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ccessive leaps, as toads do; to spring or jump on one foot; to skip, as birds do. [Birds] hopping from spray to spray. Dryden.

A very diminutive person. [Colloq.] liwell.

See Hop-o'-my-thumb.

The climbing stem of the hop. Blackstone.

ething which is thought to be desirable; confidence; pleasing expectancy. The hypocrite's hope shall perish. Job vii. 13. He wished, but not with hope. Milton. New thoughts of God, new hopes of Heaven. Keble.

Full of hope, or agreeable expectation; inclined to hope; expectant. Men of their own natural inclination hopeful and strongly conceited. Hooker.

A hydrous phosphate of zinc in transparent prismatic crystals.

Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing. I am a woman, friendless, hopeless. Shak.

One who hopes. Swift.

In a hopeful manner. Hammond.

A heavy-armed infantry soldier. Milford.

Impregnated with hops.

One who, or that which, hops.

An appliance for the destruction of insects, consisting of a shallow iron box, containing kerosene or coated with tar or other sticky substance, which may be mounted on wheels.

Gravel retaining in the hopper of a cradle.

An unexplained epithet used by Chaucer in reference to ships. By some it is defined as "dancing (on the wave)"; by others as "opposing," "warlike." T. R. Lounsbury.

A hand basket; also, a dish used by miners for measuring ore. [Prov. Eng.]

The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing. Hopping Dick (Zoöl.), a thrush of Jamaica (Merula leucogenys), resembling the English blackbird in its familiar manners, agreeable song, and dark plumage.

To impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hamper; to hobble; as, to hopple an unruly or straying horse.

Same as Hobblebush.