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aterial, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything; as, a hook for catching fish; a hook for fastening a gate; a boat hook, etc.

A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop, as the cylinder (cheese hoop) in which the curd is pressed in making cheese.

thority by which a person, directed by the decree of a court of justice to pay or perform anything, is ordered to comply therewith. Mozley & W.

Anything, actual or figurative, on which one rides as on a horse; a hobby.

Anything shaped like a horsehoe crab.

Anything bulky or unwieldly. Shak. Shear hulk, an old ship fitted with an apparatus to fix or take out the masts of a ship. -- The hulks, old or dismasted ships, formerly used as prisons. [Eng.] Dickens.

The outer covering of anything, particularly of a nut or of grain; the outer skin of a kernel; the husk.

ss, which is perceptible to the eye or touch; -- used especially of the atmosphere, or of anything which has absorbed moisture from the atmosphere, as clothing.

Forming one of a hundred equal parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a tenth.

One who hunts or seeks after anything, as if for game; as, a fortune hunter a place hunter. No keener hunter after glory breathes. Tennyson.

An apparatus for drying anything, as yarn, cloth, sugar, etc., by centrifugal force; a centrifugal.

Hence, anything exceeding the ordinary standard. When a man rises beyond six foot, he is an hypermeter. Addison.

That which forms the basis of anything; underlying principle; a concept or mental entity conceived or treated as an existing being or thing.

One who hypothecates or pledges anything as security for the repayment of money borrowed.

The search for the traces of anything. [R.]

aterial bodies, and teaches that we have no rational grounds to believe in the reality of anything but ideas and their relations.

The system of writing in ideographic characters; also, anything so written.

An image or representation of anything. [Obs.] Do her adore with sacred reverence, As th' idol of her maker's great magnificence. Spenser.

worshiper of idols; one who pays divine honors to images, statues, or representations of anything made by hands; one who worships as a deity that which is not God; a pagan.

The worship of idols, images, or anything which is not God; the worship of false gods. His eye surveyed the dark idolatries Of alienated Judah. Milton.