Index of English words, starting with "ho"

(1) - Horizon (n.) The chief horizontal line in a picture of any sort, which determines in the picture the height of the eye of the spectator; in an extended landscape, the representation of the natural horizon corresponds with this line.
(2) - Horizon (n.) The epoch or time during which a deposit was made.
(3) - Horizon (n.) The unbroken line separating sky and water, as seen by an eye at a given elevation, no land being visible.
(4) - Horizon (n.) A plane parallel to the sensible horizon of a place, and passing through the earth's center; -- called also rational / celestial horizon.
(5) - Horizon (n.) A plane passing through the eye of the spectator and at right angles to the vertical at a given place; a plane tangent to the earth's surface at that place; called distinctively the sensible horizon.
(6) - Horizon (n.) The circle which bounds that part of the earth's surface visible to a spectator from a given point; the apparent junction of the earth and sky.

(1) - Horizontal (a.) Measured or contained in a plane of the horizon; as, horizontal distance.
(2) - Horizontal (a.) Parallel to the horizon; on a level; as, a horizontalline or surface.
(3) - Horizontal (a.) Pertaining to, or near, the horizon.

(1) - Horizontality (n.) The state or quality of being horizontal.

(1) - Horizontally (adv.) In a horizontal direction or position; on a level; as, moving horizontally.