Horary, or soon decaying, fruits of summer.
Sir T. Browne.
Horary circles. See Circles.
Ho*ra"tian (?), a. Of or pertaining to Horace, the Latin poet, or
resembling his style.
Horde (hrd), n. [F. horde (cf. G. horde), fr. Turk. ord, ord, camp; of
Tartar origin.] A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe
of a nomadic people migrating from place to place for the sake of
pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude. Thomson.
Hor*de"ic (?), a. [L. hordeum barley.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or
derived from, barley; as, hordeic acid, an acid identical or isomeric
with lauric acid.
Hor"de*in (?), n. [L. hordeum barley.] (Chem.) A peculiar starchy
matter contained in barley. It is a complex mixture. [R.]
||Hor*de"o*lum (?), n. [NL., fr. L. hordeolus, dim. of hordeum barley.]
||(Med.) A small tumor upon the eyelid, resembling a grain of barley; a
||sty.
Hor"dock` (?), n. An unidentified plant mentioned by Shakespeare,
perhaps equivalent to burdock.
Hore (?), a. Hoar. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Hore"hound` (?), n. [OE. horehune, AS. hrhune; hr hoar, gray + hune
horehound; cf. L. cunila a species of organum, Gr. &?;, Skr. kn&?;y to
smell.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Marrubium (M. vulgare), which has a
bitter taste, and is a weak tonic, used as a household remedy for
colds, coughing, etc. [Written also hoarhound.]
Fetid horehound, or Black horehound, a disagreeable plant resembling
horehound (Ballota nigra). -- Water horehound, a species of the genus
Lycopus, resembling mint, but not aromatic.
Ho*ri"zon (?), n. [F., fr. L. horizon, fr. Gr. &?; (sc. &?;) the
bounding line, horizon, fr. &?; to bound, fr. &?; boundary, limit.] 1.
The circle which bounds that part of the earth's surface visible to a
spectator from a given point; the apparent junction of the earth and
sky.
And when the morning sun shall raise his car Above the border of
this horizon.
Shak.
All the horizon round Invested with bright rays.
Milton.
2. (Astron.) (a) A plane passing through the eye of the spectator and
at right angles to the vertical at a given place; a plane tangent to
the earth's surface at that place; called distinctively the sensible
horizon. (b) A plane parallel to the sensible horizon of a place, and
passing through the earth's center; -- called also rational or
celestial horizon. (c) (Naut.) The unbroken line separating sky and
water, as seen by an eye at a given elevation, no land being visible.