| hot-blooded | Having hot blood; excitable; high-spirited; irritable; ardent; passionate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| hot-short | <chemistry> More or less brittle when heated; as, hot-short iron. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| hotbed | 1. <botany> A bed of earth heated by fermenting manure or other substances, and covered with glass, intended for raising early plants, or for nourishing exotics. 2. A place which favors rapid growth or development; as, a hotbed of sedition. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| hotchpotch | 1. A mingled mass; a confused mixture; a stew of various ingredients; a hodgepodge. "A mixture or hotchpotch of many tastes." (Bacon) 2. A blending of property for equality of division, as when lands given in frank-marriage to one daughter were, after the death of the ancestor, blended with the lands descending to her and to her sisters from the same ancestor, and then divided in equal portions among all the daughters. In modern usage, a mixing together, or throwing into a common mass or stock, of the estate left by a person deceased and the amounts advanced to any particular child or children, for the purpose of a more equal division, or of equalising the shares of all the children; the property advanced being accounted for at its value when given. This term has been applied in cases of salvage. Story. It corresponds in a measure with collation in the civil and Scotch law. See Collation. Origin: F. Hochepot, fr. Hocher to shake + pot pot; both of Dutch or German origin; cf. OD. Hutspot hotchpotch, D. Hotsen, hutsen, to shake. See Hustle, and Pot, and cf. Hodgepodge. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| hotel | 1. A house for entertaining strangers or travelers; an inn or public house, of the better class. 2. In France, the mansion or town residence of a person of rank or wealth. Origin: F. Hotel, OF. Hostel. See Hostel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| hotfoot | Burning pain in the soles of the feet, in multiple neuritis. Synonym: hotfoot. Origin: L. Ignis, fire, + pes (ped-), foot, + G. Ites (05 Mar 2000) |
| hothouse | 1. A house kept warm to shelter tender plants and shrubs from the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer climates may be reared, and fruits ripened. 2. A bagnio, or bathing house. 3. A brothel; a bagnio. 4. A heated room for drying green ware. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| hotlines | A direct communication system, usually telephone, established for instant contact. It is designed to provide special information and assistance through trained personnel and is used for counseling, referrals, and emergencies such as poisonings and threatened suicides. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hotpress | To apply to, in conjunction with mechanical pressure, for the purpose of giving a smooth and glosay surface, or to express oil, etc.; as, to hotpress paper, linen, etc. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| hottentot | 1. <ethnology> One of a degraded and savage race of South Africa, with yellowish brown complexion, high cheek bones, and wooly hair growing in tufts. 2. The language of the Hottentots, which is remarkable for its clicking sounds. <botany> Hottentot cherry See Elephant's foot, under Elephant. Origin: D. Hottentot; so called from hot and tot, two syllables of frequent occurrence in their language. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Hottentot tea | <botany> A South African shrub (Barosma) with small leaves that are dotted with oil dlands; also, the leaves themselves, which are used in medicine for diseases of the urinary organs, etc. Several species furnish the leaves. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| hottentotism | A form of stammering. Origin: D. Fr. Hottentot, (D. Hateren to stammer, tateren to stutter), a people in South Africa named by the Dutch for the sounds of their speech (05 Mar 2000) |