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Bot.), an American herb (Scetellaria lateriflora) formerly prescribed as a cure for hydrophobia.

A tribe of lophobranch fishes having a tubular snout. The female carries the eggs in a ventral pouch.

To fetter, as a horse; to hobble.

A rope used for tying or hobbling the legs of a horse or cow. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.] Grose.

A spirit; a ghost; an apparition; a hobgoblin. [Written also spuke.] Ld. Lytton.

Any plant of the genus Euphobia. See Euphorbia. Spurge flax, an evergreen shrub (Daphne Gnidium) with crowded narrow leaves. It is native of Southern Europe. -- Spurge laurel, a European shrub (Daphne Laureola) with oblong evergreen leaves. -- Spurge nettle. See under Nettle. -- Spurge olive, an evergreen shrub (Dap…

re our view, are studded with substantial, neat, and commodious dwellings of freemen. Bp. Hobart.

A suborder of lophobranch fishes which have an elongated snout and lack the ventral and first dorsal fins. The pipefishes and sea horses are examples. -- Syng"na*thous, a.

mind in its earliest state, before receiving impressions from without; -- a term used by Hobbes, Locke, and others, in maintaining a theory opposed to the doctrine of innate ideas.

ionate; pitying; sensitive. -- Ten"der-heart`ed*ly, adv. -- Ten"der-heart`ed*ness, n. Rehoboam was young and tender-hearted, and could not withstand them. 2 Chron. xiii. 7. Be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted. Eph. iv. 32.

Toxiphobia. A. S. Taylor.

ce; to supplant; -- often followed by up; as, to trip up a man in wrestling. The words of Hobbes's defense trip up the heels of his cause. Abp. Bramhall.

present, with all the vivid charms of painting, the human face and human form divine. Bp. Hobart.

A hobbling, unequal motion, as of a wheel unevenly hung; a staggering to and fro.