hobthrush-louse

(hob’thrush-lous), x. A mil- leped. [Proy. Eng.] hobyt,”. An obsolete form of hobby1, hobby?. hoccamoret, ”. See hock a more. hocco (hok’6), ». [Native name in Guiana. ] A euragao-bird; any cura ow. The word is traceable in literature to Barrére, 1745, and became with Bri on, 1760, a general name for cura ows (Cracid@) and some other birds, as the hoactzin, including those called mitu, mutu, mit up orang a, pauaxi, etc. It is now usually applied, in distinction from cwra ow or Crax proper, to such Cracine as Pauxi galeata and Mitua mitu. hochepott, x. An obsolete form of hotehpot. Chaucer. Hochheimer (hoéh’hi-mér), 7. [G,: see hock a more, hock®.| A Rhine wine produced at Hochheim, near Mainz, in Germany. One of the finest vineyards is the Domdechanei or Cathedral Deanery, which gives the name Hochheimer Domdechanei to its pro- — ducts. hock!, hough (hok), ». [Hockis a mod. phone tie spelling of hough (cf. shock for shough); in another pron. hough is spelled hoff (dial.)(ef.cough1, pron. as if spelled *coff); hock | thigh: see cova.] 1. (a) The joint on the hind leg of a quadruped between the knee and the fetlock, corresponding 1 to the ankle-joint in man; that part of the leg between the tibia and the cannon-bone, consisting of the anklebones more or le completely united. (b) In man, the back part of the kmee-joint; the ham.—2. In the game of faro, the last card remaining in the box after all the others have been dealt. hock!, hough (hok), v. ¢. 5 [IX ME. howghen, how when, *hogen; from the noun. Cf. the equiv. Front View of Left Hock of hocks, hox.] To ham- Horse, corresponding to the human ankle and other tarsal string; disable by cut bones. ting the sinew or ten- 1, calcaneum, forming the projection behind corresponding to don of the hock—that the human heel; 2, astragalus, is, the ten do A chillis. articulating with the tibia, and forming the ankle-joint proper; They account of no man EATS, a proximal tarsal me; 4, outer cuneiform, and 5, that hath not a battle axe cuboides, two distal tarsal bones. at his girdle to hough dogs with, or weares not a cock’s fether in a thumb hat like a cavalier. Nashe, Pierce Penile e (1592). (Hall i well.) Thou shalt hough their horses. Josh. xi. 6. The clan, who would descend by night to burn the houses and to hough the cattle of those who offended them. Lecky, Eng. in 18th Cent., v. hock?+ (hok), ». [