*hay*

1. a tropical West Indian vine (Sechium edule) of the gourd family, which bears small white flowers and produces an edible fruit. [ PJC ]

2. the edible fruit of the chayote{ 1 } vine, having a pear shape with a furrowed skin, and usually green or white. It is also called choyote, christophene, mirliton, and vegetable pear [ PJC ]

[ Tamil shāya. ] The root of the Oldenlandia umbellata, native in India, which yieds a durable red dyestuff. [ Written also choy root. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.A striped satin made in India. McElrath. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. hege: cf. F. haie, of German origin. See Haw a hedge, Hedge. ] 1. A hedge. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A net set around the haunt of an animal, especially of a rabbit. Rowe. [ 1913 Webster ]

To dance the hay, to dance in a ring. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To lay snares for rabbits. Huloet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. hei, AS. hēg; akin to D. hooi, OHG. hewi, houwi, G. heu, Dan. & Sw. hö, Icel. hey, ha, Goth. hawi grass, fr. the root of E. hew. See Hew to cut. ] Grass cut and cured for fodder. [ 1913 Webster ]

Make hay while the sun shines. Camden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hay may be dried too much as well as too little. C. L. Flint. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hay cap, a canvas covering for a haycock. --
Hay fever (Med.), nasal catarrh accompanied with fever, and sometimes with paroxysms of dyspnœa, to which some persons are subject in the spring and summer seasons. It has been attributed to the effluvium from hay, and to the pollen of certain plants. It is also called hay asthma, hay cold, rose cold, and rose fever. --
Hay knife, a sharp instrument used in cutting hay out of a stack or mow. --
Hay press, a press for baling loose hay. --
Hay tea, the juice of hay extracted by boiling, used as food for cattle, etc. --
Hay tedder, a machine for spreading and turning new-mown hay. See Tedder. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To cut and cure grass for hay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) (a) The European spotted flycatcher. (b) The European blackcap. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Hay hedge, and Bote, and cf. Hedgebote. ] (Eng. Law.) An allowance of wood to a tenant for repairing his hedges or fences; hedgebote. See Bote. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A conical pile or heap of hay in the field. [ 1913 Webster ]

The tanned haycock in the mead. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A machine in which hay is chopped short, as fodder for cattle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A field where grass for hay has been cut; a meadow. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A fork for pitching and tedding hay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Horse hayfork, a contrivance for unloading hay from the cart and depositing it in the loft, or on a mow, by horse power. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A loft or scaffold for hay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who cuts and cures hay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A machine for curing hay in rainy weather. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A forceful punch that results in someone being knocked down or knocked out; as, he delivered a haymaker to his opponent's jaw. [ slang ] [ PJC ]

n. The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A mow or mass of hay laid up in a barn for preservation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The place in a barn where hay is deposited. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A frame mounted on the running gear of a wagon, and used in hauling hay, straw, sheaves, etc.; -- called also hay rigging and hay rig. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A rake for collecting hay; especially, a large rake drawn by a horse or horses. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A heap or pile of hay, usually covered with thatch for preservation in the open air. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a frame attached to a wagon to increase the amount of hay it can carry.
Syn. -- hayrack, hay rigging. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a rural, unsophisticated person; also used in an extended sense for one who is not very intelligent or uninterested in culture.
Syn. -- yokel, rube, hick, yahoo, bumpkin, chawbacon. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Seed from grass, especially that which falls out of hay. [ PJC ]

n. A stack or conical pile of hay in the open air. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A stalk of hay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Hawthorn. R. Scot. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Haiti; now usually written Haitian. -- n. A native of Haiti. [ Written also Haitian. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Hay a hedge + ward. ] An officer who is appointed to guard hedges, and to keep cattle from breaking or cropping them, and whose further duty it is to impound animals found running at large. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A lofty West African tree (Khaya Senegalensis), related to the mahogany, which it resembles in the quality of the wood. The bark is used as a febrifuge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a major school of Buddhism teaching social concern and universal salvation, found in China; Japan; Tibet; Nepal; Korea; and Mongolia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. one of two great schools of Buddhist doctrine emphasizing a common search for universal salvation esp through faith alone; chiefly in China; Tibet; Japan. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. an adherent of Mahayana Buddhism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Sp., prob. from the native name. ] (Bot.) A cactaceous shrub (Cereus Pitajaya) of tropical America, which yields a delicious fruit. [ 1913 Webster ]