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Of or pertaining to an hour; noting the hours. Spectator.

Of or pertaining to Horace, the Latin poet, or resembling his style.

ing from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude. Thomson.

Pertaining to, or derived from, barley; as, hordeic acid, an acid identical or isomeric with lauric acid.

A peculiar starchy matter contained in barley. It is complex mixture. [R.]

A small tumor upon the eyelid, resembling a grain of barley; a sty.

An unidentified plant mentioned by Shakespeare, perhaps equivalent to burdock.

Hoar. [Obs.] Chaucer.

he genus Marrubium (M. vulgare), which has a bitter taste, and is a weak tonic, used as a household remedy for colds, coughing, etc. [Written also hoarhound.] Fetid horehound, or Black horehound, a disagreeable plant resembling horehound (Ballota nigra). -- Water horehound, a species of the genus Lycopus, resembling m…

the earth and sky. And when the morning sun shall raise his car Above the border of this horizon. Shak. All the horizon round Invested with bright rays. Milton.

Pertaining to, or near, the horizon. "Horizontal misty air." Milton.

The state or quality of being horizontal. Kirwan.

In a horizontal direction or position; on a level; as, moving horizontally.

A chain of small cells in certain algæ, by which the plant is propogated.

a stimulating effect; thus, according to Starling, the gastric glands are stimulated by a hormone from the pyloric mucous membrane.

the heads of certain animals, esp. of the ruminants, as cattle, goats, and the like. The hollow horns of the Ox family consist externally of true horn, and are never shed.

Quite mad; -- raving crazy. Did I tell you about Mr. Garrick, that the town are horn-mad after Gray.

A fish. See Hornfish.

along the banks of streams in the United States, and is also called ironwood. The English hornbeam is C. Betulus. The American is called also blue beech and water beech. Hop hornbeam. (Bot.) See under Hop.

parts of Asia, Africa, and the East Indies, and are remarkable for having a more or less horn-like protuberance, which is usually large and hollow and is situated on the upper side of the beak. The size of the hornbill varies from that of a pigeon to that of a raven, or even larger. They feed chiefly upon fruit, but s…