Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Orig. an abbrev. of Robin, Robert,; Robin Goodfellow, a celebrated fairy, or domestic spirit. Cf. Hobgoblin, and see Robin
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
A corr. of Rob for Robin, Robert.
In literature:
O, Hob, I fear she looks too high.
"Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age" by Various
We will hob-a-nob together, I tell you.
"The Lady of Loyalty House" by Justin Huntly McCarthy
To begin with, it seems he has no money, is of no family, and aristocratic Tetuan refuses to "hob-nob" with him.
"In the Tail of the Peacock" by Isabel Savory
Dancing steadily through a temperature of 98 in the shade plays hob with some sorts of prettiness.
"Dishes & Beverages of the Old South" by Martha McCulloch Williams
The flood rose through the night, till it washed the kettle off the hob in the kitchen.
"The Rainbow" by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Stir till it boils; set it on the corner of the hob to boil gently for two hours.
"The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory;" by Charlotte Campbell Bury
I put it on the hob for you.
"Great Uncle Hoot-Toot" by Mrs. Molesworth
I stopped here: and, Hob, do you the same!
"Browning's England" by Helen Archibald Clarke
You ain't got no right to git a hob-a-nobbin' with sech scum.
"The Golden Woman" by Ridgwell Cullum
On the snow-white hearth there was a handful of red fire, and the bright black hob held the shining kettle.
"A Singer from the Sea" by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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In poetry:
The cat purs o'th hearthstone;
Th' clock ticks i'th nook;
Th' kettle sings o'th hob; an'
Th' pon hangs o'th hook.t
"Cradle Song" by Edwin Waugh
What's yonder?— Grizzled Dyphwys dim:
The triple-hummocked Giant's stool,
Hoar messmate, hobs and nobs with him
To halve the bowl of Penmaen Pool.
"Penmaen Pool" by Gerard Manley Hopkins
"Hob, what about that River-bit?" I turn to him again,
With Fabricius and Ogier and William of Warenne.
"Hev it jest as you've a mind to, but"-and here he takes command.
For whoever pays the taxes old Mus' Hobden owns the land.
"The Land" by Rudyard Kipling
In news:
Unlike hobs with two-radius sides, trapezoidal hobs require no special machines to generate the tooth forms.
Symphony #44 "Trauer" in e, HOB 1/44 (Funeral).
In late June 2010, subscriber Hob Osterlund of Princeville, Hawaii, happened to see an adult White-tailed Tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus) fly into the woods on the north shore of Kauai, the northernmost island of the main Hawaiian Islands.
Piano Sonata #5 in G, HOB 16/11.
DUNCAN — We're fast approaching the special night when hobgoblins and hobgoblinettes start hobbing around.
(OK, since I was a lil' sprout, I've thought hobgoblin was a cool name, although I've never figured out how one goes about hobbing.
8 pm Thursday, December 6, at House of Blues, 1204 Caroline, 866-402-5837 or www.hob.com/houston.
The 23rd Annual Hob Nobble Gobble brought nearly 2,000 supporters to the "D.".
Halloween gala set at hob'Art Gallery in Hoboken.
Aspooky Saturday is in store for those who go to the hob'Art Gallery's Halloween Gala Party and Silent Auction Saturday night, Oct 27.
'Alternative Realities' opens at hob'art gallery in Hoboken.
"Alternative Realities" opens with a reception tomorrow from 5 pm to 8 pm at hob'art gallery, 720 Monroe St, Studio E208, Hoboken.
Gang of Four perform with Hollerado at the House of Blues, www.hob.com.
Just five months after they last touched down on Boston, mop-topped Brits the Arctic Monkeys stopped by the HoB this past Sunday, headlining a sold- out show with New Jersey power-punk trio the Screaming Females.
Symphony #87 in A, HOB 1/87.
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In science:
Thus in our MCMC simulations to estimate the growth of structures we indeed use the effective open universe model with parameters Ωm,in ≡ Ωm (r = 0), Ωk,in ≡ Ωk (r = 0) and Hobs = Hin = H (0, t0 ).
Testing the Void against Cosmological data: fitting CMB, BAO, SN and H0
On the other hand, the above argumentation can be applied to F and one finds, in the large D limit, hF i = hOA iEA hOB +O′B iEB +hO′A iEA hOB −O′B iEB which is clearly between −2 and 2.
Effective separability of typical entangled many-body states
Write Hob (A) for the homotopy category of bounded complexes in A and Db (A) for the bounded derived category of A.
Derived equivalences and sl_2-categorifications for U_q(gl_n)
Theorem. [ChRo, Thm. 6.4]The complex Θ induces a self-equivalence of Hob (A) and of Db (A) and induces, by restriction, equivalences Hob (A−m ) ∼−→ Hob (Am ) and Db (A−m ) ∼−→ Db (Am ).
Derived equivalences and sl_2-categorifications for U_q(gl_n)
The complex of functors Θ induces a self-equivalence of Hob (O) and of Db (O).
Derived equivalences and sl_2-categorifications for U_q(gl_n)
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