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,
will feede fat the ancient grudge I beare him.

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
le according to the prescription of Hippocrates.
Menage in vv.
Hippocras, Hypocras, Ipocras,

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

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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
Of hippogrif bore through the air sublime
Over the wilderness and o're the plain.

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.

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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
The work of gen'rous love and filial fear;
But with averted eyes th' omniscient Judge
Scorns the base hireling, and the slavish drudge.

Cowper. Truth.

pilis

A closter thei bigan, the bisshop tho that wrought
Hired ilk a man, & alle paied & bought.-R. Brunne, p. 80.
Harlotes & hores. and also false leches

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;
Nor censure this a proud excuse, to save

These, who no safety know but to subdue.
Your misbelief my hireless valour scorns;
But your hir'd valour, were your faith reclaim'd,
(For faith reclaim'd to highest vertue turns)
Will be of bravest sallary asham'd.

Davenant. Gondibert, b. i. c. 3.
Though cautious Nature, check'd by Destiny,
Has many secrets she would ne'er impart;
This fam'd philosopher is Nature's spie,
And hireless gives th' intelligence to Art.

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,
In Sanhedrims to plume the regal rights;
The true successor from the Court remov'd:
The plot, by hireling witnesses, improv'd.

Dryden. Absalom & Achitophel.
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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;
He let a moneth of the ger clepye aftur ys owne name.
R. Gloucester, p. 59.

The erle this lady gent gaf Henry his sonne,
Alle his tenement, that his eldres was wonne.
R. Brunne, p. 107.
That ilk gere the quene died in Lindseie,
At Westminster, I wene, his [i. e. her] body did thei leie.
Id. p. 248.

A good Fryday ich fynde a felon was ysavede,
That unlawfulleche hadde ylyved. al hys lyf tyme.
Piers Plouhman, p. 197.

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,
For from his feet up to his brest was come
The cold of deth, that had him overnome.

Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2800.
And God that all this wide world hath wrought,
Send him his love, that hath it dere ybought.
Id. Ib. v. 3102.

Let bring a cart-whele here into this hall,
But loke that it haue his [i. e. its] spokes all.
Id. The Sompnoures Tale, v. 7838.
What thing it liketh God to haue,

It is great reason to ben his.-Gower. Con. A. b. ▼
His first-begot we know, and sore have felt,
When his fierce thunder drove us to the deep;
Who this is we must learn, for man he seems
In all his lineaments, though in his face
The glimpses of his Father's glory shine.

Milton. Paradise Regained, b. i.

Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings?
Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings.
Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat?
Loves of his own, and raptures swell the note.
Pope. Essay on Man, Ep. 3.
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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
le chanc'd to hitch into my rhyme-
lut to our point.-Mason. The Dean and the Squire.

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,
Down to the plain descended.-Milton. Par. Lost, b. xi.

Dear Country, O I have not hither brought
These arms to spoil, but for thy liberties:
The sin be on their head that this have wrought,
Who wrong'd me first, and thee do tyrannize.
Daniel. Civil Wars, b. i.

This evening from the sun's decline arriv'd
Who tells of some infernal spirit seen
Hitherward bent (who could have thought?) escap'd
The barrs of hell, on errand bad no doubt:
Such where ye find, seize fast, and hither bring.
Millon. Paradise Lost, b. iv.
This subject for heroic song
Pleas'd me long choosing, and beginning late;
Not sedulous by Nature to indite
Warrs, hitherto the onely argument
Heroic deem'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;
Here Dardanus was born, and hither tends,
Where Thuscan Tiber rolls with rapid force,
And where Numicus opes his holy source.

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,
Who for thy succour hither wing'd my way.
For Him alone be all thy vows fulfill'd,
To Him thy altars raise, thy temples build.

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,
Syr, y rede, be Seynt John,
Of warre that ye hoo;

Ye have the wronge and he the ryght,
And that ye may see in syght,

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?
Dem. Abide me, if thou dar'st.

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.
To earth? and, why to earth, thou foolish Spirit?
What woldst thou do on earth?

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,

But when bare beggrie bidds them to beware,
And late repentance rules them to retire,
Like hiuelesse bees they wander here and there
And hang on them who (earst) did dread their ire.
Gascoigne. Hear bes. Fruit of Reconciliation.
The bees are hiv'd, and hum their charm,
Whilst every house does seem a swarm.

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.
As bees

In Spring time, when the Sun with Taurus rides,
Pour forth their populous youth about the hive
In clusters.
Milton. Paradise Lost, b. i.
Whene'er their balmy sweets you mean to seize,
And take the liquid labours of the bees,
Spirt draughts of water from your mouth, and drive
A loathsome cloud of smoke amidst their hive.
Addison. Virgil, Georg. 4.
Let the hiver drink a cup of good beer, and wash his hands
and face therewith.-Mortimer. Husbandry.

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
besprentes,
Amazed at his ladies death, and at the cities fall.
Phaer. Virgill. Æneidos, b. xii.

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,
This hoarie headed letcher, this old goat,

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,
And this black Hore-hound, both are very good
For sheep or shepherd, bitten by a wood-
Dog's venom'd tooth.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Faithful Shepherdess, Act ii.

HOARSE.
HOARSELY.

HOARSENESS.

He [Lycaon] grows a wolf, his hoariness remains, And the same rage in other members reigns.

And now the mounting sun dispels the fog;
The ridged hoar-frost melts before his beam;
And hung on every spray, on every blade
Of grass, the myriad dew-drops twinkle round.

Thomson. Autumn.

Thy Muse may, like those feathery tribes which spring
From their rude rocks, extend her skirting wing.
Round the moist marge of each cold Hebrid Isle,
To that hoar pile, which still its ruin shows.

Collins. On the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands.

He hears the wilderness around him howl
With roaming monsters, while on his hoar head
The black-descending tempest ceaseless beats.

Warton. The Pleasures of Melancholy.

Is this the land, o'er Shenstone's recent urn
Where all the Loves and gentler Graces mourn?
And where, to crown the hoary bard of night,
The Muses and the Virtues all unite.

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,
Or hord of apples, laid in hay or heth.

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,
Both to wrong others, and to starve himself.

Drayton. Legend of Matilda.

And happy alwayes was it for that sonne
Whose father for his hoording went to hell.

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,
Bends at his treasure, counts, recounts it o'er;
Hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill,
Yet still he sighs, for hoards are wanting still:

Thus to my breast alternate passions rise,
Pleas'd with each good that heaven to man supplies,
Yet oft a sigh prevails, and sorrows fall,
To see the hoard of human bliss so small.

Goldsmith. The Traveller.

And as I lay thus wonder lowde
Me thought I herde a hunt blowe
T' assay his great horne, and for to knowe
Whether it was clere, or horse of sowne.

Chaucer. The Dreame.
Or when by Padus riuer shoare

The hobbes as wise as grauist men,
rid from their trauaile sore,
The most vntowarde and vntaught,
most contemptible clowne,
As perte as pye dothe presse amongst
the wysest of the towne.
Drant. Horace. The Arte of Poetry

Contented to haue pleasde the wyse,
Lette go the skyllesse hobbes,
Who woulde esteeme the clappynge of
a flocke of luskyshe lobbes.
Hemp and hobnails
Will bear no price now.

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,
As we their priests suppose, why may not I,
Although the least and hoarsest in the quire,
Cleare beames of blessed immortality inspire
To kepe thy blest remembrance euer young?

Beaumont. To the Memory of Lady Clifton.

I oft have heard him say, how hee admir'd
Men of your large profession, that could speak
To every cause, and things meere contraries,
Till they were hoarse againe, yet all be law.

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,
With heart so true, and voice so rusty,
(A loyal soul) thy troops affright,
While hoarsely he demands the fight.

Tickel. Horace, b. ii. Ode 15.
So when no more the storm sonorous sings,
But noisy Boreas hangs his weary wings;
In hollow groans the falling winds complain,
And murmur o'er the hoarse-resounding main.

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,
Give him a pound of silver for a rattle;

And there another, that would needsly scorse
A costly jewel for a hobby-horse.-Drayton. Moon-Calf.

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,
Make use of such machine no longer;

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.
In like manner, when reason, by the assistance of grace,
as prevailed over and outgrown the encroachments of
ense, the delights of sensuality are to such an one but as
1 hobby-horse would be to a counsellor of state; or as
steless as a bundle of hay to an hungry lion.
South, vol. i. Ser. 1.

Bring me the bells, the rattle bring,
And bring the hobby I bestrode;
When, pleas'd in many a sportive ring,
Around the room I jovial rode.

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,
Belong to Gallic bards alone.
HOD.

Mason. Horace, b. iv. Ode 8.
Perhaps hoved, hov'd, hod; past part.

of heaf-an, to heave.

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.

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
Th' infected cane piece; and with eager flames,
The hostile myriads thou to embers turn.

Grainger. The Sugar Cane, b. ii.
Then say, ye swains, whom wealth and fame inspire,
Might not the plough, that rolls on rapid wheels
Save no small labour to the hoe-arm'd gang.-Id. Ib. b. i.
HOE. See НOGн.

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.
And to the temples first they hast, and seeke
By sacrifice, with hogreles [bidentes] of two yeares,
Chosen as ought, to Ceres.-Surrey. Virgile. Æneis, b. iv.
A sty for a boar, and a hogscote for hog,

A roost for thy hens, and a couch for thy dog.
Tusser. Husbandly Furniture.

Abandon lust, if not for sinne,
Yeat to auoyd the shame :
So hogges of Ithacus his men
The Latian witch did frame.

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.