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obable origin being Egyptian. Etymologically P is most closely related to b, f, and v; as hobble, hopple; father, paternal; recipient, receive. See B, F, and M.

A method of treatment, devised by Pasteur, for preventing certain diseases, as hydrophobia, by successive inoculations with an attenuated virus of gradually increasing strength.

Any lophobranch fish of the genus Siphostoma, or Syngnathus, and allied genera, having a long and very slender angular body, covered with bony plates. The mouth is small, at the end of a long, tubular snout. The male has a pouch on his belly, in which the incubation of the eggs takes place.

the genus Alisma, having acrid leaves, and formerly regarded as a specific against hydrophobia. Loudon.

a disease; also, the outlook afforded by this act of judgment; as, the prognosis of hydrophobia is bad.

ed also Robin Goodfellow, Friar Rush, Pug, etc. Shak. He meeteth Puck, whom most men call Hobgoblin, and on him doth fall. Drayton.

An elf, or a hobgoblin; also same as Puck. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks having the branchiæ in a wreath or group around the anal opening, as in the genus Doris.

Same as Hydrophobia (b); canine madness.

o reform; -- said of things. [Obs.] Your error, in time reclaimed, will be venial. Sir E. Hoby.

olfactory organs. Called also dorsal tentacles. See Illust. under Pygobranchia, and Opisthobranchia.

To overlap (each other); -- said of bones or fractured fragments. To ride a hobby, to have some favorite occupation or subject of talk. -- To ride and tie, to take turn with another in labor and rest; -- from the expedient adopted by two persons with one horse, one of whom rides the animal a certain distance, and then…

res the consistence of a sirup. It is sometimes mixed with honey or sugar. [Written also rhob, and rohob.]

s forming reddish or rusty spots on the leaves and stems of cereal and other grasses (Trichobasis Rubigo- vera), now usually believed to be a form or condition of the corn mildew (Puccinia graminis). As rust, it has solitary reddish spores; as corn mildew, the spores are double and blackish.

Fig.: Harsh; unmusical. [R.] His verse is scabrous and hobbling. Dryden.

lieving or teaching that the chief motives of human action are derived from love of self. Hobbes and the selfish school of philosophers. Fleming.

To hobble or limp; to shuffle. [Obs. or Prov.Eng.]

A hobbler; one who limps; a shuffer. [Obs. or Prov.Eng.]

The hobblebush.

Specif., a line for hobbling an animal by connecting the fore and the hind feet of the same side.