ordinarily caused by eating too much green food; tympany; bloating.

Affected with hoove; as, hooven, or hoven, cattle.

ccessive leaps, as toads do; to spring or jump on one foot; to skip, as birds do. [Birds] hopping from spray to spray. Dryden.

A very diminutive person. [Colloq.] liwell.

See Hop-o'-my-thumb.

The climbing stem of the hop. Blackstone.

of obtaining it, or a belief that it is obtainable; an expectation of something which is thought to be desirable; confidence; pleasing expectancy. The hypocrite's hope shall perish. Job vii. 13. He wished, but not with hope. Milton. New thoughts of God, new hopes of Heaven. Keble.