{ } n. [ See Ho, interj., 2. ] A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is no ho with them. Decker.

{ } 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The duke . . . pulled out his sword and cried “Hoo!” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

An herald on a scaffold made an hoo. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A crested ill-smelling South American bird (Opisthocomus hoazin) whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings.
Syn. -- hoatzin, stinkbird, Opisthocomus hoazin. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a large sandwich on a long crusty roll that is split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the U. S., such as hero, grinder, and submarine.
Syn. -- bomber, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ OE. hor, har, AS. hār; akin to Icel. hārr, and to OHG. hēr illustrious, magnificent; cf. Icel. Heið brightness of the sky, Goth. hais torch, Skr. kētus light, torch. Cf. Hoary. ] 1. White, or grayish white; as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs. “Hoar waters.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Gray or white with age; hoary. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whose beard with age is hoar. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

Old trees with trunks all hoar. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Musty; moldy; stale. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Hoariness; antiquity. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ AS. hārian to grow gray. ] To become moldy or musty. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To lay up a store or hoard, as of money. [ 1913 Webster ]

To hoard for those whom he did breed. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Hoarding, 2. Smart. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]