Present participle of hope, noun_ desiring, being optimistic toward, adjective_ filled with or inspiring hope (uncommon)

the great circle on the celestial sphere whose plane passes through the sensible horizon and the center of the Earth, A specific position in a column of rock layers, usually designated by the occurrence of one or more distinctive fossils or by a distinctive sediment bed, that is used in stratigraphy, A layer of soil that can be distinguished from adjacent layers of soil and that is characterized by a certain color, texture, structure or chemical composition

a drilling machine having a horizontal drill spindle, perpendicular to the vertical; parallel to the plane of the horizon; level, flat, parallel to or in the plane of the horizon or a base line, noun_ something that is oriented horizontally, A horizontal component of a structure, Something, such as a line, plane, or object, that is horizontal

the secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has a specific effect, Any of various similar substances found in plants and insects that regulate development, A substance, usually a peptide or steroid, produced by one tissue and conveyed by the bloodstream to another to effect physiological activity, such as growth or metabolism

Hardened and thickened epidermis or cuticle, as that of which nails, claws, and hoofs consist, differing from hair or other cuticular structures chiefly in density and massiveness, Specifically? A feeler; a tentacle; an antenna; an ovipositor; also, the tuft of feathers upon the head of sundry birds, resembling a horn; a plumicorn, as that of various owls, A hard protuberance, such as an antler or projection on the head of a giraffe or rhinoceros, that is similar to or suggestive of a horn

made of horn (or of a substance resembling horn), feeling great sexual desire, Composed or made of horn, or of a substance resembling horn; of the nature of horn

Tremendously wrong or errant, provoking horror, Exciting, or tending to excite, horror or fear; dreadful; terrible; shocking; hideous, noun_ A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act, A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles

something that inspires dislike; something horrible, A shaking, shivering, or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever; in old medical writings, a chill of less severity than a rigor, and more marked than an algor, A genre of fiction or other artistic work evoking suspense and horror, especially through the depiction of gruesome or supernatural elements

Any of various equine mammals, such as the wild Asian species Przewalski's horse or certain extinct forms related ancestrally to the modern horse, A block of rock interrupting a vein and containing no minerals, The male of the horse kind, in distinction from the female or mare; a stallion or gelding, intransitive verb_ To be in heat Used of a mare, To haul or hoist energetically, To provide with a horse, adjective_ Mounted on horses, Larger or cruder than others in the same category, Of or relating to a horse

Plural form of horse, verb_ Third-person singular simple present indicative form of horse