And watte hys ssone & hys vet. so longe yt wax an hey, That yt watte hys brych al aboute, & euere vpard vt stey, So 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 maner of hempe, and thereof make their loose garments, which being knit about their middles, hang downe about their hippes.-Hackluyt, Voyages, vol. iii. p. 441.

His horse hip'd with an olde mothy saddle, and stirrops of no kindred.-Shakes. Taming of the Skrew, Act iii. sc. 2.

If I can catch him once vpon the hip,

I will feede fat the ancient grudge I beare him.

Id. Merchant of Venice, Act i. sc. 3.

O' this filthy vardingale, this hip-hape.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Martial Maid, Act ii.

A mortice and tenon, or ball and socket joint, is wanted at the hip, that not only the progressive step may be provided for, but the interval between the limbs may be enlarged or contracted at pleasure. Paley. Natural Theology, c. 8

For my part, I take my stand in human anatomy; and the examples of mechanism I should be apt to draw out from the copious catalogue which it supplies, are, the pivot upon which the head turns, the ligament within the socket of the hip-joint, &c.-Id. Ib. c. 27.

HIP, or
НЕР.
The fruit or berry of the rose.
But he was chaste and no lechour,
And swete as is the bramble flour,
That beareth the red hepe.

A. S. Hiope, the briar or hep-tree, (Somner.) It is applied to

Chaucer. The Rime of Sire Thopas, v. 13,677.

That them repented much so foolishly
To come so farre to seeke for misery,
And leave the sweetness of contented home,
Though eating hipps, and drinking watry fome.

Spenser. Mother Hubberd's Tale.

It is an observation amongst countrey people, that yeares of store of hawes and heps do commonly portend cold winters; and they ascribe it to God's providence, that (as the Scripture saith) reacheth even to the falling of a sparrow. Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 737. HIPPOCAMP. Gr. 'ITTOKаμTOs, from inwos, a horse, and kаμяη, camре, a worm, from кaμπTew, to bend.

Campe is also any large fish bending its tail in a winding motion, as the dolphin, the whale; also the sea-horse.

Fair silver-footed Thetis that time threw
Along the ocean with a beauteous crew

Of her attending sea-nymphes (Jove's bright lamps)
Guiding from rockes her chariot's hyppocamps.

Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. ii. s. 1.

HIPPOCENTAUR. Gr.'ITTOKE Taupos, from inos, a horse, and Kevтauρos, a centaur. See the quotation from Pliny, and CENTAUR.

Claudius Cæsar writeth, that in Thessalie there was borne an Hippocentaur. i e. halfe a man, and halfe a horse; but it died ine very same day.-Holland. Plinie, b. vii. c. 3.

HIPPOCRAS.

Vinum hippocraticum; wine made according to the prescription of Hippocrates. See Menage in vv. Hippocras, Hypocras, Ipocras, for the different opinions of himself, his editor, and Caseneuve.

And plaine water hath he preferred before the swete kipocras of the riche men.-Udal. Luke, c. 7,

HIPPODAME. See HIPPOPOTAMUS.

HIPPODROME. Gr. Ἱπποδρομος, ίππος, ο horse, and Spouos, a course. A race-course for horses; also for chariots.

Hippodrome, in Plinie, is a different word, (and properly written Hypodrome,) from the Gr. Two Spouos, compounded of vro, under, and 8pouos, and signifying a course or walk under, (sc. shelter or cover;) a covered place to walk in.

In a fine lawn below my house, I have planted an hippodrome; it is a circular plantation, consisting of five walks; the central of which is a horse-course, and three rounds make exactly a mile.-Swift. Works, vol. xiv. An Account of a Monument to the Memory of Dr. Swift.

At one end of the inclosed portico, and, indeed, taken off from it, is a chamber that looks upon the hippodrome, the ineyards, and the mountains; adjoining is a room, which YOL. 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.

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.

HIPPOGRIFF. Gr. 'Imos, a horse, and you. (See GRIFFIN.) It. Ippogrifa; Sp. Hipocryfo. griffon," (Cotgrave.) "Fr. Hypogriphe,-a monster, half horse, half servants who are hired by the month or by the year, and

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. Hippopotamus, Grat

ποποταμος.

Hippodames, sea-horses, which the poet should rather have writter. 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:

The superiority of the independent workmen over those whose wages and maintenance are the same whether they do much or do little, is likely to be still greater. Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. i. r 8.

Vain man is grandeur giv'n to gay attire?
Then let the butterfly thy pride upbraid:
To friends, attendants, armies, bought with hire!
It is thy weakness that requires their aid.

Beattie. The Minstrel, b îí. Hiring and borrowing are also contracts by which a qualified property may be transferred to the hirer or borrower: in which there is only this difference, that hiring is always 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. HIRSUTE. Lat. Hirtus, et hirsutus ;—equiHIRSUTENESS. valent, says Vossius, to pilis. 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.

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.

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.

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 fleetli, for he is an hirid hyne, and it perteyneth not to him of the scheep.-Wielif. Jon, c. 10. The hyred seruaunte flyeth, because he is an hyred seruaut, & careth not for ye shepe.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

and dalf a lake and bildide a tour and hiride it to tilieris, and A man plauntide a vyneyerd and sette an hegge about it wente forth in pilgrimage.-Wiclif. Mark, c. 12.

A certayne mă 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: vntil 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. Millon. 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. 8. 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 downwards, putteth forth in round. and fibrous]; that besides the putting forth upwards and 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 tion of number or gender; as her, its, their. (See HE, and HIM) was used without regard to distineTHIS.) 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. v.
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. 1.

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. &.
6 M

For is it imaginable, that all those various prophecies, commenced in such different periods of time, could meet so exactly in Christ by mere accident, and be drawn down through so many generations to a concurrence in his person, only by a lucky hit ?-South, vol. viii. Ser. 10.

Just as we experience it in the flint and the steel; you may move them apart as long as you please to very little purpose but 'tis the hitting and collisiou of them that must make them strike fire.-Bentley, Ser. 2.

After long lucubration, I have hit upon such an expedient, and sent you the specimen of a poem upon the decease of a great man, in which the flattery is perfectly fine, and yet the poet perfectly innocent. Goldsmith. Citizen of the World, Let. 105.

HITCH, v. Skinner says, a nautical term; HITCH, n. to catch or seize, and fix or affix any thing by a rope or hook, perhaps from the Fr. Ficher, to fix. It is not improbably of the same origin as the word hook, (qv.)

To raise or hoist, and, consequentially, to fix upon a hook; to catch or fasten.

Another than dyd hycke her
And broughte a pottel pycher.

Skellon. Elinour Rumming. We are told that there was an infinite innumerable com

pany of little bodies, called atoms, from all eternity, flying and roving about in a void space, which at length hitched together and united; by which union and construction, they grew at length into this beautiful, curious, and most exact structure of the universe.-South, vol. ix. Ser. 3.

Whoe'er offends at some unlucky time
Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme,
Sacred to ridicule his whole life long,
And the sad burthen of some merry song.

I ask his pardon. At the time

Pope. Horace, b. ii. Sat. 1.

He chanc'd to hitch into my rhyme-
But to our point.-Mason. The Dean and the Squire.

HITHE. A. S. Hyth, portus, a haven or port, (Somner.) It is, perhaps, from the A. S. Ythian, to flow or float. Applied to

The place where vessels flow or flout, and, thus, a port or haven.

When the hithe fell into the hands of King Stephen, he bestowed it on William de Ypres, who, in his piety, gave it to the Convent of the Holy Trinity, within Aldgate.

HITHER, adj. HITHER, ad.

HI THERMOST.

HITHERTO.

HETHERWARD. HITHERWARDS.

Pennant. London, p. 473. Goth. Hidre; A. S. Hider; Ger. Hieher, hier; Sw. Hit. (See THITHER.) The adverb is used when the speaker means to express motion to the place where he himself is,

or supposes himself to be.

.

To this place; to the place nearest; (met.) to this point, to this subject; to this effect, to this end.

Hither, adj. near.

Heore 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.

Suane 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 hondis, and putte hider thin hond & putte into my side, and nyle thou be unbileful but feithful.-Wiclif. Jon, c. 20.

Said he to Thomas; bringe thy fynger hether, and se my hades, and brynge thy hande and thruste it into my side, and be not faithlesse, but beleuinge.-Bible, 1551.

In an yuell tyme of the night that woman is come hyder to trouble vs. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 439.1 Ambassadors were sent to the cities of the hythermost part of Spain vnto Acquitaine.-Goldinge. Cæsar, fol. 80.

Those things which haue been hitherto, although they baue sufficiently grieued vs, yet will we let them seeme more tollerable: but this most malitious deuise, and those which follow we cannot easily brooke.

Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 578.

Sirs, aduyse you well, for Sir Johan Chandos is departed Do Poicters, with mo thã CC. speares, and is comyng hyderward 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 extert at the hither most 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.
Milton. 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. 13, 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. Æneis, 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.

That man who is not pierced with a mortal wound, yet if he is continually pulling arrows out of his flesh, and hearing bullets hizzing about his ears, and death passing by him but at a distance of an hair's breadth, has surely all that fear, and danger, and destruction, in the nearest approach of it, can contribute to make himself miserable.

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но. HOA. Нон. the sound.

South, vol. vi. Ser. 8 Like the Lat. Hoi, heu, eko, seems to be a mere cry or call, to arrest attention, and the written word formed from It is applied, as a warning that the person called to-is seen; that the thing doingis done sufficiently; and, consequentially, a notice to desist, cease, stay, stop. As in Lord Berners it is used as a noun, equivalent in signification to

Stop, stay, cessation, (hold) — in Ritson as a verb.

Archdeacon Nares remarks, that ho, ho, is an established dramatic exclamation given to the devil whenever he makes his appearance upon the stage, and refers to the passage cited below from B. Jonson.

This duke his courser with his spurres smote,
And at a stert he was betwixt hem two,
And pulled out a swerd and cried, "Ho!
No more, up peine of lesing of your hed."

Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 1705.

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 iil. sc. 2. Here dwells my father.

Jew. Hoa, who's within?

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. Hearbes. 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 hirer 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.

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.

HOARHOUND. 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 HOARDER. hide up," (Somner); and this HO'ARDING, n. from the A. S. Hyrd-an, custodire, to quard 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 pell,
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 koard 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, or squandered by ostentation-Blair, vol. ii. 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.

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.

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

Id. Ib. b. i. Sat. 10.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Mad Lover, Act i. Hee has not so much as a good phrase in his belly, but all old yron, and rustie proverbs! a good commodity for soine smith to make hob-nayles of

B. Jonson. Every Man in his Humour, Act i. sc. 5. Next, the word politician is not used to his maw, and therupon he plays the raost notorious hobby-horse, jesting and striking in the luxury of his nonsense with such poor fetches to cog a laughter from us, that no antic hob-nail at a morris, but is more handsomely facetious.

Milton. Colasterion.

Come on clownes, forsake your dumps,
And bestirre your hob-nail'd stumps.

B. Jonson. A Particular Entertainment, &c. And some rogue soldier, with his hob-nail'd shoes, Indents his legs behind in bloody rows.

HO'BBLE, v. HO'BBLE, n.

Dryden. Juvenal, Sat. 3. The A. S. Hoppan, hoppetan; Ger. Hupfen; Dut. Hippelen, huppen, huppelen, hubbelen; Sw. Hoppa; subsilire, to hop; and of this hobble is a diminutive.

To move with a hopping, uneven, unsteady, irregular gait or step; to move or walk awkwardly, lamely; with pain and difficulty; to be, or cause 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 neuer.

Piers Plouhman. Crede. Carmen Exametrum doth rather trotte & hoble, than run smothly, in our English tonge.-Ascham. Scholemaster, b. ii. Hed. See, see, this is strange play!

Ana. 'Tis too full of uncertaine motion; he hobbles too much.-B. Jonson. Cynthia's Revells, Act v. sc. 4. Nur. And dances like a town-top; and reels, and hobbles. Beaum. & Fletch. The Night-Walker, Act i.

The same folly hinders a man from submitting his behaviour to his age, and makes Clodius, who was a celebrated dancer at five and twenty, still love to hobble in a minuet, though he is past threescore.-Spectator, No. 301.

An old woman, crooked with age, and cloathed in tatters, came hobbling on her little stick into the room, and, after 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. 148. Here, again, attention to his hoop will soon convince him of the truth of the axiom. If it hobbles in its motion, upon perfectly level ground, it cannot be a perfect circle. Cogan. Ethical Questions, Note B.

Thus the hoarse tenants of the sylvan lake,
A Lycian race of old, to flight betake;
All, sudden plunging, leave the margin green,
And but their heads above the pool are seen.

Mickle. The Lusiad, b. ii. The symptoms that succeeded these were sneezing and hoarseness; and not long after the malady [the plague] descended to the breast, with a violent couch.

HOB.

HOB-NAIL.

HOB-NAILED.

Smith. Thucydides, b. ii. Serenius refers to the Ger.

Hube, hufe, (Low Lat. Hoba,) fundus rusticus; whence Wachter 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 irregular, uneven, and, thus, awkward, clumsy 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.

Hobby-horse, a horse any one takes pleasure, from the easiness of its pace, in continually riding on; and thus, a favourite horse; and (met.) a favourite object or pursuit.

Sterne coins the adjective and adverb, hobbyhorsical and hobby-horsically, and seems, if not to have introduced, at least to have rendered po. pular, this met. usage.

Hobblers, (Low Lat. Hobellarii,) so called, be. cause they rode on hobbies.

Thereof the report grew, that the Irish hobbie will not You shall haue of the third sort a hold out in trauelling. bastard or mongrell hobbie, neere as tall as the horsse of seruice, strong in trauelling, easie in ambling, and veris swift in running.-Holinsked. Description of Ireland, c. 2.

Hauing with them to the number of eight hundred met of armes, fiue hundred hoblers, and ten thousand men on foot.-Id. Edw. II. an. 1321.