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 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 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 Of her attending sea-nymphes (Jove's bright lamps) 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 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? 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 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; Davenant. Gondibert, b. i. c. 3. Though cautious Nature, check'd by Destiny, 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, Dryden. Absalom & Achitophel. ¡ 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; The erle this lady gent gaf Henry his sonne, A good Fryday ich fynde a felon was ysavede, And Joseph roos fro sleep and dide as the aungel of the Lord commaundede him and tooke Marie his wyf. And he knewe hir not til sche hadde borne hir first bigetun sone, & he clepid his name Jhesu.-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 1. And with that worde his [Arcites] speche faille began, Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2800. It is great reason to ben his.-Gower. Con. A. b. v. Milton. Paradise Regained, b. 1. Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings? He is ours, Tadminister, to guard, t' adorn the State, Cowper. Task, b. v. setis horrentia. Bristly, shaggy John of the wilderness? the hairy child? More. Verses. Preface to Hall's Poems, 1646. } HISS, v. A. S. His-cean, ahisc-ean; Dut. Whoes waltring tongs did lick their hissing mouthes. Surrey. Virgile. Eneis, b. ii. All they that go by the, clappe theyr handes at the: hissinge and waggynge their head vpon the doughter Jerusalem. Bible, 1551. The Lamentations, c. 2. And I wil make this citie desolate and an nissing, [so that] euery one that passeth thereby, shal be astonished and hisse because of all the plagues thereof. Id. 1583. Jeremiah, xix. 8. B. Jonson. Every Man out of his Humour, Act i. sc. 3. Thick swarm'd, both on the ground and in the air, Milton. Paradise Lost, b. I. -Dreadful was the din Id. Ib. b. x. Of hissing through the hall, thick swarming now And fear'st thou not to see th' infernal bands, Addison. The Playhouse. About this time the prevalent taste for Italian operas inclined him to try what would be the effect of a musical drama in our own language. He therefore wrote the opera of Rosamond, which, when exhibited on the stage, was either hissed or neglected.-Johnson. Life of Addison. I heard a hissing: there are serpents here! Goldsmith. Prol, to Zobeide. Davies. Hist! hold awhile: [hem, 'st, mane] 1 hear the creaking of Glycerium's door. Colman. Terence. The Andrian, Act iv. sc. 3. Cleostrata. 'St. Hold your tongue, and get you gone, [St. tace atque abi.] Thornton. Plautus. The Lots, (Casina,) Act ii. sc. 1. Epidicus. Hist! silence! be of good heart. Id. The Discovery. (Epidicus.) Pseudolus. 'St! 'st. This is my man. Id. The Cheat, (Pseudolus,) Act ii. sc. 2. Fr. Histoire; It. and Sp. Historia; Lat. Historia; Gr. 'IoTopia, from ioTwp, science, knowing, or having knowledge; from ισασθαι, to know. HISTORY. HISTORIAL. HISTORIAN. HISTORICK. HISTORICAL. So was his name, for it is no fable, Chaucer. The Doctoures Tale, v. 12,090. These thinges to be true our prelates know by open his- for to be redde of a noble man, after that he is mature in Among the Romayns Quintus Fabius for this qualitie That there are two manner faythes, an historicall fayth, and a feelyng fayth. The historicall fayth hangeth of the truth and honestie of the teller, or of the common fame and cōsent of many.-Tyndall. Works, p. 267. that popysh vowinge, that it may be knowne dyuerse fro ye Now wyll I shewe hystoryca.ye the forme and fashyon of And such as be historiographers, Spenser. Faerie Queene, hi For it was well noted by that worthy gentleman Sir Philip Sidney, that historians do borrow of poets, not only much of their ornament, but somewhat of their substance. Ralegh. The History of the World, b. ii. c. 21. 3. 6. As it is true, that he [Xenophon] described in Cyrus the He [Thucid.] setteth down historically, the kind and John de Hexam and Richard de Hexham [were] two Stirling. Domes-day. The second Houre. In the beginning of this [the Peloponnesian] war, there Usher. Annals, an. 3573. Secondly, we have likewise a most ancient and credible It is sufficient to my present purpose that Moses have the ordinary credit of an historian given him, which none in reason can deny him, he being cited by the most ancient of the Heathen historians, and the antiquity of his writings never questioned by any of them, as Josephus assures us. The obvious question (if each [the unbeliever and the ad vocate of religion] be willing to bring it to a speedy decision,) will be, "Whether the extraordinary providence thus pro phetically promised, and afterwards historically recorded to be performed, was real or pretended only?" Warburton. The Divine Legation, b. vi. s. 6. The beauties at Windsor are the Court of Paphos, and historiographer, Count Hamilton. ought to be engraved for the Mémoires of its charming Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. iii. o. 1. Even the historian takes great liberties with facts, in order to interest his readers, and make his narration more delightful; much greater right has the painter to do this, who though his work is called history-painting, gives in reality a poetical representation of facts. Sir J. Reynolds. The Art of Painting, N. 13. For the origin of the word and its application, see the quotations from Plutarch and Livy. Vossius prefers the account of the latter. } In consequence of his [Edwards's] love and his knowledge of the histrionick art, he taught the choristers over which he presided to act plays; and they were formed into a company of players, like those of Saint Paul's Cathedral; by the Queen's license under the superintendency of Edwards. Warton. History of English Poetry, vol. iii. p. 285. HIT, v. Minshew ingeniously (as SkinHIT, n. ner thinks) derives from the Lat. HITTING, n. Ictus. Junius,-from the Dan. Hitte, temerè projicere, to throw out rashly; Lye, -from the Sw. Hitta, which Serenius interprets invenire, pertingere, to find, to reach or touch. R. of Gloucester writes Anhytte; and it is not improbably from the A. S. Yttian, ultian, to out, to throw out; and, consequentially, To touch or reach the mark or object aimed at: to strike, to smite. To hit or strike together; take the same aim, act in union, agree. The kyng Arture agen the brest ys felawe uorst anhytte There were many that did see the ark, yet lost their lives, because they were without it. So many have an historical knowledge, yet because they are not united to Christ, they receive no benefit.-Bates. On Divine Meditation, c. 9. The schemes of the several writers have been for this end Such have been willing to look into Queen Elizabeth's To rescue from oblivion the memory of former incidents, Cho. It is not vertue, wisdom, valour, wit, Milton. Samson Agonistes. Their projects hitting (many a day in hand) Ham. Judgement. Shakespeare. Hamlet, Act v. sc. 4. It happen'd, as beyond the reach of wit Dryden. The Hind and the Panther, 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 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 I ask his pardon. At the time Pope. Horace, b. ii. Sat. 1. He chanc'd to hitch into my rhyme- 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, Dear Country, O I have not hither brought This evening from the sun's decline arriv'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; 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, 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. } 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, Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 1705. Then seyde dame Beulybon, Ye have the wronge and he the ryght, Be thys and othyr moo.-Erle of Tolous, vol. iii. Ritson For whan they mete there is a hard fight without sparynge; there is no hoo bytwene them as longe as speares, swordes, axes, or dagers wyll endure, but lay on eche vpon other. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. ii. c. 142. Rob. Ho, ho, ho; coward, why com'st thou not? Shakespeare. Midsummer Night's Dreame, Act iil. sc. 2. Here dwells my father. Jew. Hoa, who's within? Chaucer. Troilus, b. iv. musty, fenowed, or vinewed. But when bare beggrie bidds them to beware, Cotton. Evening Quatrains. Thus we were made the bees of holy church, suffer'd to work and store our hives as well as we could; but when they waxed any thing weighty, his legates were sent to drive them and fetch away the honey. Spelman. Dialogue on the Coin of the Kingdom. In Spring time, when the Sun with Taurus rides, 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, 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. Attend on Greece, and all the Grecian name! 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, Beaum. & Fletch. The Faithful Shepherdess, Act ii. HOARSE. HOARSENESS. A. S. Has; Dut. Hees, heesch; Ger. Heisch, heiser; Sw. Hees. The English word, (says Wachter,) which alone retains r in the Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. vil. middle of it, seems to lead to hreis, hreisch, formed from the Lat. Raucus. Skinner thinks the words all formed from the sound; asperitate enim suâ Dryden. Ovid. Metam. b. i. | raucedinem exprimunt. Not improbably the same word as harsh, differently written and applied. Harsh, rough, of sound, of voice. He [Lycaon] grows a wolf, his hoariness remains, And the same rage in other members reigns. And now the mounting sun dispels the fog; Collins. On the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands. He hears the wilderness around him howl Warton. The Pleasures of Melancholy. Is this the land, o'er Shenstone's recent urn Beattie. On a supposed Monument to Churchill. HOARD, v. A. S. "Hordan, thesaurizare, HOARD, n. to hoard, treasure, store, lay or 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, 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, Drayton. Legend of Matilda. And happy alwayes was it for that sonne 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, 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, Beaumont. To the Memory of Lady Clifton. I oft have heard him say, how hee admir'd B. Jonson. The Fox, Act i. sc. 3. The winds have learn'd to sigh, and waters hoarsely groan. G. Fletcher. Christ's Triumph over Death. Soveraigne it is for the dropsie and hoarsenesse of the throat; for presently it scoureth the pipes, cleereth the voice and maketh it audible.-Holland. Plinie, b. xxii. c. 23. So when Jove's block descended from on high, Doth not bold Sutherland the trusty, Tickel. Horace, b. ii. Ode 15. The hobbes as wise as grauist men, Drant. Horace. The Art of Poetry 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, 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 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. thinks that hobby, and the Dan. and Isl. Hoppa, have the same origin as hobble, (qv.) viz. the A. S. Rowe. Lucan, b. v. Hoppan. If so, and it seems probable, the name must have been applied to the horse from its pace-an easy, ambling pace, neither trot nor gallop; in which the feet are carried unevenly and not straight out. Thus the hoarse tenants of the sylvan lake, 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. There was of earles, lords, knights, and gentlemen, to the number of two thousand men of armes; and of such armed men as they called hoblers, set foorth by the burrowes and good townes twentie thousand. Holinshed. History of Scotland, an. 1342. The battels thus ordered, mounted on a white hobby, he There should you see another of these cattle, And there another, that would needsly scorse B. Jonson. Every Man out of his Humour, Act ii. sc. 1. On horse call'd hobby, or without. Prior. Epistle to Fleetwood's Shepherd, May 14, 1689. Instead of wit, and humours, your delight Was there to see two hobby-horses fight.-Dryden, Epil. 23. Bring me the bells, the rattle bring, Shenstone. Ode to Memory, an. 1748. The little horses of Wales and Cornwall, the hobbies of Ireland, and the shelties of Scotland, though admirably well adapted to the uses of those countries, could never have been equal to the work of war. Pennant. British Zoology. Horse. My wife often tells me, that boys are dirty things, and are always troublesome in a house; and declares that she has hated the sight of them ever since she saw lady Fondle's eldest son ride over a carpet with his hobby-horse all mire. Idler, No. 13. Fr. Hobereau or See Menage. HOBBY. A kind of hawk. hobreau, of uncertain etymology. Though a lark will flie as well from a man as from a hobbey, yet because there is one cause more for his dislike against the hobbey than against the man, (namely, the deformity of their constitutions.) he will flie into the man's hand, to avoid the hawk's talons.-Digby. Of Bodies, c. 38. HOBGO'BLIN. Skinner says, q. d. Robgoblins, from Robin Goodfellow, or from Oberon, terrestrium Dæmonum Rex, King of the Fairies. Junius thinks hobgoblins-propriè dictas empusas, (see EMPUSE,) because they limped upon one foot rather than walked: deriving hob (it must be presumed) from A. S. Hoppan, subsalire. And see 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. 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 after- The hocrser is mounted on a good horse, bred up to the His arms is a hocksing-iron, which is made in the shape Malone considers the modern slang hoar 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 In all probability those common jugling words of hocus Such hocus pocus tricks, I own, Mason. Horace, b. iv. Ode 8. That which is heaved or raised; applied to a Scarce set on s..ore, but therewithal He meeteth Puck, which most men call With words from phrensy spoken: "Hoh, hoh," quoth Hob, "God save thy grace, Who dress'd thee in this piteous case? He thus that spoil'd my sovereign's face, layers for carrying mortar. A fork and a hook, to be tampering in clay, Tusser. Husbandly Furniture. I would his neck were broken."-Drayton. Nymphidia. the "lime, and mortar poet," very successfully, and appa I loath thee, and defy thee! I'll now find out a purer Helicon, Which wits may safely feast upon, Brome. Against corrupted Sack. They both approach the lady's bower, The text is made to assert the several different sorts of spirits which the fables of the heathens described, hags, fairies, hobgoblins, spectres, demons famished with hunger, and howling in the wilderness. Farmer. Letters to Dr. Worthington. HOB-NOB, i. e. Hab-nab. (qv.) HO'DDY-DOD. HO'DDY-DO'DDY. Gifford. Memoirs of B. Jonson. Examples sufficiently ancient, and various, have not occurred to warrant even a conjecture as to the original 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. Wherat much I wonder 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 mischeese 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. HODIERN. diernus, of this day. See HOTCH-POT. Lat. Hodie, i. e. hoc-die; ho I know that this is contrary to the common opinion, no 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. Berkshire, assured Mr. Stillingfleet, that the rooks one year, Mr. Matthews, a most excellent and observant farmer in while his men were hoeing a field of turnips, settled on a Howe'er reluctant, let the hoe uproot Grainger. The Sugar Cane, b. ii. HOFUL. A. S. Ho-full, hoh-full, hog-full, pru- Sir Gregory, ever hofull of his doings and behaviour, HOG. HO'GGEREL. HO'GLING, n. 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. 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. and passing ful of charge.-Drant, Horace, Sat. 8. b. ii. A roost for thy hens, and a couch for thy dog. Abandon lust, if not for sinne, Warner. Albion's England, b. iv. c. 22. But this is got by casting pearls to hogs.-Milton, 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 Skelton. Why come ye not to Court. old ewes.-Holland. Plinie, b. viii. c. 67. |