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- English Word Hodiernal Definition Of this day; belonging to the present day.
- English Word Hodman Definition A man who carries a hod; a mason's tender.
- English Word Hodmandod Definition See Dodman.
- English Word Hodmen Definition of Hodman
- English Word Hodograph Definition 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.
- English Word Hodometer Definition See Odometer.
- English Word Hoe Definition A tool chiefly for digging up weeds, and arranging the earth about plants in fields and gardens. It is made of a flat blade of iron or steel having an eye or tang by which it is attached to a wooden handle at an acute angle.
- English Word Hoe Definition The horned or piked dogfish. See Dogfish.
- English Word Hoe Definition To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with a hoe; as, to hoe the earth in a garden; also, to clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe; as, to hoe corn.
- English Word Hoe Definition To use a hoe; to labor with a hoe.
- English Word Hoecake Definition A cake of Indian meal, water, and salt, baked before the fire or in the ashes; -- so called because often cooked on a hoe.
- English Word Hoed Definition of Hoe
- English Word Hoeing Definition of Hoe
- English Word Hoemother Definition The basking or liver shark; -- called also homer. See Liver shark, under Liver.
- English Word Hoful Definition Careful; wary.
- English Word Hog Definition A quadruped of the genus Sus, and allied genera of Suidae; esp., the domesticated varieties of S. scrofa, kept for their fat and meat, called, respectively, lard and pork; swine; porker; specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow.
- English Word Hog Definition A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow.
- English Word Hog Definition A young sheep that has not been shorn.
- English Word Hog Definition A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
- English Word Hog Definition A device for mixing and stirring the pulp of which paper is made.
- English Word Hog Definition To cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a horse.
- English Word Hog Definition To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
- English Word Hog Definition To become bent upward in the middle, like a hog's back; -- said of a ship broken or strained so as to have this form.
- English Word Hog's-back Definition A hogback.
- English Word Hogback Definition An upward curve or very obtuse angle in the upper surface of any member, as of a timber laid horizontally; -- the opposite of camber.
- English Word Hogback Definition See Hogframe.
- English Word Hogback Definition A ridge formed by tilted strata; hence, any ridge with a sharp summit, and steeply sloping sides.
- English Word Hogchain Definition A chain or tie rod, in a boat or barge, to prevent the vessel from hogging.
- English Word Hogchoker Definition An American sole (Achirus lineatus, or A. achirus), related to the European sole, but of no market value.
- English Word Hogcote Definition A shed for swine; a sty.