Do we say hock or hough

hock 95 occurrences

The boar, when selected as the parent of a stock, should have a small head, be deep and broad in the chest; the chine should be arched, the ribs and barrel well rounded, with the haunches falling full down nearly to the hock; and he should always be more compact and smaller than the female.

The hock, or hind knuckle.

"A long glass of hock and seltzer would be exceedingly acceptable.

The only thing I can think of for me to do is to get engaged and hock the betrothal ring for a meal ticket.

I had everything in hock but my self-respect, and I had that ready to tuck under my shawl at a moment's notice and rush off to Uncle Sim's.

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But now-a-days, the knights sit drinking hock and champagne, or drive sulky-wagons, and never fancy that there is a Quest at all.

By the time he returned with my hock the tale was finished, and I tried to buy his toleration with an enormous pourboire.

The New Ironsides lies at one of the wharves, elephantine in bulk and color, her sides narrowing as they rise, like the walls of a hock-glass.

CHAPTER II REGIONAL ANATOMY Considered from a zoological standpoint, the foot of the horse will include all those parts from the knee and hock downwards.

When that position is reached, the operator grasps the hock firmly with one hand, and, directing the side-line to be slackened, gently slides downward the coils of rope round the arm and thigh until they encircle the cannons of both limbs.

and then the thigh, or the thigh and the arm, as the case may be; (3) in every case, whether rounding the thigh and the arm from above or below, the piece of rope completing the round should always finish below that portion preceding it, so that traction upon it from behind the animal's back should tend to keep all portions of it from slipping below the knee and the hock.

The rich, who sigh for theethe great, Who court thy smiles with gilded plate, But clasp thy cloudy follies: I've known thee turn, in Portman-square, From Burgundy and Hock, to share A pint of Port at Dolly's.

By his side is placed a table, with the relics of a luxurious enjoyment, while a washing tub as a wine cooler, contains, under the table, Hock, Champagne, Burgundy, and a Pine.

The ponies occasionally sink halfway to the hock, little Michael once or twice almost to the hock itself.

The ponies occasionally sink halfway to the hock, little Michael once or twice almost to the hock itself.

In hough, lough, shough, it sounds like k, or ck; thus, hock, lock, shock.

Read, read; and Yansen, order some eatables, and a bottle or two of my old Heidelberg hock, trouble always makes me thirstythree glasses, my good Yansen.

We had no overseer but Marse Hock was the only boy and the oldest child.

Give me a salad, a pint av hock, an' fill me pipe wid the Only Mixture, an' I'll repay ye across the board wid a narrativethe sort av God-forsaken, ord'nary thrifle that you youngsters turn into copymay ye find forgiveness!

Bedad, it was Jemmy!" O'Driscoll paused, and poured himself another glass of hock.

There a youth threw his hat in the air and cried: "Hock der Krieg, Hock der Krieg!"

There a youth threw his hat in the air and cried: "Hock der Krieg, Hock der Krieg!"

Certain wines are taken with certain dishes, by old-established customas sherry, or sauterne, with soup and fish; hock and claret with roast meat; punch with turtle; champagne with whitebait; port with venison; port, or burgundy, with game; sparkling wines between the roast and the confectionery; madeira with sweets; port with cheese; and for dessert, port, tokay, madeira, sherry, and claret.

High and narrow, and very broad and shallow glasses, are used for champagne; large, goblet-shaped glasses for burgundy and claret; ordinary wine-glasses for sherry and madeira; green glasses for hock; and somewhat large, bell-shaped glasses, for port.

hough 231 occurrences

"Rev. Joseph Hough, a Baptist minister, formerly of Springfield, Mass. now of Plainfield, N.H. while traveling in the south, a few years ago, put up one night with a Methodist family, and spent the Sabbath with them.

Mr. Hough was ordered to the court-house, and detained there for days under a threat that "if he did not tell all the truth in relation to the foreigners, they would write with his heart's blood."

Had Mrs. Judson, in this extremity, allowed herself to be absorbed in her own sorrow, or yielded to timidity, Mr. Hough would probably have suffered a long and rigorous confinement, if indeed he had escaped with his life.

But undaunted by the odium, or even danger, that might accrue to herself, she, in violation of court etiquette, presented herself at the palace with a petition in Mr. Hough's behalf.

The viceroy, without manifesting any displeasure at the breach of etiquette, ordered Mr. Hough to be set at liberty.

Mr. Hough resolved to remove his family to Bengal, and urged Mrs. Judson to accompany them.

Therefore she yielded to the solicitations of Mr. and Mrs. Hough, and embarked with them.

SEE Hough, Emerson.

SEE Hough, Emerson.

HOUGH, EMERSON.

SEE Breed, Charles B. HOUGH, EMERSON.

R103734, 10Dec52, Charlotte C. Hough (W) HOUSE, RALPH EMERSON, ed.

SEE Hough, Emerson.

SEE Hough, Lynn Harold. NISENSON, SAMUEL, illus.

SEE De Hospodar, Stephen. HOUGH, CLARE SHARPE.

Clare Sharpe Hough (A); 5Feb60; R251552. HOUGH, LYNN HAROLD.

Clare Sharpe Hough (A); 5Feb60; R251552. HOUGH, LYNN HAROLD.

by Lynn Harold Hough.

HOUGH, LYNN HAROLD.

Lynn Harold Hough (A); 29Jul63; R319335.

SEE Alvarez, Walter C. HOUGH, ANNABEL W. Renown.

SEE Hough, Frank Olney. HOUGH, FRANK OLNEY.

SEE Hough, Frank Olney. HOUGH, FRANK OLNEY.

Annabel W. Hough (W); 7Feb66; R380321. HOUGHTON, CLAUDE, pseud.

By Elizabeth Hough Sechrist.

Do we say   hock   or  hough