Defn: Home. Chaucer.
HOONOOMAUN
Hoo"noo*maun, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: An Indian monkey. See Entellus. [Written also hoonuman.]
HOOP
Hoop, n. Etym: [OE. hope; akin to D. hoep, hoepel.]
1. A pliant strip of wood or metal bent in a circular form, and united at the ends, for holding together the staves of casks, tubs, etc.
2. A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop, as the cylinder (cheese hoop) in which the curd is pressed in making cheese.
3. A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; crinoline; — used chiefly in the plural. Though stiff with hoops, and armed with ribs of whale. Pope.
4. A quart pot; — so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents measured by the distance between the hoops. [Obs.]
5. An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks. [Eng.] Halliwell. Bulge hoop, Chine hoop, Quarter hoop, the hoop nearest the middle of a cask, that nearest the end, and the intermediate hoop between these two, respectively. — Flat hoop, a wooden hoop dressed flat on both sides. — Half-round hoop, a wooden hoop left rounding and undressed on the outside. — Hoop iron, iron in thin narrow strips, used for making hoops. — Hoop lock, the fastening for uniting the ends of wooden hoops by notching and interlocking them. — Hoop skirt, a framework of hoops for expanding the skirts of a woman's dress; — called also hoop petticoat. — Hoop snake (Zoöl.), a harmless snake of the Southern United States (Abaster erythrogrammus); — so called from the mistaken notion that it curves itself into a hoop, taking its tail into its mouth, and rolls along with great velocity. — Hoop tree (Bot.), a small West Indian tree (Melia sempervirens), of the Mahogany family.
HOOP
Hoop, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hooped; p. pr. & vb. n. Hooping.]