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iefly spoken by native Hindoos. In employs the Devanagari character, in which Sanskrit is written. Whitworth.

The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose (Rosa canina). [Written also hop, hep.] Hip tree (Bot.), the dog- rose.

passage which is deduced from the circumstances of time, place, etc., under which it was written. -- The historic sense, the capacity to conceive and represent the unity and significance of a past era or age.

so obtained; hence, a formal statement of such information; a narrative; a description; a written record; as, the history of a patient's case; the history of a legislative bill.

hold! -- a word now used by teamsters, but formerly to order the cessation of anything. [Written also whoa, and, formerly, hoo.] The duke . . . pulled out his sword and cried "Hoo!" Chaucer. An herald on a scaffold made an hoo. Chaucer.

The white particles formed by the congelation of dew; white frost. [Written also horefrost. See Hoar, a.] He scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. Ps. cxlvii. 16.

To drink familiarly (with another). [ Written also hob-a-nob.]

s, formerly observed on the second Tuesday after Easter; -- called also hocktide. [Eng.] [Written also hokeday.]

The stick used by the players. [Written also hookey and hawkey.]

A sheep of the second year. [Written also hogrel.] Ash.

A practitioner of homeopathy. [Written also homoeopath.]

A believer in, or practitioner of, homeopathy. [Written also homoepathist.]

system was founded by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, and is opposed to allopathy, or heteropathy. [Written also homoepathy.]

t; and, as a dry measure, ten ephahs, equivalent to six bushels, two pecks, four quarts. [Written also chomer, gomer.]

Maize hulled and broken, and prepared for food by being boiled in water. [U.S.] [Written also homony.]

sound as another, but differing from it in meaning; as the noun bear and the verb bear. [Written also homonyme.]

, character, totality, as in manhood, childhood, knighthood, brotherhood. Sometimes it is written, chiefly in obsolete words, in the form - head.

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

loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout. [Usually written whoop.]

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 mint, but not aromatic.