Part 5383

<h1>Hop-o'-my-thumb, Hop-thumb</h1> <Xpage=705>

<hw><hw>Hop"-o'-my-thumb"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Hop"-thumb"</hw><hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A very diminutive person.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>

<i>liwell.</i>

<h1>Hopped</h1> <Xpage=705>

<hw>Hopped</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>p. a.</tt> <def>Impregnated with hops.</def>

<h1>Hopper</h1> <Xpage=705>

<hw>Hop"per</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See 1st <er>Hop</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who, or that which, hops.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A chute, box, or receptacle, usually funnel-shaped with an opening at the lower part, for delivering or feeding any material, as to a machine; <as>as, the wooden box with its trough through which grain passes into a mill by joining or shaking, or a funnel through which fuel passes into a furnace, or coal, etc.</as>, into a car.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <def>See <er>Grasshopper</er>, 2.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <def>A game. See <er>Hopscotch</er>.</def>

<i>Johnson.</i>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>See <er>Grasshopper</er>, and <cref>Frog hopper</cref>, <cref>Grape hopper</cref>, <cref>Leaf hopper</cref>, <cref>Tree hopper</cref>, under <er>Frog</er>, <er>Grape</er>, <er>Leaf</er>, and <er>Tree</er>.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>The larva of a cheese fly.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>A vessel for carrying waste, garbage, etc., out to sea, so constructed as to discharge its load by a mechanical contrivance; -- called also <altname>dumping scow</altname>.</def>

<cs><col>Bell and hopper</col> <fld>(Metal.)</fld>, <cd>the apparatus at the top of a blast furnace, through which the charge is introduced, while the gases are retained.</cd> -- <col>Hopper boy</col>, <cd>a rake in a mill, moving in a circle to spread meal for drying, and to draw it over an opening in the floor, through which it falls.</cd> -- <col>Hopper closet</col>, <cd>a water-closet, without a movable pan, in which the receptacle is a funnel standing on a draintrap.</cd> -- <col>Hopper cock</col>, <cd>a faucet or valve for flushing the hopper of a water-closet.</cd></cs>

<h1>Hopperings</h1> <Xpage=705>

<hw>Hop"per*ings</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Gold Washing)</fld> <def>Gravel retaining in the hopper of a cradle.</def>

<h1>Hoppestere</h1> <Xpage=705>

<hw>Hop`pes*tere"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>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."</def>

<i>T. R. Lounsbury.</i>

<h1>Hoppet</h1> <Xpage=705>

<hw>Hop"pet</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A hand basket; also, a dish used by miners for measuring ore.</def> <mark>[Prov. Eng.]</mark>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An infant in arms.</def> <mark>[Prov. Eng.]</mark>

<i>Halliwell.</i>

<h1>Hopping</h1> <Xpage=705>

<hw>Hop"ping</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing.</def>

<cs><col>Hopping Dick</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>a thrush of Jamaica (<spn>Merula leucogenys</spn>), resembling the English blackbird in its familiar manners, agreeable song, and dark plumage.</cd></cs>

<h1>Hopping</h1> <Xpage=705>

<hw>Hop"ping</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See 3rd <er>Hop</er>.]</ety> <def>A gathering of hops.</def>