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- English Word Hot-headed Definition Fiery; violent; rash; hasty; impetuous; vehement.
- English Word Hot-livered Definition Of an excitable or irritable temperament; irascible.
- English Word Hot-mouthed Definition Headstrong.
- English Word Hot-short Definition More or less brittle when heated; as, hot-short iron.
- English Word Hot-spirited Definition Having a fiery spirit; hot-headed.
- English Word Hotbed Definition A bed of earth heated by fermenting manure or other substances, and covered with glass, intended for raising early plants, or for nourishing exotics.
- English Word Hotbed Definition A place which favors rapid growth or development; as, a hotbed of sedition.
- English Word Hotchpot Definition Alt. of Hotchpotch
- English Word Hotchpotch Definition A mingled mass; a confused mixture; a stew of various ingredients; a hodgepodge.
- English Word Hotchpotch Definition 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 equalizing the shares of all the children; the property advanced being accounted for at its value when given.
- English Word Hotcockles Definition A childish play, in which one covers his eyes, and guesses who strikes him or his hand placed behind him.
- English Word Hote Definition of Hote
- English Word Hote Definition To command; to enjoin.
- English Word Hote Definition To promise.
- English Word Hote Definition To be called; to be named.
- English Word Hote Definition of Hight
- English Word Hotel Definition A house for entertaining strangers or travelers; an inn or public house, of the better class.
- English Word Hotel Definition In France, the mansion or town residence of a person of rank or wealth.
- English Word Hotel-de-ville Definition A city hall or townhouse.
- English Word Hotel-Dieu Definition A hospital.