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Hoar. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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 mint, but not aromatic.

heir letters and rudiments; -- so called because a sheet of horn covered the small, thin board of oak, or the slip of paper, on which the alphabet, digits, and often the Lord's Prayer, were written or printed; a primer. "He teaches boys the hornbook." Shak.

odiolus), found on the northern shores of Europe and America. -- Horse nettle (Bot.), a coarse, prickly, American herb, the Solanum Carolinense. -- Horse parsley. (Bot.) See Alexanders. -- Horse purslain (Bot.), a coarse fleshy weed of tropical America (Trianthema monogymnum). -- Horse race, a race by horses; a mat…

A coarse American plant of the Mint family (Monarda punctata).

nd, deerhound, but also used for various breeds of fleet hunting dogs, as the greyhound, boarhound, etc. Hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs. Shak.

A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.

A loud noise of many confused voices; a tumult; uproar. Milton. This hubbub of unmeaning words. Macaulay.

To remove from the board (the piece which could have captured an opposing piece). See Huff, v. i., 3.

A confused noise; uproar; tumult. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

or the purpose of hunting. -- Hunting seat, a hunting lodge. Gray. -- Hunting shirt, a coarse shirt for hunting, often of leather. -- Hunting spider (Zoöl.), a spider which hunts its prey, instead of catching it in a web; a wolf spider. -- Hunting watch. See Hunter, 6.

A coarse kind of linen; -- called also harden. [Prov. Eng.]

The coarse part of flax or hemp; hards.

Noise; confusion; uproar. That, with the hurly, death itself awakes. Shak.

Roughness of sound; harshness; hoarseness; as, huskiness of voice. G. Eliot.

Rough in tone; harsh; hoarse; raucous; as, a husky voice.

To hoard or lay up, in a chest. [R.] "She hutched the . . . ore." Milton.

Soaring too high for safety, like Icarus; adventurous in flight.

One who has constant day duties on board ship, and keeps no regular watch. Totten.

d, or generous; base. 'T but a base, ignoble mind, That mounts no higher than a bird can soar. Shak. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. Gray.