And watte hys ssone & hys vet. so longe yt wax an hey, That yt watte hys brych al aboute, & euere vpard yt stey, to that thys hupes smourte, & of cold were ney. But Vulcanus, of whom I spake, He had a courbe vpon the backe, And therto he was hippe halte, R. Gloucester, p. 322. Of whom thou vnderstonde shalte.-Gower. Con. A. b. v. The women take bulrushes and kembe them after the ner of hempe, and thereof make their loose garments, ich being knit about their middles, hang downe about Er hippes.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 441. lis horse hip'd with an olde mothy saddle, and stirrops to kindred.—Shakes. Taming of the Shrew, Act iii. sc. 2. I can catch him once vpon the hip, Id. Merchant of Venice, Act i. sc. 3. 'this filthy vardingale, this hip-hape. Beaum. & Fletch. The Martial Maid, Act ii. mortice and tenon, or ball and socket joint, is wanted the hip, that not only the progressive step may be ided for, but the interval between the limbs may be rged or contracted at pleasure. Paley. Natural Theology, c. 8. or my part, I take my stand in human anatomy; and examples of mechanism I should be apt to draw out 1 the copious catalogue which it supplies, are, the pivot a which the head turns, the ligament within the socket e hip-joint, &c.-Id. Ib. c. 27. > come so farre to seeke for misery, nd leave the sweetness of contented home, lough eating hipps, and drinking watry fome. Spenser. Mother Hubberd's Tale. is an observation amongst countrey people, that yeares tore of hawes and heps do commonly portend cold ers; and they ascribe it to God's providence, that (as Scripture saith) reacheth even to the falling of a sparrow. Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 737. IIPPOCAMP. Gг. 'ITтокаμлos, from iTrоs, orse, and kаurn, campe, a worm, from каμж, to bend. Campe is also any large fish bending its tail in a ding motion, as the dolphin, the whale; also sea-horse. ir silver-footed Thetis that time threw ong the ocean with a beauteous crew her attending sea-nymphes (Jove's bright lamps) iding from rockes her chariot's hyppocamps. Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. ii. s. 1. Gr. Ιπποκενταυρος, from os, a horse, and keνтavρos, a centaur. See the tation from Pliny, and CENTAUR. HIPPOCENTAUR. audius Cæsar writeth, that in Thessalie there was borne lippocentaur i. e. halfe a man, and halfe a horse; but ed the very same day.-Holland. Plinie, b. vii. c. 3. HIPPOCRAS. Vinum hippocraticum; wine the different opinions of himself, his editor, and seneuve. nd plaine water hath he preferred before the swete tras of the riche men.-Udal. Luke, c. 7. HIPPODAME. HIPPODROME. See HIPPOPOTAMUS. Gr. Ιπποδρομος, ίππος, ο -se, and Spoμos, a course. A race-course for ses; also for chariots. Hippodrome, in Plinie, is a different word, (and perly written Hypodrome,) from the Gr. Toos, compounded of vro, under, and Spoμos, signifying a course or walk under, (sc. shelter cover;) a covered place to walk in. na fine lawn below my house, I have planted an hippome; it is a circular plantation, consisting of five walks ; central of which is a horse-course, and three rounds e exactly a mile.-Swift. Works, vol. xiv. An Account Monument to the Memory of Dr. Swift. t one end of the inclosed portico, and, indeed, taken off mit, is a chamber that looks upon the hippodrome, the eyards, and the mountains; adjoining is a room, which VOL. I. has full exposure to the sun; especially in winter; and from whence runs an apartment that connects the hippodrome with the house.-Melmoth. Pliny, b. v. Let. 6. HIPPOGRIFF. Gr. 'Innos, a horse, and ypuy. (See GRIFFIN.) It. Ippogrifa; Sp. Hipocryfo. "Fr. Hypogriphe,-a monster, half horse, half griffon," (Cotgrave.) So saying he caught him up, and without wing Milton. Paradise Regained, b. iv. We can frame ideas of a centaur, or a hippogryph. Bolingbroke. On Human Knowledge, Ess. 1. s. 2. HIPPOPOTAMUS. Fr. Hippopotame; Lat. HIPPODAME. ποποταμος. 66 If we consider even Judas himself, it was not his carrying the bag, while he followed his master, but his following his master, only that he might carry the bag, which made him a thief and an hireling.-South, vol. iv. Ser. 5. servants who are hired by the month or by the year, and whose wages and maintenance are the same whether they The superiority of the independent workmen over those do much or do little, is likely to be still greater. Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. i. c. 8. Vain man! is grandeur giv'n to gay attire ? Beattie. The Minstrel, b. ii. Hippopotamus, Gr.1-in which there is only this difference, that hiring is always Hippodames, sea-horses, which the poet should rather have written Hippotames, from the derivation of their name ίππος, and ποταμος,” (Todd, note on the passage from Spenser quoted below.) On euery side They trembling stood, and made a long broad dyke, That his swift charet might haue passage wide, Which foure great hippodames did draw in teme-wise tide. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 11. The same river Nilus bringeth foorth another beast called hippopotamus, i. a river horse. Holland. Plinie, b. viii. c. 25. A. S. Hyr-an, hyr-can; Dut. Hue-ren, conducere, and also locare: for a price, or stipend, or additional recompence; borrowing is merely gratuitous.-Blackstone. Commentaries, b. ii. c. 30. Thus Heav'n approves as honest and sincere Cowper. Truth. pilis HIRSUTE. Lat. Hirtus, et hirsutus;—equiHIRSUTENESS. Svalent, says Vossius, to. horridus; horrid with hair, and, therefore, derived by some-ab horrore. He himself thinks it comes from the sound, quem edunt setis horrentia. Hairy or rough with hair, shaggy; (met.) rough, rugged. HIRE, v. HIRE, n. HIRELESS. HIRELING, n. To give or pay, or promise linnen, course raiment, besmeared with soot, colly, &c. HIRELING, adj. or agree to give or pay, a HIRER. price, or wages, or rent, for the use or service of any person or thing; to let, to give or grant such use or service for a price or wages or rent. Suppose thou saw her in a base begger's weed, or else dressed in some old hirsute attires out of fashion, fowle Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 554. A closter thei bigan, the bisshop tho that wrought Thei asken hure huyre. er thei hit have deservede. Piers Plouhman, p. 53. And the hirid hyne fleeth, for he is an hirid hyne, and it perteyneth not to him of the scheep.-Wiclif. Jon, c. 10. The hyred seruaunte flyeth, because he is an hyred seruaūt, & careth not for ye shepe.-Bible, 1551. Ib. A man plauntide a vyneyerd and sette an hegge about it and dalf a lake and bildide a tour and hiride it to tilieris, and wente forth in pilgrimage.-Wiclif. Mark, c. 12. A certayne ma planted a vyneyard, and compased it with an hedge, and ordeyned a wyne presse, and buylt a toure in it. And let it oute to hyre unto husbandmen, & went into a straunge countre.-Bible, 1551. Ib. Go from him, that he maye reste a lytle: vntill his daye come, which he loketh for, lyke as an hyrelynge doth. Id. Job, c. 14. There is nothing leaft now for me to doe, but either to digge in the field for hire wages from daie to daye, or els to goe about euerie where on begging.-Udal. Luke, c. 16. No wonder if I vouch, that 'tis not brave To seek war's hire, though war we still pursue; These, who no safety know but to subdue. Davenant. Gondibert, b. i. c. 3. Id. Ib. b. i. c. 6. So clombt his first grand thief into Gods fould: So since into his church lewd hirelings climbe. Milton. Paradise Lost, b. iv. For as the partiality of man to himself hath disguised all things, so the factious and hireling historians of all ages (especially of these latter times) have, by their many volumes of untrue reports, left honour without a monument. Ralegh. History of the World, b. i. c. 9. s. 1. The Czar of Muscovy being come to England, and having a mind to see the building of ships, hir'd my house at Say's Court, and made it his Court and Palace, new furnished for him by the King.-Evelyn. Memoirs, Jan. 1698. A numerous faction, with pretended frights, Dryden. Absalom & Achitophel. The hirsute [root] is a middle between both [the bulbous and fibrous]; that besides the putting forth upwards and downwards, putteth forth in round. Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 616. The generall notions physiognomers give, be these; black colour, argues naturall melancholy; so doth leannesse, hirsuitenesse, broad veines, much haire on the browes. Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 59. He looked elderly, was cynical and hirsute in his behaviour.-Life of A. Wood, p. 109. [Asterias. Sea star.] Ast. with five rays depressed; broad at the base; sub-angular, hirsute, yellow; on the back, a round striated opercule.-Pennant. Brit. Zoology. Sea Star. HIS. Goth. Is; A. S. His, hys. His also (see HE, and HIM) was used without regard to distinction of number or gender; as her, its, their. (See THIS.) It is now restricted grammatically to the genitive case of he. And thoru nobleye that he was man of so gret fame; The erle this lady gent gaf Henry his sonne, A good Fryday ich fynde a felon was ysavede, And Joseph roos fro sleep and dide as the aungel of the Lord commaundede him and tooke Marie his wyf. And he knewe hir not til sche hadde borne hir first bigetun sone, & he clepid his name Jhesu.-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 1. And with that worde his [Arcites] speche faille began, Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2800. Let bring a cart-whele here into this hall, It is great reason to ben his.-Gower. Con. A. b. ▼ Milton. Paradise Regained, b. i. Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings? } HISS, v. A. S. His-cean, ahisc-ean; Dut. Hiss, n. Hischen; Ger. Zischen, sibilare. HI'SSING, n. All formed from the sound. Hissing is used to express contempt, dislike, condemnation, disapproval. And as in the example cited from the Bible applied to the object hissed. Whoes waltring tongs did lick their hissing mouthes. B. Jonson. Every Man out of his Humour, Act i. sc. 3. Thick swarm'd, both on the ground and in the air, Milton. Paradise Lost, b. i. Dreadful was the din Id. Ib. b. x. Of hissing through the hall, thick swarming now And fear'st thou not to see th' infernal bands, Addison. The Playhouse. About this time the prevalent taste for Italian operas inclined him to try what would be the effect of a musical draina in our own language. He therefore wrote the opera of Rosamond, which, when exhibited on the stage, was either hissed or neglected.-Johnson. Life of Addison. I heard a hissing: there are serpents here! Goldsmith. Prol. to Zobeide. HIST. Apparently formed from the Lat. nota silentii 'St. See the quotations from Colman and Thornton; and see HUSH. And the mute silence hist along, Milton. Il Penseroso. Davies. Hist! hold awhile: [hem, 'st, mane] I hear the creaking of Glycerium's door. Colman. Terence. The Andrian, Act iv. sc. 3. Cleostrata. 'St. Hold your tongue, and get you gone, ['St. lace atque abi.] Thornton. Plautus. The Lots, (Casina,) Act ii. sc. 1. Epidicus. Hist! silence! be of good heart. HISTORY. HISTO'RIAL. HISTORIAN. HISTORICK. HISTORICAL. So was his name, for it is no fable, Chaucer. The Doctoures Tale, v. 12,090. These thinges to be true our prelates know by open his- for to be redde of a noble man, after that he is mature in Among the Romayns Quintus Fabius for this qualitie That there are two manner faythes, an historicall fayth, and a feelyng fayth. The historicall fayth hangeth of the truth and honestie of the teller, or of the common fame and cōsent of many.-Tyndall. Works, p. 267. Now wyll I shewe hystorycallye the forme and fashyon of that popysh vowinge, that it may be knowne dyuerse frō ye ceremonial vowes in ye scriptures.-Bale. Apology, fol. 21. The obvious question (if each [the unbeliever and the advocate of religion] be willing to bring it to a speedy decision) will be, "Whether the extraordinary providence thus pr phetically promised, and afterwards historically recorded ta be performed, was real or pretended only!" Warburton. The Divine Legation, b. vi. 5. f The beauties at Windsor are the Court of Paphos, and historiographer, Count Hamilton. ought to be engraved for the Mémoires of its charming Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. iii. cl. to interest his readers, and make his narration more delight Even the historian takes great liberties with facts, in order ful; much greater right has the painter to do this, wh though his work is called history-painting, gives in reality a poetical representation of facts. Sir J. Reynolds. The Art of Painting, N. 13. For the origin of the word and its applicaties, see the quotations from Vossius prefers the account HISTRIONICK. Above proud princes, proudest in their theevery, Right well I wote, most mighty soveraine, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 1. Ralegh. The History of the World, b. ii. c. 21. s. 6. As it is true, that he [Xenophon] described in Cyrus the He [Thucid.] setteth down historically, the kind and John de Hexam and Richard de Hexham [were] two Stirling. Domes-day. The second Houre. In the beginning of this [the Peloponnesian] war, there Secondly, we have likewise a most ancient and credible It is sufficient to my present purpose that Moses have the ordinary credit of an historian given him, which none in reason can deny him, he being cited by the most ancient of the Heathen historians, and the antiquity of his writings never questioned by any of them, as Josephus assures us. Id. Ib. There were many that did see the ark, yet lost their lives, The schemes of the several writers have been for this end Pseudolus. 'St! 'st. This is my man. HISTORICALLY. Smith. Thucydides, b. i. To rescue from oblivion the memory of former incidents, Beaumont. Payche, c. 21. When personations shall cease, and histrionism of happiness be over; when reality shall rule. Brown. Christian Morality, vol. ii. p. 2 In consequence of his [Edwards's] love and his knowledge of the histrionick art, he taught the choristers over wh he presided to act plays; and they were formed into a ce pany of players, like those of Saint Paul's Cathedral: by the Queen's license under the superintendency of Edwards. Warton. History of English Poetry, vol. ii. p. 25 Minshew ingeniously (as Ski ner thinks) derives from the Lat Ictus. Junius,-from the Da Hitte, temerè projicere, to throw out rashly, Lyr -from the Sw. Hitta, which Serenius interpres invenire, pertingere, to find, to reach or touch. R. of Gloucester writes Anhytte; and it is not probably from the A. S. Yttian, uttian, to out, # throw out; and, consequentially, To touch or reach the mark or object aimed at. to strike, to smite. To hit or strike together; take the same a act in union, agree. The kyng Arture agen the brest ys felawe norst ankytk Geneva Bible, 1561. 1 Samuel, x! Milton. Paradise Lost, b. vi Cho. It is not vertue, wisdom, valour, wit, Milton. Samson Agonista. Their projects hitting (many a day in hand) Shakespeare. Hamlet, Act v. 4 It happen'd, as beyond the reach of wit Dryden. The Hind and the Pete For is it imaginable, that all those various prophecies, mmenced in such different periods of time, could meet so actly in Christ by mere accident, and be drawn down rough so many generations to a concurrence in his person, ly by a lucky hit ?-South, vol. viii. Ser. 10. Just as we experience it in the flint and the steel; you ay move them apart as long as you please to very little rpose: but 'tis the hitting and collision of them that must ake them strike fire.-Bentley, Ser. 2. After long lucubration, I have hit upon such an expedient, d sent you the specimen of a poem upon the decease of reat man, in which the flattery is perfectly fine, and yet poet perfectly innocent. Goldsmith. Citizen of the World, Let. 105. Another than dyd hyche her And broughte a pottel pycher. Skelton. Elinour Rumming. We are told that there was an infinite innumerable comy of little bodies, called atoms, from all eternity, flying Iroving about in a void space, which at length hitched ether and united; by which union and construction, they wat length into this beautiful, curious, and most exact icture of the universe.-South, vol. ix. Ser. 3. Vhoe'er offends at some unlucky time lides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, acred to ridicule his whole life long, and the sad burthen of some merry song. Pope. Horace, b. ii. Sat. 1. ask his pardon. At the time HITHE. A. S. Hyth, portus, a haven or port, omner.) It is, perhaps, from the A. S. Ythian, flow or float. Applied to The place where vessels flow or float, and, thus, >ort or haven. d. Hither, adj. near. feore seyles heo spredeth in the se, & hyder cometh y wis. R. Gloucester, p. 133. For Gyneman was for the Stonhenge hiderward get wroth. Id. p. 150. Juane of Danmark at Sandwyche gan aryue, brouht hider with him his sonne, that hight Knoute. R. Brunne, p. 42. He saith to Thomas, putte yn here thi fyngir, and se myne adis, and putte hider thin hond & putte into my side, and le thou be unbileful but feithful.-Wiclif. Jon, c. 20. 3aid he to Thomas; bringe thy fynger hether, and se my des, and brynge thy hande and thruste it into my side, d be not faithlesse, but beleuinge.-Bible, 1551. In an yuell tyme of the night that woman is come hyder trouble vs. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 439. Ambassadors were sent to the cities of the hythermost rt of Spain vnto Acquitaine.-Goldinge. Cæsar, fol. 80. Those things which haue been hitherto, although they ne sufficiently grieued vs, yet will we let them seeme ore tollerable: but this most malitious deuise, and those hich follow we cannot easily brooke. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 578. Sirs, aduyse you well, for Sir Johan Chandos is departed o Poicters, with mō tha CC. speares, and is comyng hyderard in great hast, and hath gret desyre to fynd you here. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 266. That which is eternal cannot be extended to a greater exent at the hithermost and concluding extreme, as I may call t, for at the hither end it is quasi quid finitum. Hale. Origin. of Mankind, p. 124. After these, But on the hither side a different sort From the high neighbouring hills, which was their seat, Dear Country, O I have not hither brought This evening from the sun's decline arriv'd Id. Ib. b. ix. Vern. Pray God my newes be worth a welcome, Lord, The Earle of Westmoreland, seuen thousand strong, Is marching hither-wards, with Prince John. Shakespeare. 1 Pt. Hen. IV. Act iv. sc. 1. That the money which should be raised upon the sale of those cannon, was the only means he had to remove himself out of France, which he intended shortly to do and to go into the hither parts of Germany. Clarendon. Civil Wars, vol. iii. p. 521. To these abodes our fleet Apollo sends; Dryden. Virgil. Eneis, b. vii. He that shall consider your lordship's proceeding with me from the beginning, as far as it is hitherto gone, may have reason to think, that the methods and management of that holy office [the Inquisition] are not wholly unknown to your lordship, nor have escaped your reading. Locke. Second Reply to the Bp. of Worcester. If I succeed to God thy thanks repay, Hoole. Orlando Furioso, b. xxxiii. Europe, however, has hitherto derived much less advantage from its commerce with the East Indies, than from that with America.-Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. iv. c. 1. Then seyde dame Beulybon, Ye have the wronge and he the ryght, Be thys and othyr moo.-Erle of Tolous, vol. iii. Ritson For whan they mete there is a hard fight without sparynge; there is no hoo bytwene them as longe as speares, swordes, axes, or dagers wyll endure, but lay on eche vpon other. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. ii. c. 142. Rob. Ho, ho, ho; coward, why com'st thou not? Shakespeare. Midsummer Night's Dreame, Act iii. sc. 2. Here dwells my father. Jew. Hoa, who's within? Id. Merchant of Venice, Act ii. sc. 6. Hoh, hoh, hoh, hoh, hoh, hoh, hoh, hoh, &c. B. Jonson. The Divell is an Asse, Acti. sc. 1. HO'AMING. HOAR, v. HoAR, 7. HOAR, adj. HO'ARY. HO'ARINESS. HO'ARISH. See HUM. A. S. Har-ian, canescere, to wax grey or hoary, it. mucescere, to grow musty, mouldy, or hoary, (Somner.) To whiten, to be or become grey; and, consequentially, mouldy, Chaucer. Troilus, b. iv. musty, fenowed, or vinewed. But when bare beggrie bidds them to beware, Cotton. Evening Quatrains. Thus we were made the bees of holy church, suffer'd to work and store our hives as well as we could; but when they waxed any thing weighty, his legates were sent to drive them and fetch away the honey. Spelman. Dialogue on the Coin of the Kingdom. In Spring time, when the Sun with Taurus rides, He [the indolent man] is a drone in the hive which consumes the honey of the laborious, and he retains all, who are unfortunately dependant upon him, in a state of poverty and want, from which his exertions might have extricated them.-Cogan. Ethical Treatise, pt. ii. Dis. 1. c. 1. HIZZ, i. e. to hiss, (qv.) Lear. To haue a thousand with red burning spits Come hizzing in vpon 'em.-Shakes. K. Lear, Act iii. sc. 6. The wheels and horses' hoofs hizz'd as they pass'd them o'er.-Cowley. The Extasy. Thys our prouysion of bread, we toke with vs out of our houses, whotte, the day we departed to come vnto you. And now beholde, it is dryed up and hored. Bible, 1551. Joshua, c. 9. The white and horish heeres, the messengers of age, That shew like lines of true belief, that this life doth asswage. Surrey. No Age is content. Their courage they let fall, his princely robes Latinus rentes, His hoarie head (good man) an auntient beard with durt An old hare hoare, and an old hare hoare is very good meat in Lent. But a hare that is hoare is too much for a score, when it hoares ere it be spent. Shakespeare. Romeo & Juliet, Act ii. sc. 4. That ferryman With his stiff oares did brush the sea so strong, That the hoare waters from his frigot ran. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 12. Hoarienesse, vinewednesse, or mouldinesse, comming of moisture, for lacke of cleansing. Barret. Alvearie. For time in passing weares, (As garments doen, which wexen olde above,) And draweth newe delights with hoarie haires. Spenser. Shepheard's Calender. June. In a hoar-frost, that which we call rime, is a multitude of quadrangular prismes, exactly figured, but piled without any order, one above another.-Grew. Cosmo. Sacra, b. i. c. 4. And, have I taken Thy bawd, and thee, and thy companion, Close at your villanie, and would'st thou 'scuse it, With this stale harlot's jest, accusing mee? B. Jonson. Every Man in his Humour, Act iv. sc. 8. What grief, what shame, Attend on Greece, and all the Grecian name! How shall, alas! her hoary heroes mourn Their sons degenerate, and their race a scorn. We can say nothing farther to the hoarders of this world; if they refuse to govern themselves by such enquiries, we must leave them to take their chance with him who pulled down his barns to build greater.-Gilpin, vol. iv. Ser. 5. HO ARHOUND. A. S. Harahune, harhune. Minshew thinks so called because it is hoary, and of service against the bites of mad dogs or hounds. And for all kind of poisons, few hearbs are so effectual as horehound; for it selfe alone, without any addition, cleanseth the stomacke and breast, by retching and fetching up the filthie and rotten fleame there engendred. Holland. Plinie, b. xx. c. 21. This is the Clote bearing a yellow flower, Beaum. & Fletch. The Faithful Shepherdess, Act ii. HOARSE. HOARSENESS. A. S. Has; Dut. Hees, heesch; Ger. Heisch, heiser; Sw. Hees. The English word, (says Wachter,) which alone retains r in the Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. vii. middle of it, seems to lead to hreis, hreisch, formed from the Lat. Raucus. Skinner thinks the words all formed from the sound; asperitate enim suâ Dryden. Ovid. Metam. b. i. raucedinem exprimunt. Not improbably the same word as harsh, differently written and applied. Harsh, rough, of sound, of voice. He [Lycaon] grows a wolf, his hoariness remains, And the same rage in other members reigns. And now the mounting sun dispels the fog; Thomson. Autumn. Thy Muse may, like those feathery tribes which spring Collins. On the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands. He hears the wilderness around him howl Warton. The Pleasures of Melancholy. Is this the land, o'er Shenstone's recent urn Beattie. On a supposed Monument to Churchill. HOARD, v. A. S. "Hordan, thesaurizare, HOARD, n. to hoard, treasure, store, lay or HO'ARDER. hide up," (Somner); and this HO'ARDING, n. from the A. S. Hyrd-an, custodire, to guard or keep. See HERD. A hoard, that which is guarded or kept, (sc.) as a store or treasure. To hoard; consequentially, to lay up, to store or treasure up. Hire mouth was swete as braket or the meth, Chaucer. The Milleres Tale, v. 3262. For he that gapes for good, and hordeth all his gayne, Trauells in vayne to hide the sweet, that should releue his payne. Surrey. Ecclesiastes, c. 4. Like to some rich churl hoarding up his pelf, Drayton. Legend of Matilda. And happy alwayes was it for that sonne Shakespeare. 3 Pt. Hen. VI. Act ii. sc. 2. He disperseth, and is therefore not tenacious, doth not hoard up his goods, or keep them close to himself, for the gratifying his covetous humour, or nourishing his pride, or pampering his sensuality, but sendeth them abroad for the use and benefit of others.-Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 31. It is not the spending-money a man has in his pocket, but his hoards in the chest, or in the bank, which must make him rich.-South, vol. iv. Ser. 1. One would think, that all man's gettings and hoardings up, during his youth, ought to pass but for charity and compassion to his old age; which must either live and subsist upon the stock of former acquisitions, or expect all that misery, which want, added to weakness, can bring upon it. Id. vol. iv. Ser. 10. The world is then properly used, when it is generously and beneficially enjoyed; neither hoarded up by avarice, nor squandered by ostentation.-Blair, vol. iii. Ser. 16. As some lone miser, visiting his store, Thus to my breast alternate passions rise, Goldsmith. The Traveller. And as I lay thus wonder lowde Chaucer. The Dreame. The hobbes as wise as grauist men, Contented to haue pleasde the wyse, Id. Ib. b. i. Sat. It Beaum. & Fletch. The Mad Lover, Act Hee has not so much as a good phrase in his belly, but a old yron, and rustie proverbs! a good commodity for some smith to make hob-nayles of. B. Jonson. Every Man in his Humour, Act i. st. 5. Next, the word politician is not used to his maw, and therupon he plays the most notorious hobby-korse, jesting and striking in the luxury of his nonsense with such poor fetches to cog a laughter from us, that no antie heb-nails a morris, but is more handsomely facetious. Come on clownes, forsake your dumps, And bestirre your hob-nail'd stumps. Millon. Colasterios B. Jonson. A Particular Entertainment. ft. And some rogue soldier, with his hob-mail'd shoes, Indents his legs behind in bloody rows. Dryden. Juvenal, Sat. 1. HOBBLE, v. I The A. S. Hoppan, hoppeten, Hobble, n. Ger. Hupfen; Dut. Hippele huppen, huppelen, hubbelen; Sw. Hoppa; subsïlire, to hop; and of this hobble is a diminutive. To move with a hopping, uneven, unsteady, irregular gait or step; to move or walk awkwardy, The horcey swannes do lift their lay, the bankes the same lamely; with pain and difficulty; to be, or can do roare. Phaer. Virgill. Eneidos, b. xi. The wodhacke that singeth churre Horsley as hee had the murre. Skelton. The Boke of Philip Sparow. Then if the Muses can forbid to die, Beaumont. To the Memory of Lady Clifton. I oft have heard him say, how hee admir'd B. Jonson. The Fox, Act i. sc. 3. The winds have learn'd to sigh, and waters hoarsely groan. G. Fletcher. Christ's Triumph over Death. Soveraigne it is for the dropsie and hoarsenesse of the throat; for presently it scoureth the pipes, cleereth the voice and maketh it audible.-Holland. Plinie, b. xxii. c. 23. So when Jove's block descended from on high, (As sings thy great forefather Ogilby,) Loud thunder to its bottom shook the bog, And the hoarse nation croak'd, God save King Log. Pope. The Dunciad, b. i. Doth not bold Sutherland the trusty, Tickel. Horace, b. ii. Ode 15. to be, in difficulty, in perplexity; to perplex. And hobble, the noun, (met.)— A difficulty, perplexity, or embarrassment. We haunten no tauernes, ne hobelen abouten At marketes, and miracles we medeley vs nener. Piers Ploukman. Cred Carmen Exametrum doth rather trotte & hoble, than t smothly, in our English tonge.-Ascham. Scholementer LE Hed. See, see, this is strange play! Ana. 'Tis too full of uncertaine motion; he beer te much.-B. Jonson. Cynthia's Revells, Act v. sc. 4. Nur. And dances like a town-top; and reels, and håble Beaum. & Fletch. The Night-Walker, Ati The same folly hinders a man from submitting his be haviour to his age, and makes Clodius, who was a celeb dancer at five and twenty, still love to hobble in a min though he is past threescore.-Spectator, No. 301. An old woman, crooked with age, and cloathed in tatt came hobbling on her little stick into the room, and, heaving a groan, calmly sat down, dressed the child in its rags, then divided the loaf as far as it would go, and informed the poor man that the churchwardens, to whom she had gone, would send some relief.-Knoz. Essays, No. 1. Here, again, attention to his hoop will soon convince him of the truth of the axiom. If it hobbles in its motion, up perfectly level ground, it cannot be a perfect circle. HOBBY. OP; and thus, a favourite horse; and (met.) a favourite object or pursuit. Sterne coins the adjective and adverb, holly-Hube, hufe, (Low Lat. Hoba,) horsical and hobby-horsically, and seems, if not to fundus rusticus; whence Wach- have introduced, at least to have rendered pe ter deduces hubne, colonus; and hube, or hufe, he derives from the A. S. Hiwan, formare, fabricare. (See HIVE.) Hob is, perhaps, (see HOBBLE,) from the A.S. Hoppan, to hop; applied to any pular, this met. usage. Hobblers, (Low Lat. Hobellari,) so called, be cause they rode on hobbies. irregular, uneven, and, thus, awkward, clumsy hold out in trauelling. You shall haue of the third sort a gait or motion; and then to An awkward, clumsy, clownish fellow. Hob-nail,-perhaps, cob-nail, or otherwise, a nail for a horse-shoe. See HOBBY. Thereof the report grew, that the Irish hobbie will not bastard or mongrell hobbie, neere as tall as the horse d seruice, strong in trauelling, easie in ambling, and verie swift in running.-Holinshed. Description of Ireland, c.1. Hauing with them to the number of eight hundred men of armes, fiue hundred hoblers, and ten thousand men on foot.-Id. Edw. II. an. 1321. There was of earles, lords, knights, and gentlemen, to the umber of two thousand men of armes; and of such armed en as they called hoblers, set foorth by the burrowes and pod townes twentie thousand. Holinshed. History of Scotland, an. 1342. The battels thus ordered, mounted on a white hobby, he de from rank to rank to view them; encouraging every an that day to have regard to his right and honour. Baker. Edw. III. an. 1346. There should you see another of these cattle, And there another, that would needsly scorse Sog. Signior, now you talk of a hobby-horse, I know where he is, will not be given for a brace of angells. B. Jonson. Every Man out of his Humour, Act ii. sc. 1. When members knit, and legs grow stronger, But leap pro libitu, and scout On horse call'd hobby, or without. Prior. Epistle to Fleetwood's Shepherd, May 14, 1689. Instead of wit, and humours, your delight Was there to see two hobby-horses fight.-Dryden, Epil. 23. Bring me the bells, the rattle bring, Shenstone. Ode to Memory, an. 1748. The little horses of Wales and Cornwall, the hobbies of eland, and the shelties of Scotland, though admirably well lapted to the uses of those countries, could never have een equal to the work of war. Pennant. British Zoology. Horse. My wife often tells me, that boys are dirty things, and re always troublesome in a house; and declares that she as hated the sight of them ever since she saw lady Fondle's dest son ride over a carpet with his hobby-horse all mire. Idler, No. 13. Fr. Hobereau or See Menage. HOBBY. A kind of hawk. obreau, of uncertain etymology. Though a lark will flie as well from a man as from a obbey, yet because there is one cause more for his dislike gainst the hobbey than against the man, (namely, the dermity of their constitutions,) he will flie into the man's and, to avoid the hawk's talons.-Digby. Of Bodies, c. 38. HOBGO'BLIN. Skinner says, q. d. Roboblins, from Robin Goodfellow, or from Oberon, errestrium Dæmonum Rex, King of the Fairies. unius thinks hobgoblins-propriè dictas empusas, see EMPUSE,) because they limped upon one foot ather than walked: deriving hob (it must be resumed) from A. S. Hoppan, subsalire. ee GOBLIN. To bringe in as a trim deuise an ould wyfes chat, or tale Of wiches buggs, and hobgoblings, such trashe is nought to sayle. And This way of hocksing bullocks seems peculiar to the Spaniards; especially to those that live here-abouts, who are very dextrous at it.-Id. Ib. Neither he nor any other Spaniard ever came hither afterward to hocks cattle.-Id. Ib. The hocxser is mounted on a good horse, bred up to the sport, who knows so well when to advance or retreat upon occasion, that the rider has no trouble to manage him. Id. Ib. His arms is a hocksing-iron, which is made in the shape of a half-moon, and from one corner to the other is about six or seven inches, with a very sharp edge.-Id. Ib. "There were two perHO'CUS-PO'CUS. sonages feared in the North, whom we may mention here, as words from their names have become familiar to ourselves. One' was Ochus Bochus, a magician and demon, the other was Neccus, a It is malign deity, who frequented the waters. probable (Mr. Turner adds) that we here see the origin of hocus pocus, and old Nick," (Hist. of Anglo-Saxons, Appendix to b. ii. c. 3.) Unless, however, some usage of these words previous to the period assigned for their origin by Tillotson, can be produced, this coincidence of sound and application, however singular, must still be considered as accidental. And see Brand, Pop. Antiq. ii. 416. Grey's Hudibras, pt.iii. c.3. Note on v.712, where the conjecture of Tillotson is adopted. Pegge's account attributes the corruption of hoc est corpus into hocus pocus, to the ignorance of the Catholic Ihre thinks they may be priests themselves. words formed-temerè et sine sensu. Malone considers the modern slang hoax as derived from hocus, and Archdeacon Nares agrees with him. Boy. Doe they thinke this Pen can juggle? I would we had hokos-pokos for 'hem then; your people, or Travitanto Tudesko.-B. Jonson. Magnetick Lady, Act i. Cho. This gift of hocus-pocussing and of disguising matters is surprizing.-L'Estrange. In all probability those common jugling words of hocus pocus, are nothing else but a corruption of hoc est corpus, by way of ridiculous imitation of the priests of the Church of Rome in their trick of Transubstantiation. Tillotson, vol. i. Ser. 26. Our author is playing hocus pocus in the very similitude he takes from that jugler, and would slip upon you, as he Bentley. Free Thinking, § 12. phrases it, a counter for a groat. Such hocus-pocus tricks, I own, Mason. Horace, b. iv. Ode 8. of heaf-an, to heave. That which is heaved or raised; applied to a Drant. Horace. The Arte of Poetry. raised three-sided tub or trough, used by brick layers for carrying mortar. A fork and a hook, to be tampering in clay, Tusser. Husbandly Furniture. Decker and others are high in mirth at the expense of the bricklayer, and ring the changes on the "hod and trowel," rently, very much to their own satisfaction. I would his neck were broken."-Drayton. Nymphidia. the "lime, and mortar poet," very successfully, and appa I loath thee, and defy thee! I'll now find out a purer Helicon, Which wits may safely feast upon, And baffle thy hobgoblin Don. Brome. Against corrupted Sack. They both approach the lady's bower, The squire t'inform, the knight to woo her. She treats them with a masquerade, By furies and hobgoblins made.-Hudibras, pt. iii. c. 1. The text is made to assert the several different sorts of spirits which the fables of the heathens described, hags, fairies, hobgoblins, spectres, demons famished with hunger, and howling in the wilderness. Farmer. Letters to Dr. Worthington. HOB-NOB, i. e. Hab-nab. (qv.) HO'DDY-DOD. HO'DDY-DO'DDY. HO'DDY-PEKE. HO'DDY-POULE. Gifford. Memoirs of B. Jonson. Examples sufficiently ancient, and various, have not occurred to warrant even a conjecture as to the original HO'DMAN-DOD. meaning of these words. Holland renders cochlea hoddy-dods, or shell-snails, and these Bacon calls hodman-dods. In these words the hod may be hood, referring to the shell that covers them. In some of the examples below, it is plainly used as a term of contempt. Those that cast their shell are, the lobster, the crab, the cra-fish, the hodmandod, or dodman, the tortoise, &c. Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 732. Kite. Well, good wife bawd, Cob's wife, and you That make your husband such a hoddie-doddie. B. Jonson. Every Man in his Humour, Act iv. sc. 8. The running mange or tettar, is a mischeefe peculiar unto the fig-tree as also, to breed certaine hoddy-dods or shellsnailes sticking hard thereto and eating it. Holland. Plinie, b. xvii. c. 24. He has more goodness in his little finger, than you have in your whole body: My master is a parsonable man, and not a spindle-shank'd hoddy-doddy. Swift. Mary the Cook Maid's Letter to Dr. Sheridan. HODGE-PODGE. See HOTCH-POT. HODIERN. Lat. Hodie, i. e. hoc-die; hodiernus, of this day. I know that this is contrary to the common opinion, not only of the schools, but even of divers hodiern mathematicians.-Boyle. Works, vol. iii. p. 754. HOE, v. Fr. Houer; Dut. Houwen; Ger. HOE, n. Hauwen; A. S. Heaw-ian; to hew, (qv.) Evelyn writes the word haugh. To cut; to cut up, (sc. the surface, or any thing growing on the surface, of the ground.) Weed and haugh betimes. Evelyn. Kalendarium Hortense. April. Begin the work of haughing as soon as ever they [weeds] begin to peep.-Id. Ib. July." Remember to weed them [carrots and parsneps] when they are about two inches high, and a little after to thin them with a small haugh.-Id. Ib. April. Mr. Matthews, a most excellent and observant farmer in Berkshire, assured Mr. Stillingfleet, that the rooks one year, while his men were hoeing a field of turnips, settled on a spot where they were not at work, and that the crop proved very fine in that part, whereas in the remainder it failed. Pennant. British Zoology. The Rook. Howe'er reluctant, let the hoe uproot Grainger. The Sugar Cane, b. ii. HOFUL. A. S. Ho-full, hoh-full, hog-full, prudent, considerate, careful, from A. S. Hog-an; Dut. Huoghen, to be careful or considerate. Prudent, careful, considerate. Sir Gregory, ever hofull of his doings and behaviour, directed especial letters unto him. Stapleton. Fortress of the Faith, an. 1565, p. 97. b. Women serving God hofully and chastely. HOG. HO'GGEREL. HO'GGISH. HO'GGISHLY. Id. Ib. p. 419. b. A hog (says Skinner) is a sheep two years old, or in the second year of its age, perhaps from the A. S. Hog-an, curare, observare; because at that time they need the greatest care. The same reason will more especially apply to the young of swine; if to the young only of swine the name were ever restricted. HO'GLING, n. And he coueitide to fille his wombe of the coddis that the hoggis eeten, and no man gaf him.-Wiclif. Luke, c. 15. They shal be shrined in a hogges tord. Chaucer. The Pardoneres Tale, v. 12.890. So doo our hoglings sinke foorthwith, (their head a Baccus barge) Wine is I tell you, burtheynous, and passing ful of charge.-Drant. Horace, Sat. 8. b. ii. A roost for thy hens, and a couch for thy dog. Abandon lust, if not for sinne, Warner. Albion's England, b. iv. c. 22. But this is got by casting pearls to hogs.-Millon, Son. 12. It is kind and naturall for rammes to make no account of young hogrels, but to loath them: for they had rather follow old ewes.-Holland. Plinie, b. viii. c. 67. |