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Full of hope, or agreeable expectation; inclined to hope; expectant. Men of their own natural inclination hopeful and strongly conceited. Hooker.

A hydrous phosphate of zinc in transparent prismatic crystals.

Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing. I am a woman, friendless, hopeless. Shak.

One who hopes. Swift.

In a hopeful manner. Hammond.

A heavy-armed infantry soldier. Milford.

Impregnated with hops.

One who, or that which, hops.

An appliance for the destruction of insects, consisting of a shallow iron box, containing kerosene or coated with tar or other sticky substance, which may be mounted on wheels.

Gravel retaining in the hopper of a cradle.

An unexplained epithet used by Chaucer in reference to ships. By some it is defined as "dancing (on the wave)"; by others as "opposing," "warlike." T. R. Lounsbury.

A hand basket; also, a dish used by miners for measuring ore. [Prov. Eng.]

The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing. Hopping Dick (Zoöl.), a thrush of Jamaica (Merula leucogenys), resembling the English blackbird in its familiar manners, agreeable song, and dark plumage.

To impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hamper; to hobble; as, to hopple an unruly or straying horse.

Same as Hobblebush.

nal or commission having charge of the revenue derived from trade and navigation. [China] Hoppo men, Chinese customhouse officers.

A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground; -- called also hoppers.

A field where hops are raised.

Of or pertaining to an hour, or to hours. Prior.

Hourly. [Obs.]