<B>horde, </B>noun, verb, <B>horded,</B> <B>hording.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a crowd; swarm; multitude. <BR> <I>Ex. hordes of grasshoppers. Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored (Byron).</I> (SYN) troop, gang, crew. <DD><B> 2. </B>a wandering tribe or troop. <BR> <I>Ex. Hordes of Mongols and Turks invaded Europe in the Middle Ages.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to gather in a horde; live in a horde. <BR> <I>Ex. My fathers' house shall never be a cave For wolves to horde and howl in (Byron).</I> </DL>
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<B>Horeb, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> Mount Sinai, where God gave Moses the Ten Commandments (in the Bible, Deuteronomy 4:15). </DL>
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<B>horehound, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a plant with woolly, whitish leaves, and clusters of small, whitish flowers. It belongs to the mint family. <DD><B> 2. </B>a bitter extract made from the leaves of this plant. <DD><B> 3. </B>a candy or cough medicine flavored with it. Also, <B>hoarhound.</B> </DL>
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<B>Horite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a member of an ancient people that were living in Palestine when the Israelites arrived there. Many scholars believe that the Horites were Hurrians. </DL>
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<B>horizon, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the line where the earth and sky seem to meet. You cannot see beyond the horizon. <BR> <I>Ex. Lord of the far horizons, Give us the eyes to see Over the verge of the sundown The beauty that is to be (Bliss Carman).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) the limit of one's thinking, experience, interest, or outlook. <BR> <I>Ex. The horizon should be vivid with splendor and hope (Walter Lippmann).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Astronomy.) <DD><B> a. </B>the plane at right angles to the direction of gravity that passes through the eye of the observer at a given place; sensible horizon. <DD><B> b. </B>the great circle of the celestial sphere that has a plane parallel to the sensible horizon and passes through the center of the earth, or the plane of this great circle. It is called astronomical, celestial, true, or rational horizon. <DD><B> c. </B>a level reflecting surface, usually of mercury, used in measuring altitudes; artificial or false horizon. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Geology.) a stratum or series of strata having fossils, etc., that differ from the deposits above or below. <DD><B> 5. </B>one of the layers in a vertical cross section of a series of soils and subsoils. <DD><B> 6. </B>the actual or imaginary horizontal line in perspective drawing toward which receding parallel lines converge. It represents the eye level of the observer. adj. <B>horizonless.</B> </DL>
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<B>horizon blue,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a light grayish blue. </DL>
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<B>horizon glass,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the fixed mirror of a sextant, in which the horizon is reflected. </DL>
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<B>horizontal, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>parallel to the horizon; at right angles to a vertical line. <BR> <I>Ex. The ground was horizontal to the flagpole.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>flat; level. <BR> <I>Ex. the vast horizontal prairie of America.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>measured in a line parallel to the horizon. <BR> <I>Ex. a horizontal distance.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>placed, acting, or working wholly or mainly in a horizontal direction. <BR> <I>Ex. a horizontal boiler.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>of or having to do with the horizon; on or near the horizon. <DD><B> 6. </B>so organized as to include only one stage in production or one group of people or crafts. <BR> <I>Ex. horizontal trusts. Carpenters and plumbers belong to horizontal unions.</I> <DD><B> 7. </B>of or having to do with the series of sounds which form a melody, especially in a contrapuntal composition. <DD><I>noun </I> a horizontal line, plane, direction, or position. adv. <B>horizontally.</B> noun <B>horizontalness.</B> </DL>
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<B>horizontal bar,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an elevated bar for gymnastic exercises such as chinning or swinging. </DL>
<B>horizontality, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the condition of being horizontal. </DL>
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<B>horizontalize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to make horizontal. </DL>
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<B>horizontal merger,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a merger of companies that produce the same products or otherwise compete directly with each other. <BR> <I>Ex. Unlike ... the horizontal merger (the combination of firms producing similar products), the conglomerate merger involves unrelated business (Joel Segall).</I> </DL>
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<B>horizontal stabilizer,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a fixed horizontal airfoil on each side of the fuselage or boom at an aircraft's tail to keep it from unwanted up-and-down motion. </DL>
<B>hormic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Psychology.) of or characterized by a vital or purposeful energy transcending the purely physical or chemical functioning of the body. </DL>
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<B>hormonal, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of, having to do with, or like a hormone. adv. <B>hormonally.</B> </DL>
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<B>hormone, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a substance formed in the endocrine glands, which enters the bloodstream and affects or controls the activity of some organ, or of cells or tissues. Adrenalin and insulin are hormones. <DD><B> 2. </B>a substance carried in the protoplasm of plants that acts similarly. Auxins are hormones. adj. <B>hormone-like.</B> </DL>
<B>hormonize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to furnish or treat with hormones. <BR> <I>Ex. Each chick is vigorously hormonized, vitaminized (A,B,D,E,K) and debeaked (Time).</I> </DL>
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<B>hormonology, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the scientific study of hormones. </DL>
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<B>hormonopoietic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Physiology.) <DD><B> 1. </B>producing hormones, as certain organs. <DD><B> 2. </B>having to do with the production of hormones. </DL>
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<B>horn, </B>noun, adjective, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a hard, hollow growth, usually curved and pointed and in pairs, on the heads of cattle, sheep, goats, and some other animals. The horns of these animals are permanent. <DD><B> 2. </B>one of a pair of solid, branching growths on the head of a deer, elk, or related animal, that fall off and grow back each year; antler. <DD><B> 3. </B>anything that sticks up on the head of an animal. <BR> <I>Ex. a snail's horns, an insect's horns.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>the substance or material of horns, principally keratin. Horn is hard, durable, and partly transparent. <DD><B> 5. </B>any similar material, such as that of hoofs, nails, the beaks of birds, and tortoise shells. <DD><B> 6. </B>a thing made, or formerly made, of horn, such as a thimble or shoehorn. <DD><B> 7. </B>a container made by hollowing out a horn. It was used to drink out of or to carry gunpowder. <DD><B> 8. </B>a drink in such a container. <DD><B> 9. </B>the horn of plenty; cornucopia. <BR> <I>Ex. No richer gift has Autumn poured From out her lavish horn (John Greenleaf Whittier).</I> <DD><B> 10. </B>a musical instrument sounded by blowing into the smaller end. It was once made of horn, but now it is made of brass and other metal. A French horn and a hunting horn are different types of horns: <DD><B> a. </B>any brass wind instrument, especially a trumpet. <DD><B> b. </B>a musician who plays a trumpet or other brass wind instrument. <DD><B> 11. </B>a device sounded as a warning signal. <BR> <I>Ex. an automobile horn.</I> <DD><B> 12. </B>anything that sticks out like a horn or is shaped like a horn. <BR> <I>Ex. a saddle horn, the horn of a bay.</I> <DD><B> 13. </B>either pointed tip of a new or old moon, or of a crescent. <BR> <I>Ex. The moon Wears a wan circle round her blunted horns (James Thomson).</I> <DD><B> 14. </B>the point of an anvil. <DD><B> 15a. </B>any one of the short levers attached to a control surface of an aircraft to which the operating cable or rod is fastened. <DD><B> b. </B>the small part of a control surface forward of the main hinge. <DD><B> 16. </B>(Radio.) a tube used in certain loudspeakers to couple the diaphragm with the outer air. <DD><B> 17. </B>a symbol of strength, power, or glory in the Bible. <DD><B> 18. </B>a horn, like that of an animal, attributed to a deity or demon. <BR> <I>Ex. the devil's horn.</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> made of horn. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to hit or wound with horns; gore. <DD><B> 2. </B>to furnish with horns. <DD><B> 3. </B>to make hornshaped. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Obsolete.) to cuckold. <BR><I>expr. <B>blow one's own horn,</B> </I>to boast. <BR> <I>Ex. Three minutes is more than enough time to blow one's own horn (New Yorker).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>draw</B> (or <B>pull</B>) <B>in one's horns,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>to restrain oneself. </I> <I>Ex. So I began to pull in my horns, as they say (Samuel Richardson).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to back down; withdraw. <BR> <I>Ex. They are imploring the Council to draw in its horns (Saturday Review).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>horn in,</B> </I>(U.S. Slang.) to meddle or intrude. <BR> <I>Ex. Tickets for the Notre Dame-Oklahoma football game were sold out as far back as last May, but that didn't keep numerous persons from making rather remarkable efforts to horn in on the show at Oklahoma's Owen Field (Newsweek).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>horns of a dilemma,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>two unpleasant choices, one of which must be taken. </I> <I>Ex. The current situation finds those states on the horns of a dilemma. ... If they allow oil to flow unchecked, they say, they risk market chaos in the industry on which they are so reliant. ... If, on the other hand, they cut allowable production, they slash their own revenues (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>(Logic.) the alternatives of a dilemma. <BR> <I>Ex. In disputation, the adversary who is refuted by a dilemma is said to be "fixed on the horns of a dilemma" (Thomas Fowler).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>lock horns,</B> </I>to engage in combat; quarrel; fight. <BR> <I>Ex. The engineer union ... has locked horns with the Curran men on ship contracts with other ship lines (New York Times).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>the horn,</B> </I>(U.S. Slang.) the telephone. <BR> <I>Ex. This morning, I got on the horn to Secretary Finch, just on a hunch, and asked him (New Yorker).</I> adj. <B>hornlike.</B> </DL>
