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Hop   /hɑp/   Listen
noun
Hip  n.  (Written also hop, hep)  (Bot.) The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose (Rosa canina); called also rose hip.
Hip tree (Bot.), the dog-rose.


Hop  n.  
1.
A leap on one leg, as of a boy; a leap, as of a toad; a jump; a spring.
2.
A dance; esp., an informal dance of ball. (Colloq.)
Hop, skip and jump, Hop, step and a jump or Hop, step and jump,
1.
a game or athletic sport in which the participants cover as much ground as possible by a hop, stride, and jump in succession.
2.
a short distance.


Hop  n.  
1.
(Bot.) A climbing plant (Humulus Lupulus), having a long, twining, annual stalk. It is cultivated for its fruit (hops).
2.
The catkin or strobilaceous fruit of the hop, much used in brewing to give a bitter taste.
3.
The fruit of the dog-rose. See Hip.
Hop back. (Brewing) See under 1st Back.
Hop clover (Bot.), a species of yellow clover having heads like hops in miniature (Trifolium agrarium, and Trifolium procumbens).
Hop flea (Zool.), a small flea beetle (Haltica concinna), very injurious to hops.
Hop fly (Zool.), an aphid (Phorodon humuli), very injurious to hop vines.
Hop froth fly (Zool.), an hemipterous insect (Aphrophora interrupta), allied to the cockoo spits. It often does great damage to hop vines.
Hop hornbeam (Bot.), an American tree of the genus Ostrya (Ostrya Virginica) the American ironwood; also, a European species (Ostrya vulgaris).
Hop moth (Zool.), a moth (Hypena humuli), which in the larval state is very injurious to hop vines.
Hop picker, one who picks hops.
Hop pole, a pole used to support hop vines.
Hop tree (Bot.), a small American tree (Ptelia trifoliata), having broad, flattened fruit in large clusters, sometimes used as a substitute for hops.
Hop vine (Bot.), the climbing vine or stalk of the hop.


verb
Hop  v. t.  To impregnate with hops.


Hop  v. i.  (past & past part. hopped; pres. part. hopping)  
1.
To move by successive leaps, as toads do; to spring or jump on one foot; to skip, as birds do. "(Birds) hopping from spray to spray."
2.
To walk lame; to limp; to halt.
3.
To dance.


Hop  v. i.  To gather hops. (Perhaps only in the form Hopping, vb. n.)





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"Hop" Quotes from Famous Books



... should first be removed by washing with castile soap and tepid water, and the daily application of a hop poultice. If there be much inflammatory action of the parts, the dog may be bled, and alterative or purgative balls administered. The following wash must be used two ...
— The Dog - A nineteenth-century dog-lovers' manual, - a combination of the essential and the esoteric. • William Youatt
... machinery of a grasshopper's hop could be made plain and large enough, there is not a man living who would not be impressed by it. If grasshoppers were made (as they might quite as easily have been) 640 feet high, the huge beams of their legs above ...
— The Voice of the Machines - An Introduction to the Twentieth Century • Gerald Stanley Lee
... had been a moment agone, stood the mother, her eyes all ablaze with the wonder of the light; now staring steadfastly into the fire; now starting nervously, with low questioning snorts, as a troop of shadows ran up to play hop-scotch with the little ones, which stood close behind her, ...
— Wood Folk at School • William J. Long
... the bird appeared disposed to come of himself. After a short survey of the ground, and a few sidelong looks at the ceiling and at everybody present in turn, he fluttered to the floor, and went to Barnaby—not in a hop, or walk, or run, but in a pace like that of a very particular gentleman with exceedingly tight boots on, trying to walk fast over loose pebbles. Then, stepping into his extended hand, and condescending ...
— Barnaby Rudge • Charles Dickens
... my smart, Bereaved of my Cen'lin's heart! Exil'd from that deluded breast, Where I had fondly hop'd to rest, With faith undoubting, sweet repose, Till Death should bid my eye-lids close. And sometimes yet will hope arise; Till now he ever scorn'd disguise; Some cursed fiend might taint his youth, And warp a temper form'd for truth. When late he humbly knelt for grace, ...
— Elegies and Other Small Poems • Matilda Betham


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