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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 552 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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HOBBY , a small See also:

HORSE (a word common to Teutonic languages in such forms as hors, hros, ros; cf. the Ger. ross)

horse, probably from See also:

early quotations, of Irish breed, trained to an easy gait so that See also:

RIDING

riding was not fatiguing. The See also:

COMMON

common use of the word is for a favourite pursuit or occupation, with the See also:

IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea either of excessive devotion or of See also:

ABSENCE (Lat. absentia)

absence of ulterior See also:

MOTIVE (from Lat. movere, to move)

motive or of profit, &c., outside the occupation itself. This use is probably not derived from the easy ambling gait of the Irish " hobby," but from the " hobby-horse," the See also:

MOCK

mock horse of the old See also:

morris-dances, made of a painted wooden horse's See also:

head and tail, with a framework casing for an actor's See also:

BODY

body, his legs being covered by a See also:

CLOTH

cloth made to represent the " housings " of the See also:

MEDIEVAL

medieval tilting-horse. A hobby or hobby-horse is thus a See also:

toy, a diversion. 'The O. Fr. hobin, or hohi, Mod. See also:

AUBIN

aubin, and Ital. ubina are probably adaptations of the See also:

ENGLISH

English, according to the New English See also:

DICTIONARY

Dictionary. The O. Fr. hober, to move, which is often taken to be the origin of all these words, is the source of a use of " hobby " for a small See also:

KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of See also:

falcon, falco subbuteo, used in hawking.

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