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The horned or piked dogfish. See Dogfish. Dutch hoe, one having the blade set for use in the manner of a spade. -- Horse hoe, a kind of cultivator.

, and salt, baked before the fire or in the ashes; -- so called because often cooked on a hoe. [Southern U.S.]

The basking or liver shark; -- called also homer. See Liver shark, under Liver.

Retention or suppression of the menstrual discharge.

Pertaining to amenorrhoea.

To bawl; to cry loudly. [Low] Bartlett.

A morbidly frequent and profuse discharge of loose or fluid evacuations from the intestines, without tenesmus; a purging or looseness of the bowels; a flux.

Of or pertaining to diarrhea; like diarrhea.

Producing diarrhea, or a purging.

One who, or that which, echoes.

A galoche.

A contagious inflammatory disease of the genitourinary tract, affecting especially the urethra and vagina, and characterized by a mucopurulent discharge, pain in urination, and chordee; clap.

Of or pertaining to gonorrhea; as, gonorrheal rheumatism.

The European green woodpecker or yaffle. [Written also high- hoo.]

A shoe for horses, consisting of a narrow plate of iron in form somewhat like the letter U, nailed to a horse's hoof.

The act or employment of shoeing horses.

One who shoes horses.

A kickshaws. Milton.

A discharge of a white, yellowish, or greenish, viscid mucus, resulting from inflammation or irritation of the membrane lining the genital organs of the female; the whites. Dunglison.

A name given to several malvaceous trees (species of Hibiscus, Ochroma, etc.), and to their strong fibrous inner bark, which is used for strings and cordage.