Hous"ling (?), a. [See Housel.] Sacramental; as, housling fire. [R.]
Spenser.
Houss (?), n. [F. housse, LL. hulcia, fr. OHG. hulst; akin to E.
holster. See Holster, and cf. 2d Housing.] A saddlecloth; a housing.
[Obs.] Dryden.
||Hou"tou (?), n. [From its note.] (Zoˆl.) A beautiful South American
||motmot. Waterton.
Houve (?), n. [AS. hfe.] A head covering of various kinds; a hood; a
coif; a cap. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Hou*yhnhnm" (?), n. One of the race of horses described by Swift in his
imaginary travels of Lemuel Gulliver. The Houyhnhnms were endowed with
reason and noble qualities; subject to them were Yahoos, a race of
brutes having the form and all the worst vices of men.
Hove (?), imp. & p. p. of Heave.
Hove short, Hove to. See To heave a cable short, To heave a ship to,
etc., under Heave.
Hove, v. i. & t. To rise; to swell; to heave; to cause to swell. [Obs.
or Scot.] Holland. Burns.
Hove, v. i. [OE. hoven. See Hover.] To hover around; to loiter; to
lurk. [Obs.] Gower.
Hov"el (?), n. [OE. hovel, hovil, prob. a dim. fr. AS. hof house; akin
to D. & G. hof court, yard, Icel. hof temple; cf. Prov. E. hove to take
shelter, heuf shelter, home.] 1. An open shed for sheltering cattle, or
protecting produce, etc., from the weather. Brande & C.