HAY. Fr. Haye; Dut. Haeghe; A. S. Hag; (g softened into y) a hedge or haw, (qv.) Fr. Hayer; A. S. Heg-ian; Ger. Haeghen, sepire, to enciose, to surround.

That which hedgeth, encloseth, or surroundeth. A net, by which rabbits or other animals were enclosed, and thus caught, was also called a hay. See Minshew.

The roser was withouten dout
Closed with an hedge without,
As ye to forne haue herd me saine,
And fast I besied and would faine
Haue passed the hay, if I might

Haue getten in.-Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose.

None of you all there is, that is so madde

To seke for grapes on brambles, or on bryers,
Nor none I trow, that hath a wit so badde,
To set his hay for conies ouer riuers.

Wyatt. The Meane and Sure Estate. He whiche entendeth to take the fierse and mighty lyon pytcheth his haye or nette in the woode amonge greatte trees and thornes.-Sir T. Elyot. The Governour, b. ii. c.14.

And if it chaunced that they whipt off, or snapt any asunder, yet the steele and truncheon thereof being sharp still at the point (headlesse though it were) among the other pikes that were headed, served to make a fense as it were an haie or palaisade.-Holland. Livivs, p. 819.

Said commonly it is, that if a man do set an hedge or hay thereof round about a grange or ferme house in the countrey, there will no kites nor hawks, nor any such ravening birds of prey, come neare.-Id. Plinie, b. xxiii. c. 1.

HAY. Goth. Haui; A. S. Heg, hig; Dut. HA'YING. Houwe, hauw; Ger. Heu; Sw. Hoe. Casaubon,-from Gr. Eta, gramen. Junius, says Ihre, and a great number of followers,-from the Dut. Houwen; Ger. Hauen, secare, to cut. Quid enim est fœnum, nisi gramen sectum, (Wachter.) A. S. Heawian, to hew, or cut. Grass cut.

Vitaile inouh at weld, thei fond of corn and hay.

R. Brunne, p. 160. Othr have an horne and be hayward and liggen out a nyghtes.-Piers Plouhman, p. 76.

And he comaundide to hem that thei schulden make alle men sitte to mete by cumpanyes on grene hey. Wiclif. Mark, c. 6.

For if ony bildith ouer this foundement gold, siluer, preciouse stoonys, stickis, hey or stobil eueri mannys werk schal be open.-Id. 1 Corynth. c. 3.

If onye man bylde on thys foundacion, golde, syluer, precious stones: tymbre, haye, or stobble: euery mannes worcke shall appeare.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

Sil. Prethee content thyself, we shall scout here, as though we went a haying.-Beaum. & Fletch. The Coxcombe, Act i.

Whereby a man may see how manie bloudie quarels a bralling swashbuckler maie picke out of a bottle of haie, namelie when his braines are forebitten with a bottle of nappie ale.-Holinshed. Chronicles of Ireland, an. 1528.

Or, if the earlier season lead,

To the tann'd haycock in the mead.-Milton. L'Allegro. As soon as he knew one of them, he easily concluded in what condition they both were; and presently carried them into a little barn full of hay; which was a better lodging then he had for himself.

Clarendon. The Civil War, vol. iii. p. 414.

That Careless should presently be gone; and should within two days, send an honest man to the King, to guide him to some other place of security; and in the mean time his Majesty should stay upon the hay-mow.-Id. Ib.

There is not a single article of provision for man or beast, which enters that great city [Paris] and is not excised; corn, hay, meal, butcher's-meat, fish, fowls, every thing.

Burke. On a late State of the Nation.

the gathering of the olives; the Hay may take its name from a similar custom upon getting up the hay-harvest.

Mr. Douce observes on the passage cited below from Shakespeare, that the Hay was a dance borrowed from the French, and that it is classed among Brawls in the Orchesographie of Thomas Arbeau.

Jen. No; we'll have "the hunting of the fox." Jack Slime. "The hay! the hay there's nothing like "the hay."-Heywood. A Woman kill'd with Kindness. Dull. I'le make one in a dance or so, or I will play on the taber to the worthies, and let them dance the hey. Shakespeare. Love's Labour Lost, Act v. sc. 1.

HAZARD, v.
HA'ZARD, n.
HAZARDABLE.

HA'ZARDER.
HA'ZARDOUS.

HAZARDRY. applied) is

Fr. Hazarde; It. Azarro, zara; Sp. Azar; Low Lat. Azardum. Menage, from the Lat. Tessara, q. d. tessara, tsara, zara, azara, azzardo. To hazard (as commonly

To put or place at risk, (sc.) at risk of danger or loss; to risk, to expose to chance; to venture rashly; to game.

Her ydelnesse hem ssal brynge to synne lecherye,
To tauerne, and to sleuthe, and to hasarderye.
R. Gloucester, p. 195.

Sendeth som other wise embassadours,
For by my trouthe, me were lever die,
Than I you shuld to hasardours allie."

Chaucer. The Pardoneres Tale, v. 12,550.
And whan he came, it happed him par chance,
That all the gretest that were of that land
Yplaying at hasard he hem found.—Id. Ib. v. 12,542.
And now that I have spoke of glotonie,
Now wol I you defenden hasardrie,
Hasard is veray mother of lesinges, [lying.]

Id. Ib. v. 12,524. Amongst whom there were a great many that did desire our generall to set them on land, making their choise rather to submit themselves to the mercie of the sauages or in

fidels, then longer to hazard themselues at sea.

Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 473.

At the first he was sore encountred, and put in great hasarde of repulse, but at length he vanquished and ouerthrew his enemies.-Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 17.

Lycurgus was in his nature hazardous, and by the lucky passing through many dangers, grown confident in himself. Sidney. Arcadia, b. iii.

Suspition of friend, nor feare of foe,
That hazardelh his health, had he at all,
But walkt at will, and wandred to and fro,
In the pride of his freedome principall.

Spenser. Muiopotmos.

These mighty actors, sons of change,
These partizans of factions often try'd,
That in the smoke of innovations strange
Build huge uncertain plots of unsure pride;
And on the hazard of a bad exchange,
Have ventur'd all the stock of life beside.

Daniel. The Civil War, b. ii. How to keep the corps seven dayes from corruption by anointing and washing, without exenteration, were an hazardable peece of art, in our choisest practise. Brown. Urne-Buriall, c. 3.

Live, and alleagaunce owe

To him, that gives thee life and liberty;
And henceforth by this daies ensample trow,
That hasty wroth, and heedlesse hazardry,
Do breede repentaunce late, and lasting infamy.

Spenser. Faerie Queene. b. ii. c. 5.
Perhaps thou lingrest in deep thoughts detain'd
Of the enterprize so hazardous and high.

Milton. Paradise Regained, b. iii. These fight like husbands, but like lovers those: These fain would keep, and those more fain enjoy. And to such height their frantick passion grows, That what both love, both hazard to destroy.

Dryden. Annus Mirabilis, 1666. Hence passionate and unreasonable men ignorantly call it courage, to hazard their lives in their own private quarrels; where contempt of danger is, on the contrary, neither reasonable nor just; because, neither is the danger at all needful to be run into, nor is the benefit proposed to be obtained by it, in any manner equal to the evil hazarded.

Clarke, vol. i. Ser. 51,

I would plead a little merit, and some hazards of my life from the common enemies; my refusing advantages ofKing's service; but I only think I merit not to starve. fered by them and neglecting my beneficial studies, for the Dryden. To the Earl of Rochester.

Too vast and hazardous the task appears,
Nor suited to thy strength, nor to thy years.
Addison. Orid. Met bil

in order to be sure that I am perspicuous.
I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious,
Smith. Wealth of Nations, d. c.

Ev'n daylight has its dangers; and the walk Through pathless wastes and woods, unconscious once Of harmless flocks, is hazardous and bold.

HAZE, v. HAZE, n. HA'ZY. HA'ZINESS.

Couper. Toak, b. iv.

Ray says, It Hazes, it misles, or rains, small rain. Skinner,-hazy weather, aer nebulosus et caliginosus, a cloudy and gloomy atmosphere; and suggests the Ger. Hassen, to hate; from the disagreeableness of such weather. It is not improbably from the A. S. Has-ian, to be hoarse, (the r has not been intruded either into German, Dutch, or Swedish,) hoarse being applied to the thickness of the voice, and haze, to the thickness of the atmosphere. To haze, then, will

mean,

To thicken, to become cloudy or gloomy; (se) threatening rain; to misle, to drizzle.

In the morning hazy weather frequently, and thick mista, Dampier. Voyages, an. 1FM.

But instead of encouraging us to trust ourselves to the haze and mists and doubtful lights of that changeable weed, on the answerable part of the opposite page, he [Rader] gives us a salutary caution.

Burke. On a Regicide Peace, Let Indeed the sky was, in general, so cloudy, and the ve ther so thick and hazy, that he had very little benefit of san or moon.-Cook. Voyage, vol. iii. b. i. c. 4.

From all these fears we were relieved at six in the ma ing, by the arrival of Mr. Morrison, who acquainted us that he was sure he beheld land very near; for he could tot ee half a mile, by reason of the haziness of the weather.

Fielding. A Voyage to Libm. HA'ZEL. A.S. Hasl, hasl-nutu; Dut. Ho HA'ZELLY.seler; Ger. Hasel; Sw. Hessl Wachter, with less truth than ingenuity, in the opinion of Ihre, asserts that hazel is met. th calyx of the nut, from A. S. Hasel, galerus, a hat and that, from the calyx, the fruit and the tree receive their name. The A. S. Has be

:

seems to consider as a derivative (or diminutive of hæt, a hat, (qv.)

Hazel, hazelly, (applied to colour, e. g. har mould, hazelly loam,) the colour of the hazel-sat, that is, brown, of a light brown.

A ring (qd. he) ye hazel wodes shaken.

Chaucer. Troilus, b

As for other nuts, their meat is solide and compact, al we may see in filberds and hazels, which also are a ki nut, and were called heretofore Abellinæ, of their ave place, from whence came good ones at first.

Holland. Plinie, b. I. c. With hazel Phyllis crowns her flowing hair; And while she loves that common wreath to wear. Nor bays, nor myrtle boughs, with hazle shall compare Dryden. Firgii, Past Among the roots Of hazel, pendent o'er the plaintive stream, They frame the first foundation of their domes, Dry sprigs of trees, in artful fabric laid And bound with clay together.

Thomson. Spring

He [Marvel] was of a middling stature, pretty strong s roundish faced, cherry cheeked, hazel-eyed, brown ha Grainger. Biographical History of England Here then suspend the sportsman's hempen toils, And stretch their meshes on the light support Of hazel-plants, or dry thy lines of wire In five-fold parallel; no danger then That sheep invade thy foliage.

He is no doubt

hat he contends to be parts of the same word, the A. S. The-an, to the, to get, to take, to assume; he first being the imperative, the second the past art. of that verb. It, or hit, or het, he considers o be the past part. of the A. S. Hat-an, nominare, nd to mean, nominatum, the said; a meaning erfectly corresponding with every use of the word in our language. A conjecture, at least, may e admitted, that he may have been formed from me part of the same word, as their application ad usage were precisely the same, and the diffeence between them now is no more than what ises from their being restricted grammatically, to words masculine, and it to words neuter. r. Tyrwhitt has noticed some of the (to modern rs) peculiar usages of he;-that it is frequently ed in all its cases for it.

Nor second he, that rode sublime

1

Upon the seraph wings of ecstasy,
The secrets of the abyss to spy.

He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time :
The living throne, the sapphire-blaze,
Where angels tremble while they gaze,
He saw; but blasted with excess of light
Clos'd his eyes in endless night.

HEAD, v. HEAD, n. HEADER. HEADFUL.

Gray. The Progress of Poetry. Goth. Haubith; A. S. Heafod, hoofod, heafud, heafd; Dut. Hoofd; Ger. Haufet; Sw. Hufwud. Junius derives from the Gr. Κεφαλη. Wachter derives the Ger. Haubt, pars hominis sublimis, from the verb heben, levare, erigere, tollere in altum. Ihre,the Sw. Hufwud, from haf, high; hafwa, to raise on high. Tooke,-head is heaved, heav'd, the past part. of the verb to heave, (as the A. S. Heaf-od was the past part. of heaf-an,) meaning,

HEADLESS. HEADLONG. HE'ADY. HEADINESS.

HEADSHIP.

Id. p. 1.

was anciently written heved. See HEAVE.

It

It is used emphatically, as being the chief or principal part, for the whole body or person; also, for the contents of the head; (sc.) the brains, the powers of the mind, the thoughts; consequentially,

The chief or principal person or thing, the leader, guider, director, commander; the leading, guiding, directing, or commanding place or station; the highest place, the first place, forepart, front, height. To head is,

head, to keep head forward, to front or face, (to To lead, guide, direct, or command; to make affront or confront) to advance. To gather head,

To gather means to make head; force or power to front, or face, or advance. To give head, To give up the restraint upon the head; to give liberty to advance at speed. To head is also

To behead; i. e. to take off, cut off, strike off, the head. To head up;-to put on the head, (sc.)

of a cask or vessel.

And at a stert he was betwix hem two,
And pulled out a swerd and cried, ho!
No more, up peine of lesing of your hed.

Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 1709.

And as he wolde haue passed by,
She cleped hym, and bad him abide
And he his hors head aside

Tho torned, and to hir he rode.-Gower. Con. A. b. i.

Duryng his reygne there was hedyd & put to dethe by Jugement vpon xxviii. baronys and knyghtys, ouer ye noble men that were slayne in Scotlande by his infortunyte. Fabyan, an. 1326. Boniface the thyrd of that name bishop of Rome, toke vpon hym to be the head bishop of all the worlde, and God's only vycar in earthe.-Bale. Image, pt. i.

And as for their headinesse, see whether they be not prone, bold and runne headlog vnto al mischief, without pitie & compassion or caryng what misery and destruction should fulfilled.-Tyndall. Works, p. 290. fall on other men, so they may haue their present pleasure

Here Mercury with equal shining winges
First touched; and with body headling bette [bent]
To the water thenne took he his descent.

Surrey. Virgile. Æneis, b. iv. Then the earle began to repent him of his headie rashness, but it was too late.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. ii. p. 35.

From this island, wee set ouer to the other side of the bay, and went Southwest, and fell with an headland called Foxe nose, which is from the said island 25 leagues. Id. Ib. vol. i. p. 311. And what is the common welth worth, when the lawe

which is indifferent for all men shall be wilfully and spitefully broken of headstrong men. Sir John Cheke. Hurt of Sedition. Nor William Duke of Suffolke, who, Exilde, on seas was met And, hated, headed.

Warner. Albion's England, b. ix. c. 45. They have compelled him to lay his hand upon the helme, for to set all streight and upright againe in security, rejecting in the meane while green headed generals of armies, eloquent oratours also.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 521.

Who, thrusting boldly twixt him and the blow,
The burthen of the deadly brunt did beare
Upon his shield, which lightly he did throw
Over his head, before the harme came neare.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 8.
He was ten thousand foot and a thousand horse strong,

pikes before.-Holland. Livivs, p. 717.

Head-strong, consequentially, resolute, self-willed, obstinate.

Heady, heedless, giddy, precipitate; rash, violent;-acting upon the head, causing giddiness, dizziness, stupor.

Head, i. e. chief, principal; is much used— prefixed.

Corineus was tho somdel wroth, ys axe on hey he drow
And smot hym vpon the hed mid god ernest y now,
And for clef al that hed, & the bodi a non to grounde.
R. Gloucester, p. 17.
Heo sleth & destruyeth al, that ther nys nothing bi leued,
Warbi men mow libbe, & al for defaut of heued.
Id. p. 101.
Sebrygt and the kyng of Kent, tho al thys was y do,
At Londone of Seyn Poul an heued chyrche gonne rere.
Id. p. 232.

I rede we chese a hede, that us to werre kan dight
& to that ilk heae I rede we us bynd

For werre withouten hede is not well, we fynde.

Id. Id.

thou beest he: but O, how fall'n! how chang'd

om him, who, in the happy realms of light,
oth'd with transcendent brightness, didst outshine
yriads though bright! Milton. Paradise Lost, b. i.

e can requite thee; for he knows the charms
That call fame on such gentle acts as these,
And he can spread thy name o'er lands and seas,
Thatever clime the sun's bright circle warms.

Id. Sonnet 8.

For ich am hefd of lawe And ge ben bote membrys.-Piers Plouhman, p. 391,

And Jhesus seide to him, foxis han dennes, and briddis of hevene han nestis: but mannes sone hath not where he schal reste his hed.-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 8.

And Jesus said vnto him: the foxes haue holes, and the byrdes of the ayer haue nestes, but the sonne of man hath not where on to rest his heed.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

And he seid to hem, go ye; and thei geden out and wenten into the swyn, and lo in a gret bire al the drove wente heedlyng in to the see; and thei weren dede in the watris. Wiclif. Matthew, c. 7.

And he said vnto them, go your waies: Then went they out, and departed into the heerd of swyne. And beholde the whole heerd of swyne was caried with violence hedlyng into the sea, and peryshed in the water.-Bible, 1551. Ib. 977

And this is the onely cause why all the statues and images of him [Pericles] almost, are made with a helmet on his head; because the workmen, as it should seem, (and so it is most likely) were willing to hide the blemish of his deformity. But the Attican Poets did call him Schinocephalos, as much as to say, headed like an onion.

North. Plutarch, p. 133. England endured (by God's fust iudgements) many bitter and heauie stormes through some headinesse, ambition, or other sicknesses of minde in the princes thereof.

Speed. Edw. II. an. 1308. b. ix. c. 11. s. 1. Oh, monstrous! Why I'll undertake, with a handful of silver, to buy a headful of wit at any time.

Ford. 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Act i. sc. 2.
Sir George Ascough, with nine of his head-most ships,
charged through the Dutch fleet, and got the weather-gage
of them, and charged them again.
Baker. Charles II. an. 1652.
But Timias him lightly overhent,
Right as he entring was into the flood,
And strooke at him with force so violent,
That headlesse him into the foord he sent.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. lii. c. 5.
This would surpass

Common revenge, and interrupt his joy
In our confusion, and our joy upraise
In his disturbance; when his darling sons,
Hurl'd headlong to partake with us, shall curse
Their frail original, and faded bliss,
Faded so soon.-Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ii.

The monstrous sight
Strook them with horror backward, but far worse
Urg'd them behind; headlong themselves they threw
Down from the verge of heav'n.-Id. Ib. b. vi.

Now they began much more to take stomacke and indignation, in case that after Tarquinius, the kingdome should not returne to them and their line, but should still run on end, and headlongwise fall unto such base varlets. Holland. Livivs, p. 29.

Will the ministerial headship inferr any more, then that when the church in a community or a publick capacity should do any act of ministery ecclesiasticall he shall be first in order?-Bp. Taylor. Liberty of Prophesying, s. 7. 6 I

I can see no ground, why his [Aristotle's] reason should be textuary to ours; or that God, or Nature, evere intended him an universal headship.

Glanvill. Vanity of Dogmatizing, c. 15. The moles may be taken in traps as every woodman knows it is certain they are driven from their haunts by garlick for a time, and other heady smells buried in their passages.-Evelyn. On Forest Trees, c. 26.

At this good time now, if your lordship were not here,
To awe their violence with your authority,
They would play such gambols.

Gov. Are they grown so heady?

Beaum. & Fletch. The Pilgrim, Act v.

Such was the furie of these head-strong steeds,
Soon as the infant's sunlike shield they saw,
That all obedience both to words and deeds
They quite forgot, and scorn'd all former law.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 8.

The other party I headed myself.

Ludlow. Memoirs, vol. i. p. 119. Though if that assertion could be supposed to be true, yet even still 'twould unavoidably follow, that the self-existent being must needs be intelligent; as shall be proved in my fourth argument upon this present head.

Clarke. On the Attributes, Prop. 8. True religion requires both a warm heart and a cool head; good service in his function. Waterland. Works, vol. vi. p. 377.

And Henry Lord Stafford, to shew his compliance with these times, translated two Epistles of Erasmus, wherein was undertaken to be shown the brain-sick headiness of the Lutherans. Strype. Memorials. Queen Mary, an. 1554.

It is also very necessary for preserving the unity and communion of the parts of the catholic church; seeing single persons are much fitter to maintain correspondence, than headless bodies.-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 24.

And though St. Peter had been head of the apostles, yet as it is not certain that he was ever in Rome, so it does not appear that he had his headship for Rome's sake, or that he left it there; but he was made head for his faith, and not for the dignity of any see.

Burnet. History of the Reformation, an. 1534. Here on pois'd pinions stoop'd the panting God; Then, from the steep, shot headlong to the flood. Pitt. Virgil. Eneid, b. iv. If there was any found to be in the least tainted, as sometimes happened, it was separated from the rest, which was repacked into another cask, headed up, and filled with good pickle.-Cook. Second Voyage, b. iii. c. 8.

A reform proposed by an unsupported individual, in the presence of heads of houses, public officers, doctors, and proctors, whose peculiar province, it would have been urged, is to consult for the academic state, would have been deemed even more officious and arrogant than a public appeal. Knox. Liberal Education.

When now Gradasso on the field display'd The headless trunk of Agramant survey'd, (What ne'er till then befel) a sudden dread Benumb'd his veins, his shifting colour fled. Hoole. Orlando Furioso, b. xlii. What slave so passive, what bigot so blind, what enthusiast so headlong, what politician so hardened, as to stand up in defence of a system calculated for a curse to mankind. * Burke. Vindication of Natural Society.

Both ways deceitful is the wine of Power,
When new, 'tis heady, and, when old, 'tis sour.
Harle. The Charitable Mason.

This kyng was but of mene stature. his other eye lede hangyd so myche a doun, that hit heled half the blake of his eye.-R. Gloucester, p. 521, Note.

And nom with hym spicery, that to fysik drow,
And wende hym to Wynchestre quoyntoliche y now,
And seyde the kynge's that he wold hym to hele brynge.
Id. p. 151.

Tho ilk fiue sorowes he calles fiue woundes,
That ere not git haled, ne salle be many stoundes.
R. Brunne, p. 7.
Menye of the bryddes
Hudden and heleden. durnelyche here egges
For no foul sholde hem fynde.-Piers Plouhman, p. 223.
In an hote hervest. wenne ich hadde myn hele.
And lymes to labore with.

Id. p. 75. Zut hit [poverty] is moder of mygth. and of mannes helth. Id. p. 270. And Jhesus seide to the centurien go, and as thou hast bileeved so be it doon to thee, and the child was heelid fro that our.-Wiclif. Matt. c. 8.

Then Jesus said vnto the centurion, go thy waye, and as thou beleuest so be it vnto the. And his seruaunt was healed the selfe houre.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

Whethir alle men han grace of heelyngis.
Wiclif. 1 Corynth. c. 12.
Haue all the gyftes of healynge? Bible, 1551. Ib.
To a nothir grace of heelthis in oo spirit.-Wiclif. Ib.
Parde we women connen nothing hele,
Witnesse on Mida; wol ye here the tale.

Chaucer. The Wif of Bathes Tale, v. 6532.
And fell in speche of Telephus the king,
And of Achilles for his queint spere,
For he coude with it bothe hele and dere.

Id. The Squieres Tale, v. 10,554. And songen with o voice, heale and honour To trouth of womanhede.

Id. Troilus, b. v.

Id. The Legende of Gode Women, Prol.
Cupides sonn, ensample of goodlihede,
O swerde of knighthode, sours of gentilnesse,
How might a wight in turment and in drede
And healelesse you send as yet gladnesse.
The great clerkes were assent,
And come at his commaundement
To trete vpon this lordes hele. Gower. Con. A. b. ii.
For the covering of houses there are three sorts of slate,
which from that use take the name of Healing-stones.
Carew. Suruey of Cornwall, fol. 6.

Y am he that sche gaf the rynge,
For to be oure tokenynge,
Now heyle hyt for the rode.

The Erle of Tolous. Ritson, vol. iii. p. 136.
But the healinge agayn of this mortal wounde is like to
mar all, and make the last errour worse than the first.
Bale. Image, pt. ii.

The egall frend; no grudge, no strife;
No charge of rule, nor governaunce
Without disease, the healthful life;
The household of continuance.

Surrey. The Meanes to attaine Happy Life.

Their dinners be very short; but their suppers be somewhat longer, because that after dinner followeth labour; after supper, sleep and natural rest; which they think to be of more strength and efficacy to wholesome and healthful digestion.-More. Utopia, by Robinson, b. ii. c. 5.

And they are suche, as asscrybe al their perfightness, vertue, and godlynes, not vnto their owne workes, nor yet vnto their owne fulfyllyng of the lawe, wherein they must nedes knowledge themselues gyltye and synful: but all together vnto the merites of the healthsome passion of Christ.

Udal. Reuelacion, c. 8.

He [Cæsar] himself made so many iorneyes as he thought sufficient for chaunge of the places for healthsomenesse. Goldinge. Cæsar, fol. 271. Where when she came, she found the faery knight Departed thence; albee (his woundes wyde Not throughly heal'd) unready were to ryde.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 5. Plantaine is a great healer of any sore whatsoever, but principally of such ulcers as bee in the bodies of women, children, and old folke.-Holland. Plinie, b. xxvi. c. 14.

To heal, to cover, Sus. Hence in the west, he that covers a house with slates, is called a healer or hellier. Ray. South and East Country Words. There Alma, like a virgin queene most bright, Doth florish in all beautie excellent; And to her guestes doth bounteous banket dight, Attempred goodly well for health and for delight.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 11.

It was an iland, (hugg'd in Neptune's armes,
As tending it against all forraigne harmes)
And Mona hight: so amiably fayre,
So rich in soyle, so healthfull in her ayre.
Browne. Britannia 3 Pastorals, b. ii. s. 1.

Then as a snake, benumb'd and fit t' expire,

If laid before the comfortable fire

Begins to stir, and feels her vitals beat
Their healthful motion, at the quick'ning heat:
So my poor Muse.

Brome. Answer to the Epistle to C. C. Esq.

We ought, in the choice of a situation, to regard above all things the healthfulness of the place, and the healthfie of it for the mind, rather than for the body.-Cowley, Ess S

If men would imitate the early rising of this bird the lark], it would conduce much unto their healthfulness. Fuller. Worthies. Bedfordshire.

It seemed a strange thing to Anarcharsis, the Scythians Laertius observes to see the Greeks drink in small crates at the beginning of their feasts, and in large bowls at the latter end; (an order ill imitated by the lavish Healthists of o time) as if they intended not satisfaction, and refreshing ef nature, but wilfull excesse.

Bp. Hall. Christian Moderation, b. i.&?. And yet after all this, sickness leaves in us appetites strong, and apprehensions so sensible, and delights so many and good things in so great a degree, that a healthless body and a sad disease do seldom make men weary of this wa but still they would fain find an excuse to live.

Bp. Taylor. Holy Dying, c.&.&! It [fasting] is the best in many respects, and remains such, unless it be altered by the inconveniences or he lesness of the person.-Id. Rule of Cons. b. ii. c. 3. Res

There is such a certain healthlesness in many things to all, and in all things to some men and at some times, to supply a need is to bring a danger.

Id. Of Repentance, c. 6. §} And truely as the bodily meate cannot feed the outer: man, unlesse it be let into a stomacke to be digested, whi is healthsome and sound; no more can the inward man fed except his meate be received into his soule, and be sound and whole in fayth. Homilies. Sermon on the Sacrament, p So loathly flye that lives on galled wound, And scabby festers inwardly unsound, Feeds fatter with that poys'nous carrion, Than they that haunt the healthy limbs alone.

Bp. Hall, b.. Sat. But Vane opposed this with much zeal: he said, they heal the wound that they had given themselves, wh weakened them so much? The setting them at quiet have no other effect, but to heal and unite them int opposition to their authority.-Burnet. Own Time, valid Ah Sylvia! thus in vain you strive To act a healer's part,

"Twill keep but ling ring pain alive,

Alas! and break my heart.-Otway. The Compin Oh, fool! to think God hates the worthy mine, The lover and the love of human kind, Whose life is healthful, and whose conscience clear, Because he wants a thousand pounds a year. Pope. Essay on Men, En In the latter end of the month of July, I find our a bishop at his house at Bokesbour, near Canterbury, 3 of retirement, healthfully and pleasantly seated, w took a great deal of delight in.

Strype. Life of Parker, an

I must now observe that all these advantages were pr enhanced by the healthiness of its climate, by the constant breezes which prevail there, [Tinian] and frequent showers which fall there.-Anson, Foy, D. Eis

If by his stripes we are healed, we may surely ava sorious quarrels about the puticular manner in which i effect is produced.-Cogan. Theol. Disq. pt. il. s. 2.

Among the innumerable follies by which we lay up in youth repentance and remorse for the succeeding pr our lives, there is scarce any against which warnings ar less efficacy than the neglect of health.-Rambler, No. Begin the song, and let it sweetly flow, And let it wisely teach thy wholesome laws: "How blest, the fickle fabric to support Of mortal man; in healthful body how A healthful mind the longest to maintain."

Armstrong. Of Preserving Health, A few cheerful companions in our walks will render the abundantly more healthful: for, according to the a adage, they will serve instead of a carriage, or in words, prevent the sensation of fatigue. Knox. Essays, No

This Pythagoric regimen, though it be generally sented, and even by Jambichus himself, as a superst practice, yet, by reason of its healthfulness, he will bare be a course of physic.-Warburton. Dir. Leg. b. iv. &

It is but a little while before we shall all, the strongest and healthiest amongst us, certainly be convinced that the best thing we can have done in this world, was to prepare our souls for a better.-Gilpin, vol. iii. Ser. 3.

I will show your Lordships that this pretended healthiess of the passage from the windward coast is all a fallacy. Bp. Horsley. Speech, July 1799. A. S. Heap-ian; Ger. Heaff-en; Dut. Hoop-en; from the A. S. Heaf-an; Ger. Heb-en, to heave or aise up, (Junius and Wachter.)

HEAP, v. HEAP, n. HE'APY.

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To throw up, to lay up, in heaps, or raised and levated masses; to accumulate, to pile.

An hep of eremites. henten hem spades.

Piers Plouhman, p. 137. Now is not that of God a ful fayre grace, That swiche a lewed mannes wit shall pace The wisdom of an hepe of lered men?

Chaucer. The Prologue, v. 577. Fortune heaped together that one day the chaunces of a hole world.-Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 100.

And so all these gentylmen strangers with them of the untry assembled togyder, and dyd sette on these people her they might fynde the, and slewe and hanged them on trees by heapes. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 183. And thou beeing fallen in despayre of thy selfe, doest u neither addresse to hang thyself as Judas did, or els thou an heaper of sinnes vpō sinnes.-Udal. Luke, c. 23. That geauntesse Argantè is behight,

A daughter of the Titans which did make
Warre against Heven, and heaped hils on hight
To scale the skyes and put Jove from his right.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 7.

The lists were closed fast, to barre the rout
From rudely pressing on the middle center;
Which in great heapes them circled all about,
Wayting how fortune would resolve that dangerous dout.
Id. Id. b. v. c. 5.
landius has gone yet much farther; labouring to heap up
the scandal that was possible against this council.
Nelson. Life of Bull.

have seen two volumes in folio, written with his own ad [Cranmer,] containing upon all the heads of religion, a theap both of places of scripture, and quotations out of ient fathers, and later doctours and schoolmen.

Burnet. History of the Reformation, an. 1534. Thyr. With heapy fires our cheerful hearth is crown'd; and firs for torches in the woods abound.

Dryden. Virgil, Past. 7.

There'er the weaker banks opprest retreat,
nd sink beneath the heapy waters' weight,
orth gushing at the breach, they burst their way,
nd wasteful o'er the drowned country stray.

HEAR, v. The verb to hear (differing IE'ARER. from the noun ear, only in the iE'ARING, n. aspirate) is, in the Goth. HausHEARSAY. jan; A. S. Hyr-an; Ger. Horen; t. Hoor-en; Sw. Hoera; Fr. Ouir; Sp. Oyr; Udire; Lat. Audire. See EAR.

To have or receive feelings or sensations by the ; to feel or be sensible of sounds; consentially, to use the ear, to hearken, to listen, attend to sounds made, to what is spoken. To hear ill or well, (B. Jonson,) like the Latin lé aut bene audire, and the Gr. Ev Kaкws vew, to hear a good or ill character of themves, to have a good or bad character, to be well ill spoken of.

o hym he wende hastelyche, and by the wey ywys le hurde angles synge an hey by the lyste thys: The kyng Edred nou aslepe in oure Louerd ys." R. Gloucester, p. 279. He brouht the kyng Anlaf aryued vp in Humbere, euen hundreth schippes & fiftene, so fele were the numbere.

thelstan herd say of ther mykelle oste,

le & Edmunde his brother dight tham to that coste. R. Brunne, p. 31.

Reuthe hit is to huyre

Piers Plouhman, p. 261. And we witen that God herith not synful men: but if ony be a worschipere of God, and doith his wille, he herith him. Wiclif. Jon, c. 9. For we be sure that God heareth not synners. But yf any man be a worshipper of God and do his wyl, him heareth he. Bible, 1551. Ib. For if ony man is an heerer of the word, and not a doer, this schal be lickened to a man that biholdeth the cheer of his birthe in a myrrour.-Wiclif. James, c. 1.

And treuli thei schulen turne awei the heeryng fro treuthe, but to fablis thei schulen turne.-Id. 2 Timothy, c. 4.

And with that word we riden forth our way;
And he began with right a mery chere
His tale anon, and saide as ye shul here.
Chaucer. The Prologue, v. 860.

And yet he geueth almesse, And fasteth ofte, an hereth messe.-Gower. Con. A. b. i. They by a vertue inexplicable, do drawe vpon them the myndes and consent of the herers, being therwith eyther persuaded, meued, or to delectation induced.

Sir T. Elyot. The Governour, b. i. c. 13.

We may note heere, that a preacher may speake by hearesay; as St. Paul doth here. I speake unto you since I came into this country by hearesay. For I heard say that there were some homely theeves, some pickers in this worshipful house.-Latimer. Ser, on the Gospel on St. Andrewe's Day.

John. I will lay oddes, that ere this yeare expire, We beare our ciuill swords, and natiue fire As farre as France. I heare a bird so sing, Whose musicke (to my thinking) pleas'd the king. Shakespeare. 2 Pt. Henry IV. Act v. sc. 5.

Hence it is, that I now render my selfe gratefull, and am studious to justifie the bounty of your act: to which, though your mere authority were satisfying, yet, it being an age, wherein poetry, and the professors of it, heare so ill, on all sides, there will a reason be lookt for in the subject. B. Jonson. The Fox, Dedication.

They are these make mee heare so ill, both in towne and countrey, as I doe; which, if they continue, I shall be the first shall leave 'hem.-Id. Masques. Love restored. It is enough that I in silence sit,

And bend my skill to learne your layes aright;
Nor strive with you in ready straines of wit,
Nor move my hearers with so true delight.

Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. ii. s. 3. It hath been anciently held, and observed, that the sense of hearing, and the kinds of musick, have most operation upon manners: as to incourage men, and make them warlike; to make them soft and effeminate; to make them grave; to make them light; to make them gentle and inclin'd to pity, &c. The cause is, for that the sense of hearing striketh the spirits more immediately than the other senses.-Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 114.

Hear, all ye Trojans, all ye Grecian bands!
What Paris, author of the war, demands.

Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. iii. In a word, the apostles' preaching was therefore mighty and successful, because plain, natural, and familiar, and by no means above the capacity of their hearers; nothing being more preposterous, than for those, who were professedly aiming at men's hearts, to miss the mark by shooting over their heads.-South, vol. v. Ser. 11.

Who can assure himself or any one else, upon his own personal sight, hearing, or the report of any other of his senses, that the whole matter of a dissolved body passes successively into other living bodies?-Id. vol. iv. Ser. 6.

He [Thomas] would not (it seems) take a miracle upon hearsay, nor resolve his creed into report, nor in a word see with any eyes but his own.-Id. vol. v. Ser. 4.

The eye is not that which sees; it is only the organ by which we see. The ear is not that which hears; but the organ by which we hear; and so of the rest.

Reid. On the Intellectual, Ess. 2. c. 1.

But Oronthea, with a mother's love, Reply'd, and every hearer's mind to move, Such reasons urg'd, that most, with one consent, Their suffrage yielded for the queen's content. Hoole. Orlando Furioso, b. xx. In some cases, (as in proof of any general customs, or matters of common tradition or repute) the courts admit of hearsay evidence, or an account of what persons deceased have declared in their life-time. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. iii. c. 23. HE/ARKEN, v. SeeHARK. A. S. Heorcnian; HE'ARKENER. Dut. Harcken, horchen, auscultare, to give ear to.

To hear, to give or lend ear, to listen (sc.) to sounds, to words spoken.

Ful litel wote Arcite of his felaw,
That was so'neigh to herken of his saw,
For in the bush he sitteth now ful still.

Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 1528.

And Moses told the children of Israel euen so: but they herkned not vnto Moses, for anguyshe of sprete and for cruell bondage.-Bible, 1551. Exodus, c. 6.

Now they are not onely ydle, but also babling tale-tellers & curious herkeners.-Udal. Timothye, c. 5.

Almyghte God that made mankyn,

He schilde his servandes out of syn,

And maynteyne tham, with might and mayne,
That herkens Ywayne and Gawayne.

Ritson. Metrical Romances, vol. i. p. 1.

Thence, forth she past into his dreadfull den,
Where nought but darksome dreriness she found,
Ne creature saw, but harkned now and then
Some little whispering and soft groning sound.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 7.

A prince when wrong'd should not vile traitours wooe,
But when entreated (hearkning to their cares)

Is (if he graunt of grace that they may live)
Milde if he doe forgive, just not to give.

Stirling. Domes-day. The sixth Houre. Cle. Yes, why thou art a stranger, it seemes, to his best trick, yet He has imployd a fellow this halfe yere, all over England, to harken him out a dumbe woman.

B. Jonson. The Silent Woman, Act i. sc. 2. Sur. Must I needs cheat my selfe, With that same foolish vice of honestie? Come let us goe, and harken out the rogues.

Id. The Alchymist, Act v. sc. 5.

But here she comes; I fairly step aside And hearken, if I may, her business.-Milton. Comus. Being by custom captivated and enslaved to sin, they are resolved beforehand not to hearken to any thing, that will oblige them to forsake their accustomed vices.

Clarke, vol. viii. Ser. 8.

Let me not burst in ignorance; but tell Why thy canoniz'd bones hearsed in death, Haue burst their cerements.-Shakes. Hamlet, Act i. sc.4. I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her eare; would she were hearst at my foote, and the duckets in her coffin.-Id. Merchant of Venice, Act iii. sc.1.

The house is hers'd about with a black wood,
Which nods with many a heavy headed tree :
Each flower's a pregnant poison, try'd and good.
Crashaw. Steps to the Temple
When she with flowres lord Arnold's grave shall strew,
And hears why Hugo's life was thrown away,
She on that rival's hearse will drop a few;
Which merits all that April gives to May.
Davenant, Gondibert, b. i. c. 5.

And some flowers, and some bays,
For thy herse, to strow the ways,
Sent thee from the banks of Came,
Devoted to thy virtuous name.

Milton. Epistle on the Marchioness of Winchester
Or were you enamoured on his copper rings?
His saffron jewell, with the toadstone in't?
Or his imbroydered sute, with the cope-stitch,
Made of a herse-cloth ?-B. Jonson. The Fox, Act ii. sc. 5.
Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's
harpe, you shall heare as many herselyke ayres as carols.
Bacon. Ess. On Adversitie.