v. t. & i. See Choke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. choa`nh funnel + -cyte. ] any of the flagellated cells in sponges having a collar of cytoplasm around base of the flagellum; they maintain a flow of water through the body.
Syn. -- collar cell. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Gr. choa`nh funnel + -oid. ] (Anat.) Funnel-shaped; -- applied particularly to a hollow muscle attached to the ball of the eye in many reptiles and mammals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person professing to be skilled in graphoanalysis. The synonymous term Graphoanalyst was trademarked by the International Graphoanalysis Society. [ PJC ]

n. The art of judging of a person's character, disposition, and aptitude from his handwriting; also called graphology. As a discipline, the modern form was developed by Milton Newman Bunker in the period after 1915. Though its practitioners consider it a science, many commentators believe that its methodology is not scientific, and some consider it a pseudoscience, as is astrology. Some information about graphoanalysis and its methods can be found at the web site maintained by the International Graphoanalysis Society. [ PJC ]

{ } 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. 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 ]

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. [ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. One who hoards. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From OF. hourd, hourt, barrier, palisade, of German or Dutch origin; cf. D. horde hurdle, fence, G. horde, hürde; akin to E. hurdle. √16. See Hurdle. ] 1. (Arch.) A screen of boards inclosing a house and materials while builders are at work. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Posted on every dead wall and hoarding. London Graphic. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A fence, barrier, or cover, inclosing, surrounding, or concealing something. [ 1913 Webster ]

The whole arrangement was surrounded by a hoarding, the space within which was divided into compartments by sheets of tin. Tyndall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Moldy; musty. [ Obs. ] Granmer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The white particles formed by the congelation of dew; white frost. [ Written also horefrost. See Hoar, a. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. Ps. cxlvii. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Horehound. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Hoary. ] The state of being hoary. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Hoarser superl. Hoarsest. ] [ OE. hors, also hos, has, AS. hās; akin to D. heesch, G. heiser, Icel. hāss, Dan. hæs, Sw. hes. Cf. Prov. E. heazy. ] 1. Having a harsh, rough, grating voice or sound, as when affected with a cold; making a rough, harsh cry or sound; as, the hoarse raven. [ 1913 Webster ]

The hoarse resounding shore. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Harsh; grating; discordant; -- said of any sound. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With a harsh, grating sound or voice. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Hoarsened p. pr. & vb. n. Hoarsening. ] To make hoarse. [ 1913 Webster ]

I shall be obliged to hoarsen my voice. Richardson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Harshness or roughness of voice or sound, due to mucus collected on the vocal cords, or to swelling or looseness of the cords. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A stone designating the bounds of an estate; a landmark. Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. White or whitish. “The hoary willows.” Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs. [ 1913 Webster ]

Reverence the hoary head. Dr. T. Dwight. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hence, remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Moldy; mossy; musty. [ Obs. ] Knolles. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Zool.) Of a pale silvery gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Bot.) Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hoary bat (Zool.), an American bat (Atalapha cinerea), having the hair yellowish, or brown, tipped with white. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Same as Hoazin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. contr. fr. hocus, in hocus-pocus. ] A deception for mockery or mischief; a deceptive trick or story; a practical joke. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Hoaxed p. pr. & vb. n. Hoaxing. ] To deceive by a story or a trick, for sport or mischief; to impose upon sportively. Lamb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who hoaxes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A remarkable South American bird (Opisthocomus cristatus); the crested touraco. By some Zoologists it is made the type of a distinct order (Opisthocomi). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a resident of Idaho. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. inchoatus, better incohatus, p. p. of incohare to begin. ] Recently, or just, begun; beginning; partially but not fully in existence or operation; existing in its elements; incomplete. -- In"cho*ate*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

Neither a substance perfect, nor a substance inchoate. Raleigh. [1913 Webster]

v. t. To begin. [ Obs. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. inchoatio, incohatio. ] Act of beginning; commencement; inception. [ 1913 Webster ]

The setting on foot some of those arts, in those parts, would be looked on as the first inchoation of them. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is now in actual progress, from the rudest inchoation to the most elaborate finishing. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. inchoativus, incohativus: cf. F. inchoatif. ] Expressing or pertaining to a beginning; inceptive; as, an inchoative verb. “Some inchoative or imperfect rays.” W. Montagu. -- n. An inchoative verb. See Inceptive. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A species of jalap, of very feeble properties, said to be obtained from the root of a species of Convolvulus (Convolvulus Mechoacan); -- so called from Michoacan, in Mexico, whence it is obtained. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To investigate or subject to treatment by psychoanalysis.
Syn. -- analyze, analyse, psychoanalyze. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. A method or process of psychotherapeutic analysis and treatment pf psychoneuroses, based on the work of Dr. Sigmund Freud (1856- 1939) of Vienna. The method rests upon the theory that neurosis is characteristically due to repression of desires consciously rejected but subconsciously persistent; it consists in a close analysis of the patient's mental history, effort being made to bring unconsciuos and preconscious material to consciousness; the methods include analysis of transferance and resistance. In some variants, stress is laid upon the dream life, and of treatment by means of suggestion. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

2. The theory of human psychology which is the foundation for the psychoanalytic therapy, which explores the relation between conscious and unconscious mental processes in motivating human behavior and causing neuroses. [ PJC ]

3. An integrated set of theories of human personality development, motivation, and behavior based on a body of observations. [ Stedman ] [ PJC ]

4. One of several schools of psychotherapy, such as jungian psychoanalysis or freudian psychoanalysis. [ Stedman ] [ PJC ]

-- Psy`cho*an`a*lyt"ic, a.; Psych`o*an"al*ist n., etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. To investigate or subject to treatment by psychoanalysis.
Syn. -- analyze, analyse, psychoanalyse. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. G. schutt rubbish. ] (Mining) A train of vein material mixed with rubbish; fragments of ore which have become separated by the action of water or the weather, and serve to direct in the discovery of mines. [ Written also shode. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mining) The tracing of veins of metal by shoads. [ Written also shoding. ] Pryce. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. scolu, sceolu, a company, multitude, crowd, akin to OS. skola; probably originally, a division, and akin to Icel. skilja to part, divide. See Skill, and cf. School. of fishes. ] A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass. “Great shoals of people.” Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Beneath, a shoal of silver fishes glides. Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Shoaled p. pr. & vb. n. Shoaling. ] To assemble in a multitude; to throng; as, the fishes shoaled about the place. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. Shallow; or cf. G. scholle a clod, glebe, OHG. scollo, scolla, prob. akin to E. shoal a multitude. ] Having little depth; shallow; as, shoal water. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc., is shallow; a shallow. [ 1913 Webster ]

The depth of your pond should be six feet; and on the sides some shoals for the fish to lay their span. Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory,
And sounded all the depths and shoals of honor. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal. [ 1913 Webster ]

The god himself with ready trident stands,
And opes the deep, and spreads the moving sands,
Then heaves them off the shoals. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become shallow; as, the color of the water shows where it shoals. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cause to become more shallow; to come to a more shallow part of; as, a ship shoals her water by advancing into that which is less deep. Marryat. [ 1913 Webster ]