Part 851

Hives (?), n. [Scot.; perh. akin to E. heave.] (Med.) (a) The croup. (b) An eruptive disease (Varicella globularis), allied to the chicken pox.

Hizz (?), v. i. To hiss. [Obs.] Shak.

Ho (?), pron. Who. [Obs.] In some Chaucer MSS.

{ Ho, Hoa } (?), n. [See Ho, interj., 2.] A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace.

There is no ho with them.

Decker.

{ Ho, Hoa } (h), interj. [Cf. F. & G. ho.] 1. Halloo! attend! -- a call to excite attention, or to give notice of approach. "What noise there, ho?" Shak. "Ho! who's within?" Shak.

2. [Perhaps corrupted fr. hold; but cf. F. hau stop! and E. whoa.] Stop! stand still! hold! - - a word now used by teamsters, but formerly to order the cessation of anything. [Written also whoa, and, formerly, hoo.]

The duke . . . pulled out his sword and cried "Hoo!"

Chaucer.

An herald on a scaffold made an hoo.

Chaucer.

Hoar (?), a. [OE. hor, har, AS. hr; akin to Icel. hrr, and to OHG. hr illustrious, magnificent; cf. Icel. Hei brightness of the sky, Goth. hais torch, Skr. ktus light, torch. Cf. Hoary.] 1. White, or grayish white; as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs. "Hoar waters." Spenser.

2. Gray or white with age; hoary.

Whose beard with age is hoar.

Coleridge.

Old trees with trunks all hoar.

Byron.

3. Musty; moldy; stale. [Obs.] Shak.

Hoar, n. Hoariness; antiquity. [R.]

Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages.

Burke.

Hoar, v. t. [AS. hrian to grow gray.] To become moldy or musty. [Obs.] Shak.

Hoard (?), n. See Hoarding, 2. Smart.

Hoard, n. [OE. hord, AS. hord; akin to OS. hord, G. hort, Icel. hodd, Goth. huzd; prob. from the root of E. hide to conceal, and of L. custos guard, E. custody. See Hide to conceal.] A store, stock, or quantity of anything accumulated or laid up; a hidden supply; a treasure; as, a hoard of provisions; a hoard of money.

Hoard, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hoarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Hoarding.] [AS. hordian.] To collect and lay up; to amass and deposit in secret; to store secretly, or for the sake of keeping and accumulating; as, to hoard grain.

Hoard, v. i. To lay up a store or hoard, as of money.

To hoard for those whom he did breed.