HISTOGENY-HISTRIONICAL. mouth open behind the eye, which is very large; caudal fin small and lobed: Family, Scomberidæ ; Subfamily, Xiphiana. HISTOGENY, his-toj'e-ne, s. (histos, a web or tissue, and gennao, I engender, Gr.) The formation of an organic tissue. HISTOGRAPHY, his-tog'ra-fe, s. (histos, and grapho, I describe, Gr.) A description of the organic tissues. HISTOLOGY, his-tol'o-je, s. (histos, and logos, a discourse, Gr.) The doctrine of the organic tissues. HISTONOMY, his-ton'o-me, s. (histos, and nomos, a law, Gr.) The history of the laws which preside over the formation and arrangement of the organic tissues. HISTORIAL, his-to're-al, a. The old term for historical. An historial thing notable.-Chaucer. HISTORIAN, his-toʻre-an, s. (historien, Fr.) A writer of facts and events; a compiler of history. HISTORIC, his-tor'rik, a. (historicus, Lat.) HISTORICAL, his-tor'ik-al, Containing history, or the relation of facts; relating to history; contained in history; deduced from history; representing history. HISTORICALLY, his-tor'rik-al-le, ad. In the manner of history; by way of narration. HISTORIED, his-to'rid, a. Seldom used. HISTORIER, his-to're-ur, s. lete. Recorded in history. A historian.-Obso HISTORIFY, his-tor'e-fi, v. a. To relate; to record in history. Obsolete. O, Muse, historify Her praise, whose praise to learn your skill hath framed me.-Sidney. HISTORIOGRAPHER, his-to-re-og'gra-fur, s. (historia, history, and grapho, I write, Gr.) A historian; a writer of history. HISTORIOGRAPHY, his-to-re-og'gra-fe, s. The art or employment of a historian. HISTORIOLOGY, his-to-re-ol'o-je, s. A discourse on history, or the knowledge of history. HISTORY, his'tur-e, s. (historia, Gr.) A narration of events and facts, respecting nations or states; a narration of events in the order in which they happened, with their causes and effects; narration; verbal relation of facts or events; story; knowledge of facts and events; description; an account of things that exist; an account of the origin, life, and actions of an individual person. Natural history, the science which has for its object the study of the various forms of bodies existing upon, or under the surface of the earth: it examines the structure of such things as contain any trace of organization necessary for the exercise of the vital functions, investigates the organization of functions of living beings, and classifies those beings as such, according to their analogies, and in such manner as to facilitate the study of the works of nature, whether animate or inanimate. HISTORY-PIECE, his'tur-e-pees, 8. A representation of any remarkable event in painting. HISTRION, his'tre-un, s. A player.-Obsolete. HISTRIONIC, his-tre-on'ik, a. (histrionicus, HISTRIONICAL, his-tre-on'e-kal, Lat.) Relating to the stage; suitable to a theatrical performer; becoming a buffoon; belonging to dramatic representations. HISTRIONICALLY-HIVITES. HISTRIONICALLY, his-tre-on'e-kal-le, ad. Theatrically; in the manner of dramatic representations, or of a buffoon. HISTRIONISM, his 'tre-o-nizm, s. Theatrical or feigned representation. HIT, hit, v. a. (hitta, Swed.) Past and past part. Hit. To strike; to touch with a blow; to touch the mark; not to miss; to attain; to reach; not to fail; to suit; to be conformable to; to catch by the right bait; to touch properly; to hit off, to strike out; to determine luckily; to represent or describe exactly; to hit out, to perform by good luck;-v. n. to meet or come in contact; to clash; to meet or fall on by good luck; to succeed by accident; not to miss; to strike or reach the intended point; to succeed; to hit on or upon, to light on; to come to or fall on by chance; to meet or find, as by accident;-s. a striking against; the collision of one body against another; a chance; a casual event; a lucky chance; a fortunate event, a term in backgammon. HITCH, hitsh, v. n. (hecian, Welsh.) To become entangled, or hooked together; to move by jerks, or with stops; to hit the legs together in going, as horses; to hop; to spring on one leg;-(local in the last two senses;)-to move or walk;(local ;)-v. a. to hook; to catch by a hook; to fasten by hitching;-s. a catch; anything that holds; the act of catching, as on a hook, &c. Among seamen, a sort of knot or noose, by which one rope is fastened to another, or to some other object, as a post, ring, mast, &c.; a stop or sudden halt in walking or moving. In Mining, a slight dislocation of the strata. HITCHEL-See Hatchel. HITCHING, hitsh'ing, 8. A fastening or hooking. HITHE, hithe, s. (hyth, Sax.) A port or small haven to land goods out of vessels, as in Queenhithe, now Lambeth. HITHER, bith'ur, ad. (hither, or hider, Sax.) To this place from some other; hither and thither, to this place and that; to this end; to this design; to this argument or topic;-a. nearest; towards the person speaking. HITHERMOST, hith'ur-most, a. HITHERTO, hith'ur-too, ad. Nearest on this side. To this time; yet; in any time till now; at every time till now; to this place; to a prescribed limit. HITHERWARD, hith'ur-wawrd, ad. This way; HITHERWARDS, hith'ur-wawrds, towards this place. HITTITE, hit'tite, s. A descendant of Heth; the eldest son of Canaan. HIVE, hive, s. (hyfe, Sax.) The habitation or artificial reception of bees; a swarm of bees, or the bees inhabiting a hive; a company or society together, or closely connected;-v. a. to collect into a hive; to cause to enter a hive ;-s. Hive-bee, the Apis domestica of Entomologists; to contain ; to receive as a habitation, or place of deposit ;v. n. to take shelter together; to reside collectively. HIVER, hi'vur, s. One that collects bees into a hive. HIVES, hivse, s. The popular name in the north of England, and in some parts of Scotland, for a species of chicken-pox, the Varicella globularis of Willan. HIVITES, hi'vitse, s. People descended from naan. To have a thousand, with red burning spits, HIZZING.-See Hissing. Ho, ho, interj. A call; a sudden exclamation HOA, to give notice of approach, or anything else; a command to stop, cease, or give over;s. stop; bound; limit. Heer was no ho in devout drinkyng.-Langham, Here dwells my father Jew. Hoa, who's within ?Shaks, HOAR, hore, a. (har, Sax.) White; grey with age; white with frost ;-s. antiquity; hoariness; v. n. to become mouldy or musty.-Obsolete as a verb. Harshness or rough ness of voice or sound; preternatural asperity of voice. HOARSE-SOUNDING, horse'sownd-ing, a. Making a grating, harsh sound. HOARSTONE, hore'stone, s. A landmark; a stone showing the boundary of an estate. HOARY, ho're, a. White or whitish; white or grey with age; mouldy; mossy, or covered with a white pubesence. Hoary, or whistling Marmot of zoologists, and mountain-badger of the American fur-traders. HOAX, hoks, 8. (hucs, or hucx, irony, contempt, Sax.) Something done for deception or mockery; a trick played off in sport;-v. a. to play a trick upon for sport, or without malice; to deceive. HOB, hob, s. (Danish.) The name of a wheel; a HUB, hub, solid piece of timber in which the naves are inserted. HOB, hob, s. A clown; a fairy.-Obsolete. HOBBISM, hob'bizm, s. A name given to the scep tical opinions or principles promulgated by Thomas Hobbes, about the close of the sixteenth century. HOBBIST, hob'bist, s. A follower of Hobes. HOBBLE, hob'bl, v. n. (hobelu, Welsh.) To walk lamely or awkwardly upon one leg more than the other; to walk with inequal and encumbered steps; HOBBLE-DE-HOY-HOCK-DAY. to walk with a hitch or hop, or with crutches; to inove roughly or unevenly, as verse; While you, Pindaric, truths rehearse, -v. a. to perplex ;-(obsolete as an active verb;) -8. an unequal halting gait; an encumbered awkward step; difficulty; perplexity. HOBBLE-DE-HOY, hob'bl-de-hoy, s. A stripling; a young man between fourteen and twenty-one. HOBBLER, hob'bl-ur, s. (hobeler, old Fr.) One that hobbles. In former times in England, a name given to a feudal tenant who was bound to serve as a light horseman or bowman: the smaller feudal gentry were long termed in France, Hobereaux For twenty hobblers armed, Irishmen so called, because they served on hobbies, he paid sixpence a piece per diem.-Davies. HOBBLINGLY, hob'bl-ing-le, ad. With a limping or interrupted step. HOBBY, hob'be, 8. (hobel, Welsh.) A species of hawk; a hawk of the lure;-(hoppe, Germ.) a strong active horse, of a middle size, said to have been originally from Ireland; a nag; a pacinghorse; a wooden figure of a horse on which boys ride; any favourite object; that which a person pursues with zeal and delight; a stupid fellow. HOBBY-HORSE, hob'be-hawrs, s. A wooden horse on which boys ride; a character in the old May games; a stupid or foolish person: I have studied eight or nine wise words to speak to you, which these hobby-horses must not hear.-Shaks. the favourite object or pursuit of a person. HOBGOBLIN, hob'gob-lin, s. A fairy; an appari tion. HOBILERS, hob'e-lurz, s. Feudal tenants, in former times, bound to serve as light horsemen.-Sce Hobbler. HOBIT, ho'bit, s. (hobus, Span.) A small mortar, or shot gun.-See Howitzer. HOBLIKE, hob'like, a. Clownish; boorish. HOBNAIL, hob'nale, s. A nail with a thick strong head, for shoeing horses; a clownish person, in contempt. No antic hobnail at a morris, but is more handsomely facetious.-Milton. Set with hobnails; HOBNAILED, hob'nayld, a. rough. HOBNOB, hobʼnob, ad. (derivation disputed.) Take or not take.-Obsolete. Hobnob is his word; give't or take't.—Shaks. HOBOY.-See Hautboy. HOBSON'S CHOICE, hob'sunz sthoys, s. A vulgar expression denoting a choice in which there is no alternative; said to have arisen from the whimsical turn of one Hobson, a Cambridge carrier, who obliged parties who came to hire a horse from his collection, to take the one next the stable-door, and leaving no other choice with him. Hocco, hok'ko, s. The name given by Buffon to the Curassows, Crax globicera, Crax alector, and Crax rubra, a genus of large gallinaceous American fowls. HOCK, hok, s. (hoh, Sax.) The joint of an animal between the knee and the fetlock; a part of the thigh;-(from Hochheim, in Germany,) a sort of Rhenish wine: sometimes termed Hockamore. Hock, hok, v. a. To hamstring; to hough; HOCKLE, hok'kl, to disable by cutting the tendons of the ham. HOCK-DAY, hok'day, s. In Ancient times, rents יד HOCKEY-HOG. were reserved payable thereon, and called Hock Tuesday money, in commemoration of the English having overcome the Danes on the second Tuesday after Easter. The term hock was given to it from the women, in merriment, stopping the ways with ropes, and claiming donations from the passengers for pious uses. HOCKEY, hok'e, s. (hoch, Germ.) Harvest-home. -Obsolete. Hocus-FOCUS, ho'kus-po'kus, s. (perhaps from Cob's wife, and you, Ben Jonson. St. Gregory, ever hoful of his doings and behaviour, directed especial letters unto him.—Stapleton. HOFULLY, ho'ful-le, ad. Carefully.-Obsolete. Women serving God hofully and chastely.-Stapleton. HOG, hog, 8. (huc, Welsh.) A swine; a general name of that species of animal; a castrated sheep of a year old; a brutal fellow; one who is mean and filthy; among seamen, a sort of flat scrubbing broom, serving to scrape off the filth from a ship's bottom under water. In Curling, the name given to a stone which does not go over the distance score. Hog gum-tree, the plant Rhus metopium, so called from its yielding a yellow gummy resin called doctors' gum-a native of Jamaica: Order, Terebinthaceæ. Hogs' lard, the fat obtained from the intestines of swine. Hog nut, the plant Juglans glabra, a species of Walnut. Hog-tooth spar, a dodecahedral variety of calcareous spar; -v. a. to scrape a ship's bottom under water; to carry on the back; to cut the hair short like the bristles of a hog;-(local in the two last senses;) -v. n. to bend, so as to resemble in some degree a hog's back, as a ship hogs in launching.' HOGANHINE-HOIST. HOGANHINE, hogʻan-hine, s. (Saxon.) In Archiology, a person who came as a guest to a house or inn, and lying there, the third night was accounted as and became one of the family.-Obsolete. HOGANITE.-See Natrolite. HOGASTER, hog'as-tur, 8. A little hog; also, a little sheep.-Obsolete. HOGCOTE, hog'kote, s. A shed or house for swine; a sty. HOGGEREL, hog'gril, s. A sheep of the second year; a two-year old ewe. HOGGET, hog'git, s. (hoget, Norm.) A sheep two years old; a colt of a year old, also termed a hogcolt;-(local in the last sense;)—a young boar of the second year. HOGGISH, hog'gish, a. Having the qualities of a hog; brutish; gluttonous; filthy; meanly; selfish. HOGGISHLY, hog'gish-le, ad. In a brutish, gluttonous, or filthy manner. HOGGISHNESS, hog'gish-nes, s. Brutality; voracious greediness in eating; beastly filthiness; HOGH, ho, s. A hill; rising ground; a cliff.—Obmean selfishness. solete. That well can witness yet unto this day, HOGHERD, hogʻherd, s. A keeper of swine. HOGO, ho'go, s. (corrupted from haut, gout.) High flavour; strong scent.-Seldom used. Belshazzar's sumptuous feast was heightened by the hogo of his delicious meats and drinks.-Dr. M. Griffith. HOGPEN, hogʻpen, s. A hogsty. HOGPLUM.-See Spondias. HOGRINGER, hog'ring-ur, s. One whose business HOGSHEAD, hogz'hed, s. is to fasten rings in the snouts of swine. A British measure of capacity prior to the introduction of the imperial system. The wine hogshead contained 63 wine gallons = 52.49 imperial gallons; the ale hogshead contained 54 ale gallons 54.92 imperial HOGSHEARING, hog'sheer-ing, s. A ludicrons term, gallons; any large barrel. HOGSTEER, hogʻsteer, s. denoting much ado about nothing. A wild boar of three years old. HOGSTY, hog'sti, s. A pen or enclosure for hogs. All those (women) we saw, were the ugliest awkward hoidens in nature.-Swinburne. a rude, ill-behaved man;-a. rustic; bold; inelegant; rude; They threw their persons, with a hoiden air, HOIDENISH, hoy'dn-ish, a. of a hoiden. HOIST, hoyst, v. a. (hissen, Germ. hyssen, Dut.) To raise; to lift; to lift or bear upwards by means of tackle, as to draw up or raise a sail along the masts or stays, or a flag by a single block;s. among seamen, the perpendicular height of a HOIT-HOLD. flag or ensign, as opposed to the fly, or breadth from the staff to the outer edge. HOIT, hoyt, v. n. (hauta, Icel.) To leap; to caper. -Seldom used. He lives at home, and sings, and hoits, and revels among his drunken companions.-Beau. and Flet. HOITY-TOITY, hoy'te-toy'te. An exclamation denoting surprise or disapprobation, with some degree of contempt. Hoity-toity! what have I to do with dreams!-Congreve HOITZIA, ho-it'ze-a, s. (Mexican name.) A genus of plants: Order, Convolvulacex. HOLARRHENA, hol-a-re'na, s. (holos, entire, and arrhen, a male, Gr.) A genus of Indian shrubs: Order, Apocynaceæ. HOLASTER, ho-las'tur, s. A genus of Echinidæ, found in the Chalk formation. It is composed of several species of the Spatangus of other conchologists. HOLBOLIA, hol-bo'le-a, s. (in honour of F. Louis HOLCUS, hol'kus, s. (holko, I extract, Gr. from its being supposed to have the property of extracting thorns.) A genus of plants: Order, Graminacex. HOLD, holde, v. a. (healdan, Sax.) Past and past part. Held. To grasp in the hand; to gripe; to clutch; to connect; to keep from separation; to keep; to retain; to gripe fast; not to let go; to maintain as an opinion; to consider; to regard; to think of; to judge with regard to praise or blame; to receive and keep in a vessel; to contain, or to have capacity to receive and contain; not to spill; to hinder from escape; to keep from spoil; to defend; to keep from loss; to have any station; to possess; to have; to possess in subordination; to suspend; to refrain; to stop; to restrain; to fix to any condition; to save; to confine to a certain state; to detain; to keep in confinement or subjection; to continue; to prac tise with continuance; not to intermit; to solemnize; to celebrate; to conserve; not to infringe; to manage; to maintain; Whereupon they also made engines against their engines, and held them battle a long season.-1 Mac. vi. 52. to carry on conjunctively; to prosecute; to continue; to hold forth, to offer; to exhibit; to propose; to put forward to view; to reach forth; to hold in, to restrain; to curb; to govern by the bridle; to restrain in general; to check; to repress; to hold off, to keep at a distance; to hold on, to continue or proceed in; to hold out, to extend; to stretch forth; to propose; to offer; to continue to do or suffer; to hold up, to raise; to sustain; to support; to retain; to withhold; to offer; to exhibit; to keep from falling; to hold one's own, to keep good one's present condition; among seamen, a ship holds her own when she sails as fast as another ship, or keeps her course; -v. n. to be true; not to fail; to stand as a fact or truth; to continue unbroken or unsubdued; to last; to endure; to continue to be fast; to be firm; not to give way or part; to refrain; His dauntless heart would fain have held From weeping, but his eyes rebell'd.—Dryden. to stick or adhere; to hold forth, to speak in publie; to harangue; to preach; to proclaim; to hold HOLDBACK-HOLE. in, to restrain one's self; to continue in good luck; to hold off, to avoid connection; to hold of, to be dependant on; to derive title from; My crown is absolute, and holds of none.-Dryden, to hold on, to continue; not to be interrupted; to keep fast hold; to cling to; to proceed in a course; to hold out, to last; to endure; to continue; not to yield; not to surrender; not to le subdued; I would cry now, my eyes grow womanish; to hold to, to cling or cleave to; to adhere; to hold under or from, to have title from; to hold with, to adhere to; to side with; to stand up for; to hold plough, to direct a plough by the hands in tillage; to hold together, to be joined; not to separate; to remain in union; to hold up, to support one's self; to cease raining; to cease, as falling weather; to continue the same speed; to run or move as fast; to hold a wager, to lay; to stake or hazard a wager; hold, used imperatively, signifies stop; cease; forbear; be still;-8. a grasp with the hand; an embrace with the arms; something which may be seized for support; that which supports; power of keeping; power of seizing; The law hath yet another hold on you.—Shaks. a prison; a place of confinement; They laid hands on them, and put them in hold till the next day.-Acts iv. custody; safe keeping; power or influence operating on the mind; advantage that may be employed in directing or persuading another; lurking-place; a place of security; a fortified place; a fort; a castle; the whole interior cavity of a ship, between the floor and the lower deck; afterhold, all that part of the hold which lies abaft the mainmast; fore-hold, that part of the hold which is situated in the forepart of the ship, or before the main Patchway; main-hold, that part just before the mainmast, and which contains the fresh water and beer for the use of the ship's company. In Music, a mark directing the performer to rest on the note over which it is placed. HOLDBACK, holde'bak, s. Hinderance; restraint. HOLDER, holde'ur, s. One who holds or grasps in his hand, or embraces with his arms; a tenant; one who holds land under another; something by which a thing is held; one who owns or possesses. In a ship, one who is employed in the hold. HOLDER-FORTH, holde'ur-forthe, s. A haranguer; a preacher. Whence some tub hollers-forth have made, In powdering tubs, the richest trade.-Butler. HOLDFAST, holde'fast, s. A thing that takes hold; a catch; a hook; an instrument used by mechanics. HOLDING, holde'ing, s. A tenure; a farm held of a superior; the burden or chorus of a song; The holding every man shall bear, as loud As his strong sides can volley.-Shaks. hold; influence; power over. Holding over, in Law, keeping possession of the land after the expiration of the terin. Holding pleas, in Law, entertaining or taking cognizance of actions. HOLE, hole, s. (hol, Sax.) A hollow place or cavity in any solid body, of any shape or dimensions, natural or artificial; an aperture; a perforation; an HOLETRA-HOLLOW. opening in or through a solid body; a mean habitation; a narrow or dark lodging; an opening or means of escape; a subterfuge; arm-hole, the arm-pit; the cavity under the shoulder of a person; an opening in a garment for the arm;v. n. to go into a hole ;-v. a. to form a hole; to excavate. HOLETRA, ho-le'tra, s. (holos, entire, and etron, the abdomen, Gr.) An order of Arachnides, or Spiders, in which the abdomen is closely joined to the thorax. HOLIBUT, ho'le-but, s. The flat fish Pleuronectes hyppoglossus, which sometimes weighs from three to four hundred pounds, and attains a length of six or seven feet.-Sometimes spelt Halibut. HOLIDAM, hol'e-dam, s. Blessed lady; an ancient oath. By my holidam! here comes Catherine.-Shaks. HOLIDAY.-See Holyday. HOLIGARNA, ho-le-gar'na, s. (its name in Carnata.) A genus of plants: Order, Apocynaceæ. HOLILY, ho'le-le, ad. Piously; with sanctity; sacredly; inviolably; without breach. HOLINESS, hoʻle-nes, s. The state of being holy; purity or integrity of moral character; freedom from sin; sanctity; purity of heart or dispositions; piety; moral goodness; sacredness; the state of anything hallowed, or consecrated to God or to his worship; that which is separated to the service of God; Israel was holiness unto the Lord.-Jer. ii. a title of the pope, and formerly of the Greek emperors. HOLING-AXE, hoʻling-aks, s. A narrow axe for cutting holes in posts. HOLLA, holla, interj. A word used in calling; HOLLOA, hol'lo, among seamen, it is the answer to one that hails-equivalent to, I hear and am ready. HOLLAND, hol'land, s. In Commerce, a fine kind of linen, so called from its being made in Holland. HOLLANDER, hol'lan-dur, s. A native of Holland. HOLLANDISH, hol'lan-dish, a. Reserabling the people or the customs of Holland. HOLLANDS, hollands, s. Another name for gin, from its being manufactured chiefly in Holland. HOLLOW, hol'lo, a. (hol, Sax.) Containing an empty space; not solid; sunk deep in the orbit; deep; low; resembling sound reverberated from a cavity, or designating such a sound; not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound;-8. a cavity, natural or artificial; any depression of surface in a body; concavity; a place excavated; a cave or cavern; a den; a hole; a broad open space in anything; a pit; open space for anything; a groove; a channel; a canal. In Architecture, a concave moulding, the section of which is about the quadrant of a circle, sometimes termed a casement by workmen. Hollow newel, an opening in the middle of a staircase. Solid newel, that part of a staircase into which the ends of the steps are built. Hollow quoins, piers of brick or stone made beyond the lock-gates of canals. Hollow wall, one built in two thicknesses, leaving a cavity between them, for the purpose of saving materials, and preserving uniformity and temperature in an apartment. Hollow leaf, in Botany, a leaf in the form of a cowl, being concave above. Hollow root, the plant Adoxa moschatellina of Linnæus. Hollow square, in Military tactics, a body of infantry drawn HOLLOW-HEARTED, hol'lo-hårt'ed, a. Dishonest; insincere; deceitful; of practice or sentiment differing from profession. HOLLOWLY, hol'lo-le, ad. With cavities; unfaithfully; insincerely; dishonestly. HOLLOWNESS, hol'lo-nes, s. The state of being hollow; cavity; depression of surface; excavation; insincerity; deceitfulness; treachery. HOLLY, hol'le, s. (holegn, Sax.) The Ilex aquifolium, an evergreen-tree. Knee-holly, the plant Ruscus aculiatus. Sea-holly, the plant Eryngium maritimum. HOLLYHOCK, hol'le-hok, s. (holihoc, Sax.) A species of the Marshmallow Althea rosea. HOLME, home, s. One of the common names of the holly, Ilex aquifolium; an islet, or river isle;. a low, flat tract of rich land on the banks of a river. Holme-oak, the Quercus ilex of Linnæus. HOLMITE, hol'mite, s. (named after Mr. Holme, who analyzed it.) A variety of the carbonate of lime, consisting of lime, carbonic acid, oxide of iron, silica, alumina, and water. HOLMSKIOLDIA, hom-ske-ol'de-a, s. (in honour of A. Theodore Holmskiold, a Dane.) A genus of plants: Order, Verbenacea. HOLOBRANCHIA, hol-o-brang'ke-a, s. (holos, entire, and bragchia or branchia, gills, Gr.) A name given by Duméril to a family of osseous fishes, in which the gills consist NOTE.-The following combinations of Holos, entire, occur in Natural History in the designation of species: -Holocanthus, entirely covered with spines or prickles; Hololepidotus, entirely covered with scales; kolopetalus, having the petals entire; holoporus, entirely porous, or consisting wholly of parallel tissues, as polyporus, holoporus; hololepterus, having the wings entire, HOLOCANTHUS, hol-o-kan'thus, s. (holos, complete, and akantha, a spine, Gr.) A genus of fishes, in which the preoperculum is armed with a strong spine at its lower angle; dorsal fin entire and emarginate; caudal round; pectoral and ventral pointed: Family, Chaetodonidæ. HOLOCAUST, hol'o-kawst, s. (holos, whole, kaio, I burn, Gr.) A burnt-offering, in which the whole of the victim was consumed. HOLOCENTRINÆ, hol-o-sen'tre-ne, s. (holocentrum, one of the genera.) A subfamily of the Percidæ, or Perches, in which the body is covered with hard, rough, or denticulated scales, or mailedplates; the head very spiny, and the mouth often oblique; dorsal fin emarginate. HOLOCENTRUM, hol-o-sen'trum, s. (holos, entire, and kentron, a spine or spur, Gr.) A genus of fishes: Type of the subfamily Holocentrine: Family, Percidæ. HOLOGRAPII, hol'o-graf, s. (holos, all, and grapho, I write, Gr.) Something wholly written by a person's own hand, and not copied. HOLOGRAPHIC, hol-o-graf'ik, a. by the granter or testator himself. HOLOLEPTA, hol-o-lep'ta, s. (holos, entire, and leptos, thin, like a scale or husk, Gr.) A genus of Coleopterous insects: Family, Clavicornes. HOLOLOCHNA, hol-o-lok'na, s. (holos, all, and Written wholly |