in Geography, is used for a company of wandering people, which have no settled habitation, but stroll about, dwelling in waggons or under tents, to be ready to shift as soon as the herbage, fruit, and the present province, is eaten bare: such are several tribes of the Tartars, particularly those who inhabit beyond the Wolga, in the kingdoms of Astracan and Bulgaria.

A hord consists of 50 or 60 tents, ranged in a circle, and leaving an open place in the middle. The inhabitants in each hord usually form a military company, or troop, the eldest whereof is commonly the captain, and depends on the general or prince of the whole nation.