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n. [ AS. hōfe ground ivy; the first part is perh. a corruption: cf. OE. heyhowe hedgehove, ground ivy, “in old MSS. heyhowe, heyoue, haihoue, halehoue.” Prior. ] Ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being an angel; angelic nature. Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being an ape. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Apprenticeship. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Babyhood. [ R. ] Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or period of infancy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or condition of being a bachelor; bachelorship. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. A fast-sailing schooner, used in the Bermudas and West Indies. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. ballyhooed p. pr. & vb. n. ballyhooing ] to advertize or publicize noisily or blatantly. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. noisy or blatant advertizing or publicity. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ or . (Painting) A French school of the middle of the 19th century centering in the village of Barbizon near the forest of Fontainebleau. Its members went straight to nature in disregard of academic tradition, treating their subjects faithfully and with poetic feeling for color, light, and atmosphere. It is exemplified, esp. in landscapes, by Corot, Rousseau, Daubigny, Jules Dupré, and Diaz. Associated with them are certain painters of animals, as Troyon and Jaque, and of peasant life, as Millet and Jules Breton. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. State or nature of a beast. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The condition of being a beggar; also, the class of beggars. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. to bihove for the use of, AS. beh&unr_;f advantage, a word implied in beh&unr_;flīc necessary; akin to Sw. behof, Dan. behov, G. behuf, and E. heave, the root meaning to seize, hence the meanings “to hold, make use of.” See Heave, v. t. ] Advantage; profit; benefit; interest; use. [ 1913 Webster ]

No mean recompense it brings
To your behoof. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Supplying need; profitable; advantageous. [ Obs. ] Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Behooved p. pr. & vb. n. Behooving. ] [ OE. bihoven, behoven, AS. beh&unr_;fian to have need of, fr. beh&unr_;f. See Behoof. ] To be necessary for; to be fit for; to be meet for, with respect to necessity, duty, or convenience; -- mostly used impersonally. [ 1913 Webster ]

And thus it behooved Christ to suffer. Luke xxiv. 46. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Also written behove. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be necessary, fit, or suitable; to befit; to belong as due. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Advantage; behoof. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

It shall not be to his behoove. Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Advantageous; useful; profitable. [ Archaic ] -- Be*hoove"ful*ly, adv. -- Be*hoove"ful*ness, n. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Bill + hook. ] A thick, heavy knife with a hooked point, used in pruning hedges, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill; when the handle is long, a hedge bill or scimiter. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Boohooed p. pr. & vb. n. Boohooing. ] [ An imitative word. ] To bawl; to cry loudly. [ Low ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The sailfish; -- called also woohoo. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. Goodness; generosity. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Boy + -hood. ] The state of being a boy; the time during which one is a boy. Hood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) A thick piece of timber in the form of a knee, placed across the stem of a ship to strengthen the fore part and unite the bows on each side. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Brother + -hood. ] 1. The state of being brothers or a brother. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind. [ 1913 Webster ]

A brotherhood of venerable trees. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Fraternity; association; fellowship; sodality. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Perhaps fr. f. cohorte a company or band. ] Partnership; league; as, to go in cahoot (or in cahoots) with a person. Usually used in the plural, and in modern usage often used to imply that the joint effort is unethical, shady, questionable, or illegal; as, a shill in cahoots with a pickpocket, to serve as a distraction. [ Slang, southwestern U. S. ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

A device consisting of a short rope with flat hooks at each end, for hoisting casks or barrels by the ends of the staves. [ 1913 Webster ]

A wooden lever with a movable iron hook. hear the end; -- used for canting or turning over heavy logs, etc. [ U. S. ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. cachou, NL. catechu, Cochin-Chin. cay cau from the tree called mimosa, or areca catechu. Cf. Catechu. ] See Catechu. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. cildhād; cild child + -hād. See Child, and -hood. ] 1. The state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have walked before you from my childhood. 1. Sam. xii. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Children, taken collectively. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The well-governed childhood of this realm. Sir. W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The commencement; the first period. [ 1913 Webster ]

The childhood of our joy. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Second childhood, the state of being feeble and incapable from old age. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a train or a locomotive; -- a child's word. [ Baby talk ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. Chose p. p. Chosen Chose (Obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. Choosing. ] [ OE. chesen, cheosen, AS. ceósan; akin to OS. kiosan, D. kiezen, G. kiesen, Icel. kjōsa, Goth. kiusan, L. gustare to taste, Gr. &unr_;, Skr. jush to enjoy. √46. Cf. Choice, 2d Gust. ] 1. To make choice of; to select; to take by way of preference from two or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose the least of two evils. [ 1913 Webster ]

Choose me for a humble friend. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To wish; to desire; to prefer. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The landlady now returned to know if we did not choose a more genteel apartment. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

To choose sides. See under Side.

Syn. - To select; prefer; elect; adopt; follow. -- To Choose, Prefer, Elect. To choose is the generic term, and denotes to take or fix upon by an act of the will, especially in accordance with a decision of the judgment. To prefer is to choose or favor one thing as compared with, and more desirable than, another, or more in accordance with one's tastes and feelings. To elect is to choose or select for some office, employment, use, privilege, etc., especially by the concurrent vote or voice of a sufficient number of electors. To choose a profession; to prefer private life to a public one; to elect members of Congress. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To make a selection; to decide. [ 1913 Webster ]

They had only to choose between implicit obedience and open rebellion. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To do otherwise. “Can I choose but smile?” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Can not choose but, must necessarily. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou canst not choose but know who I am. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who chooses; one who has the power or right of choosing; an elector. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. difficult to please, especially in details.
Syn. -- particular, fussy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Nothingness. [ R. ] Goodwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , a. Having the foot or hoof divided into two parts, as the ox. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Boastful; defiant; exulting. Also used adverbially.
Syn. -- boastful, braggart(prenominal), bragging(prenominal), braggy, big, crowing, self-aggrandizing, vainglorious. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the term correspondence school may be used to include any educational institution or department for instruction by correspondence, as in a university or other educational bodies, but the term is commonly applied to various educational institutions organized on a commercial basis, some of which offer a large variety of courses in general and technical subjects, conducted by specialists. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The state or condition of a cousin; also, the collective body of cousins; kinsfolk. [ 1913 Webster ]

. Same as Craps. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The state of being a cub. [ Jocose ] “From cubhood to old age.” W. B. Dawkins. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Origin unknown. ] An evergreen shrub or small tree (Ilex cassine) of the southern United States, bearing red drupes and having soft, white, close-grained wood; -- called also
dahoon holly. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The state of being a deacon; office of a deacon; deaconship. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of the dead. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ ‖ or /mhw>, n. Indian millet. See Durra. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The want of likelihood; improbability. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]