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A kind of wooden tray with a handle, borne on the shoulder, for carrying mortar, brick, etc.

Applied to coarse cloth made of undyed wool, formerly worn by Scotch peasants. [Scot.]

See Dun crow, under Dun, a.

An awkward or foolish person. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A mixed mass; a medley. See Hotchpot. Johnson.

by progressive anæmia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician.

Of this day; belonging to the present day. [R.] Boyle. Quart. Rev.

A man who carries a hod; a mason's tender.

See Dodman. Bacon.

A curve described by the moving extremity of a line the other end of which is fixed, this line being constantly parallel to the direction of motion of, and having its length constantly proportional to the velocity of, a point moving in any path; -used in investigations respecting central forces.

See Odometer.

State of being a hoiden.

A morphological term signifying development, in the case of multicellular organisms, from the same unit deme or unit of the inferior orders of individuality.

Relating to homodermy; originating from the same germ layer.

Homology of the germinal layers.

Having all the teeth similar in front, as in the porpoises; -- opposed to heterodont.

Running in the same direction; -- said of stems twining round a support, or of the spiral succession of leaves on stems and their branches.

Homodynamous. Quain.

Pertaining to, or involving, homodynamy; as, successive or homodynamous parts in plants and animals.

The homology of metameres. See Metamere. Gegenbaur.